The Fairfield herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, January 19, 1870, Image 1

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10_ ro r e o . 1, am l ap r, D !o e r" ,';.;ce t r19 Xy1 1n'7 .~ r ,_ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ Js ni inu ' I' f c WINNSBORO, iV rB S. C. ;~~ Y RNN,JAtJAc 19;7.[O3 fally adjusted, and so adjusted as tderfero as little as possible with tA daily comfort. It is the direct e'st of the people at large that 1 t? shall be able to buy cheaply atevor they have to buy. Our pro. nt 'tariff of duties on imports com ele the many to pay high prices for e benefit of a few. Although en act.d4arlin tb great need of the govornmena , it was, meiprtheless, trained not. :the one reat end of giving the federaITea y the larg est income, but with the ew of favor ing certain special priva interests. No government has a rig t to tax ex cept to obtain its neces revenue. To impos. taxes upon artio&. of dai. ly need for the mere purpos, byin. creasing their price, of favoring the capitalists engaged in their maanufac ture or production is an abuse of the taxing power. So long as laws are enacted upon this principle, pdworful combinations will be, forme, among those whose special interest are to be beneficially affeoted by them, to push through schemes which favor their private business, regardless of the in 6l.eta alike of the people and of the building up of moneyed monopolies, to tho aggregation of capital in few hands, and to the creation and strength. oning of an illegitimate intuence to which Cougress becomes more and more subject. In enforcing duties intended to be prohibitory, an extra ordinary and very costly body of offi cials is made necessary, the tompta tion to smuggling and fraud is in creased, and official delinquency is made common ; evils which would be avoided, while the revenue would not be decreased, by a return to the sim ple duty of government and to mode rate imposts. To nuake a just tariff of duties the principle of favoriti m should be abandoned altogether. If the principle be admitted, no limit can be placed on the abuses under It. GENERAL FINANCEs. I protest against the continuance of a financial policy which fails either to strengthen the public credit or to di minish the people's burdens; which baffles bnsinesi foresight; which, while p fl1ittjng the. sale of ,!Qvernntcnt gold, leaves the country sub ect to all the evils of an irredeemable paper cuirency ; which threatens to withdraw from the people what is now in use as money before providing a substitute ; which, undefined in char;cter and va riable in action, exposes the business of the country conataptly to the chan ces of disastrous panics; which seeks to exert a fluctmting control over the gold market, instead of making steady progress towards permanent soundness in financial condition; which can aug gest no method of meeting the legal tender promises, except to get them back from the people by a process of contraction both painful and danger. ens; which neglects to redeem the legal tender notes held everywhere among the people; yot, with the pro ceeds of excessive taxation, purchases at a pvemiimn bonds that the govern ment is under no obligation to pay for nearly fifteen years; whiola saves a few millions annually in interest on the bonds thus puronased, when, by raising the eredit of the country to its proper level, many milli.0s more c'ould be saved by the, negotiation of a now loan at a loweo; rate of inter est ;; which. assumes that the rate of inte,'est so our leads Eta be lowered at the sole will -of the Worvower, or that capitalist, who now hold bpnda paying oix per cent interest in gold #amn be p arauaded to exehange them voluntarilly for bond, bearing, onl~y four s'nd a half per cent ; whicl fal iogs to devias. a permanenit inanal' system to which the, brusiness of the country: eould, without .undue seeri flee,-conformj, -sbttta sesila of 6xpetituents that entaittosssei tpon individuals, without o~patibutingito the general good ; / whith asuggests no rernedy for the 1luctuating value qf the lega tendler notes,. esoeph past t~e govey twent