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Desportee & Williams, Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquirv, Industry and Literature. LTerms---$300 per Annum, In Advano VOL. VII.] WINNSBORO., S C., WEDNESDAY MORNING,OCTOBER 25, 1871. [NO.19 THIE FAIRFIELD HERALD IS PUBLTSHED WEVKLY BY DESPORTES & WILLIA MS, T"erms.-Tns UNRALD Is published Weeki in the Towin of Winnsboro, at 63.00 in Pareably in advance. o- All transient advertisements to bi Id in advance. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1.00 psi square. Death to Incendlaries. The following reports have been gathered with reference to inoeli iaries killed. A boy attempted to help on the conflagration by igniting a clothe, line saturated with kerosene antd throwing it into a building in Thaty second street. le receivo-I hi.< d,, sert-s at the hands of the 6remen, . saw the act, aud "now bleeps in the valley." A man, name unknown, was shot by negro at the corner of State ati Thirty-second 'streets. His offece was that he set fire to a building t. obtain better opportunity for pil lage. Bridget Hickey was arrested for setting fire to a barn in the rear of a house on Burnside street. By some mistaken idea of clemency she was not hanged. Two men who were caught trying to set fire to the Jesuit church, on the West Side, were disposed of without ceremony, aud the lookers on were pleased to say "Served 'em right.' About noon yesterday a barn on the corner of of Burnside imd Twen tieth streets was observed to be on fire. Knowing that it must have been the work of an incendiary, the neighbors united to extinguish it, filling their coats and hats and every thing they could get hold of with sand. The fire was extinguished in good time, and a man found in there captured. It is stated that he was shot. Whether the report is or is not correct is not known. At about I o'clock yesterday forenoon a man also riding on Fourth avenue caught a man in the basement of his house, number unknown, armed with hay and matches. He gave the alarm, and the incendiary was caught and stoned and battered to death. Ile lies on the avenue yet, near Four teenth street. From Commissioner T. B. Brown the following incident was learned. On his authority it is correct without doubt : At about 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon a colored man, name un known, observed a white man sneak ing round his house on Fourth avenue. le fired the barn in the rear of the house, and was instantly shot dead. Among the special policemen sworn in on the South Side yesterday was a negro inamed "Dick Castello, who was assigned to a beat on Waba,h avenue, near Hubbard court. About 4 o'clook in the afternoon a white mian, whose name is uniknjowin, was looking upon the ruins, when Cabtello warned him off. He answered that lie was only a spectator, and was doing no harm, when the negro raised a piece of lead pipe, with which lhe was ar ed, and smashed in the man's t.kull, killing im, on the spot. The crowd follow'ed the negro, and would have hanged him but for the interventio.n of a couple gof policemen, who rescued himi and locked himi up in the Cot tage Grove Startion. A bout 3 o'clock y.-sterd~ afer.r noon residento. on ihe 8 m : Sire were ailarmed0' by 'he cvy I fi ,' I h ceunding fom ' iriM . 8 4 .- 'T . . . , streets. It wds es.i'.. . . .a of an incenidiary, an~d, owi , s devilish ingecnuity used b . bI drel who did the wvork, mc ad nm,1 ty was found in exti.mi?$iin im fite. Comissanioner Sherisaa haapje - ed near the place and assi~std to put out the blase. A meetinag of over two hundred citizens wa.s hold immn,io diately, and Mr. Sheridan emapower ed the chairman to swear in all he thought fit as special policemen. There was indignation enough to have put a summary end to the devil had he been o'iught, and a determni.. nation to treat all such as dogs un worthy of life. Another man shot last evening by a police officer, who detected him in the act of attempting to fire the Jesuit church on T welfth street. An excited crowd gathered round tile West Division police station about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, intent upon making an applicat Ion of Lynch law to a man who was alleged to have tried to set fire to a house on Milwaukio avenue. Three or four roes were flourished vigorously in the crowd, and several speeohes wore made by parties arging them to res cue the incendiary from the hands of the police, but the latter were firm, and at last accounts the man was still a prisoner in the cell.