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Desportos, Williams & Co., Proprietors.] AFamnily Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquiry,_Industr.f cj hoau~i I Trs-$.O e nu, nAvn VOL 1. WINNSBORO, S. C64) WEDNESDAY MORN]NOTBR6 89 N.1 FAIRFIELD HERALD 1.4; PU'1' 411 1-:1) W K?.1KIY By DE1P)~id.WI LLIAMS & U Termsli-.-u Kl MA i.n1 is ptilishe.1 Week 13 ink tte Towi of Winsboru, at 9:,00 in tI.u/,ih/ ill adounice. 1 y"All Iranisicut. advertisements to b 11:i inl IIlvalice. Oiiiiiary Notices and Tribues S1.00 pe IQ V Byl'O'S All-sWel to Lord By rl'Ol Far-ewell. In thle whole range10 of' English1 literaltr there is not, in a opinion a priteiodn either in prose or verse. that conilitie withini itse'f more Ieal. out iokel, CarIICs sentimlenit, th1an Lmly Ityronl's reply o0 hel fail brul husbanel., llyron:'s "arewell" wa an icoiiical bidding adieu ((o a Ieart it-it ii htil wanitonly crusil. lut. Lady lIyrou lund, inl clefentling herself fr om his irony "ttlci fihe ables" oil hin Io0sit0cornple ty. lier reply is seathing, na id must, hiv out" Ilyrot "to (he qutick." We call spe ci-l a'enii n Ito prouiel ani noble derl ance, exprese.1 inl thle 1.a1: mtanza. T1.4 poeni has douitleis been read by all ow rea-lers; Lut it wil repay unuher pornisa' Yes 'farte vrl.-farewell forever! Then, iiyelf hast fixed oir doom, Di0.0 hope's fairest blossa)ii w ier, Ne'er againii t'or tie to )ilooii - ULniorgivilig thou hast called iiie Didst, thit ever say ronolvr ? For te wretlch whose wiles beguile thee Thou alune didbt seem to live. i1rt the space which1 limie has given To complete thy love's decay, .iBY unhiiiallowed plaissiol driVen, 840n ilhy heart was taught to stray. Live for in that feeliig tunider Whic 11hy verso so wyell ca1 Show, From In- arms11 why dial-n thou wander, My enitearniientlits liy forego? ih, too liLe thy breast Yas iared, (ih, too late to line W-as showni, That i y love I oico bUit stareid, lid ilroaily it is flown. i'rapt in direainis ilCoy aliidiing. (In thy hreasl i y heal hathlain, I.s Ihy love S'id 11r1,th coifikiidinog, i5 i is I ne er can know ag-i. That iark hotir did tir .t discover ,fil Ilh% soul thle hitleon's sur1inl aii1 . l lhese eyes hi tl closoil foruver, N er lo weep ity critii again. But Ilh impiois. wisi. 0 never Fronm ite recorl blotted be Yes, I live, 0 lIyron. ever For the babe I've b.>rne for 1he 1 In whose lovely features (let me, All my weatiess iere confess, W hi At the sI IUggliig ti arIs permit me,) AllI tilther'r I eares lie, whose iiiiigng never leav -a mc, ile whose imnage s611 1i prizr, IVho thi bitteret feeliig gave fue, Still to love where I de.-pisd. W iih regret ald sorrow ratlber, ' When our child's first accents flow, I will leach ter to say l"Arunit, lint his guilt sho nem'r shall know ViNlist Lo-uorroV anllo to-MiorroW WVakes ll, from a widowedt bed, i it another's armi o sori ti o Wilt Iliot feel, no lear wilt sIed. 1, tlie worl approval sought not, Whe tolire muyclf froma ,ee ; Of its praise r limu I th ought not W ti's praise or h0otme to ine? lie so praise1' -so loveil-t-1-iilred, Vrom his heart my imlge drove, On my head contempt A tins poured, Ad pref.rred a Walitol's love. Thou art. pr uid, but mark i lyron, I've a heirt proud As Ihiy own Soft to love, but, haid as iron When rn01111empt is o'er it. th11own But, farewell !!-L'il not upbraid thee, Neveri never wish Ilice ill W i chiedi thbough thiy Crimeis havie no1le1 mii i thtou catil -b-le happity st ill. (Co~ntributail to th.: Chaureston NeCws j T1he ilomestoad Act Ulnconstitutional. Ourt juadge-s have rendered decisioni upon this act greatly lit vatrianlce witi eacht other. Some of thiese have boor published.- As ,,isip~rius decision: they hlave no general authority, and had bettor not boon published, at they are calculated to mislead and3 *Sa ppoinit. 