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tU - Desportes, Williams & Co., Proprieto rs.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquiry, Industry and Literature. [Terms---$3.00 per Annum, In Advance. VOL. l11.] WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUG JST 25;1869. [NO.10 THE. d FAIRFIELD HERALD I IS PUBLBIHICID WICKLY B1Y 0 0 DESPORTES, WILLIAMS & 00. h Terms.-Tuu HHRAL, Is published Week ly In the Town of Winnsaloro, at $3.00 its- d vareably in advance. . 8 X4V All transient adv'oitleements to be I1 paid in advance. 1. Obituary Notices and Tribittes $1.00 por y square, Words and Doeds. The world Is rife with nobler thought Than trenibles on the tongue ; Thie world Is full of melody, Unwritten and unsung. The itusio of a marol is sweet- d Du action is sublime ' p And each may live a nobler verse Than o'er was told In rhyme. Aweep from py sight those foolish books That vex my weary brain, And I will sit at Nature's feet Ier open page the plain- h And read a pleassnt roundelay In every blade that grows; A lyric In tho lily's leaf, ti An opio in the rose 1 14 Let tinklings of tlie tongue or pon To love siok girls bolung Tle sicio of a weli spent life o Is sweeter far tlan song. It silts ne-not, this waste of words Our world were not so dead, If maids and men would cease to wrIto, 0 And live t heir verse instead I y [From the Southern Cultivator.j g M. Diokson on Immigration. V 0 -PA-TA, LA., June 10th, 1869. Vdiora Southern Cultivator :-I wish to draw the attention of the cot -ten plAnters of the South tojhe sub let of immigration. It is oue of great interest, and if successful, I tj think will prove destructive to the 0, tootton interest. I do not wish my a views to prevail unless they are right. e I wish both sides to be heard, and t4 hope those who can wield the pen, and I who agree with we will be. heard ; the a ot,her side has been heatd already, and a we have been taxed to promote this 01 lase,. The State of Georia Is mov- f, ing for our destruction. f< - The negro we have with us, and we j cannot get rid of hia if we, would. v They will not die out, as wost of our a Northern friends and loany of o , people think. The next census will A show a large increase. The only way e to make it tolerable for them to live a amongst us, is to give then employ ment. With full employment they will steal less, be more law-atiding, and a less nuisance in every way. Do . we want more Labor, and for what I d The agricultural Interest at the South fI is chiefly valuable for its production o of cotton, tobacco and rice. Can we a make more money. by doilbling the t quantity of labor, than vie'an out of 4 what we now. have I Do numbers 1 increase the quantity of labor pro J, rata, or will the dividends be greater -d for all concerned? Can the first mii- e lion of people'in Georgi,-having th ' .first choice of lands to cultivate md b the balaloe for pasture, nikke more or b less than the second nmillion, .having t the poorest half to cultivate, and.no ij waste land for stook to graze on ? Ia a the second millbq likely to be mote ( skillful,- industriongu law-abld ing . and enterprising, &e',j&c.?'I think histo. I ry teaches us that a p opulatis with y a pjenty of rooms and land, are more 'j cheaply governed than a dens. po'pu- e lation-canalveo bettr s'nd' bin' hte n ore labr oosyare fo' imei9vdretits, Wat country has -built the sa'ai& j amount of 1tairoads end faetodeJ as 3 the United $titds'? T kr Utnit'ed 1 States bayyitig plenty 'o landAto" oul- e tlvate,'byselecting the beati, ean, *ith' one.half of its laborera, make y plenty or all bepro4ucts,9f the soil, wilst a 5 o ptl si~jf cap byy1d',Ral roade j m&tld'ery of all kinds~ ani.Workt q them. Theot'( iBht's vvith its' a rodded rpot. seqe fuotories:doelop6 4 more abigas,, ndytongaud .ro4 i qpindme ge, yo tp f tke pteetadgo e mOney S toJ~j9 do whael . erayou ,wea dollotively. 10co84on ceap w4e willa99, los t)*'49,004' 1 balesi1p to ho.., t. I,o y, en sold~6 in ~ a at 4__ dns td, wud eto t00, beeBs at present'i 4ie olP.Adi fielin your any to y bwistomk Jiay, it e do ao . In ji 64 ooto trayea, witounto to th~ge bte~pnto eorpis. 