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t 4 e, ~. -n -. 32 Z SWiIiains re.rj A FAItiLy Paper Oyidt 0 t dustry and Literature [Terms--$3.00 per Annum, In Advano voN i3 Tw;; ,: ... ~. .~., .WINN8BORO, S. W 1DI SDAT MORNING, FEBRUARY 14, 872. R V019 w~rM.T, SO-[NO0.34 FAIRFIELD HMIAtD IS PUnLISIEID WREKI.Y D~i;SPORTES & WILLIAMS, V'rne.-Tm II RALI) is pUbli ik. ly In the Town of Winnsbor6, AVtl.A f1. bariably in, advance. SB- All transiont advertisements to be baid in advanCe. Obituary Notioes and Tributes $1 00 per quare. , tAlmost a Corpse. X VOUNO MAN HEARS 11S OWN FUNERAL . SERMON. Among the more peqgnineit visitors iWho are passing the holidays with their friends and relatives in this city Is Mr. Ceo' C:-r--j. who we" bosting on Ouedia rihaketwith tio 4 hi 0oM. anions. They unmoored the boit and rowel for the distanoo of - t#4 luiles to an .Ieagnf that, jifted, itself from the wave . Herd tb'oy 'dpett a feW hours ild ' bt0lot1ig' shel1I' an a botanUJ spedlldens, III1 ,a bladk than der-ladeu aloud In. the west' warned them. that a violent- storm . was breW. ing,,.and they, speedily set out upon their return. . Thby hid neArliy -each ed the malilaWd' When their little b traft turned ke*'lpwai by a 'squall and the party was loft sturggling - and Oanting in the - Oater. Mr. Cam saW his -t" companIons swimm1~g towaids the shore and attempted to follow theo, but in Vain. A dehghttul sesiat ion of repose took possession of him. Then all was '01h:1Os. Blank I He was raestod by ls totrpanionsj and upon his oturn to conscioiusnossj he attesppted to. open .his eyes, mIivo his batAls=-to speak, but found him self unable 6 Itomin.nnd .a wusclg. As he lay in this. Oundition, meo tIy piotred t-6 him al that hi4d triMh pired.-up to-the ni'oment when lie be. tame insensible. Then. he !marvelod whether he. was alive or dead. What meint this haah t thit chill I this dark. ness of blaoknes thatedveoped himl \VhOre 'wa be tis we Ihf Would it-be &lways thus ' Tim* passed- on, and. ke Sl1 his thoughts and ideas contracting Into -a narrower sphere, unpil yzo hing but tibe oW eentrtl .kha6'ledge of Otis. tence continued tO eleRt itgelf. l(ot soddenly a orash, .as.f all. tho Titou thunder..godp had hlomwP their trumpets in unison amote upon his hearing-a Jeluge of . light like the ionoentratetd rwys olf itn illion suns burst upta -hip vision -there was a severing of .Soul end sense# and he stood in aii1t0, bQside lijsYiuletitrew1 loffini and read the insbriptioi BtaIn altimoib, ilt) *nune 29, 1846. blud at Erewerton, N. Y., June 20, 1866. Aged tWenty yarst ThroUgh the oval glass it the head 0-4he -asket he #oult bee bib fafle firohen Iij thr1hJtj tgidity d Ath, His ittends and rtlatites wbreaese ed sound the rbum) atid the pastor was prOadhing a touching funeral Aer thonj iltero-upted now and then by thd sobs of tho lIbLenert 'I Throigh the open windowv the glory of a sulithbet daty wits diitivin in fragrant with the sweet brth frip .the elgyPer . ida2 rand musieaf *Idh the sdagatirblirdh. fl s r lhtW6 bqtA'r ingsterythibg 6 looked upon, and a jatont' melody in every sound be heard--and he realiz ed bow orude and imperfect are all our dreams of happiness in the dlesh as comnpared with those which the imnA mortals know. hut, like a flah of lightning, there itanlif a loss of identity again--uttut anohihilation for an quneertain Japae of' time-and whena he again awoke to a sense of his condition, his spirit ondle mno'a tenanted 'hie- bodyah-lis coefln bad beett borhdi to the Ueete~try-and he heard the sexton preparing to lowti' him to his last resting plitee in the dust. Now for the first time, a great hor row fell upion him. lie was to be enitomtbed alive-to beoJeft atone with the ni ht3 anfl the terror, and the grimn Uo~ain of slfEldtofis anouid6ring around him6 He aWould togain odolos less when.too late --would strikethe elose walls of' hi. prison, btt ono pur Jiose -eall, an4 there .would be no an be-pray, and the very h~avens would bd p itiless-slriek, tear his flash with hi. fingers. care, and; Summoning up tiil his wIhi,'hes tailised It in' alast efort %d bWa1h the spell that seiled him, and '.tith *dos seas. * H was resetted ifroftt hit im pending.4.ote 46adsw6 els of.ahful itsitiglrought himn bask te the .full enjoymetf f- his, former health.. Jlediana Banse. - Vri idis,1fithfa' alation of 7 0O,. 