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_l Tfrtidb _ Desportes & Williams, Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquirv, Industry and Literature. [Terms---$300 per Annum, In Advance. VOL. VI.] WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 17, 1871. [NO.48 Til10 FAIRFIELD HERALD IS rUIiiuKI WFKKI.Y BY DESPORTES & W ILLIA MS, Te,-s.-Tng UVRALI Is published Week in the Town of Winnsboro, at 63.00 in wareably in advance. X3i- All transient advertisenienls to b aid in advance. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1.00 pe square. How Julia's Engagement was Broken off. "I will never muarry Mr. Young screw because lie's rich as Ci wu.,' said Julia Cuwhington, burzting int< tea rs. "You ihall never marry Capt Mon tgomery ; because he is as pou as Job," said old Cushington, hurs ting out of the room as Mrs. Majoi Manager entered it. "Good gracious, Julia, what is the matter I" said Mrs. M. "Why your eyes are as red as ferrets, and you'll burst the buttons off your polka if you sigh so desperately." Ainl Julia told her ill, "how she loved a bold dragoon, with his saddle: bridle, long sword," and little more than his pay, how her fa her refused to have him for a son-in.la %, and how Mr. Youngserew, a stingy, giigery, bandy-legged booby had . r Ipos ed and been accepted by old \1ir C as! iugt on. The casa seenied dopic.e t< Julia--not so to Mrs. Major Manu. ger. "My dear," iaid the campaigner "Dry your eyes and leave all to me Dress yourself as ecuminiigly as you can, receiv' Mr. Youigscrew witl nods and hecks, ar.d wreathed bmiles and then "1Then what " exclaimed Julia opening her beautiful blue eyes t the utmost. "And then we'll take him out a shopping. My nieces, Arabella, Ema. ma, and Clara are going, as you know, to join their brother in India, and I have promied them pait of their outfit. You shall buy all under my direction." "But what has that to do with my marrying Charley-I meau Captain Montgomery " 'Oi ! it's at Charley, is it ? though- Mrs. M. "Then there is no time to lose. There's a knock at the door, and there is Mr. Youngs.erew and his brougham. Do us I tell you and trust to my experience." Julia, like a good girl, as she was obeyed her knowing old friend, and presently appeared looking more beau tiful than any lady in the Book o0 Fashions. Youngtor ew, (who, by th way, was quite as had looking a Julia had painted him) stood agape with admtiration, and actually per spired with ecestay when the ladice solicited his company to Swan d Edgar's. The clock struck one as they entered that paradise of women. Mr Y. would have retired, but the ladic knew that be had taste, and desired the benefit of it. They were soo sealed and, the solemnity began. Dress after dress was opened, ditcum. ed, and rejected. With a patience worthy of the cause, did the highl% respectable young curate-looking gen tleiman behind the counter to seek t( satify his fastidious customers, and at length succeded, T1hen' the trimmings. Tiwe'ity yards of ribbon at twe shillings a yard I Mr. Y. could'nt understand foi what it was wanted. Sixty yar ds of braid at one shilling a yard ! M r. Y. began a sum in mentalaritib metic. T welve yarda of lining at siateer pence a yard ! Good gracious I Could she have got so mutch as that aboat her, a there she sat upon the chair befor~ him ? if so, how much of that glo rious heap was Swan & Edgar, and how much Julia Cushington, Twenty.four ename.l buittons ad two shillings each I By jingo I She had twenty-rout o1 her dress at that moment, for Mr. Y began to count them. Skeins' of silk 1 sewing cotton f gimp Ill whalebone Ill I hooks r Ill and eyes 1,111!! Mr. Youogscrow became mute as a fish. lie felt inolinod to scream when the curate asked, "is that all to dny 1"- "All." M r. Youngsereo should think so-and did. The clock struck fouir as the tri' left the shop. Mr. Youngaerew,. pale * as white earsant at the scene he hid witnessed, the ladies radiant with tiv * consciousness of having fulfilled so fai * their woman's miission. "We shall see you again to-mor row 1'' said J'ulia to her admirer, witl one of her very 'sweetest smiles, "at eloven 1" Mr, Yontagsersw, tWho