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0 1- - - .- . . - - . - .- . . . - - -- t - + Desportes & Williauis, ProbrietorA Family Paper, Devoted tI Science, Inquirv, Industry and Literature [Terms---$300 ncr Annum, In Advano VOL. VII] WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDI ESDAY NORNNG, AIPRIL 9, 1873. [NO. 42 FIRFIELD HERALD DESPORTES-&" Wx W.LJA*16. form. -ris IaaR.A is published Week 'in the Town ofWihiushorc, at S3.00 in a iesfly in adv.ance. * . - kl'ttllaienut adyer tLse-.aenls to be j ald~In advanct2. ,Obituary Notices .t Tributee $1 00 per 801itl Citrollft-.00Crrvlt0DodC409c. B litor of the Weekly --- ,anada .DiAit Sin: In my last letter, I did nint intend surfeit ing 3our -00,000 iraders with pro-a.lavery arguments ; iueh, T have never studied, ithher do 4 believe it to be right, to be just, Aba tann should hold on ner bip of man, -but,'-again, it cannot be riglt, it wzo pot be just, that hundreds of millions of paid-up capital in slavCs, which .were guiranteed .Jy ,tkho Constitution ind .seppiried, by deisictis orl the iaupreme Court, should be rendered tralueless by one swenping ediet. Per. haps your may :iy that this was the result of the rebellion, but if the iaren were property, the 'resident had noithore right to emanuipate tlhent' .than to liberaite from. work the stack of the defeated- k'outherner. You pnd [, ena well ?emenibcr bow often during '61' and 'C2, the wortl4 was as siured, that the war was waged, not to, free the negro, but restore the 'union. It is surprising to me, to see bow some men will ride a hobito death. While the republie' was -in a ferment over the wrongs of the down trodden dunkey, and freely gave up its sens8lif.-they could not buy. sub. etitutes) to bleed, and if necessary, die for 'thei'r ..emnmicipation, it is strange that thinking people did not look nearer honme., andi devise some moans to at least first feed and clothe the-starving, sewing girls and ragged puupersfat their own- doors. : have t tiiven to remove from the minds of your readers sonc of the mi.,repre te .tations of the past, among those, that of cruolty,.as a marked trait of Southern land-owneis, which I in com tnon with all readers of red backeo literature, having -elrvos - .s leading characters firmly believed, but al though doing so, I do not mean to say that whippings were not conmn. Why the very idea of a man's onning tens, nay even hundrcdar of alaves, without occasionally: resorting to the whip as a meanls . of - preserving dis eiplino on his plantation, is prepc. terous in the extreme. I have con. versed with ipany freedman, and have invariably. put the same question, did your-old master ever whip you without having a good reason for so doing I It is no li-ice to the credit, n to the honor of those much abused gentlemen that the answer was always i'n the negative. As far as I have been able to glean from the darkeys themselves, I. am.constrained to say tiat the nbolitiovist, when he enme outh, and proved a renegade to his party, was the. htsh task master, the iphutan driver, thes, relentless whip per, and-petty. tyrant of .the planta. tion over which he he!d de.spotic sway.. . - Why, sir, darkies wili now shudder when relating -ales of cruelty, horrid - coenes which I would blushu to put on paper, perpetrated -by the liberating agrny of Sherman-upon the very peo ple whom they came to fr ee.. .The dark daysof April '65 camte to an end, The South lay bleeding at the feet.- of a -merciless conquneror. 