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THE FAIRFIELD HERALD Published Evtry Wednesday at WVNSBlORO, S. C, BY DESIPOITES WiLLIAMS. TRRS-IN A ) VA NCE. One.Copy on10 yearn, - $ 8 00 Ten " " , - - 26 00 rhe Deioeratic Platforih. VThu vii8n. nu1 Republican lays own a go.)d platforin. It says W"The South has no negro issuo to pn 'ake in the comnninig contest. All her dwis ar'e nationtnl and co'iseirvative. - We thiink we know the tenrper and opinions of her popjle on that ties. tion, alid, at the r-iNk of a note of dis sent from a few extremists, we now take ccasion to embody them in the following propositiour, wh'idh, w' be. -lieve, will imect the cordia.1 assent of ninety ninc out of every hundred D)enonrats- in the South : -1. 'Wo regard Afrian. slavery fs abolished, finally and forever. 2-.. Equal civil rights to every olass ofAmerican citizens, without distine. A . While we hold that republican 'governneit-to be wiso and safe Aniust rest upoin the virtuo and intel. -igoeco of the people, and view with Sserious appreienion tihe incorpora tion of a large servile class (of unlet 't-ored persons, wholly unfitted by pre. vious, educat ion, habit, or association, for An intelligent use of the electivo efranchise, with tho voting population of tihe Union ; yet, as sumafiuge without distiiotion -of race, color, or previous coni-ititn, has Icome engrafted upo li i lie constitutions, State am well as Yoderal, we necept the change as law, und, repudiating all resposibhiIity ithurofore, will give it a fa ir trial leav ing to-the fittirlo to dete'rmnine, b.y the lighnt of experienoe, ithather a con Aillutne of the systecn sha.11 or shall not be safest an in best for tine contiry. These ipropositinis, in our judgmnent emlibia e tine vio s of tle greut body -of in telligen I. S thinerin t uilen on tle *nmgaro qtlesti on, an1d if thl,) Jacobinl leaders ci nuake anythinig by taking isiuc with themn, they are welcome to the victory. 'Tlhe Exertonl Last Fritdly, -10U1n-y Cannion -and Tatylor Palmner, 'the two colored men seateniced to be hung on last Friday for th'e tiu rd-or of . . Stevens, on the nlight of tine 31t day Deember last, sulfered the peini ty of the law Ins ordered by tine Court. They died without making "tiny disclosures, except that oi the day of the mirder it. had beeni a rrang 'd by negroes in the village to :neet it or near the place where tie inur ier was committed and go from there to .lnesville, abouit 5 miles boyond, to light. the Ku Klux, and if they .could notget a .it thero they woro to call onl at respcectable citizen who 'lives onthe road nd "take his head The prisoners acknowledged that they were in the crowd wiho murder I Ste vens, but. liersisted in sayinig tih l did not Conuin it the deed. They pr tend to know nnno wio were prob'ent, except these wino hail been tanken out of tihe iil Iby the d~i.-ued parties, andl three who are now at. large. TIhiere Sno douibi thiey hiad been led to be lieve they would bie pardoned ai tihe seanftsnid ; hiut when they sto~ped u1pon tine pilatform1 and the sherifi'comm nenno od to adjust the ropne airound Pa lmer's neck all hope vaninhed aind lhe fell to tihe groulnd. The prisoners were at tend~ied upon01 by (Golden Foster, a colored mn ister'. liofore ile rope Wasenut thlo in inihter appled'i 1( to them11 not to (lie wnith a lie upon01 their months, bust it reveal all they know; to which tihey repid nl'you know nall ." In a moienit after thne drop fell, anld thne spirnits of Ihenry Cannn and Tay. ilor P'alme1r wore sent from timel to otornity.--Union Times. .A violenit stormi of wind and rain passed over the eastorni side of this county on~ Thursday morning last, a little after gnihe. in the neighnbori liood of 1,renzcale's mlill, the work of destruction began, anud the greatest fury sconmed conncent rated a mnileo or two beyoiid, ii tine dIiroution1 of Del-, tonm. Then resideince nad ouitbuildians of Mnr. Rtobt. (I. Keys werIe blowin dow~n, and thne fam ily banrely caeaped ithl their' hives, bnne or' two me1 nnbers of his household being ser-iously in Jured. Evenyt hing wv as torn literally to pieces, even to the clothuinng upon their per'sons. Other hnouses in tihe path.of the torinado wore violently hurled to thne groind, atid an immnnenmsc amlount of timbenr and fencing was blown down. The~ ti-aelt of thne hum rietnn gaN only a few hundred yards wd'ie,1 ahd ft Was ulost destructive in did~ I6dality mocitiiohed, wiih is seven or eighlt miles east of this towin. It appear's mlirpeuious thant no lives were lost and that 'nf;ew casualies to per seus 9courrod.