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______te & Willams Proprietors,.] A Family Papeir, Deoe r~ Scieuo Artraur DevotedV nuty a Terms---$3.00 uer Annum, In Advance VOL V11.] WINNSBORO, S. C., WSPNTEMBE 1 18 MORNI THE FAIRFIELD HEALRP Publisieil Ivery Wednesiay 'it. WINNSBORO, S. C., DEAPORTES & W1A M . TERMS-IN AlD VANCR. (Ono Copy one year, - - 8 00 e - - .12 60 en '' '' ' - - 26 00 Y'ID , 1 EY ON I). Ueyonhl t i is vale ot Forrows, Beyond the flowingi ilo, leyond fle sliining pioritals, Where love and peace abide. Beyond tle care and oilling, lley ind th ceaseless strif'e, Beyonti he lapse of' veary years, To an jitmortal hfe. Beyond tie sighs and trying, Ileyond ilit painl autu nloat', Beyond tile gates of lcaven, Where sickness is unkniitown. Beyond the wail of orphans, The widow's mournfil erg', We lierit a voice that whiepers IWc'il neet tihee in the sky." Perlips 'we dread (he comting Of' tle nngel clolIted in white The messenger of glory Frot tle beauiteous realins of light. But we recollect th.lpved onres Th:t 'have guine fi' tt. 1'4 IBe'ore, To, t li lauil ot'.oy intil biaulty - To the evcr verdant shore. Th en.we linste with joy to greet them, Thirking R not, of then below Caritg more fr those in ileaven Thinkiip -ooni our Lord to know. Bob Motis' "at'Lel VersC." We meet. ui-on lie level, though from every Thie ric- niwn fruto Ji a niansion, (lie poor m an tront his 1ome-.i p'or fihe rich mvnt lenve . his vuqalti i and stiate ut t.i -e thio Masoni's door, And (he ioor ma:Ji iid't li - trie ruspect uti on tle clieckered P!oor. A1dAill))1N ; 0t Il E I (IND It 1 11. L 1lP. fY TIl i.. AT COF T IiFirolton." I Ala'lditt was on Arabian ; hiiigh who reiehedi a high degrec, atIuitgh unotlin.g but the -on ofi' poor ttihbr originally. Now, -i man 'may carry oi thie tgilring business and get.rich, an1d yet be a m.ighty poor tailor : but we aire assured that Aladdin's family were r ally in reduce) circnsttiLes. Aladdin was one of the in ot care Iees, good-*for-not hi ingboys I ever kne wtt. lie woildn't, learn , a trade, unle.-s it was trade jack--knives, but loitered IawVay the0 most of his tiie on the streets. His father .wori-Yd hju:telf up so because he couliln't mak-e his 5on work, that he died in a fic-tl'e only fi, as his eu.stotiers ,said, that ever come .out Cf- I.:s ,b iop. Then Aladdin became ivore indolenit than ever . f'et, as showing the end urina love of a mother, ulthough he. nerly iiored the h ut, of her, h-onietinu ed 'to board *him. OWe day a traveling magiejan pane atlong and "show0%ed", in .the11Ir townl. If0 say Aladd.in, to'k a liking to him as Puited to his purpose, and offered to take him travglitg %yith hip, .nd if he wanted to become a magician, ie would learn him to 'Imagish."1 ,This. jutst suited A'laddin; who~ al'wvays want *ed to go with a circus; so heo went. Tfhey left town tht night, out ftoot,. (as amagicins are oft compelled to do whmen businessn is br.'~ and pi O.:e'd ed1 in thet di reet.~u of the netxL O tow, whtere, as the lhe miagiein n said, theoy were holditng thet county ,'fair mand ~a show woul pay. ie htad "worked" the fairs, andt knew. Butt, intalitd of' going there, bteld 7Alfaddin into a deep valley. Arrived - at at certin rock, thto ung;~ician, by som;ie mtagic spell ((for heo way ,a ,eai.. ta peller') opened a groat htole in thec ground as readlily as tbopgh he had been an eartht'unke, muchel to thte pur prise andi alarm of Alatddin. Thuen thte masgian, ,facecutiopsly reiiar'king that it wats a f:noe opening for a young man, ordered Aladdin to descend, anid b rtg him a ecrta'n. lamp he would find there, threateing the d irest pen. alties if Ite failed to comply. "Now, see here, old mav.t," said "Aladdin, "fun is fun, apd 1 like fun as w3ll as anybody3 but aiin' this ruting it intto the ground ?" T here beintg no htelp foi idheli ,de. scended, first reoeivintg tho megloein' magic ring, together with intstruot!.>ns. But watsn't it cruel to tako A laddlin It was a maglo cnvertn of orV andi filled with fruits and vegetables of the fintest, gold as they always are. lie 'aw more gold 'turitipi." thtan a .kwatoh factory oo'l turn ont in ten 3ears ; carrots t wo tumdred and fifty carats fine ; gold cabbages egnal to any erb nmges thtat have been mta-de on ~3 the Nam'ional T'reasury ; and diamond Ssquiashes woith moneoy enou'1t to squa'sh all the indicttments found by oup unite grand juries. 