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Desportes & Williams, Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquirv, Industry and Literature. [Terms---$300 per Annum, In Advance, VOL. VI.] WINNSBORO, S. C., W EDNESDAY MORNING, DECEHBE R 21, 1870. [NO. 27 PAIRFIELD IIERALD 1s rJ IlitSIf KI) WEI"KI.Y BY 'l)SPOTES& WILIA AMS. Termsx.-Tiux liFR~iArL is published Week in the Town o f Wilnnsbor-), at :3.00 in Vtreably in adiaonce. Ai& All transietnt advertisementi to be aid in advance. Obituary Notices ad TributeS $1.00 por hlquare. Neverl Push ia 1itanlceause IeI Going Down the Hill. In this sensation Century Good songm are very few, The words are little Cared for If the mu111sic is Only new. Now subjects are hard to find, But I've one left me still, IL's never push a man because3 Ml['s going down the hill. Then help one another boys, Should fortune on you shine, Remember when you give the mite, That poverty is no crime. Though little be theoffering boys Give it with a will, And never push a man because Ha's going down the hill. In this wide world, there's many a mlan, With tr uly honest hearts, Who with his wife and family, In bisiness mokes a start. A nd yet his ends don't seen to mteet, Lethin woi-k which way he will, Luck seems to be against him, and 1Ie's going down tie hill. Should ore you mect an honest ian, Striving hard with fate, Don't spcak words of discottragement, Or tell himu its too late. Don't sneer at him as you pass him by, But help hii with a will, For, perhaps somic day, you'll find him On thei summit of the hill. John1 CuttS Sewet. "Is Mr. Cutta in, asked a gentleman who having knooked at the door, was aluted by a wontin from the upper window with, "' Well, what's wantin' Tinow 1 Yes, ho's io ue about some where, 1 suppose," she replied ; "but t'm Mr Cuats when any business is to be done. ie's Mr. Cutts eatin' and drinkin' ; sleopin' sometimes." Well, my good woman," szaid the gentleman, ".I think he will be M1r. Cutts for my business, too. I wish to see him." "What do you want of him Ill asked the shrew, thrusting her head still further out of the window. "To do something for Inc. But I must see himself," was the reply. "Is it raal business for pay, or only a favor you want ; I can let your horse have a peck of oats, or I car direct you to the shortest read to the Four Carnere,-o rI on-I can-why I can do anything for you that he could, and a great deal more. I tak e the money and write receipts, and pay the men, and I take off the pro. duco. I'm as good a judge of stock as lie is, and:[ can't be beat on horse flesh." "But," said the gentleman, draw ing down his face solenly, "you can't take his place now ; find him for me at onloo." The shrew was baflled. "Look a hero, mister, mnayba you do not know the circumstances of the case. Thiu here Lfarmn is mine, and it wat my father's atfore mnc ; and Catts, he hain't no moreoclaim~ to it thtan thai hen down there has. And besides, I'm seven years older than lie is, a foct higher, and weigh twenty pounds more What's your basiness on my place, if I may make so bold ?" "To see and talk with your hus band" replied the gentleman, getting out of his chase and hitching hi: horse to a post, as if he meant to stay until he did see him. "Be you a (loctor ?I Cause there nt a living thing the matter - with Cutts. Ile's the wellest man in towni and so bo I," said thtis"woman for the "N~o, my good woman, I'm not doctor. D)o you think your husband fndhim I" said the stranger. Teboy looked up in his mother's acbut lie know his own interest toe wel't strtwithontore. "Then you are a minister, I sup pos, y yurblack coat. I may au welltollyouand save you time, th al toIt in' nouse for you to leave ntracks for nothing-for I'va got r big diiry, and haini't no time to idih away roadin', and I keep him abou: so early and late that when he's dent work he's glad to go to bed and rest.' "I'm no minister, madam ; I wish was though, for your datt6," said the gentletnan. "Send for your husband i I oami wait mucoh longer. I taust see hiuih a; once.'