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I MA_ esiportes& Williams, Probrietorse] A PamIy Paper Devoted to o enoe, Artt Inquirv, Industry and Literature, [Terms--$3.00 er Annum In Advanc -r-O- PJIJ * ,er, A. M VLYJI WINN&B~OiRQ W., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPT EMBER 27,1871. [NO.1 57 FAIRFIELD HERALD Is l'n .I~i l IY n DESPORTES & WILLIA MS, Termns.--Tn r It 1'XAt.n . publi'lhe-l Weeks in the Town of Wiiusboro, at 02.00 in. vareab~y in advance. Xe All tratisidAt aulVertlcisnents to be id in advance. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1.00 per sqare c. Thoughts for' the Mo nth. Unlike the last, this is a very busy month on the farm. Cotton picking will absorb much of the labor, and the sowing of amall grain, grass and clover will fully employ all the hands that can be spared from the cotton field. The indications are, that a short crop of cotton will be made, and it Is the policy of the fatriner to gather it promptly as it opens, that rains may not injure the quality of the staple and reduce its price. Pick as rapidly as possible, gin as soon as it is well dried, pack and put in different places, that the torch of the incendiary or an ocidental match, may not in a night destrcy the whole proceeds of the year's la bor and toil. Remember how often during the last five years, farmers have lost all their cotton, by keeping it in the gin house. FA.L. OATS. Fall oats should be sowed as soon as possible.. We should .always pre fer to have this work done by the middle of September. We have made sowings from the lt of Sap. tembor to the last of October, and the early sowing have invariably done best. A very serious risk attends the later sowings, to-wit : That dry weather following, the grain ma not come up until severe cold sets in. We prefer to prepare the land by turning it over nicely, then sow the manure and seed, cover with harrow, so as not to bring up the vegetable matter turned under, and finish by rolling the land well. From one and a half to two bushels of seed should be sown to the acre. There is danger of winter killing and this should be guairded against by a thick stand at the start. CLOVER AND GitASS. September is the proper month for sowing clover and grass seed. From the trials we have imade, we are in clined to think it is best to sow these by themselves, and not -vith small grain. The old idea of ,,. , small grain shading the young clover or grass, is probably erronoous ; certain ly it is without foundation when the latter are sown in the fall, for if the and is at all rich, they will be well de. veloped before the heat of the ensue ing summer. We saw clover sewed September 24 I, 1870, cut May 24th, 1871 and it was in every respect asgood as clover two years old growing by the side of it. The custom of sowing w ith small grain probably originated at the North, where clover is sowed in the the spring, and riot cut until the onsucing spring, and the farmer is desirous of getting a crop of small grain in the mean time instead of lossing as it were, the ose of his land for a )ear. The clover alluded to above was not at all killed out by tha severe frecaes of' .last.Vhristmnas, and that must certainly be regarded as a severe test. M4ANNE.R OF BEEDING. ,Prepare the land as for oats. Un less very rich, apply 150 to 200 lbA. of super-p~hosphate -broadcast, and barrow in well,, :then sow .seed and barrod f6'brash lightly,' ftnd by all moans roll the land thorortily. Cotton seed applied at the tib the clover is sowed, does no~j answer well, -because it does.p answer promptly enough, ut j~t has been orushed or't-otted. Thoe lover plant needs assistance Enost at the earliest stages of its growth. Stable manure is good in this, as i ot c ~ases, when applied liberally. BAR Y, 11E &c. - Every fa~~ r should be well sup. plied wi t'winter-graing lots of these valuable plants. Work horses, 2nares, colts, milk cows, calves, &c, &c., need and ought to have the .bencfits f them-to say nothing of 4he Mriiy they imipart to tha hioni land-scape, during the cold ~dr e6ry months of winter. T1o be at :j#lyaluable, such lots should he ox - remely rich-the lack of sunshine iinade .pby thebtifpnuu of araure. **)t is be.t that they be, seeded down ythe mtiddle of this month.. ~* The Esletion Prospect In Ohio, A WVashington:Aispatch says :Ad .tioes froem Ohio indicate that the ite ~ublicanis will .elept their Stito ticket jnOctober by a 'rf d'edided majori ,but owing to differenoes in the prty in Hamilton county, the indica $ions are very favorable for a Legisla ture in the interest of the Conserva tivos,"who, ia