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Williams & Davis, Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted t6 Science, Art, Inquirv, Industry and Literature. [Terms--$3 00 or Anm, i Advano VOL. 1X.] WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3, 18T3. [NO.1 TIlE TAIRFIELD HERALD is 111111111811Mt) WIC-W 10-Y 14Y WILLIA.MS, & D)AVIS, Teirmi. -T~Ils I-uarA i publishOd Weel inthe Towr. of Winnsboro, at $3.00 i a- srizbly in advance. - All transient advertisements to bi said in advance. ,Obituary Notices and Tributes $1 00 pel 0.quare. CALDlWEl:I OF SPRINGFIELD. NEW Jans.ay (1780.) *loro's the spot. Look around you. Above on tle height Lay the ltCssians encamped. By that church on (lie right Stood the gaunt Jersey farmers. And here ran a wall You mty dig anywhere and you t vrn up a ball. 'Noliing more. Grasses spring, waters run, - flowers blow Pretty much as they did ninety-three years ago. Nothing more, didl I say I Stay one mo Ient ; you've herid Of Cald well, th parson, who once preaoh ed t he worel Down tt. Springfield ? What, No ? Come ( hat's bad, why he had Af lho Jerseys allame ! And they gave him the imme Of the "rebel high priest." lie stejok in th ei' oro, Vor he loved the Lord God-and lie hated King George ? lie had causeyou might say ! When the Ilessians that. day Marcied up with hnyphausen they stop . ped on their way At the "Faris," where his wire, with a child in her armns, But alone i.. the house. How it happened none knew 'lut Gld--aud that one of the hireling crewv Who fired the shot ! Enough-there she lay, 'And Caldwell, the chaplain, her husband, away ! Did lie preach-did lie pray ? Think of him, as you stand y'lie old church to-day. Think of him and that band Of militant l~loughboys ! See the smoke aiild tle hCat Of that reckless advaneo -of that strag gling retreat ! %eep .he ghost of (hat wife, foully slain in your view And what could you-what should you what would you (10 ? Why, just what lie did. They were foft i'a iho lurch 7?orthe want of more wadding. lIe ran to the church, Brohe the door, stripped f'e 'peivs, and dashed out in the road With his arms full of hynn.bouli:, and . 'hrew down his load At their feet ! Then, above all the shout ing and shots, Rairg his vjice-YPut Watts into 'em Boys, give 'em1 WattS!" And they d'd. That is all. Grassses spring flowers blow Pretty much as (hey did ninety-thre'c years ago. You may dig anywhere and you'll (urn u a hall )it not, always a liero'lilte this-and that all. ..tT11RT Tile] F rilltf 51Ovellieil anid Prices. The order of the Patrons of Hus baudry, besides giving the politicians a world of trouble, is hurting tSe business of another class of people, who have heretofore made comforta blo livinta from the farmers. In this .taat r'egardl, the order baa accom plished its only great practical good so far ; but this itsrilf gives reasoni enough for the eisteneo of sonie auch association, Naturally etiough with the institution of granges, agents would offer them whiolesalo r ates for goods taken in bulk, and the farnmers were not slow to appreciate the value of co operation in business, and now practice it, to the great ditmage of the business of the mid.. demten. The large sumis paid to tigeuts and drummers were, ot oourse adlded to the coat of the articles, and were paid by the farmors wifo bought them. By the co-operative method all this esponso is dono away wlIh, and the farmer gets lisa goods by sa i nch the cheaper. The large manu fdttries of agricultural implonmonte Bpent large sums of nmney t o sdp. port agencies which are nmow sup plante dby the grangos, which vir tually get the money formerly paid to the agencies. Each grange in some of the Western St ates has its corn mercial agent, who buys whatever the Granges need at wholosale rates, directly from the manufacturers oi wholesale dealers. Of the savinf i pffected,some idea may be obtained from the fact that the agencies of omt firm alone cost them $60,000O pm annum, whbich amount is now saved1 ii the oest of the goodls. Th'e annual t as formerly paid by the farmuing popula Lion of Inidiania, Illinois, Iowa, WVie conslin, MIinniosota, N obraska, Kansa and