stuttero' slightly, could only bow his. r appur A and depart. "Does number one," said Mrsu 'Ja jor Manager ; "we will make Emma's purchase to-morrow, the day aft. that Clara's ; the next day -yeu shal make me a present of a mantle, an< possibly you do want somethinig fo Of course she did-whoever know girl of twenty who did nob 1" Mr. Youngscrow went to bed that night, but not to sleep. NleIttal arithmetic again engaged his atten tion for inany hours, and when he did doze it was to dream of ready reckoi. era and demons in white chokers, Need we dwell over our story, ,No. Day by day, as proposed by the r artful Majoress, did she submiit Youngsorew to the torure, until lie looked upon Swan & Edgar's as a fashit.nable Inquisition, Each night, lie slept les. Etch morning he rose with moro bile in his face and less love in his heart for Julia Cushing ton. The present of the mantle to Mrs. NM. brought on a crisis. Mr. Y. repudiated his engage merit and fled to France. Old C. threatened him with an action for breach of promise, and compromised for ?10 000, with which lie presented his son-in-law, the captain, on th: day of his weddig.-Punch's Pocket Book. Dsatrous Fires IAUUN)As, PA., May 8.-Yest erday afternoon fire was discovered in a house in the upper end of the town and in less than two hours the town was in ashes. The losses are not known. but there is little or nO intsurance. About 50 buildings were, burined but no liveswere lost. WI.MINGTON, May 8.-A disas. trouscoiflaigration occurred hero at noon to-duy. The fire caught in the kindling-wood factory of Geo. W. Bulshfron the steati-engine, and comi. mnunicated to the oil-house attacbed to the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltinore railroad shops, thence ex tended to the pattern shops and the locomotive round-house. The round. house contained some 15 locomotives, all of which took fire. Some will be badly injured, others not so much. Two other locomotives outside (one just built) are said to be destroyed. The lo.,s of the railroad company is very heavy, including the oil-house destroyed, the locomotives burned, as stated, and damage to the roofs of the general repair shops. NIr. Geo. W. Bu.sh loses the building and a sloor, which burned at the wharf. At 1 :30 P. M1. the flmos were checked, and it is hoped there will be no more dai. ago than is stated. A Lady wIth a Feather in her Face. Some time since a iady residing at the South End, while performing the ordinary duties of her household, was suddenly taken with a severe pain on the right side of her face. Supposing it to be a species of neuralgia, and that it would soon pass off, she paid but little attention to it. The pain, however, continued to increase in violence, causing much suffering and a few days subsequently a small swel ling commenced to form on the inside of her face, gradually enlarging in size. Becoming somewhat alarmed she deemed it necessary to send for a physician, and Dr. L. R. Seldon was accordingly called in. Upon an ex amination of the ease, being fearful that the swelling might break and - produce a lasting disfiguroment of the lady's oomutenane, ho decided to re Imove the tumor by the aird of surgical inatruments, The oporation required considerable skill and caurtion, but it Was sucoessf'ully performed, the lady .undergoitng it with remarkable forti., tuide. The tumsor was found to con tainaesmall feather~about one inch in length,. which was probably the cause of all the trouble. Hlow it came there is a woudr.-Boslen hesrald April20. The National Revenlses Yrom the present indications the receipts from internal roeventre for- the Ilseal year,.which expires at the end of nest month, will exceed the estimate ten or Ifteen millions of dollars, wh fch is margin' enooglr to prove con Ielusively tihat it would have been both 'wise and expedient to hrave abolished I the income taz in the 41st. Congress. The law as it stands is so stripped of its eti ngenst features tbat it is the imi . pression among internal revenue offi cers that thousands have evaded it, In a letter written to an assessor of internal revenue on Frirlay the coin missionier of the revenue beureatu de' aided