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111E FAIRFIELD HERALD 'ublishei Every Wednesday at WINNS ORO, e0 C., ny t DESPORTE8S WILLgRgg; A TERMS-IN AD VANCB. C Ow, Copy one year, - 1 $ 3 00 1.7o 1 " '' . . . 1200 Ton " " - - 26 60 C lIerrIer's Negro Trnp 'ilated With a WI Ite W o111111. A newspapor, of the straightest Hr gro peh.Itics, denies that Beaoher t ii vised the "baiting of a trap with a white WOomTn," to cutch negro suf. fruge. But if reference be made to 1 g fifiy of the Oflicial Repoort of the Equal Rights Association for 1867, it will be found that he did so dviso. The speech in which it o Vtis wlas nadeo in the Church of the .iritins, May 10th, 1867, and the >',Io paragraph is as follows: "The **y to get a man a position iR to take - 11., in advar;ce of it, and then he il. drop into the one you want hin take. So that if, bo:ng crafty, I - sire to catch mien with guilo, and . a-ire to adopt suffrego for colored en, as good a trap as I know of is claimi it for women also. Dait ur tra) wtvih a while ivmnwin, andl I ir4k you will catch the blark man." A white womuf.in who could receive ),o her fai ily a man who uses such I Itlhy language ought herself to be n iam 8less. Acoording to all accounts, e. Iccolier knows all about the ower of a "trap baited with a wo 1nou ;" but whun lie prostitutes the , 11l pit with the language of the broth. I, he ought to be bani.hed from all - eC pcetable society. Tile wretched * t,'s brain is a sop-pale for all the B ismis that were ever invented by the -tigodly and the profane. "Free -1 *ove" and "froe negroco" aro twiti t; tors in the politics of many men of ais class. A few yoars ago lie did not, blush to narry a woman to her paranour while her husband was liv i.g, and well knowAn to Beecher. i 1is loose principles in morals, poli- I iees and religion have been perfectly c welI known for nearly a quarter of a rntuy-so well known at least, that Oie mitost respectable and prudent CiLrgymen of his own cominuniont to va 1ong since withdrawii their 0011- f lid aiee fl out him. The infamuous VoIen l ho a ae in prison for publish. ilg lian fialmOUt of aliours, have beeni his aissoCiates for years, and his pul pt inl the Church of the Puritans has I has been the fouitaini of must of the l )use not ions with which these '"strauige women" have wnudalized the public. Iliai very popular talents havo been wholly devotedr to loosening the lands of mnorality and religion, and to the opening a Pandora's Box of I o*'ni , which have coipletsly supped the foundations of the Goveruincnut oatabli-h'd by oir fathers. Ii his latest I u'ilishod serm oni, or speech, ho "ha.led tie coming of tihe Chinese,' to h1lp 14ho tle voting aniid share in the governinent of our country. "Ile t dii not fear their religion. If tieir Jdoss, which they worship, is nore powerful than our Jehovah, he ought to reign." And, proeceding in this i veii of tho same infidol Irofanity, he comipured our holy religion to a gane cock, sayinag, lie ''was niot afraiid to pit the Chi itiian religion against any I other relIigiion in the world.'' ThusI has the pulpit, of this ei(xceding mnis ohievous man heent a 'tra p baited,"i not only " with a white w~oman,"' but, with every conceivable glitterinig abiominationi, toi "catc h'' all that per. tioni of the coin innnity which is natu rally inelinoed to looseness (if opil. ions aiid imoriil,. The husband of every vi rtuoui wife, t ho mtothier of every pure and~ spotless daughter, and every pat(riot fat her, should shun thIiis den of atll denioralIizting isnms as hey would a pesti Ilee. The morals, religion and p.,'lities of the "'Church oh lie l'uritan,"' ma~y he properly do. hniedl by the general term of speulu ur loosene6ss. It is a hybird pulpit., or something between a church and a theatre, but Incking the dignity of the former as much as it does the classic t ste ail consistency of the latter. AIluy Book. A TeXnS Riulidny. A eorrespondent of the Atlanta Constitutional ist writing from San Antonio, Texas give.", this account of the place on Snnday: This ik Sunday, and I'll try and tell you uhiat I've seen to-day. In the miorniug I p~assed untold numlo -sa ofl bar rooms, and in all of themi poe 1p10,and the beat citizens, too, playing biihiards or