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Weduosday MorniI, June 10, 1860. Desp:1 -Wi, Wf illit 4 & Co., Props A RIe of Pygmies in Fairfield. it W':i our intentien to run afoul of -6olebody's prejudices by suggesting greatter missionary elort ailong the NetroEs, but our astoniishineit at facts Ahat hiavo bec reported to us only day b,efore ye.iterday, has not subsi d ed, il! we inust unurden oursolves by .sp1 redl ing tho ne w. 'Thelcro is i raco of diiniti,iive human beings in Fa ir fi e d. We do not refer to those U PPoed to tle spread of knowledge anid I lli;ion alklong any race of intel li.!eut, Lings, white, yollow or bolaok, I nd who believo that ain inerease in int elligenee and virtue can ever injuro any po'rtion of a cotunitly. But there is a race of l1inalli einlg3 rVI. muIC A .l.v' A su.i. in f iliel d. Our reades were, doubtless, sur prised at the discvery with a iN ro. scope of : eoiIitIIily of mlitnute, sel tiont, intvlligent, and mnoral creathiros, lately iade at 'Mobilo, an avcoiunt of wholm was published in thi. paper. A gentlein nnow planting extensive ly here states, there I also such a taco on his place. A Negron wotian I ndoiubted Veracit,y reports, that, whln sho weit to the spring vo wa 16r ono of this race seizod her by the foof, and 1upon hor looking down, 111ung an ointment intolhor vye, by Vihich he was eintbled to see Iimii. - Our readers may recollet tthlt, in the stroots of the imieroscopio coninit nity at Mobilo, were scnl what ap. J)>ared,0l to be a culpritchased by err U )) -ioeien. It is IL sin ular fact, that thik negroe wuiman Wstae. thail, .-en Ahe againl saw tho little nian -0 mtioned above1, she mact himl inl Winnu:bhoro, in Mir. Medully's store, W the sugar barrel, helping hiitnelf to a fellow orentire's property. Upon her nalressin.; Imiii and threatening to repot, hit to MceCully, ho tlihw unmething t.o h<r ear and Hho could O,e himli no Iore. No oneo can rg ( et li uiltioky threat ttore than outr. 4olves, since wo should ltive taken aret interest in learinilg mtoro o'' the bit aind prospects of this intorost Ing raceo of ereat ures that live so near to its ; for they prove that Shakes peare's faney was not so far froi.,-, er trut. when lie placed those Wnl .iful lines otn Queeit Mab in the Jouth i of Meret,io. Wtao venture to iIAto tile 1a."age in part. "'Queen lah 111h 11 -el with you Sie i, tlie faibf,'.R niid'wi' ; a1l tlh colles in 9h:1pev no bigger. iIIIll i g .Sle 0,1 t ihe filr0h1'or tf finl bl otnn, 14n %in wilh a IVIImI .1 :ilelliomlipq A,thiir en 's niose t they lie asleep : I let- i gon .splkes miade oilonug spinnetrs' (Ii he tE1~r, Ii the ines or grftnjoper.s; c a P 1 " l , e l i hio t 'ie~ s m o o n b i n o ' s w e . Ir "1hip. or criikets bone; Ehn lash of * film : "11 T ie g r, at s.ailI. grey-enasted gnait: 11er obaii I iisn mpt ha?eIlnt, e h.v te th .iintr suirriel, or old grub, 1'wI out oIl r ill0 iilmlE fir ie.d coach tinkers. h d IN im e0 'de r.illopts, nuighE lby night, bro' to '.rn ' brins i, anld t ben they dreaitln - .t l.ve: 4 n cditri jet-s' k nes, int dreaml otn coitrtl.sies t) i'ayer's ilng era, wh'Io stralighi dream on it ladiieu' 1l' ips who sItrauiht Oin kisas 0 ~ A Speci Study. 'l'he South Cairol in a'uublican coit. u the ifolloinig iteti, whiicth wo eyennendttt' to careful contsidleration: E'1'tho &mulikera 'idltinator recorn uiiepds for th tcuse of' the young farm qr t hie follo wing books :]ioussin-. gait's Itural Economty ; llow Crops GVrow, S. W. Johntson ; (Gardening for Profit, 1Peter- t'entdersotn ; Americean 1Witit.Q:ltit, 'J)Thus. Wo cordi1 eilfl'reu)t omentd "Ga rdenitng for Pro ut,"' also "Tloin Acres cenough,'' for sato b,y Orange Judd & (o., New York; zundr (lie "A merican WX heat Culturist,"' Ilr al y Taittor lBrothers, 678 rada,Now Yotrk." But it would not only~ ba3 well for a fauriiher to- be acquantedtio witht the tcienco of' Agricultutro, and for every ~thert l>erion to mtaster tlio science of their p'jart iculart business, (tor thero is ntot.,ono that htas not its science as well ats hta praotiee,) but we reeontttenid to fytery'onie thikt selection of some s to eI.dep)artmuent of tirutht otheor thati i;j bMns and diligent dovotiotn to t.bo0:maistery of itA details. Tfruthl is dath'ol iv nad~l d' :acn. 