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DefVortes & Williams, Proprietors.] Aramily Paper, Divdoed to Science) Art Inquirv, industry and tt Ore. [Terms--4300 cer Annn, In Advano VOL. VIII. WINNSBORO. S. C., WEVDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 1,1873. [NO. 51 FAIRFIELD IERALD DE.'4lOn~Iss .& 0V2.1IVMS, TIer,,<. --T~ a II li u.n jipuliisWeml WwIe * 8?iE~I!./ &l 4llTilflfly ;,it-3 h-)%vto of wi somr.), at s&:.00o ia I frinaly in n111ennenC. Wir All traisicut. advertistieiit to b r:sid in ail vance. I.bituary Notices an i 'i-rilbutes $1 00 pel THlE T109'l OF FRiEN113111 . nly TOM 11001). I once had in i inmtiae friend, So (tel r Ills calling Icanu1ot tiieewl, . ..- ., feas r I File lie s-mny but one sovr! The weary da1y long 'Twas i ny-utilberellei sI amend.- to meil Anyumbibev.l1ersteioneid Ut. thongli his profeseion is 9 , l".. I know J'd not his acquainlance for tauch Forego.; .'*eath his ragged old veat Dbats a heairin his breast, whaich - )%uman m si fortune an touch, Hlumain Iinisfortune caln touch. For once when by showers I was caught, My friend Was prompt an umbrella, unsought, To lend ; And from that very loan Shrank (he Ltest friend I've known, Sav . . ''Anynmberellastoinend-..to m1eu I Ahyuaubere'Isomenmd !" A Midnight Peri.t SAV';D nY AN ABSENT WI il. The night of the 17th of October Mskull I ever forget its pitchy dark. a, Ithe roar of thQ autanmnal 'ind through the forest, and the inos.,aut dqwn pour of 1he rain ? "Thlis comes of short cu ts,' T mut. tered to myself, as I $plooided alopg, keeping close to, the trunks of the trees., I copuld hear the roar of the turbulent stream forty of fifty feet be. low. My blood ran cold as l thought of the possible Consequences of a mis top or move in the wrong direction. -hy had I not been content to kee'p in the right road I . . Hold on ! Was that a light, or are my eyes playing mo f(alao 1 - I stopped, holding on to the low resinous boughs of a hemlock that grew on the edge of the bank ; for it actually scomed as if the wind would seg uke bodily and hurl we down the reciptions descent. It was a light-thank Providence r-it was a light, and no ignus-fatus to lure me on to destruotion fi'ad death.. 'H1alloo-o-o ! My voice rang through thc . Woods like a clarion. . plunged. onward through tangled vines, denso briars aiid rook banks, until gradually near igg, could perceive a figure wrapped in an oil cloth cope or cloak,,barrying jx lantern. As the dim light, ,fell upon my face, I alinost recoiled. Would not solitude in the woods be preferable to the companionship of this wipheredj wrinkled, old man ? Buiit 6ab too late to recede now. 'What's wantirg ?' lie sarled forth, with a peculiar motion o his lips that seemed to leave his yellow teeth all bare. "I am lost in the woods; can't you fune~ct me to R- station ?' 'Twelveo miles !' 'I stood ngha.--t.' A 'ailyoq tell meo of any ahelter iI coulti. obtain for the nightV" 'Whero are-you going t' 'To lDrew's, (down bero by tioei ma lo swamnp. 'Is it a tavern '1' 'No.. 'Would they take mo for thie iiight .11l. qould pay them well. . ils eyes gloamed ; the yellow stumipsstoodl relieved onoo miore. 'I guess so ; folks do stop there sometime q.' 'is i't far. fron here V 'Noh very ; about a half a mile.' .'Then let us make haste aind rench it.I aim drenobed to the akip. s.Weplodedon,.mny..comliapion n'ore t~na~ke.pingpn~o wih. m. ,Itres qistjy. we left-ths edge gf the ravine, entering whsat seemed like a traokloss Woods, and keeping etraight or, uutii 1,ghts gleamed fiffully through the was a ruinolus ol plaqe,.withlip wiId!w:y dan t Zo de,~ as if pi rs of the rude liorch nearly rottod aiway. A. woman answered my follow traveler's knock. MIy coQmpanion whispered a word or two to her, and she turned te mec with smooth, volu blewords. of welcome. She regretted-the poverty .of their nocomodations ; but I was welcome to such as they wore. 'Where is .Isaac ?' demanded nif guide. 'He has not come in yet.' I sat down on a wooden bench bo side the fire arid ate a few mouth fiuls of bread. 'I should like to retire as "seon as possible,' said I, for my weariness was oecesi:Ve. 