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Deapores&Wiliaims, Proprietors.] A____ FaiyPpr,Dvtdt_ceo,'At_nur,Idsr n ieau VOL. \TII.1 WINNSBORO, So C*,, WEDNESDAY" ONN,VA 9 87.[O5 THnr FAIRFIELD HERALD IS- PUnLISDIIV WEEKLY BY DESPORTES & WILLIAMS, Terms.-Tis UNRALn is pubished Week y in the Town of Winnsboro, at 93.00 in variably in advanee. W All transient advertisements to be paid in advance. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1 00 per sq uare. How the Lexington, Mo., Caucas(an Re seived the News of Greeley's Nomnlation. "Sound the hew-gaz ; strike the ton-jon ; beat the fuzzy-guzzy ; wake the gong-kwong ; lot the lound hosan na ring ; bum-tum, fuzzle-bumu, ding.. go-bim I Praise, God, from whom all blessings flow; praise Him, all patriots here below I Glory Iglory II glo-o-ory !!! In the language of the saintly Beober, when be heard of t he butchery of twenty thousand of his fellow beings at Gettybburg, 'Bully, .Hallelujih I' All hail to the L,real of Liberalism and Rfomni, for now may they triumph gloiously. The woolly horte and his rider may they cabt into the sea. Jubilate I Hooptee. doodendon I Jaoobiaisn totters to its fall. Unconstitutional Congresses of perjured ruffians; itcby-palmed, bribe-taking, offico-peddling presiden. tial boors and sots ; usurping Leg isla tures ; blasphemous, pickpocket Sena tors and Govornors ; shoulder-strapp. ed outlaws, titled bummers, recon, struetion satraps, nigger bacohanuls, official incendiaries, thieves, bond holders, out-purses, all tremblo at the roar of coming door. The whole gigantic fabric of fanati cism, corruption, and wrong reels and shivers before the:rising hurricane of a long down-trampled and deluded people's wrath and common sense. Te Deun Laudamus I Radicalism the great is falling, is falling, I Huge will be its tumble, and few will be tie mournets. Ring out, ye bells, belle, bells 1-the steamboat bells, the far sounding bells ; the cow bells, the peaceful, bells ; the sleigh bells, the merry bells ; tihe church bells, the deep toned belIls ; the factory bells, the engine bells, belles in bell-shaped crinoline-all the bells but Sew ard's little -bell 1' Ring, ring., ye,ur glad anthems over city and country, over mountain and prairie, crag, river, lake, wildwood, and valley. Let the joyous music strike the skies. Jingle, jingle I Ting-a-ling I Ding-dong I ding dong it Jn sending word to his constituents to rejoice with him, the immortal Donas gives these spuocifications: - "Rejoice, ye old men, because as thisigs are going now your ancient optiis shall once wore see 'pence on earth, good will tio men,' and your skinny Ifingera ;thrill with the long. forgotten magnetism of half dollars that glitter and clink. Leap for joy, ye aged women, because ere long calico, tea, sugar, and camphor will be back at old prices; open your toothless, cat fishy mouths, and war ble sweet sorgs of deliverance. Toot the tympanum-oracking rams' horns. Howl raptuous hosannae, ye flea.bit ten bound-pups ; and the gleeful cat' gut squeak. Pipe forth your glad ness, oh, jaissaoks and nighting ales and ganders. Croak, ye frogs ; squeal, ye hogs, flap your wings and scream your shrillest Dote of victory, oh, in vincible shanghi of Freedom. Let volcanoes blaze and festive tar-barrels crackle and- gleam. Let torch light nod to bonfire, and cannon boom their mighty p mans. Let rocks, cataracts, andh hill-Eides ;b ull-calves, oceans, gulfs, lakes, and mill dams; men, women, child ren, fops, pood les, beasts, birds and reptiles, all crea tiOn, aniusate and innimate, burst forth in one tremendous, defeating, deafenuing, thundering, sky splitting roar of triumph, juy and praise. The Caucasian patiotism and1 common sen,e have prevailed, aned Radicalism, the cunning, the brutal, the bloodJy, is doomned to speedy and irretrievable overthrow. Lot the country tear off her widow's weeds, and array herself in her brightest and comeliest du.ds. Let Columbia get herself a new waterfall, a love of a bor.net, a skole. ton skirt with panier attachment