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. Desportes, Williams & Co., Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquiry, Industry and Literature Terms $300 per Annum In Advance VOL.11.1 WINNSBORO, S. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 26,1869. [NO.47 TiHE?; FAIRFIELD HERALD IS l'Ulli.S1ID: WKKKI.Y ny DESPORTES. WILLIAMS & 00. Terms.-Tui HR.ALn is published Week ly in the Town of Winnsboro, at 93.00 in vareably in advance. A W- All transient advertisements to be paid in advance. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1.00 per square. I Ask No More. I have not wealth, no lands are mine, I own no houses, broad and high, A have no costly gems to ehine, No robs of rich and varied dye ; No regal coaoh, or dappled grays. To drng me through the crowded streets'; No titled fops to lisp my praise, And bow in homage at my feet. No servants to obey my will, No slaves to wait at my command; No goldtn cup with wine to fill, No jewels on my soft, white hand; No sumptuous couch, with costly lace, And softly spread with snowy white, p To rest at night my form upon, When wrapp'd in tranquil slumber light. No. I have none, not one of these; My home Is but a rustle cot ; I've no f tstidious friend to please, Ahd mine's a very happy lot. I or I nit loved by one true heart, And as the hours and days glide o'er, I ce no golden dreams depart Oh, I am loved! I ask no more ! [Fron the Mobilo Tribune. Astounding Disoovery. A RACF: OF SENTIHaNT ntFiNGS INYISInIT.J TO THIC NAKKI) EYI, DISCOVERED WITH THR MICtOSCOPI. We accepted an invitation yesterday to examine the most wonderful and awful dibcovery ever made by man, a community of microscopic human beings! The gentleman who made the dis. covery is a well-known citizen of Mobile, whose nanet we are not at liberty to reveal, bta whom fur the sake of conve Snnue, we shull call Mr. A. MAr. it. is a gentleman in easy circum stances, who has devoted much timo to scientific pursuits, particularly to experi ments with th microscope. It was while examnii.g with this instrument i specimen of moss or lichen, taken :e t*ig *ll road, that Mr. A. made his astounding discovery. He saw clinging to the minute biar.chea of the lichen that he had been turning about so unceremoniously, a human being, perfect in form, and with a countenance revealiing the wildest terror. The nt. croscopio man was magnified to the size 4 of a small red ant, and when he first met th.e .'l of Mc. A. ii is doubtful whicIh of the two were the more terrifi,-d, the experimenter at the unexpected discov ery, or his mtcrosoopic fellow creature at finding himself subjected to such rough treatment. "One look was enongh," said Mr. A., "I laid aside the specimen, and for weeks I did not venture to use the mi croscope again. Was it really true that I had seen a aentient being, where I expected to see only the low 'r orderA of animal life; or had I fallen a victim to my enthusiasm in the prosecutl-n of discoveries in the microscopic world ? I kept my terrible secret to mytef, for I could not bear the thought of being laughed at about a matter that had caused such sensatiotns in my mind. At last I detertmined to make 'further ex ammnation of the specimen of lichen. It remained as I had at first examinied it. 1 looked again, with what interest may well be imagined, and there lav th~e man thut I had seen before, but 'livmng no longer, li ehad died, proba bly of exhanstion, and there he lay cliging with a death grip to t.he lichen bouights, Q whither he had doubtless ventured in search of game. F"urthier examination convinced n' of the truth of the Iby pothesis. I discov., ered several antmalenla recently slain. As well as could be made out by the magnifying power of nmy microscope the legs of the atnimalculm were tied together, as visible boys tie squirrels and partridges. Trho microscopto man evidently wore clothes, but of what material or hiow fashioned it was impos sible to determine. Conviinced beyond a doubt by what lie had seen, of the existence of ~a race ot microscopic human being.s, and some -f what familharized with the idea thant so revolted him at first, Mr. A. continued his researches with the