that, salaries of the city and county officials tare not eze-mpt from return for income tax under the re cent decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Buffiritou vs. Day Wash. C'or. Richmond Piapatch. completed, TPhe Richmond Whig understands that the Alabama and Chattanooga Iiailway is entirely comyleted, al 2 theagh abone days may elapse before the road .will be in running order. L This road extends from Chasttanogga, Tern., to hieridiain, Mlies., in conec Lion, with othier roads, fprminig the - shorteat line betwoen N~ew York, and Now Orleants, saving twuilvo hours' r time over existing sobedulesa. The main lirto is 230 miles long, with la I torals and aid ings of thirty-soven moiles making an aggregate of 888 miles. - Ladiess' round hate are worn tipped back tq naal the front brain. The Lost Arts. A LECTURE. BY WENDELL PHILLIPS: oiTt FACTS AND INVENTIONS. It is the same with the mechanic arts. Take for instance, the motion of heavy bodies across the earth. I won't stop at the common powere, the five eitchauicaf powarfr, hecause r vea y body lnvows we have never added anything to them. We hnuse never ad ded a fourth to the nechanisnsince the ages before history beg:in. But take the application of force for the mo tion of heavy bodiea. The other dlay we ioved the Pelham Hotel, weigh ing five-thousand tons, fourteen feet, and we rubed into print about it. Ve have moved, since then, a block weiguing eight thousand tons sixteen feet. Russia, some years ago, moved a block of granite weighing a thousand tons fifty-seven miles, and they wrote a book about it. Hlerodo. tus says that he saw a temple carved out of stone ;hat weighed five thou sand tons, and it had been moved 150 miles. If that is true, all we have got to do is to sit down. Take the temples at Carnac, where the columns are sixty feet high. lho hung the huge architrave sixty feet in the air ? Take the py ramids. T he upper tiers of stones aro very heavy. V ho rais ed them six hoILd co Itet in hight, ? Ba!tersoi of Hartford, the head of the house that makes funeral monuments for all the north, when travellihg in Iigypt mi, t lrut o', the . r hit o.,t of the Thames tunnel ; and as they walked along the streets of Alexandria, Mr. Batterson said, "Do you believe in the stories of Eigyptian engineering. Bruinel pointed to pompeyI's pillar, one huindIred feet high, whose capital weighs two hundred torim,, an d said, "Sir, there is lnot a school of men living that can lift two hundied tons one hundred feet in the air." An'.1 they are the men to ditcuss Egyptian eng inteer'i tng. Well, then, take ventilation-this is a modern art. You know the p) ramids have either one'room or two. Some men think they were a treasure house ; some think they were toimb,. At any rate, there is an opening in the ceiling of the interior room, and in the upper tier of the pyramids are two openings. For a long ti me they were never noticed. Within forty years, a John Bull, that ought to have been a Yankee, took a cat and carried her to the top of the pyramids and locked up her kittens in the room below. In the morning, cat and kit tens were found together, proving that these three openings had a com mnunioation ; and these ignorant sava ges actually ventilated their tombs, while this enlightened and painfully modest nine e.nth century ha n t %an tilated its dwelling-houses yet. (Ap plause.) Well, did tht y have canals ? Europo say's, "1 invented canals six hundred years ago."' China says, "I have had them a thousand yeare."-, "Well," says Egypt, "that don't amount to much, I have had them four thousand years." And, if you will go to that valley of Goshen where we thought the Jew's ied, you* will ftnd a canal which a quarter of a mail lion dollars would put ito wvorking, 'oader,a anal which Moses saw.. It is forty uiles long, ene hunidred anid forty wide, arid thirty seven feet deep. Diodorus says that by sluices and gates, ingenaiotnely contrived and quickly opene~d and shut again,, the-y went fronm letel to level ;. so that they had locks as well as canals. Indeed, It is by no means certain that Egy pt won't have a right to laugh at us out of horgrave. Th'is Suez canal just