such an event, will se cure a Vnited States Sen'atoi in plae ofMr. Sherman. JMarriageable young la'dies are re joicing because next year will be leap-year, and they will have a chance to make their backward lovers come ~to'time. Blood for Blood In Jefferson Coulty. Groat exoitement prevails in Jeffer. son Couinty Ga. Some time ago, a negro there, of very bad- reputation, named Bug Pierce, wantotily shot atid killed a youqg muan by the name of Joseph ColemIan, who went to his house as an officer of the law. After this, Pierce fled immediately to Atlanta and thence to Washington City. On Friday night last he eturned to his homie, bringing with him a guard of three U. S. soldiers. lavirg mur dered an officer of the law in cold blood, the Government sent him back with bayoncts to brave an outraged community. As soon as he arrived, the civil authorities arrested him upon a charge of murder. And on Satur day night last, while under the charge of an otheer, a party of disguised men suddenly appeared, seized and secur ed the iflicer, tied the negro, threw him into a cirt, and drove off with him. The cart which belonged to the officer's promises, eamne back to the place next morning, but none of the arty of the previous night with it. t is believed Pierce received sum mary punishwent for the murder of young Coleman. On Monday after. noon last a company of U. S. solderb arrived in Bartow, the county town of Jefferson, with instructions to arrest a number of citireu%-EdjeLield Ad vertiser. Ben Butler. Ben Butler, in his endeavor to get to be Governor of Massachusetts, is parading himself as the most popular man among the negroes that there is in the United States. Ile Eays: If I am not sustained in more cabins by the prayers of the c-lored mcln than any commander in the army, I will never appear in public again." The New York Tribune illustrates himu thus: "Here's yer nice roast chicken," cried an aged colored man, as the cars stopped at a Virginia railway station. "Ilere's your roast ohick'n, 'n tutors, all nice and hot," holding his plate aloft and walking the platform. "Wherc did you get that chicken, Uncle ?" asked a passenger. Uncle looked at the intruder sharply, and then turns awa3, crying, "h1ere's yer rice roast chick'n, gentl'rn'n' all h-t ; needn't po in do house for dat." Shere did you get that chicken V' repeats the incuisitive passenger. "Look a yer," says unele, speaking privately. is 'you fro.'n de Norf. ?" "Yes," "Is you a friend of de oul lud m.n ?'1' "1 hope I am." "Den dunt you nebber ask me whar 1 got dat chick'n,. Here's 3er nice roast chick'n, all hot." Explosion. The fatal explosion of torpedoes in New York on the 14th instant, re calls one precisely similar which oc. curred in Berlin, Prusia, soine three or four 3 ears ago. On that occasion a large case filled with fulminating powder for the toys known as parlor pistols, which sonic porters were un loading from a freight ear into an express wagon, had exploded with terrific effect, shattering horses and wagon, killing two mni on the spot wounding others and wrecking everything in the neighborhood. The out-of-town firm who forwarded the packnges were, on investigation, found to have neglected the proper "declaration" of their dangerous in~. voice, and had to take the conse quences. They had to pay ruinous damages toethe families of the unfor tunate porters, and-heavy fines to the State, and wore imprisoned-in short were finally and socially well-nigh ruiined. This precedent points .its ownmnoral, applicable inthe New York case. Au ladlan Paradfse, Spooial Iudian Agenit Vincent Col yer advises the Secretary of the In terior by telegraph from the Camp Talarosa, via Santa Fer that, assisted by Superintendent Pope and Agent: }'iper, lie had examined the valley of Talarosa, with the view of making an Indian reservation. Hie found it re mote from white settlcrs, surrounded by niountainis, filled with game, and containing plenty of wood and water with auffient arable land. Accord ingly, under authority previously given, he has deplared this valley --20 miles wide 30 miles long-a reserva tion for the southern roving Apaobes, and instruoteid Agent Piper to remove the agency from Cavado Alimosa as soon as practicable. One of the saddest eases of drown. ing that we have yet heard of toqk pilace last week at Fairview, about five miles from WilkiR-Barrp, Pa. A family by tl.e name of Bonnet, it seenms, live near a pond where water is procured for the engines. Sou'ie timec during the afterng9on one of Mr. Bonnet's young childtdh disappeared from the house and fell into this pond. T1he mother receiving