greatest zeal. The examination of several more speciments of lichena and the soil oni which it grew, revealed a few more in dividuals like that mentioned above. Mr. A. was carefiul not to treat them so roughly as he did thee one irat discover ed, f.)r the thought of having inadver einthy killed a fellow creature has great iy disturbed him. A fter a long an'd careful searoh of the licee's and the space occupied by them, Mr. A. had the gratitneation of making haia great and crowning discovery, the capital city of the mioroscopic Oatton. This ho carefally removed with thle foundations on which it stood, 'anid transferred it to a flower pot in his. back yacrd. It wvas there that we had the pleaiute of beholding thne wonderfte ad minute ereation. The portion of th. CIty so far examit. s.d cent ainus a population of probably thirce millions, or a ltnmber about equal to that of London. Mite House Intrigues. A VY1NEA84L PARKNT' YOUTHFUL Pl tATION AND TIN OONSEQUCINOES :AIRI.T LOVIC REWARDJSD WITH A FA OFFIo, &a. Donn Piatt writes f.om New York tho Cincinnati - Cotdrne:rdal as to lows: It is really refreshitg in this day fAerce coinpeitioi. for office, when til struggling thoueands renoraelesslv Irai pie each other dowh, to meet wit of kind, impulsive nature, full dfmlk a A Alddrney cow, and impulsive as a bo Such a nature is the venerable Jessi "the flower"-1 beg pardon,' the fatli -of our heloved and cherished chi magistrato. This good old man hr seen years of troubled life, and, althou winters of many years have silvered h venerablu head, his heart is a. youthf and fresh as in his early spring-tim when he Was a beau among. the gir and an athlete among the men. I have just heard an instance of , th from the Professor, who is here itudvin music at the Fifth Avenue - Ope Faouse, Rnd perfecting his French accer by.lstening to the aweet voices of 'oi tee and Irma. The instance renews m admiration of the venerable Mr, Gran EFe is such a dear old gentleman. J Ieems that during the summer that pro ceded the Presidential election, the o) gentleman revisited some scores of hi youth that exist about Ravena, Portag County Ohio. When he was a sportiv young man, lie loved and courted a ft cinating girl. But, alack and alas ith course of true love never runs smootl In fact, it rums over a dam, or. severn anns, and falling on the rocks belov splits all to pieces. To come down fre my symbolical comparisons, the ga young Jessie, the flower, &c., was jilt ed, He returned to id his former lov an aged widow, with a family of, chi 1ren, one of these a girl -no, not exa4g ly a girl. but a young wilow, lookin; much like her fascinating mother at the same age, is not this beautiful ? Does it n< read like a fairy tale? What a charn ing thing Offenbach could make of i He would shift the scene to a la.er dal after the 4th of March, indeed, so as i bring in the Presidential rmansion, wit o .,, .1 ,.,, t.ut. lus oi an oc Lsd care bnsket and guardian of the boot-jacl and the smoking President. And t.l Lo wonld sing a comic song, with lively chorus from the office-seeker and then all would break into the car an. But I digress. The old gentleman asw his form love, and to conceal his tumultuous fee ings, justed with her S "Ain't yo- sorry," lie said, "that ye refused me; you might be now th mother of the General, and may bu ti President ?" The old lady lau&hed, and :nerril assented. "Never mind," tha old man criec "I will take the sme care of you as you were M.Y wife, Who is your Cor greasman ?' "General. Garfield." "A h i that iose"crana' feller. We] P'l take the patronage of this distrie into my own hands, I'll ma44e yon av hter post,master of thif toWrrrI The good people took this as a merr [est from the kind-hearted old man, an LlIo1ght rio . nr- of it. .e eie.ctio amie off; anid after the inanugnration th artiaens moved to turn om~ the Johnso postmaster and pot in a gogd Repebli :an. The election was held, and thm vietorious candidate sent on his oredet biaIs to Gen. GarfIeld. That excelleri gentleman proposed to ale the. sany utth an earnest recoimmendation. B< forq this ceul4 be written, he read, wit Anuik amazement, in the Ch&ronielJ ihat tha name of Mrs. - had