--Chicago Jour naL. The latest kerosene explosion oc curred at Summorville ; with much difficulty and with the aid of blankets the fire was extinguished. A Reign or Terror. From what we can learn, there is a perfect reign of terror, in Spatutatn. burg County, and nearly all busine., except that pertaining to the United States marshal's offioe, is at standstill. We are told numbers arrive daily at the courthouse, acknowledgi ng them s(Ives members of the Ku-Klux or ganization. If those we saw taken to Columbia are specimens of the organi. sation, we don't think it is so forw ida - ble a clan, after all. We do not be. lieve the oldest was over twen ty years old, and two of them eer ttinly had not reached seventeen. We learn, however, that it is d tger ous for a person to leave the village, for fear of being suspeoed of trying to escape from the cfficers of the law. One gentleman was arrested while on 'is way to tr.nsaet sone busine.,s with a peopion outside the carporate limits of the village, and I.,dged in jail. Numbers of respectaLble mlen, have 'et. the county, but from the fact rhat many of the arres:s are of such persons upon whom suspicion had niever rested, and no one knows how soon some Mahlicious fellow nay point him out as a suqpected member of the mystic band, and have him incarcera. ted in a loathsome dungeon. We are, always have been, and ex pect always to be, unmistakably op posed to secret political organizations. They are directly opposed to our ideas of true Republicanism, and will always p rove, as the Union Leagues and Ku Klux Klaus have, (leterimeutal to the peace and prosperity of the country. We are no more apologists for those who commit murder or whip and otherwise maltreat individuals, than we are for those who burn dwelling houses, barns, stables, commit rape or theft ; but we do demand that the perpetrators of either or all of these crimes bhall have a fair trial before| an impartial and unprejudiced ceurt and jury, and when found guilty they should suffer the penalty attached to such crimes by the laws of the States in which the crime was committed. Information reaches us that a squad of United States soldiers, under com. uand of a deputy TJnited States mar shal, went to the residence of J. Banks Lyles, one morning last week, to arrest him. Captain Lyles was not at home, ard the soldiers broke down doors, and behaved iu a very unman ly manner. They rode their horses into the front yard, took corn from Captain Lyles's crib, andfod their animals there. there. Captain L. is principal of a large mal academy, and when the squad arrived the breakfast for the students was either on the table, or ready to be put there. 'T'his the sol diers took forcibly possession of and ate up. Paying Politics. The residence of Senator C. P. Leslie in South Carolina must have been both profitable und pleasant. Oaly two or three weeks ago, lie bought a valuable piece of real e.tate in New York, aid now we have the report in the New York Stin of another interestiig transaotiou of. the same sort. The Sun, says: We yesterday received inrtormat ion from V. K. tevensnm & Sin that they had sold at private sale for F.aneis WV. Worth four lots l100 feet squtere, on the North-west corner of the Grand Boulevard and Eighteen street, for $50,000. The p operty was taken by Mr. Leslie., of South ('arolina. Tit-se. lts weie ontght in .Jo-.e :ast b. M r W, rtha b r $60000, *-jl ' ro e Rtiver do Pirt asse , - a. I. 200) ao 'lhe m -s. si. gui.. r - tr isae I is Ih .t in Ii-m .1. m. ' uj 2.e whlic a p ;. ity *o --- g . u sue. ilice Everny impe..rfauiat p. Ipo'- req Iliring( thme signatre of'' Prt sidenim Grantii's is sent 'In to L..g Biranchl hy ai sp.eial moe.menger who is allowed tenm cents mileage, each way , hotel bills and~ contingent eXpenses. It is estimiated that every time the iginature of U. 8. Grant is no0W ttppended to anly comi umissary order, bigamy pardon, or other paper, it costs the tax-payers about sevent-y-five or a hundred dol.. lars, according to the allowances to to the messengers. Anid all this, while Grant draws his full salary, smokes his cigar, laughs in is sleeve at a cajoled people, and plots with his crowd of office holders to se cure a re-nomination. Whnt a very patient set of asses the American people would prove themselves to be if they should re-elect him. The Koowee Courier says: Colo nel Sage, Chief Engineer of the Richmond and Atlanta Air Line Railway, has been in Walhalla for several dayslndtecorps of engi neers, operaingdoeast and west from that point, arrived in town Tuesday evening last. The Abbeville .Press and Banner state/ That court week has