Missouri, because of the larrg, number of niiddle-mion, is estimate< to have bee~n not less than $5,O00 000. Tihe Raving to thie farmors by tht present system of 'co-operate purchr sea, says theA merican, is illust rate by the price lists which are now for wvarded to the agents ot secretarics c the ranes.A sewing maclina 6umflpatny proposes to sell at wholoesal for $:1, a machi no which is sold a fotail for $50, making a naving ( $20 to the wholesale purchaser. An other sowing machine qrm offers equally advantageous discounts. An organ manufactory ofrers to sell to the graugers at wholesale, instruments at $138 which arc retailed at t175. A manufacturing company, largely , engaged in making agrie.ultural in). plemernts, oefors to furnish their ma chineas and utt nsils at a discount from regular retail store piices of twenty five per cent off. A firm in St. riouis has offered to sell to the Iowa Grange agents, mow. ers and reapers at $.85, for. whi6ih 1110 *is deihanlled for single ma chines in ttore. In everything else there is a like saving. Dry goods men and grocers likewise offer favor able terms. Thus the purchaserssavo the money which they had berore paid to the agent or local dealer. It is estimated that by the instrumon tality of the granges, the farmers of lowa and illinois have sav'ed over $2,000,000 during the present year. Not only is the co-operativo principle introduced into such purchases, but co-operative stores have been estab lished and mills and factories bilf. If there were no other good to be expected from the farmoers' movement this alone would indicato its exis. The Blick Prophet. IOn111 AIOUT TIlE ''F.TRAOI1 DINA nY RE L.JGIOUS DF.LUS]ON AMON G TIlE SPA It TANJIURG NEGROES-A IAIIKY I'll. GnIDIAG1 ACROSs TIll MOUNTAINS. SeLAI-rANBUao, August 8.--For the last, two years a negro preacher, by the name of Bobo, has been the spir. itual hld and adviser of one of the largest congregations in this country. His couch is situated about twenty uiles of this place, in a densa negrp settlencut, and s6 great was his fame as a'binister of the Gospel, that his members were found on all neighbor ing, and some dibtant plantations. 3obo is described as a negro of gross ignorance, bt blessed with that pro fusion of'spe'ch so often fo'und in his race. Ile is said to be a good work man, but.of very loose xr.orals in every thing but the strict keeping of the Lord's Day, and an almost austere ob. seivance of the forms of religion. 110 thus possessed all those qualities necessary for a Jeader of his people, We will see how lie used his peciliar talent. During the last month a kind of revival has been in r.rogress in Bobo's church', and.a few da-ys ago it culminated in one of the 'greatest reli gious demonstrations ever aeon in thi country. Bobo, from preaching Chriat, went to preashing himself.as "the new prophet high in favor." His doctrine was that the Lord bad corn man'del him to call together the children of Zion ; and lead them to the promised land, distant but one hundred and bixty miles, pod where they could have wings and fy. After much exhortation and many midnight orgies, he said that the command to mareh fiad ieb'en received, that his disciples must sell all they had, and without scrip or sw(rd follow him. Ile thus persuaded sone fifty or six ty to obey hini. The poor, deludcd creatures sold 'crops, stock, and every thing they had, at a great sacrifice. On(e man sold his crop, said to he worth six hundred dollars, for one hundred and fifty dollars ; another sold a cow and a calf for one dollar and fifty centn. 