'Tho writer of this has little dot but that our Supremoe Court wvill do clatre this not unconstitutional, 'so fiti as it is retro-spiecive, as impairingt th< obtigation of couitracts. No authoritatives decision can bt found to sustain the act. The decis ions of other Sttes have no authority * lf tihe acts construod arc similar t< ours, then they arc entitled to eon sidecratiot--nothing moro. Often thu groundsl of such de-cisions uarc An~tire ly different. Ooorgiai, for instance l is- a differetnt constitutional provisiot uind the action of Congress upon thai toinstittion wats difforenit from thta nooni~l the constitutio~n of any otheo State. IL is ar-gued that at the adoption o. our constitution, South Calulina was tnot, inl the purview of the United States Constitution, "a State," Th ii question has passed the stago of argu meiunt, for [lie United States Suprem< (Court has detilded thet precise pocint 'it Te'xas vs. WVhite, 7 Howard, p, '726 1 would call especial attention 't those words in that deciaion :"h obligations of the State as o. memnboi of the Union remained perfect and utnimpjaired. It certainly follows thai the State did not cease to b0 a #ate.' This decision must halve esaped the notice of some of our judges, forth are bound by it. It is argued that [he hoteestoa<1 pirovihion~s of our constitution are iniado of force by becoming, by adop tion, ana act of Conigross. Now, Con. greoss could not give any Stato Lih< jiowe' to o wh~ t, h . ..:,..tut:- ht ho Mighty Agency of the Telegraph. Sa priing and important as the' velopneuts and uidlluenoe of the gietio telegraph have been, we VO seen only the infancy-the ;t signs of the powr-of this ghty agent of rn'dern science and ilizatiun. We understand there is Iew atd renarkablo invention, an uiatio system of self-telegraphing wer, whiclh will nultiply eight or times the fiilidei of telegraphic nniication o-ver the present sy.4 I. lrom the information wo have eived and from what we have soen .re is reason to believo thii is one the most astonishing inventions of ago and destined to produce a at revolution in the conimerce,t ucial affhirs, intercourse and social idition of the world. We learn, L, that the government will be ask to test this invention and to take C trol of and uso it for the public id. Congress, we hope, will not itato to investigate the matter and mnake the necessary appropriation, t, to try the new system between V tahington and New York, and then, suceessful, to obtain the patent and a the whole country the beneit of inAd.sr government control. Con ss never did a bAtter thing than on it appropriated thirty thousand lars for putLig up and testing the t magnetic telegraph line between' shington and BAltimore. What iderful results havo followed ! Yet opposition was s. groat that it k live years-that is, from 1838, -n the Conmittee on Commerce t reported the bill, till 1813, when 0 ias Itnally passed and signed by the sident-to get this insignificant a for tr3ying the greatest invention n of the ago. Lot us hope our sent Congress will prove itself ic enlightened. It should pass at e on reassemnbling Mr. Washburne's t uppropriating sixty thousand dol fo-r an experimental postal tele. ph lino between New York and Lshington, with an addition of any er sum, if necesoary, to test on such i the new automatic system. t is known that the objeot of Mr. Lshburne and those who act with I in proposing an experimental tal telegraph line is, if that should rove suocessful, to place the wholo -graph system of the country un government control. This is the 8 ret of the determined and powerful t tility of the existing telegraph A opoly to his measure. It would u only be the entering wedge that 8 At break up this monopoly, but t ild show, probably, that in case of 1 proposition to purchase existing c 1s the government could construct t ter ones for eight or ten millions o dollars less than the present com- i iies would demand for their pro- h ty. It is a curious fact that when i invention of the magnetic tole- t ph w as first brought before Con- c as in the way mentioned the ide a g i to connect its operations with the t tal system. The inventor, as he s i in a speech at the banquet given '. liim a short time since in this city, i the first to propose that. The E trotary of the Treasury at that a io, Judge Woodbury, urged this t n Congress and the report of the I use Committee on Commerce was a y emphatic. It strongly reconm- I aded the government to take poa- S sion of tho invention. Some of s statesmen of that day seemed to to a prophetic knowledge of what telegraph would become. But v much more applicable are their I umonts to the present time and s to of things than to the period I en this -invention was first, used I < ary argument that can be made in i or of the postal service being in the e dad of government applies to the i igraph. And who will say, except I 3W crsy theorists, that the postal I temi should be under private corpo.t ions or individuals ? All govern. I uits take charge of letter communi. t ions between their own people and ] h foreign countries. Why not