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Desportes & Wiliams, Proprietors1] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, InqIrv, Industry and Literature. [Terma---$3.00 ter Annum, In Advano VOL. Vil.] WINNSBORO, So C., WDNESDAY MORNIN[NO.3 TUlE FAIRFIELD 11ERAtD 18 Ptun.IStiLCD wt.Ety nY DoESPORTES & WILLAla4S, Terms.--T it P .tR.n is published Week ly in the Town of Winnsboro, at 93.00 in variably in advance. ri3 All transient advertisemients to be paid in advance. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1 00 per square. URIA['S FIRST CASE * OI The ied Hot Rleconstruction of a Returned Rebel. Immediatoly ifier the late lament nd surrender I returned to the bosom of my family, bearing upon my body tihe matks of honorable and legitimate war f.ire. If a man has no right in the bosom of his own fanily, pray whose bosom has ho a right in ? But I didn't go right in Not by any means. My b.dge of chivalry, just at that ti ilo, was not of a char. acter to commend me, at once, to the arms and alfcctioni of my too scrupu lous neat and tidy wife. I was or dered into quarantine. I was put upon dock for repairs. In other words, I had the itch. California itch, it was pronounced by competent judges ; but why so deuominated, 1 um at loss to determine, tinks be. cause it was a healthy, robust, salu brious case. This was the trute state of the case --nd it was the first c.ase I had ever hiad althoug h I had ] ,en a lawyer for some tim , by profe-sion-i, barring the 1-raetice-tur it it altway' well to bar the practie 'till you pr. tice at the har. I reached home tihat t.ight in May 165, after a hard da3's walk through i gentlo rain, and took my so at by a -cheerful spring tire. 80-:.chow I had vonscientous scruples ag ainst letting the itch pa' t of my military glory leak out until next iornilig. But it was all in vain. lit vaitn I strove "Ito lot conceennitt. like a worm feed on my damask, &c." My grimaces, my bodily gyrations, soon began to point a metal and to tell a tale. '.1 riaht," said the old lady slowly and gloomily, "you've got the itch ! A l] I wouldn't have it to break out in the bosom of my family for anything on earth. It would be a shame and a scandal to the neighborhood." I had to own up. I put on a ghastly grin and tried to make her believe the itch, after all, was nothing but a patriotic luxury, and a good thing to have in a family. She couldn' a see it. See refused positively to como witl'.in six feat of me, while the chil drenstood aloof and stared at ine as if I were a wild beast. I tried to be familiar-but it was no g,. I had been absent for many weary months, and was full of love and poetry. "Come rest in this bosom my own stricken deer." didn't scom to strike any one in par tioular. The consequence was I was stored away that night in a room to myself, to muse on the pomp and pride and circumstance of glorious war-especially the circumstance. My wife was inexorable. I suppose you know what that mueans-in a wo man. If you don't, come down and stay a week with me, and take occasion to bring 4 quantity of mud in on your boots, and it won't take you long to find out. Shte don't put her foot down often but when she does shte putse it down a little of the firmest. I knew very wvell I would have to get rid of that ease completely before I could ever knew my rights and know ing dare maintain them. It was the worst case I had ever heard of. 8oratch ? I reckon if all the scratch. ing I (lid in any one day, had been spread out, it would haivo (covered a surface .equal to twenty-live acores --good measure. And what was getting to be still more serious, my nails were fast wearing down into thd quick, and corns were growing on the balls of my fingers. So early the next morning aft~er my arrival homo, I hurried over to consult an old steam doctor who had long been the oracle of the neigh borhood, and laying till my troubles fairly and squarely before him, bogg. od for a short, sharp and decisivo remedy. ie asked me if I was eq'mal to the emergency. I gladly answered in the anirmativoe. I was equal to anything that would speedily restore my wife's lost love. I felt hko oc ne who trod alone ; and