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THE FAIRFIELD HERALD, T41blisIhed HEvery Wednesday at WZRNSBoRo, S. C, BY ESPORTES & WILLIAMS. TERMS-IN AD VANCE. 'One Copy one year, - 300 Five " " - 1260 Ei-follow ingreenaponden from the a c.14. V iandighatn to his sister, xbs the m'ny bea'utiful rits im Mr allandighamn's private n"rtte, ~tW' "Y re'oent -deatih, si iao afqljowd ;by that of his wife, it now possese. a peculiar and -6'uifbl tterest,' aside from tho -tbchintUldi'nes a 8 in*'nly symrpa 0thf' hich it shows tofk -thd distrees of a bereaved sister: ' Niwiu D.., Aug. "8fl. The followigl6tti Was written by th4 late C. . Valia'pdI ham. to 'his v'tor Matgaret, on'tl'o. 'ca'ion of the jieat'h'dlhoie au *d Itwith some others, will aiii t',66 6iog. -raphy whOh is iow itfro -co'urso of preparationi. -P ItlIhs '"deaurred to' me,' however., th'dt'Its'publieation just now would be speeiafly comforting a'nd gratify. inr tomany of bis friends. If you think so ii is at youi service. Ito. spectflly yobtrsi' J- L. VArLrANDIon.r DAYTON, (0.) December 12, 1869 Mrs., M. E. Robertson, New Cis l0p)# Oh io-My Dear Sister I was absent in anuther country in the midst of a trial of an important case ient Mr. Gillatnan's dispatch came -anmounoing Mr., .Aobortson's death. , writo now to asamro you of my *eepcst sylpathy with you and yours in this great bereavement. I feel sure that, though sorrowing, it is not as on1e without hope. In a little yhjilu we shall all follow, and, I trust nad4 believe, be reunited with thi mn1any dear and loved -ones whom we uow mourn, but who have only pre e dd Au to thoso mansions in the skies whore, purified and perfected spirits, wo shall moot again and dwell tpgother forever, wher f the eyo theds ito tbar, the bosoim heaves ne sigh, and the' heart swells not with secret grief, and no sorrow ever comes. For surely it is a reality ; but if a 'delusion, yet one to which I would ildly cling (associated as it is with ourl io.st, and most cherished memories of sainted father and mother) till hoart and flesh failed me-that "There is a land of pure delight, \Vhore saints immortal reign Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain." In this faith died all of our houso 'hold, and of the households for gen irptions, wherevor we havo inherited family and name, and let us cherish it with titn us.faltering trust, till we, tpo, shall lie down in the dust. I hahvt .lyg since ceased to look upon 'eath; with any sensation of terror, and, like tho.patriarch Job, say dai ly : "All the days of my appoint ed time will .wait till tmy change com." So lot it be with all of us. You remenber .thq beautiful poem of Mrs. lie inaus. "The G raves of a llousehold." A liho fortune has been ours, who, in childhiood grew up so. )uvingly t;oget her.. Yet we sall1 ot together again, young and old, glrile pirits in the "house not made witht hands, enternal and on high." comfort yourself, therefore, my dear sister, under this great aillotion, and ,may the Father of all morcies be gracious to you. Weoare well, and unite in touch love to you all. Vecry all'ectionately, your brother, CLEMENT. Tubarro Peddlers In North Carolina. In reply to a letter from the Asses.. sor of internal rovenue for the Third 1)istriot of North Carolina, in relation t9 ;the piraetico of tobacco pedd le ina thatt district who sell to the shops "ohunks" of tobacco or broken par. colsof plug tobacso fraom boxes, and after emptying the boxes taking t erofrom the stamps, which they re aflix to other packages from faetorios hist away, and sometimnes for register. ed factories, and asking for permission to pulish an order requirintg dealers to purchase only in original and un broken paokages,.end retail only from such stawpod packages, the Cjommis stner says That sinco May lst peddlers are nta required to be licensed, or to pay special tax asaucha, and therefore they have nto right, as peddlers, to sell to baceo. Manufaoturors are only an. thor ized to aell lobacco