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TIHE FAIRFIED HERALD 1 WINNSISOiR, S. C. Wrdnosday Morning, May 12, 1809. I)ai' wWI, Williams & Co., Props Early Against Late Planting. Thto Cotton tr,'e is a tropical oxot io, indigenous to Mexico and Brazil, whore it is a perennial. The season here is too short for it, and yet it has boon growing into favor of lato to shorten it still more, by at least twen ty days, by lato planting. This, we think is a mnistalke, thnt has arisen tat urally enough. Of tho many causes that produce a good erop, the thor ough preparation of the soil before planting is perhaps the main cause. Now late planters usually prepare well, and early planters, badly. The difference starts in their very charac. ters. These are in a hurry, to lose time : those are slow, to gain time in the end. But the mistake is, in at tribut ing to the latetness (if tho plant ing u hat is due, in most cases, to the thoroughness of preparation ; and to the earliness of the plauting, what is due to slovenly preparation. For it is not a mere matter of theory, but a fact frequently testod, that the prepa ration of' the soil being equal, the earlier planting usually affords the larger yic ld. In Anderson District, where the season is still shorter, necessity has forced attention to the importance of planting at. the earliest possible (lay. Then, or not at all ; they have no choice. And thu Anderson planters practice thiniag out. their cotton with the hand ten (lays after it is up, with, great advantage. Indeed, we can see nio reason for po::1lolag thinning so IL g as is sonetines done. To show how thoughtless plant ors sometines are in jndgitg of causes and effects, wo will relate an an(edote of an excellent planter in St. Mat thews Parish. lie said to us, "I do not believe in deep ploughing on this soil." Our readers are familiar enough with that expression, we sup poso. But why I "I have tried it,'' lie continied, "four or five years in sue oassi:n, subsoiling eery other rot, and could see no diff'erceeo between tihe rows subsoiicd and the other rows." We smiled. Because any 'a ui aqecaininted even slightly with - subsoliing and Jiehing, ought to know, that. the benefits of a ditch or subsoiled row extend from ten to thirty feet out on each side of it. We told him ns, and asserted thit it was impossible to test the question by sulseiling every other row. But we know we did not convince him. A I fool that has played fool "for five yarvs in succession,"' is ntot going to acknowledge thli fact, lie, doubt less, took secret revenge by thinking us 'a book-farmaaer."' Sitpposo, for or gumnt, we aidmiiit it. Books are' theai deplositoriecs ol' thec wisest thoughts and ripest experiencee of theo wisest of mtank intd. Ohiunamena Servants, Tlhie telegraphl informns us that the laist steamter from China broughat over to San Fr'ancisco elevoan hunadred pas setagers, an ad so soon ats the Southern Phacilic Railroad is built, it will take but. a few (Inys to bring Oh inoamen fr'om t'alifornia into any' of the Southern Stattes. In a former article, in argu atent with thle Mobtilo Tribune, we dleprecated I thi arri vail as a cailamity to the South. But be it a caltamity or' ablessing, we are certain that they n/al come. 'Our houses will be full of thomn within fifty yearas. The Negroe is becomtjing less valuable to the white mian as a laborer (daily. As domeas tiles or haouse-servants, Negroes are be coining such worthless pests, that mlanly have alreaidy dispensed with their services. But the deminand for haouse servants will suarely increase, with the eertnain ineretase of the wealth of the Souath. And tall other conside a ationts whtatever will certainaly yield to the pr'essure of thais miatetrial inter est. Chinmon will supply the do. mand, as they do ini California, anti 'hainamna we are going to have. Whent theo first squad arrives in Wiannsboro, let thte good people cali to inad Ibis prophecy. The political effect of their certain coming, will be, it seems to us, only disastrous. Universal suffrage, and a l.arge nuamber of Negroes and China-j mean to vote, amust of necessity keep political power itn thae other sections cf the Unilon. This is the real object of the hypocritical preteance of equal rights put forward by the North. But socially, thank God I the pres once of two inferior races of men, may prod uce a lofty pride of race in the