'Certainly,' the woman started with alacrity. ' 'Whero ar you going to put him ? asked my guide. 'Ip cha uuiber.' 'P'uit. him in Laaao's roon.' 'No ' 'It's the me(st comfortable.' 'It toll you lno., But herg I interrup'ted the whis. ' 11111 not prticular-I don't care -wl.erc )otu lodge ne only make haste. o,!0,WRS conducted 1ip to a Wep ladder that tood in the criier of ihe roon, into ain apintient .-%i. 01ith sloping beatms and venj iiate:1 by one sinall window, whcre a cotU bed. to-id, crowded clo.-cly agaiist t lie board par tilion, 1id a ,pine table with two - i ar., forned tic atter'pts at fuitni Lii io. The woman set the laimp-an oil laip Oil the table. 'Anything inure can I get air ' INoIthng, tiani: you. "I hope you will aleep well, sir. When $.hall I call you 1' !A tJfrur o'plook in the morning, if ' on pi.' e. I must walk to R - istatioln in time for the 7 o'clock cx -Jali ha sure to.gal 110 sir:.1, ,hc withdrew leiving me Wlenc in the gloomy little apartment... I sat down and looked around mo with no very agreeable sen.sitions. ' will set doivu and write to.Alice,' .Ah1ught that will sooth my nerves ...d quit 1:10, perha1:ps. I descended the ladder. The fire still glowed redly on the stone h.qar!t.1 ; my coni.panion? - pnd., the womad sat beside it :talking in a-low tone, and a third person sat at the table, eating-a short, stout, v.illnin ods:.lookitig - inan; in - a red flannel' shirt and very muddy pantaloons. I asked for writitig mnaterials,. qpd returned to 6dy l-oom to *ito to my wifq. . , 'My. darling Alice.' I paused, I laid down ipy poh as.1 concluded the jyord, .halt emiliug to think what sho would say, could she know of my strange quarters. N.ot until both sheets wore coptered odid I. l6y dsidos my poh and prepare for slumber. As I folded my paper, I happened to glance toward my -couch. . asit the 'gleam of a human eye observing me through the board par tition, or was it my own fany I There was a orac theo-Oliit ouly blackness beyond. Yet I could have sworn that sumething had sparkled banefully at Me. I took qot my witch, .it-was , only one o'clock. It was scarcely woxth while for me to undress for three houvs' sleep ; I would lay down in my clothes and snatch what slumber I could. So, placing my valise close to the bead of my bed, and barricading the lock less, door, with two ohajrF. A .cxtinLuishcd the light anad lay down.,... . but At first vw-e., very. waefu, but gradually a soft dr9wsinoss seemed to steal over ih like misty mantle, until all of a sudden some startling eleo.trib thrill coursqd ihrough my veina, and I sat up, nofted: atid trembling. i., -in.lytinous softness seemed to glow through the room-,io light of the moon or stats was ever so penetr~ting -and by the, litte. witadog I saw Alice, nmf.. Nife, dressed in floating garments of white, with 1hcr long gol den hair knotted back with a blue ribbon. A pparently she.- was ,beoks oning to mec with outstretched hianda and eyes full of wild, anxious tender. 1 sprang to my feet and rushed,. to. ward her, but as I reached the .win dow the fair apparition seemned to vanish in the stormy dairkness, and I was left alone. In the self-same in stant the sharp report of a pistol sounded -- I could see the jagged streamns of fire iaboto the pillow, straight toward the very spot whoe .teo second since may [head had lain. . With an instantaneous real ization of my danger, I swung smyself .over the edge of thu window, jumped down eight or ten feet. into tang led hushes blow,.and,.ec I croudhod there i-e. qovering; ,tasy, breath,. I , heard thd trarwpwof footsteps in.pny room... i. 'is he dead ?' orie~d a. rodeo up..the' iladder-tho smooth, deceitful voice of the .woman.. 'Of cou.so he 1p,' growled the voice bpck, 't,bat @bqrde~would ha,va Jdilled ten men. A' light there, quick, and tell Tom to be ready.' A cold, agonized shudder ran over mo. WVJt t denp n4ditdnighat murder.. ors ha dsI fallen into '? And how fear. fully narrow had been my escape ! With, the speed that only mortal terror and deadly peril can give, I rushed through the woods, no0w illu, mated by a faint glimmer of star light. I know.. not, what impulses guided my f'ootstepa-J shtall. ntevor. know how many times I *crossAd .tia own track, or how spiany timos I stood at the brink of thoosli mitine ,bu a merciful P'rovidonee ,encompassed mue with a guiding and protecting dare, for when the morning dlawned, with faint bars of orient light against hoeastern sky, I. was close to the high road, seven mtiles from Rt--...