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Williams & Davis, Proprie oti'] A Family Paper, Devoted to Scienco, Art, Inquirv, Industry and Literature, [Teims---$300 uer Annum, In Adyior VOL. IXel WJNNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 1,1873. N\15 FAIRFIELD HERALD WI~li3AM, & )A"vIts, T mv. -T t.; itur.ot i n pii Iishod Weel i. the lo'wn or Winsboro, at S.60 d : P. 11rIab in advance. A1 . ' All itatisient. advertisetiiils fo 1, o.l i it dadv cC. Oilinary Notices litid 'tribtdk $1 00PC Whit tIs tI UgIal Check. Wo find the fillowing iN a lato iu'wber of the Journal of Commerce The following questions colle to Trom a SouIhern banker SA'VANN A, .1., 8ept. 4, '183. To the Editor oj' Ie Journal of Con. W. erce. I will 1 ool much obliged by your rept) ing to the following inquiries : 1. A chek dradh, a ablo to -order of--, and the blan i'bt filt'ed up, am I right. in paying tho amount tb any person by whom it dha'y he pro. i.eated, without requiring any en dot sement or acknowledgment from them ? 2. A. cheek drawan . payable to "my461f" aId prose'ted b'y the draw er. 31 [ right in compelling hhi to .ud->ran the same ? My habit is, in the ''firat Case, to ply the Check to alny person, without undvrsenent. and iu the seuond ca I requi-o the "driwer" to eudorse, that I may have evidence of the pay mutit in eve-nt of his disputing the o hur kind atte'ntion will inuch Olige "T .:tE R." LPI V.-l. A check to the order If blai'k is by its e xpress terms paya bM with a blank endorsement, and regnir1s no name upon the back of There has ben sonic legal di mitewhether a chcc or'note "made ;o lthe order of *the drawer was a per t cim against the natker without it Lore fso his endorsenent. A check payable to "myself or order" would be a good voucher against the drawer if the bank could pro\'e that -0be money w.- piaid to hhim, Lut to eniry this proof with its possession without further tron1ub the bank 'IIght to insist that ithe only one* en tited to receive tho mnonoy as it stands should endorse it. The teller is therefure right in bo01 'anRce. They are in a state of g -oat eoi to ment, in Beckenrid ge, Iinu. This yonithfull but flourishing town has had it:s first baby. The shops were clos. ed, the field hands had a day's holi day, and turnips, carrots and beets lay idloin the maiket wogans. The SOIitary pri-oner in the log j il wts allowed to roan about in his cell wiihout his meals, and the cry of mad bul" passed by unheeded. It waS, in the language of tle local jrorna, "a bright day for Becken ridge, and gave it a pl:eo among the b rotlierhood of natinns." 1The baby when born, weighed one pound anl a r1uarter, tut I hen it ;was two weeks oll it. hal gained two 'ponids. 1% was only six inches long, and a coin mnon) (Witbler would .cover it.. TIhis is a small baby, it is true, but Boeck 'idgu is a smhll -place ; besides, it is youm1ng and oafioot bo e peotcd to pro d nioe such large bltbies as older towns. But it is a. th rivitig hh%, or it woeld not have gained two 'po'unds in as 'moany we~eks. At this rate it will weighi. tifty pndt at the0 cod of a year ; andl by the timno it is tetn years old it will pull down th calen at F,2i ponus ; so it will be s'o'n thatt a I:Yht Beeken':id go ha~s b.gun biodest ly, it has begn well, and th6 greateust hopes may be entertainod re gardinlg its future prtugress. iMr. P. T1. Barnum announces that if a ballo'ondoes not cro.