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Its progress had been sta: ad, but two-thirds of the block fron tng Main street, and running bac ocarly the same distance, was a fier charnel lake, still smoking and seeth iug, but conquered. Whenl TIIE FIRE FIRST nROKE OUT. And the cry rang through the hous repeated frot mouth to mouth wit frantic and despairing energy, yot S.orrespondsnt, whoie room was in ti left wing of the building, inl tt hird story, wiske up, and, after ge 'in" on soule clothes, rushed into ti C,, I Ing pa~tage, ndws Ollud whhtl ritnTki A terrible scen met the eve throug 3 the sntolky atmosphere. The forti lif half dressed males and femah could be scen rushiug, they knew li( whither, and shrieking with desipail Prucceding further to the hetal of .taircaso all egreos wis bloeked u with an lndiserifminute mnass of lit Ir.,ge and people trying to escap< Rushini tbeh to the right witig ot th building atio- her staircase was reach ,d which brougihdt one to ihe soeon floor, :and here the long corri-Jors bt served ts flues to conduct the fliun throngh the building. Coutinuin on; the ground floor is reached at las1 and then the duld, icy air strikes tL face. A IITEnUs SCENIC. Here 1 saw the wife of Captain Me Phail in her bare feet, with a blankt wrapped around her, while her bui band, half-dressed, carried their it fant child, wvhbse piteous cries 6oul be hertd above the din of falling tit bers and crishing fdoors. But Mei r *,as AN ACT OF CHIVALRY, R worthy of mention. A young ma - named Towers sprang forward, pulle off his shoes atid gave them to tt lady, and divesting himself of I 3 overcoat, wrapped the child in it, an cartied it a distanoce of sevortkl squrire to tffe hdif df a friend of McPhiail' Again thore was another cry, "A MAN AT A FIFTH STORY WINDOW. t I looked up, and there was C. 1 Sbhaffter, the State Supe-intendent 4 Vttblie Print.ing, 6linging to Ji si I df a fifth stoty nindow. Is i fe< reached the upper row of glass in tb fourth story window, and kicks or the panes. He places his feet on tl sash; mooved'his hands cauitiously to th Ca" of the window and Che dp een to the sill of that window. In th iray thdgatlant Schyaftet Saruse fret tryow ato'r' anridi th6 plaudits caiedod by whom ho was seized ar aridout of danger whien ho reaihe the grdund. AMIONG THlE VIOTIMis is Mrs. Keraly, the housokeeperi a tba hotel. In vain was ithe tttrged b (. tha'd proprietor, Mr Luck to esoapt Sbut she wanted her trunk. This al Sgot, but then she wanted. to sai something else, and at last all tI a'fondske of escape itor6 out oft, as i eihe was swallowed up by the devou r ing elemuent. SWALLtOW ED A MIou'ii ORGOA N.-. .ljttle son of 8. 0. Konidrupt, i . Datish :(onsul, firesiding with h tfatber, onQapitol Hill, in W ashtingto hia mn'et .rith an unfortunate accindei which will prove a field of study -f< the uniedical worl. It appears tha on Friday last iso olderly brothe *Vbo had b'oon playing -with a con I rl'on ~imth organlabout two fnesi leggth, (brew it up'on theiftoot, *hic behing wfbidaoosuiof- the chi'ldila Lidjisedp i6 cppsand by some meas, lbegyne. lodged ,.ia , his, throat. A 4tq'twe ~o made to extrieate it, bi Shad4 tlh.e eet of forcing it dowtr- h SIthroat atnd causin'g,.him to. swallot tlh& intdbronient. T6 hedM~rV of t1 fron~bgapoistf;of, the farenmts, ti IhngS pull do'os riot seem to iftoonmmot hig (in"~1 the. lekst~ .r Wra'ingfc as d at9 ely.tIerronit ddor of tl ow York Tribunb tufeeo had toI ~cIout~ fqrt sose pudos. 8'o 1N Gr' Qee.f Wro~te. a 'iede of paper, 'e treph ol~,n8prticejatredtt su so Img oldb.!aletges abgopted. T a mi stiediM46e, #roe 'W 'track*r phbia ge. 'AIte 'I' 1 1 E FAIRFIiLD HERALD 1-1 PUDISHXD WEEKLY BY EshxSPowRiEs & WILLIA MS, T'erins.