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Desportes & Williams, Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquirv, Industry and Literature. [Terms---$3,00 or Annum, In Advance VOL. VIII.] WINNSBORO. S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 31, 1872. [NO.7 TIlE FAIRFIELD HERALD Is 1'Un1SHE) WEEKL.Y nY D)ESP'ORTES & Wi LLIAMS, Teritv -Tu n Ilun.unw v is publi hoil Wee'k ly in the Towi or Winnsboro, at $3.00 in variably in advance. M'- All Iransient, advertisements to be paid in advaice. Obinarittiy Noties and Tributes $1 00 pcl Bq tiar.0 T he Uon. Jmes b. Orr mtid "The Rlayne Family." 'Jb the Editor of Charleston News.' Judge Orr, in his recent interview with your reporter, after full notice that all he uttered was intended for publication, has seen fit to single out the "Ilayne family," and represent it as, par c:rcellence, a family of' ojice. hllders. If there wias no malice it, this selection of Judge Orr, (and I cannot perceive why there should be,) lie is singularly unfortunate in hi. choice of the solitary example put for ward to give to his apologetic argu. ment in favor of Grant's ne'otiso. Judge Orr says : "The Ilayne family, for instance, I think, seldon had less than twelve or fifteen of itt branches in positions of power and trust." Why, the fat knight, im nortalized by Sliakzpeare, did not more euregiously multiply the "mel A in buckram," that dies Judge Orr the Ilayne family in this astounding an nounce ment. There were but two "branches' of the Iayne family under the old regime. One "'branch" were dtswm dants of my grand-father, Col. Isaac Ilayne, hung by the Briti.,h, in 1781, ns a rebel and secessionist ; the other, the decendants of Abram Ilayne, who died about the same time in a IBitish prisNon ship-he, too, like his kiIs. man, being charged with disloyalty and treason by those who ware the:i in power. These two were the only inutle adult Haynes of their day. For more than a quarter of a century af ter their death, there was no IIyne, in oflice in South Carolina ; and dur ing the ninety-odd years which have Clapsed ince the death of these two the IHaynes who have held office, State an) Federal, all told, do not riumber fifteen. Instead of twelve or fifteen at all times in ofliew, we have all told, less thau that number in a period of ninety years. "The ''hlayno family" tiave, at all events, left room enough for Judg< Orr. That gentleman, though con siderably. my junior, has himself bee a meimber of the United States Coi groes, Speaker of the IHouse o( i pre sentatives of that body, memiber of th Secession Convention, commissioner from secedod South Carolina to th( governe nti. at Wabsiigtm, Con federato colonel of the liiest regiment I ever saw, (which, however, lie neve1 led into battle,) Senator from South Carolinia to tub" Coutgress of the Con federate States, delegate to the Na tional Democratic Convention al Philadelphia, head centre of Andj Johnson's Rtecoistruction Convention first Governor under the constitutior then adopted, holding on by tolerance of General Sickles after the anti-John son Reconstruct ion Act, helping in the formation of the constitution now o force, and now a .Judge under it. I am surprised that a gentleman s< various anid so versatile-as the Gecr mans say, so "many sided"- anid sue cassful in every change-a man s< einiently a live man as J udge Orr si~ould be rakiing amnong fossils an< dead mn's hones. If the "IHaynt family" alluded to by Judge Orr weri ever a power in the State, they eer tainly arc not so now, and it wouhi have been kinder of J udge Orr ti hiave let them alone. Trhough hi ( may have cut loose from all mnemorice of the past, it alf'ords no good excus< fobr needbesly and unprovokoedly pitch ~;ing into t'ase who have only thies L memiories left to cherish. At al e venits,lie should have been "sure h was ighlt," before lie wvent ahead. V Judge Orr says lie is surfeited witl 7oflic, and will never more submit th tie inflction of holding one. I heart 4,him say the same thing eleven year ago to the the interesting regiment h then commanded, arid whose fate wa soon after so melancholy, lie tohc them that lie was miore than satisfie. withI pubhlic honors, and had ouitlivet ambition. hlis only eare, lie said was to do hiis duity to them and to hi country. Within six mniths afte this speech his regiment was turne' over to his brother-in-law, Colone Marshall, who, with all the field ofli cers and halt the regiment were killoi in Virginia, and the next ecimpaigi ex-Coloneol Orr lived] to be (Confed crate States Senator, Governor Jiudge, &c.. and "John Brown's so goes marching on." h~is last card ii with the aid of Corbin, Bowen ant President G rant, to scourge the mone changers from the temple, and to sen paJkinig the thieves whom