-4ndm,'on JIntellien.t cer. Mtici Atlo. . ( An oitienit jounrinalist in Kailamasoo, Mehtandelare inhis palper that af jvil giijg- had,( seven toes I The rjvy, editor thnereppon came out in a doue. onoaded, article, in which lie (engg ettboestatemeint as ulntrunth .yrdthat the "author oft a a: hirhzgd :a sceod rol.'' T bot egnetgna lige replied that beo utfrpomoent. Wish. to have it 1iL gridhto meanit that all ~ sgo; l913,0 * toes wgqre~on one foot. t Aunnd:ow to riyal oditoi- tries to ~ a thmyb .sernby abking his i #31$hperih1Aero thnee subjectas iob'hi e~ Aigeussedi II organs t y -* fatQ ,iogid publie opini. f ~ p . r0king ltoe Crame di 00i ii Soldiers. In many communitie throbghout ,he South, the I Oth of May is obser" i dasa memorial occasion, when the Iraves of our Confederate dead are lecorated with floral tributes of affee. ion and reverenco. It has been sug. (osted that the ladics of ~Anderson hould unite in this observance of a jcautifn custom on the day named, wlich iih anniversary of -Stonewall JackSOn' death. We th inik theu morn oitggestioni will be su3fioieut tg :Atdnco >ur fair women to beauty the lait resting place? of thtuse gallant licroqs rntombed 'in otir village churdht yard s.-Anderson Jntllice2D. The ldtli Amendmen't doolares.: 'All persons born or naturilia'4ud inl the United States, and subject to the arisdiction thereof, are citizens of *6 Uinited States and of the State wherein they may reside. No State hial m nake or enforco any law which Jhall adbridgb the priviljges or inmmuni, is ( ofcItikenls o'f the United Stater." Vie 15th Amendment declares : Th6 right of citizens of 'the United States lo voto shall not be denied or abridg' -d by the United States, or by anty State. These amendments clearly affirm 'hat women are citizens ; 'hat to *'vAte a riglht of citizens, arid that the -ights, privileges and ilmnmittibs of ,all n't( bo denied or abi'idged. WINNSBORO Wednesday Morning, May 3, 1871 i'ie raudasleuat kutcn ( oi the Slerlinag Faumdee Debt 11111. A clatuse of the Sterling Funded Debt Bill, authorizing the o'xchinge of six million of 'new bon'ds for 'old neIs, gnalantees that nO new deb't shall -be contracted except by the iote if two thirds of the people of the State. Ap miendment t'o the 'onstitutton-, )r u 'ordinanice of a State Con ven tion alune, could give such a clause tihe binding force of a contract. WhIy, then, was it insetted in the bill I The answer is evident. It was inserted with fraudulent int'nt, to deceoive both tre public cre'Aitor and the peo ple of the Stato. And the very in iertion of such a clause, so evidently null and void, proves to any candid inind that even deeper villainy may be intended. Suppose, however, that .ur Solons were not aware that a Legislature cannot bind its successors Dr the State by any such clause of in unactuent, and that they passed the bill honestly, what, then, nevortheless, may be the purpose of the contum . platod exchange of old bonds for new mes 7 To us It seems clear. It is to nix up the debt which the people of' le . aie are willing to pay, if they All, i.J anuteradical-administra bion bonds, with recent radical steal. -ge, and so completely confound thLe twvo, that it will be impossible for the State to discriminate hereafter be tween them. Now all of this recent tealmtgo is not regarded by honorable mten a2 the contraction of an honest lebt obligatory upon01 their scnse of justico to pay, whten it becomes due, but as ManE -rInU'rIE levied upon the credit of the State by political plun dlerers, tribute bothI galling and de grading, which it will be the first imn p)ulse of integrity and justice, so soon a it en not, to cast beneath our feet rind trample it, with the P'ilth Per sonified in whose corrupt hearts it hasi airigintated, down to the deepest per dition that imagination can conceive. In the namo of the people of South Carolina, therefore, we *arn those who may be so foolish as to risk the mixing up