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Desportes, Williams & Co., Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Scionce Art Inquiry,ndMtry nd Litrature. [-rn VOL .] WINNSO S. C WOn G3 [N VLI1]WINNSBORO, "S. C., WEDNE SDAY MORNIN- JN121'6._[O THE FAIRFIELD HERALD IS PUnI.iSHtED WE.CKL.Y BY DESPORTES. WILLIAMS & 00. Terms.-Tug IRALD is published Week ly in the Town of Winnsboro, at 83.00 in wareably in advance. 13- All transient advertisements to be paid in advance. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1.00 per squaro. Learn to Wait. Learn to wait-hope's slow fruition ; Faint not, though the way seem long ; There is joy in each condition .. Heart, though suffering, may growstrong. Constant sunslhine, howe'er welcome, No'er would ripen fruit or flowers: Giant oaks owe half their greatness To the scathing tempest's power. Thus a soul, untouched by sorrow, Aims not at the higher state; Joys seek not a brighter morrow Only sad hearts learn to wait. luman strength and human greatness Spring not from life's sunny side: Heroes must be more than driftwood Floating on a waveless tide. [Correspondence of the New York Herald.] The Memphis Commeroial Convention. MEMPIIIa, May 20. Under the call of the Statesthe fol lowing resolutions were read and re ferred, together with many not read : That the standing committees hold over until the next session, the chair man of which shall have power to call them together at any time,and requires the railroads to furnish transpor tation; asking each State to hold con ventions and appoint ten delegates to the General Commerial Convention; for the committee to ascertain an ex peditious form of a permanent con vention to meet from time to time; asking for aid for the Augusta and Brunswick Railway; for government aid for the Solma and Memphis Rail road, and for a committee of five to memoralise Congress on all the sub jeots endorsed by the Convention. A resolution requesting the South ern railroads to hold conventions for the purpose of establiahing an emigra tion corporation and taking means to systematize labor was ably supported by Colonel Cole, of Georgia, and pass ed under a suspension of the rules. Governor Patton offered a resolu tion, which was passed under a sus pension of the rules, to momoralizo Congress for the repeal of the direct land tax of 1862. The morning hour having expired the Committee on the Southern Paci Qe Railway made the following report, which was unanimously adopted amid great applause: Resolved. That in the opinion of this Convention the interests of the whole country, and especially the Southern States, could be served by a main trunk railway line from San Diego, Cal., through Junction river, Colorado, and the (lila, and along the valley of the Gila south of that river to El Paso, on the Rio Grande, and thence to a convenient central point near the thirty-second parallel of la titude east of Brazos river, in the State of Texas; from which main trunk feeder roads should lead from St. Louis, Cairo, Memphis, Vicksburg, New Orleans and other points, all of whioh feeder roads having equal right of connection with their main trunk ; while similar fender roads from San Francisco and other points on the Pa cific coast should have similar equal rights of connection. Resolved, That the President of the Convention be requested to. forward a copy of this resolution to the P'resi dent and Vice President of the Uni. ted States and Speaker of the House of Representatives, and request them to present the same to the respective Houses of Congress. The Committee, which was composed of representatives from seventeen States, including three members of Congress, gave the following reasons for he report: 1st. It is' the shortest line connect ing the Gulf of Mexico and Valley of the Mississippi with the I*aoifio; and 2d. It is the line, of all those now unoeoupi.ed. of most .oasy grades and cheapest constructed on permit.+ * 3d. It passes through less inhospi '9 table and barren country and over more fertile and hospitable lands than any other un?ocupled route proposed. 4th. The line is touched by water transportation at three points, afford ing the gre atest facilities for construc tion, and consequently hastening and cheapening such construction. 5th. The line will open to the worl,d the great mineral resottrees of Arizo na and Sonora, and render teore vtl uable the stock raising distriots of Texas, New Mexico and Northern Mexico, and thus enjoy unrivalled traf fic. 6th. It will inevitably attract nu morous feeders fromn the neighboring republic of Mexleo, arddthus nt alg stimulate enterprise there but secure to our shipping ports 0 pOttettion of the bullion which not sedk %m rope by hazadromd eondubte andestadg ghang vessels. 