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V *J..a -. SDesportes Williams & Co . ProFr etor s A Family Paper, devoted to Science, Art , Inquiry industry and literature LTerms---$3 00 per Aunum, In Advance. VOL.111.] WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDIAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 17, 18t9. [NO. 22 TI [iha FAIRFIELD HERALD I8 PI' ~ .IR!IP.D wNKKY nlY DESPOITES. WILLIAMS & CO Termna.-Trat Ilnr.ALt is published Week ly in the Town of Winnsboro, at "3.00 in vnrrahly in ad,ance. Lt3.I All transient. advertisements to be paid in advance. O'ituary Notices and Tributes $1.00 per square. Forward. keep not standing fxed and rooted, Iriskly venture. bl inkly roam; Head tn.i hand wherer thou foot it, And stout heart. are still at home. In what land tIe eon does visit lBrisk are we whatc'er betide ; To give space fir ,wandering is it. That the world was nade so wide. GouCTua. Almost a Duel. THE GREEN-EVE6 MONSTER ON TIE Mi.sPI-5ItrI-A LAUGHABLE AFFAIR. If our information be reliable, there occurred not long ago, on the Misbissippi river, a rather interesting episode, highly illustrative of the mutability of man's affairs, especially love affairs. On a steamer going to. ward Memphis, there was a very charming young lady passenger, who was under the special charge of a quite wealthy citisen, be having met her somewhere and volunteered hi. services. "Charming" scarcely con= veys an adequate idea of this young lady passenger. She had fashionable hair that fell gorgeously to the roar of a graceful alabaster neck ; her eyes were dark and soft, and rich like mol ten molasses; her cheeks bloomed with a color the roses would have envied ; her lips were cherry-red, and pouting; her-we will not mention her nose. Her form was perfection itself. Everybody was in love with her. For want of a better rhyme. :The glagoo of her eye was blue rula ; Her blush was the blood of the vine; Her pout, was a punch in whose brewing Tort, sugar, and spirit oombined." The happy gentleman from Arkanr, sas, envied by all on board, we have permission to speak of as Gibbs; the namne of our heroine was Julia. Oe of the clerks of the boat, who is des tined to figure in this romance, we are permitted to call Buggs. Buggs was one of the many who had been smitten by the fair passan ger, and never was swain Inure smitten than he. He thought of nothing hut. how he might win her smiles. iUe made her acquaintance, and subse quently abe smiled on him which uade him happy. To him the music of tumbling bales and boxes, and the "cussing" of the draymon and others at the numerous and picturesque landings had oeased, and he heard nothing but the ripples of her sweet noine. Even the motion of the boat had become a matter of indifference to him, and be would have been as willing to baok up as to go ahead. Oa neve ral ocoaions, while making out hi manifest, he, In an absent way, wrote the name of our heroine instead of "8 boxs. raisius," and had to begin over again. le wrote charwnng little notes; she wrote viuarmirg little fluteg; and love run smoothly enough for awhile. Hly-wnd-by the wealthy citizen of Askansas began to observe the atten tion of the clerkc, an46growing jealous, denounoced that devod Individual as a presumuptulous Y inkes. A lively qjuarrel was the result, and, not to ahedi blood ina the cabin, the belligo ronts agreed to usettle their little mis understanding ait the very next land iog, the boat having to make some. ~,4rmp d 6 ng ia~ a .~ whetting an ugly knife on a 'Loteg. "Ti 'i~klpi~ie tone, "Is the last words of the dear girl to stweek the Asi e. aa lmkJ449if #abu the6* whrage wo eseaooeds itbl&a dea4 in love with him, keeps such a close watch over me that I cannot stir. [ hope you may find some way of dis posing of him. Anything would be better than this suspense. Fly with me, dearest, if necessary. Excuse mis.akCs. Your own, own JULIA." "P. 8.