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THE FAIlFIELD HERALD Pi'irhil lverY weilnestiy at itY DESPORTES & WILLIAMS. --0 SERMS-IN A D VA NCI. (tie Copy Oise year, - - 3 a 00 Five . 4 - - 1250 Ten " " " - - 25 00 The Sulrrender or $l0lZ. A governincit council was hold -at Tours on the night of October 30, which lasted unt il a lato hour. Tire foliowing prochaimtion was issued the following morning F.RNCII REPutinic - .RTY, EQUALI TY, yHA'rFitINITY -- 'IIOUI.AbATION TO 'IrE FNe H PKorPL. Fr .NCILN : Rie yt-ur spirits and resoation to the lear-ful height of petils which have broken upon our eountry. It at i dopends on us to mtount above misfortuno and show the world how gi cat i people may be who are resolvcd not to perish, and where couragO increases in the midbt of ca laimiity. Metz' has c-pitilated. A General upon whom France counted, even after Meux"'o, ham just taken away (vient Wen/crer) from the country iii its danger miore than one hundred tho usand f its defenders. Marshal B.z.ine bas betinmyed u.,! lie has nira4do hiImscif tire agent of tire Man of Sedau and the accomplico of the invaders, aid regardless of tihe honor of tihe army of which he had charge he surrenrdered, without eveu making a List efort, 120,000 fighting men, 20, 000 wouided, guns, cannon, Colors, and tire strongest citadel of France, Metz, virgin but for him, to tire con tamination of the forei gners. Such a crime is above even the punishment of juistice. Nearnwhile, Freneh'men, mesure tihe depths of tire abyss into which the Empiro has precipitated Sou. For twenty years France subuitted to this corrupting power, which extiniginahed in her the springs of groatnis and of lifo Thu army of Frane, stripped of its na tional character, booinie, without knowing it, an instrumrent of tyranny aid of, servituide, and is swallowed up in spite ,f t he hrokism of the soldiers by th treus mn of their chiefs. In the dis iters to tile country, iii less thau twi mont Ito, 250,000 have been deliv ered over to the enemy, a sinister sequeL ti tire military cou) de main of 1)cember. It is tion for is to re-assert our s ce, citizens, and under tle agis of tho Iotpide, whoh we have deter mined trot to allow to capitunlite within or withou!, to seek in tire ex trenmity even of our nisfortuie tihe renovation of our polit ical and social umorirty and nnmihood. lowever tried by disaster, let us be found neither panic mtrioken nor hesitating. Let it be sooe that we are ready for tihe Iast sacrifices, and in the face of enmic,, whoi ever thing favors, let us swear never to give up so long as there retmrains an inch o f snored soil under tho holoa of our feet. Let us hold firmly the gulrious bauner of the French revolutio n, Our cause is t hat of justice and of right. louropo sees it ; F~urope feehi it. In tihe presence of manny unmueri todl miifortuners, splontnreousily rceiv. inig f'r'om us neither inrvitation or en. counragemnirt, sheo is mroved, arid she tbegins to act. No ill.,ion is now left. Let urs no longer languish or grow weak, and let us prv by oui raots thmat we caui, ouirselves, manuintanir honror, indlepnenee, ictegrity-all thrut miakj a country pr'oud anid free Long livT ire 1puibbe, onre and in divisible. Sigmned by Creminiaux, Gloib Blizion arnd Uamrbetta. Tu'io proclamar~tion, placarded aboul the streets, aittracted crowds of read. em's, anid created great excitement. Groups of people dieirssed it. Thre treachcorry of Bunzainio was denounced. anid bitter imipreeations were uttered against tire Blonapartists. Spirinal ihushnwhneking, A girl in San Jose is possessed of s devil ini tire shapo of a bushrwhacker'r ghost. Tire spirit on being question, ed, r'epl ied, through tire irroith of th< of tire girl :"I was wha~t you call n bushwhacker, and was killed by thh girl's inrthrer, and as I still feel a apirit of revenge against him, I hnavc taken 'onitrol of her to further imj deeigns ; I have nothring aginsirt th<c girl, and intendl to do her rio harm.' Anpairently, to convince throec present of' iris identity, the~ cvi spirit went on t~o tell nthinigs which had hiappeneLd betweenr hrimelf arnd thre girl's relat ives (all of which was trure), andi finally told thorn that there was a letter err tire wary to threm, giving in formrantioni of tire severe sickness of the girl whom he