? The boy started to his feet again and looke'd lin his mother's eye ; -but i' gave no mar'ching dtders. "Look her mister," now. apposrin at the .door, and looking deOantly, al him "you're a school.master butir up a d Istriet school and ydtf thinl: he's a committeeman; - but' he am'i aE'am Cutte," as t16 neighbori ca e ,er dpe erb ud t aido and heaved a groan. S'ie had found a triii bile co0ildn't inaniuge. "See here, now, mister," :he said, "I can road a body right through,and I knew what you was tihe bles'ed minute I clapped eyes on you. 1 e1n tell by your everlastiii' :iguin' that you are a lawy er. Wo hailut' got no quarrels don't want no deeds drawed nor wills made, so if you'r e hunt in' a job of my husband, Vou may as well onhitch your horse anid drive (. We know enough to make a little moley and I know enough to hold on to it." "My good woman, you entirely mis inderstand my 1errand. I can tell no person but himself what it is, and must tell him in eonfidence alone. If he chooses he may break it to you in the best way he can." "0, my goodness sakes alive Brother Lif's blowed up in the Mis sissippi boat, I bet ! 0, la me, the poor follow ! le left a little some thing, didn't he ?" "I never heard of him, all nobody's 'blowed up,' that I know of," replied the gentleman. "1-now I know ! You're the man what wants to go to Congress, ha, and h ivo come here huntin' after vots. He ahallinot vote for you II hate politi - cians, especially them that goes aginl woman, and thinks they were inmde to drudge, and nothin' ele I I go in for free and equal rights for white folks-men and women-for Scrip. ture says 'there isn't neither men or women, but all's one in polities.' I believe the day is comin' when such as ydu and me will have to bow the knee to women, afore you can get the big places and high pay that's a-caten its up with taxes ? You can't see my husband I We are goin' to the polls on the way to the mill, and I'll proimse you that lie votes right." "L'min no candidatE, and I don't know who you're talking abouti Ah I there coImes the nian I want." And the stranger went towards Mr. Cutts, who had just leaped a pair of bars which led from the potato-iatch into the lane, Mrs. Cutts flew into the house for her sun-bonnet to follow them, but by the time she got to the bars her myste rions visitor and Cutts wore driving rapidly down the road. The strong minded woman shouted after her husband :'-You beLtr come back, I tell you :" but de wind was the wrrng Way, and carried her words into the potato-patch. "Si r," said the gentleman to hlon est Cutts, "I have a. very simple ques.. tion to ask you, but I shall ha.ve to ask yon in confidence. I will give you five dollars if you will promise not to repeat my words until to mor row." "Well, sir," replied Cttts, "I shouldn't like to answer any:questions that would make trouble among my neighbors. I have my hands full, I can tell you, to keep out of scrapei now ; but I've done it, and hain't an enemy in the world, as I know." "But, sir, you needn't reply to my question unless you aro perfectly wil ling,'' said the stranger. "Ask your question," said Cutts, "and I will not repeat it." "\Voll, Mr. Tutts, I am laying a fence on the Brisloy place, that I have just bought, and I was directed to in quire of you where I could buy ced~ar posts. A fellow in the store said 'Cutta can tell you if his wife will let him ; but she won't. She'll insist on oiling you herself, and perhaps offer to drive you wherever you go to order them.' "I told them I would see you and ask you only ; andl the fellows bet on It. They are to give you ten . dollars and to two or three widows in town a oord of wood each, If 1 succeed in ask ing you this question alone, and mak ing sure your wife does not know my business until after breakfast to-mor row morning. Cutte know his wife's "standing" too well .to feel very sensitive, andl taking the bill from the stranger, lie smiled and said "I'll go with you to look out cedar posts and keep dark, for the joke's sake ; but I don't kne w as she'll