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Desportes, Wlli~iu&_00., Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquiry, Industry and Literatur.Jrs-$.OprAnm nAvne VOL. YL]1 WINNSBORO,, S. C., WEDNESbAY MORNINGOTBR1,804N.1 TIllM FAIRFIELD HERALD IN PU111.18SND WEEKLY '1Y DESPORtTES. WILLIAMS & 00 f~rm.-Tua aRAL is published Week In the Town of Winnaboro, at 93.00 in. vareably in advance. A& All transient advertiseaents to be paid in ndvaneo. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1.00 per square. "Long Ago." It's a broken link in tie ohain of thought. It's a feeling with pain and pleasure wrought, And bitter experience, eagerly sought, This magical "long tigo," It'd filled with many a tale of love. And mourping-lhcarts, like a lonely dove And leatas ot prayer were wafted above, in the days of that '-long ago." A ehain and a ring of fret ed gol, Oiv,en ero the pulses or love were cold, Are trea'.ured still though we're grown old, Since tho magical "long ago." And thas we shall ever nore eares The days, till olasped to our Savlor'n breast, We'll fetidly cling, till we are at rest, To that ingical 'long ago." LUCKY AT LAST. Some years ago I know a lapidary who gained a considerable fortune by a great misfortune. An excellent. workman, honest as the day, day, Montin had but one fault ; he was too fond of good wine, which caused him to neglect his work sometimes for days together, to the great dissatisfaction of his employer, who in. all other respeots valued and esteemed him highly, both for his akill and probity. Onc day Montin received from his masitor a diamond of tho finest water to cut and polisb, with ttrict recon mendations to keep sober until the wurk was finished. "L rely on your activily," said the jewolleron giving him the stone. "I must have it without fail on the 15Lh instant ; and. if . you disappoint mu this time, is will be the last you yil havofron we." MJ'ont p prminfsed exactitude, asked as was usui'l with him, part of his pay in advance, and set himself courageout. ly to woik. Under his skillful hand the diamond soon began to show forth its beauty ; in a few hourn it would have been funished, when unfortunate ly for Montin's resolutions, a friend called on him, an old comrade who had been long absent from Pari4, whut could they do but take a glassi togeth er I Arrived at the cabaret, tho timte p:ss.d qsickly away, and Mo!itin thought no more of his utifniihed work'. D)uring the morning his employer came to see how the polishing of the diamond proceeded. The cuecerge assured him that. Mont in had oni> intnt g.ne <-ti, tnd woot.i uot fail to return directly, as hp had fur swtm time been wonkinig steadil3 and unteinit tingly. Only half su t.ifit.d, th' jowel lor Muont i.way, to return i: te'o hwure, anld to find Montin still abseut. Cull vinced he was at,the ttvern, the mns., ter charged one of his men to seek him, and induce him to return to his work. This was done, and Montin, grumbling between his teeth, quitrted his comrade and asscended to his work shop ; but his heaid was sno longer clear, nor his-hand steady. To add to his trouble, the diamnond became un fixed ; he seized it hastily to replace it ; his trembling fingers tijve.t4 jerk -and, by a. strange ;fatdaty the pro. coots atone fle:w sout the window I Sobei-ed in a'wniont by this terrible aecident, Mentin continued gating out the easement. sa if petrified, his pale lips murmuring the words "l.estli lost I losth!" a -For more than an hour he remained *ts~ niotlonlesa, and was only ro'used from his lethargy by the on trgae of his mtnant "It it thus yotx wer'k, Mlbtin i"'ex. olaimedh beVthunbetiitres have I datlled for the diamond,- and yea spend your time at 'the -ta4arn, Give me the stone ; I must have it, finished or 'Mentin looked: widly athimn vithoint uttering a word. "W hat la the matter with' you 1" asked the jeweller, "Why don't you answer I Ihave you drunk all your senses away T' The I.apidary tried in vain to speak. His tongue seemed paralysed. At last he rose, and biding his face in is' bands, '.tmurmured, 't1t--1I. lost Wha "E~xpIln yourself., ha has hap. iened ?" "Out of the winrdo*' "What!I