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Desportes & Williams, Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquiry, Industry and Literature Terms--$300 mer Annum, In Advano VOL.i VII] WINNSBORO. S. C., WEI)NESI)AY MORNING, MAECH 26, 1873. [NO. TIIE .FAIRFIELD HERALD US P'nbliHED WiKLY BY 7"roi. -T I r int.% . is pub i iled week in tle Town (f Winr Uuroa0o, at 9t;OO in b .riablv it advance. 11"'' All transictt adverlisementl 'o be (id in advance. Obit uary Notices a4iA Tributib Si Ub i bgjkare. The 11lillcilillin. The iiost Signifcant featurd df Lhe inautguration fetivities was the grand ball, attenled by the 'resident, his CabN.Ut ired the Foreign ministers, and by etizenls "without diktinction of ree, color; or previoUs Condition." 'Soeiil equality," the Presideit had in ust said publicly fCom 1 the Capi toul "i1B tit d sulj Et to Lo legi-ilated iipoi, nor shalI 1 ask that anything be done to advance the boeidlatns of tie bolCtred man excepi to give him a fair chance to deselop what there Is good in him ;" tand these words interpre. ted by his action in tho evenit;g oft lie 1auld daty, mark an epoch in the na tioual t'eelinIg towards the colored r.ce:. They conraii I o w.chl w x ex reus.:d I-.st week; that % ia th.! '21 ('oogress the war peri . t ..:, for wh itei anti blacha I alike. It I. tiaken 84 yea.rs to pl:tee tihe hf ai < the Iepublid oti a sobi'tl ultie i v With the Fervile idpodlation bl,1789; but that being effected, to the lasting u hr-,lil, of the Ancrican people, there a remains no excuse for the oll part) r diviions, and little reason for sop josinig that oi general questions of puoblib policy there will b.- any great er unaniinty among the blacls tiin amolig the white. West Poinit ca dets dancing in the sam ae tet with the h wives of colored Congressmen ;.Jame . 311,ooks renoulteirng hi pposition to' the dolored race iii returu tor the ex- f Culpatory vote of hiis colored col- V leagues ; Cuban annexation urged not C by white VIemocratic fillibusters but, 1y colored Republioans in Cqtven. lion ; colored vost yiaa petilloning 8 the M.ssachuse tti - egilituie to ex piinge Mr. Sumnner for iis battlbag resolutions-s.uceh are some of the signs of the times tm which this Con giss of the tranisitidn has delivered Its, giving us for a cne inot the sup. t )r ebiou of the Ku Klux, but the abo. ition of the franking pi ilege; the t civil service rtgnlations, and the C CrAdit MJobilier investigatiun;-N'. Costly Fish. The value put by epicures tpon jarticular varieties of fi.l seem to dle pend in a great degree upon their oStl11ess. Thius, the sriiirgeon is re. garded in Eim Ope as a dish fit only for a king, mterely beenuse the fish i fu and bings a ery 60high price. It 1" not imp hsible tat tle commonl lerring is about to rise in further e.,timliation for a simttilar reason. Du. rirrg ie pteert season it. has been un j'recedeltedly s6atee du the toast of Scot aindantid has dortmanddd prices tla;at he 'aII Mall Gazette calls enor. mous. If the scarcity should contin UC, antd the price of hriing steadily fise; a ti me will a.ome when a boiled laorring will e beyond tie means of anry ont but a nmillionaie. X shall be folad of the extravagance of somec dis si pated young duke in breakfasting dlaily upon herring, and shall read of the reckless prodigal who carries salt herring in his pocket. on the Derby Bay, and ostenutatiotaly 1un6lce there ni'ow in the presewee of astonished an'd admiring t#rultitudes. A Specimlca SOuth U'arollna Scalawvag. A mong the incidents of the late in. auguration ball at Washiington Was tire appearance therenvt of seferal no groes, both men and womo'n, who flu't on great airs and elbowed their white allies and friends with the mnost Cheerful insolence. We consider i6 onie of our lost opportunities not to h-ave been there to the fleslh arid feas-1 Led our eyes on the sight of Cuffee''s triu'mph in making the white Rladi Cals swallow the do-se o'f hi's delight ful presenee, Another incident was theattentions lavished upon two mulat to