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Desportes & Williams, Proprift1% A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquirv, Industry and Literature. [Terms---$300 per Annum In Advance. VOL. VII.] WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNIN TH1E FAIRFIELD HERALD Is FUBI.StII) WEIKI.T BT DESPORTES A WILLIAMS, Terms.-Tne I1rnALD s published Weeks in the Town of Winnsbo'o, at 93.00 hn. uardably in advanrce. $W All transieat advertisements to be id in advanee. Obituary N'I'es and Tributes $1.00 per square. (Correspondence of the N Y. Tribune.J 1W ol kirs Vit'h Xlex 11. Stephens. CRAwFUNDVILLE, GA., June 4. This a straggling, shabby, dirty South. ern town,of perhaps 400 or 500 inhabi tants. TIhe streets are without aide walks, aid 'pedestrians take the choice between whikin'g ii the mud or in the dust of t'b roadwayb or among the rank wereds that lill the broad spaces between t'ho wheel-tracko and the fenoes. Tho dboayed frame houses were fkinte'd bo long ago that they now bbOw no traces of paint. This is 'the county town of the county '6f 'h'iihrrro-a name that has degenerated-, in the mouth., of 'the people, into Tolliver-and in The coiter of a weed-overgrown square in the town "there is a little ugly bi-ik Court Hou,e, bit no busine.s %eems to be transacted in it. Around the v'litare %tauds four or five stores, '&ith la'rge va'cant ipaces between, 'each .tob ha its'bomplenient of half 'dteti dirty, yellow-faced loafert., in dtt'erbut !paintaloonw, coatse cotton shiik, MaW broad-briimed slouched felt huts, lkh6 we're banging about the 'a ooro-' aed ec'ew'ing tobacen as vigo 'rously on If thu't were the chit-f busi nels of life'. The r.edo little tuvern has no outward iWA-oation of read i. bes to furnish, ente'rtainment, except % much whittbd beboh uyo the porch, and a wash-bolin and tow'el for pub ic use. There ib a churOeh or two, ut no publio be o, no n'ewspaper, ho telegraph ofee, Withd6gh the \vires run tb'Ogh the plate, n'd no particulAr sign of modbro civiliit'ion ixcept th'6 vah of a trevalling photo igrpher established amnuo th6 weeds 'o the square. On the outsirits or th6 vkagt, pcross the railway *tY6k, is -Aberty Hall (the realdonwe of Alex. -. Stephens, late Viee-Eresident Of 'the ioutern CInfederaby), Do nabdl not with any refeen'e to the n'Ansion 'f the hWpitable ol t-l6* in Goldsmitbs :onedy, but to indithtt the intei'st of itp, in the cause of human libdrty ' tor eveli j6*06 in th6 Boldth, ib the old days of SlaVy, men 'talktd Mith n thusiasm about liberty, threatinig bf oooree thA libefty of the white iace. Liberty 11.Al1 Is a plaln *hit farm house, with a large sloping lawn in froat, shaded by lotubt trees and humerous neagro houbes and othbi out: buildings at the bide and in the rear, all freshly painttd. A sptighti.y mulatto girl took iy iarl and rd. turned at boue t the poenI t' ebort md thbduh a narroW hall; past a littib p lainly-fuenished $irlor, thoiegh a ilarge room walled around from Bolf to tdlling with bouks, ai itito it robih at the balk t the hodse. Herb I founda little, witheted, wrialled dld mahs with wondeffull.Y btight briwn '000i, Whit hair a14d m framiii so ema ciated that it seemUd to be literally skin and bones. lie ut-e ii home&.un edit of butternut color; ang bhad an bId black felt hat upon his head. This person was Mr. dtephenn. He half tbse as I entered; and. otteiudld ai blind so gaunt and fieshlesa that it did not seema to lbe the hand of a liv ilig mats, and intdiediateig atftirward he sank back into hia easy ohallh At his right band stuod a roga d table, jiled up with ci edafuSedl heap of books; letters, newspapers, manu sbripts and writing mattfrialA. A pair of crotohes leaniid against thae wall oh the othbr sidedf his dhair; stid he rest ed his feet ott the riunde of ane ther chair, in which lay ,an ugly, fat, UIr in giled ddg, that the flieS wduld not al low t4 sleep. The~r6 werb two boe its the rodurt, a buread covered with bottlet of everly site and la7 b, bbn. taining medicines and liqud aen j g rate tn which a coal fird waloft *tts burning, although It was a *drtU June day. A single pidture; .feprd Aenting Faith ..tanding by thti tuj1a; hung above the manteig whidh rival bd the bureau in its array df bbttlel. Thore wer plte. of booke Hpona tlh floor, and articleS of telothing, tdre hoatterq4 