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*+ Desportes & Williams, Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquiry, Industry and Literature. Terms---$3 00 per Annun, In Advance. p-OL.. . 10] INNSBORO S. C., "WEDNEDA M- N' VOL. VII.] WINNSB3ORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUGST 16, 1871. [NO. 9 191 Ile FAIRFIELD HERALD is runt.isutni) wEi.y itY DPOIRTo rs & wVIILIA~mS, Termn.-rne lIIRA.0 is publishe1. Weeks ii the Tow or Wiinnsboro, at $3.00 in enreaMy in idvanct. MW All transient advertisements to be id in advance. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1.00 per square. ftovclnlolt A0g01Ilust haw yars. The Greenville Enterprise cont ains the following call for a public eiet ing to take into consideration the heavy costs under the code of pro cedure, and the propriety of establish ing some system outside of the courts for the adjustments of claims and d is. putos. The call is signed by sixty citizens of that county, In their ignorance, they charge all the fault upon the lawyers, while, if they had examined the code %hich they de. nounce, they would have seen that no costs under it are taxed up for attor neys in civil cases. Section 329 of the code enacts that "all statutes es tablishing or regulating the costs or fees of attorneys, solicitors and coun sol in civil actions are repealed, and hereafter the measure of such con pensation shall.bo left to the agree mont, express or implied, of the par ties:' GREENvIL.E CoUNrY, July 15, 1871. Whereas we, the unJersigned, citi Sens of Greenville County, appreciat ing the rp :ressed and impoveri.hed condition of our State, arising from exparte and unjust-legislation, not the least of which is the cluss legil it ion, establis.hinig what is called the "new code of procedure at law," and the outrageous, extortionate and intolera ble fees of costs allowed lawyers and court oflicors under and by this act, the whole thing being engrafted upon our statute books by a man--the off. spring of reconstruction iniquity and one of the greatest monstrosities of "earpet-baggers," yet spawned upon our State. That while we are fully cognizant of the fact that there has been a great deal of dishone.ty and extravagant waste of the publictreas ury on the part of many of our ofi cials, and that the taxes are burden some and hard to be borne, yet we are cahdidly of the opinion that much of the discontent and denoraliration of society arises as much from the practical bearings of this odious code as anything elso, and we would fur ther submit that we do not regard it either patriotic or right, in aniy sense of the word, for attorneys to demuand or accept these exorbitant bills of cost, and cannot conceive how their consciences can be soothed and at case when it is so palpable and apparent to any and every one that their fees are so far disproportionate to services rendered. The courts have, upon broad and high grounds of equity, justice and expediency, and in view of the fact of the greater bulk of the property of the'Southern people being swept aw.ay, held, very wisely and patriotically, that old debts should not be paid in full ; but what relief is it to the masses to be relieved of portions of their indebtedness, when the costs of obtaining this relief is often twice, or oven more than three-fold, as much as tihe amiount of this reduction, and into whose pockets this goes, tihe re cord showeth. And we further sub mit that it is tihe interest and duty of the poople to take care of themselves, and keep out of the courts, and for the adjustment of claims and disputes to establish a hoard or boards of arbi tration, and to the end that a full ex pression of pablie opinion may be olioted, we request a public meeting of the citizens of the country be held on this subject on sale duty in Au gust, at the court house, to develop and mature some plan for the estab lishment of this board or boards. Look most to your spending. No matter whatocomes in, if'more gos out ou will always be poor. The art is not in making money, but in keeping it; little expenses, like nile in a barn, when they are many, make great waste. Hair by hair heads got bald ; straw by btraw, the thatch goes off the cottage ; and drop by drop the rain comes into the chamber, A barrel is soon empty, if the tap leaks but a drop a mninute. When yoti mean to save, begin with your mouth ; there are many thieves down the red lane. The ale jug is a great waste. In all other things keep within compass. Never stretch your legs farther thsn the blankets will reach, or yoti pill soone be cold. In clothe~s, choose sui table and lasting stuff, and not tawdry fineries. To be warm is the main thing; never mind the looks. A fool may make money, but it needs a wise man to spend It. Remember