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Desportes & Williams, kroprietors.] A Fafhily Paper, Devoted to ScIero, Art, Inquiry Industry aid Literaure. [Terms---$3.OO er Annum, In Advno VOL. VII.] WINNSBORO, S. Cs, WEDNESDAY MORNING4 MAY 22, 1872. [NO.49 THEI FAIRFIELD HERALD t8 PUBLISHED WREKLY BY 1ISPOArTES & WILLIAMS, TernI.-titE URSRALD is pub)lshed Week y In the Town or Winnsboro, at 63,00 in baridbly in adbanice. AW All translent advertisements to be paid in advance. Obituary Notioes and Tributes $1 00 per Square. [To the Editor of the News.] lIEMP WANTED. An ass to a mul., was oor.plaining one day, e-My burden Is heavy, I'll throw it away ;" 'Thou fool," said the mulo, "It is lighter than mine," I'll prove it, by figures, whioh you may combino. If one of your sacks should be laid on my back, Then double your number I'll boar to the stack ; Receive one of mine, the same number we'll, Ihavo. Iow ii.any hnve eacl ? Can you tell me you knave. The boyq are desired a solution to find. lu ioi of 1he nus who is lacking of mind. In verse be your answer, we'll never re. Fuse To give you a corner in ITko Winnahoro' News." . PIKE. (To th Editor of the News.] A Indy once when asked lur age, At first refused to any, Iut, proeiod ngitn, this answer gave, In nt evAnivu way:-. "If hence I live six hnr.dred years, And then live sixty-nine, I'd lack nine times my present age, To annkc Meilmts'lah's mine." SEN. Love Without Nonsense. NOT A BIT LIKE A NOVEL. Once upen a time there wats a fair _"ung maiden, uh-so ntiome wms Mary, alibtiough they called her Moll, for short. She wasn't a tall dark-eyed ai,den, with clear, tran-parent bkin, anA lips like cherries, and cheeks suffosed with bitishes. She dilA't hav glossy blaelc hair, sweeping back in wavy treFes from her queenly bro* and her form was't, a bit like Hebe 'ii. No, there was none of these thingi--on the contrary, she was short anA thin, and had red hair and freokles, and the also sported nag gle teeth and wore pads, but still she %vas a righ't nice girl, and there was's .young ma; 2 who fell in love with her. knd his na 'me wns bill, althotigh hie friends c tiled him William whei they went dd to hurt his feelings, foi ho ditdu't I ike it much. Ito wasn'it fine lookint -j and had neither curly brown hai r nor a tittache. No much. Bil I laid himself out on soup loeks, and m iore a goatee that he had dyed twice a week. Now this Bill was in lo4o :tf Mary, but < lid he go and make a do liberate as a of himself I Did he, 1 say, go int o a grove with 'heii and it theso ft me Mlight, by the streamlet thal murn tured. sweetly by, arrd *ith th4 tende r zel>byr sighing through the foli age fr J1 down on his knees,, sei2e hei jowelt d hand, and breathe his doel affeoti on in the tender accents of font attach -bent, and swear "by yon brighi orb ah, -vo us,- always to' be tiine 11 Did be, .J say I You can tust bet hi didn't. You can lay o t youtrwhob rev~enune safely on that. WVillian kenew tC b much abo'uf, the price o pants to go flopping around on < wet grat a with his good clothes on besides, he never ca'red anythi'n about str e'amlete or any'kind of colt water, ox oeept to mix with his gi'n No, sir, it was exceedinglf strange but this it tfatuoted William iet het at the all.ay gate, and he stood righi tip on his old legs and says : "S'as Mol', old gal, s'posen we get hitchi But hov'did Mary behave ?' lNd she igo drop ping to sleep over on the bricks in a dead faint, or did she bide her gentle I :eoad on his shirt bosom'to conceal hor ,'% shes ?1 No, she- diuf"t .anid she dlid,' s say, "I' over thine~ my own love,. dear William 1' (Oh my, nio. Shto looked right ini his yel lo,w e3es u d toy a "I'm in, Hilly 1'mt the gal 1k mm these sort of things Go in I" A: id irmsteadl of refer'rinj him to her I 'ther, she only said -"WVo't, the ol .d man bust right ou wrhen you tell himt ? Ha I ha I" ai she laughed. But she didn't asi ) William to try: to mollify her foln father. No, n o. Shte very wickedl~ advised himt to "poke the old man i the nose if he gave him any of hia lip." She was5 a sunny girl, thii Masry. Now, the old man wasn't wealthy for he