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Desportes_& Williams, P------- -- - A Ru(Tiy Paper, Devoted to Sciencei Art? Inquiry, Industry and Literatur [Terms-$3.00 uor AnnumIn Adva _ n Vw-I' WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 29, 18T3. [N). TiIi E FAIRFIELD HERALD I.-; '4'-ni1.1KI) wE1.I.Y BtY e S. t II it --o i -;liltWsl pu I cI Wooek ly in) the-- ''olnii fif Wilnishoro,'t !3.00 it varibly in udvanmp. -ary All tranqient. advertisemcits to be paiii i ailvanre. bilitary Notices ind Tril11cs $1 00 per equnre. HOW StnllclWll .Icksmll I| 11 l4eu! i h - Ali lliterPistig 11111 A tllitflhi? Slaiite Ilet from Gnct'iu rull hllinits 11. lAlhin'. 1icmo N ), Y.%., Jal. I, 187 3. Mcssrs. /'litors : I Lope 3 01 will allow 1me through hle Cunsi,1118 of' your popular paper to give to the public some of te circumstiiie)Os 011 neeted with the death-wound (if (Gen. Jackson, particularly as a retif pub. lication lns declared that a nighl at tack was not contemplated it that tile. When General Jackson moved so unexpectedly and so sucesfuIlly upon the eleluy's fu Ank at Chancollorsville, bis front linielwas oomposed of Ithodde division, 1nd1 his second of A. P. Hill's with the exetpt.ion of MuGow ails (South Carolii) b-rigad and mine (which was Composed wholly of Nor-th Caroliniianis.) Our two bri gadte moved b-y (lie flink along the plank rmid immediatIly in reir of (,ir ar illr -- :. ia being in front.. Wieno, alou datik, we reached the reastworks nfrom which) the enmiv had beena driven, we were halte.1, and remained taundi n in the rond for some timo. Gen. A. 1'. 1ill thenl ordered m" to form acros the rold two regiments t the) riglht, two to) the left, and one thrown forward as a strong line of skirmishers--for the purpose of making a night attack; but eoon after the ordrr was given, our artillery opiened and the enemy's replied. I at once ordered my men to lie down, as I was unwilling to at tempt to manoeuvre them in the dark, and in such a woods, under such a deadly fire. Colonel Willi-im 11. Pal. mer, of this city, gallantly crossed the ro-d to know why I did not move my command. I requested him to toll General Hill that if lie wished mte to do so suocessfully lie must order his artillery to cease firing. The or der was given, and as I had antici pated, the enemy also ceased firing. I now formed my brigade as I had been ordered, putting the Seventh and Thirty-seventh on tho right of the road, and the Eighteenth and "Twenty-eighth on the left, the right of the Eighteenth resting on the road, while the Thirty-third, under Coloiel Avcr-, w.as thrown forward as skir .The ""ds in front -:or right wns a piane il; . left of the road t Wher. was growth of (serubby oaks,' throtu.* which at was very dillicult fo.r troops to move. Our skirmish line occupied the eroet of the hill separated, on the right of the rond, from the Chancel lorsville hill by a deep valley. I canu tion all of my field oillcers to wat" closely the front, as we were "le' occupying tho front lIine ar. wVre expecting to make a nia'l attack. After formitng my I ite, I Jo back to ask General liillI if we mtust ad vance or wait further orde-" and on reach ing the plank o)ad I met Genieral Jackson alonl,, I think, anid lhe at once wishe" to know for whom I was lookin L'. I told him, anld to save ftur ther pJlay I asked for orders. In an carvlest tone and with a pushing ges-. tree of his right hand in the diirection of the enemy lhe replied, "Push right ahead, Lane,"' and then rode forwardl. O)n reaching the right of liy com., meand to put it in motion I found that a Lientenant-Colonel Smith, of the One hiundred and Twenty-eighth Pernsylvanlia regiment, had come utp between our line of battle and the skirmish line, with a white hand ker chief tied to a stick, to leartn, na he stated, whether we were friends or foes. TIhis offieer seemed sulrpristed at my letting him retturn after ho had gratitled his euriosity. I was still further delayed by oficers of theo Seventh regi merit reporting tha t du rin~g m1y absence troops of some kindut had bieet hteard talkitig en ottr right. LieuItenan'llt Em)ack, wit h rt men, tIi was at Oilee dellt, ott to recenitoi tre, an'. he so'on ttretured with the On):e II tn d red and T wenty -eighth Pencunsylvaniaa regiment, whicb had thrown down thieir armst~ all (Iulrrenide red 011 he ing told that they were cut off. .Jnst. a.