<s the Atlan tie this fall he will spend *$53,000 if ne Csary in hiaving that experiment - ~ lbicd as eatrly as possible next year, provided one or mocre ao .onadts can he found in Ameri'eno 0' uropo Who will heartily make the attemt. He evidently does nor ibend to make t~hn experiment. with a cheap balloon, for he says iAs at jresent faIdve .1 shall have the silk mandlactured in Ubina, Put together alnd prepared tideP- the directlon of Al3ibutine molt * in London, an espoi'imbntal akeention made from the Sydenhith Urystal Palace grounds, then bring the bal. loon to A merica, and make theotrans. ntlantic trip from New York. 1; trust Hbc public will holieve that i frI put mty han d to the~ plow I shall not look The W\ash iigt Jn orreciiondelnt of the Cininiinati Commnercial wrI b~s taopth lth :"C. U. Sammis (color ed)ube hof lromb Ntew ork fom Ikon h on Saturdaylast ofe tem thred S0enaofornited wtaics Conau ht wSuta rdt lefe hind ahimr igti mutty, vera wnaiden b abroilad and atnuymbe oflotst o coor pomp fi or pdaiy.o Samis thes appintedn ofoneo theimenatoa oforeig ofth Flida AS(onas onwhil Sat omhe wast aeet roo frtis arepryligt tisfy t~ah oiso f ooedpol Prof. 1.dwin appeard Last even. ing befcro a largo aund ittenativo audi enco asiiembled to Witne-s his expose of spiritualism. Col. .ibb, Mr. Welov and MIr. rfeineberg we''o Iliad. at special coin-, zIaittoo ein knots, rores and general good fSai of perforiane. The Profe.,or then pao-codvd to carry ou t a series of tests aid iani. festiion-, ealentlated to mntify tlie mIindis of his spetatols. 'The coma. tmicte Sat n tied th heani and feet of th Profca and his assbunt, the d1)Oors w eo bedial a bnoswt immlle. ditately mujic on the gui ,t ,ad tat,. bourinte was heard ; bells rang, nyte. rious! rrp. i were heird, and fingers wore saeen at the apertiures of the cabinet. The doors of the cabitet were thrown open, iand there sat the Professor and his assistant HoCurely tied to their chairs. Mr. Weally then took a sent in the cabinaet with the meediutis, they ho i:g bound, when somej tartlingnoisen, ghostly npparitions td tie naa; in fetrnal Imuio proceeded from thait hatiaad box.', as if it we)re a very den of go.'blills. Thell doorsi having be'en opie!, Mr. Weakloy stopped fo Lth, very imuth relieved to find that he was v1nee imoaire on terra fI ritrmp.. The Professor and his assistfant proc'ededli with ai number ta nifesta ti. , af-. 'r ,i manner of lana I: 'c epiritu:1iso, ':'ing that lie wavs as id cpeYt in dark utdertakings as any of tho in-din . A;ad n >w f-r "'1a 0.It are vain" or ths. th-:- Profes orc cncludied to es p wo. I[, N- very brienly, but sattisfac tOrily Cxploded all the aove spirit de eds nat d na;any other io called ruper naturil n m1, atnife.tationts bcsidcs. Tho Pr ar en: and satie factorily expla-inCd Foster's "ilental tests (ai-l bloo- writiir" ".,late writing'' and dw da1.k "1%aanc," h ing es. poi a:l how thu ladies tmaago to ierfirm ti:' last vonderai so casily. "W1itiine on tho wa!" wIas n::t we igled i th balanc i and found tNtig. TI;h profe.sser told how, at. New lhier, e made a piano float aromdi throigh space, discours.. ing swoot etlodies. 11c knows how to explain in a ve- Immouit -, itt iractivo imannir, reip ~, k4 pwing, oh iotIn plie nomnena and other st1pedorl4 facos that hayv cver heen and are Atall being eneted for the ediuic -ifat andI aimuseitmtett t of iiiaikind.-.Asa.Yhri/e Ba n ni~' There is an Whl ilm ration of t'c wa5y in vlich ho farmers ai mad tm Lear the burdeons of the conmunity takeitn frioi fin Jnglilsh tavern Vsigi whiCh We laVC liariy ren reprodaced aind applied to the present Mstat of affMair.s with telri !-et. The ogn mn queaa'stion was kiaw as the "Iove A1ls and hore iii fiv' compartmnitits live syiholical figures with their ap propriate inottoes ; in the irst a king? in hiA robes with the legetd, "I govern all ;" in lie s-ond, a bilihop in onit'ifici, vith timomn , "' pray for all -' in the thin a lawyer in hiu wig and powi, with te motoo, . pYir nil;"' in the fom th a soldier in regimlentak, wvith the mnotto, "I rht for all ;"' in th,. 