-I think he will go ashore for awhile to morrow. JULIA." As the wealthy cit izen of Arkansas oeased to read, he looked up and spoke: "Look hero young fellow, we're fools. And the sooner we end this nonsense the better for both. - Liok here," and the wealthy citizen of Aakansis handed the clerk a note in Julia's own pretty little chiro graphy. It read as follows: "My Darlingest: I write you this because my heart falls me when I would speak to thee. Why this cold ness on your part 1 Can it be that that detestable little Yankee clerk has excited your anger by his wretched attempts at paying me attention ? What shall I do to prove my deep love to you, and show how much I regret that this shadow has passed between us? Forgive me if I have seemed to do wrong, and take me to thy heart of hearts again, my own, dear, darling Gubbs. Ever thine, JULIA." The changes of countenances expe rienced by the clerk during the read. ing were sometimes painful, some times ludierous to behold. Finally he flung the note from him anti tried to laugh. The Arkansas laughed. Both then shook hanids, swore eternal friendship, took another drink, sinul. taneously ejaculated "Mum l" whiol) the seconds echoed, and the whole party proceeded back to the boat, which was lying at the landing as if uothing hin hsppeued. There was no more trouble about Julia,and Julia to this time wonders what it was that brought about the cessation of hostili ties. She left the boat at Memphis, and ba not since been seen by either of her admirers. Tus SUrnam COURT AND Til Yuaosra CASE.-Some time ago Col. Yerger, of Jackson, Miss., shot the Military Mayor of that sit , because of his aiinT for lates a dnoi in the residence of Yerger, but which, it seems, was not his property. . The killing was a deliberate, cold-blooded affair, and the only attempt made to palliate it by the friends of the mur derer was in the assertion that Ycr gor was insane and had been so for years. He was arrested, trie by a military tribunal, found guilty and sentenced to death. Hereupon an ap peal was taken to the Supreme Court from the Circuit Court, suing for a writ of habeas corpus to compel the release of Yerger. This was resisted on the ground that the Court had no jurisdiction in the case. Yesterday Chief Justice Chase delivered the opinion of the Court, which declares its jurisdiction, and thus comes direct ly in conflict with the reconstruction laws. Of course the rampant radicals at the capital are terribly exasperat ed. Chief Justice Chase Is threaten e4 with impeachment and various other terrible things. Meantime it seems likely that Yerger will escape, and Congress, at the next session, will proceed to flank the C urt by the p.s. sage of an act supplementary to and explanatory of thme various supplemen tary and explanatory reconstruction acts which have been passed during the past three years.-N.Y. Berld. SavEn DY PasENE OV MIND. The Now York Kening Maivl says : "Miss Emma A mes, one of the Fifth avenue dtsmatie ocowpany who was burned a few evenings since by her dress taking Ore on the stage, is In a fair way of recovery. Her great presence of .wind saved her life, When she found herself enveloped in a. sheet of fire, instem4d of screaming as. mnost people would, she instantly put her hand over her mouth to pe vent Inhalation of -the flames. Her fit6 though~*ae to rub behind the sedane otti~ stair.. The' catpoer tersee 1gairbeforeshe resebedthe steps, an feariniga greater ealamityt tripped her, and as-she fell, he threw bi* eoas over her and smothered the wbIbseetodl etr m ent . stawdlf het safferings. Fortunmutely hhe a@d bunde e ei .M~ tig si "~4~ 'er64, delss se5 mtoke book of t)sock, esp. ol ig wheosethe-wingsof 1Hymeu, the obakaatar she Mseabsoting,>we wir.d toltke b40y. Otng to beinigdressed 'wlth eatra'lothing on tht -night, prevemt beg.4agings oW, the lowe pare of be. body. isa not6 harued af eli, Jepeh tr$ fr~oldE h h~eat ,proer tvtef- o en' eoleelste e Of Rusb*t of ametna outs. braiew and gwenaha Interview of Delbgatesfrotn the: Louis ville Oonvention With the President. The delegation appointed by the Lonisville Commercial Convention call ed on President Grant this me nisi, in accordance with a previous arrange ment. The chairman, Mr. Walbridge, spoke as follows: Before its adjournment the late Com mercial Convention at Louisville deput ed to the committee that I have the hon or to present the high anid delhcate re sponsibility of expressing to your Excel len.y sentiments of gratitude and re ciprocation of hearty good will for the view communicated in your do. .patch for the success of the great ob jocts for which the Convention conven ed Originally called to discuss the cx elusive interests of the Southern States, the theatre of its usefulness w as subse quently enlarged, until it, embraced the i material