of r agra ph ic com munications ? .T hist Ler mode of commnunioation has be,. ne as important and almost as uni 'sal as the former, anid 'with the - provements we have adverted to or *t must shortly be miade it will mersedo to a great extent the busi the Post Ofiehe. [ut there is another anid very im tant view to be taken of the use1 Iwer of the telegraph and the esaity of its being under govern nt. It must becomno the great1 ulator of commerce, of financial Irations and of exchange. Few I tako~ the trouble to write letters I wait the slow process. of the mails en the facilities of telegraphing are reased eight or ten fold. The time iI hand when almost all communi. Ion will be by telegriph. Finan 1 operations will be i'eveintionised. e old system of exchange and the >fits thereon will be abolished. epic will communioato dIreatlj end elf with each 'other'fronmoui part ths .pountry,.r of.the. world, to )ther. 'fhe~oaptaml of couimmerolal. n. wjtbo zp6re thandoubld in use. iristead of tdaiting Yo: the taalls y can lea fastanty of -the3 no~p cc of bills or the payment- and re- I pt of money, and can go to worki im.now opeora tiqp. ~deed, far less inoncy or currency will be needed. The financial operations and condi tion of the banks of New York, as 3xhibited daily by the Clearing House, where a hundred millions or so of 'ransuotions are represented or adjust. d by a small balanoe 6f 'one or two nillions, will show what an affect the Alegraph may have in extending such L stei to the whole country. The Iliesution arises here-and it is one sbieb epecially concerns New York, 0bich is destined to absorb the finan ,ial butiness of this Continent or of Norld--is the power over all these nighty interests and cpcrations to be oft, in the hands of a few individuals r telegraph companies ? Shall all he comunlioations which regulate he commerce, trade and social inter ourse of the whole country be left inder the control of a few monopo ists? We might just as well think if letting them run the machinery of ,overnment. No, the time has come when the elegraph should no longer be in the ands of private companies or indi iduals. The British government has ad the sagacity to see this, has pur hased the lines in Englnnd, and on he let of Janutry next will take en ice coitrol, in connection with the \it Office Department, of all tele raphic communications. The great ations have moved slowly in this tatter, and have followed what the esser ones-such as Belgium and kvitzerland-have done before. All rill have to come to it in. time. There i no other way of preserving the eoreoy of communications inviolable, f preventing monopolies from using he telegraph to the injury of the >ublic, and of cheapening the trans itission of messages. The charges for olegraphing now are enormous and ut of all proportion to the capital otually invested in the lines. Under overnment control and in connection rith the postal service they could be educed to a fifth the present rate. In very point of view, then, for the wel are of the publio and interest of the overnment, Congress should at once stablish the experimental line we ave spoken of and prepare the way :r controlling the whole telegraph Vatem of the country.-Nw York ieral.d Mr. Sumner proposes to fight the tate campaign in Massachusetts on to neyro and the debt, or, as he is nd of saying, "the national freed ian and the national oreditor." Mr. umner is evidently not yet done with tie negro. Caring, no doubt, very .ttle about the negro's corn, bacon or lothes, and indifferent as to his fu are, he yet continues to use the magio f the "negro's woes" to stir up the raning fever of party agitation, and ypocritically crying, "let us have eace," he is the very embodiment of bat prejudice, passion and hate which ontinue to divide a country that all ood men now desire to see genuine nion-an ocean-bound republic-re oeted abroad-in peace at home. he Now York We-tAl says with truth: "The rancor which pervades Mr. uamer's speech is very characteristic ad its habitual exhibition proves hat, with all his mock philanthropy, *o has a bad heart. There is in sonle peakers a kind of generous indigna ion, which glows and kindles with pontaneous heat, and impar a fervor nd vehemence to the higher passages f impassioned .eloquence. Mr. Sum er has none of this; not even any of he adroit, racy invective of Wendell hillips, which is read not without musement of political opponents. Ir. Sumner's is the mean petulance f