Eold soap-fat for a living, Dnt so hre didn't t bink Bill was nosinj sr6und after h,is stumpis ; so when Bil asked him, ha nleithier ordered bic fiercely away, nor did the dewy moie ture. pather in his eagle eye as hi passed his henmstitchged up there nn< said :"Hless y ou, my children, bles you?''" Oh, no, nothing of the sort He. just blew his old red nose la hil eandtanna and told Bill to take' he along, for.he wIas glaid get to rId e har,lae war, and Willliam wouldibe th same way mighty soon, for she wan awful rough on victuals, and alway broke plates when she gob-mad. So, you see, there really was n Snosssity for William to-come at mid nig'bt's tolean- ho'er, Jo 4 ana throw a rope-ladder up tU her window, and whistle three timeS en his fingers, and bring her down in one hand and her trunk in the other, 0 and a band.ox and an unffrolla un der each arm, and a whdlb lot of D4es, and then got into the cab h ihd fly to some distait shidre. 'That's iho way it would have been in a r tovel ; but Bill said he wasn't on that, b I sy, and so he just we pt out it the y ard, and out of pure Joy; he altintiLd tL th e cat three or four tiwds on the at gr spe-vine arbor, and Mhen ent and T got'. in his butober carti aid drt6ve tl Ml,i ry right down to the magistrate al to , got the job done for a quarter- t for he said he was some on low priced, he was. L B ut the very queerest thing of all i was,' that Bill had no tall, darki ruffian. ly ly, )Ival, with a scowling visage and blac k whiskers, who flew at him with ar a da Iger, and a horse-pistol in each ct hanD , and a muttered outse upon his th lips, and cried wildly for "Iievenge." ad Ha I ha I and said : "Deatli " and it "Vill ail, thou diest I" Not day. tf There was another follow in love with o, M1ollit ij to be sure, but he was a w6ak.; eyed young man, who had sandy hair, all and wtire spectacles and a ohbir bol- na lar, an I always looked scared when se you ho llered at him. So, when fie ._ saw thtit Bill had the best of thdgirlls fo affect-io tie, he looked and said :"Go S in, Bil ly, if you hanker for hbr ;" co and as Oill was a trifle on the ha hanker, sailed right in. So W'illiam you see, had nro trodble W at all- and you could'nt get up an le, agonizinig novel him if you tried, be He didi-'t have any urgent business a, -that cal led him to a foreign land, and en so had fI;o bid her a fond good-"ye, A and "we ar always to be true, and then cal go awa,-i and forget, her, and fall iII ou love rtith a darkeyed, Italian girl, ti; Picki ag grapes in vineyard, with a i, qtta e tUwel folded on her head, ra whil.e his forgotten and foisaken Mary pa gre-ually faded and pined away, and tic buffed the physician's Lkill, and grew 1( pi'lier, and at last, w! en the June roses on wEre in bloom, lying gently down to pr d fe, while through the open window to< fronted in the balmy odor of joksa. cl mine and buneytsuckle. Ani Wil- vel liam didn't comie home at last. atd w filled with denthless remorse, go daily t to the sweet cemetery and ittew t flowers on her grave, and tdach his an ohildren to lisp her name. Not at M all. That is the way Mrs. . D. E. to N. Southworth would have done it, am but she wasn't round. Billy was a butcher who wore d white shirt and rei a shiny hat, and lie stayed at home of and killed beef od sOid it at a p,rice t; and stuck to MAry, and she kept m< heivIthy aid wasn't much on the pine, of or the fade, while if any fellows got tli to lurking around, William went en right out and bettored them in the acl eye, he did. shi And then, dt last; when all was St over, Marf didn't sit in the room r, while tidy dressod her in white, and wl mixed orango b-losom. in fier water. cc llt and- then go gqtly dft n stairs ca with six brideamalids at her heels, and th stand tYp with her William, and Weep th gnntly Ohile sh6 *as b'ding tWarried E by the ni'oisteriand then get lots 6f an presents. and then to go 'er new house ha and Five throu'gh all the happy years a wittiitil'f, and d'ever kn'oW sorrow or IY trouble any mere. Why of course, adj 'ghe didn't, for it was't h'er style you th sees She just i'udl'ed u'p afars and pVut T on her pink