Southern whites, and a noble disdain of what is coarse, low anid moan, as ir. separably aissoohajed iln their thoughts with thae inferior races, that may make us still in the future. what we iave certainly been in the past, a su. )orior people--a people whose faults ro those usually associated with man y virtues. Radioal Bluster. Tho reception that Senator Sum. ler's speech has met in England is ,xactly what might have boon antici. ated. One univorsal cry of scorn ad indignation arises from every mart of the United Kingdom. Even John Bright, the English radioal, mcouts the idea of humiliating his ;ountry before domoorat,.o insolonco. And the prospect of a war with a pow 3r whose steam marine is three times is powerful as their own, already be. sins to cool the ardor of the vulgar arnggarts who now pretend to dis >hargo the duties of statesmen. The Janadian parliament, too, have unani nously repudiated any desire to get Lindor the power of the best govern ineut in the world. One of their ora. tors who declared for independence, If over separated from the mother country, was greeted, throughout his -pcech, with enthusiastic applauso. What an absurd position the Uni. ted States Government now holds ! The Washington Chronicle of Mon. day, says: "Governor R. K. Scott, of South Carolina, has arrived in this city, and is stopping at Willard's. IIe is en route for Cincinnati and Louisville, where he will meet other gentlemen of South Carolina, who visit those cities in the interest of the Blue Ridge Railroad, which is a short lik of road through the Bluo Ridge Mountains, connecting Anderson, S. C., with Knoxville, Tenn. When completed this road will give the shortest route from the great West to the South Atlantic seacoast, and will do much to develope the commercial and agrioultural resources of both South Carolina and sections of other adjacent States. This will be the nearest and beat route to the seaboard for a very large section of the West ern country, for the produce of which it opens an outlet never obstructed by ice, whence there is direct and short communication with one of the most important of our foreign markets, either to buy or sell in, the West Ia dies." Two fashionable dressed gentlemen, accompanied by even more stunning ladies, recently patronized one of the first restaurants in Paris for supper, which taxed the whole resources of the establishment, regardless of ex. pense. Supper finished, the ladies were seen to their carriage with a po liteness that excelled the courtly days of Versallies. The gentlemen return ed, called for the vulgar bill, and re coived it on perfumed satin paper and on a silver salver, held by the proprie tor in a span new pair of Jouvin's best kids. Each gentleman drew from his pocket a six-chamber revolver, an nouncing that they had made all their arrangements to die, and in that place, found that they had not the courage when the moment came. Therefore, as they had no money, they politely requested the proprietor to do them the favor of shooting them. When the last rail of the Pacinie road is laid and the cars are coursing from ocean to ocean, travel and trade round the globe by steam power will he complete. We shall he able to go round the world, fromi west to east or from east to west, by tihe power of steam, in a little over two months. We can take the ears from New York to San Francisco and thmen the Pacfii mail steamships to China, which will be reached in a month ; thence by the British lines to India and to the Me diterranean by way of Egypt, by steamship and rail to En gland, and hiomle again9 across thme Atlantic. Or we can mnake the circuit of the gloe the othler way in about the same time. .The Abboville Agrioultural8Society is.evidently making headway. A pre mium list is published embracing prizes in every department of agricul ture, horticulture, mechanical indus try and domestie skill, and comprising enough to stimulate every one to put forth a hand to make the next fair a great success. The value of the priz es has not been fixed and will depend upon the number of subscriptions. The time of holding the fair is yet to be determined. IIonIRDLF. ACCmDF.NT.