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Daesports e Willian rt A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquirv, industry and Literature, [Terms-$00 per Annum, In Advnce. VOL. ViI.] WINNSBORO, S. C. WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 13,1871. [NO.13 FAIRFIELD HERALD is run,.tlitV wj.Id 1t1' DESPORT~ I glIARIR, Terms.-Tnn IIRALIa 1.4 is ) hJl11.1 Weeks in the Town 6f Winasboro, at f3.00 in wareably in adoence. A&- All transient advotilements to be Kdin Advance. Obituary Notices and Tribu'eWd $1.00 per square. What XWild Do& 0,. if my love offended to, And we had words together, To show that I would minaster be I'd whip her with a feather I If then she, like a naughty girl, Would tyranny declare it, I'd give my love a cross of poarl, And always make her bear it I If still she tried to sulk and sigh, And threw awa'y nil posies, I'd eatch my darling on the sly, And smother her with roses. But should she clench her dimpled fists, Or contradict her betters, I'd manacle her tiny Wrists. With dainty golden fetters I And if the dared her lips to pout, Like many port young misses, Id wind my arm her waist about, And punish her with kisses! A Swing for Life. Our ves.el was the surveying brig Plover, which, day after day, in the reAlms of the Arotie,*with bows sheet ed in crystal, with icieles hanging p - dent fron the yards, with frozen sails and shrouds, went rippling on her course through vast fieldi of ice, and among stupendous borgs that towered above our very masts. Sublimity, brightness and gloom al ternated in this wild clinie. At times we saw the red Aurora Borealis fanning the cold sky, as if in mockery, with its lurid light i at times the ice danled with brilliancy; but often it seem covered with black shadows, while the, eternal thunder of the tides, washing the bases of frunen cliffs, boomed on our ears. But there was a little sunbeam in our midst, w.hich cheered.us more than words uau erpress. It was Claribel-the captain's daughter-a child of ten, gentle and lovely, while full of life and spirit. Captain Janes had taken his little one with him on the voyage, hoping thereby to strengthen and improve the ohild, who, although she had not yet shown any sign of ill-health, was light and frail, with her fair hair and blue eyes, AIie complexion of her sweet. mother, who had died of con-' sumption. The captain was a stearn quick tern pered man, but he almost. idelized his child. So did all thmjailors. Chirp ing like a bird, wrappe4, in her pret ty fur coat, she would run and skip about the docks, smiling kindly upon all. Sometimes hIe would notnt the icy' shrouds, and perched away.up on the topgallant yards, look down laughing, at her parents, as he anxiously book oned her back to the dock. She was a great olintber, and could run ulong the rails and go kp' the rigging almost as faist 'as a sailor. Meanwvhile her laughing voice wvould seem to ripple and tingle all over thme vessel, failling silvery 'music upion the ean of the listeners. Every morning our ljttle girl must come on deck anid:,feed the chickens, diovus, and-other fowl, of ,which there whichwrs wAmped lpy aipipe running through II.from the after-cabia., 'One day oslove, eager, to get the erutnk bs abaeld out, . rushed at her. haind with an'ionpetuouity which .scat the sharp bill int~o tho flesk . of the e "Plaay nothing to p~ p~ti, she 4hntI~exed, ,as alho,~gh tly plaspegl, thiq inujme~d hanld ;. fhewi be agy aqdm frasid,;will hrt th 2itl Papa,~ hiowever, overlienra and~l saw' whthad happened.: Thle puret wa passingaatjhe time. This was a young .fwiss of twenty, who had, once boon a poor chamois hunter, lbut wbip 'having a, ate for the navy, had entereda a'nval sohool, ndby .his suerl aiiis ial wosi hsis pressut position.' *Wiopad pmn af'ection ,for.MXove~s, and had tjien great paitis to proou're these is the vessel, at our last port, "but-but,-I thpught we wore not to kill theom.. "Whbati, pow~ if they hurt my child? Oby 9 rders gt onice, sir." .Tepurser turned giale. . s"o. ir F' ,he answered, firmly. "I could nevg obey such an order, MJy moethpa juste lefore . he died, made upp a present of a deve, which I have new at home. This sort of a bjrd bas, ever , been, sporeod (g mec "But it has kurt my child P' 'orIed -th captain, hmis eyps :fairly. blasing. "ome, air obey I.' . ,The epurser', who, was a fairair4d genle.looingyoung follow, shook his hand adly. sir I" he ahswered. The captain's rage was unbounded. I1 picked up a hand-spike, and rush. ed at the Switzor, who must the next. ihomdent have bveu kilocked to the deok, but for an interposition. This was Claribel, who was a great favo rite with the