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Desportes, Williams & Co., Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquiry, Industry and LiteratureI Trms---$3 00 per Annum, In Advance. VOL. 11.1 WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNIN PL2 [NO. 43 T 11 l'; FAIRFIELD HERALD IS 'UnA-811-AE wE.E.KILY By JWSPORtTES, WILLIAMS & 10. Tcrms.--Tit.: IIetAt.u is published Week ly in the Town of Winnsboro, at 93.00 in. Vareci/y in advance. Cty? All transient advertisements to be paid in advance. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1.00 per squaro. FLORENOE VANE, 1 loved thee long and dearly, Florence Vane; Ny life's bright dream, and early liatht come again; I renew in my fond vision, Miy heart's dear pain, My hopo ani thy derision, Floretue Vano. The ruin lone and hoary, The ruin old; Where thou didst mark my story, At oven told, That spot-the hues Elysian Of sky and plain I treasure In my vision, Florence Vane. The wast lovelier than the roses In iheir prime; Thy voice excelled the closes of sweetest rhyme : Thy h.-art was as a river Wbithoii a main, Wokull I had loved thee niever Florence Vane. iut, fairest, coldest wonder! Thy glorious clay Lieth the green sod under Alas the day I And it boots not to remember Thy disdain To quicken love's pale euber, Florence Va:ne. The lilies of the valley By young graves wEep, The pansies love to daIly Where maidens sleep; May their bloom, in beauty vying, Never wane Where thine earthly part it lying, Florence Vane I A Night in the Life of a Bachelor. [CoNCLUDEn.] "You shall suffer for this, if there be law in the land," lie whispered, as tears of rage dropped from his eyes. "Restrain your tears for a moment," I said contemptuously, "and I will con vinoo yon of eo truth of tl,c utha, go I but now preferred against you." "Listen ! I 'onoe'owned a jewel, a priceless jewel, which I prized more than all my possessions besides ! Nay, it was dearer to me than life itself. I say "once owned," for you were the robber who stole my treasure and made me bankrupt ! You ! Augus ,a tus 3eauolerk, was the assassin who gave the death-blow to my hopes who murdered my happiness." "Ah ! I begin b. oomprehend"-he began with a great effort at calmness, "though I. cannot understand why, it a lady chooses to make me the recipi ent of her favors,,I am co be held to an account by discar.ed suitors." "Then," said I, with difficulty re straining the rage his words had kindled within me, "Then y ' do not love Fanny Danners ?" '.'3y no means," he answered. "Noty, by heavens, are you twice conden ned," exclaimed I, "since you thus avow your villainy in tampering with my cousin's ha ppiness." "Your fate is about to be 'scaled ; I am your executioner, and behold, t,here is you~r gravdl," and I pointed to an orifice in the earth, made by the uprooting of the giant tree, lie threatened and implored by turns. "I give you just five minutes," said I, taking out my watch, "to ask of HIea, .yen .forgivenoss for your sins.'?' "May eternal malediotions be upon you and Fanny," he said, when I silenced him forever. Gathering hitm up once more in my arms, I bore him to- the grave, and p lacing him within it, covered him hastily with earth and legyes. This done, I plaiced some dead branQhes uipon the spot to conceal -it, and then turned and fled homeward. Ere I arrived there, the nloon had set, and the darkness of Ei'rebus4~overed the earth. Old Ponts now recognized . me not, but saluted me with an angry growl, and I was forced to speak, ere li would suffer ine to pass. I replaced the pistol in the drawer, and began -to prepare onod more for bed, when I itscovered some spots of blood on the Sbosom of my linen, upon which I made su exchange, and thrust the discarded garment in the corner of a closet that communicated with tuy chamber, not neglepting the precaution to loek the door and place the key beneath my pillow. . -.. When I awoke thme following morn.. ing, the sun already high,.was..shining brightly through may chamber window. The.recolleetion of my terrible deed flashed imrediately ao oss my mind, arid I threw~ a stealthy lance in- tht dir-ection of the closet,* te h con tain ed the evidence of my gnitit. Hlea vens I what was my consternation, my terror, when I beheld the door stadd inig wide open, and-heard the