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- -7 Desportes & Williams, Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Ant, Inquiry, Industry and Ltrature. [Terms---$300 per Annum, In Advance. VOL. VI.] WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 1,1871. [NO7 T Ill 10 FAIRFIELD HERALD 18 PLInbI8HIICD WE4KL.Y BlY 1bESPORTES & WILLAN1YM, Terms..-Tin rIIsA) .- is published Week in the Town of Winnsboro, at 63.00 in -ttedbly int advance. j All (ransient advortisernents to b nid in advance. Obiluary Nottoes and Tributes $1.00 -pe 4quare. The Wayside Flower. She war a wayside Rower Of lowliest degree, But as I loved br tenderly, What mattered it to me I I saw that she was beautiful I knew that she was good In simpleness and truth, the type Of perfect womanhood. A farmer's daughter only Unlearned in fahion's lore C0ontented with her lot in life, 8he sighed for nothing more. ter voice was like an angel's So fresh, so rich, so young, The lark paused in Its upward flighl To listen as she sung. Benator Frank Blair's Fir-t Rpeech-li "Talks Like a Man." In the United States Senate, Wed. teeday, after iMr Morton had conclu ded Mr. Blair said the Senator from Indiana fitly representu the Adminis. tration in the open and bold mannei in which he exprejssc his contemupt foi representative goveriinetit, La st tiuniiuer it was said that the Senator was to take a high office under the Alainistratioii, bat after the election and the Democrats carried that State, the Senator coneludeed not to accept the office for the avowed purpose, a was siid, of preventing a Denoorni from beiniesent here to represent the State. [Mr. M.rron: M isropreset the State.] I e (.Yr. Blair) would not, i.so so harsh a term, and say the Senator mierepresented the petjplo ol Indians, and kert his -cat here to pro vcntthetsi from sending one here whc dIid more nearly represent thein, In the Chicago platform'the Repub. blican pirty protiped the peoph that this principle involved in the fift.eeuth amendment was entirely in the control of the States. They car. ied the election on 'this promise, anc yet, when Congress came together, it immediately proposed this amend. mwent and voted down a proposition tK submit it to the Legislatures to b< thereafter elected, and the Senatori and Representatives from the State o Mis.-ouri Ka sai, Michigan, New Yo I and Ohio, voted for the aueudunt, although the people of those Statei had voted down the negro suffrage al the previous election by immense ma jorities, and the Legislatures of some of these States-electeo at the same time-ratified this amendment In his own State of Missouri, wher the people had voted it down by thir ty thousand majority, the Legislatur adopted one-half of the amendmon on a telegram, The vast body of th< people of the North were opposed t< this thing, and it was forced upon then by perfidy and fraud, and yet we ar< to be called revolutionists when we ex pose it, If this is the way that amend. -ments are to be put through, what amendment cannot be put through by the aid of these carpet-bog States and the frauds wvhich may be practiced \Vhant is to prevent the ad option of an amaendment making the President and tho Senate hold office for life I Mr. Morton asked whether th< Democratic party had net gone int< the presidential election of 1868 o1 the issue that the renstruction acti were null and void, and was It noi overwhelmingly beaten on that issue Mr. Blair said it had gone in 01 that issue, and, in his opinion it har been beaten because some of its men' bers had dodged on this question Congres4, in its reconstruction acts went outside of the Constitution and when it did that its laws wern cof -no force-it was no mor< than a mob-no mere than mere debating -oeiety. lie did no believe therc wvas a single paragra p1 in the Constitution th1t was not viola ted by these reconstruction sets. Yet can'ild not fled one single sentence e these abomninutions. thiat was niot a vie ,lation of the cor.stitutlion ; and you gentlemne', know it. T'he unparuallele< occurrence of. Congress taking awn! the right of appeal to the Suprem, Conrt. to prevent a dlecision in th, AleArdle ease proved that they kne, that they v'iAbted the Cons.titutions. If the rebels violated the Constitu tion,nas they undoubtedly did, the; abould have been punished by th< Constitution, and going outside of th< Constitution to punish thoem mid. Congress as guilty as they. And h< (Mr. Blair) thought that the Presiden should have refused to execute the s aotA waich he knew to be unconstltu tional. The Democratic Conventio of two years ago did not proulaim fo the first time that the President tans himiself judgo of the