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THE FAIRFIELD HERALD Published Every Wednesday at WINNiSli;o.O, s. C, Despcrtes, Williams & Co. -o-0 TERM3-I AD VANCR. ne Copy eno year, - - $ 8 00 iveo " " i - - - 1260 Te " " " - - 2! 00 Thle 1 Geedle Gini lnd the Cltessapot, The suddenness with which Austria was ov.irwhllue(1 with disaster and defeat in her conflict with Prussic, in 186(, was far more impressivo than her gradual withdrawal before the combined forces of France and Italy, in 1859. 'T'ho power of Austria was p It. materinlly less in t he latter war than in the earlier, and it was nor tainly far more vigorously put forth to resist I'russia than to resist France and [taly combined. Moreover, while FIrance was not exhausted by her Ital in war with A istria, she certainly, for the timo, put forth., under the eye of the einperor Napoleon himself, every energy that she could conimand. So far as the relative power of France and Pru4sia can he judged from the relative ease with which they thrash e- Austria, it is certain that Prussia performed that feat. far more easily than Franca and Italy eomtloined. Indeed, her defeat of Austria was so overwhelming and terrific that Nu. rope fairly held her breath with as tonishmtent. There was an air of ge nius and dash in Prussia's rapid victo rios ending in Sadowa, indicating that aho who could do so miuch, with such swiftiles,4, could do greater things if reqiuire.. lrance, at the close of her war, h:l just begin her campaign agaitsi, the int.egrity of' Austria, while l'russia could have marched into Vi 4nna almost without another conflict Austl ia lay prostrato at her feet. Judging from those facts, I'rusia must have somue element of military strength that stands apart from the question of numbers. This, it was univers"lly, though on the part of high military aiutiorities, reluctantly concedod, was the Prussiau needle gun. This arm had been subjected to par tial tests in N(agland, France, Aus. tria and the United Suates, prior to its uso in the war with 'Austria, and had heep voted down by the critics of nearly, or quite all these countries. Mome had objected Ilat the needle was liable to rust and break ; that its rapidity of firing would causo the soldier to fire away hia ammunition in too short a space of time ; that it would kiuk so powerfully as to disa ble the soldier ; that its cartridges, in which the ball, powder and percussion material aru all included, would r-t boar ordinary exposure to the weath or ; that it could not be used during the iain, ete., etc., etc. Mon whose education is complete, learn with great diflieulty, as the results of a singlo campaign with the noodle gun proved. It was worth, perhaps, half a million of mon to Prussia. The coni plaint of the Austriati troops was that the noodle gun mowed them down with cas, before tI. 1) usians came within range of the Austrian arms Undcr such circumstances, they were beaten by the gun alone, for it re q]uirca no valor to fight with an foe who cannot get you within reach ot his wOalponls. Note of the disadvan taiges which old fogy critics attributed to lie needle gunm applied to it in practice. A bout this time the French indulg ed in somo gloritia tion of their own Chassepot rifle, which is about the equivalent of a Shiatpe's rifle. Bumt this wsnimore the result of national egotismn than of impartial experiment. The needle gun is without question, the most formidable infantry arm ever constiructed, and tho most rapid firor, and, unless some valid objection can be brought, sufliciont to outweigh the-se sterling merits, it is the maost desirablo arm for military use in the world. it is claimed that, by an in hocront superiority in its mode of 1g. niting its charge so as to insure its most perfect combustion, it attains about dloubhln the powder of any other arm, atnd will throw its ball from four and a half to five miles, wivich is equal to the longest cannont range. It is a breach-loading, singe-bar reled, nion-revolving rifle. With a mnovenment ef an apparent trigger, a sect,ion of the top of the barrel slides back far enough to admit the cart ridge to be p laced in the cavity of the barrel, which is done by tho