~ Captain Young (our gallant boy-cap taini, about eighteen or nineteen yer old) was ordered with his comni ~y to trke this regiment to the rear the right of the skirmish line tGred, as I afterwards learned fromu CJol. Avery, at a person who rode up from the dii rection of tho enemy andl called for "General Williams." This unknown person escaped, but the firing .at him caused the whole skirmish line to open, and the enemy responded. M~uch heavier infantry firing was heard immediately afterwards in the dire tion of the plank-road, followed by a re-opening of the enemy's artillery. Gen. Pender now rode up, and ad vised me not to advance, as Gen. Jackson bad been wounded, and, he thought, but went to the plank road, where I leariiedI th at ( nr i r h-2 been wounded, I there, imreo ;el, learned from Col. 1). Barry, thi Major of the Eghteetith North Caro liaa regiment, that lie knew nothing of Generals Jackson and 1Hill having gone to tho front ; that ho could not tell friend from foe in buch a woods : that when the .irivish line fired there was hear'd clattering of ap proveling horsemen and the cry of CavarI ', and that le not only heard his men to lire but that he pronounced the sulseient cry of friends'to be a lieanld that l i. . In1en continued to fire upon the app o;aching party. It was generally undelrstood that the Righteenth regimin-t not only wound cd Generals Jacksovn and Ibll but killed s-ome of the couriers and per haps some of their staff oflicers, s some of them were missing. Colonel Barry, who was one of my bravest and most accomplished oflioers, always thought that GCenerals Jackson and 1ill Vere both wounded by bis command. After the wounding of these two generals, General Ileth asumedI com maind of ii's division, counter. mnanded the order for an advance, aid diected mie to form the whole of Iy brig:ado on the right of the plank road. We were the only troops in line of battle on the right. of the road until after we had repulsed a night attack made by the eienmy. in which We clptured a few prisoners and the colors of the Thi rd Maine regiment. McGowan's brigade then prolonged our right, and we reste-d on our arms until the next morning. On the morning ol the 3d wve were ordered to imake a direct attack upon the enemy's work-, which were com posed of log hastily thrown together tle night previous, in our front and on the slope of the hill facing the Chanellorsville hill. We carried the works, but could not hold them on account of the concentrated, murder ous artillery fire from the Chancel lorsville hill, under which the enemy threw forward fresh infantry. The brigade that was to have supported u did not coile to (.Ill assista nce, aiid before Gei Raniseur, then a Briga dier, could got up with Iis Nortli Carolinians we were driven bck uiti, a loss of over nine hundred tnt of .bout t- .nty-seven hundred carried into action. Of the ti :rteen field of ficers of my command th t participa ted in this charge only one was loft for duty. General I Ramseur woul" go forward, though I advised agaiSt it. IIis conal reached the ,ame werks, but. had to retire with . imi.. har terrible loss. Th -:neiv wa:s fiil Ily ''iven from tb b~h Hook, s Late Brigi -' - Death of wo G) ( . ,iii/ s, GEsrge r . die'I at his iomie, on lig Stmvenzs. Ire' k, on I 15th inst.. i the (9th year of his ige. And Pickens 1. Ashell, F~q., 'it hiis home, at BRidge Sprinig, an the 19tbh. Bot~h eit iz us of high ebaracr, and leaviing behind thlemi t roopsu of friends.