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THE~FAIRHELD HERALD Publieibed Every Wednesday at WJJ'NNSBORO, S. C Desportes, Williams & Co. --0 TBRS--IS ADVANOR. Oue opy one year, - $800 Five " *' " - - - 1260 Tol l " - - 2500 Disturbance at Gadsden. The Republican meeting at Gads den on the 9th inst., ended quite trag ically. Thre were no Ku-Kluxes present, but only a little disagree mJkent between opposing factions of the iUdical persuasion. Sturday was t6e day appointed for the meeting of the electors of the precinct of Gads den to nominate delegates to appear in the county convention oni the 22d instant. There were a laru umn..ber of colored people congregatcr!, two companies of colored militia, and a batch of distinguished orntl.'s ferm Columbia-Nash, Thomina...., Wigg, and others. Ode Phillip Epsoin, a so.Aawag, seems to have been anxious for a place upon the ticket to the county conven tion, and being defeated, as he sup. posed, by the influcice of Nash and a Columbia clique, mounted the speak er's stand, and, in the most vehement language, denounced the entire set, closing his remarks by applying the term of "damn liar" to Colonel Bever ly Nash. Colonel Nash most prompt ly and gallantly rosented the insult by slapping Epstein from the stand. This was the signal for a general row between the fi euds of Epstin, on the one hand, and Colonel Nah on the other. Knives were drawn and brandished, and stabs inflicted right and loft. The militia seized their bayonets and charged the insurgent crowd. As far as we can learn, there was but one death wound inflicted. One Chas. Bynum, a colored man, was pierced through the body by a bayo net in the hands of one of the colored militia. It is said that the leaders, Nash, Wigg and others, ignominious 11 fled the field, and that the las1r sight had of Epstein was as he dis appeared over the adjacent corn field closely pursued by a band of infuriat ed voters panting for his blood. Hopes are entertained that he might not be caught.-Guardian. The Exclusion of Whittemore. Even the Radical papers rejoice over the exclusion- of Whittemore. The New York Tribune says; ,,The good name of Congress has been pre served from this last defilement, and that 'a line has been drawn some where.' " The Now York Wioct-I makes the point, that tho vote excluding Whitte more extends beyond the man himself to his r.egro contituenoy, and beyond the constituency to the Congress and the political p arty that created it. It used to be said of slavery that it degraded labor by thEo contempt it oaused for those who performed labor. With equal truth (Iss the World) it may be said that negro voting de gradles thme elective franchise by the contempt it causes for those who ex ecise the franchise. The practical working of negro reconstruction is such that its very authors pronoure its results disgraceful. It has foisted into Congress a sct of scalawag. and carpet-baggers of whom this venal Whittemore is a sample; and Congress fiuds no way to protect itself against the disgrace but by den~yinmg the right of thme people to selet their represen tatives, and to exercise their preroga tive of condoning their offhees anid giving them a new trial. The judg ment in WVhittemore's case is sub stautially right ; but the principle on which it rests onght to have been ap plied at an earlier stage of the experi ment, and have prevented this revolt ing degradation of Congressional eon &titueioies. A DauNxEs SOLnIKa PnOeTED fir A Par Tfioen.- in amusing scene occumrred the other dav at the cttadel of Deor, Englan~d. Theb i'). regi mont have a very flne t'ioajust come to the country with de regiment from India. Hie is wry t' o, na., is daily taken for a wnak, mit hr - goes roiund themeo su':..bi. 3. Ia tit-bits. The other (lay his keep'eL got the worse for drink, and made 11is way to the den, fearing detectIon. An officer seeing the mana lying asleep, and the tiger sitting by him sent for the picket, who at any other time can *do what they please with the beast. The moment they attempt ed to get near the keeper the tiger growled, and very soon let them see they must keep off. For two lbours the tlgez' kept guard over his keeper, who, on awakening, was Surprise d to see no one come near his charge. ,A Monr~r. SPE Rcmu.