a termagant. It flashes out in no oxterous hits; it fulminates in no cathing outbursts; it is a repulsive rizzle of chronic .ill-ntature and igno ho spleen, which defeats its own pur 'ose by its undiscriminating imputa ion of bad motives. Mr. Sumner's moral incapacity to rocognize the vir ucs or do justice to the character of olitical opponents renders his abuse a ineffective as the vulgar vitupera ion of a common scold." UNFAvORAniE ADvicas FROM' COnA. --Advies from Cuba received a few ays ago confirm the account of the attle of Las Tunas and the capture f Colonel lionejas' train. A Letter rem a distinguished Sounthern gop leman now in Cuba, at one time a uember of the Confederate 'Congress rnd colonel in the Confederate army, tates that~ jealdusly, influenced by nalignity or Spanish gold, has neces itated a reorganization of the Cuban rny and compelled General .and resideht Cospedos to take commands f the army. (General Jordan is to ec chief of staff. This letter also ives an accont of the assassianation f the Maroano brthers, of Domird ~n birth, by the Cubans.. Theip rothers oconpied the positions, one a aajor-general, commanding a.dAivis'o ri the: "EsterA Depavtmeht,' rnde. Noeeral Jord~t; and the othet a brEi adlet-goderal. The only objdotlon o'thbn way they were foreigners. Phie asiassination has caused gu~a'tets item~ent and may teenit In serious Ilaster.-N. Y. Heraid. Th~e produoctin of corn andi wheat. n the United States in 1868 was about 180,000,000 bushels, or 28 bushels wwr hcad forbidden. This proposition cannot' fT be seriously controverted, and is con elusive of the poii.t raised. But on. gress did not assume (as is nsserted) de to make the Constitution of this Stato .an act (if Congres.Q. Road the not, XV., United Stites statutes, p. 7:, r and nothing ca bie found therrAin in . it., slightesht. to j'stify tihe assuinlptio , c I The prearnble recites that ".vhcreas a the people of South Carolina have au framed a constitution of State govern . ment that is republicar, * Il .Thierefore, bo it enacted that Caroli na shall be entitled to representationt in Congress." After all the stres re that has been laid upon the action of of Congress, those who read the act will 'f be surprised to find that there is noth- ghi ing else in it bearing at all upon this gr question. What, now, did Conigress enact? Nothitig beyond allowing this i State iepresenaiion. And suppoac we d call the preamble an enactment, then what follows? Why, that. the consti- I 001 tution is republican / Nothing more. Will any judge pretend that any legal to enactmnt is covered by tho word "republican ?" Oc to come more closely down, that this sanctions the homestead clauses. i Seppose, however, that Congresg bad eninete.l,(as is asu med without aiy foundation, ill fatct.) that the gr tution of South Carolin1 should haveC the force of an not of Congress. This would not sustain a homestead provis ion antagonistic to the Constitution of % the United States, for theconstitution 0 of 1868 itself provides that nothing th in it "in contravention of subversion t, of the Constitution of the United lis States can have any binding foroe." (Article I, sction d1, and the "oath, it article 11, section :0.) Let us henr r no more about Congress having given thli authority to a measure which is so di p e rectly in c-mtravention of the Consti- pr0 tution of Uuited States. o1) But mirabile 'cu, the Constitution bl of South Carolina doo. not make a re. la trospective homestoa. provision! I eballenge any one to point out the gri clause. Article I, section 20, and ar- I tiele If, eeiion 32, make no I-rovision ii that the exemption is to apply to un lcedent indebtedin.s. Authorities can b cited, ad nausccm, that in tjo hill construction of the constitutional or statute law, all provisions are presum- po ed to be prospective, niless the ovitra- i ry be expressly enacted, Lei Neither secession, then, Congress or de the constitution of 1868, autho ized a see retrospective homestead law. N othlin' ho i now left but the naked act of 9:ht September, 1869, XIV Stats., p. 19. Ino tu The provisions of that act are retro- ni .spective. I The act of 1868 at once falls as in- a p tiring the obl:g:ttiou of cour.iracts, by 13t virturo of the prohibition of the Uni- of ted States Constitution, and by the prohibition of our own constitution of 1868 ! (Art. 1, section 21 ) hi. Do we hear any one bold enough o thi say that a retrospective homesbead ex- igre emption