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Williams & Davis, Proprietors.] A Tam 'Iy Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquirv, Industry and Literature [Terms-$3U or Annum, In Advanor VOL. IX.I WINNSBORO. S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 30, 18T3. [NO. 3 THE FAIRFIELD HERALD IS PLnJ1ICJSD WE1lLY .gBY WILLIAMS, & DAVIS. Termns.-Tux [ir,[UALU is published Week in the Town of Winusboro, at $3.00 in r ariably in advance. AtVr All Iranslont advertisements to be .id in advypion. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1 00 per square. A Western Delnge-The Bursting of a Wiater 8pout. On Satuiray e'veniiig last the vil. Ingo of Ontario, twenty-two miles Poutheast of Sparta, was visited by one of the most disastrous R~oods ever kq9wn in Wisc'6nin. At 9 P. b. the rain commenced falling, with every appearance of a heavy shower. The rain ..foll steadily -,Yintil Vidnight, whou all at once the "windows of heaven wore opened," and seu forth *'n almost solid body of water. In thirty minutes the streets were rivers I and the village a ..vaft ikkel. The 1 "lower part of the town was submerg., Sd t'.the.depth.of six feet, filling the - lower stories of the buildings and i driving the occupants, to the chamn- a lers before they could remove the goods from below. At 1 o'clock on < 1unday morning the Water had, roach- < ed its greatest height, the rain had i ceased to., fall ard gradually the wa- I ters subsPideld, until '.4V3un9WUfn of I that (lay the water had receded from r the streets, and the Kickapoo river < had .r-tir'ed within it . proper banks. i Ten bridges across thuit st.reame in i the town of Whitcstown, were carriedl away, and many others ji tiio adjoin-' i ing towns of Star and Clinton. Both .tlio 'nldams in the village of On tario are gone. When the waters I subsided, droWned ,hogs) bat),io and t sheep were found in all directions, 1 Plnd the crops on the low lands of the I Rickapoo vvlley are completely des troyed. Fences in,that valley and f Brush creek valley near by are all f sw.9pt away. - 'he damage to that locality is im- P Mense, many. ,osking all, their crops, a their most valuable housdhqld goeds ( and also their stock. Fortunately no 4 lives aro known to have been lost. I The suddcui fall of 'vatbr is supposed I to have been the result of the butt- I ing of a water spout. The desola- i tion produ6ed, isiaid-to-b'ggara de.g cription.-,Sparla ( Wis.) Repubican. - - - t - Love by Wire. 3oMANTIC MARRIAGi4OF TELEinAlit OPERATO118. The report of Mr. Soudamore t6e )iiector of PoM Telbgdipha in Great Britain, contains a romance of the most originail desgription. After paying how successful he has found the system of employing male and female cerk tgghthei, anid .Iion piuch the tone of men has been raised by the association, and how well the women perform the clsking or Witlt I finding branches of the work, he goes on to t4baeak of frieudships fqrmod bb. tween clerks at either end of a telo- I graph wire. They begin by chatting at intervals of their work, and leiy soon become fast friends.., "lt is a fact," continues Soudamore, "that a telegraph clerk in L-ndon, who was I engaged on a wire t Hrlinj fo-. e. I an acquaintance with, and an attach-I pgnent for,--mark the officials style of the language-"a female olerk w)o. worked on the same wire in1Berlini ;i that he made a proposal of marriage I t8 her, and that she neceepted him< witho ut having over seen him; They wei'e married, and the marriage, I w~hich resulted from the oeotrio affinities, is sup pgsed to have, turneid 93it as well as t Lose in wlicih the conses are more apparently concern ed." Nor upust the prudent reader run away with the idea that these young personls were very (psh,.or that they married. witliout due acquain tance. For it is a fact thatp clerk at one end ot a wire ean read l~y tell by the, way in which the clerk att the other end does his work "whether he is passiogate or euk, heerful or dull, sanguine or phlegmati,' .i1l. uiatured or good-naturd."-Journal of the Telegrap.