-A Toledo pagmet gives this as a correct report of a speech recently delivered by a Rladi cal member of a school board in that sootion : . Mr. Cheerman, I rise for to-that is to mnake a motion, which ls as fol lows: )?esobved, that 'thdre ayo no nee& to .build such costive school housen' as somne of this ere board Ia propouin' to' 'roet. No, Mr. Cheer man, I'm^'posed 'th *f dln' naoney fo' tuote housen. "'Th6' old oiti are pretty good ylt,' atd for to go for to build a pre'ity Alfok 'bouse which wsti cost teni tethoud dgliars, or mofel jit, Its: til ,Tabted. 'Tts no M~fompy to thv ow ?aiay moryte d6g't'b.. Taxes coat money,' add inoky has f& go to navaY-swmrwd'iut-ne-ennR.a Th probabilty of. 6,Tdla r has bann very inmh enthene y the oeption of lspa es(rom Q ra n er:4ena no tA t cons ae rgbl6 bodite . qIpd a ,ire niov og across the Unioti Paoti6 track,' 6 tween Cheyenne and Wasatch. Troops have been sent in pursuit of them at Rawlins and other points. Genqral Sherman adv~ies thi the line ofathb road be guarded by-judicious dispo.ii tions of infantry. ad will probably reinforde General Augur's command with the 14th Regitqent. Tb; Sioux in the vicinity of Fort Fe~tormao. have committed depredations eince Red Cloud's return frotn W8i1gtoo. These and other faots lead the omcers of the army to believe that a general Indian war is Imminent. Awru. Timrs IN NVw YORK.-A broiling sun pouring down upon Gotham sooms to have embroiled the lower stratum of society in murderous foudi. The Herald heads its Mon. day's report of Sunday's record of crime thus: "The Devil let loose. Reveling in Rum. The Pistol, Knife and Club. Criminals on the Raw. :'. Murders, Assassinations, Frays 46 Asaults. The Rowdies' Satur *y night ond Sunday morniug. A Terrible Record of Crime." The Sun strings out the doleful calendar under the caption "Saturday night Murders." WINNSORO. Wednesday Morning, July 13, 1870. Miscegenation Never'et Dsue to Universal Suffnage, but to Other Caies. Much of the objection to univorAal suffrage is due to the idea that it tends to miscegenation, and to the corruption of the intelloot and morals of the superior race. The examples of Mexico, and of certain States in the West Indies and in South Ameri ca are continually adduced, as if they were cases in point, to prove that suffrage and mongrelism are most horribly connected. Because mon grolism exists there, and because a sort of suffrage now happens to exist there with it, though it be but of re cent date, shallow reasoners assert that one is connected with the other, and that we may expect the same mongrelism in the South, if whites of the South consent to Negro suffrage. We assert, on the contrary, that there is not a particle of truth either in the facts, or any strength in the argu ment from the facts, even admitting they were true. 1. Mongrelism in the West Indies, South America and Mexico, took placo when slavery and peonage were in full vigor, under anything but free governments, before universal suf frage was dreamt of. Universal suf frage, nay more, the inferior race sharing the 'political power of those contries, had nothing at all to do with the mnongrAlismn of their people, which was due to the French and Spanish character, and to peculiar so clad influences in a peculiar climate, and on a sp<ntaneously fertile soil. The condition of the inferior race in the Sa is not, in any respect, an alogous, it is dissimilar in numerous particulare. 