1'fthJ at poor countrymaiin with rey thlo and rakec. Jat view of tlh it 83emt's imiapossibho thoat the aigitattion rnow goinag on iannog the farmer c .i shall he' conf ined er eir-enoscribed w i thintsuchl ;aarrow ofu politiosurainag that termt, of course ini its bett' r andti higher signuification, as~ sttayb)inous: will si tatctinatihp andte titc seieiwi of goivernmen)cit, w ithout i;:aufttactureid iout of. p:aperi tiiany air tioles of beautty anid ''ilityv. TIhiey have int fact carried this t inch of' alutryLt fari int i'avance of tany othier p1-pleI. Fori abu.it 25 centsi a fullI anuit, of ohe m ~tade of watter-p [roof paper atnd very duitrable can be h-ioght iu the Flowery lanid. A Necw Yor-k or, Mr. S'd atmuel crumtp, lhas for someo Limo ekper imetnted ini the paper lino and1( at latst hit 'ipon miiany of the tao 'rts- of the (hine 'se , espciaci y thiose appocrtainiang to water-pr'oof mtaterjil. li hasi pureblii aeda thu old1 !"ive Poi bt s therceon. lloh hhindr cani (1t sustliitute ii;thisii m iial fori elo thI and the paper now used. \Wal!i:; covered wvithI it may hot niahd <l' withoiaut intjury, atnd they will be1 lifond of great ut-ili ty ini packing tea, tobacc'o, and othier pak agces where I- it is ne ctr y to eix elud athe~ j aira fromn Lth aiti le Otuclos ed. When ot I oraic Gi;reeley vi it ed Yosemiite.i.: pi-kod tap itn the trail a hoirsaeshoie t mi t hung it 0on theI kno*, of ant otak tree for whoever might choose to uase it. No oe took it, and in time theo knot grow over the horseshoe, anid recently tho prt-ion of thze tree cotn tiinig it wasl cut out and~ sentt to Sana lirancisco as ftanmonto of Mr. Gree loy's eonomny. An Omnulaa girl introduced a ro mnantie mode of suicido. She stutffod heur lover'. letters down heor throat natili she suffocated. Postngc StitIps. Small and insiguilicant as they indivilually, oullectively they numbeihored by billiots, and are wo qiany millions of d(Ilars. There now in iso ono hundred and th differeit classes of postage stan, and twetiy .ix thllouisnd s3hcets o!e hundred roamps each are prin1 each working day. The number staulnps used annually is about 65 001,000, anid their avernge value l000,0oo. To prevent error a fra t(J, the aheetsof Sta pr re e-11inI and rcc,>uitd tent or twelvo tim They are dh:.'ributed by nail about thirty. five thousand post a ces in the United States, and ord, are rec, ived daily for about 13,00 000 stamps. . A g6-ornmnsot ag< gives a reccipt for the starnps and ti tains corrcs)ouding receipts fr< those to whom they are distribut< They are mannfactured by the C< tihents l 'ank Note 'Company, a duiing the month of July the comn) 1y had a stook on hand of 75,000,0 stamps, valued at $2,203,000. these, 54,770,300 were threc-ec staps. il1,167,500 one-cent, ai 5,651,709 two-ceutstamp3. ('01. Mosby atnd thle Adilililistrittioit. The Warrrenton (Va.) Index co firms the report that (ol. Mosby I centCly wrote lettoru to the Pireide and L'osmaster (eneral Creswell c planatory of his position in the pri CIA Canvass in Virginia, stating th it' because of the patronac bestow, upou hin in tile distrii tion of cc tailn Oiccs a different cour was expected on his part it wot 10 gratifying to him to ha the said appointments revoked, i Snlym "ithat itt confirmation of tle pr 51 ioption that they were satitfactoi to the part ies add ressed, we state th when a lHdo:il delegation, headi by llatt, waited on Pom.4naster 0c Oral C 'reswel I this week and demand the renmoval of tho a-ppointees mna through the influence of Mosby, Cr well refused to comply." The toll for earrying whe-it fr( ditieront points in Minucsota to M wauzkie or Chicago .his boon rais from twenty-one to twenty-four gsq it hosil, and ho farmers are grui bling, as if tbrea cants was on obje to them, though salnry-gralbber, Jol Ijogsn, says that $500 a car isl an object to anlybody. 1'ho tol sex.action from the farmers of Mi nesota by thii increase will anmou to $730,000. Ladies i-i deiicata Iealth, shlou go to Colorado. ie case of Mi lPratler, of (olden City shows t wonderful restorative effects of t eli Itate. Sihe could not sweep b1 room when they lived in Ohio ; b in less I han a year after her arriv in the Territory, she chased her hu band a milo and a quarter wit'% pitchfork. Vred. Dougiass is about 56 yeirs ago, stoutly built, nearly 8ix feet height, and very erect, a bright co per color, his featurei prominit marked, a well formed head, and I hair peifectly wh it. Ie seem to ho a little feeble, but thtis, doubt, was oning