shall redeem . these prom fees at a prIce fred byt itself, which ito be-less than their faegor its oth .ex words, repudiatq so much of its obligations, an51which,jy failing 40 seoure the connidesdoo of the espat'al fits of the world, ee the gdvern. meat steurlties bolow par iti gold ever$'whete, when, in view 'bf th4 vast resources of/the country. they should, jed afrmia ~. " We are enduring gfat evils from our irredeemable earrefloy." The Ainancial panie which' rred lie'New for at ine .. w asley.A vey 1tie ,uo e ha r whole btu'eneus oF'tkeo douttrS futo confusion. That .pani*. wew dnot hao .qna tpi ot r e deuso'I ten idM w ed~ ts current estimated eaq upon there... rquey uf shi t~~4 no noau of -tho heheelt a44 lee housat ing of 3e1 , e up e much self-denial, of0000 pa variable value, if we 4o ___ __ st (inora we19at P A .. ? oral latiu - and d4-t "r'' r Xt1 i9TES. WIii .1 Terms. Tis lr.nArn is pubtWeek ly in the wn of Winnsbero, a.90i veqeably i advance. 1"A% tranasient "We e paid in adhioe. Obituarf Notioes and TribnIti sqtuare. 1(ymn of the Ifobrew -AT slia wAvdan acot When Israel, of the Lord b Out from tlie id' of bb - Her fatheres God before ' S wful guide in s en , $y say, *long the ketun 'hT dloudy 'illar gli By. fiht At'l' ine loge the -o oe , - trun' ' , ob So keen q 7,do0'14 0n er ,n, ys, tih prios llo etwoon. torten0 6 ,aten Israel waniders lne . aners would not know Thy ,. 4 Thou halt loft thern to theip n. plesett still, though now unseo , en brightly shines the prosper us day, oughts of Thee a cloudy scree temper the deceitful ray. *oh, when stoops on Judah's ath shade and storm the froquen night, hou, loig suftering, s'ow to *rath, burning and a shining light i harps we loft. by Babel's strtams * tyrants' jest. the (lentil fs scorn; Anger round our altar boar/u, mute are timbrel, tru-np and born, Tjion hast, said, the blood of goats, flesh of rams, I will not prize 11rite heart, and humWe thonghtsg minaccer'pted sacritco. g age of Governor oMmnan. ve now, as far us it seems to ine ary, presented to you facts and tions connected with the condi our own State. especial duty 4 to promote. the good, by laboring to secure a rudent, honest and economical government. Recognizing the n0e0 of God, gntoful to Him for i c . gefed in ir i . e upon Him) looking to Him dom and guidaroo, trusting to lead us through all the dan which beset us, let us all, in our otive spheres, labor to secure to rate and to the country substan prosperity and real and enduring o. FEDERAL AFFARP. e people of this State are deep corned in a wise administration eral affairs. As representing I believe it to be my duty, be closing this message, to call at n to, and to protest against ver in the policy of the general ent strikes at their commer-1 agricultural interests, or is in y prejudicial to their welfare. t. against the revolutionary. of Congress with reference to eats of the constitution of the States, by swhiob, among their eforts at centralization, they I * absolute control of elections States. 'Powerees themselves id it by direct act, and unable are the volutary cotnsent of ourths of tihe States, they force sent of the Southern States as ition to rep resentation and thust de an~d nullify the will of oth-' -hose propel' relations to tihe I government hav'e never been upted,and whom they cannot con . I protest against, the action th Congresa and the [President etnited ta in subjecting the of Georgia answ 1etuihtaty , their, astte gqyernmowt bieing opetatlon, ansl the reatoration - or tetional reiOin with ised by the federal' authorities plote,-- ,R protest saanst the exolus a Qf;om .representation of liashes; any oe. be 4thei right, of I are unset 4tiWhhrmone.y of otzrgovera deatoyqd. TitS 'kAnF .aw. st *get the- favoritism of be'oppriidWely of :tbe peertd atJO $Ioted 4t i S af ppe' isy'ad Rahs Th eodl. de ahv oitd and immediate td hte,;acenyzulat d rore ,~~r 9% tored yit ~of ( iIv fostering, in its stead, a spirit of spec ulation, the mosey which we use to de ote the valu of what we have to buy and sell every day, and in which we fix the rate of wages, must be con stant in its own value and not liable