gunner with his left hand, without removing the pice from his shoulder, or, neces sarily, losing his aim. Another move ment restores the section of the top of the barrel to its place, and firmly fastens it, ready at the instant for firinug. it can be fired, therefore, twelve times in a minute, until the barrel is too hot to admit of the in troduction of the cartridge and this is not easily done, as the cartridge 1g nites by fraction only, and not by mieoehat, and a he ti me it remaina in the chamber bfefre being fired is but an inistant. Bhinmd the cartridge, as it lies when the gun Is loaded, is the air chamber, about two and a half lnches in leng th, through which the needle darts for ward horizontally to pier-oe the charge. The cartridge is, of course, made up with the ball in front; then, without wadding, the powder, and then the perenssiion sub stane, into which the needle strikes, by the foroc of a common wire spring, when the trigger is pulled. In all ordinary guns, the charge, having no access to any air, except that found In the interstices of the powder after It Is tightly rammed down, attains only an- imperfect combustion, or burns in part aftm. t leae it gun The quantity of smoke is a measure of the imperfectness of the combustion, as only that portion of the carbon goes off in smoke which is not perfectly exploded into its constituent gases, which are invisible. It is claimed, however, for the Prus,ian gun, that the air in the chamber through which the needlo darts to strike the cartridge, supplies the exploding powder with all the oxygen it can take until it leaves the muzzle of the barrel. This, it is claimed, combines the explosion with an expansion which, as the powder burns from the rear forward, ensures its total combustion, and utmost ex plosive force, increasing in intensity until it leaves the barrel. This, too, enables the gunnor to use a tighter ball, and so discharge it with more perfect rotation, thereby ensuring greater accuracy of aim. It is o,ing to this peculiar atmospheric arranpo ment that the recoil of the Prussian gun becomes so serious a matter in its use. But we do not remember that in the Austrian campaign this occa sioned much comment, though some of those who have brought them to the notice of our military authorities, have represented that the use of a frame support to the gun might, un der some circuustances, be desirable. Another argument for the use of these supports for the gun was, that it enables the soldier, having once got his aim, to keep it, so that the smoke of his first volley would rAt destroy his aim for his second or twentieth. ie might draw "a bead" on an ad vancing column bofure receiving his order to fire, plant his supports, and continue to fire after the smoke had gathered to any extent, knowing that every ball must tell on the advancing or retreating foe. The waste of am munition among raw troops often arises from their firing into the smoke without seeing the enemy. The Prua sian gun explodes with less smoke and may be so mounted as to preserve its aim for any number of discharges, until the barrel heats. We have spoken of the experiments with the noodle-gun in other co-untries as "partial," because the elements of the ignition, or percus-ion, material were purchased as a chemical secret by the Prussian Government, and all possible secrets have been taken to conceal the exact process of manufac ture. So far as this was concerned, however, experimenters in other cou11 tries have had no difliiulty in mann. facturing a material that would ex plode with, perhaps, sufficient ease anid certainty by being struck with the needle. If the great claims put forth for the needle-gun are true, as has scarce ly been doubted since the battle of Sadowa; if it combines twice the pro jectile power, with greater certainty of aim and rapidity of firing, them the PrusSians have as great an advan. tage, relatively to the French, in the use of this arm, as they found in it against the Austt inns. The Chasse pot does not differ materially from any other good broech-loading rifle. It has no elements of peculiar or mar vellous power. On the contrary, the Austin ns soon learned a dread of the needle gun, and a con.uiousness of their inability to cope with it, only coinmparablo to the fear that bow-and. arrow warriors have of the fiash of gunpowdr.