in full -pack. agva, put up as prescribed in section 6i, ,spd stamped as required by seca tjon 67. lodilrs employed by man ifac,,uts to soll. their goodsN have no right in this respect which their prin eipals, thto tmanufacturers, have not, andi therefore, such peddlers enn only sell in..original and unbrokon pack ages, and( dealers .become liable if they retail , ,pnufsctured tobacco othogwij e0 thp~u frqem original and dtampje p'g1 ea,.asinto Pa. ?riot. Netneh'ff, tlto linsian, who has been septenced to depath for conspira cy nyamist the life of the Emperor of litehs wsat- -one time a favorite vbra ut. of the Fmnperor N iobolua, fathl eor cf.thie presett-Car. .While in the scivice of the late Emperor, the p.rosent emperor Alexander III, do tetedhim in ani attempt to steal money from his father'sa desk. Nota. obeff never forgot this discovery, and he49si .roeInt conspiracy. The setnced umar will be put to death agrigto the usual cruel IRussian oode Nole will be tied so as to 1e to mot, his Aivbe.t TIe'ioe. ou ner'il1 4hon hang him op a % Ifoh hodlk and,tbrn -him f~und un, he stgangled. Am-enterpNsing onstablo of IRo'k sland made the following return on the back of a subphona given him to servo on :a witness: "I executed this speony by 'trying to read I too John Muok, but lie was drivia cattle on horsobaok, 'nd run faster than I could, and kept up such a- h-1 of a hotloein .[ don't kpe kwhther ho hIwred or not. Thib. i1 hei best L could do, and don'S. know, whether 'W6 upeoeny served according 'to law or not.-A1teist-4i 'nin1h, Cot., -A TWenty year Old .lurder. Much excitement has been - -amused in Westchester County, New York, by the discovery of the skeleton cf a man named Thomas Brown, who mys teriously disappeared twenty years ago, and who now is supposed to have been murdered. Ephraim Jones, his enaployer at that time, now over 70 years of age, is au-ipoctod of having committed thie crime. WINNSBORO. Wednesday Morning, Sept. 20, 1871. "More Night Riding-Colored Man's House Fired Into." In the Columbia Union of the 16th instant, we find the following letter: WmNWnono, Sept. 15, 1871. To the A'<?itor of the Daily Union : This will Inform you that the Ku Klux are still on the war path in this county. On Monday night, the 4th instant, the house of George Pickens, an honest and industrious colored man, who lives on the place of Dr. Jeff. Lyles, about sixteen miles northwest of this place, was visited by a band of disguisod men, between the hours of 10 and 11 o'clock. Tho band dis mounted and fired about twenty shots, the most of which went through the house. Pickens has a fine growing crop, and will be compelled to abandon it. Ile is now in this place making efforts to remove his family here. lie can give no cause for this visit of night riders, except that he is a Republican. There was also a band of K1 Klux out near Ridgeway one night last, week, but they committed no extra ordinary excesses. X. Our attention has been called to this rcnark~ac letter, not only on ac count of the falsehoods and inacou racies contained in it, but also, as dis playing a deliberate attempt to wil fully misrepresent the condition of affairs in this County. In regard to the contents of the letter, we have this much to say in reply: According to the statement of Goorge Pickens himself, a party of not more than three or four men dI visit his house, but whether or not they were disguis ed, he, himself, does not know. They did not dismount, nor were twenty shots fired into his house. WVe make thvis statement upon the faith of what lie reported to a gentle aman of this town. We know not from what source the Union correspondent derived his in formation, but this we do know, that, from the character of the person we believe to be the Union correspon dent, it, well suits his low, vile pur p0ses, to color his statements far be yond the limits of truth. The report of the appearnnce of Ku Klux at Ridgeway, we pronounce infamously false, and unless the