2. Buit if political equality had been the cause of rnongrolibnm else where, which we emphatically deny, there is no such essential connection betwoon the two things, as to render mongrelism a consequenco of it here in the South. It is the earnest con viction of many that fewor half-breeds are being born now, than under the institution of slavery. We believe that miscegenation can only happen through poor whites marrying well to-do bhoks ; and political equality, Iup to the present date, instead of1 helping the black race to wealth, has ibu:'ne'l them down the road to inidi genneo. There would be greater dan ger of mongrelism, if they would cease to vote, and apply themselves to work. Suffrage has not only impov erished them, but ha. created an oan friendly feeling bet ween the maces on both sides a fierce political rivalry that Is altogether anitagonistle to mits. cegenation, especially when the whites know well, that, in this political rival. ry, they are certain of the comptest rlumphin theoend, negro office-hold ing being but n temporary thing. Tb. fearp, the horrors, the shooks of ertain sensational Job's comf/orters, and of cettain pther good but not over. reflective people are, therefore, alto gether superfluous, when' they connect the idea of milaing blood vith the ae groes with the ideR of gr'aoting them poiliotia dquallty. There is eo nice. sary *onnection -betveds the a tWo tings. - -,*ao A Reaso5 ety Orie'fodertaoe Ten years befote hbe *ami~ *E6 ' f~r two yeats ofQ liidbole dfeel Ingebat imosiseb.tqei aothe tend.oeyoful4t No l O. (We~ s'ided slavery not ,s m 4 'r lo'n ta ourse, but ata pl(asm ' 1r y'as) as a form of g n ,it, % ret, the crudest, and suied o 1 men but little removed from bar "ris'mn. That the African had never, of his own motion, nay, zovor at ll,.boon otherwise, than bar barous, reeonoiled us to domestic sla very in the huma,e form in which it existed in the South, as perhaps the belt g9v6rnment..be dould livs under dkoiebly. .Yet we over had doubts whether, if aseisted by white men, he might not be "gpable of something better. -This experiment that we then speculated over; is now upon the South as a reality to be dealt with. It is natural that we at. least should desire to see it tried fairly. We re gard it as an experiment, however; and in this ale far from Radicalism. We wishto try it fully and fairly; and are In this equally as far from many who formerly owned slaves and lost them, like ourselves, but who can not practically foiget that fact. Now, in 1860, when we expressed to the friend that we loved bast, and to whom we owed most in the way of benefits bestowed upon us, our oonvie. tion, that nsgro suffrage was perhaps an essential part of this experiment being made fairly ; that the Radicals in that respect were probably alto. gether rational, and that the Southern people had better fall in upon that line, and take the load of the progres sive movement; he could scarcely con tain his vexation. le walked the room in silence, to kcep down his an. ger, and then turning to ui, said : '1 am astonished at your expressing such a sentiment, and I beg of you never to repeat it before me again. I wish to think well of you, as heretofore, and I know I cannot do it, if you avow such opinions ; and I, therefore, request you, never to say a word to me again, as long as I live, on the subject of the negro." "Very well, air ;" we replied, "I understand your feeling thorougly. But you asked rue my opinion, and I have given it. I am not such a fool, however, as to believe, that Southern men, with their settled convictions of Negro incapa city and inferiority, will follow my opinion. But the experiment of the Free Negro is upon us, and has to be tried. Our restlessness under it is like the jumping of a frog under the receiver of a chemist's air-pdmp. The Yankees are working the handle, and there is no escape, jump as we may, except to try the experiment fairly to the end. I fear the result just as you do, but I believe the Yankee bayonet is going to force negro suffrage on the South, and it may be, I confess I can't help thinking so, the very beat sonl tion of the problem. But whether It be so or not, It all depends, not on us but on the Yankees, and there Is nc sense in fretting over it." Since 186, nothing has happened to change the above -opinions, as we then expressed them. We desite, however, to add another item to our creed on the subjet. It is this. In ten years the Southern whites UNi.Es.1 -rHE NaoROus THEKMSELvEs PRavEN'i rr, will champion Negro suffrage ae giving thoem power in the Union, against a powerful anti-negro party at the North. Did