9ii b u par, Sfat@wo aillions of people-the sons and aughters of the present population. le patient-walt for the naturil in rease, and what may voluntarily )me. Do not spend your money to asten an over-populated country. It 'ill come.soon enough, and, when it oes come, you will have no out-let. ome are willing to out their lande up ito small lots, and give every alter. ato lot to Imnhigrants, thinking it ,ill more than double the pfice 'of ie balance. What do you care what our lands age. worth, If you have one to sell- esides,'it would reduco me price of oottqn more than one alf, and the lSr-d 'yd u i've left *ould at ay per acre one'balf9f "the divi ends they do now-hfelng your roits three-fotuthi. You have a lenty of native poor. 'people'to;sell nd to, if you wish to part with any.. Do those who have no land, yish )mpetitore in labor, .and in the' land arket-reducing your .wages one uIf or more I Do you wish a'eat torease of money capitalp .rtduoiug ie rate of interest to the standard of urope, causing all property to rise, proportion to the fall of interest, our wages are fixed by the sorplus r cotton you have to export, and the rice it will bring in Liverpool. Your rosperity dependas tipon the soarceity f labor and a; high rate oft Irterest. Iou have nothing but your' labor ou canot borrow mon6y, even If it sta down to 2 per cent. The value r your labor being fixed by the val e of cotton in Liverpool, where in wreat Is low, you can, by residing here it is high, acquire proportion. 11 , much more land in a given time. those who have land to sell, or iore than can be worked, let me say le very scarcity of labor will make mo half of your lands bring in annu ily more money than if all was plant 1-the other half is worth 5 per cent >grow broom sedge for grazing, and ill advance more than fve per cent anually. For the 'safety of the anufacturing interest, especially in )tton, it is not prudent to push it too st-no fahter than markets can be >und for thIe roducts manufactured. ust as sure as the winds return the stor, to :hAd oondsead ahd fall again bove the shoals, the people hare *ill ososs the monoy and energy . and Ill to put the water to work; andto lfet this most speedily, we want> a saroiti of. labor, that there m&Y be soaroity of ootton, add correspond - gyod prices. Wic cotton at 20 to 25 ts.er ib., e can In Georgia appr'opriate ten ollars towards Increasing our' manu ecturing interest with more eise than ne dollar, with double the labor, ad cotton 8 to 12 cents. Where are io laborers best fed and clothed I here labor is scarce. Where' does 6nd pay the best profits? 'where labor isoarce I.and the reasont ' Is, the. pro uota of the farm -bring the best ptio s, under these circumstances. 6~Ual opo t,6beggin' ioney to'beb onglt t ta t 0 invested. It dapltalite' 6lde of ieir own accord, let them. come, 'but is not to. our interest that they [iould You now own the property of leorgia-if yo sell one. half of it, on will own buit the 'other half. It ;.very diffoult 'to trabsfei real'prb. *ertyv from one country to another. he st you would get would be the sansa to live,.and dress An for a few ears. SWhat we' vani, is a system of' say nejand puI'perly 'investink, eadh year Vp coiult and ought to eave c annually fteen zpillion of dollars, to be in. estee i'n m.aobinerg That., woaW4 ay fature 13*vde~ds," to ble re invest. d.'" I-*flh fdr de~t'lbor, but I Sant uch as we they nevet regret aeqtir. ag. Aoodmolate aall sorts of labor. eving ,naoihm ;lwprove op&r and.to (Sfty per eeatfuzrddbovhMith' ibi am'e lab or that is nog don* rhis iore ease;-larinto appl~ i'A p done,tand .yoi will tod fesup opilation. I aul for nong.olpig borg-uoo-otioa iof otw le iave 'the setbjoct of ainmi1r tt Im,'and the ffe**till'f" This *1l daibto othe among usf and~be btfans; We pwy oar prosperity st this 4itue 'ntirely to the scaroity pf~ igy nany u~egroeshaygg od to work gtesbi empleged i r4psuisi gr pgp, 4y ,4 g ew wh eot priset'e oa to now enJO as aresul~~1I~ lied us the la Barope; lree6Bld, Is not llkeone in S oet ton mill or on a railroad. If the mil stops, what has been done Is not lost -if the hand refuse to move any more dirt, what has been, remains. Not so with wheat and 'otton-all is lost, unless you continue to advance. The guano must be pumped up into the cotton bolls, and they must be gather- t ed by uninterrupted labor. One point I will mention, and