'The i''o'.s - ry of otne de'partmnt of truth ini itt detai,s, theorefore,'i lirds apalogies by 9.eyto comipre'hend ult truth.Th U)LOtoi andIj cilectual world Imuitu ally itllustrate each othier. The law. yeor has deeper le'gal itnsighit ito truth tliat tny ol4i er i hin ; the pa ilnter or skiit ofanysort, has o deeper Oias theto ioil' insight itnto theo same truth. JJh' themijst otr to botanist, can ox oal wv y. This exigce of wheel Sed a n the fraij of Lruth, so tif to 4-1p: cI d A I triutith, in d-I. aInth>gics, with all (ruth, is a most wonderful and most benificeit contrivance of Deity, and proves that lie made thu world for Imlan, and ima for the world. Bit what time must be devoted to such special ftudy ? Why, not only your spare time, but also an hour or two every morning early, before you go forth to your labor. This habit will give you a vigor of thought and a freshness of fancy, that will interest all about you, and do moro to encour ago study and educato your family, than a thousand sormons, or fifty school-teachers. The Fairfiold Pygmies. We are iot suprised that the statement of the existonoc, within a few miles of Winosboro, of a micro scopio race of human beings, similar to the commiunity lately discovered at Mobile, hai puzzled the unbelieving. We have been askod if wo mentit it I We reply, that to doubt the fact, is to (picstion the judgiiiont of a respecta ble platier aid the veracity of a ie gro womian, and since our fighlting editor, Captain Mako-it-good, a gen. tiemanl i six feet four inches high, in oeks, and of two hundred and eighty poinlds ill weight, is as present absent in Arkansas, we prefer not to venture to deIy aSSIrtionS that have bOn ImAdo inl a most positivo 1manner. Nditorilu// we cannot doubt on the sub ject, ' east duriig the ubsence of Captaini Make it-good. By somo it Inms been supposed, that we were "lhill.ing at, a set of Ion1fers abu)oIt towi here, that are all tlie timlie putting their hands inl sugar barrels and helping the mselves." We d id noA know Ii at so rospeutablo a commullill Ility as ours h:d avy uch lolifers inl its m1ids, and in tile absence of Cap .tai lake-i-go, we canniot evon now believe it,-except so far, of ooure, as wo ire obliged not to dis credit the gentleman w1i nsserts that there is. If there be any such class ill tile community, we can only say, TPll ilinny Ia Hhaft tat random vent, iods mai c (ho aicher never meant." 1-'-ve saiid aLovo that we cannot doubt, o,litorially, the existence of mioro.scopiti nicii amongst us. Now just Puppose that we leave out the testimony of a respectable planter and of a most veracious negroo mauma, nn-l vi-w ithe matter in the abstract b t o tiottut it I If you doubt it, reader, just examine and search your own house carefully, and you may find the v:ry lU1le man much nearer than you have hitherto supposed. Indeed, such an authority as Martin Luther asserts, that "EvFny man car ries i pop in his heart." And we, follow ing in the footsteps of the illus trious Martin, unhlesitatinigly assort, that very many of our actinaintanices carry a mlicroscopic man11 in that very identical spot. Our creed does nIot stumblo at tho faet of the existence of very miinute humnan beings. Like teraces discovered lately in Mobile and near Winnsboro, these little mcin steal like fury. They commence by stealing aill charity, and coid by steal inig all oommnon sense ; and leave theo bipedl earcasses in which they have taken up their abode, incapable of fool intg a liberal sentiment or of ex pressinlg an unbaised opiion. Search your own house reader, for a micro scopie man may be living there. [co1U~:N,CATED.] Mrk. Editor : Why do the Town Council of Winns. boro permit cows and other animals to run at large within the corporate lim its and refuse to let even a pig play scavenger on the streets ? is there a la]y iln town, who has not been com polled to leav3, at some time, the pavement on account of the cows that are everywhere met with ? It seems to some of us, that hogs do not soil the streets so much as the cows and other animals that have permission to occupy streets and pavements. In struct your Pollceman to either let hogs and pigs run on the streets, or tike up all the cows, horse. and colts that are running loose about town. And oblige CITIZENS. ANoTIHE. WVAn AGAI.NsT THfF. SoUTH CARIOrrA RAt.nloan.