--esterday afternoon, says the Pensacola (Fla.) Observer, of the 29th ultimo, while an old man named Kinsey, was carrying off slabs from the saw at Reynold's ,Mill, he by some accident was thrown into the saw and cut in two, the saw passing obliquely from his shoulder aeross his breast. We are unable to learn much regarding him except that by birth ho was a North Carolinian, and supported by his labors his wife and two children, or two grand-ohil nlren. Incredible as it may seem, a three story brick house, eighteen by forty feet, and in the construetion of which 42,350 brick were used, was built In Lancaster, Pa., last week, in nineteen ad a half hours, and persons were living in it within three days fromthe time it was commenced. A correspondent says t1here are no daily papers published in his town, but there is a ladies' sowing meeting, which answers the same purpose. Mr. Higgins, the British astrono mner, has demonstrated by experiment that host from the principal Axed stars raest1 eMarta. A IFMAIKABLE REVELATION.--A letter in a recent number of the Wheeling Regiter, from Roanoke C.., Va., makes the following remarkable revelation: While in Marion, Smyth County, a few days ago, I had the pleasure of several lengt.hy chat. with lion. Fay. ette MoMulin. Mr. MoMullin says that since the war he was one day in the President's house, in Washing ton, conversaing with lion. F. Blair, Sr. Mr. Blair told him that soon aftei MeMullin's "peace resolutions" had been introduced into the Confederatt Congress, Mr. Lincoln being anxious to bring about a peace honorable alikt to both sections of the country, and foreseeing, and wishing to avoid, the political consequences of the military subjugation of the South, snt bin (Mr. Blair) to Rchmond to confei with Mr. D.tvis and learn what ar rangenent of thu dlli ;ultics could be made. ie was passed through the linei of the contending armies and conduct ed to Mr. Davis' houro in Richmond After a long conversation with Mr Davis and other prominent gentlemi for whom Mr. Davis sent, and fo: whom Mr. Bluir enquired, Mr. Davi, said that he had no proposition tc make. Mr. Blair then proposed tha General Lee's army be marched iut< Mexico against the French; that Gen oral Grant would follow and suppor the movement ; that the united at mie would drive out Maximilian, and the the Southern States should name thei own terms of reconstruction, every thing short of independence beinp guaranteed. At Mr. Davis' requesi this proposition was made in writinp and after some consultation and refl:c tion, was signed and accepted by him, Mr. Blair returned to Washington and Mr. Lincoln was highly deligbte< with the success of t he negotiat ion. It was in the hope of consummatinE th a arrangement that Mr. Lincolh and Mr. Seward met the "Peace Com missioners," Ilon. Stephens, Hunte and Cambbell, at Fortress Mo iroe but there, to Mr. Lincoln's chagrin the committee declared that they ha< been instructed by Mr. Davis to insih upon the independence of the South and would listen to no other proposal And thus the whole affair came to 'most lame and impotent conclu,iou.' Such is the substance of the accoun related to Governor McMullin by Mr Blair. Mr. MMullin says that b asked and obtained Mr. Blair's permis sion to make the statement public, bu he had refrained from giving it pub licity pending Mr. Davis' trial, fear ing lest it might in some way preju dice the case. [The above is as base a lie as wa ever put forth by a Radical sheet.] A CIIANCE FOR S1nAGUE.- If Son, ator Sprague has any fancy for blood letting he still has an opportunity t indulge it, du"pite the paciflo settle ment of his imbroglio with Senato Abbott. Francis W.- Goddard, form erly a captain in the First Rhode Is land Regiment, is out in the followinj card in the Providence Journal: PIRoVInENCt, April 26, 1869. To the Hion. Villtam Sp-aurae, Unite States 3ena tor from nhode Island: Availing yourself of your positio in the United States Senate, anid abus i .g its privileges in a base and coward Iy spirit, you have, in your speech o the 8th instant, charged me with hav ing deserted my post in the hour e danger, while a member of the Firs Rhode Island Riegimiernt. Genera Burnside having, over his own signi ture, denied the truth of your asset tions, it remains for me to pronouno you before the world, and with a ful apprehension of the words I use, liar, calumniator and pal roon. I ait FRnacis W. GoonAnn, Late Captain Carbineers, First Rhode Island Regiment. Captain Goddard is one of the "mil lion" referred to in the speech of Sen ator Sprague, and was charged by thia gentleman with having left his post a