Constitutionallt of a law. Thomas Fefferson had pre clailned that doctrine, atsd Atadroi Jackson had reiterated it ; and if' en of thema had haon Preident.he wanul have communicated his views to Con g.ess in such a *wy as to make them pa-ise in their reckless career ; aid tCiey have continued in it step by step, bringing in unauthorized persons here to increase their majority. He had lately read of the first con toted election case in Congrcss, tat of Mr. Preston, of Virginia, who was r expelled because on the day of the election his brother had marched a volunteer company through the streets. Now no election is valid without the presence of bayonets. He (Mr. B.) knew when the military were intro duced at elections in the South that it would not stop there, nor did it; troops were now -at election times sent int, the very States which bad furnished the most troops for the war. Mr. Morton asked Mr. Blair if lie regarded the fifteenth amendment as valid 1 Mr. Blair thought his opinion on that subject was pretty wellknown by this time. The form of its ratifica lion in his State wis legal, but it was done by the most infamous perfidy upon the part of the representatives of the people. The people of Missouri had given Gen. Grant 25,000 majori. ty, and at t he same election land vo ted down negro suffrage by 30,000 majority, although half the people did not vote. Yet, the representatives of M issouri sat here, and, in defiance of the views of their constituent4, voted to force upon them a measure which they had repudiated. And this was the case with the representatives of other States which lad repudiated ne gro suffrage, and to which had allud ed. They talk of their great regard for the ballot, and the necessity of giving it to the colored people, and yet, when it is exercised in the hands of their own constituente, they do not regard it any- more than so much waste pa per. Mrs Morton would like the Senator to give hint a specific answer as to whether he regarded the 15th amtenl ment as valid. Mr. Blair said lie did considor it va&lid) but he did not consider the re construction acts valid ; and had he been iu a poicion to do so, lie would have maintained his opinion, what ever the consequences might lh'ave been ; and now, although these recon struction acts have done their work, there is some part of the Broadhead letter, of which so much has been said, which may yet remain. I said the army should undo its weak of usurpationn, and this may be done yet. If the army is withdrawn, those corrupt carpet-bag governments will fall of themselves, and the people of those States may have some of their rights restored to them. -The Partritte -EatingWager. The Baltimore Sun, refering to the $500 wager of a man named Henderson in this city, that he will consume one partridge per day for thirty day, says: "The Washington Star, han had several notices of the wager, but does not tell us if the man eats nothing else besides the partridge during the the day, wherein is the peculiar hard. ship of the case otherwise llenderson eats whatever else ho likes, the only stipulatioai being that he shall consume one partridge per dgy between the hours of 9 anid 10) A. M. The iairdship in the case is in the fact that though a single part ridge is very good eating, it bc'mzes a most reptbive article of food when repeat ed daily for any length of time. In Frases it is a sonmewhiat common watvger to hot agaist the perform ace of pigeon-eating of this kinu ; and somec five or six years ago a nar rative written by a Frenchaman of his physlia sfering -tho. nausea, fever ad postration--endured in un drn the experiment attracted considerable attention from the anedi cal fraternity,--Washington. Star. Flying IRurori. It is reported that Colonel E. B. aC. Cash was called to his door one night last week by some unknown parties, and as soon as lie appeared on his threshhold, the robbers ordered ahim to give up hais money. The C:olonel, brave to a fault responded with his repeater and quietly re f turned to his chamber, without er. c itoment or farther enquiry. Hie was soon after informed that the so I coun t of oun of the psrty had been Cashedl-ho wras founad dead necar the 3 Colonel's door. Served him right. a Tn thaase times every man should keep his pistol, and ivhen called out at an unusual hour of the night, should answer the call like Col. Casah ,did, with his pistol prepared for any emergenoy. It is reported that IHenry Berry Lowry, the notorious maurdeoror of l toheson dounty, N'. C., *ad his, wrife t passed through thais county on the west aideof the G rent Peedee, lest week. ilo was traveling in his huggy with two adoubled barroed guns by. his side. r