let me stay in the house to-nuight ; I don't own it," replied the good-natured Outts. "Supposd yout go to the place and doo-tositting the posts. I will send a boy to tell her you had to go off sud denly on a little business, and will be back in the morning," said-the strange or, "I'll do that," replied Cutts "for I never quarrel with her, but let her have her own way. I don't wan't to worry myself abougt trifles." "Good man," said the stranger, "there are no trifles in this life. Tbe smallest act is important, and the ,sygod natitre of yours .will ruin you gamly Baillet spirit to-day ari ext Sundlay take your boys and go the house of God, whateyor she says, alid 1e a real ma -itt the head of yony' owvn boo and fatnily, "dIts rath'er latte to begin," said Outts,hkig~g his head in a way tbat wou)f hate war-ned others from a trap 1 which hibfeet'*as fast. "You see the purse is hers,"' he added0'"And that has been a orueler fetyy that 'er .,wiAI. o. we.: ;Bat, 1 will try to begp apew, 'for bor good 'will and the obildrds.' T qhey was sent with the message, but the boy wasxn't sharlp enough Madame (Cutts discovered ihe wthero abouts of hr lord, tackled up and went after him. All the way ho)11n" stil far iito the n'ghit she used her eloqjuence, both in pleadings and threateniings, to fitid out the mysterious errand of thui hateful town nabob that had comu into the country to sepetate happy families. lut Clts yiehlel himc-elf ny t., t "dinib spii it" for the n'g t, aid no Me .ure Coul indne.!e him to t-ilk or any suiject , lest she shonld pry the mighty secret out of him. A bout midnight :Ie worc hicrsell out and went to tleep, but at breai of day she began again. I Ie then ven tured to st v :"A soou as breakfaist is over I'll break the news to %oil." "You'll never eat a morsel in Imly house, I can tell you," cried Xantippe ''till you have told ie what that imlan wanted of you." "Then you'll wait a good whi'c to iear it," s-rid (utts, "for I've vowed I'd never tell it till I had fir.t enCtn my break fast," and with these words went (out. Ma'att Cutis n u1(1red the tot iire as long ats iossibile, and then got. break fast. She ed led to the door to one in partieular, "Come.'' But Cutts didn't, come. After a while she weilt out to the barn aid found him P-ated oil an upturned half-bushel measure, calmly peeling and eating a raw turnip. "It does seem that as if this here man had pos-essed you ! Your breakfast is coolini' ; do conic in." Here was a point gained. Cutts went in as requested, and ate his breakfast. When that was over mna'an settled herself back in ier chair, with her face full of eager ex pecta tions and said "Now begin. What did that ore man want I Ile wanted some eedar posts," re plied Cutts, calmly, without looking up ; and that was all." Ift an arrow had etruok Madam Cutts,she could not have manifested more surprise and shame. "I am the laughing-stock of this town," added Cutts, "and from this hour I turn over a new leaf. I'Im henceforth head of my family, and unless this houso is mine I shall finish off a room in the barn -which is mine-and you will be welcome to share it with ie. If not, I'll live there with the boys, and you will find me a civil neighbor." "Ma'am Cutt.4s power was broken Since then the farin has been called "John (utt.'s placc," and lie the head of house. The Stindiy-Schlool--Aiilliversitry Mecillig. The attendance of the young peo. ple was fair and mueh larger than thc inclement state of the weather allow . ed one to expect. An address by A. A. Gilbert, editor of the Sumter Watch. mai, to the teachers anid scholars of the Sundlay-school, illustrating their respective aims and duties, was listen. ed to with much interest. It was followed by a symbolic sermon, on the blackboard, by the Rev. John T. Wightian, from the text, "Keep thy heart with tall diligenep, for out of it are the issues of life." '1the heart, the ten arrows pointing at it, symbolizing the violationis of th< ten commnandmients ; the shield o faith guarding it, and various othei devices, all d rawnt