does not impair the obligation gr of contract4, and is not violative of the waO Constitution of the Unaited States? If a.), we merely reply by citing the do. eision of the United States Supreme to Court, (which is binding upon our wa judges,) in the caso of the I'lanter' I Bank vs. Sharp, wherein, after decid- tii ing (as quoted by one of the judges) th.st, States can pass laws exemnpting aL hoiiestead and tools, &e., the court ve mtakos this qualification, wvhich, we i think, ought niot to be overlooked, "sa having a slight bearing upon the ques- a tion. "A gain, State insolvernt laws, th if' mado like this law, to apply to past ho contracts, and stop suits on them, have r been lield not to be constitutional, ox-. a ept so far as they discharge the per*- wh 8011 from imuprisoument. When so F restricted, they do not impair the obli-. gation of the contract itself, because ha the~ obligation of the contract is left tel in full forco atid actionable and future a property, as well as presenit, subjected-a to its paymuent. WVheroe future acquira sitions'are atteinpted to be exonerated and the discharge extended to the me ct debt or contraet itself, if done by oiu States, it must niot', as here, apply to tl past contracta, or it is hold to impair lat tnoer obligation." 'fTis ease, then, a goes to the extent of net only not al-ve lowing an exemptioin to be ziado'o~f ve property which a debtor uuwns, but not tu event of what lie may herenf/kr aoquire as affooting "past contracts." This o extract from the ease will be found in 6 Ihoward, page 3'!8, whore the court sustains itself by ten authorities. 0 Let us not tamiper with the law and a - .*-re~ Thle Greatt Iastern is the great ca- op, b)10 latyer, and now. having done sneh wil good service in the Atlantic, she is an< about to show herself In that pat of wh the IndIan. Ocean known as the .Ara- inc biani Sea. At last accounts the Great is Isaste'rn wab stowing away forty .miles cat dialy of the hale so011 to },e'laid be- cia tw'oon Aden and B omnba,a distance Th of cightoon ktindre4 piilcs or nioro pr< -- - - - fre Dwart orgpge t~roes fr~ou CJhi~is heve ,of yeaoe4 ed liforpia in. geod, . condition.. an *They gro uAot ever to %eet high,,and ime an. acte of grou~adswoul4k contain overfo four thousand. -Although each tree th< will not produto- over a half' dozen tat oranges, yet the yield per ace would coi I reatly nxceed tht of an~nand n a ttu t Dead vs. Livo 1sues, Mlr. O'GormanII, a leadi: g Democra said: Some men talk of dead issues, 14 low-citizens, .issues may die, but tri principles muitist live forever. (Applanse .Sl.very is id.ead issuo-Pla very is dent' st,08ion is a dead issue--thatt idea wei dow in the storm of war; but, it rights of the States, the rights of sel gverinmeit of Staties in all thir loci concerns, that is the principle onl whic we live in this coilrv, and tlint, princ ple is to) be vindicaited anew. (Al planise ) I like the manly prctest again the fifteenih anmendmentt to the Const tutiol, in yoitr resultittois. : It is calle alt anel hitent, but t i6 int fact. a !ut version of ihe Counatitutionl ; it Is incol sistent, with the vital innciples b which the COunstitution lives, the rigi to regitlitte suffrage in the States; Il right to say who shall chose the legish I ors of States. W., ti re these but I h right to make laws in that State, an when that is snrre*n.!ored iii the gret State of New York, the State is deam Great applause ) As for ne.gro suffrag have no opiion i o give ; our friend Im South Carolina my like it and ado; ii, let, them-it is the coticern ol' thei State; but that we in New Yorak ha any atbthority to coipe4 them t) ado) it and to say who shill be voters i their State, or that they should have right to say to ts who shall be voters i our State, that is subversive of the ver principles of the Constitution, the ver principles in the words of the "Uiite States;" for if it is carried, the States iar dead. (A pplause.) Thatis the stead march of empire which is being deve opied. The principles of the Repnbbca party are.unity, consolidation, atil pilm piro at last. (Applause.) But. let II leave that qiestion and say a wor about our finncial policy. It seems I nie the right. theory is expressed in th resolutions you have adilpted. Wh1a1 ever the obligaiion would be betwee mani and Elan, the United States wi keep as it is kept between. mtti ii mati III all thesecontracts by borron ing and lending. wIt -re a government i coiicerne-d, hit me recall to your atten tion this fact, that, there arb two partir to it-there is tLe lender and there- i the borrower, and an injustice is done t the lender when lie does .