-The Augusta C'on&tifutionaliut, of T uesday, says: "Yesterday morning the necessary pa pera were sued out before Judge Eli s, by a pnrtion of the property, holders on Washington-street, looking to an abatement of the privilege en joyed by the South Carolina Rail Road of using steam power on said street, as a pub lie nuisance and inju ry to ,property. This movement is made in conformity to Irwin's Code, providing for the abatement of a pub' lIo nuisance by verdict of twelve free holders, before two Justiej of the Peace. The issue will be Ird en Friday morning, at ten o'olook, at the City Court Room ." Misery loves company. So does a marriaablnh yunm lad. ralsetto vo:ce. , P-. Marcot, of the Blrompton Con. sumption Hospital, has boon looking down the throats of the Tyrolese singors who have lately boon warb ling at St. Jaies' Hall, the object of the inspection boing to ascertain the physiological cotsditions which pro. duce the beautiful falsetto notes for which the Swiss artists are celebrated. The observations were made by means of a laryngoscope, a little instrument, whereof the . principal menber is a little mirror placed at the back of the patient's mouth. It is pretty general ly known that the human vocal appa. ratus consists of a pair of inebraies, situated horizontalAly in the throat, and junt touchiig at their edges. A druihead, with a slit acrosa it, may convoy a popular idea of them. In the act of singing tho lips of these cords, as they are called, are brought into contact, and they approach each other throughout their whole length and remain parallel. When they are soet in vibration, by the passago of the air throughout them, under these the ordinary conditions, a full chest-note is emitted ; but if they do not, meet in their entire length, either a posterit r or an anterior portion of them re inaining apart, the sound is no longer full, but feeble and shrill ; the note emitted is what the stringed instru ment player calls a harmonic, and what the singer oJ1 a falsetto, or head note. The violinist who would bring out a harmonic so touches a string that, instead of making it vibrate as a whole, he divides it into 8ugments, each of which vibrates by itself, and emits the-noto due to its short length, instead of that which the full length of the string would yield. The same sort of thing appears to be done by the faleottosinger; the adopt can at will shorten his, vocal cord so as to pass instantly from any note to its harmuonii.. The itot-ular process by which this tranition is offected is not clearly made out, so that it can not be determined whether all singers are alike gifted with, powers of head hingiig equal to the Tyrolese, or whether Alpinoe melody grow out of cuiliar on pabil ities of AlpinO throats. -Once a Mouth. lIO'rINO IN IA-S91IN.1oN.- I'ash. in:/ton, Juno 7.-The Radicals clrried the imunieiial election here to-day. Their 01foppoents made little contest, and the polls weru abandoned to the nogroes. A very serions riot occurred in the Second Ward. The negroes chased a Conservative black man into a house and asiled the houee. The inmater escaped to the rear, and the Conserva tive found refuge in .the upper story. The police surrounded the house, brought the Conservativo down, form a hollow tquare around him, and took him to the polls, where ho voted. The mob now became furious, threw a volley of stones and fired occasional pistols. The Chief of Police, having his arm injured, ordered his men to fire over the mob. This only increas ed the violence, and the police then fired into the mob killing one man and wounding three. The mob then fled. Earlier in the day a policeman was out with a razor and seriously beaten in tire Sixthr Ward. A free fight, with several harmless pistol-shots, occurred in Seventh Ward. In the Second WVard, .Juliuis Wal lace (colored) was knrocked1 from a buggy and beaten for having scratched Iris ticket. TJimothy Rogers (colored) was also badly beaten for voting the Citizens' Ticket. Tihie rioting was confined entirely to tire negroes, who showed no dispo sition to mo,lest tIhe whlites. They are dr inking freely, howecver, to-night, and much apprehension is felt about thie preservation oif the peace. Tire police behaved very well. W~As1iNGTON, Juno 7.