2tothuing couldi dis suado them from their purpose. iThey said it wvas the command of the Lord, and they must obey. Just be fore they started the prophet said there was yet one more thing to be dpne. It was n'oe'ry to the0 success Iof the journcy that thme oldest peroion among thme faithful munst be sacrificedl, because lie being the oldest can tell the Lord most, about any of ns. On examination the oldest person was found tabo a~ woman. She was takeni andl conufined in an old outhouse until a stick of a peculiar growth could be found wvith whieh she must be killed. Shem did not seem to mind her danger, but rather to rejoice. Slie certainily would lhave been a martyr' had it not l)Ceen for the neighboring whites, wio had to use some show of violence to release her. TVhis was a damper on the prophet and his followers, but did note divert tiem frin'm their pur pose. Plaicing their smalleet chiildrcn and a few provisions in a two'-horso wagon they set out on their 16aroh. On the maerah several attempts were made to dissuade themi from thoir folly, but without turning to the right or left, with eyes upturned they went on withoutnmahing any answer. The lather of themi thesy were crossing thme mountains in the direction of Tlennessoe. Tlhi- may seem) like fic -tion, but it is true ; the witnesses e;ro a here, aind I have written no more~ a than what to-day can be heard in any 1 crowd of in. an~y family circle of this . country. The exodus is the granid theme of conversation and the wondor o of the people.--News and Courlei-. IStatistics show that during the past -six months 60,000 people have arriv. f ed in Texas from F~urope andl the e Northern States. They come down e by the Missounri, Kansas and Texas t 'IRailroad, and nearly all bring con fidorable wealth with them. I'lleporters iRe illiseenro. At the annual dinner of the Law Sten grapher's Asioci iion of thi. ciiy, Mr. Henry 51 P.rkhurst, in resp)nd iing to a toast, said : Looking back over a profesmional career nov. exueediniig a (Iiarter of a century, ualny pleasing incidents crowd upoj my memory. I renciber the Fourtl of July excursion to 3larshlilhi, to listen to Daniel Webster. Seated with him in the rear car, when the' coupling broke, and the locomotivel with the rest of the train dashed on without ,us, L remember consoling ,iryself with -he rel etion that where. ver, the rest of the atuience night be, whatever Daniel \Vebster might' say I should be there to hear and re 'port. There is a curious circum stance connectcd with that very Marshifield speech. It was reported independently by Dr. Stone and myself, and either of us could at that' time have written nearly or quite 150 words per minute. While the reports agreed almost literally in every other reslecet, thero was an apostophe to Lord Ashbirton, occupy. ii-g t o or khree printed lines, which Wo gave in entirely different lan guage. The reason was this : Web stor broke out so suddenly and so rapidly in that apostrophe, that I altnobt dropped miy pencil in astouish. ment, andldst the commencement of if, while Dr. Sone, dashcd on until he bioko down, taking the first part of it. in the meantime I recovered lily equanimity, and lost the last part. So that although the ondinary rate of Webster's speaking was less than 100 woids, there were occasions when he far exceeded 150 words tier min. ilte. I r-'eut- r the malnuscript handed mae by Rtufus Choate, fioma wihich lie had read a brilliant politi. cal speech, which I had been called uponmi to report because no printer could read such nanuscript ; and be ing compelled to throw it aside after vainly attempting, for half an hour, with the aid of miy notes', to decovr from which end of that manuscript lie had begun to read. I remember in the Senate of the United, the dying 'peech of John C. Ca'houn ; the compromise speell of Menfey Clay ; the boast of John P. Hale, the Free Soil Party had doubled in nui bers, because at the previous session thece was but one, and now there were two ; and I reniember seeing the new South Ca-olina Senator, larnwell Rhelt, perhaps not on the same ocea sion, burrying himself in a newspaper lest he should appear to be listening, but soon, overcome by t!e eloquence of Mr. linle, first laying down his new.paper, and hnally remodng his s:at for a more convenient location. 1. rnaiember the grave announeement of Daiicl Webster to the Senate, wheni President Taylor lay at the point of dcath, that digiestion of the brain h ad comncnced. 