ho, Corbit ]Bowen anid Grant hiolped to put i ~' oflice. In his work may God spee him. I would help a good wor though the deovil bid, and there is a telling whom the Lord may choose li, iustrumnents. I. W. IIA YNE. Mosby has changed again. Il nlow annuoun~e5 his purposo to suppo Extract of a Specci or D. W. Voorhci A special despatch to the N( York Tribune, dated Terre Haut Ind., July 18, says: Mr. Voorhees made a celebrati speech at Spencey, to-day accpti the Democratic nomination for Co gress. He began as follows : When I recall and dwell upon the appalling crimes against liberty an against common rights of humanity, can't wonder at the strong and bitt cry which comes up from the Soul for anybody to defeat the re-olectic of the very man who has inspir( them, regarded them with grim ai heartless satisfaction, and in many i stances committeed them bibise The man who is drowning, or who se his wife and children perishing flames, must not be censured f adopting any method, not criminal itself, by which to save himself or a that is dear to him. I have, ther fore, listened with perfect patience the voice of the South in this cris knowing, as I do, her extreme at immediate necessities. Her urge appeal for the nomination of N Greeley has been regarded by h( friends in the North as the last de pairing cry of a brave and noble pe pie reduced to a hopeless extremit beholding, as they think, one me chance to save thensplves from a ru infinitely worse than death. I fe vently pray God that his hope mi be r a'iz:d, and many a Northei man will suspend his differences wi Mr. Greeley on account of the peop of the South, who would not do on his own. They believe the ele tion of Mr. Greeley will affoi them clief, and in that beli they have demanded his noni nation. It has been accorded mo in deference to their condition a their wishes than' to any one caus If Mr. Greeley, under those cirour stances, should be - elected, he wi stand pledged by the strongest obI gations that ever rested upon an hoi orable man to bestow upon the Soul the blessings of a just, kind and fr ternal policy of government. If I did not do so, after the confidenceo r< poted in him by that section, 1 would be accursed among men. L us hope, however, with our brethren i the South, that the experiment m be a complete success, that his ele tion may bauiAh misrule and plund from their midst, restore peace in r ality as well as name, bring back cheerful and contented devotion the laws of the country, and a prid in the flag which affords an equal pr teetion to all citizens. Let us hoj that the deadly paralysis so lot afflicting the South and destroyir her vast producing energies ma speedily be succeeded by perfe health and vigor. If our Governime is to be restored to its national pr portions and strength, our Stat must be as free in one section as the otlers ; we must have no li1 where freedom is halted by the bay net on American soil ; and when a are treated alike by the Governmer they will all bear to it the same all gianeo, whatever may have been tl bloody struggles of the past. Wh, this kind of a union of hearts in su port of the Government shall tal place, having for its base the prirc pIes of justice, liberty and equalit then will this nation rise like a stro1 man after sleep and go forth to u< glories, renewing the purities ofi youth in connection with the gigani proportions of its ago. hlorrible Accitdent, We learned from a passenger p the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad Saturday, (says the Savannah Net of Monday,) the particulars of a te rible accident on the Jacksonvil] Pensacola and Mobile Rail Rion about two and a half miles from ti former city. 'rhe accident oceurrm on Wednesday night, on thme passa of the outward bound train. T train ran over a white man nom Johnston and h is lit tle son, aged abe ten or twelve years. The man w horribly mangled,his body being e c~ompletely in two, and one of I tarmse torn from the shoulder. T little boy's head and body were bad crushed. It is supposed the man w drunk, and having lain down up the track had fallen asleep. Frc the position of the bodies it is infi redl that the little fellow wvas endos Soring to pull his father from the tra r' when the train came along, and th were killed. Our informnaut stal 1that it was a most horrible and pi fuml sight.-the mangled remains of t unfortunate man and his brave, do' ted little boy. ,Lippineott's Medical Times ata I that a preventative of sea sickness is ,lie down ; but it must be in the pr I er direction. The suff-erer should ,' with his head towards the bows, wi I ho will be during the descent of ,ship, in a position in which there ii a tendency to reduce the natural si I ply of blood to the brain. On k other hand, if he reverses his positl o then tlyo blood will have a tende ,s to move from the feet to the head. The cost of the London Timem o the subscribcr in Bostcn is $46 rt annum, in gold ; the Globe is E per annum, gold. s, Further PartIeulars about the Hilling of v Lowrey-The Outlaws on the War Path 0, -The Political Situation, &c. IJUMIKRTON, July 22.