the nowli rush ed into the pond in the hope of saving her dhild ; another child seding the mother going into the water .followed her, whzen all three of them were drowned. The bell of the first American IQoo motive is now a Wisconsin dinner gng. $08 .tlobuiil &Ieetls', Match-liow g Coburn Proposed to Vont his Spleew on the Whole Race of Scotsi'and FoUnd Himiself o01ti9 1k#k. On Thursday night * Sun reportei dropped-into.a refreshment saloon in Sixty-fifth street, on Becond avenue, where bofound Jlo Coburn holding forth to an awe struck audience. It secens that Mr. Coburn had infringed on the order of Jone's Wood .on .that day, and bet rather, hoavily on. riits. gerald as the vinner of the long race." Fitzgerald had about two years ago earned off the first prize of this race, b.ut has on the last two occasions been distanced by others.. This was too much for Joe, so he foltvery irate at the whole race of Scots. A.braw-. ny andstalwrt Scot, in full High. land costume, stepped upon-the scene. Him foseph instantly seized as a most fit object on whom te. vent his wrath toward the-wholo Soottish fao. tiou. le rudely seized Sawney by the arms, told him be could "lick any Scotsman on the ground." The Scotsman coolly told him that tbere was no doubt on the subj.ect, aud or dered him to remove hisi hands. "Do you know who I am 1" Joe roare,. "No," bell owed the other, nor do I care." "I anm Joe Coburn''. Beforo Joe could finish the sentence he found himself face upwards upon the floor. Ouee, twice thrice Joe tried to recover ground, but invaiu. Baflied in his grea energy, Joe thought it was high time to resort to some other weapons to decide the diffioulty in his favor ; but the cool and wii y Caledonian, seemed instine. Lively to know Joe's intentions. Tak.. ing hold of Joe's groping dexter, he Shook his head deprecatingly, and said : "Na, na, mon ; ye manna do that. Pistols I dinna mind a flea for i" Saying which he gave Joe's hand a ivreach and a squeeze. Joe started to his feet, and after a little dusting and preliminary explanation offered to treat the party.-New York Sun. A Hundred Thousand Dollars for a Horse. Robert Bonner-he who has lived and thrived by the brains, or, at least want of them, of Cobb, Jr., (says one f the sporting journals of the North) -is in a corner. Some years ago he boasted that he would pay $5u,000 ror any horse thatwould beat Dexter's best time-2:171. Goldsmith's Maid beat it at Milwaukie on Thursday, trotting her milo in 2:17. Of courae Mr. Bonner must question the decis. ion, through his daily organ-tho Sun --although lie is not manly enough to sign his name to the article. The Mil waukie track is nnder the supervis ion of the National Trotting Associa tion, and any decision made there is binding on all the members of the association. If Mr. Bonner is an honorable man he will either pay the owner of Goldsmith's maid $50,000 ror his animal; or else give the same mount for the relief of those poor chambermaids who have lost ther reason by reading (obb Jr.'s stories, and are now spending their time in lunatic asylums. Stick to the Feuce. For fifteen years daily, at Stamford, Conn., a man has sat on a fence and watched every railroad train as it passed .-Exchaange. Hie is probably trying toi make up his mind if it would be safe to ride in the cars. Old fellow, you stiek to that fence ! If th~e top rail is t-harp, turn it over or put :a cushion on it. Fit up a smoking apartment on the next pannel -if you like, -and -rig' a luxurione conuch on the next one to that. hiring out' your baggage, take a cbeck for it and hang it on a pest. Buy a ticket and punch I6 yourself. ask yourselfthie distance -to the next gtation, and get insulted. 8e eure,.ns your means will permnit, all the ltaxuries of mailroad travel, but don't get off that fence to enjoy them. So shall -yeou die a natural death, atnd the good wife shall not expend the farm fighting the life Insurance comp anies over' your cold corpse. You're in the right o' this thinag, 'old rooster I Prayer of a istractedl People. Mr. Groesheok, in his great speech at Steubenville, uttered the following invocation for national* bless.ing w hieb may welliserve.as a form of. prayep for the people of the United States: "I plead for the preser,Tatjon. o this U nion as a limitedl QuornmenA Iplead for the State as our, bows government.. L .plqad .for thesau tomedfreedomn 'of our.,eletioneas asp that they 'way not bp speiledsbysmnili vary suporvipionq I plesd for.,t e as.octty , and-. inviolability of, thak great wr't which. alone seoures our daily personal liberty. 