-.. On arriving at the town I told my story to the polic, and a detachment wna sent. with me to the ot. Af cr much searching: and fa!se alarum we Aueoeeded in finding th ruinous oldhiouse ; hilt it was empty aid our birds had flown ; nor did I recover my valise and chain, which I had left under my pillow. Its Dae w'e.g tng,' sAid the lo ttIer ef the police ; land they have troubled us the.we two years. I don't think, thou h, that, they will come back here utN pI 'e, ent1'.'1..I Nor did they. But tho atungeSt part <tf ray etory is to'omno yet. Som11e thi-ee weeks ;nbsef'inent I received a letter from my si-ter who was with Alioe in her Eng lish home-a letter whowe iiitol6i gew;'e filled me with sirprise. '1 mu. tell you somiethinlg vey strange,' wrote my sister, 'that hai> peried on the night of the 17th of Oa t 'ber. -Alive had n t bceen well for smic timxe-in F1t, she had been.cond lined to her bed for nearly a wdek, aid I was sitting by her bed readinig. It wits late ; the clock had just struck o;c, when a41 of a sudden ello ieeaaod to faint away, growing white and .igid as a corpse. I hastened to eQ!l assistance, but our efforts seemed in vain to restore her life and animation. I nas just about sending for a doctor, when her sens had returned assud den!y as they had left her, ai)d she sat up iii bed, pushed batik her hair, and looked wildly about her. 'Alice !' I exclaimed, how you terrified us all. Are you ill V'' 'Not ill,' she answered, $but feel so strange, GrUcies, . have been with my hiIsband V... 'All our reasoiiings failcd to con. .vince her of the impossibility of her -assertions. She persists to this io ment that shesaw yot and was with yo.p on.the.. 17th of October ; or ruth or -u the. dierniang.of the 18th-whore she cannot to.l--bt we think it must have bet sorne dream. he is bet. ter now, and I wish you could see how fast she is improving.' This is a plain uuvarnished 41e. .1 df riot.*photend id eipi1i2,r' aoeount for itsimysteries. I simply relato facts. Letipsyc.hologists unravel the labyrinthian skein. I aim ndt supe. atitious, neither do I believe in ghosts4 wraithes or apparition or witches ; but this. . 1 do now-that altjoupgb Day wife wvas in" rglana, iii body on the morning of October . 18th,..her spirit surely stood before me in Nev York at the moment of the deadly peril that Vnenneed ,me4. Ik may be that to the subtle instiuct and strength of a wife's holy love, all thiings aro possible, but Alice surely saved my life. Treasurs of tie er. During the-dredging o the harbor of Savannal various articles of ui doubted antiquity have been unearth ed from their bods on the bottom of the .Jurky fivc, where they had probabiy restod for ogles. . .. A now comes anotherlk dlsdtnery. The dredge, while at' work on Thurs day last, near the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad , wharf, came upon some hard substdoces at. the bottom of th e river, which retjuii-ed no little diffi . eulty and time in bringing to light the heretofore unknown obstruoti-on. With the powerfql ,mashiioiy and bucket of, the- di'edge, however, the ti uaterial below gave way gradually from its fasptnessq, and was brought to the surface In instailments, and for the first timxe revbalig difaioi *o othe operators tha~t they Jhadebeti tugging away. at some old otr$ft. .9ntiuin~g at thecir work a large anchor wes brough t up, then successively planks, beams and knees, in addition to a lot of . old muskets . nd outlnspos of ancienxtwgkn.. a4 thxisi. oraft .was, cor to what nativity shxer belonged, -we are not prepared to saay with'i the few facts before us. TIhe probabilities arc, however,. th~.ahe found a lodgmnent, where s.he ne'w.'hics, durivng the tjimes of tho'pant genxerations, and may have beeni sunak to prceent the