muslin and hier old sun th bonnet, and had nary bridesnmaid; and went to the nhagistrate's and never b wept a siMtiele, and got no presents ~ 'hut fteena een(s fa'om the old man- toti pay her' ear faro home, and when she got to t1ne' magistrate's she just fosea offV the bonch and told Bill shb' didn't W see mdkbh use in dplidingt; n'nd that g she din'tlik hi f ayhow;- abm go she went home, and B ill he went with th her, and told her ho wasn't sorry, as he didn"t want her, and ize gue$ped' ha she6 Was hard on her'elothes, anyliow, adid so.they never got tarz'ied', andtI the whole thing turdeod out grong ;-~ but 1 conlint help it;: for I ain't t ;gpirhg toe put facts on'rcoord that ain't o saz. 17a6 iV ain't a bit like any noivela that I ever re*d,so thmere turit have been som.ethidvg strange aboit this fellow and llie ta p.vreldar idou,so 'hl Sve tie let it slide as. Chefacteris;@o n M't . V. Swialley, thi able abd li well-known correspondent of the New York Tribuhner who hans for a series of yeari oectrpiedl'the' position as clerk or to the House Oommittee on Militar.y i Affairs, was notidibda day or two ar since that lie must reuign,-or be r'e- ti signed to dismissal, becaiuse it waS ra not deemed proper that "an etnpaloyee hi of the emnemy (the. iTribuno)' should od hold any posit.ion under or reeite- be asy emolumont from the A'diais. *et .tratibri." MIr.8., onsequently, wrote thi a, a valediotry to the committee, and m gracefully retir'ed to his seat in .the oc ri rporters' gallery 'Is A new boy in one of the Ridgefleld, a Conn., 8unzday schools, who was ask,lA who made the beautiful hills about ra replied that he did not know, AS'his 01 - arents only too, p p'towp Abe FftI- hi 47 before. tf The clnfinflati Notlifndtlon. It is very evident already that the hole oesidential held Is completely ioupied. There Is no place for a 1ird ticket. If a third one should 3 obtruded Into the arena, it would Lvo to exact possession of the ground woupiod by one of the others. If the litd tibket should be a Domouratio idi it.would jostle its allies out of 3sition, 6rowd them to the verge of !e ardna, arid dieable them to do iythfng igainst the common enemy. lite is, in fact, no.t a vacant spot on io field. If the bemobraoy should ipeat with its own Atundatd-begrors, iey could t'coie with a platform atefially different from that of the iberals. Of the twelte fesolutions thdt platform; eight ato as strict Detriocitic as a batiofial Demo atib convention botild mhke them, Ad the four renaining ones are not ti-Domdoratio. The platfdfim and e sharp, powerful addresas that compauiie it, really debup every Ab of Demodratio ground 1 and if a Democracy should put fofth its rn platform, it wotild find tlhat they >ild only be roaffirming what had ready been proolairfied at Onoin ti. They would lJo eohding words hoed by Liberal lepublidan allies for all who are not against us are us I and all who avow Democratic ritiments, and march against the mmon efremy, are entitled io be fled as allies. It id true tihe Do Yoracy might nominite candidates io are better Democrats than Grae. fnd Mrown are: bdit wduld this of any praotidal benefit 1 Are not celey ahd Browti really good ough Detficrats fot the oc6attion I e they not as good Denourate as A possibly be elected under th 6ir mnstances ? DWes not thelt nomitin. n by a movoiemnt intensely anti. dicul, and on a l. tform which ar gus alwo-t the emti,o policy of the rty in power, fulfill all tha condi. tj of a Democratic opposition, and Lo nothing ure to be sauid or done the ubject i If a Democratic asidential ticket had been nomina I and a Democratic platform pro imed, before the Cinociunati Con 2tiou was held, the Cincinnati ticket uld itever have been nominated; .re wAuld have beeA .Wo room on ield for it. The Damooatio ticket d platform would have covered al ist the entire ground of 9ppo.itIon Grantj and left no place or too all a place, for the Cincinnati verrent to stand on. The Liberal Wl1t would have perished foi want gro'und to fight onj alYd of a die. otive cause to ffght for. It this oveiment hal anticipated the work tbo Democrat,o party it i. be6nuse ) D'1rocratic party invitod and en 0o1.rag"d it to do so. It is not an ,of bQotility - it is an act of friend. ip. Thd Libetald havd fais6d the indard of revolr; marobed to the [d, and oceupied the fighting groUnd ich the Denucray might have )uped at an eNrlier ddy,sitply be. Lis0 the tamooraoy inifmnai6d tliat y woAld do n6thing to 6ripple -ir aftion or it'perft their re olt. eouraged ly thes6 tmittios d implied pledges; the LAberal8 ve, in perfect gobd faith, and it a irit 6f cordial friendliness to the urmocracy,- presented a strong and mirb' ticket. Thig ticket is at e morof~ of tle b'emoorocy ; they n elect it, or they can beat it. Iey can march their oWn Bosts to a 11b1d, ndner t;hoir own cooen aders if they will;- but this won'id an act or hostility to those who do 'e t:o be their allie#. In tfaking ir position as a tluirdi jarty, eni the rea dy mionopoliied field, they diid ecrowd those allies off, extin ish their spirit, destroy theit op rtunity, and force themi1in self. oteetion, to go back to the tent's of 0 adauinistration'par ty.' This choice tween Gzeeley and Grant is not a rd one. The platform on7 which eoy stan-ls embraces suhatant. Ily all that a Democrat can'ask ;' it jiresbes a juibt and' patrioti'o causb at every consistent Domoorat' dan cerfully support;-and it embodies popdlar movement which if Iustat% i by the JYemooracy, whirl not only ceQp the Ramdidal pnfty from powei' ci restot-e fraternal govo'rnment' in hoe of forde, cdVrupti on and i,hbe, liity,bult will' t'edognite thd Do ocrady as tile shipf agent of the eat refo?'matid.-Miissok,' Repz4b ab. A singuilar dase of suiidd'h.d do rred in the comsnune of G'ans, rance. Catharine Vigaut, wife of a u1ll oultivator, whbo had for abtne use been tidabled with' religioits onattianIa, laboriog under the de ,,ion thiat she Was conitinuslly follow by the de:vit', demibd to' killi reelf.-,Iip4Aileg a fro in a Jurge even oaas tpepdlAntho country places a womep,qrAp$ into it, tunrl there re sIued tiU she gro dicooiet%Il, bur. LQ, eoldadr. Qb' a chapir by the onth.af t,he q,e .she~ bud pladed a neifiz.stnA a:Yase of holy water. Tile reedet death of the St. Luis tproman pasIndluced Barpn,o te ) overt . The wgs the one, he lpn id6- gbtr; he mno-rapae and her nob. 'The Palmetto Orphan ilome. To the Ciizens of South Carolind MY COUNTRMEN :-I. is wit) gratitude that I am able to andougo that the Palmetto Orphan Home ha opened with encouraging prospects It is looated In Columbia, but do signed for the whole State. It is no under the control of any donomina tion,.but intonded for all. A board of Trustees will soon be announeod consisting of practical business gou tledien. It is desired to obtaina suitable lot on which to begin t< build eheap but convenient houge for the orphans. The orphans wh< have come In are in No. 26, Hurley. villej uhde- the varo of the blatron Mrs. M. M. ifnes, of Charleston whd wasi for y6arsj connected with the Orphan Asy1*.-f that eity. Sh< will tate p.esuro in*0eing the friend of the orpliand, espedially thd ladies of Columbia at the "Home." The orpbre are to be suppdrted b) rbe will ddriatiodis. Pdpid all oier the 3tate are respondiog to the calls for Uflp in this nobli work;, 1.ha*e just reocived a contrihution of five dollar. rrondi Colifornia, .and a pledge of two iundred and fifty.ddllarg frdm a gen. leman in lJoson MIassachusetts. surely, it people fo far dway are so -eady to holp u4 tako care of our )oor orphans itij Carolina, no >Ite of ud stiou .5#ail to do h is w1iolo duty. I bring into the ioude very ioon, .o. -'loss' titan fifty 7er destitute orp.an6. 'he book for stibsoriptiori is open at the office of the Workihg Christian, where I shall be bappy to confer with iien'ds coucornii#thid matter. Any. hing addressed to the "Palmetto )iphari flome,' .cafe of Working "hristian, Colufi, S. C;, will re. eivo prompt attention. Paperd in South Carolina ahid else vbero, plca.pnopy.. . 