cards, of courso for drinks, and "for the crowd ;" really if you won't duink and play billiards on Sunday you are not respectable. T1here are nwre bar roomns in San Anutonio than any plaee out of Texas to its size in the United States. As I sit iin my roomi now at ten o'clook at night, I hoar the b and playing at the cireus and not very far is a pane. rama on exhibition. To-day I was walking along the streets w hen I was suddenly startled by hearinug a lot of boys shouting and the band _playiing. I looked up, and just then it all camoe in sight. It was Liua: the circus with aill its riders, rerformeors, etc., in regular circus style, were coining down the street wuith the h and playing, the boys shout. ung anud ever so niany Mexieanis and utragglors following thorn. Remiem bar, this was Sunday. Imagine all the bar roofms open on Sunday at homte, billhard playing, drinking, and *last but not by any moans least, a< t-roupe of performers, dressed in their -"ti,,hts" riding down the street, with * * anud playing. TPhe cotton gin of Mir. E. M. Well8s a' (herie.' took fire one day last week, 1 but Iia flatmes were soon ext inguished, aind the damage wn as but sl.t Waler Spouls. They are whirlwinds in the water. 0 the gentlest form at sea they are errifie objects to inarines ou account f the possibility of having a vessel truck by then in their swift and furi. us march over th sea. In character a waterspout is like a hirlwind on land. Two opposing urren's of wind meeting, the water , whirled up into the shape of an in rense tube, elongating as it is rapidly riven along with more than the speed f a locomotivo over a rail track till lie upper ond spreads out widely in lie clouds, resembling the conical hapo of a tunnel. The apparent olurmn of water is really a thin sbeet vith nothing in the contre but air, ul. houglh of :na y feet in diameter. uch rapid gyration on its axis while unnring at the rate of many miles a ninute finally twists it in two about lie middle, when down falls a vast ody of water that would crush a eventy four instantly, were it to triko the deck. For mnny leagues ii all direeionis the eonnotioni equals lie boiling of a pot, the waves dash. rig and foaming with irresistable en rgy. Thui the thirsty clouds are nickly supplied by the amount of ater vaporized by atmo'pheric heat bove, to wafted about by fitful winds ) fall in gentlo thowers or deluging uns in the tropics. WIN1NTSBORO. Wednesday Morning, Jan. 7, 1873. T. ROSS ROBERTSON, Editor. G6i-y Correspondenco solicited from every cation or the country. Our coluimns are open to all for a free isCussion of any principle, Ileory or i-lea, at we are in nii wny responsible for tie views r opinions of correspomnictts What Next ?-A Strango Proceedina-. Wer0 hive been informed that Comp roller General IlogO has addressed a omtnunioation to County Treasurer mith, ordering him to collect a tax f A of a Imill on the dollar, additional o the general assessment, to create a uml for the support of so -called vie ims of Ku Kluxism in this County. Nhile this levy may be according to %w, as enactad by our wooly-headed egi.lators, it is nanifestly unjust, not o say infamous, and should be resist d by all law ful means. We were not. waro that it had been cztablished hat there are any citizens of this ,ountty who cant legally claim le: renefit of this tax. it has been as-. erted that the murderers of Harry shelton and Nancy Coleman were hose who were popularly kiown as Cu Klux, but no proof has ever been, ffered to substantiato ,uch an naser ion,nor have any parti-s even been irrested charged with the killing of hose unfortunate persons. A sscrt ion . one thing, fact is another. To pro. reed to distribute this fund, when rollected, wiithout reliable datae in the >reiies, would amount to, in our tumble opinion, a wvasteful anid use esa expenditure of thre public fundr-, arvolvinig, it would seem to us, an ex raardinary responsibility. This action, onr the part (of thre lomiptroller General, is dleseriing of lie severest conadenaition, andr hould be denounced in the plainest nid most forcible terms. What if lhe General Assembly did pass an act evying this tax ini those Counties vhere the writ of Habeas Corpus was uspended. it certainly did niot eon eomplate