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~&Wi11iams air/ ~ Desportes & Williams, Proprietorg A F&ii II'Paper, Debte0 to Sciow, t I rV, Indstry and ,Ideal6I%. [Terms---$3 00 iior Ammm, In Adveio VOL. V I.o WINNSBORO S C., 'WEDNESDAY MORNIN, AY 28, 18T. 11 Till F.AIRFIEjD HERALD .k ' 1.1. 1 I .'.II11:1) W .1. K 1. V B Y D E4 P I R T iW 1, 4 iCi' 0, liti MS, T r' n .. -T L, I0 ..i Ite T w I o n ilt :.2r->, at .. 00 1 V jrIlilie. ro.e II \ rlllr t-i t el v r iem s to 11 I. .id inl advanfle. Obi:ltarty Notices andibei 0y J 11BL 1,'130. .Ar. Edlit 'r: Theli folloning poem has b'ecomli justly CE h I.ra ted, an11d is n1ow ibed it d in t.e volU ' 'Ioc , by dt I.ut 18 tnally of yourr a , ri ina) not have J e n ('1 it*, f I i t I h 'li ii hert of' re1 irsting a p!ace for it in yo1u T1\ IO t:Il0 0 F TI'll', 'P1 l l I Ji;iA'. [ly .IojN lly ] all no ! I 't tell whilar ie livesi, . lekase he d04 n li.ve, y 0,p1 , ,o. ICaICllys h ' t u.e h a~t 0f living like yout ami l ne. \har have Yiot L en u l hil e 1.45st (ll - - a yenir Thalt yo-I hav'n1 heard folks t~ell llow J imnhiy 1It, Iso 0 n. d in hi i ie PI airic Belle ? Ilie wernl' tin pit ---Iheml enleinlece L-; 4ae:ty inuch -ill alike- , , 'hip nile inl Ntilec z uncer-ithe hi*:1 A I' d anohli -r1. (s1te elite in l'li A k 111 i-l man4 his. i 'k wii .li'n, l. l l nawkwvI- an 1:ha141 ill a row. lut A~nee jannk itA i i nv.,- 11, Anil this was noll tl:c religion heli hnj, - . 4. i, a . ( e gille well ; S y,-r i~ J :i edl ,I Ihe liver, To iuiil the bilo' s imi!l; A -I I it : :, P4.t in Ila, -.1 five A Illhtusaln-I t imes hie s wer,l, Ile'd h II1 e1'lr lI;zzle0 agini the Ianit Till tihe ligt sotsl got uishore. '411 h stnt h i t ir tiay onl tile Mlississip, A nd helr fay Come it ist, 'Iihe Movistel was a befter Oa, - liut. tile Belle sie wiouldn't be liassed. A nd so she mino tearin' along th i night, The olde. L einft on file lineo Wihiin .nigger squnt on her s8't'ety valve, and lier furnace cioaied, rosina and pinle. The fire burst out. as she erossed the bar A l biniti, a hole in ilia iijglht. And 1uicic 44s a 81els she turnedi, aind mad< . ''or that willet bank oni tile right. There was iuni' and cursin', but. Jin yelled otit, Over all ite infernal roar, $-I'll hold her nozzle agin .lie 1mlnk Till the list, pleol's ashore." Thro' the hlot, black breath of' the burnin boat. Jim lslidso's voice was herd, A d( they ill had trust, inhis cussedness, - Ant knowed he Iould lfeep his worl. And suire's you're born, they al got oh' Afore the smokestack fell,- . . And illudso's ghost. went ip alone In the smoke of ilhe Prairie Bello. Ila IVern''t. no sait--hlut at Jedgmienf I'd4 run mliy elint e, will I im), 'i.onigside o1 i-om pious gentlemen . Thal. woitlin't shitik hands with Iimii, 1(i: iteu his 1duly, % dead surl'a I.iilig, SAm IlWent Icr it har and I hen; Aid Christ ain't going to be too hard ha a mn ali died oir men A Visitor at. Sea. Thue following ghostly yarn is fr'on tho repertory of' an old eca captain and Itough he no d1oubt 1:cl ievesi hims~elf', it is likely t hat many of oui r'eaders wiil not ht.ve sod muchI f.it~h is 41ho na'rrativeo ,On the 24th of bcceniber, I 0j the barqjue 0.prey, oni her pas sio last [idies, was son11e three' hun dred miles oft the Cape of Good hope $lbo had met withl ter'rible weather in d by stress of it had been drivet Edit of her course, and out of the traeol of other vessels. Thbo e'ptain' of th@ Ospreoy was also her part owner, an< had on board with himt (ho was 'sidower) his' only child, a beautifu girl of somne two and twventy. (hip lain Grayling, it is noodless to say was extroemely attaohed to his daught ter, tho last malrvivor of a nlumeroui buinily. The Osprey's cargo was e valuable one, being iron, tin and eut. Ioty goods; for. the Indian market pnd of course, in the heavy weathei ghe had encountered ; the danger Idi< had incurred was doubled by th<( nsature of die goods wvch which sheo ,wa l'adog. Wo have said shie i'as thre( 1iun~dred miles off the Cape ; but in fact she might have bo~on donble the g istance, for both' the captai'n and h fint