--essrs. d Editors:-Tom Lowroy, the outlaw, 1 was killed on Saturday morning last, 1- about 8 o'clock. A party consisting of Strong and Bob Wishart, jas. se McKay and Jas. Campbell, had been d on his track during the night and had I seen him in company with some loose or women, but could not shoot without h killing some one of them. The party >n concealed themselves at the foid of id Hlely Swamp, where Ie would have to id cross in going to the speaking at [- Union Chapel. Accordingly, in com. f. pany with one of his white associates, 38 he made his appearance and was n heard by the party swearing that he r would go to the speaking that day or in burst something, and about that time it somthing did burst and a discharge 0- from the gun of Jas. McKay did the Lo work. s, Lowrey run about fifty yards into d the swamp and fell, to rise no more. it He was on his way to Union Chapel r. to engage with Steve Lowrey and An. ir diew Strong in the killing of Sheriff s McMillian, which was no doubt, frus - trated by the death of Tom, as the y, other two were already on the ground 0 armed and equipped. in A reward of $6,000 by the State r- and $200 by the county had been y offered for the capture or killing of u Lowrey. The latter was paid by the h Sheriff. 0 The sa:no party declare their inten o tion of getting the balance of the gang before they ston, and the out 'laws are al.o on the war path for Df them. On yesterday they were in i- hearing of Back Swamp speaking, fir o ing off pistols, &c., and had built a d blind near the road. You may expect . to hear soon of the death of some of the parties on one sido or the other. 11 It was Steve who killed Frank Wis i hart sometime ago. - The political situation in this coun h ty is very encouraging. The opinion is that the Conservative ticket will 0 be elected. Greeley is gaining daily and we have not seen but two or three e Democrats who refuse to vote the It Greeley and Brown ticket. a1 - __A-- . . N y : Family Events in Old Times. 3. r Our forefathers, says an English ). magazine, had a knack of advertising a momentous family events in a fashion o more interesting to the general public e than We do in these degenerate latter ). days. Take a few of the demises l firs., as they were announced 150 years ,g ago : "April 1731. Mr. John Mid igd leton, wholesalor bod ico-maker. Re ported worth ?10,000." How much more information is there in this than I the bare obituary notice of the pres 3. ent day. Here, again, under the 0s same date : "Mr. O reen, at Wands.. .n worth. Worth ?10,000." And a te little further on we have another of the o. same : "Relict of Mr. Chambers, 11 pawnbroker, of Blackmoor street. Worth ?15,000." We now turn to e. the more cheerful chronicle of the le marriages, about the same date : mn "Mr. Bridges to Miss Knight, a lady p, of ?20,000 fortune." Here, however Co is a still more aristocratic announce. i. ment. "The Ld. Petre to Miss Rat. y, cliii, daughter of the E. of Derwent og water, whose fortune is said to be ? 50,000." How the mouths of u ts successful suitors muust have watered ic with vexation in those days, when the lady fortune was thus open'y confess. ed before the world. C rumblers at Newvspnpers, mn Hornce Greeley thus hits the nail rs on the head :"It is strange how r- closely men read the papers. We c, never saw anything that anybody ii, didn't like, but we soon hoar of it. me if, hovever, once in a while we hap. d pen to say a good thing, we never oe hear of that ; nobody seems to notice me that. We may pay bomne man a hun td dred compliments, and give him at dozen puffs, and he takes it as a trib as ute to his greatness, and he never ut thinks it does hinm any good. But if is we happen to say anything this man ie didn't like, or something that he ly imagines a refloction on him or his as character, see hoW quick Ite flares up n and gets mad about it. All 'our evils m are duly charged to us, but we never r- apparently, get any credit for what v- good we do. ek --. o< - yNumber of Shingles in a Roof. J . D. Tate gives to the New York Farmers' Club a rule for estimating the number of shingles required for a o- roof of any size, one which he thminks overy mechanic and former should re. lea member. First find the number of to square inches in one side of the roof; . cut off the right hand or unit figure, ieo and tho result will be the number of en shingles required to cover both side be of the roof, laying five inches to the is weather. The rutge board