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Williams & Davis, Prdpridtrs,] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquirv, Industry and Literature [Terms---$3O0uer Annum, In Advan VOL. IX.] WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JT THE -- FAIRFIELD HERALD is PU1I1SUD WEEKLY BY , WILLIAMS, k EPAVIS, Term,.-Tn s in KIsAlI) publisled Week Inthe Town of Winnsboro, at, 63.00 in .wiably in advance. *FAW- All transient advertisements to be said in advdigon. Obituary Notices and 'i-.>ut c $1 00 per rquare. (For the Ntews and Herald.] "HARD TlalES." A Debtor's Foldoquy. Fhe limes are hard, I mtuit confess And mine's a sorry tale, foot omipletely out of sorts, Id And certainly must ai I'm down on all Chd merchants' books, They.'re dw n on, rd wiot dus, A'd pay rhem-if I had (tf nicans, Iut now "I'r out of funde." I have no colot now t ast'., And if I'm nout. aistaken: Why, ever pound's alre.adyi leged, To pny fo Corn and Baconi. have no,*ash, ind ngowofcourse Yetvo pocket room-"To Let," My redit's lost, and just becaus f an-inever ou of debt." There is a Bank in, (owl) "tie '.rut, With money i their va At, Yt hey wol't loud me, what I want, Iut-that is nit y fauft. My -landlord4 says my board i s duze, VI'm left, wit hout a hope, O' gt A'glearwraygiptin.full. I think ''1'd beter slope." i halr inclined to got in love, Yet T e thian half i doubt. Which is tha'grenter ovil, now Of gettingk ''In o-r Out." I have a fortuno in my head That all tmy debts would pay, I must draw on it very soon, Or I can't get away. The tmo has comen to liquidato, The thing can't be denied, "Bankruptoyl-one aternative', The o hor-tSuicide. If creditors are no( convinced, And that too vry soon,. . t .'ll take my passage, free of pay In Dannonburg's Balloon. Andhen I get beyond your reach, Methlinks I'll hear you sigh, - "I've lost my lien on his crop," But-"Hlow is that for high." The true morale of these lines, laor human nature shows, WA live too fast ; andLetry to ohe Our neighbor f his dMies, If "times fre hard" and getting wrse, Take my advico young man, Don't build your cas 0y In the air,"i lo honost-if you can a PIKE. A Mote Love Letter. My Dear Mrs. M- : Every tite I think of you, my heart flop up aid down like a ciur-dahr. sea - tions i exquisite joy caper over it like young goats on a stable roofe and thrill through it liko Spanish needles Asat gsnaingmh ith bdelightern aWhed pude fis semlI yini a'seaof~ glory.etisionas bfexidrd rapture, rhinki whrle aue ofk a bunmble beeuin a bghteth tu he huoy ofea humminge~ bid's pinion visiorm in ~ cony town;rs andl liftne my envitbl meatnd th rsalhoer t aspnt of your voiner Mnappingu rc fue utter.g Whed n s int adohinyor angenlth ofecetin oas bwlvered, an thrmy rans whiloeth aon lit umble fo bee e a gl oumbler Myo felle peno opy lie a soeliarc door. an j ouldr ltw, ande Ip byte my booato stato the topvofytaeqentroofstour vice. Myo togerfse owg iyand naortio Iaren in mhe wthuhs infctin ofuor, lsthirngy like' braidoe, h a~ frombsadr ofeor hisktuefu layunob. leteeb tesing holghsof our the fellt Icoul ifg morysef the bywmyeboon sigrpsetothe trop his thedndrgruste.. pl, nd puohibng-op for hi onn' ersh.g inegt wchentew bel iondea and he n the lowimy hodghts. Whe Aurra milushging. gumikea bride, ri er fi-om saf r-clo ed eouah ;ewhen thy boso idm. pe hi uru ha in ik the app-roof by thsorl hos pewen *te ghanti youer' watrfll flrimn voit unboadedth awe. og forhdisrisortefreh toon elbow of an d wenthe yoringe rhgoros omehold mIng thie, liquid depths I see legions of little Cupids, hathing, like a cohort of ants in an old army craker. When their fire hit in: upon my manly breast, it, penetrated 'y whole anatomy, as a: load of birdshot through a rotten apple. Your rw.e ig from a chunk, of Parian marble, antd your monith is puckered with smaess. Nectar lingers on your lips, like honey on a' bear's paw ; and myriads of unfledged kirsea are there ready to fly out and light soniewhere, like blue. birds out of their parent. nest. Your laIugyh rjinge