1Her- bravest. sons had falleu in the sttuggle, bleeding at every pore. Crushed and helpless she lay a shat tered-wreck of former days, a more mockery of what she had onIce been Stock, crop, everything gone. 11cer battered sons downhearted, dispirited. Thisawas .her state d uring '65,.. ,Ith*a strange loss that'does not. bringhomeo small ;profit. Now, amidst all her troubles, the ebsarmer llope, whisper ed the consolat,ion,' th at cas she ha d proved to the world the cowardly slanderers to be Liars of the deepest dye, and when the negro. was free she s',least would ebe.lot ilone, and cease to be in tibe futurey slandered, such as she been in the past. She. reckoned without her host. The . darkey was too rich a character to be so earily given up. . The world was not at all sunprised at the discov~ery of ahorrid Ku Klui plot. Innocent darkies shot, somie whipped to death, and some compelled to undergo tor tues to which the Spanish Inquisition of eld. would. be fun ira comparison.. -.The craving appetite of tihe public with whom the past, tales proved so delicious, again read all, digested all,' believed .all. So far as they were ebneerned no amount of insult or inao. lanee should in any manner be cont sidored as a palliative. A., free nig ger whipped for his insolence,' in their eyes was a crime for. which the so. vorest psnishmesnt shouwld be meted out4 Did it matter aught to: them, what .befejl their own race 1 .What did it matter if the poor 8outherner aecused by a perjured darkey, was draggedfrom his family in the dead of the night, hy the blue coated min ions of the Czar Ulvssee-marchied .t~lhrough the streets of 'Columbia, en during the insolent mockery of a race w,h ose. elevation to equality is a dis graoe to humanity. What, nay, even Diversity of Crops. tu Atood many Fariber anid agricul tural writers are carneit In t ec .n mending a diversity .f croIps;' on Ob principle of not.putti'ng'toc medu y egg ithin onokl'tsket. Tbis is all ver; !well wit bi:2' certain limits ; it prob' bly may be bhe'breet in tiU long run ii view of the tietdiof the'soil.for a ro i'atiorr of' orops, although rpecialtig ih' faruing, as in ianufacturins closely adhered to through a lom saries of years, iay be able to shov as good average, profits rt ep'y othe systcm. The great"adkantge' in th< uaro f spcialtiew'conhists in the su perior skill .acryired'it culture an marketing, and 'the reputation inci dent thereto. But it can be reoom mended only. whop, tho s lobutlibn - faturable. aid. whetbte-criltivator i a pushing, energetic man, determinet to do his best in his line, an.d to avaj himself to the utmost of every I'm provement and every experiene< which can increase his cbances foi success. , For the mass of farmers a diversib' of crops is beat because not so ex hausting to the soil-though in thi 6ense diversity means rotation. I1 ib the proper rotation which should be studied, and not a mere diversity because under the latter system there Is sure to be more or less of confliot For instance, a man who thinks h< can 'grow general farm crops and v rotation of fruit crops at the same time-will be apt to "ijhs it" very seriaondly) unless his taot, energey and capital aro in excess of the commoi run of farmers.' Fruit needs more caro thought and study than form crops, and! being more perishable must be atteaded. to and usarkoted at certain seasona).or total loss is the result. It-Inost sections of country strawberries for inetance, ripen about the time that olover.'is. in blossom, and a farmer ,attielptkag to grow both these crops, and-who is at all wanting In:.taot, executive.:force or capital, would suffer loss ou'boao or the other. A different set of hands would be required for each at' th same time, and his own supervis's' would be divided between both. Tb-c "right men" will find no Nerioui trouble about it, but "right men" in farm managemant are far from plenti, ful. Thecommon run of farmers will be sure to burn theirfingers whenever they attempt to comibine fcuit culture on any coudiderable scale (small frui particlarly) with general farming hence a diversity of crops when re commended to farmers should be un derstood to mean such as.follows eneb other iu.,natural ordertas, tol periodf foreinktut'i-ng. In grain we have rye, oheat, oats and corn, and then potst toes ; in fruits, strawberries, rasp. herries, blackberries, peaches and grapes about the same time, tier pears and apples last. Other fruiti may be added in certain siistriots currants, gooseberries, apridbts di nectar4ies, cherries or plums--but t.ee fir3b'thentioned make a good r4 tation, and give a fruit-grower a sufll ciently lively season by attending proparly to each, both before anc after the crop season. It is the ,ame too!W'itl bhe:cereals and root crop in general fhr ingy as with hay an( steock added, any fardrer withs only ot dinary energy' anil capital will fint etvery moment' fully employed--s much soi that 'his periods of rest an' recreation will be few and far be tweeni. -ni . . pace for Fowls, ii Theept-oper apace for ".fodle .ini eon fiudemeht, 'is set down by Mr.'Lewi WI'lght'as half an aorei'to a flock c fifty,'which should be in grass. Thos< desiring to breed poultry.