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Desportes, Wilhiams & Coi Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquiry, Industry and Literature[ per Annum, In Advance. VOL VI.] WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 24,1870. 'I1I14 FAIRFIELD HERALD is. 'ti.iiS iF.1) W -I-:KILY nY )ES POT'L'EiS. W ILLI l IS & (0) T Aerm'a.--Tnat liea.t. is put,lihied wek in the 'To vn of Wiunnbero, it 93.00 in vmreablg ins advance. t,y- All transout adYrtisentnts to be panid in advRie. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1.00 per [Coltutbiat Cor. Charleston Nowd.] Tfho Liinul Ring, ColiuD.na, A ugust 14. The land cotmi.sin ..till lives, and its operations have lost notO of their interest. In the absence of nil official reports, faets are reporting them selves. They co110 forth in spite of every efTot to veil, dibgnise, or to distort thein. They como in figures and in form. We are getting them from the monrtains and the 'seaboard. As to the mountain regions, several lively rum"irs havo been afloat r"oec'nt ly of Edai sold to the State, through 1 the aigenciy of 0one 1r. Cotch ran. TheIa reply of the auti-loforniers was, Why niot i WhIy shiould Mtr. Cochranm sel lanis to the State ?-aad tho answer Was sufliciert. But others went far ther, and as.serted that Orovernor Seott adti ( (:ner;t I; al i c ntarisoi 1 h o! sold s oe of these hld.4 to Mr. ("0chr-3n for him1 to sell to the State. The reply of the anti Reformers was the ,tsual one Democratic insinuatimos !-fabrica tion of the Reformcrs !-all bush ! But it won't do. Froml Anderson, Oconee and Pick ens, there OcOmo definite voices. lFig ures and faots in form conio ponring ziu liko suushino upon the veiled f We are told that Mr. .Jon Cochran solI to the land coin i,. ion four tracts of land in A aderson Cuinty, ioasur iig r, spet,ively 185 "L2e, 2L ar, and 261 acres-which la 7i'2 :i ir.. s --for $5 an acro ; that 1.e sold in O.o nee live tracts of 1015, 193, 37. I :>4, and 261 ---in all 2010 atirce.--at 6 +u acre ; and t.hat. he1 sold in Pickens bix tracta of 428. 327, 363, 40, 135, atnd 210--in al 1503 aureu--at $3 5) an aure. Tteo afifteen tincas aggr.gute 4285 ares of land in those three counties sold to the State ff)r $21 18U 50. The purchases weto cowipleted on Frida y, (unalucky day !) the 2Uth of i\l ay, I870 ; -tind abcott that same d.ate threc drafts were diawn in favor of IL John Cochran--three drafts of nearly 1 equal size. Why were thes d raft s so i.e',arly eqial ? ''hny lire suiii to he ?.7u00, $70U0, and $602(2. 1'aere is a btalaee .till ; but that is ntot of in t rest. Now, we have all htard --anrd these gentlemen do not deny, because they have explained it--that a large portion of these lands, if not all. was tol to t1 r. Cochriatn by Gorernaor Scot t, tion of the latter gentlemal appoeari. to have been rogular ; that, is to say, it appears that he, made a rogtrlar sale of his portion to Mr. Cuobran in the first instance. He, of coura;e, had a right to do so.. hibs .xellency, huw..t ever, appears to ha,vQ first otried bia portion direct-ly to the lanld commiis Sion. Will TIreastnror Pa rkor toll us Shaat Compitroller-Goeral Neagle said wbnhm Li.s E.ioollenoy naade this ofTer of sale to the advisory board?i Didna't lao say it wouldn't do ? And was not Sthe samoi lands then sold to t ho lanad co11mmission in the nlatme of John1 Coch But Govcrnor Sooti. is thae, friend of the negro, anad he wants tu benesfit thaat race by selling lands to the land comi mission. ,Then, isn't ii.-l i.Qj 1:0. iaarkable that his Exelleney's -land. lie nrear the mountains, where there are very-few- Wegroes to buy'- lands?t in the figures above-it will be ob served' that the Oconeo lands-the largest number of aceres, that is 2010 aeres-ArO sold-for- the Iaigest prioa; to- wit,'$6 ah noroe W ill -- Attorney--ed1eral Chamber lain ddny the fatct that Governor Scott urged -thaepuroh1kso. - f thesd Coobran lait ina time aUtisea'y board '1 We ask-the editor'ol -the Keowee OJwise'to (ell=uiwhether theoe lainds, in the' masket;"Wbold- average $1 ana aore, or $2 an adr. if we subtracot $14,000 fromh $21,. 