aishod, tills np- with sand, so tha t they are constantly obliged to dredge it. E~gypt built a e..nal at right angles three thousand years agor full half as large as oursr and it is by no means certain, and begins to be stipoeted that we had- bet ter la-ave liaaitated Egypt and spent one- tezath of our money andl ru-n a canal. east and west instead of north and south ; and mil lions have been thrown away because we did ntot imitate Egypt. Did (they have Railroads ? Y'es, they had railroads.. Our fathers left railroads in England when they came to P'lymouth. Tihey were nine hmunded years old in Eanrope. T bei e are only two principles ini a railroad.. One- ie an art-ifcial level, anid I'gypt prodnc ed that by putting squiare' blocks of granite suevessi-vely ln the ca-rth. There is one other principlo-sup, poeat for the wheels. We suppor t ours on a rail ; they support theirs in a groove, h.ying stones in parallel :linecs, for the wheels to maove in the grooves.. There is the railroad ; thme only wonder ,is the locomotive. Heurodotus says they had great rollers knado to couvey by maechinery blocks of grapite. from, the q uerries, down to the een. Now, what was the machinery? t shall In that hide behind Arasge, and A r ago and !a a Boldt stand side by sidefunsienuce Arago rnalotainod lbe forq the Freneth 1imktet that the ana. oients bed theateamnboit.. 'Phore Is an Egyptaisu representation of a boat with paddle-.wheels outside, and the bold full of maahinary. Arago takaa thi. ma ohinorv to picce,, ind ,hovs you or thinks hie shows youi, that thete is till mechanic.l force that will explain itis a catat. We know they knew steam. There were pipes from tihe chllb!rs of the priesthoiod, goie g up under the altar, by which they worked of' seem ing miraoles. I could stand here, ladies and gentlemen much longer than you would bewillingIto oitithero and listen, and shliow you thut there is nothing i new unlder the sun. As Chaucer says. I-For.ouit of lhe oll fieIes as man stil h. toznnaetl at this tew corle fro yere to yet-, And out of old bookep, in p.ool fNiii, Comlttiteth all this niew science that :nen I ere, hut now to p-irnose, as of this inattere, To rele forth it. gan time so delite. 'That all tlht day wue thought it but a lite." My neighbor Hobb*9 went to Lon dort arrd picked the best foek it cou1ld show. Locks are borrowedl from Egypt ; al are something like twent). five hundred years old. iae sniuwers and re ,pers. You think when you get out on the prairies that I ou have got to the last invention. Pliny will tell you that they hadi mowers and reapers on the plains of Fratnco just like ours. When you go to Vienma they will show you a mower more than a thou;aid years old, with fans aoting like ours.. Take animal nag netism in the cure of disease. That J is two thousand years old. You can trace it into Germany, to Constanti., nople. down to D.asmascus, and then to Calcutta, twelve hu-ndred years back. Take the water core, (he last of the medical theories, of wiell Charles Lamb said, you know, that he did not consider it was very good, or very t new for it was at least as old as the deluge, and that killed a great many more than it cured ; to which the cold-water mnan rctorted that, at any rate it saved tall that were worthy saving. Take guano, i that last sgricultural blessing:of Which t the Yankee said, you know, that he happened to stll a little in his pock. et, and as he tried to walk away, found him.elf eaught, in a vine, and putting his hand into his pocket to get his < knife to out his way out, foinlid a r eucn tuber there, gone to sced- that is % not new. If there is a dentist here, I I would remnind him that a mumiy < was found with every tooth most a scientiflially pifngged with gold ; and i every lawyer will remaember that it I was on the twelve tables of the lut I Rome thiat nobody should be buried I until every atom of gold wits taken I front the body except that in the a teeth. No doubt Col. Colt invented I his pistol, or bought the invention, I but when you go to London they will show you a tircarn on the ,amne prin- t ciple, and when you go to lferil eursed he Berlin forever-you will find a five-barreled