000 has a State Uofversity, a #M MilItary I tuK.Was4 and an itpisoopal C1l~ -a'Presbytesim tht l6d681 e paatig. lie 00 gqe W di r. tr qg shou6 min amy .iun toa lritain it a population ek ,9QQ1QP bee-li.. aq4 q diseased potato~r None-as one is a bee holder and cbe other a spook'd tatur, t.4'Biyvgg of Delaward tqges ex. oeftior at a speech of Mr. Hoar of SMaskiQhuxette tlioeothei dag ln whiob he stated thai thert ftre over eigh 1housaid whit# peosont il the State 01 Delawar6 who Bobld nbt read or write. Wlhen lining W6 tht gdatenmnn Mr."Biggs was folibly fitrlck With the gteat amount of pretended piety and intell3AUiaIty of the State which he in part represebts. Mr BiggsSbda in thI 8tite consta ble's report to the State pt Ma4s qbu sOU in four years-6613, i86 ,868 and 1869-proecutiotai, exclusive of likknor oeases, amounting to ten thous. sni'dVhd thirty-aiz. What wore these prosecutitns for ? What crimes had the people of the State of Massadhu. sett1 othmitted I Why, tir in listen ing to the h'hofable gentleman, you would suppose that they *eto all saints up there with their great learn ing. Let ne read you some of the crimes they bate committed, and I *will iead them slphabetioally, becauseb they are guilty of crimes for as many letters As there are In the English Ian ginage, except the four last letters of the alphabet. [Great laughter.) LetWe zay, however, before reading the list, that you would suppose, from the reinarks of the gentleman from Massachusetts, that crimes was do oreasluln that State ; but, instead of that, in 1866 there were nineteen hundred and forty-five eases, and in 1869 there were thirty-four hundred and fifty-nine, an increase of nearly double in three years. And what *%re these crimes, Mr. Speaker? I will recite a few of them. Arson, adultery, (Laughter,] burglary, biga my, [ILaughter,] conspiring to de fraud, drunkenness, dafacing tomb. stones,[great laughter,] forgery horse. btealing, [laughter,] highway robbery, k epg 'hotels -without license. Nreat laughter.) Mr. 8ppaker, 1 must claim your proteetton. I proceed- with the list. *Night-walking, [laughter,] obtaining mone.y under falbo pretenses, perjury, polygamy, tlaughterl] :playilg cards on Sunday, present at cook-fight, [great laughter,] refusing to pay their railruAd fares, [great langhter, set ing tip a lottery, selling obscene prints, selling unnnasured wood, [laughter,] selling diseased meat, (laughterj threatening to burn a eOuteh,4tgreat laughter. Mr. Speak er, I wil road no more of the ton thousand. Now, Oiri when the gentleman from Masaathusetts talks about the tiliter. bVrof th State of Delaware) lit the tell bihi that the briminal rehord of that State does not present any such dark r16dord as that of the dtate ot -Massach'ojintte does toAtly-a record darker than oight iled upon mid bight, tLaughtor. Caieof British Dlsatisfatid. 'he New Xork tvuing Post, in i-derring to the sudden elcitement in England over the Washington tro.aty, says': "Tho inimodiate causd of this tbange has ben disappointment oc easioned by adiscovery of the fact that the United8 tates GovornM et had not relinquished itu'elains td general dainges or injury done by British druieurs to Aimericanceummeiude. We iti Atierloa, are also disappited, perhapsi lit the positidli tilhen by the iritish tGovernment. Wti had a vagtie idea tat our oppoonnt lhad given Uip thel ease bef'ibre trial. Iloth nations n ave disUovered their mistake; hutthe gluattbliig seemg to be ndarl y confined to thie dthei- sidd of thie ocean." Net the Bqdil oi i esr. Negiklabs are now eligible fto the of'.. flee of t'lesident and Vice Pi-esident of' the linited States. It was pro, posed lately, III the House of Ilepr. sentatives, to .amend the Constitution so that the Ge~rmatisj Irish and other .foireigihers mighe enjoy the rights as the tl~grtihs. The amnebdment was lost by .nintlty'one yeas to sevebty five nays.p.