there was n~thing in this world that was half so swoet as loe' old dream --the satme old1 dream. lie said be thought lhe could sweetan me. I took the.b'ottle of turpentine ac cording to directions, went hotme and locked up in tmy roomi with all but me deprated, I began to strip for thte contest.,~ . was all oycer as dppited 'as a leopard,'and ke'raw-as a lieee of new boof. I'poured the lia'viog $tidd' into a saucer, eanght 'up about a gill in the hollow'of eadh hand, and rubbed it on with thme energy that springs from des pait.. I uised up half the bottle be fore I stopped to th ink. Then I didn't stop .long. I made a start, *as I thought for the door, and found mcy self half way up the chimney. I1-0o11 ed downt, and rolled ever, and screamed like a wild Indian. Talk about yellowujacket plastors andhornets Dests, and ioney bees, and abomina ble btamble boosi and hot ashes and hell firos I If I bad been dumped hcels.over-hcad into th furnace of the Tennesaee Iron Works, I would have froze to death in five miniutes. I was on the bed, under the bed, Walking first upon -my heels and then upon my toes and dhamlping the 'bits and chawing ond log of my pants, till it looked like a dilapidated dish-rag. I hiad ciough rebellion in me to have started three small republies. My wife and children wore pounding and screaming at the door trying to get in ; but I couldn't find the door, for the room was flying around like a spinning jenny. I was foaming at the miouth liko fifteen cases of hydropho. bia, and calling alternately for water and fire. The next morning there was less one case of itch in the so-called, anyhow. I pealed off all over like an onion. I shed enough scales that night to have set up a New England 1ui.hory. My hide drew up till it was with :he greatest difficulty I could get my feet to the floor for more than a week. Indeed, all mny friends say that my skin has been too bhort ever since. In less than twenty-four hours after I was ubje to get about, one Ateam doctor had timely notice, sign. ed, sealed and delivered by order of the chief of the ka klux klan to emi grate. Ile is now a martyr in some county of Ohio on acconnt of his "po litical opinion," and has once repre sented his district in Congress. Disaitirons Fire in Ilarlon, The Crescent says : On Tuesday morning the line dwelling house of Mr. Samuel M. Stevenson was discov ered to be on fire. The inmates of the house were sitting in the house unconscious of their danger and great inisfortane until a ser vant ran in and informed them that tlie roof of the building was wrapped in flames. With but t0o haunls on the place, of course, nothing could be done to check the devouring dlement.. In a few hours the diwelling kitchen and siokehouse, and all out building.-, except the carriage house on the west side of the public road, were in ashes. The furniture was saved, but slightly damaged, and with but vcry little loss ; but, notwithatnd. ing this, Mr. Stevenson's loss catinot be less than $3500. It is not known how the fire originated, but the gone ral supposition is that the roof was ignited by a spark from the chimney. There appears to be but the one opin ion, that this terrible calamity was accidental,. & Ten Millionarle Orphan. Mrs. William B. Astor, who died in Now York on the 16th instant, in her seventy-third year, leaves $10,000,000 to her half orphan grandchild, Miss Ward, who, since her mother's death has been a favorite in the millionire's family. This ten millions is her moth er's private fortune, of "which her grandmother was executrix. When, fifty years ago, Margaret It. Arm. strong, gave her hand to the nov rich est man in America, le was poor, but soon after their marriage her husband uncle Henry, the great Bowery butch er, bequeathed $500,000 to WVilliam 11., and not many years afterwar-ds old John Jacob gave him a power of attorney, under which ho managed the old mani's colossal and enormously lucrative business, Mrs. Aster's pri vate charities were many and munifi cient.