womoen-one, the wife of Elliott, the naero mber of Contaness ft.um Southi At tortney Geinat at at ha k M, p * - tive, and once con -idetred qi'Ja de cent man. Melten faomnaded~ tha 3'OOmf for an hour with the. e twe n iien en his arm, and aftervam'ds did the agreeable for the rest of the even ing to a group of the same 4b016.... iS&vannah Advertiser. Governor Kellogg, of' Louiei'ana, (or rather the Govertnor in possession of the seals and keys of office, with Unole Sam's bayonets to back him) has issued a proclaitation to the tar' payers, warning them to "walk mpt' the Captain's office and settle," of' take the consequences. Perhaps- the citizens may resolve to pay theit taxes to avoidl further diffieulty,-but accompany the same with a protest against the Kellogg usu rpatien, which may be of service as a basis of aotiouW wvhen a turn in the political wheel throws the now oppressed class ifp permnost.-N. Y. lierald. Odd Fallows-.Rachelors A Feni'ill Visitor, The Paris Star relates the follow. ing so -y : A M'me Bonneau, living in the Rue Deocarte.s, wassitting in her par lor a few da3s since, awaiting her husbands return to dinner, when a man ol' wild ridd haggird eppearance entetd; tid, seating hinmself oppio.-ite to tier, add'reeled her in the follow. ing terms :"I an a great doctor. I can eltectually cure all headaches. I have heard that vott suffer from that eatlse, alid ainh come to cure you." Tlh6 Ifidy, perceiving that she had to deal witl a maiailan; piudently seem ed to fall into Ids humor, and asked what was his method of treatmncut. "Simple enough, utd:ne,' said he; drawing a razor froilt his locket ; "I out of the head, and then, after having w'ell oleaned It..,I t clace it upon the shoulders." Upon this hb prepared to suit the action to his xords. M'me Bonneau, with great ,oolness, professed her readiness to :ho oplration, but suggested that she ihould fetch a towel from the next 'oui to prevent her dress being stalu- i id. IIer vi-tmr assented to the rea- I inabienosa of this -vg-on .td she .r ln tte 1~ hat1 :n i - t .i198 nd had bec i'i-. s'ght for d.L ing a whole month. low it 'irent P1nTm I nta ' n1d ets the A New Yorker is very much ainny. 1 d becauit-e his two boyt, have ead o iany Indian stories that they ave goild wild with anxiety to play ndian, to go outon the prairie hunting or the real noble red men. The ma ras taking a nap after dinner in his e asy bha in; whebm he wad awakened by a u alarming iolze and a strange senl atioi in his head. 1Ie jumilped up i uddenly, and found that op1e of his Ioys, dressed in a rod table El oth, ' nd his face decorated with blue paint a vas trying to scalp his father with a a arvimng knife, while the other boy, - Attired in a bWanket dhail and a roos er fether; floaiishdti : hatchet and i m'.itted war whoops froi behfind a hicktt composed 6f two chairs and a aid table. Th6 miiau decided to put s stop to this kind of thing So next lay; 01il6 the boys *ere playing with )ows anl arfown ih the garden, lie lIressed himsilf in an Indian costume ud juinmp&.d over the fence with a vild, unearthly yell; for tihe purpose if frightening those children. The >lded bay; however, stood his ground .mmd drawing an arrow to the head, in vhieh was inserted a ten-penny nail, e burried it in the chieftians' leg be. >re he. tVo to night. That night the atlher walked up stairs on a crutch, nd flogged the family all around be ore he sent them to bed. H1e is hiiking now of some other way to ffeot a cure Uf the danguinary dispo. ition of his oflprif'g:-CnCinaui 2'azile. Be Soiable. Men who isolate themsel e - from so icty and have no near and dear fLmily ies, are'the ir ost urmcomfort able ol b u non beings. Byron says ttL'haj piness wams born a twin,"' but the; 1.rilhse, hough idttj and poetic, does nmot go ~ar enough. We areu gregarious, and ire not intended tod march through Life either in single or (double file. rhe man who cares f6u obody, for whomnobody cares, hai l ittle Lo life for. Y~ou must have a heap of emn bers to hav6 a: glowing