then leave the subject to be discussed fully, I hope,.by, abler pens. The press of I the South has labored in order to get the, cotton planter. to make all his sup- 4 plies at homs, urgin t as being the t cheapost ohoy. ow every cotton I planter.knows that nothing pays as t well as cotton, and all the presses in f the world cannot change his opinion, I But-if the press wiltstrike at the root. of the evil, they may do incalculable I good.. I will- state what 'it Is; II Iiavo always practiced it; both the I true Interest 6f the cotton planter and a patriotism, should make all adopt it. 1 Apply one half of all labor and land 9 to. the miking of full supplies of all 1 kinds that are needed on the planta- J tion, and enough to, spare, for those < engaged in other pursuits. Do this, 0 and you will get more money, (take I ten years tog ether,) for the other half k of labor and land engaged in cotton f culture, . than if -the whole was em b ployed:to produce cotton. If this is c true immigration is certainly not to t our fnterest, and why should not the t cotton planters consult their interest, u as well as other.people. b Very respectfully, a I D.tvlln Dy~oN Progress in Egipt. a An illustration in one of the .late Y English plitorial papers marks a new 0 era; the subject Is an immense boat A load of Mohammedan pilgrims on their road to Mecoa, being towed by a steamer through the Suez Canal. What an immense field of thoupfit this 1 subject presents to the politioal phil- I oso herT The highest appliamoe.of t modern skill brought to bear. t4- - the descendants of the very More "b6 ' for ages were the greatest te te ' the ancestors of those who ard0W. :8 helping them on their pilgrimage the Frank helping the Turk What would the shade of Charles Martel, I bat hero. who eaved. Franoe from the < fierc4'followere of the false prophet, say to this? And what effect will this have on those very pilgrims'-what I ,fregt upon Egypt-herself- Egypt, the I vory mother of civilization, rich above < all other lands in records of remote < grqatniss? What effect can it not < fail of having I Fanaticism can never be subdued by force. There is no truer saying i than "The blood of the martyre Is I the seed of the. Church;" but men are E always most open to material argu ments, and none could be more con vincing than those which the Chris. tian races are now putting before the East. Christianity to-day certainly - assesses the' monopoly of poTwer, of intellect and of influence in the world. Christiiti' ir phjsloally better off than the follow~erh of other seats, have i better houses, better food, are better i paid for their work. The best argu-, e ment with the heathen Is to show. him I the condition of Christians om pared to his own. It must be better than our system, ho naturally says, s.ice these memi ejoy .the comforts of life i omlzh hhr degf'de 4han I'dos I The 80ez Chal by showing them what:Christian entet'ris~ csti acc6m. Slish, is worth a hundle~d ihislonarios. 1 d-prod uCes tespect foru the system- 1 whose followers can produco . sush re sollsst l64 exdites.ther'iibtion by4 holding forth to them the most tem pt lng rewards should they eihbracos the' religion .whose disciples ruile., the world. And the great ersterprise I which will mnark a tiew era In com-n. mere, which -will ps~duce new' do velopmqpts of the t~Q I portance In the a~4tol : at world, g will alole ' o the onlmempn nas tone of to r1 6 of: ta &ae,Tet a c6 l16%d t 1t# fetoraobsbV4t64e h two~IY #i ofthe prattraots extensive o - 1411 ply of 0odes at *10t7 statid*. eaths ate I sofrmn. More About the "Rings." "Itburiol," the wide-awake corres oodent of the Unionville Times, vritos from Oolumbia under date of d inst. The well writtet letters of "Lux" o the Charleston News are the uni rersal theme iere, and of all the nume ious assailants, he has thrown the most Ifective and tremendous bombshell nto Scott's camp. In vain has he Scott) called in Mossrs. Harrison and Jamoron, who wore on the coinmittee o exoulpate him; 'both have written otters for that purpose, and say that he contract with Sellers & Co., was or $8,500,000, ye't even then things ook dark. Soie- one, too, in the ourier, under th'e ignature of "Vori as," whom we single out as the stay ehind the throne-old