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Y .....~.' Depportes Wiams, Proprietorsdl A Family Paper, Devoted to Splerice Art, i' indutry nd LItt per AnnunInAdvnce VOL VL] WINNSBORO, S. C., WEbNESDAYMORN[NG, M ARCH 15, 1871. [NO.39 now"T THE FAIRFIELD HERALD is runia.initi WIK.Y vY bEsPoilES A WILLIAMS, Term*.-Tntx UptnALD in published Weeks in the Town of Winnsboro, at 03.00 in. *.resl t, in adroance. gSif All teasisient advertisements to be aid in advance. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1.00 per bquare. ''o aBat Caught in Out Printing Office. Thou long-tailed, ebon-eyed, noot'jr nal rarager I What led the hither 'mong the types and cases I Didst thou not know that running midnight races O'er btanding types is fraught, with imni'nent danger I Did hunger lead thee I didet thou think to faid Some ricq old oboese to fill thyhun gry maw ? Vain hope I none but a literary jaw Can miasticate our cookery for the mind. Perchance thou hast a literary taste, A love for letters, and that sort of thing: But why, thou wire-tailed imp-thou vermin-king I Didat thou but yesternight devour our pa.te, And throw our typos in pyramids of Pi / Thy doo.r's decreed I-here, Toweer I at him fly The Biate Auditor's Report-Where the Burden of taxation Ress ? The report of the State Auditor is before us. It, though long delayed, Las followed fast upon that of the Comptroller-GeneraI. It contains much information of a valuable na- f ture. It will appear, by a reference J to its stateine ts, that the real estate t of Chatolston at the present assess- d ment is equal to one-fifth of that of i the whole of the rest of the State, in- p eluding all the towns and villages. t This Is certainly a remarkable fact. v It cannot be that a proper valuation o of all the real estate in the rest of the State is only four timei the actual value of that in Cbarleston. But such is the valuation placed by the Board of Equaliastion. It only serves to illustrate how large a proportion of the taxation of the Stato Charleston is made to bear. and how the industry and the interests of her people are depres-ed, when every effost should be made rather to lighten the burden and enable the sea-port of the cow monweal-h to develope her energies ad resources for the common heno fit. But it is a still more remark able fact, that of the perional property in the State liable for taxation, Charles. ton returns nearly onve-third. She may, therefore, be sAid to bear upon her back the great burion of the Government. TitE POLL TAX There were over 130,000 votes eist at the last election, and yet the whole siatount of persons who juid tLir poll tat was a little over forty-ote thous and in number. Thom were, there. foro over ninety thousand voterst who paid no pioli tax at all, It is thus s'een that there is scarcely a colored voter who c.mutributes any - thing to the support of th~e Goveun, zbett, or who pays any poll tax at all. In fact, those who control the Govern * menit and the offices, are mere conse mers. "Nati cesamere fruges." They render no aid to the fioncnial S spport of the State. The State pre sents the curious position of all power placed in the hands of those who, in the ypain, have neither property, no r contribute to its support, while the ittelligence, the industry and the education of the State, which: Is permitted no audience In Pullio affairs, are ground to the very dgte by 6 presve tazation, for the suppOrt of the very Government which hold. them as aliens and etran gers upon their own soil. We present an abstract of so much of the Auditor's report and the et as' ties as Is of publIc ititerest: tist VALUE 01 REAL.AND PEMsONAL KsTAT3. The total assessed value of all real ~atate in the State, not in cities and towns, $81,840,865. This does not Inolude the Countiesaof Williamsburg sad Marlboro', which, for some rea sons, are -left out of the estimate. The value of the real estate in cities, ,towns gd 'lillages of the thirty-one .duade6 in the State, Is $34 468,874, waking the total value of the real ropertylio the State ($l1,988,5~42. - f thin, $2',894,070, ur nearly one fth of theq e.ntire attount, belonge to harlesten. Thi'bl t duly em .rese taye~ble real propety, and is the euty hed by the IIQard of ualgato4. The total value of taxable personal porty inolud ingm ubone, er ts, a* in the 8tate, et o4own at $8,106,720, of whIchi Ohareata ogs .1,68110,or imear Jy opp-thiud of 4eteamount, 1'Asa Co~Ttta. ltJ*o ,#lhIhi6ontaintng .the sat. A ent of