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THE FAIRFiELD HERALD rubllshed Evary Wednesday at WI .NSBO R O, S. C., BT Desportes, Williams & Co. TERAIMS-N AL) VASNCE. Oqe Copy one year, - $ 8 00 Fivo " " . - 12 60 Ten " " - - 2600 The Oolumbia Robbery. On Sunday morning, 17th instant, about 9 o'clock, as 11r. A. C. Davis, one of the officers coimected with the Int' inal Revenue )partmcnt, was entering the passage-way leading to his .office-which is in the second story of the building in the Court House square, occupied by Messrs. Scott, Williams &. Co., as a banking house -he observed a ball of twine on the floor, behind the door ; on stopping to pick it up, ho found that the cord pass ed through a hole in the side wall of the bank. His suspicions becoming excited, he immediately went out and related the circumstance to two no quaintancos, when the trio returned and made an examination of the premises. The rear door of the bank was found ajar, and the parties enter od ; the doors leading into the front office were all open ; continuing explo rations, they next discovered a sledge hammer, stool rods, wedges, and sev eral mysterious-looking implements, and the door of the vault open to its fullest extent. A voice in an adjoin ing closet attractedl their attention, when, upon opening the door, a whito man came forward. This individal, Dayton L. Onige by name, was form erly a United States soldier; after. wards connected with an assessor'soflice in one of the upper countie+, but lost his position through tulfoasance in oflice, as we are informed ; he then came to Columbia and was employed for a time by Probate Judge Wigg; is now idle. Gaige's account of his incareoration in the nuilding is to the effect that, on Saturday night., about 11 o'clock, while on his way home, he was overtaken by the rain ; that he step pod into the passage way, in rear of the bank, and partially closed the door; shortly afterwards, a man, hum he supposed was the bank watchman, oaut ht him by the arms end dragged him into the adjacent room--aige, as he says, protesting that ho was not a robber, etc.; an other individal then appeared and presented a revolver at his head, threatening to kill him if he made any alarm. Gaigo s-iys lie was then tored into a closet, near the vault, the parties insisting that ho should lie down and keep perfectly quiet, or they would promptly dispose of him. Ho says that the two individuals then returned to the front rooi, and con tInued hammering and boring for scveral hours ; and that about 5 o'clock, as ho supposes they left the building. lie was, as he asserts, afraid of making any outcry, as the robbers might bo oi the premii.es still and would carry out the their threats. This rtatemvnt he made, with but slight variat ion, whben questioned by different part ion. G aige had an ex am ination ho fore the M'la':r, ott N Mon. thay Ilorling, but tw iatitlled by tho at tendinrg Magis rato against maik ing any statemnt that would crimi nato himself; lie merely repeated what we have given nIhAe. GCige declares that there wore only two men within the building---one of t.hem be iog rather slender, aind the other nut, with curly head. This is one of the best planned and most successfully ea ri ied-out robber. ice which has ever occurrod in this portion of the country. The bar glars went to work systemnatically oven arranging a t.winetelegraphic alarm--and covered their tr,acke oar fully, that not hing' ta agiblo relative to t heir miovcment.s has transpired, andl 'eyond merre suspicion, there is nothing to go upon. A quantity of burglad's imuplemnits were left in the room-sufficient to start several individuals in the business ,pmmies, lovers, braces, boring appa.. ratus, etc. A sledge hammer belong ing to a respectable miechianical estab lishmeont, was among the lot; whiieb, of course, was a mautter- of surprise to the legitimato owners. Amonig the atolen property, waes a largo amount of bills of the old Bank of the State and Exchange Ihnk of Columbia. It is believed that no bonds or stocks of which there was a largo quantity in the vault--wero carried off, The entire loss, it is believed, will not ex ceed $50,000-the bank Buffering to the extent of about $20,000, it is thought; special depositors being the principal losers, Several thousand dollars in gold were taken ; silver was throwu aside, from its great weight. the thieves effected an entrance through the front door, and their exit, - apparently, from the rear. T1he prin cipal door of the vault was forced open by breaking the outer edge of the two upper sookets in the door fan -iDg ; and, as it is sup posed, through the means of a leaver, springing tha two lower bolts out of their sockets hbolos had been drilled above them for somes unknown purpose. 