was rising for hris evil purpose. Tlhre letter alluded to arriv ed in a few days, eoniiming the trurth of whrat had beena foretoldi. The rela lives of the girl wih whom sire was liviing, thinking that tire child hard been inlsano, sent her to a private aisy, lum, in Alameda County, a few days ago, and have learned thrat she is not dfistulrbed any longer by the revenge fnul monster. Thu spirit hand told ther before that he would leave the pAirl when sire should be remroved fromi amioirg hetr relatives, but he would -enter into someo other riemrbor of tire famiily. A day or two ago a letter wars received from Misoeuri," stating that tire fither of thne girl was affliete d ini a manner which exactly c.,rree ponds With the former disorder of the child. The story comnes fronm the parties directly connected with tire strange anfair, whom are upright, j.ouorrable people. Lumniber dealers ehould patroaize -tii haore earis, ans every time *they ride ~thes can get arboard. -I op -- d ir A 6 Ag to peN fo h10 w W le, i ear t S ,t ou 'e oss08 a ral , i0o0*4 U' b dU m an ones. Ths, were found near the (Itre of M- bAll street, and about i:0bteen inch, a below the surface. '\o have tbeutli0,f .habitant f..r stating that this portion of the city wos-used as a plao of in orment more -than sixty years ago, :ricipally of malefactors, and that nure than -one tiurderev who xpiatta his critie upot the gallotvs In tirat 4i oiuity was buried. there. Hertaestos when the excavation was made for the a f.oundation of the LaNcastorlan Schooi building a body was turned up *hicb ,vas buried with a half dozen silvek dollasre in bis pocket, doubtless to set le his ferryago with old Charon. Richmi.d Diipatch. A gre.it, overgrown, first rate man in his Woatern pluou, engaged in the mercantile business, one morning, with a pencil in hand and a quill bei bind his ear called out to his partner : "Bill, what is John Stuplebean's first name ?" And he never discovered his mistake until ho began to write it, wheI he forgot his last name, and with the same unconsciousness sang out, "Excuso me, Billy, but 'I've fo r got John Stuplebeans's last name now t ' The roar of laughter which ensued restored biamompry., WINNSBORO. Wednesday Morning, Nov.'O, 18701 Awkwia-rd Manngenent. The public meetings and enterpris es of Fairfield, whother social indt4 trial or political, would be more suc cessful, if one or two apparent trifles were not invariably di-regarded in their management. First, they lack publicity. Until the peopla sub scribe more unanimously for the County paper, and until they read it upon receiving it, insto-d of Putting. it aside for a day or a week prhap., an advertitemnent in the County paper is not enough. Placards are also ne cossary to be posted in ebnpiotions places. Moreov, everf if, matter attracts notice in the paper, it often happens thatother businies crowds it out of reoulleotion, which posters.pre vent. See.ndly. The purpoFe of a j.ub. lie meeting or the details of an in. dustrial enterprise, should be stated. with simplicity and clearness. The programme of our fair this week was not understood by many who came hero on Thursday. Whose fault was it? Evidently, it was due to thought. less neglect of ordinary business pre cautions. Thirdly. It is absolutely fatal to the growth of public spirit and spoial enthusiasm, not to carry out a pro grammne onee annour cod, to its fullest extent, ia every particular. The few earnest mna who, by a social, law well-understood, must invariably start any movement, become disgusted, if the weather or the smallness of the assembly be made te prbtext for doing nothing, or for changing the programme. If a speech is announc ed, it should be delivered.- If the audience is small,[ the way to get larger audiences, is to deliver the speech to those who have come to bear it, no matter how few, and next tinae the audience will be larger, for there will be no danger of disappointment, if they attend. Fourthly. A public meeting~ should not be bored, as ours of late hate been, by mnueh irrelevant ditedssion. [t creates disgust, and the chairman should rap it down promptly, and in sist upon the order of the day. Tihe Restorative Systeni' The poverty of many of our land owners, and the debts pressing upon them, are another reason why they cannot abandon, if' they desired, the milserably exhausting syetetti of' hir ing on a years time portions c'f their land to laborers. and, planting the re mainder upon shares. 