noise of some one. stiring. within.: "Who'er there?" I almost shrieked, in my agitation. "Mo, zpassa," responded od Tom, who so6n after erotei with iny dressing gown and slippei's. I felt much relieved tolknow that it was .only my old servant. I bent a search. ing gnze uipon him. His countenance exhibited no unusual emotion, but'n wore its wonted, placid and self-satis lied air. "Ton," I asked, as he de- h posited my gown and slippers, the one l upon a chair-baok, the other bcside - the bed, "did you perceive anything e in the closet just now ?" "Sal ?" n answered Tom, with a vacant stare. ' "I mean," continued I, "did you ob- t serve a-that is-did you-a-well-the ii truth is, my nose bled in the night, 's, Tom, and I was obliged to get up out of bed and change my linen. "Yes, I sah," responded Tom, at the same I time scratching his head, with a sleepy d mystified air. At this moment the t the elcek struck the hour of ten. The d sound renewed my terrors. By this c time, thought I, the murder is out, I and the blood-hounds of the law are u perhaps on the track of the perpetra- T tor. Flight, instant Flight, is my si oaly chance for escape. "Tom, quick ! n lay down my vest; go pack up my a portmanteau for a journey. I must it be ready in ten minutes." e "I suppose," said Tom, as he obey- t( ed my order with alacrity, "that mass h George is gwine to pay a visit co Miss b Bella," my married sister, wlo lived g in an adjoining State, "but it's men- al sous sudden, dis visit." h At the mention of my sister's name ti I gave a deep groan, whereupon Toni r turned and surveyed me with a look ti of astonishment, which changed to one h of concern ; and laying the portman- b teau upon the floor, advanced toward C me quickly. n "Massa George, something gone ii wrong; I know it. You aint looked d natural dis morning; and please sar, d tell me why you gwine off in sich a hurry ? Member, mass George, dis here old nigger has carried you on his A back when you were a picaniny, times widout number." Tears of emotion started to my eycs at this evidence of attachment in my h old servant, and I seized his horny C hand, saying, "as Heaven's my wit- d ness, I believe you are my best and most faithful friend in the world.-- tl Tom, I am about to put your courage a: and loyalty to the test; I am about to I put my life in your power. Listen. 8 Last night I arose from my bed, and Arming myself, waylaid and murdered r< an unarmed man ; shot him with my d r'evolver." "Nv, no, maa , sva K # y' dat. Oh ! gor a mighty ! dis chile's n heart is clean broken ; please don't tl peak dat agin !" and Tom retreated, a with outstretched arms and fingers, and with his eyes protruding from his e head, until he had backed against the wall, whore he remained petrified with o horror. e At this moment there was a loud h knock at the door. "The officers! t< the officers !" exclaimed I, in all the p agony of despair. ti Tom, asif a galvanic shock had been applied to him, started into life at the w sound, darted like lightning to the w door and double looked it, after which r< he knelt and applied an optic to the P key-hole. n "Who do you see ?" I asked anx- t< iously. "I see several men, and one t< ;:oman-dc house-keeper I tink." The n: knoci.ng was repeated. "Who you ti want (lore," now inquired Toni still a1 at the key hole. "Mr. George Dan. 0 nors," answered a voice from the out- n side. "Mass George no here," spoke tl Tom again, "he been gone to de city dose tree days." "You lying rascal" t1 -ried the shrill voice of the house- o keeper--"you know that your master I slept hero last night and that lhe is at f: this very moment in his bed, you are t a pretty fellow, to keep the Squire's ii man fronm delivering the note his Mas- nl ter has sent and an answer wanted im- b medi.ately;too." "You hear dat Mas sa," said Tom, "Miss Willions says dat hi do old Squire's servant anm here, wid a note for you, dat is all-dore is no assifers yet sartin." With that, he I cautiously opened the door a few inch. y es and extended his hand for the n note, receiving which, ho brought it to the bed whore I lay, almost overpow- ' ored by the violence of my emotions. IN Alas ! thought I, as I looked at the G superscription which -was in the well 11 known band writing of my dear Uncle 4 John. Alas!1 Fanny's (I dare not say I