7th. It will opei ither now -dotton. growing area in Texas, Nov Mexie. and Arizona, the lands for cotton grwn eing now useless on account a klak of facilities for transnnr tation. 8th. It is well known that some roads which would be among the feed er roads referred to in the resolution have not only been projected but are already in active course of construction without waiting for government subsi. dy or encouragment. 9th. The last, though not least The construction of this route, more than all else besides, encourages what we feel to be the great necessity of the hour-emigration and direct trade with Europa. The committee on direct trade with Europe reported in foevr of the for mation of steamship lines from the Southern ports, which should be en couraged by subscription. The said lines should be patronized by the planters and merchants of the South. They approve of the scheme inaugu rated between Norfolk and Liverpool, organized at the Norfolk Convention. Mr. Lindsey, of Alabama, present ed a minority report setting forth the claims of Charleston, New Orleans, Savannah and Mobile, which elicited a long debate. Adjourned. To ARMS.-The Conservative Ex ecutive Committee on yesterday adopted the following important reso lution. It is the trumpet call to arms And can it fail to summon to the field the gallant leaders in their country's defence ? Never was there a period of such peril in dn history of the State-never a time when the heroism of her sons was more imperi tively necessary for the public welfare. The heroism of the sacrifice of feel ing. opinion and self, for the general safety--the heroism of devoting time and self incessantly and vigorously to the common cause. The leaders, we are sure, will res pond. The committee propose to add to the spirit of the campaign by in ducing prominent speakers to canvass the State at large, and have invited that able debater, Mr. Patrick Henry Aylstt, to do so. le has consented and will soon set out on his important mission. Such is the imminence of the -danger that the State should be even now in a blaze of excitement with preparation for the day of battle. It needs but to arouse the public mind to save Virginia. The resolution is as follows: "Resolved, That the c%untry and district canvassers of t.1:e Conerva tive party earnestly exhorted to re newed and doubled exertions both in preparation for the approaching cou test and the prosecution of it. The paramount iniportane of voting (lown the 'test-oath' and tho'disfranuhiAing' clauses cannot be overestimated ; neither cnn we overestimate theneees sity of scouring a good Legislature and the best man we can for Governor. These considerations surely should call forth our earnest endeavors and arouse as to enthusiastic efforts in behalf in behalf of our glorious old Common wealth."---Rich mond Dispatcl. Hiotn TirEs IN HAYTI.-The ne groes are having a high old time. Here Is something from the late news= paper correspondence: Provisions aro being sold at the most fabulous rates-a barrel of flour being valued at $5,00u (Haytien pa per currency) and a barrel of pork at $14,000. Gold in a few days rose in value from $6300 to $1,200 for the American dollor, and now it reaches $1,500. The people arc- positively starving, and merchants will only sell for coffee and specie. So great is the destitution everywhere, that threats are made of ani open and violent pil laging of the piovision stores, and no property is safe. because there is no protection whatever. The villages of Torbeck, Pert Salut and Cavalilon had been captured by the insurgents; therefore those places were lost to the Government, of, 81 nave, and all the plains Caynes has been completely scoured by the army of General Domingue, who cleared away the hordes of the barbarous picos or pieqguets. The mnassacre of those bloodthirsty wretches Is represented as perfectly horrifying. 0cc thou sand five hundred of them were left. dead and unburied in one of the val leys through which Domingue's 'army passed._ C AarI-T-BI'oosa--8 eo UNDRa L . There is 60o difference between a cpr pet-bagger and a scoundrel. The w6tds are synonymous. 