prosperity of every section of our extended country. Delegates were in attendance from Vermont and Texas, as also from Georgia and Minnesota. Thus national in its character, it was pleasant beyond expression to receive encouragement at. the hands of the na tional Executive. Its deliberations were confluied mainly to the great ques tions of finance, taxation, immigration, I interial improvements, transportation and n'.eessary measures by which the industries and great natural resources of the S.,uth could be brou:ght injiarmo iy with the era of prosperity upon which the republic has entered. One sentiment animated the whole Conven tion, namiely :-'T'o stand by the plight. ed inith of the nation in the full pay merit of its public secrities as stipula ted when they were created, and, for getting all differences in the past, the desire was universal that all sectional interests should be ignored, and that the citirens of the United States should hereafter be a homogeneous nation-one, entire, united and indivisable. In con clusioen we desire to congratulate your Excellency on the success which' has thus far marked your adminstraion. Enough has transpired to demonstrate that bef ire the expiration of your sec ond tern the public debt may be more than half extinguished, and the Ameri- I can securities will command a prenuiitin 1 in every part of the iuhabitable globe. President rant in reply said hi was very much gratified to receive such a delegation, representing not only the great com mericial interests of the na tion, but also the new condition of affairs. The good fellowship which ought. to unite a common brotherhood, and which was so happily inaugurated and invigorated at Louisville, lie hoped wont-ll extend throughout the entire Union, until every vestige of bitterness or unkindness should forever be ersadica. ted. ie believed that within a year or two the South would be far richer and far more prosperous than ever she was before ; and the people have it within their own power, by judicious policy and wise acts, to advance their own in . terests and those of the entire country with marvelous rapidity. As to his second tei-m, he could assure General Walbridgo he felt now very much as he did at West Point in his cadet days, whieti he coun:ed every month with et. gerness to get out of his position. He had not sought his present position as everybody knew. lion. I. W. Hilliard, of Georgia, was glad to hiave the opportunity of saying to the President that lhe conenur roed i the co'dial appreciation which all parties must give to the sentiments just expressed by him. The President (!aughi-igty) asked Colonel Duncan, of Kentucky, what this people of his State thotighit of the ad rninistratio~n, and whether there was any hope of Kentucky ever turning from her present polities ? Colonel Duncan assured hian that Kentneklans, with rare exceptions, fully appreciated the Presi. denttlionest intentions to do what lie could for tho good of the cotintry y end that the telegr~Aphic :nessage so leindly sent by the President .to him for the Convention, and the now renewed as surances of kind feeling towards the pso. ple of the States lately enffering so much, weid auigmenle nd strengthen the respect which they already enter. sained &n' the Oliief nCagirave. As to L~etnecky he *bnahd say,' howeve, athat even the fifteeunth amendment would erdate very little d gitreneeg as thie cohli en) vote woni4 le 46idl.di at d so do 'very little towards, breaking dowtn the 90,000 democrat isort :of she AfstrAti infirmual an) pleasnt eoss. ~cMulen of half an hetr the~ defrlgtion withdrewv.-.'N. Y. &reud. -, A arti ie ssued by e Kan tucky county cletk'A tignet k I 880. fras MEutedto the ellee of fbhe iMrk . by the .minitter who celebrat ed the isatrlige bb4~II twvO weeks -go atter lapse of more than twenty-niemyiars, inAedarcitel thW law, tIol re formed. Thu. sweet take rank as onWe -k egeeng~nsd se~6rA' it NU4 s ~ PtI~3 qake occurned at a The State Fair. The Stitte Agricultural and Mechani. al Fair, which wos opened to the >ublic on Wednesday morning, pro-nises o be by far the most interesting exhilbi imn ever held in South Carolina, by ers rain bringa visitora and aitiqlos fo, ex tibition. The hotels acid private placer if entertainment are being rapidly fitle.