to capricious fluctuations. It ls a misfortune that we over do parted from the use of the money of the constitution. Sooner or later we shall be obliged to go back to it. :We have before us the alternates of re turning to a sound condition by wise and prudent efforts of our own, or of awaiting the possible advent of a fi nancial panic of greater intensity than we have yet witnessed;and a re turn to specie payments, at the cost of great and protracted suffering, by the operation of self-enforcing laws which are above our control. I do not believe that any contrac tion of the legal tender ourrenoy is necessary in order to reach specie pay-i ments. The amount of such paper is limited, and it is not seriously depre ciated. We have not, as some other countries have done, issued paper noiey without limit and to an un manageable extent, making the do preciation of it so great as to render it almost worthless and its restoration to par hopeless. The whole sum of the legal tender notes scarcely ex ceeds the amount of coin received in two years at our (Justom Houses. The amount of legal tender notes afloat on the let of December last was, including fractional currency, $395, 000,000. The present annual gold income of the Treasury from import duties is $180,000,000. With the abundant resources of the federal Treasury it ought to be, and it is pos. sible, to leave this currency at its present quantity, and yet put it, at no very distant period, at par, and thus to give settled prosperity to the people and save them the distress which will attend contraction. After the peace of 1815 England returned to specie payments by con tracting the volume of her paper money. She had no other means of reaching the result. She was not, as we are a gold producing country ; and was obliged therefore to curtail her payer currency so as to force gold to flow in to her froni abroad. In Con sequence of this policy the trade and business of her people were crippled, general distress ensued and immense numbers of those who lived by wages were deprived of their proper em ploywent and condemned to idlenees and Want. The ten years from 81'5 to 1825 was aperiod of fearfulsuffer ing in Euglanu and of epeate4 and most disastrous finanoial convulsions. We should take warning from her ex perience. We have no ocoasiot to force gold from abroad. We produce it largely at home, and all we need to do is to retain enough of our own product to effect our purpose. NO REPUDIATroN. The government is as maiek bound to pay Its legal tender notes as its bonds. -. am for paying both in+ fPlly. and Aga'ist the -repadiation of any portion f either. The l al tender notes are the pro mises of the government to pay mon ey-that is, gold coin--on demand. They are in the pockets of the, labor. er and the farmer, in the tills of the tradesmen, in the vaults of the. banks as~a part of and as'- security fomi the deposit. of the peoplb,'which deposits constitute available eapital essential, to d1airy busfness. *The federal Treasury, in the hotfr of -ite - need, forced thAs irredleend 'able papeor on the pei)ey - It isla mit, ter of simple diity, no'wyin 'the' tiee ef as abundant 'resoures,'to-todeeam iti 7his paper, displaced the coin which 'ras before I6 user '% basi. nesse of the country hhas edipted Itself to the existing quantity of our. 996 out lawful money, and the people r'edy upon thislegal tdnder paped! -wIbre, withto paytll' 'ordinary. debts; -It-is the substance' too, In' whinb ,bahk notes are redeemned and ii.whblell.4 that vast aggregate of indebtednet. known ae- bank deposits -sspsyabl...~ 0n this paper,.