Marion Ster. y In Cincinnati a rnan recently ap. plied for insurance oh the lee oover'. a godtd -hiduWit, btiW u t coamnaunyto taka tha rlk.. The Bowhn B1iiny Case. Ia t'e v not alone of the exhautive ability with which this ea-o w..s cn. duoted to its submission to the jurv but in consideration of the well. known oircumstanoes attending it, the public bad a ryhjt to expect at the hands of the jory a do jitive verdiet. Tn this exptotation, however, ti cy h ve been disappointed. After thirty six houis' dV hberation they have been unable to agree, atid at the open. ing of the court this moruitig, in an. swer to the usual inquiry, the fore. man annoutnced that theie was no probability of their agreement. The Court expressed great tunetance in' being forced to a new trial by the dhaagrecnient of the jury, but did not intrust them to return, in order that a verdict might be reached. Judge Wylie thereupon, on the announe ment of the disagreement, discharged the jury with the remark that if the prosecution failed to c.-Timict on the evidence they had produced, they could not convict on any evidence.-. If there was one bought juror on a panel he would be suflicent to defeat the conso'entious motives of the rest. The tes tanny of the wretches pro. duced as witnesses by the defence, ought not to be believed, and he tiaw no reason why the jury should dis. agree in this case. Mr. Riddle said he felt it his duty to protest against the Court using such language in reference to a case not ditposed of. Judge Wylie said lie would retract nothing, and felt called upon to say what lie had said. Ile reeated that the totimony of Wilkinson, that he had married this woman, was enough to cause the jury not to heed it. Mr. Merriek said the woman (Mrs. Parkes Bowen) had told him that she Was not marriod to B.,won. Mr. Harring' on remarked that Bow. en had admnitted that he was married to her. lie spoke of a warrant against Wilkinson, and be would like i to know why he had left so soon if he did not fear the consequences. Mr. Merrick replied that lie wis not responsible for the witnies. Ile believed if the defence had u.ked the Court to instruct the jury that th prosecution had not made out' a case, that the Court would have done so. Judge Wylie reinarked that he would have probably done so if the motion had been made at that time ; but the defence had, by introducing evidence, opened the door to rebutting testimony, and daniaged their case. District Attorney Fisher suggested that as he had under.stood the defen datit'n bail to be insolvent, lie desired in the discharge of his official duty, that the bail-bond he renewed or in creased. The Court refused to nak I an order to that effect, saR)ing that: this case had gone far enough. An animated and somewhat exciting dis cussion ensued, very nuch out of the usual order of judi ii1 dignity and de. cortum ; whereupon Mr. Riddle, as the I Court thought, added insult to injury, < by moving an adjournment. 1 Judge Wylie dlesired the gentle-. F man now to understand, if they never before understood. that such a motion I was at any time a gro:s insult to the { Co en's friend on te ury is un derstood to be a deforme negro, who it 1. well known was the "hanging- a out" rolitary ruan, who h'. a previous li case has prevented a conviction. BoWE N's CON FassrON. It is proper now to make known the fact, as alleged by authority of coun sel, that Blowen admitted to thme Dis-I1 trict Attorney his marriage to Mrs. 10 Parke., and begged and "armaist ice" of a few days, within which time lie would shbo* that he had a divdrce f,'oin Mrs. Parkes. -This was assent ed to, and the prosedut ion waited be fore presenting t'he case to the grand. jury, At the expirationa of the time the so-called divorce was produced,0 but it bhowed date Septemnber 5, 1870 -five days after the eolemnis~ation of1 Bowen's marriage ivith M rs. King. Thus ends this faree until thbe March Term of the Court at least-a teran when, as suggested by District Atter ney Filsher, flowen uray not be forth coming unless placed under additinA alseourity forhis appearance. lie. made a motion to that effect. which was overruled, the Court remarking that this thing had gehe f ar enongh if the Government ebuld not obtain a verdict on the evidence they had pro sented they could on no other. About one o'clock this .afterngon Bowen was ngain arrested pn a1 charge of'marrying Mrs., King when lta bad another wife 'livihg, to wit, Franoes Hicka King, whoma ho is said to 'hee mariried in 15 in Augusta, Georgia. This usakes three al,oged livinig wias for, HIweli thadi gve turngd, up htis The warrantm'*aa placed sIn the hands of De.eteetIee Olarvooi of .then MetrepQ~t r'polic4 force for. aergipe, Detective Cagge~ went to Mr B e u'esidene albout i ~ oook and served. the iranP ~ ?he bita dipr~~ssed uid surrise 6thee thaa"toi kek. when they wld heage coming after, hinr4 anmd etwith, the Gomesir, t9 the Poice. ut.