to the fatigue traveling, as hia robust frame woe indJicate that lie had excellent healt One of the highest coniiplimaer ever paid the Southernt 'peo'ple, as that of thle l'oet Bryant, whent he sit last winter after a visit Sou th, thi "whenm Southern statesmen were power, we had 's pure and glorio govecrntmetnt ; but in their cxchi 1 fromt ofliec, criinto antd corru'pt itn ha come in like a flood." lie is ao o por ted to htave said that if slavery sa it (-vii, it bired t he best race of n,' andic wonmen the W orld evei saws." Shecrmtan swears he did not bu (1olumbia. lie told thti.s monstro lie in thle beginnuing, and unfortunal ly for tho honor of hutmantity, sticks to it. We fetar the old buar burnier is "like one, whio having u to truthti, by telling of' it; miad o an a sinner of his mnemtory," thiat "ecredits his own ia.'' lint there conisolationt int the future for thc whom hto basely slanders :for reri pt uro says ''ietit outhi of tie thtat speak licsa 1 halo sto ppedt This will occur vbhen Sh1ermian sh: have beon gathsereJ homoe to the 1 somt of his faitr-"tho father lies.'' evensi;, said : '[Tao person I raw the headi of the wt its was a tman wvi oine eye named Jacob Wilkins " htwas the samo of his otti (:y't ?" spitefully ,isked theo opposi counsel. The winess was disgust at the lovity of tie audienco. Love induced a Louiisvitle gl to thrtow tobaccoin btor fathter's ey so that boer lovermight have time get her into his ,agon for elopomo purposes. A fire at Biroonfield, Penn., whi destroyed a pape mill, occasioning loss of $75,000, jad its origin in sp taneokr ' = -0on. PUrled in (the SandL. xre .A correspondent of the Pueblo ire Pcoplc writinlg frPmn Yort Garlanld, ith Col., under dato of .j uly 24, tells the ire following story. Tie roliability of the rco correspondent is voiched for by the pq, cd.itor if the people. Wo quote : of . Last londay, tivo lexioun boys, ;d Jesus Maria find Juan do )a Cruz of Liibuste-o, were taking a herd of: 0,- 700 sheep acress the saudhills of the is "Lovihis del Arreno," about twenty ud four miles northerly from Fort Gar ed land, Theso snudhills extend out us. into the Sn11 Luis Valley about fifteen to miles oppositu the Mosco Pass. Ill. The herders undertook to make a. irs "short cu.' across the hills, instead of U,- going around, as directed by their nt father. At first everything looked. b- gayly ; the boys, and 'hocp, and dogs, ou only sank a few inehes in the light, do. white sand, and they thought how n- foolish it was of old fogies to go id around twenty miles, when 'it was (a- only four acrosi. Put before they got 00 half acr6ss, ono of the sudden storms Df aroso ; up came a gentle breeze, the at breeze became a wind, and th wind id an awful hurricoac ! the sand mov';d about to blinding'clouds, hills changed to holes, and every holo was a seeth ing cauldron. . The poor boys struggled hard to alivert their doom-and Jesus Maria managed, by drawing hisseraren over his head rnd kecing his feet, and climbinig as the san d piled up around, to survive theu tornado, but his younger brother, Juan do la Cruz !t igrieb euccumbed to the sulfoo: ting blast. and as a ship goes doi ii at sea, so sank the bravo boy, surrounded by his bloating sheep and whining do-, d and when the sturm oeased, as sud denly as it commenced, little Jesus funnd himself all alone, with quiet at moulnds of glistening sand all around him ; 1ad not a trace of the cruel storm nor a wroeck of the sad disaster could be seen.. le jile hurried home, Nhere he arrived the neat day, and told his tale of ter raor. Tho whole plaza turned out in search of the lost body and to dig out the nissing sheep. Up to the n succeeding afternoon they had recov -i ored over 400 sheep, most of thenm d beng foun'd nbobt si4 feet below the tsa Muurauo. atndt nat t h- ... I- boring plazas bad flocked to the scene et and wero busily engaged in digging in out slicep), savinig the wool and feast 'igen mutton. TIe old gentleman's al lo.s was their gain, and he tould