of their old olaims open the honor of the State ivith earpet bag negro bonds, that a day of retri hiution in surely in store, and that just wrath anid indignant vengeance may iot then spare them in ita fury. Let themr take the risk, if they bhoose. WVe look a little ahead of ~his May Convention ourselvesa 1t nay truly represent the people; to be mee ; but, then, it may fail from mauses, within and withotit, ahd be minrappod by temporining trickery and compromise. Our warning is ~iven independently of anything i6 nay counsel or (do. Takeo the risk, ~entlemen, If you dare. To REFUaE inzrurE to public thieves nIBUoNOntA-I irsm ! We burn with impatience at he utter absurdIty of stich a thought, nd all this siupidity about repudia liation. To itnUDIAT TitinUTE IS vJRe 'Un. ClauretaI Organationt..' We do not remoeaber having: over J nott In the lvhole course of our read t ng, (and It has ofbeni tonelted upon ( ho matter) with a distinct enuncla- ,b ion of the ,proposit ions .that tJg licy I ['estament leaves the whole subjeqtof 9 a lhoreb Urganisation, just It if ds ho whole subjeot of. Ltate OrganIpa' k ion, to be dealt with by-the reasonu of tan enlightened by experienee~ Qti lhe contrary, we have read'mindy' proe vindications of CNbvs origin md right, of Ent..oao.y. Pt....a ' iacy;e-O, ll which start wi& the su:bytier,'that there is a md~el df I kteinal ohiroh organization clearly revoaled, 4a4 i cumbent upon the 3onsciended pf lritians to perpetu ate. We believe there is no such moel, and intend 'to dtato that 'we Lo believe, because: the, ainexe9a victious'of any intili ient and con. seielious Christian w'oh 'frankly statedk, Ue14 to'litbQirg1nro'jhi viewa*'of Ahose who differ from him4 byh ug. gebt ti.g, e Cen to the moost e'elusive bigotry,'thait sitwe'rity wotld r~eurcely aidhur itself upin cou'vietiont'tiat ail ailtogether det-titute of f..uilattion ;in Scrip~ture, and that at l4ubt sonae gorn of a trtrh not foily p9rceiyed by 'thdn nI'y exist on tie Sido o which thoy are opposed. If there is an exact model of Niurch Governmeut aid 0.gnniza.. ion revealed ats a .pattron to a11 blc. eoeding generatiois of 'Ch,'istian, low is. it that, 'men ' intellgent,, so eared-,-and so si'ndere, 104 many of ,he Divines of *t'ho different denoni iations undoubtedly have bceez, brave lot discovere-l it and -ba've tiot ogeood t-pon what it 'oral'y li-., .bdt, ou t'he 'dnt'rary, say, one, one thing, I.Wtfd b'r )ther, another ? This tingle reflce ion settles the whole question to our ni ids complet'clyi. Ch''rob ougan i -ion is proved by this -orf striking his orical fact of the' cotttitred disagrep ment of sincere schu ra as to what it >ught to be, to be a ta1tter left to reason -and egper-inmee to take e'hurge if, '&rrd nolt a ma(t'r to clearly revoal ad a's to be besdlg lupon the con cience-, Aid we believe that -any 'orm of 'rganization which preserves 'decency and order," and "the 'rever 3nee due to those who havo te rul'e )ver'i the Yne'bera (f that orgalilka ion, i's legitimale an'd deril/tutlal. The ilcrgy of ,,e'i ofganiaation are a egitimate and Scriptural clergy. rheir administration of the sacra mcnts is valid to all that receive ,hem with faith. Their preaching is eot only logitinate, but we really -egret to say it., is often more scrip. ural, more powerful, more blessed of :od to the salvation of sinners and ,o the furtherance and extension of 1o Gotpol, than the preaehing of ;hose clergymen whose'church organi on is und'oubtedly better and more au accordance with the dictates of e11son and cxji erience. "What then ?" some one may sAy, "are you not an Episeopalian 1" We are, atd one of the strongest ort-, "Do youi not believe Epi'copa ty is Apostolib I' We do, nud with. >ut the shadow of a doubt. "Well, I lon't undarbtand your position." Very likely j ou do not, and it donan't listur b or ruie us in the lea st, though t is a great pity that you inside of ur oignnizat~on, cannot, anti that ome Christiana outside of our organi isati..n would not underst:tnd it, if they sould. It is very simple, however. IFor it is just this. We are an Epis. sopalian, not breauce we believe that to other organization legitimate and 8eriptural, but bceause nothing can thako our conviction that it Is the beat orm of organinition