'TIL MAN R. GAI INES, COLUDn1A, S. C., NIAY9, 1872. The Fight of the Faiong. A heavy pressure was brouglit to ekrgt the Exed-utivo depirtmenut to ay'to reioRtate Woolley as. treasurer if Edgeflold County. This'is looked ipon as something of a test between he factions that are daily creating a wider breaeqh in.thA Radical party. rhe Governor refuses to - make the estoration. The project of puttiAg forward a Itate tioktt, founded upon the Liber 1 Republican p!atfurm, gAins strength very hour. The candidate.- have iot 3et been settled upon, but the ames of two promi'nent judges are ientfoned in ,eonletion with the novement; Colored Radi6als like ;enator Nash and Iepresciftative rhompson are losing strength in their iwn ranks, and a new set of taotibs nay be expected; Bankers and btokerd piofeds to' be i nuch at loss as to where the late >ayments into the treasury have gone is any one holding uciounts against be r.ame. It is generally the opin on; how6ver, that Kimpton is owal owing up all in the oettlonYent Cheme', which is what hos tow cliod the treatnrer t' New York. An un. )asinesd bodig disruption pervades ,he precincts of the t1io who Irave ontrolled tfie . urse-strin'gs 6f the State. Patty leaders dread.an extra mectig of the General Asembly, iWd taipdyers objeCt to it furely ~ro,* the e,lp ense tha'i woulI'd .fol ow. at the best it is' a laby r inh of ills; TFe United States deputies have, 'o-night, brouglit to this ity Rtev. John 8. .1!elt and his? son, arrested n Ocodlee buVt belonging to Spartan aug also.Wm. B3. \fard and lIn. T. [bennon.. The'y have all been lodged n~ the jail here on charges of vio. ating the enforcement aet.-olum. h'd Special TIotegramn to the Ch1arle. on News. ilod the Sodthern Slates Voted at Cincin nai. As a mattet of general interest to aur leaders;we give the vote of al the Southern Sia'tes, on the siuth bal lot, by which Mr.- Greoley was nomi dat'ed: Alabani-Oroeley 18'. Arkansas-Greeleiy 10, Adams g. Slorida-Chase 6% '.ntuelly--Adamns19,Groeley .5i. Louisiana-Greeley 7. A dams 7. Marylandl-C'reeley g; Adams V T'r'vmbuill 2. Mississippi-A\dme 110, Odre'elef 10 lies'ourl-Greeley 18, Adams 12. North Carolinlt-Greelcy 17, Ad ams 3. 80'uth Carolina-Chase l'2, Gr'oeld2 Georgia-G'reeley 92. Tenneesoe-Trumubull 3, Adams 9 Greeley 10. Texas--Gredley 18, A dams .. Vrgpinla-Greeley 7, Chase 7, Ad ama g. West *Virginia--..Greeley 7, Chana S,.Devis 1. *.ary# nd gardens in tlii% iiaitj llave been suirrering severely fro:r drouth for several weekse. Much o| the ,eottob seed planted has not yel lom~e up, and'It lb tho4ight.will not:d< 80 until .c hiape rain. Th -gurdena Iavto40. ered severelyi,' pxd are sev. 4 ~1wee mere 1Sakward thesif y |Dolly Vardea qnd the hadies-What art Pi ADolly Yardens f .It-rI Avh'rNuE UdrEr., Aptil It , I'm sick of Dolly Vardous I I Th t Is, 1 could' stand it to hav< Mii. erltins live In Dolly *ardtoa moi'nlng wrappers, *ear o6casionally Dolly Vardenb afterndon~ 6o6tutme, and indulge in Dolly Vardona opera dresses now and then ; but when Mrs. Perkins-aske me-to iv.e-a.r Doll3 vests,Volly Varden shirtoollars--and a-s-k s tr.o to change off any Bon Marche cambrio handkerohiefA with i the big monograms on them, for a square of exaggerated window ourtain -I say when she aske me to wear Dully Varden olothos myself, sleop on Dolly Virden sheets, and wipe on Dolly Vardon towels, then I say, like poor persecuted Toodles, "hang Dolly Varden" aforesaid I 44What are Dolly Vardens " "This ishow they came about; "In the spring of 1870, while Napoleon was fussing with Benedbtti up at Ems, tud fussing with old King William to drive bim into the big war, the Emprevs Eugenie yas making up a oarty to gb to the Lodgohamp races. The crazy ladies of the court bad ex. liausted all the recefit fadbiofis, and so the Empress set about getting ip a style for the races whibl shaoud be jubt about as orafy in fashion as old Nip, hot husband was crazy in war. Eugenie sent for Worth, the man aillinsr, and together they planned those rose and suffflower spangled Crtonish suits, and got up a leg horn "shoe fly" hat, with velvet and daises and dandelions, and any and every thing which should look like Mrs. Flanagan's vteed$; hollyho6k.botdered back yard. "'Thef suo6eeded; Thb dress *as tie most insane upeoimon of window ourtain, and the bats looked-well, looked just as 6o4ficttfsh d's our Duffy