1 remember thetscene when Scnu tor Foote ttood near the President's chair with a dra wn pistol in his hand, waiting the attack of Senator 1eniton', %ho, drawn behind a de.s and held there by four stout Western men, two oil either hand, thirust then all asi'e by one viigorous tuotioni, and called upon the aisassin to fire ; nid I reieiber ,Jefferson Davis, a little after mid night, on the nmorninig of the 4th of Mlarch, atdvancing to the ).resident's desk and dlomand ing to be sworn into thoe new Conigress, upon thc grounid that the teriat of the sitting Congress had e?:pired, kiicking a spittoon out, of his way with the same impetuosity nith which lie afterward kicked .the const it ution itself oyt of his way when h odesired to be sworn out."-.New 'ork Tims. A ltindrrd't Tlonis of (aold, TwIaNE S 1'noNG luoNf en-E ~i' o f LYT rf'NE AaIlrED MEN FniOM SAN FnAN The wildest and mest visionary of ~t Thue A rgonaiuts of '49"i nee dre-uin ced of the go lden possibilities hfidden in trie rocks and earth of the Pacific coast. Capt Sutter, when hie.,droai-i ly worked his little wooden inthl ea t be A ierican Fork of the Sacrameon to iver, in the winter of 1848, could not, by the wildest stretch of imagi. nation, have had a conception aurif. erous deposits in the 'fertile slopgs and valleoys about him. Little did he dream tat his insignificant mill race led to t ho wealhhl that would d warf thiat of even the fabled land of Ophiir ini its ifnfluence on the world, On Mlondav afternoon there arriv edathe suib-treanry in the New York City, $2',000,000 in gold coin. 1t was forwar .led by A fanmy inpressi ('omnpany from the sub-treasury in San Francisco. The weight of this coin was about four tonq. it was packed in twelve strong iron pheste, each about two foet and a lhalf in lengith by sixteen inches io breadth and depth. A nUcNDnED BAGs OF DOUnLE EAGLS. The gold consisted entirely of dlouble eagles, encoeosed in one hun. dred stout canvnss bags each contain ing $20,000. Every bag bore the r~eal of the assistant-treasurer in San Francisco, and each of the cst had three combination locks. Th< explanation of the combinationns wa I Woman's Write. Some editor has been victimized writes as follows : ,"We shall never engage anoth ler wonman to report gentlemen's fa8hions for this paper. We might have known she would ignominiously fail ; but she Raid gen, tiemen reported ]adies' fashions, and sho couldn't see %why a woman shouldn't write up the masulbie modes. We couldi't Poo, either, .o we gave her a carte-bliucho to go ahead. And such a fashion article ! Ilero Is 'a specimen tf the ridiculous stuff : A reclierehe spring overcoat for promenade has liretty ribbed stripes, with three rufliecs oi the tails, festooned with tasieli, single-brenst od collar, and ,rotling 'flaps on the panie-r. A lovely dress coat has three buttons and pockets in the roar, box-plaited on the hips, three-ply guipure lace on the narrative, gored in a bunch and bouffant. Vests but ton up in front sano as laet yeaf, and have pockets with imperial polonaise up the back, and oxidised buttons in double rows on the collar, with tab fronts. The shirt is out tight at the knee, and open in front or behind, as may be preferred, with peroale bosom, trimied passementerie ; four rows of Mageriti braid around the vkirt, with hool at back, bound with galloon to match. Much depends on the pant aloons. . A gentlemian's dress is very inicompl to without trousers. These are of some subdued color, as London smoke, and Ihould have muoniso with the-the--iwck fichu. are cut bias in both legs, with frills to fail over the iustep ; the waist is gar nished with a bustle of batiste, with aecru facings, and buttons to match ; the-. But that is enough. Any >ne but a Sandwich Islander will se at a g'ance that these fashions are frightfully mi'xed. Who ever heard )f trousers being cut bias in the legs, ICep friils falling over the instep, witlh a broad band of batiste-what. ver that may be-and ceru facings iud things ? , Rather than wear 'pan tnloonsi built in that way, we would 7o without, and encase our limbs in 4wo sections of stove, pipe. Changed 1cr Mlind. Amo.ng the passongers upon the ;ta.gt whicb was robb-ed last tbundity light, says the Nevada (Ualifornia) Pranscript, was one lady. She had passed about tywenty two summers, ind wai a residYint of Gilroy. For Iome lit'tle time she had been corres. ponding with a resident of trass Val ley, a miner, and a most excellent man. The result was an ongagement f narriage, though the artiea iad lever yet ict. After the robbery and on the nrrival of the stago at Grass Valley, tie prospct ive bride and groom muet and the wedding took place. Buth were happy and so con tinued until next iorning, when the bride clamed that she was ciazy and knew nothing whatever of the mar riage ; that all was oblivion to her if ter the robbery, except that she had :1 reamed in the night that she was carried off by the robbers. 