thie taxes collected by bg.te Government, including the poll tax f or the .sear 1869. to Osbobar $1 ahowed that $699.476 have beeti paid its. (This dois not itteludo county taxes.) Of this (.btatlebton Co.unty pays $121,675, abotit onnRasixth of the whole amount. The amount of the poll tax collocted, compared with the number of voters In the 8tute, p-oves inefici-no of the law on this Subjeot Only $41,819 were paid in for poll tax, wthn ii known that ihere U1re oe..r 130,000 voters in the Statd. The State is thus deprived of $90,000 revenue to which it is entitled. Charleston Courier. "i Why llave We so Many Congreslollhl Contestants !1" The following truthful remat ks, upon the sulject of Congreslotinal Dortentant!', are from the Philadel. phia Evening Herald : Tbat we have had so many contests for seats in Congress during the past .our or five years, is expluined by the fact that it has become a very prufita >le and very sure bubiness on the part >f Republicans. A contest, however iopeless, is sure to result in one or wo things-the contestant either sue. ieeding in ousting his opponents, or eeuring for himsielf three or four ,housand dollars to pay expenses. "or these rea-ionA, Republican acala tags from the South and elsewhere, then defeated resolve to conteit. 1 ['ho majority against them may be i me, two, or, asi in one notable case, welve thousand. But what of that ? ['be present Committee on Electious -one of the most unserupu ous that ever held place in Congress -entertained the projects, and in al- J nost ever ease have decided in favor if the Republican. If, in a rare in- i tance, the Democrat has been allow- I d to retain his seat, the scalawag re eived thee to four thousand dollars row Congress, and goes his way re Aiing, having made wore money in i he space of a month or two by this 'i inhonent protice than he ever earned i a his life before in any legitimate ursuit. If the custom of paying . he expenses of defeated conteatants rere abolished we should have fewer f them. Tobacco Lost at Sea Milst Pay Tax. t Some time ago a cargo of tobacco ras shipped from Baltimore to Europe nd bonds were given in double ti o mount of the tax to show that the oods were actually intended for ex ort. The vessels was wrecked and he goods went to the bottom of the ea. The revenue officers demanded ayment of the tax on the goods na m d In the export Invoice. The ship or refused to pay, and carried the ase to court. The court decided hat the law requires the production f a certificte of landing in a foreign iountry before concellation of the in. lemnity bond. It was evident that no mon at the bottom of the ocean had iower to give auch a certificate; the .hipper failed to produce one, and udgment wus given in favor of the ;overn ment. The shipper was nko aually obliged to pay tax on goods osat utsea. Such is the system of taxation wish Nhich the people tire cursed under Ie "bestgoverumeut the world eve; law I The Cause of Rust In Wheat. The following from tihe German. own Telegr~ aph is a new and. novelI hecor y in rela' ion to the cause of ru:st a wheat. Without endorm.ing it by imy ineans, we publish it f.>r what it is worth, and leave our readers to 1raw their own csonclusions : "It is getting to be a pretty general pinion among farmers that the sow ing of grass seed-clover or timiothy -- with the wheat In the fall, as has been comm son in nearly every wheat growing diatriot here,as well as north md east of us, is the causejof thme rust an wheat, by reason of the moisture whbich the grass retains affecting the* grain stalks when maturing. These rass seeds, sown after the wheat crop las been harvested, will p rod uce, it is claimed as good crops the followring year as if sown at the time of the wheat, nine months previously." A Western paper says :-"Out on the Union Pacific road, not long -ago, a Kicksapoo Indian saw a locomnotive coming down the track at the rate of forty miles an hour. He thought It wqas an imported breed of a buffalo, and was anxious to scure it so as to' take the p rise at the annual exhibi tien of thme Kickapoo agricultural so elety. 8o he fastened one end of his lasso to his waistbelt, and when the erngine got nava enough, he th~.ewe the noose nicely over the smokestack. Perhaps it Is no fesay but we may as well state that th engine did not stop. The engineer and giremen witnessed the mioSt seessful attempt to do the flying trapese made b any N(ip on Indi an .apea thE plis sinoeb te Airst of January 1uet, eTor 'was'am aboriginal funeral at the next etation when the engine arried. The grave was not large, for they obi Iy, Ie'da sinall piece of coprcol pred tet'ied to a .slrig. 