puiset'. "No I oh no I' cried the child cling ing to her parent's arm t "do not-do htA strikI him I The bird did not hurt ine much, papa. It was more my fault than the bird'b P' So wild, so eager, so excited was the little girl, ribw trembling all over that she at once had the effect of cool ing her parent's rage. He knew hur extreme sunsitiveness-knew that if he persisted in his purpose his child would be thrown into a delirium. The hand-spiko dropped from his hand. "Promise me you won't punish him at all P' pleaded Claribel, still exoited. "There, there, I promise 1" said Captain James, kissing her. le walked away, and she seamed now contented, smiling through her tears upon Harry Delfer, the yotng Swiss. The captain could not forbear giv ing him a parting shot. "You havn't the spunk of a chicken Mr. Dal fer,'' said he :"I don't know what you'd do if we were in much peril." Delfer's eyes flashed, but he eon trolle I hinclf, for little Claribel was tugging at his knee, whispering, "Never wind I" The wounded hand was well in a couple of days. Meanwhile Delfer's refusal to chop off the dove's head was by many of the sailors, looked upon as proof of his being decidedly "a chicken-hearted fellow." The vessel was then at anchor. One morning, about three days af ter the event recorded, a dove flew out of the bin, and was, 'oy the wind blowing freshly at the time, carried some yards from the ship. It alight. ed upon the edge of an iceberg, tow ering to the height of our top.gallaut yard, and from thence to the very buimit of the berg. With a quick cry, Claribel bounded to the rail, and, getting over into the~ main chains, she was, before any per. aon could pr-3vent her, upon the foun dation of the berg-a broad, circular jagged piece of ice, upon which the base of the froten pliunacle was fixed. The upper part of the loftly mass projected outward, like a huge rocky suelf, overhatiging .!lie fouundation. As it wa~supported by a rather nar row strip of ice, an-l as it had been heard to crack several times by those aboard the vessel, we all expected to see it give way at any moment. Judge therefore of our consterna tion when we saw Claribol, light as a fairy,orawling up the rugged side of the ice-cliff. It seemed to us that no man, unless it wan an experieiced climber, could mount that berg. His weight would, we believe, cause him to dlip at every step. Caribel, how ever owing to her lightness, went up the precipice almost as easily asif she wore going up-stairs. At this moment the vessel, caught by a puff of wind, swung round, so that, for soveral minutes, the little climber waus lost to our view. The captain and the rest called to her to comec hnck, -but the wind was blowing against msyo that we doubt ed if we were heard. At length there she stood upon that hugeoverhanging mass of ice project ing from the sumimitof the lofty berg. The dove had Bown; to is little lodge of ie on the very edge of the mass, and Claribol stood looking down at it. Not seeming to see or hear us, she suddenly stooped., and. actually slid to the ledge l The .stoutest heart abioar4 ship qusailed at the little one's peril, eas~ pegial y when a loud crack was aud denly eard, and the strip supporting the projecting ice-rook was seen to yawn with a wide orack ! TIhe captain turned pale. . Falling from .suoh a height, .Claribel would be dashed to pieces on the jag, ged ice, fifty feet below,. which, in sharp points, projected on all sides.! Still there she was laughing uneon scious of her peril, on the sleppory ledge, rceblbg ouit for the dove. The berg was now oscillating with the waves ; the cracking sound wvas board again. The captain sprung to the quarter. boat. -Half a dozen men, among them the young Swiss purser, llenry Del fer, sprung in. The boat : touched the lcy found a tion. All the ccupants at once. each? man eager to be then one to save the little girl- endeavored to .ascend the slippery precipice, and ,failed all but the young Switzer, once a chaumoishunter, who steadily mount. ed to-thme summiit of the berg. ,i Iebad snatched a coil of rope froin the boat, -aid thrown it ovor .hi. *ehoulder. "Stand by I" he exolaimed, to these below; but, even as he spoke, ~be glanced'quickly at th,, poil, ssld .fraw that go another ice-oliff shopp~ five, feeropposito the one umpont which A nother loud oracking was heard, the overhanging mass part~ly fell from it. wipport-not quite enough to dislodge the child--and wa., kept from going further only by a slender splinter of ice beneath, which must give way in a minuto. Delfer sprung forward, and,stooping over the da6gerous mass, he quickly secured the rope round the child's breast, just beneath the artupits. Now, then was the trying moment. He would not have time to haul the gitl up3 no as to lower her on the oth er side of the berg I he must do so on this aide I and tnttt do it quick enough to enable the men below to catch the little one, and retreat with her to the boat ore the nmass should fall. Now however, he made a most dig eauraging disoovery. Oin lowering the gir, h perceived that the rope was not long enough to reach further than half way down I ''lie icy mass was reeling-it was sliding-it would fall in ten aO onds! The captain groaned, the men trep bled and turned pale, noid of them weeping like children. "She must perish I" all cried, ei inultaneou.