Varden hats do now. It looked as if it had been itruck with a whirlwind behind-or, in a word, it was a dock. ed bat just teady to fly, but anoh'ored down bf velvet.strings. "Well; the 1hmpress and die' 6ourt ladi6if weiit up to the Longchamp races and were ihcse window ourtain suits. Of course Paris was crnzy about it but just then old lIing William sapp. ed half a million Dutchmen over into Alsace and Lorraino, which.made the Eipre.s quit the racos and run ba;p to Paris to look after the hspital, which wer6 full of wounded French men." "Who revived the crazy fashion 1" "Well, Mrs. P . , of Fifth Avenue, and several of our ladies brought back the wind6w curtain dros from Paris in thp tall of 1870, aid Wore it at the Jeromo races-a very proper place for it. Last spring it began to creep up at Saratoga. Pretty Mrs. P- ~so the envy of all the ladies, for she had one right from Wofth's. They were 1-just the cheese" for the iaoesi and did well for Saratoga graveyard flirtations and inernink breakfast gown at Moons'e, but now the ladies are becoming as crazy as the fashion:. Th'dy nsist on wearing ifie hop vino, su'nfiower pattern, all the timo. "They aie cutting up th'dir wind6w curfains to maW9 what they call now 'Dolly iarden" dresses; and the lit tle forty centt palmetto hats mode by the d'arkies in Flori'da are brought up bee,'ooked up ouV one side, ball'asted with $10 worth of PIaris paids, pop pies and anrd batchelors? buttons and sold for $26., But don't they make a, sensation ?' It's all right-Dolly Varden was a craiy woman ; she did All s'ou'ts ofcque'r things ; but if .Dolly should walk odt. of h6r crazy E1nglish grave and drop down on Broadway; and dee thirty-fl#o thod'dand insane Ame'fican women adopting lier luna tie dress patoins and "dotting np'" generally .judt a Dickons said she used to "out u'p," Dully would imme diately get-up a grand fair to raise funds to build a gigantic Dolly Var den insane asylum. These idow durtain 6/tonn'e suits are only to be worn at the races. Tntey are uiot for morning nor after noon ; but now 6iery iddy on' four dollars per week- 1s' talkidiy about Dolly Varden for mor'ning, Dolly Var. den for.. evening; andl Dolly-crazy DoHl Varden for funeral arid wed' dings-for the pall bearer's and btides maids I sez Eli." Cdffe.in Yankeekli1d. 'lho New VYork Sun is authouity for the statement that though New Eng land was the cradle of abolitionism, 'and the politIians are the loudest in theocry for etjual rights, it is certain that In n'o otber part of the Onion at the presont day are the colored peo yle so kept under. They are never permitted t'o raise their voices In the -Ilgislative conoeils, and the petty office of village eonstable is the high. est to which any member of their race.has suddesfully.aspired, either in , hiassachusetts or- thode Island. Crowded together is the slums of the le rge cities, they are kept in a state of mental anud moral degradation, while the charitable s@oleties who sepd milsiotuaries to Fejee lesk with loft edorn .qn t,he colored hopig9p Ip their mIdspt. p Iis o.ly Deputy 6aashal #Ondrlbhs In ilhbo, A correspondent of the Charleston Courier writes as fbIlows.from Atlanta, Ga., May II : Deputy Marshi ftendr!k, fn forttunately for his cenmfort, retarned to this ofty dpon another kidnappin. expedition a few dayo'since, and ar rested Thomas Hancook, a .young man forcherly of Spartanburg County, who left that County some six mbntha since, and for the last four months bas boon a clerk here for Aefsorq. Kiser & Co. 'the warrant under wich he arrested this young man was drawn against Wesley Scott and Joshua Shearl, whose natnes were scratched out and Hanoo6k'i name interlined. It was brought out in the evidence that Hendricks and Nortis tated, after the arrest, to Hancock, that he woqld not have arrested him if. Scott had not got away. Col. Ri. A. Aiston, known familiarly about Charleston na "Bob," was called in as counsel for Hancook, in oonneotion with Gon. Garling ton, who is famil ior with the band writing of Daniel l1orlboek, United States District Clerk bf South Carolina. He pro. nounced the signature to the bench warrant a