-ot get .bacl what he letit, and to the borrower whei lie is made to pay more than lie go,. I von will bear that in mind-that t, Government. in its transactions, must b gnided by the same laws of honesty an honor that are to guide the individual then you have got at the key o6 lh Whole question, and all the rest i easy. A Musical Mouse. Shortly after retiring to bed last Suni day night Mr. W. 1. Butcher wa aroused by the sounds of melodion sweetness issning apparently from th plastering in his chamber. Ie listene III wolering asionishment for son time, trying to think what. the Cause c the singing conk1 be. The famuily wer eilkd up aiw) n light procured; but a soon as the light- was extinguidhed i commenced again. A vigorous searcl of the room was nida. tko hird cage i the passage was zamined, but the bir was silent, anud after soveral indfoetoa attempts to ind the musi.*ianthle famil retired, not to sleep, but to listen fo hours to sneh music as they had neve haeard before. Of course thiR was the topic of con. versation int the famiily thei next day an. anie said t ho house 'must lbe hiaunit Monday imght was but a rep,-t non of what happened Sunday night only theC music was louder and m-,r sweet, and the wonder of the famtily it creased, as they still hunited 'nnsdtceou indly for a sorntton -of tife iierv. Night befor#! last, hoivevibt.the myt -tery wvas solved. The nurse was heti up stairs to put the children to bed, an putting Iihi. lamp bt dimly btarnitg, o the floor, she was sitting very qnit? when sheo heard the same wonderfi stuide and looking in the dlireetton frot whence they cam,, she saw a ss.a si ting on hisi hannches and sittgilig awa at the trip of his voice.. The '-fn:Wil wore called upr and-the ?,ttl. warhAt closedawoundt the room for some timeu at ho at last snecaded-.in. Amdingsi wray back to his hole. wvhero he seo strutcekgup anothbr tun. . Thismay appar to be ft atwagenA ry, bnt Ir, is vouchied f'or by ffr. Buttbf er, arid no onie who' kois5 him M doubtit.-Peerehr,/ I'|jp)es# TicE LAND. :Comnuta80to ,t TI Land Uamwnissioner iE. Maikmg xapi progress in the. ezamw iuk of. utra liutd ofe remi kir sihto the Stie iin .a ti'au eouantica. As-ii is.h'q determninr tion to parehnsex.none ba DArst ch's hads, the operataonaw so far - hate n<E beendlarge, bi are steadily increasing it is the- deslr. sof the commiiatier t~ inake at start inoachieonnt v, if poAeibb >y judiesons'purchases. of 'one! large ~ two small tractasfer divimsi athiong put kasars., Ii hmeek- sobwe itue- I ~aanrato a systemt.but~hat fhavin secen acconmplished, la'piirchaap edivi; oreof hiasntba i tuett, d ar)M4u thet santte,'Willig rOipid f o Tee-s boy in -tIhe'4sdurh Ielr nsbt poni wholmt heylcana keop'hie ther cloihes not ishoes. He'. Aatge thei Mll-leaving thei butt'os'anEl :acks his plate. nrabablv liko fish bones The Wifo Market in Russia. Sitting up all nilit w ith a conple of Russian ladies might or might not sug gest the idea of telling you something of the marAge customs of this tange country. A French writer, whoso name I forget, has truly said, "uhie Russians are a nation of polite savages;" a re mark that ie not very apt, but it helps us towaid a proper understanding of the 1 svcial condition of the p.'ople. The rich hare very rich ;tle poor are very poor. The nobles are courtly, polite and refin ed in manners as Vhose of the same class in Germuny, but the sorfs, or those hoil befond to the nobles, with thie dsoil, beore the erancipationi, are rude and not half civilized. Almost as soon as a girl is born, in te better ranksol societ.y, her parents begin to prepare the dowry she mnitut have when she goes to her husband ; fur this is indispensable in the eyes of a'ny Russian young gentleman who pro. poses to be married. She must furnish - everything for an outfit. in life, even t.