providei .for the double courses at the bottom, he Illustration. Length of roof', 100 foci 'n, width. of one side, 80 foot---10x3Ox. e; 144-432,000. Cutting of the righ hand figure we have 48,200 as the humber of shingles requird. per inThe Hion. Reverdy Johnson is ou ,50 l na strong letter in which he advo c ates the olaims of Mr. Graeley. A Pretty Bit of Slender. RfThe Nation, a journal wMeh weekly bewalls the recklessness of statement in the political journals, and is con btantly telling how little of what they say can be believed, comniuting upon Mr. Consul General BuLter's exploits in Aloxandria, observes : "For the information of Greeley journalists, for whom we foresee great anguish of nind when they road of this last brawl, we would remind them that at the time of the unalavory McLarland iness, when Mr. A. D. Rtiehardson, of the Tribune, was shot, and Mr. George Butler had just got his appointment, a supper was given at the Astor House to the new Consul. General. His character was just as well known to the New York journal ists then as it is now ; he was note rioun as a blackguard c and nobody who had the opportunity of knowing him thought him anything but a most unfit person for the place. Yet the most noted gentleman who was pre sent at the 'ovation to a, distinguished journalist,' and who, we think, presi ded for a part of of the time at least was the present Liberal Republican. and Democratic candidate for the Presidency. If we should call thisatatement an unpardonable lie, the Nation, which israther nice about (other people's) - language, would think us ill manner ed. And yet we do not know how else to characterize it ; for Mr. Gree ley did not preside at the banquet, and was not present; but on the cou trary declined to join the party ; and all this the writer in the Nation had every opportunity of knowing. It is very often our misfortune to disagree with the Nation, but we believe that its editor bus some idea of the repon. sibilities of journalism, aud it is po. sibly owing to his absence front the nity that his paper has lately fallen into such a habit of chattering slander ous inuendoes, varied by an occasion al pinmp falsehood lilke the above. -N. Y. Tribunc. A Timely Rescde. On Saturday night between eleven and twelve o'clock the residents of Sullivan's Island hearil regated cries for "help, ' that prooeed'ed from a small beat with sail u'p, which was ir. -k ing to sea. The cries continuing a d being of a distressing character, a crowd gathered on the beach, some with lanterns, hoping to ascertain the cause. A number of gal lant young men determined to man a boat and go to the craft and see what was tie matter. By the dint of sheer'labor they over. took the boat, and found that it con tained two colored men, Win. Henry Horry and Aaron Williamis, who had given up all hopd of managing the boat and were drifting to sea. The boat bearing the signilicant name of Small I/ope, belonged to Gobbel'a farm, whither they were trying to go, when the wind died away and left them to the morey of the ebbing tide. The young men carried then back to the Island, and by their very praisewor thy conduct saved the poor uufortu nates from a sad fat.-Charlcston Courier. Game F.0Wls In a New Role. A gentleman of this city bas a game rooster and two puillets wvhieh are equal to any dog or oat as mousers and rat catchers, and so intent are they in catching and destroying these pests that they have almost entirely exterminated them from his premises. WVo have heard of the ferocious quali. ties of the game fowls, but this is the Girst instance we have heard of in which they have figuredl in the partic ular role alluded to. Instead of keep. ing dogs, which are liable at any me.. ment to engender hodrophobia, or cats which have a tend enoy to scratch and bite, and make night hideous with their "courting scrape,"~ it would be a good idea for our citi zens to procure some of the breed of fowls from the gentleman alluded to for the protection of their premises from the eneroaohments of rats and mice.- Wit. Star. The President Juniikeling and the CabI net Slum~ping. A careful Washington special tale graphs this :"Trho Presidlent expects to return to Washington this week to hold a brief cabinet session prior to his trip to Niagara Falls a down the St. Lawrence. A fter that he will not be again in the city for quite a month,. There will not, however, be a full cabinet mneetin'g as Secre tary Delano will be imn North Caroli na making speeches, and Seorstary Roheson will remain for the present. in New Hampshire. Owing to the protracted absenee of the executive officers few or no persons now come to Washington on business connected with the government. Even foreign ministers with fresh credentials re main away because they cannot bo