49 inols ed In a asrtine box. >.. 1tA GOryn was shot and killed- by his son, in Wilson Coqaney,Trenpessee, , n \i(nn8ta.. Corrspondence of the Charleston Coil tier. VAsniJNGoo, March 1. A proto.t of political importatic has uppeared In the Senatte. The S.utlhern ltcpublic.n Senato. havo found allies in the Northert; Demiocracy, and thus effected impor tant objects. Suoh a coalitio-n was inn% itkble, tlcuygh the lldieals have been blind to it. It is first brouvht to bear upon ihe que,,tinn of comensa ting Southern loyal men for losses in curred in the war. Yoi will see that it alarinad the ltqpublican lead. era. Sherman and Coking resi.ted it with all their might. Tile recogni tion of the elai-n.s of Souitlhcrni loyal. isle will, as those two Senators de iured, double the national debt. %fr. Sawyer, oi the other hand, de. lared that it would be better for the J overnment to recognize these claims. -ven though they took a thousand [illion8 from the Treasury, rather han incur the disgrace which a re 'usal to entertain honest claims of oyal Southerners would inflict. The passage of the Bill for the pay nent of the claim of Dr. Best, of Kentucky, a 1ival citizen, is the en ering wedge for the acknowledge. nent of all such claims. A general bill establishing tho >rinciple of Governnout responsibili. y for clains of vast amount, will be lie first fruit of the coalition between liuthern menibos and Nirthern )eiocrats. Bit it is easy t-, see that his concert of action will be ex,euded o other and higher political sub. cots. The Democracy is sensible of the ecessity of scouring Southern Re ublican alliance, and will stop at no rifles like a few hundred millions of xovernment promnies to obtain it. The new lou-c, about to be organiz d, will be able to second, with reat effect, the policy thus indicated my the Senate. The Democrats will ome within twenty votes of a majori. y in the House if we allow for some iorthern defeetion on the financia 1 juestion. With the Southern Repub. icens, the Democrats may secure a oajority, if not at once, at least in he course of two sessions. There are also signa of -active oppo.. ition, in the Republican ranks, to ?resident Grant's pet. scheme, for the unexation of Dominica. Mr. Sum ier is to be strongly sustainted in his ietermined hostility to the Aduminis ration on this point. Mr. Sumner will take an early opportunity, if his icalth will permit it, to make a great peech in the Senate against the )ominioan annexation. The 11ouse of Representatives, fter all its sI rt comings, sometimes tas a spasm of hoinesty. The House istened to and sympathized with the overtures of the public against the ex ortion of the coal miners and their ioadjutors the Btail Road lines em. )loyed in coaltratnsportation. By ar overwhelmii g majo, ity they struck off he entire duty on foreign coal, and rovided that the Bill take effect im nediately. This will bring the mo iopoli.,tt to their senses. Nova Sootin wal can now comte in free, the dutN f a dollar anid a quai ter a ton beling kbolit-hed, for the Seute will no onbt concur in the measure. Thus, an imiportantt revenue reform has been effrcted suddenly, and without dlebate after it liad beeun vain. ly urged by thme anti-protectionists, for h..lf a dozen ssions. D~own goe, the Pennstyvanmia proteetive 5ys teml, to ehich. New York and New Ergand have been so long tributaries and from which they have suffered so inuch detriment. This iil lead to yther revenue reforms in the forty eeond Coangress. The Southern Republicans, the Democrats, anud the Rovenue Recformn Republicans rray coumbineo to give us in improved legislative policy and a oonservative~exeoutive ad umiitration before long. L EO. A pproprlitlons to the Sisters of Miercy. The following paragraph, taken from the Washington Chronicle, shows to whom the Sisters are in debted for at least one attempt to defeat the approapriattions : Senator lion ard spoke against time to defeat the appropriation proposed and eloquently urged by Senator Sawyer, of $2o,O00 to the Sistmrs of Mercy, of Charleston, S. C., to re build their or phan ay luime, from which many Union soldiers were supplied with that which saved their preoious lives, le was speak in6 when the hammer of the Vice-President foll. 1t meemed to us a very ungraoious close to alona anud a useful end diis. tinguished Senatoripi career. Etraet of M ptt; ofeSoale(k*Mypt son, :.. "The7; ent inito it tIbnlItuj bley h ad a rrght to do so. They ftight in It as bravely and ad honmotablj u ihe men who fougl4 against them. I foV one, oantiot sit 1ers quietly and ald low the hodesty ld'Verstty' and honor of tire people of. the-South, a14 mass, to be impugnedi. As a ilopfei they; ste as honorable ad bteve~ thq peopl, of Ohio or the people of any other State?" A Missisippi Tragedy. JACK6oN, MI.8., MArchi 7.