in ny ears lihi the wind strain, or alh blul. 61 hi astray laib on a bleak hill-side. Tfhe dinples onj your cheeks are like bows on bed of: roses, bellows in cakes of home-made augair. I am dying to fly to thy presence, pnd poiur gut the burning. eloquence of mly love, as a thrifty house keeper pours out hot coffee. Away from you 1 am molancholy as a sick rat. Sometimes I can hear the June bugs of despondency., bu7zzing in my earv, and feci the cold lizards of do.. spair crawling down my back. Un couth fealru, like a thousand minnows, nibble at ily spirits, and my soul is pierced with doabts as an old cheese is bored with skippers. My Jove for you is stronger than the smell of Coffey's patent butter, or the kick of a young cow, and more ,ungelfish' than a kitten's first cater. waul. As a song-bird laankers for the light of day, the oiutious mouse for the fresh bacon in the trap, as a mean up'hiankers after new milk, so I long for thce. You are fairr than a specliled :pullet, sweetor than a Yankee dough. uut fried in sorghum molassc-1, bright. .er than a topknot pluniage on a inus. covy duck. You are candy kisscs, raisins, pound cake and sweetened toddy altogethee. If tieoo remarks will enable you to see inside of my.soul, ard ine to win your affections, I shall be as hap py as a woodpecker on a cherry tree, or a stage horso in a green pasture. If you cannot reciprocate my thrilling paision, I will piino away like a poison'ed bodbug, and fall away from a flourishi g .vine of life, an untinie ly branch ; and in the, coming years, when the sliadawa grow from the hills, And he. philosophical frog sings his cheerful evening hymns, you, happy in another's love can come and drop a tear and catch a cold upon the last icatiag 'place of Yours affectionately, II. The citi Pet kcd Rin. The lien pecked man is most gen. erally married, but there are instan bes on record of single men being har racsed by the pullets. . Yu can alwus.toll one of these kind uv men, esposhily if they are in the company uv their wives. They look as reqjgned to their fate as a hen tur key on a w.et day, . . . . There aint nothing that will take the starch out uv .a man like being peeked by awoman.. It is wus than seven months of.the fevei and ogy. The wives of henpecked husbands most alwus outlive thair victims, and t have knowi them to got . married again and git hold ov. a man that time, tlqrak the Lird !) who under stood all.the ionpck dodges. One cv these kind of husbands is an honor to his sex. 'The henpecked husband, when lie gits otit among men, puts on airs uv bravery and defiance, and once in a while will gi' a loet he drunk and and then go htnme.with a firm resolve that lhe. will, be captain of his household; but the old woman soon .take . .the glory out of him, just as she would a half drowned chickens that had fell into a swill barrel and had to be jerked out awful tjuick.-Joshs Bil linys. utpper Law. The judges ajgear to be enforcing the Tupper liquor law all over the State, and, as a consequence, liqunor sellers geperally are very much ex.. ercised upoA the subject. Judge Mgher, at Colleton, last week, charged the grand jury tliat a grog shop, wvithi a few bundles of fodder and a mat.. tress thrown in a cornor didl not con stittyte a ta'vprn according to his con struction of the law; that a c{art license did not mean tat they could nell one pint anrd a hailf, but that the letter aned spirit of the law must be obeyed, or. the olhndlors milght ex pet to suffor its full penalties.