duty in the hour of danger at the firs battle of Bull Rune. We should lik to hear of sonic of the "boys in blue' who didn't leave their "post of duty on the occasion referred to. You cannot walk about Paris with out being struck with the fact that n Parisian, man, woman or boy, eve walks a step if he or she can ride, an: this they, all do at a low rate, and a a nice leisurely pace, thanks to th system of omnibus ser viee. You ca1 go from any given part of Paris t, any other point, provided always thia you do not mind constantly chianginj conveyances, and passing thme interva between arrival and departure with about forty other peeoplo, in a roes ten feet square, and hmea': ed by a stov to the temperature of -. melon frame The extent ,to which th is system o locomotion is patronised is really ox traordinary, and will aceQount for thb following omnibus statistics: Th< company works forty-nine lines, anid the total distance run over by the va rious vehicles daily is 29,077 kilo metres (five-eights of a mile each.) The longest journey is fromn the .Lou vre to Cour bevoie, 7850 metres, an< the shortest from the Place des Belle vihle, 300. The points at which the greatest number of omnibuses pasm every day are the Place du Chatehet 2872; Place de la Bastile, 2622 Palals Royal, 2559 ; Porte St. Martin 1692. The Masshusette Senate has con oluded to exempt lager from the' cata, logue of intorieating drinks whieh ar< to be forbidden by the prohibitora law, provided that the artiole do.: not contain inore than three andi on half per centum of alcohol. Further aore, it is not to be'. sold at a publi< bar or to be drank onth peaf.... The Great Utah Basin. VALLEY OF DEATl AND TIE YAL KY OF Till- VinGINs-MUD Ve'LCA NOK8 AND HOT 8u'IINU8. correspondent writing from the ritory of Utah, give, the following resting facts legarding the celebrat "Valley of Death," the "Valley of Virgin," and the MXIid Volcanoes hot springs of that curious coun he entire great Utah Basin is divid by small ranges of mountains about t thousand feet high, forming valleys n ten to fifteen miles across. They ie ilmpercepi.ibly towards the centre, ere a water conrse runs to some tcent vallev or into sonio marshy ce. )ne well known porti-m of this re, n is the noted \'allev of Death, so led from the fact that in 1850 a large In of emigrants en route to Californa anm: discontented with their Mormon do, and a portion of them decided to t for thenselves. 'fter traveling three days they reach the valley, which is some fift miles g by thirty in breadth, lower t han sea level, intd entirely destit ute of ter, encircled by mountaiits, up whose rp sides it is unpossible to ascend ex. t at two points. It is devoid of vegetation, and the dow of a bird or wild beast never ken,: its white, glaring sand. 1'he little band of emlgrants. com sing twenty a. nilies, were deceived a trecherons mirage that promised ter, but on reaching the centre of s vale of desolation their eyes rested y on the glaring sands bounded by scorched peaks. Around the val they wandered. one by one. The men d, and the panting flocks stretched mselves in death undier the burning Jan any one rluestion the appropnr ness of the nane ever since applied it, the Valley cf Death ? In narked Itrast to this dreaded region is the utiiul Valley of the Virgin, nestling the Black Ridge range at the south ridge of the Great Basin of Utah. e encircling moun;ains rise to an elc. ion of twelve hundred fe'et ; with neroits peaks passimg above the It of perpetual snow. From their omit you look down upon a vast, ex. of country, with its hillsides and ieys, plains and glens, whie the VIr river is seen rounding its course ng t he foot of the range many miles, ,v overflowin g a valley, here glidin teat Ii overhanging clilli, leaping from k to rock, and then in grand cas les rolling offgranite leuges in sheets -atherv loam, on its way to join lhe lorado. In the dim v sta appear rug I peaks rising tumultnously heaven rd, tinted by the sunshine that streanis ough the mighty ravines and hollows, ng them with lines of silvery light 1 purple shade. JOIN C. CAI.LtouN ANtD T. J. Rto RTSON.