- fiWeyhIkpyJIri t.a A Patriotic Jury. Charles M. Leo was a well known criminal law) or of Roohester, N. Y. io bulummoned up a case with a super. fluity of gesturc, and an afiluenco of perspiration that would have astonish. ed even John Graham in his vehe. ment and wol-ing moods. Lee was defendiug an old revolutionary soldier for pas-ing a forged promissory note for some thirty dollars. There was hardly the faintest doubt of hit guilt ; but Lee contrived to get before the jury the fact that the prisoner, when a dare-devil boy of nineteen, was one of the storminr party that fillowed Mad Anth.t:y Wayne in hiadesperate night ass. ult upon Stony Pvint, and helped to carry the wounded general into the fort during that terrible fray. In summing up, Lee, after getting over the ugly point of the evi dence its beat he could, then under took to carry the jury by escalade, on the ground of the prisoner's revolution. ary services,. lie desoribed in graphic language the bloody attack on Stony Point, the impetuouaa valor of Wayne, the daring exploit of his client, and wound up with this tunning inter. rogatory : "Gentlemen of the jury, wvill you send to the Scate prison, for )assitig a contemptible thirty-dollar "orged note, an old hero of three score years and ton, who, in his south heered the heart of his country in he darkest hour of the revolution by stornming Stony Point 7" This was a poser. The chins of tome of the jury quivered, but the ureman, bluir farmer, put on an air vhich seemed to any, that storimig 3tony Point was aL good thing enough nt its line, but what had it to do with '.a~sng this forged note t After be ang out a couple of hours the jury returned to the court room, when the .leik went through the usual for nuin "Gentlemen of the jury, have ou agreed upon a verdict I" "We have." 'Do you find the prisoner at the bar ruiley or not guilty t" "Not guilty, because he stormed 3tmny Point," thundered the stalwart 'Jrentan, who, it was afterwardsleari. ad, was the last to come to an agree The audience apglauded,the crier apped to order, the district attorney ibjectetd to the recording of the ver hot, aMid the judge Eont the jury out gimm, telling tile foreman in a rath. r sh irp tone, Ihat they must find an neonditionatl verdict of guilty or not nilty. After an absonoe of a few ninutes, they returned, when the oreman rendered a simple verdict of ,t guilty, adding, however, as he hopped into his seat. "It was a ood thing, though, judge, for the old evolutinary cust that he stormed Ituny Puiut." An Editorial Adieu. J. R. Eggleston gets off % racy arewell in rertiring from the editorial 'harge of the Mobile Tribune, from vhich we take the following as a pecciuten - "It was more through accident han depign that I first beoan.e en. !aged in the newspaper business ud a very little experience in it served to convince me flhat there onld be neither groat profit or pleas ire in following, it as a permantent ~rofesion. With a contemnpt fora the otor iety -it'- confers, a horror of the Irudgery inseper~abhe from it, I have waited imnpatiently the opportunity rhich has at leng th arrived of throw.. ng off the ahnelea of the sanctum: nd having done so, I feel as Ariel lid when released from the exacting 'ale of Pro.'pero. I am aware -that ii have often rested 'the newapaper of twhich I had ontrol very miuch h a boy would a alow-gun. I htave not been able to 'esist the temptation of Bring it into ny target thut presented ite-elf, and all out td the diowd to ao'e how the truck victitm was rubbing the Nole Ilatoe. While amusing myself in hat manner, I know that I hsve ian. lulged In a: license uad haranhdssthtt: cormed 'incom ,atIble -with dignity imd jttstice. Noet for my own sake, 3atfort that. ofotheia, I regr et hauvIrg 30 >ften given too free a rein to my pen; ~or while I amn whollj indiffeaaent as ~o the effect it muay have'had on peo' phe's opinions of nayself, I would, yore it in nay poker, hastent to heel every wound I may have itailloted eoa thme character, the op~nolons, o'r .vyn*t the tidicuhous varity of orb~evs. It. is too mtuneh trouble to b'est lhl-wilh tgaintst onbe's folhow-cre turles. Ther First Gamie Bagged. The tangbl.aturd~ of Masmins'ppl set a tratp to eVith the Ku Kittx; and the Drat game bagged was na trooly loll" Radical niegro schookamaster of Mai. dian, named Price. Diegsaised, witti e'ight or ton others, he dr~ghed an old negro from' his house and