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Dosportos & Williams, Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquirv, Industry and Literature, [Terms---$3.00 ner Annum, In Advano VOL. V111.1 WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESD2Y3, 2. [NO THE FAIRFIELD HERALD 1. PUnl1IC'MD WEEKLY lT DESPiORTES & WILLIAMS, Tem'it. -'TIIs IalALa) is published Week ly inl the Town of Winnsboro, at 03.00 in tear-ialy inl adv1aner. I(jy- All t rausient advertisements to be paid inl advance. Obi.tnary Notices and Tributes $1 00 per .' et'Ry [For the Wminnboro News and Werald.] A UIUUMN. List to the mouriful Aultimu winds, How wi'dly sad their plaintive tones. How in the dark and dismal pines, They -nittl like weary, dying moans. iehoul lie blighted Autumn flow'rs, That withered .at, the North wind's '.ritt h, IHow slowly pass the solein hours, aice lhoy have lost. their hues in death. The fore-t trees hereft or leaves, Lihe sieottes griin nnil gamnt appear, While An wtniti moris :ai Akn unn eves, A t- deck hig carlit for her cold bier. low piv I'caI Ot Ithait sali itme, When we shaIl lay us down lo sleep, Wica At iirn's wanaing inoons shall shine, 1'u n t tlitvrlb our slumber deep. Ahirms of the Nitionol Democratic Com Milre to tlie People of the United N 1i11t's. The O.tober elections are over. They en abitle us to form a toleratbly neerate idea of the true political situation of the country. li Georgia we have to recount a victory foar the Liberal ticket so un exampINIled as to take her out of the li:2 df doubtful States, and practical ly to prenounce in advance the decis. in Of at lemtst 125 votes in the Elec tor:l College. To this number it is (oly nciessary to add sixty votes to eleet Orceley and Brown. Iln Pennamsylv;.nia the distinguished C amaut of the Liberal Coamittee u cloq iently charaoterized tle methods by which the result of the IcLiti there was accomplished. e i emniend h i statement to the lhoughtful Attea:tion of the country. in 01 it, detpite most unprecedent ed gains for the Liberal Democratic tichet, the GIramt managers have oat. iud lie electionI by a reduced manjori. t li;.ving brought to the polls their rnirte re-erve vote. Had our Demo eriatic friea:is in certain localities of Ilha if rat a anmaionwealth shown the woea e araestnes and activity, and c alded u liki, our enemies to re. - oit Iur entire strength, they would 110w hc: exuiltin g over a hilliant vie I i InLdiana tha Democratic 1an1d Liber il foices have achieved a ntoirt importaut success over Pernsyl. vania tacties aimst unrupulously ea plAyed by the Administration and its allies, ulhowinag thus that a free peo.. p!e whct aroni-ed know their rights :anld dare maintain them. Indiana lis fairly demtonstrated that she can nelither be bonght nor bullied." The moral of these results is that victory is still in plain view for otar national ticket, and that energy and courage willassure it. That victory must be w on. Ift we mean to preserve free in-. sttittion on this continent we maust asstare it. Thec event in Pennasylvania, on Tuiesdaiy hsnt, whent considered in its caues, is thie tmust. appalinig politi-caal eatattropho thaat has ever taken, piace iar this coutitry. Should tihe system throngh wvhichi this catastrophe was baroughit abont b~e condeamned by the pelei and( foisted oan the ether Aimericat. A sud contraist it is aurely * ta the city in which our republic was bormn amiud the anithttes of a free peole :.hould notw be& the first to toll * tile knell1 of itst liberties. It in for the free, un~boughat people of all the States t o e .1.ly aevieow the fearful crime agajiist :safrage in Penansylvania,.and to dieide whether itnshall be repeated within their own borders. F'or the first time the systemn of faee governmtent and the seanctity of the beal lot are0 really ona trial in the Unted States. From this hour for ward the preservatIon of the fran ethise in its initegrity dwarfs all other Let onei friends ini eacha of the States eatch in.piraition from the heroic con duet of our fellow-~citizens in Georgiia iiand li adina ; anid from now till * Novemiber let their struggle be an ful aand aunceasinag for liberty and an 1unt .iatedi