Union correspondent can furnish good grounds for his statement, he stands guilty of a base lie in the estimation of all right-minded people. Letters of a similar character to the above have, at different times been published in the Union, attempting to east slanderous imputations upon the character of the white pecple of this County. We denounce all such as cowardly attacks upon a brave but unfortunate people. They emanate from a source scarcely worthy of no tice, except that of dentrneiation, and It is for this reason that we have given the above a place in our editorial col Why is not the Union correspon dent prompt In reporting all eutrages in this County, such as barn-bur'ning, oattle-stealing, house-breaking, nmur. dors, and a host of other crimes that are of daily occurrence in our mid1(st'? Hie does not, becauso the perpetrators are his friends and political allies, and sit with himn in scret conclave, plotting injury and harnm to his own race. But let one of the "cullerd brethren" be visited by seine private enotry and have a few pistol shots tired at his house, and straightway we see in the "Munehausen Organ'" of modern times a letter from "Our Winneboro Correspondent,'' detailing a horrible Ku Klux outrage in Fsir field County. Every affair in which the "poor" negro is the victim, is forthwith reported as the work of the bloody Ku Klux. We Intend to expose and denounce every attempt that is made, ealculat ed to convey a false impression of th oonditi6sp *(fqu otion of the St. Our gotii W 1quiet as any 'h Stte, iide i free from any t g; of tho atur f Ku Kluxism, he4 Vaion -orrespondt to t'ho cont notwithstanding, ,Wo 'have over been the advooale qf.pjaee and deprecated violence, except in) sclf.defence. Our relationi, dth't6-Zolirad 0,& plo have begr, k Mnjt 4 :frjet Iy, and we entertain for them the kindest feelings. Butfr ihseo ( pgr , "u rape lsd oo 1 k, -iol . tratorsi to td ha..the mothers who Wie have no words tave thse OW d.-n. nciation an41d condemnation. The.y g.4.-ie our foi-mer shvvs ugin usi .wutd wourd drink ow.- very hfe-blosd,. hadby the courage to w-efl-pt 'it, and the -strength to ce' The y tnaligi .ti, they ",11iley. 'us, 'tey sit at seore:t miidhight meetings wth our ettih 'Oni-mis, heap in-u ti -and dutrages upon i., all Inde: 'tli bayonets of..9, uitary espot at Washingtou. 11t, thank God I we believe the day tof retriboion'not far distant. The time is surely, though slowly appiosching when ju.tieq and virtue shall triumph over tyranny. and vice, and when the corritpt rulers of the laud abaul be harled froin the' high places they'now dipgeade. Then will peace and plenty oic' tiore fill 'our borders, and the dark days of Ca. rolina be forgotten, whilo prosperity and happiness reign supreme through out the whole extent of oure ountry. Cheap Postage In England. Now and still cheiaper rates Of 11ost ago went into operation in England A tigust lat. Lotte--s and paroEls of all sorts, closed or open, without nny distinctions, are charged us follows: Not exceeding 1 oz, 2e Not exceeding 2 oz, ;30 Not excceding 4 oz, 4c Not exceeding 6 (I, . 60 Not exceeding 8 vz, ne Not exceeding 10 oz, 7c Not exceeding 12 oz, 8c 12 ounces is the limit of weight for letters. In this country, our rate for letter postage continues to be 3 centi for half ounce, or 6 cents an ounce, which is just thico tines higher than the new English rate for an ounce, and nine times inore tli:.ia the English rate for twelve ounces. We think our government might take a lesson from England in the matter of cheap letter postage. But for parcels of certain kinds, our rates are less than the British charges. T1e Consumnplon of' Cotton. Tile prospect of an active consunip tun of cotton in this count'y is mst uncouraging. According to the cor. resplondent of a Almphis paper, who recently spent a few weeks among Eastern spinners, all * ho mills are in attive operation, and a.ew ones are being erected amt a rato unprecedent= ed. Fall