that reason and 3xplerience has yet brought to light. We do, however, believe that the I'piscopaey of "The Protestant Epis sopal Churolh of America" is defee ive, and enpable of improvement. Iispiscopaoy means the three ot'ders, iBishops, Presbyters and Deacons.'' But the Deacons of the American Dhuroh are practically Presbyters, atnd a revival of the otee in a less sxaltod sphere of dignity, and con Ferring it upon many pious laymen ~uhly comtpetent to dlischarge the~ dit ~ies of ai less einggerated tanimiate Uf ts scope of meaning, would popular. se and extend the influeuine of the It will be seen theref~ore; buw Uora lial we, with suelr views of external 3hurch o'rganisation, afe capable oIf 'eeling towards "all true belietecre;'' md how our heart goes out; when We epeat otur ertred, be3 ond the bounds >our denominatioti, and embrates he humble and piots whet bver they 'ow down and1 adore oitr Creator oiur edeicinr and our, (.omfortor, when we say, "1 believe in the 11oly Oath lie- Chbreb, the ' Cominnon .of ~niets." "Thiis, "the .(0ommuniob of ~aints,'? is "the. Uhutph'" after all. bism and 1f.t the llomish Chureb, bt " the ' iapmubqM Citreb, hot the 'rs)t'erisu Church gr the Congre4ga. ional Chpirob, but "the Churoh of hrist/t' 9the 'Company of all truE elleYerN-'' wherever' they toky be uuud; atid howuier thE, xndy be d'. abtlted jind mixdd lai '*itbhbyp6ourites ed uonbelistetu; is thd ' Io/ahl1bl4 'pillar and ground' of trath?' inehav es anid ;oe e~t Inloigbacks .upon the political Dsierlf tenanhlaeannD .mashmaa six YMarj,-*e ackoojledge that it has t beep a rbcoa of disappaititnents, altid b in due senbe, of politioul biindd. Our people, attached to the forute aid prodesses o'f Con'stitutibial law, Zlid not realize that they had fNllen upon t the evil days when reuinblican go'v. ernnent had beeonme tihe mere govern mpnt o( force ,and when foircq is thq tive method of reforming it. I'his is the whole front of their offending. t q30c161o o'f their bHindness to V'his d-o. t plorable fact, t'htt'ootiset't is no loi1g. er deelined an eliient of repullicdti govevtrouea.t, the I 'hal'cton -N. e now proclaiims, toht we si'miply '-bit (.4r e i'ur nuses to 'spite our fa-ces." And 8 because now th t we sce ad tuourn tie faci, is r.b..{ble ta the -News nil! Vro!ndisice u'ur best th':.kc r iA pure.t 'Oilizets fool-, because they a caniltoI, at'd will 1.o'. conleent to it.. Let us atsute the New, t-hat we do-ubt olrethier it, or even 'the Thy | 'C'vent'ion, :proffiises n'ny Wood. 'A Jtirnall or a COL n't-idn tthat ekbws a signs of n-A sqitarely meeting t'he ih. Pus of the times, which is sitj1hy und .1vrecty -Reform or -Ararchy, and down.eek gding INto 't,-o ev~ntest it'h1 the 4l1.g of turN-tcdvii 'u'd the lipdges ' 'of treavheious compro-niiae atid 'un teach.ible gulibility hangi*g'bat to a t net of typoc'ritical a-red it'.ithl's rplun.. g doreh., ddes Wt promise any great t achievements. We canuot hobnob rith,or strive to conciliato our rulers. They are our relentless enewies. They -hate us. They dexpie us-. 1 ''hey have 'no honor -and no 'chara'ter 'h to 16s-. We hate the'ta. We loathe t thet. All that we ctin get from d them, therefore, WE MUST Fotor. from P their rapncious atid unprincipled y clutthes. Tbt is the sitintio. v orabsion \ 'What folly to d'reanm of it 4 If we get a St-ate 'Cou'rentior, t it will be becatso P ifts r 0 AND wE WILL HAVE ONE. If we it 6,t minority represen' ation, it will t be beCause they SHAI.L GRANT s IT. Reform or Anarchy, Peace or n Domesttb W-ar, what stupidity to sup. pose that. the May Convention or a o Charlest'on pap'r can potaibly change 0 the stern reality I and deta8 Ykny sane man, who Ieks at things in their causeln, fo* a mniument fancy that' if a the May Cont'eltion shirk the plain a hsne, andA if the rulers of the State carry out their hypocritical game of rair promise and slack performance a second time, and manage a second ti time, to dodge the plain issue, that ti the people are golit to 'onsont to the W result I We have more faith in b these fools that have (to use the ele. gant simile) "been biting off their roses, to spitb theit' faces,'5 They wiil yet teacl evenl thb News what it is to love liberty and to demand, to Force, to exact, and wrench out of the 6 trembling heart of rotten hypocrisy5 tomun of the fruits of Jubtice.. CuanulatIve Vting--Inority Fo'r the i'rnt time since thbe Ihadicon i o have been printing their papers in the State, it gives us uvifeiL'ned pleasure 1. to cop;, and most Attdy tommend arn article from ne or thetm. Under the above riju6ted heatiing, thn Co. n lumbia Union says: d The Charlesion News, of the 17th, has a well tempered article on thisb suabjeet of mnitority representation.