about tite Ioden. Mr. Ste db. Sn. saId he wgB always glad to see tal tori and to talkc upon publ io af'airs, but that ho invariably. inaistod that oo'rrds jondents w'ho cal led upon hing shodd hot publish what he said, becaufte he had rno wh~h to be brought b6fote the pablio. This prohibition i after eadprevailed on him to modify so tar as to censent that I might mentidn *hatever be should say that had c hIeretofore been tiade pablic, and he told his wsphew, a young manr vill e amq is while weseto,talking, to giv4 me * copy ;of, a Atsgudta paller S (Cnsesamezaa & SswNTrNaL), which he laid sentained an authoratatie, etste ment of bI~views as far as he ,wiohed thoem to be known. Mr. Stephens desounoed the Re ;publoam 1leadera in the stronghdt terms s, guilty of "the most outkal geon perftdy" in proseoutfag the wat for she avowed purpose of renor ing the Southern States t6 their old places in the Union, and then, when they had triumphed, refusing to let them take those places, denying th,)m the rights of self-governnut atid rep resentation io Congress, puttiug the' under bayonet rule, and afterward re constructing them by uprooting till the foundations of thsoir society, dis. qualifying all men of in elligence and property from holding office or 90tirig, and placing their Governments in the hands of the ignorant and vicious. Hespoke of the Republicins as Jaco. bins without consciehe% or cows's tency, whose purpose was t6 esta b lish a centralize(d, dehpotic gov ernment, and to destroy the liberties of the people. All of the Reconstrue tion legislation of Congress he believ. ed to be uniconst itutional, fraudulent. and void. The X111th A maident he admitted to be valid, because it had been ratified by the rightful Govern ments of the Southern Sta'es-th. Governments de jure, and not th, Government, de fato afterward estab lished by bayonets. The XIVth ano XVLh A menidments he claiued werte 1O part of the Constitution, becaus their pretended rati~aention had beei effected by force and fraud. 'The were not results of the w; r, as i b Radioal leaders falsely claimed, bu were conceived after the war wa over, as a part of the scheme of een. tralization which those leaders hao concocted to keep thernselves in T1o0' er. lie did not hold the XVth Amendment to be invalid !Ne cause he opposed negro stif frage, but because of the usurpation and outrages upon the Contitution by which it was wrongfully adopted. lie did not believe the ballot would ever be taken from the negro if the XVth Amendment were declared void, and the control of the suffrage placed where it rightfully belonged, under the exclusive jurisdiction of the States. In such a case, if it should I'e proposed to deprive the negroes of the franchise, the white men would divide into two parties upon the question, and the one that opposed the measuAe, with 1he aid of the votes f th negroos, would carry the day. 6t tt fact that universal eiffrage Was to firmly established did not, lie haid, lessen the. doty of all lovers of K q-titutional liberty to oppose the XVth A mend ment. This usurp ttion should neVe6 b pqrmitted to pass without proper rebuke and condem na. ti->n even by those who favor the oh juit aimed at by it. The de jue governmenA oVthe Southern States h'6 said, a'e b ill in! a condition of ie~reidq, and he delarXd that the hator) of no bointry shows grosser or more palpable userpationt of powter, 'or wu'de glaring aep 'df Mooig, Vio-! lence-, fraud ald hurfidy, on the part of taon in aut ority; than were cow - mitted by ta Republicai p arty in 3t pabanoe of the so-alle, annd mepts and t e recdoaruction laivs. Mr- 8tbphesli tad ed for tMore than 1A b'dui ip this W anuef, rehearsing 11il th old argumients. with which Duiobratio orators and ne spapers have made eoble tob raililiar for the a'st low years. Iii answer to an inquiry as to what he thought of the new depaFtUre Ut the Nlorhern 13e mocraby; he reild 1II a odpy . f a lotigjutter Fheeutly od ut to a frietid in Pepnsy ifatia, who had aisked Ils opinion of t ye jliltfu-m lately adopted b hUclIventi'dh In thait State. The letter espressed very poitif6 oplinionms; antl these he ehlutrg ed upon in. conversation, blt he es pecially tiovired ie to make no mehitibn pfh iviewst tipoH tig~ suhjebt aS hti wila~Ild tlat tey~ shoulddn'dt bo oade publIc, and had cautiondd his i ennsylvapia friend fdt~ to lbt his letter get into print. Ito eipressed the belief that tihe movement toward eentraliidting powlir in the General Govehement; which he Baid I'dh going~ on wit iI cUnstantly aecelerated rapidi ty; tnould end in deoryoitig kil the po ter ftid indepehtienb of theesates and bett (46t liblrtles of the. tbople. TIhis, he edid; Was the deliberate pur pose of the ltdpubioan leaders, and he looked fur f- g1ydedy dOCOmpjiih mehlt. Ooe tfeteil art hr ano'hibr *tluld bd found to invade the liber tibs of time people Haud deprive them oftthe right of sadI.guf~rndlentit. 