been obar aeterized by unusual quieb and good order. Wha: li ll ngh Farming ? It is; a system of tillage anid farnm mlana.'genCat, that is scif-Iusti ailing, I sysitem that taikes nothiug but the ban haud, the dometit animals, tle fa rat implements and machinery, and cul tivatea the soil, sustains the fauil3 and the atninals, pays the annual taxe: defrays the expenses incident to tht imi provenients that must be made on the farm, cancels the ainual inter est on the money invested in the land eventually pays for the land, all frona the products of the soil cultivated : and after one, two and throo dcc.adc of years, leaves every acre in a far better state of fertility than the soil was at the beginning. This is high farming. There are untold niumber, of quiet, unobtructive tillers of the soil in many of our States, who have comumeneed precisely as we havo indicted, without one dollar of casih capital ; who have no revenue what, ever besides the natural resecircees of their cultivated fields, and who by hard wo k and judicious management susItained their fatmtlies, paid for their land, erected all their buildings, paid for all their valuiablo iimprovemorts, ansd at the satme time, have brought th ir land up to that stato of produe tixenc.s by their judicious manage ment., that every acro now 3iclds frotu two to three tOns of hay where only one was originally gathered, and they harvest nearly two bushels, -inl many instances amore tln two, -of cereat grain, where the product was but one bushel. That is high Farming. Yet such a system of hus bandry is usually sneered at simply because the propriet-r knew how to save his money to defray the expenses of improvements, rather than spend three times more than he mado. N. Y. Observer. The New Political Moveicat in Tennes see. The Reunion Reform Association of this city, composed of citizens irres pective of party for the promotion of great common interest and the oblit eration of sectionalism from bational politics, had a public meeting here this evening. Speeches were made by ex-Confederate and ex-Federal soldiers, fraternal in spirit and na tional in character' One speaker, an ex-Confederate soldier, who served with Forrest through the war, said le had faith which ato words could ex press in the sumblime signiflicance, mission and destiny of the American Union, eulogizing the national flag as the emblean of liberty and equality of men of all nationalities. He further said the South must show the honest masses of the North, by elo quent action rather than fair promises, that their attachment to the govern. ment was sincere. lion. A. S. Col ler, ana ex Confederate Congressnan, hitherto aun active Democrat, took stron ground against, the nam ination of i Dent cratie ciandidato for Presi dent nuxt year. All Incident of tmi Chicago Fire. A p iiii lady who esc:aced from the burnaing city, of Chicago, in the course of a graplhic account of the great fire tells the followilig "Two blocks beyonad where I lived in Ilalstead street, lived an old Ger mat,, n almuost helpless cripple, whose sole support as his wife and yountg son. Th'le latter went a wmay ini ho morning tand did noct returnm. The fire raipidly aipproachued witha deaadly omencl, and the old couple were not only distrnacted at the absence oif the boy bnat fearfnil of their pos, asible fate. At last thec flames camite so near that thtey must fly oar die. in the strength of hter affectioan the old woman seized the poor eripple plaacedl him upon her ba.-k, and thmun staggered along for a distancae of two blocks, whe~n somtae maen placed him in a grocer's wagon ,and drew haim to a place of safety. f'hae Ne wberry Hlerald says: Last WVediesd:ay aight a negro ant, who gave h.is nomae ast Litmus Ru ff, alias P'ii Iloiaay, enteed the second story wiandoaw if Mir. Fo~ot'sa residenace by ascenrdinag a t ree ad gettag upon the porcb. IHe raised thie winadow raid emntered the chamba. er of the young ladlies, who were tarousied froam nce bay thle viliansi's placing his hand upotn the throat of one of the young ladies. Their sereamts awoke the family, when the fellow mado his escape. Ilo was soona after tracked and taken by the young men of the fzamzily, anad lodged in jail. Thais outrage wvill servo as a warning to our citizens to be watchful. It is melanchuoly to reflect thai while Governor Baldwin, of Miobig nan was writing his proclamation askin~ the people of his State to respond te the call for the relief of the sufferers in Chaicago a vast portion of his owr State was being devastated by th< fire furies ; whole villages were des