-ly, draWibg back, to eeape tle icy mass. "Help me, Father in heaven came the clarion voice of the 8itder. All looked up; to see hltn brace himself firmly, his blue eyes flalhing p hosphorescent light, his long, fair hair streaming. What was lie going to dot le could not leap ;iuto the sea, on account of the bergs there so closely packed as to insure his destruction. This was not his intention. lie braced himself, and awung Claribel to and fro twice, like a pen dulum. The third time, with one tremen dous effort of his-.neway arm, he sent the girl swinging far along to the sum mit of the opposite berg, so that she there landed safely upon her feet ! This performance was something like that of heaving the lead, and was most adroitly executed. Not a moment too soon. Crashing thunder, down went the huge mass of ice, the gallant young Switzer narrowly escaping by leap. ing to the berg to which he had sent Claribel, and which being, as men tioned, only five feet distant, was easily reached. Cheers went. up to the sky. Claribel was soon in the arms of her, father who, afterwprd grasping HIenry's hand, begged his pardon for having thrown an imputation upon his courage on that day when he refused to out off the head of the dove. There i4 a sequel. When Clarihel became a woman, she was united in wedlock to the no ble fellow who had saved her life. Steamnbont B0iltrs. Inspector General Joseph Belknap it is stated, is now continually receiv ing lettera from the principal ports of the country, calling his attention to the unsafe condition of the steam vessels engaged in the passenger traffic. The feeling of insecurity is so extensive that the people, it is remarked, seem to have turned out almost in mass as informers. %vean if only one half of the assertions contained in those let ters are true, the steam coft of the country mxust be in an exttremely peri. lous condition. A prominent citilen of New York writes that the boilers of hut few of the Sound and North River boats, and of the ferry boats, will bear inspection. Letters frotn Now Orleans and the principal towns along the Mississippi assert that the recent explosion of the boilers of the Ocean Wave, at Mobile, may be re peated any day. Inspector Blelknxap, it is repotted, will shortly issue a serieS of stringent instructions under the recent act of Congress, and local Inspectors will be directed- to subjeot the boilers of all boats in their res pective districts to the most careful scrutiny, and condemn them in all in. stances whxerethey appear to be in the least defective asworn from use. A Kentucky man who attempted to cross a high railroad bridge at Sh1ep ordaville, in thdt St ate, on the 24th nit., stumbled nnd fell between the ties, but fortunately managed to grasp a tie with his hands, and there hung dangling, with 100 feet of sheer fall beneath him. Ho was utterlyj unable to regain the top of the bridge, and he hung on with a death grasp until his cries brought assistance. Lifted from his perilous position, he was led off the brid ge, and hile sat down for a few minutes, apparently overcom~e by the danger through whllh he had pass. ed. Then ho got up, as he said, to go home, walked a few stops, and fell to the ground dead. P'hysilans wito carefully tixamiried the body Bay thma there was no bruise or wound sufficient to disable hiin, much less cause death, and are of the opinion that his death was caused bf fright. An aneedote is toldof 3 a .yoq mg ladyof .l arrisburg who .me recent y 9n a ridjing exegmrpigo. Theno: ,s commeseed kickiieg,.when plhe, g' thsp -mostoimple manner requaestoyl her com p anion to got out and hold the hor' leg, or he might Injure theve. About to Spring. The telegra, in our yoterday's paper showed that the tiger of the gov ernment was preparing to spring at Soith Carolina. That poot 8tate the object of the sympathy and coin miseratiou of every intelligent and considerate persot-a tioniument of nslsgoverittient and porsecution-is to be struck at to inspire the "wholesome