'I u rais not Jiv8 to des it,"' l96 said; "briit sfdu ao yunmg, and will yea witness tlld ddenfalhl of I-'pualbian Gdsein fent ill this dioutltry andl the eatabi isbhmefit yfi c dttralized despotlsnm.1' Unlike M r. Tuonibs, M r. Step ho'ia does not believe that anot her *at is possibillo between the Nortti and the 8duith, and hie thinke a remedy for~ the evils of which he compiainis datt be feif ttl ^l Unly .through peaceful means; fe edid kej believed the lemooratic partf coould f6t adve h conta y If it woulid kliakg aft ednest and solem t apbieal to the pdople at thie next Presidential election, warft fog them of the tfld6 to destroy theff librie.- If this derd done; he was Contdent that thefe *#I ,yet hotfesty and iende euough stmog tile *eople to Cause th~m to fise ped ~hurl theJaoko bne fro pywir,' as If 4e*sressed Ila the oarse of th# contverstlor a ifegro man came int pregonted' Mr. Steyhens with a basket of apples, and dahda hia advtoe abont seling his peas at the present market pree After he had gone M Ir. Steplieis a it that all his fortier sLives still live, on his 'ilace, ali'd w'rked the laim. 4bn sh.1kr'es. lie founal it more prolita. b1e than i-lAve labor. The negrov. dividted the crops the nisIlves am1i brought hiim his sharo. lie depei d ed entirely unti their honesty, aio did noA belie've they deceived him. The negroeb were Yi6t as well off fo, comforts a16 In the days of slavery he said ; they ncrc not. as well cloth d, fed, or housed, 1.ut he presume.e they preferred f'VedoM to slavery with more comforts. In one of the bi ie intervals in his political talk, Mr. Stephens spoke of the civilization if Georgia before the war its the higheit in the world. Pauperism, he said, was alimiost unknown, tind in all his practice at the bar be had only knowo 0ne cabe oT' deliberate murder ; but he 1 dhit'ted 'tht cuses of tillinj inl q1uarrhis Wdre requent. . Nearly all of our tivo hours' talk was on the politieui topics indiated above-I shvlhl(I say, rather, 1is tlk, or most of th time M\r. Stepheis Seiemed nlearly oblivious of the pre.. iiee6f bi aulitors. With hbii' eyes led Ipol 61i6 point o'n the Wall, he talaed sS Steadily aid 0 nmseeutively as if -cpating a well-learned orati-in, andl 10 seemued imcupitient of questi-mi. or Aly interruptions.. It as I.a if lhe vere rehearsiou Treni memory the *hapters of' his book, aInd felt bound to get tiirough wit h them all. Sittid*g in his; di.o ior de 11rMn , S rroi'.td ed ty a Colfusion of old )ooks, tijmnnsci ipts, bottle't, \ials Mid ancie nt turniture, alnd dieussing (1Ui eit'ls imany of which wer3 hong smieo set fled and ar-e nearly forgotte'z, lie see mie'! to be Via sJrt of I ineciroianleer tri) img to revive the spii it of' the dead past:. I Ie his been ain inivalid for tlie passt two Years, td i.; oblige!d to use erutebes it walking. ie never expects that his health will permit himii t6 ig Uid take any part in public lif'e. il npiie of his imfirmities, however, lie makes his iifluence widely felt by mmeanus of conversation with men who oome from all parts of the South to Re him. Scarcely a day passes that he does not receive visitors from a distunce. [in this way he keeps up his acq uma intarice with publio imen throughout the South, eand is still po tent iII controlling the action of the Democratic party in this Stato, anld, to some extent, in ill the Southern States. Probably no man in Georgia wields the iifl.ujnoa that. lie does with the class that still refuses to necept the situation. The people of the villige have a great reverenco f.r him, and seem to rely upon him for advice and asistance. His eharit.y and kinudness of heart are proverbial in all the country round, and he is beloved alike by white men and lie. groes. who, when in trouble