its operation where there rere no outrages committed that ould be traced to the Ku Klux. To resort that persons have been murder d or maltreated in this Count3 on eounit of their political opinions, is .o assert that which is not sulstained1 by anty evidence whatever. It is a 'alse and cowardly imiputation upoi lie law abiding chanractor of our peo ple, and we so stigmatize it. if hore he then nto Ku Klux victims, rhereint lies the necessity for the evying and colecting of this odious ax ? it strikes us as wholly unne essary, and sivorinig somewhat of ppression. it is in effeet a puntish neut for a crime that has never been ommritted. T1he great injustice of lie law is patent. it makes parties lying without the confines of the sounty, who own property in it, re pensible for acts in tire commission f which they had no ageincy what ver. We know of persona living in llinois whoe will have this burden im. oesed upon'threm, aimply because they re so unfortunate as to own property ere. Thlere are others, some living ut of the State, and sonic in ether ~ouintics, wiho are ini tire samoe eatego y. Could anything be more outra coous or atrocious 1 Amnd yet Mr. Ioge says we nmust pay this tax. ellow-citisents, will you tamely sub cit to this diabolical seireme of plun or, for is it anything else ? If you di permit us to ad vise you, we say >oldly and emuphantically, don't pay his tax. Make an isauo on it, and arry it before the highest legal tri unaul in the State. To the General Assembly we say, enoal thi ' nonstrou im,,.-:.:on ed tax. To Goveruor Moses we say, in el tbe name of law and justice, use your official influence to have this iniqui. ti tous ipeasure inimediately repealed. If n 11 you decline to interfere, and trouble k ensuoh, then upon your shoulders be the awful responsibility. We do not counsol strifo and bloodshed, but whdn a government fils; to proteot its 1 subjects, then it is high time that I" those subjcts provide mieaus to pro- t tect theumselvos. K -- .- 0 . --. h t' The Past and the Future. i, We have once imire entered upon a p, new year, with the irrevocai tp is st I behind us, and an uurs.'wua fu: ur.e he, ti fore us. 1872 with all is menn'riis, j. sad us well as pO.eanllt, is cun-.igmed to L, a mighty odbvioni, and 1873 d.%us : upon us, full of hope to some, anid full d of distrust to others. W hat it will i bi bring fo tl, it is idle to corjeetuire. J Its days, wetks and mont hs, porteni- p tous of good or evil, are covered, as it S were, with an impenetrablo veil, to be 0 developed only as times nareles on, il and] bringa us faee to face with sCenes A new fand startling,and of a nature of i1 which we now have n) kniowledge. We st stand to-diay as travellers bound for 1h a distant and unknown country, wikh (. no beacon to p iiit out the way save t the light nod experienrce of the pnst, if at best but a feeble guide for :o un- w certain a journey. it The past year has been no less re- p markable for stirring evenit., than its a predecessors. Disasters of every de- tr seriptiojn have been abundant, and t life and property have fallen victimi al to the elements. Eminent imel, hav. Ii ing run their career of usefiltiess and ] glory, have been liid away inl the hso. i som of the ct itIh. The disc.,ver ies of I scicnce have been in keepinrig with ourf high state of civil'zatioi, anid the arts C and literature have received that pa tronage and ittention to which they e' are eiitled. The whole country has a made rapid progrs.i inl everything it that conduces to the prosperity of an li enlightened people, and the beginniiig ' of' the new 3ear flids us fully up to il our national standard. With us it ' res'.s to maintain thfat standiard, and " upon us depends the preservation (if our characteristic ladmimars. h'l e ancient renown of the lepurblic mi ust be f.