180), we 'shall havo $7180, which woruld be a little over $1 50 ah noid .IabMrdmina. -UotsAiu. UItp tQ a very 'oochat period, we havd had bttlittle hope of seeing the doe'eat of (lie Rad.ical party in Sonth Ciarolina at thyecomaing fall o.leotione,. IiS thi,s' nyte,howeyor, our-.mind& is changed., We nowathaink thaat.a bpid, vigoroup. and unaitod strugglatmun the, part rf..tho.whito.,poop,lu will rodetn the SayL~ .,4r0)0 WOe) putofov.ardl *.as the 11'rfOf .Soubica 0agtyp ropatuipp as,,would sel,an ty. paKty1na th.0, world'. Thiolr, ve.I)ality;nnld anD. blIushig ffrgory-ins wiyke,dtosu,hn alarmed an~d seandalized the whole Rb4ubltbanaparty.' Thoir mnosi itMlt e~ mid.journ'aalematithe i Nortli hibW'e dte o di um,bg.roading!thnm toubs.t.Murioa: Creae,at a ,a e a. ,. a e -WCs4Pf op1atsdrds kinomo6Wahitii to satisfy the soul than the light of ti Labor the Road to ludependence. There was recently given in the pa pers an account of a farm- sixty nile boond .'t. PIatl, M inteotse, whiuh i: worked by se-von sisters, whose pa rente, both invalids and very poor went from Ohio to Minnos'ta barol3 three years ago for their health. UN. der the homaetead law the famil3 secured i pre-emiption claim of th( usual hundred and sixty aores ; theii neighbors helped them to put up a li house, and they were able to hir< men to split rails for fencing and t< plough the land. All the rest of tb work it is said, has been done by the seven girls, and laot year they sold nine hundred bushels of potatoes, fiv( hundred bushels of corn, two hundred and lifty bushels of wheat, and sone six hundred of miscellaneous vegeta bles. Thoy are now confortably off, These tacts atre not mentioned for the purpose of teaching that sttoh >Ccupations are suitable to womeu says the laltimiore Sun,) though con rary to Anierican ideas as they may o, they are more becoming, from the tonest spirit of indNpendence which lictated them, than the exhibitions nude in Wuian's Rights Conventions. [ndeed,if those oratorical females who ire most clamorous for their rights, vould give some such proof of their >apa city to do the work of men as the \linnesota wo oneu, they niiht demand ith more show of equity the privi oge of suffrage, which, however, the even girls of Minnesota do not seen 0 be concerned about. Mrs. Stauton tud her coadjutors would look upon a 'amily like that as available for some rotas, but they themselves treat their nembors more practically, as good 'or "nii,e hundred bushels of potatoes, he hundred bushels of corn, two hun Ired and fity bushels of wheat, and owe six hundred of miscellaneous ,egetablcs." And the most of the minlous and materializing male sex votald look with more a pproval upon ucth sutaautial rusults than. upon all he oratory wasted upon female suf rage by all the mtasculine wonlon and etioine men in the United States, tow Abby Kelly to Theodore Tilton. The valuable ces.:ou, however, to be lerir(el from the abov is that, if a anily of women on accomplish in wo )e.4rs such results as these, the ble-bodied, loaling persons, by cour esy called men, who infest, the older ourtion', of the country, and seem to otplain that I0ho world o wes them a iving whet her they earn it or not., or ,vho petorin sucht light duties 'as itld as well be performned by women, night. prove that they were born for ,ome other purpose than to consume Ie fruits of.the aiatlb. Thore is a .alI for .labor even in thoso parts of 1e country whore land can not be ad gra tuitously, and such is the de n.tud in soite portions of our own state, Virginia and ot,her parts of the autlh, that by industry and "teonomy it energt;tic man tight, soon be in a nositiohl to becomo the owner of a Parm, or at least sufficient land from vhieb to wrest a living. Indepen. icuce is.within sure reach, from small Leginnings, by thoso determined tc iccotplish it, both in the ogricultural egions of our own section and the West and South. It is st.rango, in v'iew of the increasing density of city populations, andi the future *decreate f wu'ages that may be thet restult, ma. ay p eons;do not seek indepenoee hteakt a aid comfnort in agricultura] Tm .Orrosmo NOasrnA EaRs.