River, Malssachusetts, with twenty seven ils in operation, has ten more in co'urse of erection, and in Norwich, Connecticut, the larget~ uots ton mill ia the world is .being comn pletod, and will -he rin readiness for business in the course of a few weeks. Its capacity is 110,000 spindles. Ina other of the New Enginntd States tihe same progress in industries is not ice able, as indeed is the ease all through the Northern section. Uapital is seeking emnploymuent in the industrial enternrises, and1( these facts arto. among the results. One thing noticeable about tihe new mills is that they are constructed inostly with reference to the better class of goods, and, there fore, to the consumption of the bet. ter grades of cotton. The prtduction of coarse goods is gradually bieing turned over to the Southern mills, whose facilities are sueth as to render that branch of the trade unprofitable to the Eastern mills. In other words, the latter are unable t oieese eessfully. ocr eese Dlark Tlec Conccenng Coun Tlhoro is a public inatter-on hand says the REdgefetli Advertiser. th.at ought to be seen into--and that quick ly. Th'Iis matter concrnsthe taxpay era of EdIge~ield County. Over on the western sidle of the county , there are three b ridges to be built tone ever Turkey-. Creeh .at Low' - Ford, near D~dntonsville ; -one over H tek~ halter's Sprinig hliranch inthe sm section ; and oneover Steven's Vreek at Rogue Shoals, * o w, the tals..goes (and with extreme, plausibi-lity-oni Its face) that certtiaschighly respeetidbe and responsible citizens, amoana tbeim two old and oxperienced bridge-build ers, sent ill bids to the Commissioners offering to build all three of thehe bridges for $4300, but' that instea~d of closing withphose b'ids,~,' . mlI~ioners have given ihe job to pertain other parties wb900o bid is frotn $7100 to $8000.. Tfhe par-ties of the $48S00 bid are D~emones Thoo o i figur areepubli ns. T is ,A dy ofthieWl; t o6h 0 airi *, 3re W o no4 esit to that ,ar - ta4iiyer out. linty re about to be again outrageously swin. died. On sale day nezty in all probabill% dit thiqgplaoe;. Add at 4he ft* tmt lot the ta'xpayers, through a Uommit. te appuigod (of thpturpuaoes,look n rrrivly 16' tts Uria sAnsinidt.1. .If Jhings Akuuld~prv .o e ee.g-9 mon reopot ays, t-lle io lbhe 'County lreasurert 'be ej .ined.rom ptyiingput tie public futids fe ays'uoh iiod Aiog ope-rat.,uns. With. mnty..otkyr-,B 'tro aro deterwined. 0 6t .AhA matter rest kore. Edlgtfield is not altia in the swind. lif-g: m. Acoutint-, ro.ach us. frown noarly evoe'y 'Oeyntyiu tire Stato of thb wantot expendiore of .'tra pioll m-ney,-and we think it i.<'high tirn that the taxpayen of thettateshould put a.utop to thiailany. The G6ld arke-t T4e Ne w Vul'k Ti ibue, of Ths'aq, has the follotwing in regard to the ad. vance in. gold premistu in tbatitywa: Monday Iast; "The gold m1al-ket bas been 'trong and iglr, wi'ih an advantio in tire price from 113J to I 141, the prepon derance of Itrausactions being at I 4W. As nd' relief h as cothie fr6m the direc. tion where it could lave been most nat.urally expecte d ky. merchants, the cliques are emboldened nax, tbroate'n to carry their operations still further. This is to be deprecated, inasmuch as it injures legitimate trader.-, anl unset. ting the foreign exchango., -ao as to make it impossible both fur itutiort'e'rs and exporters to carry on business on a settled basis. The pa) ments for customs into the Trea'sury alone amount to nearly double the sumn oU thorized by Secretary Houtwell to be o Xa:ed for sule weekly." "What The Iouhii Needs." Under this caption the Now York 'ribune lately sugg'ested a su'>-divis ion by exact surve.y:. 