n' say :is he rumacked his lips over a tine ut muttonl chop, "all is not lost that's out; of tight." ld 'Ituo NewA-ok erald publishes a S. sti ieturo fi on a lady correspondent le on the indecency of Matt Morgin's ue pictures in the " Black Crook,"i which ir provokec the painter to hurl the fol. it lowing at the public al To the Editor of the N. Y. Herald. s. I ami exceedingly loath to tako up a your tine or encroach upon your valuable space ; but the prominence you have given t'o "' young lad-;'s of opinions" o my picures in the in "lnack Crook," cornpels ino to say a p- few words in self defence. May I ly ask tho young lady in question, or if any other lady, young or old, if she 'd has ever seen the illustrious C rio Am.ierican sculptor, Iliram .Power's in statue of t.he "0 reek Slave ?" lias ldseever seen Tlitian's "Venus ?'' [Ins hi. rho ever been into any great colloo (ion of paintings, andl whether she r Is has come to thme ccenelusion that such as ehbiosae'outrageously lewd ? id If she has to come to such conclusions at I have nothing moro to say ; but, in whl:ile tho-asan:ds of pure0 minded us: A mnerican ladies can contemiplate thme mn workc of our great scal'ptors anid pain. ro ters, both here and abroad, with. c- out a blush, I have yet to learnm that as the mere fact of such worki being~ en exhibited in the '.Black Crook' would rendler thieum 'outrageously lowd !' .'To the pure alt thinfts arc pure.' rn A way with such criicisr ! it is oif us the kind which would cover the (e- 'Venus deC Medicis' with a gauze ho pettico'it and put trowsers on the n- legs of pianofortes. l1.remain y~uurar n- obediently, M rr MOnOAN." la Nano~ Ilill, the notorious female so horse thief and ruulger, was Iuinged io about six toiles fi om Montague, Te'xa's im on IDenvor Creek,ssveraul days sincee. ." Ier body has. just beenm discovered ill suspendedl from a post oak. 11cr o- saddle and bridle woro lying n,9ar of iliponi a roe.k, aind her pony was found a mile or so away. It is supposed ,that D~avo Porter, her conisort, was in~ kilIled at thle s: nuo timen, beut h is bodly at has not ais yet lien found. The wo th mnan lIIl :ud l'orter werea together -"' only a short dlistanlce ahead of' their or pu rune r when last see:n, whIiich was at. rig Victoria Peak, on Thlmursday eyen inrg Dd last. The Stato bonds hlcd by thie Andes rI Insurance Compaurny, and aldvertisedI es for sale by Comnptrollor [loge, were to disposed of at auction by Messrs. I. 1t C. Peixotto & Sons1 yesterday, and brought cleven and a .Idal/ cens-$l 1,. 5() for $10O0.-Phiwani.. oh --- .~. a Full official returns of the recent >n- election in Kentucky show a Demio, crat~in mnajor ity of 92,361 . flow Princes Ttll Their Love. It seciks that, at one time, so me stripling of a Prince with ample means, and who know that the thing had got to be done up handsomely to produce in impression', decided to send an Easter cgg to the damsel of his love who, in this case, happened I to be a Princess of the royal house of Saxony. So he oalled a skiilful jeweler to his aid, and the order was given. The result was an Easter egg such as had never been seen before, and has cortainly never sinco been 1 equaled, which to-day'is prescrved in I the Green Vault. Princo and Prin (cs have passed away, but the inge nious trinkot reinaijus to tell how the Sciolb Of rayalt:y tolI their love in I the days of old. To the ordinary observer it is simply an egg, and nothing more. But close examina. ion rcvcls a line of separation which oncircles it, and further search dis. close a spripg- Touching this, the egg-shell, w:ich provcs to ho gold, enameled to represent a shell, opens and reveals a chick, fledged with eve- d ry part, counterfeited, but all of gold, enameled. 'T'uxning the little follow aver, and touching a1 concealed spring, the body opens, revealing another egg :f smaller diiimioens. 'IlThis, Ialso of g!old, and aklo ename'ed, opes lik' g the first ; and now we come to the s kernel of the whole affair, an cleganti olitaire diamoid ring, tle stone of U won dle rfulii bea uty and clearness of b xater and worth a small fortune in o tel cf. 