fire. Scatter ~hem apart and th'ey become dim and mole; So, to have a brisk; vigorous ife, jou must have a grod~p of livs o keep each warm, to afford mutual inofra gemeni, donfidenco amid sup omt; If yo'u wi'sb to'lfve the live of man and net a fungus, b6 dociable,) >O b'rotumrly,'.bo charitable, be 8ympa h'otfo, and labor earnestly for the rood of your kind. i l'e Co.lumbus Sun mentions, among thers afloat ma that city, oto to the iiovemen~lts willt be~ md it that wa em-ing place. Rolide, T1hmd w'il r-kilide,"' usd' by rai-l ~ood men, hie ani imndeianite meaning o dianiy follis. Tl'h-otAh the liid oss of a near and dear friend, I aim ible to translate th-e word so that any han~ dan tinderstand it at once,- The drm "kolido" i's uhed to explain tho iroumstanco of twd-tralh of Oars try. ng to' Ipad each other 01n a- single braok.- It is said that it riaver has beeni successfully, hende a' "krolido." -Josh Billings~ ILouis Wagner, the mu.rdor' of the L'wo women at the Isle of Shoals, purs la'an MOlin. He claiins to hare drank twd'glaes of lagdr beer, which made him sodrunk that ho lay near apuinp all- the nigrht' of the murder.i Thinning Flwerv. As it is an established fact that a thorough thinning out of fruit On a tree causes that remaining to grow to greater perfeetion, Wo the same pro coss will apply to plants producing flowers. When the rose buds are be ginning to fk im, go over the bushbs and remove fully one-half, leaving only the largest and best ; cut off the bloom as fast as it fades, and you will have larger and finer roses, and the season of bloom be prolonged. BaIlhan?, started early in heat and p)lainted out when the weather gets settled, will begin to bloom in a few weeks. These will bear an unmerei iI amount of pruning of their brauch. 's, and bloom abundantly for it. When the flowers begin to I;ade, they ihould be removed, if it is desired to C ep up a ield. This process of hin ing w:ill apply equally to many >ther pltnts. - fJ'wa llomcstea(d. Pcanuts for Ilogs. I see from your extract from the dobile Register that some one has uformed Lt hat paper 4lhat he always ouud peaiuts the most prolitable rop lie could grow for hogs." The riv lina nuch easier and less ex -. i in his section Or otherwis.e hogs - h more, or he would 1i butsiness raising pea ,ilti a ..,. i t in ths setion eg- us-i~ p'inuts for "t-u'ting hemli.,' ius lie ec. ed it, so far Ls that .uld be ac-compliished by those left n the ground alter digging, and find hetm one of' tihe lesit 1hi:jgS for hogs c liavo ever tried, bt it will noit ay us to raiase them for that purpose. 1J. W. W. Prince Gecorge County, Va. A p 1)1 Orcliarcds. kome peole supposc it is only ne ssarv to pu:cha..u the best grafted pple tree--hiro some Cx pe1iriencId eison to set out trees by t li. j Jh in a endow 11s cheaply as pos ihle', i. all at ri necessary to giuw an orihard, here never was a greater ini.take: n orchard set in this miananet wi1! be failui- at any rate. The land fotr n orchard should be deeply plowed, I good urder, under high ciiitivation lie trees carefully takeni fron the ursery and tra!.tvplanted with the tmost care. A bearing orchard biould occasionally be seeded down ,ith clo,'er, pastured; aid not often towed. Still a cr'' p ot' Clover im1ay onmetiries be cut for hay. It is, how. vCr, much better pastured. lue New York, Nurfoll un id ChaurlihMot Ii Ii lway. We learn from the Norfolk Journal otat a bill authorizing the con.struo ion of this line (f travel passed the ower branch of ite General A-sem. >ly of Virginiat soveral weeks ato, )ut seets to be hanging fire in the senato. Tho Journal says: "The itates of North and South Carolina iave incorporated this company, and lie parties interested have coipleted heir organization, and only await, is we learn, the favorable action 6f out Senato to authorize the construe. ion of about eighteen miles from qorfolk to the North Carolina line. ss sionas this authority is obtained motive werk will be comm ienced at mee, and it is contemplated bf ?ho tiangers of this enterprise