- Union Hecrald. .Manchester, N. H., has a post-ollice romlanice. Re'gulairly every two weeksi for the past sixc yea. a letter has been received there addressecd to Dr. -, ini a; feminine hand. Week after week uh~e letters are advertised, but no one claims them, and they are sent to the dead-let. ter ofle at W ashingiton. Oni one oCca sion a bit of lace in one of the letters caused it to be returned, but tihe simple signature of "IEmelino" furnished no clue as to the identity of the writer; and so the ,whle matter remains a mystery, year after year. Colored people are not permitted to sit st. the first table inl any of the first.. class hotels at Saratoga. Practically, therefore, they are not entertained at all at Northern watering nPlae Looking for Lodgings. A few (lays ago a couple of young men looking fur "furnibhed roomaas to rent, inquire within," were- treading their way along Kearny rtrot. . At last an attractive sign met their e'yes, and they bounded lightly up stairs to interview the:proprietor. ,Thoy.w-.ro shown to several rooms, one after the other, but they all bad a musty odor, were badly ventilated, away from the sunIligi-t and outrageously high. priced. Blut they had been aft.cr rooms altogether too often to ru fil, Lhe tolings or a lodging-house kqeper and knew exactly what to &o. - Now; a novice would have looked at the rootns and remarked "These rooms don't suit me at all ; I don't want 'en ;" whereupon the worthy pro. prictor would have rejoined : "Then why do you conic around here get. ting me to turn the house upside down when you haven't got the coin to rent a respectable room I" and then kicked him down stairs. In this case, how over, the spokesman talked after .thijs fashion; "'hese rooms suit us just to a T, and we'll bring our things 'round in about an hour and take pos ses-ion to-night. Just put things in order and leave the kcy in the door," Then they ho.ti walked down stairs anid started Oft to look up something which would suit thom better. After walkirg along a short distance they saw the sign, "Furnished .Rooms," just around the corner, and rushed u stairs at once. Now, curiousfW' enough, this was only another elf trance to the same house, but in their hurry they did not notice it. In ra, t spone to the rirging of a bell in the hall the sain man they had talked wnlh but a few moments before canei up and took in the Eituation at a 1 gl ince. "1 Well, what can I do for you? ' . t "We want to see some rooms. We've just been looking at some 'round the corner, but we don't want any old pigeon roosts and bedbug asylums in ours at $20 a month ; not much. Show us some good clean rooms right off." "Then you didn't like th'o rooms you just looked at a few minutes ago ?1' "No ; they are too confounded dirty." "Then what made you say they suited you to a T, and engago to take 'ei to-night, and tell the proprietor to leave the key in the door ? Say, can you tell me that ' and the mnan advanced and shook his fist in front of the noses of the two young men, who now recognized how matters stood and sought the ,treet immediately, as if the house was on fire. They now have nice commodious rooms about two miles away from that lodging. house. Deep Sea Currents. The principles involved in the eircii la',ion of the waters of the sea were beautifully shown before the Royal Go ographical Society recently by a siiple experiment. A trough with plate-glass sides, about six feet long and a foot deep, but not more than ain inch wide, wias filled with wate.r. At one .end a I piece of ice was wedged in between the sides to represent the polar cold ; while the tropic heat was represonted at the other end by a bar of metal Il acros the surface of the waster, the .pro~jecting end of which was heated with a spin t lamp. Red coloring miat ter was then put, in at the warmi eiid, and bIet at tihe cold end,~ so thsa.thle currents coull! be tracted. The blue water, chilled by conitnet with the ic, immediately fell dowii to the bottom, crept slo wly along, and gradually rose toward t.hc surfacet at, the equatorial end, after .whieb it gradually returned along the surfaco to the at arting point. The11 red water crept first along the surface tso the polar ond, then fell to the bottom just as the bino had dlone, and~ rormned another atratum, ereeping back again along thie bottoml and comning to lie surface, ENachicolor madle a distinict circula*tioni during thia half hour in which the audience viewed the experiment. New Bank.. It will 1)e seen by referenec to .a1 yortisemenit of W. B. Ouliek, ] q., I ini atsother "olunin that a new nat ioina I bank lius beon authior-ise for this city. Mr. (Id'sick will ho eon hand to receivo .nubsoriptrions to stock, or those who many derire to take stock s and live at a (distance,. can got. foll part ioulars by ..addreesing h im by mail. The amocunt to be subscribed is limid .o $100,000, collections to coinmnenco when subscrlpt ions are coinpleted . Aihr. Gulick aind the books can be found (durinig bum-iness hsours~ ut, the 'Union Savings Bank. Unio n-HIerald. A witniess in a lato dhvorco suit kept I sayinig that the wife had a very retal-, I iahinsg disposition-that, she "retaliatedt for every little thmg." Did you evert see her husband kiss her ?" asked thm a wife' counsel. . ''Yes, sir, often."r "Well what did she do oni such occa sions?'' "She alwasys .rctaliatedl, air." U [Great, langhter and wife triumphant.J The coroner's jury at New Orleans in. the case of the late .Judge Coolcy, thet victim of tho recent duel, returns a vern- 1 dict of murder against thic suarviving narticilnants in the fatal aff'air. 1 Eve's Daughters. At a young ladies' seminary in Kan. sas, marriage is a part of the grudtua tion ceremony. A helpless invalid lady in Califor uia oliibed a tree in a lively manner upon i. :.' .P.'u, uter ner. Mrs. iUloomer, who once robed all the women in the land with short I dresses, still lives at Omaha, where I iho owns consiiderable properly. "Trousers for girls" is a niv plank. in the reformation platfortm of ,ho Brooklyn Young Mcn's Christian isIociation. A Cincinnati girl, not yet eighteen Foars old, has had neArly 6,000 pho. ographs taken, seven tooth pulled I ut., been on fifty excursiobs, and re- 8 tdsed seven oftors. A Massachusetts postmistress has resigned her ollice, as a* matter of, ioncsty, because she cannot find time. o read all the postal card& and at-! end to her other duties besides. A fast female journalist of New orlc city, with an eye for the fancy, h ately lost seventy pairs of gloves t )Otting on the races at Jerome, ark. The women of Wot-el coanty, W. d Ia., have formed a vigilance corm nittee to prevent their husbands b isiting the grass-widJows who abound q u thote pairts. n On-. h".mnred and ten lady students 11 rere matriculated at the Univervity f Zurich, in Switzerland, at the last h er~m, A *Vermont school mistress, fifteen cars old, who could not aanswer one uestion in her examination, has a alary of $1 50 a week, which is carcely an inducement to knoty any hing nre., Charlotte, Michigan, has a hand ome femalo doctor. Sickness has teen very bad among the males since he lady hung out her shinale, and she as kept two boys constautly employ, d making bread pills for her pa ieuts. The reigning bentuty, in Rome at iresent is the Austrian Prinoess Furs. omburg, a groat dark wO1!an, with * nan-liko black hair, a huge coiffure, 0 arge black eyos, rich. skin, ljoroic f, eatures, and a Venus bf Milo 'form. ,i )ae can hear ,her talk and laugh 0 breo saloons oil. The recent discussion in Bontob "on t he admission of women to colleges s ias been the cause of general con)- 0 nent thloughout the country. Opin.- d on is apparently equally divided oil ho subject, but everybody seems to e gree upon the propriety of letting I ,his question go for the present, and 1 nakinig more useful schools specially L titended for women. Mrs. Sherman, the Connecticut Borgii, has been interviewed again. .he said z-he knew she had dono very vrong, and hoped she was truly peni- n cut ; was content with her lot, know- ! ig that she fully deserved it, and U vuis alsw happy to know that she can i lever c->minit such crimes again, no - nfatter what tewptationsashe.utightbe fi uhject to. After lificen minuten of this L ind of conversation she was seized c vith a fit of weeping, wheroupon the t iterviewer took his departure. . thetn (dressed for the evening, the girls I h Searce an atom of dress on th~em lerve; \or blame t hem-for' what Is all evening i dIress, ui a dress that is suited for Eve ? I' - .. ... ... . t "HeI returned his back pay anmd