our readers notice the Mercer County, Ohio, Demiocratic resolutions, which we published last week? Buch nonsense is certain t. carry the South into the Republicani party, If that party will ocase to per secute us. Indeed, It is our interest to join it new. One would suppose, from much of the nonsensioel twaddle of the Southern press, that the wai had been fought by the South for the Northern Democratic Party. But what would tihe old Whigs of Vir ginla, North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia, say to snob absurdity ? Miscegenation and~ Nvegro saart fb'aago. We are prepared to go further than in our last editorial, and to believe thlat political egalltf lias just the op posite tendency to that towards mis. oogenation that is thoughtlessly at tributed to it, nctually separating the races, atid dralwing the line of caste more distinctly; and, secondly, should miscegenation eonie about here in thle Bonth, a. else where, thLrough other oaus. es, that political equality will lesson the social corruption, t1he mental and moral debasement, that mongrolism is supposed invariably to produce. L. ObservJow 4he 'negroes have Monglt of frein theWSeuthern white. We biio*%'ap thisN smtrl~tned by h7.to ti ui6,C kNho carpet. bate rshid, U'tid A Lteum not~he' uidav ee.e isder the lidgnt oipolhiekte4 mI ave them the other day, that very trikiug advice, "Take this last piece -Of advice with you, and remember it: Vote, not as Republicans, not as Dew. oorats; but veto invariably as ne groes," he struck the solid rock of Truth. Some will fret, when we en dorse such advice. But God is wiser than such people, and Wendell Phil lips simply anticipated, in the shape of advice, what God'ai laws are cer tain to bring about. The negroes will soon learn to "vote invariably as negroes." Negro suffrage will fail, unless the negroes learn to vote, as they will, not as Republicans, not as Denocrats, but "as negroes," taking care of the be3t interests of their race. This is nature, and if it be incompatible with the interests of our society, then emancipation was a blunder. But we are far from know. ing beforehand, that it will injure our society. It seens to us to be antago. nistic tq mongrelism at least, and since mongrelisn is supposed to be fraught with evil, to be, so far as this plain antagonism extends, a blessing and a be'nefit to our society. 2. But if mongrelism be probable here at the South, which we do not believe, we say emphatically, and we wish it to make its impression, since we cannot get away from the soil, nor expel the negro, nor extirpate him, that, mongrelism being granted, for argument sake, political eqnaliy we mzust and ought to have, to maintain our slf-rej)ect againt a hostile world. We are not sure that sectional conflicts are over. We do not think it imupos. siblo that before the century closes, the menof the South, white and black, will stand an armed unit, against unequal and oppressive legislation. Political equality will strengthen us against such a day. It cannot bri!.g about mongrelismn, but wiil amelio. rate its evils, if it come through other causes, and will make us a powerful section,should we be again called to fight for self-government. Truly, are we not a nation now I What means this glow of enthusiasm that pulsates through our heart at the thought, as we write I Why does our spirit rise, as we reflect that Southern men will yet maintain the equality of the South in the Ukion, or break a way out of it? Is it or is not the feeling and the hope of nationality ? In coj4sion, our readers will pl61ise ndttshatawe are a Republican, if such a defence of negro suffrage as perhaps the best solution of the problem of emancipation as we have now made, constitutes us a Republi cau. No matter how brought sbout, the voice of the South is, let the XVth Amnendmont stand. Return or Our Students. We have taken very great pleasure in meeting again the worthy young students of our town, who have just returned to reoreate themselves du ring vacation. Their looks witness that they have studied bard, and made all of thme progress of which we had previously