1t cannot be otherwine. We do not eare ~hether ho is a man of long prayers, ol'iawt ones, or of no prayers at all. Ite as an adventurer of a 'sordid, vengeful, roeokless, esual c&st. Hd cates only for self, in poin6- of worldly profit; and has no cares as to how his .inter est. are promote4. Rule .or ruin Is his motto; force Is his weapop, geooit abad falgehood his- tnaln allies, and canting pIty his refeg,. The carpet.. b rhis beht esiate it a h poite in s adel.Under 'th' petext pf'extta philant~ropy lie is 4I$, the 4eviPa3rork w1sereiPer 1i ge ; kek. ingo' 4eoUebned, proa,al" 'as. Dlesscaauf. A eonvidt In the Indiana positen tiary wase,imt out 11astre uiner, . ind esaped. He nowrritos~ the wsrden that he has picked enough, and would like to come back, as ho is sick and out of money. The West and. tie Southr "The wires are eloquent o ver the moral and political effect of the visit of the Illinois Press Assooiation to our sister State of Alabama. If any good is done, the South will owe it to the liberality and hospitality of the Mobilians and the people of.Mont gomery. We know, if anybody oou.d, the Mobilians' 'if they had a mind to the wotk,' would exorcise the fiends of intolerance and sectional bigotry from the representatives of the Illinois Press, and reinspire them with senti ments of respect and preference for the white race. Accordingly, we see that np sooner had they been taken in hand by the Board of Trade than the soles fell from their,eyes, and they began to see that they had been living in an atmo sphere of delusion about the South that they had been crammed, and were cramming their readers with falsehoods. They were astonished at everything they saw, because it was so different from what they expected to see. The Reconstruction Commit tee and the carpet-baggers had pre pared them for outrages, violenoes, rudeness and abuses of all sorts ; but when they found everything more peaceful and orderly than it was at home-everybody more polite, kind and cordial than anybody in Illinois, they seemed to have been dumbfound ed. We say with the press dispatch that we hope this is the beginning of a new era. The fortunes of the West are identified with those of the South. Here is the market for their grain and meat-their horses and mules-their agricultural implements, bagging, rope, stoves, iron, steel and a vast variety of manufactured goods, with which the great West, by reason of her congruity, is filling our markets to the gradual exclusion of the products of the Eastern and Middle States. Why, then, in the name of all that is sensible, should the great West per sist in that unjust and oppressive com bination with the East to strike down the South and trample her under the feet of a senseless radicalism, which coks to reverse all known conditions of social order and industrial pro gress? Why should the West, by this unnatural combination, burden her own trade with enormous excise and tariff duties, in order to beat the life out of her best customers, the men of the S!uth ? The West and the South are natu ral allies. The interests of both lie priumrily in the advanc-ment of agri., culture, an'l by a mnost felkitous di versity of climate their farm products do not compete, but make markets for each other; so that never does the Southern planter realize fine crops and good prices but he divides his earnings most liberally with the Western farmer. Thus out of the past crop year the West, it is estimated, has received more than twenty millions of dollars for live stock, and for corn and meat she will probably receive from the South upwards of a hundred millions more. The natural poliey which be fits the condition and pursuits of the two sections is identical, and they ought to be friends and coadjutors. Let the western men think over the plain suggestions of the situation1 and ask themselves wlrethe m anyt,hing they will be likely to gain by playing bob to the New England kite can compert sate them for what they will lose in assisting that section to stab the South?i With the aid of the South a glorious career is open to the West. She can control the destinies of the continent. She can dir.ct the ener gies of the Government. Bcatored to her normal condition and released from the ineubris of oarpet.basgism, the South will have the intelligence, the p'ower a:nd the disposition to be a most reliable and efficient ally to the West ern States, Where are the youing Western poli' ticians with acumnen and genius to see the splendid 'futtare which will open before them under the inspira tion of their gratad idea ?. Look at matters now. A continent ruled by Bioston I All the ~leading offied in the habds of Massaehnsetts. All the leading ideas controlling this vast govetnmebt the offspring, In great p art, of .semi-orazed .fanatios like Wendell Phillipis and $uneor, and 0 of addlepated sociSl and polifiiea soiloisats of both sexes. A'i' thesne fit successors to Douglass, Benton, Olay auid Jaeksbn?' Atw these* the people to shape the destinies of this-great re public ? Are men wiho can't get orst of the'atmospheore of lJoatoa,'to' con trol a government coverilt a fifth of f,he habitable globe 2 'Yodmig men of the West, awakej and .ekst f the New England bib and a~vadling cloUh"i cn d.T . oWFVDERATFe-S?4TaB M4NEr-WANT. xn.