-C(hiengo T1ribune. WINNSBORO. Wednesday Morning, August 10, 1870 Pulic Meeting. At a public meeting held in thE Court Ilouse on 6tha Instant, Judg< lbertson in the chair. It was re. solved that a Barbaeue should be pre pared in Winnsboro on the oensiors of the visit, on 17th iustant, of Judge Carpenter, Gon. Butler, Cen. Ker, shaw and other distinguished gentle. men. The following gentlemen were ap pointed upon committees to solicit subscriptions of supplies or money for the Barbaeno: WINN ~PnoRo. Major Thes. WV. Woodwardl, Jan. 13. McCants, John II. Catheart, Re. bert D). Boliok, George H. MeMaster, D)r. C. HI. Ladd, Dr. Win. E. Aiken, DuBose Egleston, B. F. Davidson, I. N. Withers, Francis Gerig. JACKSON s CRE. A. Y. Turner, Robert A. Horron, John WVeldon, Robert B. Sloan, R1. J. Gladney. YoNoUE5VILE. Wmn. B. Woodward, WV. Watt Brice, A. S. Gaillard, John Macko roll, Wade Brice. MONTICF.LLO. Thea. W. Rabb, Sr., Col. J. T. Dawkins, James Gelston, J. Murray Kirkland, Maj. William Bell. A LSTON. D). J. M. Glenn, Pavid FUdkin, War ron Turkett, Nathan Cook, Hayne McMeekin. Thomas McKinstr'y eme B. Del.. ny, Capt. Jamiss did Cabd A. P. Irby, Joel A..Smith. P'OPLAn SPnIMIOl. R. R. Vann, William MeOully, Thos. P. Camo, Dr. Henry F. Gibson, William Yongue. - . (1.ADDan's osota. Capt. Jas. Boaty. fhn. John Bra tou, Ed ward P. Mobley, 0. Rt Brown, 1 A. F. Lumpkin. a Dolo. Dr. S. W. Boolbart, Peter Hoff man, Dr. Jno. W. Campbell, John C. IIaigood, J. W. Starnes. Ut PA LO. Capt. W. P. Broom, Baylis Elkin, John Taylor, Thos. Smith, John lin nant, W. F. Jackson. IUCKIIEAD. - Col. D. Province, Miteholl Owens, t Edward Moans, Sam'l. II. Stevenson, Thos. M. Lyles. PEASTEnvPr.P.. Dr. Robert Coleman, David Cole. man, Henry Sigman, .llonry Coleman, David Feaster. IDGEWAY AND I.ONOTOWN. Joseph Laubon, Henry C. Davis,. Howell Edmunds, John MoCarley, Robert G. Lamar. DnICE's STORR.' Robert C. Clowney, John A. Brice, T. P. Mitchell, John S. Douglass, Thos. S. Briec. The following Committee of Ar rangements was appointed, to which Judge W. R. Robertson, by a vote of the meeting, was added as chairman, namely: James Law, Thos. W. Woodward, James B. MCants, Geo. H. McMae. ter, John II. Cathcart, Dr. C. H. Ladd, W. Moultrie Dwight, James A. Brice, Rev. T. W. Erwin, Dr. W E. Aiken, Capt. I. N. Withers, Robert D. Boliek, E. W. Ollever, William H. Garrison, W. B. Creight, DuBose Egleaton, J. W. McCroight, Saling Wolfe, Samuel B. Clowney, lobt. S. Kotohin, 0. R. Thompson, Juhn A. Frazer; D. R. Flenniken, William W. Ketchin, A. F. Gooding, B. F. Da vidson, John S. Cathcart, Jans. D. Fra zer, R. E. Ellison, W. S. Rabb. It is resolved that. n meeting ,'hould be he'd on Friday, 12th instant, at 10 o'clock at which the committee should make reports of contributions recoeiv ed. G. 11. McMASTER, See. Our Federal .Policy-A Voice fron Alab3am a. The politicians of South Carolina have hitherto failed to move the popu lar heart to any earnest, enthusiastic support of their measures ; which is proof to us, that their measures have been unsuited to the emergency. They have misohievously meddled with existing parties in Federal poli. ties, and have particularly incensed the party in power against the whites of the South, when they should have been neutral, and inaugurated, as has been done in Virginia, by a pasFive support of the Government, a Federal policy of ouir own. The Republica.n party would have sooner disintegrat ed than it is even now doing, had we kept aloof fromt fierce opposition to it, and let the Yaukees bury it of them solves ; and the Constitutional Party that will succeed it, would in that ease, sooner have come into power. NOW we like this about the Union movement in this State most particu larly, namely, that it will force us, if it be continued, (and we see nulla vev figia retror-sum) boa Feder al policy of our own, other than Radicalism, and other than Democracy. The State press andl politicians have, for a year, received our opinions on this subject most coldly. lBut they have attract ed the attention