--Ta( Prussiaa~ seeme to be proving the ~ruthragaum ot' what was exoniplitned n out war-that young mena are the esat genieral8. Prince Wrederick IVil. tiam, "Old Fritz," whto administered ~o the ',eteran bleMahon such a whip. ping on Saturday, is but thirty-nine eaurs of age. His cousin, Frederick Dharlea, who comimands the right of the armty, is forty..three, and is believ. ed by mrany authorities to,bo the best mtiittary strategist in the world. Thme remainder of' the.Prussian comman Jers are gener2ally, wvell advanced in yemys-Von J3ittenfield ad Von Stein. met;, the latt'er of whomn won the vie' to'y at daarbrucken, having 9nabb marched into Paris with the victori ais allies in 1815. The French have not a young Utnan in a prominent posi. lion, if wve except Trochu, reently masde Major-General of the army. The Army and RNavy .Journal two wooks -ago spredicted that he ,would wit .the laurels of the war, and be now has ani opportunity to shOw him ibility in releasing the French army frem; its disastrous posfition. ... Taui PRANIN ov l 00 Co?I'Att Hunanda, -On the 1906h >( h?ig last Williami lLernandeoz received afi uipb6init mnenttas speL'lal constmable unidor State iJotbG ftbhard, 'at Ltee dollAr a da, anij t'nhle 22d o jl.HLnfj 16tNaf last'hlbbtl'Amo t' o thd'vt and Wd:lihir&ihHerb WasifeoTtIAy itn the tPensary,4bbut 9ha't he had boyrow4md 12~ 00004,"1nd 6u13 pay'tbht $4f0 eneh fdi the whole Limo tljey had l oen eino'10%4 w hile fri- .dt"$g0 'to' 1 V', was d onh ofilbom ; anid then discliarged.tflij hubbard ;LAsEthus ibespdadV dof t f,r dischiating Vhett in with6tftpay thetm- C/arleston News. Mclz as an Obstacle to a Prussian Ad. vaCce. Should the French army now con cettrated in ftont of Metz be defeat ed in a getcoral-ngageaient, and -fa back upon the Vosges Mountains, or should it voluntarily retiro to the mountains, the road to Paris would be open to the Prussians. Before an advance could be made, it would be necessary to reduco Metz. And just hero the Germans would encounter their first difficulty. Mets is the strongest fortress in Francoe, and Is regarded as impregnable to anything butr starvation or voluntary surrender. In 1552, the Constable Moutmirency gained posse.si.n of it by stratngem. Charles V, Emperor of Geinmany, im mediately after besieged it; with an army of 100,000 mun. At the end of ten mronths, he raised the siege and retired, having lost 30,000 of his force in a fruit.less contest. The piesent fortifications of Mets vero planned by Vauban. It may be .voll to say here that the city i4 seated on the Moselle River, at the junction of a small stream called La Seille. The population is nearly 70,000. The city is entirely surrounded by fortifi cations, so constructed that they can he defended by 10,000 men or by 100,(00. Several forts, crossing each other's fire and sweeping the sur rounding country for miles, arc situa ted at intervals around the place. One of the most important of these is called l3tle Croix, and is regarded as a chef 'dcenvre of military construe tion. Next in strength comes .La Double Coironne, an immense work, surrounded by a triple ditch filled with water. in addition there is the groat redoubt of Le Pate, which can be converted into an island by closing the sluices on the Seille. About three hundred guns of heavy calibre are moutntc1 on these works. There are, besides, bastions and redans for.light artillery. A fourth grout fort is said to have been construoted quite recent ly, which, if true, adds greatly to the st.rengt.h of the city. In fact, when it is borne in mind that to roach the fortifications it will be necessary for an assailing force to cross two ditches, fifty fett wide by eighty deep, the impos,ihility of carrying Metz by storm will be perceived. Further. tuore, the waters of the Seille can be raised twenty-four feet,. flooding, the surrounditg country so as to form a lake six miles in extent. Ordinarily the garri,"on of Metz numbere about ,15,000 mon. Should the French army uncover Paris, we suppose that a force of 25,000 or 30, 000 tun, without including the Garde Mobile of the city. would be left to defend it. And here, as we said above, the troubles of the Prussians begin. Nothing -short of treachery, cowardice or starvation is likely to reduce Metz. 