and a sefof distracting curls, and execute a gay Old Virginia shindig with the Goddess of Liber ty and the statue of Washington, while blind Justice, seated on the head of a barrel Ia bled 'Old Oonstitution," plays the fiddle and grinningly yells 'Galopade all I' Let joy be unconf6nod. All things are lively, and the 'good time,coming' is come at last I 19or the Captonsian's policy has been adopted ; the -Can casian's ticket has been nominated, and Radloalistm, the treacherous, the mnurderoush the insatiate, the devilish, is 'dying, Afrie, dying.' Glorifical lelujerum I Hurrah I Three. times three thousand cheers and a view halloo for. Horace Greeley and B. Graitz Brown, the philosopher and the statesman: I "Hark I. hark I Unfold your ears to the.dimensions.of a saddle skirt, or a Missouri legislator's auditory flaps. What means that. mighty, all per - Ya 1 agor0ati, 14 -q. asprr wave of a aclaim. comeas.sween.ip ing over all the land ? Like ut numbered and innumerable shatte ed hogs-hads of auricular perfum, It flies pon the wings of every gali It thunders along the hoaring A lantio's storm-lathed coast. It rf verborates amid the vast, abyss canons, rugged crags, and grizzly infested, solemn gorges of tble cloud punohing Rocky Mounts, in whoe shadowy solitudes the sun has set hi trundle-bod. It is rumored upon tb periwinkle-strown shores of the gree n9rtbern lakes ; it is whispered b neath the unlit and moonlit orang groves of the beautfous flower Reala It is muttered on the droary confine of Moosehead, Kenneboo and Sysic dubais. It is croaked in the grea soum.oovered nursei ies of bulligatort frogs, and serpents, where weit gray bearded foreato nod their patri archal heads above the tidal tut bidit of Arkansas, Chattahoolee an Altmuaha. And it is chanted,echoed bummed, struwu,ed and bellowed Saskatchewan to Popocatmpeti, frou Narragansett to Corpus Colristi, frou Dry Tortugas to Vaico,uver's Isle "'Tis the voice of hopef ul nil lions procluituitig with one accord 'No Demooratio. National Nowina tions ! The farce i, played out, ih, curaini down, the lightv extinguished and actors and audiene. disuissod V' Mirs. Davis and Mr Greeley -A Truthfu Scrap of History. The aoompanying communioatio, comes from a source of the nost unqucs tionable authenticity, and reflects hon or upon the nominee of the Cncianat Convention. No true Southron cat peruse it with uumoistened eye, pnc the rebuke to ir. Voorhecs is mosi withering and complete :-Macot Telegraph. Editors Telegraph and Afessenger Mr. Vourhees, in his recent attack or Mr. Greeley, styled his signing of Mr Davis' bond "and impertinent inter, ference " Allow me to give you the true history of that matter as I re. cently learned it in New York, from a gentlenan who knew alt about it Mrs. Davis went to New York to eon, sult Charles O'Connor, 11r Davis counsel, as to the best manner oi effecting his release froni prison Mr. O'Connor told her that in hig opinion there was but o.no way that ii could be doue, and that was 'to get the representative man of the Repub. lican party to sign his bond. 11r., Davis inquired who that man was Mr. O'Connor replied that it wat Horace Greeley. She thin asked hitr if he would see Mr. Greeley and gel him to do it. le replied thatho had no influence with Mr. Greeley, and that she was the proper peison to se( him. She said she would go and se< him. She went to his office, sent ir her card and was invited into hi private office She said to hin "Mr. Greeley, my husband is confined in a casemate at Fortress Monroe He has been there for many long weary months. le is a feeble old mna1 and ie is gradually sinking under hi rigorous imprisonment. He will di< if he remains there much longer. ] caine here to consult 1r. O'Connor a to the means of getting him released He has told me that there is but ono the way todo it, and that istogetrepre sentative man of the Republican par ty to sign his bond, and says that yos areO that man. Hie has advised me ti apply to you. He says that you havy a kind heart and that you will do if you