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Desportes & Willams, Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquiry, Industry and Literature. LTerms---$3,00 uer Annum, In Advance VOL. VIII.] WINNSBORO, S. C.,- WEDNESDAY MORNING,JLY2,17.[O TI E FAIRFIELD HERALD IS PUnIBISIIED WEEKLY BY DESPORTES & WILLIAMS, Termns.-Tas IERAL) is published Week y In the Town of Winnsboro, at 83.00 in variably in advance. - All transient advertisements to be paid in advance. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1 00 per square. Specch of Ex-Governor Vance at Woldon, North Carolina. Gov. Vance came forwarded amid loud cheers. Hi said he was like the darky in the irous, he was so glad he was alive ; he had been "most dead." le had despaired of the republic, but thanked God that he was mistaken. For a long time every voice of re monstrance was attributed to the re bellion, and we were robbed in the name of loyalty. le believed now the Northern people,. as they had saved their Union, meant to save the liber. ties which were even dearer. The liberal movement origin.ited in Mis souri, rose into notice at Cincinnati, was endorsed at Baltimore, and would culminate in November. His heart was full of good news, and he believ ed, as there was a God in heaven, there was a day approaching of con ciliation with their Northern brethren Rotwithstanding we bad been engaged in a four years bitter war, in which our fields bad been laid waste and our pleasant places desolated. We had prayed, hoped and longed to be reconciled on terms of freedom and equality. (This sentiment was loud, ly cheered, on motion of General Ransom.) 0 at there must be a com promie and mutual advance. He did not like to cherish hatred ugainst the government, and yet even the chil. dren learned to hate it, because they saw in it oppressive hands. They had seen five hundred men and women dragged through his own town ,under the guard of DAMNABLE UNITED srATES MARSHALS to be tried at Raleigh, 300 miles away for Ku Kluxism, before suspiciously collected juries and judges avowedly in government favor., But when it passed into humane hands, men who said there had been a war, but should be longer, we could clasp hands over the bloody chasm, and learn to love the government, the Union and the flag. It was aspuch the flag of the South as the North. It had been car. ried to victory by Washington and the sons of the South and when it became the emblem of protection we would be proud to die for it. And we were going to elect Horace Greeley as sure as the day of election comes, and i. augurate an era of peace and free dom. le passed to the CONSIDERATION OF STATE POLITICS, and--vigoreO'y. -. vie'.wed the abuses which have stained the radical admin istration, and Holden's cruel w ar upon hisown people. The radical ad minis tration had taken all the money ap. p ropriated to build railroads, school houses and the Penitentary, and had not built ten miles of road nor a- sin gle schoolhouse, and had not provided even for their households. In provid. ing a State prison they had so de Stroyed the State credit that a one thousand dollar now issue of North Carolina bond wouldn't bring a drink Sof whiskey in New York. The State deott was forty million dollars, and the very soil was mortgaged for its pity.. ment. To keep these people in pow. er would be utter ruin. Thirty-two ~;thousand registered voters of North Carolina had never voted since the war. These must be brought out and voted, Over *100,000 had been sent to0 influence the election ; but there weret truth and justice on the side of the coniservatives, and they would sue ceted. If you want to fill the hearts of all the patriots of the country with rejoicing come out in August and ''defeat these people, and it will be the augury of.viotory in November. The eyes of the whole country are upon you. 'Victory here will virtually end the campaign, and strike terror and dima into the hearts of Grant and ti oorts. If you fail to elect 0 roe 7"eIy, untold misery, despotism and bankruptcy will be your penalty. In four years more the mn who had. opposed enfranchisement, like Morton and Grant would be mere odious thtan Jefferson Davis had been, and Grant would become a pr~ivate gentleman once more. There wore about five thousand peo ple present, including many negroes, Swho scorned to be delighted auditors. Another Insult to Aimera. Every ail from abroad brings new instances of outrage on the American name. An American citizen at Mon terey was given the alternative by the Mexican authorities, to receive Sfive hundred lashes or hand over $12, 000 to their treasury. The Ameri. oan had omnmitted no enrme, but the Mexicans knowv that they could. ill treat himi with 'impunity, and they did so. He compromised by the payment of $5,000. The United 8tates