* We have already had somzethuing to say en this quest ion, and should only be too glad to see the systemn carried into operation in this State. If the Miay Convention will only conlider some practical thuest ion like this, onu that goes to the very root of the whoe trouble, we shall be moat hap. py to second4 its efforts to the extent of our power. This seems to be the ~ only safe remeudy agaihst large and oyeorbearing majorities. Under the pin of bumnplative voting, the ni-t. nority coulti always be representted just in exact proportion to their tunfl, bers, and this is the very basis of bur' Republioanformn of got t-rnment. The a milnority are aasmuoh entitled to rep Eesentation as the inajority; and un less this is allowed, a Republicah Bovernmnent is onl3f Republican lo name5 but the vbret despotism in t fact. Nothing cap be. more tryanni. ual than largb majorities. The plan t is simple in thu ektreme, but ihpplies anly wherd thtire is nulore than one of Ilcer for the same countt'y, or town:a For instancs in Ricbland, theore are aye members of the General A eseth- E lbly, four Representatives and one d, '3enat or. The Repuitbliceans east 8,500 di votes, and the Demee9rs 13400. Now gi f the Demothrate., be!ing entitled to hi ote for each of thtese five cabdidates, btrow all their votes for one of them, ~hey would be sure of electing their tIa andidate ;so that they would then rd ect tune representatIve out of 6Ye3 F: ihiere they get pene nlow. Where the le nuajorities are smaller, or, in other ,tords, where the parties ate more ?'nly divided, the plan IS still more itrikingly Illittrated: 'Pake the P Iounty of Edgefieltd, for instance, on b he vote of lat year: That county be end, seven representatives to the t enpral Asenmbly. 'The Republican 06e 4,600, and the Democrate 8,700. mi tthe Dneeraey had been permitted C< ty law to east the seven votes . to hi hioh they were entitled, all for to bred ma insted of tot seves fnein, pe bey could liave elected that num er to the togislatuto, so that the eleg ation woUld have 'stood four tp'blioan to three 'Democrats, in toad*of Aqven -Republicans, as now. Greenville seuds 'four Represeuta ives and onie Schatbr to the 'oneral Lssembly. If the Cunua'ttive plan of oting prevailed, and the Ohrtes hold lie same relative proportiong 'his last wdl) viz: Oedrooata.-,MoO.-c Nepubli aUS 1,400 ; the Republicans all broving five votos for two, otit. of lie five eendidates instetid of Voting or the whole five, would sudced in lecting that inml er, leaving the )v1mocrats the ottier three. Both artticS'vould thii lie -represt-trted in x aC(!prdort ii 'n t' t' i'ii- n tC me: 1 trtogth, or numher.s. Thi would bIe 11 aci-da'n'b wit'l the .4pirit 6f 'lte ub1licanl iint'i6ttiolis, doinig justice to Il itirVies., and 'ri.juti ibe to wone. TIMh ith1 .hou-*ld tie 1'iit.ate'l 'nntil aine fdfbrabio action's is taken by ,egislative bodies all over te 'coui ry. We believe thu-i syte'th of "mi orty re~pree'ht .atrin''is Oiie panana en fbr 'all o'r po'litWidh troubles ; for r' presentatiofi only, Ts de'ired, thi's ecures 14 Pllly. \'e agree with the ?s t whht it sa'ys i'n the foiluiv rig extract. Speakiog of the opera. ion of this 83 stetn, it bUys: "The general effect wou'Id be that be two parties would staid in the Knern I Assei lidy usf0,000 t 0,o.000 ftittits- doen tlie iumber 6f ei hers i the lower 11'use at 10, he 'plan of' cumulat'ive voting bho'uld ivo the kadioals 72 members, an'd to Conscivat'ves 4 mem'bers. '-This, it seems to us, is th'e ios% ortain way of obtaining for the hites the voice which is their due i conducting the affairs of the State. 