wheirt** "Well, well, well ;t61l ale what has odenred." The stone fievont." - - It wa'ew1Wttet,1rnIMl the maetter tq becorne silent. :wt h-astonishment:, tbhfhdsdtith or e hf ried "I .dotl't belh6e6's *ord your story ; you hive 561iI8%i diaidadl 'toafoi Thit neontsation was theI cotup de thb teet 9f hits mastc~r.; uni' t wss not irii, of rait todpa ymut i phnoj .i~er t#9 I ra. ei hiiu, and at last succeeded in render Ing him more calmn. "It. is a mott unfortunate accident, no doubt," said he, "but it is not irre parai to." "You do not, then, believe that I sold your diamond for drink ?" said Montin, eagerly. "No, no, Montin, you must forget what I said in tno first moment of anger, and let us try to find a remedy for. the misfortune. -The diamond was worth ?200 ; you must endeavor to Iepay we the half of that sum out of your wages, whiob, when you work Iegularly, amount, to 23 or X4 a week. Wit4g industry and sobriety you will soon got out of debt." "From this time [ will work steadi ly," s:aid hIptiNU, with tears in his eyes. "You shall see, sir, that though I have been a drunkard I am not a thief." "I believe you," replied the jewcl ler. I have every confidence in you ; you are a good workman ; I will fur. nish you with plenty of wprk,.and in a few years you will be i ht again. Well I will that suit yu I - "0 yes, air ! ,.ly t, i ine once more, that you do not thiak 1 sold the diamond." "I repeat, on my honor, that I only said so ia the first moment of anger. I am convinced you are an honest man -in faeo I prove it by trusting you with more work. "Yes, sir, that is true, and I prom ise you I will not (isapipoint you. I will repair myjault ; the lesson has baen severe, but it will not be without its fiuits." Moutin kept his word-he rose caily, and woiked indefatigably; the lost stone was replaced by another, wlhih was polished as if by enchant. imient. Faithful to his promise, he went no more to the tavern, and be came a model of steadiness and indus try. At the end of the year he bad 11 paid a conAidorable port of his debt. c Sixteen nonths passed thus, when one c fine uorning in May, having finished his work, he placed himself at the windowand watched the boats pass ing and repassing on the river, which fi Ilowed close to tho walls of the house. r Suddenly, his eye was attracted by i soimothinig bright glittering on the i extrene edge of an old chimney. 'I What was this surprise to discover a his half-polished diamond I Itseem- & ed as if a breath would precipitate it I into the water beneath ; and yet there p it had been for so many months sus- d pended beiween heaven an earth 1 11 At this sight his etnotion became i almost as groat as whenl he had seen e it disappear out of the window; he I dared not remove his eyes, fearing to t lose sight of the almost recovered r treasures.1 "i is-it is my diamond, which has t C,t lme sO maauy toars," said lie ;"but f how shall I reach it I If it were to v fall ! But no, I will talie every pre. r caution ; not too fast !-let me consider ( well !'I At this inoment hi euiployer en- a tered the room. "0, sir," cried Montin, "it is I there !" "What " said the jeweller. "My diamond, or rather yours. Alt, do not touch it, we shall lose it forever.". "It is true ; it is certainly the dia mond that has so tormented us tbut the difficulty is how to get at. Wailt a muomenct, I know bow to do it." So saying, be left' the room, buat quickly returned, bearing in hi~a band a net prepared for catchiig ibutterfl ies. With its ai<{, and that of a long stick he proceeded carefully to try and get the preciotus stone-Montini, hardly daring to breathe, watching all his a moveomer~te with the greatest anxiety. I At laat his efforts were crowne4 whith sucecas and. heo criod, "I1erm it is, Monatin I I congratulate you~ op its recovery. I am now your, debtor. to the amount of nearly 'a kundred, pounds. What dIo you intend to do , with the amount ? 