-AEdgfir 'd .A deer lletilh of a1 Good .llan, We regret to chiroiniele thle death of Mr. E. C. W allace, of the Sugar Creek necighbhorhoodl, in thIiis Conty, an Sunday afternoon last. Mr.. WAa! lace wvas a bout sixty-five years of ago. Air. Wallace was the grandnephew of James K. Polk, at one time P'resident ruf the United States.-C(harlotte O/> ;errcr. Dtetik of Mr. II. I'. Smgilh. It is our melancholy province to tate that Mr. B. V. S~nith, who was hot in the atiray, near Dry Creek, o which we spoke last week, died on l'bursday night lat . Tfhe verdict of the Jury of Iniquest, kindly furnished is by A. Ramsay, .,. ouri Clerk of VCourt, was "that U. F. Smith came to hi's deaithi from the e('eets of a gun shot1 w oum i in thle left breast, sa id woundlii intetd by a pistol ini thei hiandls of Laurens Rutland ."- L'de llenry C'oston, chiarged with mis.8 placingl thle switch oil the Savannah aind Ciharleston Ra ilroad ini July last, and causing tile lo~comfotive to run of', was arrested ini Savannah on the lHih. Dealh of a Britki h.ilser of I'arlia A cable dispatch announces the suiddenm death of Mr. Samuel R. (Grave, a member of the British P'arliamnent for Liverpool. Mr. (ravos was in his lifty fifth year, and was exteinsively engaged in business at Liverpool as a merchant and ship owner. lie was M~ayor of' thart city inl 1861, and in 1808 was elected a mlemb~er of parliament in the Conser vative intei est. The only Republican paper in (eorgin. hrna susnended. Sigular Detection or a Left-handed 3lur dferer. A few dIays ago an old hermit, re siding at Solon, in this county, wa found murdered in bis cabin. Tli deed had evidently been done severa days before. but wias shroude in mystery. Oflieers, however, sen to investigate, concluded from som curious circumustances that the nur derer was a left-handed person, an thi belief led to the arrest of th only lert-handed person in the vicini ty, Albert W. Chamberlain, age 19, member of one of the most widel respected families in the county. Th young man had always borne an cx celleit reputation, and the evidene aga inst him was purely circumstantial but it proved correct, for yesterda; he rade a full confession of his guilt The murderer, according to his con fession, was committed on the nigh of January 8. lie fired .in at th window, and shot the old man dead a he was sitting before his fire. Thi victim fell upon the live emberi which partially consumed his body Chamberliin did riot enter the houts till the following day, when he tool seventy-two dollars in money fron the pocket of the dead man. It is oni of the strangest crimes ever commit ted in this part of the State, and ha caiisedl much excitement.-- Clevelane ('yr. N. Y. Tribune. How an Eccentric Verinontcer was Buried An exceedingly eccentric man hat jnst died at Ilincsburg, Vt., in the persen of Aiugustus (McEwen, aged eight-y-four. lie had his grave duj tienty yors ago and stoned up and with earth that it might be it perfect condition whenever needed Last fill lie had the earth taken ou of it, saying he expected to be laid there before winter was over. His collin was in readiness seven year ago, and so arranged that he could lie on his side with his knees drawn up, as lie said lie slept in this condi tion inl life, and wanted to steep) so in dIeath. A l his plans for the funeral were inade in advance, nd.(l among the rest he selected foner colored boys who had worhed for him more or less, .is had their fatler b'forc them, ig aill -earers. I'hey were to carry the bod1 y to t h. grave. which was on his farm, Io-"r it, to its last resting!place, till t.h grave witi eairth, and tlien w41A back to the house, where they werc to find each a letter sealed and directed to them, in which was the )"ney to pn'y for tlis las' service wiie I lie h13ad regn1ii red of tlei. 11is friends took good care to carry out his pecn!iair Wishes. - Springfield (Maus.) RepuIbtiea, Jan. 13. P ii lriucils. * f lead pen ne thinks. plumba~go, n, Scotland, this country in i.1 :d Poinsylvania. The ie .nat erial eotms