'he pritciple lhn the apo oval of the ioit though'trul sta'tesmn in the coun ry. It has the commendation, in iis State, of the leading Republican aper and many prominent niembcra f the Radical party. No man is de rived of the right to vote. One te'r h'as a- N tany vo't'b is the oth'er-. [o attempt is ma'de to give Vhpital re Vowar t'o crush labor, or to take te goveinirnt'froYn ohe race and ass and give it to another. All that i done is to give all men reproesn itiun in proportion to their voting rength, in this way abol's'sing tht, upid and unjust principle which sakes majorities supremn'o, and all-oW U1,000 men t' d1,;pos)6, ab they will, r the lives and fortunes of the 90, M who voted sqjuarely against them. "Shall not an attempt be made t6 troduce in South Uarolina-, unt'ure ay of saving the Stat6 frota anarchy 'id ruin, the blessed prin'iple of inority r'epresentation [com StUNICATED.) Mr Editor please extend this No o to the Citizens of Fairfield County tat I this Day has tendred my Resig. ition and I am no I-ohger in oom out to the ofio Couhty Commissions. April the 28, '71. JOHN M. MARTIN4. iurdriofiheMlihoiFinij-~ Speaking of the recent murder of Ir. Melrou and family, the Chester Bld Democrat says: There are various surmises as to ho wvere th pbrpetrators of .this utrage s iome supptosingt th1ey we6re sem'ts of thte Kiu Klux organization; unre that they wetoe negroes, niany fwhomn wore said to be nuchb en igod agairet Melton1s and others sup liet thry' were a body or' tullaws -ia North Qiarolia-. We have rver heard of k1u Kiuk tialtrenting omean we they inflicted ptunish ltistee fiottn their. fatuil.Ie Tie 'nothing etlae, would lead us to the ulief thatt this outrage was the resub F persanal tmalice rather than the eganized punishment of crime, real e pposed. Our citizens should te every effort to ferret out and ring to justice the authors of this itne. A 00O Sigestlod. History, says the Shipping iaist, aches that a people who, n ith raw rod aets alone, attempt to conttest for basith anat] populat ion against a poo le elaborittinig those prbdhets, are ire to be worstedL It is a pleasing idioation that the people bf thb W6...t id Siuth arq beginning to appjreciale us truth. Thty not only have ab :aundanoee6f wool, eotton, anid other 'sentail raw materialb at hand, but toy are fortunate in having a. swift 'eatol- of wealth-'-tthb mbst hsipora nt demnd of all active civihiat ions sn unlimnited Water power. The ue course, then; is to st tils chdap oohanioal potir at work-to make ih myriad water courses of the coun.. y lion tribute to our source of wdalthl, wetll as obr t-ieh, virgin soils. tEattl is de'fd in kussiii. ~the inporor called her to him three limos tring one concert. A present of anmonds worth 40,000 franes was vtlfl hefi also a boiqeuet of jewels, on r benefit, worth 12,000 franed. Michelet, the French higtorian, says at what sorme ttatIons~ accomplish by form aind others bS' emigration, tab -ehdh achieve by period ial blood.. tting. Bishop Coleuso-who baa becbfne radical as his frIend lMiss Cobbe-.. efaces thle reading of the Oteed th the declaration thr~t he does not lieve it, but reads it aa an offieer of S QueIen I A tiever repartee is attributed to lbe 'iber froin Mormaondon in the ie nrbest A brother inmber asked n how thonty wives lie hadi "I~npngh keetp me from runnhng after othef onle',." hi. nroinjt1. tephieA . EU lO E A N NWI, LiA''E A DiCES. Lo-NDON, Ari- 24.-The I Jtligents made a bortie Sunday towards Chatil. lorr, and.at hrst 0 iptured a barricade held 'by Versailles troops, but wero eventually ropuled with heavy )ots. *Oentil 'Dofhi 'tas -replu'ed Gene T1al Duerot in connusind (if a portion of the 1rniy of the A4einbly. VKI:IsAmUio:s, April 25.---A bea'vy cannonaode wiS opbei. tli4 in,rn ing by Ihe VerIilhidtfrdot .NThnel1on, Cretonil and (2luatillon, upun 1-sy, N r.n verS and Pont, Du ?Jur Vanr..' April '5.--Thiere' bir. 'bilar of the 24th s;Ns : The TMAst fMw da',4 have lice n ewgloed in etigineo-er. "?b,'k andt 'onentrht-in'g hur trodps. New corps have been formed at Cherbo'tirg, (Xe amdra'i an'd Atikeroie, -cotppbed'f t horoes'6f t raschl)tte-. 'General Dorai atid 0htnohn'ht +iHi command them-. -Later engagenefits at Ihgneauk wbre quede.ses for 'our troorps, who 'capt'u'red a red ti-. 'ANo g410at operatio'n *111 doo'n WAsINo-reop, April 21.