ballot-box, for Reform and aun hmoneast Adaministration of the Gov etrmetnt. A cousIT C SCuitEI., Ch:.irman Nationial Deam. Comn. ITle Charlotte, N. C., D~etaoorrat says: Thle next Legislature should take some action towards compelling Aiher ilfh to collect poll taxes from black iien as well as white men. The sher afla hive grossly negleotoed their duty ina thiis respect. No man black or white should be allowed to vote who has rnot paid a poll tax, That's the ruts in Gecorgia, and why not adopt it iin North CIaroliana. When is money dlamp ? When it is "deow in the mnoraning and mist at nihl. Lo! the Poor Indian. A DRAMATIC INTERVIEW BETWEEN flED SKINS. The St Louis Democrat publishes an interesting account of a grand talk at the Everett House in that city, between delegations of ten tribes f Northern Texas Indians, now on their way to Washington. During the interview, Smtanta and Big Tre-e, who have for a year past been in the penitentiary for nmurder, were sud denly admitted to the i-.on, and in the presence of their relatives and friends. The account says: As the agent ceased speaking, the crowd of whites was op'ined, and Big Tree, followed by Satanta, entered the circle. There was a fine dramatic effect ia the proeedinga, and for a moment everything was as siilent as (loath, as the two chieftains stepped forward with all the grace and conli deuce of woll trained actors. Big Tree was arrayed in a red blanket, striped calico shirt, and moe sinrs. His face was clean and of a bright yellow hue, oval in shape, and rath er prepossessing. His black eyes glistened with pleasure, and a radiaut smile was upon his cout.tenance, which bore the impress of youth and ardor. Satanta, the hero of the hour, was similar, except that his blanket wan blue. le appeared to be a man in the very prime of life, with a well. formed head, a broad but not high forehead, a strong jaw, brilliant black eyes, and a complexion a shade dark er than that of Big Tree. ile had every appearance of a man of great daring and strength of will, and seemed to weigh about one hundred and sixty pounds. As he stepped forward in front of Big Tree all eyes were turned upon him, but the Indians did not open their lips. With THE GRACE OF AN ATHLETE be advanced near the centre of the circle, his; eyes first resting upon the members of his own tribe in front of him, then, turning to the right, and holding the back of his right hand in front of his cheek, he looked long and earnest upon the row of Comanches and Arrapahoes. For the spaceo of a minute he stood utter ing the long drawn exclamation of joy-A-a h ! Then the Kiowas buried their faces in their hands and wept in silence. The big tears streamed through their fingerp, and they found it impossible to master their emotions, but no ex planation of pain or pleasure eseaped from them. Satanta's sister, a young and intelligent louhing married woman, smiled through her tears and zamed, with childish delight, upon her brother. After he had scanned every face and recognized many an old friend of the different tribes, the Chief spoke to them in Camanche, and Mr. Jonesinterpreted his remarks. When Satanta concludeI there followed a scene not easily described. Big Tree clasped Captain Alvord in his arms and squeezed him like a bear. Satanta shook hands with the whites, and then passed around and shook the hand of each of the Indian imen, taking no notice of five or six squamw sitting by the masa~ves .on the South side. When he came to the men of his own tribe he embhreced each of themn kissing themn en the eheek, while the tears streanmed from their ey es. lie shed no tear bimself, however, ait. though his feelings were deeply moved. IHis sister thirew her arms about his nreok and kisseti himn many3 tienes. Whecn he came to Ten Bears he placed his hand fondly on the old man's face and uttered words. that brought the mnottre into thes veter an'a eyes. Big Tree had three brothers present. These and all the men of his tribe be einbraced, and poiunting to the Son of the Sun and two others, said to one of the whites: ''nMV 5Rne)sa! MtV nI nr.:n !"' The pale..faces who witnessed these demounstrations of affection on thre part of the red