'It' IsIi make. shift only, to be sure, but drowning men catch at straws, and if' it be true that virtuous "ideus die hard," ;i cious ideas and foolish plans die aqueh harder, and do not, like the forhner, gild with splendor the clouds iatoidst whioh they fade. awvay. P'inti~nr. quires capital,..so..@e more moving capital in proportion ,to %jq iunvest4 ment in land, 'with every lirov. ment in the soience of Agticolture, The true policy of the lar'g6 4tidbjr of planters without. .capital dftt out experience and knowledge,dsp to contract their area, and .aa at less but to do it thoroughly'. '"Time and frugality would then bribg theedith needed capital1 . Biufhowcontrary..s their practice. Contgnaial 19es~. ead disappointment-alone can enlo dt: we In Bocotland lofig )eised - witl( e~eo.b fled conditionp of Totatfo~ s other improvetnentaj sir a termsg upon which Aents enn rent, land, and 'only capitalIsts-of :voo;Iaer- I able means can undert~ksd 'It.He-e ow 'tre seetus that sone pl aluios- here in pr9por %U t eirpverty, and in propor. t, hinbility to fulfil %oon-, Ot sOVAPi ars and their depon anco on for food upon the land wner. 'l'hisaptm can never restore r improve our lands. We see no hr.But th truth ught to be known, ond men who can. iot plant, should go to other kinds of rvor.. ,If tlie' ,Y &bil e. Olirepted, to -lob an objoet they will Ond a way . acotaoWPisjj.it, - The. rosources of n eatypst pnan are wonderful. The Jew. an Example. The while pe.-ple of S uth Caro'i ia may as well make up their 'Winds t(. jin the Republicon. party, as Judge Jrr alvises them to do, or to be sntent to do without, political office Iad to maintain and iinprovo their sivilisation through other agencies ha thnt'of their Stnte'gov'nrmnent. This lutter is tho courso wiib faih. lulness to what is good in their past and to their bdtter aspirations for the Niture 'requires of them, and, there. !ore, it Is the course which they are sure to adopt. .They eannot raise the :olorod.citLoan to their level, and they will not go. down to hiM, and the aint ter being plainly reduced to a silent Donfliot between eastes, the whites now accept the irane,,and they intend to ignore the, colorml citizen in all of their future plans for their own ame lioration and progresi. They propose no persecution. They desire to take anay no right. They simply intend to let the colored citizen alone, to make the best use he can of the tem. porary political p iwer he possesses in South Carolina, wlhjle they attend to such matters as education and mom4e3. making, manufacturing, a diversifldd Industry, aid other orying needs of our society. Pienising that in sj doing, the hites wiill forego their lei gitinmate share in their State govern. ment but for~a ve..y brief period, and even during that period, will exercise somie restiaiung liauence for good as an intelligeut uiniority, because these Yankees simply wunt the offioes and the jobs,. and will do anything to sat isfy the w ices, exeopt share the spoils, we, for argussment's sake, ask, suppose we should have to give up the oflickes to negroes and to meana demagogues steeped in bypoorisy for a very long time, why not do it ? Suppose we had to do it for a full century. The Jews have managed to do without office. and to prove true to their convictions and to the traditions of their fathers for eighteen centuries, without any share of political power fseems to us, that when negroes re fuse to ride to the level of the white maan, white men should emulate this exatmple of heroie fortitude that for 'Ighteen centuries the Jews have cx hibited, and refus., for cenaturie even, to go down to the level of the negro. If the negro canl ri-a to our level;let hint do so ; before the XVth amendment whs ratified, we argued, give hinm the chsanee. Unsiversal suf Irage is perhnps the best solution of she problem of his existence as a free man among us. But the question of our sinking to the levi-h of the negro, is diiYrenat. WVe must never consent to it. Because he prefers eorruption, we -must not consenat to it ; and to join him in upholding it, is dishonor too deep for any but mercenary hypo. eriteS. [C o5MUN