bee qent ins by the Vresident. To catect back an-i hurry up to theWNhite lou was the work oft a few minutes Oct GIarfield stands very highi iti the estims tions of the administration, and ho we h,t oflce adiited. NX came to inqalire, Mr. P residen up6n*Whoss recpmmnetnation yor: ser M ra. --- as Postmistress at Ravet na ?" "(poN the r'ecomnmendation cof m Ihther," responded thte rresiden)t, "H linows the fannmly very well." "Dues hme knouw that Ifus young wo mau ns ut onuly tnqcuaiied-that *sh Is efitVrely incapable,. through lack< sduicatmoon, to carry oh the oMeoe-bi Llibre is gretitidignat ion in Raveim o'ter heW appointmnen.t'?. "I cAmft say iideed;" responded mli Pvrt1dent, "but I certainly don't wit to appoint such a person to ofBee.", -"Wil[96n regal the nemmnati'on, thei Mr. 1'tedfddnt, and 'perlif nie to ~leai yi u thie ~pbp of' thend6o.afi ~iyouwtil ha'e' the .6tt de&afed to a whiie,.tUjen i,~ flme t lnd.a if Gen. GarfIeld hastened~ dt t Ben Slt saw e t~ !i, 4 b#'th nog w ~iper~e tien. whil. the fair widow enjavs il it is impossible with the microscope I in M r. A's possession to tell out of whqt material the houses are built--whether they are earth, or wood, or qf both coal. h"ined. The streets appear urlder the micro scope to he about a quarter of an inch in width, and are thronged with people llurrying to and fro, whether in the put mit of commerce or account of the late shocks their city experienced during its transfer from the root of the treb to the flower pot, cannot, of course, bt ascer tained. But there they were-men and wo-. men mag+nified to the size of pismires, and displaying all the signs of tunaul tuous human life I While we were watching the ever -hanging crowd we saw one person kush ut of a house and another pursue him. The pursuer was soon joined by the :rowd ini the street, and after an e;c oiting chase of about the twentieth part )t an inch, measured by the naked eye, he thief, for such the first mentioned individual must have been, surrendered bimself, evidently exhausted by his long race. iIe was taken away by persons seem ing to have authority. What the stol ,n property was that lie held in his hand to the last, the microscope was not powerful enough to determine. During the pursuit of the thief the people show. ed every symptom of excitement eom mon among the larger species of human beings. They clapped their hands, thrust their neighbors rudely aside, and 3howed by their gesticulations, the deep. et interest in what was going on, and aurio3ity concerning it. Their shouls snd screams on the occasion were doubt. less deafening to one another, but of courso they could not be heard by us. Want of space compels us to bring this subject to a close for the present, lthough we have recorded but a small rraction of the interusting incidents that ^ame under our own observAtion, and the nore numerbus ones that were observed rroin time to time by Mr. A. When .he more powerful microscope ordered by that gentleman arrive", and the ex. pccted results are obtainid by observa ion with it, we shall lay the fa.-ts be ore our readers. The extent of Mr A's diseoverv may iv auinumlel up its teltows., - A race of =entient beings, iivisitble to the naked -ye, in shape perfect men and women, aplparenitly with all the passions, hopes uid fears that away the larger species. Phey are considerably advanced in :ivilzation f,r they dwell in densely apulated cities, a state of society in which the science of government and lanv of the arts that contribute to the onfort and embellishments of life must ,le-cessarily have been developed. The use of a more powerful micre icope will lead to the verification of such tn hypothesis, or prove its fallacy. As the matter stands all who are in erested in the progress of science, and n the spread of Christianity, will feel the leepest solicitude concerning the possi aility of communimcating with these ne*. v discovered sentient beings in the microscopic world. How is that to be accomiishel ? Pheir voices cannot reach our etr, and, o them our voices must be what the nnsic of the sphei es is to us. Worlds o whirling through apace with a clat rer that fill the universe and becomes .o mundane