mnen of the forest were deeply impretssed. Trheir ideas of Itndia-rr stoeisin,,as derived from F en. more CJooper ad romance wr iters, were dissipated, and shey saw that the Indian has a heart as well as his w~hite brothe,. Flies are unconmfortale visitors i~n summer, especially in a srick room. It has been-found that they are harm ful also, and may be agents in spread ing cont agious diseases. A German l'rofessor io Vienna made an ex~peri mrent to test the troth of this theory. Find ing the fiecs very numerous on the faces of his amall-pox patients, he put some glycerine in a saucer to en. tangle the flies. Many of them were caught by the gl-atinous matter,. and soon the glycerine was Elecd with strange eeb a like those on the amalla pos patients.. The inferenco was ine vitable that the fties comnmunjoated the inteetious matter to the glyoerine, and oould carry coatagion to other houses. It will be t. new argument to keep all sick rooms free from, these insects.. Few ladies are so modest as t-obhean willing to sit in, the Iap of ease and The Hurry to get Into Busless. One feature whicb distinguishes the present time, socially considered, is the hurry among the younger portion of the community to enter into busi. ness on their own account. The ain bition is commendable enough when placed under proper restraint until ex erted at the proper time ainl in the proper direction. Such an anhition is the inotive power of well doing in the struggle for position and for pre. fernctt. In no country in the world does the young man enter usually so soon upon the responsibilities of busi nen managementt, chiefly from the fact in no other has he the sane op,. portunities afforded hin of entering and filling situations involving self dependence and requiring the fullest I neasure of self-guidance. The ex pense of the field of commercial enter prise in America is so great and so far spread that many of our bsiness men are called at atn early age to take atn active part in the mutters which in other le.-s favored countries would be entirely in the hands of the tuore experience.1, and of those who had terved a contsiderable initiatory pro. bation to the duties they are cilled upon to fulfil. This arises frot the mnecessi ties of the case, the paths to Com11petency and t o fortune in the Old World being for the most part already p:arcelled out, well trod den, and arranged for slow and steady gradation. There it is generally tho part of the younger nmenters of the comnercial community to wait and to wait. patiently. Here it often hap pens that a place is Vacant which with fair discretion may be filled to advantage by the young. Perhaps the occasion ealls for it, as the best expedient at the time. In the gradual development of the United States this has been so univer.-allv the case that a tone of early enter pri.e chat-acterizes the majority of the class. On the whole the effect has been beneficial in excitirg an ii dependent spirit and in )leading to habits of self-reliance. But sclf-reli ance is subject s-omletines to de generate into pr'eaunption, and an in dependent spirit to be transformed into a spirit of raishaness. Qualities in thenelves admirable are apt to becone perverted through want of balance atnd seif-oontrol. It shonld be rendfmibered that while the good qualities above teferred to are neces sary and called for in every posi tion in life, ther-, are others no less indespensaible in most of the situations which younlag mnc0 are usually called to fill, especially in our large towns. Judgement, pattience, watchfulnes.s, and -obriety of actiotn are more cer tain in the long run than quick wit or uncontrolled energy. Thie diepo sitiu so prevalent to enter quickly into busiiess can only be conbatted by an appeal to the self interest of those di -posed to risk all upon the first aipparcut opportunity. It is worthy of consideration that ill-nd. vised enterprise ending in failure does not leave the individual where it iound him. Lost time is not the only drawback, but is sure to bt accmitpan ied by loss of prestige, credit and im ier cial moral. A EIlnilcsolta Fariner and hi Whbeat Crop. T1he St. Paul Piona~eer repot ts an in terview with a Mr. Dalry mpe an ex.. tnsive wheat gros'er ot Miinnesota,. substanace of whichl we copy, the fol.. lowiag: "2lj4 whaeat ero~p is htarvested, thtrenhed, the wheat tsold,. and thte tamoney the refoar, pheedi to his bank account. 