believe it to be right. My hus band is dying. Mr. Oreeley, utny hope that you will favorably consjidea may applieatioun.'" Mr. Greeley aro'e, extended hi hand to M'rs. Davis, acnd said ; "Ma dam, you may, for I wsill sign hi bond." Mr. Greeley was thten p rotminentocandidate before.the Le.gis hatunre for the UnaiteA~ States Senate 8ome of his friendN heard that he hat agreed to sign Mr. D,vis' botnd They wvent to him and proteste< against it. They told hitm that th,. had made a oount, and that he woik be elected by six tmajority, but thai if ho signed thtis bonds it wvould defqra him. He replied, "I know it, will. They told hinm that be waih one of th< owners of the Tribune, and if he sign ed this bond he wouldl lose th->u sands of subseribers. Uid replied, a know it." They said, "iMr. G reecle , yol have written a history of thes war, oms volume you have out, anid have solt large numbers of it. Your aee>ni volume is nearly out and you hav, large orders for that. -If you siga this bond, these orders will be countes manded and you will lose a larg amount of money." Ho replied "Gentlemien,.I know it, but ii is righs and Ill do it." Hlb did do it, and am informed that he lost a seat In th United States Senate, and over thuirt; thousand dollars. To my minud this does not look likt "impertinent enterference." The Columbia Union, which ougi to be good authiority for the moe loyal and highly colored of our legli I ators, shows conelusively, that tht Legislaturei haviung regularly nidjourr ed4 without day, has no legal and eo: stitutional power to assemble' bofos the regular time of zoceting in N< ueaber neEa except itu.der a AsUi . tlA9j A99.tnot,of thei State .Atee say we. Cave Life In Vlcksburg. r- The wife of a Confederte office 3, who was confined within the "wall o - fire" .whiuh surrounded Vioksburl duting the memorable days of Apri and June, has written an entOtaininj i volume on the scenes and incident which there transpired. Like inos of her oompanions, she was ompell 0 ed to sook shelter from the,delbge o a iron hail in the cave .so often- alludw< e to. * Caves were tho fashion+-"the ragi -over besieged Vioksburg. N ogroe D who understood their business hiret - themselves out to dig them at fron 8 thirty to fifty dollars, according to the size. Many persons considerinj ' different locaities unsafe, would sel , them to others who had been less for tunate or less provident, and so grea was the demand for cave workmet V that a now branch of industry sprant i up and became popular-particular ly as the personal sfety of the work. , -uen was secured, and money withal, -Her fditbful servant, George, wh always remained with her, was verj near being killed at one time by v Yatkee shell. She says : "0c night I could scarcelv sleep, the ex. plo-ions were io loud ail freqtent. Before we had etired, George had ,een lying without the door. I had riseit about twelve and stood lookiing out at the different caurses of light I marking the pa.sage of the sheils, when I noticed th.at George w.s not I in his usual pl.a,e in the entrance. On lookii, .ut I saw that he was -leepilg souidly s,1m little di:-taAlo off, and nany fr,guent, of shell. fall. ing near him. I arou-ed him, telling him to coil.e to the entrautcu for safe ty. He had scarcely staried when a huge picco of shell calo whizzing along, which, fortunately, George dodged in time and it foll in the very spot where he had so lately Slel .' On -notber occasion a shell pene trated the cave to the great horior of the occupanits : "It was about four o'clock oie Wednesday evening (that shelling throughout the day bad gone on about as usual) I was reading in s.ifety, I inigined, when tile unuista. ble whizzing of Parrott shells told us that the battery we had so much fear. ed had opened from the in'trench ments. I ran to the entrance to call the servants, and inmediately after they entered a shell struck the earth a few feet from the entrance, burying itseif without exploding. I ran to the little dressingsroom, and coul(j hear them striking around us on