'The pad 4loek on the - second door was then ernashed; a trips of india rubber were tused to deadIen the sounds..- The hingew of one of .the doors of the safe, -within the vault,- were broken off; the 46nereSAing .f0oed, and the bolts pur,had bek,:wken the door was lifrod entively pff, and. the valuable contents - f the safe taken possessioQ of..N'. withstanding the~ totpsy-turwy state of thing, the bank.eontinued its reguse bd$inerba Mndag.r-to till- ou,wqrd AWtsthW thott .%MEWa had am AN IMPonTANT QUEaTTN.-'8aily,' said a green youth, In a venerable white hat and gray pans, through which his legs projeoted half a foot, perhaps nore-'Sally, before we go into this museum to see the serenaders, i want to ask you somethin'." 'Well" Ichabod what is it 'Well, you see this ere' bubioess is gwiuo to cost a hull quarter apicco, and I can't afford to spend so much for nuthin'. Now, ef you'll hey me, darn'd of 1 don't pay the hull on't myself, I will.' Tninis CorpntsoNs.-Tbe New York Tribnne takes occasion to draw a camparison between the comforts enjoyed by "Yerger, the Confederate bandit," and the "horrors endured by the Union heroes at Andersonville." The '&ibunehas only to add a line or two about McFarland to mako ito antithesis quito touching and com plete. "Confederate bandit" is a pal pable hit. WINNSBORO, Wednesday Morning, April 27, 1870. Reflections on the acorgia Bill. The country has come to a sad pass, indeed, when we are obliged to bail the Go )rgia bill that has just passed the U. S. Senate as a Conservative triumph. It reconverts the State into a military district, and incidentally puts it Into the power of a lying gov ernor, by collusioa with the President, to carry any election, in any Southern State, by the employment of the sol diery of the Union. Are the eyes of Southern men opened yet ? Do they ki ow that they are conquered, or do they not? Do they still propose to instruct their conquerora in the prin ciples of political philosophy, letur ing them most sagely upon the Con stitution and States Rights, or do they propose to take a now departure, and leaving government to those who gov ern, attend exclusively to their own business, in the education of their children, in the creation of wealth, and in the increase of our white popu lation ? We hold that the South, in order more fuily to command the powers of nature for her recuperation, should adopt the policy of passive support of the Federal Administration at the time existing, for many years to come, in order to cause the Federal powcr to be at least neutral in its policy to wards us. To run or elect opposition candidates, in Federal polities, is ut terly vain, for under one pretext or another, their election is sure to be disallowed. \Ve should send men to . ij,. wh. have no ambition to le.d z.. '1 ui..u:..tion to Grant, but who will follow Grant, when by a pas sive support, they gradually convince him that popularity .nd reelection lie in the hands of the Conservativest, and persuade him to lead off in the organiizaition of a National Constitu tional Panrt y, wh ich is certain to spring up and gaini poss~ession of the Govern mient, and the germs of which come to light with every debate on every im p)ortaLnt measure in Congress. But will Southern men do this?i No. There are thousands of incipient Calhounis, a vast breed unfledged po litica.l Solomnons, who think the North in a very bad way for want of politi cal instruction upon the evils of con solidation, the history of the eonfed eration, and the meaning of the decla tion of independence ; whose absurd conceit, in supposing that triumphant power will not resent such unparallel vd im pertinenuc, exceeds ovetything upon the records of history, and whose unmeaning glorilloation of the emas culated and cowvardly Northern De moorney simply incenses Congress agrainst us. There are, too, many of the Confederate soldiers, who will never vote for Grant, nor a Grant man, under any circumstances. And lastly, there are many sober, honest men, who believe, with ourselves, that Grant is no statesman, but will go with the majority, so soon as he finds where the majority are, but they will not, like ourselves, support him, as the best we can do, in spite of this glar ing fact, because he is the choice of those who have a choice, for we of the South have none. There is little of the wire-pulling politician about these reflections. Bluteas the Phanix has announced, with admirable candor, that it admits the black man's right to suffrage and oftice, to get rid of the discussion, and be free to attend to more important business