may Fanny) father has written to de- I nlounce me, I whom ho loved so, for 0l having dishonored his name, for -havw iag destroyed. the hiappiness of his f< declining years, and for having-blight ed Fanny's future prospects; the b~ tears would not be repressed. "Come, t' Massa George no time for dat, we'l must be gwine." I hastly tore openi the note. Good Heavens!I was I h awake ! It could not bo, anid yet it s< was cousiq Fanny's h.and .wr,iting, and there, at the bottom, by Joe, was her t name. h "Dear Cost (it began) I have the lI greatest mind to;give you a soolding, but no,!I3lll reserve mny fire fQr, some future candle lectures. Why did.you abscond from the ball at so early an hour last night and that too without so much as:saying, by your leave to I my: ladyship.!.' .Kn~ow, unfortiuatoe man, that I had :a thousadthings to say to you, the last of wliobt was, that ) Augttsttas Be~auelerk And4 my old fdopn4 and classmate,/Anna~ Green, are Lo be 'n married:ou next Wednesday, and that h a certain eror a grained b4obelor, by g name Georgo Danners, is to have the ( honor of officiating as first grooms- 11 man, along with one Miss Fanny Dan. r era, first bridesmaid. There now! P. S. Should your outrageous be avior last night at the ball, be attri utable to jealousy, as Papa vows it is -and not to indbposition, as I fear d, causing mo to lose all relish for y supper, I shall not consent to see ou again foi a month to come, whilst he remaining communications were itended for your ears, shall be re Irved indefinitely. YoUa COUSIN FANsY. P. S. I forgot to mention that 'apa desires your company to-day at inner, and proposes to give you in ho afternoon, an opportunity to re con your declining reputation as hess player. F." In the namo of all that i.i rational, hat can be the meaning of this ! !as it intended as jest ? No, impos ble ! impossible after the dream last ight, that Fanny should jest thus, nd yet it was her hand writing-un !s, this was it, I was losing ily sen ;s---was I already start mad ! My mples were throbbing wildly, my oad itself, felt as large as a half ushel-ah l I turned my despairing Dze upon old Tom, who was fumbling something in the drawer, "HJuzz.th, uzzah" Tom exultingly shouted, at o same time cutting an extraordina caper in the air, after which, lie ran >wards me, holding my revolver in is hand, which he extended with a road grin, saying-"see here Mass corgo, dis pistol aint been toch last ight i here all de balls as I put in yself yesterday-an all dat a mur or story jist nullin at all, but one obil of a bad dream." Yahi! yah! yah! nnual Meeting of the Stockholdors of the a.iarlotte and South Carolina Rail Road. The annual meeting of the Stock Ilders of the Charlotte and South arolina Rail Road was held yester ry at the Nickerson House. Major C. 1). Melton was called to te Chair, and C. 11. Manson, Eq., ppointed Secretary. The Commit tee on Proxies reported ,21 shares represented. The reports of the President, See. itary and Treasurer, and Superinten ent were referred to a committee, ho made a most favorable report in ,8ra to 1.na miaa., fr ui msan. or in which they had discharged eir duties; which was unanimously dopted. The following resolutions were pass Resolved, That it shall be the duty f the Board of Directors, prior to 1oh general meeting of the at ,ek alders, to appoint a special commit ;e of three stockholders to verify roxies, and report to such meetings t0 amount of stock represented. Resolved,. That this company regard ith favor the proposed consolidation ith the Columbia and Augusta Rail )ad, and that a committee be ap ointed to arrange with a like com. ittee, from the other company, the rins of consolidation, to be submit Id for ratification or rejection to eetings of the stockholders of the yo companies, to be called in pursu ,mee of the Acts of the Legislature f Georgia, North and South Caroli i, authorizing the consolidation of iese companmes. Resolved, That the committco undler eo foregoing resolution shall consist f six ; three to be appointed by the oard of Directors of this company om among their number, and three be appointed by the present meet ig, from those stockholders who are ot private stockholders in the Colum i and Augusta Railroad. The time of meeting of the stock elders has been changed to the third Vednesday in April, for 1870. The Committee on Nominations for irectors, to serve for the ensuing oar, reported the following ticket, hich was unanimously elected: William Johnston, J1. A. Young, 7. HI. Neal, A. 1. Davidson, 'of orth Carolina ; G.les, J. Patterson, -.G. McClure, of Cheator; Win. R. ~ober tson, Jas. TI. Rion, of Fair field ; .B. Spring, of York : John Fisher, .1D. Childa, C. D. Molton, vice A. .Taylor, who doolined a re-election, LOolumbia. After the election of offic'ers, the >llowing resQlutions were passed: .