The Fairfield herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, September 10, 1873, Image 1

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Willoms & Davis, Pfoprietos.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquirv, Industry and ~Literature, Terms---$3.00 uor Annum, I Advanor VOL. IX.1) WINNSBORO, S. CO. WEDNESDAY MORNINO, SEPTEMBE 10, 18Z3. [NO. 12 THE FAIRFIELD HERALD IS PUBISiHED WEEKLY nT WkLLLMA .IS, & DAVIs. Terms.-TInKI ir k'Lo is publishd Wec'k iitho Town of Winusboro, at $3.00 in t riably it advance. . . .. ijy- All transioat advertisents to be maidin advance. I Obituary Notices and Tributes $1 00Or S4uare. ood forliine of a confederate eterAl A Rlomance. It would appear as if a kind provi. doco had s'pe'.ially intervened t0 ,rotect 'fro in povorty, misfortune, and the other ills of life, thoso true and gallant officors who risked all in the striiggle Tor the independence of the Southern State3. We know few of them who have not improved their worldly condition since the war, or who are not iii better ciroum. stances than they ..werc pr.o tious to ,that event. It is an agreable reiloo Stion that, in this as ih.other acts of ,devotion to duty, pud patrotisn, honesty has proved the best policy. - The iutance of deneral 8. B. * auckner is a striking a'Sn.bheerful one. General Buckner lived in a Ftate which never secedod, and a ma jority of its people were opposed to the movement. All his own and his 'wifu'd; property must be left to the .tender mercies of the enemy. in caec ie should join the Confederates. It was a magnificent property, the large Income of which enabled the General to live in a style suited to his refin'od and elegant tastes. And yet all this be ri,ked, when, impelled by his .sympathies and convictions, he aban dunied his beautiful home, joined the cufederates and fought through the war with distinguiahed gallantry and pnflinching fidelity. At the close or the war General Burkner found him. sell btripped of everyhing. , Locating in Now Orleans, lie set to ,work first as a journalist on the Crescent, and afterwards engaged in the; business of life insurance, wherein hO n9hieved a brilliant success. Ie then took measures to recover his ropei-ty in Kentucky and his wife's property in Chicago. There were gorious obstaoles to the success of theso eff'orts. jarge suits had been Ibrioup~htug a-g. h im for damages in lioted by tie Confederate forces un.. der his corriman,d. 0n thes6.t1its his propertl had boe attached an.d much of it sold. It. was a &ev.ere, tedioiit and eipensivo litigition in wh ihe becarme involved; but his eforts ivore finally orowned with vie. tory. Is property wias restored to him, and the clainis *for damages ttgainst him were all d*eeated. Next he instituted pro"eeding.. to recover his wife's property. And here was developed an.- intensely in teresting romance. fIire. Buckner had, before joining lier husband in the Coufederacy, conveyed her property to her brother, under a dead of trust, The obligation roited upon his honor to preserve and reconvey the proper. fy to her after the war. In .the pro.. gress of .th4d w.ai this brdther married and aoeetccd a comnuissio'n in the federal service. Further to compli6 aate affairs, he became a father. In aso he should p rov faithf'ess to his obligation' to his siste'r,, this abif-4 *ould i'nherit a large fortui.e., ,Here wa's a great tefiptatiot to the y oung man whose natal affqdtior a for his sister wpr6 inagonised by his ardent hostility to the cause with whic sh walfdotiledand to hii~s was for hini alone to deternmitie whether this' large pr.perty should sooruo to the wif6 of a rebel, in pre ference to his oviri offsprin . iHlonor and hi-otherly affection, it istrue, denfadeil a certain couras ;' but how r'arely in these selfish and materialia tic times, do these prinoiples control the actse of nien ,This young~ man however/rdoognil' ed their obligation, and on th'o eve of battle lie made his wilW,recdioliving t'o his sister the~ property which shte had confi'ded to him. After making one of thes6 Nills lhe weont forth withi the intrepidity of a man consdious of an act