-onfeoderato money is not. OarolIzit'edhend MVemthe enanre W. C. Trofj of Payetteville,0 offru Hoes anttd careesaxitie 000 tears ivd ourie.,axete n State Medical Assooiation. FIRST DAY. A ieoting of the Medioal Assoia-. tion of South Carolina was begun on Thursday, notice of which was crowd ed out of our issue of yesterday. On Thursday the following nemo bers worn presnnt. Abbeville--Dr. W. C. Norwood. Barnwell-Drs. Alexander Storm, L. M. Ayer. Beaufort--Dr. W. T. Brouland, Mariou-Drs. D. S. Priye, T. B. Bass. Kershaw-Dr. S. Baruch. Orangeburg-Dr. N. 0. Wetatotte, Richland-Drs. A. N. Talley, R. W. Gibbes, Joi, *T. Darm'y. Charleston-Drs. Wm. H1ume, J. L. Anerum, W. H. Bailey, J. Summors Buist, Win. M. hitch, W. C. ,Horl back, F. Poyro Porcher, Manning Sinons, F. L. Parker, M. Grenland, T. S. Thomson, R. A. Kinlocli, Robt. Lobby, Sr., Robert Lebby, Jr., F. M. Robertson, J. W. Anpel, II. W. Do Saussure, George B. 'Z rescott, W. C. Ravenel, M. H. Carrore, Joseph Yates,J. P. Chazal. The following resolutions were of fered by Dr. R. A. Kinlooh and adopted: 1. Resolved, That so much of the Constitution as defines eligibititr for membership be temporarily _suspOnd el, and that all regular diplomated physicians of good standing be per mitted to unite themselves by sub scribing their names to the Constitu tion and paying the usual asses$muont for the year. ' 2. Resolved, That the Corresponding Secretary. furnish as oarly as possible a correct list of all members, nrrauged by counties. 3. Resolved, That a Committee, con sisting of one member for eaoh Coun ty or Society represented, be appoint- 8 ad by the Chair, to report as conve nient a revised Constitution for the government of this body. An election was then entrbd into for officers with the following result : Dr. A. N. Talley, of Columbia, Prosident. J)r, W. C. IIorlbeck,of Charleston, ? First Vicee-President. Dr. A. S. Sally, of Orangeburg, Second Vice-President. Dr. J. Somers Buist, of Charleston, Recording Secretary. 1)r. F. P. Porcher, of Charleston, Corresponding Secretary. Dr. W (. Norwood, of Abbeville, stated that he had prepared a large nutamhel' of clreulars, setting forth the medileal efFects of Vera runa. Vericlec. After the transaction of unimpor- 1 taut business the meeting adjourned. 1 Charleston Courie"r. The State Board of Equalisation 1 met on Tuesday last in Columbia. The valuations returned from the sev eral counties are aurprisingly low. In Orange burg County, for instance, the average value of land was returned at $1 per acre. The real property of the city of Charleston is returned at $17,000,000. The average value of t stores;and dwellings at this rate is t $1300. .The personal property of t Charleston County is assessed at $9, 000,000, a malifest absurdity. At least $1,000,000 of city stock is frau dalently held back by owners. The merchant stock of the city is returnedt at $2,500,000. Is this a bare swin dIe ? If not, wh at is, it ? A thorough re-examination will be ordered. I tis useless to try to shirhc taxation by known undervaluation falsely sworn to. The assessments of years past are at hand, and.comparison with them gives general indications to the Boar'd of E~qualization, -and if the to tal is low thme rate of tai on the assess-I ment *ill be higher. That is all, Intepressnt eaae the total of the State is $1 15,000,000. The real-value lh not less than $250,000,000. - The Board of Equaliation raised thme Orangeburg return 300 per cent. That of Darlington County, on the other hand, was .well done and stands as it.is. The valuation for Charles-r ton is raised 'from $17,000,000 to something over '$21,000,000. The Stat, total, as figord by the Hoard of Equalization, is $16,000,00. On this lo valuation the. tax will be about 7 mills on the .dollar., At a fair Vuination it would be' less than 5 mills.-S. C. Repub>lican.3 Mr,xmr.Among the iteume of tele.. graphmic tows from mMexido tvhich we published yesterday. wer9 the an nonnee-nents~ that the revolution in the State of $inaloa had e nded gond that another uprising, under -Qdneral Pla-I cido Vega as leaderr is anticipated.- i Such are the iveeent Use dIlowns of revolut inary.eoign in Mexico-1 They oannot fail f,o convinoe the world that Nape? iswiRf!1 51i his origi-'. nal plea for interferedifotu 'tlflnter. est of.4ivilizition andlidnmkity, with~ a view to est~aish lawpn690er and~ a stalle goveipiment inm that u~nhappy J coontiv.