'The wra? is ended, and we huav: enftor~d thd seventh year- of peace.. I plead ifot the -spirit of pene: -nd oonfidence and good will in all our puhlic conduet The hand. outsttetched in. friendly salutation is a batter peaoe-maker than the shnt'hand uplifted to strike." Tho flip flap wagei hosyish Saratoga gait now. TE-RULE OF TlE .AONET. The Independent Press oailinrlial. Law i Our Siate. That there abould be any .necessi. ty foranrtia law in 8outh Carolina i .a mAt tellibg con'demnadon pf th< policy of Fedoral interfereado in the internal affairs of that State, and of the malignant influ6noe of oarpet bog government. Noibetter cviilonce. is needed to show that 11 men foisted .upon the people, by iolenco or chica nery are'' as incompetent ai they atie cortupt!u-Neto York Advertiser, Rep. A SAW AND HUMMILATItO SPECTACLE. What a sad and humiliating spe. taole have we here. 'At -the best, and takjpg Grant on his own showing, what a proof does his propo od inter vention afford of the utter Incapacity and worthlessness of the carpet-bag government of South Carolina.- View. jug the esso froto Grant/ own stand point, t: what a dilemma does he re duce us-either to lot one of the strongest' I tepublican States in the Union lape into chaos or maintain order therein with the bayonet under a law of Congress whose main fea. tures are clearly uncoustitutional and which clothes the President with the powers of a dictator. But when it is i roinewbered that the case is to a large extent a simulated one, and that this. use of unwarranted powers, and this display of the bayonet are mainly to enable the President to thwart the wishes of a majority of the Republican party by obtaining a nomination for anotherterm, not, in dependent Republicans only, but all law-abiding people should consider what is necessiry to prserve the lib erties of the country. - New )r(rk Sun, Radical. THE FnUITS OF-NEoRo RULE. Many parts of the South are as peaceful and prosperous as before the war. Why is it that of all the S .uth. ern States South Carolina is reduced to the humiliating attitude of chron ie disorder I Is it because her domii. nant black population, under her re. construction system Absolutely rule the State,or are they, with all theiir vain conceits, so utterly incompetent and all ignorant that they have brought all these troubles upon the Commonwealth with their '-fantastic tricks" in the State adiministration ? I It would seem so; for surely, with anything like a just, honorab.e and reasonable administration, the St.ate authorities, white or black, would be able to take care of theiseves and their followers in the muain tonance of law and order even in South Carolina.-Neto York Herald. The Subsidcd Press. The suspension of the Charleston (S. C.) Republican moves the New York Times to remark: "The fact appears to be that there is not yet a Republican party in the Southern States capAble of support. ing an independent Republican news paper. The result is that unoarly, if not all, Southern Republican journals are fed from the State treasuries, and do not thrive morally on that diet. Tis is one of the evils that time alone will cure." This coinment imnplicdly approves the practice of the Southern State treasuries in using the tax-payers' money to publish partisan newspapers. This identical thing is one of the strong counts in the Times' fierce in doectuent of the Tammany govern. metat of New York. The Times is right in denouncing this misconduct, of Tammany, but all its denunciation applies,accourding to its own state ment of the ease, to thme Radical gov ernment of every Southern Btate. Baltimore sSun. Poilllal. The Legislature of Illinois, it is re ported, will be placed in an embarras sing situation by thae notion of the presiding officers of the two hod ies of which it is composed. The Speaker ofthe flouse of Representatives, it is asserted, intend~s to summon that body to meet in special ssion in Chicago. on- November 15th, and Lieutenant Governor Dougherty in . tends to summon thme Senate to meet et Springfield, the State capitol on tho same day. Circus Men Robbing ad linrdering, A dispatch from' Pawlinig, New York gives the' following intelli. gence-:..--..-. The-men attached to O'Blrien's cir eus and menagerio, which was to have pefolmed here to night, haave created a riotr They have robbed nearly everyiouse in the ,villIacg. 