'I'Tenty thousand men can defend it against any force that can possibly be brought on to Paris, leaving it behind, and are defeated in a general engageonent, they could only retreat back to Germany by cutting their way through the garrison which would by this time have sallied out to. oppose them. It is true that they could leave a corps to watch the city, but tiis would weaken the main army aind expose this corps of observation to ai suidden and disastrous defeat from tiho French. Strong Language fromt a Republican Source. Tlhe following strong language is from the editorial columns of tho N. Y. Times:. Th aoe ad tactics. of Gov. Hot den's organ,. the Zialeigh ,St4ndard, arc simply infaiziopus. It sits prpose were to provoke .civil war, it could not be conducted dlifferenxtly. Riefer ring to Judge Brooks' iaame of a, wtit of habeas corput in behalf of. sane 4( the prisoners whom HoQld,enJ's inait, Kirk, keeps in nilitaryostywil otthrwarat that the Governor'si arbitrary will, the Standard uses this language. "Is Judge Brooks ready to involve the people of North-Carolina in civil *ar ?: Does he.eupp.so Gov. HIolden will recede before 1im K~ ,iThie Governor will'not' recede' until, ,the Federal Army is used agaat hi ; and the Federal Armye will., n9t le used a gainot him. .We aro on the eve of civil war, anid when it begiou. all the blood and all the'h6erors of' it will be ou the aldrtop o.f Judge J3roolis." Wec suspeot that Hold en's desige is to provoke the state 6f, t ings hefrprer thg Demoores. togooure a teriump, ip the ladte electIoii h wqulid now ,pre-, eipit'age tJhe.6,ate into civik pat gt he may obtain, pretszs fpr ~anokC:g Cop essi onfdler orenes. Sb~r1 ahd be altone, is to . 'o O4o~p j s.j~ Judge Orr's Posiliou, Jude Orr advances a singular id-a, for which we nust allow hit, not. :ie eredit of originality, but the niorit of a nice, new and popular setting, aItlougl grotesque enough to those who look beyond the surface. 1In substauiially maintains that the Rr"publican majority i this State i'i unalterable This, when unalyzed, certainly means that the voters are blind, and will always vote blindly for party measures. And, by the way, this view of their voters as dependent creatures crops out very fre. quently in the speeches ttd talk of the Radicils. They think themselves safe for a long tonure of power, the chief reliance being upon the ignorance and immovableness of their supporters. It is the first time in political ivarfare that we ever heard of a necoossary, achan geable, stereotypo majority. Are men supposed to stand still-fixed to the spot-incapable of moving, t hinking and noting for themselves? We asure you, Judge Orr,t hat the color'd people cun ap. preciate argument, can sift stat enents, can examine and ponder the miserable fallacies which have so long deceived them. They desire, nowr--hundreds and thousands of then--to break away from those who would keep thelb in leading strings forever. They feel, keenly, the cursed slavery of the Leagues, ,tad know they are the pons where they are prepared, and, it may be adorned, for political sacrifice. The black element in the Radical party in this-State is now to a largo extent a grea',.seethiig mass of discontent. They know their lead ers-native as well as Ytnkee, scala wags, carpet baggers and - all -have iirossly deceived and phandered them. They have heard- though not -from Governor Orr-of the great swindle of the age-the Land Commission frauds -an outrage in which they are more concerned than any othet class, and from which they sul'ter most '.of all. They know their leaders seek always to