-Thiern bras tifnounee'd that actiVe 'operations 'bosnmepee'd ybst.ei'day. The Veirail'lit's male 'an %it' cessful attempt t'6 cros% the seine to At seven Port Tasy''s g&s \Vtre dib mantled. Fort Montrn-uge is in ruibs, a'rd 'h' soutern forts a'ie tadly 'datha ged. The Versaillists' 'proevtif's 'ron the south fall *ithin th-6 rim'pa'rts. Many haVe 1ieen kill'cd an'd *6un'deVI. The Mot D'order says the cominune will blow up the forts if necessary. The Communal Connoil bo\v holds he6'et sssions. LoND'6t, April%7-Evenin.-'..h Standard ha's the following dispatclh frobi Pari: The Cominunoesuffers foir wan't of uni'on among the menbers, a for a lgk 'of nione an'd %en. The National 'Guards bpoly 'Aiso bey the orders of the Commune, and it is believed the Commune will make its last stand in the Rue de Revoli and Rue Castiglioine in theiamediate vicinity of Place Ve'ndomw. Fort Montrog'6 Will pi'oaly V'6 stormed by the Versnilles army to. day. The Cinwune inh Impr'ssed i to the military sorvice the porters of the Lyo'ns Iailway. PAnts, April 28.-''6 has b'een heavy firing to-day, South And West of the city. and it is how violent. The Versaillists are attacking all Vointb bimnitaneously... T'he ComMunb has made a 'e'isiti'on of ',010,'000 francs opon the railway companies. Provisions arrive but s6ldom, and are growitig searco-. IosboN, April 26.-hb Tiines' special says at day-break yestdrdAy, the insurgents attacked Moalineabk, Ciamert ind Chatillon-, but *ere re i)i I a. od Paris gossip to 'Y'hursedy night as serts that three now Verailles but:. teries wold open on Friday. ,00 0 perans fled from aris'n Wed nesdaiy. The doinmune hats nominated Rtegault as Prourer. Four Commtfnists'; bap. tured in a sally at Villde~uf' were i~nmmediately shot. MacIeah(,n is at Ghatean~ lecan. The sailorq have abanddneti the guns at Issy. T'he 'it is scardely tenable and th'e lode heavy. Dangerois Contliion of the Creifse's. LoIJIsViL.E, Apiil 24.--To Hion. Wm, Or Lt, President.'-'he Crevaas iWhich moceurred itn the~ leree of the Misa-'pi iti\'er' hr BWinnet Cat-ru, at a point abuove Ne* Orleanssome daya~ 0gb, hse beene gradually inbreasing~ in latteilt, unlt it iO n1osy entit-ely bie yondl control. It w~as last evlening, city of New Orloan* and Jaoisoni Railrbadi nd bir lives, Is very b ri ous (Signed) JOHN VAN HdM1S, General Superintendent. NrEW OnLE A Ns A pril 2d....Assig tant State Engineer; Hatch; writ ing frome the Bonnet Carro orb. vebses, says: It iA nloW si hundredt to sti huondr ed and fifty feet wide, ahd a vast volume of water iushbs through with a rbitr likb thundet', jiling itbelf up in the middle In the form dt an aroh, of which the cenatre is fire or sit feet highet- tihan the sidesi the torrent has out its ebannel throtugh ahd fai out itito ths fields, to the depth of probably forty feet1 while Steadily, foot by foot, the grdat letde erutn:. bles tinto its boiling twaters. The clo-,ing df thia erevesse is befunid tihe tange of peossbilities. Naw OarLIANS, April 26.-Tie lteost from the Bonnet Carte erevesse reports thd biretk sevena hdndred fedt wide. Ncothing ofiltl reoeitd from that point this mornideg. The water is running ovef the 1raok of the J'iokson road, between the 13th and 14th mile posts, at Kenners. All the other dreosses hate been stUpped; General Thompeon ssrts thtat there Is no danger of thi oity being overflowed. Fromi Jjoslangk Nz* 'OrLsANu, Apil ~6.-The Bionraet Carre erevesse isa1,10t fiat wide~ to-day, bet the deirrept "and wahek had deofesse .n prpi.ttd; as the babk larifs )pedauee filed with witer andi thili mu tfaed 6ft the rive lowered. .~o News illisu"' ige (pri' - ho rd offdrnd eheto*pitabra the Fedlbral soldief rave. lb. Aldermen object to the Mianner of the cereionies as usually conducted. HAVANA, A ril 29. -Colonel Acolib ta, a native Cuban, commanding a Spanish battalion, publishes a letter, denying that his soldiers assassinated two ladies and three children as charg. ed by Cspedes. Acosta accuses the guerillas of the Colon battalion witA tlhe ou y- r. onjeiumand in The Diario says there it; unsatisfacto ry inforint ion Irom. Porto Itio -The politic .al 1itua iPo of thq 4tl1leis beomiing daily 'more compfieated. 'PrW Yowi, A pril 29.'