with greater personal satis faction, and not to get negro. votes, for the negroes have sold themselves Into slavery to the Radicale so, we are willing to suppbrt the miilloiouj government at Washington, Irat, be. cause contention with prejudice and jealoney, ia bopolas opposition, oan 'only distract us from really Itnportant buaipess ; an~d Necondly,b ca tn tact Git.h a: few eBoutlgrn god gy D, -if suo ehbuld by chanoeeke,lWWItA Congres would do Lnah to Imta4v thetogeandip t 'of Federal legila turp in.. Wa 1ogton just at present, and we see no"otance of any w Drant nmen, men who honestly and sincerely will not oppose "the na tion's choice", ever, getting there from the South. Our eyes have been )pen a long time. [et both honest men and rascals take counsel from the truths wo do not .hesitate tQ pro olaim. Thoso (the many) who want plunder, and those.(the few) who want influence for good, are now shown the way to get it. A Bad Law. We are singulurly contituted in not immediately acot pting the mordly plausible view of almost any subject, and have found ourselves in a n inori ly of one in approving of what our oontemporarios have unanimously dubbed "the infamtou, coin-bill," in protesting against the State prees, in the matter of University and Stat aducation generally, not being ais led, and not lettintg well enough alone ; and now, in pronouncing the law exempting manufacturers from taxation for five years the very worst law of the last'session, and a very Pandora's box of infiuite corruption and evil, we believe that we stand alone. If manufactures cannot grow up spontaneously and profitably in South Carolina, artif-iil props and %ids will not assist in their healthy levolopment, any more than stimu ants and too high a diet will contrib. te to the vigorous growth of child iood. They will simply create a vi., >ious lobby at Columbia, and produce ArIbery and corruption, ol.ass legisla ion and unequal taxation, degrading 'till more the businesi of politics, that irat of all arts and scitence4, the de ;radation of which is even now so great, that a man almost loses his tharaoter as a gontlenman who joins he party that has a o'ear majority of ,hirty thousand votes, and which de graded condition of polities is a heart bleeding sorrow to ourselves, and to avery true lover of his State, of her young men, and of his own children. Looking, too, to our future in Fede. ral politics, this law is fraught with incalculable evil. We all remember iow the horse allowed itself to be mounted by the man, in order, by his assistance, to prevuil in a oontest with the stag. - Just so, this law is the first taking of the bit into the mouth by South Carolina. delivering her over, aspeoiallv if such a Legislature as the last continue to be elected, as they probably will, into the control of mo nopolists and stock-jobbers, who will depress the industry and retard the material development and prosperity of the State. And thus, for a short lived advantage, will have been fiung away the permanent good of the comn mnunity and the futur.e freedomt of the State. Thae Oatha Democrats Deasse to swallow. We once expr esied1 a fe:3r to a gen-. tleman in conversation, that the dis tinguished divines, Dr. Hunti'gion (now Bishop of New York,) .and Dr. Osgood, in leaving the Unitarians and oming into thme Protestant .Episcopal Church, might bring some of their so elian education and creed along with t,hem. He replied very sensibly: "Well, if they do, they will mske few converts, anad do very little harm, so long as they read Cur Litany every Sunday morning. Heresy is com pletoly fized. in our Church on that and several ether points, and there is profound wisdom Is the arrange ment.'' We were forcibly impressed by the remark, and saw what the lib eral-minded Chalmers meant, when he pronounced the Protestant Episcopal Church "Tii EaYwIR K OF PnOT Es TA N4TISM." Now just as we Protestant Episco.. palians have "completely fixed" the Soelian heresy in our Litiny, so it strikes us the Radicals have "fixed" the Democrats of the old school (for as to the now school, they havn't found themselves yet, and it cannot be expected of the Winnbboro Nie, therefore, to find or define them) in the Constitution of the State. Grant ted that a Democrat of the old school Is gentleman enough net to commit perjury, and the heat way the radicals can take to completely convert him, Is to eleet him to the nort Leegisla tore. The oath of office will kill his Democracy stone dead. When- he swallows it, his States Righfa ginotm plea take rsenie, e'd Calhmoun Deamoeruat expires tion.wo lR4wear, "that, I recognise xthereprtmaoy of the Qonstitutioti 'esi 4Ig*g'oi Of t Svery eojeer of ihe