'f landed pro. gerties, and associatoa phns for ad vertising eligible parcels of ground and for the inviting purchasers and onibrunts from Europe. But the New Orleans Coimnercinl lBalletin think,) some other conditions must be lind to Teninr eih expedienta finally effective, and n-early all thove nuip plomeutal conditionr, it says, are comprehended in good government. Political abuses, and abuve all, op. pressive taxation, may drive labor away after it comes. Secure good governmont, and the South, sass the Bulletin, "will certainly at length obtain what bhe needs in the way of auiore people, more skill, more, diver sity of industry, more enterprise and thrift, more mill, more shops, more furms more factories, wore furnaces and aill the mn~oy demiandedl for the mnovemient of her Varied products will flow in upon her.' SpaIna anud South Carolina. That sterling paper, the New York J ournal of(Commnerce, calls attention to the foot that while p ain, "before the throes of revolution haveo entirely subsided,' is proclaimmng an amnesty for all political offences, General Grant is fulminating a new bull against South Carolin,. Six years have passed, anya the Jour nal, in this model countr: since the civil war enided, and this 'povince of South Carolina has been, fairly peel ed by 1Federal legislation, and yet the employment of the implements of torture proceeds. A carpet--bag go;' ernor, a negro Liogislature--emanoj pation, negro suffrage, negro rule, taxation, the absolute extinguish ment of the power of the white race, are not enough. Six years after Gien. Johnston's surrender they proclaim martial law inistoead of amnesty, and continue to dlevoto that State and the other Southern States to the cauise of making politicon capital for the party in possession of lhe Gloverannent. A Washington dispatch says the Denmooratic Congressional Committee adjourned on Tueaday, subject to a fitturo call of the. Chairman, Ar. rangemnts were made by'the various memblers to have politiceal documents distributed throughout the States, and also to effect a reorganisation of the party in thme Southern 8-ates. The advices received by the Commit. tee as to Democratie prospects in Pennsyliania were of tIle most flatter ing character. Thlie Radicals of that Stnto were rep-esented to be in a mo)st ho pelessly demorallzed condi tion, with thei r leaders fighting each other for a divison of the spoils. 8hfall Ioy on lip-toe-to companion : "S8- hL-stop yptr noise, all of you." COompanions - "Hallos, Tommny, what's tip now t"o -Small boy-"We've gdt a new bab -veiy 'weak and tired-walkad al the way from heaven last night mtasn't go to klckin up a row around here." Frank Blair sai Missouri id good for one hundred th usand Denmocratic majority -in~ the next Presidential campaign, without regard to what is termed the 'new desarture.' The holders of (bnfederate bonds intend tro lay their dlaims before the Genev (onfrnce. .4Unda Crime to X4 Terk, day hsk proaioed 00 usual or f mu4r stabbfng affrays, &o., in w Yo Oity: out 1q. o'6ok liheo log, a Pa y of dnlfe 14enWile rous ing on Third Avenup,'*got intes quar. rel among themselves, ati one of tbe was shot through the 4heart and insaey-le.,b in a e no is street, re sulting in -the serious stabbing of a -*u Ranan hi wife,4 -JI the .eveaiin tero .paittos were arrested for shotg a thitV. n af-n-rottem exatnihlob was oseld at ellevue:Hswpital in the ease of.a man faitall s'abbed by another, Th'6loner old un irrq'uet in the biMe f 'aaahva lii'Aled'by % b 'or wdn the iid, by A yrty acting in self-de fencie. Johi C. Edwards, aged 44 yo.rs, dYi4g with consaW&ptai1u, and iupa. t tffour ea* ;e'ov'ittud Auloide at nighit 'by hoott'ng hinself through the ead. o was'uatnd''ite dead sit t'tgup; ihis ar An 6nknownt jIampord into thie river froh one 'f tilt .Vierf% sa was drti*nmed. 'tire t w'rs dellberatte. A rope aas t'h:"wn to hiM but e To. t'r-ed ?awidtance a-yd 'ant. A laborer while 'passing nloi.' South street, was atac'ed by ruflians, -knoeced 'down and robbed. A orety man was -:rreaed for try. in to ki'l Ibis w'ife iand 'daugbtler wilt a'aydnret. buring the day the bodlies of t'tee unknown men, found drowned or dead about the 'otty, Were rcoet'ed at the Morgue, &c. Rtk to One Thing. Every yon'nt man, after o has chosen his vocation, should sttek to 't. 