-got two.thilide itt its favor, w hi0h the Constittition of the United States risquires. 'i%se in the udgal tife wefe #11 kep~ublicans. 'akigikhe Veil rn Stivannah on Friday last four young ladies were received idto the order of the Sisters of Mercy. The naines of the .postdlaits were as. fol lows, Miss Anna'Trodetidhi of Au. g usta, Georgia, who reeeives in reli gion the name of8Sister MsIfy.Alphonia sue. MHls Nilen- IMen edy, of Satan naby niow Siater Maty a tagdalen. Miss Agnes MoMahon ugf Savenbtah, now grown, of datannah, now jneuar . UE#1fI .in igf~ii Aet; .At the solicitatlon of Aefetal protbla gun Go.lan, ol 0 lorward. edito of aPlanttl4* bg~ovideot. edtto EtfropE ff the puvpose of. q tgig-the sut6 of farhiser wild lds, *ater pewera et mimergI, and tioaet forth i.adtlasgesof ettilgra Whet s the diSu'b4 between .a enqteyouimb end a hofegauoon 1 .One . tiade up of a lot of little cells, the other is-onoe enormus sell. -mm The Assault old den. RaffV, hy a Aall road Conductor. The Menphia Appeal, of the 2 inst., oont1bai1 the followig partion lars of the n.4i:,ult on don,. Maury bj a conduetor diu the Chattanooga and Memphis Rilroad; which was briedh mentioned in our telegraphic de spat che4 : On Wednesday night; as tho tr~ii for Memphis wan leaving Chattanoog Gen. DuatneY H. Mnuey, the well known dofdtider of Mtobile, stbppedi into the Pullman sleeping cihr and took a usent. Seeing Mr. Trice, . th< uonductor; he Ilh.d hiul if ti (th 0 oar) was a " orthera 8'ncrn;1' Tc this Trice responded that it wa known as a S ,uthern Pullman car, but Was ownel by a Northern com pany. duu. Mattry then asked Trice his name and on bein4 ans*8red; pibk. ed up his oarpet saok and eft, for the ladies' oar, here, as Trico *as inL fordietl by a blalhsman, Gen Maury indulged in sums remarks about him, making threats of a sUmmary charse. ter. Trice, ipon hearilig 1lls, ltladc up his mind to Intuire into it; and was about leaving his oWn for the ladieb' car for that putpdso when Gen. Maury made his tppeitralide and d. dressing him (Trice) asked : "Are you the man who circulated those lie obout Mr. Davis I" 'To Which Tribe responded : "I am the nian who told what you refer to." To this Gen. Maury responded, stepping back and putting his hand on his hip : "You are a d-d lying son of a-." Where. upon Trico seized Gen. Maury by the arm to prevent him, as lie says, from shooting, knocked him down, and seizing a large poker near his hand struk Gen. M. on the head every time he attempted to get up (perhaps six or seven times) until he be-3ame senseless from the repetition of the blows. By this time the cars were 1o motion, therefore the authorities could not intervene. Gen. M. was taken charge of by the employees of the train until Huntsville was reach ed, where he was put off to receive medical treatment. About Editors. Will Castleton rhymes as follows about a farmer who took a boy to a pa inting offiue to "make an editor out o' him P. The editor sat in the sanotum and looked the old man in the eye ; then he glanced at the grinning youth hopeful, and mournfully made this t6ply : "Is your son a small unbound edi. tion of Moses and Silomon both ? can h1 compass his s-pirit with meekness, and strangle a natural oath 1 Can he leave all his wrongs to the future, and carry his heart in his cheek 7 Can he do any hour's work in a minute, and live on six pence a week ? Can lie courteously talk to an equ'l, and browbeat an impudent dunce ? Can he keeip things in apple. pie order and dd half a dozen things at once ? Can ho press all the prings of knoweldge *ith quick and reliable touch 1 Can he be sure that he kitows how muoh to know; alid kno*A, I .w to not know tob much ? Does he know hw to stir