-Tnxt ifnIRALn is published Woe in the Town of innsboro, aL S%00 iO Vareably iy advance. . gg&' diL traiisUnt adverisements to aid in advadke. Oblitary Notices Ata Tribules $1.00 p TheOreitat Fire! h1 ilichmond. We copy the following gra p 'discription of the late terrible con tgation in Richmond from the Ne ork terald.' The writer was one c thost who b"rel "e4caped with thei lives: :Not a year has pas.sed since swiftly, siddenly and without a shad ow of premonition- this city wa plunged int6 a depth of gloom almo, Without. a parallel in the annals o any city on this continent, by tOfe fall ing in of the dtoor of the Court of Ap peals ill the Capitol building. Siic then ?b od littd spreatd desolatioi thoroughotut the state to'' add to ti list of horrorS that have marked th last de-aade in ths beautiful land and now I have to dhrotiold a cilami tv, which comi'g at the timo it does inakes as feel that it is written by th fatbs, "City of the Seven Hills, thol irt do6meid.'' TIlE EMON 01 FIRE. has again ravished it and added t the destruction of property and los of life. lIcaolutido, destf uot ioi death, come hand in haud with the to King. Last night-Christinas Ev< 'which never, even in the dark days 0 our civil strife, was aught. but. a titi of narryvmaking and tojoici n thrighout the Old D,1m inlioll-fiuln 'nearly every house in the city th sen61 fc.,tivity. ChriMtdlas mnor1. ing 'mil the eypress ivhire tIle holl had been, the intht before. At hal past two U'clook A. M, a eaopy u tire hung over the whole city. It bue short huur, certaitily, fiv-e if no hiore !'d6s were, not. bitiled, bu dragged slowly into eternity, ttiroug the most horrible death gates knowl to humanitv. Only Iante, in hi wilde.st flights of poetic iniaginiation could havki depicted on-half the hor i'ors of THE BURNING OF THE SIPOTWOO HOTEL.. Niot ititb the barhtiig of the ol Teatt'm hdtichttiond wiinessed sub It ideite. liuilt Avithbit driy rick partition 6bove thd first floor, thd flames hav tug oided gotten a hcadeay, any lt tempt to 6hebik thedfi *oi idise tht Muiti6. In a few mitini s after th fire was discovered by the watchman who halipened to pass the pitdltr irb a stove had bdert negligentl, allowed to butn, and Whicb, becomin rod hot, communicated to the floor, i had rushed with lightning speed froc Uellar to garret. and by the tid16 th fire department had bedame thotougli ly organised for work, tho' holo in terior of thd immense stru'cturo wa one sheetof living flame-mad, wil lisning flute-In iRs resistless, do solating dweep, hitirlitig &tiwoatt thi frosty Rif ni i&Aes of burning tfimber li'ke sdme volcanid demof laboiig ! disgorge itscilf-now sil'ent; adt f t gather new strength ;no'w toarinig oraciking, thiridering, as if striving t di'own ~ Til SIIREES OF ITS vICTIbMs, the hoarse, confused cries of the, flr< inien, the shrill whi:,tles of the engine rt'nd the agonising huni of th6 Swtyin orowd 6f oitis-entsbfelow, r'eddy to .d and die in thei oduso -of hd'manity but yio~erlees.. Hero a brother looking> frantical for a aister, or a wife pleading 1o sonto tidiuiga of her husband, w whep list te'en wats braving fire s~n smoke to save soifle telation ; there man sto'piffod by hori'or and) fdat; b< side bin# anotho'r, Whose gallant spiri knows nt the mean in'y ,f f~Mo- )atte word, and who, havipg~ saved on firiew'l, is preparinM40oah.agdai.4nt the jaws of death to resd'ue anothol ieore is yorung. Who has just brought two fi'ent frorti the feitlth ntiry out and riusbe Back for a thied who .is seen .at -ib ,findoV of his roomn froii' the4 str'e below (but1 no w the stairway is in &h damnes. Only cue chance remains z' ih to jun~p. Hie prepares for the feai ful le'ap. D3rage bearte will cate liimn,if he crushes t'oem. Tecm late the fire fiend hag elaimed' h Voluige of black, stI~ifin'g etnoke ehtte 6 s him ; angry, forked flames -lea like serpenitb tongties fri wi'thoi fhe mass, and his galla'uf, 4oub1 is'I dterfnity. O'reoping, writhing, bissing, duil the hhluri of the witer'sr blast-wi"4gl ing ai