approach of the Uirit iuh fleet to the city. Further operaxtignisavaoy thr'ow,sorpo acditienal light upon~ tIA aldiscoverry ;' and it- is not, inijppobablo that tho energetic mud-digera of the savannah -might be rewrdetd. by. bringing to light the hdden .Uioa~sres of. .the.' piratical, liidd,..or tehe 'Imore recently liidden shine's ofth~e daring cunning Ulaok beard. One of thJie entlasassand~ a bayonet.aro Aa oxhxibitieff at fthe Re~j p ubliatiu 'ofko in Savannahr' The' blade of the former is so corroded that it will scarcely bear the weight of . beinag handled withoub ,breaking off.v Tho' bayonet is anouj a footior 'a' foot aWnd a .ba ht' in, length, and although very mxuch corroded, it has a very. line point, avnd is. cnpable of doing material damage at olose qjuarters. - Aurder in Girethilite,. . A parallel to thme. Hoedge Van Eaton murder has boon. diovered in Ureenville.. -A passenger from that town. reliorts then discoverj. otd the bqdy ofra tobacconis6-.in Davis' pond, ab'out a ui lo- boyonditho. cornoration. 'There weroasoveral wounds, uipon the body, indiocating that a murder had been committed. A special despatoh reports the mnur dor of a nog ro in Hlanover County, Va., by anuoth er neg ro, resulting from an altercation over.seven cents. The murderer was lodgdi ail. The.StryijPbrx Clock. In the south ttanbept of the famot eabedral of Strasburg stands th world renowned, wouderful olhi which for upwards of thirty )ears hl ttrauted visit-irm froim all ports the eart~h vuerev+r books or nuway pers ever penetrate. . The original of this naster-picco mc1l,0hniism was 01comm110(enced abu thea 1352, aud occupied IlI buildt whose namic hist.ry ha. f..i1 ed to give ui, neorly eighteen year. It was placed in the tower of til church, w loe : it .o in went +o deca frotp tie efft et.s.of th .vont:her, an the on1 Y rt .ow Vemlinlling is th c.ck. It is one of the olet piecce of mao.iiery in exi. tents being ove five hundred.,yers old I After.two bihnd'red y.ears of neglec' oe .Vouradut. D.ipypodius; a proFeso of mn'thedat.icj begin 'the ladborinil task c.f re nodeling,.ve imit say to placing it, and rdmoving: it to th more appropriate place in the church The wheels and. movements wer made by tw o.k othero.name lIabrectq of 1!witerk . . Their r-rhII wuil but soon nrgicot crept in and it wa allowed to grow dusty and rusty, unti after two hundred and- sementy year of work it broke down. No one cobit be found to repair It. Mechanie were invited from all oountries, but they could not find ne willing to 'dn dertako the work. 8o the clock we useless enough until about fifty year had pased, when a watch mIraker o Strasburg--lcrr Sehevelque-under took to repair the clock. This wasabu 1838; and after fode years of inces cant labor he completed the recon struction. And it is wonderful I in appearance it consists of a base on which stand three towers, the ecu tor,one bAll rolls, into the base below and fulling into a cup, is carried b slow motion to the top, ju8t in tim to be tipped out upon the plane again at exactly twen ty-four hours after. It ia on this tower that the crowing -roostet ihar. laced, flapping its wingf and crowing in the tioet natural man ner. This it does three times, to re mind usof Peter's donial. The con ter tower is divide- into ojiatnb.ers 4n the upper one, Christ stands hold .g a bell, on which the twelve apos tied stiiki the hour as they pans befor their master. In ti. next apartment tiny,,chariyts ,are made to pass by every day-in the week is- painted or as many outside wheels of the chari ots, which stop exaotly in front and thus display the-hametof thle day. 'gc be sure it Is twvelvo -hours Iato accoi to our reckon ing, but when the cg was made the time was calculate< from noon. The late war did bUt -14t tie damage to thi..faiuots work, and now it goes on counting-- out ecoonds minutes, hours, days, years, yes, and even centuries, with the most astro nomical precision. Thecathodial is -one of the finest ox amples of Gothic -architctii'e 'h n ex istence. Tho tower is 166 feet it height and is a master-piece of archi. teotural tasto and skill. It is built of brown s'one.cit. with syh doliat nicety as to givo ii. rhe appearance o lace.. Tho steeple is the highes pyranidial building in the world with. the exception of the highes Egyptian pyramid, wlhich is ofil; ili Farmr.'s Niaioui Congrces, - -The Farmers National Coauroei met at Indianapolie on ~thl'urdy las abid adjoftraatJ on the following day As indicating the strength of the far merst' organization it mnuy be etates that twenty.