met, C is Ureator with a clear cons.ciece'C' io ho solemn cor~clusioni of anl obituary Oin r deceased Western Congressman. T'3he repubbeiain papers,"' saya tihe I jqwrence (Kansas) Standard, ''aroI fraidi hat the de~imocrauts may get be-. uindl the grange'rs. The republicans are rivitng very hard to get bt~eoro and in lhe way of the grangor. We adviseh lie reptublicatns that the farmers' forward ij i(noveent is a vigorous. one, and that ab hoy~ (t he farmners) wear heavy brogans.' Says the Lawrenice (Kansas) Itepub. j can Jouirnal: "T'he diepjoprat ic~patp.s at 'fliciosusly assure the farm" rthats 1 in any olitical en tterpirise theyv muiderinho lei (< Sil have t Ie democratic pa rtyV beltindl a hem. ..T'Ui rentsinds one of the.posi~tioni. t.l f,Mickey's.hiorse in th cerub tace. v B~edad,' said tho cheerful owner of then si *d -'he'o drivitn' everything before si A few weeks since a cioiz n .of louisa Co unty, Virginia, named Na-|d ban Johnson, died. On opening hts - rill directions were found to took, nider the fronmt steps of his house for, ome butried . tmotney.. Trhe ' sum .of 1l2,500, in twenity dollar gold pieces d ras foumd buried in f->ur tin boxes. o )uring the late war the county of ". aouisa was raided on by the Federal. a roops several times. On one of a bese occasions Mr. Johnson sent his p ervants out to watch the approaching c mauraders, and took eccasion mean- a rhile to effectually conceal his ai unds. Madame Seebacht was rieently fined 'no hundred florins, in Pesth, for at empting to secure gratulitous ad vert ising t ty falsely reporting ilhat shie had had e tolon (rota her eleven thousand franca' a vorth oi jewselry.n Irant's Third. Term-Party Machilucry In Motion. It nppears that the movement of ,he .k lice-holders to secure the re lomiinatiou of Gonerul Grant for a hird trm inhas already commenced. [t is stated that thoe ;elairArie er ad l nt. hong Baianch suverul days ago, and it is not denied that he President is cognizant of it. Those javing the matter in charge. sce- to ouut.very largely -upon the divisions mpposodto 0Xisti.n the ranks of the >pposition', and t*fou their ability ,a rally the moneyed interca.ts of the ountry to the support of their scheme. Jnder the head of "moneyed inter sts" they include the national banks) he railroad corporatioins and thc argo capital.is.ts. This', they allege, ,re for Grant, because under his ad ninistration it is not likely that all% egislation will be enacted hostile to hese institutions. Another argu ieut used is that there is no man. in: be republican pa-ty wbho has do. eloped greater popular strength than rant, and it is hardly probable that 'ithin the next three years he will ave a dangerous rival. Of course lie official pationage will be used in lanipulating conventions and -in so. aring delegates. Some of.the Presi ent's friends thifik..it Is too soon to gitate the question of the succession ; ut the matter has been :ept very uiet, and it was not cxpected to be tade public until at least-a year, once. If Grant should fail to get. ie nomination his friends assert that a will, at least, be Able to nam1e his icoossor.-Wlash. Cor. Boston Post. Kele In do Current. The following vermon is the best a have ever road. It is said to- have cen delivered in the Presbyterian ieture room in Montgomery, Alaba a, years ago by a negro preacher : "My Brodren," says he, "God ress pour souls, 'ligion -is like de labama river ; in spring come fresh, n' bring all do ole logs, slabs, an' ,ieks.dat hab been lyin' on the bank, r' carry dea down in do current. ynicby de water down, den a log etch here on dis island, ded a slab its cotched on the shore, an' de sticl:s a do bushes; an' dare dey lie wid'rin a de shore an'dyii' t ill come 'nother esh. Jus' so dare come 'vival of igion ; dis olo sinner - bro't in, dis le backslider brot't back, an' all de ilks sei 'eomin,' an?, mighty good ines. But, L rcdren, God blev.4 your >uls, bymeby 'vival gone ; den dis Ic sinner is stuck on dis ole sin, don ut ole Backslider is cotehed where e