mate, J'~ia~h Matsen; wire ifn coertalin as to t heir reckoning ; and at on this particular ChrIistmwas evo the weather, so fir ft oml i mjroving, iai growni wilder, both meu114 paced 1 ly dcks with an xious1 faces and kni l''rws, esigaged inl conversation 0 that stern, brief' 5)rt, wilere only fey words are used, because life or deati han ge on the decision arrivedl at. "I con fess 1 do not know whore 4# are, Mr. Matson," the captain at 1as "No I~ir lwi'sh i did;" "ln all m'y experience .L have nei known such continuously dirty weath or or been so m'uch out in my rook~in ing heforo," said tho captain. "[ think I would put, her head abou sir, and boat up ;I take it we ar< liearer to the Cap1, than wo think." - :d ws, about to speak, when thea m.te uttured an Ox0laumaLion of bus prise. 4\VO are hailed, 'sir' ''We are what, Mr. Mation ?" V " h'hi, 1',1 !" n -1 A'm a p3lt :1 in . "You are dreainiig. Taere is no vessel wishbin a hun'N.ed iniles of U:., if so 1.'1ar." An d he began to pio 'peind his plans 13ut in les-. th in tWO mlIii.Utes the nMte aga't in i .11-1 rupt l hit), V. ith a whi e faUce. D) 30u0 hear nutling, ., it 'I I "E..s, I hear the wlhistiii;g of the vind, ni1d the screaming of the soa '-1ut 1io huYin 'Voice 1" "II1um1an voiuu ! Wfly. whero Could it be, except on board hoic '- -11 u Ab-h I ' sid Matson, shuddering : 4.ot h utm a't., - r "\I'y, MaO.\lon, )on don't manca to say you beieve ?1)'thu 'Flyig" L)utoh. . o 1nal li '\ ie u1At tt~e in aloth'er reef, u Mr. Mat!ou," ,aid the ski'p'pur. 0 Sive the order please." T'e m ate wOti. for;a ild to obey, b6t, th reef wa no sooner t1ke'n iii tan i he again came Lu 'h 1U tnin'5 g "'ir-C'apa Oiing," said \ie v in a voice of inltes earnootnes and C atixiet y, '"wo are hoiled." ' pseni u h.vc talim r. lro'y tsos inu',ch grog this cold bight, o al a Iit ont.'' t uIt might he It stray bo:it from ae 0hip that has foundered, sir," sug. ,l geilecd the tiate, puasiig over Lis Z-ulet a*iul ' sartI:4sul. . uBoat, liddlestiefcs ! N', -oa ld 0 , ny bost live in tha 1" asked tle o emyta' i, 'peinting to the Inoutntainous a sear, which were ruuung almost 11 inast-high. The n'ate lookod at M.o angr4y wij' qnd was 'fiut to admit that y any b oat would bo swallowed up by them in an instant. "Yet listen, o air ; for God's sake, litten 1" he 1 said. The captain lisienind, atia t h'en sud- h denly oielained, "dood heavens, I n really do think I hoer something P' ' By this time two or three sailors 'had advanced toward the spot where i the captain and mate were il confur- e "Boat hailig us, -air !" oNied the a old ;otswaii; tquoliing his hat., and speaking with an air of great be wilderment. c The captain stared emazedly at the n mlate,; then aoing his hands to his mIouth, lie roai-cd wih all tlip pqwer of his stentorian lungs. "What boat is that ?" "Ship ahoy ! ship ahoy !' was now distinetly audible to all on board the Osprey. . "It must be sonie boat from a dcre liet or a foundered ship !" said the F captain, half to the iliato afid half aloud. But his 'face looked trou blepl. Tile matE rini1 . th. P"14 b8ulwalu ahook their head. "It's is a bout t 'ron the Flyiig Duetchman,' " said one of the boldest of the Osprey's crew ; "and a boat from the cursed vessel tuehuenna message of death to all of u6 Iates i "Too true, too true," assented his comrades.t By this time the boat had got alongside the Osprey, for she ecapecda the waves in a most uivrvellous man I oer.. Although app.rently buried enoli moionent in one lhngo arcountainous hi llow i.!Io appeared tho fol low~ng in sta.nt risling sa fely on the crest of theV next. .t was a sublime yet awful sight, to see this superhumaan. cockle shel (defying the wrath of the vast seas, which thretned each momnous to swallow 'p the (Qsprey herself. 'Lhe littdp eratt was a longnai row, cofiun-like boat, painted entirely black, without so much as a white stripe to relieve her soirbro liue. She was manned b y four talf, gaun, bony-look-, ngoamuen, with staring e~yes gind hollow obocki Gh fpp'eared to be in Ithe lat stage of f~mmei. Th'le captain, who sat iii ,the . stern-shieets, with tho tiller-ropes in his hand, was taller by ' ma tiny degroos thani ,lany of. bi- crev. 