-four Statep were repro sented, -from :Vermont to floorgia, emnbracing nihety solcieties, with One hundred and fifty delegates. Accord ing to the report of the Secretary there are already ton. th qusand a grf eultural associations in' the couintry with an aggregate meembersh ip of foum hundred thousand farmors. It op. pears that two-thirds of these associa tions have been organized withuin tih past' six months. Tihe, qhuobtion oi tran.sportation' was the inoletitio tant . dicusso4d by the ('on~ gross, free trade having been gi~vet the .go'by.... The;. proceedings *r% not chaf-acteriod by ali.'y- 'eemnste.ra tions of a- politioalbeharacter; Nev~er thelesaap ogeaj~on thet e mbra, cs four h.ndred thousand. memuliera' with dertain political ten~denaica, ,Ia too, fotunIddble to be deihpiradl, is eithog politi al partpyoaod 1teither likely to do son"N. Y. II'imH'. A married un~n wgs rcbently,. dis evgg to b'ae f~tfing.%a -jonng gir ini -'l~'fld, .Tag. A- ceowdl tool possesuioni of himt, oatried! him" to public house, tattooed him, anad Aduet shim $1.25. ie was then handed ove to a .arg tiuibeP -of women, wth 'shavod the hair off his boadg appija a htuge 4troiuele 6it,.erj out --off. hi whiskeva, and emptied several bag ~of 'ilour over him. There is a railroad dowud Riuti which runs onotrain-a day, drawn b; a locomotive of about one coffce.po power. T.he conductor is so polite that if a lady shouts out.: "Mr. Cori duotor I should like a drink o water," he immediately jumtps oil blocks the train with a stick, and at tenda the ladye. fPerlous Feats; it A correspondent writes to the New it York Times that "there are two per. 'f Jriunm n'ightly 1going 'oA tiat I 6ity whibb Ould come within the r I ibitory scoupI:of"the law." lie -iPsribi" (Ife "' in one casie a yoUing .L; -i -hot from a cattpult' into the X -air f,.r a ~di.4tanae of nonrly thirty feot. t. She Statd on thu head of a ulonstroup , engine, whi'l ho1v6 Just abov''tie -L-h10, ainl in an instant is throtn into the air to a platform, the suports of c wY ich ho gr.&ps on reaching it. O(ne y can fitone what .'would hnappen if' hb: I lie d gdo way foi- an inmtant. llr c limbs mu.t be perfectly rigid when a the blow comles, else she would be r d-ilher mangled or intantly killed. A very Aight thing might cause loss of nerve-mi alarm, a ory, the fall. r ing of anything behind1. the soones','o. 41 'the lacu physicl .Ie akcnkess%. Nothing in all she duce, >Tofeo 6r 'eftor, in o robatism, is as horribly danlgeroup " This feat Is peiformed by'i W'oiab who oalls herself "rtulu," and occurs during ths new pAntomimo at Niblo'p u ai-dn bIV Is'P 0l) intent; the .same as young Leo, the boy, was attempt I ing when he was recently so, severely s. injured at the Grand Contral. The 1 other case Is described as follows 5 "At another plano a zpat ktaitidb o one bide of the tago with'a blue wine. glass on his, Oead; another, on the 'dpposiko tide, Pires a rifle ball ap4 ibhutters the glass to ioes'.A' apple,1placed in the satic position, ia pioroed by the marksman. A silver dollar held between the thumb and filnger is bpt away by tlh' ball ; and, final1f, sa i!-.-r dola 'eld upright in a bit Lof thin wood, is placed on the head and shut -away, the ball passing within an .inch of the skull. The man who fires is a good works man; but fancy what hij oiipanion's chance of life would be if anything oneurred to disturb him et dhe iesta-nt his aim was complete. It is too hazardous. lie could use a lay figure to as good advantage, and not risk life and lignb." I'lo simplicity of the communication writer is refresh.. ing. Fancy a "lay figure" taking the placeo in this act of daring of' flesh an4 blood I Why, tile trick woula loose all its intereot. Not ten people1 would go to see it. No, the denr public dclight in danger, so long as it does not effect thenmselves. Nothing oharms more than the sight of a fol low creature perilling life and limb. Effrcti ir Vcgcab Perfilles oil lnicath. An Italian profc.ssor has made some very agreeable medical re.carehes, re sulting in the discovery that vegeta. ble perfumes Cxercise a positively healthful influeice On tle atmo'sphero, converting its oxygen in.to okono, and thus increasing its oxidizing influence. The essenoe found to develor, the largest quantity of ozotio are those of cherry, laurel, cloyesi .