>stered carefully, and traismitted j to future generations in all its purity. This is a part of our work for the fu- W I ure. The development of our i tural resources is aniother i mportant task ahead of is. Our who!o duIt h1 lies in the future before us. The past is gone, and cannot be re-alled. It is unmanly to indulge in v.in re- b grets over the rmisforties of hy-gone 1 days. They have passed away3', ii 1o ,hould he re memb (l red no Imore. We if have a destiny to work out, and our own actions wi'I have great~ weighat in i mroulding it. An unikinwin fate a' awaits us, arid it is thia art of wisdom to shiape our course to met et it, let it I comie in what form it will. laot usb gird on our airmor, withI hearts full cf t cheer, andl press rorwaird ini the brat tle of life, fightLiig Ilike mnen tol ichieve ar noble enrd. Mray success aittendi al li i the fearful struggle. A Disastrous Periodl. Ii Th~le past five or six daiys have wit- t nessod tihe severest spell of woruthier u that has visitedl this coiuit ry for maniy a long y'ear. Reports from every see tion, North, East, South and WVest, represent themr as the sceneis orf snow- f storms, floods, and in fact every out bursts of the elements of which they are capable of mnanifesting. In the. traek of these have followed terrible disasters, both on landh and sea, involv ing great loss of life, and~ the dlestrue tion of millions of dollars of piropcerty. Now York city and seome of theo A western towns have also been visited by the fire. fiend, and blackened ru ins left as the only relic of muagnilicont and1( costly st rucetures. Thuiis in many 'I communities in our broad Lind has e misfortunro cOmoi to mock the rest iv;.-'i ties of the holhidray season, and damp. I en the youthful ardor of thoese who ti derive from it so much of pleasure o and enajoymnent. 'To daiy hiuni~ldrd of e those whoe looked forward to Clhiist- t mas with every emiotionr of dehlit aird rapture have scarcely where to lay their head, and mnry ailas ! till anir untimely grave. Why these disrasters s'ould have come upon the country t jtust at tho ineeptioni of the holidays is of course beyood thre power of man to explain or comrprehenrd. To us it w seems to have bieen a dlirect visitation ti of Providence, designed as a punish ment for sonmo onie of our rnmerous s national evils. C Our own immediate seet ion, while ti failing to ceape the severe weather has been epared the occurrence of any I disasters or mrishaps, and1( there was nothing to nmar the pleasures of the ill season, save the presene of an aibuin- bc (lance of sleet and snow. For free- in dom from thre rmisfortunres that have cc befallen other loaitis, o... her - - -.. - a 4A *4 iould nwell with gratitude to Him ho governs all things. May we, by to close of any year, provo ourselves ore worthy of bii blesings'aid indue.,s. War Upon :h3 Tun3.1. No mnore villainouis acet of oppres on has: bee i pe- ptr:att.l by the rescot nitioial admini-tration than in ieee t condlunet of United Stites istiict Jiudge uire l, tit Ne 0,. inl, in hel. n Ietit of prece - e th4 a .t ! ated inl the i 1,.p, 0:a 1-f "Thelo T ie I:C4e . 1, 1f 1h t , -1 ,.1 seetu's 11tha t a me wher a iL ton'. I e v el No! i h.,4d a 0,!5',O .!~ Sp nent ugit -n (4 f1 : 11 p Ii: .. I Of the Mt..uve n;fn- i.,:ed j ur il, tis4act-> for whiI he had nuver auided. Suddeny an neu ion is rouglit againist te i pl:r bofore udge Darell, aid by his oi der the oper and its t ffeets sei-zed by the U. Marhal. There i it) donlht. but at the p-lot I, as covceiVed il il ash gtonl, ul~der the stipet vi- ion 'of the dmiistrat-itn. IP is beyo.d a0l nestion tlo that te. object wits to ippress the Taic, as i4 had been )Id irnl fe:irlos in its denunuialiols the initei fercice of the Federal it or)1ities in the rveceit State ection I L-jutisiana. Wlen the prioceediigs ere begun, tn iec the itamount of' the idgient was offered to satisfy the ari s holding it, btit it was refuscd, id the order tf .Ju dg l)urell ob. ined which closed up the Tics es. blishlmenit. Thus was con-ununated 1 i..fiti)mus t.et, aimied dir, ct!y it the bert y of the prI ss, an t.1 fr.edom of eech. It ccrtain!y b1 .' it) parallel i ni-dern times. llow hainiliting a ght fur free v(tizi rs of a'so-calk d ce coiutly to look upol. The lib. ty of' lite pie.s has been ever re i1rded ats ole of the corner portsl of )tstitutional governimit, lit(! ev-:ry tempt to restrainl it inl tie exeleiis.! .1 .S lgitillmate functions has b.c nalwuy >ohed upon as iwarring upon free ii,. itutions. But we are sad!y ren.intded I .t things are nllo it as12 they ucd ti b., hen liberty was a realily and no crely a nal in. Well 1111y We, amid i who love free guvermetu, exel: im , od Save the nati it Fr. Editor: I dislike to be inq iiritive, but fols ill ask ai great no.ny qestitn, a nd 1 am ela.,sed alo..g ha.t m.f.rt u Lie po itn 1Of the e, m. iy, I -I~e it will plevea .1 nt:1ieletolot r my asking th foll ; i iy 1Iin't iIonis, z : IIits anly To wn Ut Conili of WiU nis >ro (either foreignu or dome--i) ever I'll n ( dilanceC fixiteg :the tline ol eniing the maikIlat iumis i? amt ISO why in that 4itIo nmliaue1 not ein reed ? and4( if there lia $io sne or1> h~Ue, Itaen [ wish to knouiw nhoee 1the irn i oin an2.1ti thers 1.0t tto 'op-n th. a ket befi e lium i.