ears the eqmivalent of, tilence. Such must be the h unm of the visible terrestrial creation to the micro.. tcopic. WVhethier the existence of sentient beings in the foieroscopi'e wotld witas ever before suspected we are not pre pared to say, but had sutch a thebry been advanced before thie discovery we have recorded, it would not.ha,ve been becom ug in a philosopher to reject it without lue.consideration. The magnitude of matter, so far as It tomes wiihiin the comprehension of' a finite mind, exists only relatively.. To an inhabitant of the sun ,surpsu ing the visible man in aagnittde in the samne proportion that the sun surpassese he earth, the rulers of the enrth becomne reduced to microscopic beings. AnSWoNDING -OF AN AS80OJATRD PnKsO Aoxa-r.-The Augusta Chron,. :Lc and1 Sentinel|of vesterdav, says: 'We learn tha~t T'homas Gibbs, for ,everal years a resident of Augusta, het residing for the last two yena infilavan. riah, where he has been employed as an A gent of the Now York Aesociated Prees ai-d of the Commercial News De. partmaent ot the Webtern Union Tel, graph Company, absconded lait week from that, city--a defaulter to the amount of several thousAnd dollie., Of this amount several hundred. dollar. were in gold, the proceeds of nuesagee Bent across the Atlant.i'c cabl.a. - Up 4o the timu of his depyvtof Gibhesch,d borne a very good .hanet.or, su4 It j4 impossible to conjegturg what cem defalcation. Zt is' be) Ived that hiek passage from havansflR* toNi. e, 4Neot O0 7Tfg5 QN , Jo*hus A. Wears, d,on~ le, Cure tbas'ge t itig he, priesn . ni), withr th's~ pWii ig ten.-..Sumter Naew. profite. With tliy und'rrstanding the Bn daughter of his old love was conlirm ed. T Conld antlting be more tender, toueh nit ing and beautffil than thi ? The vene rable Jesse is an oasis in a desert. He i" is the greenest thing to be found in the N dry waters of polities. Let ts be thank- i ful, however, that he was not a Don ex f Juan, and had tew loves. D. P I. Oonfederate Deal Unearthed---Twenty "" Aoras of Huntan Bones, A The Ri hmoitd Dhipatch says - ti V. "While our ladies Are mounding and o e, decorating tie'graver in O.e'<wood, andt n r while the massive st(4. monumiett to on of the memory of those Who lin in Holly- w., as wood is gradually napproaching comlle. A h tion, it*is distressing to L.ear of the neg. t is lect of the bones of tht.s who are buried ed. 11 where they fell-on ite hillsides and in Th 3, the valleys in other aarts of the State. Is The report3 thiit teach us of the saeri- lc ligious- cbaduct of many Virginia fhr- wh is tiers are so shocking that we hesitate ma g to give then- credence. although our ing a duty as journa'ists retnires us to lay I it at them bet. re opr readers. A few weeks citi - ago we publishedan acco nut of the stnt ,' y of affairs at Fort Hlarrison, which subse. ag t. quent investigation proved too true.- u I .t Now eomes a mnost harrowing story from nl - Malvern Hill, where so many of our hest iro d and bravest with their last drops of ehe s blood sealed their devo'ion to the South. hu1 e ern cause. On the Nottlhwest side of the hot e fort a most terrible scene presents itself. Thousan.] of Confederate soldiers have p been buried where they fell, twenty 1. acres or more have just been plowed up if by the owner of the field, and the , ploughshare turned tb the surface all n the akeletoa. Over the whole tract, y the boues are strewn i profusion, and ore - grinning Ai lla strq ih. visitors it the lo , face on every hand, .When the farmer " e was quest.ion e lie 'sai, time land was nIt 1 now the riciet le hai, and, in justifica- wh tion of of the sacreligifns,aet", atated that i ' "lie didn't put'em thcre, nohow.' The n e writer learned afterwnrd tI at the bones had been taken away by the cart loud tut it and sold to ffrtilizing tillis in Ricltmoid. sen r- Tgo humanie men to poor to d. any-:, ed t. thing else, caime oa e day hl ewt r, there and attetnpt:yd to hurtl some of tto 0 .bones to prevtrtt 'lo )vrutele frt I carting (he'r ofF. I of ., Recalling the events that. have trans- o e pired at the capital sance the grand cee e- I a many of the inaugurartion, it is impossi- POE i,le to refer. to a single