up his virtue, and put v tuheok-roin on his pride ? Can he outry i gentleman's maners with a rhailocerdus' hide i dall tie know all slid do all, and be all, with chetirful nebse editrage aild vim I If st, we perhasps, call make an editdr oUt o' b iin:"' The farmer stoodi ouriottely listen Ing; whill wondeF his *vlsieri b'b: spread :and be said :"Jim, I[guess weil be goin' ; he's probably but ol his head." Thler'a Oratorb; A Paris correspondent thuis refers to the oratorie4 .tyle of the Preel detit of the new itpublo: Dlefore boginag and, while dell*. eFiudg a speech M. Thiefs dfinks I)ur.1 gun-ly as openly as Pitt used td drink p or . A sip is tiken fromnthe r~d tumb:. Ser ; then a sip is taken from the white; then, In due histtoric order; the blaok.edged handkerobief ismade td 4t1 Its wvork ; finally when all these litt It tricks of manner have been gond throdgh; a soultewhat feeble but clear voice speaks dut eith~ fapid utterzndd And beautiful articulation: Soon the votoo.strengthens, until, at timeas sentence wtll ring through the asatrh' bly. His gestuifes gf'o* rnludre alima.. ted, epigrama lire shut tdrth like stone ffd mA estapult, slid toddd cheers aiid approving latighter stop the orator now and thlin, 'ondblfi tirn to take breath, a ne ''sip of iffte, and a fresh rib of tile hiank'erethief. EHate is Not AhldYE Sji6e fto two thlngs differ mnore than lluf ry and dispatch, flurry is ths. udraft of a ws~ak tzlid ; despat4It. of a etrong one. A *eak mpg. (p :o0f00,, lilta1, eqdiffel, 1( a cage, is.laboring~polpele. ally;but doio piar~we, and in con,, (ho spot.; lilke a tfd .tIi he is to every body'. Pay, bot eslopa, iobddy 4 he talk. a great deals b(t.Aay tota littl*. 1Ok int# .vorg 6Mes~',. inf4,us 10o j las *i4, Mp iood in thEe, taimg fory'tfemi A~e h96 sod with those few that gre he only burn, his Aingars StnuC Wnll. .M'egbrs RWlf1rs: It is not sur -pt-lang that our 0it114.4 p i$ti I'o buy B suth Carulint U:.d. The reasons are olk-iwdd t6A all. .lut theto I 0 many , 'iaf'o' "frA Mortgage it il Rood Bonda in the State, now helling at couparatively low pricee. Among those are the Bonds of the N >ithea.era .ad bU]J -ttrolin i Hail Roads. There ar" alio the F .,t Mirtgauo Bonds of the Charlotte, Columbia and- 'Augustautil IloAd Company. The mutgage tinder Whiuh those bonds are oud, limit< the, hlnount Per . fiit# ho $10,250. This ath.>no.per p4ipiof;Jirst Mort. age Bonds capnot be dJeed ud. Not more than two niillionhiin'i bb imsAjed on one hundted and 'in. nve miles of road, Whiob cost over 5,00.,600. Tids'far, we leard, that Ps than $1,. 400j000 have been ilbued -in all, or less tman.$7,000 pef :5 . Tbjs ' Hbw the great echtral r utThri the 8tite of Sodth barboliin, and, as I am infortued, has hown large in - crease in its receipts during the pabt yb-. Inthe ye. rlubsing januatyr-1811, its not inco e'b E inte eat and t dhbA th C perceit on its capitill stbok. This was very propeHy applied to the improvement of the property. The gross iricdme of 1871 will exeued that bf 1870. We learn also that rrangements have been nilitd t hi oa . for al I the night mail anid passngor business of the Wlingtnlu i, LUlumibia and An gusta 4 .md 104~#6. hoafn Cb'u1lbi' Tbis wvill -uiake a ltiage addition to It- ; dreasing buslie.s: Itiis als. re ported thlit a c.asidbra. ble portiondr net 664bar rail *ill soon be subsif.uted for some of it, mo t wvorn railM, thus itding greatly to its eapacity and effteiondy. All these improvemeiont5wil tuad to im prove the property; add to jitiho ane, and thus much appilemiadAte bontls. TheAe bonds innawtle in '05# bdar I per cent interest, payab!e sensi-annu ally, and interest has been paid regu larly upon them a,ine* 1807. They oun be bought at abbut 81, while bonds baring the P_94rtq'o( ioter' eat, issued by the COi-ia and Con. iral Rail Roads, are telling at. 98 and 100. There is no reason for this wide difference of value. The C. U. & A. bonds ought to readily command 90 while the others bring 08. Thl'le bonds of the Charlotte division of the road sold at par before the war, and there is nosufficieat reason why theo-e bonds should not soon approximate it. Suah safe investments should be taken by our people at home, and not sent to a Nort haalrkk-o find pur chasers.