'I1li was aIrr3.fd in a tguilor's sutit; made of jet blanck cloth, insteadi of thec usual blue. Ilii black cap wa sur roun'd e !> a gold ha nd, a nd a ja 4rce cloalf of sables was thrown opr0ss AEiai~ shoulders. ilip features, v'ere Tigid as those of a corpse, so tha't the eyes Iwere bright~ and pioreivgan'id shone fnm the chassms of his skull like lusi. lons globes of fire. TJheo nose' wan hihadaquiline, curved liethe bk'of at bird ; tho4lips t'hin and5 b ne, and dra c'n 6ac6 over a set of gloanming whIte teth. Altogether, the mian looked like a partly aimiia ted corpseC ; and the captain and cr'ow; of the Osprey shuddered in cold per spi ration of awe, as the now-comrne roe in his boat and saluted them, do-t mianding permission to'comp on beard. .lhis wats no sooner granted thian,It rithoutieb use of th~e 1ad.)er, afde ropest, or~ arry convenienc e6of tho sort, he steood suddenly upon the dock of the O'sprre~, wh ilst t.he captain of the, lo'tter vessol'and' his crew, rooted t'o 1. the .fpot, ..stood. quaking, as if with somec violent at task of aguxe. "04-prey ?" guspod out the Oaptain, Ly a supienie (-4l.t. "Where fromn 1'" "Loidon ." "Where to ?" "Cargo ' "Iro i and s'eel ghod-.... 'Somietlihig more precio9y, I think," aid,.i lie :tranger, with a heri ibly sar 10111; g : in. "I do not undeil stan-l you,'" staanl njere d gr p-tainl pryg, " i had but uoe fair daughter, iln he loved piassilg well,'' said the raniger. Thlue captain trembled and grew pale s death. "Oe 'ia'ir daugfiter," pera ite-l the atauie itianger ; * Eleanor Grayling. Jume, I waist your daughter ' "ll..w did lie know my daughter's ame '' th!ught, the e >tiie. alt inst be the devil hiinself. Olt And he stapgered bnekward, and Calned against the iauin mast. 40mi, I ag) ty*itnV ''u 'the nwelcome guest. Thn 10 . r.o-red ut to his phianoin boat's Crew, "rooi Iiei e f ir a lady 1" Captntin Gratyling looked appcqling. at tie umat who oan;e tbo bio sa stanec. , i . "Sir," said Matson, "Who and 1hat are you I II the nameto of od-"1 Ba t lie no sooner pronounced the t nusered word, when instantanie. uidy the stranger hau go le from ie de'k, tad boat, crew and load r had vuniahed like a flasi of lit m1g. Captain Grayling 4nd. 1atsn .ibbed tyeir eyes, and the ei-eiv gazed n one another like mien in a dream. lie incubus was removed, and they woke as if it were from a night. are. ItlIt.mInd Av fis V en t(fie 10vil One ! .id Matson, who Was the firs.t tp find Aee. "No, sir !" i eplied sorr'wfuhlfy the le of the crew who liad previously )oken. "1o where il36 c'aptain of to 'l'lying 1utchman,'. thath what D were : and to Davy June's locker e shall all go. Not a man Jack %is will see dry land no, fnorl'O. "Ay, ay, mite, worse luck, chimed the the rest of the crew, despond. 1 ly... "'Then eaven have mercy on us ?" Lid-the captii. "Ameun !" eried all. And sure enough the Osprey, her rew and cargo, wec ncver heard of iore. A Pe'Annt Pt 'i1fraph' The picture pies niteol by tlie fol >wing paragraph from the late nn4 Lge of Governor Moses of South larolina, is photographic in its fideli y, as depi'41ng tho. blesmi.gs of 'bar et-bag and Federal reconstrutior. He thus addresses the asseimbre' iegislature-three-fourths of whom re negroes: "od fave ntpiti uon dig sixte ason o the Geicyal. Assembl.y sinc he establi'huenat of free government i South Carolina." Governor Moses procceds to enu. erate the fruits which a caraet-beg Dala wag free 0governmen tirodght 0 the pmeopl: "ret the- face of the 'emigrant .js turned away from our State, and apital, which sets labor in nabtioni nud creates the manufactusrej #b~oh int ributo to the~ coumlfNn eleva, ion of mlail, phr jiiis bacek fromi us as C thec seals (if pe~stilencve were broken tad the vials emptied out upion Ibi 'eaut iful Iland of 01*tra. ilenoc. niessr y thiree-fourths of out' viat, tesritoirial rea, contaiigg not, less than thirt~y ix thousanrd square imilea, hi fallow Coinment is stipejn'o1s.' "Qh 1Yrd l ow long?''