it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one going. If you give all to back and board, there is nothing left for the savings bank. Pare hard and work hard while you are young, and you have a ehance to rest when you are old. It is said that women now lecture on every subject but washing, darn. ing and the economy of the house bold ; all those things are sealed books to the'strvng minded. Horrors of it letrmage Passage There is one horior known only to those poor persons who are obliged to take steerage pasage in a blow ail ing vessel with a Nero for a captain. The Gerimia ship Europa, which si'iled from Bremen t n the 17th April with one hundred and twenty I amsengers, has just arrived at Netw York, having been detained three weeks in quarantine on account of the prevalence of the small-pex on board. According to the statemicnt of a portion of the passengers, the misery during that long voyage of two months must have been terrible indeed. Two of the passengers died, it is said, from starvation, and the rest barely lived the paesage out, The captain, August Pichler, has been arrested, and will be brought before a United States Commissioner, when the facts will be fully develop ed by witnesses. One of the passengers by the Euro pa was Mr. Frederick C. Ilerndorf, a% respectable citizen of New York. This gentleman, having injured his health by constant devotion to his du ty as a book-keeper in a stationer'is store, resolved upon a visit to his parents in Germany, and was advised by his physician to go and come on a sailing vessel, as the long voyage would be beneficial to him. Mr. IHetrndorf describes the scene on the Europa during the return passage as sicken ing in the extreme. le alleges in an afidavit that the passengers were suf fering nearly all the time for want of sufficient food, and swears positive ly that the two passengers that died -one an old man and the other a young girl-died from actual starva tion. The girl, it is said, was sick two or three weeks and when she (lied was almost a perfect skeleton. The small-pox also broke out in the lower cabin, causing great consternation. Only three cases occurred, however, and none of them w-re fatal. ''here was no physician on board, and dur ing all this sickness and tribulation the captain paid but little, if any at. tention to those below the cabin deck. Mr. Ilerndorf, though almost entirely ignorant of medicine, was obliged to care for the sick as beat he could. He fared the same as all the rest as to food, except that all the salt pork he got he gave way, being unable to eat it. Said he : "I one day took the little piece of meat given me for my dinner, stuck it on the end of my knife, and went up and held it in the captains face, asking him if he thought that was atilicient for a man's dinner. Besides my meat, which I could almost put in my hollow tooth, I had bean soup.' It was little bet. ter than clear water, at least I could count the scattered beans on the bot tom of the basin. Ri ch one also had a cracker, which was so hard that it had to be soaked in water before it could be eaten." But the pangs of starvation and disease were nothing compared with the loathsome horror of seeing the passengers crowded together like swine. They were huddled together, men, women and children and were obliged to remain so throughout the voyage. When the ship had been out for a week the women were all so reduced in health and strength that* they were barely able to move, Mr. Hlerndorf says that even before leav ing on the passage they wore treated like so many cattle. They0 were put on a dirty train by the agent, to be' taken to the port, and none of themu knew until they went aboard what ship they were going to sail in. War alaterial for Cuba. The New. York Bun professes to have authertic information of the safe arrival in the hands of the Cu bans of another lsrge quanty of arms and amunlton. The Sun says that t' e vessel which conveyed this much. needed assistance to the Cubans, left a neighboring port on the lath and was safely delivered in Cuba 'on the 29th ultimo, The cargo consisted of 1,000 Springfield and Remingtonrifles 150,000 metallie cartridges, two tons of powder, half ton of sulphur, '700,. 