-0 P. M. The turbulence seems subsiding. The promrpt action of thme police seems to have subdued the more violent, while the orders to the marines to hold themselves in readinress quiet the fears of the people. It is just to say that no respeotable colored citizen of WVashington parti cipated in or encouraged the violenee. TnAnDEs' UIIIONs vs. NvonoE.-The negro policy of the Administration promises to alienate all the Trades' Unions of the country, and to compel them, in self-defence, to cast a solid vote against the Trdical party. The attempt to force the colored printer Douglass into a Typographical Union in this District will certainly be made. The employment of colored bricklay ers in the navy-yard will bring about a similar complication with regard to the bricklayers' association. Now, the mrembers of these Trades' Unions do not, as a rule, harbor Ill-will to ward the negro. They asimply desire to manage their own affairs in their own way, and they do not relishr the idea of having the negro forced upots them. If tIre Government persists in its present polioy,.as it probable will, it may find these powerful trade so cieties arrayed as a unit against it in future political contestsa.--Waehinag Ion Letter--lt~1imore. Gdzelles. The chances are at least even In favor of a general European convulb sion and financial collapse before 'the expiration of General Grant's present terrn of office. The remotest poinp in the future to which we may count upan peace is that point which will mark the end of the splendid reign of Napoleon the Third. After hitri, we fear from the si gas of the times, as after Louis the Fi ftenth comes the deluge._ "A prudent man, says a witty Frenchman "is like a pin." His headnprevntshimfrom gong ooar. Guglish Operatives 0oming to America, The London correspondent of the Pinancial Chronicle, writing under late of the 15th ult., says : It is stated that nearly 100 spinners and winders, with their wives and Famuilies have left Preston for the United States sinco the strike com imened, and that eight more families will leave next week. In Blackburn, isuilar measures are being taken with the same object. Subscription are being largely collected among the power loom weavers, and preparations ire now making to send off as many of them as possible, upwards of 1,000 having already expresed their desire to leave this country. About 20 of Llteso operatives will leave Backburn during the present inonth. The i.pin nors in that town have voted ?500 from the funds of their Union, and the ordinary weekly levy per mem ber has been doubled, for the sole purpose of augmenting the emigration fund. The levy will take place im mediately after the Whitsuntide holi days. Arrangements have been made for sending upwards of sixty members of he society, and more will be dispatched as the funds come in. Some families, left for the United States a slort tine ago, and on Tues day last another hatvh took their departure. In DArwen there are 13, 655 looms, and it has been agreed to to raise an emigration fund by a levy of Id. per'loom, per week, to realize ?568sotl., which would be suflicient to send five persons off per week, "giving them X10 each to start them across the Atlantic." At the delegate meeting of weavers held in Preston, onSunday, several representatives of districts in East Lancathire gave it as their opinion, and the general opinion of their constituents, that the only solution of the present difficulties in the cotton trade was emigration, as tending to diminish the present sup ply of labor. OnnM-FEL.oWs VoriN DOWN NI 0n QUATY.