'reave it in your hands, sir, if yon ,will be kind enough to keep it for' ''Most ,wllingly ; I will pay you the intere~st, a~nd if you con'inaue to add to it., you will soon have .a.e little su19," repliead thejewe TI'his was theo bpganntaL.. t Montin's fortune. tin 1a few years hei became a parttier with his master, wh~ose diaughter he married, and bae Is now one of the principal jewellers in I Paris TPo peoppe not! up In 'the.,.mysterles of thte uaamA ni hm hailto new,.A by the Ilunierdui profesrionni UJubs, i hereabouts, the interest felt by a largy part 'oah-le pilie in the eoh teste ao progres ears a beurd 'It is realty< rema'rk'bfiho* many ifope 'are ab 1 sorbed in this pastime. Whenever a'th'atdh geine, by any eracked Clubs ts played in this vicinitf,an .udIee of from.5. 6q to i!,000 atoal 6e. lar' a head,'oao bp ass tblod. ~Th'er#< e:'a $sa es bn'the pritnpip4l stree in di kre put up, ah4 ,erowls I , aours wetehi5 the recordifng of" e aasee ihe innin(' 0s atfar oluctuatiounof Cotton. , We ore indeh-d to NMevsrs. Parker, Ward & Co.. of Memphia, for a copy of a chart issued by them, showing the fitctuations in cotton prices, in that market, between September of last year Ind Lte current month. The changes are not Dnly most romarkable, but ilso iinguiarlv erratie, and htirnish a con I pleteex plan.it ion of the loi'Ses sutstainied bv plaime who held on it thiir cotutnit ,1 1te hope of'getting a est er pricn; of tIh (actors who0. made large aILvIanices upon that staple, anid' of the( hyers who peculated it it.. The cliirt. that. n the 2d of Septemher, 1869-that is ) say just about a year ago-the mar ket price of cotton was thirty-three (-nts a poiund. Ont that day a dclp'ine wt m, and Proceeded so rapidly that, sat hi cilose( of the satne mouth. the ptice lad fallen to twenty-four and a quarter :entts. During tho month of October ho price remninmed steady. But. on the I th of November, it stood t wenmy iree cents-a decline of ten cents in ixty days. At thisi point a slight reac ion net m, and, by the close of Jann ry the price had risen to twenty-lotir md a half cents- being a quarter of a, entt higher thant at. t he close of October. i Nith the opening of Fehruary com. nenced a steady and conintions decline I muil, otn the 10th of March, the ptive I iad fallen to ineteen and a half ceiis.i k week later it was back to twenty. wo cenlt, and stood at that for I aitigle week ; declined the following i ve-k t) twenity'one and a haif, but 'ose again, a week later, to twenty- < wo cents. A'ter another series of i luctnation-varying from a quarter of cent to a cent-the price on the 2d f Jutte was within a quarter of that lie 31st of March. vis: twenty-ono and half cents. Thet, commenced still nother period of steady, and, with the i xception ofotne week, continuous de. 1 hle, until, otn the 21st of July, the pricoe ad gone dowi tQ seventeen and a hulf t ents. It rose a week inter to ninteen i ents, and dropped off again on the 31st I f August, to eighteen and a ialfcents. CHoi.EnA APPRoAcHING.-The w al news of the approach of chole- I a reminds t.s of an old, insidious and nconquerable 'enemy. In Havana, it ;spreading with frightful rapidity. 'here wore fifty three deat Is in one dity nd eighty on another. The victims re take-n from all classes-eqnally. t the shipping in the harbor, its rava. es have beet very great, and letters read lest the epidemic make stach ead way as to fill the cit.y with mourn. ne, a id take ite Population off in I onntless numbers. In France, we War of the cholera among the German roops. In Soithenasern Russia, it is apidly extending. The Journal de St. ?etersburg, of the I ith inst., announces wenty cases and ten deaths from the pidemic at Rostow, and nine cases id ;our detths at Kertclt. The appear. I mco of the disease is also aitnoinced at. )dessa, in a communication dated the 4th inst. Tihe latest. newa from Tag mirog states that from the 25th of rune to the 280; o*I July, 118 cases of Ie malady occurred in Mint town, seven. y-five of which ended fatally. itNGULAn OiGIN OF Finv.