- iE aannal h.Rejuablicana. The fijneraij or Johmn Tj ere ai, killed ini the dr0,I hear Lichumond, .;t ook phlace ,etufay, and t. a.s .it-. amn ed ti'j ua numeroun eowd. The ordiot of the corono1's jury was that e was killed by McCarty in ade, mmd tinids that the secopidsa grga,9enu. d1.le for ~po -1 gafring' thm riauthoi. *. f. the alfqir. Mofiarty's wound's re 'erd fetibtis, and hi-4 a.,ndibgon ,is renT, - Meumrs. Trigg,,, Rlpyall, rb, nd Mer'edithi, the~ ueconds? sur nmd.ei, tin.hgel vey en Friday, amid er9e ld ior' examitkaf~iog. , ''Tho orener's jury being in session .on that aiy, these gentlemen, werp t q 7enm be-. rc that, ojiieer, bu$ reofused to answer n~y questionsm, on the grounti thait boy were prisoners of the Comumn.. 'eaIth,, charged wi th aidilng aund betting the~ murder or J hn 11. Mor ceni. Thie seconidu, ero impnlrisoned nd1 aire visited by hundreds of riends. It is cowardly in .a newspaper '(o lonounee a iaan ,who has mno muediumi irough whieh to' malie a rceply, but ce must, nevertlteloss, say that. Cap.. aimg Jck.. jus constantly not~ing the ~rand rasedt. Th')is W1ay ho hasu of toaling upon ogr .agoopn . gd flirgg a amniug themn witout giving thein a banico to run, is suchconduot as nj9 eontleman would be guilty of.--Cou -icr Jou~rQaL. B3ismark is in Minnlesota. Its the unmo of a new town thor'e. bottom, and you can understand how nitural it it. for fof me to fool like I ali) ol a vcr, Alfo. eign shore.'' k H nnjua i .4h1 be-t pav-dci.ty In A mericay The inntutor.ale, vht lriles ritt I n f (U.er tto eanly swept strott, ma4lw 'I.uN. AV the city is built n.1n11111ul1tin~g hilg, pold'is .,e40'". t 4b ot the tj uost -inagn isint syz.tot'i ot d r.. i tiage, I there is rea--on to believe th .t .seruopi oi and s stetatio clean. 1:1e s would stap out the yellow fe e 0r. . .h nre ps're screwed on to the co niers of the houses, and what is moat asnnzing of .1ll the peculiar Ouis. tomls of the pltce, the ,people do -n'Ot di well il residecioes ; they live in the rear por ion or their carriage houses 'it other word., the carriago iuvaria. bly occupies the fr, lit hall or, front parlor of every aristocrqtiq hou?g. The unnuri(ed ofthe t wo se::u are kept Ieu pe .ud ly sep.rated 'romx each other s embrace and fenced ofl' by the iron bars of the front windows. 4fljo3 4110 quick and go," and "sitting on the sofa till niidni;ght wjtoi my own true love," are things uitown. aweydopn here. A young man never enters his ,weetheart's houso until lie i engiged. fle stands in the street, she si-i in ehe( i-r!or, and they talk and giggle id play checkers with their noses' through the irun bars. As the dark eyed brunette is fre quently soon pok Ing her hunds out for her lover to squeeeo and kis.j, I,.do not infel- that the cruel bars are put btweou them to keep them from fighting. The ladies of lhavana drive, out a 1ng sh idodl avenue to the 'Pasteo, after -unset, liere thqy move slowly around il a !tind of 'ring and are ad mired by tlhe faneifully, uniformed officers and the "bigosi5" Who gae at but do not speak. They have an airy, low-necked, ,vohulpjuouus wOy of dreq. sing theti:selves, which maken tiom appear more charming than thqy prp. They are gpnerally beautiful never theless. tofd I expected to fid in the volunteers ( a set of a brutes, but they are a gen. a teel and handsome body of city mili- 1 tia. They wear Panaia bats with 1 rosettes.upon 'them, and the abtund. anee of gold lace stars, red stripes, t cuffsand collars upon their grey ond cheuked uniform remind one of the gny iegiments that'early in tho war lett the C(escept Ofty .for the Con. federatoai-mln in Vii- Jniqi Abogt half die nien you meet in the Atroeto r.ite thu.m uniformed. They sotnehiow carry on theiir buoipiess and .ava the cou.try fur notitig at the sawe tiie. ill (ront of the Captnin.General'h ialuco, which is about suoh a build. ing as the Now Orleans City.. 11al.. ks the P)ri do Ak.lias,-a 'pubii', . sodr sinilar to. the i'ew Orleans Jacksion Square, on the south aide of which is a tall cotton ball treo, inclosed within tin iron railhig, all. ro.owhia t elevated above the street. Inserit.ions. upon an obelisk that stands beside it in. forms us thatthis treq is theoftihioot of the , 1dietieL c l oot.tori . .tllti tinder which Glumtibus knelt and prayed upon discovei ing the niagnificent hsr. . or of Hlavana, three hundred and fif. ty-four years ago. This im mortal "carpet..baggeF,'' (ls Senator W-est .aLs him)1 .whiL gee half thle world to, civilization.,and1 nmonkinid lies entombed in the wall, near the Altar of the ancient Catho <rul, which is two squaree front .the Plaz deA ras.As : Mood .io.