-There was a ri'A ait Meridiatn, M bisi,, inoty Ive mileS ti oIf here, )eatetday, -intring which Judge Brainlette,' of h0 City 'out t (white), a(ld eight or tel negroes we're killhd, snd a numll 'per of whites and i.egrees w1.oea woun. tod. A fire occurred 'on Saturduy ight, deetroy~frg sevet.ty-five I hous in.i dollars werth of propety. Loften, t netgro, was arrested nethe iainu,di. ry, tid w as being ttied hefore Jadgo Brat leite, whens TIler (negro) rose -11 the ourt. .i oom ahd shot . Judge, Branit t!e though the head, 'ilfig hint ii.ttitly. A general iti1l e eiuliel. Tyler and Lofton were kihlb -d1 iltiant ly. J. . tron Moore, negro, a pr'1'" lto tet polit.,ian, ard wotmber of the Mi0 iipp Leagislattre, -was naso a prisoner as an ac1eisory to the burni: g. le was ahot ; it. is suppos. ed imm taily. Last night there wats another fte destroying the church and other building. A nceeting of the citizeils was h 1d, an. a sadfety comnittee to co-opbtate with the Sheriff in preserving order, was appoitetod. All is now qui-,t. Stur gesp) Mayor. from Connecticut, who has beci a fonienterof attife In . the town, took the Northern bound train last -ight, protnisitng never to retirn. A counuitiee arrived here this even. ing to confer with Governor Alcorn im the matter. Property of Confederates to be Restored The Supreme Court of the United S .e l.tely rendered a dociion in whinvt the louurt declared to be niull aid void ceitain legal pruceodings taken before a court in . Memphis, in 1863, ujile that city was itt posses sion of the Unitod .States tipop, against one Thomas A. Nelt-en, anciti. zen of that place, but then a resident within the lines of the Confederate army. It was pronounced by Mr. Justice Bradley-all the Judges con curring, except Chief Justiee Chase who was absent. By this deeision, no sale of property, moi tgaged or not mortgaged, belonging to absent Con todetatea, made by virtue of C"; de. cree of any court within any . ilace held by the forces of the 'ited Statvs, conivsyied~any titlcio bk e. chaser thereof. All such sales and proceedings are null and void, and the property mubt be delivered back to the owner thereof, provided ie was a resident in the Confederacy and ad hered to the Confederate States Gov oronment, and thus unable to appear in court in his own defence ; this on principles of international ltiw and under the laws of war. In describing the opening of the Forty-seeond Congress, the Washing ton Patriot says: "The general physiognomy of the House of Repre. sentatives has greatly improved. On Saturday, when the carpet.baggers, aoallawsgs and negroes, who claim to represent the Southern States he Africans l:eing by far the best of the lot-appeared to be sworn in, there was a general expreision of dis gust, even anong the Ridicals, who are to be assoei:ated with this tiibo is colleagues. But when. the Deno eratic and Conservative members from the South-the real representuives of the people-presented themselves1 ait the bar, the contrast was so atriking and impressive, that intvolunetary ap pilac testified the appreciation from: the tloor a-td the g4lorie.-." Trhe I timnorc Sun's corr'spondent, speaking of the diroawing of aeats in the House~, of Rleprosentative.s, says : "Two of the unegro members, Tiurnter, of A laba ma, and Elliott, of South Carolina, were modestly contented with sets onl the outer r ow ; but RI tiney, WVall and Delarge miarolhed boldly up to eon tipicietu# pltnces in theo vicintity 0. General Banks ; Cobb, of North Cagro hina, from choice, and Mayntard, of Tennuessee, fromt both necessity anid choice, took seats as near the Africans as they could get " The World tells t he following story : Mr. Maguire, of Boston, lately ro ceived a telegram from this city, say. ing that Mr. Jamtes Fi-k and H. W. Beepher met in lHroadwny near Dr, Heombold's ''Datmter" flag-ataff. "Heew is that for high 1'' said Fisk. "You-know how it is youreolf," re torted Beber, whereupon Fivk .hit him full in the face. A struggle