il springs fresh frote its. -iip the diemon finally ,aeidis ftiyo- 44 large buldings 'adjoiphtatbotie Then' the soebe, If possible; be om4 shoro fea'rfnl f.han before, niilingu it.does the falling of wall. a~nd t 6rashint of the floor. with the o1 er nnndIAna OF Tirl acUIK. lndigftlition Meeting In Apartangbitrg. The spartan burg Reptublican, in its last 1Isne, says Quite a large number of citizens were in town oa sale-day. We were glad to hear aui almost univsa~l eA. pidesih ft Ainoerti condemnattont df the muhn recent outruges that Lhive occutred in our County. After the usual sales by the sheriff were com. plated, a pablib moe1ing Was held ih the.Cotit-t House, which, was addit'i ed Ly Cul. Evins, P. W.-DunCan ahd the hon. It. A. Smith.- -A commit tee, appointed td -repare resolutions, expressive of th e en.je of 'the tieeting, reported ihe following-, which was unanimoudly adopted - ftrsoted, That i-e, as ia* satiding bitiz-ns of Spartanburg County, do look with dphorrence and condemn m tion u dn the ricbnt outrages sgaiutt law and order perpetrated in ourt Oounty and we do feel it to be the ,luty of every citiien to use all efforts lingly or unitedly, in their power to t Mtst tih perpetratrq, and put ai 1 !ld to suoh a spirit of disregard of I law and life. AN rn-POrTANi'CfANG. E-The Lon. ion correspondent of the ev Yorit World telegraphs that tb Duke of Jalbridge is about to be sdoecoded as Dunmmander-ii-Chief of the lritish Army by Lord Napier, of Alagdala. [f this tintnunneinot proves true :Says the Eveniing Mmmi,) it will be a 7ery dcci ive indication that the itauich little sea-girt kingdom is tbout to put herself in readine-s fur ny possible contingercv at.d to us ume a position in reference to Conti iental questions more deoided than - he has heretofore taken. The Duke 3 a 'f mb.rid g6 is the representative of ndte, of od fashioned notions of rny mnapagenm nt and of do-notbing >oficy. Iotid 1 apier, on the other - iand, is a eoldier who is Up to the .iin~s in ill resipects,.ond who is the pot distinguishod General of the r 3ritish army. His accessior t6 the ieadm.hip of the army woul ahol an the lojtun of mnre onergetio .prepara to1 for wdr and the overbmuling of he whola systmWw of ititltary titanage nent. That this is very strongly demanded a shown by the recent expressions of he Enoglish papers and by the re wiikeniti of Intordst in thb militia tnd in militafy iatteis generally. hbuld the German-French war be )rolonged into next Spring, England t nay yet play an important part in the treat struggle # not, perhaps, hj di 'est pai'ticipaion but by her moral nflunnie, bdioed by adequate thilitary Lnd na(val prep'rations. a A DMocnrATI hNi4Uai-LaE'r:wt ?RoM CIARIL.Es FrAiiNoI DAds.-The innual Banquet 'f the Yogng Mens' Tackson Asofatfon of Petersbdrg, l ield on the th indt.i wad a brilliant , ifair. Among the lettiri read was 8 >ne from Charles Franois Adams, in r in which, after regretting his absePee; 10 sas: Ic aiYA ot mdoh in the way s, if exf'ressi6g dentiments on the pres n 3nt political topics. 'lhe country has 8 passed thro'tgh a viol6nt coevulsidn, e __d is n w - lowly bt stAd ily recov aring Itself. The takin object should , be the return of hlmrorYf in a spirit, of 1 mutual conidoce among the jarring. members; Our Govrnmelit drawsi life (ronm the ready consent of th6 idoverned. When the distinguishod boe, whose name yotir assodation i bears, uttered these mnemnorable words, Tbe Union~ must and shall be preserv- f Id,' ho uindoubtedly rested his faithv In the speaanoous co-operat ion If the great masses of the nation re.