*.I Hlorrible Muirder li Oreenville County. ,Cn Tuesday morning last a hlorrible tuurder occurred at the p lantation~ of $1Ir. Joel Ellison,tini tflowwr jpart of Greenvillo county.. , he parties con--I corned were two 60 o* 4(plip, tpn or twelve years of age,~s1 '~ wore driving the mules attached to t threshing mnachine. The .boys tiarrelek ,tho larger one, a son of Adam James, threw the smaller one, a son of Morris ilumbert, down to the ground tand deliberately 6ut his thrqNt. The boy, though fatally cut, pursued his murderer for about fifty yards and fell dead. James was im ediafey arrested and Is now in the Greenville jail.- Union Iherald.. Sad anilPFi(al Aeccident. We regret to learn as wf do through a friend at Harrisburg, that on Monday, Mr. Samuel lKrwin, one of the best citiznns of Gabarrus coun ty, was killed by a fall from his mule ~at Pioneer Mills in that county. lie lived but about twenty minutes after Vhe fall.-- Char loll Obiserver. Impending Fashion. Every now and then we get a refresh ing rumor from Paris that startles us A few weeks ago it was the reporte< abolition of gl.9ves Fri<Ay it is the gbdication of corsets. At Very,. jnn thing to do away with the last nine< articlep, according to Dio Lewis, Eliza beth Stewart, and old hygienic Mary A Walker, besides our jrmy of etrators h have eatnea the titles of doctors an< professors through tirades on corsets For a woman with a thirty-six inch %Ylst to go,colianjsini her ht eI with Dorset of eighteen or twenty inches they are undonlitedly unhealthy ; but a corse if tW enly-two inches a wa ist , of lhe innie 4jipgsions is a comfort, a staf, da supporb.,... In Aimee's group were several L'rencli women who went without these affairs, tAs they werpqinte stout, toho, er:ct.iv ridiculons'. I, as the papers atate, cor iets are actually abandoned in P.%ris, a ine looking party they must be. The atest Frenoh -made areisep a .4tes'es to more. They are mere draping3 with he.fparfully low necks, absenco of all leeveg, and a mere strap going over the inked shoulder,'johiig tihe dress at the mall of the back and the pit of the ato nach. The Okirt is strangely and won erfully hung. It laps and folds ; it is al ih Iiglitho~ld.d h b s ' ed t ghtly about the entire gure. Prom beneath this drapery streams out two-yard trsin. Out-door costumes i.tade1 as far as thedrapery is con erned, in the same style. These fash DRnB demand revolving pedestals, and vl'at dancers terni "slow movements." .o 4 ess of this kind euld be taken on ta owneris back in a 1!iry inygijere. )f course, corsets and a good many ther articles of nnderwear, hitherto weiekidispensale, .wll )have to be aIen' o.' tor the "Empiro" waist. A t $ 'ery swell wedding lately the high-toned elles,held 'their arms like trussed )Wis, t'PreveL the. silk and lqco sus. enders that did duty as idreaSaisto -om falling off their shoulders. The og bridal party were to the number of do-en pfiotographed, and if I were to end a copy up. to Connecticut I'd not nly be prayqd for .Yil the bhurches as e.Jejt', l ut I'd be liable to indictment or aqnding indecent pictutes ,by ipoil. o gldvs I..Tljat'st. OrPadtul for , nice ooks. No corsets I That's bad for corn prt ; and no waiststo our drepes, atid halage.4in to be cool for summor, if L possesse, no other c~cided a4vant ages.-l-ont Mrs. Burnliaizm's Letter to liissouri Repauca n. bear Killed. 'roTq thp. last issue of tpe Kingstreb 3tar, wo ta'e.the following "A large bear was killed a few lays ago near Salter's Depot by E. E. McConnell. Two of these animals Verg <isco ered by A nero woman, 0heY were Iasoiig; through., a field, roing in the direotion of Santee river. some of the citizens went immediate. y lin pqrauit with dogs and gunsi and )efore proooqdin far in the olids rd .Ujtpol to a tree,,,. This fiotght ,e arti te.a lait,pnd his oompanion ga 4 its esoagd. . Jtdging from the >rodigomg. asie of. its par,,.it g ist iav, beena monster. One won4'd uppose that in an old country like his,,and wheye, t9o, there pre so many lInters,thap tJeso rare anImals would ave long since become entirely .t. inet, but tloy are frequently seen und. killed 3b ouk the, largo bays and n Bleek and San toe rivers. They are emiinders of the primeval days of our coutitry?" Ir, Davis Screnadecd at St. Louis by 80ome of hia Forneor Slaves. The St. Lo~ugeU1iristamn A dvocate lays during ex-President ,Payis' .recent risit to that..c Sy, *ond sw,hile he ,was be. ng ,called du y....crowds of respect able itizons, and receiving j(paietatipo~f espoet fr om hun redepf ti.it most promi. ient and worth lqdies apd gent lelpsi >1 th~e city, there ocunirred a. ..little epi. ode ora very pleasing charactor. One jghmt duiringt his sta. at the Plaintrs' -ou~se hp was seren adod by ;eoic qolor. ~pe e,wh qwore forwme@l.,lisl a nveni. .fter th ir dulce~t strains had ceased, fr. .av~is.called them into his room, vhere, aftler cordial greetings .on both ides and a little chat abgst,.pldstiios, me made each ajanriseme present. .At nothei- time during his stay lhe wvas call. Son by an 'old aunty,', who had been he nurse of his eldest child. 