Stt,. V0 WVhat do resato - a Mer. t) ho ie agpinst tepe ; to presery$ this their native lepd for heir .ohil dren and their ohildrou'iohildren ; to take courage afresh, and struggle out of the present into the future ? It will, then, perhaps, surprise many, who feel none of this burden that presses upon even us, a more County paper, to see us, turn deliberately and hopelessly from the sphere of. politi cal, to the wore solemn field of reli. gious seficotion. For us, of the ,pres ent generation, connection with poli ties may be a duty, though we some times doubt even that, but it cannot be a pleasure. Pride in that govern went, which lis crushed out our ideas of States Rights and self-government, and slaughtered and butchered our nearest of kin, in an unjust and un called-for war, it next to impossible. At most, we can only give it a passive support, and learn gradually to love it, when it deserves our reg3-rd. But from all the vexation of polities, we can turn with confidence, to the com forts and hopes of religion. Sncme sincere Northern nen, whom we could cordially take by the hand, have come among us ; but destined to be ruled, with the assistance of the Federal bayonet, by others who are the merest off-scouring of the earth, and for whom a true Southerner cannot but feel en instinctive and irrepressible loathing, our best hope as a people is to put our trust in God, and patiently abide our time, educating our children in those principles of religion and virtue, of devotion to duty and honor and sin cere conviction, which made us a great and noble people before and throughout the war, upon which rests our faith and our consolation for the present, and in an unfaltering adbe rence to which consists the brightest hope of our future. Count Us In. The Charleston News, in a some what impatient comment upon the dignifi^d and manly announcement of its position by the Phanix, says: "The Citizens' Party is not actively opposed to the administration of Grant." We rejoice over this an nounce ment. If the June convention will adopt as its Federal policy the following resolution, (since Federal policy it must have) "Resolved that the Citizens' Reform Party is not or ganized u opposition to General Grant's taIinistrat;ion, but in opposi tion to cxtravaganoe and corruption in State taxation and expenditure," we, as a Grant journal, promise it our most cordial support. Sad Rhyme but True Poetry. The facts to whioh the Winnsboro NEWs feels constrained, off and on, to call attention, may not be the pleas. antest in the world, but they are founded in the nature of things, and convey their lesson of wisdom. They remind us of the reply of an unmusic al and practical character, who ac ee.pted a wager that he could not per petrate a rhyme in five minutes. At the end of the time, he gravely pro pounded the following, and claimed the bet: "As we 'lip and slide along. A faithful friend is hard to find." "Whby,'' yepled his friend, "there Is* no rhyme In that." "That may heY answered the unmuuical man, not at all disconcerted, "that may be, but there is a vast deal of truth in it." Those who expect rhyme of us, may have to go elsewhere, but those who fancy the truth just as it is, may find a portion of it in the columns of the WVinnsboro 'NEw3. T'ake NVotice. W-.: call particular attention to the following letter of the Washington correspondent of the Charleston Cozs rier. We for ten months, have favor. ed Grant Congressmen next fail. See the reason why, gradually coming into view, as facts develope themselves : The speech of General Marlindale, late Attorney-General of the State of New York, a man of very decided ability at the grand reunion of the Army of the Potomac in Philadel phia, excites very considerable com ment and no little commendation. -Among ether things, General Mar tindale, who was the appointed orator of the occasion, said in substance that the recent clvil war was inevitable; that public sentiment in the free States had outgrowa the Constitution of the United States; that the Con stitution had recognised that the blacks were not entitled to the rights of the white race, arid had conse trot to- beblanavd -fer making a strug gle to defend Southern ights- whiolh were iodanger. Ao.: Tite conolusion drawsthis line of reasoni the past, au4 that adtial peaoo,hr a;da nlderstan~dng shod. vatite groi(d, ind hi4p ech on the S sa Bill toik the 4adioals by eur se. Ne ppoke, and perhaps not without book, of : the President's views, and for the purpose of contra. dieting the assertions of the-itadioals, that the President was opposed to the Binghama Amendment to the Geor. gia Bill. The Presidunt',a influence has no doubt been invOqkd