* iponding to hiis 6chil In tihe regular atnd a, legr~imato ehannel -frosbrlbed by the i arganle law. He never contemplated bhe use of batyonets in controlling the Forms of colleoting the general suf- I 'sge; O(ttr safety as a nat'ion lies in' t going back to firtt #rinniples, for- ' otting that force has over been resort-. Id fto as a pa-infut necessity to preserve I 'e~mm: \?hat wais n' b'tter~ pedicine a should be fuifuod into daffly food. T6'itms' A nfttF. - There i t momethink extrettioly disagreeable Ine th'e stom'y that during the late experi-. miente carried on with torpedoes In the Elbe some of these unpleasant Dma shines broke loose and flosted away Into tbo oean, The possibility- of a yacht, std'amos, o'r pead:-ful tradingi Sip co'ibg I~ contaoct with one of S'msavryune-stfortable idea,1 as we tear they woui'& not re-speet etitral bottoms. It i's 6sanestly to b4 hoped that filany of theab t6rfel i d'ods haie wafidealed titom therr properj f'at'hs, thef will .siolg by -th'oir owe I weight ,without lost of time, or be tome thie pirygof.se6ie iet monster, wmho will be not a little surprised -a the of'eoL produqed by sunkha 'pofet' Do t be trou l)d yi t#1i hae?n t ihesd *ommona ieliti , suid .yr*et~asesot *0ur heas wsae ht.se More Arms for France. The Freuch steame-r Lafayette a ad yesterday, for Havre, with the i lowing war materi1l. carea bras, ' 10 barrels flour, 5 C-i6. arms, C71 caue c.ararides, 250 cases harness, 25 cases ueat, 1.850 cas i muskete, 433.( 088 t s ifleei 164 4 #0cases p Aiafo', 10', . 4o Oases gunip, 20, 7U o..ses bayonets, 1.L Tot n $734, total shij'u'eni since the .Var, $ 11,3o1,331.0 Theo stegmer 0-Cdeordia ele.tred y orday for PAlduth Ruigbnd, wit; the will uwait orders for proceeding France. She tahes its a c.argo for t !'rench l1.upublic 4 42.4 eases ammnu ion, 1,70. ea C Ia tridges, 250 ca nu.skets, i,000 e.SC4 rIe s, 15 ea: >atteries nd IA ened pickaxes. T otal value of ht h ero of arms 834 200.-A z, Yok World. If! the eable nwi a few day aj here was a brief se'ntenee alnnounci hat, Mr. John B. Wulter, son of t Irincibal ownbr of the London Tim' as drowned while skattit: It is b few weeks "iiee young i... Valt as in this country, having just co luded his second vi,it to the Unit tates. Mr. John Walter ( le fathe et great store by this sun, wilo if ad lived would have been the four f his name, by direct descent, in tl wnersibp and control of that, rocnown )Lurnal, the London Tiwes. Tl enior of the hse, having be0Con .vare during his own visit, to tLi ountry, inl 1866, of the great adva Ige it is to the influential Engli, )urnalist to have knowledge tru ersonal ooserybti ) t the tn iti tate sreens to have thoigtt it. der able tflat his eldest mio and probabl uccessor should have ia second opjl Unity for making hi .well acquaint< -ith Autorican alairs. T Vis isit, 4 haevo mentimirred. i'nmi lae it, tl ill of ihis year as tie e tielusiun of )ur all round the wortd, iaid voye Valter could have been at hoiie b, few days when the sorrowful cute rophe occurred. For Mr. Walter ti ither tfie elinity.b's ttiore than rivate grief, for. with an expandii Bnse of the high responsibilities lie great orgati of 10ng i t infirn ion and 4ngilish opinion, founded I is fadnily, a'rd oier which it seemi estined to presc4e ontrul, Ito h arefully trained hidi adois, by ove dvantage of eduEation, at hoine, allege and travel,so to fulfil tlh jiision t hat he world at large shoul e the gaitner by him and their laboi Loo -to -rnF Wivi.n jWIRAT t is rare to find a field of wiint ,bedt on which there are not lo pots &h(re the water lies .n the su too. Mich might kive been done refeiilt thfi by "furrowing ont," )on as the grain was sowii. Now iust be done with the hoe and Vl pade. Some wheat may be destro d b# thooperation, but not one-ten f what will be ''wmieei-killed" if' tl rater is allowed to reinain ontl and. Let not a moment 1)0 lost in atteni gto this nmatter. It is by rio inea esubstit'ute for, tinderdraining, b I. is far better thtan nothing. If tl and is low commcnee to dig whoe here is an outlet, and make wait allow you upj ?nto tlie land. Vi ,ill Ve oitonished to find how mit all there is, event on land that is a afently on a dead levol. Try ndyo ' will siie vihoat enough 'uf idfrat'-ollsa agrid'ulttiral librar To Tna NonT:' 1ozs.