'When .ho saw an orchard hantging full of golden apples. heo exclaimed, "lere's jist old fruit I" and filled his piockets with them.n Finding the lamp, he returnedl to th ntac of the eavore and asked the agican t hel hiaout. - "Not till you give me the lamp," was the reply. "Then you won't get it?" reorteoa Al ad din, iwlho feat red oIne t) ieIC, wh iclh so enraged tle imn if t-gio that he threw dowin tle stotne wiieb elo-sJed t'i. cavern, -htutting tihae poor boy iIN. Iti too(k on -f Cturse, as alyh-.%l naturally wonid :nder the cireac - stancets, .w~ce. ping.. anll 1 bingr~ bi stll nsla , WC Q U11 I-- 1)Ut i a!3 ,,)it i -I ia It i.4 hands, but in doing so b6 rubbied the magio ring, whiten an iumaense (Juii apeared. si \ld'ii ."Who are you 1 said Alalin. "I am Sluve of th Plig," replied the Geniii.. "What ring 7 W1Isk'ey ring ?" This ratliher 011kofailTet tihe Genii, Who was a prohlibbionit4, and! OL o! tll, mnost reputable Genii und,,r uronni,I. But he explaied thit lhe was compell ed to do whatever the patsae S.ir of the rinrg required, t ubtijet only to dii. Con-titution of the 'aited States. "Thenl get meo out of thi '," sai-! At labin, ".and take .e hoiime," whiel the Genii did ill less tiic than i' takes to write those lines, tCt L th I type, print the paper, ana jit up th< nauls. Ie was hungry, an.1 his Inoth. er had nothing in t ho hI. to eat "But here is the lump y.1 brought h1omle," said she. 1 will eh.an ii. anld perha ps it will bing Soliething,' .i did. It lrought al)t her memhe. of the Gouii family, as She rubit. ii who anno need hAnself .I Sae (f the Lallp," and itaid ie folilowed til bu;iness of waiting onl auni boly whoi posses.-ed it. What did they wish i 'Dinners fAir two !'' s houtel A% lad din, as though he was in a eb ap res tauratt, with unihaaunaaled erclit. "A.d minad yn,), give its plenty or fresh ve-etabies---green corn, it you have it." Iiill n111 aittanit Laa lanrlt t w. s sprarid before them of the ricAet d esernin1, anld oi platces (if oil. Fromn I' t tiim they hoarded entirely in tti:s manerIC, Ahaddia di-iosing If the gold plate at a pawn-broket's and playiuaL in tie money -it kenae. lie j.nt kept. Ohat Genai humllaiping. PiAobahly no C:uii that ever livedi wa-a v" overwoiked as t his oneo Wa. lie wvulhin't he hlomn in i:i, eavern anl houy nuy time a day beloo Ahalin WoUbl rb ie. hlaap for omething, when .lr. Ce-ii h-l it) git, inuatt-raig a< lie did sq, -Av tilat's the Iui) ' .si-les briting his mi.ea s to hik roomil1for u anhb ht coualdn't even have tle livileg of ch:ring hima e-t ra lie laud 10 i"a tch his :orninag cack a I ;ind blit-k his bootS, - Wh:at a dgra dation f1 ' a horii.thii-n(:41 ! 1t legth A dlldinl apired to* iary tha' - ta's daylghter. wio war vety ba alintiful. Ili< notlaer en ceavorA )o dis-n'ue hii n fIom it. She reindded hi". hnt h wan only the sAN of ap o tIail..r, and :nnI.1 hiln to b ed'..ait with :,ome re:et.a. bIe sea-I truss. BIt he initua, n.ad acttally indue d tle 4111 kldy to ga to the "ultan aId aem.Iand I his da agm.c Os hantd ill inarriageo for her sol, which was very innetulIting to the Saltan. ohl and diamonds did tihe baui nes, howeve r, as tihey do .Y3 t an d II watys will unatil thre i a raiu.il change in vain::tions ; and Aiaddin itarried lte prine . Ie built har a aunaniicenI pail tin onea ight-or his Genii did-lW . vac-alt lot ow< 4! bty her father, that ltu.l a r taag of 100 feqt on tMhe principl :,1roe, atn was A50 Aot dtep. (Tiho Saultan 1 ha1 reftused $200 a lfrot faaot for thIe haot. re(peta.te~dy)') Andi thter thef proceed ed1 t<> livet fa pily. JBat one da a113I crcus camet to taowt, and connacted litah aonei of ic .-ide hows, wa tile u1 :Ivd mlatgician. lIe t\:Iw the pal ace, lit-a dJ thIa:a it was put up in one0 night by Aiaulhlin, aaad diined, tihe t ruth it.t oniet. Thea been aI IL s caarpC enter ! Ile dlevia ad a plant for obtaining theo lamlap. lie got t2ome bran ne0w C onesad wenat to the . palace when A laddill was awa'y, crying, "'Old lampa js for new,"~' wIbaen o:m'of tho kinad gir-I. traadedu off' thelao lgieo lamtp, ignocranat of' it-s value t'.s of everya hing' else. II:av - ing thuts mnade A laddbin ah lamp-lighit or (than he wa.,) (th l' m Inziian us5 istedl by the Ge~ni, tranispotead thec ptalace, together wvith h I~ aineetse, toa (Ia hearii t of tho, imeast remaik a bl1e e::m-I plgaa of rich'es fta king wtir.' that hais ever faliep utnder nay obiaerv'at Ian. A ladldin aeaed haigha and law 'to say nothiang qofac~k tand atha gatane) for his missing -.uifo and real e.;tate, aind ip sheecr despeoraiiion li t lenagthI jain. lid an1expedition 10aot t.