consul was assessed, and was imprisoned for refusing to pay. The flags of the English and other consuls R Afri'a in Fouth Carolina. Those are pitiful stories told by the South Carolina bondholders. We hope every one has read of our e. ports the two meeting held in this city by the victims of carpet. bag rapacity. The narrative re mind us strongly of the experiences of Baker, Spoke, Livingstone, Chap. man and Rado in Africa. Tlose tray. elors all report that the master-pasaion of the negro kings is the levying of taxes. They collect taxes of the way. farer not merely ouce, but two, three and a dozen times. There is no slik ing them off by putting in the plea of having once paid. Among these lit. tIe tyrants in the bome of the negro no such things as good faith is known. The most soleman proomi: es are broken when a string of beads can be made by the treachery. Spoke and Baker used to beard these little despots in their dens, and call then liars and thieves. Instead of being offended at the plain truth-telling, the African king would burst out laughing and p.cpress himself highly complimented. 'ho negro rulers of South Carolina made worse by their carpet-bag allies, are repeating to-day, in the middle of' this country, the pillaging gaimes of Central Africa. At the second meet. ing of the indignant bondholders, held Thursday, a gentleman from Charles ton declared that the taxes had been -ollected in the State often three times over, that they are not used for the purposes for which they were raised, that for want of funds there is not a public school open in the entire 3ta te, that lunatics and prisoners have been turned loose to save the cost of kepiing them, &e., &c.; all the money being pouched by the Ring thieves. l'hese nre strong statements, but -here is nothing of which the igno rant and bigoted rulers of South Care lina seem to be incapable. But it. muflices for tIc object of the bondhol lers to show that they are losing the sterests on their bonds through the rickorv and bad faith of the responsi ale authorities of the State. They herefore, purpose to begin legal pro. cedings against those oflieers. l'his is a good idea and the mnly one that will be prodnie ivo of results. It is idle to appeal o a sense of justice and to considera. ions of common decency ; and it is 4qually useless to scold at the repu. liators and robbers. Like their pro otypcs in Central Africa they will )lY chuckle over their villanv. The egal remedy is the only one 'left for nitnediato applicition. But what 3outh Carolion wants, to do any last asting good, is a political revolution. )lie Tliousliild )ollars Dained for Put thug lip the Wroiai ledicinle. An iitecesting case, on trial in the lefferson Court of Common Pleas, is Iecided by a suit brought to recover lamages from a druggist who, in coml >ounding a prescription, put up the vrong drug. The decision establishes lie fact that druggists are respon.ible or the mistakes of incompetent clerks. 'he facts in the caso are as follows: )ne year ago Mr. John S. Kline, of his city, was seriously afillieted with icmorrhoid, commonly called piles. Dr. Galt, his physician, prescribed an uutment commposed principally of mtramonium, at narcotic that would lave had the eiffect of soothing the rritaited parts and to the drugstore >f S. 1F. Da was, and the clerk, WV m. oss, mamdo tie ointment of enan ~harides, an acting irritant, instead of 'tramoniuma. The ointment was ap licd as directed, and the scene that ollowed may be bettor imagined than lescribed. Mr. Kline suffered un old pnguish, and as soon as ho was ble to get about b~rought suit for lamages and the jury assessed the lamnages at $l,000.--Louisville Led ter. Female Beauty. In Peru tho longest ears are con midered the handsomest, and as a great nark of beauty in thme female?. Sonmc people stain their teeth black. anid ;ome red, and in Basque the wonmen clo not consider themselves fit to be brides until they havo shaved thieir beads close to the skin. T1he Mexi san women rejoice in low foreheads ind very thick heads of hair, the blacker the better, and thie coaraer it is the higher the application, while the Italians venerate red, golden and light hair. Thue Spaniards fancy dight, slender figures in their women; the Italians, on the contrary, are fond af full developments of limb and fig-. nrc. The Orientals and the West arns are also at complete antipodes as to the muanner in which they interpraet beauty and what relates to it. Eat.. srm women use yellow cosmetics. while the French and English dread ~hat tinge in their complexion. T[he siatic, whether of China or Siam, is lelightod with the olive skin and high shoek bones of the Mongolian women. The New York Herald pays a corn liment to Grant's ad ministration: 'The fact is, our whole foreign policy a weak and pusillanimous in the ox ~rome ; there is nothing in it to ox aite the admiration of American citi riens, on the contrary, there is much to humailiate and shame us as a nation.'' 