$ay i~n.the piresenee of' his illustrious ashes tmy soul was filled with profoutid feelings whicb my tongue can never ut-ter. , This wos a hpliday and at :fou r;isi the altceoon .j witneged a hSpanub buill-figh t a t the~ ,'lag-. <). 'i,'orm. TPhe ileo resemnble'f the . Emnphi thieatro of a Amiericati agricnituralI fair. Reuspeetable ladies wvero .not present, but, thbreo thousand, .men a batt aljoui of gatily unifo~rmed soldieroi ir.l tho lJ.upt.an-tneral, all sogroe4 to lhe l'erf'eoly beolJj1ited. bS':tho bi. b..rons .-port. Tlro cirenis riders on hiorsebackc would fight Otto bull at a time with spears, while several nqro bauts oni foot wonld make bimt tmad with red. elo'sks atdh1 dofgo behitnd (forts at the edge o.f tho ar:ena.. Aoltn 'times with a fisrce hinge the .bull iwould lift, hor.,e andI rider into the ni ir. : iijece hb3) s. were suceosite lj hi liod durting t'-to tpuronnent . Oneo mnut waBs w~oundedl, two hlorsues were kulled and several were er~ippfod. WVhen. a bull was weakened under t he ist.bli pf t.hio hloFrSemenst shairp, ho-,as.ft stenl iiW rQ~def tsius.y s trnek inl his neck to make him furious, after whieh the swordemnan wds ediled hui by thes bugle to d?.pateh himt dufing a triumgh14 a Ntr su .iby thi# Mrds band, anud amid t he cetor of, thes omedti 'd this is what those Spaniar'de rj-lt fuu., ,_ DSLirA. 'Thle #mnperor of Germany, wMilpe holding .a reVing Jt Peotersbugg, 'rceiv.'d a' bultitt li the helpr6t, and his..adgtent was sieverelft, douhtdpd.' TIhe. shot- i4s fired 'hiy a filnatlordl priest. -U The birthplaeo of Jienjamin: frnk lie is L9 be marked by the .'tw pirint. ing office of the Boston Post. Nasby says ani honest man gathers no moas. A rolling stone's the nobleet work of God. Havana Cor. -South It Vtern Tefegran, | Two Days In lIIana -- The itirior ni:l ,;glipping-Tim Ilojels-M-.aimr nuIj 'lllAle ofme the rsidrns -The SolIer\'-_ ;a'll tirc aIt a 1111's Fighil, Etc , LItc Etc.. S. ce I wroto last freitpi New.. ).. opg.s . iave beei sailing over ihe i Vm a sih.op t tour of obe v'tioi to this "E'ver Fait hfn I Ie." Yeptorday autl to-day have be'in hlu iI3 speit in see. ing i1-e sights-a rniinigliL e4nniuel.t on '.A b I1 g ot down il .th g reatet Iiis to, revsr, ie g ol.serv t.it upl! the p..hti l apect of afil'ir., for an Otherletr TI he eair:,nee to the Ii rbor of0 Jiavan i. is Y- :igniteoint. It is a View worth belolding. ar on 1111pon1 the Gulf, as u30u approneh the mouaiou. evast line, a flag fr, i -n macieint for. tiets upon a rocky bluff s'gn Is the Uutionality of your vessel to the city beyond. This is the celebrated Moro. Ca(ht le. Soon your ship passo under it.i frowning battleinent.,, and ,throueh I; niirrow hut deep ch1antiel, whieb su9tenly ex pands into a caiicion:; and beautifully land-locked harbor, when the yellow, massive city o tho' riglit, Ihe loft rid pizt I'uP fortr esq on the left, th~ fiantmic mountuins in front, -with the fndloss aints, sails, ships and fla s .in every iiSecbon', all burst ai once upon yer delighted gazo nod fojti a compact and exceedingly va. ried '"izne to be long rememb pred. The firt pseuli,.rity of the $!age is !h:t the ,ships uro till co4pdled to anchor out in the harbor and load and auiload by means of small bort s which 'i continued breeze wafti to uiad from t he shore. Where New Orleans has Ler grand lvee Ilava na Iias . proil enade with ilhade trees. Tlidre seems to be tw ice as many ships in the har bor as are to be seen at, the Crescent City, but the faigt that they C;Innlot loal from the ivharyes - mkCs heir expense in this port