-It, seeIs that the Odd-Fellows of Pennsylvania are sad ly behind the times. Wo notice that the Grand Lodge voted down a roso. Lion proposing to strike the word 1.0hite" out of the Constitution and Bly-I,%wa of the Orler. lD they know that such action will be denounced as a relic of barbarism? IHave they not yet learned that the day of such low prejudices is gone by forever ? Are they ignorant of the fact that the whole power of Orant's administra ion is to be employed to force the admission of negroes into the different trade unions of t in nttry ? In short, have the Odd-Fellows of Pennsylva. sia yet to learn that the negro is "a man and a brother " We confess to being behind the times ourselves. Certain prejudices in favor of the white race still lurk in :ur heart. In spite of all that Radi 3Ais have witten and spoken upon the subject weare in favor of keeping the white and black races distinct and sep &rate. W therefore rejoice at what we regard as an evidence of sound sense in the Order of Odd-Fellows, and are glad to notice that the proposition to strike out the word "white'' only re 3eived two or three votes in the Grand Lod ge. -Lu ncaster (Pa.) Intdligencer. AEnoNAUIC.- M. Chevalier as sended in a mammoth balloon near l?lushiing, N. Y., a few days sine. lie rose to a height of 4,500 feet. He passad through two layers of rain siouds, and became drencbed to the skin, andl then ascended to a range of white vapor olouds, which enveloped him as in a deep mist. On rising above them he opened into a broad tunlight, with the thermometer at rreezing point. The sky was of a :leoper blue than seem from the earth, and the white clouds below shone with a dazzling lustre. His balloon was of a peculiar construction. By pulling s. rope he opened a valve at the top three feet in diameter. The gas rush ed out, and the air was drawn in from thne neck, seven inches wide, which in all balloons is al ways open. The low ir p art of the balloon then collapsed an d struck upward, forming a kind of roof. His weight in the basket pre rented a shrinkage at the upper part. The weight of IM. Chevalier made the balloon for a paracbute. and he de scended with ease and safety. A NEono FERnKYMAN PoisoNS Hlini sFELF.-On Saturday last, (says the Augusta Consftituionalkt.) a negro man, employe by Mr. .Jonathan N. Miller, of Beech Island, 8. C., on his aiat at Sand Bar Ferry, complained of a pain in his back. With an abiding ahin the medical virtue of roots and herbs, he went into the woods on Beech Island for the purpose of gath oring a supply of "cr058-vine," from which he designed making a tea for the relief of his ailment. Thrqughi mistake, Instead of "cross-vine,"'he out a supply of yellow jasmine, grow ing with the plant which he sought. Of this he made a teo, of wlhich he lrank copiously on Saturday. On Bunday wnring be complained of a udinness of sight, and his symptomna rapidly assumned a wore serious as Pect. A messenger was dispatched for Mr. Miiller, but before the gentle man arrived the sufferer had expired. THE DooinsED RAceE.-The Mount holly (N. J.) J4erald talks of the 'Doomed Race and the South." That 'domraned" race (as a Caledonian would pronounce it) has dansed more trou. ble in this country than any oilher race to any other country in any. oth sr part of the world. A colored man named Snelson, wrhom Mr. Creswell desired to make postmaster at Andersonville, Ga., de >lned the position on the ground that de had not the time to spare from the A WAR CLOUD IN THE EAST.-Tho Emperor Napoleon III. of France is in difficulty with the Emperor T'Oung Chi of China. It is not merely a dif qoulty. but a serious matter, which may bring about a war between the representatives of the youngest of the royal dynasties of Europe and the youthful imperialist who wears the most ancient crown in Asia. A short time since the Count do Rochechou art, French Ambassador in Pekin, was insulted by personal castigation, be ing slapped in the face by a Chinese Mannarin of high rank in the palace, and, we believe,. in the very presence of the Chinese monarch. The Frenchman struck his flag imme. diately and reported the case to Paris. From Ilong Kong we are informed, under date of the Il,h of May, that the French and other "envoys" serv ing there had notified the Chinese government that the Emperor would be allowed only three days from that date to make an apology to France. We are not told, however, what the consequences will be should lie refuse. Prob,,bly war. Europe is jcalous of the rapid advance of American inter ests in China, uneasy as to the issue of our diplomacy in Pekin, as well as a heavy loser by the revolution which has taken place in the current of trade fron the East to our shores, and which will flow to us in high tide siece the Pacific Railroad has been completed. Europe will, if opportunity be given, fight again for the maintenance of her interests in China ; and in the present instance it may be regarded as omin ous of coming war that the"cable dis patch says the "French and other on voys" notified the Chinese. Are we to see a coalition, France and England leading, for the sustentation of Eu ropean monopoly in China? If so we must prevent its fruition.