- therefore;' the: whole structure of' eur internal business aow retas :and up~op its soundness isn des pendent the substa'ntlal pro perity. of of the people. It is ad faikh to' the people to lessen its quatity dr-bo'take from it'itu ea dte ultdtl a is paid. ~tolrqaiy~nl ' THE *0NtRlAoToN:THRgORy. When01 oooti cpied the ahhid'place In our alnny systefi which Is now beld by the legit temld69 Mah3uyge rious withdrawal, from whatever cause of the gold theil In use from' the' gene ral olroulMtIon-invariablij'prodeoedi Se nanoial troubles .The theory of those *h~o advoostb couttibtron , is that o doon as the leagal', tefJedi nuos: 'shall hai6 bee. reduced' to $25D.000900e sothe. ohthe hottikd4ns.thod g~s. erpm6*H1 befabte bo'mmk tiee ded~iqulitityde *dbeinale-a. ten' ot ads e the ndbes ta*' wkh gead.. Ef lt w~lbefiossblyter asthe 1.sset quhti at asby:akbmedeemAl meeert, the.'predent "umatty'da* be made redeemnabltr 'mad put at par; The federal government Tent seatore oIn to, the laos to#g oocupied idtheibubiness oPbo oo.n1 try, andfromwb hioh' tba reaeuay for - its or ovovie pOo Pgeit t shoul be ra to suD te on in the ge otrel eiroultioq before it' an. dertakes =td Withddraw I"6egl tnd'er I notes; othdrwise thei*Jt kdr~ial'of the paper eiourts to an 4solute de. I str~otjoq '4fqo. min a s o)~ lawful mone andJ practc , 0 imih4'lif the padp ' ..jskp1 in o forme ofI'teidf t bf6yi) .4fohP n*i(h l dradaiwouldeleassnt overywhereatmhj ho pre?0iaf .o.pay .!fe snt l~a k l debt d less asrotqI ' Jo p~d fifIj~ ind inder diastroh a iojia, b & 'Pdb kiddb "of ? value' will no$ i o -few i Thongoveramente :theotfore,o. n -oBfQ nagke polu take .t es g du .* - otroulsties of any, gpo qRtig whioh may be with rg n untl thA notes ,saM Chit- rbdad 1 & lent. to coin'.' Thir oft obt? f, 6d#4 bymaking them .rede6mable,'in /coin I oq demand. And i pnusthp borne iu t mind that this is all that' iseg ry to be dono to ,tore gone'al 'specie c p.ymente. :o! mm , oiat a t state of suspioion ; they rp ets Aheir I notes aid pay thetr otl.r ebts in lhwful money of the oonlitr if that y lawful money wore td'day . e uivalont i to coin, they would. flod; greinselves d and all their custumera pzang.spcoio j without any effort on their part and t without any distrots. it i the go" 11 ernment, and the g1otied nt '61 which has suspended- jyaent';the r legal tender notes alorie. w hbh-:h area ir. redeemable. WVhen the , r o ury is ready to redees legal tin. o der pronuises in gold, d Lti a the a public are likely' to rent them, o specie payments are) thereb 'redumed n all over the; cowatry, with further t effort on the part of any ;one and t wiiout inconvenience to tie people. y Then, and not ndw, will b the pro- u per time for taking in the per ;- for I such contraction can do no mischief. t It will in fact - he no traction. "p The Treasury, may then. Ca ol every r note so soorr as rt is paid for god and the notes beig at par th4 :41 a paid out of the Treasury ill ehtt.r into the general circulition i pltef tion of abe stook ofav 1TT use will be forced on the p 1e. The essential evil of o present a lawful money is to be foun not In its a quantity but in the fact hat it is i not redeemable ; it isqfor t t reason i depreciated. A ;lgss qua ty would b as certainly be~ d proeeate if that b less quantity '-continued' t be irre. a deemablo. 10ven as asisug note, is- ti sued by the g'vernneent, by- sy g other debtor, without rovi na ing4e u for its payment, wpul bpo 4 ( pe olated. The rcmedfabw i w'sd on,. suggestsis'to hike thenot tedeema ble, without pausing to iaousate * question of how much- mon tbe.peol . pie ought to have in ruse. ,94oi;g back. we see that wh p our "coy Ro good in 9#114 * probe gwe a felt thotiton mueh' of t *o 'be u'b.. The governmet :'passed Irough its p mint all the geldsthe peo .obose-to r have ooined,. Political 9onoigtt u and stptea-n may speoula ., . tey 'do, as to how mue money ' ee ry and -$kpei for-the bu aees of a ceitryy bin: tbisde-s : ton be. .. ment~ will tage pyso tha tbu po1Qey it issues itgoiod, the poo o al regw.1 late. the9'udheuny~ to be ~e by their tbeeds. . Lb is tbeapevIal duty of am4dersrit freasury, win of wbrkes al.edep I et on ition,~ gt 't at t rasI~ is a aspgup oA rg ed ia the country ~o as to ma ry nsl~ 'Elon frobi oil 6eenfolhr %,iro'' both etaig ksdi pettitt & o .obslousa tha, Mbsiuppl. 11$ go! 