'The foflow ing i tens con.. corning the immenacrse erop may not be dev'oid oil inteet: Thea tavearage yiel'd per acre was 2'. bushtela. His aggre gate erop of' wheat amnounred to 45i,. 000' btilaels,. all of whbicl, as stated above, has been mnarketedI at a prire whicb netted $1 Ofy pe bushel, after paying freight, insuraneo anid commeu-. siont for selling. "Dalrymnple infiorms us that he sowdl half of his land with scoteh fire, anad the othter half witha the Odes sa whecat. Of these two. lkinida of seed, Mr. Dalrymple is decidedly in favior oIf the (.hiesaa, and says lbe shall sow~ no othter kind this season. i.e first o-'tained thte seed from the Nuationial Agrioultural lkpaatment,. and htas given it a thorough trial for abree years al wa s. with the nmoat sat ti-f'aetomy resulta. Hie says it will yiehd frotm Sour to fuve babtelas more per acre- than arty other kinrd, anul will weigh from three to four pennd~al mtoyo per buasheLl.ie has tea-ted it for the paust three yeas upon douikhr ground with several other varieties, anid al ways with thec stime result." -Judge Shtipp, anoys the Raleigh,. N 0., correspondet of! thae Norfolk Journal, wrote the powerful appeal signed "Many D'emocrats5 in behalf of H~on. Je'siah Turner, Jr. We think it ougt to meet with a generous response at thmo hands of a. gratcful Mont Baohsbeen successfully ascended by three English young ladies named Murray, aged reepeo tively twenty-one, seventeen and fourteen. The youngest of the party, a girl of twelve, had to relinieh the attemran. The Destruction of Our Office. At 25 minutes past 12 o'clock on Thursday night, a loud report was heard throughout our city %iolently shaking doors, windows an.1 hous. es, and starting onr citizeni 1 froi their Sleep. Th i o alarim bel: was rung, and the cry of fire was heard in the different streets. It was soon ascertained that the press room of the Sentinel was in ruins. The en tire building was blown up wind a part of tihe roof of the adj ii 'ing build. ing lse(d by the hatius, was torn off; windows were broken out : stands were crushed, cas semplied and mneh101 tlier damage done. Ii the building used for a Job Oflie, a pa per of' pow der containing two or three Iounds, with a burning fuse, was discov.?e'd before any damage was done. More or less damage was dono to othei rooms. The power Pres-, or-e 01 Hoe's steam preses, is alimosit a total wreck. Its costs wa- *3.500. W 0 do not feel to-day lk.- dwelling Upon an outrige that evey we li -meatn ing, considelate mind tiunt despi.t anid condemin. The creaturms thai performed the deed were simply ha,e and devilish. T4is is not the first at tempt that has been Inude to dmiilage the Seit ioel. L ist winter the forms were ktinecked .into pie at, n iglt. On somle thtee monti hs ago some snt dri1e, broke a part of the press with a ham mer, t-necositating ai expend1 iture of sine *400 to repair it, and causing no little trouble otherwise. A nd now malign:anicY and diabiolisimi have sieceded in laylng in ruins a part of lilt ulice ami iniliet ing serions injury upoln i. us. It, .lows that the sp.irit of (Gy Fawks still lives, and that neither property, nor life, nor Iiberty. are sife in a land where hi,;h oficials are corrupt aind villainy gots so ofien un whi pped o'f just ice. The freedom of tle pres has been violently assaileIl. For generations tin unfettered pres:- has been the "Tyrant's fo .i e clh 1iipioln of I lite free." Its fate has been to exeitc the fears of tle oppre-sor :ind] to pr li.k. tih hatred of the hase. Ani ecessful efirt was m;ade Thursday night to throttle the pre-s--to prevent the ex pression of hoiiest views a<( well as the denunciation oi crime. TPh e vil lians thought , whilst te vi-isly injiur ing us peeniiaril./ tiat by deftroying our office they would prevent the pnvih lioation of a paper whosa only crime hasi been that atii dangers and threats it has continued uniemitting in its efforts to expose venal ellicials and public