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Desportes, Williams & Co., Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquiry, Industry and Literature. [Terms---$3.00 per Annum, In Advance. VOL. VI.I WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, A IJGUST 31,1870. [NO. 11 THE FAIRFIELD HERALD Is rU3tsnFtiD WEE1KLT Vt DESPORTES. WILLIAMS & 00 Ternta.-Tu IIsRALD is publiKhed Week. in the 'own of Winnsboro, at $3.0 in reabl,y in adtvance. * All tansient sAdvertesments to be paid in advance. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1.00 per square. Off With Your Oray Suits, Boys The South has not forgotten the Provost Marshal order, by which Confederate gray was forbidden as wearing apparel, on pain of arrest and impris"nment. ' The order at the lime was regarded as cruel and oppres. slte, as many of our brave boys had no other clothing than the gray uniforms. The following spirited iies, which was clipped from the Hawkitasville Dispatch, commemo rates the event. It was written while smarting undtr the insulting order, by one who for years had gloried in tho Lost Cause, and in Confederate gray. but who, having laid down his aris, wag powerless to resent. insult. It is not. surprising, therefore, that indignant feeling should have found vent In the following scathing rebuke. These verses will live long after the occasion that inspired them is forgotten: oFF WITI YOUR ORAY SUITS, BOYS I Off with your gray suits, boys I 00 with your rebel gear I They smaok too much of the cannon's peal The lightning flash of your deadly steel The terror of your war I Their color is like the smoke That curled o'er your battle's line I It calls to mind the yell that woke When the dastard columns before you broke, And their dead were your fatal sign I Off with the starry wreath, Ye who have led our van I 'o you 'twas the pledge of glorious deith, As we followed yotu over the gory heath, Where we whippod them, man to man I Down with the Cross of Stars I Too long has it waved on high ! 'Tie covered all over with hattle eears, Dut its gleam the negro banner mars 'Tis time to lay it by I Down with the vows wo'ib~made I Down with each memory I Down with thoughts of our noble dead Down, down to the dust whe:e their forms are laid I And down with Liberty I The City Council of Columbia and Mr. 8pfague. We Published this morning a copy of the contract whioh has been exe. cuted by and between the City Coun oil and Mr. Pearce, agent or trustee for Mr. Sprague, of Rhode Island, kelative to the Water Works of the. bity. As will t o seen in this agreement the city oblitates itself to pay the huro of $16,000 per annum, for twen ty years, and Mr. Sprague is to estub lish new machinery, suction pipes, etc. The members of the City Coun oil are men,with whom we are politi oally antagonistic, and we would for that reason desire to refrain from ori tioisiiig unfavorably any action of thirs not palpably injurious to the idterests of.the yeople. In this in staince, we feel constrained to enter, for the tax-payers of the city, a iost earnest protest. Our objections are : lat. That such a contract is unueces. sary. 2d. That the price paid is exhorbi tant. 8d. That the whole sobem0 was kept secret until oonaiumniated. Thbe contract is unneceesary from the simple ftact thatV*e'alleady have wa ter works'and the supply of water is st,fli.ient for present uses, and its qatality uniexceptionable. This we think cannot be disputed. 8etiondly, as to the sum contracted to be paid. We learn frm former members and clerks of the Odainll that the cost of stuppilig the city *Ith Water-wasender more than front $6,000 to $8,000 per annum. It is propoed to pay Mr. Spregne $16,000 'a ificrease of from *8,000 to $10, 000. This will, of course, raise the. water tax ptoportionally. which would be about 250 pet' oebt. Our 'poole, arenow 'gioaning wador er heyy ut'. don of taxation d.strinroy of he~ titnds, and will rcgard thls additIoesi ahuea grs inmpositiot , sIn' he'third pieeths seoeat lialf been ke ptysecketh' t1h'en tmpayhtu have not been given ' n .opportunity ot'b%pressing their opib len Or otlier, Oe dt&actors a chance 'to 'compete 'fox' the wrkF----Oarda,.. have it in your power toMin s'gle'IJ i1sitrIunph over' fdroe, intimiation andthrets. >BDoroaim i thei I o tine to bear *iti stoh i utbfresks ah that of4ailt,Friday, as'you:did then. L4tntthe4 fuowsttfits*f- evil optapi yfyydtetrepose. Int6 strIgleai3IhI'mabt 'dadirone If maywAys. .Thdy ell-he'wtlg k' i aey,andh'eue tlfeIii Slib amen, you cannot go.. febtW*4 good sense direet. em-aoconoluadle e,A por; p.ig welea eal enmis. s1an asyoasma da en as men, and their failure to stir up .erife is to our advantage.