of high self-o'oin oi, Lo'encoun te'r the enemy, and met the fate of ~i brave soldier atthe battle of Sb'ar s. Uurg. The General of' hid cdeps knew of the will ho had wade. AlP h'anor to him that he kept the socr'et' and, after the war, communicated to his old comrade in arnfi, his recent foe, but now his friend and brother, th'e facts, and gave every aid to re cover the instrument.' This was General Burnsido. By his generous uscistanoe, and * through the indefatigable devotion and energies of o of General Buck ner's staff, the gallant nd' gifted Colonel Wooloy, of [Lexington, Ken tiucky, the testamentary proofs were * procured and the title of Mrs. Buck. nor to her patrimony was fully estab lished, and after a legal contesti she was reinvested with the same, and now is in full undisturbed enjoyrnent of a magnificent estate-and no cou'ple evor more justly merited thi8 happy fortune, this victory over the miost formidable difficulties and perils which could arise in the path of duty aind honor, but which never for a mamnmnt dismayed a or w ao thet 'from the line which patro.tisp and conpoienoo had marked out for thoum. -Mobile Register. The Ohio Tarties(R ids all) lhasv issue' a call for a State convention. They are grieved at the deficiencies in the Civil Rights bill. They aro discontented and disgruntled. They kntp'ajin that public insttutions and railroads d.) not treut thein as they do the whites, and "that the right of votin'g ought to carry with it the right of being voted for." And so it ought. In,.Nogth % Carolina it does, but it seems in Ohio it does not. Here the negroes are strong, there they are weak. Bpt. in . our onu State they have allowed their whito allies too great a monopoly of ollices. They have kept the State under Radical control ; why then. havO Ithey not scrambled more for offiece They have been too modest iii their claims. Of course, as long as they elecit whites they will get no oTfico and no pelt. Why should eighty thousand negroes allow fifteen thousand whites(their confederates) to lbold nearly every oflice. .Luat year they ought to have demanded a more equitable division. Is not James Harris a more intelli gent man than Brogden 'the Lieuten alt Governor ? We panusc for a re ply. The Radicals are trying to head off (lie colored movement in Ohio. They hope to do this by buy ing up the land!ng negro politicians. ts not that phogame too in North Carolina '-Ra 'cgh Scti1n. One of our exchan.ges thus reasons with the man who dou't tiku the pa pers-except iben -h'o takes theni from his neighbors : Now I tell you, squire, the day will come when some body will write a long eulogy, on your life,- character, etc., and the printer yill put it in type, with a heavy bliick rule over and under it, and with all your riches this will be done for you as a pauper. Your liberalities, wealth and all such will b. spoken of; but the printer as lie arranges the type, will remark: "Poor mean devil, lie never took the paper, and is now swindling the prin ter out of his funeral notibe." Don't be afraide, yung man, tow nako a blapinder oneo in a while; not all the blnders aie iiade by the sip. coro and honest, 1 must respekt t4.oze I supposp, who never make enny bl.inders, but I doi't ,Iuv them. I like thl!a"i, kil of folks who, if tey do once in a while weigh out a pound with only thirteen ounces in it, are just as apt to make the next pound weigh nineteen ounces. I inv. ily phas1lin s.. J.4 i.* theao that mako me pheel that I have that touch ov na ture in me that makes me brother tew every man living.