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Desportes & Williams, Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquirv, industry and Lterature. [Terms---$3 00 per Annum In Advance. VOL. VI. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 5,1871. [NO.42 FAIRFIELD HERALD 1s rU1la.1s11K) WEEKL.Y BY DESPOilurES & WILLIAMS, Terni.-Tnt I HaAuMA Ia publiahed Weeks in the Town of Winnsboro, at 03.00 in. oareahby in advente. rF All transient advertisemeats to be aidin advance. Obituary Notioes and Tributes $1.00 per iquare. TIlE ARTIST'S SUPPER. In a pliottgr.iph-room, 'ucath a spa ciOus top-light An artist was eating his supper one night ; The aurtain oerhead was opened clear b~ek, And the darle a outside was heavy and black ; Not at star or a cloud in the sky could be seen, Though the window, above was per fevoly clean ; So ch ar was the glass and polished so bright That planly were viewed, by the the lamip's brilliant light, Thle artist, his wife, and the child of their love, And the table and dises, all mirror ed above. "O, ," said the child, as she look. 'ed overhead, And.-saw, in refleotion, her pa eating bread, A see God and His wife, 'way up in tle tky, And Goil's eating Iia supper of bread and1 minece pie; Why, Ile looks like papa, His eyes are so blue, And, mother, Hlis wife looks exactly like you ;I A nice little girt at the table I see, With ringlets like mine, and she's laughing at me She holds in her hand a cup full of water I wonder, mama, if its God's little daughter 1' MAssILo, O. A. F. Leiter of C. G. Memminger. CuAn.:s-oN, March 24, 1871 H is icdlency R. K. Scott Governor, of Soulh Carolns : DEAn Sin : Not having been pres cnt at th 3 conference to which I was recently invited by your Excellency, I have thought it due to you, that I should as soon as it was in my power, isubmit to you the counsel, which in my opinion, the present exigencies of our State call for. The remedy for an existing evil must depend upon the exac, charac ter of the evil ; and the first step to be taken towards a proper applica tion or a remedy is to observe care fully the nature and cause of the evil. The leading fact whicli has probably induced your action, is the formation of combiniations in many of the up per counties of the State, which ex hibit thenselves i:i acts of violeuco i I upon those whom they deem fit su'-a jects for extraordinary visitation There can be no difficulty in asoer taining the cause of these conbina tions. It is undoubtedly the convic. tion that the exiiting Government of the State is utteily corrupt ; and that it has failed in aill the~ duties which are reqjuired at its hands-that there is no adequate security for life or! I' property, and that the taxes laid by the Legislature must eventuate in vir tual confiscation of the entire income * ~ of the citizeons. Is this conviction well founded ? I. The corlupt character of the Legislatuie of the State haa been * so distinctly evinced, that it may be set down as an admitted fact. 2. The failnie to discharge the duties of g ,vtrnon-nt ogubninated in the actioni of tlie Lagishlature at its last session upon the Chestertfield elec t ion. This netio)n. followiwie upon the previous electioni 1 tws, which refeaed any cheock upon the majority, satisfied the white people of the State, that they had no rights, recoguiz.ed by the I, (~Governaamnt, andI that, they mtust, therefo're, pr.otect thiseslves in the best way they could. The arming of * the colored militia, arid exelu..ion of the whites from anly participation, placed one elass distinctly above the other, and plainly exhibited to the whites that to:ee wuould take the law. -~ 3. The~ wasteful expenditure of the public money, and the corrupt 9' P~rhemes5 foir inicreaising the pubic debt, which have found favor with the Legislature, proclaim io the fuxture an indefi'nite incrosae of taxes, while or rupt oflieers fomient these evils andi render hopeless any effort at amend ment. * 1 4. The formation of secret societies among the colored people, under the name of Union Leagues, have banded them together in a secret organisa. tion, and while these societies render useless any appeals to the better judig ment of their members, they naturally suggest a like organ iistion among the whites as their only means of defence. These various evidences have set tied a conviction in the minds of the whites, .that they must seek protec. Stioen outside of the exIsting Govern. mont, and as your Excellency doubt less sees, tbese evils must result In an dy be speedily applied. The active cause of all this