John Heart as written as unsatisfactory, complete ud disgusting a nonentity as could a haulod up for the poonsion. Lux's" communication has taken roll everywhere ; both Radical and. )emoorat have stamped Scott's pro eedings a regullar swindle, and every no is inquiring, "Who is 'Luxl " Ve have tracked him far enough to now he is a disappointed contractor ropn North Carol i ; he knows what e is writing about, he has nicely and learly unearthed the machinery of his Blue Ridge Ring Scott has felt hese letters. lie pretends not to otice the attacks of .the press, which as handled him rougher than it has ny any other man in this country ; 'et we know they '$rik him like the pears of the Lilliputians did Gulli. or, and if they continue they will yet vainp him. * "Lay on Maodujn, And datinod bo he whq firat.ories, "Hlid I enough." While protetded onservative pa. < or and mon say e attaeks on Itate officials 40 nor d, we do not :now hoir to meet, tr at or get rid of hem any other way,* People should < :how who they are, if they are f evils, they must be ht with fire, I ud on every occaBie ha fts should be i u6k into the rich veipse of villineous to they are laying sway. -Hereswe will phow .. up two sweet tens., -The first f, 'he investigating ornisitto.Df the W . Coagressional )Istriet gotten up at the special re mest of Scott to prove he told noth ng but the truth in his recommending loge to a seat in Congress. This ounittee cost tho State some $75 a Lay, and as they intend sitting, at all vents, four months, there goes $9000. The second is not far behind. While a great many useless offices vere created as is pgknowledgod on dl sides, for no other, urpose but to atisfy the faithful, there are attached o these a great many well paid clerk hips. Before the war the State did iot pay for more than three clerks at cost of about $2500; now there are welve who are paid fully $12,000. Here then is $12,000 grasped from he poor taxpayers and, literally hrown away. The latter item id nore excusable than the first, as it en. 6bles the renowned to do riothing but, quander State money for the slothful uxury several of them are living in. O. P. Leslie is making arrange. nents to establish his office, a Land Jommi'sioner, here, with J. Wood 'off, Clerk of the Benate, as hie right; aand man and clerk. While the "irre ressible" 'may fuss and fume about is nomnudesion being on the side of he people, nobody' here 'puts .?sny' rust in 'it. . He is, unfortunately,' too *ell-known to goe very fond of the lollars, arid he is not going to run any nachine that does riot turn' them out. Lhisi Land Comimission is 'another, 'ring," and It will not require mucAh ime before it -will loom up in all its nonstrosityg'and stand beside the Blue tig Rirodridg. Carpet-baggers must be coming' to rief.- 'Mackey, the oustoni house I arrior of Charleston, han played his ards so adroitly as to win 4he golden I pinions of. the darkies down there, a. a gentleman just up saja, neither lawyer, 'Howen oc Clark ooild get a orporal's guard from among them. helfhr, and a leading Radical offi 1al glIes iias his opihion that no arpet bagger shall be nomitiated in he next 8tate election. SMessrs. Garroll -andi lickling, who Fere chosen sei 'etunsel' by' the 'tar.' imyers of Itiohiand' to teat thb legali y of the assessment' of real property a "C0lr?, :after -obnsiderati6U, have onoluded to droji' the Nuatter, andare' ormnd-that'theneaps prescribed by awbe'used, 4it' that an application '.iuade to' tie State 'Auditor, broughe onty Auditet," fos an batesmebhe'the pat 'thinke his rto yis eese t'h~ h e W. liietto vipreobhbly l tte 4 se6 on the "e piom* ,dnohrefesogerreigadadfh woept., whiob eviy ene Wib6Ush h inties se asoole stoe will not in stl tgu. In Colubewm septag auy of the uieb ed.1$ ah4y s .we be Haev. that ama ean 'unk .t fan,. afths of the stores any day in the week. On Sundays only the front doors are closed, while thb rear ones are always opened for polieemen and others to go in and drink. The no groos especially get drunk on this day, when they spend the earnings of the week. Greater part of the liquor is medioated, and while the univernal 3ry .is "Lo! the poor negro I" we can look among ourselves and say "Few bring back at eye, immaculate, the manners of the