IeATKI:D.] Frienda News and 1er aid:; JseQ You h0 ve au Agricult ural So. eicty ins our CJounity. P'rersmrming it is a worthy affair; but at the same time, being myself too I-umuble an individu al to aspire to the honor of becoming a nacpber of sugh an august body, I would nevertheless offer a suggestion to the same and that is this. That Mid Agricultut'al 80ciety at its comn inieeima offer ai prenmiuw of on, to two hundred dollers for the beat crop produced by one plow the coming year. U~se not under 25 or over 3t) acres. -Producots- to he' weighed and metsur4d and adl valped et market rate' the 29th day of next November. The horse or mule to be ploughed by a whlite'vnaunt I. wilput one name or more in the rinagof competitors.' Ems trane~ fee, $20. 'Perhaps tisia will l ''"'el know iittio is wgyi rQg oiWi an that la bore daily. for iahes.>livlng .of himself ied faeily, ie%' frIdads' of: the Ntwam and HiPnAI.nI such- then as these are She bopmo and 'n uM- be' thilsilv'ation of e e."ONlJ'THATPLOW8. -A very Iargo number' of 'tobeceo bvarp.-baveabeena 'destroged by flee In ~egaaley jhis year, ienh paper aloe having reported At-leat one hundred. D s thie-potet- to'-Ineendiarism or '1'Ese~euio'9insp~Utrisansltook odging in a .bgrn ear .Gentrevile, [1.J., Sunday nilghbr and the born tak-i wg Otby thbsy perished in 'the katnea. "hlow's that for 111g V" Brik Pomeroy, in, his Deniderat, thus explains the paternity of the above popular interrogation. In ad swer to a correspondent, Powery says: Henry Ward Beecher is the author of the sentence, which has been so popular. At the time of the Clove Iand Convention, in 1864, when John ,Coohran w.as by certain disaffeot9d Reptibllcana qonpnated for.the Pree donoy, Henry Ward Beecher, the an tjhor of the phrage, "Its most. d-d fot," wab at the. Spauldinig Rouse, Binghampton, N: 'Y. While thel6, *siting for tha train t-) hear him wett, ho he1a'ne acquainted with a fewiv gen. tiem i, among them a coudctor of (he Erie railroad, named C. 0. G rave.s, .lao mas a strong Republican, a great ud nirer of Beeher, and a member of the same church. To while away the time before the train, which was to boar him westward 0hould4 arrive, it was deemed be.t to seek a little quiet amusement in a private parlor, by indulging in the populArgame of -ceven up" or "old ledge." To this game Mr. Beecher made no objectionm, tting that he pla) ing all 11011 gaties 18 cleckers,baok -gam aon, chess, euchre, whist, oto., at hom~e with his family, and that he considor. cd.it no harm to seek ,uuh amusement when travelinig, or even to crry with him a deek of cards or a box of chess. men, as he generally did. Graves and Beecher were partners, the party played for the lemonade. On a four-handed game Graves and Beeuier were stuck, anid "..awed" to soe who should "',et up" the lemonatl. They played a single gante to decide the mnatter. At I:it it sood loeeclier six and Graves live, with his deAl. By accident or design Graves turned the jack of hearts, wlich put him six. It was then a question of who had the highest card to go out. Ieeher l-oked at his hand, found nothing in (here af note, and lie Lid down the duce on the tible with the remark: '1I give you Jack; that puts us six apiece. Here is the deuce; how is that for high T' The remark wais so original, and the joke so good, that everybody h"ged, and Graves ordered iin the bevorages. The story was told first to one conductor and then to another along the line of the road, and, at lost ran over the country, till now every one u-es that as a s!ang phrase, which has become as popular as "You bet," "Red hot," or "Shoo fly." A Wuor.asoNIt ExAbrt..-The ex ecution of Margaret Water.