evil is clearly the Legislature of the State. There it all originates ; there it has Its abode, and from thence it must be rermovid before peace or security can ensue. The character of this body must therefore be changed. Instead of i representing ignorance and vice, it must represent knowledge and virtue. This is cannot do until you change its 1 constituency. There is no possible I method of reforming an agency, while I the principal continues the sani - and ignorance and prejudice will < never seleat for its agents the wise I and the good. Our troubles result I (to 1 this oase, and from neglect of the great American apborism, that 9 taxation without representstion is I tyranny. In our present system of Stato Government, those who pay I he taxes have no voice in the Govern. f nent. This investigation clearly I points to the only possible remedy, lo wit : A change in the constituen )y which elects the Legislature.. Let t is be improved, and the improve nent of the other follows of course. k wore intelligent body of voters, I and one directly responsible to pay ,he taxes which are imposed by their representatives, would speedily pro vide a remedy. Under their aus pices, an intelligent and virtuous i begitlature would ugaiu amake itsap. pearance, and the laws of the land nd the public officers appointed to admiaister, them, would again com mand public confidooco, and ensure t he peace and tranquility of the t State. All this can be obtained by simply I 'ollowing the lead of that State which I >ur present rulers would regard as the ountain of political wisdom, and imending our constitution so as to t iooform the qualifications of voters to I ,hat required in Massachusetts. Lset he voters be only such as can read nd have paid some tax for the sup port of the Government, and the rep. resentatives will at once change their haracter. Such a qualific.tion in he voters would discriminate only gainst ignorance, and would place it in the power of every man to take a part in the Government, whatever may be his race or color. a The difficulty of such an amend ment arives from the fact that it must 3nd sufficient favor with the existing uthorities to command a two.thirds T vote. This difficulty is real ; but is it not worth the effort to over-come it I Without some such change the State must inevitably drift into anarchy or Divil war, and surely we already have had a sufficient experienc- of the evile. of war to induce every one to seek their avoidance. If you, sir, would sommence the movements by an earn est appeal to the Legislature, imme diately to submit the call of a Co.t vontion to the decision of the people it is not at all improbable that the movement may succoed. It is true that it will take much time, and that much agitation must I ensue. But let every man weigh against those conside rations, the danger which must attend any other course. Should, even, the violeno e which may be apprehended, be sup prossed by military force, it is not at all unlikely that ,ss their only remain ing resource, the entire community wi'll refuse to pay their taxes ; and then, where will be the credit and goernment of the State ? Doubt less many bad men will agitate against such a measure, and will endeavor, s heretofore, to persuade the ignorant1 coli-ed people that the whites will again reduce themr to slavery. But your Eceolleney will be fully able to repel suchr attempts. You know as I do, and can toll them so, that they owe their emtuneilption neither to your party nior to mine, but alone to Godl, the Su'reme Disposer of evente. You can show theui Presidenrt Lin colo'a4 prelamation of Septemabsr, 1862, in whaich lie undertojok ton recog niz thre right of thn pecople o~f the Suthtern States to hold their slaves, if they would lay down their armrs bo. fore the ensuing first of January. it was, threrfeore, fromn tihe resolute nesi of the South, and not fruin the generosity of the North,l ttthe slaves obtained their freedom. And even now that. freedom is insured only by the amendment of the constitution of thre United States, which was adopted by the white men of South Carolina. You would, therefore, be able effeotu ally to remove ' his hind rance to good feel Ing fronm the minds of the colored pee. pe. Then, again, you would be able to assure them of the kindly feeling with which they have always been regard. ed by their former masterse, before the heartless plunderers, who are now miakinag use of theeww, land misled and embittered their feelings. These, and other topics which will readily occur to you, will sto doubt enable you