upon the black board, and practically illustrating th< discourse of the preacher, mader vivid itmpressioni upon the minds of the youthful boearers, and all regrettet when the growing dar-knes, adlmonish lag them of the lateness of the hour brought his instruet ivo sermon to a close. Several hymnns were sung, which g ive evidenceo of great attentior and careful training among the chil. dren, and the assemblage was dismiss. ed. Th'le anniversary, although not ni hoped for, owing to the weather, shows in the training aiid preparatior of the children how successfully th< d ifferenti Runday-schools have workcd durinig the past year andl enables all the well-wishers of this noble work tc lood forward with confidence to the next (Conferene. KIND A ND G asanous TREA TDENT. In the hurry of preparing the briel notice last week of the arrest of oui townsmen and their release fromn th( Columbia jail, we overlooked the -interesting feature of thor kind treat mont by the citizens of Columbia and we mnake the amende with n<( little pleasure. Theso gentlemen witia appreciative enthusiasm have recount od to us how geneitou sly and quickly the citizens of that oity, as soon at they ascertained they were incarco rated came to relievo their wants. and as far in their power amoeliorat< their condition. During thoir shorl stay behind the bars, the choiloi~t and beat in the way of eating and drink ing, together .with sogars, wore show ered on them in positiveo profusion Blankets also, enough to smothier then were furnished an Sunday morning the merchants taking them to the prison on their shoulders and cael one having oth'er. eipplies stowe4 away in their ocaous pookets, 1 'was, a. heartewarming .sight, and. good''one. Such kindness is worth; of notice and praise.-Newberry Her aid. The Case of the Laturens Prheiters. which heads til article, are of ucth a charneter a; I put, every innid upon :erious r'eilact tion. ThVie (ueitloil in volved is no I-art V ques in it i-. .11 question of per.ISonat lilber y. I he great prinicipls ot 1gua t -li L prncip.1s wlicl our antcestors ilaileC every saerifiec to inaintaiii ad -- tablih - re beii, thimpere-I with it) the mont reckl- . tnmaer, inid- it ie how e very iti:th, whatevI 111 y b, hi color or cotid it ion, or 1 uliticul opinionii!, to use his influence to arre.st the coure of action which seems to be determined upon in relation to these prisonoire. What are the fI -ts ? A iiner (i gentileimn of thi high. est respectability --bearing chirteters without .4t:ain (Ir blemaish-were ar rested oil the '1th and 27th Noveii ber last, in Iurens Coilnty., by. a lieputy UnTiited SItatee Mar11shall, aS' tainled by the United States Imi litary I atuthiritits. No effort iiad beeii ia to ariest thlaese gena'i..-ieni by tle civil authorities of the Uni ted States or the Statei, and no little surprise w-as excited by the appearance of General (-trlan in that part. ot the country, urr.undod by all "the poi p and eircmostanee of glarious war. Tt is suid that Joe Crews ntit to Washington nud procured tihe Presi dent to turn over to) him a part of the land forces of thc United Slates ti enforce there a rrest s. Bi this as it manly, the foices came in ntirtial array and made a bloodless conIuest. It is well known in Laurens that every m1an Who was arrested, had he been iln formed that a wart ant had been issuel against him, and his presencc was de sired by the Deputy Marshal, would have gone forward and surrendered himself as a prisoner. There was. therefore, no necessity for this great display of force to secure these l.ri oners. The olicers in command diid not know this, perhap!, but the aul thoritics of the State knew the fact. They lInew that theli persons ote rged with the violatiotn of thec laws in the dis. turbance of 20th October had no inten tion to offer any rcsistance whatever to civil officers acting under legal pro cess. The arrests having bati daiode, the prisoners were harried away from their honcs, and, reaching Newberry by forced marches, were placed upon a special train after mid-night, brought to Columbia, aId locked up in jail without a comnitment. 