re olv( r. When you go to Madrid they will show you the p!ans of a steamlbOat that I went, ten miles au hour on the spainr I in 1523. Then, you will say, why i didn't they have revolvcr3 and steiam boats I Well, I will tell 3ou. The f brain was ahead of the b inds, They cotild invent ;; they eoubl nzot multi ply. The mechanic hadln't come. Smiles says that whean Watts first took hold of the steam engine, the eyffndet' was s6. inperfect it took a i fortnight to pack a piston that would woik. When Brunel came and gave Nina a eylinder as perfect as wvatch- I workr, the steam engisne began. And I Smiles says at that da4te. ninety yearsi ago, they could not get cog-wheels< that would fit. It took a day or two to file theiwinto harmiony. And he desoribos a largre piece ot' machina y' put up in one of the Eniglishm counties where the workmen filed so long upon iwithout success that they itt last flung their tools at it and said, "Work i it into harmony ;" and Smiles said< yous could bear it gtlitd ha'~if a mile, htway. l'ow, when the works of the< Gleat Eastern were brought from workohops miles apart, sand steanm wa V put into the cylinder, the grcsat gi-ans began to smove as5 noiselessly as a baby, breathes. The- meohsanic had come. Well, aherry-eobblers are -tnot newI -drinking lignior throughl a straw, Every boy thiat reads Annophoni re. miembers tha4~ wh'en, be broughbt the ' Greek army hono' fromn Persia, they 'i Ciam-e theuurghr a tvibe thaat a~t their I lig.uor awaay until frozen with crold, I andI drank i't through a straw.' You thittk. ereoscopes tare new. When the ist photogruapher showed', you one, you thought you had come I to the very end. Galen, the great physician, a Grecian, nearly siXteen .hundred years ago, describes a st ereo scope juist like what we use to day. I might speak to you' of the fineness of-aneient manufacturers of je'welry. We think them very cars ; btut the Dutohess of Horry, one of the Blour bons, took a necklace which came from the neck of a nmummy, and wore it at a ball at tihe Truilleries, and it was called the finest in the room. You have what you oall Etrueoan je wefry, dea d .gold ; but the real Ecrscan jewelry found in the ruins of the ancients before Ihome came, Is dead gold powdered with gold ; and Is not yet discovered,'although two or thi-ee menm have wasted their lives In trying, It bas not been found by what Invluible solder that gold has been key In its place. Take liinne.ns. You kmw the E k pcr >r of Rus in, the other day, gave Lo a lady in Iartford a lace veil that lo its on the atmosphere as you fling it off. But the anclents did that. take D.aoc:r muslin, of whieh you boar in the missionary meeting with onisi.ment-finer than the veil You k ,osv the old novelists actually ex hnstfd their wit. in describing Dacca mudin. Do you know that sort of a it which conisits in mere oxage'ra t -n, is Ofriaental ? Yon know it has boon sid, they are so dishonest in S,inl that they tAke in their stone. walls ut night. That sort of wit i Driental . In the old novi.1, nitine hundrid and seventy years old, an In 1lian princess comes Into the room. [for father says,"Daughter,go home ; you are not decently covered." She replies, "Fathor,l have on seven muitH." But they were Daco unislin, ,) line that could not be seen. The misionaries say that when laid on lie grass to whiten, the dew hides it, fue finest French mus:in yon ever saw, 3ever had more than a hundred flnd ity threads in an inch. I ain told It is not made liner than two hundred .iat Wi kerson Ias a bit of mummy :loth in London that has five hundred Ind forty threads in an inch ; and if lhat was imi ade Withi the hand, it would )aO incredible. But Lepsins report rd to thef British government, forty tears ago, that on the carved marble of (*artlage he found every spinning unchine that is known in Europe, t1)d the Jacquai d loom-all carved in nirble two thousand years ago. rou know the French chernists, who ave anl)I)zed the fringes of the uummy cloths, stato that the very sys. em of acids und mordants by which re make colors fixed, were known to he Egyptians two thousand years go. ANC ENT ANID MODnn iN elVtLIZATI)N. Well, I told you