all sides. I orouched1 closely against the wall, for, I diI not know at what moment one 'i tit strike within the cave. A man came in very much frightened, 'and asked to remain till the danger was over. The servant stood in the little niche by the bed, and the man took refuge in the small cell where 1 was stationed. le had been there but a short time, standing o in front of we and near the wall, when a Parrott shell came whirling in at the entrance and fell in the centre of the cave before us alI, lying there smok. ing. Our eyes were fahtened upon it while we expected every moment the terrific explosion would ensue. I pressed my child closer to my heart - and drew nearer to the wall. Our -fate seemed almost certain. The poor muan who had sought refuge within was most exposed of all. WVith a sudden impulse I seized a large double tblanket that lay near and gave it to him for the purpose of -sielding . him from tihe fragments, 'and th9s we remained for a mlonment, with our eyes fixed in ter m rr on on the mjisisile of. death, when George, the servant, rushed forward, a seized the shell, andl threw it into the street, runnsing swiftly in the oppo -site direction. Fortunately the fuse had 'become nearly extinguished, and the shell fell harmless-remnainina near the mouth of the Cave as a trophy of the fearlesiness of tIhe servatnt and our remarkable escape."~ The re-elect,ion of Senator Ferry by aL union of Liberal JSepublicn e and Democrats in the0 Connecticut Legi.dIature is an accomplished fact, .iTeu l?ssou to the advocntes of pro . cription i, n severe eone and w Ill have [I Its due effecot througihouit the country, Senator Fe.rry goes back to thle Con, gri ss which he has doneo so much tc I dignify, anud General Hawley isleuft tc i de.plore the lack of influnce whielh , ordered from \ Vabshiigmonu his election SanId his ownt weak rait,h in the vitality o'f the Reformi movemient. Th le erush ing of partj lines and the rush of pop)ular out-rents which flo,w together j may be comnp.red to the breaking up [ of the ice and the freshets of tihe Con. e necticout River in Spring.-New Yori A Dolly Varden Sermon, Afashionable el-kgymon 'recenti announced through the press- that em t such a day he would deliver a ser t mon to his flock winding- up the notic4 -with iD. V." (Deo Volcnte-Ood wil e ling.) "Dolly Varden" being alli thi -rage,.'-D V." was mistakan therefor and the chureb was packbd with ladlei 0 anxious to bear what Revu Mr.. had to say about the 4'Dolly Varden' f: styles. I magind their-disgusv" tyhi n, ha ahnos: Ath6fSRridIalhaow for. h Ron. A. P. Aldrich for Greeley. Judge A. P. Aldrich, of South Carolina, in a letter addressed to J. P. 0. Whitehead Esq., now in Mis. souri, says : I cannot answer for the Demo6ratio party, there has been no meeting of the party in convention ; the only ex I ression of opinion is in the nowspa.. pers ; these generally acquiesce. For myself, I am very clear that the platform and the nomination should not only be ratified, but that it is bad policy to have a meeting of the Democratic Convention ; it can do no good, and may do much harm. I fear dissension and a split. As the Executive Com. mittee have, however, determined to call the Convention, I think the wisest course to be pursued is to accept the platforcn and adjourn without reference to the nomination. In my opinion, a much better policy for us of the South is to send up no delegates. But I suppose this is hardly possible. -W 4# f In my opinion, it is not only the plain duty of the State, but of the South, to support the platform, and ratify the nomination by acclamation. I think a meeting of the Democratic Convention such a dangerous experi ment that I earnestly advise these down.troddon Southern people to keep p out of it. Our experience in Now d York, four years ago, is fresh in my memory. Palmetto Orphan Home. P To the Citizens of South Carolina DEAn FRIENDs :I am glad to be o able now to announce a Board of q Taustees, for the Palmetto Orphan u] Home. It contains some of Cofum- d bia's best