-Two 1fatal boilor explo.,iois oacurred yesterdar. T40 Cuban captaiu Juu Oi'na, re chtly earptuid, was shbt 'iichr N. IVy di o.I Cit) Sprvy oir reports t be riher fal. ing knd the le'veo, ull Iafe. along the froi.t of the city. Bionnet.' arro bre vasse i now '1 ,400 fet Wide '; other. %wise there has been 6 iiterihl erhange in t'he itua'tion thei. ,the Water is w'ithin half a mile, of Ke'% villa; i't has also mede it.i aqppearfnoe in the lowg'robuds10si't. and,6puth. W'A.s71'jN6TON, April 2 _- iiain T. 1 lackfoid has been fppointed special agent n 1nihil d'epredia'tions i4 Alabima and lis ippi, vice -e-aA 'art in'oolored-. ,It. is probable t'ha't. th bairomolota will 'ont'in'uo low on Shnday tbrongh. out th'a country, East of the. Rocky NiountAIns, aid that vetry co'nmidorable depressjon will br.de'voloyed West of and in Illinois. No s'erioub dist. ban'o is 'pobable for t'lt Ktlantic pnd nif' 'oatt. FrAsh. North arla East winds will probably 'be ekpotieno *ed on the up'per l'a.es. A'LI.x *AyDit A. 9, Aprl 29, amnnos M. Mason, (ex-Confederat6 Minbiter to En~and,) died last night; fPron ge.nerhl debiity. ie had. been ane'6ncioub for h dAy or 'two, and die d wihout p ai. Nrv.W Yonc, April 29.-Arrived gun-hoat Meteor, fio% Havana-, VI& Uliarlochton. i*B ild win-, t'hb. p'6gilliat, itav ing ad.r~ .e out, his sentence inP Iiawrqipe (Mass Jal, for pl-ihfing, wat yesterday relbated. Hs admtirer gave hire Ai 'ovati.n and a her suit of clothb&v ato &oing to set him up agnin with a theatribal benefit. Wlar'ket Rcports. r Y6nic, April 29.-Niehing 06~toinet, with sales of 51'j tales-, aRl1 'dold k It. Cniii .KTOi, April 0.-Cotto Auket--middlings 14 ; receipts 460 ' bal'.a'; saleb 300. lIYVIChoor,, April (f.--tening 'tton, Stead ---uplpnds 't; Orleani 7; sales~ 0 O'd baleas. Ocala 16 thi Palpst-Siigul rand -A fe'eting Scene. IRev. ernamin NF iton, first and on' ly rector of TIinity Church, Onlveston% wab recently stickn with death whil standing in his pulpit. '.'h'e alvel. veston News th ds dus'ribes th'e scenei He oaahd'ed the pulpit. Anhoun' Ing his k, IiTbere is yet io6m," All tieiibling beneath the weight of 13i8 last messoge-, he referred to one After Anothes- of the feiends' of his 3?lutth and the coinnunicante of hia church that ha'd gone betore. H13 painted Dleath %dsteiing the church door; lasasing up the broad aisle;.isy, ing his bony band tu the right and tu3 the left ; bIsathillg his bold, lab breath on the bhe'ek of beauty, ad Wafting the silv'er hairs of age. Non toudhing~ the father, then the son ; here the mother, there the daughter, as thd apeotre adi plaIn to his entranced Vid. ibn advancnd to the chinel-raIl, h* he baw thlat lia time half cotile, his' wdrds ntrIugled 1de uttejane. Hie faltered. His weakening llimbst stag gered. A gentleman who advanced to hi~aista.nce was waved back. For tan minutes mole bb spoke, his wold only aud ible to those near hint. Trht expiteient of the sudien~ce was fear tul. Threti timeh he struggled to ddtl tInue, saying :"I anm very siek, but ! iut say:" Again lie staggered: [Hd f'ell Into the armsof Mr. C. R.: Hughed~ as lie raiise'l his hands' to pronoun~d thb beleletion. biku Moses, that oth'er Rervant of God; he tras .tedr wenk to hidid lup his hands, which waif done by Mr. Hughes; dA he said his d~s~ pulpit wordb; ''To God the fathb ' er." His to gue lefused to spleak further ; hi[ liadds dropped. lfid.was carried to his rectory; whea'd lhe diod Faaile Mmtilld's MtIgter, U4 fldfred; A New York lette! says; "Many ieaders ,wilI xdmemberitbe Bgglers fo South Catolina; QnO of whom .longs tere~sentqv that State in, the Senator' Ant iePrbe; butt not theq distin4. tingt(ithed Serndtory 'nmarried Fien Kemble long -yosa agog.: and their~ daughtof inheorited ,what Wads onuney very handi~sco - propety. in Georgia:r Th'ern. was some trouble between thd p ttrenite, ed the mother. lived . ian Eang. land, whil6 tho-daughteriyied' in thide counitry with her father. 4 . oW' yearg a o he ~Ied, atd Abopgh.,.octegg, Uitle~g er, toothberg ska.pr.eerred ti 8.outh . ast .winter anjfag~lipjbgn tieman, travelling ila that~ seeoton-was anxious to visit a-woll" opgmi,ie1 plantation, and conseQuoII ..becamd4 the gfieat.o( .Miss BUit - he;;eulti. of- thig visit 5s thatin May *hea p ~o to hetsnmhe In lingled an 000*,40 -ifeof,.4b. Hon. Mm~. Leigh, wheam she eltertinej one1 yearago, Alb a n he. O ure yo~u p I upn - ~~g m a te p Tp~ % h 1 f R j I ~ i