I should lead you o suspect we did not invent every hing. Why do I neod to stand hore tnd grope in the ashes to find it out I Ieeaute everything that Egypt knew vas hidden in the bosom of priests md kings. Knowledge was the se. ret of the upper classes ; it was the 'ight hand uf despotisi ; it was the captro of the aristouracy ; it was the mvis ofcaste. And when Catahses :ae down from Persia and thunderod cross Egyptf trcading out un.Jer the oofq of his horses royalty and priest ood, he trod out art. God fitly MunishedA the selfishniesis which let earning become the secret of the up. eor clisses, and the night of ignor nCe came t0Upon Egypt. The printing ress, thagreat discovery of modern ine, guarantoes us against it. I ay, dikcovery of modern times. but he only wonder is that the anc'ents 'aie.1o fleat'the printing pressand did tot clutch it. Wheni 3on go to Rome, ou will see a brick-maker's card in lelibly impressed upon a briek. Tho opo will show you, in the Vatican, lie stamp with whiceh it is done. It a the brickmnaker's advertisenent. .ayard found, at Ninevnh, bricks' our thoiand years old, -made in the ame way. Now, that b:i.kmaker's taml), though four thouanniI years id, is essentially a stereott pedi page lie same as you print a Bitble to day. t is onl13 one step from the brick. naker's stamp at Nine. hi down to tereotyping-one step. It took four r five thousan-i years to make hat step, but wheni it ma made, civi izat ion changed her character. Learn. ug no longer skulked in the dloister iir bid herself in the palace. flyo ame and joined hands with the peo >le, minist ering to their daily wants. Ve do not have aerology antg the tars ini the service of kigs ; we have stronomy gui-ding the sailor-boy up. mn the osean.- We do not haveehbom *try hiidden in~ fahorntorteg, tryi-ng to hange every substance irnto'golef ; re have Liebig, with his hands full f b~h saings, for every farmer. Welil, his tin, 6 oth century Is net what me know--they knew mo'e than we snowv ; it is the use we make of what te know. When Gibbon planned his 'istory of Rome, lie attered thli proud 'east. "the hand aan never go back n the diaf-yhite of Timeo. We have at h'e w have~ get trow--wo defy im.. ie twado that boast as bel 'at among th-e riri'ns- of Home, an'ij ooked out on' whnt wars once Cesar's mSlace. Uiouyld he h ave looked down on rhbes,-ocould behaveosevn liineveh - atioens that went up to their zenith nd down to their graves-fire in one tand and ir'on in the other, and could tot save art, ho would not have uter d that boast. But friends, it is neither (Ire flor ron, it in neither ehemiatry nor me hannies that saves civilirzation. it is very diff'oren.t element; It Is the hoetrine that we got from the New restament. it is the brotherhtood of ho race, for' which this- nation ago-v izes to-day ; it 1s the sublime' rule hat no man has a right to know any hing whicbhbe dobs not make eere dcnable to his follow-men. That is be nineteentheoentury. EA pplanso.)' ~nd that arone will make our art Itne norteil, if God means that it shall ast, The black caterpillars have appeat. ,d in immense number* In the6b0660m* iround Memiphil. A lilt of History. The passage of the Ku-Klux bill iembodying as its most prominent and most dangerous featnre the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus in such places and at such times as the Presi dent may choose to dictate, recalls a historical incident which, though fro. quently alluded to, luscs none of its signifleance by familiarity. We moin the prediction uttered by llenry Sherburne, a prominent mem ber of the British parliament, in 1783. This statesmen possessed sufficient foresight to see the inevitable result of the coercive measures employed by the English government against 'tho American colonies ; urged the with drawal of the military forces, and the prompt redressof these grievances of which the colonists complained. In short, Sherburne was in favor of peace rather tnan war, and throughout the bitter struggle of seven years, was a firm, consistent and judicious friend of those immortal rebels whose wisdorm and courage gave us at last a place among the nations of the earth. Some