demoi alize and corrupt them, ruling their necessitio iand through their weaknesses, and would sell the souls of every one of them, in the twinkling of an aye, into cternal ruin for a pitifAl piece of sliver. It is % mistake, fatal . huistake,. and a heinous wrong, to say that, the negro is a mere blockhead, in he p,*tetuaJly turned about and manipulated to suit the per sonal and party views of those who as pire always to manage him. Lot him, we say, come out from the Leagues, hear and weigh argument, assert his freedom and his matho,d, and vote for whom and ior what measures he may please. We have no fear of the result, if this be done. lie will seek, like all other good men, toieform abuses,' to check corruption to drive out of office those who disgrace it, and, in ieneral, will sensibly, peacealels arid quietly and will endeavor to restore the count.ry to prosperity and happiness. He is not to remain a stereotype, musty edi.ion of 6,ank, blind, unreasoning Radicnlisrn. We have now to take our leave of Judgu Orr. We have treated him with courtesy., We deeply regret his letter, for bis owiq sake and for tie sake of our good old mother State. It is a weak ehing, and a -e,ry wrong thing. It is a letter against his country and his corn trymen. Just when we must needed him, lie deserts us and our ge.id cause, and for.no,reason except our alleged wceaknets , Just when Radicalism has reached its aemie of. corruption, and when men, no le)nger able t.u stomuich or st.and it., are looking about for the un dlertaker. Judge Orr comes along with his battery and soeks to galvanria it into new.life.. Hie may give, it some .spasma~ more, it ma~y kick a while longer,. but its day of dopm is tixed, decomposi Lion has begtian, and iill the lettera and proipunciatntos~sof its old adhiar"nta and its new captives and coinverte mnjec ted jyao. it.s mtiseratble, ttenOt carcass con. not do more for. it tIhan increase the agonies anad-contortions of its dissolution, - Gusardiani. Dabt? 'tid H E T1OmoI Ti Ra.. yN oya Mtr' IN 2 ,* Mfan i pMnfntA re.edd.the 'gitmron th~'atA b 1%ffalo ,Lraick wati'shirL "of a mile'v ib'axtgr ninde his remarkable time of' 2:17*. So much talk was. had upon thre stibject thact th, mnagers do. termined (o1 have the track re-surveypd as accurate~ly as science couild perform the work. TPhis was done twoyar ago, and it 'was f'ounad that ihe track, in. stend'of being'short of a mile, was about thirty feet too long. It woul1d have beena thle duty of tl7o manajy'rs to' lengn hern the traek if It had been piroud1 aho'rt'of the ptoper ditance ; and iV irs jiust'as clearly ,their duty'to shorten-It he?n'the true-st4t.e of the cease was dietendedA This isidt4 tdesbf. 'Of ontb1 any hWfre 'th lrt14 b(,ir edixeris '1887 tinil%n 'i( Miit i% d a rIchl.y MEt.erVdIie.$204 'wktra" phnW 4 o 2:17* made bay Dexter on thisull'bl In 1887, a horse nbt"low:asket p 'Ci ev(V1'Aieet bbl@i ft9fb a ar ado de vars," Fort Sumter. To-day, ifany American were invitc to name the most interesting fortre, of his native soil, he would unheaitatinj ly reply, "Fort Sumter." It was th fort which initiated the American wa It was the fort, which, torn, disintegr ted and riddled by shot, defled, ft nearly four years, the utmost efforts 4 the Union to subdue it. It was the foi upon which the saucy Palmetto flags South Carolina, side by side with th ensign of the insurrectionary State: floated in triumph for some forty-fiv months. It was the fort, of which Colonel [Iarris--tho chie! engineer t General Beauregard-said, after it ha been reduced by the Federal tire fron Morris Island to a heap of rin "There is a major. generalship still I those riven walls if only a man knas how to win it." The words, caught ui by Stephen Elliott, one of South Caro lina's noblestsons, were by him so'tran lated into action that the "Gamecocl State" will cease to grow a bale of se island cotton or s pound of rice befor, the names of Major-General Stephoi Elliott and of Fort Sumter will be dis sociated from each other, whenever the story of the