come long distances to get lis couasul. The lorshalshilp. The Washington Patriot, of Mon. day gives the following version of affutirs of the Mashalship, at this p6cit. dily a week ago, Wallace, member of Congre-s from S.)uth Caroliia, who ad tsestifld "Hatisactorily" before ho utra ge Oomiltee,'' had his son aippoin ted U. S. Marnhal for Charles-a ten. lie rejoiced, like Berger and Settle; whien they served as swift winesses agaiust North Carolina, over the valud of ti111d ivitsl, and was dbubtleib bomifo-tiung hilijiself with'a ehais of' the prospective spoilis. But the otisted Marshal, Mr. Louis E. .tohnison, s'oi of lion: Reverdy Johin son, did niot taik th'e disimii~al gnieot ly. lie p rosented filmiilf at Long Branidh,1t mblbdd itsi biaclng atihios phere, anid exf obed fihd wrong (of his removal with stufficiout energy to be resjored.. So be Is Id agatii; arntl Waiihe is out. But whether Walladb will uitiy out,is quite aniotlier affair: We ex poet t' sce a delog-itiian whisking tidonli~ hbre by the nedt train to thdi seaside Exeeiriv~ nma,msion; b'.rimiful or idbiaut "Idyalty,"' amnd demand ing jttstie--the last, tit~si they tihoul 1 see: -o, there in no telling~ '+ho ie of' will be Mari-sl ul tUfb..eton, until these r'ival roses shdill hard codiposed them1 griefs; the prospoot four whieb is fair fro'ii en.tiuhiging at tlistiime. W alhheoc- aind two of his soldred . col. lbagues demanded the head of John. A ,n, and thiey got it. Now colored CQongressmieni arcd in favor at the Paldae; and if they insit, upon a se. &m.nd dedampittation, anrd thireat 6n things terrible, we aire inclined to thmink "His Exeellenoy"~ wilt order an'other removal. And after that history may repeat itself. .A eotiespon-daalt of the 14. 0. Times tells the following siiguhlar story: "Not man'y months ago, as a gentleman was about to plunge into a foret stream for a pleasant bath, he sa# far do*A' on flie pebble bottom a torflb't elmulaerum of hinhoff-life. l6ss lfmamu swaying with the tide, a whit h drowned face, with'sataring eyces and b'1as lipi. .t *as but tI eeoond, and the vision faded, and with a cold shifer h&' t rned away. A fewt weeks *gp daqie.t.* 4 ews.ot his death; He fall from tfi'e dok, of- a f osseol one storiny night in oroslng the Atlan Froinshin'gtol. L. E. Jolson has been restored to the nmar-hal,hip of Soith Caroilila'. Two million five hundred thousan! -ullrra il gold reach ed tho treu utiry afely from San Vlanuibco. Thme weigh~t was "s'x tonls. Generil S S. Fry has beent 'li't ed supierv1.)r of it'terzaal r'ev'enute for KnotticY. It is positively known that Jules Ferry coil.es here as Freich Minister. Govi otr Litndsay, of Ath'bam-t, gi. eii-luded his testimoy before the kia. Klix illvisstlgiting coimittee to-daly, hat ving hi'el miiljeted to a searolbtig extillilaItoll of seveni Or eiglat lotttas, it! relation to the condition of nift.irs in hie State. The details of his evi denlce has n ot been mnade public, but it is known that he gave an umqtali. tied detiial to rports of political out ritges tand orgatni(!d rzistanc to tle law 'In Alab ana, and 'oxpre-ed Iai belief, frTm till sources of informatioi avail able to him, that said 8tate has tot bceh to'quiet, orderly atiid peae fill in twe-ttv' years, n' at ie setnt. A bundAnt "teaans 'of ftee 'edtcation have beC p-oLided utiad are iUtpar tially acces.sibile for tall 'cladesi bothI white aid color'd , anad ill tto part of the S tate is any otto in danger of mo. let.ation or violence, otn account, of his pohlial setitielt Ot. 1(j the matter of Smith, the colored Ctiet, the folloAing order has been proiig ti.ed , 1I conformity with thae sixty-nittfh section of the rules and artielis f war, tite proceedings of the genet al Court-ntartial in the furegoitg c.a-e hi ive taiotn forwarde d to th Sec :11uy of V. a r fot tie act iou of the P '.3ent Of 111 United Suates. Th e proceed ing-, fintdings inid :4 itence are approvi; but itt vioW of tle oil ennt1,Btt/ees i'rro'tnadinig this Case, iad believing that the end of pubie ju.,tice will be better subserved, and(] tha poliey of the Goverti aathti, of which the prelen'cae of this cadit ini the Military Acadnm" is a sigtniaa ill-.s tration, wi:1 ite bec 'r tiuntained by at cottanmutaatiui of lie SC ten-i- thtan by its etfurcement, thte Prehdent is pleased to mitiglite it, by rubstitu