time in 1870 the continental Congress sent Col. Henry Laurens of South Carolina as diplomatic agent to Eu rope ; hoping through his efforts to secure alliance, or at least the good will, of Al'c Continental powers. On his voyage vut Laurens was captured by an Englifa ship of war, carried to London and confined in that grim old Tower which has been the scene of.so many great events, of so much heroic suffering, of so many political martyr doms. Here he remained until hos tilities closed, and being then releats ed, became for a brief period the guest of Mr. Sherburno, whose acquaintanoo he had formed during captivity. Of course the future prosyects of the young republic was tho subject of much of their conversation, aind one day while this theme was being dis. oussad by thn enthusiastic patriot and his calmer and more experienced friend, the latter remarked , "Colo nel, you have gainod your independ ence, and you know how much I have contributed to that result ; but after all I seriously doubt whether in the end it will be fortunate for you." Laurens looked at the speaker inquir ingly, and Sherburno proceeded to explain the difficulties which lay in the way of establishing a popular government, the innovations which would gradutally creep into the sys' tem, undermino its vital principles, and finally destroy the fabric alto. gether. "For instance," said he, $there is the great writ of habeas corpus, which has cost the peopie of Emgland so much blood and treasue to maintain. We know its rnonletlaw ble advantages, and the absolute ne cessity of guarding them with the ut most vigilance. &ut habeas eorpuP has cost you nothing ;. it is a pawrt of 3our birth-right, and never having had to fight for it, you will not and cannot prize it suffliciently, and as a natural consequence, on the fBrst ocea. sion of trouble or violent party strife you will lose it." Laurens endeavor ed to convince his companion that his views were erroneous, and that Ameri cans abovo Al other people, wonld never allow this corner stono of per sonal liberty to be tampered with on anf pretext. Sherbrne sma-led, but made no reply. Only a little more thtan three-quar ters of a ceino:y has gone since then, and thae predietiott Is falfnlled So the letter.- Lineoln and Stanton, under thme specious plcu of military n-coessi-, ty, destroyed the sanctity of the writ and so far as was possible, o'ad6 it conrtem ptable in the eyes of the peo ple, When the Domocracy protested against this fatal preced'nnt they were tt.frf tljat war justified the stop, and that when peace re.turned again, the venerable b ulwark of freedom. would regain its former prestige and retair it forev'er. Ilow stands then question to-day ? Congress has just conferred upon the United States tke power to saspend the writ of habera corpus whenever and wherever he phease, and this unlimilted absolaitely pespotie authorhty,ilodlged in his hands untif after a presidential election ecars in whieb helualreadyanotwmto be a can. d idate f Was there ever such seicidal folly, snob faoatical bl'indnoms, such cmminaf recklessnessw as thie i A nd how long may a people Who patiently tiub mit to such deliberate robbery of their deafest rights, expect to enjoy a sin gle vestige of that priceless liberty which their fathere won,-Afissouri Republican. Onitf' of dernmang, A movemtut has been set en foot in N~ew York to organife a Oetman, A merican N(ational A'ssociatlon. This idea has sprung from the unity with which the peace festivals have been worked, and shore is good reason to believe that the profeet will be follow ed up Ii other cities. The object of the association will be, aecording to a of reelar from~ the provision af' ow m Ittee "to unite nationally (3er man. A mnerioana for the mutual1 advantoe m ent of their intereutyP. SWhy la a grant of'real estate wove valid- t-ade on 0unday? ie3cause the better the day, the belier the dteed. Another Atlantie Cable to be Laid. The new Atlantic cable company recently organized under the name of the "Now York and London DirecS Telegraph Company," expects to lay its new cable, which is now in process of manufacture, early next fall. The American terminus of the cable