officially received?, The London 3 dical Times and Gazette, July 29, contains the follow ing: "The fashionabld physician of Cairo, Egypt, Thomas Monroe, was a b slave, and ran away from his proprie tor at Charleston S6etbh. Carolina, twelve years agon Ku Klux! the Tide May Turn. We notice by a telegram from Raleigh N. C., that the colored Radi cals who recently attacked the Groe ley and Brown colored delegates and supporters in Raleigh and shamefully abused them for their independent exercise of the rights of freeman to vote for whom they think proper, have been arrested under the Enforcement. otherwise called Ku Klux Act of Congress and bound over in the sum of $1000 each, to answer for the of fence in the U. S. Court in No. Ca. It is said that other arrests will fol low. Are there no such offenees here I There have been. They may again be and the parties will be amendable to trial and conviction. \Ve say now, once for all, that the rule laid down in the enforcomont aet must act both ways, on the Radical as well as on the Conservative, and though many are taught that it was only intended for the so called Rebels, it can and will be brought to bear upon all who are liable to it. Lot not therefore, any of our colored friends hesitate in advocating or supporting what they believe to be right in the coming elections. Neither leagues nor any other agencies deprive thee f the protection of the law nor pro vent the punishment of thos'i who may wish to abridge their privileges in voting, so long as we have United States Commissioners willing to do j their (Ity and a law to be enforced. It renvins to be seen whether Goi. Drat will he as pliant in favoring his Radical friends in such outrages as was Gov. Scott. It may be too late for him to interfere, as lie is not yet re-elected.-Marion Crescent. The Blue Ridge Swindle Arresled. We are pleased to record the fact that Judge Willard has declared the Bond Scrip Act unconstitutional and void. On the 23d instant Judge Willard announced his decree. IHe declares as null and void the not of the General Assembly under which the scrip was issued-said act being in contravention with that clause of the Constitution of the United States prohibiting tho States from issuing bills of credit. As a consequence of this decision, thO injunction hereto fore granted against the receipt of the scrip for tax, -and this issuing of it is sustained and remains in full force. The opinion of Judge Willard con. olud.s in these words : "Considering the not in its entire aspect, as well as in its integral partr, it is clear that the Legislature intend ed that the scrip s'hould circulate as money, and that for this reason the provision of the act authorizing the issue of scrip are in conflict with pro hibitions of the Constitution of the United States to the emission of bills of credit by States. The act being unconstitutional, it is void. So far as it contemylates the issue of revenue bond scrip it is unimportant, there fore, to inquire whether the scrip that was notually isued was conformable to, and authorized by, the act. The iij enetion heretofor3 issued must be continued until the final hearing and determination of the action." The counsel in the ease were Messrs. Pope & Uaskell for the plain. tiff's, and Messrs. Magrath, Melton and Chamiberlian for the dcfend ants.--Carolinain. Mi Under the1Bed. The Columbus Derpatch says: Screams from a room in a house . na Franklington last night, abour, the I hour of 10 o'clock, attracted a num. ber of neighbors, who rushed in and found a young lady aoout seventeen years old, clad in 'what is modestly denominated a No. 1 garment tightly gathered about 'her limbs, perched on a chair the very picture of terror.| As soon as she conld be made to comprehend that there were a half dozen men ready to die for her, she regained self composure sufficient, to inform them that there was a man under har bed. It wasn'lt a man, but it was a big Thomas eat. She now serioualy contemplates a trip to the country for her health. Astonishing NomInallons. It is said that Mr. Greeley, as -the Democratic candidate, will be an as tonishing nomination. Very well; Harrison was an astonishtin~ nomina tion. So was Pol'k, so was l'aylor, so was Piere, and 6o was Lincoln ; but each of these men waos elected. Thgqro is evidently strength in an astonishing nomination. The issues of the contest .are equal. The Democrats, with Pierce, in 1852, went over and took up the Whig plat form of Henry tilay, and they swept the e.buntry. The moral is obvious. -N. Y. Ierald. Somebody to lote For. A Boston colored ma~n of Southern birth writes to the Post : "At last the blacks of this~broad land have a man to vote for whose record as their ftiensd of labor is unImpeachable. God bless the day when thp great