-The foilowing pointed anec .e conies to us fron Colombia: A.. S. Wallace, collector of internal enne, was talking a few days ago, dope's corter, expiating on the thi, patriotism and abilities of our tinguished senator, Tom Robertson. es, gentlemen," said he-lhe has done re for the State than any man ever before ; lie has done more, in two lithis, thlanr Jo1hn C. CalhloOin did1 inl teen y'ears." An Irtiani pasiing the ti me, lienarimg thle remarik. turned I said : "Ye arc righrt, bejabers-he 8 gavV us a nager for a2 postmuaster." [ Char.clson NeYws. Till TTNION Ie:SAoUL:--A SPLIr. cere is a schism in the0 league; the. >re Rad:cal and violent of the organi ion having resolved to taboo the or na.l free colored ment, and all in any se sympathized or affiliated with the sesne movement. T1he part.y lines to be tightly drawn, and no chance showing wvhate.ver is to be givea to y one who will not bow the knee at raising of the rod.-- bid. Rimtann.-Geni.'Scott offers a re Lrdl of $1000 for the appirehmeasionl of tflmlrderer or murderers of George C. syward. "a highly esteemed citizeni of Luke's Parish, Beaufort County, to was brutally murdered on the pub highway, abot five miiles from the lage of Bllufftoni, and hits body rifled a watch, pocket-book and papers. 'd. Tx:nnrni.a FAMINIC IN THic NoTtr OF 1RoP1'.-Advices b)y mail from the n htries on the Baltic Sea tell of a ter e anid widely exten,dad famine now isting there. A lettor says that the tress is indescribable. From the 23d May to the 1 8thI of A uguist, Iast year, rain fell, and the summer crops "were >rnched. B3read can nowv be scarcely ,even at the most exorbitant prices, ,as the roads are imnpa.aable by Sea of the extraordinary wet wveather, help from abroad can reach thi' peo. . The debilitaited ccondit.ion of the pulation and their herding togethter ill larger villages, in the hope of get ting d and shelter, has engendered disease iich is making fearful ravages. The local editor of a Georgia paper, noning his retirement fromi his post, 's that lie p'roposes to seek labor in a ferent ild , which hie describes as nue where the genial rays of thle sun -ends its golden light andl( fills the th with flowers, andu smiles (In loving tire wvithi brighti atnd hallowed counato. ces." Reduc~ed to English this (may hips mean that lie is going to hoe ,n. A~ writer in the Rural Netw Yorker is writes of the Scuppernong grape: his grape is worth untold millions to Southern people, if they wvill follow examtple of Mr. Harst, of Wilming. North Carolina, in developing its 'uro an~d the conversion of its juice a good wino," P'he repentance that is delayed tuntil age. is but too often a regret for the bility to commit more sin The Style for May. It is rumored that pointed waists Ti will soon present their claims for pub- 1 lie consideration ; b*t whether their claims will be allowed is another mat- 2 ter. The belt waists are better Ter adopted to sashes; they are generally, inte moro becoming ; they aro more easily ed fitted, and it will be nany days before the they are entirely discarded. and The lace flschu is a very pretty and try stylish addition to the toilet, and ' when made of blonde or tullo, with ed 1 suitable edging, is not expensive and tw< looks almost 8s well as the costliest froi lace. slol Street suits of ca.mbric are made wh with capes ; of pique, wit h sacques- adj the first trimmed with ruffles, the see- pla o :d with washing braid. House ( dresses of muslin or cambric are mado gio with Spanish flounces, and white will cut be much used for indoor and outdoor tra wear. Walking boots are still worn high gui on the leg and buttoned. French pi1< heels have had their days and are to e give place to something deserving the ed name that will not twist the feet and lon injure the spine. the Thin gauze veils are coming into wa fashion. s.e Full evening dresses are something eer made with pointed waists. ] Spanish flounos will be worn on shj cambric dresses. dt Stripes are very pretty and popular. White muslin dresses have upwards pri of a dozen flounces on the skirt. by Gloves must match the trimming in wit color. Where the dress consists of thi two shades, the gloves must harmon- onl izo with the darker. the HORRIDLE ;aTtt.