*latendori minit, juidpor, lemobv; fennel arid burganmot ; those that give 'it in smaller quantity are vihe, nutpog and thyme. , - Thu flowers -of tOei narcissus, la Ciuith, migrno-Atte, heliotrope and lily of tile valley, devolop ozone in closed vessels. Fioweres destitute of per I fume do not develop it ; and t hpse yhich Jia.'cjut ulightispeefumed do-I +elop -in c~ty iln small quantities. Rteasoninig from these facts the pro fessor recommends the cultivation4o iwers ini marshy distriots, and in al Iplaces itifeted wvith sinimal ernana toiis, on account-of the powerful oxi. dlizin~g influence of ozone. The in ha bitants of such regions should, ho i-uys, 3-urrcgundl their houses with beds of t he most odorous ftpwcrs.., Fantal Arcident at .Marsh's Wharf. Mr. .John Edmnui d5, a man about fifty years oldy emnp1 oyed by Messrs. John' Tatylor' & Co., the proprietors of the PI.wuix Iron Works, was sojbadlyI injured, between teu and cloven o'clock ou Saturday morning,'wh ile as-I sistingiti putting a boiler aboard of I theo tug TJhomtas Morgaue ly'ing sa Mar.'s .wJpar(# tit 'lio died- soori, af'. - dr w~di. Thei d cocarod was abgar d of the vessel, with a nunuber .qf othier persons, engaged lin, 1vowi g th$1 bnllr. **1d6' '*yti tif by -'moans -of ?ovem'1'a dd? bab3L: ' 'rheboiler slipp.. 9.d,. aiaf it4 iinumense weight~, ton .tone, bouletd'rftid otorbderd one of the blooka-struek tho dedeswed witlirepst violiee, brealeng his legs an l iis collar bone.' As soou' as possibioeii was removed to .i |pe Wh ry'j ,! stret, ather he ekgire in bous$. 4 h'ilf-hiff'.- lMr. lRobt. Bonnett, the : speringendingf iorkman, das slight-1 L lg iitnnrd. Meoasys. Tagler &t0o. ex 1I pet to raise the -sulunerged boiler in -the cogrc of this week.--Newg and 'Couirier. r Thoe'n Goldshioto Mesusengor le~rns that WV. I1, Barker, of O)nslow county, was, a few days ago,- arresaed by au thiority of Governier Goer. (Caldwell, under a requitsition of Oov. Dix of New York, on the Wilninpton and t Weldon Rtallroad, between Goldsboro and Weldon,' the charge against him being that of obtaining money under falke pre'tences'. Oni reaching WVash'. ,'ington City,.Mr. Barker stopped- out ja. moment and1( the detective anxious ly awaits his retunrn. The Dress of Civil'zed. Women. I do declare that. I think it w-ould * e bettor to die and got ont of tor. teedtU'Ut ,i.9o, than have to rise every uoruin'g for rodio forty 'or fifty year:;, and bdfr one's body up i:i a compressive armor, hang weibhts to ouo's hips, and more weighti Upion one's hoad-which last are supported ,y the roots of the hair ; put on...'s feet into shoes a number too snail, and not of the right ahapo, nd with heels like ltihts ; and then aet :tbout doin bo 4holo duty of woman with a cheerful faeo and spry air, for from fifteen to seventeen mortal hours ot of the twenty-four. Thait there ar-a so n1any womeu nwho nrc not frighten ed in'.o a deoline at such a prospctt, And that they bravely undortako to do it-nay, more, thit they even -dreau- thtit', under kncli diadvard gen, they ann wbrk side by iide with an unshackled man, and that, they die in trying to do It, e-rttinly says '11eh for' -their courage, but very little for their common sence. A man'e dresq, to a grjnat extent, !.j filshIonod.for cohi fort. 1e basi con. trivances for suspoid i g the weigh t ofI his clothing from his shouldere. If the east wind blows, he can turn up his epat collar, button hiti~solf up 'dugly, slouch hi hat ove' hi3 eyes, thrust his hands into his pobhef., and brayp the ivather. Put iminiie a i6xrian romoving her hat or bonne from the anglo. at whih fasiton says shi must wear it, on ac1Collut, of the weather or t urning any of Ier $fizturos"' up to protct her nod.k i. throat, or buttoning aaytbirig th was unbuttoned before, or stick ing her bands into her pockets! She would be taken for an iII prpNr clar a6te'oht on a mild :spree, orl for an escapcd inmate of a lunatio auylum, should she endeavor, by any impropta arrangoment of her habilimoits to gave balth.