ting for dismis t from serWU - of the Unit ed St ate.s, I-ed u'itton. "i'd a de mie t a tn dinag (ne yea r. i..tet. !nlihLb will joit tie ticceeding fourth eiitsa at ithe comt Cltetinement of the nlext academnic year. The sentence, as commuted, will be dtily excetqi. (Signed) W. V. BELKNA ', Secretary of War. Sartlogan First, Class "tilell." Writing from Siratoga, a corres pondent thus deseribes "The Tiger's Gilded Lair," or, in other Words, John Morrissey's magnificent gami. bling place lorri-ssey has sold ona-lia-lf his in terest to Reed & Spencer, New York city men, for $100,000. A new ad ditiotn to the palace is represented as truly gorgoius. It is fifty by seven ty-live feet, and one story high, mak. ing it the largest room of' the kind in the world. It is lighted by innense .sky lights, and side lights as we'l, tle windows reuebing from tle ceiling to the floor, twenty -two feet. All the wood work in this grand Enloon is of solid black walnut, beautifutly (and sugestively) earsed in tiger's heads antd all kitnds of fancy ortnamenitation. VTe fifty yards of cat pet covering theo roam is a Frenchi t.moquaette, costing $6 per yayrd. Thec furntiture is cora i-espotndingly gorgeous; alt, of walniit, richtly inlaid witht gilt, atnd uphol stered ina moquette of critmson nd gold. Tigers' heads, wyitht mouths wide opeta, disphatyitag rows of golden teeth, ate ealrvied itn the backs of the ohaits anda~ sofais, atnd the gam titng tables ate ortnmen ted itt a similar way. These laitter 'ire of rosewoodi, moa-t beautifully carved and gilded. A solid silver roulette whoocls ilil b6 plauend in the roomu with other- gamiing tamplemetnts. Massive brontzes aitd othecr expenasive or'n.tnents are scdt tired attotttd the satlootn ini the g reuit. est pr~fiision, atnd thte whtole ab tpoar antce of the sipartiment is uranad int the extreme. T iis is the den proper 6f tflib tig'r. L the'r pairts of the build itng tire arranged with equal disregard to expenase. Progress in the ~elence of Gorr.rniment int .. Pennsylvaniia, Theo Logialt aure of Pennslyvania has ptassed an Acet extendinig the sys tem 'dof inlating voting to all the towna 60ounoil. or n.Unicipaal elections thtrontghout theo State. Peninsylvatnia latas that a oved ona. Ina 1872, aiceord inig to the ntew Cotnstituttion of IliinolisI the systemi of votinag is to be applie I to the oleotiotn of meambers of the loiw or house. Bit in Pettnsyvait thte systemn applies forthwith .to all tho "boroughs~" ina that State. As onr ru'aderd are awnafe, the ouinuaiative atystemnof votinag was~ fir4 tried jglarch 4, i1ii, undler a speoiarl Act at Bioomrabdurg, ex-Senhator Bueokalew's htorre; It worked so well there that. it htas Yeen oxtended throughout the Stato; Mild6wfis readily remoqd' by ,rub hing or scra'ing a litire corat'on ge). low Reap 0n the' grtfo l6; skd" the p. a ltte salt and atAroe o'n tilaLf oh all welt oa t6' the 'rtible; pub in the annahtn. I oill oli the Florida Reef. Dr. J. 11. Ilolden', iq an aticle ifn llarpets' Mlagti'Fh'c for July sas : It i- a puzz'e to many how and wlerv the red coral is obtailed. As there is in thec., waters i vaticty of tie bale it vitir bstIn'oe,, \ve1na s Q' Iy Iits nature. Uiiaiy places almong the reef we obse'rve through the glais 'av'ing bushes and feathery, plume oike forms, ranging in color from a light brown to black. Under the genieril term gorgonia these and the beautIful !wa fans are known. They grow, like the coral, from any frag ment onl the bottoin, and are in mo any respt c s the s.ame. P'rom the moin e germ, or soft polyp, barely visible to the uina:sisted eye, is becreted at its hfae at pieulia'r su b't aI Ic,6. hh'ving I h1o saieo constituents as the horn and hoofs of animals. ''he pol p, now Istabli.hed, tithrows ont nother and oit'6r 'c6,ahi ng o' lITne tAiilar t', \that of th'i ha'id corals inow a bud is pit forth and others, and the stalk b'rade\'es lilte a sh'rub, b 1i'f 'n * e rous polyps iI poes along Its eur face. n1 S'pCCiCP, folind Auitdantlv o'i tie reef, has a jet-black horny base or heart , and this is a variety of the coral unetl inl jewelry, the only diiffer. once being in color. 'hC 'r.ed is found in the Mediterianean Sea. 