alarm" spoken of by the Radicals throughout the south That is to fill the southern public mind with ddisnay atid restrain the southeru people from oppi sition to the war party now in pow er. Martial Ilw Is to be declared in certain districts. What do those who declared that the kuklux law gave no such power to the President say to that I Thu ohairman of the Committee to Investigate "Soothern Outrages" suggests to the President the propriety of this meusure. lie understands what is authorised b) the kuiklut law, and so does General Grant, not that he is a lawyer, but that he knows what powers he asked Congress to give bim, and that was one of them. Poor South Carolina I Ifer case cannot be made tnuoh worso. She would be glad to be retmanded .to the territorial condition ; and Congiaess has much right to romand her to this condition as it had to pass the kuklux law under which the President pro. posed now to act h 'le territorial governitient would be infinitely pref erable to the rule of barbarism. It is far mure nece..ary that that wretch ed State shouk, be put under Terri torial government than it was that the distriet of Oolumbia should be. The4tadleal party in Cougroes dim. covered that with the niugro power in that District there could he no peace nor rest without a change of govern ment, and they did not hesitate to make the chnng-e. -iut South Caro lina is not to receive the benefit of any considerate measure of It1dioal isni. 8he is reserved for pemtitlies and punishments - to be exposed daily in her humiliation and t, re ceive her allotted stripes-to show the power oi the victor and to strike ter ror through the land. Well, this relentless war party cannot rule always-nor, let us all devoutly trust, will it be permitted to rule the country more than for a brief period. For the sake of the country and humanity, its days should be soon ended.-Richnond 'ispatch. The Pestilence Fly In Canada. Following on the Colorado beetle, the next infliction to note in the order of insect life is the appearani.ce vf the "pestilence fly." The arrival of this insect, which is rarely or never secu in ordinary years, is believed to be the forerunner of potilence, and it is said that it was the last noticed in great numbers in this latitude previ ous to the breaking out of the cholera in 1854. The insect, specimens of which have been exhibted to us by a citizen who credits the supposition above cited, is little less in size than the common house fly. It is jet black on the back and wings, the latter being round and short, the bel ly and under bide of the wings are striped with yellow, while the legs are yellow, tipped blacek near ,the feet. it is certainly an odd lookin g innect, and one which we do not ge member having seen before, It Is found mingling with tihe common flicsa and as it is represen~tcl to be, quite common at pt'esent, those who are t3urioust to examine the new orner. will have little difficulty in capturing speimens. As regar(S time aggpposi tion, or otherwise theory, that the ap. pearance of this fly is an indicative of a pestilential season, we are not prepared to mx press an opinion. At mall events we mshall give way to no alarming apprehensIons unitil we have some assurance freom the flies them selves on the subject-Hlainilton (C Railsing 'the Bodies of Drowned Person. In the case of a rccent acoidentail drowning, in the hlack.ensack rIver, N. Jl., soveral persons made attempts to recover the body, but without succe.a A French Caunadian, named Buteine, then undertook the job, and is report& , ed to hatepjroceoded after thme follow. ing scientin linutner, Hanving sup plied himself with somno-glasA gallon jars and a quantity of unalaclied ime,'Nie went in a boat to whemre the man was seen to go down. One of the jars was illedi half full of lime, then filled up with water~ anid tightly corked. It was then- dropped into th4 water and soon after exploded at the bottom-of the river witha loud report. After the third-trial, each time in a differouit-place, the body arose to. the surface and was secured.. .