-Josh Bilhsnys. '1'h wheat yield of the State of Oregon, the present season, is said to surpass that of any harvest ever gath erodi There tre feardi that there will nlot be nuffcient toniago to carry off the market's surplus. -The Oro gen salmon season also, which but lately closed, ha been the most sue cessful one.knoWn in the annals of th'o Columbia River fisheries. One iun dred and fifty thousand eases have been put up, val'nod, at $0 per ease, and 4,60o barrels of salt salmon~ wcre put up. -. - - .A gray hair was espi~ed .among the ra.ven looks of a fair friend by a lady. "~Oh! pgay pull it out," she exclaim.. od. "iAf. 1 pull it out ten will comic to .th fu'nern,'' replieqd tfe lady nho' made thle unwelcome discovery. ".Pluclf it out, nevertheless,'' said thme darlk-lia~ired da:escl ; "it's no sort of consequence how many come to the funerah, provided they all come in black /11 A mong the replies to an advertias dient of a music committee fo' a. can didate or orgainet, music teacher, eto., a vacanuy having oeeurred b$ the resigneLtion of the orgai'net in olffce, was the following : "Gontlemren, I noticed yout~ advertiscment for an or ga inst and muslc teachet-, either lagy or gentleinan. H aving been both for aeveral years, I offer yelf mny rnor vices." A girl in (faklland, Califorii twelve years old, and small for her age, has suoceoded, by patient, uin complitting industry, in accumulat ing prop'crty to tho' valde of $.,000, besides suppor-t ng her poomr old mother, it is mostly iln jewelry, watches and other c'mall but valauable articles, s'uch as she could collect lian dily from the house where she was employed. An exchange says : "-Politics is runining so hig ' ainong theo civilised Cherokee LIn ians that scalping knis kre likely to be made use of as politi cal arguments." The Courier-Jour. nial thiinli that against the carpet-bag gors, who are scheming to obtain a poelitioegl foothold among those Indi ans, the scalping knife is the only argument that should be used. English capitalists arc said to lhave invested five million dollars, in the coal andiron business in Georaia. TVic Fitt Hln's Ulillic. The fat mon recently had a clan bAke at Gregory's Point, Connect icut which, from the quantity of clams do. stroyed, and the tole of adiposetis-ue displayed by the cators, w7 riuite a success. The Presidenit of 'he club is a "loan anti hungry ca:.sin".i' of 375 poutids weight. Theic wore present fvo other individuols weighi'nt over 300 pounds cach, fourteen ranging t down the scale fiom 297 to 253 pounds, mid twenty or twenty-tive smal1 fry wi-ging miore than 2UU pounds each. A buxom . damksal, y,:lopt Fat-ima, who turned t'.a. scamle at, 370 pound, presided over the ports. Of course the whole preceed ings passed off merrily. Who ever h0-ird of a fat man gotting into a pas. sion ? As.comparatively few know vhrt A clambake is, we give a description V 01 the present o : U A bed of stone, sixteen by ten feet, was raised on the pebbly beach. Top of it was Aiaced threo cords ef hard wood... Te wood wam set on fire, and for tNo hours it burned and bu.ried, until the stoinos were heated to tl:e very cro ai d nodiig h.t ashes; r.e mamzati d of the fuel. The ashes were raked away, and then a broom fini-ht- It, ed the process of preparing the sur alco of the stones for the reception of the clants. Theso were brought pal pitating from the sea-beat .nds and tumubled from bu.:,el Lanets dow ii upoit the heated bed. Whenl tils was covered over wit Ih many layers of; thus- hen the fond1ation, so to ;peak, was lad--hIndilh, weak fu, g cls, lahisters, cuit ;1d and cooked hickens, woodehuck, gren corn, i sweet and common potatocs, Crabs and lobsters were throwia promiscuously )a top, and on top of them was placed, as to coUletely envelop the bed, i canvass coverlet. This wias trucked . in all round so as to make the clais As comfoa table as pessible and keep te nrona atcMiug cold. Over the il "over let was placed a gacat mass. of wet rock weed to suppi-ntut the can. " vas in keeping the steam from escap ing. It was 110 Usle, however ; the steam incited on e;i:toing, and the w appearance of the clambake was pre uisely like a duaighill anoking oua a C frasty morning. It was futn to the C fat nen, but death Wo the clams. t That was all: The next thing had a nothing to do widh the bake, but it had everything to do with the atin purposze of the day, and that was the u dinner, so muany dollars and a half n per head. The clains were buttered up, sauced I and served, and every mother's son of I a fat man ild h1: level bC3t to poish - her off ulore plates than his neighbor. But, alas ! there wab a limit. The 1low trd1 Ii';ll rsit. y This University was founded soon after the war, for the special benefit of such freed mem as Vece desirous of obtaining an edueation. It seoms to Lave bin under the control of dis. honest parties, or very incompetent ones at least, as it has cost the eov ernment in actqgl expenditures, 8I1, 220,000, and aftcr al this exliendi ttire, the University, is in debt, and the houses andul lands Pre heavily inort gu ged .