11er mn.. mer was excited one minuto she wai in tears atid an~lhier in smilcs, Preacber and neighbors were called in and all though she must be crazy; but in her more lucid mnoments she intimatedl that the miner was "not so tvell 1iecd a she exp eted to find him." All agreed that under the aircumstances it would be well if the narriage could be annulled, but how odo this was thme question. Pend ing hte disicussion, thme young lady packed ip her Saratoga and left Grass Valley oer her home. Thoi important qucs ion is yet unsolved, "It is well established by the Federal eeords that the losses of Grant be. wenn his first collision with Lee's irmy and the defeat which he sustain d at Cold Hlarbpr, amounted to 125, 300 men. Swintonm and other e5refdil historians so state it. The Edinblurghm reviewer places the total losses of the irmy of the Potomac at a much lowerm Figure. While lie sttates the numbers f the army of Northern Virginia at 70,000 effectiVos, we know that Glen. Lee did not have 50,000 men og~ any ano battle-field during the Simbalgn. "Again, ' he army of Grant at the A ppomamttox is stated .if the Rteview at 150,L000-that. of Leo at 40,000. 1"Whoreas Geni. Leo himself assured the writer of this that on the 2d of April, 1865, his whole foroe of 611 arms amounted to only 32,000 men, while Grant stated to General LeeC that on the same (late his effective forhe of nrms numbcred to less than 220,00i0 meon. "Gen. Liee further sta ted to mre that when lie surrendered att A ppo w:attox on the 9hh of A prill, after icy on days of hard mairrching, fiiuing and~ starvation, lhe had only about 8, 000 effectives left to bear Ltho battle. flags for the last time of the grandest Armiy whtich over yet has upheld a righteotis cause; and illuettated the manhood of a noble race." An English woman named Count away lias become the mother of seven teen children in nine years. W ho said there was nothing in a name ? Governor Davis of Texas is renom inated by thn renublicans. The Chicago Tribune says one of the pi incipal grievances which 11af \ brought on the struggle between the C farmers and the railror ds "is the glut \ ef firm produ(ts and consequient low 0i prices and til prolita'bic faruminlg.'' n1 Did not the high rates of tranporta. ) tion havo :olmcthinlg to do with it. 1I A Western paper thinks that the N grand quadruble tracks on the New -. York Central lailroad are not only t intended to facilitato transportation for the West, but also to switch the owner of the road into the Presi deuntial chair. a St. 1ouis Democrat (ropnbli. can), referring to the farmeis' move mient, expenses the firm licf "'that te manifestations of public indig- ti m..'a and detem-aina iou for reform th will powerfully aid the better cli ment within the republican party to purge it of all unworthy leaders and representatives, and to render it in t tbe best and highest sense worthy of P1 public confidence." If it does this it C will accomplish a great good for the " :outry, I n The Rochester Demon rat (republi- -Il an) very kindiy says cf the vener iblo eandidate for Governor of Ohio : *-" We road too 111h10 about the 'Ol Bill Allen.' It ist aktogethnr too ir. 'everent and uidiguilied. Mr. Allon q a extremely old, and his great age loserves 1)o such treatment. Possi >ly he is a bad Bill, as well as an >ld one ; but we u.t insist that ho io treated respectfully .litil he is vithdrawn from ci-culation.'' b Siupel](dous EngitaUsh Btig Upon the Derby of 1867 Lord .as.1- U ings lost by far the hcavc-.t sum that. vas ever lo.;1 on t race. It seeims" but tL ,he other day that the air was vocal vith enthusiastic cheer, that greeted ais appearance on the conrse at As. ot, after paying away through his m011) mii.ssioners abIout xI00,000 on the )erLy settling. i millny litne VRacs in ti Newm: ir.t, Lord liasting.