to comn >i ete the line in two y'ears. We hio,e he Sentate will not ion ger delay the passage or this imiportant meiasure." Snpporting theo President. The W ashington Chronicle saja it tas for publioat ion the pr'oceedinig, of inmeetintg held at Blat's Station, f'ork Coutsty, South C'arolinti, at vhich resolutions were adopted ex >ressive of' a dletermhinationi to diis ountanance hereafter any movecment o iinterfero with free a'yeacli aitd free ,olitical aedion, and of a detetrmina-. ion to co..operate with thme Adinis ration in good faith in the amainten noe of peace. The meeting olaime~d to' speak for hemt poople' of that lodaliiy, and indi.. atos an honest conviction that the P'resident is aiming to do justice to ill sect ions of the couintry. I G' hreat Batrnumn's Latest. ruuamihas just receir. *;,. t Zoological G arde n in to in ay s <normious rhtinocros. It t. 'iim tan six feet in hecighit, and ioearly twelVe feed long. Its prement weoight, is 5,500 pounds, but in the sourse of a few wecki when it be somes acclimated it will weigh at leamst t'bred tonn. TIhe body is us harge is that of an elephanrt. It. cost $10, 300, mdstly for (i'ansportation. It is kept in ani enclosure at the foot of WVest Thirteenth street. Mr. JBarnunm arill exhibit his wonders for two weekse rromr the 31rst instarnt, itn the Rlink, A lady calls the little menmoranda her butcher sends in with meat, "pencilings by thu weight." The correspondents say that Miss Grant wore "white illusion" at the inauguration ball. A goodl many of her father's ideas in his inaugural message were clothed in something of the same snrt. lcvenite Officers oil t!Ie Wir Pitlth. We learn from a sourco altogether ieliable that on last Tbinirsday night, two revenue olicers, McAlpine of this place. aid 1lhaffer, of Raleigh, ivcnt to the stot e of 11. C. Severs, just out. bide the corporate limits of this city, for the. purpose of seizing some blek-I ade whiskey, which they .iupposeu to he somewhere thereabouts. A num ber of wagons were camped near tie house. These were all entered and searched, but nothing in the wav bt tile con traI tand good.S for which 1t hey were scarching, could be found. 'They then went tothe house of M r. Sex ers, and demanded a dIn iSsion . This was at 11 o'clock, the lights were aIl out and the family asleep. Tho oilive:rs I were pIromptly admitted to the hoi when they demanded that Severs should go over to the store with them. I lie remonstrated, of course; Lit to no eff'ect, and was forced to open his store to his late callers. After' searching through it one of the ili cials at length found an un.tamped brrel behind the door. Severs told them to take the barrel but not to vay ntwhing about it, as he did not wish to he dragged into tihe United Stutfts Court. To this the agreed. One of thie men then came into town and secared a dray witht which he retutned and at two o'Cn1k on Friday norning they started olf Stiturday, however, they returned the barrel, contents and all to .lMr. Svers, afer finding they,) aid s- ized a bairral. not of whiskey-it of app/c em ' r I This is a case otku kilnxmg rf loyal ligi ta-ries," which " deAm inds that toops be at oneb called out.- Char lWin Observer. 0 Tlhe Metical Title ill Eightnl. 1 The physicians of England are I). waus known hy the sitple tie or1 "Mir." ud all efforts to revolat hoiz pub1lic sVntiient so as to auth. IzA the Iatunlliptioi of the title of "!)1 lot" I.%e, to use a medical term, pioved ahoriv. The Royal Coi ege f I' l'hp iio, of London has alloui t lit it .'s Int. recogniZe nor hat,e 10n the ass'ition of the tiie "ue ito, by ls lieLntiaites. It appears, Als , t hat n'hr los a lienim - of lie Iyal College of phy"icians of iin Il rg, or of the King and QIce n' -t Cotllege, Ireland, anly right, as Nsuchl, to Style himls'.1,f l ttor." The 0 liritish Medical Journal, w hieh com. muI ca te. thii, inI.formn-.