in the condition himp i aiil p.)rder, and after it has .een freed fioim extraneous materials !1111t bie grouniid to fine dust. It is iliinmoistened and transferred to a vessef whose only outlet from below is a small hole in a solid hrass die, the nole having the slhpe of the cross sect ion of' the lead to be formed. In to this vessel enters a follower which exerts a tremendous pressure upon the mat erial, the effect is immediate dliately seen in the issuance from the die of' a slenmder thread of plumbhago. The followers enter very slowly, but the threadl comes out with consideran ble celerity. In) this soft and adhie s'ive condit ion the thread is cut up in short strips and baked, after which the leads are ready for use. An Arkansas Mutrder. LJrr-r.i.: R oci, .Jan. 20, 1873.-A negro draynman, Enoch Jackson by anme., was niurdered here yesterday norn ing by his wife and1( anothier woman. The cause of the murder is no. knowvn. They knocked his brains rut, whil'e sleeping, with~ a dray pin, and then tried to get rid of him by biurniniig himi. TPhey laid himi on thle fire, and pl acing a piilow uder his head to reci'-he the blood, waited for the endl. They took him off the fire, no't being successful in getting rid of him. ie then groaned andl seared the womnen, who gave thie alarm, having previously punctured his face with a sharp inst ruiment to represent a bul let hole. A soni of the murdered rni told the true story. .Jacksoin lived four hours after hiavinig boen burned. The P'ostmatster General has deci ded that married women may reqjuire that letters adrecmed to them shall lie delivered to no one else. -This do oision of Croswell's is calculated to gel the Chicago and Northwestern post masters thranhiad, says the O-urior Journal. Governor Moses hias appointad L. P. Rutland, Goo. WV. Nix andl Milli. gan ,Jones, notaries public for Edge. (ield ; TIhos. A. MeMahon, deputy surveyor for Anderson and Pickens Daniel A. Blowyer, notary public, Collotin. E. S. Rainoy resignedl au trial justice of Georgetown, and ras, ianion aecepted. The Civilization We Boat of. The thoughtful observer of the progress of our civilization, sounuing a this beautiful picture, involuntarily a recurs to South Curlirna, where Pat. terson buys a seat in the SQi)at,q pay 1 ing the average African legislator t fifteen dollars a head for votes ; to 3 Alabama, where the Attorney-Goneral of the United States virtually cloets a United States Senator by deciding upon the qualifications and making his choice between two Legislatures; to Louisiana, where aioolored person named Piinebbaok is backed by the Federal Government ii assuming the Governor's oflice withoOt form of law, 3 and declaring himself .aenator by up. pointing a Legislature of his own : to Arkansas, where Federal troops possess the polls; to Kausas, where Caldwell buys a legislature ; to Iowa, where a railroad manaiger pays $10,. 3 000 for a Harlan ; to Nqbraska, where , another takes $5,000jnterest in a . Thayer ; to Pennsylvaniawhero, ao cording to Administration authorities, the Senatorship goes to the man who' pays the most money fur it ; to Con. gress itself where Representatives take stock in enterprises the: know npth. ing about, and where there-isn't virtue enough to tell the truth except upnu compulsion, and then only sparingly-to all these the mind of the thoughtful observer involuntarily recurs at the suggestion of Dr. Ilow flint annexation would bring San Domingo and Iayti usder the in. fluence of our civilization and our in stitutions. Terrorism in Soulth Carolinn. The Now York Commercial Adver. tiser is responsible fur the follow. ug : Some months ago an Episcopalian clergyman who intended to pass the Sabbath ir one of the out.of-the-way districts of South Carolinti, gave notice that lie would hold divine ser vice in a dilapidated ball that had been unused since the breaking out of the civil war. The inhabitants of this unfrequented place were mostly negroes, and at the app( inted