-i backed iis bor.so to n in X10,000. It made I 1o differenceo to him to whether his Il >ookmakers askel him to stake 22, )00 or X5,000 against their X10,000. WV hatevor they offered in the w.ay of a It., so lung 11s the SIlUn was laige a mcU111, ie wvect i; book ; and luring hi . t. &it tr oij tihe turf the >dda laid wee shorter and the gains von by the booliakers larger than luring any three years of the present ur :entury. lie often paid away (10,. he 100 or .-50,000 Upou a settlem:elit af- TI or a Iloughiton or second OJtober 1cetCing ; and sitico Lord Iastiig 't ime high bets I ave been the rulb at he l'itorsall s anl the Biug, tc ir. J. B. Morris, thue hlc unker, d m1:. been kouwn to La ? I0.0.) to . 1t . 1aiit eaCh L- 01 v oe Of Sir Jo- I :epi llawley's horif, ,pinit eb ofE, ix of tihe Duke of Newcasti'shorses, C a i gainist a hi orso of ir. Chenlill'. Agailn, 1,0LI to 10 hms biceen laidt hat a certain horse wonl,1 win the Liverpool cup, and .,:1,000 tu .-10 ie Ihat Sir Frcderick Johnstone would -ide the winncer ; and Mr.Chaplin has 'een known to wiu X140,000 upon the D iorby, and Captain Mitchell his con Wederate, -160,000. A yt 4,r or two igo. M r. Chaplin wou a leviathan iet f ?50,000 that The Uerinait would becat TJhe P'almeor the first they met, P ad ?10,000 that the liermit beat W Ma da.i. You may meet men by e the dozen at Ta'tt'ern'W who, if they C 'thoose to toll you their secrets would wV t ell youi thalt their v~ its are worth p' 3210,000 to ?20,000O a ycar to them. ei liAeduced to a system, rnothling is safer i han "blusim11ss on thle tu rf." Lord & G eorge Bent inch for yeara kept uip his IE miagni ficent .st nal lay hi- book and 'i MIr. lIIarry lIill, hiis chief rina com-. g mi:Sionerl, could, I f.'ney, tell us some1 p patuan stories if lie wer-e to tur~n to a his notebooks. It is said that in a ' mlingle year Lord George net ted . near, ly' .' 30,000 uponu a p14e of horseo a l an.--en km'fens&, Mfaiggwic 0 Twe'clty Th'eot~itl LcItm Opeuli a The corruption thuat pervades eve.ry L branch of thie eivil sorti io is becom iing mionotonous. We would like a chango if only for variety's sake. A mong the recent developments are o the systemiatie and long conltinued I etr'benterrents of liryeo McLellan, e until recently chief pos'tal c le: k he- I tween New York aind WVashingtou. h Col. F'orney's Philadelhphia press- e one of the most loyal kind-tmtes e that his thefts amount to $d0, 000, lio stole this consideraibio 51 u, says i the .Press, in sums of not over 82or t $3 each, from letters sent by South, fi era subaci-ibers to .Northern puliish- e ers. Somio 15,000 or 20,000 usubscri a bers for Northern papiers anld magn-.i zines are, thereforo, notifiedl to rem it again if they find that they connot t get along without such irtellectual g food. - We are in receipt of many letters asking whether thle I erald initendst curtailing its exchange list since the s new law afl'eetitng postnge went into effect. To all theso arid to all pubi. .hlshers interested we desire to sav that we not only wish to retsin all our present exchanges, lint to increase the list to thmo extent of at least fi.:e haund red aditional neCwap iers.-N. V. 1/aiad. sent to A ssistant Treasurer Ilillhouse tn two in.talwents. ono by mail id mne by express. This was to prcvent its possible use in. tlie .evenit of its falling into unworthy hiilds. The mr containing the treasure wasgurd. el by nine:armed men. As an addi tional security t1o e;jprss ca mpany was held responsible to the govein. ment for the safety of the gold. On its arrival here it was carried in ex. press wagons to the pine street cu. t.anco of the tro:ury, where the cheits, which weighe-d between six atnd seven hundred poundid calh, werf) phicod on tructcs and rolied into the coin division. The bags were emptied and the contents counted by weighing. Ily this mode the absence of a sinle piece would be instarntly detooted, as tihe exact weight $20.QQ0 ins.gold is regiAored. About $"1,006,000 of the treasure is fresh from the mint, and this it,.yas ,gossary merely to weigh. The remainder, having been in circu lation, is to be e:kanuned . piece by piece to see that every one is genu ine. The experts began this labor yesterday and will be occupied in it tor a week. ENORMOUS PILES OF GoLD. The New York Sui siys: Mr. Ashley, the chief of the coin division, says that so largo n amount f gold is rarely received in the sub treasury at one titue. It was, ac.tt hero by the treasury departmieut becausc Now York is the only city where the gov. erumient needs to keep large quanti. 