treaty bqa hiu to dath How lB liax hlores Oigihte. On the trial of the indpeaos tdt~ of Governer flliean a.adgtt 'tted' oiu F~rda hhed that himN)lf ' ai~ four. otiaere negroeshia ressed 'as Kui Mr. Greel wil pleas.e w. A Corpse Drlivng a Horse throigh the Stret, Dr. Wm. Burdett, who resided at No. 389 South Cherry St., diedi at 0 o'clock last evening under the mo.t peouliar oiroLmitances. About half an hour previous to his deuise be had driven to the residence of Con ductor Edward Wells, near the Do oatur depot, %ho lay very ill of in flammutory rheumatism. After leav ing some instructions with his patient he got into his buggy and started homeward. Sudden death, like a stroke of lightning, overtook him, probably before he had driven more than a few hundied yards, and the late living, speaking human being, who a few moments before had talked calmly and and quietly, after his usual manner to a patient and that patient's fami ly, and had even joked with a little, boy whom ho -met by the street side as he entered his buggy, still sat stark and stiff, upright upon his seat, the reins clutched in his hands staring eyes looking out upon the street, driv ing homeward-a corpse. Father of us all ! what, was it that those who met that horse and vehicle saw in the face of the driver that made them shudder and hurry on a little faster? Death looked out from those lifeless eyes, and it, was he who guided the unknowing horse, plodding on to his musters door, and those who looked into that vehicle relt a something aw ful and indefinable, and made them shudder, perhaps, and hasten invol untarily forward. The horse drew up at the family hitching post, but no master descend. od and be stood pawing the ground, anon jeaking the lines, but lie got no answer to the signals, bowevar oft repeated. No familiar voice which had so often chided or cbeered him in long jaunts. Then he pricked back his ears and jerked the reins a little harder, and liztened, but there was no response, save the grating of the leather over the dash boarJ. What could it all mean I And now Mrs. Hurdett looks out of the window and says, "Well, I declre, the doc tor's come, but why don't he get out? She looks a moment, but he doesn't move, and e4he says, perhaps lie wants somthing, and then he trips out to the street, looks up into the buggy and says, - Well William, what is it 1 No answer. And then she bends forward a little, and the light shines fuller on the figure there. It is her husband, but the face is livid and the eyes blindly staling. "William I oh, W illiam !" and slograspa him by the hands, still clutehiug the reins; they are cold and stiff, lie is daud. Thi ough the assistance of teveral gen tlemen Dr. Burdett's body was taken into the House, where Coroner Brieii hold an inquest over his re maians. The jury returned a verdict that he came to his death from disease of the heart. ,the small Pox ilmaru in New York. Seventy-one persons in New York died of small-pox during the week ending on Saturday last, and twenty seven in the previous week. In all ninety-eight deaths in a fortnight fiom this terrible disease. The rapid inorease laat week has created a well founded alarm, and It suggest. the necessity of protn't and thorough vaccination. Dr. Morris, the city sanitary inspector cautions the public against serious error which may lead to still worse results--namely, 'heo impression that a mild case of 'varie ld will not reproduce small pox. The prevalence of this idea has caused a: neglect of sanitary precautions. It is proved that smal ox is as eusi.. ly conmmnicated to other persons un proftected by vaccinations, from tho mnildest casecof varioloid as from thme ,worst form of Small-pox, The poison la only one of degree, .beibg the same in both instances, varioloid bein~g simply anialligoz tuodified by the vaccine of cow.pox. A Swindle. Mr. Cyrus Fisher, a well-known gunomith in this city, read an advet-. tisemnent in Pomneroy's Weekly Demo. erat from a character styling himself Prof. J. In, Thomipson, Drnidgewater, Conn., who proposecd to futnish an extraoi'dinary chlop and. valuable p istol for tbe small sum of three dold larP, an dat. the same time claiming very extraordinary attractions for the pistol. Mr. Fisher wrote to the bogus professor, directing him to forward a sample pistol, in accordance with his advertised proposal, per express, C. 0. D. The package came on FrIday last by A dams Express in the saple of a clgar-box marked one pistol, C. 0. D., $3,80. The express messen ger who delivered th~e package, having a curiosity to see this new diovory or improvement in firearme, waited until Mr. Fisher opened the box, which was found to contain nlotthn