-About mid night on Sunday last, the people of tr the village of Rainbow, near Newsusli Haven, Ct., were awakened by the cry of Oro, which proved to be caused by atv the burning of i two-story frame to house owned by John Darvin, and oc cupied by him as a liquor saloon, be which was completely destroyed. -' Those neighbors first on the spot, e foundjDarwin lying on the ground so Th badly burned as to ho nearly inaensi- va ble. Ie was conveyed to a neighbor. va ing house, but died in great agony be- lim fore morning. It appears that the ' unfortunate manat, as soon as ho had t t discovered the fire, ran out of the ter house, but subsequently returned to va save his sleeping children. He was al - badly intoxicated at the time, and en t tering the burning building, the ht - flames struck him in the face, and im . mediately, owing to the amount of li- roc - quor he had drank, set fire to the in- C side of his throat and stomach, burn- co bug up his tongue, so that when he a was found, that organ was a mere crisp. The children were saved by thir the neighbors, one of them badly fill scorched. The eldst boy says a gen Ser,al carousal had been going on in an the saloon, and while some one intoxi . cated was drawing liquor, he proba- m r bly set fire to an old feather-bed near do the barrel. Everything in the house . was burned, and the children are thus r left orphans and unprovided for. at THE RESULT or APPLIcATION -- - Soek to acquire the power of contin nous application, without which you cannot expect success. If you do "UC 1 this, you will be able to perceive the dt - distainco which it crentes btetween you "u and those who have not such habits. f You will not count yourself, tnot will at - they count you, as onie of them. Thusat fyou will fintd yourselt' eumerging inito h the higher regions of intellectutal and Iearnest men--men who are capable of - making a place for themselves, in- TIj -stead of standing idly gapinig, desir- nu Sing a place without thte power to com- zal Imiand it. Keep on striving to acconm- igi i plish n:orc and more every day, and wVt >thtus enlarge cotnstanttly thme range of L~ your intelIleetual ability. If you ar learn to do as much work in one dlay or as you used to do in two or three an days, you are as good as two or thtroe hi 'such men as you formerly wore, boil-. ed to one.-Dr. Wlayland.__w f OnANT AND Anr.TEMUs.-Artemaus 1 t Ward got so p)atriotic that lhe said lie was willing to sacrifice every one of his own and his wife's relations forli the good of his country. Grant in now sacrificing the country for the of benefit of his and his wife's relations. lg, He has given them all something cx - cept tihe D)igger Indians, and is looking 3 out for a plae for them to fill. If a10 man can't scrape up relationshi p, or co. t show that hte contributed largely to ri Sbuying Hiram Ulyss a fine residence ex or a splendid saddle htorsoi, there is nto dis more chane for him to get an ap- of pointment than there is for a gentle- no tian to get into Congress.-New York aci Iferald. go EPORTED IEXPEDITIONs FOR CUDA. New York, May 4. -T he Express says that United States Marshal Biar .low bas received reliable information p r that a steamer left this port last night -for Cuba with three hundred men, Ci i each provided with a-rifle and a urn-i form ; that the vessel also took a large iqatyoflight clothing and provi - ost ata month or six weeks.- en .Tex1press adds that another expe- sal dition is preparing. The Marshal is dil - investigating the matter,.n An ingenious Frenchman in Phila- ap' delphia skins frogs by drawing all ea their interior parts through the "" mouth, and then stuffs and mounts " thonm in a variety of curious attitudes PO el~s billiardists, yelgoipedists, dent- coI 1sts, eto. The following Is a Spanish epitaph thte upon .a young girl who died broken- "T1 hearted :lt She who lies beneath this stone the Died of constancy alone, tot Fear not, approach, oh I passer-by-.- eml Of naught conatagionie did she die. ait IThur'low Weed has presented the AJ iken Baptist Church with a hand. old s ome commuwnion serviee. ina Local items, New Advortisenien :s. Notice--John WV. Clarko, County Assessor. General Order No. l.