-, a profos ion il child murderess, in London, ro k place on the I 1th of October. The jury could not resist the conclu sion that she had been for a o nsider ble time engaged in carrying on a regular system of obtaininig money by pretending to "adopt" or take charge of children, mostly illegitimate, with a doliber.tto intention of destroying thoen as soon as possible, in order th.at a largo part of the muonaey paid with then should remain to her benefit, aid, moreover, that, in several in-' stanaces, she was actually guilty of murder. She was sentenced to death. The L~ rd Chief Baron, who tried the prisonaer, informed the Ihome Secre tairy that lie could not see any circoni stance that would juistify an interfer ence with the carrying out of the sen. tence. The London 1.,st says that it was pretty well uinderstood fioam the firet that the authorities ,eonsidered the offence of such a fearful character thaat, in the event of a conviction, they were determined to make a ter rible example, in the hope that it would have the effet of putting ani ovid to the frightful system of whole sale and deliberate murder ol infants which they had reason, from the evi. deuce that was diselosed, to bolieve existed in London. There is too mouch reason to believe that a sin.ilar atrocious system exists also in some Amierloan cities. The hanging of Margaret Waters may prove a whole somec example to guilty parties not a th.,usand miles from New York.-N. Y. er ald. A correspondent says : "It issome what di .oraging #n eo n dn emigrant to see bow much sioknaess prevails on both shores of the Missis sippi. Half the inhabitauts are down with chills, and the other h'alf seem onaly to wait their turn. The shakes constitute a lead iag topic of convorsa tion,aend never fail when introduced, to elicit personal experiences." Jonaes said to llawkina, s crnsty oldl btehaelor :"WVhat a pity thlat poor old Golden has gone bhliad. Loss of sight is a terrible thing, and the poor fellow's eyes are quito sealed up. "Lot himn marry, thn, exclaimed the warpish old eelibate, "let him marry, avnd if that don't open his eyes. then-then his case is indeed hops. less." The New York Tribune is very much exercised over the Lee memoe rival in New Yorvk. It is. perfectly willing that General Liee's memorry should be respected and honored ivn the South, but seems to dread the lus tre of his character being permitted to shine in the North. Now and then they o'ft off the ears 'of'a horse thief in Oregon, and then telegraphs East that the crops were never better than they are at hIs sea Mrs. Mulooh-Craik, author of "John Halifax," has in press "Fair Franc. : ImpressiodA of a Traveler." The mantfaoturers of Newark propose to institute a cobrse" of lectores for their emoi~yeesthis winter. When is a lot of corn, like a corner hot? tWhn It. g...nd THE AR IN EUROPE. "SsAt '. 14 1and - 3Qotober 3l.-The 'efst'n r"uUT '.iris are holding solemas relI ions se. vices to day. The bmbar ment.ournmences to-morrow. At a..neing.fathe-Maneheste: Chamber of Coivine cc, tv-day, the Chairman deplored tid .ontiiunace of war; he said Thiejs' miniaion to Vor. pailles would c-ti l y esult in.pea e. Friday las),,tb4 lirgi'd/ove tjie Goerins' out-post at Lebourg, a n lo (or so Fast of Fort St. Denis, on the North rn boundary of Paris. At evening of that day, the French were discovered in occupation.in forco of a position which they had fortified. To day the Germans attiteked the point, and, after a short and brilliat tight, the French were dlriven from the pmi. tion back behind their foitifications, Thirty officers and 1,200 prisonein were taken. Prussian lotscs are ac koowledged to be quite heavy. The French fought behind inar:h-works. LoNDON, October 31.-Despatohes from the state that the per,.ec.tionm of the Christains has beei revived in Damascus, arid so great is the irrita. tiun of the natives against theni, that a general massacre i feared. LONnor:, November L.-Details from various sources, thow th.it tc the last, the comnwa'nders at. Metz deceived the troiop4 ; prom iting vhile negotiation were progressing to a sur render, plans to eut out. The Inde. pendence Belge charges tha.t Gain. betta was right in charging 'L zaine with high treanon. The people of Metz followed Bazaine thromgh the streets, howling "Uti aior." At Tour the tidings of tihe C.pituiatiUn of Me'z fell like a thlud. r bolt. Uass.s, November 1.- Gen. Bo3er, in a letter defending Buz:ain from G.nabetta's charges of trean concludes : "We oapitulatad to fam ine.'' LONDON, November 5.-A dispalte received by Lrd Granville was cooi municated to the English cainet, ex. tra aession, nnuouueing the ratifieatior of an armistice upon Bi.mark's de. mand. .Bhamarck and Moltke signei for Prussia, and Troohu and othos. of the Provisional Government at PmhV in behalf of France. The armistice commenced on November 4th and ends on November 28th. BRUSELS, November 5.-The Ein press has retuined t0 England. 