1 ties of gold for mnercantilo purposes. At the closo of busiuess yeste iday there was .a balance of gold coin in the sub-treasury of $48,522,6W8 79. 0t about .*uo ., hund red. tons of gold. This is an unusually heavy strpply. One reason for it is the light shipping demand, only $11,000 having been delivered for shipnient since January 1. That is less than half the auiouut in the corresponding period Liat year. ,TWENT TORSOF GO..D N DAI3. In addition to this the sub-treasury contains about $10,000,000 in gold bars, $400,000 in silver, and about I $32,000,000 in .urrency- There are two treasure chamltn1rs op dilferent sides of the main f'oor i- the .Subj treasury. Each has walls of massive stote eight feet thick, built in two liarallel sections. The intermediate space is filled with boxes of chilled iren pazcked witl, balls Qf th' sAme inateriil about.nan inch in diaincter. I( These will turn the most powerfl 'i di ill ever employed by burglars. The floor is covered with iron plates, anl rests on.solid masonry', w7hich extends i thirty feet below the surface of the sidewalks. The live iron door are s-!cured by several heavy loelm. These doors weigh about two and .a half tous each. The1. camrs are divided into iron compartinetits. In the west side chamber the gold i; do posited, each conmpartnieIt containi:g $500,000 when li.Led. The gold is lceld in smnall can vas . Lag.. The chamber oi kike east -id; contains the currency, silvcr coin and gold in bars. 'he currency is in pa.: igo.; cf $1, 000 notes. These packages weigh scarcely a poand each,.'ynt they are stamped $1,000,000 'I'lio geld bars are generally worth $5,000 each, after having beeni melted in the assay effieo,.,, prep:ratory to being coined into money in the P'hilrdelphii tuint. Politicil Nutes. Senator.Morton opensw the cainpaign in Ohio by a speech in Cleveland to The WVashing' on Republican avqrs. that Reuben E. Fetnton,.the "emninenit liberal republican ,re former)'' is en deavoring tc get back into the repub lian party. The Cincinnati Commercial re gards the removal of tho statue of d Wehrson fromt its position at (ha rear of the White House as the most sus picious evidence it his yet seen of G rant's purpose to establish C'xariam in the United states. The. depagecratie candidato f r Cotin1pt i-oller .i1) 1hry~and1. having do clared tbat "of all the great interes of the State that of ogrioulture is most paralyzed and prostrated,'' (lie Washington Rtepubl ican, thinks th is is the natural result of htaving old fogy democrats for State rulers. In V'ew of Senator Fenton's re. ported aspirations for a second term the Washington Star affirms that tShakespeare's opirtipn on tbo subiject becomes interesting. This ia what he says: Why, how new I what dot.s Master Fecienc . hecro c You wrong moe, sir, thtus satli to haunt myj hionse. Thec Cincinnati. Timc' thinkcs the mastodon vas one of WVilliam Allen's conitemporaries of cathy days. lie might have been, for lie is stilt six feet two in his btookings, with necither --Crook in htis back Nor a melancholy crack in his voice. The Sprinfield (Ill.) Journal says after Jeff Davis' epeach before tho Southern llistorical Society, it is never realized what an act of miag nanimnity the govcrnnment committed in not "hanging Jeff' Davis a to sour a 'apple treen" A great change of the climate out Vost, froi the Rocky I'Iountaitis to alifornia, is evidently - in progress. Vc learn from Salt Lake City that icy have had in that basin this ionth more heavy $howers th'in ever Lfore in August, and this increase in ic summer rainfall from Wyoming to eva.4a Izis, we Pre told,,beei steadi. going on since the completion