'T'lhe following day, they were It to hail by the United States Commis-ioner, who, by the adM ission of the prosecuting attorney, had the right to grant the order of ball-the charge in the war rant being a bailablo offence. Let it, however, be borno in imind, too, t hat there is a United States Commiissioner resident in Laurens ; that, the offer was made to the Deputy who made the ar rests to take then before this Con missioner for bail, and that lie refus ed to do so, saying his orders were to tako the prisoners to Columbia. Or ders from whom, we would like to know? Let it also be reicmibered tlat the prisoners, when they renehed Newberry, and ascertained that they wero about to be takena to Columbia, asked the privilege of sending for their counsel, who were knowna to be in Newborry, on their way to Coluni bin6 Their object was to get their counsel to accompany themu. This sacred privilege was deniedi them. They land the bayonets aut thleir bireasts. What, then, followed thae dlischaarge of these prisoners before the United States Commissionerl Before they left the Court Room, Chief Constable Hlubbuard hadl gone to a Trial Justice, mad1o an aflidavit upon "iniformuation and bellef," and had his deputies pre sent, with warrants to arrest four of the parties for murder. These were thenl again locked up. The next morning, all these but one, were re leased--two on bail, and one on the ground that he had been arrested by the wrong name; but, before the ink was dry on the bonds of these gentle mien, they were again arrested and loeked up, under warrants for murder, issued 'Ipon thle aflidavit of Ilubbard, What next ? 'Thle District Attortiay handed out sundry bills of indict mont against these parties, and others whao had not been arrested, to the Grand Jury of the United States District Court, thena in session in Co lumbia. The Grand Jury took np one of the eases eonsidered it, and returned "no bill"-theretpun, the District Attorney withdrew the other bills ; and when this liecame known, the ether parties who were out on bail in the ease before the Unaited States Distriet Court, were rearrested under warrants for murder, upon tse "information and belief" of Ilubba fd. The ganme was now being developed. pThe groat object of these arrests, under United Scatels warrants, was to get the pr isoners to Columbiau, awruy from their hiomos, amnd the County in which they were entitled to be tried under the Constitution and laws of the State. Bttt another chap ter follows--more important than all othoe in the history of this affnir, Judge Vernen is the itudge o f the Seventh Judielal Cirotuit, em h taoing Lauren. Couty, where the a1;eged offences *eire com anitted,~ Apa i plication 'wes mnade bafore him for' -writs of habeas corpus, and they were granted. They were served upon F. County, on ThursAy, the 1h ilt-ut. The piNner., were 111rond Wo bi W"0h4 I Ah 11 11 0 On .iturl qtnan ing'Ps traill to Sptrianhurg, the phic of residence of Jdge Vernon, an.3 to hold theilnselve.i in readiness to gjo I at that titn. On "the morning of Saturday, the Sheri! uns at thw jail with i o.011veyance fh the I risoner and they were tUlm to the depot 1i3!or(e they were permitted to leave the U.,!oliliUi which ther V Ie Feat ed, Frazee was served with iL subp - na, signed by Joe Crews, to uppear 1a i witness belorel a p ,itl 'o it'e of ilie Legislatur", u I,) 'eleek that d:ay, andl bring., with Ibia ,vy lorder n1 i or judicial papei nib w.!re in hiN po-sossion, sigied by Juldge Ve ou. Tihe p-tper w: ere it I w m1omne berme the time of dep-ir ureof 4 1 P tra, and tho Deputy Ii n. stable who seived the w'tbio,!a. tilld the Siherill thl he wai under arre-t ! The itte-r submnitted, and had th prisoners f iven a:rk to the j ill. The subpman of Vrews proved monre poteht than the .!I o It rS Iit If I I a corlets, isued by mne 1te.Jud o At sou'h t'arolina. The ab ve v is l lair ind im tn - l iA mtn a0 t n tii .1. % ih - ilI facts 1 0f , t 'i4 ca . Il O x .positel. of -"muth 1'1olin' Ill.: exel'tin till ' thl wri t f hab::s e p l ,,o3 -i lS b e en defeated by the( pr-eten--ive -irr,--t (if the lerd chire l wi he dr.in.1 tionl, i t l l f:Ilw o f P".e - A . mn bly otl the Su!prremo (',mt t of thw State, then and wox li se ia n, I in d iach of evory prinle iill id, 1:1v and j(iItice and lie'r1ty. W ho is rv spon1ihle for t his outrao i Jo Criws, it Lit, but Who .'hvesg it ie is the mere to1 of the aln ir the mH s and iLt. s ould ie stripped It Andi his feature., exposed. Let teli Lei laturn be thin ma ter in hand, and know who buis cou iu tled 11 1ndt o fviled thisI fllgrant a buse of power.dhler whios orders il ite co-isablelt who t.e this pretended rf - re..t Who app-tinted him, -and( who in reponsible. for his aIct( , Who oftas the right an di thempoer to control him 1 Let thse rpie-tiolns be an11 a ere t reo l i t li e State drifting I Is any one so hMind as not to r ee and feel that, if such abusei of power aro for a inonent tolerted, nom11 a n'te rlib erty isisafe-nye, neither life itself'. Such usurpation of power and recklerss disregard of law atlthe principles of free Government, com111 homne to every ien - whatever miay hie his condition inl life. Let this thing, then, o nipped in the hNO orit will grow into a mnist ru s prti eeeli t against tlel rig ihits and liberties of' th Ie m ti tn. If the law has been violated-if the men who are under arrest have emn mittoies, liet them be tried ae cording to the laws of th iand I but iAn the nme of the great princil es Wgil "NAeliNe our tnulre of fre 'overnmbent, lot not the spiri of fah tion tak, rosshsuion of the mlids of ien, and drive thmi to nieh desper. ate extrlees asg this es.o is develop* ing. Is there no one in the Lgisa - turc to sound the clarion not! of lib ert y against lths outrages ? pCient u, ries ag suih violation , of the princi pies of liberty co t a King htis bhad 13 welli ashis crown. IkiAm, ke p'i.s Aoe getlean in ondnkecet. reste tnda the paym~entofahlfr goods thich hisa wilot all bucaeo with,00,000his puhreity. e rtesisted pcyntud11 ihiefyo th~elgroundethate tho probicle inrt fhur as wrd pruurisnt withnidterdbyin. scop11e Ilfa thedutie, o atwit an o Actong teere a o pencica,00 presetr andt of dle tonw botle. payo Ilde pfrpe wo the niop deeper bro gh1 sui000tO tor $ia0nnOns dod, the artion nme tohal un ncotary. tin ia duind tycwer andeleIs lre tote woman $1hoi had co0n tedeteir puc tsnotiond to0,000,00 andy aisanc pyof te~ agand th0,00e husbandin obte det thsdcsokp i money1 i IThe t~ .hris pockye. henl axo raied payted prestil rao ,buthsdidarwilt nor ay bedilow $360,000,0 bad prsent rate wary con~tie as~ thesD ovrnmnt desire the probaenr o Ohof b~uie Cand rease addeou, oetiat wh anl." preet, ras f1taain esol Cong ressionIl. Creery askod leave to introduce the reesolu tion of wh:h ho gave notice yesterday, propoaing an investigation with a view to the restoration of the Arlington estate to the widow of Gene ral lobert E Lee, tho removal of gravc-ynrds on the premises, and a general rentitution for any ineum trance placed there in the ititerest of the Governuent. t'im)utida hoped that leave would not be granted, as the proposition to dig up the bones of our dead soldierp, in order that cer unin propoyv might be given bok to it re'Cl uwne rs, was, to his mind m.a nIous. Whilo entertaining the highe.st respcet for his friend, (Mo. (h(eery) he hoped the Senato would never entertain the proposition. Me Creerv then occupied twenty minutes up'>n the subject. ie referred to the i-rcumstAncesat-ing the recent death of t wo of the foremost Generals on each aide in the late war-Lee and 1o1m1. Ho polke of the frien dly intimay Cxisting bet woen thtese enera's lip to the comene iilent of the rebelhon, when Thoimas followed the starry emblem of the Union, and 10 reSolved to stand or fall by the te that had given him birth, and of the genera1 sorrow ( and respect wihdii nanifeltd itsevlf in either see tiont uccieeu(ding the mournful intelli. gence of their decease. lie proceeded i) uiihii, i.a