8h spent only one day with the Emperor ToURS, November 5.-A decree hat been issued enrolling and mobilizing married ien and widowers betwee: 20 and 40. The government esie; fur destitute families and adopts th children of those killed. Organiza tion is entrusted to prefeets and inus be completed by November 19Lh Each department must furnish a bat tery of artillery for each one hundrei thousand inhabitants. LoNnoN, November 5 midnight. The Germans are returning froni Chateau Roux and concentrating or Orleuns. Skirmishes are frecuent in the val ley of the Loire. Th'e French claim advantages. The Prussians are destroying rail roads around Dijon. The re.storation of lights and sig, nals along the German coast has beer ordered. Touas, November 5.-The Fran caise says it is agreed that Paris al receive sappplies during the armistice Garabaldi is suspending opera tions. The Germans are marohing oi Lyons anid louiges. Cluseret bas assumed commanid o the National Guard at Marseilles. It is thought the election on Sunda2 would displace him. LONDON, November 5.-The Timei has a special from Versailles annoime ing that the confero-ce b-tween 1Ils. marek arid Thiers was continued by request of the government. Toona, November 5.-Much fight ing oni 3ecorday around the fortifica. tions. BnRU sEr.si, November 5.-Iti stated here that fresh disturoancee have ocourred in Paris. .bONON. November 5.--T'he vet in Paris on the question of sustaininaj Troebu and the Provisional Govern nment was :Yes-442,000 ; No 49,000. Paris is perfectly tranquil. LoN noN, November -5.- There Increasing bitterness at Bismarek' siighits toward England. The Count DeCham bord is roportel in Frasnce icognito. TouRS, November 5.-Paris ad vice to the 31st. Thiers, upon returnimej to Pa.ri., gave the governmuent detailJ of h'is mission. Owing to the conmrig anid resistance ol Pauria, the four grea powers, England, Rlussia, A uis uia am Italy, have come to the support of ttn armistiee. It is state] that iJulesFamvre roitera tes that the government wtil not cod, territory as the price of pemee. N'. Aighting around Paris for three days. Forts, howevet., ke pt up t he ir -Gire td prevent the erection of Prus sian batteries. - SAN FRA NCIadO, Novgenbdr 5.-Thi great overland" eaitbrt b nd trait was sto'pped aind the'exp~'esb ear rob bodbetween 'Verdi and'Reniobi by high wayinen, who boarded the train a Verd i. Precenting plastols at the hekt of conductors and2 Breaknien they '9e taehed th'e expresa Car 'and' robl~dd 'i of $40,000 in coin." The robbe'rs es caped.' A pa.rty ''wds orgatnized tc putanem thm. -- "-- - - Tereifie 'gales and ralis have taken plabe Iii S lador-. WAStiNO, Nov. 5.-The weath. er is bad and the wires work slow. Tha oh&Imano ate Derneat State Central and of the Paridi Com mittee, and the giand Marslial of the Demooratio proceesion to hve tkken place to-bight, publish caia) esol hng against, the proceedbish., hey are all.severe qn the 'autholrjies and the City Counil for passing a bun combe ordinahie koibidding the pro cession. -A heavy rain this afternoon. Robeson, Forney anud the President were in conftrince to-day. The visit resulted in an order to ietoko the census of Philadelphia. It had no earing on the English mission or the new Postmater G. n-ral. NEw Ymon. November 5.-Two hundred and i y Canidian 1.p-il zouaves arrived by the Idaho an I a- o having a grand rrcption. A com. mittee is coming from Canada to es cort them hnme. Mountain Boy beat George W~rilkes two straight heats, Wilkes breakiig badly and dstaniced in lie second heat. Time 2.27 and 2:25-. Gov. Iloffman le.iped from a run away teami aid was slightly bruised. SELMA, Ncvember 5.-This even ing a quar rel pet ding ill; day bet ween Jack Baxter, whi'o, and Alf (I anger, a negro, both brisk masons, en initated in the la:ter being shot and kille'd. Baixter surrendered to Marshal Waite, from whom he was taken by an improei sed mob of no groies, beaten, stripped and dragged through the streets, being left for dlead. Through Ole influence of Gen eral Pettus and other. tie whites who gathered around on bearing of the affair, were rest:aiied from attacking tie negroes. A strong posse under General I'ettu- was snoiinoned by the sher. if, by whom the body of liaxter %as tiken from tle niegroes and tle mob di- per.,ed withoit violciec. The city is'cilet to-i.iglt. Court is in sesion and the riete.s will be aire.ted and punskhed iucoiding to law. NEW Yni, Nov. 5 -Evening. Cotton dull ; sales 1,500 bales ; up lands 171; Orleatns 17J. CHAnEsTos, November 5.