troyed, many lives lost and and hun Sdreds rendered shaelterless. The her rors of somie of the scones in Michai gan almost rival in intensity thaos4 that have been described as havin1 occurred in Chicago. Good Living-Living within you means A Radical United States Senator on Trial. The Uiited St ates circuit Court for Arkantisas wet at little Rock on Mon. day L.at, and the case of United States Senator Cla3ton, for the viola. t,iou of the Congressional Euforeoment Act, was called. Clayton's counsel demturred to the indictment, on the ground : firt, that the nineteenth and t~wenty-rfirt setion of the Act are un onstitutional ; second, that tho Uni. ted States Court has no juiisdiction %over the Governor of a State ; third, -hat the Governor is not an election offizer within the meaning of the Act. It will be noted that Clayton does not boldly plead not guilty of the frauds charged on him, and demand proof ; and endeavors to get rid of the case before it reaches a trial of the facts. This is a rather pitiable spectacle for a Senator of the United States and a trusted member of the administration party to be in. lie doem not deny that he committed the election frauds charged against him, and by means of which he is be lieved to h.vo reached the Senate ; but lie denit-s the con.Ititutiunality of the law which his own party passed ; and lie seeks shelter behind the dogma of State rights by pleading that the Governor of a State is not amenable to a law of Congress The public will watch the progress of this case with some interest. Twenty other eases of election frauds, all com nitted by Clayton's friends are tocome before the Court.-Missouri Republi can. meeting Death. Bonaparte died in his military garb, his field marshal's uniform and boots, which he had ordered to be put on a bhort time before his dis. solution. Augusta Cwsar chose to dio in a standing position, and 'as careful in arranging his persons %ad dress for the occasion. Siward, Earl of Northumberland, when at the point of death, quitted his bed, put on his armor, saying that it became not a man to dio like a boast." A more remarkable instance is that of Maria Theresa, of Austria, who, a short time before she breathed her last, having fallen in a slight slum ber, one of the ladies in attendance remarked that her majesty seemed to he aslee "No,' said she, "I could sleep if I would indulge in repose, but I am sensible of the near approach of death and I will not allow myself to be surprised b3 him in my sleep. I wish to meet my dissolution awake." Hints Concerning Kerosene. Scarcely a week passes during the winter months but we read accounts of frightful accidents from kerosene lamps exploding and killing, or scar ring for life, men women and children. A simple knowledge of the inflamma. ble nature of the fluid would proba bly put a stop to nearly all the ncoi. dents. As the oil burns down in the lamps, a highly inflammable gas gath ers over its surface, and as the oil de creases the gas increases. When the oil is nearly consumed a light jar will often infi im the gas, and an explo sion is sure to follow, deeling death and destruction, A bombshell is not inmore to bec dreaded. Now, if the lamp is not allowed to burn more than half way down,, such accidents are imnpossible. Always fill your lamps every morning, then you never need fear an explosimn. The Iowa Election. A dispatch dated Dubuque, 11th inst., from the echairmian of the Re publican State commmittee to Sce. tary of War Bielkuap, says. "4Carpenter's majority in the eighteen counties heard from is nine thousanmd. It will undoubtedly reach forty-five thousand in the State. We loose one representative in P'olk county, one in Henry, one in WVebster one in Jeffersoni, all in Johnson, and gain in Dubuqu."~ An i mpious blasphemer, while the fire fiend was raging in Chicngo, har. angued a multitude from the steps of the Court House, inciting to dlisorder. lie eried out, "WVhere is your God ? Where is your Go~d now ? W bere are your God's angels now ?" A policemen grabbed him by the collar and confned him in the basement of the Court House. What became of the blasphemer is not known-the Court House was soon after con sumned. The Titusvillo Herald notices "quinine bisouit" as the latest novel ty in the medicinal pastry line. Each biscuit, it seys, contains one-forthb of a grain of quinine and the taste is so concealed that a hearty individual can put them down until the hair en the back of his head begins to curl, without knowing what he is taking. Next we shall have castor oil sponge cake, buchurious bread and sqjul