-N. Y. Tim insu Ciuncii Bi.L.-A meet. ing of conservative peers was held in London on the 6th inst., to determine what course should be pursued in re gard to the bill for the disestablish ment of the Irish Church. Lord Cairns urged that opposition be made to the bill on its second read ing, and that it be flanally rejected. iIe said that the leaders of the party did not wish to dictate, and were anxious that the judgment of each peer should remain unfettered. le felt that, as the county had never pronounced on the present bill, as the feeling of the House of Lords was so opposed to it, the most politic, onsIlstent and best sourse to pursue under the cireumstan 3es would be to repudiate the mea sure. Lord Salisbury deprecated the sourse recommended by Lord Cairns. 'he agitation which would follow the rejeotion of the bill would be most lisaBtrons to the country, and would io nothing to save the Irish Church. It would be better to accept the bill %nd modify it in committee than to renew ill feeling and excitement. Lord Carnaervon supported the re 3ommendations of Lord Salisbury. H1e urged the Chamber of Peers, n, w that it was able, to make terms for the Irish Church. They might not have an opportunity hereafter. Lord Decrby was in favor of the re jection of the bill, contending that personal fears should deter no one from doing right. The mIa~jority of the Lords present approved of the views of Lord Derby, and it was agreed that the second reading of the bill should be opposed. It is estimated that there will be a majority of eighty against the Irish .hurch bill on its second reading in the House of Lords. An immense public meeting of per. ions opposed to the Irish Church bill as been held in Londondary, Ireland. Nearlo 12,000 were present. A pro test against the bill was adopted, and will be sent to the House of Lords. AN IMPORTANT CHJFDUCAI. ThscovE sv.-"V. 8." is enthusiastic ever a shemieal discovery recently mnado, and which, he asserts, has been thorough ly tested, in the person of a well known chemist, at the Seamen's Re treat, Staten Island. The discovery is certainly important if it is what "V. S." claims. Reduced to the few est possible words, the "discovery" consists in so concentrating the nutri tious properties of vegetable and ani mal matter that one pound is qluite sufficient to nourish-anid even in crease his strength-a healthy man for two weeks. That Is, about one ounce of this highly concentrated food is sufficient to sustain a man of aver age capacity for twenty-four hours. Professor Schul e, it is asserted by "V. 8.," was given one pound of the new food, and here Is what is said of him and it :--"HIe remained during bwo full weeks, and under the strict sat watchfulness, at-the Retreat. Ho was placed in a room spee lily prep ar ed at the hospital, provided only with one pound of the compound food, and at the expiration of the time came forth as fresh, hiear.ty and healthy in body and mind asif he had passed his fortnight enjoying the luxuries of Dolmuonico's kit chin." If, in.deed, this feed is what this enthusiastic writer dleclares, it will prove a discovery of inestimable value to the world. Ar mIea will no longer be found to re aiain idle at enormous expense wait ing for the quartermaster.s trains "to some up," nor will foreigners or ma rines on the seas, shtpwreoked or de. tained by adverse wind., be in danger of starvation. If the new food pre paration Is 9f .real value 4ls world will not long bep~tio Ignorance of its existanee.