- on a larg scale cati calculate from this basi why so maniy failur.es have attenidet experiments a 'thst direet'ion. Om hundred fowls need an acre range 1,000, ten acres; and no doubt asth flock increases over a hundre~d, at average of msoo -than one anee' pel hundred would be the wafer plan. , Cheap Gas for Fuel,. ., "Thb miraelo of making water burn has just been, achieved in England Mr. Ruok, a spraotical cemni.st, is the inmvento~t. -The water being first re d uced to- steamwA-tho- exhiust steirr from- an betigine' will a'riswe---it l passed throu~gh'au' rod'bot tubre i hbating1 furnaco, where "it ik stIper hearted.'till the oxygieo and hydrogor are ready'togdissolvo 'their' 'alliatced It' then is passed.- into a r otort' fille with incandescen't* coke'an'd iron fran me'nts. Tihe oxygen hi tak'en tip b; the iron, and the hydrogou passing through'the 'retbrt becomes a boating gas, the coat' of *lhich i but scvel pence per l,00-cubic feet, hod' thti quantitly is suflicient to' boil'- 50 gal lens of cold wateri This hdatlng ga may :be barbonized --for illuminattni purposes.--"In thils condlitiedi it'is sali to have adfilluminatiurg power " eque to sixteen candles, and to cotit'les than fifty cents per thousand cubi feat. "~* It is contended that thie inventi'o will do away with thb coal scat now prevalent in England, and grea > ly diminish the current rates of bot Ifuel and lights . for domnestic an mianufactnring purposes. i the same ..ehivalry atood guarding the death budbefian Amesicar citizer watching for thd' patikh reocyvery 01 the r viutiii,?althoughi balt a week be rv.re, tho, aoito of the ,dy.iig n~nn had been carried to the tumbe. -1 All. thi. inattpred nothing, The past Arvice >f the - Sodihes'ucr were 4.,uied a ir blivion. Their suiferings 4ud hero. sin in the revolutionary war, thoii nvaluable services in the cumpaignm )f 1812 and '13, their heroio gallant. ry in Mexico, were all consigded tc I.athe's fabled stream, and the pet of Aho past must be upheld in his inso. enice, 1'nguery and theft, even if the rhole Southern people Le sncrificed is a consequence. D. 0. U. Win ab ro, December 1872. The Battle of the Day. T!he great battle of our day is tu >e the battle of Money. The combi. iation Pf. capitalist8, the consolida. ion of --ai+rowds, the enormouscon. entration of monley ih comparatively ew hands, is raidig up a Plutocracy vhich threatens to overmatch legisla. urescourts, and stlhprivate interests hat may stand in -the way of these Oiibhtio obrporations. v! .1f the very ablest mon <lntCogress re so easily beguiled and perverted y this first onset, what will .the fu *ut-e be, when millions of dollars can o brought to bear upon Congress to ecure millionaires legislation, as gamst the interests f 'the common le9pleo . .. a k ; "h the 'Congross of the United Itates to become an eaohsngo,- on 7hich money princes shall nidet and xbshnge commodities ? -. 1 One mnan in the Senate, bne .man in he IIouse of Re presantatives, of the ight hind, could have stppped the :igante sirindlo qf the Credit Mobil er.! A thorough exposure of the cal nature of this parauitio and ab. ornIal. thijog,j spread boidly before be country, wotild have saved the ountry its present disaster and dis-. ;race. That sud'h a monsrrous fungus could well up and grow, and throw its oots all through Congress without ex iting remarkawithout calling out one aithful man to-warn attd guaM4 the ublio, is a thing that should fill re. lecting men with alarm. Is it right to buy legislation I Are ot .