of one of the most true, the most independent, and the most original of Southern papors. the Mobile Tribune, which, in a late issuo quotcs and comments favorably upon the central idea of all that we have written on this subject. Why, we can only re peat it earniestly, why can . not reasonable men see, that we of the South should keep to ourselves, and have a Federal policy, ether than that of Nort,hern factions, of our own ? The Lie Commendatory. That man has lived to little pur pose, who has not discovered that a lie1 often commends the liar to favor, in fluence and power. Such was Grnnt's F'e, in the service of Radicals, in the Stanton-Johnson imbroglio. It was a memorable specimen of the lie comn. mendatory. The lie of Churchill to Janmes 11. of England, which lulled that monarch into false security, laid the foundation of lis (afterwards the Duke of Marlborough's) fortunes. Again, do we not all know that many women would averfiow with delighted vanity, if it came to their knowledge thtat, through a desire to pleas. them', some man of social position had lied 'bbth 'diteotly and indirectly ? And y46lere, in South Carolins, Is the1 prq9s,parder tlye lead of General M. 0. lJutler.proving, with-some enthu siam, a lie,-most clearly,. on R. K. Sott I Do they,limagine it will shake the negr'oe vote to de It ? We tell them, no. Prove the lie, prove that lhe said thus and thus to General Mamptob and two others, -while say ing the contrary to Negroa. a it rill only be another feather in his wi ap, a lie ittdeed, but a ie commen- Ci latory. "Governor Scott., will the be larkies grin and say, "know bow and wi vhen to lie, to fool dem Bukra." wl knd Governor Scott will, therefore, vo >e exalted in their estimation. se 4udeed, we lay it down as a fact th hat history testifies to, that to lie at t h be right time is often a successful " olioy. Good Queen Bess earned hat title of "Good" by the most sys ematic and the nost successfutl lying. ugus'us (.e ir, by lying, bectme ',he Father of his Country." Lie tr uccessfully, but knock down the man th o proves it on you, is as good prac- "e ical advice as any that lachiavelli r Roohefoucault ever gave. We are vi tot j.'king. What we assert is true, ot, nd consistent with our convictions of he tunan weakness, sellishness, wicked tss and depravity, Fe.stina lente, " berefore, when proving a lie on an f,", 'pponan' or a rival. Beware of the of ie commendatory. In . 0 0 - r4 Success. This word, success, is almost inva- l -iably used, as we have used it above, I' n what we have written upon "The all Lie Connondatory," in a low, mate- ee ial and sensual sense. Vice does, in t"r his sense, often prosper, and "flour- Pa ci sh as a green bly-tree." Treason ?ery often gets its thirty pieces of rc ilver, and a lie at the right time, is g; 'requently mouesne es ful than truth. ti Virtue, on the oth, r had, must, in ti to present state of t ril, very often m )ear the ero,s of temporary deprev- ul ion and failure, in order to wear the irown of triumphant glory in the end. W - . ~ - -- 01 tesnling the Colored People's Money. b The money which the present cor- Y, -upt Scott Ring has been stealing, tnd will continue to steal, is not the B rhite people's money, but the color- at id people's money. The white peo. ile have been forced to pay it as tax- ti s into the Treasury, to educate, it is lo aretended, the colored people, and to uy them lands. But the thieves in m )AIIce steal it from the colored people, di mtd put it in their own pockots. This lt a a view of the subject, which every h' itizen should converse about. It is at heir money that is being stolen from in he colored people. fa -- --*. +.