5One eiti kerr has heonkilled an& sevreral wotan. ded. - The; iplundering fis .still' going on TPhe -authorities have sent to Dover, PlMiesfor assistkhceer - According to the United States census, South Carolina had a popula In 1840 of 5948908 ;, 1850, 668,5O07; 1860, 708.1108 ; I1870k '705,606 The whites range A follo*s-a 1840, 28,L 084 ; l850, 274,563 ; 1860, 291,800 1870, 289,667. Immense fires, are raging in the woods in North Carolina and Oregon. Remarkable Phenomenon at Wilmington, N. C. The Wilmington J.urnal, of yes torday, says: . The very peculiar appearance of the sun, yesterday at noon attracted the presenco of nearly l who were abroad at that hour. That luminary appeared to be hidden and his light u btructed by a heavy gray mas of clouds, which extended around it in a perfect circle of apparently about five degrees in distance fron tlhe di atmeter to the circumference. The edges of the clouds were bordered by a bright ring, partaking of many of the hues of the rainbow, and this ring wia again surrounded by a large an a more distinct circle, anil this again was cut into towards the North, by another ring, the Southern por tion only of which was visible. The appearance la.ted, in all, for forty minutes, otherwi.so the day was fair and clear throughout. This was certainly a most peculiar condition of the atmosphere, and one of which the scientifl umen bad filed to inform us. hat it may purport no one can, as yet, foretell, but cou pled with the predictio i of the tidal wave, said to have been mada by Prof. Agassiz, it set the ninds of mien to speculating to a fearful and ularmning extent. I Ball of Fire Explodes In a Church Pill. ed with People. The New Albany (Ind.) Ledger says on Sunday night last, the Camp Ground, on Potato Run, in Hart isom County, was the scene of oune of t he strangest and most startling freaks of lightning. She tly after the col;-re gation had assemibled for worship, the storm burst forth with all its fury. T Ib ministor had just commenced his text. when there came a vivid 11 .sh of light.1 iing followed by a quick, sharp peal of thunder. Iu an instant afterwardl a ball of fire, as large is a thirty-t wo pound cannon ball, entered the win dow, and after following the ceilirg to the center of the building it ex - ploded witI a loud crash, scattering sp :rks all over the house. The teffect upou time peo lc there assembled was electrioal. I'hme mini ister wa.s knocked back ii the pulpji!, amid the entire conagregatim slid from their sots to the fl or, but whether for better safety or from the effwoes of the shck is not known. The pels an in the house describe the senmationi produced b) the h'gLItning as of II lpe culh ir numbing char.ettr. Tho light. niintg first struck a tree stutiding at. ihe corner off the chure' , and fromn there pass.inig to one of the windoiws, a pane of which it knocked out without breaking, und so passed into the church. A Sheriff and Mnyor Killed by a Negro. The New Orleaus Ttimes of Thur., day says: About sundown Tuesday night the two brothers Herring, tie Sheriff and Mayor of 13 raim Stat ion, on the Jack son railroad, ten miles this side of Jackson, were nttacked by a negro, whose name we (lid not ascertain, and mihnost instantly killed. The ne. gro previously hadn a difficulty with his employer about hitching up an ox team, lHe struck his employer ond ran, and the brothers H-errinig pursued him. Hie was flimally brought to bay, and one of the party fired a shot gun att him, wounding him with squirrel shot in the thigh and hand. lHe then drew a knife antd cut one in the throat aind the o'hecr across the abdomen, killing bioth inustantly3. The negro, when the train passei Ilyramn last night was lying tat the: at tto uabl tomoe, ndthe two! bodies were about fifteen feet from I him. The diffleulty occurred at that place. The Sheriff of Jackson had been telegraphed, and was expeccted on the next train. Death of a DIstInguIshed Charleston Physlelana. The medical and scientific world will regret to learn of the death of the eminent phhsician and naturalist, Dr. John E. Holbrook, of this city, who died of apoplexy, at Norfolk, nio-ar Boston, Mass., on thoe 8dh iinstanit. Dr. Holbrook was bora in Beau fort, S. C., in 1794. At an early age lhe went to reside with relatives in M as sachusette, where lie was reared and educated. lie was gradIuated at lBrown Ulniversity in 1815, studied medicine in the schools of Philadel phia, Edinburg and Paris, and settled in Charleston, where he was appoint ed professor of anatomy in the Char leston Medical College, then recently instituted .- Chiurleston Kems. Senator Seott's Story. A Washington correspondent of the Now York Tribune, writes as follows to that paper: Senator Scott has recelvad a letter from' Colonel Reno, U. 8. A., eom. mnanding at Spartanburg, S. C., who had~ bun; stationed there since the fSub-Investigating Committee visited that place. Col. Rieno states that no outrages have occurred there since his arrival. Voices of the night.