hour they filled the hall to -1verflowing. On the entrance of the c:rgyman, clothed in the sacred Testmeints of the church, an old darke, fitting beside the door, espied him, and nista king his calling sung ont "Nu Klx,' when the entire congregation tiumi blod every-which-way out of the win dows aind through the hack door, making for the woods as fast as the-ir legs could carry them. One old dar key woman fell headlong ikto an tin used port hole, with her heels high in the air, but was rescued by a con ple of colored de.teous after a good deal of squalling and pronftation that she reallv thong tw.t themn, "outrageous whitk- ii r wre reai. ly to slaughter her. Orid and a portion of the andience having re turned, the service.; were concluded, the clergyman preaching a very elo quent sermon from the text, "None but the upright shall enter. Registered Letters. There has been a great number of "special dispatches" from Wasiing ton, lately, in regard to the responsi- I' bility of Postmrasters, Postal Clerks, and others handling Registered Let ters. By these dispatches and num n herless newspaper items, the Post master General is made fto say a great many things a'ont what he is going to do, and what he is not going to do, &c, Now we dlo not nnderstand that there has been any change, whatever, I in the policy of the Department in regard to Registered Letters. We do not understand that tile Posstmas. I ter General ever held that Postmas. ters were liable under their boends, for Registers lost or stolen from their 1 offices. hBut he- does hold that a P'oat. master, or a Postal Clek, or a Route Agent, or whoever ho may be, em ployed in the Post Office Departmecnt, handling a Registered Package and fatiling to account for thre same shall I ho lnel d responsible, and make good its valuable contents, or ge6 out of tihe service. While the Department is not responsible for the contents of Registered Letters, yet it proposes, to secure parties mailing auch letters, fromt loss.-P'ostal Record. The new A rcbbishop Baylecy t alks thus manfully :"A real inspection of liquors would iestroy two-thirds of our intemperance. Any real good government should enforce such an inspe'ction, or stop the sale altogether because the object of government is to protect the lives of eitizens, and while it enforces stringent laws against the sale of decayed vegetables it is far more important that it is should hinidor the sale of drinks which poison the blood and madden the brain. Wmi. JTaokson, a colored man, was arrested in Wilmington, on the 15th inst , charged with robbing the Ulnib ted States mail. The Georgia Press Convention was. in session at A tlanta, Ga., on Tuesd ay and Wednesday last. Lcu:ilre of tIhe Irish Potao,| Mit. Entron.-Why is it that a 'far lautger portion' of the [ish pota toe eaten or usei ,ir seed by us is rfsed at the Noith and imported iere, than that whiob we prodnce oursolvVs ? It is true, *trango as it mily 'jIpear, and I think that the rer. son of it is that we do not raise as go,>d potatoes ne our Northern neigh. boss. .Now, if you ask ie why thi. is -the irish potato (6olanum Tubero snm) being o,' Southern origin-I will answer that in my opinion it is becanse we try to ruise 'he potato in our warm clitmate in the same way that the Northern people raive it in their cooler and moister climate. We can raise-just as good early pota toes as at the North, but whon they should be fully matured and be most dry and ncaly, they are inelined to I become sobby and watery, when cul tivated after the Northern fashion. I think I have discovered the secret a of planting Irish potatoes in our lati. tude. I plant always under straw, f using plenty of it, and the deeper I I cover the seed the more abundant the t yield. I plant froin Dee. until March. t I break the potato land as deep as I b 3an, manure it well, not too heavily, v with well-rotted stable manure or a cotton seed, open furrows four or five t inches deep, two feet apart, fill