000 percussIon caps, 200 hand grena des, 200 machetes and -two twelve. pounder fields-pIeces. Dead Before Battle. The 8pringleld Republican, the leading Radical organ in New Eng land, echoes the words of Wendell Philips, that "the Radical party is dead." Listen to it: "The Republican party is marching to a Big Bethel defeat, Too- many Buttlers too many Simon (Iamerons, too many Mortons and Chandlers, too much stealing and land grabbling have killed it ; it is dead before it goes Into battle." Who wold have believed, a few years ago, that the commander of the faithful would be a defender 'of' tbd faith as received at Rome '1 Yet t'he Saltan of Turkey has aettally. sup' pressed a Constantinople newspape for daring to speak unkindly of thei Pope. That the successor of Amurath Solonian and Mustapha should attin6 up for the dignity of the head of :the Roman C huch is certainly one of the marvels of the na. The Pca Crop. lor some years I have practiced sowing a patch of peIas--uually front two to four ticres-as food for pigs in the ealh There is no better food for fattering hogs than peas, and it one has a m1111111 crop evcu he can pet, up pigs early in the Fall, and get theim half lat before corn is fit, to feed. Besides, peas .niake firmer potk than old corn. My plan i8 to sow the Canada pens. the seed is for sale is all maarktAs. The teri lCanada pea" is not the true tinnie of 'he variety, but indi. cates that it io grown in that country, where it is frec from the weevil, or pea ,ug, and hence is good seed. The variety is, I think, the black. eyed iuarrowfat. The stock gets so "buggy" after one seasoi) vhen grown this side of the lakes, that it Is near ly gorthless for teed though its value for feeding is not affected. I asually sow three bushels of peas and one bushel of oats per acre, broadoast, and'eover with a gang plow. The oats hold up the pea vines1 and make the gathering earier. When ripe, the pea Vines are "hooked" into heaps with scythem, and after dt-ying a lit tle, part of them stack and fed out without threshing and part drawn to the oarn for grinding with corn, Coru and pea m1a I makes, In my opinion, the very best food to fatten hogs with. Peas keep the ground very cleani, and leave it loose, and in good con dition to sow wheat after. I oneo let the pigs in and harvest an acre of peas which were sown in a young or chad. The hogs, not being rung rooted up the toil very thoroughly, which helped the trees, but it was a wasteful method of harvesting the crop, and not to be recommended, The most. profit is obtained when the pens are threshed and ground, Unless fed with the vines they should be soaked if not ground.-Cor. Rural flome. Corn In Hills and Drills. At the Michigan Agricultural Col lege, in 1868, two plots of land, sub. stautially equal in character of soill set apart, each measuring 48 rods in width. The ground was plowed on May 5th, and manure was spread evenly and worked in by cultivator and harrow. Yellow Dent corn was planted on may the 21st, in rows 4 feet apart, one in hills the other in drills. The plots were cultivated and hoed on June 15th, and again on July 7th, the plants being thinned so as to leave the sanue number of stalks on each plot, including an equal distri bution of plants throughout the sub division of the plots. As nearly as possible, each of the plots receiv ed the same amount of labor in culti vation. The stalks were out at the the bottom, on Sept. 17th, and stack ed in good order, and 3 weeks after. wards the corn was husked and weigh ed. The stalks were then again care fully stacked, and were hauled and weighed, in good condition, on Oct. 12th The drilled portion produced 74 1-0 bushels of shelled corn and 3 tons of btalks to the acre, against 651 bushels of shelled and 2-3 tons of stalks per acre produced by the por tion in hills. Trhe corn on the par' tion planted in hills was better in quality than on that planted in drills, UnsatIhf to??, STho visit of the Prince of Wales and the Marquis or Lorno to Ireland has turned out to be very unsatiefae tory. Our dispatches announce that althodgh the straats were lined with people, not a cheer was heard, or any other demonstration, e'ave a-few hiss es. The onlycobject pf no 0ooneet ed with the visit, slo hint that the Qeension .may bring amnesty to. all the Fenian~s. The condition of effaire -in Dublin at this time Is. presrlous, owing to the dispqsition qf the hO nian symepatlyisers to hold their meet' ings iin spito of .the prohibition, sad the whole police force anid miiliary are on duty. It Is also reported that several of these woundedl in the riot in the Phonix Park will die4'-Cel. Un ion. The Amazons. An English surgeon In the service of the Commune writes respecting its last hoursas follows, "Jost- as thd Nationaig were re treating, a battaitn ol' women came tip the street at a trotS, and, with cries of 'Viva Ia Canymnune,' begatn firing. They were armed with thze Snyder rifle, and fired admirably: Mianyv pretty looking girls were there, destined, no .doubt~, for far better things than killing men, They fought like devils, far better tahan the men, and I, bad the pain -of' seeing flfty-two slipt down even when ;they, bad beqn aarround~ed by She troop. and dAarmed. . sa sh'oo sixty men shot at the same place as the wo men, at the same tiene." -Work