- Coirespondent of thec Cincinatti Gazette. Air-Line hkillroad. Wer have just heard, from a gen tlemuan connected with this road, that the track has been laid to Catawba River, a distance of nine idiles from Charlotte, and that all thec bridges between this point and Charlotte have been framed ready to be put up, ex cept the Paeohott bridge. The mnn sonry and grading, too, are nearly completed. WVe are also informed that instrue-' tions have been given to build a temn porary traek from the Slpartanburg and Union Railroand depot to connect with the Airlino Rtoad, in order that the track-laying may begin at an early day on this end of the- line. From this it would seem that we are soon to hoar thme sound of the whistla on thiu great continoutal highway C..ar-olina Spartan.i Thte Pope and Rome, It is reported in a German paper. The Vaterland, that in a recent con versation with seome Romaun Catholic vioitors, Count Andrmasy, the Austrian ps-ime minister, suggested that there was no place now for the P'ope but Rome ; that it was the position and the polloy of Austria to maintain her present friendly relations with Italy, and that "ho knew of no Catholic power, not excepting A ustria, which was in a position to offer an auylum to the Pope." We are glad to learn that thme Woodward Church, Chester County, lately left without a poster by the r'e moval of Rev. G. W. Piokett, has so' enured the services of Rev. F. C Jetor. A French Disastef-Terrible Railroad le tideltt Near Nice. On January 24th the oninibus trai for Grat-se loft Nice at 5:50 punctu ally, and proceeded safely to withi ttbout onoi kilometro of AntIbds who on coming near the bridge over th 1rague, the engine-drive' porodivei through the inist that lanipa had bee lighted as longer tlgnhl3 ; but It *ai too late-the train was in full speed and thero was no proibillty of stopp ing it befoic tile bridge tas reached though the fireman and nirgine drive remained at their posts and used ever; Ilalis ill their powcr. The bridge over the bra-4ue neas ures 105 feet in length, having a span o three arches and piers on either side The swelling of the torrent by six days of incessant rain had flodded the giound near tbb bridgb, so whet the tide rono to highwater mark the bridge was tiubmorged. At the turn of the tido the cirrant Was no groal that the central arches and the pies on the Nice side of the river wer< carried away-in fact, the whole o the bridge ekeept the pier near An tibes. Toward this dreadful chasm the ill-fated Nice train oame dashing along at a fearful rate. The engine tender, a luggage car, and two of th carriages, leaping down the proeipice into the roaring torrent with an awfu momentum, left the rest of the train upon the bank, of the carriagos held by the couplingschain hahging otei Ihe abyss. Of the carriages *hiot fll over, Only one was seen floating ont to sea, with an unhappy womar therein calling for succor, which could not reach her. The rest were erushec to atoms or covered by the waters al the hottow of the ravine. The cagine has never since been seen. Twelve persons per ihed upon the spot, among whom are the engine driver and the fireman. The body of the former is still to be seen floating in the Braguc, pierced through the chest by an iron bar. The condicto. escaped niiraculously by jumping frui the lugga car as it fell int< the chasm ; also, MmIle. Cinti and M Lainssel were extracted from the sus penided ci riage.- Sviss Time. lnteresting Relies. Throl ugi the courtesy of messrs David & Weill, Market street, w have had the pleasure of examininj two relies of the "olden time" in th shape of newspapers. One is a ver, diminutive sheet, dated at Boston Monday, April 8th, 1728, being per haps one of the oldest newspapers it ex.tence in this country, having beet published 144 years ago. It is calloi the New England Weekly Journal was issued by S. Kneeland & ' Green, "at the P1rinting [louse it Queen Street." Among the advertisc nents is tbe fllowing : "A very likely negro girl, about I or fourteen years of age speaks goo English, has been in the country son years, to be sold- Inquire of thb Printer hereof." We also find the following "A very likely negro woman wh can do household work, and is fit fe either Town or Country Serviet about 22 years of age, to be sold. In qu're of the Printer heeo. And thlis was in Boston, frer whece, years afterwards, were iburl ed so many fiery phillipios against th Soulth for dealing in hiumani proper ty. Bunt this was after the pee slaves had all been sold South an the shlrewd Puritans had pockete the moniey. The other paper is of a mere mod een date, having been issued in Ne York onI Friday, November 7tl 1783, and styled TIhe New Yor Morning Post. It was publise Semli'wechly. Both the papers ar perfectly legible.