men-gentlemen of brains, cnergy, and public spirit. They are as follows k Dr. J. AV. Parker, Chairman. T J. B. Ezol, b J. H. Kinard, it J. L. Bryan, t< Richard O'Neale, Jr., U E. R. Stokes, at C. F. Janney. There are now seven orphans in the ni Home, and several others ready to af come. The whole State is willing to jq move in -the matter. I hope this la Board nill organize at once, and take oontrol of this important cntorprine. Truly, TILMAN R. GAINES. C in Sleeping on a Railroad Track-the Pen- e ally. F The night train on its way to Flor- i once -Saturday, when within a mile of "' its destination, met an obstruction t in two men-one white and one color. w ed-sleeping on the track. It was impossible to do any thing to avert of the disaster, as they were not discov- h ered until it was too late. The b oow-catcher throw the colored man " out of the way without injuring him, " but mangled the white man, causing A almost instant death. The names of k the men could not be ascertainad.- n Charleston Courier. W Revoked, re Attorney General Chamberlain, as *f will be soon by the following comnu- n nication, has reconsidered a former o opinion-relative to the tax on clergy men: OFFICE OP. THES ATTORNEY GENE.RAL 1Li Cor.UMBIrA. S. U., May 18, 1872 tI lion. Edwin F. Gary, State Auditor : SIa Upon further refieotiona andh examination, I conclude that minis ters or clergymen are not liable to a license tax under the recent law. Yours, Respectfully, (Signed,) D. H. CuIa1nnELnr.m. Humble Pie for Brother Jonathan. ai "In consideration thereof the Presa- d dent of the United States, by and ti with the advice and consent of the a Senate thereof, consents that lhe will il mnake no claim on the part of the ti United States in respect of indirect o0 losses as aforesaid be fore the Tribu- d nal of Arbitration at Geneva." h The above is the dish of humhblo o pie placed before the United States n by the English government through- a Lord Granvilie, with a request that a they eat it without making wry faoes. .t What say our American people to t the invitation 1--New York IIrad. A newly made widow e.t Oshkoch, at the fineral stepped up .and liissed I hor dead husband's brow as e lay in' < the coffin, then was disgusted befon:1 L mnasure to see several othef *ohheri t whom she did not know step ad and a do the same thing. With the retbark t "1 thought lhe was my husb'hd, but r he wasnt't," she rose an'd-left the ( church. Mrs. Railey, the wife the Savannah ( Druggist, who took arsenio-as wats ( supposedl in mistake for calowol Is o dead. It now appears the poison. was takeni IntentiQnlly with thQ. purps 1 of commftting suicide. 1iefore dying e she tpid th ephysician she had ts en, 11 araorhio, andw wheu-asked bow mauch 8 sho rEplied %Anpogh tokiU miyself.'" Common in the Cities but Very Unusui 1A the Country. On Monday night the 6th instan Mr. William Gibson and his wife, wh live just over the Fairfield line, wer awakened in the night by bearin ,he cries of an infant. Rising an ioarching about the house,they foun in an old hat on the centre table, hite male infant about twenty-fou bours old. No clue has been obtaine is to the parents, or to the person who deposited it in its strange bu ippropriate nest. Having recentl )een bereaved of a child, their heari varmed at once to the little found ing, and they determined to kee] ad raise it as their own. Severa hildless couples sought to secure i or adoption ; bit Mr. Gibson an( vife persistently refused to part wit] be little stranger. One of the poutio vagaries abcut thi rigin of babies is that "the gateb 9 eaven are left ajar" and that th ittle fellows uneonsciously wondei Drth Into terestial scones. We doubi cry much whether this one caughl ii an old hat had so pure an origin. hesier Reporter. Swearing In a Negress as a Lawyer. A Washington paper gives the fol )wing account of the initiation int4 ractice of the first female lawyer it e District of Columbia: "Yeater ay afternoon Miss Charlotte E. Ray, graduate of the Law College ol larvard University, made her ap. aarance