-Charleston Courier, 24 inst. The Wife of Ex Governor Reynolds Falal ly Burneld. About 5 o'oleok last evening, as Mr. John A. Edwards was passing the re sidence of ex-Gov. Reynolds, No. 1,222 Pine street, he was startled by ories of "murder" and shrieks for as sistance. Upon responding to the beeams and entering the hou.e, he foaud Mrs Reynolds on t he floor en . veloped in flames, whih had alre.idy consumned her clothing, with the ex: ception of a amali portion of th' under-gnauments. [be immediately t'arew a rug over-her and -exainguish ed the flames, after wvhich he biur, i ;d out for umedical assistanace. On his~ return wvith a physiciau the lady wams Insensible. HeIr hands, feet and limbs were so fearfully burned that the i-kin was5 gono and the fle.>h was brauked open, presenating a horrible appearance. Shte died at 2 o'cl~ock this morning. Man. Reynolds had bomplained of feeling unwell for a day ol- t'vap'aud dotubkls,;feeling bold, approached theo open grato art trhich her clothing oaughtm fre. With the exception of her servant girl thie was entirely ahdne in the house at the time.-Mt. Louis, Demnocrat, 2Cth alt io 41 Ashes for W heat. A. mubreciber sends us the following as his ofiperieunce in usinag wood asheo, vii: that in qulantities of onaly eight bushiels per unerb; they hiave a marked efreet thfft'thby'rpish the wheat for ward abvdral day~s; thus getting it pflkad Ofithat dritical period. wheil It is sti apt 1 l ie *tts~ked by rust, that tiatdy htreniIthen the stemn aid in. eft'ase Ift IolIdity. Alt of whichI adid ihuoba : e *e ean.4ardil i dd~saTuttuh dr in'd aplhicdilen for all erops andl esp a. eailly for an orohatd.-nriccn Aig ribtltural dI. Infparlst Id Segar ledlers. li . ptefu a! Refeou lit-edit 6alla, t9Idkion to h' tact that pitrties pur eh asinag n-g ats uhd or th i imupresalun that; tl4y uio -inported by reMRbn uf having .the indi~ation ouatoms revendoe htstkj affihed, daff readily 1611 -th& domsti'ffretie Impof ted b heI of itported eari SThe ai$b ia te M adnose bou Dr'D I "fts f1 fea that *i,' e dive into aumre unkncn egion," where he nave an'a efoandA A Negro Turned White. Mr. W illiamn Hardin, a well known gentleniat of this 0it , returned a Aboit tilt o ago feom a tour thrdugh A ridAs, atd iola'es, aunoluj' other thinig, 1i1A lab ota. at B IvalI iultf a fAll blo.Ald negl-o %ho, telh yeas ago \as very black Ln-I as now 1'egy whiteI I'he darkqy bel, nged, during dlave I me0, to fi*uiro Mann, of that plibe, and was thought to be the blaokeit negto ia t It). neighborhood. A lo sust bit hia pi .the abouldbr s-oue time during. the flast ytelr of the uiar, and a 1iii white birol formei at once irmund the pite. 'his cirolo gradu slly, extend-edI itrelf, and ihfl.1y icov. ered the whole botId3, wi.lh the exoep. tiln of a ethall bl.;tak .-ojt oil the nck and alkd tjarrow 1otigs hIich gird around thb eyes. The hegro i at Il1 a negro in all other respects. The hair. for instance, is kiuky, the nose flat find b-oad;.a 4li p ls thick. lii 00Ill buoN,M r. I rkin Lays, is ex cue-lingly fir and showsi a won derfit 'hange wroitght, ats it sup. posed, by the Iit of a looust. The medioal pt-ofessi en tellA us that there are re3 irded in the boos one or two Similar caseu, with t0he exception that the locust bite hal t.thing to do with thmin. White ilen,lhey say, have ailso been known to turn blaik and look; as regards their Akin, jt.. like negroeb. 