-Oapta in l'. H-all, to whom has been ontrusti he Governmdnt mqpprpriation for ~oyage to the North Polo, is now I ing out a vessel, aad intends to sa ext May. Ile prop'oses to sail steam brig, properly thted ai trengthened for a voyage among tI oo. Hie means to truin hisa crew ive upon the edutstry -that is to srn o eat riaw 5teal and walrus inoat al Ib nk train oil. Thus only, ho thin an men endure the rigors of f, uticolimote. He appears to anigulne of reaching the p'ole. Thdsmess Pridarcms.-Our W: erni oxchanges gheirallg a~peak tade as uvatsdal~y stagnant,jtu.t toc >)ut ar6 hopdful of b~riager, tiid oo t domue; At Of'eIrimfg, 0 EdLoiileand othern stres > e' lO~ , mioney ra deerd'oe d do IWd amItted, frover,' t I'at If od'y i nakinmg money btkh few 6a~og iV 8pecu~Thidh ventdlVes a dhIajvor, and the'di1d ni'o tt.6 W'h1 hutb surp " is comil to.1.4 ,bot .p fsterto Portug r e tha6 WAs bitten by W@D8olie ", ir, it was ui~y youngest. ilnsb eahWthaMsawoseo r- Wital tiey saf In il. $. C. Legislattre ne Th Hoie met at 't P. M,, in Committee of the whole, to take into oonsideration the stote of the country. Mr. Ieidersoni, of Nuwberrf, said tie would not, lay ouy ebarge at the r, door of the Executive. If he be dekll * gou of his high duties, und be inclined to det-part from the path of true Repti!. I lieannim, let. him alone, and he will Y come back to us as many others have ddne. He thought the 'colored people of his County amnpiy able to protect g themselv es, if only, as "Grabaldy" d says, the requisite arms be furnish Sed thim. They were 1,200 in the u m ajority, and if this nuubot- couldn't sustain themselves, there wats fio need of extraneous aid. Better to hate a e general war, and have ten colored e men killed to one white man, than that the present stute of affairs should continue. k Question by Smart-Would the y speaker please request that the front beats be vacated, and invite mourners to the altar ? Mr Dannelly, of Orangeburg, s-tid he had heard nothing but blustering and talk of murders and riots, &k., h and had seen no measures t:.ken, as he desired, to promote ieaee and harmony beteent all chaises and e r.ices, :a ,l that would redound to the e int.res's of the whole! pe-o.ple. Mr. Allon of Ilorry, (Demecrat,) 0 was next cieiod upon. He said froi the rejiirti Wnd evileceo oi all 'lea b given, it unmast be admilit~d that the re 4 are serious list urbances in the r In '9 try ; but the idea that all the disturb It an1C.9 Were CPol'tted to the ip-ctuntry or all tho Wttrages pefpAtii:Cd en a tirely by I)emocrats, was false ; that P he waS prepared to second .any meas tire L>oking tit the preserv ition of the p peace ansi entoreement of Ohe law by eall h-ga mieans, but woild strentu. ouly ofp(o1s3 any interpisition of t he niIlrary arum of the Gv'rumient, t which he fC1t confldent, could but fe e suit in a Worse and mIore hauetiable g complication of matters. These dis .9 turbances hate a cau.,o, and if that C cau~e be 'removed, their cure wduld follow. Let the Legislature cease tb do evil, and good would necessarily - follow. He oliposed the indecent t and uinjustilled attacks made upon the i- overnor within the last few day.v Gov. Scott was not the man of his d choice, but he was lirepared to recog Aire and respect him asthe Chief Ex e 6cutfve of the Stat6 ; dhfd that so far at least during thb prifsent adninis. tration he was conscious of no act of t Gov. Scott that should subject him d to stich maliguant abuse. H-e 4 hoped that no extrdordinary and has is ty action would be adopted, but that d the General Assembly wduld assist 9 the Eiecutive in afi impaftiidl aid fearless administration of the law, which in his opinion, was fully ade quate to answer the necessity of the occasion. lMr. Janiison