oflcial net. of the the President that hns received ham warm, urn emphatic, unanimous endorsement of of r the men of either body of Congress; lic - while, on the oilier hiand, it is equaa1lly ri difficult to discover that any act of Con. hai u gress has excited feelings of ordinary ing e gratification in the mind of the Execu- th e tive. Me Trace, for example, the extraordinart' ed, y course of Congress upon the Tenure o" pe Office bill ; note with what alacrity it mu was repealed by the Hcuse and the pro. f tracted tenacity with which it was ad- in t hered to in the Senate; the care with tro which Senators attested their confidence in the President and their iconsistent .A refusal to confide to himn the power that cIA ,t had always been enjoyed, withI a single Lis r exceptions by his predecessors; the per- Ge1 istenen of the Senate in adhering to a cop Siodified. form of restriction and the a wit a yielding of the Honste against its first i of a unahnimous decision. Follow these facts! pol e back to the starting point, and -we find f en a~ the germe of present distrust and fuature the .. dissensionas. five e Congress demonstrated itus dant of she e counfdence in the President by a refuas-. dri e al-to repeali a law passed for thte ostensi, res y, ble purpiose of prevenrting corruption hnd suT . t.o meet a ten.porary emergency. The abi ha President declined to conisult Oongress five in m ie choice of his Cabinet' sad other spe n importat officials. Each has chosen its ani a owia course and kept it. - lik ...-.. .. ...... . faia a. It is'stated that Sir H-enrv'frBulwer "8 a- .wll soon speak in Parhiamen t upon' the exc s 'subject'of the Alabatlia treay. lHe tA.'' derstaids the eendition andtihdoele~s of by , 'Amnericant politiba, having tien F4imister qfu it hera and a praotieal obseader ' of the ma working of our inett.iuriono1 His own dOt views im regard to our aggressive tern- IOUt y 'per and polieav are not disidlat' to wit e atose of Mdr. Roebitek, at ifie coniinence. P"~ menit of ont civil or' sectional? htwfe.- ral Sir Houdry Bul)wer'made public'hi e ath. e a est-desire and hope that.. fo'the~ take of of r f the peace of the world,the 'Govrnment ps of-the Undon would be brokeh up, ' and a the counry dividedrinto steparaute do- 'in tundens: He believed, as Mr. Roebuek "T e did anid doyos,- that Americae, exeated, if' h would would become formidable and 'WO troubhlesomae to all European Poegs..'bel , an~ obstacle to p'eace, and an-opprobrluum ho e to Ohristendoma. Hlehas 'never sigai-. 'It xl Bed any change-in his vtewg,- - ud lohs promised sp0enh 1rill he awalted *ith to n ipter ste-.CorC4~rlceefon Qo.jr ,Nae%boy~4, e ophRpgis ..Wi iAsC.) e,4~ P)#, has pdAtd~ _an 9 A,.AOhlid 94ae ip t dnesspgnei apry:?issitien s .csary b B ase s por o his feuggiy ttlo In Jeffersoil, La., lietwoen the Pt lioe and the Oitizens, NEw Ot.-:AaNs, May 19.--Until he ,ht the adjoinling eIy of Jetehrsoi migh incauded in tle Mutropolitan Pe distrier, Itas re-ased to uccept il ntre)politan force, otering armued r, enrce to eve"ry ef'ort made by ',bem t reise heir f1unctions, and in i antimne hitigating the matter inl ti1 Iris, Last night the Metropolitn 'o:lee s eii 1141 ered to tiH1 ii li her , ve" hundred, under a captai detnil," take charge' of the. Je'etrsoa Irecinie 1 about tilidtnight matle' it miovemiie the municipanl buildings of Jeb-r,ul ich were filled with arned citizen. 9mtatll hiile ened. t welve or toni n of the ietropolhtaI being wolnnc -i. it. I 18 tlhegitI, datnig,rou +y K police' then rltIred. ]ov. Warnouth called upon O,"1 wer for troups, one comlp:lny < ich were fnrnished this morung ani rehed quickly to the mllicipal build 3, mleeting with no oppos):tion, in alled th,.Metropolitatn Po)licf,. Th'I zenis e-l Jefterson were consiieraild iled but made no dememnatriu'i iust the !roops, Ilough theey wer V one-iourthl as strong ts h b1.1ly u ice Ihat had been driven ofl Tl'ii )p3 nro still on tile grotind Noamte; citiz,!nls are beieved to have I,e"i t, being protected by the im edket [Ise nd policr buildings. SKOOND 1)iSI'ATCI. :w ORi.MA NA, Mny I9.