'Ihe cauc of the change is not titantly known, and is a lquestiun for tcic itifib iti'estigntion. The Inousts. if found to be so use fUl; will be iiiported and cultivated by oiiir colored population till thu whole couinry is inundAted with them. The ndgroes wi:l then all become white people, iad pet haps the hilte peoplewill all becoie, not no. lgoe5. but, colured poopile. lopeecs Laborers for lik l!8e Fields. The b0oial Iand political revolution now going on in J.dpan, whioh is paid to have its origin by the introduction o Athdiributl idead, ha? Cqmpletely broken dowli th'd barriers w ii have etisted in that country for centuries, and now the ports are open to coal. tnence and emigF.tiHU.. Th Mika do AelIdM 3Wing iion ai.d women to thi country to learn our way of doing things, and hires urdainbtit Ameiri cans to go to Japan aiid iitrduce oul ibor-saving mae..inery. We mu. VsadlV expect; when our con.reia r1elahtion are n.Ure ex. tended to that country, thit the &tup. anese laboreis will find their tay to our ?,bores. Would it not bb policy for u to encourage them;t) to coifle artidtlg uwi They are familiar %ith the ultivation of r:ce, arid thousands up i thousands of aerus now olmost abdadtnled al ng our Southern Atlanti'V epist (r'Ihr then ubundance of labor. --Th0 o&t1/: queer Iggs. A subscriber in Charlestdr, d. J., writes an interesting letter grapili. cilly dec.rihiog the effect produeed upon the colored peoplo of his negigh bood by blauk oggs which have betn laid for two tieasons by a d uok whidh he keeps. Such an occurenoce as a black egg nuy, n-iturilly enough, be ctonbtrued into n,. omen by the sunpergtitutionus, and is tiuite as~arIoma. Ions as a wrhite black bird. Hie sas "The duck is of an oidIioary Eagl.sh breed, with a white neek-ring and breas t. She Iu s a bout fifteena eggs, then dtops 'whib and resumes. The first egtg of each lay ing is nat black as ink with whieb y our jo.urnal i p inited and each suce-osive one is a shade lighter, um.til a dark slate color i-rolh e.Tecolor canniot be washed or ruh. bed off, but can be removed by scrap. ing with a knife." Our correspond int a-ks na t-, explain the oocurrence. We c nu only sany that ini re-ny cases of dlieoAeration of various atnmsl secre. tionua, carbon in the pignanit deposited, aind very likely it is In this iniitande. The eggs mu'tit be e.mnsldered teb.ormua jet they imay prodhuce duckliuigs that are perfectly l-eihby. t 'Is worth while to raise B'me in order to i 6.d wh~ther the trait will prove hc-edji tary, as it wnas .--AricuHl aralist. Mlore Frauds. The Now York Sunt of Saisr'hy publishes a aurtli'ug exposure ,,t ti legod fraude and d filort'ons. a smunting to n'voral millhion doll r.., in the stramip dopartmn rm of the I tter nai R~eaverf te iluracun.~ (Co osaui y editorially uparn theO atmeen ont, the Suta is: "The stampa have hi. en i..nued sand jold, but the money tn the amount of the m'i$ tng iluit iw, lbis-not been returned to thie Tr~ea atry. Thi.. statement Is f.ot: ie. by a considerale amno.:nt of' ve'.-letce. and we dre asfred tra t .ha a Is miuch more rio6 yet prodnod.- O(lt e r e . pa nderuit alleges that clie tr.-t1 Ihave been for'ettfe tifde *Ub#d''i, var itns steadily apd .lfithgrto'ede ult te lieottiae: l~e~aa yonts will thitik it bc %"Eg l #th'dant wlbeaeso tuufatwill ls you as long as you Iid." Mr. Hoar aga in ste) out or the line of hIs arghthent to hy that the "edu eAted tyran't IN thic So.uth' hald becn more degraded thati theirslaves by the former relations that 'exited lh( tween the races." . Mr. Critehor of Virginia thus rikos in retali:,tion. I will ventitro to offer a cludlenge to the gentlouman froi a hsachusett, and I -will-give way to him in my time to let lim anwor me. A1 venture to bay that F-nei prrduco from my owl) little county, the parish of my residence, an illustration of intolleet uau1 su1poioIt abd niavef oxellonce which Ito capu9p p Jlofl r tho hip.tory of MasPRuaet. , Sir, f you wIl go wih me to my estate yoti will find that the adjoin Ing estate ii Wakefield, the birth. plaeo of W ashington; on the other sido you will find Stratford, the reaidonce of "Light Iforse Hlurry "of gloriotus ire volutioaury niemoY't Chanitilly, which adjoins It, was the residence of Richard Iloory Leo, the mover of the Declaration of ludopendenpe