heard flattering accounts. We have lately met with a soul strengthening fact, which we take this occasion to state. An elaborate ex aminationi of the statistics of thme Acade~mies and Colleges of New England for a century, proves, that, though there are bettor opportunities for higher education in the cities, and more pupils availing themselves of thenm, "there is more mind in the country." What an instance this, of the compensating goodness of God in his Providential atrangements I There is no place, then, unfavorable to mental growth and intellectual pro. eminence. Let the isolated and de spondent, both parent and child, take heart, then, and be content to work patiently exactly where God has at signed them a home, until called to a larger sphere of usefulness by the process of regular promotion. Lot them love that borne sincerely, gath ering about it the comforts of civil ized convenience, and adorning it with the graces of diligent self-cul ture. This Is one- help to happiness, and a greater help to that success that ontshines all other kinds of pros perity, the acquisition of a manly character. Pr~ceettingn~ alrneld Agrieuul. tiural Soetety, .auly 2, 1870. A regular meeting of thme Society was held this day in the Court House. tf inutes of lat meeting were read anid after slight correction approved. The President in acqordanoe with a resolution adopted at the last meeting appointed a committee of .Ous from oekch T'ownship to solicit momLemship to 4$o soeisty. The (lhairjmsn of the Exeotive Uowuumitee, reported that they had pdinmted thh 12th day of August bb4a iddy' for holding the Fruit, V9j9tablo, M ~'or4 jair, an~d far fertsuggstad the propriety of alter. ng the PropiuarJist proposed lby the r~ht-M ~a(Iom.nttoe there be moro premiums and of less value. Maj. T. W. Woodward moved that the suggestions and report of the Executive Committee be approved. Mr. G. II.' MoMaster proposed as members of tho Society Capt. Edward J. Means, W. Watt BricA, and Win. Thorn, Jr., who were unanimously elected. On motion of S. B. Clowney, the President was authorized to supply the vacancies in the Executive Com mittee by appointment, said Commit. tee was then filled out. Oin motion of Dr. McKinstry, the Secretary was ordered and authorized to publish the nnmen of the rflicnrs of the society, as likewise the time for holding the Fruit Fair, and any other information connected with the trans. actions of the Society that may tend to its advancement and successful ope ration or to the agricultural interests of the District. Mr. Gaillard moved that the Execu tive Committee be requested to invite at their discretion persons to deliver oconsional addressos to the Society upon agricultural subjects. Motion to adjourn to the first Mon. day in August, Secretary. OFFICERS OF PAIRFIELi AORICULTUnAI, AND DEClIANICAL 8O:IETY. Henry C. Davis, President; Thos. W. Woodward, Vice-President; Thos. McKinstry, Sr., Vice-President ; S. B. Clownoy, Treasurer ; W. E. Aiken, Secretary : II. A Gaillard, Cor. Secre tary. MEMBNIERs OF EXECUTIVE CoNtMl'rTEP.. Dr. Thos. Center, Chairman ; Dr. McKinstry, A. S. Gaillard, R. E. El lison, Jr., W. Watt Brice, Win. Thorn, Jr., Ed. J. Means, T. Ross Robertson, S. B. Ulouney. COMIITTE ON VEGETA BL S AND FLOW Ens. Robert Ketchin, Chairman ; T. N. Withere, 11. A. Gaillard, W. M. Dwight, P. Baent. CODIMITTEE ON FRUITS. G. H1. McMaster, Chairman ; Jas. W. Law, Thos. Center, W. E. Aiken, S B. Clowney. MEMBERS TO SoLICIT DEintinnsHIP. T. Ross Robertson, Winnsboro ; R. Wade Brice, Yonguesvillo; Dr. S. W. Bookbart, Doko; R. G. Lamar, Ridge way ; J. C. Caldwell, Gladdens; Thos. P. Cason, Killingsworth ; N. C. Ro bertson, Horeb; D. R. Elkin, Altton; Thos. W. Rsbb, Monticello; R. E. Quinn, Feasterville; T. S. Brice, Brice's Store; Dr. T. Jefferson Lyles, Buckhead. A Plea for the Little Folks, Don't expect much of them ; it has taken forty years, it may he to make you what you are, with all their les sons of experience ; sand I dare say you are a faulty beinog at best. A bove all, don't expect judgment in a child, or patience uinder trials. Sympathize in their ruistakes