heavier 1han eb-ewhere. in the middle of lie iarbor is aneliolet % iuq Spanish war frig:ai, the argossa, wi h Lbout i hundred guns. I should say that lune broadside from her Iwould blow he et tire fleet at Key West clear out >f t' e water. The Spaniards here bont that their lavy is supe.ior to that of thn Unite01 States, whili, I am atoni.i.ed to as eertin, is. pretty tear-Ata. -truth.. Tibey say that, any fight for Cuba must acc1ri.y be Vavul way d that within two week.i fromta.nts outhrek Sp:.i.i will swpcc) the Ait..ricant crot: i a lc I matine front the seas and block!ade the ports (f New York and Ne.v O.leats. .1 doubt, this, but I do n*.t gitnstion t:auihe Wvulid Ipalke it ver lively for us for awhile ati leact, an d make our ultimate victory cost us more than a du'zn Ct4bas are 7.sengers c ashore from the ships in little covered gondolas, which are as plontiful a.s omiibulsses at an Amer'enn .railway statiti, and in ubarg. of eivil . polieo oflicers with rosetj on thicr Panam.a bat;. At a shed ont:hore your bngga a io inidif ferently searahed:, yo:t are charged two dollars aind twenty cents in green backs for the .eintiiy (f' your pass ports, whe a. he g'e is opened bad you aic turn-d fre9intm thle. ity. The volanite: the I!avana suibsti.. thte f'or our street cars. It is a strng'y built, covered earr i ge or Ij.Lb for two persom, to which is hitched one r ok~ torse which. car ries you a t hight~ng rapeed through the narrow alleys called business streets, at the rate of twentty five ensa t rip, in Cubant curroney. if youLI hirne a. volanate by the hour1 they clharge you a do lar, but 301n enuttj inde thceLm dii i'mr to go fdister' thiint walk. Tihe volanites were formeiirly dIriven exclusively b'y necgroes, but of lat.years stdwarp Spaniards anmd a feaw (Catalonianai: hiaio monopoisead the but iness. Nobodly walks in llavana, everyb~ody rides in thiosei volantes' or iti pr jvate' carriagm'. W~on ladius go shoppting~ their volainte ptops in tmront of t: itrO and theolerk brings out lhe bolts ofsilk aned calico for' their itispeot ion .., 'There is nothing' Amerirdan albout tlinig lint ez'ther a tiopical or Euro peani aspect. 'Te Panama -bats .of thew meni, the black lace vails which becfifiets, the 1light I anin aemr good] in the~ well-staked stores, the cheekel pd sisipefd satimnar clothies of~ the people, t he exot",ive ly wuarm weat her, withl wvater mchalt:ms andi~ roasttitg-ear is in the raidle I of' April, make tme feelI that, I amn suddmen ly transported.I int'o the' heaut of a -tropat sum - .Thu- s,ituation of thie hiouses gives a singular niopeat, to t ho whole ei y. They U) arie a iily, c.ool ly andm substan,. tially built of rock, usua:lly ottO til.) iltory hIgh, right upon the edge' of thie strI et, and are univertsaly covered. qmutside with acoat vafard-platutor ing, w hich , gives a y,elf~i sh,. grion. ko appearance to t.i ,whgqle oi'ty, Add t9 ti.in t, theo streets aro'as narrow as an Ameriew alloy,that fihe little narr~ow rock rim cal led a sidewalli is qnly one foot and a half wide,:that canvas,. awnings are strotolmed from roof to roof to shade the street, arid that all tihe ft'ont windows and doors, opening immediately into the street, are crossed by iron hba from~ ep to rkansas in ihe Wake of Ioukisitn-Iir Governor Aining for 111r. Arkansas li0 .Louisia n. and othieri anr'pet-b ,'i*86uthorn State., Imas evi. dently been badly reconstructed Arksnsan, i.n the wake of Joni,,ia1 fgem the violent siuabtleus of the ra p.cious politician, *nppears to b: di ifting to the verge of civil war. Bot w I ile the trouble in Li"uisiaia ha beon,.upd is a bitter conflict bet ee. the republicans and tho opposition elements for the State government and the spoils, .th now dihl'iulty ir A katnsas is a hitch between two eon. Pii(jing factions in the repitiaie i Vep', verging to anl 0.ppo1d to gun. powucr. Our t-pecial correspondent at Little Rvok informs us iubstati: al. ly that the worst olonents of the r:t.di Ml part.y in the State, headed ap pareutly by Senator Clayton, Chi'ef Justice McClure, Judge how1n und yt.hers, finding out that Go.