'do hri'anay timo do0silto 'fO promp yot that Tteaiuryn .ntw r olfoalA? tion in ey begg i pao gg gqw ed. $%Y. : . to Mikblt e'o4 lis oii ?ft<r u tabSPh goo e god. g o tabl ie~ its osoi o5.'t),wa oSioud ,)gfy peg4hiA4($ $ l1Gsb . e~sa~ delusio A sp. th 0f4 thIn o tn dite orally ap 1h ideo the rate of interest on our loanti by only one per cent we shotild there. by effect at once . esving of over .20,. QO,O a year for the wble tiue tbe iebt my run. "Moreover, this pay, vent of tho bonds before maturity can fe made only out of surplus revenue hat is to soy,.by keeping pp taxation A a poipt far beyond the aoeual ueods >f the gover:Ament. , e must not forget tht finanoil awe'o a~self-created out of the 'oir, fumstances -existing at the perlo'd, Ihey eannot bb constrained by' legisp aai9n. -WO. shall be mpost .likely to void trouble by-seoking the natural olution of our present dificulty' hi nmatiil so!l6tion is, ab it seenm 6 ine, that - the power which issued he irrededmablo, paper, under which o. g suffer,, alould get ready to re ,po NMaNT GOLD BA .s. Bpgsmedio sales of gold from the Treasury impart no additional worth to he legal tender notes. Confdepee in ,bility to meet obligations Is tIze nly source of soild credit as well for he Treasury as for others d btors, dereasing public confidence in the towing ability of the Treasury to meet the notes in coin would operate ot merely to affect, from day to ay, as those sales do, the speculative rice of gold, but towards the recogni. ion of a greater intrintic value in the gal tender note, and so to make the ,opsible range of gold speculation nar ower. It is obvious that sales of go)d out f the' Tt asury ddaunot have the afoct f bringing legal tender notes actually od pornianently nearer to the value f gold'; for it would be absurd to aintain that the Treasury, any more ban any other debtor, can, by par ing with coin, make its promises to ay coin more valubale. The Treas ry saleh of gold have simply the of cot' which is always produced by browing upon any market a supply of u article for which there is, in that marker, limited demand. All debts, rith 'rare exceptions, being now pay. ble in legal th4dor notes, the' need if gdld for uke lii'bns3eeas is not gen. sal, and therefore the denmand'forvt s confined o a few ,ad:is avery ,Ian. Qd ie., 4sf: A teiles so tasaned-w ery temporar and saill over supply isy depeoss it much below its true nd correct value as compared with gal tender notes, which depeuds L viously on the prospect of the notes Ding pa d in coin. Derangement of psideas is as certain to follow thq rtifdial depression of gold below this 'no value us its elevation above it. uoh a. depression cannot be relied ppp lasting ; nor does it a ford any parg9.ce. pga pat, great subsequent uotiationi. . Thede Treasury sales, bile they do 6t "Orone permauient. Ithestaine of'the 'governtheut paper, onfoun d the mpat , prudent caloula Sons businesils spon. . must not 'e und'erstood as favor. f any nipens'ion' of the legal tender urreney . The government cannot at resent pay the n'tes of this kind al, oudy ised, It would, be, wterly pyq.bp. to put out any more of FKDEFtAL t'AXATIO!9. The federal Treasury is not warran nd ity taxing the paobieto sep: up its usaO enr t.uerp of revenues. fhegh ptrg danbo kqpt in asprose erous conldition 'every, year of Its r *th wil make the aynnt of the u'noipel of' tie 1&'6bta corne easier. A moderate surphus beyond 'the intersa6 IQ4a * ad &hesexpensecs of gov. gm~ent is all 4t ~tI desirable or ~,e~~toen4tit t9 '6(devote itself 110tie; edatimpotative y afnki gitlpesI menoey' good;. .'SKaliPTOto 5'4PEi MtONK!.o nnet .eps~p see that the i1 lon n 'i-th thpeo endastnot..mil[.oommenose. ,hI will reVyJ E 1athe olh sundo uabial ftafaableepogoy prepas ereere63 epf da oteeiu thf epagieke sm dicate yvboow. ti Srb e ed.p;4ai* Islebawstib. sImibplyr ebif4dsw. nraesta questla. which' praei It needs no groat financial wisdom tc see that the way to high credit is foir the Treasury to prepare itself to pay all its debts, as well its legal tender promises as its bonds.; that high credit is the condition precedent to a lower rate of interest on government loamn, that lowering the rate of inter oet on the loans will afford great relief to the people; and that no relief either to Treasury or people can be expocted from what tends to derange. ment or stagnation in the business of the country. EARLY RETURN To SPF~ciE PAYMENTS DitBIRADLiu. The earliest