> p eeo-ate to the int:-ior of A fria'a in ach o-i fta Dr.. Livingastone. !Ie did n'a (inda theo dretor. but lie didl Ifod his ptalace'. ie Coma ini'~at ed] ecret ! g with hais wife. Shao d rugged the n mag ic i anI's " bitters" 03ne naight, anal got p'~ses aion of thte lamip fair P.lladdin, anad by1 its maeansithe pailaice was tranaaportedl back to A rabia, thonghi it. probablly wis no0 mhore t ranspaoated than Mr. AladldiQ was a getting home. All lived hapapily after that, e'geopt the wricked maagiciana, who 1as a puntish. menit fort cocentriities, w ais comapelled to be confianed atLhard labor all his life as a~ comaeiv riter. A..letter, to the Cihicago Tribune from St. Joseph, M ich , as:Last nightswe held a very large Greeley and Ba own nuecetin~g, atbout 500 being present.. Out of that niumaber 4100 joined the elub. This towan is al' Greeley ; there is hardly a Grant man left." Ex peri lite 11 Is III llti ale l n Wrt L'iii Thfie New 1l'gland Farmer coni tatins theo flilowinog corresponudence: ''oni thity 3ears ago an old farn cameU iin') mly po.CSession,' uponl whiel w as what was called mi meadow. 1, ie, at tfoot cf three slopeo, anil it incjuient ly gets the wash from them .i l. A. majority of the soil has : "praiiie'' look-rery fine and dark. ThOre is lit small p.>rtion of it that call b e. lled nitk . Two broos :ie dowi romA the upland and u:ui ted iear the tipper en1. a nd forni d one f the fineat treut. brAoks in the neighb',orhood Numenromus rprings Cae ill from the upland, and with the brooks, kept one half of the tiaendowv so w(t that at ten:n could not pats .'vei- it. . "The crop was a vile inass of flit :lrass, Weeds, ferns and rushes, tiot to itlentioni the Lillian the lhat is ever present in soils like this. . I looked uipon I he nieadow in its then condi 1n01, all a it 11 6aice. T h 'e crop w'hen in the barti was Ito less t. "The tirt thinig waso.o d i-posa of tle trout hi-otik. 1,n qpen ditch was tade in the c,)ttre ; iut l 1 and be huii !" Ih t he t 'ritg Mwncattle the wn tar f:ont .Se hills, aitd down went car. loads of rih lal lujvial oil to the iat m es of ly neighr br. elov. That would not do", so a channel was but alaag one ae, in the edge of the uap aal, Into whitchIl the water. wasl tunted, and there it now-rusi, Drains were oiened thirty feet gpdrt, and forty rods i:. legth, through the mtei'dow, aMl put as 16w as they could lbe1 .ad have c the water run off below. Trh.y are fromt 'two to three feet deep. Thi con ieln -:c is, I now harmvet, as Many ads of g lood lay as I used t, have of terns and hAru-hes. -Thleo uterial fist used for the rainis were stue froi the upland; I Tais material was good and abundant i lt, there were two objections to drain's thus nade. Firt., there were soft places and the stones were liable to gtt out of place. Second, thet e was a Pre.1t deal of work in it. 1 "'ihe nev.t resort was to wood. 1 A:tr some s tuidy and a little experi .eiLnta, 1. t leted snooth, thiek t betilock atalas from peeled logs, from I liles of four foot shlabs at the imill. I These were placed in the' ditch, rimnatling sides togther, the upper I lilt m eting meeinig and renting together. .lltween the slabs and the b:t.h were piacel stones, usually two to each ab, twhiel l theni in ( Pat. The stols should be so large that they will not drop to the bottom I of the slai. Up"n the stones were plaN A I.11 the s-ieks that were taken outiwhen oening the ditch ; and I *tut small l t o thtdw in. Upon tha whoe was packeil a thick layer of IbrItra!h from plastutare apruces and heindolick aid Iuon this was scraped the s-il, with a sm-ill ox scrper. It. will be reudily seen that there are three draii.-; in en:h ditch, one lie tween the slabs and one otn either side. This kind o! :'rain has not yet fatiled me. ''To ry th Ii n'p.