-CU/:iiellan Observer'. W ho 0101is lhe Sial ? Several patrties were arrested yes terdtay by the Staten Island authao i ties for loading their' schooners anid aloops with sand from lie south betach. T1hie prisoners e~nim that thec sanid noe more behonigs to the owneors of propearty along the shore thatn it to tany 0one else, inasmuch as it was washed int anid out by the sea, some of' it, probably, leing waashgd fromn CJoney fslaind.- -N. Y. Lral~d, Frce Lovc C1onivention. Mrs. Woodhull and bher gang have 1 ad a grand meeting at Silver .tGd:c, near Boston. Fifteen thoesand per sonts wore in attendanice. The tai..ch-. as wore filtlf and blaaphoous he'. yond cobuceptioni. H tiilroaids, Therae are in the wor'ld about 120,. 000 mtiles of railwtay thn', h avye cost '310.0 ,00 0,000, and giv~e camploy3 laetc. toJ .1 0 ,000,000( peilSans. The Cl' eim(Mo.) Advoecato sa there aro mtoret faarmers aroundh just now than was. over knoawn before. Some gentlemnen u.ho iiever ntandled any spades but the "Jtack," or' raised auny corn exeopt itn glasses, ar'e now elaiming~ to bo life-lonag aagricuhtu t-sts. 'The Masenio frtatert ity have under way at least $4,000,00)0 worth of new halls, most of. which will be completed1 this year, JThe one in Philadelphia is the most magniCcent struoturo of the kind in the country, and whent furnishesl and entirely completeod will. tie worth at least one million of dol lars. A circular has been issued by the war department fixing the standard of height for recruits in the United States army as follows : For artillery and infantry, five feet four intchon and upwards - for cavalry. not loss lississlppl 'olitics. Adelbert Amlies, an ex General ot he Fed eral invabion. an.d a son-in lam f Blen. Iluttcr, bac coeured the Radi. al nomination for Governor. iii. o5jeiaLes on the ticket are gentle. nen of color ; and the Tupelo Stand. rd thinks there is no. pomsible chance f.taking the iegro vote away from 'ld aku's son-int law. They are said o lo-.e him with a devotion and doLOtry 4s strong as can link degra wd i iuani nature to an imaginary dlel. Thisi man Amues, I, will b;. remem-n Cred, was elected to the Senate in 870, while ie was a military olficer, tationcd in Misbisbippi by Gen. Me )uwell. lie had no ,more residenceo r citizrenship in the State than had ny . ,ther military tramper ; and hen hi righit to represent the State as itivetigated by tlo Senate, the omai tnt teo, comn posed of Me-Srs. 'runiLull, Edinunds,Thurw an, Conk ing -enid Carpenter, Veportcd against is eligibility. It wan Uire 'tis >Iiittee that Ames said "It's doubt alif I iould hlave become a citien I had not. been elected," and on is 11, . C ui:pcu or made one of his bri. ant .iechIs. Partisanship, how ver, ti i mt hited over the law and, th6. 10 truth, and Amlies was admitted. le has recently tunde a pretended ure! a:e o( a huuas itn Na.tch!, but othing wa.; paid on it, andl Mrs. imen~; will nout tiy in M isasippi usfintely refusing to be.an relogx. lice in the transpi*rent carpet-ba. In fraud. A ines doo not intend to hold the brntoli office any longer thian is Ieesary to become his owu r.uecssor i the Senate. 1le iviil then hand er the execativo lower of the State lis negro confi eres, among whom . pecial lieutenant, Ilanp. Carter, 6a id to be a b!giblaolk mogul. If nes succeeds in his diabolical plan, ic State will speedily laps.e into the tidition of , uisiana under Kel gg or of South Carolina under the eherous Moses. His opponent in the convention as Powerit. who is thJe. present Goy" nor, and tle. rebeaste!tative of the >nservativo and better portion of te ad ministration darty. The con. :st between the two was very bitter, nd it is understrood that Powers will in. al na idkpcendent candidate. [any leadiig Deiuoerats. herefore, rge that no party nomination be !mde. i! order that the conserNtive Ote may be uoneentrated against the Lausachusetts ad venturer. It is be leved that a Liberal-Couservative oalition can tcerc d. Many Repub ioans are afraid of A nes., who is sus eeted of being in favor of payiing he old repudiated dtW. 