plunderers, and ha;s re mained the steadfiist friend of the people of Nortiu Carolina, sedulously wattubing over and guarding their true Interests. But 'we nre not yet conquered. What ever le.es we may have sus tamed will not prevent the Sentinel fron continuing to be the ally of just government tid tle unfaltering fi iend of the people, and from making its regular vi.sits to the fire-sides and hoies where it Ias s) long beei a welcome visitor. We appear to day in a half sheet necess irily, bit hope boon to circulate in oor ustial form, neither eartailed in dimenaions nor daunted in spirit. The '.lgine hoinse of the Rererre Fire Compan'y, which standls only a few feet from thle pre-s rioom t hat waus bboiwn upi, wals consideraibly damallcgedl. Mach of she glass was biroke-n (out the waills were hrabl'y cracked, atid a doo-r wats ton fromi its hinges.. The engineer was fortunately oiut (Sf ia room, or he- would have beenoserion,.ly inj~ured, s every pane of glass illn lie widlo-w, lieside whliih hi bedl .Stood, was broken out, and so me brieks were throwni in upon the lied.. The Sentinel ofie is nearly in t he centre of Ri leigh, opiposi to lhe mai hotel, the Ybrboroughi lionse, very near tbe cow t hon-se, the court now being iL session. W hiether any d is covet les will lie mavde thait wilI lead to thle arrest of the sciound rels remains to be seen,. We ret urn olur sinere thanks to Messrs. St one & l 'hlI, inroprietors of the News, toi Capt. S. T.'. Williams, thbe po-liticai Iedmi.tor~i, to Mes5rs. mI.. wards & Ilroughtown51, jobI pr'iinterS, anid to othie s, I or the tendler of k inil servies to tms dmi ing onr (distress.. fialaeight .'uinm. hIndiann,lllinois and t.he Northwest. IndlianaV means somlethiung more thant its fifteen el.eetonfi votes. rA i.1 a sign. ?t tella of thie States West of it-of the temper olf the great Northwest. Ohio, which is just Oast of it,. partook th~e feelinig. Thelire t he Liberaile made gra4 n acconione. F'or nhe first time, they earried t ho great city of Cincinnati, anid made vital iniroads upon Cicevelatid anrd the weos tern reserve. By the concessionts of "Urantra own," the New York Times, if the Deinocrats in theo central portion of the State had stood lirm to the cause, the ILiberals would have swept the State. That paper concedes that more Demoerats stood neutral or vo ted against the Liberal ticket than there were Lierl in the Stato. The Cincinna~ti. Inquirer infoirmis us that those and thousands of others, Re publicans, will be found rallying to the Liberal standard in November. The fight is just beginning. says that Lpaper.-RichAned Whuiy. Anurcuy in lrknsiRs. While scenes of lawlessness sueh as have disgraced Osceola can be enacted in 11 Southern comunnity, it is dif cult to denounoe the countennee of military rule in the Southern States. Vihout entering into the nicriti of the dispute between the parties all law-loving men will come to the con CluSion that amid such elementS of violonce and dieorder civil law cannot enfore respect uiless supported by military force. 101 ideas of justice and respcot for law seem to be nado subservient in Arkansas to personal hatc and political pasilon. Tho pie ture of a court of justico into which the jurors and clients come armed to the teeth is certainly a strange and disgraceful one for this nineteenth century. Appeal to forms of law in such a society is simply a farce. A manll muist either be tried by friends or enemies. The one would refuse to convict hini, no matter how clear the proof of his crime ; while in the other case innocenco would afford but a weak protection againvt the preju ,lices of his judges. Under these cir cmistances it is not surprising that the hostile factions"should prefer to 'ettle their disputes with the rifle. How far a civilized nation can permit its citizens to take the law into their Own hands n(] avenge in their own way their real or supposed wrongs is a question of grave importanoe. It must be evident to the thoughtful, however, that people cannot be a! lowed to have private battles and levy war just as their c:iprice dictates. anud therefore such conflicts must in evitab'y lead to the declaration of martial law. We cannot permit the inauguration of a war of races, and black men and white men maut learn to live together without indulging in the exciting amusement of cutting thioats or taking long shUtS at each other. If they will iniist on continu. ing these practices Unclo Sai will be likely to Pend his boys down to share the fun. This contingency (if course will appenr tyrannical, but then our hot headed Southern friends must sacrifice something to appearances, anI mnodern lsociety, being somewhat squennmish, objects to free fights as a too hiahly seasoned pastime.