--F. J. Moses, jr., Adjutant and Inspector General. Torrifio Hail Storm, We were visited Wednesday even iug, about half past four o'clock, with one of the most terrific hail storms, that has, to our knowledge, ever be fore passed over our town. The largo brick stable belonging to Dr. Thomas Madden, was blown down, Trees woro uprooted, fences demolish ed, and bricks from chimneys, strewn in every direction. yonio of the hail stones was nearly as large as a pigeon egg. Marriage Extraordinary. The follouing extraordinary mar riago notice was published not lowg since, in the Rounoke (N. C.) News, as a fact. The happy bribe was a youthful maiden of only niney-two winters on the 26th of December last, and the groom was a blooming boy in his eighty ninth year. The editor wishes then a i happy honeymoon, and trusts they may live to a ripe old age "Married, on the morning of the 13th inst., at the Poor-house in Ilali fax, N. C., by C. N. Webb, Esq., Mr. David Johnson, of Halifax, N. C., to Miss Nellie A tkerson, formerly of Lu nenburg county, Virginia Calling Out the Militia. The following notice says the Char leston News, has been posted up at different plantations in the neighbor hood of Monek's Corner. A second notice changed the time of meeti,g to May 1st '"Hereby Give to all Colored men that A Maskmncating is to hell at the new Baptis Church on the Monk corn. ner Road on the 2 day of May at 10 ten oclock A. M. To form a imilitary compy Specal attention is give aIm thority of the-same that all able Bodie men citizens between the aGes of eightoen and forty-five years Resid ing in this and to Excepted by the laws of the United State, shall be subject to militia duty & by ISao u Sanders T. II. II rrelINsON" Q Mrs. Partington is said to be all right on the toe, whether tlie light fantistic or the other one. Tiptocing the other morning, after getting up from the breakfast table sho said she would "Take a tower, or go on a discus sion. They say, if I collect rightly, that a party is to go to a very lluratl spot, and to inistake of a collection. I hope it won't he so cold as Ours for the poor wa8 , Last Sunday ; why, there wern't sullicient to buv wcmd for a restituto wi ddir " And the old lady putt on lbor cal sh . TIhme dear~ old marm. Farmers Look Hero I An ofl'er of valuable in foi'mat ion free. Surgeon of the American Stock Journal answers all qutest ions relating to diseased or injured animals belong lng to lie subscr'ibors free. Send stamp for a specimen eopy of this val uable monthly, to N. P. Boyer & Co., Parkesburg, Chester Co., Pa. ~~-A rattlesnake, five feet leng, withI thirteen rattles, was killed at the residlence of Mr's. Heath, near Tur'key Crc ek, in Barnwel1l)Distriet, on thme 29th ult. TusE CoNrTEs'1ED EI.cTIoN.-Judge Carpenter, says the Charleston News, decided the quo warranto ease, on Saturday, in favor of Pillsbury and his Board of Aldermen. Under thme circumstances, it was thought best that no appeal should be made, and it is expected that the new Mayor will be sworn in at 12 o'clock to-day. Agricultural Convention. Tho following Conmmittees were ap pointed: On Commercial Fertilizers-John S. Green, T1. Wannamaker, aiid Major Thomas Da.vis. Improvedl and Labor-Saving A gri cultural Implements--John B. Moore, WV. 8. Hlonery, WVm. Ghlaize. On Cotton-John P. Kinard, R. A. McCaslan, E. H. Dowling. On Corn-Dr. J. WV. Parker, Theo dore Long, P. 8. Felder. Stock Raising-R. S. Porcher, T. W. Holloway, R. A. Griffin. Piscimniture--T. W. Wood ward, George B. McCants, H. L ELliott. Bee Culture-Dr. Turnipseed, J. HI. Kinaler, Dr. McKinley. On the Subject of Inunigration A. A. Gilbert, P. T. Hlaskell, J1. A. Furman, J. M. Baxter, W. T. IBinest. To Consider Subject of Fencing James Chesnut, J1. D. Moore, John MoRlea, A. M. Aiken, WV. HI. Trescott, J. U. Pope. To Rent Sorghum Works in Green ville, arnd to Investigate Beet Culture -J. P. Moore, J. Q. Donaldson, L. WVilliams, D. W. Aiken, B. Z. Horn don. Rice--N. Hleyward, R. Tzard, B. Sanders, Dr. A. Forster, J. R Spark man. OHope writes the poetry of the boy, bnt mma,.. tat, of man Support Your Home Paper. We recommend the following arti eles as worthy of consideration. It wili suit this meridian as well as any other. "Whatever patronago may be ao corded to city journals, whether on no count of their cheapness or "general" news they contain, the importance of sustaining '-home papers" should not be overlooked. As the medium for local transaction, and for furthering some interests their value can hardly be overestimated. The following ar ticle from the Cleveland Ieralil pre beits the (fuest ion in its truo light :'' We know of nothing that is more disheartening to the publisher of a country newspaper, than to be told, as he often is, when soliciting subscrib era, "I feel too poor to take your pa. per I. take the //erald (or some other huge foreign weekly,) and it only costs me two dollars a year, and con. tains twice as mnuch rending as yours docs','--when the receipts of one week of the office named above would ho double the