'Don't leave it because hard blows -are to be struck, or disagreeable wtk performed. Those who have worked their way up to wealth and useful ness do not belong to 'the shittlet-s and 'unstable 'clasa, bat may te 'ree% oned anong such as took <4 their coats, rolled up their sleeves and conquered their prejudices against labor, and manfully bore the reat .and burdent of tre -day. Inventive Lats, A coantrym on living in Tennea.see, where forests and game are pIletty, says that his boys, who all have a g'n apiece, became short )f percus. sion caps a few days ago, and the firal thing he know they were -slrooting with match heads as & substitute. How many boxes of matches he losi in that way he did not say>, bot h' found that they fred as clear as the cap itself. It is said that necesmi ty is the mother of invention. A Foss IN the FaNNYV. "W al, I guess there's a little rom over to our house." "What on airth's the matter ?" "Why dad's got drunk, mother'# washin, the old cow's got a valf, Sal'h got married and run away with the spoons, 8eth has b'wallowed a pin, and Louis looked at the Aurora Bo. -ix till he's got the dolerrious trian. glen. That ain't all of it nuther. Rose spilt the bhatter-box and brake the panoakes~ and one of the Maltese kittens has got her head into the mo lasses cop and i can't get it out, and eb, how hungry I am." The Southera Aiventume. E-Gov'ernor Hamilton, of Texas, draws the following picture of the southerni ativenttuar of the period : "When we see t. poor milsra able euss, who never bnd $$50 in his' life, come to Austin, borrow money to pay his expenses, and presently And him. loosing n thousand dollars a night at raro, dri'ting around in a fancy team, making liquor bills, Wine bills, all sorts of bills, and buy. rng a buggy and finn horses to go home in, we know he is thief as well as li w'c hadi seen him steal.'" The Mlarion Star says :It is estima ted that if the weather is favorable, the cotton crop in this section will be gatheredI by the 15th of October at the latest. That will be at least two months sooner than our farmers usually gather their cotton, and is a striking evidence of the shortness of the crop. The North Carolina Rlailroad has been leased to the Pennsylvania Con. tral Railroad Company, for thirty years, at C4 per cent, on the capital stock of the company, or $260,00) per annum. Three young ladios at Brooks Bta tion, New York, .were recently at tacked by a large and poisonous snake, which they not only defeated4 but killed and issaeted, In his stomach was found a nest of newly fledged birds alive and well, whrieh fluttored off, withbout at all realizing the Jo nah-like position from which they had escaped. Quito a number of Circus compa njes are organising for the South. Young A merica will soon studiously a mase haimself by looking at the glar. Ing' posters which these exhibitions always distribute with wonderful lib erality, A lettet writer from Niagara to the Boston Post, speaking of the many briddje now haunting that locality, says :"They are Cever 'so absorbed that they forget to dress." G*od gra cious8, we should hope not 1 Chicago matrons are agog over a oming baby fair, .The feminin round hat is to be laid upon the shelf. Louisiania's sugar stop this year is 144,001 hhads. From Irkansas. LtTTinz Rocs, Septembi 11..-Two conviote in attempting to escape from the penitentiarY- lriek 'Yotd to-day, were shot and illed by the guard. The cotton Wofmn has appeared in nmny, localities in the State. No rainhas fallen for nearly six weeks, and both cotton and corn haye suffered from drought. MFm Pennsylvania. nI.ILADEL.PHIA, September 12.-A meobafio returntlng- from. wok, at tempting to shield a wouaq f-om roughs,wa le. . rom Malune. A'0btn., "September 12'.-Iddica tions here, detivedl 't'otn a carcful footing of the retur:.t rooeived up to woon 'to-iay, are that PechAimlfA nma 5Orfty will be nearly 11,000. The exact majority for Perhau last $ear was 6,238. - rothls tin. 0Atr LAX% September 12.