--The salem Register says that a lady in that .ity lost aoitt a dozen .yards of velvet. w'hichi took fire from thte rays of the attn mtesing throtugh a globe in which an .rtmnsn was floattog in water. Bit or thme timely discovery of the fire the tonse might htave been burned. We remietmber a catse of' that kind vhiech ocitrred years ago. A globe :ontaining a pair of gold ish was left on he table in die parlor near a front, v'indow,1 snd while the family wvere ut breakf'ast smoke was eimelt, and all tands started to see wvhat the mhatter eas. On going into the parlor where htero had bteen no fire, they found t. h-'nsely filled wvith smoke, atnd a large tolo hurnt through the carpet and Qoor. P'ho flre burstedl in a flame wihien the loor was openied.. The cause was ap: tr'nt-the unclouded sun had cast iis rays tharomugh the globe of water, ;ivintg it the ell'ect of a btirning lens) or tinn glatss. In a fe w niutnttes more thme touse wvould have be'en all atblaze. rhe unconcioius lit le fishes, l'owever, vera as cool as a cucumber all the time, -Lawrence Eagle. i Conic Pon rdtcsA w.-A correstpond. mut of the Selentiflo A merican recoin nends turpentinte as a certain cure for' ockja w. Hf~e sya "Ljet any one who has an attack of ockjaw t ake a small quantity of turren. ine, warmc m and potir it on the wotund 'A mnter whern the wound is omr what te nattture, and relief will' follow tu less han one mninth. Not hitig better can e applied to a severe cut. or bruise theii oeld turpethie 6; It *ill gen certain re ief almaat instanatly.: Turpentine ,Is itse a sovereign remedy for crotlp saturAte a piece flannel with it and >lace the flannel on the throat and chesa ItRd in a very 6etere CR50 thriee to llve Irops maty be tak.ke .iin ardif. llviig family should htavie a, ottle Qn hahua Thisrenhedf is sikp e, and gan b6 ' Tot.-he emWnMAanat$ qf Tttl, rho has ju~st epulscd thp- 1Ejutians; D-li -, ioh . s~ay m' o 0 s rrepdrr till n~i G ,lii def~ I A 6i thom'li The Press of the 8outh. We do not think tihe services or the0 generatlintegrity of ti(- press of 11he Sunt h is uat. preiiiated by the people, who are, however, ignorant of the temptations which mant newspape-rs have put from iheist and igiorant of the extent of I he lossers which bich newspa. pers i.iAvi gst e med o ocount. of ivir fidelity to Ihe people of tle Soi'uh. In this Statu andu in Heone otherp, military governors, or corrtpi officials atiing undIer cover of inhiitous lavs, have m111ade lovalty to <iny, opposition to Lite extravagance and eorrtpuimis of lo1ls and th ieves in office, a crime to be pmished ; and they have ptimished this arie by forcing a portion,.of the legiti. rnate p:iroirge of newspapet-r guilty of it imto other chatnnels iniadi-quate to he service, thus robbing lytih the par. I ies in interest in all the intters enitira. ed patronage and the newspapers al.o In this State, it would not be dii uit to name civil olficers who have iold themselves to a party Ihey abhor 11d1 parted with their self-respect forev. !r for lesa than the advertisi.ig patronage vhich the local ne w.pa pert- have spurn - as the prico of their thir-achery to aiCO people and name atd kindred. The public appreciate the fidelity and he usefulness of the, pressrbut do not mnow that the newspaporseare faithiul at a ost which nikes to many of their con. luctors all the difference bot ween allilt ince and poverty ; and, therefore, this t tress of the South is not sipported as it hould be, and in consequence of in ieqa I e stupport is far less pi .verful than c t might be. Re-ally, we think the Solt'hern peo. >ln owe a great. deal to theirie wspapers, ind that tht-y are paymg the debt grud I ngly and litle at a time. On this subj--ct, however, we have 1 aid niore than wo intend, the object vith which we commenced writing being imbly to introduce lie following trib. tie to the Sot.thern press from the com nonwealth's report of the address deI ivered at Marion last week by MAnj. r. G. 1farris, the Democratic candidate or congress in th Fourth District. "If there be one class of citizens who lave felt more than anothh the cruel ippreasson of our relentLievtftl vindiii ive enemies, it is compoms-d of th -ditors of ouir public journ-ls. When he Southern Star weit down at A ppo nattox, shrouded within ihe folds of the loutheri battle-fliag they, together with ill others, lost their souree of revenue. )ppressed, down-trodden.'but not crnsh d, the% roie to the full meatomm of dii v ti that dark hour, grasped with frmer told the pen of trwib and patriotism, nd