'hcro is It eport that Butler liu!ds !8,000,000 f the now worthle;ss buids. A pow ul lobl-y is certainly at work to re 'ivify them. Oir seocial dispatch of yesterday no0 ningi fr-nn Jackson bays that enat)r Alcorn will take the stump gaint the Ames tichet ; and per. :aps the s vere snub that he recently ,ot from WaAhington will add vigor .o his efforts against Grant's favorite arpet-bagger. .The way tho snub amlte about is this: RobertJ. Alcorni, niepihew of the . Senator, was a >ointed Uniited 'States Mlarshiall for ht. Southern Ditrict of' fifsidiipi lu liud scureely begun the duties of us oflice nh len lie received the fol. ow ing model civil scrvice-reforn ~elegram: W An t sG-ro, D). C., July 8, l'873. You are represen ted hero as laaving uppou ted thle Democratie ticket itt be last Plresidential election. Is .his a fant ?. Attorney-Genera!. . Mir. Alcorn replied ,that lie had opiportedl ( reelecy, I. ut did it oth Re putbli ioni prin;ciphles. A few dIayis af :erwairds lhe wals remtov'ed, and Leroy lirowna, a freshi earpet. bagger,. was Iut ini hi's prco. Mr. Fleert be-s iveq thtat the po:,ses sin of e'tain "-gal paiperP, which might disturb, te q4uietudlo of several radical unilhieiain, in the State, led to his re moval. ie was the only F'outhofn man that fil lled a Fedal~' ollico of nimportanice in Mlbsissippi, wjth the exceptiont of Judlge Robert A. 11111, ippiointed by A id rew .Johusoni. If Senator A leori s personael griefs had to the defeat of Dcin iutler's zun-in-la w, anid t lie rescue (if the Stato 'rom negro rule andil carpet- bag ra ality, the people can afford to feel indly rabotut Atterney General Wil is' Oceniiar interpretation of civil e'r vice re form. Tl'he fate of the State 'ags in the balance. If the ultra legro) ticket, headed by Ames, is sue escsful, artid an ultra legislature is ;heoen, there is little lhope. left, for he fair but~ devot ed cotnmonWaltf. cilu~nt Constitution. A correspondent attended the American chapel at Vienna one 8(tn lay in July, and noted the faet that while there must havo been' oter a thousand Americans iii the cIty, there were but eleven perlons~ present when the miniater came to the desk. -1 11 t S'I I The light Kind of Talk. The Now Yor)t Xelrsd, of Friday, in its moucy article, has the follow ing : "Recont advices are to the effect iat one of.thep Asmcociato1 Justicos of South Carolina-*Judge Willard. for. imerly of New York-has rendered ia dec ision in the suit of . -rm.otf bnk ers here, bronght for tl*o purpose of enforciug the laying of a special tax to pay the interest on certain State bonds bp;iqvol to have been fraudu lently it-sued. This .decision is ad verse to the tax-payers, but it ir not a;t all probable that they i11 formit the matter to rest until a final ver dict is rendc. d by ihe Supreme Court ofthq United ?tatas. Grave questions are ontrial, involving the intogiity of the Legislature and State oflfiials, and local rottennessa' is no.. likoly to be faithfully probed by those who have becoim infooted by its atmosphere. The people of South Carolina have already indicated a cheerful willingnqsi to av'.hoir honiv ost debts. The World aska nothing more. It i., V6served for the highest tribunal of the land to inark the di viding line betwqen the truu End the false ; and until this point is decided, we necd not !gohkfor the bestowal of much olidence oi any doubtful olass of South Carolina seeurities." JConfirminug this closing pr& iotion, 'lhe sam issue of 1he Herald quotes our Stats scouritieb as follows: "Fur South Carolina sixes Janitary 11n.d July, .141 ; do., do.,. April an(d Ot.Xober, 23 ;. South Carolina Fund Act, 1866, 18 " . Thp Chester Reporter speaks as follows on the Bond Script Decii:on Judgr: Willard, with all the hair splittiug of which he is capable, has < ntirely failed to show