-rinent, I filled one ditch with brusl, bt it wa soon era.'htbe down anld useless. I "AnIotlher e thod wa.s- to Place stoms at the sidis of the (itch, which wt:lI teach a littl 1motare thian~hailf way ..eriss and aib.'t three0 feet epart. ::n 't ovet' with It les-0 anad theta ithi bro'a-b. 'lie stotIs suppolart the poles oti the water fitnds its waty iilmonig httm attal pas-es uuli. 'fhte hoti tm a'haaubl be Ih.rd fot' this kitnd (of din; t i.s clhiat anld qutickly) made oad la -is .we il. Tisa exper Ilfimet of aldiia! g ha s g liin me mtore sat isfae. ittn ihd aitny other' opet~ionts of myi f~atrm life.' . Anw at Pilgrim (hath .n' i Ont Sundtay, the 25:ithilh imto, l1il gritm 'at Cheh, says th Chester liepoir teri, 02n the westernt side of.tha clon ty was thei cne of a riot t a n tuit d li'a cef a to thle congt!regatIion, tind( exceedinigly antoying to thec surrund. ing i'otuitry. Ti is~ ~ an Af, ican iuta ' by llev. Satacho $anderaj 5 atne of thle :iable litpi=latot' oft the Staite. On. lihit taci~On, as we tire iaformlled, oneO hh-elh airtht ailta a kitag to lbe ta k4.nt inito1 inembi Io.:ahip with the haureb.. ini patinag him tharoughlthelipret'liinla :my etx::linu ltati as to is ta fitvuaz for a seatn.t aong t fit hlI it leakedi out ha.t he haditi a y .;t s v'oted thio. Deo - i'r:iC ticket, and thd he hiad not r'e peatteal (if thiiis :-i. fThe order was gi venl at (aince fora him i to b~e east o'ut as anf unican thing, anda, itn persu. iince theaof I, hie wt a a inrchled (tut of the chiuich nad out of thte yardl. Stome how oa' ither a cotllIision then 01 euIrred bet weent thte police, deta iled by thle lRtev. Sanch~o, and a portion of thte coingiegtiona, tad soton the fighit becamo gu eneral, mten, women and childrten pa rticipjated, anid cent inued the riot durinig thte greater portion of the day. Saticho is a burnting and a shiintg light in the putlpit anad in thec halls of legislation, and, keepinig as lie does buith the religious and politi. eal conisecnce of his race, will, no doubt, be returned again to the House of Representative tthis fall. The Texas cattle fever is virulent, near Jackannvill. Mo.I liadicillisill S louth r' rollfii--A trigl1. fill State of .'hings. Our despatchea from Colutnbia, South Carol ina, .4#how. thiat the Utate is in as bad a coirdition pg.litioeily ac it is financially, if.'not i) a worse. It has been plundsred in the most barefaced way by: 'he; carpet-bag rascals and their regro allies, and a debt has been piled up that staggers the people by its weight. Thert i3 niothing comparable in the history o^ ilis euntry to the flagrant robbery Ud abuses of power by the radikaI authorities there. And now, wlhen the time had coo:e that tbe re zjectable portion of the community hoped to find a remedy for "evil tbrough the regular Convention of the dominant party and a change of rulers, the r-obbers have overwhelmed the reformers. By pistols, bribery Mild VocieI'cloda clamor they nomina. ted a mosit wircrnpulous batch of plunderers for all the highest tilices. bi the State. 8d outrageo-is was the conduct of the Convention and mch terrorism was exhibited that the best men of the radical republican party were glad to escape from the State louse to save themselvts from serious personal injury. .. Revolvers were drawn, chairs were 'Iiscd ,over the sha'iLders of mem bers,. ready to strike, find bedlam i:mcd to be let loose. It 1G i'eally i wonder there was not & gencreit riot ind much bloodslied., itames L. Orr, United Statc Senator Sawyerp Dip. . iet Attorney Corbin, aid ot hers inally ,called a separate Convention mt t they represent only a minority or 'action of the party. The majority Ippear to go with the carpet-bag plun leiers. This in the old story of I >egro government. History is re watcd. Wherever the negroes have ttaified the ascendancy or thn lalance of power in any country there ,verything has gone to chaos and -uin. It was so in Hayti, in St. )omiugo, in Venezuela, aid in all )ther cauntries wher'o the blacks taving political powdr.havo oatinum >ered the whites, or whore 4 fuw :navis.h whitea havb 'e I t6o blacks o ride into power. 'I tus should be a olenUn lesson for us, but it seens'our ioliticians will not heed the teaching of history. Unless the radical re. ubliean party be split assunder and part of the negroes should have the ood sense to go with the oonservative lid more respectable portion in South kArolina, the State must remain in. a nost hopeless condition.