from that moment until the preseni ime have never for an instant ceseed to Lsail the onomies oIlour common liberties n their stroneholds, exposing their out ages, denouncing their craft, and strip. ling the mask from their cunning reacheries. The press of the South tas been the e: gine-the battering rant -by means of which the duangeon walls hiat were intended for our per. .etual imprisonment have been leveled with the dist. It is doetrytl the aiwarks of oppression, and. if well sis ;ained, will soon fece oir common ene. ities to an unconditionil surrender I ,her-fore rppeal to the people in behalf Af tle press. I entreat them to feed, :lothe and educate the families of our 1ewvspaper mier., for these have snifered mtore atnd sacrificed more than all ot hers, l'heir self-sacriflicinig spirit. hats rarely seent equalled in the history of mankmnd. When a word could htave made their ortunes, t heuy scorned to speak it, be. "'use it involved the sutrrentder of vonr rber'ies and the loss o: their own peer cBs bor',r. The resnilt wnq that a riuth ese and unprincipl-d legislaituire, atsinug n violatioit of the rightsu of i I.e people tiid in contempt. of their inte-resuts, obbed thuem of the public printing and buried it mt tinrerard and uancared or newspaspers a hundred nuiles away. rhe Sotthe-rn Editors are thiu watchmen tn the ramparts of fiiberty, ever ready ao sound 'theo alartm at. the approach of langer, or to etncoturage the people in hie hour of peace Atid prosperity. U.. told thaetr hands, fellow-citizens, and tee to it that the-y fail not for want of ronr earnest atid sympathetic support." --Selma ( Al.) Argue. A R anUJKK FOR SttcnInAN, BUJTTLRR, El(FERRMAN, AND)OTitEnt YANKEI. OENEC w. s.-TIwo Prussian re.gimnents having ~ommnitted exces~s in the little French .owtns of l'aulkenberg and Remnilly, nehi as pillaging houses and destroying ~ropetty, Cotit Bismnarck has ordered hnames of the two regiments, and hose of thetr offiers, to be published in ill German 'papers. The Glermanspt save reimbursed the French inhabitants re far as wras in their power. A rigor stus vlamination has been instituted by Bismareir, and the regiments sent to th rear, being stripped of their banners ad all emblemns of honor. T'he gunilty regimuents were the~ Second Hes D~armtstadIt 1nfantry and the Twelfth Prussian Line. "A great many business apen say dia& they cannot alford to take part in elIities. Whop they hrave read Geon. Joener' aergse of Mr. Ohapmbeala si' ahyst oratiob, they will bg pwordj ig. lnad orgyee with u" n2at 110 one save any;l an fford .ua1 to takei an . Plcturcm of th ButtlPleicld, Mr. Russell, in bis letters to thi London Times desotiptive of the bat tie-field of Sedan, "as: The troopers, billiantly led, went right on wirds (ii u cloud of dust> but when they wore within a couple of huidred yards of the Prussians ont simultaneous volley burst out of the bio.:k trunt aud flank, which envol. oped ill in smoke. They uOre steady soldiers who pulled tigger there. Dowi came horse und man ; the array wits utterly ruined. There was left in front of that deadly infantry but a heap of white and giny horses----a terrace of dend and dying dismounted men, and fI) ing troopers, who tumbled at every instant. More total d'ssipa tion of a bright pngoantry could not be I There wan nuother such acetic vet to cone. I could scarce keep the leid-glasa to my eyes as the secotid ud last body of cavalry--which was sornposed of light-horse also-eaiue .hundering up out of the hollow. I'hey wore not so bold as the men on ,he white horsev, who, fell, nait'y of hem, at the very line of the bayonetn. l'he ho-sus of these swerved as they V0me0 upon the gi ounid covered with aroasses, and their line was broken, yut tho squadrou leaders rode straight. .o death. I will not dwell on the topic, but tsk your readers to be content with .he a-surance that no human eye ever ested on such revolting objects as vere presented by the bat-tle-field Lround Sedan, Let them fancy mass ii of eoiored rags glued together vith blood und brains, and piied in ,o strange shapes by fragments of )ones. Then conijcive tmen's bodies rithout heads, legs without bodies, laps of