-- W ilmingltn St Panned Oysters. For a hundred oysters, put a q ual ter of a po(unid of butter into a l arg milk pan, slicing it up thin, so that i till melt readily but not brown ; ad hlalf the oysters ; whlirl the pa around eonstantl y ,and as soon as the are plumped takeo out the oyster carefully, so as not to run the for through the sweet bread of the oyi ster. Add tile other half of the -1i quor ; cook in tile samne way, an serve on buttered toast on a toastin hot platter, Oood for This lbay Only. A Lidy travelling on) theO Gran Trunk Railroad in New Yovk sfteppe over on the way, and when she pr< posed to restume her journey was pe off the ears upon01 her refusal to pa Again, because bor ticket read Ecgoo for this train and the day received not good to stop over." She sued tb eompany and recovered costs and $0 damages. No matter what mnay b prinlted upon a railroad t'-kt it I good in law for the whole distano paid. for, on any day the purchase seleets to use it.-Plaintj@N. J. Con sditutionalisgt. A Wisconsin paper states that little girl, eight years old, is beggfa in the streets of Oshkosh, with a p. per whichi certifies that "the bea'er I a widow with five children iD desti tnte circumannces4 . umncr's War tn the Admulastration. The Washington 4o'rresosd6nt of the Baltimore Sun, in a rooet -lotter 6LyP: The resumption of the debate on Mr. Siumer's . proposed investiga. tion into the saloof artne by this gov ernmetit to that of ltrance. attraioted anothet large ajtendanod of specottors to-day in the Betiato chamber. M r. -Morton oocupied the greater part of the debate in a speeh in which he sought to r #l 10ja tospidelun that rMe.irsSohure"46 Satanrer had inau gurated this' mOde solely from political hostility to the President, and that the only foundation for it was sotind and (pryj which would end in nothing. He dealt largely in genotalities, but did not seetq to answer the charg. es that officers of the government ld knowingly sold these arms to France in violation of oir neutral -oblIgations and that certain pafties had prbftted immensely by th transaction. Those are, after all, thb wlolo points of the investigation, whilhMr. Sumner feels abundantly able to prove-by the evi donce. Airs Morton's attempt to drive these Senators into the Demo. cratio party and his warning thitt all roads out of the Republican party led into the Democratio raiks, did not disturb them in the leastj though it was put to them in a pretty aggros sive manner by the speoial chanipion of the President oti3 the floor of th3 Sehate. Not content with this, he specially warned ir. 86hurz that he did not carry the German vote of the country in his pooket, and insinuated that he did nUt belitvt he tould coh trol it in oppositiutf to the to eleetion of the present admin istration. Air. Sehurs did not reply to the daiiipaign portions of br. Mortoi's speech. It cano out in the debate that the gov ernment had also sold, arms to the Germans during the Franco-Ocrman war. An amendment was submitted by Mr. Conklin# in the course of tho day, which isinteeded to involve Mr. Sumner in a proposed investigation by the committoo to loata if any Uni: ted States official has communicated information on this matter to the French authorities. B1r. Harlin sub stantially charged this yestdrday upoh Mr. Sumner. Mr. Tipton said'Genefal Grant dan not be elected unless he is spllarated from his confidential advisers and friends on this floor. lie read from the Omaha Tribune that the three particular friends of the Prosident in the Senate, were doing more to de feat his noimnation than all the op position in the country to him put together. le then quoted from Re publican papers, and said this trio of Senators, the President's epeoial