#esolvedL, That the thanks of this ody be and they are hereby returned the Chairman of the meeting, for le dignifiedl and impartial manner in which he discharged the duties of is office ; as also, to Mr. C. HI. Man >n, the 8ecretary of the Company. -R?esolved, That our thanks are (duo Mr, W A. Wright, for the use of is hall and for his attentions genpral. PAINYUL .4pOID14NT. -*.TreZevant .eerd, in of the1ov, Samuel Leard, f'this vlaeo; was pai)frilfy b' urn eon01 be.ni ht of the 15th' instadt, by the reakiog of an 'IgnIte: Keosn tamp. We are gla to state that his ijuries are improvingk4'OAoster Re orLer. An Irishn,t newlg .atrIved, and'a eilber of the O'kegan faily, wae eard to exclaim, aa,the steamer Ord'i on was ps8ing: .RO.r-e.o-n I P'Regan-be jdbers I oly four .weoka s Ameriky, an a stearnboa6 called ~y ic name I" Deabh of a Hermit. WiLliam Knight, a notable hermit. has just died near Rockingharn, Iowa aged seventy-five years. Thirty year> ago ho left England withont a wor< to his relatives, and, going direct t< Iowa, resumod his business as an at tornoy, rapidly winning fame in tha capacity. 11is frieds in Englant advertised descriptions of him, witi offor of reward for tidings of hit where abouts. For years their dl',rt: wer< fruitlh"rs. Knight posFesFed a heavy gold watch of very peculiar construe tion. D.soriptions of this watch wer< sent to the leading watch dealers in America. Knight's watch got out of order. IIe sent it to Philadelphia, to an establishmont in which a descrip tion of the watch was posted. Th< proprietor wrote to Londin parties that ho had received the watch. Over came Knight's friends, making their way to Davenport as rapidly as the moagre travelling faoilities would allow. They found the runaway. They held conference after conference with him to induce him to return to England. They resorted to strategy, and endeavored to secure his arrest for some offence that he might be sent back a prisoner. All in vain. From that time forward until his death, on Sunday last, Knight was a changed man. Be bought a small farm near Rockingham, a heavily wooded tract ; erected a sort of shanty in the forest, and there, alone, with no companions but his pipe, books and papers, he spent his time. .le received papers from England regularly, and loved to read of now and noted hooks and their authors. lie cooked his own food, washed his own olothe . out his own wood and was his own servant gene rally. Ile rarely received callers. Sometimes he would be seized with a letter-writing fit, and a letter to hia lawyers every day for a fortnight would be the result-an answer being ex pected by him as fully as thongh the matter of correspondence was of the utmost importance. And thus holived the life of a herpit, save ii relation with his attorn. alone. Why he, who was so gifte- aby naturo and so splendidly educate:, chose to abandon his luxurious hoige a6d wealthy friends make his way to the frontfer. of the American wilds for'a residede,- and t.hon, avhnn a nnosoao h-v ,. v, frianaN~. resort to the life of a hermit, is .ex plained only by an admission in one of his letters to his legal friends, wherein he admita having been hope lessly cast down by disaripointment in a love affair-he wooed, won and lost a lovely English girl-lost her be cause she preferred a "belted knight" andi a castle to a young barrister, who, being a younger son, had to make his own way to fortune and to fame. [(tincin ncti Comeinrciacl. TE, CO'r'roN SPINNER'S STRIKE I ENoI.ANn.