ott the 'LouIslauy lateeA ywill cbmitiened immedikt'ely.' A full forels bki. been organIf4 trstegthea-~ thetn in neoh aine' as to preVni a repetit ion of the Bonnet Carre beaa stronho. What Grant Whispered to bec, When Lee and Orant met at the house of MoLeau, near Appomattox Court-house, to arrange for the oa pitulation of the Army of Northern Virginia, an Icident occurred which hua remained unexplaited for ove six years. The terms of' the proposed surreinder were discussed freely and openly before the members of the two staffs, until, suddonly drawing his chair up to that of the confeder ate chie.ftn, Grant whispered a few earnest words into the ear of Lee. A haughty shake of the head from the ittter and a brief answer In under tone, evidently of a perempto rial negative order, was noticed by those in attendance. The import of that bit of mysterious by-.lay has just been furnished for the first time. in the August number of Old and New, Edward A. Pollard, the histo rian of the Confederaey reveals the secret. The whispered confab was nothing less than a ptoposition from Grant that Lee's soldiers should, then and there, subscribe to the oath of allegiance, in which event the Feder. al satrap guaranteed that they -hould be restored, on the spot, to all the rights, privileges, and immunities of Ame ijrn citisens. If a long and bitter subsequent ex perience of Orants audacity had not blunted the eouhtry's tenderness in the matter of buing snubbed, over ridden, and lashed, this a-tounding declitration might be expected to cre. ate a profound sensation. By what right a paid military servant of tht nation should arrange to himself the functions of Congress and 1icsident, perha pa the fuming Radloal newpa pers tlat ritisod suoh a howl of an guish over the famous negotiations between Generals Sherman and John ston, a few days later, will now rise and explain. Deterloration of 6ian1o. The editor of the Irish Parmers' Gazette talks as follows concerning this manure i "Tho predictions which we have so often published in this journal relative to the doteriora. tion soon or later, of the quality of the ollineas Island (Portivian) guano have been vetified, and somewhat sooner than we had anticipated About t*elve yearn ago tbis variety of guano was df remarahible uniform composition9 and When the relatiVe proportions of its constitttents did vary, it was generally the most valua ble of them that preponderated over the others, Thus the average amount of ammonia (or the substances equiva lent to that comnpound) was about 16 per cent, but the proportion more frequently rose to 18 per cent. than it sank 14 per cent. At this timej there can be no doubt that Peruvian guano desertedly stood at the head of all natural and artificial manures Lrom the year 185A, or thereabont., there has been a very slow, but still sensibble, diminution in the peroen tage of ammonia in Peruvian guano until quite recently, when almost sud denly the composition of the recent imports has undergone a serious change. Specimens are still to bje met with containing 16 per cent. of ammonia, but they are rhro, whilst on the other hand, in some samples, the amount of amm~onia has fallen to less than 10 per cent. Southern Cliitms Conmissloff. The Conmmissioners have sO auga ed the rule concerning the taking of testimony as to provide that in any case not ovdr $5.,000 in amount9 clai mants may apply to any of the spe cial etnniissioners appSointed in the Southern States to take the tedtinmo ny In their csse for the use of the Commissioners at Washington, and that application need no longer be made to the Commissioners then?. selves. The application tuust be a written one, and contain informa tioni beat' ekpressed in a form proepar ed by the Oommissionere, of whbioh apeeameh oopies till be ready for those aenderued In a few days. A woman went Into a store and ask. ed the proprietor If he had any blaek hen's eggs. "Don't know one kihd from the other," said he ; "buts there's a' basketful of eggs the re on the coun ter." "I can toll them,'' said the customer. "Well then, help your' self," said the deuler. She did so, paying- the ordindry price. What was the grader's ohargrin, upon the cutenier's departure, to find all of his large egga gone and nothiung but sinalh, unreable ones rerttaining, 'The oldest stoteo probabty in the Ulnited 8tates is the one vhaieba warm~s the espitol kt Rtichmnond, in Virginia, It was made in England, In 1170, and warmed the lIfnse of Burgesses for silty years, before It was remnoved to its preqefit lodation, where It has beau for thltti 'y'are. It has our ,iree thiree B3ritish pidnnrohs - has been contempdrane ts vilb fotr Un~g ly tigaarchs, two repuoc and . wo itseIlaygoersmnents lin Vusneom j grtAs ne.Iri - epaio haAYVeen toin by 'Inter**t strife, f~he breach neary lied1MI/snt still the old stoveI rema na the same unmoved in the midst of all. Good AdriMe. An article in the AMny niumber of ilbme and Health, on ',the health of womien," by Judia Columrn, has the following good advice 11, 1uro'to Petite early. 