< ip, and the streets present quite i trowled and lively appearance. Colunel D. Wyatt. ,tiken, thes ener getic secretary of the State Agrienliurn and Meclamieial Sotiet y, at rivid ,asi 3aturday afernoon. and himkeuiva~n iiny aim a large number of letters from par tes who dngired to exhibit rirtiels an Mtock. These letters were not, nltogeth -r from residents of South Carolina, ht also froth parties in Georgia; North Cat -olina, Kentucky. Tennese, 1T rginir nd Maryland. Colonel A iken inforn, ne that the nutnaber of a(titles and of tock sent from other Sttted, will nearly, I not quite, equal the number sent fron South Carolina. Among thte exhibitor. is a :E-thodisi lergyman of South Carolina, who sende our blooded horses. Another, is nr ged lady about seventy-five years o; ge, a native of Sonth Carolina, beat. al iresent living in North Carolhna. Sit vrites reqneating that a 9110h. cosmiager inns worked with her own lateids mos e entered, saying that wher.S h-er-nanrg roops entered her native $:stss, pln lering and burning as they novel, s vat ergiged upon the quilt, and whe: arced to flee, reitaied it., and in bet light continued to work upon it, hoping ill the time that she might live to ex. tibit it at an Agricultural Fair s, but wn beloved State. The speaker who will .leliver the ad. Iress has not yet been anhonnce-l. but V:is generally believed that pr. Date Lee, of East. Tennessee, will consett to lo so Dr. Lee enjoys 'the enviabhl eputation of being moirn thoroughh rersed in agricultural affair., than iat ether man in the South, It is Aintec hat he was virtually the founder of tihr Patent Office at Washmingt.on. Foi nany years he was secretary of the Jnited States Agricultural Society, ani tad charge of the United States "Ex m>riment Farm" at Waslingon. Af erward ha was emplovte ,y thle State if New York to dii'ver -leeete..-..u igriculture in each conut.y of the State since then he has edited the Souther, 7eliivator, the Field and Fireside, ti tter, has boeen professor of agricniinri it the University of Georgia. I <t( ,onsents to deliver the address the viti ora to the Fair may confiderntly expec o he both interested and instrtucted. D. T. Corbin and a largo number o ther Radical omce-holders are here During the 'Fair week" Mr. Marl Read and Misa Lta Fo.d, late of th, Aietropolttan Theatrical Trotpe. w il ive a number of theatrical performan :s.--Cor. C harleston News. Avtuoctous Mt'ttnt.a of A Pano i. 'rtNT TExAN.--The Galveston News )f Oct. 81, says: We learn from a gentleman who ar rived last evening, that one of the old est citizens of Wharton count., Colons, Wharton, was brutallb murdered nits ifterirards dragged to a log heap ais lVzrned up, by two negro men. two o three days ago. We did not. learnt the partienlars, further than that the tnur Thr had bein consumnmated by onie 5) he negroes, when thet other canmo up ~hey consulted together, andh determninu< a dispose of die body by burnting it tup I'he negroes are unider arrest. At an enthuqiastic rehlgioiis mee'inj mong the negroes in Blloutnt county last werik, when the mourner's bend wvas crowded with pienilenuts groaniing ii .gony. one of diem, a sable d'jmiel' * lephantine pro portions, spran~g to lie et cryitg: "Glor, halleilnjsah I hord I dis nigger had de wingu of a 'J-in ug, she'd fly right to Heavett I" He. mnth uiastm ?as chmscked Pt a ltst jung tire by a mnatteur of fact Sister, who rais 41 her head and biught that. ney corr ret'am th'(Rmphts back trom tle-I iba ti he real, thusl: "Yotu .fool~nfigges ehat yotu mean ? If you hiad a an. mg, winigs don't. you knowv a .woodpeck )t'd: obble youtup 'torn you got hal a ne*-eileWfstg.. M onz Cunnaov..There is a tronj mr"esnre upon the Secretary of t rreasuryv from the WesAt aind Smith t, pt Itm t'o ree,mm?~n to d.>nr46 id ddditional supply dor,-4lnsy'-AM 4he setio, - Senahtdr Mtortssno. wit' rriveA kmn to esy, ill hfa.y b hhiell ibeween this and) ,e .meetine~ sfds p5si*rhigasit iJine,, ski sat' ftebtan h iSoutht i uhs mater fHe. will also ulectofatat 1,1'i. Agawe.frons wiailh to provsv t~Im *.'ent.9: for; more currefia, 'its hhemt torts of the ebunatu. sy Dae4s&m.' iTrUNDAT1oW tN .Y.,.0A 4q4 Wtota',,wv Pdsysmass gcde (10 Ilo lod te h hed In Sooah~z Obanges in Trade-More Buyers .f :mall Quantities, and all Through the Year. The following from the New Or leans Ntes, is almost e'qually applica ble to Ci~arloston andel South Caroli ne ; "While our merchanta are awaitii the arrival of planters fro: the cone. try, that trade has taken another di rection. The plantera formerly bought all the goods conuniJOd by tho labor er. The laborer now buys for him self. In former; tines, the pi-:nter purehasel hit plantation sujpplics by the .quant ity, now the laborer buys them daily throughout the vaar. Formerly the planters bought goods to the'amnoint of not excecling $-'; a head for his slaves. Now the freed men. buy at the rat, of $150 a head for tlhemselves. Three results follow this change of trade I. There is at least four times as much cotton money laid out in goods as formerly. 