aiud the Cicero of the Amerioan Ruolution. You will find in that seiine parish the hom of Charles hdio' V:'hiiirtouz'A Attorrey Gonel-al; -itd of fihtis Lightfoot Loo, the -sittier of i the Deularation (if Independonoo.. There, too, you will. find the home of Authur Lee, the accoiili.,led nje,4ortal or of the treaty of commr a nue-e 01d 1il 1inn11 between this country and France i 1778. Riding in the opposite dire. tion, you con first, as I sitd, to th birthplace of Vashing ton. Anctiher hour's ride will briig you to the birthplace of Monroe ; anoth, er hour's ride -t the birthplace Place of 4adison. .Now, sir, <if you suippose the pret-o)tgoeoration in Vir. ginia unworthy of their illustrious an oestors, it you Mill viit that bstate, and look through the lofty forests, you will desory the massive chimneys of the baronial mansion that .witinesecd the birth of Robert .E. Lee. Now, eir, I ask you to find in the wholo State of Mhspachisetts such illhstrioui nates as I hate give'n y'ou, bf those %iho lived-i my little county. To be just, il0 loss thdu ineroifid and true, is the first ptecept of Mason. ry. The sympathieS of the heart, like Paoulties of the mind, onlarge -and strengthen by uhe and cultitation. . Whorever the sea rolls i Mason 1uds hosiitality. Masonry teaches ia man the l-topef- govdroamehit of him. relf: The tihother country of a Mason is tile orId, within the cirole of his Udmpad is contained evertlihing that 6djerns mankind. X111l and piolldidney in the first two degrees are tile odily legitiik-go redonmendidtions for the honorable distinctions of theb Master%. dog rc. Tout-Craft Masonry, R.1yal Arch ardwuy and Knighthood-a1 mystic triangle; emblethatfe ot brotherly love, relief and trtuth "a threoefold Is not easily broken;. Row to K1low a Goose. SMother!i mother !" cried a youiug t-ook, u8tulning huirfldly from its first filaht, "P'm so frightened I'Pre soen *uoh a sight I4 "What sighti my son ?'" abked tho old rook. ''Oh, wvhitoecreatures-screain and running and sttaining their necelu, sind hold ing their henda ever so high. See miother, there they go I" 'QGeose my son--puproly geese," calmly replied the. parest bird, look ing dyer the 6o0minon.' "Throughu life, child; obs~r'vd that whenh you meet any one who maltes A? great fins< abofth himself, and tries to life his head higher than the .rest of the world, you many set him down at onod a goose." E lngtid Brtstilng. If the accounts fron Nnglanr1d be correct, it is no wonuder that, Uttrele S.,uu is heating up redruite and brash ing upl his forts. .l'ngland, how-ever, kbooYs what shte is abo.t, and h~ot little prepared we aro fur war with any decent power. It is vpfy late ik. make the derhand, blit if 0Grant and tCongrost.4 are wiso"-and they are not -they will comes into torwos iied "re. code.".-l',wilhoe p.gotter lbafgain than a fight liarking I1% for P'art'dhv. h~ert it., or any uvineral of thi- theratcet in hiqythal or oji of eurpentiuj,.tsia thin fluidi; anid yott will pb~utm n n *u ~o Diugwer all yodr lirgso.g vig,* to dIty ri-dckly, ndt spread; andu ti tuair nigs to be s.tt' indestter ibl: . - A re oQrter has been i y Genera ttfijoc* 'un d 1AtV General as ayung ds 'f611ods' "1 ad niota desie to hate rdafthinug 4Ansaiy' upon the subjot,z4hv4 you: cen a stt that L pv~ ipA yi? 9tbgbfor iis 9 eete ; ofi~ih cori by I should, it, "p~ieth t& ti conslddbred" ndc. a * eanddate,o rather than to s~pfosf I jSg gtfiloa/, 1A Nod-Folow's.Mor eheus. Gfirnt and Fhh on a leftilei. A correspondent of the New York F'm walt ilg from V aihington unldcr date of De..ember 20ti. says - . About 5 ,'clock lt. t evening the loingers at tho main halliof ArlingtoA llouse were astonished to se, the door of the olovator open tind Presi dont Grant and in ilamion Fish step out of it arm in urili. The Presil. dent's face was red as a boiled lob. ster; and the Secretary of State woro an exprenzion like that of an owl which is suddenly brought Into th6 full glare of tlhe daylight. It immae