any argument o! force to sustaiu his.o4uitions. I Ie I says, that in the previsions of law I above cited, tt tax is already levied I and that it is a simple ministerial t duty the, Cornptro)ler has to do to 1 give notike to the County Auditors, and thereupon the tax musit be levied. I le does not quote a single authority I to sitstaii thla p nosibioui Mr, C. ). I Meltun's most encellcnm brief, a copy of which we now acknowledge the re ceipt ;.of,. had taken ithipregnable ground upon tho authoritica, and the position taken by him on this point is unansweraple. Among othar casca relied on lie tjuqted a decision of the I Suprcmnc Court itself made only w; fC.r back as A1,01 la.st, viz :-In r, Gary vs. Parker which is as follows: "The Auditor is an officer of the State, connected with.iti lis;mal opera.. tions. The taxes, a/,:?r the ratc i pr scr~ici.d by thas !cgislatur, aro to be levied by him.". It is not necessary after quoting this decision of the cotirt itselt to say apother word-iG is convicted out of its own miouth. Judge Willard having thys to His own satisf ction, got the ta4 leiod by the.Comptioll'or. has in his opin - ion go:io a otep -farther-, and iatis cer taily exhibited a most wo.uderful boldness. lie h' said in so many worsls.,that the authority given in the provisions of law ..heretofore (uoteo, not only gives tie OQmip.trollar - the power to levy the tan brit also the Treasurer to pay 1t ont, without even an intimathion ott tltQ part~cf the Leg islat ure of its wishes in~ t he premnises. T1his decision is the most danger ous one we havni. knownof since thb history of ,eur. tate..ceommeiioed. - It, lhis no foundation in law whatever.. It is a distinct invasion of tihe sovereign righ ts of the9, General .A s senbly to, disposo sof.. t~bo -pu.b'lie mon~j. 'C f.Judge Wilhlard aaun thott, one single instance of an annitdil ta:t levied and the same disbursed wit.h out its appearing In the General A p,: pr.opriiationi iill for the year, and t~h.is~uve..say m.ot of sooth C~arolnia only but of' any other (!tdis, or tho United States, then we will confess to having done the learned Judge in jus.ice. Judge Willard's gpiin is im mecnse in . longt.h aud' ve u~ty in wiords. Ile could ndt have exhmibitced more iteal, had lhe beeni the attorney for the bondiholders. This, porhap~s,I nmay..ie,frorti the tmatural .oast of his ituind, whlich is that o'f a yohiement partizan. Whiebevor sido ho espouit es hie ddes it #ith heart and noul. lio is not a man of judicial mind. has som'e smattecring~ knowledge of the law-kownu little of the JLam o)gjra. ties . of tY~js fstate-is excecdingly verbose and frothy-with an abuu dance of confideneo In his own abili ties.arnd learninig. This decisiot, o'f fihe Siuprento Court requircis a severe re-buke from the -L'egiplature for the attempt to in. fringo upon thieo high privileges given, and given on~ly, to the Representative; of then peopla. Judges of courts have been before to-day hurled headlong fisoiim their .seats on the bench for a less offence. Nod luitlne, thd sensation novel ist1 while intoxicated on Friday last, .shot the .ecogineer, of, the steamer 'Uhrysteriath,.on the IUuds&a River, slightly wound ing him. The latest folly is padded bathing C rannas. daenetive to sea. Alinuma. The sa!Leosta Ti:nes portrays the appalling condition of Alabama ii the following dark colorti, unrelieved .by a single ray of light. Tbo pic ture is so lifo like that we think Couth Carolina must- Iave set for it No thoughtful cit i:'on can contem plate it without a shudder of appre. honsion and alarm as to her future. The treasury is bankrupt ; her credit is anuihilated; her public debt, actual or .prospective, equals in the aggre. gate onc-fiftlb of the. amount of the 4hole ta!abk property of the State. Enormous taxes crush her people t> the earth. 