ensued, in which- the venerable Hor-. aoe Greehy, who chanced to be passing by, took part. All three gentlheintb wore taken to the Tloombs, *here. the fight was renewed-by Flsk, who drew a revolver and shot ileecher and Gree ley.' The former d ied'inAtahntIf, 'abd theilatter- s'not ex jooted to re'ooer." Aa a masnura'db -ballat fiidge por~eon ,'whenethe -masks wr wTibovea,. ode'a any "who had .bea -dimsIngtieierst ~kId' with a lady fIn:C4hiesoa s'ras fornd to beedlerm go woman said *he tho'ight6 seek otW a ll tesusawn Mmpu-. vogne at balls- andi evening par led donsuuIn*ion IE assa Qn the herna The Consolidation Jugg e, The last state of t1he 0:cenvillO Swindling Bill is worce than its fin.t. This will be seou by a brief itatenient of the relations'of tho State to the Blue Ridge aknd he Greenville and Columbia Railroada, anid of the chatiges in those relutioens sought to be effected by the Consolidation Bill. 1. The State of Suth Carolina has enidureed bonda of the Greenville and Coluiia is iirtnd Company amoura t g to $1426,543 80. To rcuire the 8 aUtue rgait los-, the whole of the property of the com pany is mortyaged to the 8 ate. TAkintog mte otnider tit-i te.he co-t of the Grceent ille road, ua.d its present earait is. unliquel; tioaibble that the State is a1iply se. eured by its nso tange upon the prop erty Snd frarchimes of the comipany. 2. The State of South Garohnia hua, uaranteed the - bonds of the Blue Ridge Railriid Company to th. aumount of $4,000,000, and holds, a: security, a fir. mortgage upon the whole estate, proj.erty and funds of the counpany, now posesesed or here. afer to be acquired. This was the best security that anl incon.plete railroad could give. There was ihe further condition that three muilliona of the Blue Ridge i'onds should tnt be dispose d uf for less than ,, thrt a millions it currency." -'I his is, in a fe w wordit the present condition of affairs. The State hav ing guaranteed $l,500,000 aid $4, 000,000, respectively, to the Green ville and Blue Ridge roads holds a firtst inortgage upon all property of the companies to the extent of the ropoeot ive guararntees. T he Consolidation bill proposes to unite the two couipanies upon condi tion that the State(l)ratifies Its en dorsement of the Blue Itidge bonds, (2) repeala the section of the not of 1868, wh ich requires the $8,00o,000 of bonds to be sold at par, and (3) p istpunes its first lien tso that the S-ate claim shall come in subsequent to all the mortgages and encuibrau ces now existiog. The effect of this arranigenient would be : 1. Upon the Greenville road the State would give up a complete secu rity, in the shape of a mortgage, and take a subsequent mortgage of no real value. 2. Upon the Blue Ridge road the State would give np all the security it has, and get nothing in returii. As soon as thc ('eon -olidation Bill ias-sed. the Greenville Ring, who ate the Consolidators, uuder another name would have at their command $4. 000,000, of guaranteed bonds, which they night sell at any time and at any price. With the proceeds of these bouds tney could get the Green ville Ritag out of their financial troubles, and put the present Gicen ville road in order. In other words the $4,000,000 would be laid out for the benefit ofthe Greenville Road nnd the Greenville Rting, and not in con ploting the Blue Ridge Road. This I6 too clear to need any demon-tration. The Ring failed to get $2,000,000 on their own acoount. They now turn round and ask for the $4,000,000 which belong to the Blue Ridge Road.- Charkstoin News. Another Bolter. We copy the following from tl e Caroliua 8part an, of t he hst instant, whieh shoaa that the seales are graduI. ally.droppjng fron' the ey.e or the colored people who have for a long timne safiered theine'lves to bee dupeed by an unstrupuloua. horde fof unprin Mir IXditor:-I have heretofore acted an~d soted with the Racdical party. I did honestly and truely believe that it w.a ny interest to do so, and that that party was the color edl man's friend' ; but I am now maost thoroughly cuonvinced of my error, aond perfectly disgH.tC with their sets anmd doings, as.d do now bencefor ward renounce all connection or ac tion with said party now awl' forever. I did not vote at the last election, because I then entertained my pres ent opiuions of Radiesh'. Respect fully, ISA IAil UROWN. "Aj Free Country." The Emperor William has Issued a cabinet order, In which the muarriages contracted by office-re of his' army, without his contsent before the eamn. p'uign, are declared illegalk To legal ise them,sew marriagen, with pre vieus imiporial coluees, are oceessary. It isnot generally. kuuwu that .Prus-' sin ~ga gs i t ob ezpresa consnt o Clee Avn iEigt'O' 'co traot legal man. ige. The 14ew York Post abs that stb Is the feet. 