except a parcel of old envselopes -di. rooted to the aforesaid professos 'froiar all parts of therqoyntry, by parties who had been guilled in a elm ilar manner., Mr. Fisher attoohedhbimoney back. in the agent's bande, and got' It -Lnchburg Virginine. r ~ Jules Fovre. The career of this distinguished Fr nch statesman is assuming a new and peculiar interest. In many re. speots, he is an extraordivary man. Fot nearly half a century he has been the idol of a large portion of the people of Paris. Itising from the ranks he gradually attained distinc tion as a lawyer, especially in the management of criminal cases. The name of "tUles Fav" is as familiar am-1rng the workling classes of France as a household word. He is untgnes, tionably a sincere friend of the peo ple. They may well trust hin. In his personal appearance, in the hall of the Corps Legislatif or in the court room, M. Favre resenibles our Daniel Webster. ie has the same majestic form, the broad shoulders, the mns4ive head, the overhanging eye. brows, the large, cavernous 03 cs, the grave mien, the dignified step, the expressive view, of our grreat Ameri can orator. The resemblance is some times rendered the more striking by the fact that Favro frequently dtassas as Vebster used to dress-blue cluth coat and pants, cut large gilt buttons, long buff vest, white necktie, and cnpacious shirt collar. Thus attired, standing in some appropriate pince of power, a Republican at heart, a cham. p ion of his country, "one and indivisi. ble," a giant in intellect, an orator of unwonted force, this French stranger has endeared himself to every true American. We can not but wish sue. vess to the good caur,e he represents in the establishment of a French Re public, and no German Republican in our own country, or in Germany should expect us to wish otherwi.ie. A Divorce Granted by a Conlred Justice. The Shubuta (Miss.) Times chroni. eles a very rich divorce case in that county, that for brevity, cheupness and dispatch, beats Chicago a long way. It appours that Jas. Chapman and Jennie Willians,or James and Jennie Chapman, had "tuck up" with each other, and that Jim got tired of the old woman and courted Mies Linda, who promised to share his bed and board, provided he would get a divorce from ;ienny. Jim, therefore, hastened to the office of T. H. Clay, one of Alcorn's colored magistrates, and offered him five dol. lars for a divorce. Clay pocketed the "five" and wrote out the following oer tfloate of divorce. Miss Lindy, this is to certify that James Chapman and Jenny Williams has this day seperated before me, and you and him are at liberty to marry when you will. T. 11. CLAY. This is deoidedly the cheapest and speediest divorce ever obtained in the United States. Closing of the Cuban Rebellion. HAVANA, Feb. 20.--The insurgents Colonel Miguel Macbado, Major Da mitro Castello, and eleven men, sur. rendered at Puerto Principe on the 14th ; Majors Lorenzo Ca.tilla and Ricardo at Ponce Leon on the 10uh, aid Captain Gotiziles at Neuvitas. People come into the cities in such numbers to surrender that the into rnor is depopulated. Troops surprised 'the Riepublican Assembly, in session at Mardal. The members, however, escaped, but their documents were captured. Prefect Ardrino Garcia was killed at Buena Jagna. The Newberry icrald notices th' return to that place, from the WVest bf Mrsi Robert Pratt, Mr. R. B. Bollinan, and Mr, 0. D.8smith, and says, "several Newhorrians, now. in the West,-are anxious to return with their' families, but cannot because there are no ttacant'd'wellings. 'Phis we-regret4 and -hope that our public spirited oitiaens owniug lots may find it convenient to put up suitable and I rell-appointed, houses. We would like-to moo all of our friends 'home A ensible Juror. n a ria beorotho Superior Court of Now York City, after, the jndge hadecharged the jury, and eon iderablo time bad lieen spent in try Infg to get liis Honor to charge this Iand not tocharge that, andi tbhe merits of the case getting into confusion worse confounded,'ajryinan ~o,ld stand its no longer. "I prqtest,' ho ealled out to tbe Jutl g, "againsnt t ls sore of talk. INg, Zt. i only bewildering the jury, and i~ .kept up will get us in such a mudd le that we won't know anything aboaut the oaso." .Imitation of liuman lir. In a recent article upon the trade in hornan- hair,. It Iis stated that a patent ihas recently been -taken out for converting goats' halr Into hair for the ladl~a' use- ;and tbat tbe expert' ment Is so sueceofal as to render it almost lipoawible to distinguish the real artlole from the Imitation. G&reat afe 'eia~sin Now York cli on apt of the prevalqne f aj, pp(., ~oerenooo