'I heaffec. ion that the ex-slavep~jpmrtmfested, to beitrfo~m,9t . ifp'hsid hnd the interesl ~vhicht he manifcested for them and their uture welfare were really affectihft. The noit Presidential c'ampaign ~Ide fair to be the. most esoiting and most l adly. mined cang ~s evei tnown ,,n oltr }dstpty~ What *itl the rat ora, and the railroads, an51 he pybudiness, Jmd a few oth ,r tii arj lvelyJssues, the bR~tl< .L ~asuredly be hot,' and it will tas be skill of the oldest political sta gers to bala o~ themsplves nicely oii the feno.-- iladelphaia MSar. .An mneano man, mnowinig grass i Pennsylvania meadow, wiih three oth ers; suddenly turned, and running hi Bcythe through one of themi, John Myot killed him. The poor lunatic imagine that, as all flesh was grass, his compaioi ought to couant an part of ~he strojn Prepare for tc Cholera. Of the first importance just now, .Ihen the cholera is around us, is care I of personal health. Temperance in cating aid.'drinking ; regular hours fol- bleep ; frequent bathing. 'in pure I water, good, plain, substantial food, avoiding to much ice-water, or drink ing lifo, d 'Whei beted. If a person has any tendency to bowel comp'aint a flannel band should be worn around tho bowol., reaehing from the ribs to the hips. If any -ymptoms o' d arrloie shoula appear painful or painless, rest is the imin9diate thing to be done-abso lute rest ; let no excuse whatever prevent. Whatever medication is re. quired'should be under the advice of a physiean, who should be sumin qud proniptly, for it is.during the Trst stages of this affection that remedies should be applied. A few hours do.. lay may prove fatal in the end. Sani.tary. caro( , premises and places.?*"- ninlight, flresh air, puro water and cleanliness are the greatest and best of prophylaxes. In every city and town there should be general Oleansi4& and a removal or thorough dlsinfection .6f all sources of decompo sition, vegetable or animal. As Ecientists have now fully settled upon the opinion that "all matters which a patient discharges from the stomach or bowels are infective," when cholera is thq prevailing epldenio these should be especially guarded, anU whatever poison they may contain or eliminate be immediately and ut. terly destroyed or render'd innocuous. This may be.accomjRIishcd.by the .is. ,infooCants which any druggist *ill supply. I F One of the most imposing funerals ever seen was that of the late Ex Governor Orrj Min)ister to Russia, who was honored by his .brother Masons, in New York, with every demonstra tion of respect. The be dy lay sever, al days in state in the Cit'y Hall, the Masoli Jeehing j'uard over it. A -rocession, composed of the military, Masons, and the city and other ofleials in carriages, was fQrmed and the body remoyed to br. Hepwoi-th's church. The hearse was drawn by six white horses, covered with black netting, and led by six colored men in black attire,. The streets through which the .,cortege passed . were densely thronged, as wero the steps aid will dows of the houses, some of which were draped in mourning. So crowded was the church that several of the lodges had to reamain outside. After the reading of the Episcopal servicos by Drs. lHepworth and Tyng, the Masonic ceremonies, which were very solemn1 eommenced. ,On their con. bltsin the casket wiiA carric1 , to the hearse, and the procession was re formed for the purpose of conveying the remains to the boat which was to e.nvoy it South. New York has sel dowa witnessed sd impoaing a funerpi display as that with which the. Masons honored their deceased and respect ed brother, James L. Orr, of South Carolina. Rapid Growth of the