-Bum, a MormonN indioted fur ntrder, was fatal'ly s'hot whioe attempting to es 'tape ar-rest. Prom thatlstOes C#ARC.'ON Septemnber 2-Ac. 'Ooonts coming in from all sections of the tate reppresttt the vontilnuo-n 'ranbt oft he -a't Wve'ek very disa. trons to the growing cropp. On the sea Islands the ex.eoted yield has 'been cut o4F by vinfavorahle weather, at -east one-half, and frojin the interi or teports of rest and the plant shed ding th t ft'aits are 6nive'rsal. The Board of Health repor to no death in the puat 24 hours. IWrO KenlutkX . LEXiNGTON, St-pt ember ll.-A ter rible murder was comnmitt6d last night at the residence of -John Hatper, the owner of tre race horse kiongfollow, near Midway, Kentucky.. Jake and Betsy Harper, brother and sister of John Harper, had their throats out by i-ometxnknown 1person, sapesed to be for the pnr~poio of robbery.. Some negroes living within a few feet of Harper's residence knew nothing of the occurrence till this morning. NO clue has been obtained to the per pttrators of the bloody d'ed. t-ATER.) 'hree of the negroes living on John Harper~s phee have been ar rested a* the murderers of Sake and Ritay Harper. Blood was fcund on their bhirts atd the evidienoe against them is very strong. Other negroes employed on the p ace are vnitsing, and it is beli-eved they are implicated in the horrid affair. A party of citizens have started to but fur the missisng negroes. From MIssoed, 8r. Loi, September 11 .-The St. Louis excursion railroad train ran in tc a furniture wagon containing nine. - a pictiokers& two miles from East 6.. Louis. Three were 'killed, two' mortally wounded, and five seriomn.,1 hsurt. Only three of the talneteens were Wnhurt. The wind blowing in the direction or the approaching train and the picniekers singing, the ho-es were the first to apprehend danger ; one darted forward, the other hack ward, leaving the Wagon dead stiil on the track.. The railroad employees trere eXculpated. From 88ssleh#gcIls. MvanVVUIPrnt, Sept. 1.--The boiler of Curtis's hat factory explod ed to-day, killing six, Several were wounded and miin~g,. 1hom lew York, ra'wYonx, Setmel4..-Union Torpedo Work., near Fulton street, exploded and six persons were killed, and eecn or eight wounded. Build 1nawere shattered. ReY,. September ld.---The nation.. al Assoeiation of Sp iritualists have elected Viotoria WVoo'llhall Presi dent. SAntAtoch, September 14.-The Park place Hotel and a large portion of the Crescent Hotel were burned. WIE.MINGTON, September 14.-. man representing himself as J. Kel let-, called at the First National Bank to-day and offered to sell registered United States bond No. 1488, issued under the act of the 3d of March, 1865. The bond Is of the denomita tion of $10,000. He was arrested by D~eputy United States M~arahal and the ease came up before the United States CommIssioner, McQuigg, this afternoon, but was upostponed until to morrow. The bond is cavoated by the Treasury Department. From Wasihington. WASHINorog(, September 14. Major Hedge, in a letter to the Sec retary or War, confessing the defal cation, implicates a banking house in New York who, it issMid, he tates, knew the money used in the specula tions was Government money. From Prussia. LONDON, S0ptoember 1d,-DisR patches from various points show that the cholera Is dreadful Iin central and southern portions of Prussia. From Miissouri. S-r. Louis, September 14.-A dis patch says the expres office of Ellis county was robbed of $20,000. , From Now Jersey. TnrwroN- N. .T Sem ber 1-. Joel Parker was nominated for Gov. ernor by the Democratio Convention by acclamation. From Charlestom. CHARLUTON, September 14. There was only one fevor death dar. ing the last twenty four hours. From Washingtn.- . WASHINOTON, September lg.--The Treasury has issued an elabrate statement exculpatory of itself in the Hodge defalcation. Hodge's boa are $40,000, apd his propert 4 6 mated at $50,000. From Ireland. Du'varm, September- 16.