the Furrows nearly full of cotton seed,nd tlen plant the sets on the manure, ' e down, about ten inches or a p foot1 rt. I cut my seed a week or m ben dayh before planting. When the f4 lets are planted the furrows should a be covered with earth, forming a ridge tI >ver the seed, and then I cover the c, whole with straw of any kind-pine traw is as good as any -and as deep- a y as I can afford. The advansage n )f this mode of culture is that the a itraw is "eaton down by the rain, o noisture is kept up near the soil, the fi emporature is even, the potato is a cept cool, and thus acquires that dry, el nealy quality which is so desirable. d qo matter how deeply you may strew b he straw be sure that the tops will ti nake their way through it in search e f light, and the potatoes will form f< nd maturc as high as the. moisture o Another grepit nadvantage or this o node of culture is that there is no w iced for any further labor-no plow ng, hoeing or cultivating All that is to ic done after planting is gathering the rop, after which I have always found n o be more abundant and of better ii uility in this way than in any other. C WVaI.TER IIALFACGH, in F4rin and n Iom1e. ti 0 A writer in a Western magazine j nas taken the trouble to measure a p opy of the Now York Herald and a i opy of Mark Twain's new book. Pho former wag found to contain houit nine hundred and sixty thoul t Ind "ems,'' while the latter, a book o >f live hundred and ninety-one pages, ti nesured only eight hundred and iirty-six thousand "ems," In other b vords, the single copy of the news. O >aper, which sold at four entP, wIS e -quivalent to a book of six hundred W md eighty pages, or eighty more inges were contained in a volume , ,hatsold for $3.50 Here we have llustrated the difference in cost be *wedn the newspaper and the hook, vhioh proves the nesessity for cheaper . >Ooks. TIrue, the newspaper will aever supersed the book, but i, he necessity for a cheap literature 1 s made the more apparent by a lie danger of same sort of rivalry. The F'ayottoville, Arkanas, News a f the 9th instant, induiges in ther ollowing touching complaint. fI If there is any such thing as a Uni. )i ed Statea mail ngent. in this portion a 'f God'.< hot itage, lie would confer a It i avor upon this niieted community el >y paying a visit to t hese parts. k 'here is ten timecs as much cussedness a' mnong the contractors and carritera as w hero l.ha been episoo among mules, it ud a judicious enforcemlent of tho 'ogulations in seh eases made and rovided would doubtless arouse them o a sense ofV their lost condition, s, From am private source the Talla-h isssee SIentinol learns that a uiot " ook place in Pensacola a few days ~ Igo, between the Quebec stevedores mtd colored men of that place, which E -eaulted, in the saeking of the Powell. l~ouse and the ehooting of a man aamed Callananr. The risot grew out af the disposition of the boss steve los to emiploy men from Q~uebec, to 'to the work in the bay ia preferene o the colored men. The srirviving aufl'erers of thev iteameor Julia St. Chair accident ar rived at Columbus, Ga., on Wedine. lay. Four were killed, three so dan iorously scalded that they wil,. die, Lad sir, severely injured. a Mr. F. Cohen, of Sumter, has been ~ victimized by a one.armed cotton ' ipoculator, signing himself Samuel ~ Williams. The cotton was not forth r seiming.. .Jampe 8. Stocker, a eolored taan, was fatally shot in Charleston on Sun asqy, while trying to saperate two c inebrintes A Forgery. Mr. St. Cohen, of Sumter, informs the Wilmington Star that he was nado the victim of a forgery a few ]a) s since, The circumstances as do. "ailod by Mr. C., are a follows s "A nan about twenty years of age, riiooth skin, of rather florid complex 'm stout, and measuring live fect five nevhes in height, dark hair, with his ight artn off below the elbow, brought own simples of two bales of cotton, :ouched for by Mr. Buddin, Rtil Rond Agent at Lynchburg, S. C., vhich