(Oongreqs and State Legislatures n themPrcet3 , Is not: .he .apital, ow combitring in"Ame'rloa, a stand ng threat to our law, our courts, and Mir Legislatures ?--Christian Union, Drying up of the Island of Santa Cruz. The Bulletin of the Torrey Be anical Club contains a' suggestive aragraph in reference to the influ. ne of trees upon rain and atmos leriemoisture, as shown by the ex >oricneof the Island of Santa Cruz n the Wost Indies., This Island is aid to have baenn' gardenI ot fresh. ess, beauty and feilitya twenty 7ears ago; it was covered with woods, rees were ever everywhere. abbn lant,,nnd ua'ine were profuse and fre lient. T'he recent viait of a gentle. nan who bad.known the Ialand in its )almier days, revealed a lamentable >hange, on.e-fourth of the Island hav nug -becotine sin tutter 'Jesert, lThe 'orests and trees had been cut away, ainfalloi had ceased, and the process f desic.cation, beginning at one end ,f the IslargL., Ijad advanced gradually and irresist ibl'y upon the sland; -until 'or sevent miles it bad hbecome' dry mnd barren as the sea shore. Houses nud plantations had been abatidoned, md .:the advaneq of .deaoldtion was vatchued -by thue people, wbolly unable o prevent it, but knowing, abdost to certainty, the time when their own abitationsa, their gardens and fresh iclds would be a part of the -waste, ~ndeed, the whole Island seens doom. d tor becom-o a desert. This sad-re. n'it is bwing entirely, accordirrg tc ho belief of thbe -inhurbitants, to the lestruction of the trees upon the slands somne years ago. & ..l outrin Procession. . Tho Rutherfordto' (N. C.] Vindi tor thus facet iouasly notices the law >rohibiting the sale of intoxicating iquors in that town: ,"The law prohibiting R~ho- sale .of ntozicatingli-quava in R.&therford t on roes into-eefectaon 'the' lst of M~ay. I'he sailoene will then form prodension tnd tako.up lime- of march for the uburbs,' a doublo column of mourn nug, thirsty souls *-ho atake sugar idi he'rn, swellin" t'ao line, 'with musi'd )y the banid, (rye-straw, andI "Paddy, won't you drink some,) to .'tho hi'sto. riek nolghbofhoods of Siumptorto, Neow Hlope, Battery C., 'Frog Lavial lIole in the W eil, >Gallow Ilill, Roguchavezv, an'd Sneeze mburg, all o1 which are to afford the wesry, ethirsty travoller 'quiet; refreshment and Calcb Quotom. ., An Ohio paper advertises for's good practical printer, who could take the charge of a printing office, reat the -proof,:mako selections, scribble paragraph when necessary, reek the cradle, dig potatoes, cut wood, and g< with the gael. to -singing soebool, ant neighboring aniltings. . Recuperatlve Power of he Soutih. I. There iv a wonderful: recuf.ei,ri ve 1 and euergy in ou. IAinrio poimb m tion Nhich his no parlle'l 'it Et1 uo. V pean comnjuunities," an. if the toiltl will be true to her,elf, like '1ra.,-o a abe will emerge from her trouble., With renewdll Vrength. It is tre' ,4 that the south has been *courgel wit hi , fire aid svord, hav hail their Iru tiet.oc still more solely tied by the want of integrity in vilfiials -, I J.. r vorruption inl high ilaces. Jli. aift er I a long and cheerless night of, 1is.uIe, I let'us utite in indulging the Ipe I 1 that a brighter day, bringmg with it I peace, happiness and proK.pei i~y to oUr stricken peple, indawniiig upon our beloved South. To pro'per we n.oit a secure immigration, and build f.: i tories. Let us, if p )sible, s. fram IIN our domeati e' I -gishtion is to idi -.k'e it i6' th'o fhteme8t of"al' tatives to *e y at home ar.d work hdartily for the re. i demiptiort of thre Stuth, andt at the 1 same time to tempt the thrifty and E itid'ustribits from every ctioie to make their honi'e among us. As an'agricul- i tural people we are perhaps ,uperior I to the northern people ; -Jut a'manii t fdctuiti%'we' are tieyo hchool b.oys t( I be taught 'by them. Lot us have i manufactories throughout the South, as we can have them, and frin inoun- c tains to thd senBhord; every State ivill c resound with the mu-ic of machinery, i making her glad when she is sad ;'her I cities will expand ; her towlis will t grow ; her sleepg iViflage wi'll wake up to work ; her forests will be 1ev. e eled ; her idle streams will be 11til- I ized, and her people, all her people; t will be incomputably benofited by t the grand results.