-C 7 I di,bka to 3 inq(1uisitivye but fool, wvill a14k que otns. M\lre anlon. (r. EdiThr: HI a ving Icarned that tone of our I el. 1w counttrym)en) bee: nte tileorld :~t C u2se of the terml '-T.\lt Ilh:-2,' sied in thIe head intg of our aIdvye rt, Ce4t and2( inl C~csenee thbr opped his'subses iption41 to yom~t pi [er. nelJi( oed please4 find .uhI'eer ipt ii m '0m2 the ulndersigned for twelvye onthjs, inl place1 of the one di -COn)tin L.ives t here a manil withI sou1l 10 dlead, ho never to htimsell ht h sa id, htis is my owtt mty toiv land "i leLA UGtl IlN & J01hNsTON. December 25t h 187!. hiittiln in ikhl f of Ih'cogil i on of liud etild en ce. A renewal of (lie efforts to procure 10 2 ecognitioni by the linited Sitts K Cuban belligerenicy is to be made, he subject has1 been fr'eelIey conivers 1 upo~n hlere dulrinig the tast few daiys. 12e s43 mpiathtizers with the insurgenats Uuba profess ti) dive much en >uragemttl12 from thie fav lorale at tude of the Republican newspaper f this city, a jou2rnal4 whci is suippos. 1 by some) to haveo 14em1iofficial re ens wit h the ad mnistrat ion. It ems2 to be urderst5~od that 14n at. -m utwlill he maden~ to to get 12ban2 mlatters beforie Congras somle way or oter, but it not learned dtt there is any proba li y of anty chiatnge in the pobition of to United States towardt the m)othecr mlntry and the revolted colony, hecre are a few mnembers of Congress lho wou)ld ha~ve boen wil ling at an0y mec in the last t wo years to havc 'eognized the Cubana as belligerents, at the great weight of opinion has ways5 been that there was no such indition of affairs as would justify .0 government in taking such at step. Andrew Anderson, convieted at the st August term of the United States urt, at Greenville, of violating the ternial revenue laws, and sentenced one thousandl dollars line and six oniths imprisonment, has~ been uin. ndlitionally pardoned by the Presi. AWA A-& AA AM AUA.LA AV a Condened News. Seven ptisimors eFoaped from the Now York S'ctte prison by digging throuph a wall. 'J170.000 1)s by burning of Aine., worth, I 1., fertilir.er works. Evidence in Stodkc case' closed. Government sold one milliun gold it a fraction over l Yf. Glold discovery reported at Sitka. Briti,h and Americanr wAar vets(Is conceentratin~g at Ilonolului. Londn Times thinks Airerie-ns will ultimately peoplu the Saudwich Isbands. '.vo bodies froti i1.(- wrecl;ed siup i r6in wat:i J h r itt( Ape ('Ol. rrrrile stirmii it, ..yhind~ ail lie m wr-day "tl TmFiday night., 0f II ( alo.y dead. Ce ite' oi diret t(:MR Ae wt in va I ndl i ~ ont alddr ~. . 'The ( . t io t-i con--ider:i l.h mattor n r't i. Au;u.t., -'.-bruri y 2. slv ndMe t inl N;ov York. The l. rueley wiiIl c ut-e dragA its dis grom 1 1 hngth abog. Geiirals ShOuleld and Alexander Lnve :PHibd from San Francisco for liurlu lu, it is Oilposed on a miShIn ctui.e t ,i .A. i.he Sandiii ich I :.r id A "t. M. rzin's :choo.er wr tile. ' off tie Nova Se-tian coaAt ; six Ificers ad crew I 3eished. St. Lmlis is alarmied for ti s fi y of her biidge, in the event uf -nu ex pee ed ice-break. Great rise in tIe -\pis-iji ire poited from \lempl.i A block of wawh:-u.sau birued in Alexandria ; los- $100,u*0. Thesultoln ot Zan zizalr proin ises to stoi the slaic trade. A madeus is exci:cd at the present phase of uffairs in Spain. Bark (.huuhu:iI. i.' o ll en.e to New York, mt of :G7 pa-r..y-rs lo43t 22 in pa'igo. h-a::tee maizons releacm, l1 ex. v'pt the A110holy, who'o i rqfa*,I:d to) give ba.il %-.:8 Sem a a oj. lea d.n. er thought ta Lhe over a: 31i e ophw.111 :. p 6% wvil n ot bhilk ierferenea in .Montreal has L.ad a half O~llion Alieour Leglat r wets it.