-N. Y. Ierald. A fight took place in New York on Saturdaiyb btwoen the shoemakers on mf a strike and several at work. The ,olice interfered In time to prevent a -lnt -----__Local Items, New Advertisemen's. Charles Muller advortises a fine lot of Masonio Pins. See advertisement. Money iade is Monoy Saved-John McIntyre & Co. Sheriff Salo-L. W. Duvall. In Equity-S. B. Clowney. Road the advertisement of Ketchin, McMaster & Brico, and see what an array of goods they offer to the pub lie. 0:5- A movement has boen set on fott for the reduction of postage on letters to one cent each. Such a re duction at no distant day is thought quite probable. 0 A young man who recently fell in love with a beautiful young lady, says that when he learned that she reciprocated his pnssion, ho felt as though ho was sitting on the top of a meleting house, and every shingle was a Jewsharp. We wonder if the above was the ex perionco of our old friend and com rade, who led to the altar a lovely bride a few evenings since. Ell I The Weather. The warm weather, since our last report, has placed the farmers all in good spirits again, and as there has been rain, the crops generally are do Ing as well as could be expected. The wheat crop now being harvested is unusually good, but the area sown was not so largo as last year. Concert. The Concert for the benefit of the Episcopal Church, came off last Thursday evening. It was decidedly a complete success. Fine CoLton. We had left at our oflice, says the Chester Reporter, on Monday last, a sturdy cotton stalk, measuring 10 inches in longth, and bearing four forms. The seed from which it was produced is the "Dickson," and the fertilizer, the celebrated "Zell's Su per-'hosphate of Lime." Can any one of our farmers beat it ? The U. S. Navy Preparing for a War with England. Over this title, the last Punch has a representation of Lieut. Shirley stamping upon the bunch of flowers thrown upon a Confederate grave at Arlington. Negroe Churches. We cannot but express pleasure at the action of the Presbyterians on this subject. We also call attention to the excellent remarks of the Rev. Mr. Girardeau, a deep thinker and very brilliant orator T1his is a question we must consider and act upon ; and in our ntext issue, we may return to it. Pretty Cold. A Northern poet, in describing a cold snap, says: The first bird of spring Attempted to sing, But cre he had sounded a note, UIe fell fromt the limtb, A dlead bird wvas him, For the music had friz in his throat. O0- The follow ing lines--evid en t ly the concoction of seome uxurious lawyer-wecre found scratched upon a window-pane of ant inn in a Welsh county town: Fee simple or a simple fee, And all the fees etntail, Are nothing when compared to thee, ''Tou best of fees-female. Demorest's Illustrated Monthly. This excellent magazine now fulfills, as nearly as one magazine can, all thtat a lady wants of one, as an assist ant in her htouse, in hter wardrobe, and in her care of her children. Every department is complete and perfect in itself, showing the immense amcunt of labor bestowed upon the whole. The "ladies' club" alone gives more sen. siblo advice and information than all the rest of the magazines put togethter. $3 per annum. Published at 838 Broadway, N. Y. WVe met with several of our country friends yesterday who had come to town, to attend the Concert, but un fortunately were disappointed, think ing that it would take plate on thto9th instead of thte 10th. Several gentle men came from Ridgeway. We asked them to remain as It. would be a great treat;'they replied that "they could not stay kiway from business, and that they would havo known better had it been advertised." A merchant says that his store was crowded with ladies from the country, "dressed to kill," (using his own words,) yesterday, in tending to go to the Concert, but had to return to their homes disappointed, a order to put their horses In the plow. The Banner oftheouth The Banner of he, Southi is now the only weekly pap.. pm.lshe ...uh mourns at the grave of the Lost Cause and which keeps alivo its memories. It is emuinently Catholic and South orn in its tone, but just and charita ble to all. Father Ryan, its Editor in-Chief, is a brilliant and fearless writer. le has proven himself an able defender of Pcligi-et Pitria the motto of his paper, which is rap idly gaining in public favor and