and troubles ;don't ridicule thenm. Remember not to measure a child's trials by ye it standard. "As one whom his mrother comfort et, said the inspired writer and beautifully doeshconvey to us tl~e deep, faithful love that ought to be found in every woman's heart, the unfailing sympathy with all her chil dren. W hon I see ehildren going to their father for comifort, I anm sure there is something wrong with their mother. Let thte memories of their childhood be as bright as you can rmake themn. Grant them evemy innocent pleasure in your power. We have often felt our temper rise to see how carelessly their plans were thwarted by older persons when a little trouble on their part would have given the child pleasure, the memory of which would lat a lifetime. Lastly, don't think a child hopeless because It betrays some very bad hab its. We bave known children that seemed to have been both thieves and liars, so early did they display unde niable traits, yet we have lived to see those same children become noble men and women and ornaments to sOoiety. We must confess they had wise, affectionate parents. And whatever elseyou may be compelled to deny your child by your circumstances in life, give it what it values most plenty of love. A celebrated divine, who was re markable in the first period of his ministry for a boistrous mode of preacehing, suddenly changed his whole manner in the pulpit, and adopted a mild and dispassionate mode of' do lhvery. Omie oIf his brethren observ. lng it, inquired of him what had in duced him to make the change. lHe answered, "When I iwas 3otiOg I thought it was the thunder that killed the people, but when I grew wiser, I discovered it was the lighti-ing, ao I determined in future to thunder less and lightning more." Walter L. Blutler, nephew of TNeast Butler, trmle to the traditions and in sitlcts of his race anid blood, hasbeen looked up in a New Yor~k sta Ion bense, for' 'walkind off itba' ait' Aszeb ellvet spoons belonging to the uother 'of lids s~wbohear%, while dii. ng with the fatpily recently, . To~eral3.?o. Forelgcun Nvows. PARIS, July 8.-Olazago goes to Madrid to-uight to endeavor to roake arrangement# satisfactory to all par ties. Einbassadors from Austria, Eng land and Italy conferred to-day with Grammont. They seem favorable to France. Gram mont received the Prussian Miniator to-day. Napoleon conferred to-day with the Ministers of War, Navy and Jus tiee. Two French artay corps are ready for immediate movement. Maishal Uizine commands one, and Gen. LeBruu the other. Marshal McMahon will coimand the army. General Lllouef has an important command. Court Palotaeo will command troops operating against Spain. Active preparations are pro gressing at the seaports. Lo-ntosi, July 9.-The questions at issue between France and Prusia rela tive to the Spanibh crown create some uneasiness 19 Eoglish markets, both here and at Liverpool. Breadstuffh and cotton are uncertain in tone, and prices are irregular, which is altogeth er due to the pos4ible continental war. The same influenco is operating at Manchester in the market for cot ton goods and yarns. The general excitement does not seem to have abated. The threatened rupture still forms the topic fur newspaper corn ment and ordinary converF ation among the people throughout Europe, while i be better opinion seems to be that war will be at last avoided. Dis patches received from some quarters of movements of troops, strengthening of garrisons and departure of fleets is well caloulated to excite the gravest a pprehiensions. To-day the the Aus triangovernment is preparing to form a permanont caip near the Prussi.tu fiontier. She has had this plan in countempiation for a long time. The House of commons informally commented upon Prussia's delay in answvering Fiance. The opinion is frequently expressed that delay utcant misobief. if not a moro daigerous pur pose, on the part of Prussia. PARI, July 9.