-Memphis Ap17c. v Deaths. . On Sunday last, at Lewi' Turn a Out, Mr. I. W, W.Lia. The decea . ed had been gradually rinking for months with hopelers consumption. On Smday, the 30th ultimione, near Cedar Shoals, Mrs. William A. Dren 1.1 ':-On Monday morning last, at the rlsidence of Mr. A. TA. Walker, Mirs. trre T. Walker. The deceased wais tlierdaughter of Willia n Wilkins, of a Marshal County, Alisissippi ; shbe leaves to mourn her loss a youthful husband and several young s childroen, and alsio a large circle of devoted frien d a und rela tives. Th sor'uth tit was ch sa d de ned on Monday last by hearing of the dea th of Mrs. S. P. ll ami I1tn, w hic h occurred the day previous at hert father's home int. -a'van na ht, Georgia. Many timies during' the past-fe.w mio e nt i hav'e' ehronicled thaflight of ghtle a irits from our midst, but never wad deeper pain t than nrw. This lovely and gifted, lady will be sadly missed, not only, inl her dismantled home, but in) thle social cirle where hr fascinating erson tibd peculitr chtirm of mind andiman ter endeared .r to a large nmober of friends, whose heairtsgo out in tander sympathy to the.- ar onesleft. pChester Reporter. I .en ricksdfn ! Riot iln ,New tork. Th Tow Yiork 1Expot(2 i nfrs tae -that uhe ofac foreiandow Tues.y day, in tintc, pona t~ihela la-eI > borersl~ on BoulevaS, i'it is be. Iledt hasfi n breeneirely abanda - ters buo have beenu 'iiel ptpnted untilcsome mthe favtrable opyortu ni~ttd preeny freelf. aThe Bovlevrd meae greatlyh dioostinito tthe AItali torrm wo unurka fort.2 p ery whileteio "gattieek A pI dh'ay. Theeecs of i:abt that buve eforce hO tene ofil thh hliei beree Tuewly, auh teribe hlst ould wae iou rred,' asemeralofnthesBl. 0t anagd abu ithe svene aofd roi's 1er.evetnding tor loo frwok bu Pawho hralty wre ateng or in an attak.uo h tain b. Silk Culture ini South (uroliima, The Savaaiuh A dvertisor b11a had a coiversationi with a genl ile men, a rcsident of Beaufort, ii this State, who expects soon to go North for tho purposo of' mathng arrangements for tho establi-hout of a silk worm nursery at Beaufort. lie appeairs to have given the sublj3ct the closest, at tention. Tie cocoons which ho showed the writer and whiebi were grown near VeaufortI are said to be very beautiful, and v-ere st.tc I '? hii to be as flue as any ever growin itn (lhe United States. 110 oarries - the m o)n with handsome letters of intro ductioln and recommendation to silk manuitit ifacturors at Ihe North, tind cer tainly,U inil colsileration of the facts before us, we conilot but -ay that he liust succeed in making arratigemients satit.fadtory to all. The breediiig of the silk worm was, in Cob nial tilics, quite al exteNsi'e busiucs in South Carolina. Its final abandonment as far us we can learn, was not on ncount of 'the want, of protit','bu. tL great, di!1"eulit y exis ti g at that tile ill tranlisporting from tho old country a suflicient number of skillful maniipulators to tako care of the plant and the feeding of the vorn ii its earlier tages. At the present time, these nre Comparatively easily~fond sit th c'North and from the Wct. Ii Englaid the matter has engaged the particular attention of the Government for the past two years. Nuracries ha:e been estab lished in various parts of the king. dom, and with tho encourageient of the Government. airo imakinig large inmpr0ta11iti ons of, eggs anid c'cionts f;o:;) all parts of the World. In Mexico and,(I in, various parts of tlie Norhlierin States, it is a busiti(s- can ied (in with great proit to the owlners of iurseries. ''hc Ceperiment of raising tile silk worm at Beniifort, says the Adverti.. Per, has been innde with the most satisfactory results. The cocois produced are, as we have stated, very beautiful to our uieducated eve, and the fact that efforts lire being inadle 1) establish a nursery at that pilaice proves that the pillie- nk g ihi experiment