-- '- tii [bedienace Mie Condition of fo 'Power an Freedou. hi The individual who rashly violates omo plain law or condition of health, t asometimes pitied as unfortunately ig- to torant, but never c,>mmended as ne mourageonsly wise. Indeed, there is re io manliness in any voluntarily igno- gc "ant course of conduct. If anybody a! >urns charcoal in the middle of a close room, to warm himself, we consider tU aim a pitiable fool, if he ignorantly A boes so, or a reuckleus suicide, if he l leoes so intelligently. Any plain die- N egard of well-known principles of physical existence, is not considered fas urise, or brave, or wanly, but foolish, A rash, or criminal. But so s'on as weo advance into the phere of political life, where there ire laws and conditions as fixed as tr hose of phy sical life and health, and T raots as firm and unyielding as the ei i'erlasting granite, men seem to fai- m 3y thamt they show courage, pluck, g pirit, heroism, &c., in making (to use plain speech) plain fools themselves by cc mnpotent obje:ction to thorn. There ire men still rebelling against the faLct s f emancipation, aod the fact of no- fa ;ro-suffrage, and indulging the vain te Ielusion that theso facts will ever be >therwiso titan fixed facts, necessary , tonditiona and regulative laws of i southern political life. As well sa utight a millwright refuse to yield as- f oent and obedience to the fact and ml aw of gravitation, as a Southern poll.i. ician hope to exist hereafter who - hi iores those "accomplished facts." a 1th~ rider recognition of which, and a >roader comiprehension of whose sig- ri tificance, will be the one certain good iT lbat must resualt from the present can Thanks Dune to Wilttennore. It is difficult to determine which of ar he two men has dlono the Southern ?eopie mrost serviee in the last (Jon- ol ~ress, Sawyer, by lis virtue, or Whit- .i emore, by lisa vice. We rejoiced 4,' ver the latter's prominence in the r ladical noninating Convention, and of re trust "dat de man dat steal money romn de buokra, to gib de colored as olk" will continue to be kept promi. p enutly in the foreground of so. otlled econstruotion. Road what the pa. la >ers at the North are saying of our cc >eet, or at least our next best friend. )bserve the reaction in our favor, if tr to will only let it alone. o Whaose Fault It Will Die i , The praotioal quostlon to be dccl- in led in this canvass is, not whether we 0 ,onld have chosen Carpenter and Butler originally, but 'vhether we t ites had done their duty in North rolinn, Holden would never have on Governor of that State. And it 11 be our own fault hore, if 63,000 tites cannot got 13,000 blacks to to with them Do we see the eon. r nencOs of defeat ? It is to "find in a lowest deep a lower deep still reatening to devour us." THE WAR IN EUROPE, Latest Advicos. F1.oinrNCE, Augut I-P M.-The ,aty between France and Italy for o evienation of Rome hus been inpleted. Italy guarantees order in )I0. It is asserted thLt the Pope is ad. +ed by some to go to Malta, and by bers to remain at Rome. It seems has decided to tenain in Rome. The Roman police seized a quantity arms s'tcreted in the city. LONDON, August 2.-Dispatches >m Saarbruck report no important eration along the entire line. A rgo body of French is moving on >rbach. Replying to questions, Gladstone id, in the 11ouse of Conmmons, the licy of the government was not one ormed neutrality, but of friend. ip to both combatants. Ile declar that the obligations of the Vienna oaty ended with the German em ro. The government was doing erything to enforce the observance neutrality, but British power was stricted to British waters. All le I1 restraints had been imposed on e sale of coal. Advices from Prussian sources men. an the prevalence throughout Ger any of unwavering assurance of tinate victory. London journals appeared to-day ithout a word from the rival armies I the Rhine. Active recruiting for marine service s been ordered at English dock irds. The impression prevails that the rival of the French fleet in the nltie at once prevented a Prussian vance through France to Paris. Many encounters with scouting par. es occur along the lines. The Times of this morning has a ng editorial on the prospect. The riter thinks delay in military move ents on both tides is ascribed to the moralization of the troops, from ving been moved by rail. The eonnh also delayed on account of the :sitation of the South German States, d is now necessarily confined to the rrow ground of Saar valley. In et the entire preconceived plan of e Emperor has been altered by un rsoen circumstances of this sort, and is acted probably to form a now one. The 7'imes argues that the arm of e French, (the chassepot,) on account its fouling speedily, will be found be infinitely less efficient than the edle gun, and the difference in this spect will probably be sufficient to vern the result of the war. uorr:N HA GErN, A ugust 2.