I bought, paying him $163.73, ess $1.t which he received in trade, or which he signed his name Smuel iillIams. It turned out, on seeing Jr. Buddin, that no such perst i. wned cotton at his depot, that he ave no such receipts, and that the orson answering to the description iven bears the name of W. C. Carr." he Star adds: "The individual Iltided to is said to belong somewhere ii this State. lie received the money Dr the cotton on Saturday evening at, and on the same night took the rain for this city. In what part of his State he belongs is not known, ut it is hoped our State exchanges 'ill give such publicity to the facts a may eventually lead to his detec ion and arrest. The Sced Question. The Postnaster-General has pro. ared the following regulations, which ill be sent to all postmuasters in a ,w days, relating to the recent mendments to the one hundred and iirty-third section of the new postal >do : Under this law, as amended, pack. ges of seeds, roots, scions, or bulb., At exceeding four pounds in weight, 'e to be mailed at a prepaid postage one cent for each two' ounces or -actions of an ounce ;said packages usit be put up so that the contents in be readily examinod without estroying the wrappers. Sealed %gs, made of material sufficiently ans parent to ahow the contents [early without opening may be used r such matter. This, as well as all her third class matter, must be fully re.Paid h1v postaae stainps affixed, herwiec the same shallInoTbe for arded. 1ilegal Postage. The New York Journal of Com. cree is showing that notwithstand g the recent decision of the Post 'fice Committee [against thao Post. n'ster, ho and his subordinates con. nue to exact double the unpaid rates a all lett.ers paid only in part. The ournal has a suit pending against the ostmlalster to recover postagn thus legally imposed. The editor says; "If overy one to whon such a let ,r is tendered should refuse to pay ie overchange and bring suit at ice for the detention of the letter, >ere would be a nice array of e-isos ann which damages could ultimately a collected. But what an example disregard of law this is, and who in wonder at the progress of crime hen the officers of the Government ty no more respect to legal require, ents." Singular Wealhear Plenmenou. Mt.wAuxv.a, WIs , Jan. 18, 1 873. -A most remarkable weather pho ~anon occurred this muorining be veen Milwaukee ai'd Sparta, Wis, BO miles west. TIhme thermometer the latter place was forty-flvo de. rees belowv zero, while at Milwaukee was eighty degrees above. The ifference was due to two distinct cur. mnts of' air, that at Milwaukee being -om the northoast, briisk, with a vely storm of snow, while at Sparta ad furthier west the wind was from me northweat, with a clear sky, The innge in t he t emperature at M il wau. oc oeeourredl on TIhursaey evening,t Swhich time a dense bank of clouds orked its way across the sky, follow. Eg closely in tho wake of the moon. Prayers or the Prcs, We noticed, a few dlays ago, that >ine of the Clergy of Washington ave been praying for the conduetors r the Peess in. Washington and else. here. The Savannah News, in al iding to the pious efforts of these hilanthropists, says Trhis sort of activo philanthropy certainly very praisoworthy on the art of the brethren of the First Con.. regational Church, but if their pray. rs for the editors and publishers of iecun try are of no more avail than iey have been in the reformation of io Radical officials andl members of eongress, within the sound of their oicee,thoy will not accomplish mnueh At Complimentary. Ata conference held in Atlanta, va., on the night of the 22d, in which very County in the Eighth District ras represented, Hon. A. TI. Stophens ras unanimously nomninatedl for Rep. esentative to Ccngross. They pare ared an Address to the voters and a otter to Mr. Stephens. Hon. Robert 'oomba presided. It is stated that the surviving sol. loe of the Mexican- war are to be ansionned. Boston has the small-pix vt the rate of threco thousaid casits. It is reporte.! thit a b. Cubi expedition with arm. 2od iennni tion for tih pat iot canie h at hindel St. jli i L a.' !". tiled all jiltt'rni t tional 1)idu-trial Ei n -ilionj with capital stook of $1.00i,000. Nomi inaitIion -u ( 1 d ge I Iium -hriis.1, of Alaimana, ('. S Utsttict Jidge, not coifitimed. Senat action adv-r-e t.