1111111C110 Orphu 110111. AN EARNEsT Al 'rEAL TO TiiE CITiZENs OF 0'OT11 CA RIiNA. Dear riends and Coun tryincn. Havina been entru,ted with the bencvlent work of providing a Home for the Orphans, and other equally unfortunate children in South Caroli naU, we thu.s MWake ani earnicst appeal for help in this great work. Tlhv Palhetto Or1han Home was OrgaInized last A pril and is iow progressing with encouraging pros poets. The Board of Trustees have adopt ed a Constitution and By.Laws which define the nature, design and mode of ooratioln of ibis Institution. .1 ti direct management is to be by a Local Board consisting of nine persons, in the city of CuIl umbia, which Board is to be subject to the dircetion of a General Board consisting of two per sons, from each county in the State, which is to be called to meet annually in Columialia, at suci time as the Local lioard may appoint. In the choice of persons to nt on these Boards and of the coieers of the Iustitutioni, no partiality in to be il lowed on account of the religious sect to which pmesons belong ; but all ap. pointments aire to be made on the board principles of humanity and charity. The constitution does not limit the ages at which the children Mhall be received ; but leaves that at the dis cretion of the Board, who are to do. cide from the nature of each case as deseribed in the application. The Board are doirois of purchas ing su itable and valtuable property, now for salo at low figures, for the location of the Home. We are, there. fore, confident that our appeal to the gencrous people of South Oarolina will at once bring manrnv liberal dona tion and pledges to eflect the pernia nent establishnent of the Palmetto Orphan 1Io mie, which will be the best monument to the nemory of our (lead we could possibly rear in our State. The Board have aippointed Tilman 1. Gaines, General Agent, to organize Aid Committees, and to raise funds for the Home. And the Board will !ake plcasu-e inl achnowledging all amounts paid to him or sent directly to us, at Columbia. Donatious may be made in money, provisions, cloth ing, and anything that can be made useful. All applicatiomis for entering chil. dren mumst be made to lie Board. Address DR. J. W. PARKIER, Chairman, Columbia, S. C. By order of the Board of Trustees, J. B. ZE.L, Secretary. Thee Soldiers of the North id Soutli to niect ill Grand Reinion L'onvention inl NcW York. Immediately after the Baltimore Convention adjourne.1 a movement was set on foot by the C olfederate Generals assiembled in Bhitimore, which will havo a marked effect upon the country North and South. At the instance of General Imibioden and Bradley 1'. Johnson, after a consulta tion with Generals Kirkpatrick and Slocum, of the Nom th, it has been dlecided to hold3 a grand reunion of Northern and ex Confederate soldiers and officers in the City of New York during the umonth of September. Tihe call will be issued in a few days, anmd lie following Southern Gemnerals have their nimes attached to the call: Genierals Thios. L. Cling~man, .John B. G oidon, Fi mzhungh Lee, B3radle(y 'T. Johnson, nad ,J. D). Imnboden. It a uinder.,tood tiha t a po~rtion of the G rand Army of the Republic will unite in the d emonst rati .ni, whIiichi will be one of fraternization between men who have stoodh face to face in battle arid are now determined that peace and conceordh shall be established in the United States under the guidance of a muau who lias (other laurelsi than a bIt od-.stalined swVord(, andt whose triumphs have been those of peace andi not of war. 'lhm ex-Conifederates now here are so entIhusiast ic over this reunion that thmey desi ro iat onice theiu comlrads South as well as their late eneiices North to mahe immediate preparatio'n (or thisi reunion. Too Much iniu. A large factorage house here has re. ceived froii a planter of lontg expe uience a letter, from which the follow ing is an extract: Fitoo LF~vEE., N,:wn.nny, S. C., July 15,187'2. It has rained~ thirteen days out of fourteen, anid itt times very heavy; and you may rely on it, that the crop here is hurt. All the flat lanl cotton is taking rust, and if the rain con tianues about two weeks longer the cotton is done.