-N. Y. Hieraid. A Grcuda Diticitford, Half a century ago, a jewish mer chant, 1asno Pedro Corne, lived at G renada, Spain, in a house built at the base of a lowty rock. He dovo ted himself to marrying and making money, and succeeded so well in both that lie auassed a large fornne, and took unto himself seven wives, not polyga monsl y out in succession, as One after the other was transferred from his arms to the grave. It was h.s habit to bury his spouses at night and unattended. It was probably this i fact that caused the suspicions that finally drove him fromu the city. lie marred aga in twire, and, finally, hav ing buried his nine wives, lie was buried himself at Vera Cruz, in 185-0. His sons a; e said to be now living in Aieriea. His story had well-nigh been forgotten in Grenada, when, a few weeks sinee, some worfmery, em pl'oy d i_ repairing his old house dis covered a subterraneau passage, 135 feet long by '7.4 feet wide, at the end of whlich. were seven. female skreltons-. Medical expert's say that they must have all beenu placed there during the mrodern lilueb~eard's life. Grenada is properly exzoited. The skeletons hale b'een taken away ;: but, if any. body doubts-the story, he aan go and seo the eave'. The New York Tribune says thait the Lbi'beral watohword al.l over the nion is "WVe can W in !." TIhe Demnocratic state Rxceutive Committee of Vlhio, have issued a atirrin~g appeal. Tihey say : '"Should both Ohuio and ronn sylvanuia go for Grant,. the chianeets are still in favor of Greelcy's election, If Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Indiana are added to those hard'er and Southern States which are certain for Greeley, this will give him a olear .aajority. We have already, by a glorious and tig gressive fight, foreed the Grant party to-its knees, and ean conquer it in N ovember.. Fellow Democrate, wyork till November, heartily and hopeftrily, TIhe Libera's wilil take oar. of them selves." The Liberal itepublican Ex-cutivo Conmmittee of Ohio exhibits the same uspirit.. Illird ny :lstake-. A special dispatch to the Char~es ton News statres that ont Saturday night, in Sumnmerville townsbip, four negro mnen who were in the road, were ifred into by two white men. One of the negroes, named Jotter, was killed, and one, named 8peneer, was wonuded. The negroes were sDue peeted of eotton stealing, but the one believed to be guilty escaped. It is claimed that the killed man and the wounded man knew nothing of the misdeeds of tefr eompanion. The affnir caused great eroitement. A coroner's jury was empannelled, and it isoexpeoted that the perso~ne who fired the shots will be ar-reste'd. Ingenious Devlee to Register Railroad Fares. Mr. Jas. I. Sma'l, of Buffalo, is said to have perfected a machine with which cheating, is impossible. It is only a conductor's punch, but so ingeniously constructed that it is en tirely unnecessary for the conductor to make his report at the end of his trip, the puuoh making the re. port for him. This iugenious lit tle machireo weighs about six ounces, is made of brass, nickle. plated, and is not much larger than the common punch used by condue tors. We can more readily describe it by explaining the manner of its use The conductor is furnished with a trip caid, upon which thero is a double row of numbers, each number representing the amount of one fare If five eents is the fare upon our city railway, the numbers range as follows: 5, 10, 15, 20, and so on. When the c0onductor receives his first fare the punches out 5 ; as lie does so a small gong, loud eiough to be heard in any part of the ear, strikes in the punch tioutncitng to all within