'The' ydejteedy vitb ih rich tief an't die dig oa~g "to de ailiipg ,belite. Tivi ,t4 remark. Mi it ell 6Itdhs Aeli r Nes nlien af toQ iair&i f6p botes, and ig of 6b. mlthloaes are 01.1 Dentb of Uishop Andrew. This belovod, venerable, and abl divine (if the Methodist Church Sout died in Mobile ont Thursday last, i the seventy-eighth year of his age lie reached it very eO(loUent bermloti the Sud4y before he died, iu Nuw Or leans, and was soon after strioket with paralysis ; rallying slightly, h (ndeavored to reach his home it Suniervillo, Alabama, but only suo e.tided in getting its far as Mobile Ile eintered the South Carolina Con. fereieo in 1812 ; was ordained Dlea. con in 1814, and EIder in 1816; wats elected or ordained Hishop in Phila. delphia in 1832. In all these years he wUs in the active itinerant soevice, and died in the ministeriAl sorrice. Aln action of his led to the division of the Methodist Church. 1l e ar ried a lady who owned slaves. At a sesion of the Conference in New York, Bishop Andrew was requebted to resign by many of the Noithern m1ll1listers on this account. The South, er men dooming the request an insult to then, submitted a proposition for a Chli ti:an parting and division of property, which was accepted. The separation was cirected. A year claps :d, and it was found the North want. ed all the property. Suit was com meneed by the South for her share, and both the Courts below and the Supreme Court of the United States decided in favor of the Southern Uhurch. It was at this time that Henry Clay, a warm friend of Binhop Andrew, renrked with the spitit of prophecy that the Northern fanaticism of that church was the entering wedge to the dissolution of the Union. Tte Southein miinisters met in Louisville, Kentucky, in liy, 1845, and established the Church Sonth -as distinct front that North. Bishop Andrew presided over the Confer ence. In the death of this beloved disci ple, one of the brightest lights in the Methodist denomination and Cit ititian world has gone out, and a life closed which was full of the noblest and purest illustrations of the very high est character. Danuiel Webster's p1!01 wi r lmi Buler. For seveanl 11it lh vt was a bharing DM)Ioer..k. lie itas a dele g.ite to all national conventions, and made himself con-picuous by bis .crvile devotion to the slaveholding interest. At the trial of Dr. Web ster, Butler attracted some notice, and a gentleman who had met hii in conversation and taken a strong aver sion to him, asked Daniel Webster if he know the man Butler, and what ti re wasof hilm. "I have seeti him, sir," was the reply. "le is what we call a sharp practitioner. A pert, pushing lawyer, supertiially, e-luoa ted, with the impudence of the devil and at conscience to niatch." "Such a man Iight be dangeious. Is he like ly to attain a position in whic he con do much mischief?" "No, sir no danger of that. Je is certain to be hung before he reaches a position of that kind.'' Are They to bc Ove'latughed I It is said that the Southern Radi cals are clanorous at Washington for a share oif the spoils of Congress. Tlhey want to be recognized in the org anisation of that body. But, we are told, there is a feelitig atmong the Northern Radicals somewhat opposed tot their recognition. The Vice President and chief officers of the Senate, as weill as the Speaker, Cleik and other softioi,le of the House, are all ftran the N01th and West, anud do not seemi to renmetmber that thtero is a Sou-h, when the spoils are to be distributed. Tisii tnegleot the South Oet Iada are disp~osed to resent, and intimate that there will be a row iD thte camp if they should be overlook. ed in the dis ribution of patroniage to be made by the new Corngress WVe htope they will be, and that the North and West will monopolize all having no desire to see men rewarded for treason to their own kindred anc people. Draparlure of Freedmen for Liberia. A company of freedmen from Ken tackey smiled on Wedntesday fror New York in the bark TJhiormas Pop for Liberia ini West Africa, undoerth care of Rev. M. D. Hferadon, for six teen, years a missionary in the IBas nation. Sax hundred freedmen hav applied for passage toLiberia on th 1st of November. VThe largest oot panies reside in North Caroline 'Georgia, and Itantticky.a The -ls expedition, containing one hundre and ninety-four freodment, whic mailed from Portsmotith, Va., in N< venber last, reactied :Monvovia, til capital of Liberia, on the 23de of .Di comber, without. a death and all 1 good health. Enoh family receive twenty -ive acres of fertile land an provisions free for six monthA. *A nu'mber of Pottawottamnle oblef in full, Indian oostaime, visited Sheu dasyheadqu~ers In Cicg opptly. 