-CGourier. Postofficc Mlonicy Orders. In accordance with the recent law of Congress, the fee on postoflicee money orders, not exceeding tori dot hars, will hereafter be only five cents, instead of ten cents, as heretofore. For sunms exceeding ten dollars, the rates remain unchanged." We sup pose thle postmaster of this, city baa received instruction to put the new ratn into operation. Fornoy's Speeches In tio South, An n'count containing twelve col umns of closely printed matter re lating to the Southern trip of the President and directors of the Texas Paciflo railroad appeared in the Philadelphia Press of Monday. Col. Forney, the editor of the Press, was one of the party, and much promi. notice is given to very numerous .pmeeches made by him at various points on the route. Tho.ie speeches aro especially noticeable for the tender and lervent referene, to the Southerin people-their hospitality, courage and generosity. His first speech was before the Board of Trade at Shrevepor t La. 1- noke of Stone wall Jackson as the "Knight of the South," and as presenting " a singu lar combination of christian virtues." The Colonel informed the audience that, upon the death of General Stonewall Jackson, "he printed an editorial from his own heart, testify ing to General Stonewall Jackson's high qualities in the midst of that fie ce conflict when the lintel of every household was draped in mourning." "In resp-:ne," s-aid Colonel Forney," "I received a letter fromt Abraham 1 Lincoln, in which he expressed his appreciation of the motive that prompted me to pay a proper tribute to such virtues and valor," Col. Forney alto said that "the day of revenge has gone, the day of recon - ciliation is coming, and God grant it may come quickly and stay long." The foilowing passage is note-wor. thy : I well remember .the bitterness with which the North regarded your deceased leaders, and yet as I pass through your hotels, private houses, steamboats and places of pubiic re sort, and gaza up on the lineaments of itobert E. Lee, I do so no iconger with resentment. I remember him and tho motive that prompted him to draw his sword. I remember the rancor with which that metive was criticised, but now all is forgotten. P1ac0 and prosperity are beginning to light up your places, and the time is arriving when the name of Robert E. Leo will be remenberel in the the North as that of a msn .;ho ha- . estly believed that he was fighting in a cause which was right. Where Should Reform Begin. The Beaufort Republican says The press of this State unanimous ly demand the nomination of honest and capable men for State offices. Whenever they speak of our rained finances the blame is thrown upon the shoulders of Scott, Neagle, Parker, Chamberlain and Cardozo. Now, while we do not mean to defend the Executive Department of the Govern. ment, we insist that to the Legisla ture belongs an equal if not greater degree of responsibility for the pre sent disgraceful condition of the Treasury. First in size among the crimes of the Legi-lature, is its enormous ex. pense. Treasurer Paiker reports that the amount already presented to him for the last -ossion of four months is over $900,000 ; to this huge sum at least $100,000 may be added for such' claims as are yet to be presented, and $200,000 for legislative printing, making a total of $1,200,000 ; twon ty per oent. more than the entirejum to be collected by taxation this pear. If these claims are paid, not a ce'nt : will be loft in the Treasury for any' other purpose. This enormnous swindle was partici pated in by nearly every member of the HIouse and Senate to a greator or less extent. It is estimated that1 every member had the appointment of about eight emloyees, three-fou rthsl of wvhomn never did any work, and many of whom were not even in Co. lumbia. One member Is reported to have had his wife, sister-in-lhaw, son, broth er, two partners and clerk drawing~ pay as attachees of the House and its committees. We knew of no instance of a protest having been made against 1 this fraud and extravagance by any member during the session. WVhat were our members doing that they did not lift their voie against this iq-1 ty ? They are now unnmul e nouncing Scott, Parkcer, Casrdozo and Chamberlain for stealing bonds, but are silent over the most direct steal-. ing of the whole business.4 The Legislature is the fountain of a all expense. As long as such reckless men form the majority of the Hiouse a and Senate, it will be idle to expect reform. If wc had Charles Sumner< for Governor and [Horace Greeley for< TIreasurer they would fail to improve matters much, unless a better claws of I men are sent to the Legislature. a Judge Linton Stephens died .in Sparta, Ga., on Sunday afternoon last, after a brief anid painful illness. I Judge Stepliens was about fifty or t lifty-five years of age. For many' years ho was a member of the Stato I Legislature, in which body ho was al ways a leading and influential mom. bar. He was appointed by Governor a Brown, in 1859, to a seat on the Su. t preme B~onoh of the State; but after g thme expiration of liis term declined a I1 re-appointinment and returned to the lI nractice of the law. i A Ralin of Bones-1 Strange Phenomenc If the statement of somo of