> bill for reliet of' leten aufle ir. "ho ceton tax bill has been amended so 14 to prv ide f6r tO res. titutieonI to tie liuIty actually payig the tax. Bill repealitig Di nrupt. not passed House. Savannah observed Lee's birtlida y with great celat, Gei. Wade Dlamp'. ton delivering the nrddress. A fire at P.arkei 's Landing, Pa.1, left 100 families houseless r.nd de stroved $%02(, .10 Off property. A wartehouse in New York burned loss $100.uO. Mrs. Mary Van Horn, of New York, left bequests of nearly $500,. 000 to charitable institutions Right IHou.Stephen Lashington i. dead. Howe re-elected Senator from Wis. L'olsin. Niblack, from Florida, will gef. Wllis' sca t in Cong ress. Pinciback's eredentials presented in Senate. Mre. IIarrison Gray Ot.i i.s did. Conl:inl.g will, it is :aid, be elected eflit or froin New Yolrl, (eorioll ruining ahead for tho Jeorgia Senatorship. Capt. Jack and his band fought lesperately. Grand frohot inu ic -gorge at Al )any, Tho flood atepped travel on the E"rie Railroad. House Committee on ciections ro. >orts in favor of Nimlelk. Jemocrat. 4 Indiana, and against Wallr, color d Republican, of Florida, Prince Napoleon is recortirueted, nd don't want the shadow of a ro ency. (Grnt floo nl n thl Su.-quhanna. No session if tie St nate. Mr. .Lamar's cotton claims let ter or. Icred by the House to be prinii ttel. Credit Mobilier testimony ordered o ie printed. A hill for the relief (if sufforers by he 'destruction during the war of ertain Kentucky salt works passed io House. Mr. Blair's bill for the relief of 7ast Tennessee Univer;ity also pa"t (1. Tihe legislative da'fld I-Cl( continuee n Alabama and lJouisiia. i p roret!Ci ( of Or 1 .inissip le. Generial evnold'i report of tli amrvey for the impov.mt of fho :hannel of th1 N isi-ippi, from . Fouis to Cairo, h% bowi b.lia befero he Houise of Reproniatives by 4peaker Blaine. ''he report recom riends the deepening of the, channeli n some pe!ievs, and the mainteiianireo >f the present deep channels by neans of drams tnd d ykes. The foI oving is the estimatc, Approxiiate estiimtn of the work propo;ed toI give increase depth of water p93T;95.no Aapproximnate estimato cosit otf lhe work intend ad to maintain the preP ant olhannel 2,102,1 40.00 Approximtato estim-nlfo cost of work above Kimmswick 200,000.0 Summary 496,l..00 The Tidttedness of Nrw York ('ily. Through the '"ring"' arrangemien t, he city of Now York run uip a debt of ;reat magnitude, the eniti re sumn cachiing over one hund ed. anid twen. .y-fivo millions of dollars. Under he reform regime the last, year thin mnornmous debt of the city governmenet vas reduced nrear nine millions of lolla, and it is to be hoped, with he aid of the independent pres'e, hat this reduction may conrtttnie intil the debt is reduced to a reasoo, ~ble amount. The Ncw Missouri Srnater. The Hion. L. 'V. Bogy, who bten uist been olooted to the United StateC ~enate from Miissonri, start, with a ood platfe rm. In his speech ro urning thai kse for his election, hs >dodges hins self to the suipport of monomical g ovarnment, decentrali.a. ion, amrtosty, and derfenswo of local in - lustrial interests. Mr. Bogy was for aierly mayor of St. L~omiie* and is a tian of considerable dlitinoton as s, Ahorough business monn-. Father ilJRR T~ry ll[. Right Rev. Bi-shop Qiintlsn has r' 3eived a oable telegramo from Milen, rtaly, annonnoing tihe dang~rous ill. ness of Father Ryan. He was so ill that three doctors wera in attendence upon hi-m ; arnd no one whatever- was permitted to see him. The report of Father Riyro's serious illness has been anit horitaik-ely con-~ trenilerr'