--A mwnt. ing will be held Sunday in the 'su. burbs of Hierold's Cross. The object is to take steps to proseutie tIer fo lice for disporsirg the recent asset. tigo in Ihenix Park. From New Mexico. OMAnl.A, September 16.-Galleg. ber (Democrat ) will 'probably' be elected -delegate to congreus fr~i6'Ne*' Mexivo by 500 majority. From Louisoiaa, Nrw OIILIXAXs, September I7. John Williams, Alfred Decarrou, Noel Ailes and Madison Hampton, all colored, were hung to-day In the St. James Parish) for the murder of Frank Monteith, on May 10th, and executed on the spot where the mur der was committed. The Sheriff, execat eioer, jalor and gaarde were all colored, Pron Thknloas CH ARLTOfN-, September l'l.-Five fceer -deaths for the past twenty-fout hot'e '6ndIng Satla:day boon, and one for the past twenty-tovir lioirs, end. ing at noon to-day. The general tes. tirrony of the physicianB is that the diseas.e is d) ing out, the number of persons sick at this time is very small, and tirey -are generally doing well. From V iscensin. M1AVtAICKKE, September I7.-Pour sailors firom the bark L. D. Pomeroy were -drowned while goig ashore I* a yawl to--day. From Vlrginia. NORFOLK, September 17.-A seris ons afftay occurred last night between the United and Hope fire companies of this city, growing out of a jealousy that for some time has existed be. tween the coin paniess At about eight o'clock in the evening a num ber of men from the United company proceeded to the engine house of the Hope company on Cove street, and dragged the engine and hose oartlage into the street, and then went away. Half an hout later a crowd of men belonging to the Hope company eel.. lected and proceeded to Main Main street, meeti'gthe United men near the Atlantie Salon, when fghting between the two companies immedi. ately commenced. Dtring the 'ght about twenty shots were fired from revolvers, by which two men were ;everelv and four slightly wounded. The police gather'eA in force ad ete. coeded lin arl'esting the leaders of the iot, and restoring order, The Low.. eli firemen who are visiting the city were at their hotel durinig the riot, and were in no way implicated in the affair. It is atated that stepiwill be immediately ta'ken to abolish the volunteer system, arnd substitut, a raid fire department. market Reperts, NF.W YonK, Sept. 16.-Evening... Jot ton quiet ; uplands 21 ; Orleans 21ft; sales 468 bales,. Gold 14*. CJIAn:-E.STON, S.'pt. ll.-Cotten Girm-mddlaga 19j5 i reeipti 260 ; idles 100 bales. Cotton opened and closed firm-upv. lands 94 5 Orleans Si sales l5,000 bales. The following appointments and changes have been announced at the Executive Department: . Hen.ry,0. Banks, New York city, Commissioner of Deeds.. Win, H. Dorrill, of Georgetown, and Christopher Matthews, of Char leston, to be Notaries Public. F. W.8Sasp ortas has been suspend ed as Trial Just ice of Colleton. it is C. B. Farmer, ELq., of Co11s.. ten, who has been appointed Judge of the Second Circuit, Vice Judge .Z. Platt, deceased. General Entler at Work. , General Butler intends to speak every night until the nomInation for Governor of Massachusetts,, and if necessary, until the elections 1!o has. four or nyve secretaries constantly em-. ployed at his office, in Pemberton "9uare, Boston, and a private tel. graph apparatus enables him to send and receive messages without the leabt delay. .An unreasonable arid somewhat maisanthlropic acquaIntance remarks that he has often heard the proverb,. "A friend in neced is a friend indeed,'* but he says, lie can't seewhere ,thte laugh comes in. He bas a friend in need who is always borrowing money from him. Prof. D. Hi. Mahon, West Point educator, one of the most distinguth ed military ofieerg of the day, sulol ded by jumnping from the West Point boat. Prof. Mahon was a man about seventy years old, a are 'tly hale and hearty. Seareb wil o made at once to recover his iiody. Mexican. newspapers are disoussing the annexation of.. Mleido to .thea United tae.