1Her current expenditures exceed her available iucomo fron. every source. iHer public schools. her State Jniversity, an.I her hosp.i. tals and asylums, are threatened with suspension for lack of neans to enrry themi on. Labor is demoraliz. ed1. All her industries are paralyzed. Onerous taxes and unstable rules are driving both capital and popula tioi fioW\ the Stato, ahd deter both froi coming into it. Her peiople are overwhelmingly in dett, aid her revenue laws are working a rapid confisoatation of their lands under Dnforced sales of them to pay taxes. A debased Supreme Court, by arbi raytid unitonstitutionul deci mons, has vii tually abolishcd all nist in.e Lions between ti race.s in the social md domucstic relations, and invited annatural and abhorrent misevgena. ion betwen thon. lIler Stiat o flicials ire, the najority of thein, incompe. eit and faithles. Corruption r-kM 0 all departments of her governmnt. En a word a dark present and still larker future repress the hopes, and mralyzo the cfforts of her people. aint his brought about this sad uan lition o0: thinint in Alabama ? There 4 but one truthful response that, ean Pe given to the interrogatory. The 'ulo of tho scalawag and the negro an.; been the architect or this disas rous overthrow of the fortunes andI iopes of a great comnmonwoalth. A 'black natn's patrty," orgaizd, uanipulated and cotntrolild boy na ive apostates and hireling advcutu erg, has done the mnisehief. .. -- 0- . . a- . Two denmuro dainsels, both of Tew oraey, recently played a very sharp ;ame otn the '1lii.'as of the Morrie Ad Esse.x f'alhoad. The Iadies Vore going to the si.:.ide, ad Il had h0 usual amount of femtinino bag.e vith them, in all seventeen trunks. Ylen they showed their tiket:1 to ho baggagc-maetr and desired him o check their tieventeen , trunks, lie leiurred, saying that each pasmge: vas allowed but one hundred pounds ,f baggage, andi that the fiftyen extra .runks Would iave to lie ;-tid for. l'he ladies roimnstratod, but in vain to they demanded to know the addi .ional charges they would have to ay, and waro informied that the at.ra trunk(s would cost then one lollar each. Hlow it so happerrel hat a passenger is carried over tihe ad for eighty cents, and is allowed o take one trunk. The young ladies emenmbering this, went to the ticket flica and bought fifteen more tick. ,ts, They showed these to the bag pjge man, and he haooked the trunks ms for fifteen peaengers. 'LihO ladies ;aved three dollars by thme operrt ion, ad have fifteen tickets, worth twel /e clollars, into thme bargain ,for the eon cluetor of course, onily took up twvo icketsh' at d, as these aro good till used, the company may b3 called ipon any day to transport fifteen pat. tengera'withi flfteen trunlha botw~een New York and Mo)rrisltown. Now that is what we call a very neat op. Sration-and is another. argument to >o added to the umany already enu~ morated in favor of the itn-:ss of we MrJolin.McLeorpin ws found dead fit his bed on last Satturiday morni;.g at his late residence one mtilo cast of Blackstocks. Tih.o deceased was a vecry old man-:mipposud fo be eighty eight years of age,--ud was a peon. sloler of the government on account of hin sorvices in the war., of 1812. Hie livd alone, anud w~huv his death was discovered his body vian cold and rigid, shawing that lie had boon dead for hou.:s. No suspicions of foul play are entertaIned, so far an w ia have heard. Ekonomny is a savings bank, into which mu'n drop pennies, ad gt dol latre . in return. Avarico iz lik a grave yard ; it tukea all that it kant git and gives nothing back. Error will slip tthu a crack, whilo truth will git attiok in a door.way.--Josh A Detroit loy stodinubrlla, with a cord tied to it, ini a public doorway. Eloveu persons thought tlupt tumbrella was their's, and oar ried it with thmerr. the length o fbh string. They then suddenly droppe it and wont off without once lookinj back or stopping to [pick it up again 'The Democrntio fitet~e Conventiot met at Wvoresiter, 11dass., oin the 3rd instant. On an informal ballo for a candidate for (Governo~r, .Wui Oaston, of Boston, received 20O3 vote out of 451. Mir. Gaston wan thel natminatnd by analamzation A Sirtirige, cQoiye.y, A young man in Maryland died, last Sunday, to all intents and purpo. Sso, and to tho atbsfaction of the doctors. The body was placed on ice. The next morning, hd haA a natural look. ie was taken from the freez'r, subjected to