-ernor Uxter .(rqpublican too) 6is ot the lonvQnient tool they doire, wa.nt to )UAt him and put Smith, the Lieu.. enant Govornor, in his place ; that ').accotnplish this end they lave de nieed a ch'omo for testing the legality -f the Governor's election before the Suproin .,Court -' a. proceeding vhir4, fE.eprried to the poiint of.bring ng.the Qovernor to trial, will at once upqnd him and 'put mith in his flice.hinhi But it next appears that Baxter i lot .0tly fully aware of his dang'r iiN !ho pr2tmiscs, but that, tahing tion Y the forelock, he is fully pecpared 0 friht the hostile coibiniation on he threshold. lie has recogn:ized the Itato forces , ho has er.:ablishiel ;uards over the Stato Ilous, 0he XovernoAr'A rooms alld the puhld ;rounds ; lie liaissecured the tru otf )tato arms in the city ; ho ls :p lotted new, olicers to tc State mili ia, includingja lghtfing man or tuo rom the. Ru Klux Klan ; lie has thet tato Arcenal covered by a battery of rtAillery ; he oatu and s!cels in the ;overnor's office, and when ho taket; n airing it is under (in armed escort of is friende. Baxter, in a word, nit:i is lusinoss, and if, . through a writ of Ito warranto, the opposing olique at empt to reach him to-morrow, as thmy breaton, ho may disperso the w% hole larty. Hie lhas, it is said, the deot. trits, the conservativo republicais 'pd a .majorit.y of the blacks on his ido3 an so, if pushed Io th w:all, he c.atzong enugha to akdop'.. til decisive acti':a of Oliver Cromwell Over this ooidition of affairs much ixeltement.exists in little Rook andh U tho State. We should think so. )ur readers of Now York, city and4 3t ate, have only to inlag ine this vio eu1 fjetious fond at little Rock ;ranfler-cd.to Albany to comprche:nd he matter fur t x:itemcnt that there a in this Aihin:as imbroglio. If Jovernor Dix were in the position of Jovernor Baxter, intronchied in f he 3tate House and with. his guards of iorao, foot and artillery in the Unpi :6l grounds, there would be muih e.l itement not only at Albany, but in )vary oty, village and ham let of t he Stato and ok the whole conalry. And t is only by b iniging aulich m:tters zomo as these Louisiana and Arkian a politial quabbles that we can oaliue theo very excitmng sort of aw anid order that exist in thiosc Stat es. It is expepted .this l6:eedcinig in. erest.ing pol itical suiari at Lileatf Look willb be unravelled to-morrow, ith or without a resort to villair'ons altpctro. In any. evomit lot us hope hat Arkansasa will be sparcid any omplications or disturbanicea of the mublie poe requiring thme initorveni ion of the Unilted -t~mates troops or a povernmenst. oif martial law.-New York Ikrald. ltorgia Xewn, The ost arrhail fever amuonig thle hiur. men of A ugusta is d isaippIoari ng. X vew, Probyterianu chu rch is build nig .a t Bruns'wick. Tfhe Macon street railway companiy :as reduceed its rate of' passenlger fatre 'rom topi to five cents. A .oto:\ an ~vomien mnarrigd ini Go uu uniis, laai1 ''r ida y mor0ni :g, fo ugh t ii the aftrernoon, arid p: ssnd the Iiirst lighut of the honeymoon in the guaard The anttual deorationa of thle zraves of M~ r. Isaac Tuttle andl M r. ' oorge .\tl. Newtom, thmo founmders of hie A ugusta. Oirphan. Asylumi, took laco last Saturday at the city come Wim. Archer, reunto argent bel ween Ilrunriae~k, uand iMacon, has beenm at. restoed tn m charge of alcialing a three hundred dollar regiate ed !tter. . atal llencontlie On, Cusnday last, says the Yorkvillb Ituqnirer, four sohdiers of (ornpany (I, Eth ;lufantry, viz :' Win. Gal. laghuer, Patrick Brady, Thomias Qiain. Lon,.ad. GJeorge Welch, wvere on a drunken spree, whi-oh in th friinoon terminated in the stabbing; of Quint oin hy Welch, f'romi the elleet of wthich h died about ten o'elock next morno lg. Te coo of Sttokes in to be bioard ,by the Court of uippeals next Mon, day. Colonel Wim. Johnston delivorcd olect ure on eoilogy at Charlotto I nesd ay e ' ig. An excursion from Goldtboro to NorM fl is h- i>g gotton up1) by tho -\lsonik fraternity. A grandl (emperance jubileco was '1ld at Iividson College, near Char ,Otte, in", .