(io a-b.1 : thIIat an lnuiver.ity degree alone gives this 1 distinl"uiuhed title to graduate in 0 medicin. An Anierican physician C ofgood t.aiding latt ly :.ttempted to psits "Abor" in Londoni, but he IL!t the sern grasp of the law, and now practices as "Mr.'' Blamk. Ei lni 'lii hrcatriliig .exico. Our latest news from tile city of I, Mexico represents the Ellglish Cabi- ) net as threatening our isister liepub- a lie with invision. Spoliations. by Mexican citizens upon British subjects c in Ilondurus are stated as the b:isjs of I a claim iupon the gii'o'v tie at of Presid'ent lJerdo for damages, and neglect to nitke prompt )aym ent and satisfaction therefor ii aiuried to in 1) the note of the British Minister as a liable to provoke the occuipat ion of g Mexican toerritory by hostile 10igl ith e troops. Tlo this most objectioniabl6 t dociumtenit Mexico hi s anisweredit by & civilly atlirmi ing her d ispositijolt t'o a excute fait~hfutlly her treaty sti pula- t tionts antd to prevent a recurrncelC of depredations but lirimily refuis- t ing to eniterta,,in any propositioni fio' submitting o' any pennlty for the acts of law less 1men1 who tnay hiavo t reapaussed beyond tho bounids of thei liepublic.t ('ire of' 31lche.. 'foo much care in the use of mantcht. es cannot be tijken. If they aire thought lessly or heedlessly drtopiped utpon thue floor t hey may hbe te cause of great eantities. A few diys aigo Whiile a young lady of this city was dressinig for a party, she suddenily dis covered thait her under-sk irts were on fire, and the fliames rapidly creeping up hecr silk eventiing dress, tIera mthler, who was so ter rifled thtat she couild' only scamii for help. F'ort u- ( nately her fa:thv'r was at hiome, anid rushling into the r'ooim, i neceded in extiniguishinig the flanies, bu:t tnot un til hisa dang'iter anid hi mmUilf we re severelv hurned. It Thonl always be bornec in mindtat wh.a; a perso clothes take fire, thle sure.,t ii il siafest way to extinguish it is to lay the per. sotn on the floor, and erusih unt the flames-with somd woolent at~e if possible. if one a gartments are on fire, the flames naturally shoot up. ward and become immtiedi'ately dan gerous to life. A horizontal positionI is the safest that can be assumedl. Riding jackets for ladies ate made of white corduroy, bound with wide black volvet. 'They are made double breasted, have side pockets and large pearl buttons in two rods do wn the front. Why does a chicken three weeks, three days and thtree hours old walk across the road ?-To get to the othe Midc. SItile News. 'i'he leiand for 6oinmiiircial fei-tili ers inl the counties above Colum' is unitp:ecedented. At Alston abol fcnr hundred touti ht'b bhen delive ed for use in that iinediatc neig borhood, and it Union about live hui dried tons. The Lancaster Ledger 9'canin speak too "highly of the course" he Conservative members of th Legishature, and highly comrotenld Xhieh "imuch has been effected for t1i c1nn1on welfare" and the ' "a"iuion f party materially abated."' The Colombia Union looks.for resperotts business ediii in SoittI aroliia. The inerichants show sign f evident thrift, and farming is "a ,rofitable as in any State in th Union, if riot more so." All thing onisidered; tlie p.ospeet. 1 att uni nlly bright one. Tie Edgefield Advertisei- iilll ente: io io argument to uphold the trii or the Spadan iirg and Aiken Rail oad, but simply says that "if thi cople vote this tax, and it is dulj assed, duly collected and paid l) he railroad will certainly be built.' 'Tho Chester .Rtqpof-tr gly,es itl enest opiniiioni of President Grant' iulngural address, which "will take 1ak below anything that ever came rom tie. pCn of tin Aniierictla Presi, ent . As a composition it is be. Ceth the Capacity of the average -hool boy. Its irufferable egotism lid inrexcisable wint of Ih(dder.lj a s Chi. f charalcteristes, and are thor" ugh ly in keeping with till our pro nceCived est imates of G rant's cha-ac er and capaieiy.'' Mr. Benjauin Chairs, who pda ed -om the Liiatic Asylum, at Colum in, last Wednesday, night, wav ar .sted orn Friday at tlie Planters Iotel 11gIt.i, in pu rsuance of a telegraphic ,,inest from Dr. Eisor, and was