Patrons of 11us bandry, '* Owing to theo.rapld . groivth of the Order of Patrons of Ihusbandry, the headquarters of the National Grange will soon he removed from George. town to Washington, whore the Secro tary's office will hereafter be located. Since the first instant, about 350 subordinate granges have been or.. ggnized, making thq total ,number of granges in operation over 4,70o0, with pn aggregate membership of about 350,000. The Order seems to be growing most rapidly in the States of Iowa, which has li,750 grarges ; M is. souri, Indiana, Illhinnis, blnnesota, f'ebr~aska rgud Wisconsin. In res ponse to rcqueats from different States several additional general deputies 1ipve recently been sent og~t by.,-the National Grange, to ei'ganizce ubor' dinato ranges. Trhero are at present, S tate Granges in Arkansas, California, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kan.av, liciigan, ?dinnesota, ftissiasi m, Missouri, Nebrask a, North C~arolirna, Ohio,..mth Carol'L na, Tennessee, Vermont and Wis consin. . . An ?rgument that Hai No Effect. Jnstice Bartholomew I2ynchi, of New. Orleanr, is one of tI .e j'iolicial 'notahbilli.. tics of that city. Afiter listening to a two-hour argument by lawyer llagan the other day, lie raised h~iislf a lowly inhschair and inquired very muildlv, Aeye through, Mister lfiagan in "Yes, s~." "Arc ..ye sure you're. through ?'' "Yes, sir, quite sure." "Well, sir remarked .Lynch, "you, argumentt has had no more eflecet upon. thme..pour than.. a sp~ooncul, of' water on the back ofa duck. .Th'lere's been judgment entere~d up against ye (or an hour or more." An astute showman has conceived the idea of obtaining Arctic foxea for ex. hibition. All attempts to keep these animals alivo in cages have hitherto been failures, but the showman referred to thir~ks'that by a combination or cage and refrigerator ho can manage to make n "bigr thing on ie"s of the snnecuainn A Train for San Francisco Wrecked and Robbed. Cmic&co, July 22.-A special dig. patch from Des Moines gives the fol. lowing account of an attack on a train of the Chicago, Rook Island and Pa. celii Railroad last night : The train left Council Bluffs at 5 o'clock with four coaches, two sleeping cars in the rear, the tleping oars being filled with a bonpany of arintecrat:o Chi. be on their way to New England colleges. There were ilso two bag. gage and express ears, in which was Lho t brough Califonnia apnil an .x press matter consisting of nearly ',. 000 in the express safe and three tons of bullion. When about sixty.five miles west of Dos Moines, at about 8 o'cluck, at.a sharp curve in an ieolated spot and nio house within thl:ty miles in any direetion, the trai:t golog about twenty-five miles an-hour, the engineer, John lafferty, saw n;uddenly one rail removed from its place, about sixty feet in front, and instantly re versed the engioc and qppliod, the air brake. Whoh 16 the act, bajlet canme pelting into the engine like hail. Tho engine ran into the bank, turned over, throwing the engi:eer, llaffery, and fi-eman.o.ut, thte firqafan falling (Nn the latter dead. It is suipposed Ilafferty was killed by the concussion, as no bullet wounds were found on his body. The fireman escaped unhurt. The trainjbeing very hpav.., rpn about oge hundred feet and stopped. The bag. gage cars doubled and were badly smiashed. As soon as the train atopp. ad several large, athletic men, in-s k ed in full Ku Klux style aplpeared at the express car in which was the con ductor, William Smith, Superintend ant Royce, Express Messenger John lBurgess and there other persons, and ominenced firing rapidly into the car, Athers yellin'& "Get out there, damLun ye ; get out of there." Two bullets passed through the clothes 6f the ionductor and two grazcl the baggage master on the side of the heal. The nmates jpmped out to the rear, under )over of half a dosen revolvers. Two >f the robbers marched up and down the .rain threatening to shoot Any person wbo.sh.wed his head, saying : "Get down out of sight, dainn ye, or we will shoot you." The robbers then book about two thoukSand dollars f express money, opened the mal .saok, but took no lctters, aiounted their horses and rode off teross the prairie in a southern diree. Aion, the whole being done in less Ahan ten n inntes. Fortunately, lhough they did not out the telegraph wires, and Superintendent Royce has tened .to the niearest teleg aph station and telegraphed in all directions. 