the re: dents of Louisiana are to be credite Damo Nature has recently been pla ing strange pranks in that part of tl country. A writer to tho Now Yo: Journal of Commerce, whose veracil and good standing is vouched for I the editor of that paper,gives the ft lowing particulars of a strange ph notmenon tht occurred in Carr( Parish last month : lie says that a heavy storm visit4 that Parish home days previous to t] date of writing, the 21st, and duri the storm fish bones fell to ti ground by the million. These bon seemed to come from an exceeding large black cloud that was passi at tile time. The shower of bon was attended by a heavy fall of rai The correspondent says that ti hones rattled on the roof of his houi ike hail btones. This strange ph iomenon extended over a belt of cou1 bry ten miles in width by many mil in length. Accompanying the lett, were seven of the bones, varying fro me inch to two inches and one-si: 'eenth in length ; from sevcn-,i 'cenths of an inch to twelve and half six teenths of an inch in breadt r rom one inch to one inch and ni six-teenths in length ; and from or nd a half to three-sixteenths of ar inch in.thickness. They are of i irregular diamond shape. One sii )f the bone is nearly flat, having < be under side, which is worn smnoot hree small apertures, as if veins 4 iendon had passed through ther l'hese specimens have been show n1 xperienced coast fishermen, and al: ;o learned ichthyologists, but they a1 iot able to ascertain to what partiet ar kind of fish the bones belonged. They all agree, however, in tI >pinion that they are veritable fit jones. Several theorica have been advan id in explanation of this strange pho bomenon. It is generally concede< iowever, that the bones must ha% passed tbrough the air for hundred knd perhaps thousands of miles. T1 tuhabitants of the parish believe t6 they were brought by a water spout i i whirlwind from the Western con )f Mexico or Lower California, aero lie continent, as the wind was blowir Lt the time violently from the Souti ?ast. We have heard of its raining ca nd dogs, but fish bone showers w eomething altogether un precedented Possible lnfinticide. On last Sunday morning the do ody of a mulatto child, only a fe Inys old at most, was found in fro: >f a house in this town occupied by i Aiderly colored woman named Ku Flarliee. The body was not rigi Lnd the child had apparently died b, l short time before it was found. Joroner Montgomery summnoned a ju, nd proceeded to holi an inquest. Ilhe inmates of Katy's house exideni y knew nothing, but suspicions beir troused, a colored girl, named Corn ia McQueen, was sent for, and c: tined by physicians, who express< heir opinions that she had lately be< lelivered of a ehild. This she bi .erly denied. Other witnessea we >losehy examined, and after the enti lay was consumed in enquiry, ti lary rendered a finding that the ohl lied fronm "exposure, and the es lence adduced pointed strongly Jornelia MoQumeen as the murderer. she was immediately arrested ar :ommitted to jail. Tlhis is a sad, bi ]orrible matter. We will say not ng which might prejudice any on ut we will express the hope that tI ;uilty person or persons may be idei ,ilied by unanswerable evidene. 3rimecs like these almost make us fo let to sympathize with the unifort ate.-Mharion (IrescentI. Going After the JLowreys. The Wilmington (N. C.) Journ: T1'he purpose for which the Unit< states troops have been sent to Robt ion County is somewhat of a mystel is yet, although there are many thi >elieve that they are intended to i imidato and overawe the Conservi ive voters in that county. Some he troops, it is said, ashert that the re sent there to hunt out the remnam f the Lowrey band, others that the are to enfore the revenue laws in r< ard to illicit distillation, and othme again have said that they are to ii luence the election. As for the fornm ar, it seems a very tardy thing in tb aseo of the outlaws, and that the a< ion is taken at a rather peou.im ime, in view of the election so ne: t hand ; as for illicit distillation it .well known fact that troops are n< eceded to supproas amny thing of ti :lnd In that county, and the inferen< a, therefore, that they are sent ther o canvass for the Radical ticket. 'he troops are quartered at Moi reck. Walnut stumps have become al rticle of. merchandise, and many C bern are very valuable. The curl, rain of the roots is used for voeer ag, and some stumps are worth on undred and ft~y, dollars after be a nronarly worked into sharpe. n. iWhat It leans. ,. Tho Golden Age, discussing tile d, popular uprising which was illustra y tod in the Cincinnati and Baltinoro 10 Conventions, says: k "The victory at Cincinnati has Y been repeated at Baltimore. Of y course the Domocratio politicians, . like the Liberal Republican, preferr - 0. ed some other candidate than Mr. ,11 Greeley. But bore again the masss of voters have had their way against h the conniving and contriving leaders. 