1)io Low is says that h hias fotiul this rule ab solutely indispen.ible in t-.is school for young ladies. Many a mnid aind matron has robbed herself ut early bloom and grown thin and worn for lack of an hour or two more sleep be fore nidniglit. Some talc this timo to read after the children and hiubatid have retired, saying it is '.all the time they eni get." Others think it neces sary to devote those hot.ri to their sewing. I know one dear good wo. man who always will insist on sitting up to finish any garment nearly done and dearly enough has she paid for this "in of finishing oft," as her fami. ly facetiously call it. But if time must be taken front slec for such purposes, It is better to take it In the morning. Such a change of hours should be made gradually, but when made it pays well. Nine o'clock is a good hour for all hard working women to go to bed, tit if you gtow Sleepy go earlier. Above all things we should not allow ourselves to nod or doze before retir ing . Of all forlorn moments in one's life, I know of none so utterly deso late as that which comen to the per. son Who Must "wake up and go to bed." Besides' an imperfect night's restoften follows such indulgence, and the subject rises alreidy weary before commencing the work of the day, A nap in the middle of the day if it be not too long, will be of de cided benetit to the tired wonman. The great difficulty is that it should not be taken soon after dinner, and before dinner we are apt to be busy. But whateVer We do, we must be reasona'.le, use common sense, and understand ourselves. An Incident of the Late War. It was in Salisbury that Stone man's troops, just after lee's surren der, were met by Bradley Johnston's men, who fought until they were overpowered at the Tull Oate, unar that place, They then matdo their entry Into Saulisbury four deep, their horses gaily caparisoned, and their arms shining brightly in the sun. A Lieutenaint Stokes, aid to Bradley Johnston, sat on his hofde--alone id watched thum away off as they Lenllic up Main street. Ileordered all the wnmen and children in doors. Then, when the head of the column got within speaking distance, he flourished his navy shooter and com manded "halt I'' The coluimn not knowing how large a force lie might have il reserve, "halted" at his or ders. When, taking a quick steady aim at the officer in front, '-bang" went his pistol I the officer full dead, mid Stokes was flying like lightning off lls mettled steed, hotly pursued, and a hurricane of bulla zooing after him. As he turned down by the Mansion House Ie wheeled in his saddle and toppled another Yank. lie escaped without a scratch, and we reckat ig now living in Frederiel:j Maryland. The officer he killed was a Captain Edlwards, one of General Stonemian's beet captain's. -IIiltJboro ilecorder. ~lnalrnal Love. (Une of the persons whlo tit the timm of the horrible disaster in New York last dundtty went in a boat to resce the persons in the water, found a wo wran supporting herself by a large piece of flooring, upon which she hiad conttived to place he t two children. She was quite selfossessed, ahd whe~n lie attempted to lift her into his boat, demanded that he should take the children first, He told her they were safe, and urged her to take hold of the aidd of the boat ; but she vehemently refused to do vo until bie had lifted tbe children into it. -f1rib It is stated in the Baltimore' Ga Lette that the Capt4 Talhfdrfo~ of Georgia or Alabama, who figured prominently recently as a Ku IKlux witness, was dismissed from several mercantile houses for dishioneaty, and was regarded to be so utterly voidl of' truthfulness that merchants of Baulti more of the highest f'espeetabaility, are ready to swear they would not believe him on his oath, amnd that he has boast ted of killing F'ederal prisoners in cnld bleod, uStat Madlian, G~eorgia, during 1hrtnan's mareh to the sea, 'hat he did commit the blood y an d barbarotts Ontrage has been cortobura ted by Sotherun joiurnlimts. Amtotig the many ad features rif the terrible fetry boat etplosion In 1New York, is that involted in the the almrost Ontire ettermaination of a9voral families of three of' more per.. eons who were passen gers on the boat at the time. In at l4 ssp t1'p oases the list of the dead arid injure dshov$ that father', mother and ohlldt-en were all eith~r killed outright, or were so wounded or soalded that reootery will be imposeblea Ai tudson milkmr/~r was overlista~ singing to his fellow'er.aftsmnen, "Yee