-derice of//hIth. lion aeff.'- DIvis ' Miississippi Esintr ' Now Owned by One of Ills Slaves. A letter to ' the Chicago Tribuna describes a visit made in company with Mr. Jefferson- Davis to the plan tation formerly owind by him in Mis sissippi. The writer sas : k "We left at night on the R. Ve. LI o,"odo( of our -flnct steauers,,and landd'at tlhe Jlrrricaie plmiatiou .Iboit:)1 hy~h thu neC::t mornning. Thi, pLn.a imn' and another ItnowNVI known an liriariold, 'were occupiodl before the .xwpr by J. B". Davis and his b ot ior, Presidott Davis. 'They tveye 8old to a favorito freedman, Bi Montgomery,' ?or $ 0,000, pia yal. hc at the end of ten years, (Ist .January, 1876,) 'nterest at 6 por cent , payaible I annually. Uen who was very black, but thoroughlly educated before (ie war, mct us and gave us a bredkfaist, we had a carriage and rode over t'ic magnifeebt estate, the cxtent of wh iei. you can form some idea of when I tell you I hat Bon Montgomery o:ie I last year 2,500 balen of cotton aid -a large quantity of corn. We dine!] at Briarfield, the former residence of Jefferson Davis and now occupied as i't-asidenco of the aforesaid lien, atid you will not b surprised to learin that the former slave of I r. Davis greeted him wvitli all the warmit I o fiction'which the' norO capible of :xpressing. Mr. Davis mct thenm cordially, and encouraged t hi( i by many ki~nd .words. :A fter dinner; at which our wor~lthby hlost again waiited1I on us in olegan t sty'le, wet pasCCed on to a vory large arnd valuable plans~~ (fon which has .been purckased by llen Montgomery and aidded to the Davis estate, and which will add to bi c.rop -this .3year pirobably 1 ,Iu0 bale mtore, making 3,500 in all, i fit. is a good crop." ThC ss I.RV Wi tcis Exrctild jin lEcyghiid, '* The'o fol lowing brief not ieo oft lhe last portions who shuffered from witch - craift jp thenb kingdoms is euriou-. .in 1L098, a girl 19 years of' ago hav ig eaten a loaf of sorrel, whieb sheu got from a reputedi witch, fellI into con. vulsiouis hud ''voniting.- Sheu is ,'i. to havye vomhedoi nedlrn, pi nn, f'uh .i ors, ain iron knife a span long, og shell8, &. TPhe accusedl was jme, diatoly comimittod to the county jdi!, and a~t tho asis:res held aeon after, was hanged and bu rned ! In 17 2, at IDornock'outherland, an old womn was accused ofieing a witch. lloer critne was, transforming her <laughter into a'pony, and1 getting her shod by tibo Devil- 'of whiob crime she was round guilty, and burooed I The act a4ainsgt witohcraft was repealed in 1Spgland and Mootland about 1750 but not in ITreland until 1821 ! Helreo are a few of the inoidontb oif Now'York life, all of which occurred ia one day. The capta in of a boat throw his troubluooio wilo over board. T.lhe koopier of a sailor bosid. ing hans opened the bead of a hn'iler with a cheese knife. /, drunken hus band split his wifb'h hiead with ans axe. Une negro tried to-bito another negro's isor off, whenu the i'gro hso 'rooi wIiend ci~ ered pro eiael hisproooi ty cutting~ the bias throat. Ml grea't' tlhings arc done lih by lilt to. Aom ma1.4ntke w.>rl1. Tlii groatest fortun tes coniSit ol arcit . .i~ Life i madn un or.. ..