-Cheater Reporter. The People Being Aroused. The earnest ,and spirited canvass in the upper portion of the State by the Reform candidatep, Carpenter and Butler, aided by Simons, Youmans, Bacon, Thomas, Jonas Byrd and other effective speakers, has worked a won. derful change in publio sentiment. A nun,ber of our beat white citizens, who at first despaired of any good result from the movement, and rather favored a masterly inactivity, have bean aroused from their lethargy, and are now wotking beatt and soul for Carpenter and Butler and the noble o!:u?e of Reform: The solid native white vote of the State, with the ex ception of a few scalawag office seek ers, will be with us. The effect upon the colored people, however, is that which repders the prospect most cheering, and gives us rational grounds to hope that a hand some majority will be rolled up for Carpenter and Butler on the day of the election. Trustworthy reports from Union, Newberry and Edgefield especially present a most encouraging aspect of affairs. In Union the Leagues are being broken up, Reform clubs formed, and scores of colored people professing a firm determination to have .naught more to do with the corruptionists. In Newberry, it is confidently be. lieved that at least a thousand color ed voters will support Carpenter and Butler, and in Edgefield their eyes are being rapidly opened and they will no longer be so easily led by de. signing men li'ke sheep to the sham bles. With these encouraging signs, our energy should be redoubled. Our enemies are cunning, crafty and ac tive men ; and, though spurning cun ning and craft, we must endeavor to excel them in activity.-uardian. MR. EDITOR: "There is life in the old land yet." That this is so, the following faets will demonstrate : Last January Rev. L. 0. Chappell bought a small tract of land in the upper part of Richland, known as the "Centre Plane." It was a poor, worn-out place, and had long been abandoned as unfit for cultivation. It had grown up in old field pines, bruosedge and briars. It was as hard a looking.aso as one could find in a month's travel. Mr. Chappell and his three sons, only one of whom is grown, went to work, cleared, feno ed and ditched fifty acres and planted them in corn, cotton, sorghum and potatoes. He had no labor beside that of himself and three sons. Yes terday we saw his crop and are satis fied he will make twenty bales cotton, weighing 400 pounds each, 400 bush. ele corn, 120 gallons sorghum, besides potatoes, peas, &c. Besides this, he harvested about 400 bushels of wheat and oats, which he had sown on an ad. joining paie. See, Mr. Editor, what well-direoted industry can do on the oorest worn-out land in South Care lina. Settle up the State with sensi ble tworking farmers like Mr. 4hap poll and his boys and she swill live. To Northern and European small farmers we would say,. "Come on, hero's the place to get your money back."WORK ER. [ Guardians 8 T 14A NOt OA LAMIT .-A very strange report comes up from Helena on apparently good authority.': Some days or evenings ago five young men passed a' few-hours together in a social mainer at one of their rooms, andk separated for the night, as young men uisually do, without any uionIala c Ourrenee. Next ndre bg' !t was 'dia covered that they *ere ali de&f, ap parently beyond relief. One of them is now "in this city *for treatment, though we have not inet-him. These are'the leading featares of'this re matkable eVeni, d-related by a' gen. tleman who same up from Helena Iaet dek ;'but it aeeina-so iner6dible that we' give It onily as a rumno? sad' forbea giingiaines or futtbr dr gWt, 16th inst. LAndu RtIrAUO - Benjamin Na. thana a wealthy Jew residing In NeW York, was mnutdsred ab'd tobhel )n his owfl housej on Fridaf nidraing, the 29th'of 'Jnlye Alid wIdWo has offere4 a reward of thirty thb.usand doIlarm' foE the arsest mnda te~n~Iit of the udarderer,' 'and' allditlonii tiwaede amounting to eight thousadd Ive'hlphr dr'ediddtrMkfo aftoif taktm from his person. 