will be somewhere on the Rhode Island coast, at a point which will allow of its being conneeted with land line* radiating to all parts of the United States, and the Old World terminus somewhere on the coast of South Wales, which is free from icebergs. Tho Right lion. the Earl of Pudloy, London, is chairman of the company, whose capital is .630,000 in 63,00 shares of A.l 0 each. They claim that, with a comparatively nmall capital up on which to pay dividends, they will be enabled to maintain a lower tariff of prices than has hitherto boon achiev ed. The Wheat Crop, The report of the Department of Agriculture, for the months of March anid April, says the condition of win ter grain is very gratiflying, the fall and winter being specially favorable to germination and vigorous growth. The spring has been unusually early advancing the grain about two weeks in advance of its regular status. Win, ter killing is exceptional, and in most of the States unknown. Very little wheat is grown in New England, and none in Rhode Island. The mid dIe States send very cheering reports., as also, Virginia and North Carolina, in the West, Ohio, Indiana, !(entueky, Missouri, arc generally favorable, while in Illinois every county has a good report. In the Northwest wheat is fine. On the Paoillo coast the re ports are more variable. West or South I We are glad to see that the New York Tribune sympathizes with the view mupon whikh we have long insist ed, as to the relative superiority of the Southern States over those of the far West as a point of emigration for Morthern settlers. It is at the pains to deny that it urges every ody to fly from the East to the West, from the cities to the country, and there engage in farining, S, far from urg ing all to migrate Westward we are told it has over and over again insist ed that lands are qufte as cheap and inviting, all things considered, in the South, and oven in the less densely populated portion of New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland, as they will average in the West. For organized colonization, the Snuth, it is thought, affords equal sope with the West. Corbonic Aeld Gas as a Fire Extinguish-, elf In the bill Wil'ch fia passed the New York Legh Itur- 'relative to the fire-alarm telegraph of the New York city, is a clause athorizing the fire commissioners to give- the Metropoli.. tan fire extinguishing comwpany ane thority to lay pipes under the streets, afleys, &-., of that oity, under the direotion of the comunrissioner of pub. lie works, the company prosposing to extinguish fires b the use of arbouin ucid gas. It is said to be the inte02 tion of the comnpnmy to' hay pipew simi lar to gas pipes throughout the city, thirty-six inches bolow the eurbstones with reservoirs for hold fng tIre gas one and a half iles apa'rt, D)cath of thefdest(!|dIfov. ohnm~ Saton, the oldest ed! residence in Cantone (Ohio, on Satur day last, aged 8f years. ife como. moncod the publicatioti of the Oantorn lRepository in 1814, and was connect. ed~ with iE from that time until his denth,. Mr. 8, cast bris frst Presiden. ti'al vote for lMr, Mfadsson, and subse. qtrently be was a constant supporter of' the peine?pfes of the Whig party durng ts ay, and then of' the Republican partf. fs was u man of temperate and frugal habits, th ta securing hrealth and long 1life, There is no record of ay man whor publisied a newspape'r consetatively sodlong as John Saxton, and few have' led such spotless lives. %u drit Simalkirg, We are teformed that on the~ nigh~ of thme 4th insty a party of diagnised men made a raid on the pfoatatioir of Ret'. .Pr. Jones, in Glenn Springe Towmnship,S8partanburg Oou*Sy, and M'urdered a respeeteable eolored many named Wallaee gowler. It appeae that a tiber. of disreputable ohatn aeters-colored and whife-restded near thse plae and us generally be lieved In the community that they asu' the murderere.- A senstatifonal story was started1 that eoals of Are -wor placed upon the breast of Walhadi and that othet ontrages- were commit.' ted Io theviolnlty but t~irisdee by gentlem fom that seitibe e( When~ I7A es danoelog toehuMi ~ t4 duty ar ~ jIeg* SW pat hough tO *0i wi eamis at fee' .