the inil 'xiblo virtue, inili tOry gelius 1111l valor of cencral Lee, rmaringi that the American peopl woRh never rieli(nish the property which they hl d inl the name anld fIame of tle great Virginiani. lH then referred to the principle historic feature of Lee's earmpaigns, to show ihat, with thile means at his command, possiWy no other man could have ICCOmi~ishod results so vast, While possCssing great ability, lie was de void of ostentatioli and, froi the testimony of his most intimate no luaintaices, lie was tingularly exempt fromu the faultii and follies of other mne). Ilis life was that of a horo, a C'hristian and a gentleman. There light he those in the SeItste who would derive coimfort frotn casting aspersions upon Ginoral Leo's tharne.. ter, btitt ill sootions of tle country would eventually accord to his mor its their juit doserts. Tho loved partner of his bosom still lived, and in her bel alf justiece was now impiored. She lbelon:ced to a race fond of he. stowing ebrity, but poverty could not force i' : (.-t pt it. Would the- -nn, m the barrier thI at exciudLd Ir il A rlington ? Dring his remarks, Mc(reery re viewed in detail the Ealient features of Ieneral Lec's civil an- military servics-particularly his recent of forts in connection with Jefferson Collego, his 1"!volitionary ancestry, and his sin ,ere (ovotioti to duty& lieferring to the sword as tile least capable of all tribuials to decide a cause upon its niurits1 the speaker went oi to argue that th judgments ofrtie sword had not always command ed1 t hat nniversal respect which wotd Ih aive been expected of a court of Sr, lIarge a jiri,'1liction, and that history I had inrolled the names of Ilamipton and Sydney upon tholist of mart. 1rs inl the sacred eca nso of right. '1 ho Senate fina'.lhy retfused leave to intro d ce (lie l'e~ol ut ion, ib ~verr. li-oniai.--Thie following is the revenlue reform resolution adopted in the [louse to-day :"R~e .o/ved, Trhat thie true principle of rev ennte reform poinits to the abolition of the initernal revenue system, which was crea4ted as a war meiasure to pro v-ide for extraordinary expenses, and| the contiunaneo of which involves tho ! emnployment, at the cost of millions of dollars annually, of an armiy of assessors, collectors, supervisors, do teetives and other officers previously unknown, and requires the repeal, at thoe earliest day consisteilt with the maintenancc of the faith and ored it of the governmcnt, of all stamps and other internal taxcs, and that prope-rly adjusted rates shiallj be re tairned on distilled spirits, tobaeo ando malt liqutois so long as the 1e. gitinmite expenses of the gotoern mient require the colleotion ofan sum from internal taxes."-WTash. CoGr-. Chtarhaion.r New. It is evident that the character of the French must become modified and imiproved-must become less frvo Ious, more moral, earnest and practi cal, or France cannot maintain the position it has held among the nations of the world. May we not hope that the dreadful lesson that unhappy country is receiving mray inatrudt the people and impirove their oharaetorlf There is 1 a them and their tUountry every elemnent of' a grdfat fration. .It only romains to discard "opera boufl'' in social life, in polities, In war and in everything else and to become earnest and practical in aM. cordanee with the sptrib and prog res of the age. Gen. Longstreet denies the 'aeonta ry of the report which credits hims with havinig refused $ o allow.. e. Unite4 St at ts ig on the 14w90' Ileans custom-house to be loweredt half-maat as a mark of respect to the lata fGoa. R. E4. TLae. Immingriin --Letlers from C'ommodore Al. F. Maltury. Commodore M. P. Murray has just i.isued an interesting circular to the farmers of Virginia, setting forth the wondorful undeveloped resources of tho State and the advantages of immigration. To encourage immi migration, he proposas the following plan, which is deserving the at. tention of land owners in that -State: I bato already indiotated concert of notion and jointcontributon. Let me illustrate : Suppose the farmers in tte of the counties should club to getlier and aim to get two hundred well to do iminigrants, with their families---say 1,000 souls In all-to oome from abroad and settlel among them. Suppose that they were to offe;r forty acres of land on long credis -may seven years, without Interest -on condition that the new com era would settle on it and improve it. Let us calculate the profit and'loss in the first place the wealth of the country would be increased $1,000,000 by the presene of these l,000 new coenors, and the old residents would havO to pay taxes oth one million of dollars less than they now do ; and this, including county, State, Federal, School and other taxes, count up to not a little sum, as you well know. In the next place the now comer would pay the taxes on your forty acres, and relievo you of bhrdeas to that extont. Again these 1,000 new comers would spend 1ii your county in money-or iii service the erluivalant of money -something like $300,000 the first year, and smaller sums annually for several years, until they could got their farms fairly under way, ant thomselvos suffillontly provided to becotie ptioduoers, and of these oxA penditures the land owner wousi got the lion's share. F'inally the new coiers, by their presence, their labor and their imL provemetdd, wodld grdately enhanos the value of real estate. It is by no means an over datimato to assume that by the time the first payment fell dud, after this long or'odit, the value of your own lands would be increased to tihe extent of several dollars an nere. Indeed, if the plan were adopted by the land owners of the Stato goner ally, find successfully carried out, you would soon seo real estate in Virginia changing hands in figures at which it is now hold in Dolaware, Pennsylva nia. and New Jersey. It would not oC unreasonable for one of us here to expect to see tat day. IE:io of the ninety nine counties of the State in troducing during the next adven years two thundred families froth abroad, averaging five souls each, Why, in round numbern, that would be the in troduetion (if 100,000 now citizens into the State, and an addition of' $150,000,000 to its woalth. These people, paying their own passage, would come from the old country to Virginia direct : thus placing to your doors, at their own expense, empty ships already to carry your produce belk at low rates of freight, and so you would have the boon of direct trade which you have coveted so eagerly and so longs HUFFInmlo iN VlinGINA.-The Io*e York Tribune says :From private sources we learn the suffering in the Shonnandoah Valley from the effetsm of the recent flood increases with the app~roch of winters in spite of the liberal centributions sent them from all parts of the oountty. Theb dosti tution in Rititond armong the labora ing class and tiose already wrebeda ly por, ws soitniporative' at firab thttegreater part of tho' aid thtis given was applied solely to their ro' l ief. It is in the rural districts that the suffering Is no*'mnost heavily felt4 'Vhe small fafmers have lest not only hotUe but 'rops.-~have nothing lef6 but the mimatpbtekteIne sapil'-and their neighbors, imvptslied by the war, are un able to help them. "They are in need of the tory noeusaries of life," writes one lady. "The enfa feting is terrible, eten in this mild weather, What it will be *hen win. ter comes I date not think. Send opg what you can ; money, groceries, oast.off clothing, even bits of old ear ets-anything to keep out the TnaVIDUODn Fistos of Atszms'. A steamer which arrived recently st London fronm the Cape of Good Hp brought, i addition to a large genea cargo, a numbet of disutds,-va1. ued at $70,000. T~wo of stbeso dis drunds weigh, respectivoly, sixty cud twenty-ftwe eeras the. populatiou at -the digger's; oamps has -ln' deensed to 11,000 soulS. 'rtish tna Istrates and mott&d 15l1e0 ,7. to Ee appqinted by thre J isIl Go ertiment fot~the dislaond& feldse that a valusble mule, belougW to fgentlemani laQb onoti Two wolv ere roo4 * ilt. Granyvila eont.W orth otlpb