to influence the aerien of th.eel-' ored people. An equal, perhaps a greater dl19f. culty, will be to restrain the Itnp tience of the white people. Restls as they naturally must be aqder the corrupt and heartless despotissn v~iib they see domineering over thoem, it will require the s$rongest effort of patience to await a red wh6h-will require so iad time. T e syre ' 4 motl'# nth -btad ha' 'V~i tbem for such patience, will be. the earnest'and sincere initiation of the amendment proposed. The first stel towards calling. a Convention is i vote of the Legitslature, and as thal body has adjourned, it will be neces sary to take some action, before ii next meeting, to satisfy the people oi the expediency of waiting. If the loading members of the dominani party would come forward and pledgc their support to the measure, and urg the adoption of the same, it would furnish such atn assurance as would liubtless, restruin the impatience ol tho,e who aru smarting under their present burthee. On our side, then, we could, with lome show of reason, counsel out riends to endurance. We could turn their minds to consider other cases ol grievous national wrong, which pa. Pionce had overcome. We could )oint them to the example of the aoble spirits who, after the endurance or twenty years, %f the tyranny of the Stuarts in England, brought about )enoefully the great revolution of 1688, aid establbsbed Englisb free. low upon a basis, frovi which it has tever been renyod. We can point hem to the American struggle igainst taxation without represeuta ion, which continued for teu years >ofore a resort to arms. W ith the:. kxamles bfore them, we would be 6ble to persuade them to await two rears for the action of a Convention, f we could assure themn that that no ion would remedy the evils of which bey complain. Persuaded as I am, that no other peaceable remedy can be mude avail, tble, I most earnestly address these 'iews to the serious censideration of our Excellency, and would urge hem upon all those who seek the per. nanent peace and welfare of the tate. With much respect, Your obedient servant, C. 0. MEMMINGER. The Meridian Riot. Theodore Sturgis, brother of the baconding Mayor of Meridian, Mis i'sippi, who published a card in the 4. Y. Tribune, purporting to be the orrect account of the Meridian riot, mublishes a card denying the state nent of his brother. ie says: "I An fully satisfied that facts are mis. epresepted and ami convinced that lie publication was gotten up for po. itioul purposes.' This Sturgis is a Northern man, ind has resided Scuth many years. [lie brother came forth three years ago. Aaron Moore, whom Sturgis report. id killed, is now in Jackson unhurt. The investigation in the case of the -ioters is concluded. It shows thet l)e negroes brought on the troublee )y turbulent overbearing conduct to. wards the whites, and murdering Fudge Brandette on the bench. The inderwriters of the insurance coi ,aay refuse to pay the insurance or 3turgis' property, having proof thai be was the imcendiary. There is perfect peace and tran juility throughout the State. The Lowest Type of Humanity. The following extract is from ar irticle on "Barbarism and Civiliza. dion," in the A tlanti. Monthbly: On the Isund of Borneo, there hat been found a certain race of wild areatu res, of which kind red varieties have been discovered in the Phillip. inc Islands, in Terra del Fuego, and in South A merica They walk usu ally, ailmost erect on two legs, and ir that attitude, measure about foni Feet in1 heighth. They are dark wrinukled and hairy. They const ruei no hblitation, - form no families searcely an-sociate together, sleep ii catvai. or trees, feed on sniakes a d ver manu, on nuts, eggs, ou mice anid at acah other. They cannot be tamne< or forced to labor, and are hunted an< shot amtong the trees like the grea Gorihlha of which thy are a stuntet cop~y. WVhen they are captured alive une tinds suw prise, that tucir uncouti j abbering roun~ds like articulato tan gau ge. riTey turn up a human fee to gaso at their captor, umnd a femual, shows intstioet~s of modesty. Ar these wretched beinge human 1 In Lowell, whore Beu flutter livem four roughs b'est a man seiseler4, an horribly outraged his femxale comp't ion. The New York Democrat calls ft the Ku Klux Committee to incorp< rate this outrage. in their report, an if troops are to be Zeent South, iet reglient go to ILowell to stofthtK Klux there. Blees are egotedinly upeptlblei atmosphello dhanges; even th .pa sage of a heavy olood over te e will drive theum house a awl - ia easteriy wind .prevaIl, however 0t the weather may otherwise be, the have a sorts. 