-The J,.I on 11111 iiite8, iin r'esitin1 I lhe Ml llitan PoliC4', were enutire"ly w"rong riew of' Ihe f:net that the Suprerm rt haId decied Ihat the Mletropolitni alizati(on1 was legal. It. is . ,tliei rever, that thie Metrophubaii coiu iced firing on the Je-fertonians lis lht. without, stating their business o a they were. t. appeari, from all nccounts, that th nber of Jeffersonians engaged in ii i. was only eight or ten. A larg nber of citizens, however, were as bled this morning, but on learnlin he approach of the malhtary dispers 1coompanying the infantry wer ) howitzers, all under.the oomnan< L eneral Mower in person, accotn eled by . Governor Warmouth ant lice Superintendent Cain. kfter the Metorpolitans obtatine< session they proceeded to reveng< ir defeat of last night upon the iffendingly bystanderai, a uenmbe whom were badly beaten with po 1 clubs, and citizens were indis ninately arrested. An old gray red spectator, and a butcher stand quietly at his stall, were anonl so beaten. Tihe violence of the tropolitans was entirely unprovok and was directed against unrsus ting and unarmed hyntandcer:, the nicipal officers having disappeared lonsiderable exciteneent ,till existl Jefferson, and one company of )ps remain there. L I:\nEitOUs lEiaD ui.r.t' Alr-t> rEn.---The Honorable Theoplilut le Diokey, Assistant Attorney eral of the United States, While aged in conversation yeisterday II Congressman Charles E 1'ldridg< Wisconsin, in front of the Metro itan HIotel, was approached by ale, who, placing her hand up1o0 gentleman's shoulder, demeaneo cents as a gift of charity, by wvhicl could reach her home at Alexan, a. The lon. Mr. Dickey at onc4 !vonded, with the remark that th< plicant had exactly measured hii lity. iIe gave her all lie had cents. IHolding the metualih ciieen in the palm of her hand with a look from heer Mttdonmna eyes that indicated an abiding h in her expression, she remarked r, you -must be a rebel." "Why ?' limed the-astonished benefactor, ucause, sit', othets are not governed sutch generous litpulses," was the ok reply, an din at instant the we, a, the lady of perception and n< ibt the lady of other more prosper days, was lost to sight. All whe nessed the scene were deeply Imn sed, and Eldridgo, with his natu love for devotion to the right fail not to convey a moral from th' imtance.-N. Y. Herabil. Ipeaking of the "Gold- for Cotton' rement, the New York Times says be cotton crop of the present yeacr cold for specie, at present p rices old rta ize to the Southern planters wee1m e and four hundred hmil as d d ~In gold'; and thougl s against t H toeet of E~nglani I other 'cotton-puChasiug~ countriel r#i-thisinterest 'of the South to nel oblan as'ftar ae johslblo. Ther. ar< tablds "to ths suddede o.f thb ith, whioch *e do"!not see an, rseet 0f 'beitt ~rthnted; be 'Abellbe glad ~ h ebu lAnteri tori and *hippre nit1e th'se ist'esp Qqh evo wbiatete sU9oe0 is pr yea~ra of a .essaB4 ;iuperitendot ed a 1arge 00onstry d eo boolmasters aft probabIy abroad I it part of Tennessee. Northern Projudice Against Oolor. S. mo time ago a pious negrophiliat oontrihuto r to the New York 'Timeu inveighed agniust the citizens of that place for their want of charity towards negroes. He described their SuFLr ings and sorrows,how many were driv. A off' to thomselves in squalid and u"hoalthy quarters. how they wero denied work in shops with whites how they wer, denied equality in churches, and even in publio house-, restaurants, and icaereau saloons. - Against this "prejudice against color" the writer inveighed bitterly-to this he attributed the failure of the negro in the great Gothain. That ho waa etul in capacity to the white mar, this writer earnestly contended - but ho could not ovetcono tho tide of prejudice and contempt of the whites, --hioh was fearfully taking him d,wu the stream to a sad fate. Tho Tribune of S.iturday brings i another wail over this ''prejudice,' so-called. It appears that a colored man from Canada brought a letter of introduction to \1r. Greeley, and that gentleman a:,nt to imquire of (,n- A M. Powell where the colored man aforesaid coul get "hotel entertain mcnt." l'owell just then wai looking out for "respoetable" lodging for "a 3l1issachlusett.i lady of wealth, intelli gence, and culture, and her son, a gen amtlnly young man of liberal J,,ropean edclation, both alightly, colored." lie wrote to the principal hotels, asking could thoso persons "bo provided with good rooms, be received it the public table, an1d ha1 n the samo attention as other guests I" Powell-it is not stated whether lhe is black or white---received answers, and for the information of the Tribune readers he gives the purport" of those answer"s thusl: St. Nicholas.