--Wo published recently an interesting letter from our London correspondent in regard to the cotton spinners' strike in England. In Lan cashire, the principal cotton, contre, some five thousand "mill hands,"' as they are called, were out on strike. By this time the number may have swelled to twenty or thirty thousand. In Lanarkshire, Scotland, where there are many thourands of families de pendent upon the cotton mills, some nills were already standing. TVhe disease may spread until it begets great political1 trouble. Strikes in England in all the branches of trade have-never done the workinagmen anty good. As our correspondent truth fully remnarks, "cap)ital in England al ways starves labor into submission." It does niot in England :only, but everywhere. The money which has been actually lost through th e system of striking, or "standing out," is in calculable. In too many -instances the workingmen is the tool of design ing political demagogues. Men who live and fatten on the gains of their fellows, and who never themselves suffer, unscru puously bring t housan ds to misery. It is time that the work ingmnan in all lands understood that supply and demand are, after all, the only regulators of wages. Tuts R::swur in VInIONIA.--ThC Boston Advertiser (Radical) predicts the election of Walker. It says: It does.not seem difficult to predict what will be the result of the celeotion. The position of the three parties' is briefly, this: Th'Je Repub);can:s, will support the whole constitution, incluad ing the diafranebisaentof rebels 'ad negro suffrage olatuses; the "non mDovem<-at" men, with minoiit.y wing of the Republicans, will support the consti tutioni accepting ne'gro- suffrage but opposing the disfrohInIng afaury s.The Pemoorals'will oppoAO the coneititution, btit eill vote'epatktl against thdsfrailuem'nt'of tMll Te middle party undoubtedly htflds the balance of power, if :it:ia pot ie an absolute, majqrity. Jori.ng a'wjp ofthe os.t nnd ao agr4g boy.ond,poasib itf of failure, and,the astaboof 'the Mm'o'6ata '*llleon, gmdr6 also the 'defet"ofe!i'el- dlsfrait cbising olai1ded,L Whatever, 'th&b. fore, the- origin of .the reoent aotf or to who,hsoeW6r naj-be 'due the oredli of .seouring it, thoeaacesof-thq 'eu movement prog: ammo appears hovi to be massured. The Aurora Borealis. Shortly after sunset on Thursday evening, 15th1 inst"., the heavens were sufiused with a singular light ; then at thirty minutes after seven o'tlcuk the most magniticent first class auro ra shone forth with great splendor. This was the most noted aurora since September ., 1859. The corona formed at. fifty-two minutes after sev en on the suuthern iieridian, in alti. tude about eighty degrees, appearing and disappearing at times to thirty minutes after ten o'owk. The auro ral streamers shone w.it hr resplendent and varied hues of emerald green, miotbcr of pearl, scarlet, rose and crimnson. The electri waves wer ever in motion, affecting the mragnetie needle, also a very large and extensive aneroid barometer in the excellent ob serva tory of an amateur astronon or. Mention will be made of this aurora for thousunda of miles around. It. iatiluenoe was felt on the telegraph wires. Messages were sent by its aid alone on the several telegraph lines. It still prevailed, though in diminish ed splendor, at half-past three o'clock on Friday .mornling. Meteors were visible between twelve and two o'clock. One, of crimson color, with a train of ten degrees, shot into the atmosphere at forty minutes past one o'clock at a point eleven degrees west of the first pointer of the Great Dipper, and moved northwest over an are of thirty de grees. The mtoon set at fifteen min utes past ton o'clock, being a little more than four days old. The aurora borealis was again visible last evening and still prevailed when we went to press, though up to midnight the die play was rot so brilliant as on Thurs day evening. The auroral clouds, the auroral arch, with the dark bank of dense hazo beneath, and multitudi ous streamers, wero very conspicuous at eleven o'clock. At St.. John's N. B., the heavens were very bright at one o'clock yes terday morning, and the telegraph wires interrupted by the aurora. In Newfoundland the northern light was more brilliant than at any time during the winter, almost entirely in terrupting telegraphic communication with Heart's Content. At Montreal the aurora was quito light at one o'clock yesterday morn A despatch from Portland, Me., da ted half-past twelve o'clock April 16, reports the stars nearly obscured by the brilliancy of the light. At Island Pond, Vt., the spectacle