'he Choice coral of jewelers is, then the skeleton portioi of a Hying form. \Vhile altvO an d growing the ;urfa'be is enveloped in a crust of lime, out of which, through inany minute pores, tht po)l ps spicad their star-like moutlhq. This black coral is equlily ifle in jts tcxtuire, andl has the saume waxy gi -i that charneterizes the id It would prove a pleasing material for the sme uses. Some of the older goigonilas; b1arirg large, h eavy top, have fiomo time to tiie throwVn out a1 new depo- it of the root, so as to make a sure hold against the hlavy sea. These, when found dry. pn the beacbes, so clobe4l r'escInlle the gual-lea rodta f a tr'de in color ind form thht nothing but ihe W3l known results of the chemieal analy sis ill conviuce one unaeduainted with them. Ic is prec imely the samje :io ahtital b6ri 6'r hof. Letler from Jeff. DiavIi. A special telegram from Chatta nooga, has been receivcd in the city of New York, which says: ". saw a pt ivate letter from Jefferson Davis to Colonel Styles, of Albany, Ga., in which lie complainis of th maunuer in which his specbches at Atlanta and Augusta have been misconstrued by the northern press. lie says he never wished, directly or indirectly, to c tinsel the southern pcojIle not to tolerate Elt Bi'ition: Ile lhinks they ought to wait jlatiehi.ly dintil the returning good seh- o' V lie north ern people brini ah-.ut a revefihl ,f the more OhnlOxious fehl'i*es ill IN e ree ogrbohial egislnt ion. lie disavow no at s[dngly, anything like a revival of Armi rhjaishiinee. There was oto titrt of his Atlanta i speech whifih was not reported. lle. fore saying bh did not accept the eitdatidil, I P iked Hiiy nd'rthir i r that might be present t6 take particn lar n.otico of his words, anmd he then said lie did hiot desire to be . under stood as adiing any thiing like dis loyalty to the Government." Sondtl Carolina Air Llne. Fbe Spartianriitrg Spatrtati, si i -a re infoirmed3( thait. the Pecnns~yl.. vania Rtailway Corropaniy have bought out the intoreit of,.P. P: Diekson, dn. der thi .coiitract, foi the codt'tutin df thto I~d beohtwrdn Chiriotte, N. C,., and Gainsville, Ga. 'hen this fact became known in t4ow YorIs, the oom ppysondl idvaneed to 87j.. The PennsylIvaniid.Cemtrtr in the rib'ost opmgany iu tdie United States, and the contH gt for om)itruieting the air lide road being assuiil by ?hemn, im.akes its early completion beyond all doubt. There will be no laok of tioney. If Piesidont B3uford's 6*peo. tatiotns ar-e rehlidad, that the road wrill ho compileted to Spartanhurg anid the Li ia running betweeni this anid Char. lotte by the first day of Januaig; 1872, it will erceod tiie linetri hereto fore enitertined by the most .'angniino friends of the enterprise, and will afford a cause to our eittzetns of self.. gratulationi soarael& to, be, emhuk'le by any other event. We !earn' lhIed the first Enistallment pt the subsbrlp: tion bonidn of Sfantanb~rg County anid of the towii base. bean, sold at, seienty -five eekts on the dollar." The Blue Rld e Rairoadn~. . N ive rnor Root t' say# (fib' holuftrla Phidai; fias reinirlied io thm8 capital, and hi'ngs thot gratifyIng intellfgene that arrange went. bave been farfeet ed in New YorR for i shf~ rapidij eefid ~ 6f on . the Iiue Sidge well.kano'wn thro(ghbut the Booth as an ei~ty'od and' lioro "# railroad, ' ao-*ifl see t81i6 hab ortfof( of Lhe o'Etrtos fe oo' ijte at the ears and thif~f6'a edf.____ bah'lesd fearsof the ji of eath ban thej6au of Sf,. The Power of a ri'll ry. Th'e recent onillict bet seen th1eI French and Pru7+ians has beeni decid. t ed-like all inoden eonillets are now -more by the power of artillery tlan by mere hand-to-had engagetments. New inventions in the instrutmets of' warfarn have placed mero physical strength altoget her in the mino'rity. - it used to be the boast that the lritish 1 soldier was superior in the matter of' .4 "IPyuou'e tcharge to aiy other sold ier inl the world. Now, however', times are altered. Tho result of victory a depend, not oily onl the power of the Imlen individuaily, butt On the power of the artillery collectively. Y'et this leads us to an old reflection namely, whether the men of the pres. ent day are etua l or iiferior in t.,t ue to the warriors of ancient times. The e generally accepted belief is that the wen of the present day are (uit as e s'to't and stalwart. as they were ill the old historio ages long gone by. E at Lord Eglinltounl5 fimmi-as tuina.