4 .rhus4i bhorreu of Its lndedo s,'2n# 4 e at horn Tb4 eausd' would seeuis teb. dNbioJ oy of eleetriolty In theab :ye9f aar& 1o0 sei4toman. " fitting for Shai muitate *Dani o. Congress takes of the South, is very V. much like that which the Baron I nochauien took of the state of affairs in the mtoon. in It is either willfully blind to the d. actual facts, or has no conception of u- the dis tstrous state of desolation and 0- mis-ult to whiub all elasses have been it brought by its notion and course. d. Congress holla the dove of peace in - its hands. It has but to forget the ry past raging of the waters, and to send a- it forth on its mission of a true re a construction and fraternity, to find it a soon returning with the olive branch St of reconciliation in its mouth, to te - d t fy that the waters have asutiaged, )r and the dry I and of unity and frater P- ni-y been attained.-Ch-sr. Courier. 3- Rooles for Playin Onto a Organ In MIcet Ing. h When the preacher comes in and no-ds down in the poolpit, pool out all the stoppers. That's wot thestoppers is for. When a him is gave out to be sung, play over the whole toon before thing in, but be sure to play it so they can't tell whether It's that toon or some other toon. It will amoose the peo ple to gese. h \Vhen you play the interlude, sum times pull al twe stoppers out nnd tumntitnos pull them all in. The stop Per. i" m ade to pull out and in. Play the interloods about twice as a long as the toon. The interloods is the best part of the newsic, and should be the longest. h Play from the interloods into the tune without letting them know when d the tune begins. This will teach them to mind their bimoess. Always play the interloods fatter or slower than the toon. This will keep it from being the same time as the toon. If the preacher gives out 5 viroes, play 4. Tew many virces is teejus. Doorin the sermon go out of the church, and cum back in time for the next toon. This will show you don't mean to be hard on the preacher by having tow many listenin to him at wobst.-77ie Occident. The latest Londun invention should - have in-mense popularity, if- it is d equal to what is clainied for it. It 's is called "digitorum-a small thumb 0 piano." It is said that by means of 1) it, pupils can learn to play on all in. A stiuments keyed like the piano, with out making a noise. The genius who has brought this instrument into ex e istence should at once be awarded ' medals from all the humane societies e in the known hemisphere. That c cruelty inflicted upon families adj - cent to a beginner on the pianoforte d ir enough to wreck the forte-tude e since the days of Jackson. The de mand in this country for tho "digi torumi" will be obmmensurate wi.h d the alleviation of misery. In London, every eight minutes,night and day, somebody dies; every five r minutes a child is born. This great city contains as many people as the y whole of Scotland, twice as many as Denwark, three times as many as th Greece, and four hundred times as a many as Georgetown, D. 0. In its r. vast population of nearly 4,000,000 it 0 las 140,000 habitual gin-drinkers, S100,000 abandoned womten, 10,000 professional gam blers, 50,000 criwi. nals kr.o wn to the police as thieves ad receivers of retolen goods, .500,000 ha -bitual frequenters of public hiontiss, and 60,000 atreet Arabs. To keep this vast multitude of disorderly scharacters In something like obedience to the law, 0,000 policemen are ne cersairy. Of the population of the city, only about 500,000 attend publie 'worship, there being a million of adult absentees from church on every Sun jday. S Another champion old woman has aturned up in Ketucky. She is a nlegress, is over 114 yeats old, and of cueremembers Wadingtona very tewell. She has nine children, the e-youngest, the only one living, being~ now '78 ye.ars of gte. The most re em.arkable thing about this old laidy, vis, that ashe niever was the nurse of the heFather or her Country. I!- A Riadical grtapor wvants to know thm how long the Ku Kleix ontrages in athe South are to be allowed. Onaly luf mil after thme Connaaecticut oloetion 0- It is impesible to defeat the Demo. 841 craita in that State unless the cry of 4-.outrages ripotn Suthiertn loyamlia's Ia la- kept up in a high key until the 3d o Itoe April. ire . . '.d- Some o.f the Radical papers say thin uile the retult of the New Hfampehir no0, electiin is "a nmatter of very littl 6th acoaunt." Only this-that if It ha the been a Radical triumph, it woul are Iv0 beer, with thern, "a saatterc ice- tery great acount I" op. ...