> a dozen new shirts for her coming hais band; I have heard of a lady of rank and wealth Who had prepared a costly dow r of silks, linyeii, jewels, plate. &c., for r her beloved daughter, who died as she vame to be twenty one years obl. The mother resolved te endow six girls with these riches, and actually advertised for ithem. A host of appliennits came, and *tle selected six. None of them had lovers; but. now that they had a re speeclable don ry secured, each girl was speodily engaged, and, with the hus band, took the dawry, and paid the rich lady by promiting to pray for the repose of her daughter's sol). At Whitsunday there is a curious ciu.tom, which is gradnlly' giving way with tho advance of civilization. The young people of a neighborhood come together, and tihe girls stand in a row, like so many statues, draped, indeed, and not only draped, but, dressed in jheir - best, and painted, too for the young Iadies, and the older ones also. of this country.' use cosmetics freely, and *,a box of lady's paint, is a very common present for a young man-to make to the a gil he likes. Behsind the row of girls 8ro their inmn is. i'he young men having iadte known i heir choice, the terrns are m tLled between the parents of the parties. - to marry, because they have no liberty D before marriage. They are kept con stantly under the maternal eye until they are given up to the husband, and . then they taka therr own course, which is a round of gayety and dissipation, only regnoited by their means of indul gnce. The Greek Church, like the Roman, pertmts no divorce ; but the Fjmperor, like the Pope, can grant spe cial dispensations. The Greek priest I can marry once, and if his wife dies lie 3 cannot marry again. No one in RussiaI can he married more. tha'j thireo times. [,S. Petersburg Letter. -----' Rimaty OF TIF. CUBIAN E voY TO SNATon Susixica.-Senor Lonang, the Cuban Envoy, authorizes the publica.i L tion of the following card : WASHINoTON, Sept.. 24, 1869.-The followitg remarks having been made by SenatorSuimner in a speech before the Massachnsetts Republican Convention , relative to tie recognition of tile Cubans r as belligerents: r There is another question in their case ivhich is with me finial. Even if .. they come within the prerequisites of -j imiernationial lawv, I am unwilling to make any recognlition of them) do long .as tl-oy continue to hold humn beings as slaves. A decree in May last par e porting to be signed by Cespodos, abol . ished slavery ; but I am not sure of this - decree,:especially in view of another in' July, purporting to come from the same .autdority,. mainitainig slavery. Until t this is settled we must wait. 3 --I desirdi to say to the American poo-. a plo 'on behanlf of mHy struggling country f. meni---irst, thai Airtiol& twenity-five of, a the Cnbantprovidos "that all the inhabi. a tients of the islanid of Cuba are~alhsolute. ly free."~ This, of course, includes the r ne'groes, and was so designed by the1 y. patriots who framed thmo anstitvtion. r Socouid in accor.lance 'with this clause r, of .the. onhstitution all slaves coming a withib thineso(4.he .Cuban army are .at once0 .epappiaed, as .well as those who ar'e inclnded m ithe territory occu phed by tho Oriban foros. Third, a great-manys of the Cuban planters out-! )side theolijis of jho,Onban'army . hado emauncipsted .their slaves, and' this ill duflanpe of th #pammeh authorities.-. o Mdny of theeo plainters 'after so doing d have join'edV the pa6Hiot army.: There $a ~'s been no atdbsequeont decre, made by ** tis 0.i~Mx congress for bv's President -Cys deltr which nylife holyr~n~y...Ut1 a' armtq of .the conistitntio. por is . i ~t~ble tiad M4y sncl decies~ cant ee - maadoe raseed. - * J. M.Ti,~gwa. [,lYgp York lierald. r! - ~ .+@. ITYT H-rrAt las~ dates the t'ebels a were botabarding Gongive's (With the ~ vrtai gra;Florida and, Quaker Clity - .1 n'th ~'t'df dieo ton .wais replymng >fdr ~k1h."Th mwonu and'chil'ren .pad. .r was8vigo'iongI bu::ther&' w as thme'ua tiaf PIfu of.t.he.b~Uttlos of -time nie 0gyo l9iojg & this bombdardnmenit. Ini the tg ne i'i~fagiIp two soldiers Shiek'f'd() n one'wonlo dlied a fraf) fright.E Sli nadon the steamevra were killed and two wour..ed. Tux PI:str.:T MOVINo In Trx ArAIIR-1H:nO'.uAI. or JAC-g H AMt TOn'S SUPPonTIC.