friends, attempted to exercise a des potic tyranny over their political as sodates. Ile went on to review at much length the course of the admin. istration Senators since 1869, when they began, he ;.aintained, to dra goon their independent colleagues, in which they had been sustained by the President. le proclaimed himself an independent Republican, and not r to be dictated to by any caucus or any man. Ile gave notice to the Sonator from Indiana, that if it was proposed to inaugurate political de bates in this 'chamber, he -(Mr. T.) should take his part in it. The Ku Klux Reports. -The WVashinagton correspondent of the Baltimore San writes, under date of the 19th, as follows: "The majority and minority re ports of the Ku Klux Commnittee were -submitted in eh House to-day, and objection made in both to the views of the minority, on the ground of the severe language which it contained to wards the majority and the Presi 0dent, who is in one portion reforred to as the 'imperial master,' while the report and conduct of the majority is spoken of as 'to grossest outrag , the -foulest calumny ever perpot e, 0 etc. The Senate, after brief debate, t admitted the report ; but in the a House there was quite a contest ever a lit, which resulted in the reception of Y ,the report, previded that ir a language i s not unparlinentary nor in violastion Iof the rules of the House. t (lid not ', apoear who was to be the judge of' - that. The reports were promptly I followed by a bill to extend the sus E pension writ of haabem corpus beyond the prosent rnstriotion? We give the followtng froin the I Charlotte (N.- C.) "Ilihietin," the I benefit of a publicatiua pro bond - pubildeu. t .ST-OP TidFr.-tn dotsetqdened of S"the present floard of Direotoura for l the State Priton etteooring for sale - jbrick and otier material belonging to e State, which were procured for thes ) purpose of erecting said lfrison," e Governor Caidell has issued a Pro. a olamation Vstning all persons not to jhe ei purchase or soeo any of said m'ato: i. rial, else the will be held responsi.. -blo. Solit seedv thai bogido a laiiroad and a ]Bondtking, they have now. a h Brick Rlng opairatiDg lu, lEaleigh. E 'Ak'o they. I0phnlidane, oaioorts or O onse'vativps ? *lifappineN consists i'n the a'ility to appreciate. Never Plough Soll wheon it is too Wet. The Northwestern le-rm or in a timely artieb under this captain tlIA sentildy talks : 'We h ve often urged the atton tion of the farmers to this tubjeot ni one of grtat importanoe. Any trav oiler among our farming distriots cat roe large tracts of lands that have been ploughed when wet and unfil to be Worlted, by ol irving lrge heaty clbds of eArth, when, in the hot season, become like a heattid brick, b)urning all the roots of grain or other products nea- to iti Eesides this evil, no sedd can togbtato and grow well upon soil unilultivated, ior can that soil give babk as nboh nitlHtion as if ploughed when in right otndi tion;. and upott a warm lind sunny day, when light and warmth can penetrate into the soil, and thus great ly benefit it. "We are confideit that farmers lobe forty per bent. of their crop by inat tention to this matter. By a little care at the proper titue to plough, by examing the soil, and aelbotiiig good sunny days, the soil will send up its voice in a halo of dew-drop clouds that will wreathe the ploughman with its approval of his good sense." The figure with which our grave contemporary closes its suggestion seems a little mixed. Ho* "the soil will send up its voice in a bald of dewdrop clouds that will wreathe the plotighman with its approval of his good senSe" is a question which we would be pleased to refer to the poets, who are permitted a license in lantguage and d mystifioation in a thotaphcr which it is well for common prose-writers to neither at tempt tojimmitate nor explain. But thitt ploughing when water is standing, o. whien the ground is very wet, is an injury to the crop that is to be grown in such soil there is no ques. tion. The best fatmet in tid crdle otdur acquaintance hl*ayo oaits till his land is quite dry before putting in the plough at all; aftd hid theory ia to make the soil as fine as Possible by frequent harrowingA on the very day it is ttrned up to tbd stift, andt if pos' dible, so* of Vlant the S9ed bdfore a drop of rain sOttlos the luoseffed earth.