-.... .. ifU' Thme inve*ntor of a new mierosfopl< oss a) wri6ing umahoie,- in Englani 141 olaiuns that the entire ostents of til 1108 Bible~ps, with the help of hls wot on riae be written twenmt74wo-6im< I of tb spa.. of a sgnare inch. of Thed1s 4san in Indtana so pro that wibem tbe .8bevhf la after hiw 1 From the Sumter News. Georgia State Agricultural Society. AT.ANTA, Grno., MARC, 18, 1871. J. S Richardson, Sunter, S. C. : DEAn Sin : I enclose an extract from the city papersof Macon, whicb contains the action of the State Agri cultural Society, taken upon the re ceipt of the communication of your self and colleogues adiressed to our President. Your address was received by the Convention with manifest feeling of deep and sad sympathy. When the Secretary read it to the Convention, his utterance quite failed. I cannot tell you how much your visit coupled with this incident, has impressed us all. It is enough that it insures your everlasting and kind remem brance. Yours truly, DAN. W. LwIs, Secretary. The following is the extract: A communication front the South I Carolina delegation was read, inviting the attendance of delegates from Georgia to the next annual South t Carolina Convention, to be held in Columbia. Received, and the ap. pointment of delegates submitted to a committee. The delegatea appoin. ted are Messrs. Philips, Yancey, Har. I ris, Means, Wallace, Lockett and t IHunt. The following is the commu. I nication: t lion. A. If. Colquitt, President i Geori-ya Stiate Agricultural Society : The delegates from the State of South N Carolina to the Convention of your I Society regret exceedingly that they I cannot remain to the closeof your de- a liberations, finding our appointments I require that we would leave before your session of this morning. We would take this method to recognize r the courtesy extended to us, and the ( consideration with which we have i been met by the Convention, and by C the members in the social circle. 1 Mr. President, from tho ashes of our cities and the oppression of an illiberal and mercenary government, we ha've come to mecet our more for tunate brethren, and in the inter- a change of opinion, and in thecontrast of association to gather strength for our uncertain future. Our expectations have- been fully f met., and we return cheered on our errand with new hopes born within us from the friendly interoommunication t with our brethren. We would respectfully ask that your Society send to us representa tives at our next annual fair at Colum bia. We need your counsels. We love your companionabhip. We are, very retpectfully, your obedient servants, J.S RICHAnDSON, T. W. WOOnAnD, Delegates. T. 1H. C.A RIC,j By Col. Barnett : Resolved, That t'is Convention has received, with profound interest, the parting address of our friends and brothers of the State of South Uarolina, and that the words of sadness with which they re fer to the mnateiial and political o1d i.in of that noble State awakens our liveliest sensibilities and heart felt sympathy. We tender them our thanks for thtir attendance on our meetinig, and our most eordial good wismhes for the speedy r-estoration of the prosperity of their people and the retur n ofta sable, quiet and well admainisteaed government, and that the Scearetary communicate this action to the South Carolina delega tion. Adopted by a unanimous stand ing vote. A Federal Soldier and General Lee. As a lesson to those who can see no good in a man who happens to dif fer with them politically, this morn ing as I was walking up Pennsylvaniia avenue I saw a Federal sold ier g-azing intently at a pictare of our Robert E. Lee, which was hanging in a large gla.-s window. Wishing to know what he was thinking, I stepped up to himi and said :"That was my countryman ; wec all loved him in Vir ginia." "lie was my countryman, too," quietly said the soldier, "and, as I stand here looking in that face, I see in It greatness and goodness." .-Washington letter-H alifax Record. Tobacco l'olsoned. Another evidence of the terrible ravages of tobac-co upon the human system is found in the faet that a We-stern man was cut off in his prime the other day by the use of this de atructive weed. Hie had chewed the tobcOO "and swallowed the juice'' from his seventh year. At his death a the preocious youngster was onily Sninety-elght years old. A Nuzzled Press. Newspapers opposed to the pres ent French Goveronent are suppress t- ed as quickly as the press was during I, Napoleon's reign. 