ta. vn bwik to the institutian on Satur y a y Dr. ii. N, Slorn, the assis it s;upmo iretendenrt. .r. Chairs is wel dciucated mail, of about fifty ears (of age, wh. was.ti; seit to the -nth ("Ii ~nr Luirnati Asylun in Y71 by ortt -: of uo of the circuit Ir its of Florida as a lunatio. IeI esi ts that, lie is iot insare, but t! e fli,eis of tlie i esititution kunow that The cotton Liluyer:1 aL Iewbcrry ave held IL ieeting for thi purpose i resiisting any combination of money d men in New York, whose object to depress the price of cotton, esOlutiin were ddop'ted hotti n orth tile fact that m11uciA cotoi, liad een bought, by the citizens of the tate for future ddliveiy, an aumotirti i exeess of the rernainder of the rop now unisold, aid tha't the buyers ave it inl their power to advance the ice witin tie next hixty dlys: alno ppefliig to tle hnlyers throughout lie State to organize and act in rijuetion with this ptovbin'; and elp defeat the New Y2ork Enmflirin di'. Tho moven.Mts o'n the .official hef onird in thii staie are just riow of )>1e1 interest to thie parties "in the amne." Thlio oLers have thus far arried off tire horrors .aod prtoft', )r~ ti a ebured a first claris misisiSr~', awrWY is settled into Lire TIerasrury, rid B orman is P'o.tmraster at Charles an. As to the further progress of hris game, the Chaizrlees on News gives be follow in gj prblities; Therecare ailso~ lo)u riurmors of oth r impord~M~ docapitationse soon te alle pl ace amnong tho .#'deral ofiiials u this city. It, is asserted positively liat C'olletor George WV. Clarko is atedl, and thtat Uehndral llenry G. Vorthingtoni, who was h~onest Johtn tttcrsoni's right bower in Ihis memo able campaign art Columbia last ~inter, is to have this snug berth adi a csuar'd of ,Jis icel. An imnpenrding hrange in th'e ulfiee of sub-trearsurer is Iso rmored, anid Represientartive ames F. Greene is espoken of as the omning mian for thtis position. TIhe amte of Mr. F. Jlacobpe, of Cotlumb hia, a al-fo be'en mornioned iW 'nai cen (etion. TIhie present liniited ds'tia Jistrict A ttorney for this Staitg,' Jf. orhin, will also, it is report'ed; bd rotaited"' out oh his very comrfortable 19eto mep.ko *aiy for el-At torney ). Ii. Chanm hc rlal'n, tflah th je aano :r.ore comp)Jetet p'orson coult o found in the rank. of the Repub' i'z lawyerrs of ths~ ita'td; Virginia liolities are nlro'ady be~ osoing very lively in anticipation o b econ.i'rig St iec eledt'ions; Coldne I. W. 1. iighte is the most promiiieni end idato for GOveinor spoken of on the lepublican side. Including the mran opular gentleman who are mouitionsi or the CJonservative normination Liobert E. Leo, Jr. "M~y bruddere," said a waggia nolored mnan to a crowd, "irn all affl ie ion, In all ob your t'roubilea, dar meo place you can always fi'nd sifnpo "WVhar ? whar ?" shtout'ed several "In (de dictionary," he replied, roll ing his eyes sky ward. Who got the Birst corne? In orn Joter. .Think little bf yourself, and you Z. will not Le injured when others think iai little of you. it blaine has ninoteen large t mlr~erieor r. which annually turn out about 20,00W I- tons of leather. le who reigns withii himself, an1d 1 les his passiduis, desires and fears, it is moro than a king. The pooret education that teacLeI Done self control is better than the best athat neglects it. A neA' hind of cotton, known as Nankin, having a natural pink tint, has been successfully raised in TexaF. In Cincinnati, rocently, the stoic of t dbaler in human hair was robboil of $2,000 worth of "hairy nothings." Go straigat on, and don't mind one mies, if they get in your way, calm ly walk round themi, regal'dless of their spite. Brooding.oter one's faults, iuisteald of mending the character, otily gives them strength in their baneful inllu.. once on the man. Learn to say "no" with propriety there is no necessity for snapning it out dog-fashioiin, but say it firmly and ruspectful ly. Believe 'nothing against another but upon authority ; nor repeat what may hurt another unless it may be a greater hurt to