hearing that one fare has been collected. At the same moment te hatitds on a dial ar. ranged like the face of a watch are moved forward, and register one fare, while the fragment. of the card with tihe 5 upon it drops in a rceptadlo below, and there remains until the cid of the trip, beil (li te third silent but positive witness to the conduC tor's integrity. Whlen the officers of the road hand the punch over to the conductoor they register tho number indicated by the dial, lock the open ings recnrely, an11d the nmachine isso arranged thut the least, attempt to tamper with the lock caln be instantly detecte.i. This little macliinc is destined to wok a revolution in railroad circles. The client, when ie receives the fare, will fail to puich t ho card . andi4 that failure will be noticed al iee by the passengers, who will nat erlmIly be lis teuing for the sound of the gong. Not only can this puinhi he usedl to advantage upon the strieet ruilw ays, but upmon stevim roads, steamti and other ferryboats, theater;, and in fCt in every ah" if .h!ic amuse tlet,. Swindliig lic Forners. Every spring brings forth a he-jut of advertibemnents to catch the eye of the farmer. They are very skilfully worded and set forth enormous profits Such an advcrti!-mnent or circular I received the other day frrm some Western man (name forgot -n), who claimed to have it very prolific field corn, thren talks would average eleven sound ears. An acre would yield two hundred and f1fty bushels of good corn, he does not, say two hundred and fifty bushels of shelled cmn. Sanford advertised his little dusky white corn in the same way. A number of farmners in this neighborhood purchased it, and it proved to he a miserable failure ; yet Sanford found purchasern at seven dollars per bushel. The Norway oats was another stindle, for which farm ers paid an extravagant price, It was nothing more than the black Poland or Veathecr oats. And now we are to hav'e a Late Kose potato, for which we aire aked to pay a large price,and it may prove to be nothing more than the tGariet t Chili, which iN veory similar to- the Early Rise in shape and color'. F'armers should be careful to purchase only from honrest seedsmuen, and givo muwind'ers anid speenilato-ra a widle berth,--Gekrman fownl Te'legraphs. Sharp Finiicring. A favorite swindle in P'aris at pres ent is thtus dlescribed: An elegantly dressed gentle:nan entors a cigar store, buys several francs' worth of cigars, for which he offors in payment a hundred franc bill, receives bis change and walks off. 1n a quiarter of an hour arrives an other ind'tividuail w&ho hmya some cigars, andl offem a twent'y franc bifl. hut when thle chango was handed him he~ say : "I beg pardon, it wa.s a hundred franc bill I gave you." Tho mrchant (of course kno~ws better, but the niew comer gets very angry, calls in two pol icneen, tells them~ he ennm idlentify the humnd red franc bill (which is of course the samme one his confederate recently left) ; doe-s iden tif~y it by a maurkc oni it, and th-o wretohed merchant submits to the awi~n die rather than be matrchmed off to jnmil as a dishonest pecrson. Cottn Claimn. A large nn-.iber of cotton claims, amiounting to over $1 ,O.000, havejt been received at the Tlreneury Deopart. ment for payment under the aet of May 1872, for cotton seiz-cd after thuo war, June 30O, 1865. Tl'he ti me in which to file claims capires oni the 16th of November next. Nono have been paid, and will not until Decem. beor. J acques Laficeur, a young elhirmay swoop of 128 years, registered the other day in New Orleans. Is he one of the flowere of antignity, spoken of by Lord Ooko ? A Determined Murder. A French jury has found one Co. balion, a hairdresser, guilty, with ox tenuating circumstances, of murdering ia woman named Adele Lelong, with whom he had lived for several yoars. but who was not his wire. In 1867 he tried to kill her with a carving. knife, and still later made an attempt to choke her, of which she ever after bore unwilling testimony in the shapo of a discolored mark about bor nek. But on the 15th of March in fit of passion he accomplished what he had long threatened. Adele had come lato in the evening and was