1NEgines and a posse were sent out from Council Bluffs, on the - Burling ton and other roads, to intercept the robbers. Their dress and yoices indi cated that they wore regilat bush-. whackers. They evidently , in tended to get the jusual ralua.. ble express matter sent over this road on Monday, but which went through on an. extra train Sunday night. The robbers during the day stole a spike bar and hammer from a hand car house at the station. . T.hey drev the spilies at one. end of the raila. They .scoreted themselves several reds away, and s the engine ap proached pulled them out of place. Th'le promptness of the engineer lii reversing the engie, and the use of the aiy breaks, ravedl the passen gers from harm, not one being injur. ed. Thej1 track wvas at once laid around the wrecked co'-s, and the train again resumed the trip, utrriving here 7.30. this. morning, hurt ging th e dead body of -the engineer, who resided here, and who leaves a wife and three children. ('ash fromt John Bull-4alhamna Claimts. NEw Yong .July 19--In the. trans, mission of' the Alabuama indemnity fund of fifteen million five hundred thousand (dollar to the Unitedl States, the English Governement avaliled itself ofthoe, asistan'to of three A merienn banking houses in London,'J. 8. Mor. gan & Co.,.Morton, Ro'e & Co., and Jay Cook, McCulloch & Co Thme bankers determined to tmnnsmitilhodi one-hulf through. thme ordinary chan nels of exchange, and recordingly Morgan &S Co. .have drawvn bui)lu .for about eight million dollars on London houses and sold the n,. that anmount being placed to the eredit of Emnglatmd on this side. It is not the Intentior of the bank. era to trarsmit any addhitionmal sum~inu this way, but the balance is to he sent over thlroughm slpmc-nts of five-twenty b)onds$to the* amount of seven millions f~~ hundred thousand dollbars, a con. siderable portion of which has already been obtamned. Tlhme transaction in exchang~o was manmaged quietly at the instance of thoc Chancellor of the EL. ehiequer,~ who was afraid of the effect that pubhicity might havre on the market. TVhe honds will be turned into gold at par, making the full amount of the indemnity.__ The miners in Relief district, Oregon, recently went almo.t wild with joy over the birth of the first ba!'y in. camp. T1hue blacksqmith's forge was tre nsformed into a battery', anyms were madle to an swer the purpose of ordnance, andl a keg of blasting powder waseconumed in hr., ing salutes in honor of the stranger. The American Dead h Mexico to be Cared . qr. . . :Congre'eo authorized, at its last des. ,aiov, that the Presidont should pro-, vido, otof the ordinary annual ap. propriations for the maintenance of United States nilitary ceicteries. for the proper care and preservatioti aid miaintenanoo. of the ceretary or -buiial ground near the city of Mexico,. in which are itterred the remains of oficers and soldiers of the United States, nnd of citizens of the United States, jvbo fell in ba-tt~ld or- diod in :and1'tront th'e' City of Mexico. The gravcs of the soldiers are not dimtinct ly marked, but tto graves and tombs of sone of the office a and citivens buried there nro ndatly enclosed wit h the usual evidences of ropoet. For a quarter of a century, the cemetery has been in charge of the United, Staten Gonsul, but bit'anow been trans ferred to tho War Department, and will he subject lereafter to.the rules and regulationi affecting the United Statos.national military comoteries. Colonel Mack, Inapeotor of ceto teries, has just receivod. a number of photographie views f %ohe ceni'tery, and will visit, the-. plkeo next fall with the view of making such im -, provenents as may be regarded as necessary. The Negro and the Mule. The flloWiing a necdate, finely iutistra. tive of the charateristi:s of two' deni zens of the South, we find in the editor's drawer of Harpar's Magazine "'he ns-gro and nule (writes a friend in C!!ntoI, La.), are insepa'rablo:.com panions in the Southern cotton fieldn, and like Clio Iliawathan string and bow, useless, each without the other. The lazy indifrreige. anrid careless cruelty of One, and wondeiful powers of'iidtrnaac of severo labor, bad treat.ment and neg leet of the other, complete the compati bility,of the two rages necessary for the production of 4,00q000 of. males.