of Orangebu'g, said the time for r6Asoning and conisideration was passed-the titie for a6'i6n had come. Rasoning was the great fault e of the Republican party, and had t caused nuth disaster~to it; He favor. e ed the levy of a tax up6n the ivealthy 0 citizens of the Ji.orderly Counties td pAa'y for every man, woman and child IA jlur~ied. Thett you d'ihl race every nproperty bolder a vigl'lance 6ommits te, and all outrages dill imedi stely cease. Iae wated to dive into d the pockets of the propetty holders; fot to them and to their money was due the troubles that exist in thte u'p >f country, y 1%lr. Hiurley believed titat the dliif in; culty was not with the white people, ea nor wvithl the black people of South '0 Carolina, but with the Executive, 10 who had failed to execute the laws d' from incomptten~y and cowardic6 to r- do htis duty. lie should be forced to obey the behest of the law ; and if he would trot, thme General Assembly !i nityst do ft for l'iim. We mnisft, eNa e8 Charles R~ead6 ays, put ourselves in is his place; and sde that the power of 2, - h'law bevindiocated. Sufficient laws t b'ad bee'n made and ample appropri'a ur tiend granted to enable the Gotornor it to dupft'ess every disturbance in the r Stato af'nee its organisat ion, a~nd if1 the laws had not b'e'en dtfly eifecuted a of a certainty every dollat' of the hi money at least, had beed eupeded; 0 Th'e wl olo cause of' il1 (We (f'oubl~i i~ das the abus., by tho dovernor of -his appointing power, by placing into It offiee i'gnorant, cowardly and ineffi. is clend mnen: [Immen'se app~lause.J S~o ) Si0oa1 TH o nE eSTRFAM.-Captai Maury, of the SPaciflo Mqil Stdam Ship Comjiany'* esteamer Oceean Q.ueen, repies ha in'g 'et with,a violet show~ s'torm several dekk~es below the Gulf Stream on hfti pto passnge from Aspinwall toNw plies during the past twenty o twet4 r. ty-ftve years, during wteb ~Taftd'af l ' aury has travelsed the a0.me oue fjogbsrt, Inud.a ladIje have lots of fue puting st'aled eomges under Sbeds, a'nti getting up a soare abddg d buarglare. - The following sontonga~of 1 othir4 ly-four letters oontains all the * tters e jgjthe.lge "Jolg uly ' A Fiery Couch. 1i. Ou Sunday mrnitg a most Pirigular 'oI. and at first t hught incrodible oCCuIr relice was brouhg lt light at Atlan A5 tie dock, a Man beib4 discovered oi aeleep, and still alivo in a "Gery fur. 190 nace." The facts are as followa : Ou 45 Saturday night Captain J. L. Lounus. 00 bery, of the tug J. K. Ouile, returned 7s from removing a ship in the harbor, t) lay up oV.r Lighit, as is the Cuqtoml of (; Lugs, at the Atlantie dock. The fires , were carefully "b.nked," and the #j firemeU Went shore for a few hours. 1.1 Sun iday mornintg he returned, and on entering the Luider iuoou to iuspect 1 his firc,, he was surprised atd horri fld at the ight of a human head just within the furnace door. lie 33 nat ural ly rupposed life to be extinct . for when the'fires were banked the re embers were raked to the bnek of the to furnaco, and fre., fuel was added. he The fire was larger than customary Si. and the heat Wits Intense, but tle dis es covorer seized the supposed lifeless form by the head, and the body was he drawn quickly out. It was ' rid hot" is and "lit to rous;'' one 1 lhoe Was was ellarred .ff and the ot her was burned to a e:isp. The f.vt were baeid, and the skill, where th- cluth. 19 ing peeled oiff, wa r.estid. Notwitt, be staniding all this, the man wa. most evidently ulive, and seunding forth a ut he.ivy drunken bn'ro lie was freed er suflicieitly from the dirt und iahes to - be recognized as a "doek wull.oper" named Johan MoCrath, who lad once r) been a fit eun, hut who hd '10.4t ie ete" by his fondnc!e for fire-water. Itappeired that he had freely im bibed on Clri[tmas day, and after d going his bottom copper it a saloot, o was kindly east out by a geitlemanly 1 proprietor as had'Ing outstayed his u eluluesm. After coming within an Ce I of "feeziag poin1t," he eluded the watchful eye of the watchman, and I stretched himseif f.