ate uiiilu: i C i-1: idcrable aiouit of ' ...i. Shouli 'th do::tor siceel 'i Li.. efTort (aid we sincerelv hout ho will,' it must open in Sotih Carulin;e a field of great profit, for the people, and %%-ll probably do away to a cer tain 'tetit. with the culture of cotton on the sea islands. . " huillt fliclttrilig Movrments. The Epartanbuirg Spartan regret'; the the failure of the hill exeipting manufactories of certain kinds from tazatio.n,to become a law, and (ante liriigly d:-aws a vidv:1 picti're of v.:at "mLI)ightt hi ave been." The oor wioulId find employment, which wouldl keep them from being a load on tle tUx. payer, and the latter class would ex. perience a like' benelit. 'ITe induce iient , also, offered to men o.fviealtih to reside here, with (heir famnilic.s) would add much to the taxable prop erty. It conclusion, it hoIes that the Legisluturo next session will promptly jiais.thn Eixzeiptiou bill. The sitn:it -tr xatchmlian demo' - strates the vital im1ortance r f mann factures to the risinig South. Jeforo ite war, matnnfactuirinig was moinopo Ilized by the Northi, andi thle Southei rni Sttos had niothiing but te cultiva tion of their owrn fleecy stap1le. Thiis state of thi ngs wvas brought ab oc t by slavery chiefly. White labor was no cessary for mn inutfacturtes. TFht spell is now brokent ; slavery is altolished, whit o'labiorrs thiryng the country with now is tho timiie for man zu notoie s toi 14)om1 up on eviry side, aiid by their active, induostrnal inlfluenei cc ond a steaudj i.upport and strer.gth to the grad.ually rising Sout h. -(onden.\cdl News. TPhe Atlantio liad 900 siteeraigo and , fifty ca bin passenigers. Not, a womnan or child was saved. A general strike of houso patinterl for three dollark per daty is apprehenrd. ed cln the vtiiity of Springfield, TIhe D)emocrats elected thle Mayor of Milwaukre ail tho entire Do-o cratie County ticket. Comnmanider Wiltz, has 'been d - tachled from the P'ensaacola navy yard. A boiler ait the steamu sa'. nmill owned by C'ohille & Co , cf Wil ti ngton Exploded on the 2] of April. Two men anid one womran killed andr one mia. an~d one womoap severely wountdedl. All the killed andu woiunded are rnegi aes.' One of the bbilers wats carrie'd ov-' 100) yards to F"ront street,killing a womn' in it; course. Another was hinled nea1 half wvay 'noroas Cape Fear River 'rho cautse o'f the explosion is 1.o definitely kiiowtn, though it is gener ally supposed to hauve been1 eau.-ed b; low yater in the boiler8. A jiilitia eaptain in one of thn northern Staites, during thto late wi, learnint'g 'that a regiment hadt~ beet organizedl foi- some special ser vice, e'x claimed, 'The darn'd fools, they'; bettor stick to the drum and life, tha a to go to the expense of buying os lJ Georgiit News. The 'rynl Benga! tior, whioh lai t0 compiilett ly seattere' the vhts 'f the natives in the neighborhoodl o' A tigusta, and whie was ciptured re. Celitly, has suceeded in maiking it escape, aud it is no0w reported to be in South Carolina. The a':kvannah eustomi house has been roeinstructed, and cleven heads, Imostly black, have been out o1. 'A small hild of Mir. 1'. WV. e' 01n, of the 2;th I)istrit, 1 illy oun.. ty, being l(A t il in rooli but for a short tile, had its clotieg to take fire, a was ao badly burned that it di')d in i, short tilli . Effirts are being inadc to have tho steamers of the Charleston and Flu, i da line touch at Brunsivick. Wheat is Eelling in Ringgold at $' and $2 10 per bushel. Sold by faru ers of (atoosa county. A tlant a stlands xearly 1,100 feet abovo the tide water, onil 900 feet higher than A u gusta, Macon and Columbius, and 300 feet higher thai iile, I.lton, or Chattan ooga. But Marietta is hiiher than Atlanta. (hi last Friday there were severi personus liig in I he State for rat e all eolored we believe. The citizens of Jefferson voted on the pro positionl of th Tiown Council to subsciihe $40,000 by the corpora, tion to the stock of the Guinesvillo aind 1JeT.