-N. Y. lir ld, August 25. The North Carolina Fratit, Some days ago (says the Philadel hia Age) o ppublished a statement n relation to to manner In which ,olored men were conveyed from Washington to North Carolina and eoted in that State for Caldwell and )is Radical colleagues. That state ment was denied by tile journals of I :hat renominationist. But the denial s now met by the fact that the Libe ral Republicun Commit,tee in WashI ington has now in its possetsion Iba aflidavits of over fifty colored men who voted in that State at the last elecion. :Hundrtds more of like dlocum]nenitscan be procured if neces. I airy. iRui~ enough. are on hland. to uhow the manner in which Culdwel *1as reinrned on paper, arid justify the iJegislaiture ill giving Judge Morri no0n t he legal retnirn. T1'hat the lat tLer was legally eleeted. is n6 longer lnmattler of doubt or dispute .amlforg iit alligenit rinren of teit her Tae ty -ia North Carolina. Preparatione are siaking to citest the returne of ,Mrs D)ald well when the.Legi.,lature mreets, and the result of thu . lction n ill be the une1tarth ing of :most imonstroun. frandls on the part of the G rantites, and( . thle i naugum~ration <.f Judge .\errimion as Governor of North Caro linai. a.Toole, n1. Maujor lierrill. We .learn that lately .John Henry Toole, says tile Chester' Report er, 'of Rock llill, in York County, comn ipenieed anl action agaipst flajor Lewis f leri ill, comndanl'Thll (u the Unlited Staltes.forces aut -Yorkville laying his damnages at live thousand. dolhrs for falho. iinprisonmentA. -.Poole .is the yjlo-ed bairber at Rock -Hill, and,' as ho alleges, was captured Jast's fall by a partyof .Merrill's dragoons and by that ohfoer held in jail for "fotty.two clays, ho being entirely innocent of any infraction of the law. -The unitds brought by S. P'. iamil-' tomn, Esu., as the attorney fot' the plaintiff. [t is intended thlat -the' Snlit shaill be pressed with all possible vigor, anld to test the quest ion, wheth-1 er an innocent man nmay be incareera. ted and have no rdrems frofrn the law. Theo ease not impossibly may findi its way. td the Supreme Court of the United States. A can of nitro-glycerino exploded aut Rouseville, Pa. blowing a man, named Win. HI. Payne, conipletely to pieces-andl soattering bis flesh and bones over a ten acre field. On Tuesday last a Dubuque darn sel, pretty as a pink, entered a- saloon, kicked over a tablo,, drew a revolvbr on a bar-tender, and led her father out by the car. Grizzlies in Droves. The %ia'iposa (Cal.) (azette, of August 16, says r: Mr. lind licho, who has a large 'tot of sheep IIp in the trountaitis ab(ve3 Yvoe.iite V.alley, pansed throldgh tewn, on his way to I or..-ts, Ilat Tuesday. 1lL re ports Lhe depredations of ri::ly hea rs upon his sheep as bhedhg roluetbintg iiore serbap than he has eve:- bofore ex perieticed. Night after iight they colle and y'imiii p i to- tle e'ial, Iel 1p themselves to a choi' m 11A, dr1ag il.away a short distanee, and eat it. 'i- herders keep lires. -burninihg at inight within (ie corral,.bl t 'I- .arA don't ;iind4 them. Shz'.:; .;e bel fired at them, but without elt et, so fr nv. heaid from. One of' them "aime in and "lp Iiked onl w i some ineat withir ab,.nit six feet of whe ro a ' Ihlinaan was' -Jeeping. John tried to "sho" him lia-.y, ilt lie wldtn1ii 't (shoo'' until be scoured John's provis ionls. Since that date the Chir:atnan piles ap a few convenient rocks, and when Iver i bear com(s abotit. he makes :t iot for him. Some of these days that Dhinlamn: in will threw rocks at on3e of cross grainel, reek less, ip-te Ing (Old bears, 1an1d there woni't be alny >f him left worh carrying back to "hina. Thle ordinary well conditi, !d grizzly turns up his nose at a Jbinaman, but a lean, hungry, old >ne doesn't care a euss whom he cats. [1adlich's theory about the usual num >ei.vf hears in that region is, that hey have been scared out of their su.1 haunts by eart.h' iuakes. Whether they !-a Vic b)een "haken out, tarved out, or berned out fromi their tunts, there is one thing cert ailn, iat thoy ar. tnore nuImetots than wer IcnOwn in the ppp~or ratges of he waigern slope of the ier:-a'. Tht ONI' Brid ;. . Among the ravines of' wit.