-CAton unsettld- middhlings 16 ; sales 500 bales ; receipts 7.16 bale. Liv riwumom., Nov. 5.- Evening Cotton riscit ; uplands 9. ; Orlean, 94; sales 10 OU) O Is. The Appeal of the Uriiani Witiows. FiOrm several of' th! Penssikn prv in ~ts, says he New York leraid, there has gono up to Beuilin a powet ful appeal for peace that must touch the tenderest sympaihies of Count Bismisrek and King William. It i. the voice of destitute widowed moth era in favor of t heimselves and thei. half-orphan childien. The petition against the further prosecutiou of the war has been signed by thirty-five thou-aid seven hundred and fifty three widows in West phalia, Rhe.ish Prussia and Iinover-widows wihose husbands bud been slain in battle, leaving them with sevinty-eight thou sandseven hundred and -ixty cbildien in imment peril of stavvation. In languige beadtiful in its simplicity, terrible in its truthfulhess, and melt ing in its patho4, those sorrowing and suffcring German women point out the sad inud ustial and soci al conse quences of the war and implore King Wiiliam to spire his people any further aggravation of them. Many of the facto:ies in whirch these wotmen miight have hoped to' proeure employ ment are closed ; funds that under othier eircumst anees might have been applied to their re lief are used by the government for the prosecution of the war. Trheir condition could hardly have been worse than it is at Fresent had the German armies been defeated and the Fatiierlaend invaded by the Frnuch; and now the only hope they have against utter indigence and death is in the speedy re-establishmient of peace. "H'lE HIATJ GONE IVnERE THEF WVOoDnsNE TwIN ETHt - Not having been able toea-curtain the source of this oft-quoted phrase, arnd being ut a 1te: ly unable to see any sense in it,, we wouldl be very much obliged to any of our cohntemporarica for intormation. Nor folk Jahsrnal. -,Jim Fisk uised it. ast year in giving in his testimoniy before a comminittce raisedl in Congress to investigate the transacti-me~ of that famous day when in New Ymuk the priece of gold ran up a to 160 or 170. We do not remnen her the connect ion in which, the p~hrase I was uised' but we hiave a clear recol. Iceetion that itq mecanin~g, i's used(. wags s that the person or thiing spoken of wa dead if it was a perions or had disaj s peared or was irr'-r.ver-ih'y lo-ti if it was a thing. \V hero l?'k t'iund the phira e, we know not.--ichmond I~js TVs ThEsc~oJ.N M ONUMEN T --The INa'ional Linci~oln Mothumenot Asdeoia. 'tion has a hpointed 8. D). Wislliamiison its genier:. Iaewnt. -(Congress has voted over $100,000 in the shape of cap. tured eniumn and mnetal of which to make the bronze Rguires for the Inmu mernt, thuecrownin~g one to be a colbs s-1l st atue re presenrting Iinoln sign ing t he etnainei pations procha mat ion. 'Pe 'work will cost upwards of $200, 00:"The aetunal onAh reeslpts to Jan - tsary last were nearly $22,000. . It is said that Pruissia has demand ed of minister Baoneroft an explaniatio.n of, the cognduct of the Unsited States ciove~nmont, aiid that Ba ncroft re plies ,thathbe has no explanation to offer. Vhry likely be. has not. As a ~general thsiog the conduct of tlia Gov' rnte toi nxrd idable. I"BInggy timibr'elaors" are advertised for sale in New Haven. Use inseot The Best Authority, People who enjoy the discomfiture of lawyers-and who does not ?--will laugh over this incident: 'I call upon you,' said the counsel lor, 'to state distinctly upon what authority you are prepared to swear to the mare's age V 'Upon. what authority ?' said the hostler interrogatively~- - 'You are to reply, and not to repeat the quiestion pufflto yo'.I.' '1 doesn't colsider a man's bound to answer a questiun.afuge he's igie to turn it inl his own $ inl' ft . 'Nothing can be more simple, sIr, than the questiorI put.- 4 .again-ve. peat it. Upon what authority do you 8A ear tp thO. 4itlial's age ' 'The best uuhbrity,' responded he, gruffly. 'Then why sueltD ovntIQia:. Why not tate it at once ' 'Well,- then, if you must have it.' 'Must I I will have it 1' vociferated the counsellor, interrupting the vit ties,. 