niorn.'" Yet the morality and bearing of the students of the University has been better than was ever 'knowne Portunately there is no talk - here about forming militia companies. The United States garrison is suffioient to two Ku Klux. If every one will improve the fall md plant good land in oats, taking ains to put them in well, their stock, vill abundantly show the result of it iext summer. I know what I may, by he experience of this summer. Had [not planted oats last fall, I should iow either be giving no corn, or by living corn, be in debt to my factor 'or every grain fed. As it is, I have >lenty of oats, and my work animals how the good. effect of it, while I only have bread to supply In bought orn. Let every one, therefore, im >rove the fall season, and sow dats the ast of October, or at least the 25th of ,ovember. "They that have ears to iear let them hear," or next summer ot them hold their peace. Some think the oal crop a humbug, 6nd so they are, planted on common, >r worse still, poor land, and out off Lud pastured to death. But by the ixeroise of judgment, with careful nanagement, no crop pays so well as ats. The cotton crop is growing ra. >idly now, and the corn, thanks to a good Providence, was never doing letter. I see a great number of ears of corn have made a second groirth of ilk, and by consequence have bursted he shuck, and grown from one to two uad three inches beyond, greeting the owner wiLh a "lbroad. grin," at the )rosjpec1 of a fam harvest. BAny's LiNes.-An intellige4 foung nother Inquired some days dnee how she could best proservo her >hild's linen clean and sweet when >banged frequently during the day. [ directed her never to dry. it by the Ire, but in the sun and open air if 'he weather permitted. You thus iot only avoid saturating the air of your rooms with the volatile and poi. sonous gases driven out of the linen, but thte sun's rays have powers of Aleansing and disinfecting, which arti icial heat. has not, and will purify and preserve the linen. She followed my lircotions, but as is two often the practice, dried and aired it in the iursory window. Her fastidioui hus band remonstrated in vain against this inseemly exposure. Believing that if ihe saw her practice as others s*w it iho would desist, he so directed their tfternoon walk as to bring the nurse ry window into full view from a eon. bral part of the town. stopping !b;ruptly he pointed to the offending Jinen. flapping couspionously in1 the breeze, and asked saioastioally : "My lear, whatis that displayed from our window ?" "W by," she proudly re. lied, "that is the flag of our union I" Donquered by this pungent retort, he jaluted the flag with a swing of his lat, and pressing his wife's arm olos. sr within his own, sung as they walk id homeward : --And long nsy It wave." (fUiarth and home. Greieley's long heralded treatise on the subject of -"Political Economy," lesigned as a defence of the "Protec ion'' or "Tariff" system of public robbery has reached its 10th Chapter in weekly serials through the.''lbunh. As, Greeley Is generally -recognIzed-as the '-Gran. eMogul" of this great awindling soeenuew have hitlierto promised to review and-refute each of Lii. Chapters, seriatim, a. conclusively and ooavineingly as- we did lIelper's disponding Crisis" 'In 1860. We ihall take. up his erat s.Obapter Ip our cest paper, and folloti up theoothers in our subsequent issues, until we shall cave thoroughly 'exposed and -.etplod ad thetwhole geres a and shown the Ibsardity ands urageof the sobenme hyseek to-defevcd. As it is our in beid ion to make. a Revlqw so -clear and .plain that no person - of 6dbigenen nense can carefully read:lt without full ,onvictiociand' as there i at habljecy n ihidhu m~,~nier)getiodubel s~Ion pre'vaIha ikv -obi cotty, I' oiid d56 well for all- our tekdI#4 to soieqe' i9 more extre cop of 6 W pad 4 the' eomt~ yearb d' tbe i o- keep ? ~ffit dik;i 6n 'h aulnd~ thir neighors .a4t.ea of as possible *hes the. -waupt.a nhae.