-irland s a bridgo called the "Devil's 3tidge," in reference to which a ticer story exids aiong th1e. pea.: mits. The Prince of Iell, t i' said, ifter constructinig the bridge, orde:ed hat t e fir. so.1 paUSi og over it hould fall a sact.iiwe-to- himself. A uniig peasant accordingly drove is dog over. Satan, enraged at this rick, procured a monstrons rock do ermined to destroy his bridge. As ic appr ached with the saime, anll old >easant woman addressed him a Ge-uss Gott" (Gid be greeted), vhich jneensed the liend the more, so ,bat bl. dr'iw doeln his .nowinttin like ock and made off, visitiig the int labitants of the Valley with the fumes ,f hell. This is now called the 'Devil's Stone. loss of tilt lecluintloll of liidepeildenre. The original manuscript of the )eclaration of Indepeidence is rapid y fiding away, and, judgieg frot the ,ast, but a few years will elapse be ore the naked parchment will be tie itily souvenir rQmiii a ining of that hol ittifedoo- 'A :read, 'ieoarly all th ig-;atures are entirtly <iaced, and lie rest cannot last much longer with >ut something is done to restore tlie writing. Tho sacred dc;aaration, to. !ether, ith Jitor.e Washington's nlander'-in-Chiefof the Colonuial A' my,"' which-is in about thle samne Cola litioni, have bet n for ye~ars on e >h i yition in-.threr'Patet-O'llice, ande it is it flatter ni' surpa se0 thiat na. I lirt, lhas seen made by the Govelrmt,~it to ev thona. fr'om bejing lost for ever to Josterity, "Thie Dihi Norfil~Iote lormi'r." .;--here is said to be a man living in 'aco, Te'xas, it hio has bieeni -.atrried ive ii ie, anid is the fat her of fifty .ogitimate children-fthirteeni boss~ ')y the first wife ; eighteen chiladre'n, boys andl girls,hby the second wi i fe ten by hlis third wife ; six by his FourthI, and thriee by -his fifi h wI ft. I'wenity of his sons served in (1. 3 Con rederat e arm'iy, cighit of whotm' were killed ; seven died nat airli d th , indi the remasinder are still livinig. We-have tihe very belt athforit y ~or saying that this fort-unate man111 >riginally went -from Shac~kelford B~anke,-N. 0., and was cetenvely .anga6ed in- t he shel-businea at that p iloilicide lit Edgtfield, Ilumors Were cu~rrent on Sunday of I justiliable hom'ieidc, ini the vieinit y >t tihe Pine fltouse, Edgefild, oin Saturday last, b)ut..as yet we eitn glea~n rio partictulars.. From thle ttatementaiP made, it happ'ears timt there had( exis bed for a long time ill-feeoing between two men in that vicinity, and open violcee had- been attemnptedl. On Baturday, one of 'tile men attacked he station-master at Pine House witb a long knife ; the attacked party sought refuge in his house, when the tttaoking party followed himrt, knife in hand. The station-master 'then hbot him dead on the spot, and is re portedl to have surrendered himself to the proper authoirties. Last week, during a storm at Ope. lika the lightening struck and killed aiady. A child three weeks old, in har arms. was uninjured Tie Threlnlric ( %ar lietweeil Ctina and Japan. The peaceful progress of civilibition in the 1:ast, say tlice New York 1er. ad, is in danger of being interrupted by the horrors (f warl. The latest niews represents the Chines'o' ah muaking preparations for deending the nw11;Uthi of tihe Poilo 6o as to pre. Ivent, the plucky little Japs from isit Ig uceretnoiciously tie brother of the , iun. No doubt if hostilities should break out. the combined Piro. pCeaT an1d Ameriin flOts would be able to etercise uich anl influeneo as wIrld] co'iderably mnitigato the evil dc'oet of the coflict ont tie commer viaI interets of foreigners. At the s5iIe time it is. evident. that the loss infl ':cd cn t66 t rid ing Interest c could not fail to )0 serOUS. ior this the progress of dinpuit between the two .'tstern goveinment s will 1 wacicd with an::icty both hero nnd in i-:uropo. Wo are naturally in clined to tako sides with the Japanese-, b-eanise they bivc thown at cager neas to avail themselvesof tice advan tage:; of our civili:Ltion, whilo their oppoIlets contiltne to wrap them) L-elves ip inl a selfi.h and iuighty iso. aIt io'n. Unwillirg to rccogcnize lie biit Is whib it aifre inteCrou wrso with other nations would not fail to confer, the people and goveirranenict of Chiia shut themselvesic(11' !.