great rebellion is told. I was upon an angle of this fort that ome of the sons of a bitter enemy to Eng land-the Irish Irreconcilable, Johi Mitchel--was killed by it mortar shell It was the fort which demonstrated til inability of Federal monitors to cops with the shot of seven-inch rifles guns It, was the fort which, in more forcibb language than any of its Americat sisters, proclaimed that the lay of defen sive Castles made of brick and stone has departed forever. The Fort Sumet of the future will doubtless represent thi trii'.nph of earth and sand riveted witll iron as the choicest and most approva materials for defensive fortifications A merican ingenuity may not improbably discover some improvemnent or imitatiot of the Moncrieff carriage, which will be eniployed with the enceiite of the ner work. Bumt so long as the stprs an< stripcs shall flutter languidly in the sultrj snimmer breaze of South Carolina, then will not be wat.ting voices to tell how upon that spot commenced the grea transatlantic civil war NAPm.KON AS A Hox8sCMAr." Clarence Cook, in a letter to the Tr. buns," referring to the t.lk about Napo lion cu"mmanding the French armies ii person, srys : The talk is more bunkum, or as th< French would say, de la blague. fiis Majesty is strictly ordered by his doctors to abstain from mounting. a horse Only a:month or so ago lie reallyfell frotr hischarger from pain and the momen he got on the ground had a most alar iing fainting fit, which lasted for mor< than twenty minutes. -How is a mat in this state of health to sitt like Wel lington at Waterloo, for twelve houri without ever getting out the saddle ; ai like Napoleon's own rival in the comins campaign-William of Prussia--trom F in the morning till 5 in the afternoon 1 It is said that Eugenie has had a wonder fully. light.and strong carr'age toade foi her husband's use ; but even if this bt true, how is he to get across ditches 0 down sharp ilops"s in order to reach th points of the Geld from which a genera view of the fight may be best obtained No, it, is no secret in France, and thn first officer you meet will laugh if yom ask whether the Emperor is a goo< leader. "lIe caninot ride now," they say, "and as for his ability as a corn tnander in chief, demasnd.i c McMiho a. This means that at Magenta, duying,t,h Italiani campaign of '59, Napoleoni rod, in the~ wrong direction, and narrowj escoaped falling into the hand. of t,h Auistrians being rescued by a briflian charge of cavalry, headed by Gei M.\ahop, who is now on his way kbel from Algeria to take command .of a cr d'arme. That Judge Carpenter shonld l> abused by .h Ring is to be expected fo*r they fear him miore than they Wou:l ah i,tiy,e Carolinian, at w,he n .the, might mnake lheir stereotyped .flinig, "rebel." lint for any Caroiliau abuse hiim-p man who gives upg ,e$ and ertcounters qll which his pouitiol in this canvain involves, 'the: 0'rees detraption, and threats of assassit ttion arid q4xhausting toil, in order to give ti. strughlng people of th~is Statet lie advani tage of his antecedent political..pdy record, in wprismg out aretermedon p existing abuses -seems unnatural, ap) in.dicative of a loose scrow in the mienJ or sr.oral,oyganism of the .m1 's9.4~t fault. Andfo~r uuch g a trp a4(a um,4nl:qd record, to be~p4 th)rig~ pretending to speale m9ygj en} hI to pnsre~ feor th ; a A Ildd' W.The 54 T'ork IIera*;4f Tfiefi4WN1&h in ar e ntepe74:,r 4 ; [The most horrible 'domestie pdh An Ineldent In Stonewall's Campaign, d A gallant officer, who served in Stone i wall Jackson's conmand, relates the following, which I have tiever seen in e print. It is too good to be lost : r. At the battle of Port Republic in June, 1862, on the Sunday morning of r the engagement with Fremont's forces, ,f Gen. Jackson ordered the chaplains of a his army to held services in their reepec. t tive commands. When about ready to e open services, a battery of ar tillery of the Federal Gen. Shieldi' command took i position near the bridge crossing the river at Port Republic, the town being 