4'I'b.pest6ekoba,,Kg ed btu falso offrd% rEsiteI ,M houqaed 'dellate ftothe~ arei lf' thb' nurderer. Fifty thousend - i1i~ awkg.i hele'd dtIiM 'uiM uneasiljon his e6*ide. eontry Gentientat t l's b 14ft' ~is earnbs ' ie fe. from :e current qu'is nes f ~o ed in the opin teh Trochu. The appointment of Gen. Troebu to the military com-nand of Paris is one of the boldest steps yet taken by the Em peror. It has had the effect which it was intended to have, of reconciling Paris to the governmeeut of the Court of Palikao; and it will undoubtedly do more towardb strengthening the resis tance of France of her invaders, than any other measure which has been adop ted since the disasters of the Eastern frontier. But precisely because it strengthens France and pacifies Paris does it menace the "personal empire's with fital dissolution. Gen. Truchu is a man of great milita rv genius nad ability, who has been kept as far in the back-ground as his surpassing abilities would permit, be. cause he has never given his cordial support to the Imperial Government. He is neither a Republican nor a royal. ist as such, but a soldier who under. stands the principlesof libety sufilciently to regard them as the sole foundation in modern times of durable national strength. This the people of Paris know. They look upon him in the present crisis of the nation and the Gov ernment as they looked upon Cavatgnac in the tremendous days of June, 1848, when a provisional governmt-t far weaker and more incapable than the Government of Napoleon trembled and hesitated before an enemy more terrible than many .Crown Princes and King Williams. In the event of ne w diae tors to the French army, Trochu would almost certainly pass from the military government of Paris to the head of the nation. In the event of victory over the invaders, he will become the irresis tible standard hearer of a really free and responsible administration of the Gov. ernment. Meanwhile, and as ia military measure only, his command of Paris assures to Marshal Bazaine the fullest and most persis'ent reinforcement of his Ohalons. The two commanders are in constant communicatiote by telegraph ; and Paris, under Trochu, is made a part of the nmightq forces fighting for France at Chalons under Baaair,e. New York World. PORTALVt or CALouN.-The Paris Art Corresoondent of Harper's B.izar, speaks thus ofd p6rtrait of Calhun, paint. ed by Thos, B. Welch, a native artist. of this city, now.residntiin Paris: "The two likenesses sent by Mr. Welch, are more meritorious works ; the fir t, that of Mr. Calhoun, is rather dark, but admirably painted. Without flattering his model, without having re. course of any of those little convention sl effects which French portraitists use so unsparingly, the artist has given us a living image of the celebrated statesmen. There isa world of thought in that square and powerful forehead, in that somewhat hard, but determined look. American painters have genius of their nation ; when they paint a likeness, they do not show us a smnirking gentleman, trying to look his best ; they show its the thinking face of a man, whO doet not care whether his attitude is sumblito. ly correct or - his shirt collar perfectly starched," This portrait of Calhoun is now the property of the South Carolina 8ociety, of this city. It was presented by Messrs. Henry J. Clarke and Robert Maxwell Clarke, and their sister, Miss Caroline E1 Clarke, all natives of this oity, now residents of Europe, as n memn orial of the kindly feeling entertamesd by themi for the city of their birth. This is tandombtedly a flue .portrait, and well worthy of examination. It is now suspended in the the-hall ofSociety ai.d may be iuspected by these who are curiotss to see it. M A*AOERS Ov lifxrrEvoN8.---A *tde awake corresponCent.asks an importent question, and make. some ineortant sagt eiosin the shor t note which we give b o.We trust that they will be dult heeded, and that every posrniole, check will beapplied to prevent fraud and corrn tion In the electionw.' We look to the UTnion 'leform 10eotettf Committee fo rpoek action In the mat ter Mn. ECAIIOa Ought ei~t the Refornt, party to demand that ppne out of the threis thae? of each box bo sbanMaefb Read late election la*, page 39#, aind you will see'that Sc.i has tiq whole gamne in his hand. Sections fourx aia' Ave of late naturralization acr, (July 4 18704 eian dheik' ijmr lif Oh'atteston, and- th. act' to enfec the Aft.'enth' amendment qsay dQ something.