*;- ,):a all tthat qymll pathy which the Japanase invite. 'he friendship al and p ertieC sihown i by theme latter to our country and instittitious are other bonds of union between us. But. the chief and moI c t lasting ti on must be based on iitiu al inlt(ests. The Jarpanese have shown that they compichend this fact, as well as the difference in our peaceful commercial policy from the aimbitions pret ntious of tho cbief r '- wvers, the history of deaings inl tice l"ist is i mel ancholy catilogic of Crime. H1ence lhe desire of tle c nes to etulti voto close political cnc commercial relations with us. Wu rhol regret the occurrenoe of any cohltt witich :0 1H li av e thece -ct of turinrg the Mcins of this xngularly gited people frm the purisit of that, pecful progress in which the true happines of nations is to be found. Mannuuires~'c at ihne SculI, The folluowing viry approprito re mlark.s uioU this imlostt importait su1bijcf't., is taken from ine iinnual bcc Luer of M-.ssrs. A. .\. Sloanc & Co. We conmnend tim idcas'' txtress'(d therein to the careful ,:e i.h-ration of our lead rs : \VI'l nctions, nswi:h ui ividliak, elie exicit of ticir sicrplti is If,(- measure of, thir pro.-perity, and to acquire wah ald mdwalec they iust break the ,hackles of' servility wihose hcoc! :ar gairing strengri h each year. T-) cf1eet t!hi.; we tcmst. encourage iann fwrc Tss.. Thi demand, for yearq has Iee'n tihe grat w'ait o: C 0 outh--a vastI va-.mum11 which has bveen inviting cji a! hu11t. is sim winitiot.ice 'l. ConleImphma tm Condition ci the mli lcrn iou to-day, and nole their dt. pl rabl dlii v pen upon other see tions for almost, ivery aticle of Imnuilli. f'Ce-ere. Taik' fc:r :-aiple, the wancts of mli ccndividil; i a t iy'c of ti ii'hol. We tociit Ib:c thecc rrcile itn whiich I ho cini ct S is Icled it sleep, t he boo~'k fc'otr. bcc'l as 'c ci!hi b aircnons. Li~ educca Iicc ; his weaccriicp-rci duintg life are alilci mtuifcturcdccii cehowhii~e; aicciafte'r perhapc s i'c:cc3 of tcoil, amic wii'ched'c downvc wt ih~ agc mo''ci car ho- ienscrcenderacs life, cc's rcni'ccc;:c re jplaccc'd mt a caIsket of Nothern tt mae.~i hisob(cl)cpiiEs3 art' readl tomii hcook ;s icued by N orthIecrc presse's, ccii hi- hi-t rccstinig phcn en it mirrked by; t h a tiltelic wichi pa~sscd throughc lice hinalciis of N orthe crn M1echaies. Ts it a wond'er,( h, tic hat, citiso h ot gr'ow c P~ic~ inppuaiccn, ini wthi, and' ini splemclcir. whcenc we' of' thc Sucthc, ihc'.i, I'ss of the unlcimccited. power('t wich~d turcie lhas~ pilacid': ont co;':atci, pern'cct, t:.' uniobtcI rcc!el dwaltcr. to f~itw to~ sea, withcut, Exactinjg tulat t:K'bute I hcey are e-ver r'eady to yilc'd ? We nust niot only~ iccnbic factcories, but. '-e ccir'It'ielnue theci r conod oit ie's in 'cr:-.ec.e to) thcsu lbroughit, fr'omc othe i martds;]. Vi/f may, [or cc short. spcac, ihe e~ccpledi to payc csomewhc-iat, ihigher rcccec, but thce rewaird will ho siure and larriage Lxtraorudinry... , 'Thie 'Jeorgetownc 'i imets publishca thci followincg: We learn frotm unc'cestioned tiu ticorit11y thati I Mr. John G. 1eoror, of his ecunty, aged 78, has recently tackenc to himrself' in maurriacg a young andcc h buchinig hr ide of riot q utito four. t(-c'n y-ars, and tlIhat such tihas een tho efotct n his i'eiorablec head, that his hcair wiebo was silvery whtite is racpid ly aisuin cg the black coloir of htis ouithc. We' have hteard of hair growting white icn a singie night, buit we do noa kmncow that we have ever b)e fore hi'*crd of Lice cappiliaceouas ornta meicct whiich acdornis tho hcead tacking the back tracek, and turinig from gray to black. Our incforcmant asures us that thce old gentlemnan hcas used no hair (130, antd that tihe change -is at tribuitablo enttirely to thie new state into which he hcac entered. Why is a mufif like a fool-? Be. eattae it holds a ladyshnwiou sauoozing it. ysbn ibu .( athierinig "'Lorls." Col. Jack W-- tells a good joko on a sergeant of hia own regiment, the -th Texas Cavalry, which occurred during tho late un pleasantness. 