-: From -retur~s uastos :to. tli At Auditor', ol110, says the IPh euix,.9t appears there is about. $21,940 defleit ln~bho.'2&beille ~Oammsy-Teaury, to belacoountodi for, u .l AKbddhad TpihlIQ py e.f fardts pg',$eed ph led'F jofore 15 'is liongty ; tst it before 'I "is Wnyy 'A cargo of sax~'uunred little mp keys, all intended' for ladies' pes were landed in Now York recent. A Bolt from a Olear Sky-The Mireti lous Escape of an Attie sleeper. Early last Friday morning, at Erie, 1s., a thunderbolt descended from an almost cloudloes sky, doing much damage. The Republican says: Ou the north side of Fifth street, near Sate, is a double brick house, the western half occupied by lion. Alfreid King. The families were startled by a report which seemed as if heaven and earth had com together. After the shoek was over, Mr. King, sleep ing below, arose fur the purpose of aseortaining what damage had been I sustained by is household, be ing ant- I Isod that the bult had fAllen upon I that building. As he glanced through the various I rooms upon the first floor, he found t them filled with soot and dust, but no ( appearance of demolition. He pans- I ed up to the next floor above and E found the same state of things. He then started for the attic,. in the southern portion of which his son Ken. nedy was sleeping, and as he looked in at door of the apartment he lsaw the light of the morning streaming t hrough the roof, and Kennely almost I buried in the debris. l had risen from the matrs of plastering and splinters of rafters and shingles, which had fallen over him, and was sitting upright in bed, trying to clear the dust from his eyei. The f mortar was almost an inch in thick, Fr ness, 0110 piece of which weighing ' about fifteen pountids, as well as a large amount of smialler particles and oplintered timber, fell upon himi, and he found himself almost buried be. neath it, and, what is fuly as singular as anything else Is that fire was nit t Coiiimnunicated to the mater ial, which I was almost as dry as powder, as not a ' drop of rain fell at the time. A New Party in MassachassettA, 4u * It is reported that in response to a call of a committee prevlously appoin. ad, a convention, composed of some 200 dlegates, met in New Era Hall last Friday evening, with clos. ed doors, and adopted a series of re solutions as a platform for the "American Union Reform Party." The first resolves gives the new party its name ; the second accepts the amendments to the Fcderal Constitu. tion ; the third decilares the per etui. ty of the American Union ; an1d the others declare for thu maintenance of the Dible iin our common schools ; for civil and religious liberty 1 against a union of Church ad 8tato and the use of public money for the support of sectarian schools or churches , in favor of general reform in National, State, and civil governmcnts, by a represen. tatiot' of all claPset of people ; opposi tion to all class legislation ; a full and impartial consideration of the great reforms of the day, etc., winding up with a declaratiou to nupport no man for office who will pot pledge himself to e..rry out the above principles at all hazards. The executive commit tee were instructed to make arrange. nents for the c:lling of a publiemeet ing at an early day, the iuvitation to be extended! to the liberal men of all parties. No nanmes are given, not even of the cowmitrte by whoum the convention was called. The Plancia. Observers of thme heavens report that the planet 8aturn is now a eon. spionous object in thme evening sky, t Using in the a-iuth at 9 o'clock at< night, and thee about half.way be-< tween the hmorizon and the zenith. j Hie is just above thme well-knmown bow of Sagitairlus. hlis rinlgs are now in a~ very favorable paositionm for obsierva tion, having the mtiImum inclination to'the eye ; but the interdsting phie nomenonrtequireR a telescope of at least-three inichus aperture to see it with advantage. The planot Mereu. ry is now nearly at his greatest cast ern elongation from the sun, and will be visible in the west on very cenar1 evetaings, about half an hour after sunset, for three or four days. Hie is easily seon with the naked eye wizen the horizon is clear, ned mnay ,be known by the peculiar brilliancy of1 bis lIght. Jupiter rises just before the sun. lie Is now visible as a tuorn ing star.-Balmore ,Sun. Sleep for Childtfat I Alaine votes the Radical ticket. Acorrespondent of a Now York jour. nal tells tis what the polcy of the pai'ty baa done for the nd ustrial In-n terests of that State. Hie says for in stence, that Itath ten yeate -ago had fifteen ship-yards in full operation, turning out forty good vessela a year. Then' it was obo of the most " prosier ous cities ini Maine. To-dsf it has but four shipgaerds, th^ population has diinlahed two thiousand, troffie is deand, and real estate has degreolat 0(1 fifty per cent. "Bath,"- says the Now Yprk Globe, "'iiggt glot,be dis pouraged-~--better daysa re 0oming." Posibly they' are omnitig, -but they Ml'over dhnmA untilldid~aHIst'gOes. The New York pipers toport the .da9yth of a wo~mas ,nthat olty fycnni hating her thum'b b en 1, another qman.' SuperitIon Nbeted, and tho poison, which affected her w1iolo sys tamrnnnMh not be stopped.' A Lying Scoundrel. Here Is a specimen