1It.s supposed tbas.ms.ic was frieputpose of frranging f< tW ftedoff of-ieSV st ~ Pleg~e lately dioowered by Sheridan'e ind< feai. seote. The Power of a Corporal. 3 The Western Democrat relates the I following story concorniog Hon. J. I M. Bennett of that place, who was Auditor of the State of Virginia du. ring the war : On ono oucasion during the war, when provisions were worth almost their woight in gold in Richmond, and Confederate money at its lowest ebb, it was Mr. Bennett's custom to go to market early in the morning. On his return at the time we speak of, as he was wending his way home with about $300 or $400 worth of provisions in a little basket, a soldier with gun and bayonet, and "in battle array," marcho hurriedly up to him, and slapping him on the shoulder, said : "Sir I want you-you are conscripted into the army I' "I seukon not," said Mr. Bennett. "I an not liable to military duty." "I have hoard that'sort of talk be fore," said the soldier, "so on you go." 'But," said Mr. Bennett, "I am a State officer." "You can't come that game over me. I've told you to go on ; and if you dozi't, I'll touch you up wit h the bayo net." "Well take me to Governor Lotoh. er." "The devil take Governor Letcher." "Then take me to General Breek inridge." "I have nothing to do with him-so go on I' t1% ell, take me to Jeff. Davis, then." "fD-m Jeff. Davia I General Lee commands us fellors, and (making a threatening motion) if you don't go on I'll prick you u p-thatl's all I" There was no help for it, end Mr. Bennett trudged along. At last, seeing a lady of his acquaintance, lie handed her his basket, with inbtruo tious to tell his family that they would find him at Castle Thunder. Just as they were passing Broad street Theatre, another soldier, bear ing upon his armsthe itl ripes of a cor. poral, happened to see him, and com ing to the guard he said : "What are you doing ? This is Mr. Bennett -a State officer-you can't take him."' "Ob l" said the guard, "of course it's all right If you say so," and walked off leaving his late prisoner at liberty. M1r. Bennett than turned to the corporal, and, raising his hat, made a most profound bow. "Sir, said he "you are the greatest man In the army I What Gov. Letcher, Gen. Brookiurlilge, rnd Jeff. Davis could not do, you did with all the ease in the world. I assure you that if [ ever entered the army, I should make it a cotidition precedent that I should hold the office of corporal." Gen, Lee's Favorite Hymn. The following was General Lee's favorite hymn, and it has been a source of comfort to Christians ever isince it was written, which was about 1785, by the Rev. John Kirkhaman EnglishtMohodlhL. U wasssung Over the remains of the dead hero just prior to their commitment to earth "dust to dust-ashes to ashes." How firm a foundation ye Saints of of the Lord, Is laid for your Faith in is Excel lent word I What more can He say than to you He bath said, You who unto Jesus for, refuge have -fledi "Fear not, I am with thee ; 0 be not dismayed I I, I am thy God, and will still give thee aid; I'll strengthen thee, help thee, and eause thee to stand. Upheld by my Righteoue, Omnipo' tent hand. "When thro' the deep waters I call thee to go, The river of woe shall shall not then o'erflow; For 1 will be with thee thy troubles to bless, And santify to thee thy deepest die. tIoss. "When thro' fiery trials thy pathway * yshall lie, 5 ygrace, all sufficient, shall be thy S supply ; -The flame shall not hurt thee ; I only S Thy dross to consume, and thy gold to refine. "E'en down to old age, all my people shall prove a My 8overeign, Eternal, Unohangea hIbl Love; - Ad when boary haire shall their temn. plea adorn, .Like lambs they shall still in my bo. som be borne. "The soul that on Jesus still lesus ft r i ots wit tenot deserbto is f e That Soul, tho' a'1 hell should e d~averWt shake, nejflhver, no nit'r, Lo IIsRs for, r Eight pattsof brideswet' - a be s Ginatel Hotely Phi'ledekphitow 'day heat week, Tbo beebel or t~d era Led