in the Clerk's office of the uareme Court of the District. Mr. Leigs, Jr., ever courteous and iliging to all viitors, politely ro. aested to know her business, where. pon she thrust into his hand her ploma. Mr. Meigsread it with puzzled ex. rossion of countenenoe, and in a nd of dazed manner took up the estament and duly admitiistered to iss Charlotte, who is a dusky and telligent looking nulat:, the oath support the Constitution of the nited State, not to defraud her ients, and not to talk too much. iss Charlotte afterwards was fur. shed with the necessary certifioate, tor which she went on her way re icing as a full fledged limb of the The Peanni Crop. A gentletman at Rocky Point, North tiVlina, writing to a friend in Wil. iigtou, states that if this dry weath connues much longer producers 11 hot be 'troubled with a dull'pea. Lt sharket next year. There is not e tenth part of the crop planted in at sqotiou, 1nd what is pl%nted opll be better out of the ground. e sataies th't'at least three-juarters the c-op has been planted in April retofore since he has been in the isiness of raihing peanuts. "If we are to have ra.in now," says le, "it Duld take until the 15th or 20th of ay to get t e crop in, with the best nd of weather." He says Ie has t.planted a single one yet. All of hich would signify that unless we e blessed with plentiful seasons of fresiug rain during the remainder this month, our Legislature at its xt session will stand a good chance being short of 4gonhnra." Rorneo Crecley's Acceptance. Horace Grceley, in reply to a for al notification of his nomination to e Presidency, has written a .letter eepting the nomination, lie says lhne waited to hear from all parts the country before taking this step, id is satisfied, from the free and un strained popular responses, that the ,tion of the Convention meets the proval of all interested in reunion d reformn. lie fully endorses the latform of the Convention, and wells particularly on the reoclla en of the South and the reihoval of LI political disabilities, and declares iat the American people have made me cause their own, and will bear it ta to triumph, with the distinct un orstanding that if elected hb shall e the President, not of a party, but f the whole-people. .He neceepts the omination confident that the. North ad South are .eaiger to clasp hands erosa the- bloody chadm, whioh has o long divided them, and forget 30y have been enemies. Oreelejln Congress. donversations with, the leading letmocrats in the House show that oui f the one hundred and five mem bern elonging to that party not more that wen ty-five are it. favor of the Balti. more Conventjon taaking. a nomliha on or against ilie ratification of the omination, of Grooley .and Browsi ~f the not,Aber ath the followinag, viz. oorheea and Iterr, of Ind.; Camy~ oIl, Lamna6 and Van .Trump,- o~ Ihio ; MoNeil, etf jllios ; SlaTer, o: Iregon ;i#ird,of New Jersey Aeker P'em1nsylvcanla ; Young and DuBous, if Ga.; Crah~land, WInoliehtdr and~ oewls of Ky.' Among the' Republi, an Serrators whoiave known :to fa;vot Liebr, frry, of Uonneoticout C& h 6>rso i. 'ommnr laVe siWsMflkdp lGhosts. The editor of the Lexington Ga. zette, is telling his readers what he U knows about ghosts, We copy an go e count of an occurrence. R Of course ninety-nine out ofea hun. 3 dred oases of curious sound and sight I are either fancies or of easy explana. 0 ton. In a few instances, after earoful in. r vestigation by competent persons, the mystery remains. Of the latter e class is the t . BMITH CHAD.E ROCKING. I This is one of the most remarkable - and best authenticated phenomenon of its kind on record. It occurred I in 1840 in Lynchburg, at the resi. L donco of the late William A. Smith, I D. D., for many years President of Randolph Macon College. In that year he was pastor of Lynchburg church. An empty cradle in his r house was noticed rocking of its own accord. It continued its motion for an hour. The next day it comweno ed rooking at the same time, kept it up, and stopped as on the day before. Thus it