fre'll gather at the rirer?" Eu Klux Outrage anid Negro mohs in thle 8o1th, Tho very virtuous radicals of the Congressional (Joimmittee who are protonding to investigato the alleged Ku Kl'ix outrages in the South, are ready it appears, to report a stupen. dous budget of horrorsia They are alrealy issuing solioflicial statements to that effect. True, they have not had much timo to invest ignto the matter ; but party and political no cessity urgos an early, thrilling re lort against thoso villanous, incura. ble white "accesh" of the South and in favor of the poor negroes. This is evident from the hasty action of the rcpublican party in Waslingtoi, which has already put in circulatiou a cftmpaign document, which is a di. jedt of the pretended facts brought to light by the Congressional Invest iga ting Committee, and has requested the republican newspapers to servo their pause by publishing the docu mont in full. We see, tYicn, what a farce, and at the same time, what a gross imposition upon the country, this radical Ku Klux report of the Congressional Committee is likely to be. But is it not playing with fire I is not such a one-sidCd in l1ai i matory report made for party purposes caleu lated to do much harm "i Will it not make the negroas, who are already in the ascendant in ioie parts of the South and who are committing most d iabol lea I acts, more presumptous and disorderly ? Who has not heard of the astrocities of a band of nogroes in Chatham county and adjoining counties, in North Carolina I And yesteriday we reported a fearful, bloody and drunken riot by a body of five thousand blocks at the Repubil can Convention in Goldsboro, in the same State. Of courru the horrors will scarcely be noticed by any radi cal Congressional committen, becnoso they are perpetrated by the "poor ine grocs"l-by tho allies and supporters of the rad ical part4'. It is the pro tended white Ku Klux that is mado the bugbear to alarm Northern votcre and to give the administration a chance to exercise a military despo. tism in the South. The radheal car, pet-hag and scalawag public men and among then was a Congressmnau. by the name of Thoinas-and Stan ley, the 'rosident of a railroad, seem to have been the abettors of the riotous acts at Gioldsboro. Well may we despair of pence in the 8)onti hi while the party in power makes mis. representations of the sta'n of things in the South f .r pl-i.1 i )1 j -ets, while it give;a l. .1 :- .y tm. 1)fathy to the negro0.i and1 udcavors to crush the nativo white people of that ooction.-NCw York Ilcrod. Andrew Johnston D)escription of Grant. To a Tribune reporter ex-President Johnson, a few duys ago, said : "Grant is wonting in integrity wanting in Intelligeo1co, and wanting in the will to promote the good of the country. Tho little fellow is selfish lnd avaricious beyond bounds. lls cupidity knows no limit. lie is no statesman and no soldier, lie never displayed any generalship. IN marched at.the hoad-no, not at the head, but in the rear-of an ininmense column of men that would haVe ac complished the same results if he had been ini the mnoon. GIrant was a mere unimportant incident, lie nuver showed a spark of genius. What inspiring remnark did he over make that ceecred hi is soldiets and( helped to vin a victory ?1 Whien did hoeor put himself in d anger, like Napoleon at the bridge of Lodi, to give courage to his troops 'I Ile never showed a single trait of general. ship. Hie had no symnpathiy with lis men ; ho never visited the hoitals or showed any foeling for the suffering wounded. Ho Was litterly remnorse leas. Hie was no loader. ,He had uo plans .and no strategy. I repeat, ttitt fot any good hem did in putting~ downi thie rebellion he might as well have lyodun the modn." An kiegant itn. As complitnantaty opiions of d Grant; are now in orde', and lest there be any mnistak e i regard to Geon. John A. Logan's ehtnste ideas of his availabilityr we-. trranseribe them from the Chicago I~optiblican "Our' Hold icr-Senator was asked a few days agdi, in his room at the Tret, mont, how ha thought (dranit would run, 'Run said Ife 'he'd run like' hi-I, with a tia kettle tied to .his tail.' " In the matter of' delicate appreela tion and eloqiuent expression, Gen. Jlohn A Logani is ovidently a iworthy representative of a, Republidan State in the United States Senate. Afra bhiayt appeared before the Rto corder to prosecute her husband for in. sult and abuse; "What hav'o you 'tocom. plain of ?'' inqjuirod the magistrate., i"My husbonid n~eglo~3og r, sir," was the answer of thIiat 'siteful lady, thrown out with a Aor~ 'of a jerk. "Indeed, how is th at-1" "He -leave nye athbome, and when I complain-of it, insjits; and abuses me/'. "Can y gissa me an * ipstaapo: of 16:1i lbe.s~ wont to