conceal it, A number ot "imd spouth" recent I ly appeared near Virginia City, Ne. vada. They were columns of sanl ton feet in diamoter and a thousand feel high. Repose is beautiful when it is tle self comiiand and telf-posession, the Peralstent dignity, or the uncalttulat. ing iovo of creature ; hut mere beauti ful yet, when the rest is ono of hu. manity instead of pride, and trust no moro In the rediolution wohave taken, but in the hand we hold. A Hartford man thinks he has in vented a new proess of plating iron I or :any composition metal, either with gold,silver or nickel, Like plat iig be ing so driven into the service tiat it becomes a part of the metal itself. Experiments have been mado on boil of iron at Colt's armorY, it la haid, with 1uccess. The glass eye faelory in I.i tu:ns out fouir hum d ed i : One of the leading dealers in I hi. :r ticle carries on business in a sa),i in great. magnificence ; hisi; servant has( I b)ut one eye., and the effeet of an eye wanted by a customer is conveniently tiied in the valet,'s hetd. The charge is about $10 per eye. Men with glass eyes have had an uncomfortable time recently in Mlas sachusetis. The description of at mmo ton thief, having a glass eyC, was . ad. vertised, nnd resulted in) the ir-rest of half a dozen innocent men in various parts of the State, wlho3 appearaine in that partibular' ngrend with the da scription of the thief. 'i'he locusts which eat lip every groen 1 fig are in turn eaten in largo quan- I tities by the people of Hlibay, in 0-6 North of Africa. They are i boiled and dried upon roofs of houses. t A favorite preparation is to roast a thbom: The~y a're also eniteni alie b withouit besitatimn by the cohinnon L. people, when in haste for refCreshment. - Ch ristianiity, if it means anything, means sixteeni ounces to the poumnd, three feet 10 t~he jard, a just weight and j'ust umeaduro. It, Ineame: honest v in all dlealIings, purity ini all eon ver-. sat ion, a charity as broad us thre rae, unflinching integrity, syrrniathby, Iu nmanity to man. Withr thesei there' can,bc no comnpromise. TI'imo wvears slippers oif Ilist, and his trend is noiiseleSs. Thle days comre softly dIawninrg, one after anrothier; them ceeep in at (ho nindow ; their fre:lu t'orniing air is grrte Cril to~ the lipst toa pa~rt to it ; their noisie is, until, before we know it a whole lifo' of daj s hais possefiion of the eitadel, aini time has talken us for' its own. T Ihe next cornfidlence man w ho at tempts a diai'mond. sppeniltion in ('ali fornia is li'kaiy to fare bad'y. The V irginiai City fAnteorpise, noticing a rumor that diamods hiad been fomind at tho m outh of' SiiIce. cannon, makes the following emi hat ie de. eision :JThie report ma y be trime, buiit the rman who at remt e to sell a tshare of the stock in tl'ris mnarkat will h6 shot." tmmigrat ion to South ('arol ina. Tihe New York Express says.m "We understand that there is a piroject on foot among some of our imost eminent escpitalists to establish a schemao of immigration to the State of South Carolina, the main purpose of which is to inerease the cotton produotion of the State. There are -1 nounworthy a persons admitted into the ranks of . this large army, but it will 1 nclude . only well-to-do workmen anid their - aile. The first step, anid an irm portant one, is taken when public at .tontion is directed to thcis St ate as a - desirable home. "A eofin,'' said an Irishman, "is 1 tlie house that'than lhey in when he Southern News. 801me of the papers are advocating the sale of' the Georgia State Road. John Goldt t ein , the propriotor of ti e 'l anters' H1ot el, Augusta, Ga.i ii dead. A poplexy. The Atlanta Sun denies that Afr. Slepheis ham dissevered his connec tionl .thi that journal.* There is a lively discussioI goin oil am111on1g tihe Florida papers4 Dill people about dismeibe riag the State. Mr. A. -J. Miller, of tllacshcar; imd his leg hadly crushed by a oar. on the Atlntie and (ulf railroad oi Il u rsdta y Y laut. Cl. (iibbs, of F lorida, who recent.' lv ionehl0L t tie liaiiriig e, Cuthbert and Co mtiibu' liairoal, failed to paf !or it, and the road will conseqIpent 13' 1-e sold beforo the couit ri: lt lou.e door in lkeatuir county on the first Mon.: dlay in) .