h'umniu entrails attached to ed tnd blue cloth, and diseint,owelled :orpies in uniform ; bod ies lying about n all attitudes, with skulls shAttered, aeos blown off, h1ps smashed, bones, lesh, aLnd gay olothing all pounded ogether as if brayed in a mortar, ex ending for miles,.uot very thioi in kny one place, but recurring perpetu Mly for weary hours, and then they -annot, with the most vivid imagina ion, oine up to the siekening reality wfthat butchery. No nightmare could e so frightful. Several times I cam n spota where there were two horses ying dead together in harness, killed )y the sano fragment. Several times [saw four, five, and six men, four, ive, and six horses, all killed by the uplosion-of one projectile, and in one lace Ihere lay no- less than eight lerench soldiers, who must have been truck down by the bursting of a shell >ver a company, foi they lay all round u a circle, with their feel inwards, )aoh shattered in the head or chest )y a piece of shell, and no other dead >eing within it hundi ed yards of them. Tn WAR AND EHMOnATION.-SOmre I, d emigrants arrived at this pr luring last week, which would give a otr,- of considerably over 200,000 1er annum. These figures show that ,he war hasnot by any means put an mid to emigration. Thousands of hose in humble circumstances con inue to embark for "the home of the )rave and the land of the free," in )rdoe- to better their worldly pros. ets. It is futhermuore highly proba. Ae that this war will stimulate a new tiass of emigration hither. We refer o the Frenob, whose possessilonst are iow being (despoiled or devoured .by be. "invaders ;" who see the savings f years destroyed in a few honra, and rho, like our Southern countrymen luring the rebellion, are being redudm id almost to penury. There is no loubt that very nmany of these suffer ~rs will seek the New World to rcs ore their lost fortunes, where it can )O done muoh easier and quicker than n Frane, and they will receive a nest cordial recept.ion here. A. little, wr considqrable, Giallia element, is ieeded to mingle with the Teutonic ted Celtic matsses who migrate in such large numbers to the United Rtate. [t is niot at all improbable that F~rench nen will soon become as commnn tmong us as Irish and German now ire,-New York commercial. The Columbus (Ohio) Demncrat p)ays the Now York World the fellow. ing decided left hasnd complinent: .'The people of the South shonit be anadhe fully acquainted with thie sharaeter and antecedents of the World newspaper: until that shall be jone, the power of that journal will 3ontinue one of the greatest .dangeri ht thraon the lbassnny sud lifo 01 sur party organitiationa. It, 1. well known by every one eOnrveii-dit 'with the politics of New York, that the sditor of the World, Mant~n Mgrbl, was Un original Black,Rtepobliesn, and that he was an earnest and vindictive advocata of every promninept apd p, pressive w'ar oneaurq 6f the Linedle Administration." The World catches it from the Democeratio press Easty Weetk ,North and Sotith, It seems it be gener 1L5 looke~ ujxa as d blaei , qhe in the The 'I0est InterestU of Colored People," VIEWS 01' A COLOiED) PREACHIIn. We find it the IHarriqonburg (Cata. houla Parish, Louisiaua) New Era, the following letter fromu T. 0. Ban. noun minister of colored churches on the Little and Black rivers, which should be read by every colored per son throughouit the length and breadth of the land: ACKLANo PLt.ANTATiON, 3I.AeC 11v Pit, L A , August 15, 1870.-Eoi-ront NEW NaA v-My atteution has ieon placed as a niember of the parish ex coutivo committee of the Republica1sn par y, held, etc. I beg leave to state, through the columns of your paper, that this has been done without my knowledge or conseit, and further, that my convictions lead me to act, poli~tially, in coiior, with nuy old neighbors and friends, ot' this vicinity, who have generally extended, cheer fully, to the colored people of the paih, ull the political rights and privilege's due in their changed rela tions, uiand give them liberal wagos aid support for themselves avid fanii. Iics. In my opinion, the best inter ests of the colored people require themt to stand by tad sustain those with whom they have been, and they know to be honest, true and faitih'l to their promises with their race. There egists a mutual devenvdance, which is fast producing a state cf mu taa;l confidence, kiidnes iiand good feeling, whi,,hi I tru-t and believe will soon be firnily established. Experience teaches us to be sn-epi. oious of the promiten of those inado by. we don't know whom, or when or where to find, Respectfully, yours, etc., 'IINOMRON 0. BANNON. Tiva Bvr IT or TrE SKASON. The following rich paragraph, which bears the e idev.co (f pnuivess, is traveli ng with the press "AN AsioR IloU eF..