-. A chnracte'rttic anecdote may be relirbed by those who have had : experi'ence of I lie two. The spectator had1 tnken re. ftige from the sti's perpendicular rays under the shades of a spreading bpeech, sub tegmine fagi, and lay rectimbent, enjoying the fitful breezes and the cor bre frothiness of a country newspape:. Along Lh.e. dytstyzrqrd. . w)j icli passed by this retreat ca.e ogginga negfro, mourt, Pd on a mule, both appareitly fast asleep. As thO sotniolent pair approached tho pot, some wicked sprite of the piaco gave the paper a flirt, wl'ich wa's no sooner seei and heard than the mule, as mul1es only know how, instaitly 'wai. Pc cinl, a id leavn the n.ro pr'a w litn in the dirt, took his departure under full sail. The negro, half arising him. self, and wiping the dust, froin his eyse !ld uironth, I4'atched the rt:reating it)mils for some time in silence, but at hngth, tinconscious of an anditor, gave expres. sion to - -t his philosophic soliloquy: 'Dat's what makes ie 'spise a tmule.' J1 D listressng. We nre informed by t gentleman who wnm in attendanoe at court in Yorkvillo on '1uneday liat thnt-n hile a Cour.pal was -arguing a case he made the discov. ery that a portion of the jury, which was mor tly negroes, wYeie Found asleep lIe suddenly stopped his argument., an. witlh astconishmc'nti ptetured on his cotm teniance appeakl to the Judge; "May it please your H~on->r, the Jimrors are asleep, please have them aroused." The J1utdge eyed the -tObunsel andi t hen the Jlurors and instanily ordered fans,- onds for each Jaurord .atnd with a couple of baihff's ove'r thomn and the .exercise --of using then ftans airoused them to a sense of' their duity, and the argument went on.-Rock liil Lcaternl. An Affray-One Man Cuts Another Man's On Tuesday evoning Inst in tis town two tmen by the name of Steele andc Gordon heceotnie.engaged, in a ituarrel. A busive language was made use of i hoth partms;,. Gordon used. improper language. aboust fSteek.'s 'wife ohien Steele "wvent for"' I~inm with a pocke't knife. Thinhiroa Iasthe place of atack, and htad tho knife pbnetraied an eighth of an inch deeper a funeral weid havet been the,. coisettend6 Drs, Ted weds I'obertsofi '. and Johnstoni sewe'd 'up the wonii<} end Gordon wett by . way' . rejoicing. Steele gave sc'enrity for' his appearance before the Trial Justice atnd went homo.-. Rock Hill Lantern. Whon- a man ges to Colorado, nio matter what. his social standing may have been, he rests on what the miners there woul call the "kard pan.'' He got's to the h ottomi and wor'ks up, by brain and muscle. A graduate of' lar vard i-,a haitcer out tbero; anid one of Yale a printer ;a rancheman is tihe soa' of a Genera'l ini the British army ; four ether granchemen are br'othera and sons of a former Governior of Bengal; two are the sons of a Liondon banker. and an Alumnus-of one of the. English universities is manager of a dairy. Such is society in Colorado-very mueb mix ed, and every man proving what is in him, and asking no favors. Why is a man !who marries twic likeo the c aptain of-a vessel ? Because ho has n. second mate, The Collon tliques. SJAnP PRACTICE IN Ni-W YOnK- r-n111. EltNi-:Ri TIl' vicTII--AN IN. i)i. VIEW 01' 110V TiJINGS AR. IANAGkD IN TII NEW VORK COTTON : CIIANGV. As an observer of events occurring on the floors of the New York Cottou Ilxchange, 1. propos'e to ventilate eer tain grievanrcs which are borne by the Southern merclhant and plaiter, not generally known to either. A nd it is the method comionly adopted by which they become heavy losers, whilat unwittingly abetting speoula. tion always rampant hero. W\ o will miako a statement suppostitious of a Case in point, sny : Thomas Jones & Co., of Charleston South Carolina, having no intereAt in futures or intho plans of the Bull Ring," or clique, aid having a couple of hundred bales of actual cotten on hand, ship tho Famp to Williams & Co., of Now York, and advise that it be disposi'd of in th' mannor nk ing the largest returns to them. It so happens unknowingly to Jones & & Co,, that Williams & Co., are