1 in the fork of the river, near the jun.: tion. Jackson's headquarters were in town, a portion of h ' army on the op. posite side and just in front of Fremont's army ; Jackson was not apprised of Shields' artillery being nearer than Sthree miles until it opened fire on the bridge, trying thereby to knock it down, and prevent the crosbing of his entire army, leaving a force of only about 12,000 men to contend with Frenont's force of nearly 40,000 men, splendidly equipped. Jackson's keen perception tit once re cognized the predicament. his horse was at once saddled and the war-worn hero dressed in Federal unitform. Thus mounted he crossed tlle smaller stream, rode hurriedly up to the atilery which was very near the bridge, and in tho low ground near the river. Assuming the character of a Federal ofnotr, he com., manded them to "limber up"" and take their position on an ecminence near by that they might have a good means of escape, and. better command of; the bridge. 'Fite artilery commander, with. out hesitating, obeyed the order, during which time Jackson crossed the bridge, had a battery boon in possilion, apd cap tured Shields' artillery. The plan of destroying the bridge being understood by Ftemqptl he Qopienced a rapid ad vance on Jackson, who, so soon as the bridge was secure, turned upon Fro. mont, whipped him badly that day, cross. ed the river next morning destroyed the bridge, and . used up Shields more succeisfully than lie had Fremont. the Jay previods.-Newtoon (Ala) South crn Star. The eoonomical.reason for more diver. 1 sified orops are overwhelming in number 1 and force, and they derive no little r additional weight at the present time in I favor of food crops from the facts which we have above throwtt together, anthori. .ing is to anticipate prospective dearth, i suering and destruction. The moment i h&s arrivii1 when circumstanes add their force to the powerful appeal which sense and jndgement, social comfort and I pure home enjoyments have hitherto tiado in vain. It will he wise to lose no i time in giving this serious subject its proper consideration. The root and 1 small grains crops should be at once looked atter. We would urge large sowings of turnips, beet and carrots, E but especially of the former. Put in rye and barley in September, in careful. ly prepared l.ts, and sow the former even between the cotton rows in suitable ground. From the last of September to the first of December, sow wheat, pro paring the land carefully and using Wanelo or other good fertilirer. With in the sante period, sow heavy black ' winter oats in good ground. Look to thie food question, arud let man and beast be provided for in time.-Guardint. A S-rEA, Pr.ouat..-We clip the fol lowing fronm an exchange : Geniersal WVade Hampton has upon one of his planiptions in Mississippi, a steam plough which was manufactured at Lieeds, England, and ia now In practi cal operatioh. It consists of two porta ble engines, which ara so made that, they run themselves without the aid of horse power, and so entirely dispense with horses. Trhese enigines are placed at opposite tides of a field, and by tneans:of wIre cables draw a ganagof plougha from one side to the other. T ihie plough. cut, the soil much dgeper *ud qudeker, and, lagip1g aside thtcolt of the tmachin'ety, "at flhfih' lessf opense than the:hores' plooph, ai afra~terage, Sabput hG sereus pgr day. .The renames t re.s t~Ssfl sin ethsg w9rk. -Only A. few (lg ago one of them 'Carnie down frr ilaritAdieriwifth sI wagdr in' lumber over rough: roadva that' would have reggaired 24 horosa to do the same trork. * Thehte man is airong en6nklh not to begrudgeo the negro the opport,unity to show allI,hat he an, firly w in, and to ecal Ae Sihestacidiaion :of whieb hya agb We have n,o fes I$r te 4yE!Seded**sing*to loJa(Ohisi white. fai~sb~ lahidinsmto 6wIhhk 4& belon 1$a 44 ouhen6tgehipega4d lgal purwe 5u n y ea ~Oas et A Wonderful Parrot, Some years ago a parrot's cage hung in a baker's shop in the good old town of Salem. The parrot was a hand some.one, with