diately outered the minds of thoso who wore in the hall at the time, that th liresident and Secretary had been enijoying thems'olves pretty freely ini one of the rooms upstairs. The (no paid no attention td anybody, but marched solemnly, and with a statclv tiend, through thd itll to the street door, where they stopped, and (i rant wont through some motins with his hands, whi ih were undistinguished in the darknoe--. At the satne ioment Fish tripped hur riidly back to the clerk's, desk, and umbled il the uiatch safe until be had secured half a dozen matches. With thee in hi.i hands, and his face beating all tover with maudling Imile, bb ?ikifipcd to the door again. .scratehing a match agaisA the jamib, and held it obsettuiously until Grant had lighted a Aigur, which he had in his mouth. 'h tIo then looked arms ohco moro aidd meandered into dark iess. This little incident was ob Ferved by more than a ddzon men, and has crented a great deal of talk thi.4 inuiling in certain circles. Fittal Accident. Villiai httt, a lano, a sailor od board of the schooner Louisa (rocket; bound for ]hlt.inore, was fatally shot; on the 24th uIt.. near North Island; by a gun in his own hands. li had been with the capttaint of the vessel shomting ducks, and on their return in putting the glun aboard, w0ith the thob zlo toward b'imself, ie situck itontlad side of tho schooner, which enued it to go off, lodging the cont.ents in hi thigh near the hip, and completely orui hing the bane. The next morn itn t he log was amputated, but; iI thd course of fifteen hours, he died. Thtld caps had o1ben taken off the gun, but sorme of the fulminating pdi~dUr iHust havo reinhined on the nipple, which qiuletd it to oxplodo.-Ge0rg-etowA Wrangle Over a inrderer's Body. When the body of Gcorge3 Bottq eteouted in Nowairk for the nurddr of " H' Ilalstead, reached Whitd Hall, N. J., thie friends found many charclim - and tlheir clergymen in front of the chural. Tiey denied the utrdefer's body aidinnssidn; and for.' biade tile burlii inl the grafd that bad been prepar6d. After muhl wrang' inag a comproniso was aifected, tile body buing initerred withi the under Ataiditig thdit It sImill soon be taked 6l6%dieert!. lBatts's friends will insist on keepirig the body where it is, and the cliutei atolk thi eat i to exhumit. The hFight of the fueliond. A Watu-hington letter, of TIhursday to the Baltimaore (hazettc says: Mitrsaa11 Johnson, of S9outh Carolia nn, son of lion Rtevairdy Johnson, had btean re moved from oftice. This Is the seq~tul of thu fight between the opposa I ng ftetior.s oIf S.>utth Carolina Riepub. licas which haans been going on foti over a year, and in this last movd Slenator Riwycr is out.done, and the extremea Radioal wing has succeeded. Theo Comptroller General of South Onrohina tsays heo does not know how munvh motney will be needed to pay thd interest ont the Stath debt, bdeause bd does not k dow htow iifng of the Stato ho,'da are out. If (hero i1 a man living or dbrid, wiho doeA know, let hint comb f'dthl find banlighten the shav'erq of Wall street.-New Yor/d it rat'. biabolibal Tel. 'e kbarn thmat~ on Thursdgxy nigli6 last, the stable of Cbi t. J. 0. 5. Browna, liting abolit hi 'i miles from Nowberry, was act on fire-at leas6 ad supposed, as no otiaer conolubion aan beh artived at-and seven valuable head of hoihos burnat to deathb. Five of the horsos belonaged to Capt. Brown and t wo to Dr. Bates.--Netdberrg fIAraid. Silettay. M~ond(ay l'tt, being saloday, the Sh~eriff uold at large qjuantity of land at figures sohlow as~ to be diuiontage ing.'()uoA act worbh, it Is said $000, brought butt $15, an wn, herraotg tvere 8sold at almtoat uietniale flnres Tbere seemeodeto .b le a great many peopjle presernt, arnd we can give nid rea~br for bcthouchnge In. th. read ew. tote market'..- Ma ign Creacen?, er In New Yur idoo fat to get tZbreegb bis .,door way, and has note bpos*in the street for several yeare. a. There Is nothing so dnangerouts ld extraordinary abilities.