-by, it eleuts lIlairtsuceU. ie;-lil ak sank one -.com boaut ain] injutred tot:itr; at Cincinnat i. lNUnii. el Citbin)et charage IIoullnd ed. The Its pr'llratioNs fOr aI T:.dliaI: war I de t br of Pill lehin, I , i wit h K!,. , :iaa cotiomittec dentry Kellog' s 'a i lt Ill. .A oe all 1 li.-hth g in Cubia. The ruireic C.,uii t of Louui ,i:i: I o . r I i rect ec. i i..i in the W ia th~i romfr tin t he. 1 :;thi. It ik tho ht Iht it wiii be uderse to ltanger from the ioe gorge in the -iss:i il ari ii.ni ihig. iAt 11n ulph ilat boat '.-ith m n p1r:01.S i.-he'i. Athaine, CejLaer (f tihe jort (of ('ire fort Ktrni.tises. A\ corresaponid rnt of tie Pria ctical Farn~i:1'.-.- . : 1 ha'.e knrown~u mar~n. lnen 2tlil v mriien tooi, whoIii, fromll vai - i*ns ears, had beccomre 5. inuchb raf. feitd withI neixvou:sers thaat wh'len tin-y ctretcherd out the.*i~ rhands they -ihook like; ai5pen leaei*s i on' widy das;andi by a daily' muoderate use of thre iiaao:cied foot)~ s:alks of the crerly lcener: is asaha:;l, t hey beicamett asirilng --nd Liady in iitlibs as ot her1 ie.,le. I hare l.niiown at hers .ui very vii .'u ths.t the leist :,mr.oy.1:cl' jut n in irst consiarnt ~ p plexity aind friar, and who n.'.rie e:ffe:t~rually cred: bay ai daily minra'-ea~ use of' lan 'chred celery as a i-a.d at me lI t imet s. I have knrown othrers enred by using celery for plpili:ationl of thre heart.'' Thie numleronis friends of this cis ting'nisheda can(tatrice will be pilemied to know. thait shc isa adding to hecr alI readily famou~ps reptttion as~ at singer in a Eropej. he r follow ing ext ract, fr-om th-i Swiss TIimei . of Dercem'nber', publi.hedl at. Nice, is gratifyitig testi. mon11y tot her1 poweris as a singe plr D onmriz at r's ope rai, Linidi Lama mtermlioor, was p rodlucred la:~st niighrt for tice debut of )ilaame Jrignoli, who ts resting a few ndars ini Nice, andt~ wsrendelredl wit h a purit y of voice atnd fault lessnesus of Lxecut ion beyontd all praise. The htouts was erowded int every part by the elite of Nice, and the Grand Ducahiess Conat antino of Ilussia attended in Semi-stuate, in whrose honor thre iluscniani Natitonial ly mn was play. ed aifter the first act. 'ir inter in Virgin. The snow mtorm prevaiiled thrrough out V irginia oat Chirist ma~s clay and Thurrsdiay. The snow ranged in depth in d ifferenrt loCa lit ies from five to ten incites, anid nearly all railway travel was retarrded. In the vicinity of Starn tn tihe lairmiters are gaithle ring ice six antd seven inches In thickness, andI the snow wats ten inrohes deep. The Chiristma. holidays were cnlivened by fine sleigh ing. Thie snow was eight inclhos dleep at Charrlottesvill. S"An Irishr lass wrote to hrer lover, begging iim to send hter somec monev. Sheo added by way of po:ste; ipt. GI* amt so ashramred of cte reqrest I have maride itn th- ict ter, thact I sent after thre ptias'.er t'> got it back, but the servnnt could noL ovnorta h,:-.' 'Telegral12.1o. Foreign News. Lo NIor, January 4,-Jobn F. IPwr-oi & Co., of this city, dea'lers in Mluiehster goods, have failed.. Their liabilities are reported at $15,00,00,(00o. It is reported other lIilures will Collow. Ti weaither to-day is tempestuons. Some damage has been dune to ship. The Emperor Napoleon is suifl-ring fron stone in the bladdur. The latst. ballotinls tuouniced unuhanlgel co: dit ion, but the phywiciana aa e uappre hiensive of serious resulte. The Isabeila Iairtly, from Now York for1 Aill wrlp, evttntil I den, wis a bandlored -t saia. Mua ofu the c:-ow were saved. Th :hrd if thit morni, says Ih a! .-wu of theI Suwich n tth O I Vitos would be I ralia, ande aj th, man~is of redto: bie u 'iilibrium, in the event of SMoli trai,'for ov ter, itory taking place as tho unr.ex'tion of the Fiji Islands to Austr alia. News hims. N r.w Youic, Janiary 2.-The 81ip B-ii iigioin from Liverpool for Callao was wrecked off tlie C(anar ies. A boat nith eight pcrsons reported lust. Se ven . tabliing case.s were reported in this ciIy last, night. Two or three have p roved f:tal. adeiiine C. Battle, of Alabama, Lionght suit in the United Staitet Cirti: Court of this District against the .