'Well, then, if you must and N ill have i,,' tej..inod the hostler, .wlih impurtur bio gra' ity, 'ah y, thevn, I had it wa3 s, it from the nart'a own mouth.' A siimiltaneous burst of laughter rang through the court, and the judge on the bench could with dilliculty con fine his risible muscles to jzdicial decoru-n. Married* In Fun - A Serious Malter Set. tied. In the Court of Chnncery of New Jersey, in Session at. Trenton, yester day, Chaucellor Z biiskie rendered a decision in the CaSe of Viigiuia MouClug, vs. Berjamin F". Terry, et al., ot.e of the uost, rem..rkablo cases thut has ever come before the court. Mi.-s McClurg brought suik to have a mari inge whieb had been performd by ajist ice of (lie perce'st aside by tle court. The ailleg.,tion was tiaa the tWo parties taet at a social gath ering, and, for the amusement of the comipany, were married by a justice of tle peace who ippoened to be pres ent. Afterward the defendant and his family inisted upou the legality of the marriage, aid the justice, upon being questioned, did not know wheth oc thu parties houm lie had joined in wedlouk were in earnest or not. .The ca.e h a vin rg eoe into chane -ry, Chan. cellor Zabriskie decided that a marr ai..ge, to he valid, tmuzt be agreoj upon by both parties, nod he there. fore declated the marriage n141 and void.-New York Papcr 2Uth inst. A N EXCELLENT Ex4Mpir.---Tho New York Tribune enjs ; "Mr. John Jontes, who is a 'colored' citizen of CGiiengo, being nomina td by his Hrienls for the General Assembly, has declined the honor in a letter of singular podesty, good sense and pith. in which he says that 'being so lately adopted into the body politic, he is but a novice.' lie adds that the 'next Legislature will meet under the new constitution ; that new ideas will be presented and questions of the greatest inapoitance deliberated upon ;' that 'it is requisite that no .miatakes should be made ;' that he hardly feels competent for the peal. tioni. Hie therefore declines tho nomination. Mr. Johin Jones has brilliantly dommnenced his political career by settig white men and black ant excellent ext mnple. If every man made his fitness a test before accept. ing a nomination, candidates would now and then be scarce." TN"ENDImAnrSM, E-re.-Trho ifamous programme of the leading radicals in this County is being carried out. On Tluesday night the recidence of Dr. Lesters, in the Eastern portion of this County, was burned to the ground. It is beyond doubt the work of incendiary, and under the advice of the political leaders of the blacks. Mr. Trurner Richardson, son of Dr. Riichardson, of this village, was pnr sued and shot by the*Constabulary of Chester County on Wednesdasy. Mr. Richardson is severely wounded in the arm. WVe learn that the seoundrels pur sued Mr. Ri., who had been to Chester on business, and shot him en the high wayv. He is now at Ujainvti, and receiving attention. M. R. is one of the most peaceable and honorabL~e metn in our County.--Laurecnsrilde Herald. Commenting upon General Hlamp ton's exposure of Governor Scott,'of Siouth Carolina, the New York 8uji (R:idical) sayp It is' not easy to~ reconcile these pleodges with pimtj fealty, or their vio Iattorn withI political mora lity,. C all it arn eccontrioity of "loilty," and the thing is done. Tt seems that six lidies are now busy dlissecting in Dr. Handysides' practical anatomy rionms. So say's 'rho 13 irish Medical Jourmnl, as we stated yesterday. It fuirt'wr seems that oneo of the prlinuipal dlifliutlties in the way rof wonien obtaminintg a com plete medical edue tion int E linburg is thus removed. Verily, to use the fatnous wordls of C lldileo, "the worl does move." The most of the defeated Radical cindlidates for Cyngres.s will, we infer from newspa per rumors, "contest" their opponents' rights to seats. *fhis c'otest ing business is po'rfactly sde in any legislaiive body in the United StateseCotmposid of a mnojority of -tpreserntativye: of "groat giorail idecas. They wtl alaysadmit. a br'ottier, p'rovidig 1:e is not black, wvhether bo is or is not entitled to admission. T he contradibtion, of-thh toepotti that General Sehenkc 'wonid not dontest the seat gained by Cauthpb~ll in rd plalned by the statement that the Rd publican party . will eontcst' it bhal ofr Sohon...t