-i ment, nt :1 few of the kiighits hadI , somn difflculty in hlitinig armor large enough to wenr. Atd going even rarther onck, if we take the Egpvtitn v m yumy cases in the l.ritiih M.\-ueum, i few of thei i.onJ1 coitain ail auve rage sized Engliha. So niivht for antiqility. The Ianns und4 Greeks of old. were a sh )rter, lighter race than the Gauls, Irom whom the first Fprang, aid shtrank in time. 'I%o ventries sufoefentd it P1mp1 1i arc 1e quite as short at tho sinmillest. liench 0 liniesman, without the broal , well set look so often ob:,ervile in the latter M sturdy little race, we ventuire to think t thiat a brigriade of our liritishi '"G ukard"' .gould .have iade short work of1 eveni the piedet Imn Cu of a lieomian legion.-- b Uhce'a Week. The llorrilble Funiine in Prki n. A correspondent of tile Levant i IHerald, writing from Tblire(z, A pril 0 30, gives an ecounit of tie famin eI whic i goes to cohiim the) later tel graphio news of the extremitlies to which ,the leoplo have been reduced. Tho.writer' says The details whii'h 'each us here of the 'eitution and i serv which the u 'diought of lait your has caused ini the 6 entral rnd Southern provinces or I'ersia are fearfully hea, t..svikdin g. I That the people ire dyling of linger ev'ei iii Lh btreets of the capital is a minor phase of this terrible calamit y. lit Khorassan parents are sellitiI ti their children as slaves to the Ttr conians in order to keep them alivo, arid in Ispahan, as is sa id, mell havye been seized in the act of digging up P the corrses to serve as food for their 0 starving families. In Shiraz-Kerman and Yezd the wretched sufferers e1- e deav*or to suppoit life bn the gravss and roots which they may fid in t0he i.eighborhood, and, ap mh peeted, postilence follo*vn hard oci the footitepsa o famlino ; betiveen them, the half of the kingdom of Persia is a being rapidly depopulated. ti Ulysses find1 Virtorl. t Mrs. Woodhull is reported to . have ii said, speaking Iof woman's suiffrage ti '-Next year I shall he elebted Presi- rt dent of the United States, and they A will see the strength of this mlovement,. I As I said to the President last winter g when I gab in Wassington, 'Ullyss~os,' fi I said-t call him tflysses, as we areti very old friends ; we grew up together n ---Ulyssei; said, I '3ou ought to have o tiaken a stfoung position in favor of e fbnyale siliflrage; the saime as you h ave i in f:uor of nemgro hdratge ujde- the fi:teenth amnendment. TPhia I, ould a have made you strong.' 'I linow b had;' he rpplied, 'hut I yas so sit na.. ted that I couldn't. 'I'ho politician11, wouldn't let ine do as I pheasemi.' I ' Then,' said I, 'as you hadn't thio moral odurage to do what you knowv to be right, you will have to surren der this place two years hence to mne." The Con federale Flng Displayed Inl Wash~ Ington. In Washaington, 0on Saturday, Mr. C C. Gautior, doing btusiness on Penn-. s3 Ivania Avenue, biorrowed from at friend flags anud other art icle of dliS play with which to decorate his plaec r of business in honor of the P'ope's an- jv niversary. .By oversight, and untg rnown to the gentleman, ;mong t ho flTgs wan ottoie th'e old o'dnfeder'ato t tsije: The young ladies, daughters and relatives of M r. G., took thie task e in hand of decorating the house, and I wvith otbor flags flung to the hpreeze the I stars and bars. Of' course it was soon recognized, and cauuded s6mo excite mnenit. UJpon beedinuirig aware of the fact, that it *vas .a Conifederate flig, T Mr. Gantler had it at once removed. Road Sterdiers in Londod; The practicali application of steamn I to loomotion of common roads hav IiGg been satisfaolorfly d(oioatrtitod u in Edonburgh the Idea has taken root in Lo'ndon.- hie e 'ble announces that e qdrainway fpr roa'd steamers has just been cornpleted between Ne#gatl6 abd a Isligton, one of the northern Auburba I 44f Ibfdon, Modtiio that other'tra'in.I wh e-are to tie tna~e in farl'orisotber pa tS of th5 groat city. The systenw pVoise to grow in favor atid impor tanna Compirtssed Air ts it lotive io\'Acr. A Portland (le.) oorres")ede'nt )f Ie Boston Advert iser. siys ; T1110 experiiients which Mr. Rober pvar ias recently iado in this city tpon comp rsed ai'r asa i inot'I've )oW r, have made a very considerable en1.at ion among men of lill classes lei nies, manufacturers, capitalists' nd in ventors. It is evident that in ertain bratiies of