-Denmark d Sweden are in accord on the war. lAnis, August 2.-The Figaro says e government refused the offer of molrican General Sheridan to- serve the army. No news proper to be made public. o battle yet. There are serious apprehensions of mine oni the Rhine. Thme Opinion ationale of Paris says, in this eon otion, to avoidi impoverishuing the cene of war, Napoleon draws subsis noe from distant points by rail. Rlo:ie. August. 2.-Italy is concen ating troop,s on the Rome frontier, he Frenich cha.zSeurs left Civitai Vec ia .yesterday. YiIuNA, Auigust 2.-Austria is ohilizing 50,000 men to watch the ahommi in1 frontier. Unlas;.q, August 2--Noon.-A rnrespondlent of the JIndependence de writing from Nfetz assorts that e first great hat tie will he fought .turday or Sunday next, Monday at rthest. The undersoores thue sen. nee following, viz: "'fThis issu Mwrz, August 4,--T'he miirralloura S;'arbruck were very effective. me Emperor ordered the orTicer ini arge not to use thiem untleSS neces ry as the Prusians had sought re se in prairics. Afterwards a detach. ant was seen sixteen hmudred metres stant, arid through its divchaurges It their number were left en the Id. A second detachment shared C same fato, lioNnDoN, August 4.-Prince Frede. ik Charles is sick at Odelburg. The Papal Committee in France, eland. Holland, and lBelgiium are ising recruits for the protection of e Pope, The bank rate has advanced to six. it is runmored that the Bavarians e sverse to fighting for Pru4sia. PEasTHi, August d.-Diel has de mred in favor of neutrality. BaERLIN4, A uguut 4.--Officers in this by have accepted the heavy wager ecred by Thomas of Paris that the onoh would be in Blerlin by the 15th August. The Prussinushave a hundred thou nd reserves from Berlin. Forage is searee on the Rhine. The -uissian horses are suffering. WaroN, August 4.-Up to the test hour no war news has been re. ived here. PAn 1, August 8.-The Johurnal Of ici this mboruiing says that the French ar.ps, who to the number of 7,000 8,000 were engaged in the affair fore Weissenburg, had to contend th two Prussian army corps, luelud g ')tokod troops of the Prussian uard. The .Journal adds: "In spite the inferiority of their numberm, ir regiments resisted the assaults of e enemy for several hours with ad. irablo here.ism. wizen the.. wrfe ed to give way. The loss of the ene my was so severe that he did not daxe to pursue. While at Saarbruok we have broken the Prussian liuej our own remains intact. La Liberte of this, morning publish" es a private dispatch, sent at mid night last night, from Strasbourg, re porting that McMahon beat the Prus. sians yesterday evening. The atter ovacuat,ed Weisseuburg. Telegraphio communication with Weissenhurg has been re-established. La :ibcrte says McMahon moved yesterday towards Weissenburg. He was but two hour iaroh front that point, and his uen marched at the quickstep Be has between 60,000 and 70,000 men. To day there will be about 150,000 men eoncentrated near Weissenburg. The loss of the Prussiann in the ic cent engagement reached 10,500 in killed, wounded and prisoners. The Frenoh forces defend 'ng the town were but 8,000 or 10,000, while the attack ing force numbered fully 40,000 - The enemy was so severely crippled that he could not follow the French when they retired, The Prussian General was wounded. The French soldiers fought like lions. The loss of the enemy was 7,000 hora du combal. EVENINo.-The enthusiasm of the people over the favorable reports from the frontier is indescribable. LONUoN, August 6.