theconok-fight on Sunday,.anil :woulnlet mie go :With him, and said if they fought hens he'd send for mnc . t0uid0tPA lCVCilge. Quito a melanoholy circumstance Ia just (cono to light In a respecta. ble famuilv down town, and which will probably result in the life of a young tand respoetable lady being sacrificed to jealousy and superstition. The facts so far as we are able to uiscortain them, are these : A young man named Cortier had formed an attach eintit for a young Creole lady, addros sed her. His advances were all roA coived, and it became bruited abroad that they were to ho married. It reach. oil the cats of a quadroon woman, who was very mluch attanoiod to the young man. She at once visited an old Voudou priestebs, from whomt she procured a powder, which, 'if given to the young lady, would make her lose her lover. Through the instrumentality of a servaut girl the powder was adminid. tored, and shortly afterwards the young lady booamo sick. Her health has rapidly given away over since, At first the physlcians cotld not do , termine the cause of the disease, and, in consequonce, were unable to apply the proper remedies. But of late the aspect of the case hits left no room for doubt that she has been suffering from a strong vegetable poison, which lis insidiously undermined her con, stitution. The terror of the servant girl when the fact of her being poisoned was iscei tained, first excitod suspi eion, anid closo giestioning soon de, voloped all the faots in thecasoe A eom petent and skillful defective was call. od in, and through his means all the pat ties interestud in the outrage have been discovered. A4 yet no legal steps have been ta' ken in the matter. It is hoped that the young lady's life can be saved, but it is certain that htor health will be permanently injured. It is eortainly one of most remarka ble cases we have heard of late. No doubt the circumstance will evident. ly undergo public scrutiny ; but for the present, for obvious reasons, the names of the parties most interested arolwit.hhold.-Neta Orlcans Picayund July 9th. Daily the evidence acetimulated that i ot otly ate the Japanese a peo. plo intelligent beyond all other nations of the East, but that a settled purposo prevalls in Japan to enter into the ranks of the civilied peoples. Should they continue in acquirin the arts and learning of etlightened nations as they havo done for the past few years, their accomplish. mion't of a high standard of education will be only a question of timo. Ono of tie principal means to secure this result adopted by the Japanese Governent, is to send many of its miost promising youth to this country and to l'itiropo to be educated, s. that on their return to their own land they miay become the teachers of their fel' low-courtrymen. Tho latest delega. tion of this kind is now in Now York having recently arrived under the charg e of 'rince Soiemnidzo Jugad, overland from San Francisco, direct from Japan. personage Is said to speak English fluently and to be perfoctly well a.cquaintad with Ameri can affairs and tile usages of civilized life. The entire party of yoyung mn wvith him-some of wyhom are destin' ed to cuter American colleges, while others will go to European institu tions (If learning-dress in the garb of civilization, and manifest a cease ices dosiro to familiarize themnselveu with the customs of ou~r people, tUn lilo China, which still clings to 11cr barbarous and exclusive traditions, slaying in cold blood those who would ChmristialnitO and inattruot het popula tion, Japan welcomes civilization, and send, forth missions to learn the ways of edlucatdd nations, and to give to her people that solid knowtledge in practical matters which, united to the native ingenuity .of the Jtapanese, will zmako 1har prosperous and powers * (o1drftl of Cold Il tlhe lends of Cows, Tho treatmont of simple catarrh is more amnatter of nursing than medi' cine. Thle animal should at once be conlfined 'to a good airy box and tile diet restricted to mnashes and soft food ; a gentle dathartid may be given epsomn salts, eights ounces powdered ginger, two drachrms. Mixed ais a quart of warni gruel and adminiistered as a drench. TPhe fever, often present, ;will be re lieved by dissolving a little nitre in in the water. This good nurs sing and attentionto the aonmal.'s wrants, will generally effect a dure. A Mainle girl, whose lover had lest, a limb replied to her companions' batmtor "I wouldn't hate a man with two legsg they'ro:so oommonP" Bismarok hadl tdokiss sixty hand' some, young ladies at a recent recep' tion, and did it without the *sistance of a clerk. The Ijondoft "Vaily td*s" ealth Now York thi thilderin iD4 the~ ~first [riah ciy in thb world. If thou hast never been a fool, O sren thou wllt never be a wise -man,