-Iledrit and HLonge. ---e .. - Ashes for SOIeet Potaoc. A correspondent in the Suthern Cultitator says. "it noice the juestioft ia ILsked; which is the best fertilizer or nanure for sweet potatoes. From the expe. ieneo I have had, in maiuring the sweot potato, I must say that rotted ashes, when properly pat on, have precedence over all others I have had any expbrient'o vith. 'he plan that I adopted was to open a deep furrow with a scooter plow, and put in a plen. ty of ashes. Bed out on the ishes. and a sure crop may be rbalized on te poorest soil, Cow.petming is good-so are cottoft seed afid ntablo ianure ; but, after c*perimenting with the ashes, they will all be aban doned, provided, ashes can be had. I experimented on as poor soil as I had, and the result -ns as fine a crop of potatoes as I ever saw on any kind of land. Rotted ashes are good for cot. ton also, and almost any kind of vege. tation. I am convinced there is Dot a better fertilizer made on any planta, tion than rotted ashes. Soovery one will findl it greatly to his interest to take special care of it." Negroes Imnlmrlilog Westward. Every train of oars from the East brings negroes to the Wecst and South. Their destination is the low country of the Mississippi and Arkansas. The colored population curiously gravit .te towards the black lands--the cotton augar and rice fields. They abandon Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessde and Kentucky and hie away to locali ties in which their race may be so cilly and politically dominant. Na. tural laws will finally annul those of Co'agress., the soirit and purpose of all wvhichz arc emnbod ied in Sumner's pend ing civil rights bIll. B3y proes. sea which congressional I egisilation may never control the segrega tion of races is effected, and there was a basis of sound philosophy in the proposition of the hiissiipp.ji dcis. gress.ional carbet-bargger' who di O bm ed vaguely of the ereation by lisw of another Africa in Ameriea.- Why not have peace wih England anid Spain and appropriate Mf xieo to pur poses of perfeot Africuni beardtudo 1" -- AliempisJ Appeal. The heath of Jonas Byrd. We learn with regret that tilia staunch colored oiteen died fantor. day ; the principal eause of his death being a severo fall whihb infjrred hi, head. Jonas Byrd took a promineont part in the lteform canvass of I1870, and stumped the State with Judge Ciarpenter and Geo.a Butler. i oourageops and consistedl conduel at thtat 'time Won for hlona the reepect of the people.- CharlestIon Newt. A' au'rsingle dra#0 tightly roe~nd a kick Ing cow, jutst in front of the hips1 * l1 effoot a etiro of the bad habit. 8 e cannot kick with the belt on, and will forget the practice atae a it. The North Carolina Outlaws. Henry Berry Lowrey and his gang f out-laws entered the town of Lum .berton sometime during Friday night and committed the boldest and dne of the most suooessful robberiei ever known in this State. The gang, it seems, first broke into Mr. Newberry's carriage manufactory where they supplied themselves with such tools as they needed. They then visited the stables of Mr. A. W. Fuller, where they seoured a horse and dray, and thus prepared, proceeded to the store of Mr. A. H. Mol.eod, from whence a heaty iron safe was taken and placed as.the dray. They next visited the atutriffs office in the court house, ftomt .whence his iron safe was also taken and placed with the other. They then started from the town with their plunder, but as the sheriffs safe was found yesterday morning lying in tHe stredt, about one hundrod and fifty yards frdm his offled, It is suppos. ed that it droppdd ofl and wad abaddin ed Early Saturday Itrnink, as soon as the loss was discovered, thb sheriff being abldnt, bis deputy, Mr. Alex, McMillan, auuimotted a posse of men and started in pursuit. At a pdint about three miles from the towi they came up with the gang, but being too weak to effect their capture a messen. ger was sent back for reinforcements. A large number of men immediately