-The veesel captured by the French proves to be the Laman, from Wilmington, North Carolina, with a cargo of turpentine. Latest advices from the seat of war concur in the statement that Marshal McMahon is advancing and now holds a strong position on the Bavarian frontier. The entire French line is kept in communiction by means of an underground telegraph. Torpedoes have been sown thickly in the channel of Weiser. A correspondent of the Indepen dent B"lge suy. the affair at Saarbruck was a mere farce. There is great popular impatience in Paris at the delay in oporations on the frontier. The fortifications of Antwerp and Hamburg are being put into a com pleto state of defence with all possi ble haste. Saltpetre, in large quan. tities, has been ordered from India. Bismarck's organ at Berlin now ap proves of England's observance of her neutral obligations. The English pilots have been for bidden to serve the bellig rents. 8.30 P. M.-The Globe, on undoubt ed authority, says a great battle, in which many bodies of troops were en gaged, began yesterday, but was in terruoted by darkness. It was resum ed early this morning, and continued until 7 o'clock this evening, when vic tory was declared for the French. Similar runiors are current in Paris, affecting the Bourse. The conflict between MeMahon and Crown Prince of Prussia, already men tioned, was, apparently, thecommence. ment or the struggie. 9.30 P. M.-The following dispatch has just been received here: "W rIsSaNnUUa, via BxsR.iN, Aug. 6.-The Prince Royal has defeated Marshal M Mahon. There is an of. cial renort of' the victory for the Crown Prince" BEiRLIN, August 6, 't,ia LONDoN, 10.30 P. M-The Pr-ince Royal tele graphs the following bulletin from the field of battle: "A victorious batte has boon fought near Worth. McMahon was totally beaten. The French retired upon Blit.sche. "(Signed.) 'PRDERrC!C WILLIA1II, "Prine Royal." MuNrccu, Auenst &.-IBavaria has voted a loan of 2,000,000. TunRN, August G.-There were seri ouis riots in (Geneva yesterday, aris ing out of certami criminal trials. Two mnen were killed. VrsNsNA, A ugust 6.-General Turn publishes a letter to prove that Bis Beagek wa, in 18G0, ready to abandon Beguoand Luxemnbourg to France. Sisadthat Tlurn was prompted to make this publication 1,y his friends in France. S-r. PEiTERSBlURO, A isgust 6.--The Journsal, in a ieaiding article, strongly symnpatizesa with Belgium, and urges thme nmaintenances of Belgium's neu trality. NVews Etems. W AsuING TON, A ugust 6..--It was General A bel Douay, the infantry comnmandlAr, who wa-i killed at Weis senhburg, and not General C.- Douay, the Genera! commanding the division. RAr,KrOJ, August 6.----Eleootion re. turns received to-day condrw the pre vious opinion expressed that the State has geono Democeratio by 5,080 to 15,. 000 majority, Oswxoo, August 6.--The tug Tor. nado exploded to-day killing the Cap tain and three men. Mae-het Repos ti. NaW Yonxc, Aug. 6.-Evening. Cotton dull and declining ; sales 600 bales; uplands 19J a 19&. Gold 21}. LJIVKsrIoor., Aug. 6.-- Cotton qalet; uplands 7j; Orleans 85 ; .sales hO, 000 bales, * A GnAC*FIJL 'CHRIsIAN AcT. miim with the dlaughter of' the Prussian .Ministetj . a. Washington. Miss Goroit is a devout Oathollo, and being a uiomber of St. Mlathew's Churoh,at the N'fo~inal CApitol, she decorated the altar .of the Church with flowers on the occasion of the funeral ceremonies of M. Provost Paradol, not withstanding ho Was the representative of the monarch who had just dleclared war upon the coun try of which her own father Is the Minister. ThIs was a graceful Chris. tian at..- char?cso Crir. To Governor lolden. TIi,I.8nono', August 3, 1870. Governor Holden,-You say you will handle me in due timt. You white. livered miscreant, do it now. You dared me to resist you, I dare you to ar rost me I am htre to protect my fami ly ; the Jacobins of your eknb,, after shooting powder in the face of Mrs. Turner, threw a fivep.owud rook in her win.low, which struck near one of my children. Your ignorant Jacobins are incited to this by yoig Lying of0iges attuinst me-that r ani king of the Ku. kltx. You villain, come and .trroet a man, and order your secret clhls not to molest. wonein antd children. Y tmrs, Waih emtempt and deostnce-habeeas corpus or no ha1 s. corpus. JusrAu TURNRn, JR. r lrlitor of the Italeigh &atinel.J Htolden is a hardened villain-a bold. unbinshing vlator of the Constitietion and sheddtir of imnocent blood ; yet he is a better charecter than Chief Justice, Pearson, who is simply a cotetmptihle. cowardly tool of a tyrant.