-Froch rents reached the lowest point for years yesteday, but subsequently rallied a fr action. The Prussian government disavows implication in Huhenzollern's candi dature. Two corps of the French army are ready for movement. Naval prepara tions are active. Montpentsier opposes Hohenzollern. A demonietration will be made in Madrid Sunday against all foreign canditates. Infallibility will be proclaimed on the 17th. Austrian journals say that Austria will not interlere in the French and Prussian complicatiens. There is galoat , activity at Toulon and other French ports on the Medi terranean. The North German Berlin Gazette says the Fanch press is Iaipudeit regarding the aotion taken by Piaussia on the S1 ain question. The eleotion of Pinace Hohenzollern depends sole ly on the Spanish Cortes, and not on the wishes of foreign powers. Paris is considerably excited to-day by rumors that Prussia is actively arming all the Baltic ports. TIhe corps now operating against the rebels in Algeria has beeni recalled. The Gazette de France save tile Duke do Granmmont's declarat'ion in the Corps Liegislatif recently is equivalent to the French ultimainm. The present situation is the result of Bisimarck's intrigules. The Journrl des Debats says the policy of the French government on the Spanish question threatens to unite all the Spaniiards on Prince Ho hemizollern. Prime Minsister Ohlivior yesterday arsored the French Senate that the offer of thle crown to a Prussian was the act of General Prim, and was not binding on the Spanish govornmeont. .The French Minister of War has issuedl an order to all Generals com manding, requiring themi to report to the War Office, immediately, the coo. ditions of troops, arsenals. ammuni tion, &c., in their respeetive depart ments. BtnILYN, July 9.-Baron Woother Minister of Prussia to France, has not been recalled. In official circles here the situation is thought to be free from daniger. Bismiarek Is not impli.. cated in tihe Hohengellern affair. Napoleon's attempt to hold him respon sible is tegarded as a pretext. Froma Waalaigon. . VAsHhNGTON, J Rly 9.-The Senate discursed the Chinese.. Sumner snd Howard advooated their rights. The Pacific Senators urged a law prohibit heir landing. in the HIouse9thle tax bill, as amend ed by the Senate, was concurred in as regaids incomie, allowing articles transported from ports of entry to other points in bond, and reducing the duty on steel rails, but non-concurred in the amendments regarding tropical frnu:e, su~gare, spices, wines and bran dies; also taxing cotton bagging. The bill goes to a committee of conferene.~ In the legiblative appropriatlon bill a provision has been: Inserted, prohi bitig the Court of Clim frotin eon tertaining suita, brought against Ah6 goverement by residouts of the 8otith. ern States, even though they ean p lead a restos'ation to all civii righmts by amnesty or. pardon, They *rpnst shlow nlflirnaitively that they were al ways loya)* or they must go to Con. gress for relief. - r t eores NE oRK* CIIAnLESTON, JUoy 9.-Cotton qui et-middiutg 18. ; sales 150 bales; receipts 228. LivtRroor,, .July 9.-Cotton dull and irregular-uplands 9j ; Orleaus 9 ; saloa 10,000 bale. A D-.Irnsnarir NI aII):.I-In1 the neighborhood of Mr. Willing, near 0 residence of Mr Joe liiek, there took p!nce; on the 20th inst,., a murder so cool, so deliherate. and so systnniaticailly ar. ranged. as to striko the hearer with equal ama.ement and horror. Thfe ac tors in t1his tragedy were Robert Mack, Dick Pope. and Frank Mbeans, all ne gron's ; and ill in ti employ of Mr. Miniek. Oul the driy above mentioned, Mack and Pope borrowed a plow lino fr.yn Mr. Minick, coolly seized Meians, ti ed hini, took him from ihe.--ard a short distance up the road, bound him to a persimmon treo, and shot him five times, his deatlh being accoimpiished by tho lifth shot. NIech shot took effect itn sm01e part of the victim's body, bitt the perp.-Itators ceased not to firn it1ii iheir deted was complete. Nnelc and Pipe have been arrested by the constabiarv, and lodged inl j.il at. this place. They speak very coolly of tle matter, and give its their reason for imurd ering this man that he was a disturber of religions and other meet ing., in consequence of whici they felt, inc-nm bent upon thei to rid th oimmunit y of such a nuisance.