was unusually brilliant. At Boston the display of the aurora borealis presented a spectacle of ro' mrkablo brilliancy, particularly be twten the hours of seven and eight o'clouk. Across from the eastern to the western horizon was exhibited a broad belt of white light, changing! color as it gradually disappeared. No exhibition of such beauty and amagni tudo has been witnessed in Massachu setts for t4n years. Fromi Philadelphia we learn that reinarkalale auroral displays occufred, being. the greatest since the -electric storm of 1859. Broad bands of red and green light, reaching from the eabtern to the weetorn borizon, and as far south as the eye could reach, sud den.ly changed into knots ovesrhead which sent forth broad rays ins every direction. During their continuanse the telegraph company worked its lines fromn this city to the western part of the State withoilt [the use o battery either end.a At Bjltimore the entire northern heispherd, from east to west, to the zenith, was illuminated. .The flashes continuied for several hours, A telegra'm from P'ittsburg reports thai although the aurora was inot seeni therec thse.telegraph wires werd visibly affcted by it. At Indianapolis thse aurora was seens at about eIght o'clock in the evensing. It was of a whsitish color, and appe)ar cd likoeclouuds snt by ,thewisid. A beaust iful how was formsed in thse sonth. A t n ipo o'cl9ek thro sky agnj' lighted, first ini the northwest, hmei verging auund to the eut, daring', out hugo shseens of lighst, which' tisrsded red and thon faded saway, when' they wv#nld agmain bsrer, fqrth. .3It lasted about san houar and a haltf. '[hero was a fine aunral, display in the northern hsorizon as scesn at ICinicinnist i. Blrillianst oplanes shot nipto the zenith. Tho telogrsphic wires, exept tlsago rusnnIng sou4lh arnd west, werc disturbed, the 'enrrentL sometimes being stronig, and at others almost neutralized. Botwoons half-past soven and ten o'clock on Thursday eveing. thre psorthorn lights woroq slightly visible a~ touissyijlg;r 1,a. tijo e (s.tr tip4n the telegri e eis,wore p)~rslyi pece 4bout .ih61t kelodk on 'Ihlarsdlay eenIng wheolt: of whiitorapp~Arenitly abut shx fedta idith, appehre$1 adross the skywtt RIobttond, bxtendi ing from east to. mes*, ,and drifted nottb'r,s1 tolg, ed Wt aspnJo oxr (eng obsogaring tho mogn', end iIply; gathered, as a fin~ dioses, and diosp,i pare4.-NV. Y ~r,L Thbe New Yorh Co*metcEal Adskr *S r v60turoee tIfo Abitidn ,'thai nine mevn out of every ten Who' 64h11 duty "jewty," also wcat their hair eartd inthe iddle. England---The Strike of the Lancashire Uotton Operatives. I.o\oN, March 31. Utnless most thinking men in England are very greatly mistaten a very serious calamity is hatigiug over the country -nd is almost at our very doors. As you will no donbt have seen in our news papers, the operatives at Preston are "on the strike." as its called, and al. ready soni 5,000 'mill hands" are without employment. This of iteelf would he bad enoigh, but the evil is in i:e"nsing, and bef~re another fortniglt i. over at least 20,000 men, women and children in and about the great centres of cotton spinuing will be idle, subsist ing upon the contribttions of their fel l.w laborers in other districts whwre tho md11l owners have not tried to reduce the wages of their workmen. As it at present stands the dispute het ween the mill owners and the opera. fives in and abuut Preston-and the diflicnity is extending all over Lanca. ,.hire-nay be briefly stated as follows : The tllasters say, and say truly, that. at the present. high price they pay for cot. ton, and the low price of the markets for -otton cloths, twist, prints nid the like, it. d as not pay t,em to work their nills, I itel that they must reduce all wages by Ien per cent. The op'ratives, on (lieth t her hantd, say no0. They0) dela'lire. wvithi oerfect truth, that when trade was brisk, ! lh stnple low priced, the mannulact ured goods high and a demand for the latter in every market., the n.ill-owners (ill n1 them maine immtense profits, and turn-* A over their capital ngain and again) lid not raise their wagesa penny apiece, ] leldl th.t now they ought. not to lower hemt becanse the iarket is for the mu ient, depressed. Moreover, they say, ind with perfect re-tson on their site, lhat if I lieir wages are now lowered ten per cent the niill-owiers will never raiso clel again, but that "tfmnine pay" will 1 be the rule hencefurth and forever upong them. 