'The writ cr's memory of t tenealogical facts is not sit ron, and hi s the earlier editions of tte k: A huinarch d: (oth.) are not at, hand, h it crtiniot ray whuether the lady ne. p :opted her princely ruitor, but it is '.ry certain that sho accepted the ,gg, for it is still in the strong roorns >X the louse of Saxony, a curious and b :ostly trinket. u A Rt'y Exiiutllion. The following racy examina!!on of c :andidates to the bar is taken from b he Western Law Journal. The ex inination commonced with t "Do you 4moke 7" "1 do, sir.'' "Have you a. sparo cigar V" i "Yep, eir." (I>rtends a short six.) I "Now, sir, whiat is tile Urst duty of r. i lawyer ?" 'To collect f'ees." e "Ilight. What is the r'econd V" t "To increase tho numter ofelients.' ( "Whenl doen the posiion torArils v -lients change 0 When making out a bill of costs." "Explain."' 'I "We then occupy.the anta.gornistic p position. I become the plaintiff and s to becomes the defendant." a "A suit decided, how do you stand vith the lawyer on the other side ?" s " Cheek by jowl." " 'Enough, sir. You promise to be. t mine an ornament to your profession, t ind I wish you succ'ss. Now. are c 'ou gware of the duty you owe mo " i "Per'foetly." "Descrile it. "It is to invito you to drink."1 o "But suppose I. deciluc ?" 11 "Candidate scrtehe s his head. "Thereis no instance of the kind ti n record in the booikIs. I cannoi an-- c wer the question-"'' ''You arc right. Antd the confi is lence with which you make the as ertion shoews conclusively that you enud the law axttent ively. Let's take d rinuk, and T will sign your certili- n ate at once !" Thie people of thle great State ef ew York are, ini turn, having coler..~ di school tieoubles, the naituxrma results 'j fa so-cal led "ci vilI righta hxill'' panss, e d by the last Rlepubl ican Stato Leg- b slature. in Ponighkoepsi e, two col. red girls having succeeded in obtain ng a bench amtong the white scholars, 'nany of these have left, and their 'arents are quite indignant aind cx .sited over their success ; while in lirooklyn it is the colored people ~ whlo are agitated, wanting, by virtue ~ f' thle."'bill,'" to stand uipen a foot..h ing of perfeot equalit~y with the whbites for adinission to any .id all schxools of that flourishing suburb of' the great metropolis. There, how 3vor, the great mnajority of the whites ;nst upon separate schools for color d cliildlren, or a continumationx of tlie p~res(cnt system. Thulxs, according to bie New York I lIral, antagonisms mu aiccountt of color arc revived upon Northern soil in thcir worst fornms. lhe colored peoplo will probably Ai tavn to suciiumb, for antc'gonistox in iici r weorst. frms~ an nlot dor l thm any. thling eL.,e b'ut hiarmt ini Irook lyn, New York or (elshr. The lPointas rehed latituxte 82 deg. I16 inin. Thbis was tho nxerest poinit to thle North l' olo ever' rcachmed by civilizedma.Frnintee Poa oiudes stantds a rudo woodn ('t mfonmnjiOuit to Captjta in llall, the in-i. trepid conxxnande~r of the host Po. 1 laris. l'Tis is a grand moinument that will staind for ages a record of his daring and a challenge to all ther daring Polar explorers of' the world. I P'it~y that lie couldl not have reached the pole, and fallen whore the foot of man hast never trod, andl where the sun could have lit up his glacial tomb, forever. and forner I Politicu1 Note. Hon. David A. Nitun, the newly Dlceted nember ofCongress from the 'ighith disirict of 'Cunessee, has opcn. ly declared his intontion to voto for .ho rcpcal of tho Salary (rab law. Ur. Nunn doeis not mean exrcly what a says, because that law c-1nt he repea led under the provision of tho ,o01titution which dech ires tha the Preside nt's copensat.an '-bal icithe r be increased nor diminIibhied ttring the period for which he ihaU 1ave been elected." A new law may 3c Passed fiXing the slaris of th nembers of Congress at $5,0i) a year, kIr. Nunn was olectod in placet of rilliam W. Vaughan, a salary grab >er. ' On the 0d of October Oregon Will hoos a inmber of Cengress in pilaee f Joseph G. Wilson, deceased. The ssue, besides the general one, ap cars to be on endorsing the actions of lie new IiniLod States Senator, Jamop fIiel Mitchell, alias James Di'.. 