forgery, and not Mr. Horl. beck's writing,.when d telegrAm was snt him to Charlodon. Air. forl. beol proiiptly .nnso#ed that no war rant had been issued from that oourt against Thomas Han6ook. IUstantly a warrant was issued for Hendricks, who was arrested for false imprison ment and kidnapping. An inv6stiga tion was held this afternoon, which linibeon continued until next Thurs day, in order that evidence may be obtaintid from Charleston convicting hith of forgery. General Garlington's defunciation of the GoVarnment, both Federal and State, in South Carolina, wad a grand effort, which made even Hendricks wine. Hlendrieks gavo bail, his security beirg a United States Marshal. Thid kidnapping oflycial, if he succeeds getting clear, which is very doubtful, will probably not sail in this direction again, but hunt a moro congenial clime. This is his third expedition into Gedrgia, and it will probably be his last. LiVense Tax-Miniaters. From information received in an interview, 1Nay 6, *ith the Attorney. .eneral of Soithli Carolina, lion. D. I. Chamberlain, we feel authorized to say to the mihisters, that so doubt. ful is the license tax law, in its ap. plication to the ministry, particular. ly the itinerant, that they may rest qIulet until further and timely notice. We are persuaded that a fuller no. ri1aintance with' the peouliarrolatins of ministers to their charges-rela tions which it is hardly 'possible for the Attorney Generpl suffie.jently to have knoWn in lf tieir"dferences and bearings-Iiil, inMk6' it Wbnfltent and clear that, expecting, poisibly a few peculiar eases, the ministexi of the Gospel, as in'uhl d6 not come pvithin the purvfew of the license tax law, and' that if the tntantiobn of tli6se who framed and those who enacted the law can be ascertainod, it will be fournd that the imposing of licen tax on the ministers of the Gospel wns not in their thoughts, though the wording is not as explicit as i should have been. 't'he tWultiplicity of the pu'blic business, and the obscurity in the wording of the law, we would, on' our own responsibility, mention as an ex eusei for any opinion ef the Attoz'fey teneral, p'reviously eipressed, and as subjecting the ministers of the Gospel, as such, to a license tax. Ch.ris'f fan Ki~ighbor. Weldell Pilllips. do~edell Phillips is perplexed about Greeley's nomination, lie prefers Grant to Greeley, but thinks Greeley's election possible. Tfhe fol lowing explains itself, being Phillips' reply to the rquestion given: "\What do you.thiink of the st'ory aBout Grant'withdrawing as th'e last moans of saving the Republican par t.f and defeting G*reeley ?" 'I have heard of that .and thlere may be something in it. 1'rst winter, whe:l I was lecturing In the WVest, the leading men of thie party there were dis'eusbing the same possible contingency, and I understand that in the.event of his withdrawing, Colfax was to be brought forward, and there was an understanding of ,this kind with Colf'ax when he was persuaded to, change his determination about re tiring from political life at the oloTd of his present term. Takingoeverythi'ngas it stands, I am frank to say thitt 1 have no opinions about the cont!est ; but, of course, I have my pvefeonoac. Perhaps in a few days things will be more definitely seBaped, and tben I may have somethibig to say. As mat ters are now I prefer to remaIn si lent.1' Th'Diastrous Vlloods in india.' *The cable informs us of most terri ble floods in the Southern part of ,British India. 1,000 lives are report ed lost, and the destruetlon of .pto pert as somaething unpreqedented. A:r Itlp uiplttdes of disaster .hki are of trequaent o*qerrenoe -1toly.pa.fo3 continent tha6 s.y be rer?edge tb. bigh,p ae ofsi e-pp. mean rio. this 6.4 t..e det. The Power of Impginaelon. gome tim6 since, a lady in thi city had ocoasion to uso some cor r9sive sfiblin)ate di.solved in-aloohol; and being of an economical turn of mind, instead. of throwing away the teacup which had 6ontained the dead ly poison, she told the servant girt to give it a thorough cloaning, and to inake sure that her 'rders were obey. 6d; she stood by and iaw the work don6. She saw it w01e