of the damtiable lies published in the New York Trib tine, and furnished it by the thieving eagabonds in this State, who trav 31 about under the guise of drum. mers and agents, but who are hired 'pies and pimps for the Federal and tate goveruments : Thero are many counties in which irrests can be made only at the peril >f life by the United States Marshal ; ithers in which they would not dare Attempt to make any without a mili ary force to support them. In some daces, where small bodies of troops ro stationed, it has been found noces ary to take the same precaution that iosts liable to sudden attacks by an nomy always take. FLeports to this 'feoot have been abundantly verified oy sworn testimony before the Con ,reasional Investigating Committee, nd by the confidential reports made o the War Department by command og officers. It Is shown that not lone in Mississippi, but elsewhere in he South, are the Ku-Klux move nonts so dangerous that the War Do artment has 'recently been compoll. d, as a matter of rensonable prooau ion against possible insurrectionary iolenee, or, at least, resistance to the igorous enforcement of the Ku Klux at, to make such disposition of the aroes at its disposal as will make ossible a speedy concentration in any pecial locality.-Brandon (Misr.) ?epublican. The K. M. Mili ary School, Sii.e the close of the war, this ad .lrable institution has boon under lie exclusive control of Colonel A. 'oward, who hap steadily maintained ts reputation as one of the best chools in the country. We are ratified to learn that after the first f January next, lie will have asso iated with him, as co-principal, Col. ohn P. Thomas, of Columbia, who ill then mako Yorkville his homo ;ol. Thomas Is pusecssed of the largo xperieued necessary to the successful iannagenient of such an institution as he King's Mountain Military School, I le having been for a number of years lie Superintendent of the State Ar enal Academy at Columbia. We ongratulate Colonel Coward and the atrons of the school on the happy ombination. and our :at i.. r fly on the fac tthat Col. T ko.... is to ecorno a resident of our town. Yorkvile Enquitar. Opinien of Wilumes. The New York Court of Appeals as recently decided that witnesses in trial before a Court of Law must tate facts and cannot draw conelu.sion or give opinions. '.The case in which his decision was given, arose in anit etion on a policy of insurance to re over for a lo.s by fire. The plain iff who, under the New York statute, ras witness in his ease, gave his own 1pilion as to the quantity as well is the value of the goods destroyed. Pr, this evidence the Insurance Coni >any, which was defendant, excepted id carried the ease to the Court of pfpeals, where the decision of the ourt below was reversed, the evidence iold inadmissible, and a now trial irdered, The Court of A ppeals in lelivering its opinion state d that the natances in which the opinion of wit eosses can be adinitted, constitute eK options to the general rule, and that lies, exceptions are not to be extenid dor enlarged so as to include new ases except to prevent a failure of' ristico and when better evidonoe can lot be obtainied. An Outlnw illid. Washington Dollard, a negro out. aw, was killed a few nights since in 31arendon. Th'lere weu'e several war 'ants out against him, but ho had ucoessfully rebiated arrest-in one niatanoco choking the Trial Justice, irnd in another leveling a doublo-bor -el gun at the ofioer who tried to take iini and who, thereupon, backed out ind allowodhina .to esebpe, He is aid to have been Ku Kiuxed - y his >,wn color, the party surroundinig his uouse and being fired upon by him, t is rumored, with some dauriage to he assailants. lio then made a dashI or the woods and was fired upon and tilled. H~e was a brother of Jim 'teed, recently killed by Constaible Weeks, and he and his' brother were ,othi fromi Clarendon. They were run >ff from there and camne to this Couun, y where they continued their, course if crime until the country becamie too iot for them. Both are now dead. 9umter Watchman. Convenilions of Colored Mlef. The coo:oMd mon of the Onited states will bold two conventions of a iational eharaotorthis fall. -iThe first sa ealledj a Nationat Convention. anid nil meet in 8t Louis, on the *22d of septempber. The soond is c'alled a south~rn Convordi'on, altbough it Is .1 ought that nearly all the States v; ill be gepresented..it will meet in~ Colum-. bia, 8.P., on the 18th of October. l'his avowed purpose of spoh is eon (ulttion oni matters connected with Lthe'welfare of5 the colortd race. A couple were married .down in Maine last week, whose ages were aevonNT-oigbt and eightyv