-rIsoln Iailroad , nlhiob JIopo. sition was indor:ed by a unaniinous V u te. Yro n th 2recr il the Orilinary' ofliee w e lea Iati l.'e iuave been 5,.1 marriages inl Miu-colece aotlnt y silioc No emiber, IA38. The hoohs l before thiat date were necidentally burned. -Silnco 'st January 121 licenses havo Jb,,Cen isued. The "Grrat Solthrrn" RtaJ~. t Louis is :.gitatintg (Ile projector a diret rai bad iline to thei South, wihvi, startitog :,t that city, is to ruit v:saail, atuitil the oicn country h'.,ae of the citiy is gi.ned;i thenceo, liiihg mut .d kiigi from three li i t Ile o, m ! !n t of11 theo. ,i-ree, full. tung iongh Noiii. L->u is and Jeffersonl e les to a1 po1init, where the 1ron Mtountanm railromd leaves the river to' u int ilIte i'llci e ityr' 'f the State theno the 'oil eo'iubt, it i: bolieved, run along the river to St. M;.ry's, by way of the ,nuienta village of St. U ievive - thence.'u fi I' as n may bo on an air linn to t'ape Girardeau city , tlnee thruhli.i' and "uis:ia sippi comities inl a d'reet line to Bel m lonit, :1114 by a't ~ e to a point., opoie I 1,1 im, Irentuacky. Th is is to be the "G reait Soithern Road.," and is to cnuinect with other roads, as well as to forin th shortest routo to,. Atlanta and tho Gunilf eities, and to "1attract nine teniths of thIle pamseiger. travel between the Noithwestern anid tli SouthwCstern St ates." All these antaged ilaly imore we havo no Space for, were given it length' at a recent publio neting in St. Liou is. The Tilxatitill of ,Ierigpgt; Tihie New York TJil'bune I.; vigo roeusly pressing the State liegislature to repecal the taix on Mlorgngesc, as recoin niendied by G overnor Dlix. It. assats thait the taxat ion of morigages d iminishics the amoiunt of money ini vested' in miortga g'e, anid ind irectly pev~ent s the di i [ion of est ates and thle iimiprove menit of smnall holdings. 'he effiet (if' the preent tax ini New. zork( state is to redneec the in ter Ct' onimortga!;ges in No-w York to 4.7'0 per cent ; in lBrooklynr to 3 per' cent . Go vernmendt bonds, wh ich aro not. taxable, are naturally preferredl, ndl l' aii son f'oid an td miiortgago arni no longer procured largely firom estiatea in trust and cap italIists. Iia the country tis state of affairs prne vents sales to smaill1 fairmer's, and int thiecities it Is a barrier in theo way 'of' cutting property into build~ing lota andirctighuy hro for salo cost la cash. Whatever may be di ne in New Yprk, we trust that lie South Care lin~a J.egislature will, at t ho next ses sion, relieve binds and m nortgages fromn taiatiollh anid so put a stop to the unconst itu tion al practice of tax ing tihe sane Ipoerty tw'.ice ; first, as relal estate, and second, as peronalii property. deY are informned thatita violent hail .torm, iieconipaiiied with a great deal of' iightn'ing and I hinder, visited .the u ~pper' por tioni of t is j coun(1t y' 01n Fr.tidayi ni ght last. Ii the nieigtj borho. of' Armenia Cnuu oh, p~s.0 wei aC told the, ground was.entirely cov. eredl w.ith iha tones va' ying in size 'from at partridge egg .to a, bien egg. It is aipprehendedl ,that the fruit trees, wh ic)h arc now in full biloomn, sifl'e.ed considerable damago. -Chesteri R'jport'er. The iYn'dians who mu--d ered a suir -- vyC'ing party southiwest of Arkansas I City,, wer e .the " W birl Winds,'' a i aaurauding band .of Chieyerans. A Iparty ha.. been organized tat Atkansas City to avenge the survecyors, A. wonierful Citick. A Oerman of Ciucinoati has invent. sd a.eioek which, th .uh'iuelh small. r t han 'th-e oelobra e.1 oie at St ris i! from itb de'stription, it :ch inre cor! [5!icated, We see inl a glas, :.s, a tareb-stoty, steeped-shaped *leuk, jIfou" t. wde at' the first try anid nin ''et Igh The move n, i- placed in the lirst 'tory, on tur delicate coltun.nc, w'thiU whieb I v tgs ti le peinduulm. The second story Conisists of two tower like )ice(s ri lhe d 'oi s of whiji tiht re are two ict un i (li t. reproment boyhood and arIv manho.d. A tower crowns, a i-t Itry, I he itnjenious structure. \ cOk, as' a ynbol of watehfulm n: tands on th top, dirLetly cVOc the .m tal. When the clock marks the i-t (1uarter, them door of , the left Ii. cc of t6'e