continued daily for over a month. Many intelligent citizens and ministers witnessed the wonderful affair and made repeated efforts to solve the mystery without success. It was moved to different parts of the room without any change in its be havior. It was removed to other apartments in the dwelling with the same result. It was taken to Pieces and each part scrutinized and refitted, yet there was nochange in its motion. The Methodist clergy selected one of their number to hold the cradle and revent, if posiible, its movment. The Rev. Dr. Penn, one of the purest men of his time, was chosen for this purpose. While it was rocking lie grasped it. It wrenched itself fron his grip I He seized it more firmly. The timbors cracked and the cradle would have been broken in the struggle to t6 release itself, had he not loosened his hold. It was not further hindered .Jn its daily exercise. After thirty or more days it stopped and never commenoed again. No explanation of this wonderful affair was ever given or attempted. The Hulin1 Plant. Mullein is common in the United States, growing in recent clearing@ along the sides of roads, in neglectod flolds, etc., flowering from June to Auguet. According to the 4laf. Yearly Compandiun, the plant has valuable medicinal proportics. The leaves and flowers are the parts used. They have a fruits, of rather pleasant odor, resembling that of a mild narcotic, and somewhat bitterish, albuminous tabte, and yield their virtues to boiling water. Mullein Is demulcent, diurretio, anodyne, and anti-spasmodic. The infusion is use. ful in coughs, catarrh, hmmoptysis, diarrha, dysentery, and piles. Its. diuretic properties are rather weak, yet Is very useful in laying the acridi ty of urine which is present in many diseases. It may bo boiled in milk, sweetened and rondered more palata. blo by addition of aromatics, for in ternal use, especially bowel com. plaints. A fermntation of th leaves ' also forms an excellent local appli. cation for inflamed piles, ulcers and tumors. 'rho leaves and the stalk from a valuable cataplasm in white swellings, and ifused in hot vinogar or water, it makes an excellent poultice to apply to the throat in' cynonebe tonsillaris, cynanohe ma, ligna and miumps. The seeds are said to pass rapidly through 'the Intestinos, an d have been success fully used in intestinal obstruction. They are narcotic, and have been used in asthma, infantile convulsion, and to poison fish. The infusion miay be drank freely. The flowers placed in a well corked bottle and exposed to the sun, arc said to yield an excel lent relaxing oil.*-Journal of CAem. iSt)1.1. A touching incident Is reported. from Chattanooga. An utter stranger called on a respectable farmer lass week and asked him11 if his house ha& not been robbed during the war.. The farmer replied that it had. "I,'" said this stranger, "was one of a ma-. rauding party that dId it. I- took a little silver locket." "That looket,"' said the faumer, bursting into. tears, "had been worn by my dear,. doad child." "Here it is," replied the aranger, visiblyt affected,' 'I amt rich -, let me make restitution ;. here< are $20 for your little- son?': Hir gave the farmer a $50 bill apd re, cofvgd $80 In changei *ieo thev synng the, farmer's lian1l warly .~ of.,'ho farmer hais s;nce dried il toere and loaded his shot gun. The 50 was bad ,, Te liidiths'en the War:Pati. 4 errible aocount qOEpe~ frpmtl Ws-A try ,oegplie~ ueer o sotXap&h ,wis 9*p$pre.hy i doy epjtee per# wrere. 