-N&n 1ork Scu's The Oomimoroial Value of the South. Well might the North buckle on all its armor to keep the South in the Union, for, apart from politoal consid orations and the patriotic sentiment of maintaining the grandeur and glory of the republic intact, that pwrt of our common country is the source of our commercial wealth and more valuable to the North than ever India was to England. According to the late 8ta tistics the value of Southern oxports last year was over two hundred and fourteen millions, while that of the North was a little lose than two hun dred millions. There is thij great difference, too, in the nature of the exports of the two sections, that a large portion of those of the North is lnthe precious metals, which in a measure impoverishes the country, while thoso-of the South are the pro ducts of the soil and bring us gold or its equivalent. Cotton, of course, is the great staple, though tobacco is a valuable product, and sugar, rice and other things form a part of the ex ports. The domestic trade of the South is still more valuable to the North, for it supplies our manufactur era with the raw material they need and takes back Northern manufactures in return. These great and valuable exports and this vast trade, too, have hIaPsi devoloped again so sooi after the South had been desolated by war. This not only shows the surprising wealth of the soil, but the astonish. ing enorgy.of character and reoupera Livo - owor of the people. Yot it is this rich and beautiful country and these citizens which are'kept under the heel of military despotism and made the football of scheming politi oians years after the close of the war. But this state of things must soon come to an end, and the South will rise from its ashes -to be the richest country in the world.-N Y. Herald. EMIORATIO.-The stream of emi gration from Europe that keeps pour Ing in upon our shores is a gratifying proof of the confidence felt in the re sources of the country and in its re publioan 'form of government. This sti'eam still' inoreakes, ins6muob' that thniu'm r of Lrrivals this year ox ceCht. t he. I (11t; correspunding period in 1866, the ga immigration year. So long as the supply continues to pour In as now from Europe we have nothing to fear from the threatened influx of Chinese. The- last, within the ten years preceding December, 1868, contributed only sixty -five then sand to our population, and of these not a few returned to their own coun try. In the same period the number of emigrants from Europe to our shores is calculated at two millions five hundred thousand. It is to this influx of Europeans that we owe much of our power and prosperity, and by it we have grown, within the last eighty years, from a nation of throo millions to one of forty millions. The moral is ovident-if we wish to.devolop the immense re sour6es of this country, let us contin. na to encourage European emigration. On the Caucasian element only can we hope to build up such an empire as the world has never seen. Chinesa may all be very good, but Europeans are at least ten times bettor.-N. Y. lcraNd. California is now cultivating more than three hundred varieties of g rapes, and among them some of the choicest wine-producing grapes of Europe.. "It is estlisted that thirty millions of vines are already set, and will be in full bearing in three years." Its climate is equally, favorable for stock raising, and no inconsiderable number of the horses, mules, beef cattle and sheep, which are extensively raised there, may yet be conveyed "across the Continent" by the Pacific Rtail road. A large p art of the vast gold' en treasure whifch California yields will, also naturally-roach the Atlantic coast by the, same avenue. Buitthe utility of the Pacific Rtail. road will be yet more st~rIkingly and infidentially displayed by the- trans portation. hich it-will afford to the emigrants fronm China. and. from Eu. ropoe, who are to help our native popu. lation in onlfvening the unoccupied tracts of territory, and, opening the inoieulable sources of wealth and powdr within the wide expanse df our. Aierioan empire. The reduction of rjates.oz this railroad will hasten i ,e1 fulfil Oa of thp . mosta s anguino proellieu the fputure g rapideur of the Udited 8tate.--N Y. Bdkl. Tad 4;oi4 CoLFANk. ..4e irrepres. sikidr~ wbo is ~leturing on~ All ~epven~ an4.eatti to tbe n s oI of 1 ta m d&eglio t~M ve "~ fi 6o-re n sally mn10 oenh tha6 kny' dther destwoy web plda kl. troops-4itis oa e.tAgry-flre 1'-.'Encinnattf Commer A MYSTERY CLEARED UP.