0 It is a now proof that the present Ig political movement, of which Mr. Greeley is the head and front, is not as a partisan coalition, but a popular Iy revolution. ,g "Now it is not every man who un Ds derstands the moral meaning of the n. great upheavals of the masses among o whom he 'lives and moves and has ; his being.' Nor is it every partici. 0. pant in the Liberal Reform movement 1. who comprehends its full or chief par. 28 port-the logic of its own argument. -r It means 'anything to beat 'Grant,' m says one ; it imeans honesty in the . Governmont, says another ; it means . ivil service reform, says anothir ; a it means the civil law exalted over h; the military, says another ; it means 10 a protest against nepotism, says ani 1 other ; it means states rights against a Federal interfereice, says another. 31 Yes, it mceanls all these things. It means le that we must beat Grant ; it means Sall honest ad iniaistration ; it imans a reformed civil service ; it means the I subordination of the military pow . r during peace ; it means that 0 the President shall not portion out ,o his offices among his brothers-in-law :e and cousins and uncles and wife's re . lations. But it means, ill addition to all those things, the re-uniting of the 0 sundered North and South, the cessa I tion of past hatrods, the oblivion of old revenges, the clasping of once hos c. tile hands in the 'spirit of unity and ,- and the bond of peace.' It means the 3, grating of the red rose and the white ,o on one and the same stem. It menus s, the healing of the wounds of the re ,e bellion-the restoration of fraternity t and brotherly kindness between Mon >r taguo and Capulet-the knitting to. o tzther of the dissev-ered sections into sa common country. It means Uni ig versal Amnesty-which is the appli .;.tion of the Christian religion to civil government. It mcans the restoration of busincss relation lU. e tween the Laikes iand the Gulf. It nmins the end of the war, the begin ling of peace. It moans 'the era of good feeling.'" d 0! H1ow htis W1orld is GhIVcn to Lying. W The Kn Klux stories have broken 1t out again with renewed violence. i' The latest is from Missouri, and is ty presented with the usual coloring] of d, the "Satanic school." This resource, it however, can no longer serve the pur, - poses of the Radietls. The people of ry the North have grown familiar with - these romances, and understand per t. fectly well that they are an article of ig trade with the Grant people just now. e. The supply of these inventions has al. K. ways kept pace with the demand, and !d just now the ltter is very active. mn Indeed, tno market will grow more fe t- verish every day until, as the canvass re gets fairly on foot, wo shall expect to r~e see the ghastly fanucies of Monk Lewis e elipsed by the stories given to the d North, but, as we have said, these i. fictions have had their day, and the to more numerous and extravagant they m aro now made, tihe '.ces will be d their cliect. The Evergreen (Alabama) Observer e says : "While Messrs. Chloot and lRobinson, citizens of this county, were out cow hunting, necar Garland, one day last week, their attentioni was attracted by the curious capers -of a srquirrel, which acted as if eon ifused or bewildered. One of the gen tlemen proposed to catch it, and they dismounted for that purpose. lIni their pursuit of the squirrel they I, came across a hirgo rattle snake, which they killed, and just as they d (lid so, the Hiuirrel, which had gone 1 .up a tree near by, fell dead close tot y them. There wero no wcunds or( it bruises of any description found on< 2. its body, and the strange part of the .affair is, what hilled the squirrel ? 1 Seine have a theory that when a snake charms a bird or animnal, if the snake I ~is killed while it is under tihe char-m, .) ythe ohjeet charmed will die also. . WVho can explain it ? T1he gentlemen a~ who witnessed the occurrence are . men of undoubted truth aiid verasi 0 The Nowv York Tribune publishes a 1 r letter from a prominent German,c r showing that, withi one exception, o very Germian Republican paper t which favored the Cincinnati move emont gives a cordial support to its candidates ; t bat tho leading Germans are all going the samue way, and thatr -a larger portion of the German vote than has ever before been united on j one candidato will be east for thed Liberal ticket in November. a The P'hiladelphia Press, which fai f vors Grant but not Cameron, says: y "We have not met a member of the -Republican party, in or out of office, e in Washington or elsewhere, who is e riot agitated by apprehonsioas of' de- f feat." Our Next President on Carpct-Baggers. After