'Neither the Re . publican, Mionarchist 61' imperIal -ruters will tolerate a free press in ~s France, . -A'eei i old of a young tuan ir In. Freef 111., who was orossed in lov< me and attfanpted suicide recently by is. baldga; dose of ysast powders. He taemadtley rose aoa hi. troublep. The Restoration of the States and Pi ple of the South to lioneAt Self-Mi ernment the Real Basis of Peace. The real patch to peace is tscerta and obtain what is needed for concor There can be ni effisient remedy u til the true nature of disease is d fined, the causes which produced removed, and the remedy applie Any other cource is merely super oial. There may be a teipora quiet, but there cannot b a p.rm nent harmony. There may be brief peace, but there will not be vital and living peace. We mu deal with facts and events as we fio them. These are thrust upon us f solution, and it is but weakness to a ply nther than the real remedies, to cover them over with soft and d ceiving words. The part of statesnansLip is know the situation, av,d then wii this full knowledge to have the cou age atid the wisdom to devite a mot of deliverance fioi the evils wh inperil the very foundations < government and the freedom and pri perty of those upon whom alone j lost, its very existence depends. Ti way of pence is plain. It is to ri verse the act ion by which the Con tuonwealths and puople of the Suuti have been denied all vital freedou and their destinies and welfare ha% been committed to a rule which hi ground theo to the very dust. 'I produce liberty, there must be grant of liberty. To ensure concor4 there mnust'be announced the dootrit of peace. 'The people of the Sout are not inimical to the lawful Goveri ment and Constitution of the Unite States. To these they have sode ed their adhesion. All that the have ever asked, since hostilities elo ed, Is that they may be recognized i parts of the common body politli and had not as the subjects of taxi tion, but as equally entitled to repri sentation. The real difficulty is that the mi jority in Congress still bear upo their brow the awful form of wai They will not acknowledge all of t1 States and people of the South as it tegral parts of the body politic. They rather denounce theni, an hold the States as provinc< of conquest., and these P hpl) as those who are classed as rebel and therefore without, any rigb which the State or Federal Goveri ments are bound to respect. Wha ever of trouble therefore exists is th material result of this system of ol pression, and partisanbhip and tiL want of statesmenship. Congrei has proceeded upon the idea. 1. That all who either sympathize or acted with the late Confederal States, are still to be classed as en< mies of the Republic, and to be cat tinued under pains, penalties, an d;squalifications. 2. That they as forming the larg< portion of the intelligence and wealh of these Common-wealths, are to I made to bear all the expenses of the respective Governments, while th< are to be proscribed and have no voi in the administration of its affairs. These are the patent facts "whi meet us in the face on every aid Peace to be supreme must be unive sal and complete. There cannot 1 conoord, on the one aide, while the is proscription and the denial rights on the other. To reach ti remedy, we must go back to first ca as. Trne real evil is that the white ra of the South have been denied all r legiance or representation, and roer ed by the dominant party as rebe who, notwithstanding the declarat ,of peace, are not to be enstrusted i the rights ot a perfect citizenshi The result is, that while they hal been exeluded from their own sel * overniment, this has been committ jute the hands of igniorance and un rule, until, at lnst, there is a comni Iappeal of civilization from one el of the land to the other, for the pe duluin of Time to swing back oni returning course, and rererse the a tion by whieh. all thteso calamniti -have bseen enuforced upon a peopr solicitous for freedonm, anid whoe ha n ro other pur'pose than equaluity f their Stites and the msoves, iind t promiotio n of the general welf'.s TIhere is not a single wrong in Sou "Carolinat whuioh may not be traced the verdict and neessatry results -bad goverp~ment. This in so no rinous, as to be franskly acknowlede rby mon of all party views or incolu 'tions. The oorruption of the Logit dture, the op pression of the laws, I spollation of the public treasury, nggre~ or open observation and maf4ed estrnee..Ignoras ue nrevi f ,*qreifaelligenc.ebhuld be st'pre . 