-"Never had such an application before. The parties had better make a personal application.' Metropolitan -"Very sorry, but oullld not possibly (10 so. Would loso all our guouts, most likely, if wo did." Astor IIouse.-c"Tmposaible." Fifth Avenue. -"Will give an an Hwer another time." lofl'mnan lIouse.--"Will send an Everett I lose.-P''l'roprietor in 1iassachlustts. Will Fend an answer when be returns, on Saturday." 1t. Jamnos.-Sont lotter declining. Uevoort llouso.---ont lntter de c:iing. WVest mister.-Not possible. Would h ive oevery guest leave if we did." Clarendon.-"Ismpossihlo to mako faiy promises as wo are very full about that t.no. Iiesidej, our guests are gienerally such as stay with us somlle tue every year, and not like at other hoti;l t, cooie and go irregularly." '1'hero is a great deal of cunning and dodging in most of these letters ;, but it will be obeved that in no' single inistance is any Concesion made t 1 color, notwithstalnding that it pre Hents itself in this ease in the fascinat ing garb "of wealth, intelligence, and oulture," accompanied by the evident apology of being "only slightly color od !" ''here could not be it caso loso objectionable on account of color where tho slightost trace remained, anad one whaero the sin of color was atoned for by graces morer comtimenda ble ! Yet ait d1(oor was opened to, the applicants. 'They were shut out from all "'respectable"' lodgings I [/ ~ lichmond D)ispach&. A Forine' . Accous r 'IAN l.r.CTioN IN HoCT'iz CAnol(i.INA.-h Washington co'rresp'ondenat of the iUal.. timoro 6'ette, writing to that j.>urnal under dlate of the 4t.h instant, says I met to..day, at Willard's t wo Novat Seotians, who have been spend ing the Winter at Aikcen, S.,uth Carolina, which is becoming (lptite a resort for persons afflioted with pulmonary dis eases. T[hey came North, via 'Rich mrond, aiid report the crops generally aloiig thme route as ini a flourihbing cou ditiona. Thef wero full of sympathy for the Soiithern people, whose uni happy condition stri kes themt the more forcibly fromt the fre.edomn they enjoy at hioma uder the 1Jhitish flag. Theiuy sIpike of ana election they witnessed, wrhero dlay after day thie Conservatives had a mojority, and thmo polls wore kopt open for three days, until the neogroeli conld bo brought from -the country around for a di-4anco~ of twen ty miles to obtaini a Ra.dical Insj'oity. What is the use of suffra go 1o the Southern people, they aske d, if 'lee tions are to be conducted inm this wily I D0r1' AN EIrFnNr C'rjIot.;c oaster,.the admini4rator of the dio cese of' Covingfou, KonatVokf, died ini that city on the - ai inaa~n4 after a .ligeritig illness, Il.i . ws a fellow student of Arohbis-hop Spa,hdinig, e f Bialtimore, in wt~ he Colite 'of thne P'.o. p agaulda ; a#id 'f'o-r"t'hii'sflV o vedh has TIheonaie of lKier T.' Wu 4bum 14 proposed as eht.dji1df' O"%vernra' jf" Ve:montd hVhit,i ha n.aatro fasfily. thois.W4uihbia nP*iv . *Mlca'esof u1*'$foo 'My *oll ae now. Corn planting h .o on ge.ner at. -. 1 Whither are We Drifug, Every day, and every week, an( i every month, and every year whiel marks the dial with the flight of time but contribute to indicate omten more impressive, and events nort ! convincing that the A meriean Ropub. lie is developing itself into a grand, a gorgeous, a sublime, yet a sad and deplorable failure. Grand in it magnitudo, gorgeous in its prowes: and promise among nations of th< f earth, sublime in its incipient. history, and sad and deplorahle in ita down f.dll because of what it was, and whal t it might have been. Victimized by denagoguoismn, the government which was intended as a shield and a bles. . ing to the governed, is reduced to . the piteous spectacle of being norely held together as