1 ted wreI , Vb) grg Jfl$ t an . e n , e 0% e lion. James Brooks'alwate of Greeley's r Strength in the Desratit Convention. A speclal telek4m from Washing. ton of the date Of'ay 9th, to the Now York Trilbun gives us the fol lowing information': Ani,)tg the Democratic members of t Congress who will. pupport the Cin. e;nuati Presidential ticket is the f Hon. James Brooke,'of New York. In the coutse of a coiversation, to-day, he said that, in%his opir.ion, Mr. Greeloy will recolVO in the Democrat io National Convotion the votes of three-fourthi 'df Ae Now England delegates, all 'of'"those from New York, the greotei" &rt of those from Now Jersey and nsylvania, sever al from Ohio and I%diana, the entire delegations from Illinois and Michi gan, a part of tbos4 from Wisconsin, all from M innesota n Iowa, Nebraska, Oregon, Oulifornial Kentucky and Tennessee, and all the remainder of the South, except a portion of those from Georgia. IIe thinks that more than three-fourths of the Convention will go to Baltimore intending to en. dorso the Cincinnati movement, though he expectsithis course to be warmly opposed by delegates from Ohio, Indiatia and Georgia, but only by gentlemen whos* views are gener ally extreme. Thpro may be, he thinks, a rupture ig the Convention, but it3 influence will only strengthen Mr. Greeloy among the Republicans. Wo infer from the above .that a "bult" from the Democratic Conven tion is not altogether improbable, but seems to be' antioipated as being upou "the slate." Now this, of all things, is to be deprecated ; but we hope it will not originato by the ac tion of Southern members. Suicide of Gen. George M1cDougal. About 11:20 o'clock last night, General George McDougal, of In diana, died from the effects of mor phine, at Bregazzi's Hotel on Pennsyl vania avenue, near Third street. Yeterday morning he partook of a hearty breakfast, and after reading a letter from his wife, and requesting a friend-Mr. E. Byrne-to answer it for him, went to the bureau drawer, and taking out a box of pills, swal lowed the whole of them, 22 in nunip. bor, remarking to ,'is friend that- it would be soon over with him. Dre. McClain and Dexter were called in and did all in their power to save his life, but failed, the quantity of poi. son in the pills being eleven grains of morphine. Ho lingered until near midnight, when he diod. The decoeas. ed was a large and fine looking man, about 56 years of age, and was well known in this city, wher.e he has spent considerable time within the last few years. le is brother of Ad miral McDougal, and was one of the pioneers of California.-Washington Star May 16. Presbylerion General Assembly. The Presbyterian (Ieneral Assem bly met in the Grace street Presby. terian church this morning, and was opened with a sermon by Rev. Dr. W. S. Plumer from Isaiah 53 chapter and 1Ith verse.t The sermon 'was an exce6dingly able one, and evinced the fact that age has not yet begun to dim his splendid intellect. After the sermon, the only business of importance was the electing of Dr. Welch, of Arkansas, moderator, and Dr. Bunting, of Texas, temporary Delegates are present from every IPresbytery connected with 'the body, and they, with the body, and they, Iwith their families, make quite an addition to our floating population. The sessions will be cieb day from 9.} A. M.' to 3 P. M.-Rch m,nd C'or. Peteraburg Index. Ernplion Alarm Clocks. The observatory on Mount Vesu vius is perched upon an almost inac ces3ible spur of the mountains and th sprintendent, Professor P'al. mi r,uring the recent violent erup tion, has remained at his post, mak ing a minute record of the motions of the earthI. At the observatory there is ain "eruption alarm clock," which stops and rinmg4 a signal bell on the slightest movement of the mountain. Thebre are also three smaller instru menits, whioh by moans of nioely ad. juated hair lines and pluments, record respectively the vertical, the horizon. t l motions. By t.he aid of mirrors the movements of thme indexes of the smaller instruments are reflected upon a larger instrume,nt. Deathi of an ExtraordInal'y Nlan, iCalifornia, papers just received chroniele the death of Arnold Martin, lat? j of $au Diego, who in a business life of thirty-two years started cigh ton newspapers, in diffeoroet towns and Stat.es, t.wo of wblehi wore in Misbachisott6. Of coureit Is not -' na dsarf to state that In no single v&inure was he successftul, although , Ia several instaboes the psd to v whom be sold made mene3v. He was a man of'e*tVf6i6d1ary caphefty and energy, buLloolrink 16bastadsued~ ed I Rhglabde.. sid .was unry4w naMnoa