-Edyefitdd Advertiser. 'Til.. Sou rt IN TIS CAnINT.-Th o New York Sun, in cormmon with the Reiblican papers uener-dly of tho North, don't relilh tle recent, n:>mina tion of tlte Georgia Radical, Ackeruan, to succeed Hitr in the Attorney-Gentr alship. The Sun says : "I f General (Grant desired to sign ify to illh- country by nnt npipoininent, to Is Unb11inet, that. it was noc longfer expedi. ent to i'ligniref whethler his confidenltial :alvisers ind fomght onl the right side or the wrong shd during the war, he should have seleted for nitornu'v general a rebel of dlisticion, and a lawyer who was fit. for the position If, for exam. plie, lie had conferred this importnt it oflice tipon tobert Toombs, a man of brainis, of'genius, of phick, and who is it thorough lawyver, atd well known :o t.he nationt. it vould havi sinified s0m1 thing ; but to wist(e it upon Ackerman who was one of Toombs's adjutants, was a thirdrate rebel. and is -x fourth rato aIwyer, and wholly iikitown to the country, is simple nonsenso." "A SINoUiAr FIACT.-ThO pench was originaily a poisoned alnond. Its flshy parts werY Itsel to poison arrows, and its fruit. was for this purpose mitro duneed into Persia. The transportation and uiltivation, however. not only re moved its poistiotns qnalities, bt, pro. 'dticed the delicious fruit we n1ow enjoy We titke the above from thie Waver. ly Margi zine of the 30th of Jainary, 1869. We have often henrd It. sitd that tihe pinnting of a peach stone here would prodnee the anond, sueh as may be seen t the elstom-hotnse grotinds on this island tid in several of tie vards ocetipied by cit*iz(ens. We tire willing to be quilified on .th1 t eight.een momt ngo we planltedl two peach sinnes on t his. isliu, anid ntow we have ini Iib- of t he peachb the coarse, hard stone almond, sitmilar to coinree above mienitioned. We are not aiware of any' poitonotis qualhities in -this iliond, abhoutght we have henrd of chtibiren hi'.vir~g died from the effects oirfnl inig them. wvhui might have ouenr. redl from enttig atlmost, anty other grer'n fruit mi excess. WVe hauve enten thto fruit oturself without ever ha.ving b)(een poisoned. Can any of our friendst throw ligit. u~pon the sub~ject, ? -Key West..Dis pattek. sonl for1I sleepy aind drunken men to fall out, the windows" haes begun in Coy ina~ton, Ky., as a local paper says. "at the Planter's House, the other night, one of lie guests sat down in a third story window to "cool off," and Ifallinifg asleep fell out. Itn htis decent of 5ixty7 f'et heo went. throngh the roof of a woods~heLd, badly shat tering thie whole structmte, alighted on at porich, the floor of wvhichi he broke, and rolling over, knocked over and badly twisted a tin gutter pipe. The poliece on that, beat he'ardl the noise, atnd thinking that a safe had been blown open,rnshed to: the spot, when they found the gentleman rubbing his eves antd yawning as it he had jiust awoke from a refreshiing sleep. H e invit ed the officers to take a drink, and after put. tig abott four otnees of old Bourbon dhown his gutllet, he retired3 to rest for the night-this time to hiis bed, lThe niort moruning lhe aj.peared at thto breakat table as if nothing had occurred, paid'his bill after breakfast,.'Anid took his depar. ture for the Gibraltar of Dem:>cracy.". The press of this country seemts great ly exercised ove'r the solff~inftictid cont. drum, "W'.is Dickens a Christjitn ?" W hatt they have 10 do wvithI it is more thtan * an~tt neitnswered. Sonie of' y'o fellows who areh ryinig to relievi, tbe memory of rho dead mnasak you rselves a similar qutestioin. Charles Reoade'st now novel has a, frotntisptiece represenlt ig a y tng *man' aseated very Close to a pr tty. ,gih ni wh~en we foo'ki tIna piptp. rid a told by. the title Pegeo "ut oursel( in H~i M lce,1'. we feel luke takin tlie adico.-.Teou sie.'le ,Journd. * n h coutrs o~f a di ousion in~tho. .ienate on the th,Se nator. Drake, ou bohtalf of' the Rladjoals, iroatened oivil war should i Uemoorat hoelect. ed Presidnt.. It I, aaid th anfonaoa * txtermni. na04 ed oogtipg the w Ou blh tollQaget every itighA uloe go'ug