birds of prey hold tho carcass which lies in their centre and satiates their sordid hunger. I hat could be more piteous to the statesman of any age, from the rea c tion to the anno domoni of this writ ing than the aspect of the American Republic even within the last decade of its history ? Tora and Sacked by sectional strife. Deeply dyed in all the horrid horrors of civil war, tshe comes before the world covered with the dust and disgust of domeCt ia con 11iOt. ier own hands and her own garments crimson with the reeking - blood of her own oflkpring--the chil drens children of her own founders, and with all their blood upon her hands, still holding the chains whieh manacle ten of her own household, she lifts her maudlin voice, and like the praying cut-throat in the Opera of Diavolo mutters her mandlin pray er--"tho best government the world ever saw." What a carieature ! What a piteous spectacle in the eyes of both God and man I And yet such is but a true picture of the spectacle we present as a governuncnt, before God, man and.the world to-day. And emerging from all thi-, r,bame, as to time, nothing more, for eternity and. oeaus could never wash away the guilt nor the deod, but poeritg her bloodshot eyes above all this, we be hQld her laying asido her statesmen, she has no use for statesmanship, but calls to ter lief i>t of honor a mili tary boob),w hu ht..Ipieuned to be in cott mand ot' her forees in the field when her weaker children fell fainting at her foot after four years of struggle, to keep her in the path of duty, or permit them to pursuo it alone. She calls this fortunate military chief to her first post of civic trust., to sue ceed her Washingtons, her Jeffersons, Madisons, and Monroes which he's no iore capacitated to do than is a speechless jackal to supjplant the Holy Vather at Rome. hit he hold: the popular ear, and ho is suflieieit for the purposes of paity-party rules the rotten country-party is power-so is money--the country can be made to prod ace money by being well fed on laboring tax-payers it is controlled tfor the money it can be made to produee the adherenta of party, and any man or monkey who can loop the public button hole will do for Presidant, so he answers party purposes by possessing the essential of popular favor, no matter how that favor is founded, if the individual an n be cleated ; any sort of ..nalifien tion is a matter of the smallest consid eration, anid thus it is that the peole of the United States see every day more and mare how totally unfit for the posaition lie occupies, is the man chosen to rule over themi, aind how very much sooner such a choice nmust hastont the caoming of the speedy down fall which surely awaits us. Grant's every official act tends but to strengthen the estimate which the reflecting men of this Continenit had prev'iousl y placed upon himi. II is ap pointmenits to office, his oflicial papers his published conversations arid opin ions, doings and saying, but tondl to convince even this own party of his utter unfitness for the place to which he has been elevated, and already the hand-writing on the wall ptreolaimis him "weighed and found wanting," to an extent which by comniarison, would have made the Babylorian king a paragon of success oven in thme great ness of his failure. Already Imperialism is advocated in the metropolis of his domain with a plausibility and ,promise which would make a pure Republican blush for his country, if lie had a country worth the sembillanco of a blush. As it is, we of .the South, with the heel of the carpet-bagger and of the negro steadily pressing our vitals, can but patiently wait and look to the comting of that day, which, if it brings not Sdelivesao, thank God, can bring us no fortune rnuch worse than that we are already cruelly made to bear. .Mobdai Tribune. SMiCFO,EiNATmON A ND PoLmrses.--By the. suicide of a radical politician and b orrspohdent of Atlanta wegea glimpse of the true obavaetor ot the materal:lwith which the tadicasgame of reconstruotion Ils .played, a. nd we Bnd'the atmosphere fr6m-whioh come the viewbof the socal odnditie,efstLe t zath taken by - the radiq ~ jess, o ICourting after marriage-Applyinj for a divorea.