his return from his Southern tour to the North, Mr. Greoley mado a speech at the Lincoln Club toon1 in New York city, from which wo take this extract : "1 allude to what are known as the thieviing carpet-bakggers. [Applause.] The thieving carpet-baggers are i mournful fact ; they do exist there, and I have seen themi. They are fel., lows who crawled down South in tho track of our armies, generally at a very safo distance in the roar; somo of them on sutlerh' wagons ; somo bearing cotton permits ; some of theni looking sharply to see what might. turn up and they romini there. They at once ingratiated thomselves with the blacks, simple, credulous, igno rant men, very glad to welcome and to follow any whites who professed to be champions of their rights. Somo if them got elected Sonators, othera Representatives, some Sheriffs, somo Judges, and so on. And there they stand, right in the public eye, stealing and plundering, many of them with both arms around negroev, and their hands in their rear pockets, seeing if they cannot pick a paltry dollar Dut of them ; and the public looks at them, does not regard the honest Northern men, who calls every car pet-bagger a thief, which is not the truth by a good deal. But theso fol lows-many of themi long-faced and with eyes rolled up, are greatly con aerned for tho education of the blacks ind for the salvation of theIr souls. [Great laughter.] 'jet us pray,' they iay ; but they spell pray with an 'e,' ind thus spelled, they obey the Apostolic injunction to pray without 3easing.' They got into the .Legisla. tures; they went to issuing Stato bonds ; they pretended to use them in aid of railroads and other improvo. ments. But the improvements wero not imade, and the bonds stuck in the issuer's poekets. That is the pity of it. What thc Southern people see of us are these thieves, who represent the North to their jaundiced vision, aind representing it they disgraco It. They are the greatest ob stacle to the triumiph and perinanont aseendency of Reipublioan principleu at tho South, and as such I denounco them." [Applause.j Ali Africill Bilo Story. One of the most extraordinary facts revealed to us by Dr. Livingstone's ox. plorations in Africa is that the high lable land of the interior, with its rich agricultural rerources, its noblo Flora, its fine temperature, broad inland seas, and inexhaustible stores of imineral woath to civilized man,cer ,ainly beyond all reach of colonization, by one of the most apparently insig rificant of causes, a fly. This terrible insect is a brown, yellow.stripcd fly 3alled the tsctze, Foarcely larger than 3ur coiion house-hold pests, but whose sting is absolutely fatal so lendly is its poison that it is said Lhree or four flies will kill the largest )x. Soon after the bito, which gives little or no pain, staggering and blindness comIes on ; the body swells to an enormnoums size ; the coat turns rough, and in a few hours follow con vulsions and death. And yet this Lieadly poison uinder the effect of whichl the horse anld ox, the sheep and the clog fall as if plague-stricken, is perfectly harmless to manl, to wild an imals, to thme pig, the mule, ass, and ~oat. IHere is man achievement of icience that would bring glory to tihe liscovery of somie anitidote to tile ting of this v'enomnous fly, which would opmen the treasures of Central A~frica to the use of tile world. Tf he b'oodl Time Uplalg. The following is an extract from a etter dated July 12, written by a olthy Northerner, who owns a conl iderablo amount of real estate imn liken, to a prominent citizen: "Since Grceley's nomlinaution by tile [Baltimnoro Convention, [ feel that miy south Carolina property is worth nore, and thlerefore, am not anxious *o sell. If the inhabitants of South jarolina whlo have landed interests an do thle State legislating, and laws ~ro enacted by the General Govern nent to hoal the estrangement be-. ween the South and North, I will ave no fears of the prosperity of 'our State." Crop Prospects. The Marlboro Times learns from ontlemien wilo have traveled through ifferent parts of tile colunty, thlat tile armors seport the crop prospeots >etter than it has been, at this time if the year, for many years. Tile Aiken T1ribuno says, it Is feared hlat thle eontinuous and heavy rains whic~h have reeently prevailed ill this ection wihll inljure thme cotton crop. 'Tie Georgetown Times says:;"W egret to learn from solme of our la'nters that a seoond army of eater iliara hlave made their appearance, oing great damage to the last of MaLy mnd Jun~e rice. Their depredations ot confined to any pairticular locaulity. 'hey mare attaekinmg thle young rico on 11 the rivers." Men trust rather to the oyes than to. are ; the effect of precepts is there re slow anid tedious, whilst that of zamnle is summary and effectual.