no 'tor'ous and a-:tiret members' of the bull organization, and it is their in-. tent that all cotton of the grade. of good ordinary and above, known as contract cotton. ble not sold to any one who would deliver it on a contract, and thus satisfy anil wipe out one1 hin dred or two hundred bales of the short interost.. Williams ; Co. would not doliver the consignor cot tonl on a contract even were thoy instructed to do so, and would find an excuse, such as "too poor for delivery," or the thous rind other subterfuges etaployed would be always ready ; the real reas on, be it*-known, why they would not deliver on a contract as ordered is, Lhat after the usual transfers, it would be fOally received by :a bull 'to pro. Vont it -ctting into the haids of a bear, and I hat would tend in a vmial ay certainly to woaken the ring, and would also be opposed to all the priniples upon.. whiah the srucess of the ring are Imned and controlled, being in fact simply a transfer of res, ponsibility from one of the ring to another of the same stripe, neither to b offered by tho one nor aceted by tho. othere : A southern merchant who bas cot ton.1ed horc in the iids of a bull cannot sell it. And why ? Because the exporters sco two cents, a pound loss in any tl.,' buy to ship abroad, arid .will have nloneo of it. The spin nors have lately become disgusted wVith these artificial prices, and hav ing a dull market for their manufac tured goods, prefer to await develop ments ind lower rrices. For the reasons horetoforo stated the consignee who happens to be a bull will not place it oni contract for a July or August delivery, for by so doing lie would be diametrically op. posing his Owin Interests and that of his -ring, mid- the reeni1t in the - cotton is ollowed to remain in store house until the ring nocomplishes its purpose) which of course is to force the bears into a FeLt lenient ft, litph prices. Then what follows ? The severe strain under which the mar het has labored is suddenly slacken eoed, and then comles the collapse, and' prices dec!:ine-three p~er cent be how thle pric:uhlat er'oH hia.: obtain-I ad for the cotton oni its first arrival in New York, if it had been pilacedl on a cont~rset anid sold in the interest of the consign".r TIheo noral of thsi: story is npparent. Refore cot ton is n-hi Tpped to New York, first find out the proclivities of ti.e receiver, and if it be one of those well4-niow~i o be of the en-rth eairthil,y. make another select ion, andl sendl the consign ient to a houtse of conserva~. tit'o~ction, who'ntould idascc tho cot tonl to best adlvainge, for all rings and cliques are atL ieast demflOralizinlg, an n ino time ou5 lt of tena t hios wvho I ormi parts .of thnemi are uinser,,pulous11. : fins advice followd would leave the Souithern merchant free of the inonhusi of carrying cot tin of this year's growth into the noew erop, no0W sa near at hanid.-N. 1. Cor. Char. A Shower of' fMngr. Reptilts. A dispatch froim I't, l'aul, dated Ju tly I 5, says A gent leimn froii Elk River, in ie erbuneo county,- IollIs of a shower of reptilos which fell tipoun a meadow oii the farm of ild wardl Uphami, near that place, on t he moring of the ad inst ant., during a hieavy ra in anid n id storin. TPhe meiadlow, lhe rniys, w:5 thick ly strewni withl the bod ies of I he istranigo crea tures, none of which wcre discovered alite. T1hey are describedl as about aix inches long, having gills and finu like fish, but having also four legs each, about two inohnos long and ter' minating in OlmiWS.' One person who saw thema declared thati like creatures exist only in the waters of Mexican lakos,.froma whience hdi rupposed they might, have been carried along by the windI until they wera dropped ont Mr. Uphari's meadow. *John Carpenter, of Michigan, han stopped smoking. H~o knocked the ~ashef- out,of his pipe on a keg of blsting r owdor. Gambling l1o0s. , A Sariatogm correspondent of tie Jiostoni Globe says that lIdies are f,)r. bidden to step forth within the pre. oints of Mr. John Morrissey's great. and elegant garibling ' henso. This veto was put upcn th ladies by t h Young Mon's Chriitian Assocition, for the purpose of paving the ladi:-; and ruining the men or 119 would ap. *poar most clearly to sensible mimd, for the purpose of ruining both. For how are women to hesaved if men go to destruction I And -much more certatn is the fait flint shniting tho women out from any pleee where nen congregato is the best ime'ans in the world to abandon it to doubtful fat o. A lady, however, - went into John Morrisseyv's hour the etber day anI looked it over. Sh11 Was nocom,. pied by a highly agroeable aid in. telligent Southern gentleman to whom she i.