for the Radical Bill, but without success, as it now appears. In regard to the continued debate Dn the Georgia Bill, it now seems that it is relied upon as a mean for ex aiting the flagging interest of the peo ple in the Radical scheme of reoon wtruction. The people are sick and tired of the whole matter, and Senator Wilson yesterday- declared that the people of tho country were universal ly orying out aguinst Congress, as a u+eless and impracticable body. The President had actually prepared a message or proclamation of univer sal amnesty to be issued upon the promulgation of the F i f t e a t b Amendment, and he withholds it, as I am well assured, only for the final action of Congress on the Georgia Bill. The s'ory that his purpose has been shaken by the fabricated tales of 8outhern "outrages," is without pro bability, and has no foundation in fact. I learn that several of the Southern Republican Senators, including Mr. Sawyer, will support the cuntempla. ted measure for a general removal of all political disabilities, and, further, that they will unite with Senator Bohurz, of Missouri, in favor of. the entire abolition of all test oaths. The oonservative cause is gaining every day in Congress, and advancing still more rapidly among the people. Olues to the Pank Bobbers-An Arrest, There was considerable excitement in our city yesterday over the discove. ry of trails of the supposed bank rob. bers. The afternoon previous, Magis trate Thompson had been watching a suspicious person, and between 9 and 10 o'clock that evening Magistrate T. accosted him on a street at the out. skirts of the city ; but the man was on the alert, and, as soon as approached, took in his situation in a second, drow a pistol, and threatened the officer with death if he molested him. The oficer withdrew to secure reinforce. uieia"s, and, in company with several oitizins, re-visited the scene of opera. tiona this morting, but the bird had flown. The women living in the house near by gave unreliable and conflicting statements in reference to the supposed whereabouts of the ob ject of the search. In other sections of the city active search was going on, and squads of officials and private citizens were seen hurrying to some suspected locality, tracing the slightest trail tat could le heard of, all seeming satisfied that the burglars had not left the city lim its. Several articles have ben found which are matched by things left at the bank, and which have given the officers of the law some idea as to who are the guilty parties. Sheriff Frazee had a suspicious character under surveillance for the past two or three days, and his suspi. cious culminated in an arrest yester day afternoon, about 5 o'clock, one McoCartney being the victim. It ap pears that McCartney had been living quite secluded since Sunday last, which is contrary to his habit, and persons in the neighborhood drew Mr. F.'s attention to the fact. Mr. F. visited Gaige in his cell at 12 o'clock Tuesday night, and got a deacription of the man or men he saw in the bank, which description McCartney answer ed to. Gaige was then taken to the house where MeC. lived, and he iden titled him as one of the parties who robbed the bank. The Sheriff there upon arre-ted McCartney. The pris. oner will have an examination this morn ing, at 10 o'clock, before Magis trate Solomon. McCartney was formerly a mem ber of Company HI, Eighth Infantry, U. S. A., and has recently returned to Columbia from Charlotte, N. 0. We have information to the effect that the officers of tne law are wide awake and hope soon to secure all the parties connected with the robbery. Gua rdian. No act of the French Emperor since his accession to power baa given suni general satisfaction in France as th< writing of his late letter to M. Olli, vier, urging the completion of th< constitutional reforms. He has un, doubtedly gained more popularit' thus than he lost since the faIlure o1 his Mexican polioy. The B&ecle (op position organ) pronounces the latte: an putidote to the coup d'etaf. The .DeUats (op position) accepts It as restoration of the parliamentary re f me, and the Orleanist party are said to ho warm In their approval'of It. A FnRI Or il u UZz CANAL. From London we learn by the Atlan tic cable that Bombay cotton sent t< England by the .Suez Canal has beei roturned to tr.dia by the same rout< In the form .f cloth in forty-five days B3y the old ,route, via the Cape o Gqod Hope, the shortest period oi recon d for a similar result is ninety days.