-Richmond Dicpatch. [Mr. Turner was arrogted on S.ttur day ist by Holden-Kirk.] CADET-BROKER WHITTaMORE. The prominent part taken by ex-Con-n gre:+aman Whittemoro in the recent radienl Convention attracts the atten., tion of the Northern press of all par ti's. Says the New York Herald: "In South Carolina, Gov. Scott, by the grace of ex-Congresisman Whitte more, has been nominated for Gover nor." The New York World saya: It appears that the cndet-broker Whittemore took entire charge of the South Carolina Republican State Con vention on Thursday last. It was Whittemore who decided which of the delegates were duly elected ; Whitte. more who framed the platform "in dorsing President Grant's administra tion;" and Whittemore who nomiinat ed the candidates for the coming race. In one word, from its bead to its tail, the whole Republican party in south Carolina was incarnated in this con vioted and twice-branded cauet--ell. ing, carpet-bag Congressman , and so decided a prominence on the heels of his second rejection by the House seems to indicate that, just in propor tion as any man becomes degraded in general estimation, just in that pro portion does he rise in the estimation of those rice-field suffragans who form, with some Whittemoreish white men, the Republican party of South Caro lina. This fellow was driven from the House for plain theft, and his con stituents sent him back; tho House spurned him from its threshold, and, lo ! he rises still higher in South Carolina Republicanism, and from a simple Congressman becomes the great head-centre of the party through. out the State. LISLIE AND THE LAND-CoM1sI01. -The following is from a member of the Batnwell bar. The Journal says: When you tell a lie lot it be a good one ! Mr. Editw : I have read Mr. Leso lie's letter of the 24th instant, pub lished in the Courier. In Book V. V., pages I00-2-3, Register's office, the following deeds. are recorded : 6th day of September, 1869, a tract of 330 acres of land, to C. P. Leslie, Land Commissioner of the State of South Carolina, for one thou sand three hundred and ten dollars,. ($l,3l0,) from I. N. Teague, Probate 6th day of September, 1869,a tract of five hundred and twelve aeres of land, to C. P. Leslie, Land Commnis sioner of tbe State of Sonth Carolina for two thousand dollars, (.$2,000,) from W. A. Nerhaind, Clerk of Court, 0h the margin is te following note: 'These deeds were sent to C. P. Lea. lie on the 20th St.ptember, 1869. Mr. Leslie hid these tracts off at~ thne sales in person, and sent the mon, ey by express to pay for them. A Mr.EMBEn or -1ne BAn. In his remark4 at Pickens., Gen. B-.tler made the following obarge against Goy. Scott. HeJ said : "I charge. that shor..ly precedent to the last Presidential election, Gov. Scott said to Gen. Hampton, and two other gentlemen, that he not only wished the State to vote Democratic,. but would use his influence to that, end ; and that he was tired of the negroes, and would make enough of them resign their seats in the Legia. lature, so as to give the white men 4 majority in that body." W/*haa is the reply of his Excellenb cy to this? Lot Ase have some light upon this episode of theo oanip.aigh o 1808. The matter will Pieregyrlid with interest alike by the- Governor's supporters and by persons gfenerallyi Can it be that this light ofh.idlallsa and special friend .of the' negroweri ready, had the scales turned 'for Soy, mour and Blair, to 6etr'ay thoee who hadl put their, trust in him." Wizat is the' trtoth ? Gen. Butier refers to Gon. Hainpton tnd two oth. or gentlemen, as patrtles to this affah' Governor Sott will be expeoted to meet this damaging disclosure-a. die ejosuro that must have Its efoect upob his blind anid misguided adherentp,. Paix. SOOrr's STooK IN TRAria1 R4eai 'that ho tnade particulat edqiries a, f6 the amount of Docitor, R. . Sdo'tt) Property when he cam. t'o udA CarQ. Imin, and had ascertained that it conuse ted of aun old broken dos,n horsed.ahte at $11.26, and a' ditta ebaleS' valued at $3. From thia espiLa! aff his salary of *3,500 per anum lie had managed to ma ke over $130,000 by his own confession, mn sixteen monthe. He asked how, in the name of common sense could ho do this auud be hanest.? Loud cheering and laughter.-Carle.