y. A Singular Tradition. St. tephen's Day, in the 1le of Man, is given over, among i great p:rt of the population, to a cruel custom, that of hunting wrens with sticks and stones I and, when they succeed in capturing one, it is tiod to the end of a long pole, and carried around the country. The oustom arises froin a superstition, data ing rar into the past, of a fairy so beautiful that all the youths on the Island wont to lolk at her, and then she would sing suoh wonderous songs that they followed where she chose to lead them, which was into the sea; fosr he was oruel and wicked, and led them, one after another, to their 0 -ath, until at length soarce a young i .an was left, and trouble was in a Manx home for the son or brother that was missing. At length there caine a knight, who, vowing von. geance, laid a deep plot for the do. struction of this wretched lady. He scised her by her long hair, but as he stood over her with his drawn sword, she suddenly changed Into a tiny wren, flying away from under his very fiigors, and so escaped with a mook. ing song of triumph; but by some power greater than their own, the wieked lady-fairy was compelled once in every year to re-appear in the Is land in her assumed "form I and this is on St. Stephen's .0ay, when the young men of the superstitious island "go for" her with a vivid memory of their ancient wrongs. Rew Orleans Sinking. Tio Picaynno of the 20th says I For soni thirty or forty days past the bat.ture In front of the Bazaar Market and lied Stores, has been gradually sink. ing until to-day, just below the Red Stores, it is seven feet below the ordi nary level and the settlement varies from three to seven feet. The length of battire, which has thus sunk is about seven hundred and fifty feet, and the width one hundred and twenty, aid there is no telling when it will stop. 'he city Surveyor has make borings, to investigate the strata, with a view to the construction of a work that will provent any further sinkage, but has not buen able to find any strata suffi. ciently firm to gnaranty the permanence of anlly work. At a depth of fifty feet nothing more Qta ble was found t han sand, with a very slight, mixture of clay, and just now the aurveyor Is in a qutandiary as to what is best, to be done. At intervals in the past the batture in this vicinity hus sunk in the same way, but not to such an extent, the greatest sinkage we believe, heretofore beine not exceeding five feet. Tlh present sink is not in the water, but inside of the wharves, etc., on the spaen over which the roads of tho Pont. chartrain and Chattanooga Railroad CompaniCe paq These companies have been compelled to fill up as the ground gave way, and will probably have to keep fllhing for some time tno comop. The Radical 1liiuipias In NeW York. It is confessed on all aides that the Radical, camp of New York city and State was never before in so thorough ly disorganized a condition ohi the eve of an important campaigni as at the present mometnt. The two delaga thos fronm the city are in the field, armed cap-a-pie, anid the leaders are trying to solve the probletn of rnoon,. ciliation. It is stated that the over tuires for peace fist came from Greo Iay himself, the principal terms being that eithter Greel ey or Fenton ton should be put on the Grant ticet for Vice P'resident. The other side then demanded the renomination of 0onklinug and the appointmieat' of Mor gan to a first class mission. Wheth - er the treaty will be concluded, and whether, if concluded, it will "work,'' is not known. Two Mari Rlousted Alivc by a Thulnderbolt. During the storm at Deckortown, N. J., on Tuesday night, the barn of Mr. John Sutton wvas struck by light ning and was burned to the ground. After the fire search was made among the ruins when the blackend bodien of t wo ment were dr agged out. -At first no one could intify them, but it was subserluently learned that two "tramtps" had taken lodging in the barn an hour before i6 was destroyed. T1hoir ramons are unknown. "The color of yolks of eggs" may or may niot be slightly affected by the kind of food eaton. But it Is oortains that the yolk or a new-laid egg Is always of a light lemon color, and that ago causes it to grow darker. A yolk of a deep orange color simply denotes ran old egg. The lghter the color of the yolk the fresher the egg. --Observer. 'rho Raleight Sentinel Is told that Mr. Parrot (Ireeoh, of Johnston coun.. ty, h as on his farm two pig., five weeks old which have only two feet each. They aosaid to be thriving finelysand will be on exhibition at the ntext 8Smto Fair. A rail wea coliionl oeenirr AL Boi ton, EnglandI, Tuesday night, uand six Persons were injured.