--. Y. Herald. Arnimatso To TSIt DIOALtoOUI... A stranger Str the oit - inquired,,yes terday ,*fone of the "amendments,' wiu6 i. ey Ore edeb#ating, anid - re. oetted thev following answer~ r We.i Won't Moses the sesond' give ogi dei othefolut-a-Gu(ardian he va fb a innk *Vov is thae Amae hi. pn Fone Tia>I From er u er of t'be Site, says thiCawq - urnthoreObmes support and ap 1oal. 16 sOme coune ties, already t eyb ave agreed to unite and run one tioket for members of the Assembly. Those Republicans who have so acted, are not accused of treachery to their principles, and are no lobs Republicans still. They bave merely eiprebsed their wil. lingnvss that all of us shall have a representation and voice in the counoils of the State. They have seen that their civil and poIitical rights have been guarantoed to them, as well as their right to hold ofiice. and that being done, they come for ward and taking the whites at their word, cordially unite with them in endeavoring to redeem the State. Shall the citisens of Kershaw refuse to followt his example ? We do not ask any man to give up his principles, but that all men unite to secure good government-a government which gives equal rights to nll and imposes low taxes upon the governed. As it now stands, the people who represent the taxable property have no repre sention or voice in the General As sembly, but are compelled to support, out of their hardly obtained earnings, the government which they had no voice in making, and its officials, who are foreigners and care for naught but to enrich themselves. If the colored men expect to become landholders and owners of personalty, they will then feel that the groans and cries of the white people who have been taxed to death are no vain or unmeaning empty sounds. Do not the colored men who own property know already the meaning of heavy, burdensome, oppressive taxation? If with such small propert-y, it is so difficult to find means to meet the taxes, how much more so if possessed of large estates? Therefore, it is no party cry that invitos you to unite in this or deavor to secure, among other things, lower taxation, but rather the voice of reason urging us to the the beacon of hope which beams brightly up,n the rock of unity ! JUSTICE AT LAST.-Governor Ste venson, of Kentucky, has just par doned a Northern man from the Peni tentiary who had been sentenced to seventeen years' imprisonment for negro stealing. He was convicted in 1863 and had, therefore, served about seven years of the term of sentence. The Louisville Courier-Journal, in commenting upon this event, remarks that "this may be set down as the last of the immediate consequences of sla. very in Kentucky." Rather the first, we would suggest, of the consequences of the ratification of the fifteenth amendmont. It is no crime now to steal a tigger in Kentucky.-N. Y. Herald. Whittemore is scandalously disre spectful in speaking of the Republicans who dare to oppose the "clerical cul prit," who is declared by Congress un. worthy to represent the people. Whittemrwe calls Feriter, "Ootton bill." Feriter, vows that John Ches nut, a colored member of the Legis lature, was drunk, and speaks of Sen ator Rainey as "one negro who enter ed into a harangue of personal abuse." No wonder that Senator WVimbush, himself a colored man, b,randed the clerical culprit, as "a villian and base liar,"--ChaLrleston Nw s. Scott, the Fetish Governor of South Carolina, in a recent speech, claims that his "beloved State" is in a better condit ion than North Carolina or Ten nessee. Scott Is right. The Yankee carpet-bagger makes a better ruler than the. Fetish renegade. The for mer is satisfied when he can pick up things; the latter is . equally fond of picking up things and has his private enmiLes to. gratify. Give us the native Yankee ten to one, in prefer-* ence to tlbe home manufacture of an inferior article.-South.ern Home. A:n anonymous writer says there is a mystery about the effect of the weather on piety. Siabbath heat seem hotter, Sabbath cold colder, and Sabbath ra'. 'wetter, than that of any other day ; for the sarme nieasure of beat, or cold, or rain, on a week d ay, will not keep a man from his usual business. The perfume of a thousand roses soon dies, but the pain caused by one of their thorns remains long after; a saddened remembrance in the midst of mirth is like that thorn amnong the roses. FPretfy Teacher-Now, Johnnio Wells, can you tell me what is a mir acle ?"' Johnnie-"Yes, Ma'am. Mother says if you don't marry the new parson, 'twill be a miracle I" Keep your eye on the farmer who almost uniformly has good Wheat, heavy Corn, &c. Unless he drinks or has some other bad habit you will flod him growing rich. The Pall Mall Gaztte urges the in stant despatch of a frigate to the fish eries to watch the American war steamers tiere. A negro In Kentuckyj has invened' a machine for breaking hemp, wbiol is likely to produce ,fog him ag fortunp.lae the iloss of Pr6feteW6 4g is-e come so serious as to daese Tee "Ode 6f Neodar Ii tire N6# Tak Udd% od tlgta 0,fio001, heSa oI * 61 ryr Q Q ks t , t v c u t&0 0w r i k 6 . Foreign News. MAIDn, April 23.