9pyrup):I9D. and extravagonree, i .. e gra~td head, stalk abroad in p 19 .on7t94g economy . ue thi r4 olt pp ordi . *spd, agni~p wi ehpmg retgedy e 0.he rv else the .v q p~Irj qvlel are~ got, bpsi p rer rgt, t o etotpd By cn f~pipe ff e at.self Spain's Offer The Baltimore Sun's Washington correpondent says the President has informed General Banks that the story of the offer of Spain to sell Cuba to the United States is an old ono of more than a year's date, and that all that has transpired new in it )f late is a more intimation that they will take one hundred millions in gold for the island. The subject does not engage much of the atten. Lion of the administration, as the President looks upon the price as al. together unworthy of consideration. Don Piatt seems to k:iow all about old Simon Cameron. The following, rom one of his recent Commercial etters, may be classified as plain alk : He has openly bought his way in o the Senate to replace t~ie purchase noney. As Secretary of War ho in iugurated the system of stealing that las since nearly destroyed our govern nent. His civil service consists of a onjugation of the verb steal ; "I teal ; thou stealest ; he, she, or it teals ; we steal ; ye or you steal," Lod so on down to the imperative nood of "Steal thou or let him steal." Nhen at last kicked out by an indig. iant country ho signalized his deper ure by carrying off whole barrels of noney. And all this was done while he capital of our country was actual. y invested by the enemy, and the oar of their guns throbbed upon the cry walla of his departmert, where a sat like a huge spider, weaving olitical webs and stowing away spoils tolen from the government and op ressed people. The great beauty of the World's eport of the marriage ref the Mar uis of Lorne and the Princess Jouise] is that it came by cable with ut anybody connected with the cable nowing it. There is no expense in olved in getting this sort of cable ews. You put a man down before a tiff glass of grog in New York city, *nd he writes you "cable news" from ny part of the world by the yard-A. Y'. Times. Yet how niany papers copy the silly tuff, not knowing that it i6 all nianu aetured in New York. It is awaz ag that a man with even half an eye hould not see through tricks that are ransparent. The Columbia Phacnix says that enator Robertson "is not the only iember of te a Radical narty of this tate, who, after subordiniating the ntelligent white people of South ,arolina to a degrading and corrupt ule, and after thus dissolving the onds of society, now seeks to relieve imself of the responsibility for the iresent state of things by throwing pon the ostracised portion of the tate the onus of a disturbed state of ociety. A brutal attack, which the Charles. en papers say was wholly without >rovocation, was made upon Driver )avis and Conductor Toomer, of King Street Car, No. 1, at about 8 ,'clock, last night. The offenders vere a company of negro militia, Lrmed to tohe teet I with improved rifles nd fixeid bayonets. This incident 1-ows what the whites have to expect, vhen the amed militiamen, at fifty to ne, attack unarmed citisens. These segroes arc not fit to be trusted with icadly weapons ; but the devil must ho Fought with fire, and if the blacks are not disarmed, the whites rmust arm at :>nce. That is the long and the short of it. A play is being enacted in a Chii sago theatre in which a man is hung for fun. The other night the gearing got out of order, and they came near hanging him, Tombs style. When they cut him down he said he guessed they had hotter get some one else to take his place, as his Deck was not talented enough to play that part. N. Y. Dcemocrat. WTTo cure sore throat, take the whites of two eggs and beat thoem in with two spoonfuls of white tugar ; grate in a lhttle nutmeg, and then add a pint of lukewarm water ; stir well and drink often. Repeat the prescription, if no cessary, and it will cure the most ol> nate eases of hoarseness in a short time. A Texas paper reports that since September last, 119,000 people, with wagons have emigrated from Tennes see (and Georgia to the Lotte Star State. .That looks like Texas was filling up ra pidly. The Immigration into Texas must be larger than that of any of the Western 8tates. A hog entered a grocery store in Brunswick, Mo., recently, when a knowing dog attacked him, bit off his tail, then seized the hog by the ear, arnd led itehrieking baok to ims quar. ter inth rer. hedog then ree turned to the store, picked up the tail, and carried It out to the pig. "Ise It wrong to cheat a lawyer 1'' was recently very ably disonssed by a deb'atin~g sociemy. The concluaion ar. ~iyod at was that it was not wriotg,