3. Tho'o'untry tuerehant bays his goods in thae Eas'tern market, because he considers it cheaper, tnd ac least as accessible as Our own, 3. A great deal of the cotton plant ed by the freedmen is paid for in goods, bailed and shipped in the name of the country merchant., the pro coeds being drawn for and sent North to pay for the goods. To counteract this new trade, our nerchants will aced ine resed facilidos of rail, tele ralh and express, so as to be able to fill. orders in any part of the adjaie tit country all the year round." A correspiudent of the New York Post, writing from Mobile on the ame subjeot, rays "The country store which supplies Northern, Eaistern and W'estern villa ges and towns has since become a Sot b'ern "institution," Freedom hms brorght this about. In the former times the planter who held fro-m fifty to a hundred asves bought, or likely hiscity faotor bought for himt, all the plantation supplies in bulk, in New Orleans, Mobile, Savannah, Charles ton or the nearest Southern city Now every negro laborer, as an indi vidual consumer, Is also a cuatnier, and a good share of his earnings goes into the till of the country store. Consequently these stores are multi plying in the South ; the negroes buy at very little at a time. but there are a great many of them, and they buy frequently. A letter to one of the Mobile papers reports that some of these stores have stocks worth over $100,000, and that the Saturday sales in moro than one of them will reach $6,500. "Etimating that at the lowest one fourth of the money yield of the cot ton crop will go into the hands of the froednc'for distribution, not less than $10,000,000 will be spent in the towns on the railroad lines in Ala bama. this season, and as Mobile has lost the trade of the planters, that city is now endeavoring to seoure the custom of the country stores, and dry goods, grocery and provision dealers are sending an army of drummers through the State." In his thanksgiving proclamation Gen. Grant makes the announcement that "civil and religious liberty are scoured to every inhabitant of the land, whose soih is trod by none but freemen." The Chicago TiYmes says it~ is just posible Orant (lid not nmean to state t hat civil and religious liber ty are pos.sessed and enjoyed by every inlhabitent of the land;t for, mnanife, t ly snob a statement would - have been a nutr uthi. Cavil liberty is not poe aessed and elj'yed by the inihbtants of, Virginia, Misslesippi or Tm ainoog whlomf the eivil law is subordi nated to the law of the bay onet. ft is, ossible to suppose thlat civil liberd 1y is secut ed''to them, for use and onjclypnent at somie fuitnmoi time, -bat the security is of tather an tncertain kind, as witnesses the scehenje now coteoctding in radical brawnto prevent ,Abo restoration of .ei) liberty to tLbe t.tq .of.Yirginia. 6~de Gr'ant is sgine that be. can. ovarrule ibal nefa rsone seheme by the phraseology of a tha'nkglying problanatlo? f O did he sign that thanktful ddoument with. out knowing or stofing to consider lhat the write~o t meati STua'LArgius V'OT &N ;t-AssicaiU srs..itTo IpbodRfeforum partly in Maassebusetts~ Jat 5,Q00 votes at thme late 99Q# 9R,:Theate gwas largejy mageoup of Knight. of St. Crisppi ad theit ietbathhr.. Trbd parion har'e &nImdusf - thtwpasty w*as in the et#s 1049t . ' three of $9A94W $9~yr pp 49N Notes; t ap Ol fan d au.s cermbined, ?mef ld Elbdflf ' W 't '. ~dms/'d~d A dams I. t*UMiay Tim'e'ehde labor vote will materlally ,Iguagwe R~l~~4q wo are )ook. "fide# el (u' 1Nigd Ie, -e The New York Election. Governor It'limuan last night, Nays the New York Arald of the nih in.t., in the cousse of his speecl in responso to a serenade by the Jacksonians, s .id : I notice the most radical papers in Albany and