\utu.l Life Inzuranoe Company of' this city to ro::over ten thousand dollar:, the anioaint which her hus.. band's life was insured fur. She ;aligd in her pleadings that he paid the pl:enfalurl regulaiurly to Thos. W. .leCoy.v, Ageit, for the Insurance Coin. Illmy inl Mobile. The an'; ver of the company is that McCo)'s power as agent had been revioked about the tilme of the coin nie.iceemaent of the war in 18tl : that the plainiiff was duly notified of the revuation, and that cons.rjuently !Iay paSyeinCIt she might have made acC that time wa. of io binding efEewt ip:i (lie company. Judge ilatchfurd to-day decided that the evidence di-l not snmatin the allega. 6ous of thie coimpany, but also holds that the plaintiff fails Lo show that :h4 paid her premium at the proper date in 1863, or at all in 1864, and the:-fore cannot recover. ATLA T -IA, J.inu.Lry 2.-The up and hown pa:serger trainris collided on the \-tcon and We.stern Railroad, 37 ' ilc's below this city this morning. Sght negroes were kil'edand ten or wtive egree, and three whites were inj tired. Thicecars and the eugia.e Were wIecked. Carlotta Patti and l'mure were oil bo.ird. Their ward. r.. and the piano are a total wreck. ENi he Troupn were hurt. Patti V'as active in alfordirng relief to the wounded. The negroes were emigra tig to Missi-sippi. lavaNA, December .3.-On the night of' 22d instant the insurgents atttcked the town of Magrabona but were repulsed by the troops, not, bow ever, before they had burned eight boua in the town. Ont the night, of the 28th instant, the~ Ge'na d'Armnes repulsed a body o. itisurgeats who were muarchuing to atf taka fortified Spanish camp of ILALurAX, January 4.-The small pox prevails ini the neighborhood. Tfhc brig Napier was atbandoned at sea. 'fhli brig Amelik Ann stunk. ll .'VANA, Jatnuary 4.-The .E-tropa, a e iornal, lias appeared. TIhe Spiihtroops captured Coul. Laadoro Blenetez De Gueruat. N riw OR LtA N~S, January 4.-Fiye stores 'ii Maga~zinc street, known as Aui. -h's ratwi, were burnted. Loss 1.. )lonler, tobaccoe merchant, aged etslot himnel f dlead th is morin ng, in a cit~y railroad car. Th1 i-e. ported Ccuse is pecuniary loss;. Ile leaves a wife and three children. U. Jones, jeweler, 279 Barrone street was chloroformed and robbed of $22,000 in jewelry and money. Thle Conservative Legislature is expccted to reassemble on Monday. Gen. Emery's troops still hold Mo.. rha n ics' Institute. C~I.vELAND, Oiro, January 4. Yebterdaiy afternoon, a train ran offthe track, by a broken rail, near Neweas tie. Two coachcs burned and twenty passengers hurt, two seriously. LITL RocK, AnK., January 4. T wo State Governments are proposed for Arkansas, in order to compel Con. gross to take soiuie action. ST'. Louis, January 4.--F. Kupp, editor of the Bullevue Zeitung, suicided to- day. CINersNA-rr, J,.nuary 4.--The rivers above emptyinng into the Ohio are flooding it. TIhe people bore are moving goods from the low places, in anticipation of a flood. SAN FRnscisco, January 4.--The latest advices from the Medoc war are that thfe Fecderals were waiting trans. portation for their howitzers, Mean. while, Captain Jack's forces were in. creasint g. Ni.:w Yonrc, January 4.--.The weather is clear, anid mild, and obsta. cles to travel are dlisappearing. Seve ral aecidenits have occurred from snow slides from roofs. A boy was killed. Many persons were in the bay all night on boats whieh were lost in the fog. The counsel for the Erie Road ex. press confidence of recovering $3,250,. 000 from Vanderbilt. WaaumNToN,January 4.-A pri. vato telegram from New Orleans says: "All the Custom House employees who are members of the Legislature hlave resiod, been reo-.. r ue h'lle above relhted p ooreditigs are anticipatory of the Prerideut's order soonl to be issu' d, notifying all per son's holding Uited Stat, caon is. sions that the accepetaneo or holding ut oili, e under any State authoriin is ii-egoasitent, with the scopo or their official duty, and an inipiopor inor. forence with State concerns. There is authority for saying the Pre.ident has nof, contraiy to recent publication, ever mentioned Willi:iim M. Evartsas Pish's tsuccessor for See retary of State. MoNTomnsity, A,.A., Jauuerv d. Tie Scha, H(ome an.1 Dal. ton 'L ,d, one of the nuost important links in the great Southern inail and possenger routo, was badly daimagel3 by (lie laIn flo,-.l, bu i w r--p ired ind trai s have tiojni .ha c l . N)v i rx, .ni v t I-n,-..jn. mi &i T.ril's JQvrwye! .'re -a burnemd tod;ay. L , po. m W Aeos Januarw -v !.