- I miienitioned sum timo ago in these dispatches that there was a sliin prospect of the federal olleo hohlers in Texas who adhered to the fortunes of Jack Hamilton as candidate for Govornor maintaining their places limder the administration. The heads of several minor offleils have already coio oil. Sitic the retir'n of the Presi lert, and meiimbt-rs of the Cabinet the work has conmmenced in e.rnest, and there is a good prospect of its being continued until every Hamilton man holding a federal olice in Texts hais been imade to give placo to reniblicana of the D:avi~s stripe. To-day, J. C. Tra cy, chairman of tie lIepublican Execu tive Committee of Texas, and a strong Davis inan, was appointed postmaster at fl ouston. in place of Samuel Harper, a llamilton man. Swanty Palmi, an other Di'visi man, was appointed post. master at A itatin, in place of' one De normandie. also a I1amilto iman. The names of successors of nearly all tha lairmmtilton officials have been virtually ngreed upon by the heads of the sever ill departments umider which tbey are class ified, aid nothing remains but the formality of making out their commis. missons. It viil thus 1)e seen that the Presideitd. do ot proposo to look oft imdifferen ly at the sirigg-le between the two factions inl TPexas. Siice his return here the President, it, is said, has receiv ed a letter from General Reynolds com manding the Department of Texia, in which the General states that inl his opinion the interests of the Stite would be promoted by the el-ction of General Davis, the radical candidate. Geiteral Reynolds also confirms the account given the President by General W. F. Clarke relative to the condition of affairs in Texas.-N. Y Herald. ABJOUT Jjws.-They are great eta tisticians in Prussia. and even our own enlightened census takers might larni a thing or two from their brethren in Ber. hn. From a recent censs of that city some one cnriot.s m seh natters has culled the following tacts: Only four per cent.. of the inlkabitrnts of Berlin are Jews, but fifty-seven per cent of Jewish boys and sixty-seven per cent of Jewisir girls receive a thorough educa Lion, agaimst twenty-seven boys, and Dnly sixteen per cent of the girls -of all Dther areeds. There are in Berlin three hundred and fifty-eight families who have private tutors and edaeat. their children at home ; of these families Dne hundred and forty-three are Evan g elual, twelve Catholic and one hun. ired Jewish, while pro rata only four been would be Jewish. Of Births in Berlin, gfteen per cent are illegitimate. Among the Jews in that city only two Der cent are born out of wedlock ;j still born children four per cent ; only one per cent among the Jews. The mor ality among the children during Lite irst five years is twenty-five per cent; nly seventeen per cent among the Jewish children. The per contage of narriage is also much larger among the Jews than among the members oi all >ther creeds in that city. The death of Napoleon would proba ly be the signal for a guropean war# uid a European war would be a disaster which would be felt for years to come. To Prance his death woAld probably prevent the carrying ont the dreams of her best men and purest statesmen since tie first revolution. -The Freneh peo ple were riot then prep>ared for freedoma. rte habits of ages hai nlo6 t aught thoem that liberty does not mean llicense, biut, :m the contrary, nbsolute respecot of life tnd property, with thme smallest amon of personal sacrifice to, the individmal. i'hoy have not yet leanimed this, but Napoleont is a skillful teaeher and has nearly prepared his people for the free dlom which, durmng his reign, lie hopes to be able to bestow. Michael Cheva lir'r,.one of the greatest samontr livmng F~renehmnen, in the ablest speech' deliv ered on the deibate on the Senngus Con. suittirn, said a few days ago: ''What we are arguing for and urging now needs to be granated, and probably will be grant-. ed before two years are past.".. 'A Na. polon lives the most: sangine ,wishes of the lovers of Frersch liliort Will probably be realized, but if h'e should die at present wtth his work inicompheo,. and Francee driveni into another' jev~ohyi tion, it would take years for the Frenoh p ople to recover what they will bave lost in the nudoitig of big work." A' lon' life to t~lhe IKmperor will be at bles'sing to F'rance and to the world.-O4rleston A Uitariani jonrnmal brings Dr. 1M.? lows to book for representiig ithat the late Ed ward Everett '.'always contmiued aji ornamenmt aind a pillar of 6he Unita-. rian denomiition,, of which he wa's optre a minister."' The writender "if CTr. B~ellows 'had never beard that. 41 tia Muiatr ut. St,. Jarnes, Mr.lilvertt n -"' er croes94 the doorway t( s Unirtianm chmappel, but.regularly, Vr-syer Iluok *ip hand, worshippted with tb "Episcp. litisi amid 'il in Add 6f bid~ur com plaint'a" the part of 66h enkmilhUti.. tariaus." .: T llorace Grvule~y has .been nmviteid to prebidte at tiis' Unpital litem ig 4Coni vieitionu to be held at .St Los 06 Fiirset cusinsm are forbiddenm to umrrv' ma New llampslire after D-cemnber 21.