-N.\Y1'.Uerald. Thereaf * 1bWtiV'lfM"A1op" in MiobIgsn. A eg9o$got3d,?about b aevofy feo in iae ~q, wn ton opedig~ in the e mtre thrp ki whlich a soub eomos up at of the' aehing of mighty waters. At least suoh is the story told by a int paper. The Negro Wajo$ty in'South Oarplina. To-day there ate 100,000 more -e" graes than white, in south Carplinu. In ten years the two races will be aqual in numbers. It is a notorious fact that the' no. gro raco does not-inorease-as fast as the white ; and we shall assume that uhis deficiency of increase by births is s three to four. Should this assump. ion appear excessive, we will throw fn the greater immigration of whites. The mortuary reports of 1808 in Charleston show that out of popula f 40,000, equally divided between 1he two races, there were 1,208 deaths -370 whites and 818 negroes. That P On" nvh}t in wvery 8fty.e,)e "dies per innum, and one negro In every twen yfOur; which is les than Iwo per ,ent. of whites and more than four >or cent. of negroes, there being 20,- 1 100 of each in the city. Municipal I -egulations and public hospitals make ,be mortality among the negroes >robably less in the city than it is in he country; but we reckon it the I ame. It is about the same with ehites. Now, there are 700,000 in this State f which 400,000 are negroes and1i 100,000 whites. This is the differ nee, as already stated, is 100,000. 1 Two per cent. (the death rate of he whites) of 800,000 is 0,000--the1 iumber of whites that die each year n the State. Four per cent. (the leath rate of the negroes) of 400,000 s 16,000-the number of negroes that t lie each year in the State. | The difference between the negro| lead of each year (16,000) and the vhite dead (6,000) is just 10,000. I hat is, there are 10,000 mere no- r ;ro deaths than white death every ear. The numerical majority of the ne ;roes to-day is 100,000. Divide that r umber by the annual difference of leerease (10,000) and the result is t en. That is to say, it will take ten ears to remove the present majority .nd make the numbers. of the two aces equal. The estimate of 700,000 divided as bove, was made for 1865. If the I hove calculation ie true at all, it vi1l date from that year ; and 1875 is he end of the ten years. For con enience and brevity we have spoken f the majority as being that of to ny, instead of four years ago.-.y. W'ood Davirlson, correspondent York 'ilc Enguircr. From time to time, the English res discuss the feasibility of em- t loying in their foreign wars the more arlike elenents among the two hun- 1 red millions of their East Indian f rnpire. ''he Sikhs and Ghoorkas 1 ave proved especially serviceable as c oldiers in India itself, and have 1 liays displayed the most unflinching t nyalty to the English crown. Army ) flors are now urging the employ ient af a force of Sikhs and Ghoorkas ,d a the chronic wars of the colony of r ew Zealand, as the agency for ex- t erminating the natives who trouble le he colonists. The Ghoorka is an ex- 1 raordinary specimen of Oriental hu- 3 oanity. H is a native of Nepaul- t mountaineer, born In dense forest t, rho climbs and springs like a oat, nd has the organism and muscular p ensity of a tiger. lie is the smallest j f mortals, but is among the strongest. s, le is accustomed from boyhood to il re arms, inferior though they be, and b~ a manhood he usea a crooked kcnife a rith such dexterity that with it he ( uts off a live buffalo's bead with one troke. With this same weapon, rherever he halts for the night in the ushb, lie can make with green twigs ~ but imnpertious to ordinary rein ia *' ass than sixty minutes. Hence, in b allowing an enemy he cau dispense i with a tent, He requires no expen ive commissauiat, baker's and botch. r's establishment. lHe oobs for imself. T wo pounds of flower, halft pound of split peas, two ounces of utter, or a quarter of a pound of iut ton suet, a little salt, and a few ond iments, atisfy his w,ants, and be se very little pay for the pleadire of I ~hting. But would be stand the himate of other countries? Thirty years ago South derolina row ton, and it was,demenstrated be 'end the possibilit of doub~t that' louth Carolina conld grow tea as yell a China, .It has not been done, be ause it requiirep small and cheap la-C or ; but 16 will sooner or later, be rown in the~ South~ in large u antitien. liey fired a broadside, in C1ingo, a1 ow (Jays agn; on, the reetion.of, tier' rst tea received by J(ho oaiflo Ep il gad. sit, will not bg ntrr than a ;enertion.lbefore yo will fire f 9oa4 ide'ini glorigea,lpf; over; t)s ls .opr oAd~ ef tea,reeived oer tue. poin tLi Suikern .1ai ro,d from. .South ~~se ua pr,lving 1* Ooluibia oni f6nda y the Columbia and Aa u. jwqe pn4y lat,sve *Ip. * qOnrte. )Jnssi V :151)o id, for maoy threads will bind ad' 11. >bant, and mniy drops wilt maske a 'ive . 