- Jou .-A short time ago Mr. A. M. Powell, of New York city, wrote to C. A. Stetson'a proprietors of the Abtor House in that city, asking if acoommodations could bie 'ound - in that well knowu hotel for 'H1on. G. T. Ruby (colored State Seneft or from alrvsi-ITnn, vT.,l I and wife. The Stetson's Sons reply that at this season of the year their house ia filled with permanent board era, but they express a willingless to aid the 'iew elemenit of our p .lmad machinery in receiv 1.. hm vi i V ry polish to accure is at leuesL hil, ial equality with the struggling C nucasiat and therefore suggest the entertain ment of the honorable Senator at Mr. Powell's private resideneo, pledging the payment of the cost thereof when the charge a are properly mado out and audited by a committee." And will Powell take this "liuby" to his bosom ? If he does not, what will "Ruby" think of him I The Astor people have "bottled up" Pow ell, and the chief value of the "joke" is that it bottles up the whole flock of hypocritical philanthropists who are always endeavorIng to shove their proteges on other people. A SNAKC IN Ba.-The Salem Press says:. A few evening since one of our respeted Winston dames bad ooeasion to enter bor lbed room, and uponlooingtowards the bed she was eiewih sudden terror: for there, upon the counterpane, lay a huge snake comfortably coiled, and enjoy ing an afternoon nap as only a niakto nan. Rushing from the reoma, she called loudly to her apouse, who at once seised a broom handle, with a viariety of other war like implements, anid tnado for the bod. A few well. directed strokes "did" for the snake who seemed to take it as passively as if he was ander a dose of hirs. WV ins low's soothing syrup. A nearer in spection, and lo I his snakoship turned out to be nothaing more or less thou one of the long braids or coils of hair which ladies now use to twist back of their beads, and come the .Greeinrt style. It belonged to the ladry her self, and it is veritably believed thait soamp of a busbanad put it whoe it was found, although "desponent saith nlo." IAmidst the din arid clamor of the war ina Europio is hoard the growl of the great' Russian bear. The 'tarick' of the Frenoh en gle, the cry of the' double-headed bird of Prussia, and the roar of the British lion, sink into omrnrati1ve innignificance, drowned, a'id rendered nearly iznau'diho by the aforeeaid growh. Widt doks thd flow sian bear tioan by gettngswp fromn hi. haunches at this da&y I. -Hie is after the Turkeytbassrd, apd the ebaneas, are that withi a stroke of his giant jlaw he will orush 'thes foul b.ird, and' thMv effectually end the rule sof the 8alten 'over Christian aktilonalities. The esnancipation of the .Ohfrstians of aer $urope ma be lJooke$for at an early'a.--N Y mrcsql, A-oouantrymbo walkingth:e streets of F',V:York, found hit progres'dst1p. naadhey aalpa Larriada utfE.I Al lirillhous 0litrlig. C01. J. MoroSo, of the Charleston Courier, and campaign correspondenti of that journal, in one of his lettels from Marion says : "It is true that Scott, in uttor vio '!ee of everything like canUnon do. conecy or I xecutRiv imi partiality, has appointed his own oreat tires to manipua lato the ballot boxes. In the history of Republies thero cuannot ho found a Morie opent-facod attempt onl tho part of an adini istration to cheat t-ho peo ple out ot their God.givei rights of suifrage; and a more palipable outrago was never perputrated, even by the infamous uing in Columbia. With throo-fourtits of the managers of o'.co l ion throughout tho sta o c1andidatos for otlico it Scott.'s