-The particu lars of the recent duel between Prim and Tobito have Leon carefully kept from the public. Prim suffers from a slight'wound. AAIC,NN April 22.--The Msrathon brigande ak' irrounded by troops but they retain their prisoners unl refuse to surrender., e VIENNA, April 23.--.There ate strong movements in the Tyrol for se eeesion froin the Romn*-Churh, in ease the question of infallibility is pressed upon the Council. 0ONITANTIN4oPLIt, April 23.--Ar monian manifestoes regarding the Ucumenical Counoil, posted on the churches, were torn down by the Tur kish mob. A serious riot is itumi nent and troops have been called out. News Items. UNIVnsITY OF VIRGINIA, April 30. --An awful and distressing accident occurred hcre, at a late hour this evening, which resulted in the death of Miss Evoline Goodloo, daughter of Mr. Paul II. Goodloo, now a resi dent of Memphis, Tennessee, former. ly a oitfzen of this county. Miss Goodloe attended the celebration last evening, and was remaining for a few days at Dr. MuKeunoy's. It seems that a party of ladies and gentlemen had been practicing at a target, with pistols, and after returning. bliss Goodloo laughingly pointed the pistol at herself and was making some play. ful remark, when the pistol exploded accidentally, the ball passing directly through her heart, causing instant death. BALTIMORE, April 23.-Mrs. Marsh, who k:lled her children and mother, is now raving crazy. The ship Thomas Freeman, from New York, was struck by lightning and took fire. After vain efforts to stop the flames, she was abandoned by the crew, who were taken 1ff by the brig Omega and brought, to New York. BOSTON, April 23.-Minister Bur lingame was buried to-day ; there were imposing Masonic and civic ceremo nies. From Wasisington. WASHING ro., April 23.-A dis patch to the P;iltimore Sun saye, the sub-committee of the Senate Pacifio Railroad Committee made to the full Committee an adverse report, on the Fremont, or Memphis and El Paso Railroad bill. Private advices just received from Bogota, state that the Darien ship canal treaty has been rejected by the Columbian Congress. Private ad vices from Costa Rica are to the effect that the Costa Rica Gov ernment has made a treaty wihh Nica. ragua, conforming to Nichel Cheva lier and his confreres of France, the concession for a ship canal, via the San Juan river and the lakes of Nioa ragua. At the same time comes ad vices of the liberal concession to the Tehuantepoc Railway Company, from the Mexican Government, for a ship canal across the Isthmus of Tehuan tepee, and that it will be the subject of a treaty between-the United States and hiexico. The Tehuantepec con cession being to a private corporation, it is no way subject to thie conditions of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. The Senate was not in session. Market Reports. NEW YoRKc, A pril 23, 7 P. M.. Cotton steady and quiet, with sales of 1,200 bales, at 23j. a 24. Gold l8}. LIVERPOOL. April 23.--Ootton dull, -uplands 1l1*; Orleans l 4t; sales 10,000 bales. OBITU.ARL. Dixo, in Dalton, Ga, on the morning of the 14th of April. lhttle AL,nURy B. WOET, infant son of Willie M. and Mollie E. Worthy --aged t wo years and two months. Wherefore should [ make my mean, New the darling child is dead; HIe t o early rest is gene, lie to Paradise has Uccd, I shall go to him, but. he Never shall return to me. God forbids his longer stay.. Ged recalig the precious leon. God br,th taken him away From my bosorm to lis own; Surely, what He wills is beet... haPpy in Is will I rest. Agricultuaj, Mechanical and lIm grant Conventism. fICLEGATES to this Convention, who .L1have been invited under the cAll of the South Carolina Institute, will be called to order, at the AoAdemy of'MusIc, precisely at, 12 Mi., on the 8d of May prox. Delegates will please report to the Com maittee of Arrangemniqta. who will be in waiting at the Comnmittee room, en the sec ond floor of the Academy, ea Monday, 2d May, frotu d to 6 1'. M4., and lo Tuiesday 8d MAy, fromn hal.-paste 0 and 11'A.itf whon Cards of Admission and Badges wilf bhe paruet xoui the Forroen0 Coil. .for Citisens who have been invited to seat. The door 0fll be epened for ,gg'yr at half-pa',t 10 A' MI. wl:'9 *1ll be adteigt4 ean preating,their Card. of Invitation. to the neest to a t e Onnio l~ease aoetht ali 11e ta 61oa6 thf loSa. hilie, Dioer~ C lO wllpaiesb en g* fen tin .e - WG. VARDULL, JAMUS I WAM4VJ