grow ing in circulation throughout the whole country. The subscription is $3 per annuin. Specimen copies sent free. Address L. T. Blono & Co., publishers, Augusta, Ula. A Bedbug Antilote. A lady who has tried this simple method of extirpating the repulsive bedbug, is kind enough to give a pub. lie profession of faith in its efficacy through the columns of a newspaper : "If any of your readers ueed a suro remedy for bedbugs, they can have ine, and cleanse the house of this troublesome vermin without expense. They have only to wash with salt wa ter, filling the cracks were they fre. quent with salt, and you nmay look in vain for them. Salt seems inimical to bedbugs, and they will not trail thro' it. I think it )rcfcrable to all oint nents, and the buyer requires no certificates as to its genuineness." Attention Fairfield Baohelors I There are sad sights in this world; says an exchange ; a city sacked and burnt-a battlefield after a great slaughter--a ship burning at sea-a family pining in starvation-a jug of molasses wrecked upon the ground. All bad, it is true. - But to us, the sadost sight of all is an old bachelor wearing toward the end of his journey of life, his great duties undone. Miserable creature just look at him ; his shirt-buttons off-his pants torn not a relative to drop a tear, close his eyes in death, or to leave his money to-nobody, in fact, to care for him "shunned by saint and sinner." Beautiful Lines. We print a few lines from Byron to-day : "'Tis sweet." And below Is Milten, from tohom Byron borrowed perhaps, on the samo subjoet : "Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet., With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His oricut. benims, on herd, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew : fragrant the fertile eart h Afler soft showers ; aund sweet the coming oil Of grateful evening mild ; then ilent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair 1oOn1, And these the gems of heaven, her slarry train : But neither breath of morn, when she as ords With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun On this delightful lAnd ; nor herb, fr4, flower, (listering with dew ; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grat eful evening mildl; nor silent night, Witk this her soloen bird ; nor walk by moon Or glittering starlight. without thee is sweet." PAn. LOST, BK. IV. "The Nineteanth Oentury." The first number of this magazine is upon our table. It is neatly got ten up, by Messrs. Walker, Evans & Cogswell, who invariably do first class work, they be.ing practical printers. We have glanced ever this work and feel satisfied, without a shadow of a reasonable doubt, that it is well cal eulated to please all of our Southern readers. We give below the table of contents: "The Blockade Runner of the Con federacy ; Looking Back ; The Tal mud ; The Story of the Bud :My Friends Revenge, a true story of East Ind ia Mutiny ; Th e North and the South ; About Noses ; The pleasures of a,Garden ; The Death of thelmnaiden Shoulder to Shoulder ; Reminiscences of Confederate Camps and Fields, by "Person jne'' ; Bells ; A chapter on Immigration ; An evening with a Spiritualist ; The old Lawyer's Story ; Editorial worship; Agricultural De partment ; Olla Podrida ; Depart ment of Science, and Art and Discov ery :Dishes and Spoons-something for Lad ies ; Passes .Tn Pa*ssant at Books, Publishers and Authors ; "Im.. provements'' of the XIX Century: Odds and Ends for the public at large." The above work Is published at Charleston, by F. G. DeFontaino, at '4 $3.50-per annum, single numbers 3f5 cents in advance. Demorest's ''Young America," Young Amnerica ls one of the most popular of juvenile publications ; there is a freshness tb jt that we find in no other, and a variety that satis fies even the desire of children for novelty. Half the good thIngs to be found in ether children's periodicals have boon derived from this, which seems inexhaustible in its suggestions. One of the very best features Is the Interest it excItes in children, by al lowing them to appear as correspond., cnts in its columns. It is well worth the small sum asked for It, of $1.50 per annum, with a premium. Pub lished at 888 n..oawa.-.. Y.