entering the parlor behind the barber's shop which she and Cobalion had hired, when he knocked her down with his ourling irons, and then set-to to saw ier head from her body. The con Dierge, having heard her scream and groau, burst into the room where the murder was being perpetrated. On eeing him Cobalion pushed him into the vestibule, and turned off the gas. l'he girl Lelong, who was not yet lead, rose from the pool of blood in which she wa. lying, and staggered to the shop window. By the light of Lho street lamp Cobalion was seen rushing after her. When he reached [ter shi made a supreme effort to ward off the thrusts of the carving knifo, with which he evidently wanted lo finish her. A ourtain was torn down, a plate glass window broken, ind a pieroing scream uttered. An Ather out had been inflicted on the neck, and before the madman could ie stayed she was dond. At the trial just concluded, Cobalion's toars and .ho advocato's skilful allusion to the Dubourg case saved him from the guillotine, but conderned him to Uayo n no. A Daring Act. One of the most daring acts, says the Columbia Union, we have heard it' for niny a day was performed last 3voning by Mr. DoSautsure Bacot, who is utopping with with his friend MNjor IMlorgan, at the residence of Judlo Melton. The circumstances are as follows : The chimney of J udge Melton's dwelling house caught lire and was burning out when the sparks falling thiek upon the dry roof ignited the shinglos. Just at this tim :ho Judge happened to go out, ,o(d discovering the perflousconditiou if his house, was looking round for a addcr to go up und extinguish the lames, when Mr. Bacot, who in years !one by, wan an officer in the Navy, rtw the situation, and going to the ightning rod, went up like a flash, land over hand. The house is three itories, and as lie neared the roof the slight fastening by which the rod was meld began to give way, A fall 'com that, height seemed inevitable ; but as quick as lightning, he caught old of the roof, and the balustrade hrowing hiinself on the roof, and soon 3xtinguished the fire, lacerating his hands somewhat in doing so, This rlaring act unquestionably saved the hoime of Judge Melton from destruo Lion. Wendeff Phillips Rebukeld hy (he Colorde MCn's 'Convention. The following resolutions, full of good sense and good feeling, were idopted by the I ational Convenation 4f colored men, at Louisville, The rehurke to the Arch Agitator, who ha. soughtm to excite a war of races, is ae dhignined as it is deserved, and should miake himr wince : Whereas, Wendell Phillips who, owing to his personal til-will toward Dorace Greeley, counsels the colored people of the United Stocew to vote against that noble representative of sonstituti-onalt liberty y and, providing [krceley is elected, lie ahdvises us to' arm,- and arm immediately ;. therefore Resolved, That wer the National rAberal Colored Convention, do ded nornce suchm counuel as impoliticr inju. iioious and unpatriotic, calculated, if heeded, to hurl trs to- destruction and. annihilation, and is onily the out-. growth of envy and personal differ. onees and utter di-arogard for 'the rights and welfare of the peace- an( prosporty of this great Reopublic. A PerIlouns Place for linaliends,, 19ew York. seems to be a perirque; place for husbands. A day or two ago: informition reached us thate an infu ri~ated female, who- had quairele4 with'one anothmeyof liter sex, equal.ly infurieated nought her revenge on the: husband of the latter by fatae~y stak,. bing him, and now we learn by I(elp.s graph th at "two husbands in Fifteenth; 4mreet took up a quarrol' beguna by thei-r wives" and one assaulted' the other in auch a ferocious manner that it is supposed the latter wi-il' proeba,> bly have no further use for a *mfe, or anything elas, in this wicked and~ helnigeranthemisphere.. A men* who, is willing to try smatrimony in Gotfians with all consequenoes staring him ini the face, deserves the- highest oone. umnda tion for his courageous deter. mnination to win' conubial joys at any peril and at every saori~oe, An el'egant writer says : 'Fife' fhat is truly polite knows how to ootra. diet witb respeot and please withou ad ulation.?'