pancakes for table delicacies, and all firat class drug stores have a bake shop and lunch-rooma attached to the pescription depatmn. An innitel Answered. An infidel was lecturing on his fa vorite topic, against the Bible and Christiunity, in one of the laig' town north of England. Ite was peouliarly bitter against the word of God. At the conclusion of the lecture, feeling much delighted with his effort he said, "If any one wislies to reply, let him come forward and speak." After it brief pause, a middle-aged woman came up to the stand and said, "Sir, I w ih to ask you a question ?" "\Vell, my good woman, what is the question I" "Ten years ago," said she, "I was left a widow with eight small chil. dron ; my husband died poor ihe left mile not much excelpt than a Bible. Thatibook has been read daily, and I've found sweet comfort and groat sup~ port in its gracious truths. (od has blessed Inc and my children, and hasrL mercifully supplied miy wants and tbeirs. I have-good hope in Jesus Christ, and expect when I die to dwell with him forever. Now sir, what hias your belief done for you I" Rather confuised the infidel, re plied, "My good wonvrn, I've no dc sire to interfere with your cijoy IIent." "Fhat is not the question. What has your way of thinking done for you V" Much confounded, tihe manl beat a retreat amid the laughter of a large congregation, who felt the widow had surely and effectively silenced the infidel.-New York Christutin Adeo. cate. A Story to be Believed. On the authority of two persons of veracity, a correspondent of the Al bany Journal tells this: "They aw a wasp riding on a green worm one and a half inch.i long. How far he had ridden they di.1 not know ; but, after they saw him, they watched him until he had ridden all of twenty. five feet. Occasionally the worm would stop, lie maotionleos, as though he was dead, when the wasp. after a little, would spur him up, aind then the worm would go on. The wasp would keep the woi in would keep the worm in as direct a course Its he could. After a while the worm top. pod and the wasp dismounted and quickly ran and removed a littlestone or piece of ground about two inclies from where the worm lay, and then seizing the worm by the head drew it into the hole. l'resently, the wasp came out, put on the gravel top over the hole, eovere.1 the stone, and sceni ed to be getting ieady to fly, when they killed him, and then dug down abouttwo inches and dug out the worm, which was deid." A Scisation. Information has been received here indicating that the Mormons have considered a fearrel plan of retalia tion towards the Government for thie course which lius been pursued in Utah against polygamy by the Fedu ral judicial authorities. it is nothing less than an effort to foment anl Indian war from Ai izona to the northern bounds of Dakoto, to de.<troy the over'and railroads, and devaistatO the whole western frontier. Addi tional troops have been ordered to Utah, and as the GJoveinmenat is fore warned in time, any such scheume of wvarfare may be nipped in the incep. tion. There does not appear to be any iinformatico Ge any aggressive nmovemnent s have been engt eredl upon, nor de~ the Mo~rmo~s r'. prepa~red to precipitate hostilities jur'e n.v ; but that they have this plan in coti templation there seems to be no I d oubt.- luashin1fon teleg/ramr. Net a great while since, at a social gathering, a young lady, dressed in the extreme fashion a nd glittering with diamonmd', sat silent anid apart from the rest, taking nao part in a eon- I versation pus ely lit erary inm its ehasrac-| ter. The gentleman of the house ump. preached her with the remark, "You do not appear to lbe enjoying your self." "No," said the lady, "thuis is too dry for mue. Ain't there nobody hero that can flirt ?" "Flirt ?" said he, "ala, I see you are sort of ()leo patra in disguise." "Cleopatra! No)," rejoined the intelligent beauty, "I never liked Indians." At Louisville there wats a grandl raille last week, Capt. Frtank Harris contributing a fifteen hundred dollar span of horses, and lion. Kearsley C .r. ter a flieen hundlred dollar diamocnd pin. Thme object was "cliaritable," and the tickets sold largely. WVon derful freak of fortune. Capt. Iar ris drew the Hion. Kearsley's pin, and the lion. Kearsley drew the captain' hors es. We arc informed that Columbia's transactions in the cotton market last Tuesday were 65 bales. TIhe sales here that day were 279 bales: Messrs Mayes & Martin alone pur chasing 51 bales. This shows that Newberryv is becoming if not already, the best inland cotton market of the Btate.