Detimocratic party nominated the man who dared be just and tru'e to all black and white alike-In spite of op position. Every man of color who values hie manhood will vote for Horace 'Greeley.' A6- all events the world may het its life that I will." State Treasurer Parker has ad dressed the following letter to the committee on the part of the bond. holders of South Carolina : OFICE OF S'TATE TREASHIRF1, Co.uini ., S. C., July 12, 1872 Messrs. I. A. Quinltard, J.. B. Wes. Iey and A. A. Drake. O ICNT.zl EN : I Hee by te news papers that you havebecen appointed a committee on thle part of the holders of South Carolina bonds "to tako con certed and immediato action to com pel the payment of the accrued and unpaid interest on the bonds of the Statc with authority to employ coun sel to commence legal proceedings against the olicers of the State, or its legal Financial Board." I am glad. the bond-holders aro moving in this mat tcr. 'lhey have rights which aro indisputable, amnl they should be res pceted. I write to inform you that I heartily endorse the bondholders in their moveient, and advtise an united and determined effort oi their part to secure their just rights. Tho Stato debt is a sacred debit. It has been in curred by necessity and in accordaneo with law. The resourCee of tho State are ithidimt, to meet the interest ; and for my3 pairt, either as a privato Officer, I have 1done and slial continuo to do all in mily power to accomplish t'me end at which you aimI. The Stato Atiditor, who is appoint ed by the Governor, is authorized by law to levy a tax to pay the entire interest on the public debt, and should be fail to do hit; duty in this respect., the Governor should enforco compliance with the requirements of the law. I would suggest, that a1ll the bond-holders you can secure, unito at; one inl demanding of the Governor an immediate lovj of taxes, and I think your obljoct will be attained. The statement, said to have been made by Judge Willard, "that $1, 100,000 or $1,200,000 had been re ceivod into the Treasury from the salo of dolinquent lands," is totally at variance with thO facts in the ease, as comparatively nothing has been re ceivod on that, account. Tho Legislature havo mado amplo provision for the future, and all that is requiied is the executions of the laws. Respectfully, ' your obedient, se rvan t, NILES G. PARKR , Treasurer Stato of South Carolina. Sociatl Etilaltly in Washliglon. A Washington dispatch dated the 20t h, sa s The law of the District Logislaturo relative to civil rights in barbor shops, hotels, eating houses, confec tionaries, &c., went into effcot to-dny. It imposes penalties ard forfeituro of license for makiing any distinction in serving public guests on account of color, and requires the conspicuous display of lists of prices. Some of the restunarant keepers, in) order to avoid selliig drinls to colored men, post their prices at very high figures, some of them rating whiskcy at $2 a drink, branly an(d mixed drinks $5, ham and eggs $3, amd other supplies accordintgly-"a liberal reduction made to regular customers," meaning white men011. Flowv of Xpecic Xolithi. Wov are credibly infortmed that 50,000 silver half dollars have been sent fromt Washington b~y the Repiub lican Erecutive Commiiittee for use in North Cairol ina. Trho wards of the nation are greatly tickled by the jingle of i'ilver, and their eyes dwell upon "rhino"' with de101ight. It is pieasant, however, to nte the enter priso which prom isecs to aid in strengthening the people of the South for a resuminption of speie paytmonts, eve!n though it comes from staunch supp~orters of the theory .that groone backs is better than gold and silver currency. Ono word of caution: Look out for bogus coin,) particulairly if wrapped witht paper bearing Rtadi Policy. The Charleston News, closes a well digested article upon our true position in the approaching canvass as follows: "Of course if Charles Sumner anld Theodore T.iilton, and a few rcore other frIends of the "black man," will tako the stump for (Greeloy and Brown, no one willisay to thomi nay. But even tben, for the slim chance of earrying theo State in November, the Conservativos would be called upon to give up their hope of a reformed State Giovernment in October. It is evi dently the most prudent course to await dovelopmnents. Non committal conduet, is the wisest and bravest just now. A month or two may clear the sitnation. Then, without risk, the peoplo can determine what to do.' To Cook Vegetable Oysters. Slice and boil in. water about twenty minutes ; add half as mn~eh milk, let it boil up ; season a ithi butter, salt, and pepper, and serve with crackers as you would oa ste. Whito'voils are very fashionable in Paris, and, of course will soon be hero. They aro made of plain