ticket, and all of them ollice-holders or creatures of Scott, it would seem that there ro' mained not a singic ra- of hope for the honeett Ieln ii the State. But I believe that even this; iifatmous and shattiless resort will inot. *Et'ot the ob; jeet intended to ho effected, If our people are true to tle fpirit wihicl anmimted out r ftirefathers, ie will hare a fair cIection adi afei' count. T heso tools will ntot dairo trample upon the rig hts of i,liIo freem ('en, an( talimpler Sith the lailot boxe.n if outr pioplo the thlim hat ithey will not permit it. Let crfnuni' e.s be qf ;!.ted inl tlae vita iois preclets and i )n % t o guard the a t110f boxer . thev . guard their sac red ho0. .: ; ne v iig sghat of them ; dying :f need !o in thecauaso atnd lot themn see thel C-utIn-insist u pon its beintg done as the electiota is over, and in publio. If we are sufliciently in earnost to do this, the mrena to whom Scott las given control of the ballot boxes will never daro to tramplo with the votes." About Mtrryilig too Y01111g. Mrs. Elivabibot hStanton says: "Girla do not roaclh their iaturity until twenty-five, yet at ixteen they are wives and mothers- adi over the land, robbed of all the rlights arid freed6ml of rhildhie a i piarriage, cripplod hi growth and developnet, the vital aorcem needed tb build itp a vigorous antll healt1h' v- p.,thood are sapped and perverted from their legitimatte ohnantonls in the niaturo offlico of repro duction. When tho body is overtax. od, tho mind loses its tono and set. ties down iln a gloomy discontent that enfeclles fihe wholo moral being.the feeleo mother brings forth fooblo sonp, the sad mother those with morbid ap. petites. The constant demand of stimultits among men is the result of morbid conditions of their mothers. Healthy, happy, vigorous Votmlathood would do more for the cansn of ten perance than any prohibitory or li. cense laws possibly otin. When wo man, by tli observanco of the laws of life anrd ietalth, is restored to .hier nor tma1l condition, mat ornity will not bo a period of weakums, but of added power. With that high preparation of body and soul to which I have ro forred, mon and women of sound mind ail body, drawn togother by true sen t imtionts of affection, might calculato with certainty oat a happy home, with htealthy chIildroet gathoring round their firesido. To this end let girl hood be sacredly devoted toedIoation, to montal, moaral atnd physitcal growth, to an high preparation for persontal indoependentoo and ambition as boy hood is to-day." Clarence Percy Mortiner is a nice natne. Atny nnmber of youtng ladies would like to fall in love with a man who owaned that namno. Claretne-in itelf, or Percy, or Mlortimeru' woutld be the forttune of anay youth (no mat ter how little ktnown to fame) in the neighiborhtood of a feiale hoat dioga schtool. If we could represenat a imod. ern romance by nine p;oints, Clarenco Percy Mortimeor would make three of thorn, How shoekitng, therefore, is it, how~ destruotivc, to the tall-brig'ht girl. ish lfa'ies that t he me re mat,ion of sucoh a tai iatsfires, to know tid the (Clarenace Percy *Mortimner we refer to is not a hero or a troubiador; but tan Illinois horse thief.-N. Y. Ciommecrcia/. Doeacon Moses Upton, a lunatic, couinetid ina the ,Taunaton, Massaohau sotti, [jasano Ataylumtt, imiaaginod: that thae phby~..mtn had cuat his stomach out, andi thorofor, lhe refusedl to par take of food. ie livd' about two [weeks, when he died fr: i absolute startvatiou. IIlis attene'.ntts t, ii '1 to forca food down~ hi. d- ront, b, he I artt!y ek'sed his teeth andi frustrated their oft'.rts, saying thast it' would bet injurious for a ratt without a atomiach to eat anything. ONLY M E.-A m~oltjer hgjd tW chtik - dlron ; baotht girls-Th'le elder a fair child, the younger as, h~aiy and mother's pot. nTe elder wats neglected, .while s&we4(t," the, pot ntamei oaf Ihp. youtngar, reI cetived every attentiona Qtat. lomeconI$; heatow. Onte day, taftet; a~ sverejIlt qa the mnothigr wse jiuing it the. parl~ir,,) she heard a cildish, step on ShQ stirIs and her tinghts. wero.mnstantly with hthe favorite. . '14 -.a ~s thatsyen, Sweet 7" sht-iqireitoi