4, Outrageous Insult to Oar Colored Soldiers. We are informed by the daily press thqt.,"he lgdians of the plains will Akt take scalps from the heads of no tro soldiers killed in battle." Is not this a flagrant violation of iho spirit of the civil rights bill, of the new amendments to the Constitu tion, and of the reconstruction policy )f Congress I This is the crowning insult to our colored citizens. Shall the red-skins be allowed thus to make distinctions on account of race or color ? When the colored troops fight )ravely, may' those untaxed Tndios scorn their scalps, as being no trophy rorth the taking off ? This contemptuous treatment of the >lack man by the rod man is not to >e borne. Senator Sdumner must attend to this. He mitst prepare resolutions. He nust fulminate speeches against he noble red man of the forest, who then on the path, dares to show a avago disrespect to wool I He has abolished the word "white' a the District of Columbia, lot him Lolish the word "black" on the >la ins. Let him cause it to be enacted that vhen the untaxed red skin says "Ug, big Indian no scalp nigger !" omebody shall shoot him on the spot. It is not because of the difficulty of aking off the colored man's scalp. No such thing. Indians scalp very short-headed rhite soldiers. It is their contempt for the negro as n inferior race. They must be taught better. Here is missionary work to do. And a now stipulation bhould be ade in all Indian treaties, that no istinction of race or color shall be uade with the'soalping knife. The insult is 'too cutting.-Boeton 7ourier. ENGLAND REPUSEs TO RELEASk IALPiNE.--The State Department has eceived two dispatches from Reverdy 'ohnson in regard to - the'courso the ,nglish C-rernment intends to pur ue regardiig &.nian prisoners. It rill be remembered that the case of . G. Ilalpine and others was submit- ! ad to Pre2id, v J : a- ,-gh Judge ,arter, of Ciniimlt :v f on be alf of a mass neeting there. The 'resident at once sent dispatches to linister Johnson, and directed him a try to secure the release of the risoners. Mr. Johnson immediately Lid the matter before the English ovcrnment. After considerable de ty he received in reply a comnmuni ation containing a list of about twen y prisoners whon it did not propose a release under any circumstances. mong these were Halpine, Cafterty, haw and Burke. Subsequently Mr. ohnson made a second attempt, and eeived a second answer reiterating ao determination of the TEnglish Gov rnment to make no more releases of 'enians. In closing his dispatch to Ir. Fish conveying this last informa ion, Mr. Johnson expressed the -hope at this action would be reversed at o;distant day, and at least part of the rf'soners be released. For the pres rat, however, the State Department 3es no ground to expect that any of me Fenian prisoniers whose eases have eon under consideration will be set b liberty.- Wash&ington dispatch& to ~incinnati G'azette THmE WHITE. PINE REG10N-SILvER Y TiHE TON.-A visit to the assay mos and mills of 8hermantown will e good for the doubters of the groat 'saith of White Pine, There bul on in glittering bars-crude, retort, od plippery amalgam--can be seen y the ton. Yesterday we saw at Mr. other'd assay office nineteen massive ars of silver, of the average value of 1,828 each, making an aggregate of 35,'/'83, the result of two days's melt mg and assay. Besides these finish di bars there were some three hun., red pounds of ernde bullion direct rem the retorts of the mills, and val ed at $4,500.--75-asumre City (Neva. a) News. Tun~ PaoPosED PREsBYTERIAN RE propc.-The New York correspondent f the Philadelphia Ledger, undeor date f May 24th, writes: "It is pretty safe to concinde from b.e whole tenor of te-'day's proceedings a the Old and New School Assem 'lieu that the pr'oposed reunion will e triupht1ry carried. The speech. s, resolutions, &e., all run in that hannel -atm'tg. Prominent -laymen Ike William~ E. Dodge. are making spoolkl ef'orts inside and outside both EilethaflIeh to-nromote the tTion feel ng"W hefon is conMunrn. fd it itnded. to celebrate the dharith adsy- of pfager ie all the Vr'.b eran churches th rotighout the Inid_ -1That~id,'the Neith.3 ' ANA fearrs onldbt p~s Of 'ate. who is a apital potli pa Tttosc FUNvY CHni:sE.