'T'hey are quite willing I o submit the question to arbitration, I lIc arbitrators to consist of an equal imnbor of artisans and inill-owners, who I will among them select solo w.ell knlown pubhic manl as ^ re fer-- Un 2t a Lho masters will not hear of this. With i hat bull.headed obstinacy which,'I am I orry to say, so often distinguishes th lEngisliiman whon he has man ic his tor e1.~o and haa.a. confortablt. balanep at lis lgnlkerP, they will listen to not,hing "'1ake what we offer or leave it," is hthir on stureoly ped reply, and thou satds of artisans have taken them at i thiir wvord and struck work. Mills are I iut up, helpless women ian children Iro ha,t( starved, and the whole state of w': u-~rgani'ed in what generally C tr the rost, flourishing (listriets of Eng. tand for the working class. Fortunate. t i y, there are certttin mill owners in the lorth of Lancitshire and in Yorkshire I hvio are not so short-sighted-not so I gasping. Their mills are not shut, be. anso they havo not, sought to rednce I vnges. ,In these favored districts the 1 )peratives wlho arq in work are subscrib. ng to laintttit} those who are not. 'Th. riondly societies and trades union also . telp gra tly. so that the poor peoplo do c tot act tinily want bread and meat, or -tather fhr brend and tea--for it is vety itth .-att. thny ever see except on Sut. lay. But stilliit. is an evil. A great ronifg is being dn these peo'le. The unIds Oil whiichl L.hey otight to rely iln imm of'sicknaen' are nowv being eaten upn .o aifoni themi over'y-day food. A tnd di, I fear, for no ns',. Unltforttur.rtely 1 or us, enpir al alvays starves labor ito < mblmissioni in Epglantd. I say' "utnfor- I tunately,".,for' I. fear wvo shall1 atlI sui'fr r om1o1 (liy fromi the greed of those whio >wnl capital ini tIs cotuntry. Meni can-. mot,-anid, what us more, thecy -will not -stnhmit and gi vo in forever whIeni thley I Lhintk-when they kniow-they hav ie I right, on their side. T1ho day wil come I whlen latbor in England will help himself to a hundred-fold m~oro than capit.al night-now content, him witth. Capital ini all. civ ilized commmtfllties lhns it8 - du ties es;well.as its rights, and if it neg Ie'cts ihoso, dutties it will some dlay have 10toeel - be. made to feel -that it has donia wr'ong. - All those operatives that are on strike are the eery pick of our artisans. TJhey are stondy,. haird-working men), aniXolus to0 get a ftair day's wvages for a fair day's woqrk, to maintamn their wiveslannd. little' ones i) qomfvrt, to keep a couple of 'do Cent rooms over their heads, and-to pt 4 by a antall nest egg which will keep those depen)dent upon thlemi from t.be poor ihousp when t,bo head of t,he family is dead. They.are in every sonse of the word decenjt,.respectable men, with no pmeltl amlount of self-respept4 as wituwese tho,.pr,y,tlora titoy enidured at the corn mloh,eCfment of I-lhe civil,wjt.in A meriesm, before the .wegilthty men oflEnglanud came to.thieirlhu4p. ,a.beiy: Muld make good citizens any wherre; but most of all ate they ealcufated to flonrvish in the United States,'-witere,mno matter *hoiv ' thible &manl tnky sbo horn,'-or choW ahort his purse-may-be, hie-f~elg that if -he ha*-a' trade or'a handioraft,'and is honest, 86. ber and well condjicted, he thust rise in the d.IN..b. . Hferad; - 'A*main '@itf a p1ild-entered A pho tograyh' Alier.y thi6tker day an'd pre viotis to pladfIv iitdhr ~ibttfre ilie 'wo manl subjeet4td til'fo'tlg or e io~ oronia pAVW*%ny.- TR1h a rdti when ho was informed by t) (~ that she was trying to get tlp a flnec or in the chilA's face a Wmhington Correspondonce of the Char leston Courier. It appears to be expected of Mr. Mot. lev tha'. he is to assume a high tone of di p!omracy towards Englat.d. accept no offers of arbitration, and no pecuniary equivalent for losses sustained by our commerce, ar.d, at the same time, main tain peace between the two countries, until we are better prepared than we are now for war. It is already given out, Ps the sense of the Senate, before which body the Alabama treaty is to day subjected to severe criticismn and reprobation, that Enfgland toast pay us with aocessi.n of her