- greatly indebted for a imito explanat-ion of the work ings of Ghii institu(tion, its follien and fAI'. Igs. The house i mnagnificent in frescoing, carving, fiurniture, cut glass, carpots and chandeliors, he yond anything that can probably b alen in this country. Tlhe c.Ard tables -were covered as it was very early in the morning, so shE was da prived of witnessing the games. 'Tlhe most extravagrant and costly food is served hero on plaito of silver and gold. Tho waiters ore, the best trained. Here is tho- Ofiwe where (ho business of the raeing is done, the pools bought and sold. One looks upon the whole thing, takes a realizing senso of it1 all, and exclaiis, "What an elegant and superb hell I" brinkiing impure Water. Set a pitcher of iced water in t. room inhabited, and in a few hours it will have absorbed nearly all the perapired gases of the room, (tie air of whioh will become purer, but the water utterly fiftly. This depends on the fact that water has the faculty of condomning aid thereby nbsorb ing nearly all the ga es, which it does Without increasing its own bulk. The colder the water is the greater its capacity to contain these gases. At ordinary temperature, a pint of water will contain a pint of cnrbonio acid gas and several pitts of ammonia, This capacity is nearly doubld by reducing the temporptnro to that, of ice. Honce, water kept in (lie room awhilo is always unfit for usc, and should be often removed, whether it has becomo warm or not. - And for the same reason the water in a pump should all be pumped out in the morning before Pthy is *It:4. 1'That which hans -,tood in a pitcher over night ii not/lit for cofTee water in \ho morning. Impure water is mhre :a. jurious to health than impure air, and every person should provide the menns of obtaining freeh-,- pure water for all domeatia uua:-I.change. Alabaan News. Mobile wan excited 4 few d 'ys ained over what threatened to be a serions orngedy between a handsome woman, and a gentleman who was so drunk that he begomo erazy. - By request their namRes are not published. --The Birmingham iNews goes for .t'ho R.'eferend~ gentleman who ranr awny from that plaoo when the cholo r-a broke out. The caterpillars arb ejhre-.ding around the nnighborhood of Solma In immenne numbevu. The planuters nro' ti'oub led-g:-eatly, and trying to devise conmo way by which they enn be do. atroyed. *1). J. p'owere, a:young inon, cit izen of Mobliloh killed himself !Fri'ey night by taking enrelessly an over-deso of Chiloral. Thiere is to 1o iv g reirU reunion of the Alabaima Confeds at Clayton en the 24th of' July. There is to Ibe a din ner and some speech making. Converting Colorndo Dksert into anl JM land Lake. *'Thae San Diego Union states that a party, with a completo outfit for a slay in the field for eight monthr, ln'a left, that city on an e~xploration of' the great Colorado deslert., with the view ofe neeert'iingu the feasibility of con verth:.g it into an inland 1ak.e, by turning in upon it the watora of the Colorado River. It seems to ns that this is a business about whinli 13nela' Sam himself ought to have nominethiung to ray. Bunt it' the interests ('f 'coa merce-and -the pl'ogress of ci viiia in demand it, it does net make muoch> difference wh~o accomplinsthe . work,' whaethevr i6 be dor a by' rivame p'artios 'ir by the government,. AThe 'nowspiipera -'thre'ghouit thei whole country are'ntill harping eiver the insobriety of theo l'reisdont. [6 is ecessively stranige that his E'x - celloncy enn't get on a harmless spree, throp or -'four timeg a day, withouit getting into all the papers. lie is, boutnd to- beeome famous, however,, and havingefalled in everything else,' he is trying to triumph over Johne Barleycorn, and then, hike Alexander of old, we auspect that he will gob 'nmaudhing- .drunk,- and cry, becq~uge. there are no other wordlin to conmqer