manufacture 6 omplete revolutioii must 'follg' -p' 1n tie general introduction of this implo and conomiical substitute for team or wauer power. Whether on invs of very high pressure can bo cNeestfully worked by this new agont y is S ill a debateable question among ur Intelligeit ncelinics. Mr. Spear as invented a governor whi'ch, 81 asily controls tho pressure as the overnor ' of a steam engine. He laimis that air can be compressed in' lie reservoir to an extent doublo th6 ower (if the engiie that compresses; hereby saving a very lai'o por cent. i fuel- that the liipes can be exten ild to an almot, indceinito extent 1ud the obstaclo of friction, which pre'. ions x pIriients have found almost mlpo0-i bSleo to dteal with. is, by a sim.. le invention of Mr. Spear's entire' y overc ome. The nceossity of lon ines of slatting in large shops is hereby obviated, and each workmad veomiig, as it wore, his own engin , the wort: of keefing a largo on ine constantly iunning when perhapi ily a small part of the factory's ma ihinery is ill motion, is done away ith. Mr. Spear aillmns that the idal force at Tuly's bridge alone is allicient to furnish compressed air >r all Clio 1machiliery in tliii neigh . orhood, anl, that the water p'wer at ic lower falls of the Presumpsoot' ' applied to the same purposo, woull ive a suflicient po)wcr for a manufact. ring city of hundreds of thousand F inihabi d aLs. [1c South Curolilna Land and immigra. lion Associaition-Alt Important Enter prise. By referlnco lo t1eo aAvotising col. mns of this morning's Courier, i ill be perceived that in important aterprise has just ontorod upon its Iception in Charlisto. . Generals 1. C. Butler and M. W. dary, and *tr fellow towisman, John Chadwick; sq., have enitered into an nasocia 13n for tie purpose of facilitating Id promnoting imin igration into our tate. Tho importance of this enter. rise will at once bo pcrooived, and it ill be equally apparent that in oidor nomako it a succeUss, our people ironghoit the State will have to mid their cordial assistane to it. lie Association proposes to establish 1encica in the .prinicipl cities of uropc, and the North aid North ost, for the purpose of inducing ntnigrati:in, tind assistii!' such per mns wihio may desire to como to the tate, and becomo permaneti settlers pon tlI soil. The land proprietors iroughout the State, to whom par cular ly inmin gration is of the vastest; nportance, ean facilitate the associa* on by oH'ering their surplus landi >r salo on easy terms of credit. The ,Psociation proposes to negotiate the' urchiase of such lands for immi.. rants, and calls uipon its filends t' irnish it at once with the inf'orma-' on as to the amount of lantd they ay have to dispose df. TIho names I' the genitlemen who foi-m the Asso intion are a suflicient guarantee of as reliability, and we otnend thd titerprise to tbio support and euncour gemeont of our citizens, with our est wishes for its success.-Char. 'ourier. tilogy of Ict auid Jackson id Jirooklyn; Mr. A. A. Low is a, wealthy and in uiential citizen of Blrooklyn, agentlos inn whose chiar.,ctor is beyond red roac~ih, and who deservedly stands ighi in the estimatiori of tbd ?pommu ity. It was his drity ifs, presiden6' f an educationatl institution for ot.g girls to address the graduating lass at the close of the commecnce uent eiercises.' Mr. Low, premising mat he had latbly iiado a v'isit to 'trginia, where lie wams ayparsHtly, aceived with a degree of considera Shich naturally inspired grateful re aid, ebose the story of the lives of JoC and Stonewall Jackson with wvhich' o point a moral and adorn atalo. The ioral ~as that a religious life produc. dl such tmen as dieose. The speeh wadj a all intenti and purposes, an appo hioosi of rebellion. A n iiaiportant and' ilgnifl~iiti ans ouncemuent ie #.~hdt of th!e cordial pprobattio'nsf the. redent adfiord of hi Ohio 1)omob~ro~y espj~s~s~d bf hifJustico *Obas ~ Te Chiu uutico approfos the Oio De.aoorati a plat forh' most ficartily ekcopt la be flnanb'ilat featuteis. It in Obio( pon the daf of eldotlon, ho'wl ots for General Meoook, the Psqio. ratio notdnee. This Is an'encouraging sigo o( bsorptiob'by the Democracy, 'of irge segmuent of the, IR.jpulliaa ty kn->wn its "Cle.i'as fo4*"s, Plye hundred appllcatilens a week s about the sverage filed in the pat.' :nt office at Washington.