-nBabie. Flendish. A disp itch from Waverley, Va., Septemb r 15th, to the Richmond Va., dispatch, gives the following : "Soon after the second down freight. train of the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad passed Waverly Sta tion to-day, engineer Catlett discover ed a negro man about a hundred yards ahe Ad of then holding a boy on the track. Catlett as soon as lie saw the situation, blew down brakes and reversed his engine, but the man held on until the engine was within twenty steps of them, whleni he jum p ed off, leaving the boy, who, in trying to follow, was run over and literally cut to pieces, both arims and both legs being mashed off, leaving his body a horrible mutilated iiass. The train was stopped at, once, when it was found that the man had tiod the bo to the rail with a rope hardly six reet long, and had held him on the oppo site of the track to the one on which the rope was tied until the train ap- i proached, with the above result. The negro's name was Mack Colbert, i and the boy was his stepson. lie I said he tied the boy there to whip I hiim, but his actions from the first in.. dicated that his intention was mur der, and nothing less - the track be ing an air-lino for more than twenty. five miles in the direction from which i the train came. Tho fiend was left i in charge of Mr. Hart and several I others, and has doubtless been locked t up. The boy was still breathing when the train left, but was unoon sei .us, and ere this is dead.'' Compl hints, strongly redolent of 'i ignation, are ascending from all fil rters at the neat little system of I r-Lbery instituted by the United S-.ales Treasury, in the redemption of t im'itilated currency. It is held that, I except under undoubted evidence of a fraud, the Government has no right to t deduet a portion of the value of a note because a corner becones frayed t out in handliiiy, thus throwing upon 1 the people the entire burden of the wear and tear of paper currency.- C There is reason in this undoubtedly. I ir the peoplo consent to have the placeo of specie currency supplied , with accommnodation paper, the duty of keeping the latter in good condition should properly rest upon the Gov. ernment, particularly as we know it to be in the yearly receipt of a very large profit. from notes lost or destroy. ed. Mr. 11 utwell is one of the eb. ct financial shavers i: It r . .t in this instance, scrapes the .a very c!ose. lie should be careful, or lie t im y draw blood. The TidOit Wave. Prof. Caleb 0. Forshey has com- I forted a coriimmittee of anxious inquir- V ers in New Orleans with the assur- r inen that the tidal-wavo prediction, a aseribed to Prof. Aggassiz, is a "onstrous and cruel hoax," in 8 which the learned sciertist (now ab- V sent on a tour of discovery) had no agency. Prof. Forshey states some of , the facts with regard to the tides' u hich are set forth with equal clear ne4ss in the primary school geographiesi and gives the pleansant assuranco "that t nti conjunction of the planets, what- t ever their positions, can appreciably ai afh'ect the earth's tides. So it seems we won't bare the basin at Baltimore J cleared out by the great agency of i nature withiout expense- r Power of Kiliiess. A poor woman used to give an elo phant, who often pasted her stall in thme market, a hiandfull of greens, of I which lhe was very fond. One day lie 8 wtts in a great fury, and broke away fromi his keeper, and caimo raging down market-place. Every one fled, atnd in her haste the market-woman forgot her little child. But the fu rious elephant, iinstead of trampling it to death, lifted it up tenderly and laid it on one side in a plae of safe- 'j ty. D)o you believe she was sorry she r gave him a hatndfitl of greens as lie went by ? No. We sometimes profit by a kind action when we least expect it. Connts R~attazzi and Cavour, and Italian money and skill more titan divide the honors of an achievement far surpassing llannib~al's or Napo leotn's. The progresa. of the work I has been carefully noticed from the beginnintg, and the late completion of ft boring left the event now realized onily a qjuestion of days. It has been recently traversed in thirty-eight minutes. Th'Ie air was excellent, and the rails perfectly level. Trho renovated stock Exchange, New York, was opened on Saturday last, and is described as a WalI-street palace. Thore are five months in this year having five Sundays each---somnetl-ing that does not occur onice in fifty years. A man, who was very