yearly receipts of his coun try pa pers, and when if the forcian paper were pul ished seventy years, it would not result in as much benefit to himself and county in which he lives as would a single week's edition of his own county papers. Recollect, if a home paper is to bo supported, homo influence must do it. Every dllar sent to the Eastern paper is at the expense of the local paper. A county acqiiires prominence through its paper more t han in any other way, and to every one who has county in terests at stake, his home paper is a necessity. Never should a man take a paper printed away from his homo until he is able to take a second pa-. per. Ilis first will be his home sheet, and he will so identify his own inter. ests with that of his county as to con sider the payient of his subscription as a matter of as yearly duty as the payneit of his taxes." Qr There is a town in Texas in which it is said there is but one giave, utpon the slab> of which is written tho following epitaph : Unerneath this turf doth lie, Side to side my wife and I (lenerous straiger spare the tear, For could sie speak, I could not hear, I0sppier far than when in life, When the last trmpin tho air shall fill, If she gets up, I'll just lie still. To Fix Pencil Writing. An exchange says, to fix pencil 0 writing, is siinply to breathe upon or otherwise moisten the page as soon as written, and when dry the lines can scarcely be erased. Let any one write both ways on the raino paper and note the diff'eren'e. Passing tho moistened tongue over the writing, more effectually fixes it, making it as nearly as durable as ink. CoaiaaN Coatr.T.--A comet, supo rior in size and lustre to Eneke's is nightly expected. Celestial curiosity. seekers are promised this novelty be tween this date and June. It is the return of Wineck's comet, which lhas been whiskinag its t ail through space for ever so mnany years. Noimatin. M'n. E'arr'ont:-Please announce WV. M.. MAl'JTIN, Esq., as a ecnndidate for Con:nty Commissioner, and oblige his many 11 MANY FRIENDS. 1 respect fully nnnounce myself to the ci Lizens of Fairfield as n. candidate ror- Conn-. ty Commnissioner', at the ensuing election. may 1 RCOBERT I1AWTlIORN. A Th'rilling Incident in the mission life of Mrs. lIngalls, in, Burmnab, is well told in the "'ilapt ist Mes senger',' relating how she was sent for to, visit. one of toe ltludhist high priests, who. had heeni neatly killed ; antd how, while in, the most holy piace int their temple, where none but p'riesits hadi ever been admitted, she was permittedi uinrebiuked to usc for him lie sacretd vessels, which none but the higli priest dar'e touch, and to ev&n overturn and sit on one of' their gods to rest ; all through ho imagic intlucuce of lie Pain Killer, call ed by thetm the "God medicine," so sute cessftlly hadl she used it in cur ing their many <hsenses, somo of themt considered heretofore fatal in that climate, among which weire cholera, liver cotmplainit, dyspepsia, the bit-es of venomous reptiles, &e. This speaks volumes for the P'aini Killor'-Lonadon Rev. J. E. Clouigh, Missionary at Ongole: Southeroin India, writes :-"We esteem your Pain Killer very highly for scorpion stings, c.holera, &c., anid cannot very well get along without it.'' Rev. 1. D Colbuirn, Missionary at Tavoy, Btu'mah, wvrites ; "I shall be happy to as sIst in extending a knowledge of a remedy so speedy and ofreetutl." may 8-lrm The vast amount of PLANr^-rIOS BrTiras now being solud and shippedl frorni New York is almost inicredible. Go when andi where you will-along thme what yes and piers, and at the depots-you will see great piles of these Bitters awaiting shipmrent and con veyance to every nook anti corner of the countr'y,, anti to the hundreds of foreign ports. They are very popular among all claisses of people, antd are conceded to be .just the thing for the climate. No Btittera have yet breen inirodlued which have be come~ so de.servedly popular and worthy of pnt rotn g, to r.l who require a tonic and stiw'mhunt. rhoy are prepared with piuwo 't (''"'i lt'ian. Calisriya and Caiscaia Bark, atud nll the world knows ftill well what DImh enetieial results acerrue froin cmitni'tat ions. . laor.tA W^ATKta.-.Superior to the bee6 inported GJermnan Cologne, anid sold at half thle price.my -tl 200 POUNDS STC CANDY' Canned Tomatto, Sodai Iliscuits, Ycast Powders, &c., just recelived at toay 1 mOitN omCN'FY R-&(