-- Gq ~mdtidely the lbolur*4?Jsa)A witou war t frod ~ - e lish *a S ~ [.peolal Dispatch to the Char. Courier.J FROM CI1ESTER, Meeting at Carmel 1ll1l--Wimbush's Treachery Danounced -- E m i n e a t Speeches Delivered. CHESTnR, :. C., August 21.-The meeting at Carmel Hill, twelve milea from Chester, passed off quietly yes terday. The attendance was largo, and great attention given to the speak ers. Colonels McKissick and Ilamil tion, and General Butler, poured forth a torrent of eloquence, and political facts had considerable effect on the hearers, who were evidently moved by what was said. The ball has been set In motion here, and it will never stop rolling, until leforin completes a signal tri umph. A feature of the occasion was the arrival on the ground of a compa ny of militia, who stacked their arms in front of the speakers, and listened attentively to what the ReLform ora tors had to say in behualf of their cause. The convincing argument and array of facts presented carried con viotion to the minds of many, who heretofore were in doubt and in ao tive opposition to the movement to redeem the State from the corruption that now environs it. The whites were not the lest dis. turbed by the appeurance of the arm ed band preent, but were fired with a deturuination not to yield in the event of a oolli<ion. Their dalmness, coolness and digni ty had a splendid effect. Happily no disturbance ocurred and everything passed of quic.y. No further troubles are anticipated in the face of the determination on the part of the whites to act up to their pledges and see that their oppo nents do so too. The riotous Wimbush has been se verely denounced by both the ahites and colored for his rascally treachory, after giving his signature to t.ie docu ment defining the terms upon which the meeting would be conducted, was the head and front of the s >undrels who disturbed the programia. threw bricks ated rooks, and omieted no en deavor to create a general riot, which would have been a bloody one had it not been chocked. The oauvo of Re form Is marching gloriously forward, notwithstanding the armed, e. Our argument is effeotually dolw , work. The people are startled at the truths that are developed in reference to Radioal rascality. The Ring's -co. horts may riot, but they are on the wrong.road to success. Frank Thorne has had enough of jumping for the present. Ile will not disturb the eddies of Niagara River this season. That leap of one hundred and twenty five feet from the roof of an elevator, into the Buffalo River, has sufficed for his ambition. As Thorne is the only man who has lived to describe his sensation after dropping such a distance through the air, it is interesting to learn his experiences. For the gratification of contemplated suicides, he says that no sense of pain was at any time experienced, either iu his descent or when he struck the wa ter with such terrific violence. To be sure, three seconds is not a long pe riod. for reflection, but three soooi,ds in such a position is equivalent to a much longer time in another. IIis thoughts, the.n, were that it was pleas at, "perfectly happy ;" next, that he was sprawling too much and would probably be killed, or, as he expressed it,."Geod-by, Frank :" finally he felt as if in a dream he had fallen, withot pain. I1.1. evident that the. rapid pas sage through the air took away the young man's nerve, and that the: in esiativ.and irresistable impulse to grasp something: forced his arms and Jegs to.grope through:the air in. the manner v ich. so nearly caused his death dIy throwing him on his side.1 The su'iecqqut sensations were not agreeable.ata -those precoeding the fall. For abouk;half, hour, he Was unable to breathe with any gatisfaction, ad. he compares is. present sensations with thoasp.wh might ensue from a beat. ing with a board. As Thorne.deolair es that he has no - appetite, not even for poached egg'or' toast, 'ititaping from elevators cannot be recoraihend ed as a good morning exorcise. The assault upon Judge Capenter, at -Chester, has done inore to strength. en the. party and render every 'colored tnan aaharied of- his previous assoela' tlops, tben -anything that ha hereto foreotranspired. Ltdg delight to batk and bite, Soel stieir:nature too: ID J inthe right Andtha;p ttygame won't do I . ~h~he bahi keeps tolling Qn, arnd p at esheeting,of eur lpipal So. b aro, being ng 9 d6 " rof rosmg 11l is other app gre ~i. 