practicable return to the hard money of the constitution is, therefore, desirable, as being, in every way, for the interest of the people ; but this return should be made wisely, by a process which will not cost need. less suffering under a declared and fixed policy, intelligible to the whole country, and which will insure that the change, when it comes, shall be rmanent. A rash attempt would, yIts failuro,mako our condition worse than it is now. But no; time should be lost in adopting measures which shall lead by prudent steps to the at tainment, at no very distant day, of a result to which sooner or later we .must come. If the federal government does not try to accomplish an earlier return to thq use of gold and silver, without spreading ruin among the peopio, it fails in its duty ; if with its abundant revenue it cannot devise a method of doing so, it fails in wisdom. JOHN T. HOFFMAN. PILr.SDURY AND HIs COUNCIL Door ED.-Cl.UMHIA, January 7.-In the House to-day, DeLarge gave notice of a bill-which, by unanimous consent, received its first reading-to extend the limits of the City of Charleston, and to provide for the election of mu nicipal officers therein. The bill pro poses to extend the city limits to- the Six-mile house and to Goose (rook Parish lino,. which, it is calculated, will bring in a large majority of Re pu4ienua voters. It also provides for * ita huuteaid w'hen the general else. Qt rours.nat eber. It is al. era of the bill is to get rid of the present Mayor and Aldermen. They urge that by a change they may get bettor officials, but cannot get worse. The bill will pass with hardly a dis senting vote, and. will receive its sec ond reading to-morrow. ThQ members of the Legislature express uniqualiied diivp proval of the new license bill passe,' by Council. They say that it is unrepublican in spirit, placing a monopoly in the hands of the rich beoaue the poor cannot'afford to take out liconses. 1t is further objiected, that lawyers liv ing'out of-Charleston can go there to practicea nd pay no tax, while those who live there have to pay it. But tho oiiiof cause of disgust with Qoun cil is because it refused to allow col ored peope equal rights at places of amusement and elsewhere.- Corres pondens 'harleston News. IIANDLiNGNFV.W Yoh.-Tho Wash ington eqrrespondent of the New York 7hiseb sas :. . Ad vices received here from Ohio are to the effect that the chances dte in favor of the ratifica tion of the ffeenth amendment.. The 8Senate wilt certainly agree to it, and it is now believed that the House will do the satno. The action of the Now YorkJefaare oreates Little som. mont heaMaai it war generally antioi.. pated.' It isLconhidered wholly void, ,as It~a isp4 bat the Logiolaturo has no .iurisd iotlon'oter the iubjoot, ox. copt in obedidoe to the Constitution and the lawtof the United 8tates. To prevant oouifusion fronm such pro. eeedings jn t aefqturo, Congress will, on re-atsemib1 , pass 8enator Wil lism' b l1,tegpr sly .declaring suet aotidn of the aitof State Legisla. dttpsasalltand"'old. That wrill settle the 8ase wibhNew Yorkevery deoided. * uPi: basa Anve Aas Conwo. W.a had Ahejleasu e yesterday ea .- .i~ f. 'ufrgW ann, th< 4e~n of the. N~wberry Immutgration nose . lie is just from New York laVIi sr~ived in'tb. Mianhauften, so bo'mpb tod by fty-three Gesrmau im so w'astrt; ilihttfihess' have gon4 49, ghemii49, e o amnden,.an th~eanert ver and Lau MdM.', P. hasr brought on 2n *withi-tle-last sinuareeks,. and expecta Jgo1three to fostr ,lusdred more is twp . ml9tglI ,kgd wo asn 1 m~an come a welopmie., W 1% WdU~ 4 see tdissands of thon's Thb Ib9tko' foe th~,;ntd thard 1 work for thaem.--Chieleston C)ourier. dat.,insefe 4 from. 1861 t a ANdw n *E u s'i known 11beseo 4 A YANK- u T.tc.--Ono of our pe culiar, shb-sided gaunt Yaukee late ly emigrated and settled down in the West, He was the picture of a menu man, but as he put. him 'elf to work ins good earnest to got h's house to rights, the neighbors lent 1.