was'aforo, on jus' such a rock ; den no after 'nother dat had got '1igion es all along de shore an' dare dey io 'till -'nother - 'vival.. Belobcd redren, God bress our souls, keep in a current." Colonel Simeon Nair died . yesf 'rdag t his home in . Newberry. Colonel 'air was a- promiment ei'izen of t he Ltle, and especially well knojwn in the. pper counties. Ile was on able-law 111and wo i high distinction in his pro issiohi:beiig for aquarterbf a centuiry. efore the'war, noli'litor of the middle ircuit. After reconst.rniction ho- at mnes appeared . in the public prints on intters of political importance, and eld a high position. ini the Democratic arty. 11e had a lag prcie mnin.. ,' in the Supreme Cuir t of' ti hi t', j which, uip to thne timec of' his deathI, e ardently dervoted hlimIself.: Duiring ie up country troubles of '71, ho w/as alled to Ce Innbin by.Governor Scott, ih ohere, to attend a conisultation ~gardinig thio.couirse of tho State adminu trti ion in secti ring peace and hamniy: le leaves a largo number of' personal ienids wvha will feel his loss deeply. Ss. trange Blirdls. .Mr. . A. W~yatt informs nn that o recently killed a stonge fowl on Al. son *greek, *imat- M iler's mill. *.' he ird uGas three feet. in height and ltneas.. red siZ/feet. from tip to.Oip of winig. .8 hill measuredl eijght inrelh.a ini,. ong-h nd next to the head wias the cainiSlnum er pf inlces in c~rcumference. . ts quill aothers wer(of. a,. 4aric botide. gree~n,' vi iiiiheaid mid -nel a dove dolor, and' a hbodty perfectly vhnite. The --neck as thick as a mant's wrist., and con rned for .strength. Its afeet'. were i inches In breadth, containing fonr 'e each, which were night inches in sgth. The bird is evidently a stranger tis section, though somne (lays before is one( was kied a number of them ere seen lnar the samo spot - York. The most nraetcica lover has been I scovered at EBrisiol, England. In one' his h-iers to his sweetheart he wrote: [ wish, niy darling, that you woil not 'rite tmo-Rinch long letters. If you 'ere to bring an action for breach of romise againt, men, the lawyers would >p the corresponideneui between us.,. lid charge four pence for-every folio of sventy-two words.- The shorter tho ttcrs the-more woesave-fromn the law' ers." And yot he was not, a lawyer. E x-Oov.'HoIbert, of'Lotiislapsa, in ifeorn - mnication to the New Orleqnii Tirpies, simmits himself fully ib.theg''tnolphei j! at the details of the Unification reeve. 110w to Wnllk Well. It seems an easy enough matter t walk, and yet very few ever learn t do it, properly. One can recko aminong hii 4eguainta neos very mans, 1ine looking men and women, but .'thpe, not..one of the c utire numbo is a good wa':er. The ancievt pou tells how tle goddess wns known Il her walk, but that distinguished mar] of exalted birth eeums to have passet away with the old mythological days We talk of lordly port and queeni, hearing, but such scions (if royalty a, have visited our shores seom to hav very little that is regal inl their per sonal carriage. Wo are not withou flino specimuns of male and iomas beaury, but we are too often d'Ien chanted when we see these \eise, and Adouises moving about. There is no real reason for this unseemliness of motion. Meu11 and women are par. ieular encugh about their dresp, but the' shaniLle, tro', or warble along without much apparent regard for the appehtaane'they make. One of the secrete of good walking is to be able to balance the body easily, Qrst on one foot, and thwn on the other. When the cold!er has learned to stand steadily on ore foot he then Oan Walk without Sivying, and preserve that steadiness in marebing whHi is Al. ways a mark of well drilled triops. So if civilianu wish to w-lc as wul as coldicrs, they must like them first learn something of the mysteries of balaniixing. - lut it is not till ea thing to stand :;c.Adily on a narrow sole with a SaIl heel, and his14 i3 just the diffleiulty with the wilkind of fashionablo peole. The sand-led feet of those ancient loeaut ies, Vihose forms are handed