>r the obtaining of .d needed warmth and shelter from winds i' that, blow and ould that bit in the le place designed for another surt of r- fuel as before shown. lie llbos uoti d ing on the shoes, as they were not Is his. le expresIed no contrition for his beastly ifix iktin?, bot a severely " i m I ( , .. i' for expelling htim to t i. it ,vii it while celebrating Chrinfinias. Ca pt. - [ounsbei ry, in all his long experience te says he nover before saw or kuew of I such a ease, nid no one knowing the t. condition of things at the time would 0 deem it possible for a human being to live five tmiinuteS, muct1lh less to sleep 1Y there, exeopt to sleep his last sleep, j but such is the faot, and there's an other case for science, as si owing what ry amount of heat the human body can at stand. d "LKr U1. 4 D. OUR T1'tI.M:."-We - took occasion a few days ago to re .1'ark on the rumor that another "new or inovenent," was on foot, and to pro. test againstt tit, premature and un r- accem.)ary, it I we are glad to observe that our views on this subject are s genierally entertain d by tih pre s O oil this subject. tLe F.adericksburg IIerald very justly rmnarks : Wn the period for tile nationl raccs ii more advanced, aid when Sdelegates wvill have to be chosen to rep:eJL'nt Virginia in the Nationi l Daniocratio and anti-Ra diceal elements - oif Virgintia in a State Covent ion. Lot us bide our timo, so that when' Lut we strike it will lbe with a purlpose, Sand a bl.ow that will send Radicalism re rooling to its political grave" or Our c otemiporary is right. Lot uis ioour time ; and whent tihe bugle: Scalls us to "sadldle up~" we will bring .out "White Sorry,"' and distaneo Grant o n his black dlraug~ht honho. to Until thott, htowever, let usj avoid overtai ning, which has ruined more thtan one good ho~rse before the raoing C. day.-.Nofo/k Vh-ginia. a The Georgetown Timhes says :An t' inquest was held by Coronet WV. 0. ii MIunnerlvn, on Firiuday of last wo~k on ii the body'of Ned (langbelt. at Weo. id haw plantation, in this district; it tO appears that on the dlay biefore, the to dee'ied toik his gun and wentt on to Y- uice-fleld banks to doot wild dJucks, ad anid, not returning tiie next mb.ording, ks search was made for htita, whioh ro he suIted in finding him lying aoron: theo be bank, with hi's gun pointing in the direction of the fold whiere duoka usu -ally feed. Hie was frozen stiff. Vor ofdiet in accordatnoe wi'th the facts. S ays the Reading Times :Lefs tid es youg men remeuiber that to, be euc cOsslful there isuiit b6 trtitbiness upon all points, sobriety at all thnes, and never flagging industry. Thea: re witliout th6 o sbfijy' of failure; efor In' tlhia w I'ely extendpa doutdtry *1of outs n.6'niaf need be' witliout the e moans of obtaining wealth,lif that be his desire ; distinction, 1$' such lbe bis tbqughts tor, what is far better. thanp all, a happy home. ,. The Peeident in his taissge stat. od-that the ae4taIsition~ of RSn omia. go. ould "ay our dent,' and add hd. othetwlse to the solvenoy and ghtuy'of 1" she natio#. .h egporte aod Istpot br e of the island in jnet~fan for h a The Baltic of Amiens-ll-artless CoA. duct of Rich ClUslzns, Ami'eun ia ti rici town, has a nd. m'erouj dwl-to-do Oiaks, and a little "Upper tou" oircle. It will hardly be credited that, except placing a few out-houses without windows, on floor9 wibiout a particle of ttraw, the rich did nothing for the 12,000 bleeding brave that Jay for two days on the 6elds whero they fell. Not a haud boight food, clothing or mediedi cares, but what the English luterna. tionu' ciety supplied. It was their t wo .ors -who, with two brave Pr surgeons, attended on the hengis of wounded soldices-all Fretich, for the GOrwTans had sent