second story oiens, and L child issues. from the background, 0mes1 f rward to a little, bell, gives t one blow, And then disappears. A t hi semia fiuarter a'youth uppears, :rikes tho bell twice, and thun dis ppears ; at the third,'there ci'iics a n11n inl his j me - at the fourth, we isavc a: tottering old man, leaning on , stafr, who strikes the bell four ime. Each. time the door closci of tsel. . ' : W hen thp hetdro 'arc' full, the 'dcor r the right'piece of tie second ctory peils, and Death, as a skelqton, scythe iu hand, ap iars I and marks the our by stri kig a bell.' But it is at he twelftL hour that we have 'the ;raud spectacle.. in the representziatioi I the day ofjudgemet. Then when )cath has sti-uck three blows on the b.p df the little bell,'the codif'on the p f the tower suddenly flaps his ,ings and crows in a shrill tone ; and fter Death has marked the twelfth our with his hammer, the cock crows gain twice. ' . -.. I - lediaVtoly: th/e'a angels, %-hoi .imi isguardiann in a centr..1 posi ion, raize their trumpets in their ight hands, (if the left t'hey hold words,) and blow a bl.st towards ach of' the four geilarters of the earth. Lt the last bI ist* the door of'the tower I.0.1 and the resurrected children of atth appear, whilo the destroying ngel sinks out of sight. Then, sud enly, Christ decensds, surrounded y agels On his left there? is ah nig-l who hold.) the scales of -nsticc, i his right a nothr ca;iis the Book f Li e, which opens to slow thh' ipha and Omega-the beginning ancy lie end. Christ waves his hanid, at'd nstantly the good anisig the resur ected are s. pirated fiom the widck he forn er go ing to the right und thi 1.tter to the left. The A~ch ng 1 Michael galutes the Od, whi'e on the other side stnndi lie devil, radiant with fiendish delight -lie c i barily wait for the filaal entunce of those who fall to himi, but n obedience to the comniand of the entral figure, he. withdranwS. -'I he figurd'of Christ raises his hand gain' wilth . Ihr'eCatcning mien, and he accursed si1k' doVn to the rtalins' f iis Santonii nnij'sty. Then Chriet desses the chosen few, and they draw kear to Him. Finally, ' we hear a 'erful chimd of bells, ' dmlring which, hrist rises. surrounded by his at ge's, inttl'he disappeiars and the portal A compl'ted drama is hero repre teeatedl, whithout the aid of a human iand. The1 mi vements are steadhy, inand'niuise.ss, wit~h the 'excep ien of ic Lbretten ig gestures of lhe figur~e of Chtrist and th lin ove II tits of Iaueil'er, wvho darts across he scne wilt I ligh tn iig rap.id ity. iconrse the j'eculiar setion of these u i figu ra is intnional oni the part it the amtiet, and add. greatly to the fuec t. The Duttchmarn's ibrso-. -. Thiat (old Dnmiehmanifl's isor.O i1 on gain, Ile locki the sble dloor very time lhe finda the horse out, anid lien when lie finds the horse out, lhe OaveP it'opeln. [foe ja his. last ad, pert nemeits. <lie is run away agin, mina little phack heise, 1 rite him two days In te iniiddle do nilte, arnd von be riot vide cee shntmping lid bsumps is if to tevil ca.,int, aind' he trows lie idkn ;I not mvo suc fall mdit:ec '1 f->re I vis ,ornit. I, pnmy .bimf tod ('f ShacIh Th'inic ( e' S iiime, he .haive fa 'o wh eet )'fore, mit von plhadh srip oni his 'ose, voin eye will locle pslmc like' ;riss. lie ms b road~d ni'tr Shon Keirdehg rn ge r, in lii., p'ehsi ad sidea of hsis aile. Who~evdt vi!Il-take 'up'do said iois'e, hadII ri n(g tI lie toT) of niino io:se; nea~r C shgatree, salil pay me wo dha is retsrl, ands if def~ vill not primg m.e, in,:.na hsoise ager', I , illI sit sue de law En' fore.' ngainst all do ogles.'-- 'canjac I'per. The wheat crop oa t'hiksp'o'f rail road1 between this plae dind C~arlIotte is looking bandly. From all p'arts of Lbh eount'ry, North'," South, Eiast and West comes the news otfthe' back wardness of the wheat crop. Th< cause of this vid proaume, is the great amnount,of rain that fell dun ing the winter and the i'nany hiari freezes.-Rockhill Lantern. Why is a tailor, when patching garment, like an enemy 1 BecaSUs be is a 'sower of tares.'