- Newberry Herald. The detailed oficeial report of the German losses in the late war gives the totals as 18,0.00 killed, 87,000 wanc ded and 6,000 mis-im, Mrs. Fair Prefenr langing to limprisonl. Ient. A correspondent of a Chicago pa. por, who visited Mrs. Laura D. Fair, now in jail in San Francisco under sentence of death for the murder of A. P. Crittenden, Esq., reports the fullowing dialogue : "Let me ask you a somewhat singu. lar <qiestion, will you ?" "Certainly.'' "Suppose that the Supremo Court refsies to allow you a new trial, would you accept a Ce>mmutation of your i'ontenoo " "f[low do you mean ?' "Well, it. is hard to tay to a woman in your position just what I mean. It is to this effect : Suppose a peti tion were gotten tip to commute your present sentonce to imprisonment, would you accept it 11" "Never !" abo answorod, with a* flush creeping across her cheek. "What !" You prefer the capital sentence I" "Most certainly V' "Why, may I ask 7 Is not life sweet to you 71 "Yes, it is ; but I have a daughter who is now growing up, and, should I remain in prison, she wouid have to ttay hero and visit me. She is young, she would grow up without protection, and then would always rest on her the stain of my prison life. But if I die, she would go away somiewhere else, and in time the stain would be forgotten." "As lio spoko of her daughter, a mist struggled for a momont with the niagnetic currents in her eyes, but al most instantly disappeared as if dried up by the heat of the sur face upon which it appeared. A Good Irish Anedotlo. Somi years ago, since when the beautiful painting of Adain and Evo was exhibited in Ireland, it became the chief topic of conversation. Fi nally arrmnged an illiterate peasant went to see it. The light was arrang ed as to reflect on the picture and leave the spectator in comparativo darknoss. The peasant as he enter3d the room to see his first parents, was struck with so much astonishment that h1 re. mine i d sp.echlet.s for soine m1omengots. lie stood lil'o a statue ; as tl.o:i'g. I i- tet r. iooorporated with the oake.. 11 . .. the I.. tm. At last with an eirt ho turned to an nequaintance and said : "Barney, Ill niver say another word agin Adam in all ie life, for had I been in the garden, I'd havo eat ivery nhiple in it,, for the sake of such a lovely crenture as Evo." The Next Pncket for LIberia. The A meria n Coloniization Society expect to de.patch, an expedition for Liberia on tho first of November, 1871. To industrious and worthy people of color Itine sciety will give passago and subsistance on the voyage --made in about forty days-and support for tho first six months after handing. Single adult persons got ten acres, and families. These are all gifts, never to be repaid. Those wishing to remove to Liberia should make applicat ion, addressed to llev. W illiamn Mea in, D). D., financial reret ary, or to William Coppinger, corresponinig secretary of the Ameri can Colonization Society, W ashington, 1.. C. Singulair PraclIce. Thei. New York (l'enn.) Demoera t iia a, tough story to explain several necidents which it says have occurred recently on thme Northern Central railway. It appears that the flagmen are required to go along the road some dhistanfee from train which may be dalyed in order to wvarnapproaehing trains. It is often necessary to wait sonic time, "and in order to get somei rest in this time it is said they lay heads on the track and go to sleep, waiting for the noise andl jar of the approach ing train to wake theim up" State Elections. State elections wvill be held during the Fall as follows: Ootober 10, Oh io, State offieers ; October 10th Iowa, State omeiers ; October 10th, l'ennsylvanini, two State oflicers; No vemaber 7th, MlarylhandI, State officera; Novemnber 7th, Massachusetts, State omeiers ; November 7th, M innessota, Stato officrs ; November 7th, Missis sippi, State omeiers; November 7th, Newv Jersey, State officers ; Novem ber 7th, New York, State offiers; November 7th, Wisconsinm, State of - ficers; November 7th, Illinois, Con. gressmnen at large. Some fathers are too hard-hearted for anything. A man scolded his twelve-year old son fully five minutes the otheor dauy because the child used his (the fathea's) best Sunday razor to open oysters wmith. We don't see how the razor could hurt the oysters any how. A nsarried lady of our acquaint anee thus sunms up three years' expe. riene of married life "T1he first year my haasband called me 'dear,' the second Mirs. A..' and~ the third year old sorrel top.' The last I couldn't t~and. Affairs In York, On Thursday last, a