8er geant Willey was a lank, gawky, but impulsivo son of the wilds of the Leon Star State ; worthless as a soldier,'abd' still worse. as a ion-com. liwssioned oficer, he nevertheless was enablod to maintain his grade, owing to a peculiar tact which he piosseisced of preenring forage when all others woul!d fai!, One wet morning ho appeared with a long face befor, his colonel's tent, and grumbled somei't hing against tho sergeant major of the regiment, and which Col. W filally under ::to, d to be n, complaint that Willey w:'s put On pIet dnty out of his turn. the btory seemled so plaus~iible when it was olearly placed before th colonel (hlt the sergeapt-miijor was suminoned to the tenttand in a few ninnntes it was agreed that an iin entional injustice had been done ta Wilcy and the party separated. "Never minid, Willey," said the 'ergeant-major, as they walked off together, "'when your turn comes igainyou shall be exemipted from ,luty."l ' "That's well enough," grumbled Willey, "but it iayn't bo a wet. "That doesn't matter, Willey," wacin sail the sergeant major. \'hen this war is over, this little rial will be counted as another laurel ror you." Willey left his superior, and foi' in hour after was noticed wiatidering ibout alone muttering something un, ntelligible. At iast Willey made traight for the colonel's tent, and without preliminary, apostrophised him in a twangeny voice: "Kernel," be said, "'int is a lorl ?' 'IA what. ?" said Col. W. "A lorl ?" againi asked Villcy in a louder tone. "1A whalt?" "Whatt a lorl?" this time fairly brieked tilleg.. Col. W; was now nearly out of patience, being its little informed as beforo on the loril subjtet. "Willoy," said tho cholorel; "if you will tell mo who uttered that word in your presence' and under 'what'* eircunmstances it was ttered-if you tell no something 'iat occurre1 imniediately before or rifter it was nittered--I may be able to alighten you." "Willey then ex-plained how the ,ergeant-inajor had spoken of his aturals. "Oh," said Col. W- , "[ un. lerstand. "Well, you see, Willey, when the'ancient Romails returned rimnphaint fron the wars their brows wero 'crowned with leaves of lanrel, whichi are synonymoous with glory.' W illey slowly erept away apparent. ly understanding the situation less han ever. In dno courro of timo, one dark, -old rainy night whilo Willey was moring vigorously, lid waA LWIikonIedt froimi his sleep and 6:-dered to go olt picket duty with a sepnid of mncii. lit t few minueo he haId hitched up his flothos and, rushing ojut of bis tent, be yelled out frrtically to his men, 'Conmo on, boys, we are going after iome of thenm cussed lorls !"' Punhal Accidrnt, to a Y ountg liri dii ('ouple We learn of a fatal accident that 'moeurred at tine IHawk's Nest, last week, and which resuilted ini the death oif ayoung couple named Auron, who were oni their bridal tour front tile east. They had1( comIo to view tho' beauticA of tihis lovely place, and, on goin too nea theciff te both lost heir foot ing and werne precipitated: below, killing them instantly. On riommilg to tiheir assistance, their b)odies and faces were mangled so Cd:'vfully as to ho tinrecognizable. The lady fell on bot- head muashinig it iit'o atoms, breaking her breast into a jelly. Thhe gentienr's brains were knloaked out an huIis bodly broisen to) pieces. Their friends have b'een telo. granphed for, who a supposed 'to ho at Unfffaio, N. Y.-Citaraeston (WH. I'.) Cuier), . An((rt11da oflan.an A Parist joutrnalisttllofa an recently 'arrid$ed in that city, who is' tho victim, of a iteami boQiler exlosionL to such an <xt-nut as to imakco neces. sary the following addition to whiatu, was left of nature handiwork lafterC the accident : One tvood'en ar m and two wooden legs, a glass eye, a noso' mado froini the i~kin of the fonrehcad, a silver jaw, a palate comiposedl of a bit; of entoutchlouc, arid a stOrn'oneh con aisting of a sort of truss, ieo wilL mnake~tho- tour of Europ3 ats an artiti. cial scuriosity. A Pennsylvania young marl had a lady friend who was thea fortunate' posasessor of a half a dozren goldl fish. ie wecnt fishing oe'day and caught a pond tronit. Hie preserved1 it al -;;e, thinking it would be a 1l10e corn - paniona for a gold fish, and concluded to surprise the~ youtng lady by putting it into tbe' taqualriumi while she was away. 'The surprise was complete;' for the trout swallowed all the gold (ih, and then calmly -tnrned oveir on its dlorsal fin and di.ed of indlgaati6o.