}m a hand. Af ter he had got everything fixed to his notion, a thought struck him that ho had no chickens, and he was piowerfully fond of sucking raw eggs. Ile wai too honest to steal them, and too mean to buy them. At last a thougit struek him -lie could borrow. Ho wet t to a neighbor and thus accosted him: "WaT1l, I reckon you hasn't no old hen nor nothin' you'd lend me a few weeks, have you neighbor?" "I will loud you one with plens ure," replied the gentleman, picking out the very finest in the- coop. The Yankee took the hen home, and then went to another neighbor and borrowed a dozen eggs. He then set the hen, and in due course of time she hatched out a dozen chickens. The Yankee was again puzzled. lie could return the hen but how was he to return the eggs ? Another idea - and who over saw a live Yankno without one ?--lho would keep the hon until she had laid a dozen eggs. This lie did, and then returned the hen and eggs to their respective own ers, remarking, as he did so, "Wal, I reokon I've got as line a dozen of ehiokens as you ever laid your eyes on, and they didn't cost we a cent, nuther." 'HEr Cor.onr.n ExoDi's FROM Vin iNIA.-E-U mgnmauder Matthew F. Maury ha- published'a letter in the Virginia papers on t1. departure of colored persons from the State. II offers the following caloulations : "The public pross states that there are now in Virginia two agents, onu calling for 5,000 the other for 15,000. able-bodied negroes to go South. Lot us supposo that there twenty thou sand able-bodied men go-and proba bly a larger number in the oggregate than that will go, for there are undoubtedly numerous agen'.s at work sending them off. "The life-long services of an able war, valued at from $1000 to $1400 let us call it $1000. With the exodus of these twenty thousand laborers the State loses $20,000,o00 of its indus trial capital. Before the war such an exodus would have left $20,u00,000 in its stead. Now the loss is total and tompleto. Nothing is left but the old, the feeble' and infirm, who woro dependent upon these nble.bodied men, and whom those who remain have to care for. "Yes, they left, something more be hind ; they left the lands they have been cultivating to be turned out in to old fields;: to become waste, and grow with pine, briers and scrub, and thus, by increasing the area of uncul tivated lands, dimuinish the market able value of real estate in Virginia." YANKEnI IN A CliAnii.ESTON 00UT.. One of our "dead head" subscribers, who happened to be over ins Charles ton the other day, tells the following . A fellow represeuting a Boston bucket factory came ashore from a stenamer, carrying about a dozen di minntivo specimens of his merchiandize,. und taking up the flest street he camne ,to, offered them right anid left. He had not progressed far before a negro policeman arrestedl mnd carried hIm befr aoal-black justice, charged with poddling without license. 'T'he sable magistrate not only fmneg himi the cool sum of $100, but rovndly lectured the man of buckets upon his. oonduct. lHe p aid the flhe and loft the '-cour t" and city in thorough dis .O the same day another drummer' from New York was arraigned before his sable honor for the same offense.. The rumnmer insisted that ho had! soad nothing, orzly. being offering, but had ado no soles. Whereupon tho Iblack dignmitary told him to prov6 that,. but while hunting up his proof ho must leave $50 by way of bail. The. daummer handed over the money,. went out and brought in three or four merchantm, who stated that ho had. :sold nothi,.g to the~m. After the wit nesses got hrough, the fellowing deci sion was delivered : "Dia Courb hab heard do prefixes: and do conelniion to. die once, and do oldes dast do Ya~skee hab left the oauae ini doubt;.and It bein de law to gib do State do benefit of de doubt, die court will keep do fifty dollars.'" Those are facts.--Maon Tlegraup. I rily next week Congress wtll bo onclled oni to not directly on the ques tion of the annemittion of territory ini the went .ad i1.*. The Presidenmt' niossegs on the .ulJeet will rofer ii t Sonly td the Semana piirohasu, and e' nlexitid toi the Unilted' State, m's a r tdrritorg,.' of the whole Domiicmsn. Repuho.Thui message is the ro nit if99 witi th Prean4lately. ';he yomaeg. )adie4 1 h Rotllester w hieh they refer to tnr Ia'arkattf d