Now York are asking, ""What will they do with it r"-that is, with the victory. I am hardly di., posed to tell them that just yet. I pre for to give thorn ia little time to digest the returns, and when these are fully digested, we propose to give them some information as to what we will do n ith it. In my observations I have found that kuowledo1go suddenly acquired is never very profulAie. Bit I will tll them, in general Terms, one or two things we propose to do. We propose to make 'he Legislature of the State of Now York honest; and that is what they have not dono in scenu time. We propose to use the Legislature for the purrpoe of promoting the interest- of the ma, of the people, and not the interests of the few-.vhioh the radi cals have not done in a longtime. The Evening' Journal has stated that for many years there have been a few me in the republican lsnislatures who could be bought. We will show thorn that in a democratie Legislature there will be none of that kin]. We propose to give to the people of the State of Now York, all over, the right of self-grvornment. We propose to abolish such laws as infringe upon the rights of localities and secure to them the ri ht to govern themelves. We will not abolish meuh lws and give the people something worse, but. will give them better laws. We propose to imake the State of Now York and the government of itis branches thorough ly democratic. I an aware of the re. sponsibilities this vi.tory i mi.oses. I am aware of the resposibilitice it im poses on mei as Eecutive of this State. I reali.o their magnitude and I will not say I have no fear of them. Btt by the help of the people anid their representatives and all the good counsel I can get. I hope in my aphoro to so discharge its duties that the people will approve cmy actiou. I believe t'h .t h I'gislatunc, which is about to :. a u'!e 'Oltd legislate upon the afl 'r: f th?.i groat State, will act with such wi.Idonm an discretiou as to show to the people of State and coun try that the democracy of this State enn be as moderate in the hour of vie tory as they have been patient in the hour of defeat. We will be disereet and tolerant ; we will recognize hon. eat men amronig our adversaries, we will deal justly, act honorably and promrote the great interests of the people of the State of Now York, who have dcandel an.l c!:'l a RE.r1r.!uTAoN IN Cvn-A Dj)srE n.tTF. Raso,vEr -A letter from liava na (Gotuher 30) says, "The Cuban pattriots, having bided their time during all the months of continual rain and well-nigh impas sable reads, are about to strike the first telling. cruslhing, and overn helm ing blow of the war. "l'resident Cespedes hums issued a praelamiation decreeing the destrue tion of every stalk of sugar-omne on the, .iu.d. It is rapidly ripening now. The orders for burning it as faat r.g it 'sill ,ignitn, of trampling uploui it, of run unrg the crop, hrave been madiel. The1 nrnachinmnry of thre sugar-milia ufust either be disabkd beyond easy repair or entirely destroy. ed. The tens of thouanids of libe rated slaves are already at the iuitia tory. With the mnachdfa amnd toreh, you can imargine thousands of half' nude, dusky forms glidingy among the cane fields, arid with their >urning pine know. fiitting' around thme ungar- mills ary'd sIave hluta of the plnita'tions. Thiey wftl mak~e rrrorry of tire work of ruin, arnd (10 it tuost thoroughly. "Full three-fourths of the sugar orop and two-thirds or one-hali' of thme in~aceo wnp will be' dedtroyed. The (Cuban Guorignhen't promises i-einm. bursement to toyal' Cuban t the end of the war. "This terrikle weapon of warfare will stagger the grypinmg, illiberad %pni ard. fly it the revenue ;ot ula wIl bo so belittled as not to mo theo expepses of tlhe hord9 of spiere egl. leotors sont, her ,o grow ric4 Qf the (saanad; and fintg DQ repurrs and a other yer of 'fruitle~se Wr, igt.~ Its burdening ani4 constantly 'inosis~g expenses, for wi at mas,6 ..pain %lght? Let .th. torch fiamq. arld;thesp, surer 0ktlds oV Cub~ becomy, ~o rtperal pyre ofppf ruo In. Apicerg.r, ,4.ajls we.esorvos it.". S*s A:NoTJgnE :JM4A .Jr tJ9EBRV,?--C.l eqrdr.Nr I., November 6.