persoPP i) o e irese darr last wee($~ tatanty.evmon the Arevou an,.a 1. Thiers as the Read of the New Provds. ional Government. According to all our latest accounts M. Thiers is the conling man in France-not the man who is to re. m tin, but the man who, more than a y other, is to give shape ai-d char. acter to France under her new con d it ions. The resolution introduced in the Assembly propasing M. Thiers for chief Executive is clear and un mhtukable proof that France is not wholly lost to reason-that in the midst of her sorrow and all her mad. nets she is neither indifferent to her interest nor blind to the way of es. ospe which promises better times. M. Thiers is one of the great men of Europe, who is dear to us for the reason that his father was a workiog blacksmith, and that he himself is a man who owes his immense success in life to his own genius and his own industry. M. 'hiers is a man of letters and a statesman. Ile has written for the pres with success, and through the press his first tri umphs wore won. As a lawyer his sucuess was not great. This, however, is not to be set down as a fault, for at the time that Thiers was attempt ing law he was engro sol in those historical studies the result of which we have in the "History of the French Revolution" and the "History of the Consulate and the Rmpire." No man has written so warmly of the empire, nor has any man who has written of the empire written with muore caution. le was the favorite Minister of Loui.4 Philippe, and sineo the downfall of the kingdom, in 1848, all the world 1.as looked to him is the undying friend of the House of Orleans. The coup d'taIt of 1331 sent f. Thiersinto exile, although there were many who thought that the eulogist of the first empire would be the first Minister of the second. Since 1848 few have doubted that the great historian and the great states. man was at lcart an Orleanist. It has been impossible to doubt 1,is prcelivites. His appearance in the Corps Legislatif under Napoleon the 'hiid's ref6rm, marked the beginning of the dw ...11 .4., e. Hre has always been ill r.%-, 1)" Fronoo hav ing reetored to her the Rhine bouida. ries of the first empire ; but he was 1pposed to this war, because, as le mid France was not prepared to fight with Prussia, far less with united 3ermany. With his European tour ad his eforts for peace we are fa miliar. Should be succeed to power we have no choice but say ho will re ttore to the throne of Prance the grandson of Lous Philippe. lecause ae loves his country even more than ie hates Louis Napoleon or lveos thu house of Orleans, he is not lil:ely to talk any more aLout Rhine bounda. ries. M. Thiers am Chief Executive Means the restoration of the 1louse )f Orleans and peace for France-N. Y. icirald. Falling MIe IHndfed and Fifty Feet Down a Shlaf. At the Illinois Valley Coal Mine 3ompany's 'shaft, three miles- from tasalle, on Friday . Inst, a miner, lamed Knowles, stepped into the age to descenad to his work. The en. lineer instead of lowering the cage aised it, and Knowles7 apprehending langer fromt contnet with the pulley jumped for-the landing from wich hie mad started, but instead of alighting >nI it he strtuck his head against a post ind was dashed backward in the shaft mnd fell a distance of five hundred i.d thirty-six foot. The bones of >ne of his legs were. forced up into his body. - The 7thnessee- What General Shermaif Says, General Sherman says the Tennes tee was built cvt sharp at the bow tnd plhate to be used as a rams She tad heavy engimges and,eats well dowti lv the water. Daut the haeav-y engines were taken 'out and light~ones put in,. mud whe~n that .was dIone sbe stood above the mark of s ,teadinegs ifi the water. In other words, she , wac top. beavy, and thecengines were too light ror thme vessel. As she had a very ight load on thim trip, the effect in a hmeav3sea cain easily be im~agirned. ('or ofthse Journl( of. Conmnerce. A Pound of Fleshi. Anm English~oheaiist anid ggiecultu, rist lhes calpulatedl thg to' obtain a ponrd~of flesh on domestic animals, tile followitag quanitities of .either of the various kinds of food mnutioned below, moust lbq used * Tu'rsiips, 100 pounds ; p'otstoea, 50Opou~nds ; earrote, 50 pounds ; Milk, 15 pouda oat omcal, 9 pounds ; cprn moda, 8} pouands t pounds ; and heatis Si pouinds. It Nev'er Explodea. MJr. Gray, an ligetious gentleman of Stassez county, Delaware, Inyented a new,. .gongxplosive~ burnipg.a fitaid enmd invited his friends to come- and witnqssaa test ofi Its:' qualIties.. He gatbeted g select, oirele arqtqad as bare rel of the fluid in. a garret, and toc prove how non-egplosive it , was li stir d 'it with e~d Ihot polk~ere I toof.