-"Ex Secretary Stanton had an interview with Secretary Fish yesterday.'o Sensation telegran of Assooiatecd iess. I was present at that interview. The subject of it was Warts. Ex-Secretary Stanton said that when he was a boy he had sIxteen on his left hand, eno or' two on his right thumb,and one onhisolbotr- Ho said he used to always hunt :for old hollow stumps with rain-water stand ing in them to soak his wartp iA. Secretary Fish said hi had b millions ,f warts when he was -a -b6i, and sometimes he split a beab and -tied it over the wart, and, thou too. that bean and buried it in the croes ropds at midnight, in the dark of the moon. Ex-Sooretary Stanton said he hid tried that, but it never worked. Scoretary Fish said he could not remember that it worked 1 he only re membered trying it a good many times and in the most unquestioning good faith. Ex-Seoretary Stanton said his usual plan was to run a needle through the wart, and then hold the end of the needle in the candle till it warmed that wart to that degree that it would never take any interest in the world's follies and vanities any more forever. Secretary Fish said he thought like ly he was the wartiest boy that ever At this important moment ex-Seo. rotary Stanton's carriage was announo od, and he arose and took his leiie. The next Associated Press dispateh that dintressed the people through the colun s of every single newspaper in America read as follows : "The subject of the interview be tween ox-Secretary Stanton and Soe retary Fish has not transpired. Thero are various flying rumors. 16 isgenorally believed that it referred to the Alabama question, and was very important." And yet they were only talking about Warts. . i Hereafter, when I see vague, dread ful Associated Press dispatches, itat. ing that Jones called on the Beoretay of the Interior last nialht, or Smith had an interview with the Attorney. General, or Brown was closeted.with the President notil .late day evening,3 shall not o so terrifned as I used to be. I shall feel coertain that they wore only ' talking ahout Warts, or something like that. They can never fire my interest - again with one of those dispatches unlQes they state what the interview was about. MARK TWAIN. The npw bayonet furnished to the infantry soldiers of the British army has a sword edge and a satw back, with a point as effective as the ordinary weapon. It is of the same long th0 the old bayonet, but as the new'Marti ni Henry rifle is Sf Inches shorter than the old rifle, the total length of the arm as a pike is reduced to a cor responding extent. The effiliency of the bayonet as a sword, as a saw and as a pike, has been carefully testod.-. A sheop was out up ihto joints with the sword edge, and thiok plinks were sawn through by the back. The Com mittee of Parliament, to whome the subject of breech-loaders was referred have also reported in favor of the re. introduction of muzzle stoppers, IM the soldiers now insist on using rags or a cork for that purpose, a pr-aotice attended with great danger. .Thbe stopper proposed ob~vere 'the sights, so as to warn'the soldier against firing without its removal. The 'bod of the stopper is steeped in an anti-cor.. rosive compositin, so as to obviate the necessity 6f frequently oldaning the rifle. A Losvo TIGER.-Oid blckey 8. Is a very wealthy but very -ilterate East India merchan4, end at member of the Oriental Qluk of Juondon. One day Diockey too~k a pglrw.of oinpas asid set about examining- a Rarge:map ef India, the margin of< whloebi was illustrated with drawings of. ther wild and domestie animala of th.ettry; Buddenly Diokey dropped the. opass in amazon~nt. "It can't be! iti' 4I' In the border of naifrtthitu'i al be I impossible i rIdIobloiisPa Wh Pickey, what's the zaktier? "Wob'd the mattpr 1 Vy,jh~Ina3engal Algey is niriety, miles long19" DJokey.4 measured the tiger b~ the acle 6f ma - year almost the long eeg~pdc type Betting maobIae'ii i yht( latest is the -inventf6r of W matIn d ItalighNorthb Carolinaq1 fr apj. proved by M~r. $eatpg f or' JHlden who the hew instrdtnbat;, wohis "fTher Wild4'ooesTy eu8esitig qhine," egoitos;suspip edad iyM 'digt:ibttd; 6 not to soik mbV* tha f4uf - iits gid jiaglr j t'29t ther proidhpa e egn SIsee ; you had the :nisforhme fe.d1 patch him." -"On the coitairf, t.e d the doctor. "I saved him."