---Itb .tated tat Geo. F"shcr, halling Ira.Ai A Ugusits, 0,at, is the proliniout apli. cant, for the JApan WissiOn. The President to-day pardone.1 from the Albany penitontiary D-vi: l.umshaw and Galbraith Ilanbright, conv'cted of Ku Klux offonces--tihe former sentenced to eight and the latter to ten years' imprisonmuont. Alarket Reports. New Yoinx, January 4.--.G toon opened quiet and closed quiet-up. Inds 201 ; Orleans 204; sales 831 bales. Ould I Is. CnAnL.:s-ro., January 4.-Cotton quiet--middling 191; receipts 2,714 bales ; sales 600 bales. Lmyytiroo., Jan. 4.--Evening Cotton opened and closed firm-up. lands 101 ; OrianS I Oj ; sales 14,. 000 bales. Important to the aloncy Shafers. The Court of Appeals has decided that the usury laws of the State of New York apply to the transactions of national banks on conitracts mado in thisState, and that a vioiation of such laws subjets the offending bank to the penalty they Impose. The decision hinged upon the case of the First National Batik of Whitehall against James Lamb and others, tho defendants pleading usury to ro:.ist payment of a promissory note. Ttie Judge at Circuit gave a verdict 1'or the plaintiff holding that the State laws against usury did not apply to national banks. This decision the Court of Appeals sets aside, declaring the defetc, of usury available. and orders a new trial. Judge ltapiall pronounced the decision, Chief Jus tice Church and Judges Allen, Peck. ham, Folger and Grover concur. iig. Judge Andrews was absent. To he Judged by Their Works. There are laws pending or proposed in Congres : To absorb the telegraph lines as a governuient institution. To concentrate control of the rail roads in a government bureau. To regulate elections by a swoeping Federal law. * To run the common school system by a Nitional Education bureau. To condemn private property any. where in the States for the use of the goranment, by anr arbitrary statute. Theb monstrous propositions--whenee are they ? Let it be remembered, when the people come to make up their verdicts, that they all originate with the party in power, and that no other party in the history of th3 country ever sought or dared to broach such dlangerous invasions of private right and public liberty. Ihook to Your Bluckwheat Flour. A family in this city enjoyed the luxury of hot buckwheat cakes a few mornings since, but after partaking of them quite fully, wvere all seized with an uniaccountarble sickniess, the symp tomis, bin rg so en tirecly simtiir in each case thtat it was i mmedtiately siur. inised that the buckwheat flourt was ini s'omie way the cause of it. An inves tigation was made, wheni it was found that the eastor had been gathered with the wheat and ground up with it at the will, imparting a reddish cast to the flour and operating rather dis agreeably upon those who indulged in it. So look out for the castor bean. --ichmnomi ( Va.,) Sltt Journal. A Uhastly Record. Fifty-seven oases of .*homicide, or wore than one a week, 140 of suicide, 209 of sunstroke, 735 accidental deaths, and 206 bodies found floating in the rivers and harbor. The number of hoiclides exceeds that of the pre . ceding year by 15, and the list of i cides is also large, including 32 mere names than were on the record of 1871. The deaths from accidental causes have fallen off largely from the preceding year, but there has been no Westfiel d explosion or July riot. The bodies of 122 infants were found in the streets and rivers. Such is the ghastly record of New York city for 1872, as made up by the Tribune. The New Orleans Times Resumnes Publl callon. A compromise has been effected in the ease of McKee vs. Weed, by which Weed and others relinquished the entire establishment of the Now Or leans Trime to the heir of WV. C. King its former proprietor. Its publica tion was to be resumed on the 1st in stant, with M. F. Bigny as editor, and Henry Green, business manager, as heretofore. Josh Billings says :"I will state for the information of those who haven't had the chance tow lay .in in sect wizdumn az freely as I havo, that one single hornet, who feels well, will break up whole --p -:eio.