'Ids been qrh pp n", e fr,ji \they? pn a saw h sea k at bamuuaO..e. Radical Logie. Ma. EDITOR: In a speech mado by Mr. Cardoso, at Greenville, on the 12th instant, he claimed as one of the "great benefits" conferred on the State by his party the chan e of ,our system of taxal ion from a fOtitious to an no tual valuation. I would call the attention of that gentleman (who claims to bo honest) to the sections of the constitution adopted by tt in 1865, and the cousti tution of 1868, and ask him to point out the difference : "All taxes upon property, real or personal, shall be laid upon the actu al value of the property taxed, as the same shall be ascertained by an as sessment made for the purpose of lay ing such taxes."-Sc. 8, Art. 1, Cons. 1865. "All taxes upon property, real or personal, shall bo laid upon the actual value of the property taxed, as the same shall be asoertuined by an as lessment made for the purpose of lay inig such tax."-Sec. 33, Art 2, Cone. 1868. We pause for a reply. ONEW %%iIo HEART) HIM. [ Guardian. EXTRACT FROM A PRIVATE LETTER oF GCNERAL IIAMPTON.-We publish the following extract from a private letter of General Iampton, addressed to a citisen of our village, which de flues his own position, and, we believe, of every true Carolinian on the pend ing isiues between Union Reform and Republicanisn-between a reforma tion of abuses and their continuance. It will be endorsed, we know, by all of our people, to whom the name of Hampton itself is worth a hundred dred arguments. "The law and anti dote are both before you." "How does the Retorm movement prosper 1 In the issues now present ad and the candidates in the field, I sannot see how any true man in the Statu can hesitate as to his proper po sition. Differ as we may about the platform of the new party, I eee no alterativo but to support its nominees I hope and pray that good may come of the movenent, for unless a eharge is made in the rule of the Scate, noth ing but ruin awaits us."-Abbevillo Press. The Paris Moniteur gives the follow ing account of the death of General Douay, at the battle of Weissenburg : 1The General was from the beginning in the thickest of the fight. When he maw that the day was lost, after lie bad done all he could to retrieve it, when even not a batalion was left him, lie called his aide, one by one, gave them orders and sent them away. As soon as the last one was gone, the General, spurring his horse, roJde some listance to the front, dismounted, and ,aking a pistol from the holster shot ,he animal, and then tourniug around lowly, walked toward the enemy. lis roldiers vainly tried to stop him. A.mid the terrible firing he deliberate ly walked on. The retreating sol. iers, aroused by the spectacle, turn d again upon tne enemy, but fell in soaps around their General, who still ressed forward. Another tremon ious discharge from the enemy, and 3t.neral 'Douny, almost alone, fell lead." Cr.tAnINca TrlE JAMs Uivr.R.-TIe mgineers' bureau is about beginning ~o clear the wrecks and the obstruc-, ~ions occasioned by the war out of the James River. At Drury's Bluff it, aus been ascertained that the follow. ng must be removed to put the rniver in wed bavigable order : The wreck of1 he Ironi clad ran. Fredericksbug, sunk. ith armor, gnns, &e., en board'; the ron gutbbeat Raleigh, 150 tonis sunk *ith gumns, &o., on board ; thh war teamyr JarutoM'r, #oodes,' 1,200 oene, stink wPith~ fagu' on board ; the. mtamer'CurtigsPek, 445D tons; the chooner' Wythe, 800 tons, and loase .25 'tons; a brig, ~17f totis, arid imall seher,- betW eOn 80' and 100 ens;' also, eighteett 6r twenty oriba of ilmber 'st1d 'stone each. twenty-two ouet square, storaginj eighteen feet FALa AocabMri.-On Wednesday might, thue passenger train oh the Mem phi. and. Charleston .Railroad rani ver two boys, cutting one all to pieces, killing him Instantly, atind mrushing the other's leg and msbgling him so badly, that Ii s thought he wrill die. The boys were sitting 'on the track asleep, as is thought, and bence were unaware of the apptoach of the train. The acooet ceated grest excitement among the 'passena eors. The nanine of the one dreadfuil. y.mangled, but;et ill 1iving, Is. MHami mond; the ot,her'v name we'could niot learn.-Sons, C0mnerciej. . Ni4A' nj teoj,i.