\ay. itake City desperadoes amuse them selve by fir-ing into bed ch-nbers. The 4"avannlah*I News of' Saturvday ps : M r. A m0nning, ina:1it ighig editor of' the New York Sun, who ICft iake City, Wha., at 11 I'clock ast Iigh , ini foris us that the situa tion in that place is some. what critical. The State Adjutant enertal, who had mustered ui1 .oirago enlough to appear oi the scenc Of act ion, had hecomo alarm. !d and was shipping his arms back to Pallalasee, thus leaving the town iii iet same lawless condition in rhiefh ie found it. Tho Adjutant t sail the placo was filled with le.peradoes, and he wsi afraid they vould capture the State Cirms. All Ie gang": aro e liblicans-loyal to he mrrow-and a are ollico-hold. Is or ex-0(Ilie -holders. A Good Oinc. A gentleman furnishes us with the ollowing itory which has never beci ulhdad whih in altogether 00 good t be lost. Onr informant 0 neltt , fort lie ut I fu I ness of tho ors Iln one of the counties of qortih Carolina, a few years ago, two iln hadl beii gimilt y of an affray ; ono ras arrest el a it brough t into court; ,lit the ot her, whomll we slhall call Unith, had mado good Iiis esoapo. I ' the witisses was a fellow who . i iordinate desire to nppear iinut, '1t1d hionce indpiged himsself ft "talkiiing dictiomary" very freely. )Je of the ecunsel in Ihe easo asked ho uitiess what khid of a man mitl was. lie didn't know. Vhtat :inid of looking mn was te.? "Woll" !:c wititess aniswer(Ad, "h1e is neither tiieic, n 'I red, nor aikecn, but kind 'f a swurtiy like.'" Coin sel-"1Alay it pleane your I o or, 1 he ju 'ry is no dou bt eIl ghten i. (To witness.) Proceed, sir. Vihat did Sin ith do?" "Doln't know." DI bli d4o an iythilng ?"1 ''Oh, yes, ir." "Woli, what did ho do 7" again' sked the contisel, (a lawyer by the y, di.,tingiished at the bar). Wit-. ess (putt.ittg oni his wisest look) Well, aifiet romancing and pilfer ng in the crowd amisculously, ho itucked his rags, and stacked 'em ; id tfter that,verythting wa hanky teyanit. .Jud go--.\r. Sheriff', tako' im In j Lii for trifling withs the Court. -ChIar. O/l.erver. Biig Ihull of l'olects;. Duritg the lato riso in the Yuba' iver, d. WV. Iir'iggs, while passing ver' a low strip of land on the G'rass ,ros.' rantch, tniar Marysvi lle, Cali. tri met110 withi whait hze called a (O*'-o tI of picents.'" ' They had ovi "otly beteni( driven from their buir owhy water, and whent opproached y the disecoverer they trutteod along efore him like a drove of p'igs Fi I a Ily I they all phlunigad inito one hole. dr'. iOriggs beiitg aware that the min' II d is ottenII hnt ed by Cihinamzen, md that poleats' galls were rated at' 55 och by the Celestial physicians, to iinformeid a couple of Chtinamnon' shmat lot' occurred, and pointed out' Ithe locality' of the hur zrow to thoem. Phto Chiiinamen provided themselves with :itovels aitd commenbeflod to dig' an the lino of the hole. After oec vatinig ai pit about ten feet in depth' und three wide thc'y sitruck up~on the t'st of Lhb polecats. Not withistand ing the almost overpowering odor, ilinirg t ho air, one after anothter they welispatchied until ton large and. ait polcoats lay (dead( at theO feet of Lhto fortunate and v'ictorious ChiVtM 'Cihe Laust of John WIlltc5. Blooth.' Three of the vertebros frem the fleck of John Wilkedt IRoth, dried a nd hung on a strinig; wit'h a jortion of the e-pin1l, elboru in' alcohol, Ero preserved inl the Army Mediea'l M'ful scum, (Wuord's Th'leatre,) Wvashington, libeled, respectively 4,086 and 4,087. It is a little ningular that all that v ow remaindi,above the ground of John Wilkes Booth should find a lasit rest. ing place under the very roof where thle deed was porpotrated--not a hun. drodl yards from the spot where the fatal. shot was tirel I-Wa uhinmgt on IHeavy mtail robberies are reportecj :bet ween St. Louis. and New Yorigr