whit. dotend with black. The First Bale of New Cotton. The first bale of now cotton was re. ported by telegraph as having reach ed Galveston a few days since. A further dispatch from that city says that the balo was sold on the 16th in stant by Focke & Wilkins to Rich ard & Hawkins at ninety-three cents, gold, per pound. The New Orleans Times notices the matter as follows: The fancy price of 93 cents gold per pound paid for the first bale of new cotton received at Galveston must have been predicated on the premium of $500 offered for the first bale by the St. Louis Cotton Association. A bale of 400 pounds at 93 cente guld is equal to about $420 currency. It the holder of the bale receive the $500 prize and sell at the fancy price of 25 cents por pound, he will receive $600, showing a profit on the transaction of $180, less transportation and other charges. But to scouro this lie has to run some risks. Had the weather been clear and ,warim, lhe might have been preceded by a bale from Louisana or Mississippi. Three weeks ago we heard of of parties at Vicksburg preparing to rush forward a halo of new crop, and the planter who sent the first bale to this market last year was about n king the effort to take the honor and the price. The showery weather, how ever, has dispelled their hopes and we have heard of nothing farther from them on the subject. We have little or no doubt that this Texas balo from the Rio Grand3 will be technically entitled to the St. Louis premium if it be first presented, but rather suspect that, in offering the price, our enterprising friends up the river jontemplated cotton from tomc part of the wide cotton region to the business of which they aspire, and did not imagine they would find a compo. titor for the prize fooni the borde is of Mexico. Behind the Scenes, A leading Republican, says the Charleston Courier, has in preparation and will shortly issue, a pamphlct showing up the rasealities practiced in carrying through sundry Bills in the Legislature. The parts the dif forent State offioinls took in the mat. ter will be detailed, and their. names given , also, what bribes and amounts were used to make successful sundry iniquitous mensures. The author ex. ')rossea himself ms heartily sick and disgusted a.1 the ruscality that lies been going on, and is determined to expose it. Ye chosen ones stand from under, there's a heavy blow coming this time. A colored orator at the Radical meeting in the vicinity of Mloore's on Saturday last, "went for" the "scala wags" with gloves off and said, "When I see a Carolina white man making believe lie is a Republican, I knows right straight that he is a lying hypo crite, and only wants to fool us col ored men,and cajole us to vote for him, and put him into office. In1 slavery times I always (lid dispise low down "buckra men," and now, when ever I soo one of these honeyed. tongue, home-raised white folks, stalk. ing around as a Republican, I always think of them "poor buckras" of slavery times, and I aint got no usec for 'cem now, henceforth and forever." That fellow's head is "miight~y lev el, and has an eminently correct apw preciation of the true status of thme 6o-called South Carolina Republican, when he classes him with anything that he conceives vile and con tempti ble.-Edgefidd Advertiser. An ingenious attempt was recently made to rob the Couuty TJreasurer 's olice at Crown Point, Ind. A strin ger eanie into the office at a late hour, and requested the Treasurer to look in the safe for a few days a tin box which he paid contained a quantity of valuable jewelry. T[he request wvas complied with, and two hours later the watchman heard an explosion in side the safe, and on going to it saw and fired at a m an creeping toward it. Investigation showed the box to have contained a torpedo, ingeniously ar ranged to explode at a certain time. TIhe explosion blew the door of the safe open, and injured the walls of the vault in which the safe stood, but failed to open the door of the vault. A curious case of assault and bat tery was lately brought before the police tribunal at Marsailies, France. It appears' that a diver, engaged in investigating the wreck of a vessel sunk in the pert of that city, discov ered an object of some value, which he put aside in the corner of a rock for future disposition. Returning for the last time beneath the surface, he went to secure his prize, but at that moment two other divers at tacked him and attempted to wrest it from him.. A fight ensued, which lasted until the poopie abgtve, alamned at the confustopi be low, drop the com batants up to the afirface. D. F. Worcester, of Rochester, is in receipt of aletter from Chief Jun tice Chase, in which he says:i "If I livQ at am ble to go to Cloointlat ~iq'oembe1*,' shall vote for IJrac4 Graaley.?