-Tlo relieve the taeri t e ofsorunnj,og a nail mn the footeq man or hor' tele poa'oh leaves 'ru1di ' ''ille wondc, con. Soinesilbabd a*d Ille tardi-laidc t44p*pt ?ang the' isq&' recpe, resea.brd aU# State News. The Chesterfield Democrnt urges every one to go to work, and delurt5 that unless a change be made in the State Government, all the property in country will be swept away "before Scott's second term expires." The Georgetown T*Mes says: "We take hope from the signs on the poli., tical horizon, which point to the re-eF., tablishment of thoso true Republican principles, so long held in abeyanr.e. Ere another year rolls around, wo trust the old Palmetto State will her aid a victory of good government., and that the election of Carpenter and Butler will establish that harmony between the races never again to be disturbed." The Union Tines says, that after Judge Carpenter concluded his speech at Newberry, last Monday, a president of one of the leages, with a number of the private membera, went up to him, shook him cordially by the hand, and told him publicly that they in tended to vote for bin and General Butler. Wherever Judgo Carpenter has spoken he has confirmed the wa. veriug, revived the hopes of the des pondinY, and won many converts to the Reform party. The Ilorry News says: "From every section of the country that wo hear from, the Reform tide rolls on, increasing in volumes as it goes. At one time there was danger that a want of concert of action on the part of those who favor reform might so di vide the vote of the county as to leave a probable chance for the Radicals to sleet to the Legislature out-and-out Radicals, or men who were so far cow, nitted to their policy, and dependent on the votes, as not to pledge them solves to the Reform- party. This danger is ncw averted." CAN'T SrEAic.-In his speech at Yorkville on Monday, 22d inst., Gen. M. C. Butler said that Governor Scott has been repeatedly challenged by himself and Judge t arpenter to meet them beforo the people, but the chal lenge has never been accepted. The Governor's friends plead in excuse that he is no speaker; but General Butler replies that he did make a speech at Washington City last spring, which was telegruped all over the countey, to wit, the Governer's cele brated Winchester mile speech, in which he said that wwaim' u w- the best law for South C.. i, I. G . B. thought it very strangu usat, the man who could make so vigorous a speech seven hundred miles from home could not speak to the people he governs. But the mystery is cleared up by the Governor himself, who declares hie is on the "picket line." This be ing the case, long range is his forte. In polities, as in war, his shots are tred from a distance.-Yorko'lits En. guierer. THE NEXT BRUTIAH CENsus.--A >ensus of Great Britain : is to be taken next year on the the "photo graphic" or instantaneous plan.--. Blanks are to left m each li'nuso dur ing the last week of March next, to be Aflied up "with particulars of the Imani, sex, ago, rank, profession or >ccupation, condition, relation to the ead of the family, and birthplace of svery person who abode in the house an the night of Sunday, the 1st of April." The blaniks will be colloctedi luring, the ensuing week, and they nih give accurate returns of the population on that nLht. Under thme plan n'ow being followed in ta'king the >einsus of this country, the enumora tors are several week. in going shrougl thhi' resjiootive districts, du ring which time many changes may >omur from births, deaths or removals. A,n attempt was inade in Congress to ntroduce the "photographie" syste m, but it was dereated. The "patron mge't inoldent on the appointment of i large iidmber of enumerators for a ilngle .week would.not have been do. dirable,. "ia TIre10xnEss EUG ENE A T ICR POST. -Am *d asupposed they would turn >nt, all the late rumors of -the flight >f tehe Empress Eugene to England burp out to have been canards. The Emp ress has b'een assigned to a post bf duty as Eq4pass Regent, whioh, In the absence of the Emperor, wo aare say,' mhe will not abandon, come what mnay. She Is a corageous and patriotIo women, and; -has soon too mupb.of popular',efitot,i ani of soeiadikets td bq oasily frightened Sh Is aut the w6ad to'pack up a pek8ffarous thetlahtnel with the ast Tsmm anyi'ow, in the ' Corps Les ag tlf, otri~#.bet s npusahgMtof roAMhIe lt1 er'e a w atsmA nsgider tidbn pir hwaaft kmerydi ,sauo,s vu tesdto becotne the duhe, IuMv ar'stensbD.. Ald thna John. An ancedate relative to his parting fron his mother in his outset in life illustrates ilt.-) as prominent in the attributes of Iii naturo at that time. 