territo,y, and all of her territory on this continent. A long time will elapse before that ino'le of adjustment will be iract.icable, and many causes may com bin to hasten the two Governments uto a war. The reje.ction of the Alabama %1-aty >y the abhnost unanimous vote of th'e aunate, taken together with the com nendation strongly expressed by Sena ors of different parties, of Mr. Sumner's xposition of the demands of the United atev, tntd with the confirmation of Mr. lotley as the representative of theso views, all go to show that our relations wih enaland are, from this day, to be very critienl. Nothing can satisfy our do aminds but wtir or absolute retirement. f British rule everywhere on this con iet.. Great. Britain might he, rerhaps, the aiuer by withdrawing all nontrol over er A merican IEmpire. and leaving the olonies to seif-government, and inde. wndence. Sho now finds them an ele. nent of weakne ls rather than of trength. As Dillke, in his "Greater [ritain." says she pays three millions a rear for the professed h.oseility of the anadas to the United States. When ianada shall becomo the batt.le-ground, )etween the contending countrics, it vill cost the British Government mnch nr,re. But were Grunt Britain sepa ated from these Amerirtan possessions he would be entirely invuueraeble to t.tacks from thu Uttited States, except hrough her commerce on the high seas, nd hero she will have ample power for lefence and offer.ce. While I write, Mr. Sumner's speech, ransmitted by cable telegraph, is before he British Ministry, Parliament and ho public in jondosl, It witl no faji o produce a..n.t,gg. his time, when lEuropean ;tjce1 m pprehend the ocottrrenco of a groat war a which Russin, Prussia, France and erhans other powers will be involv Mr. H. S. Sanford is selected for the nission to Spain, on account of his cnowledge of the language and the colo. tial policy of that cou..try. Iii instrmi ion- in regard to Uubau affairs will be reflection, it is supposed, of the Banks esoluition, which passed the House, and which is undoubtedly a just representa ion of President Grant's views. Somu tints are thrown out that Mr. Sanford vill be authorized to sound the Spanish .overnment,n pon the question of the ale of Cuba to the United States, the ossion and annexation of the island icing subject to the approval and assent if its inhabitants. It might be a cheap r mode of settling the ntter, both for fpnin and Cuba and the United States, hanl by civil and iiternational war. We have repeatedly shown the fitui y of negro labor; that,, indeed, there iii in sneh thing as free negro labor. . xists only ini the morbid amagination of ho fanatie. There is none of it inm [amaica arid H-ayti where thme unaduli erated afree negro is domiciled. Thlere a free sumnning ini the atLreets thure', mid free eating of banatnas; as sootg here wvill be nothing here but free oeg killing and frd'o potato gravel mgp. Whiere then sqhiall we finid labor for lie culture of cotton ? Aniy gnantity of it is ready at hand in 3hina. and Indiai, amnd .thae qutest.ion of >btaining it is only onie of dqlhars and *ents which will sooni revert back to hose who ex pend them in the executioni )f the enterpris6 in que'stion. Northern sliip;ew nors will gladly tako .ho contract to land. at .our wharves Ihinmeso and I,linidoostaneo1,Phmipte, it lfif.y dollars aliend, anid planters wilt 'e glad to psy thu'cainpaing tiat Imports hem from sevenaty-fivesto a bhaita lollarp a head - There is money ini the thing at once,. ra%ero is untold wealth in it with th. levelopmeont that time will bring. ( Mobile 'l ibune. The Sultan hias abolished throughout ~he Turkish Em~ipire theo prohibition, iiherto rigidly enforced,.against the dmlisiSon of Ghmristians to the mosqnes. It la ly stipubiatvd that ti:se not &n' ielmaus,who>uisit' the ..nosqmaes, shall bphavs properly wile inm they buildirigs, Charles Diokmnhas bepvt mide the t~epient of a puiblie dinh~ at Liverpool. ICnglatid.. Hie said lihst. 9hosen litera thre in preferenea t9 ,mhiice, adt .was Ien1de tqestand by it It is at dnd *s a nlatrfaqt dhat not oseemthe f the t~i~ die'ad' leave proet yin India a1 lemae s will;'Th%# a4.v r'ke6r onhra etbolfifthdin t,y winld be'pt ofylce fuir oe.fvph. 'thdihoms5 i obh'h f dhtcg fas ene its pews fort * e fauIng year foVn uddtosndlae