\onday. J.Llii coity defented the propq. sitioni to sute;cribe to the stock of the Scotlaud Neck iailroad. The bonse of Nathaniel McNair, of Lumtbilerton, was robbe-oI nd t hen lurnel, las, week, by diguised men. The Ashville Pioneer has changed liandolS, 1. It. I lam noptoin bocouing edi. lor aono proprietor, it Iill continuo ladmblican in p01i. 'I'lie comninissioni exanin ing in to dilicltics of tle Wustern North Carolina Railrioad-bli vos itocan settle the rimo without iny peril of tho State intere.,A. A larri numbmr of Ci'oroeko In dianii. are ill amlUiidianec uipon the Uni ted States Court at Ashville. Iany of the fui lIloods are yet unable to -;peak thle iglih laniguage. The p,. .ieo at Gracssy Knob4 lutIicrf:'I l county, and Bus1h Creek, 1luloltoh county, havo been disuon" t;"me'd, iandol an oliieo established at C rassy !.tiihili, (leveland county. M r, Saimuel .\ahe and his son, toi or thwelv- w ars chil, weto drowned at 8even I .Lai: ford, one and a - half Imiles ilabove 1Phiiury, on Saturday wee!k, a aiol i cileavors to find their b1dieS hiave beeii futile. A . F'. .\ar'lh, P1., tho'ngent a' F.oyottevillo (of the W oturn tailroad, i:: a de!aulter to tlho road lin ,tho sum of' '$,200), ad ii hat in a fit of despair, he'poisoned hitislf' ratlier than face tle coloefence:, is a report in Wil. it i ngt on. Nwns Cuondensed. 'Tlie New York Legislature will >it on till .Jui the .midd!o. SThe Constitutional Conventton of 'nnyl van ia pr p iose. to abolish A lierimij in citiev of over 200,000 in A Green Bay daecoin 4rank .chaim JptgefI without k 'mowing what it was and be ing olitrohod for getting uion a table and singing "Ho I Bob Ridley, Ilo P' A ret ired beggar paid k,4,0.00 cank for a ho (e Id lot at Holyoke, Mae ;aehusetts, the other day. T. Unlioni Pacific Railroad -Com. pvny las a lind grait of 12,000,000 cres, lying on oaub sioe of the traclk aid extending through ono Stato and. tlhice territoriesi. A Few for ti Women. BmStonl Sehool girlS play foot ball) flld it b'etter for btripod stookings than Leliven crignet. Ninety-seven proud mothers went off mad aia privo baby show hold. inl New Orleans recently, ninety eight sopecimnenis wero (xlibited. A n unreasonabile woiman in London wan ts a wino mierchiaint. there, namoed le A stridlge to pay $5,000 for ,writing '211 live letr to lIe.-, and thou cool ting oil in his s hetorie. .A P'ittbuirg girl biasseint back thoso two batrgesi of coal, , whiclh her father gave hiei for a loiidal poresenit, and she giese 1155Slie can in ako it hot6 cnouglk for' "hiuhbly" without any ontside, help. 'fh Tuppe ~tr ('ill IIlHomichilc. Th'Ie ('our t f' GeiieralI Sessions was openeiid yesterd ay inorninmg, says the Ph Io.mix, it. 9 o'ocuk, pursuant to ordior of .Juidge (ia.ontor onf Sattuir dlay night In5t. Th'le J1udge refused the miotion for a new trial in thoecaso o~f Ca ptaiii (Geor'ge Tuppmer, convict ed of insbuoghteir, in killing (Jap ta in .John I). (Uoldwiell, in September las'tf. Thle pr isioer wais thon sonl. tetiord to five years' imrprisotinment aut hardi labor in thoe penitenutiary. Geow ral lIn tler' i mediately. gnve notice of ain appeaocl to thio -Supremno Court. On iiotien of .-%l icitor .Etunklc, a mio-. tion1 was graniled t hat J esao . Dent,, Sheit if, ishow cause, on WVednesday, the 26,.0 inst ant, at 9 o'clock A. 19, why a rule :or contemnpt. shalt not. issuie *git. him for allowing the jury a the Tupper case to disperso duir iig tho trial of the samie. Thli wvooig-willow has a romnantio, history. TPho first .scion; was sent fromu Smayrnoi, in a l'ox of figs to Alor an-ri PJopoa. General .Clinton, to 4't ,hooit from. the Pope's tree to moies intho timoc of the Rev~o-. tion, whielh, passing into the hands of John P'ark'(Jurt is, was planted on his. estato in V irginiao, thn& becoming .ths. progenitor ;f the Wo'eping-wllow is this country. .. Coluwmbus county, Gan., and the county ridjocent thereto has been vis-, ited by aniothor heavy storm. Hlouse,* tLrey. and f'ences were. hiown .down,, caittle iind peronsi killed and inj'tred anod es uu dlua ioton to growing