-.. *i~b Spnirfeoi Won't Lcintre. The rrti 1aglilh proacher, Spur-, .;oon, Ike outr ,uat naturalist, Agns. S i, 's I riucI 14) do inl tie pr uit wic he i devot0d, i wato ti :1i in a king lioiey. Ani enter pt ising Americai lately wrote to him o!Tering! Lim m 5, 000 for twemuy.iivo letu;ra, an1d intLiu1tiu that it would be ay t, iil enag emnts all winter Ut thi price if fi whed. le wrote in (eil " yet wre to multiply ltht o !er' by one .unridrtedl times, and aI in ie hn iidrel times, I should feel it as coay to declino as I do now, when I say I cannot cross the ocoatl to lC,:tIre lipo :nilly Subaject whatever. I "rm a min'siter of the Gospel, an1d trever leet u red for Inoney and do not intend to do so now a d if ily peopio ca;n ot iupport ilt) it is a pity."' All mIuI have fithii ii ministers of this sort ; and if tliere were more of them, less money wutai, havo to be begged to build mieeoing houses or to carry ni otber ittrei enterises. A min -:ter w declines $25,000 for a fnnth's 1-ork outsidc tho pulpit bo V:uV he wi-Ahes to proach tle gospel, will siecced in uaking people be bieve thero ik truth in the gospel ho Frenehros. They will also believo their is sinevrity in ite man who reacliv; :f. Mien who are not rcli. Lives %%ill mid such a minister with oa to airry or his enterprise, the ,me as a ian, who a tS not a nattral -4, funii4hed Agassiz with the moans 0 go om with his schciuc of soiontiflo I n aution. IM1rli: of l . A. I We tak le the followinig ncount of i ile dulir Federal inomorial rV. a Mobile, onl the 30th ult., fro. n.eiater, of that city. It is cor y a withering rebuko to the ra110d Army of the liepublic, wh6 Jecoratedl the , 'ravoai at Arlington, 1441 i:+ted that iifnious order pro lilbitiniig tio decoratiou of Confeder to graven at tho samno timo and phlnie: A Loautiful bouglnet of flowers, ar ranged ii ilst , e.qisiito itaRte, tho bluc anid the gray being blended, was set pil the mound, with a card, 06hi h road as fellows ilES PIOriLE CA DETd, ' OF Tli . CON I E) EFA TE A RA[Y, 1f0NOR T1ilE b~IMORY )VnoI WH1b, TnIOUoII, THIfER ENS-. MINiS IN WAH, WvERE LIND uitAv. r!NovUn TO DO TIFIR DUTY. This tributo to tie imelory of the cdoral dead, coming from a company %+o have m-ado for thetuelves an un ying record for bravery and gallan ry onl may a hard fought battle eh; wo nreed 1rdly sa7, Was duly tpreeinted, arid received in the ptrit witlh wleilh it was intended, an ai olive branch of lioaod; a rharbinger. I good will rnd friendly fooling be weenr thle men, brve men, who ouIit tgaiit oach othei, but are now it to bury tho hatelet and muoke tie pipe of peace. It was also ii evidenea lrtha til Soith made no rar upin th doad, obliterating all i 111 ndf 1 uimoitica at the portals it the toib. tlfal Accident on Ilic $avitlialt and Cliar'tkston liloti od. A wthito man, by tho name of uriephl \Va;ll, about forty year. old, v:ai anjure:1 enr thet t rack of this rail oiad r on i Uaid ry afrtrnoon, anid died mi being narried to ()rahamrviile, a raiLle byendl whe thre casuailty 00 mirredl. 11i was riding a mule, hi-'.h w.' asy (rosinmg a road art the time' hie tra itn w 1n ep ronhing, and wheth r thOe 4 anima ie rid and thtriw its ider on th Itracek, or whether tho' rulo he struck: by thie enginie, caus.) rog tho mni to Ifall on the track and: >O ti ue' by the~ ears, is niot know#g katdurcto riumithr saw thte masn lying n th dilit ch at'ter thIo enigin IC d pass 34d u bere the mulo wars seenu, aind imn nod .i ely sto perd Lire t ra in aind pick adl him 14 p~, d oinrg aill that hro could or hh :. untttil he reachod Grahamuvillo. unov eofi en thie( first qinestion aplied e' i rg thre untor of a daughter is i, "I be rieb U Ycu, hc'- bounds *t weatlt hbut, does tat . aford -a-ny' 'vrience thiat lie will mnato -t 'kind' indl affectionaztc husband ? Ask not, I cr, "ks o rieh:J but "is lie vIiVa ns ?" A sk riot if ho haa ' w'ealth, hut ra ho liotin: And do riot sacoilae ~our d aurl hter's pecaco for money. "1 ito er knoriw-'jnd that wvas in the '1ait of1 eldinrg, able to govern a. rfrmily," rrr.y~s at corrcct observer.' WVhat mtakles people scold 1 The WI ut 1f 7.if govermnent. how, then, ret: d y grvm rr others ? 'Those who governu well aroeerally oatn'r. '-hej a re romnpt~ and resolute, but steady trndi mild.*'? In the F1l0, at hma must be some body of e-mecjruineo to have one um-' birella b llonrg to himn ; and, as a sign oft power~i, wheni ainy lord goon out huntt ing lie bud till tire umbrellas' in' p~onir onir enrr'ied by biasgroom befo-rd tutm. Inm a letter which the king iif' I ani4414ah wr oio to Lord Datlhousie, lr i lit tr6iusolf "4Tho ailbl irne lPobsn., e~ of lTwenty-fur Urubrellts?"