down to us preserv .ed inl marble, are beautiful itn their 1nrestrained retuirahines, an'd are very unlike thoso of modern belles, or boaux either, for the matter of that. With low heels and broad teos, it is not diflicult to'bI lanie the body, while by draiwing in thn chin tihe shouiders are naturally thrown back, the lungs given full opportunity to expaid, and the head carried ercet. F'ashionable boots and high heels must be dis., carded, or it is useless to mako the experiment of learning to walk well. The Yellowstonc Expediflon. :-Ocorge Alfred Townsend writes "6My iniagination has been touched at Bismarek by seeing a part of the great overland Stanley expedition .:etting out. This is probably the largest military force which ever crossel the plains, uless wo e:<eept Alfred Sidmey dohnston's army for the red netion of the MorImlon s inl Utah, in 195 9. It is commasanded by 4;e,. cral (Colonel) Stanley, the superb do fender of Franiii, Tenn., just, . prior to the battle of Nashville. Tho cav alry is commanded by that chivalri young sold ier, C(uIstar, whose hir 18 1 li' . around In a flight like Lydia Thomnip. Son's in the break-down, but h imind is at anchor all the while lilic a countryin au's eyes fastouned upon thi-aid Lydia. This grand elamnd armed caravan icelosos tIme little party of railroad engineers, con manl. ed singularly enough, by an ex-reObl cavalry general, I tosser. of Virginia. 'Th is 11111 is a shining in t.neo of 11he power of personal #.od to reu pcrate arid come to the fa .nt.- Jhe i. a West Pointer, and left the army at the outbreaik of the rebellion to lbe come the irighst arm of .J. F. B. SMtuuart., Dark, hoav y set, and a sold ier by i n etinot, lhe left Virginia in search of employment whlen thin ioad was moeot. ed, and, finding no better po:,ition, took an axe and chopped his way with the laboring gangs. They found him out anid made hiim a rodmuan, chain carrier, &c., and thenee lie as cended to be a scout and guidoe. In thd dead of' winter lie started oin with ten half breedsa to locate a part. of .tha rorad since built. Last year, racrr Ihismarck, some Sioux got be tween him and the. rivrr, and felt conndent of his scalp. Onie of them crepjt up to a tree and fired upon h'm t ice. Tbuec ext time the Indian poked o'ub his~ head Rtover planted a ball riglht behveen hio eyes, and thev dashed upon hio horse' and broughst the dead body into camp. Roaser i'snow assistant chie'f engineer of the Northerun Pacilio Itailroad, and no person in the expedition is more popular than he." T1ho precanni ons take'n ini Bos3ton a ga inat Iires asre ii nubihes, andl it is inmprobale~ that the ciiy willeOver augain1 be visited by a p~reat conflagrat ion. Thme following not ice, painted ini hieavy blac:k letters on a white grounrd, is being psut ini a consspiensem position onm all sin safe buildings: 'Khis buihiling will be dlangeros ini case of lire. Placed hero by order of David Chambherlasm, inspec tor of buildingy.'' Sneh a badg s of shame will doutless prove an effe-ctive remedy.. The posters for a Caledonian pkmec, which recently put, usp in San Francisco, coitnineil tho pitdmre ofea bra wny A in the :act of. iseavmng a rock about thec sizo of a waIerme(lon, andit svhen thet Oiiineue saiv thuere they were frightened~ nerarly out of thecir wit;, believing it to be a call for the organization of a "ui t,'d orderoftcobble atone throwers" te r9elt the Cuinicae. ledlc Glit Eclipscd) o We were shown last night a won o pon which ij a triumphant trophy of a the inventiv.e genius of Kansas City. Itsurpasses tO famed needle gun of , P%-l'rufa, and throws the minie and r Ilenry rifles and the French Chairei pot. entirely in the shade. This unique, neat and deadly weapon is a retent invent ion, know as the Hap. penon breech-loading rifle, of which our enterprisng fellow-oitizens, Mr. Thomas 11aire autdtr.' 