restqrativo ap plicatious, and is now recovering. - If a young man can stand thie sort of restorativu, he dan stand aniy thing. Ihrnumn had better pooiuro ti is interesting youtltu-and e hibit him, as the or iginal "Big Thing on Ico." We have heard it reported very cir eumitnnially about hero that Ph'ilA. IEichelberger, formerly County, Trean. urur who.so death and burial was publi l.ed some time ago, did not in Cant Jio in manner nodl -form as sit forth in his obitunry hotice ; in fact, that, he did not'dio at all ; but, in. stead of doparting to that "ededntty 'rom whose bourne no traveller rc turns," he departed to some other country between which and tho United States there ii no oftrAdit~bu t reaty, in order thereby to sesape the C"user(iencces of ortain Tnalfcasances in Ofliee fur which lie had beau arrest edl by the pure ntid honest Cardozo. We -ay such a report prevails about 1re. Whether or not thero .lb the slightest foundation for it we aro unable to say.- Chesr Reporter. Rerponses to priyers. and sormons may be good if they come in .at the right, place. Not so. however, came in a respuione, recently to a minister 11 Au 'ri in churech. Hie, had como down from tle pulpit to invito a stranger in one of thu gew to, lroach for him, but was 'unsucce'sful. Brethren,'' Faid he, "I invited Broth, er 8- to preach, but he declines. "G lory lie to God !" roared out from the middle of the church. Lully, the compx.er, was dangsr-a ously i. A confesmor told hin.-iubcrd was Inly otte way by w1hich he could obtaitin absolution -and that won ly linming all . thit ho had -con ored of an unpublished opera. 1iully burnt, the munio. Oi his rco vpry a noblemani said . "You have butned your opcra, and you atre really such n. blockhead."' "Stop, my friend, stop, siid Lully, whimpering in his cars "I knew very wt.LI what I was about! I havo nnother." Perhaps it is not generally known that a very fine white vinegar can bo de * from the juice of.. watet-nelons; We had a ve~ry great quiantity of mnel 0ins Inst season, ai'd, after we had out their eri mson oores for oating, soraped tie belle, from which we gained a large amount. of juice. This we caro, fully strained and put into jug' witi smail glass ittles in their mouths. We sst. the jugs .in the sun, and in time had aline lavorcd,clear, itrong, whi! vinegar. The vinegar at a ceri.ain mstago will be vory bitter, but, nL.ein perfected, lo:.es thif, and no quirus a puro vinegar tasto.-... A Ariful l)odger. Senator Morton has returned hig backel pay to the Treasury. .The Cou rior Journal dispohcs of the mattor thu1: "Mr. Morton .will not again any orodliL by his tardy rbpontancoo' Even Judas returned :the thirty, pieces oft sllver when it-began to burn himn. mef Judas found but littlb re lief in it." floodi Temphiris WVork ini Home. 'The Rome (Commrerolal states that. Sacred i'romisn L~odge, of that eity, in it i-.td thirtby nine one evening, thir tLy-tiv another, andl ever a dozen times upwsr udai of t wenty have joined at ono moc Iiig. , overal bar-rooms have' beeni closod out, and there is not a salooni.keeper in the eity now who, nill nmot tell you, if you .ask for his candid opinion, that the Godod Ter plaris have damaged him immntsoly in his business. The lady who tamped her husband gentily with a farn at a party the oth.. er night, and said "Jiovo, it's growing late, [ think we had bettor go home.'" is the name one who after getting home shook the rolling-pin undor his' nose and said, "you infernal old scoundrel you, if you over look at that mean, nasty, calicoo-faced, mac heroh-oyed thing that you looked at to-night, U'll bust your head wido open." Some ogre or an editor trios to frighten tender consciences by telling, youfig laudi~n that *hen they oxolaini "dear me I" they are owearing liko trooperus. Yet such is the faf,.? for ti-i phrase, as we bnve it, is but tj~ corruption of the Italian words, Dio M/w / "My Godt i" Anocthler P'hilad-pjhia t.iderman. bas been uinanimously elected to the penitentiary. An .omt.poken writor . froiEi Ane of s the summer retorts saysj''5',rUlo abr a pulic parties the ugliest womat wear theo moit diaitonds."