ou their own to Germany, except the bad case t Not, a citisen thought of men ving in the agonies of death, oz: uoist, bare floors, without clothing, for two or three days ; the wealthy shut thetnselves up with the most re, pulsive, shocking inhumanity. I blush to ndd that not a priest left hig comfortable cloister to give consola tion tothe dyius. It was the poet vallagers who ag.o gavo all they coubl collect fr211 their shattered biut,eholdls to their suffering brothers. Anl the rich profesi to look with awe upoi t he working classes, yet shirk the uoblcst 00Onion to gain their s'yipathies. It is the blaokest page in ti battle of A miens. "Man's inlunanity to roan Makes countless thousands moure" Tin DIFFERENCF.-A negro ing complained to Forney's Press he had been excluded frow a P1 Lielphia theatre, that p. per, wl would have pronounced twe exclui, a groat outrage if it had been mx in a Southern State, console. the 4 key as followa : "At all events, it is not. a very u torial isue for our colored frien.. ie had fur better be qualifying him, self for the use and enjoyment of hil new franchiso by foiuo other means than going to theatres. No race or class ever yet raised itself in uaoh a: way. If the colored people of Phila. lelphia were kept out of every circus, sotneort, ualoon,or theatro in the city Ahey would probably be all the better "or it. The white folks who educate hemselves in plnoes of public amuse. vent, whether it be the 'froe and ea ty or the opera, are not the class for sur new cititons to emulate and copy after." We supposo Sambo was satisfied. An old, experienced nan In door' gin, once planted a large peach or chard in the glados or open spaces of a pine forest-leaving the large pines as a protection to t-e more tender peach trees. He was very succesful in producing healthy, long lived trees and regular crops of frdit ; and-he always contended that the partial shade of the pineA was Mord favorable to the peach than an o'pen' and sunny exposuro The pipe, hb avered, drew nothing from the soil which the peoh needed ; and h6 often distinctly stated t6 us that he had grown peach troes of the most healthy and vigorous character with in' two or three feet of large and lofty pines0 trees WVe can not doubt those' statements of our friend, as wo know bin to hie a man of the strickest integ. rity and honor, and as we, ourselves, rre cognizant of many facts corrobora. tivoof his practice and theory. ANo-rHEN IbiloRTANqT IrsUlANuE CAnarDrcrosn.-An im portant insur. anee suit, has jest been decide dby a Michigan court. The case at issue was that of a man robbed au,d murder. ed while walking home, lHe helds. policy in an accident insurance comi. pauy, andI upon this hi's ad ministra. tor bued to recover. The ourt, bown ever, ruledl thant travoling on fogt cannot be construotod to mwpt the condition of the policy, which p~ro moribe rooory only W4hen flyo, geoi. den't is the result of travelling "bf private or itibtFo tonveyenoe." Tbg co'urt thereupon Sustainled -thd -om panl in itrs rofusali to pa~y its polioj upon the murderea nWan'a lifs. .Tlhat, genial writer Ilonjamin P. .9Gillabor, whoso 'tigs of Mrs. Partinmgton" wor', so popular a few years ago' retired on the last day of, fhe ,)ear from hts editorIal conneotlot with the periodleals published by Nssf8s. Tfiem's & Talbot, of B00to02 ?ifr. EhIllabor has written moc to render j.>yous the passlug hour for Qtbers and oortainly deserved~ to live happy all the rest of bjs days. Ordn , flherman and Skodduen woe only the hands of htaukou. "I have no fenejal," said the great War See. rets'ry, "but have wnen, Nnd 'I will crowd th em in .until this thlng sbafl be smotheled.' And so be did. The nitoh to Uiobwonid w* s tade * highb. Majof~wasand this faeMa Gea i' al l't It) lifed, woundoif eitd taisping - otorb 'than Lee had u#der' hlp.-,bo A e~#~a wp hun wane shd (ben 1$ 4ole .be dtU$