company of infantry of the Eighteenth Regiment passed here on their way to York ville, and on Saturday morning two companies of cavalry left here for the same destination. When the artil lery and the siege trains are to move to the front, we are not advised. The force at Yorkville now consists of three companies of cavalry and two of infantry-aggregating we sup pose, not less than two hundred men. One Deputy United States Marshal, or the Sheriff of the county, could make all the arrests that are drawn on the bills for that county as safely and as effectually as the whole mii. tary force of the government can do. This would not suit the purposes of party, though. An insurreotion at the South is needed to keep the Northern heart fired; and all the forms of suppressing one must bo gone through with, no matter how disastrous the consequences may be to the section of country seleoted for the onactment of the farce. Woe to the conquered has been the rule since the creation of the world. It would be idle for us to expect our fate to be better than that of other conquered peop los. No arrests have been made in York so far as we are informed, since the arrest of the party charged with having, Ku Kluxed Phwobe Smith in May last. It is supposed that Aker man has in his pooket the war proc. lamation of Grant. and that the troops will move to the front imme diately upon the expiration of the fivo days of grace allowed by his im perial highness the so--called Presi dent of the United States.- Chester R~eporter._ How to ee Untter IVater. The Indians of North America do this by cutting a hole in the ice anid then covering or hanging a blanket in such away as to darken or exclude the direct rays of the sum, when they are able to see and discover fish n- any reasonable depth. Let any one who is anxious to prove this place himself tinder the blanket and he will be aston ished when ho beholds with what bril lianicy every Ihing in the fluid world is lighted up. I once had occasion to examine the bottom of a mill pond, for which I constructed a-float out of inch plank sufficient to bony me tip; through the centre of this I cut a hole and placed a blanket over it -hen I was mnable clearly to discov objects at Lhe bottom, and several lost tools were (liscovered and picked tip. I am entis fied that where water is sufficieutly clear this latter plan could be success fully used for searching for dead bodies and lost articles. I would suggest that Lhis experiment be tried on the sea; for I am satisfied that with a craft like the Great Eastern, where an observa tory could be placed at the bottom with sufficient darkness, by the aid of glasses we could gazo down into the lepths of the sea the same as we can mrvey the stary heavens at midnight. Cor. Scientific Amcrica n. The later investigations seem to ilow that those frightful instruments )f fortune discovered in the convent >f Piepus, in Paris', including "straps and buckles," "steel collars, 'iron corsets and skul-caps," and worst of all, "a real rack turned by sogwheels," are just what the nuns aid they were, orhthoprendict instru nents. The Pall Mall Gazette says ~hat "the corset, the skull.cap and hie rack are, beyond doubt, inntru ments for the treatment of torticollis and spinal curvature, and would be recognized as such by the persons familiar with the antique methods of rthopotdy." Conductor In Church. Eastern papers contain the follow ing little story, which we here bring to notice: A good story is told of a popular railroad conductor, recently chosen deacon of ai church in Middlesez county, Massachusetts. A few Sun days after his appointment it became his dluty to assist' in taking up a col lection. In his embarrassment he surprised the congregation by starting out with the customary "Tickets, gen tletmen I' lndfcted for Murder. Two brothers named Richmond have been indioted in the court of Summers county, West Va., for the murder of a man named Bennett af ter the close of the war. The Rich monds live in Raleigh. Bennett was a Confederate soldier, who had just returned, when it is alleged, the Rich mends went to his house, called hira out, and shot him down in his own yard. There are two ways of going through the world: one is to make the best of it, the other to mnake the worst of it ; and those who take the latter coarse work hard for very poor pay. ie who marries a beauty only, I like a buyer of cheap furniture-the varnish that caught thme eye will not endure the fireside blase, The Greenville Mountalnior re ports frost, rnouutifql weather, apd the tberwnotetor teach tog the fordes,