in half a doie' waters; aud fnally, to make doubl sure,shd suied it to be boil ed. To be uro this *as i great Ooal of trouble to iave an old tbd6up that didn't cost over four codits when It was fiew ; but theie is nothing like econopy.a s. otn ik At was ure the cup was ready for use and telling Bridget t6 wipo it and place it with the rest of the dishes, she withdtow, well ratis. fled %ilh her off.rts at econotny, and di Ipi ed the subjecot from her mind. But now comes the cream of the joke: That evenig at the suppeF table, the lady.complained or feeliug slightly indisposed , but thought noth. ing of it again until, While sipping Ver tea abo happened to recall to her id the littil fact of che corrosive sublim'ntb, when the idea suddenly o6crrrid to hor that ale might have been drinking from the idental cup' that hat held the p6ison. id she scroam I Not a bit ot it I But Aie turned palo and whispered, "lus* band, I an poisonod"--and her head dropped on her breast;. 'I he husband rushed to her, and caught her in his aims, tid carried her seemingly lifeless burden to the sofa and deposited thereon. By thid timo Bridget was at hand, moaning and Wringing her hand over her poor unfortuhato "missus." The hus6and half,distraotid, begged his wife to tell him what hAd happen. od, at th6 same time ofdering Brid got to run fo the doctor. "It is ieless to send for tle doo. tor," sAid th'6 wire faintly, "I feet that I am dying." After a pause, sie, 6ontinu'ed, 4throw away, that fatal t6aOup. "Please, ni'Usus," sobbed th6 girl; "what teacup I" "Why the poisoned one,"-ans4red the lady. "Oh, missus I" exclalchad the girl, her sobbing' increasing fn violonod; "bad luck to the cup I after giving it a dacent washing, and while I Was wiping it dhry,lI dropped it, mum, and it broko in a thousand paces-it did, indade, vaum." What folfowed can be better im. aginod thau:V described. We will sim. ply add in conolusion, that the news. paper reporters lost aO' item, and the' undertakers a job. Bridget was not' reprimanled for breaking the dish. H1ariford Times. Lively Scriftnage in Yahington. A rencounter occurted this evening in front of the Imperial Hofel, be tween Ge'ndial A. C. Jones, of %Vest. Virginia; and Col. Calvin ;ayre, of Alaba6a. Jond', who was standing on d step, was dittacked by gayre with a heavy cane. Blows were exchanged a'id Jones lad his left wrist broken. lie wrested the cane from S:yre, and with his t'ight hand returned the blows. Colonel Johnson, late Mairshal of South Cairolina, and a friend of both, separated the partion for a abort time, but no one else assist,ing him he was' unable to keep thien apart, and they renewed' the contest With pocket' knives, Jone.a receiving a severe cut; ao?oss the forehead and several on' the face, and Sayre a' severe gash across thd throat and stabs in the' abdomen. During the fight they threw each other to the grodnd re peatedly. Finally they were separa ted,both. in an exhausted condition. JTones being too weak to readhi his residence wais taken tu a chamber in the Imperial Hotel, and Sa'yi's was carried to his houise. Both i'mniedi-' ately recoived surgical'attendance. h is understoodl thie fight gre,v out of an old grudge ltween the par'ties'', both' of whom ha9e ininy friends' in this' community.- WdHla. Ihal. Ne are' infordied, s 's the'Narlon' Crescent,'that on last Moday evening a hail storm pa'esed ever the lower pal't of onr diuhty? at the 'lantation of 1Mr. J. M. Godbold and its vicinl. ty. donsidorable damage was done' to the crops. It is said that the hal stones were unuisually large, and that the storm w'a very violent while it lasted. Until Saturday last our county was' suffering severely for rain. Every' field was parching, and In even the few lucky plantations over the rIver, which bad a rain about ten days since, The the oropa were being much injured;' rain ,of datur4ay wa a refreshing, continuous shower, and :did muck' good-vegetation is gp.tly revived and work on the figes is again gos. pihlq. An tllay .of jIqash rg,. Dt.,. who was rather aebojj*).d took a bog oftiw p%$t.nt j#Ie Tey.tifrad her bh@btemr1 } E .ga 'to uello* a tr i7 t .t