Voluhteered, and proceeded at once to the scono, but the robbers had effected theit retreat, carrying off with them the money, but leaving tho safe and a portion of the papers be hind. Those, with the horse and dray were taken back to the town, when it was discovered that the safe had been forced open with sledge-hanners and cold cbisels, with which the gang had provided themselves at Mr. Newber. ry's establishment. The loms is very heavy, and consists of $22,000 in vnoney: taken from Mr. Mceood's safe a lot of goods find 1 ftdfu ber of valua tie private pbpers from the shoriff's olteej which were destroyed. Nourly all thd money stolen were of deposits, whioh; se therd Is no bmtnk in Lumber. ton, had been placed in the safe by different parties for safoletping, ho sided, some $1000 wdrth of umorohan. diae *as taken from the store, none of which was recovered. The fown has been in a tremendous state of ex uitemont, which httd abated but very little when our inforniant wrote us. Wilmington Journal. It is an old saying that if you do a man nneteen favors, and for any roa. son decline to do him the twentieth, he will forget the nineteen requests that you have granted, and only re member the One that you have refused -and for that refusal he will hato you ever afterward. - And this is true of some men ; it, is true of men of meab and narrow n tures ; but It is not true of all. It is as natural for a noble soul to cherish a 1lvly recollection of kindness re ceived, as it is to breathe. And while we are often Ahbeed to see acts of friendship towards othorsi which have cost us a good deal of time and of lator, entirely overlooked and for gotten, we not unfrequently, on the othor hand, are surprised by thme grateful reciproestion of some favor long Sitee renrdbred and the very performance of which had passed from our own recollection, danti reminded of it by the recipient. We have also regarded gratitude as a feeling which is hardly susceptible o'f being taught to any one. A Iee ture on gratitude, to whomsoever ad. dressed, Instead of awakening that emotion, is very apt to engendet a feeling of indignation and hatred. People never like to be told to be grateful. And it is of no use to tell them. If it is not nature of others, it can never be taught such apprecia tion. Another linIversIty of the Kouth. The Methodists of Tennessee have inaugurated a scheme for the 'estab lishiment of a University uport pretty much the plan of that prep osed by the Episcopalians before the war and but partially carried out; diwing to thcd troubles and fmpbverishmnent of tire coufttry; and the ddath of its twod ableSt advocates and promoters, Bish ops~ Polk and IEhiott. A meeting of .hme lloard of Trustees was held at N.shville the other day, at which th6o following officers were chasep: P~zresi dent, Hon. E. H. anij; Sec rotary, the Rev. Dr. U. 0. Kelley; TIreasurer, the.Rev. Dr. A. L. P. Oreerit a'l of Nlasbh Iil. Thor. was al-ro appointed an Executive Comn. mittee, oonsisting of Jud go East, Dr. Kelley, jf. Green, Hion. E. . Morgan, Clonel Jordan Stokes, Ma .icr D~avld T. Reynolds, and the Rev. Dr. Robei-t A. Young. The onter prise, which is one of no inoonsidera-. ble magnitude, Is now fairly afloat, and otur Methodist friends feel confi. dent of its success. What is the use of *atinmg to join a society for the endouragemnn of plnnese ih dress ? EJvery we'ban whop drrwou in a strmple, tasteful, econoaidal, elegst way is a whole loeloty in herself, and helps to create .s fashion which it will be a credit for all wornen to follow. The Way Amnesty Is Defeated. It is announced that the Radioals in thb Senate have resolved to defeat bvety amnesty bill as they did the last, by tacking to. It 1r. Sumner's bill, mnaking prejudide against the negro a criminal offenme. The ifijus tico of this course is only equalled by its hypooracy. Mr. Sumner's bill is one that the Radical party do not want to pass. They jan pass it any inotient. They passed it as an aniend' ment the other dity by the casting votd of Colfax; but when it was this made a part of the amnesty bill it fell with that bill for want of a two-thirds vote. Thus the Radical majority deprive