-The Same cable dispatches which brought us news that Mr. Burlingame had sub mittol the preliminaries of a most friendly and satisfactory treaty be tween China and France to the French Minister of Foreign Affairs at Paris brought also an account of a most see rious, most unfriendly and most unsa .tisfactory assault upon the French Ambassador at Pekin by a high oflieial of the Chinese government. The as sault consisted of a slap in the face administered to the French Ambassa. dor by the Chinese oflicial wearing a queue. Report says that the retort of the Count do Lallemand was to haul down the French flag from the lega tion of the empire which he represent ed. If such an affront was offered to a foreign official in this country it would be the offender and not tho flag that would be lowered, and that very quickly, too. The Chinanan would be very likely to find his level, how ever exalted he might have been be fore the insult was offered. But these Chinese are very funny people in mat ters of diplomacy. They do not ap pear to know the difference between a plenipotentiary and an ordinary mor tal. Will the French government en lighten them ? An excellent oppor tunity for doing so appears to be now p resented in the case of the Count de Lallemand in the C-lestial city of Pe kin.-N. Y. Herald. TEtrIFIC Ex'LOSION OF A LoCOMo TIVE AT MOUUNT HOLLY, N. J.-On Friday last an engine of the Camden and Burlington county (New Jersey) railroad exploded its boiler while pass ing near Mount Holly. The engine was raised from the track and thrown violently into the air, and descended the track with tremendous force break. ing ties, bending rails, and scattering pieces of machinery in every direc tion. Again springing into the air, it made several revolutions, and finally lodged in the R incocas creek, a dis tance of one hundred fret from where the explosion ocourred. The cars were thrown together in one confused mass. The engineer, Job Goskill, and the fireman, Charles L. Platt, were both fatally injured, and have since died. The conductor, John Sayler, is very seriously hurt, but hopes are entertained of his recovery. Mr. Say ler was thrown under some cars and rubbish, and was only extricated with great difficulty; he was seriously scalded, and his face and head were cut severely. The gig-top brakeman, Edward Joyce, was blown with the gig into an ad.joining field, but escaped with a broken arm. There were five others on different parts of the train who escaped with slight, bruises. The explosion was caused by too great a pressure of steam, it being necessary for heavy trains to put on a full head in conseuence of the steep grade at, this place. A Luaz: ])ouGr.Ass.-Fred Doug lass, Junior, son of Fred Douglass, Senior, applied to Mr. Wolfe, Regis ter of Deeds, in Washington, yester day, for clerkship. Mr. D.,uglass confessed he belonged to a "despised class," yet notwithstanding, had fought acceptably for the Union as a Massachusetts soldier, adding that he Wvas a son of Fred Douglass-a man who was held in bondage on account, of the difference of caste-and a prin ter ; but his trade was rendered use less in his hands in conserptence of the exclusive action of the Printers' UJnions on the question of color. Mr. WVolfe replied favorably, and Fred, Junior, is provided for. The "Black Douglass" will likely become a rally ing cry, as in Europe in olden time. AM.r WRoNG.-It is reported that the new Minister to China is to confer before his departure with some eccle sIastical bodies about the protection of missionaries ini the Celestial coun try. Is this Minister to represent the ecclesiastical bodies of the United States? If lhe goes out loaded with missionaries ho goes out to fail and to complicate atnd prejudice our true in terests in China. We have got noth ing whatever to do with the religion of the Chinese ;and for our accredited representative to take a position that regards them as heathen is a diplo matic insult. Is this* appointment one more blund er 1. Y. 1Terak. Ss'.unz.-The new candidate for the Spanish throne who has been brougha forward, Prince Augustas of Portugal, is a brother of the present King of Portugal, and the youngest son of Don :Fernando, who recently declined the t,hrono. Prince Anugustus is twen ty-two years old, and the marriage beti$een him and the daughter of the Duke of Montpensier, It ie thought, may satisfy both the par'tisans of the IoAtter and those who prefer a Portu gese prince.-N. Y. Tr'ibune. CoMPIbIFd A nRT.-- 8en.tfo Sumner is reciving .anony mous. leuers from England. The following is. a speci. men, . LeaOo16N--Sir - I enclose an arti. ole fromi one of our papers, which oon. tains a proper view of yone speseh. #Oj0.W91f, dlw; Neto that, In Y-o,ra rmpe0t.fully,