--The. Lake Nationual iani at Wolfbpro'. ,was bro ken opsa lastenigt and .robbadhl (ts onrtenrt, Pahaig anOaey, ppg bonde, and privq4e 44i 49~I.4 .259lo Is largte The Jaol 4W6 isd 4jp May, 1865, with a cap ital o 500 .shiukAocoi$&qaht g ggfpJhaqg Tbe Iosses lldel Aet ohshihe 5aIters.V -v td'.9#~4#bs Daniel Webster's Homu. It was not as a mere relic-hunter that I crossed the threshold of Daniel Webster's home in Marcbield. As a Bostonian, long years ago, I hid boon spell-bound by those wondrous eyes and that irresistable eloquence which So seldom failed to inuguetizo. As to the mistaken words, which had he liv. ,d till now, I firmly believe ho would have grievingly wished unsaid, and which have p:lsied many hands that would have been rkised over that roof in blessing, I. have nothing to say now. As far as the east is from the west, so far do I differ with him on that point. lint all these though'< vanished, an1 the old Boston magnetism moved me, as I stood in that beantiful library, which, more than any other room of that lovely home, %As presence see n od to lilt and pervade. The beautiful sunlight, stroamucd in upon the favorite books he loved so well, upon the fa vorite chair and table, upon the thous and and one tributes of lovo and ad miration from across the sea, and from nearer home, ilich are carefully troasured. There only, after all thcso years, could I really "make him dead." My last sight of him was on a public occasion in lIostun, sitting in a baroucho, with that grand, massive head uncovered, in recognition of the applause about him. And I am not ashamed, at this distance, to say that when he kissed the forehead of my little girl-now a woman grown-as ho took from her hand the flowers l sent him, that I looked upon it as a sort of baptism. Now, all about his home in Marsh. field, .aro faodly pictures of little chi'lron he tenderly loved. And what beautiful children they are ! or wore, for many of their names are now re corded ou marble besido his own. And above the picture of him--as if such a head as his could over be faithfully reproduced 1-wore his hat and stick. I stood looking at them, and wondor ing if, when he used to sit there, he ever thought of that-if, when resting in that peaceful spot, with bloom and brightuesn about him, weary with the g'aseless strife, and with the din of life, shut out, for a time at least, he ever longed to lay them aside forevre --thus I In every house tho Individuality of it is that which intoracts us most. 'Je4d0 hou.chold godh l ill their littto story ; n!, t h, p e of t.s o, and refinement, and hur. und love of the heautful in form, color and tr range'ment. It almost seemed an im.. portinenco to move about from room to room and gaze at them ; and, I think, had it not been that one of the faumily recognized and welcomed u o as a remueuberod ibstonian, I shonld have felt very much like an inoxcusa ble intruder there. All honor to Daniel Webster for having had painted and hung up in a coespicuous place In his house the por trait of his black cook. It Is the most unique object in it; and the feel ing which prompted this public recog, nition of faithful serviceo waus most honorable to him. A1 lns ! had ho al ways boon us true to his bettor in stinots I The simple majesty of Daniel Web ttor's tomb is very impressive. It is fit that it should be there, at Marsh lield, within sound of the restiess sea --restless as his a-pirit. For inserip tion only the name and -date, and those memorable words of his on. im.~ mnortality. There are no u..ysterl a to him now.-kFunny Fern, in .Netw Yr1 EiAt.5 rutIAN STmTUS to~ GeanK1ar. (OnAer.- i'hashlinton, November A. The comnmittoe having in charg~ the' orcotion of the equestrian titatuo of (leneral O rant, have obtained a sum - eont amount of subscription to war rant thorn in proceeding withb. th. Iwor k, andi to-day direocted the sculptor, J. A. Bailey,. of Vhiladelphia, to pro.. I cod( with tho sitava ' bo eatue wil t be of 'brontse, eat fron eanron oap. turom'b) 0oneral Grat. [tta to a of onloesi size ; the p.edestal la to; ho a siunglo brook of grantto. It wil.1 hem er~oe tad uon th. terrace on the south front of tloTreasury bulding. Thle full begbh of the@statue' willibe abot twenty4be foot, exelusively of the pedestal, 'rhe total. cost, inoldding * destal, will be about $55iO,0 0s Mr. al the supervising arobhtiteppf i" outh frn fteTreat<3 .. lp trod and reandy for the statue by t1(o tils 6df ehuary neM. . X? curlous diseororj, keps seer1 tS fourteen~ years has just edintd 'lIht 'nt'Etidat. 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