ill, was ad vised to send for a physician. "No, if I ami to die let me dIle at my lois ure." The Spirit ualists are now in Coun oil at Tlroy, and representatives are assembled front every section of the Union. A Gentile cavalry comnpany is being orgnnized at Salt LtiCity:;,. Who are the Happy f A familiar writer tells us that happiness is the gay to morrow of the mind, that never comes;" but we will not say amen to this. True the searoh after happiness since the days of R-iasselas is seldom blest with any firtunate result, unless we except the lessons taught us on the road. The fruitless endeavor to be happy the constant striving after this grand ultimatum is never successful. Hap piuess comes as Parthenia says love does, unseen, unsought. She is coy and exacting. We sot apart a day on which we determine to be happy, and perhaps include many who are to partake with us of its pleasures-wo build our hopes on such a natural and plausible foundation that we ioarcely deem it possible we can be lisappointed. The day comes, all is bright and beautiful, the winged courses of our fancied car cannot move too swiftly, and we hail the unlight as the fitting courier to her ild our joy. Ere that sun has set we tre called to mourn over the nothing iess of our dream-something is sure o happen to rob us of all enjoyment, md we find out what others have be.. oro discovered, that we can never sount upon one day-nay one hour >f happiness. When we least expect t, sometimes a low voice whispers, ,nd l I we are happy, a soft touch is aid upon our heart, and peace comes o the troubled soul, brightness to he weary eye. -- - _-0 . * "It light Have Been." We hear a great deal about this brase, "It might have been." Sentimental youth. and love-lornt assies, growling old bachelors and, nd '-picky," old spinsters, all join in his contemptible whine, "It might ave been ;" but the words have an. ther meaning well worth looking for, 0O. Instead of mourning over the irre. rievable past, and sighing, "It might ave been better," we should do afar more sensible thing if we picked up ur crumbs, and said: "It might ave been worse," Taking time through, there isn't nore cause for sorrow than joy, and 11 bitter complaining only bring us o much the more speedily to that lace which is the quintessence of verything doleful. It is not very likely that any of us rill be called to endure more than :ood old Job. When earthly blessings ror taken from him, he did not aise a great hue and cry, but pa. iontly said, "The Lord gave, and the lord hath taken away, blessed be the amo of the Lord." If ever we are so happy as to get to leaven, then we may see that much rhich we call trouble and sorrow ow, are really ourgreatest blessings; nd our utter ruin might have been rrought in soul and body If cireum, Lances had boon as we often blindly riphed they might have been. Then shall we see that, of all glad rords of tongue or pen, the gladdest ro these "It might have been." Advices from Zanzibar announce lie receipt of positve intelligeneo of be safety of Dr. ivingstone. The uthority for the statement is un uestionable and Its truth certain. i. party of Americans is hurrying ito the Interior with the object of eseuing the Doctor from kis perilous osition. The Memphlis (Tonn.) Appeal has eon lately shsown by several friends atters from Europe announcing the ratifying intelligence that a large occasion to the population there may e expected during the next six sonthis. A submarine cable has been sue, essfully laid between Nagasaki, Ja an, and Rosietto, the new naval sta ion of Russia, on the Sea of Japan. 'his gives two distinct telegraph outos between London and Japan. Mr. James M. Crofut, the Chair san of the Board of Heoalh of Beau ort, in an official communication. ays the yello'w fever has entirely die. ppoared from that city, and that it s now porfectly healthy. An earthquake on the 21st ult., hook the entire coast of Peru severe. y. The sea was greatly agitated, ad at Callae it was impossiblec for a imo for vessels to enter port. The human bones discovered in sorth Carolina, and described in a LPetrsburg (Va.) paper of last week as of gigantic size, turns out upon neasuromont to be of no ordinary di A telegram from Shanghai says the F~renoh hove been ordered to support A mer lea in her operations against D'orea. A bad marriage is. like an electric maclhin.; it makes you dance bat you can't let go. The fellow who slept uder "the sever of night" complains that he same very near freezing. Gravity Is no tmore evidence of wisdom th an a paper collar is of a shirt. "Tdles from real )ife"--Chinese "riiti U s.