of 10 Union and Cenntral Pacifle iron tery .a II's the (notinent. It is ought !hat these lines of igoA taibs ve u nah to lo with this remirkable tango in the aitifall of the Far lest. It may be so ; but.if so, the iildiiig of two or three more Pacilic ilwayis will be worth a thousand ines over the country all the cost of cir c.ustruction.,-NY7. Y. Alcra'ld. A Ncw Rule of th Blinks. Five of our city banks give patiep at, hereafter all, checks.presented in y tent of notes and drafts must be rtified. This is an important in, vation upon local business ottetone, At seemed demanded by tho grow. g volume of our banking opcration', order to secure the banks against sA1ibl losses. It will oconsion a tle extra trouble to those .having uk obligatioas to meet; but they 11 soon get used to it, and the ango will be better for all partic. itlal about the .Future Duichess of EdlInhurg. The oieial annonicoment of tho troita of the grand duchess Mlaria exandrovna, only daughter of tho ar of Russia, to the Duke of Edin. rg, socond son of' Qucen Victoria, a brought out another e'psode. in life of the g.-and duchess, which now the chief subject of gossip inl Petrsburg. It appears that about o years 9g.> the Czar concuived the a of marri ing.his daughter to the the of Edinhurg, and, as a prelm-l. try step, sent,for a young English ofssor in the University of St. tursburg, iamed Swayne, to teach r English. The duchess imme ately fell in love with her teaohe'r, d informed him of it. or several )nths lie taught her Eoglish.. and 0 taught him love, but one day tho ar #old her lie should shortly tako r to a German watering-placo to ike the acquaintance of her sinten d. She informed him that would ho niecessary, as she had already given r heart and hand to Mr. Swaync. ircupon she wa's sent to her apart nits, and Prof. Swayno was sum >ned and inl'ormed by the Czir that h..d better leave Russia inmedia. y, which he did. The young che - was inconsolablo for a long -, an d swore to her p arents that 3 would never marry the Duke of linburg. When she was taken to irnany she refused to uicot her in ided, and during her recent sojourn ti her mother in Italy she heaped Itinual slights upon his head. Her P[ugnancee, however, , was, fixally ercome, and niow, instead, of becomr g plain Mrs. Swayne, she will be choees of E]irburgh. hiuporlait Rule. We learn that the rule of the Sa. reme Court, which prescribes ithe anner ini which briefs must be print ,has bcen revoked by the Supremo out, and a new rule substituted, bich prescribes that briefs sudit >ints and authorities shall be prinly i on letter paper, uniform in siz) id stylo with thie current. series of late reports. T1his is quito an. im, rovemeint oni the Qld rule, as d. o ro LiIreients of the court in this ro, u d are easy to be understood. Ono >int io be gained is that the points a authorities and arguinents of uns' may, if it be desired, be fouiid the .aume volume with the report, d we understand it is the .purpose thc court to require of counsel nn stra numanhr of copies, so as in~this annier to preservo them in bound. alumnes in the Supreme library. rniion. flerald. I lccnse ,Cs;s decs.o tisunderstood that in thedeiso the case of the Stato against [aynec the Srupremei Court has aflirm, Al the constitutionality of thme late cease Jaw, or to be more precise, ib as been decided that the State may niforee a tax by way of license. The >ur't does not, pass upon01 the q1uestion to wvhethmo- ther lato license law is i violation of the constitution or niot ne case t urning upon a technin~t d&e. >t in the indictment. The infer., nec is that the State mn'ay enforce license tax, but as to the mode what maniner that tax shall be imn osed, the court is sihant. Ilowever; lie opinion has not yet been promnul ated .- Un ion- Iferald. A brother, in a Tlhmursday nigh rayer meeting at LaCrosse, adde o his prayer, "And that fellow wiro. tale my horse, hit .l inm viith a thun.. luirbolt before ho gets irito Iowa." The California rnines are queeoo doces. A Golden Stato reporteg ward the "growl of a boar, the how >fa wolf, the voice of prayer, the' ry of a child, and the clash of bo'w(6 anifea" from cno guleh.