'l'Ie writer heard him narrate this after his rettirn from Washington when his last term in the presidential ofico had expired : W1 bn about to emigrate to. Tennes. see, the fam.:1y Were residing in the neighborhood of Greensboro', N C. '' haed,'' saeet ho "contemp:lated this step for some months, and had made ar. rangenwe"nts to do so, and at length had obtained my mother's consent of it. A11 my word!y goods were a few dollars i my purse, somte clothes in my saddle bngp, a pretty good horse, saddle and bridle. The country to which I was going was comparatively a wilderness, and the trip a long one, beset by many dieficulties, especially from the Indians. I fet, and so did my mother, that wo were parting forever. I knew ste would not recall her promnise : thero was too mc.clh spunk n her for that, and this ed meN to linger a day or two longer than I ha-l miended. "But the time camo for the painful parting. My mother was a little, dumpy, re'dhead Irish woman. '\Vll, mother, I amn ready to leave, and I lnust say farewell.' She took my hand, and, pressing it, said 'F'arewull,' and her em otion el.oked her. "Kising at meetings and partings in that day was not so c mmon as now. I turned from hor and walked rapidly to my horse. "As I was mounting him she came out of the cabin wiping her eyes with her apron, ann caine to the gotting-over place at the fence. 'A ndy,' said she (sho always called me Andy), 'you are goig to a now country and among a r,,glgh poople. You will have to depend on yonrself and cut your own way through the world. I have nothing to give but it mother's advice. Never tell it lie, nor take what is not your own, nor sue anyt.odv for slander nor assault and baitery. Always settle them cases ynirelI.' I I ronised, ant have tripd to kee, that promise. I rode olf some two htndred yards to a turn in the path, and looked back ; she was still standing at. the fence and wiping hr eyes. I never saw her after that." Those who knew him best will testif: to his fiJulity to this hItst promisee maia, his mother. AMemnori,s of Ffty Years. An Tujun sat in a garden 4rinking his lager-boer, he le,rd left his wigwam on the plains and his squaw she wasn't near ; and a Dutch girl stood besido him to hoar what lie should say, and replied to his Injun jargon, nix eum heraus, unt nix veratay. This beery Injun blubbered as he took thatDutoh rirt's hand, and said, Me never more shall see me own me native land ; bear a message and scalp or two-to those distant friends of mine, for I am a Big Injun-Big Injun over the Rhine. Go toll my brother warriors, as they sit the camps fire 'round ; and listen to my story, all sqetted on the ground. That I drink my lager bravely, from morn till sot of sun- beat etery mother' son ; for sprawled among the emty kegs wore some grown old on beer--injan never tasted none, until he first came bore. Not oneo'mid all that throng can say, he over heard me delino- I tell yon I'm Big lnjun-3ig Injun over the Rthinte. Tell my mother that her other Sons shall comfort hor old age, ehase the buff'alo, scalp the driver. of the Ovorland maiil stage; for my father was a warrior bold, and even as a papoose, [joyed to know that the old mian was sound upon thle goose. And when he died and left us to divide his scanty board, I let thien take whatever they would, but kept my father's gourd ; now take it and Pill it high with beer, let's see the lager uhino-Gross glass for the Big Injutn Biag Injun over the Rhine. Irnian Naonos.-We once beard a Jtory of somne negroes that had mras. Lored the Irish brogie, and( played a brick on a boat lead of emigrants who were so eager to sot foot on the soel of the New .World that they loft the boat hofore their companions. "An' are 'yes juset over, boys tF* said a jet black African, in the rich. eat possible brogue, and with warmees6. Interest as he bent over the whart where he and his coiirades were working. The strangers regarded him with a, look of mingled astoniishinbat and ten ror,. while one of them~ fonpd breath to inquire: :' "An, how iit that ye's are black ? fI&'s the elolmate, boys ; lt' all ii the elohinate," was thq answer. "An' how long 4id it take to- mak ye ti color F e"Three'ye'ars;'at' nit a bit.leng er." t 2"Thiin bttded, t$r)y,'' said Paddy'to his euntrymet,"Iet's-go back 1it's tod Brow is' tie l a *ut -o no t #oi4>j thing ot any sa but I vii gay, that he uses tru&)h with a little teme aaa of s aQkow&