gay plumage, and be ing given to saying very sharp and witty things, by accident or otherwise, was quite the pride and the attrao tion of the shop. But Poll, unfortunately, although a bird, had some human weaknesses, and the baker being only human, it sometimes fell out that they got into difliculty, quarrelled, you might even say, if the truth were to be told. Though as Poll had, for her own part, a forgiving disposition, and used, at such times after keeping dis. 3rootly quiet for a while, to come out. suddenly with some very wise or droll remark that set all the shop to laughl iug, these troubles ordinarily blow avur before long. It happened one day that the oily woighors came in, according to ous tom, to examine the baker's stock of broad, and ascertain whether it agreed with the weight proscribed by law. N)verything was found to be right, and the weigher was just about to leave the shop, when Poll, who had been arrowly watching proceedings from )otween her bars, cried out: "Light bread I under the bed I [Light bread I under the bed." The weigher, taking the hint, turn id, and passing into a back room he ound concealed under the bed a argo quantity of loaves of .light veight, which he immediately soizpd,. mposing also, a heavy flue on the hop. Ile was no sooner gone thnn thd >uker, in a rage, seized a dipper of tot water and throw it over tho par ot's cage. Fortunately, he was too ot.himself to ain well, and onl i mall part of it reached the luck esa' 'oil. That, however, fell upon er' uilty head, and took off all its bril.' iantfeathers; her especial pride. They did not grow again for a log Io, arid then in a ragged m iserablp' ray, and poor Poll seemdd to carry ho soar of her disgrace ' in her very' eart. She drooped and bung her rend, and seldom spoke, unless at tvilight, when she seemed to feel that kindly veil was thrown over her de '?rniity. 'lTi s hal been in this way for . !oar or moise, when one day a gentle nan cane into the shop who had lost inost all his hair, presenting a round, hiney pate, with only a very narrow im of curls around the back and term ,les. Poll looked earnestly at him, turn ng her head froth side to side, and rinked knowingly through her bare ntil he turned to go, when she oroakj d out in a sympathizing tone : "Been saying light 'bread I been aying light broad l" Not long ofter this It fell out that Poll was guilty of some misdemeanor which so entirely exhausted her nbaso' ser's patience that seizing her by the tead he wrung her neck and threw ier into the gutter for dead. But Poll had no idea of giving up or such a trifle ; she lay quite still or an jour or two until her injured eelings bad somewhat recovered, when, getting slowly and surely upon mer ugly feet, she began looking about ror consolation. She soon found It in the shape of some corn which had been spilled near by, and was comn. rortably picking It up, when ., lank, wicked looking cat got sight of her, Isad planned a new and lasti calanmity. Pollisaw her dra*e nearer and near er, one noiseless step at a time, but went on quietly with her corn, keep. Ing sharp lookcout, however, until jrg as the cat was drawing itself for a spring. Then ruffling up her feathera with a frightful puft, a:nd . making c dart toward the oat with .her bek she cried out in a. ter,lbk' voioe, "Scat,3you beast I .~ a With brne torrifled turn andr s;daahd tound4henceorner, such as baly4 easts a p.makeSn T1Abby didappested wfote vers~ atmd:the baker, who-had.watehwe 4 tho priooeediogs, was so firnsistibly ' amused that -het iaughed himself it' k o64nhtiore end' brlningigPelt in1 unghbeI upiin. heraea'eonoe n6ted' whetb,sha, feis,hed- her daga. without further seriou mi#fortune.o ' Attorndy-Gederal AhornIaui,in ohli forbatto > the other' 'day,' teensthed ihat the condition of North 10sebinb ' South Carolina, G-dePgIa, Florida ay indiend'of' aii bt:ot aitti ioh to hbW1evdiIO4e0I'foVtadiIerty 5494 Jiel4edi t& flvoad- 6tber for*ble 6titlols 4;i sfrP'I61' irgent 1eed of reform ads-, an3her band oS theow capaiga.