1lapponon, are the owners and patentees. Without at present attempting a minute con. stru"-ivo description of the gun, we wi bay that it is a tmodel piece of muechahism, neatness, sy mmotry and proportioi. It loads at the broech, and can be fired all day at the rate of' twonty-five rounds per minute, the ball bPeing 'the site of -the ordinary nluio hall. It weights but soveia pounds and has almost an nocurato range of one milo, and is a-dead shot at 1,000 or 1,500 yards. This dos tructive weapon and ingenious contri tance was recently on exhibition and trial at Washington- City in presence of old gunners hnd emperionood martinets whom it flfled with amazo. ment, carrying off the blue ribbon over all competitive fire-arms tested. 'This is something of which our city may well be proud. It is bound to mukc its mark and its boiso in tho world.-ansas (Yy TimCs. A Womit fi a Balooh. Mr. John Shearer made an asoon sion from Reading, Pennaylvania, in a balloon, accompanied by his wife-. Thle Reading Eagio says : "The bal loon shot straight to zenith until it struck an upper current of air, when it veered away beautifully to the east by south. At ono-time the balloon was over two mile's high. Mrs. 'hcaror eloped her eyes until they had reached an altitude of five hun' dred feet., when she looked out and, viewed [ho beautiful panoranma stretched out in beautiful magnifi. conce below.. Inst.cad of becoming frightened, she was entirely the re verse, and expressod horself no being highly delighted with ballooning-. Under the-dif-ootion of her husband tho regulated the ballast, and made hersolf guite useful. In fact, the lady was so much pleased with aeriat navigation that she insisted uponi m)king an ascension alone. The landing was somewhat rough, though attended by no injuries. They cma down in a field, and were bumped several times against the ground, but as the balloon neare-1 a fence thd auchor was cast out ard the air-ship secured." Eiu'en these copp-cr-colored out. throats, the Apache Indians, haVO a touch of delicacy and romance in them. From a lecture delivered in Sin Francisco .by Col. John C. Car: many, the following account of their con i ing customs is talcon : "Nlevery young girl' is at liberty to r.c rse a ::uitor for her hand. 'Ihe father, mother and brother - aro pros bibited from interfering in her ehoice. Her person is at her own disposal. Aftc a brief courtship the lover rnakes a forul prdposal by offering 0) amny horses. hlorses are a stan dard -of val 'o among the Indiansj As thme squaw does all the work, horses; rre accepmted as an equivalent for her labor. "When a young wnrrior becomce ennored1lho fastens hii horse near the wigwvam of the squaw whoso hand lhe seeks, where he is left four days. If she fails to feed and watcr thme horse during that time, th~e master is rejected, but if sh~oadedjts his offer~ she grooms anid lkindly cares- for the horse, aw'i then ties him to the wig. wyamm of her lover, as mucih as to say; '1 am willirg to be your slavd and do your work.' At tho rharriage the saige-t nnd sachema meet 'together,, anid the bride -is not unfrequently loaded with forty to fifty pounds of silver arid copper trinkets." We shall be tjutt cont'ent to as Mr. Benjamin F. Butler nominated' by the ltopuiblicans of Massachusettg' for Oovernor. Indcod,' we are nfi certain thast it is of nll thi'ngs thq~ cotlsummation rmost evoutly to bQ wished. -To have ;it othuerwiso *tod he to put a curb upon the inexorablo logic of events. It is, in thi ng flow of our polities, onie of '-, tible results to which thth .g re power in the niation has .og, O"". long tim~o terrding' ;aas logio or death; Jetter have it - over with tharn always !thrt. It is &n interting g'udstion.i; cal philosophly, ats wdll as iiuh how much the atod'noh of Mos sotts vill stmnde This will go , solve it.-f?. Y.~ Tribun.\ -A Tortland~ man caught fishing for trrout on another man's land the oilier' day complettiy alloinced the owner, who. remonstrated, wiih the majestic answeri' "Who wants to catch your tront ? I am onlt trying to, drown this worm." ~Colonels Hughes and Mosbyv are in WVashington and have been in, conulta-' tion with government officials for evoen al dnvs.