the negio of *hat they ay atb luA rights, by not passing Sumner's bill by a majority voto, but merely putting it inmo an amnesty bill, which thus load. ed is sure to fail for want of a two. thirds vote. This trickeiy affords d cheap display of zeal for the negroi and a *iillIngness to pass an amnesty bill. Yet both are spurious, as any one may see who will consider the facts we have mentioned. Thbre never was dt time at *hich the passage (f a liberal athihesty bill 0ould be more appropriate than how. It would fortify this country with a true restoration of the Union, and make us twiod as formidable to foreign powern. But the paisage ot an atinesty bill recommended by President Grant in his nessago tolthii 4er Congress is do roated by his own party in it, and by x paltry trick.-Agy. Luthet fas the first id ferbeivo that christian schools were hn abso. lute necessity. In a celebrated paper addressed to the municipal councilors )f the empire in 1524, lie demanded Lho establishment of schools in all thd villages of Germany. To tolerate ig norance was, in the energetic language of the reformer, to make common onuse with the devil. The father of a finihly who abandoned his children to ignorance was a consAtmmate rabcal; Addressing the German authorities, he anid : "Magistrates, remember that God formally comthands you to instruct ohildren. This divine commandment parents bate trangressed by Indo lencej by lacIt of ititelligence, and be cause of ovei-work; - "The ditty devolvbs fipon yon, mag. istrates; to call fathers to their dutyj and to prevent the return of these evils which we suffor to-day. Give attention to your children. Mauy parents are like ostriches, dontent td have laid an egg, but caring fot it no longer. "Now, that which constitutes th a prosperty of a city is not its treasures, its strong walls, its beautiful man. sions, and its brilliant deoration. ''lho real wealth of a city, its safety and its force is an abundaneo of citi zens, inetrutied; honest, and bultiva. ted. If in our days *e rarely meet such eitizensi whose fdult is it, If not yours, magiAti-ates, Who, havd al. lowed our youth to grow up like neglected shrubbery in the forest. ? "Ignorance is imore dangerous for a people than the armies of an enemy;" Akerman to the Resnue. From our Atlanta exchanges *d lc:irn that, as a counter irritant to the proseutions for Robbery of the Geor; gia State Road, Akernman proposes to begin a series of wholesale arrests for violations of the Civil Rights bril. '1'his step is taken to induido the ho. nmittee investigi.ting the State lioad frnudA to hold njp in their vindieationi of the law of State, so the faithful fny not be longer held up to the pub lio condemnation and ultimate legal punishmnent. This is a tri de wortity of thto soit#66 fronm which it emninates, and is exact ly the role in whiceh thos6 puppits have appeared as the rrmais re'-sono!, in the tddveri States "lately in rebellion," wvhere, an at. temipt has been made to expose their I mpostures, WVeek before last while on a visit t o colutnbia we tookc oooasion (4 visia both houses of the general aasernbly of 8outh Carolina, and through the polite courtosies of oUr lIepresenta tites obtained a seat on the floor of both brauchos; whore we would see the show, and hear all the inimical expresdlions of the olowns who ar running the oirous. We can3 consbi. ofutiously inform our readers that we neither saw nor heard anything oalou hated to inspire a shadow of hope for the future. Vindictive and partisan, a majority of them are bent upon rule and ruin. Thbey neither ,atop to look to the right or left b'ut gO' straightforward ai directed by (ho lash of the Ringmaster, with as much complacency as a 'yallef #tump taliled dog' watohes a ben leave her unest to suck the eggs,--icAkene Mcuinal. "Tom Soott," the PonnsylvsnIe rail, road hing; ha'ving becono Praesident of -the $outbe'rn Paoilo 1Silway Come pany,' It may he safely Odontrd that the late shiow blockades on the Union Paoifie hate aanaed him that there Ia a uilnt of money in tbip' SoutbefAn line, and thats .e "qeanr business," When Isa young lrady pot o yoini lady ? Whon she is a sweet tt ~swant hiar t.\