11 lIc!pel. The democratio onodi. ate, James V. Nesmith, condemniiis iml, while the republican, Hiramh iith, sind1; him not guilty and hoped 0 will not do so any more. The Ioston Advertiser lceps pe, . ing away at tho ad ministration. I . ys:---"The republican party of 13asiachusettu moay safely be relied pon as a-in administration party a. 'ng as th admiiiistrition is worthy f support, and we vish it to be dis inctly uiulcrstood that fodcral enie. olders add io strongth to it as soun s they lead off in opposif ion to the onest wishes and sentiments of the arty.'' Railway C('s on Wirc:. The wire rope railway ha3 recently cen iitreduced on an improved plan -Mlnly de-ignd, in this fortu, to ho sed in connection with a narrow auge railway or hor.;o road, where oal or are is moved in small, sqtiro ox 0'trS. The tracks are laid to the cd- of ho rivcr or fake to be crossed, and, the span does not exceed thrcQ undred feet, a steel seven-eigh tle nch rope is stretched over the stream. t is passc I round largo wooden whiolm, roperly iooured at,ach end, and so riaed that, when one wheel is turn d by stoam power, the entire ropo ravels like any ordinary band. loso beside this, and at just the -idth of thi, cars froin it, is pilace nother rope, secured in the sams raty, and made to move .with it. 'Iese two rines passipver strong sup rLing wheels at cach sido of tho tream, and hang about four foot bovo the end of the rail, Each car is provided wit0 four trong iron hooi:s, one on each ehairer; ad'its they arrivo at the stream, iey are pushed, one at a time, np to le moving ropes. 'ho lioope on tho irs fit over the rope, and ita. friction fts them from the tral: anul trais orts them over tho stream. On maching the other side, the ropes pas ( ver the wheels, and the car slidesi pon the rails again without injury. Ls vomoniut sendo it along tho -aek, anid it is easily recured to tho -gine. When the train has passed mo rope tranusit, one car at a timie, it made u p and go'es on. A Slrnngc Xtreet I'ar, '.hey are trying a new street car of ovol construtiona in Cincinnmati. Il~ the invention of'a Mr. Murch. Inm tenid of overceominug the roitue in rawi ng by a smooth iron rail it i's bviated by thme aizoC of the wheels. 'he body of the car is similar to that f the ord ioaiy atreet car. .It. hasi ut one platform. with stel a nt either dlo, rhd is no h:igher thtan othier car; bie front wheels, six feet in dliaumeter, -ith a platformn for the dir er, nro adlopenident of the rest of thle car, a far as cain be while coupled toi i ndl turn just as the front wheels of a omnmont carriage. PTe wivc:ht of thle ar with its load, rests chuictly on th1e( ind whle els, whichd tpwer up ino u act in dIiamioter' 'the neles drolp inl uch a way that, the load is far beliow hie centre of thme wheels, anud al!l dan er (of npsetting is a voidr). 'Ilho hesare cf Iron, with longw br:as ubs and two rows of spokes. The ack of the froint wheels is the sno idtht as that of a ciommon .hu y. 'hile that of the hund r;heL|- .minh iore thaun the wid th, of the~ c:w~ itself. Pnriix Item of th inancial Crash, We finud the follow ing very sngge.. ive item in the New Veork eui's iae. aunitt oif lust Fid (ay's. prlCoeedings at lie New York H o'ck Fxcage: A well known mand influeintialI bro. omie to thue receuo of thie fe'llo-;s who ave gonto unsder. A hI if thin, wi Ii he exception of I ick Abri , aro ruly loyal and that's whby the govern intnt takesq care of them. If the, un ortunatena wvore Damocrats or hoestilo o Mr. Grant, do0 you supposo any esistontee would be rendered the'i rom that sonroe 1 Not a bit of it." 'The war of itle Rewing rn;Ia %y' vill noon reopen, to show, of eou rnej ~hat they all got thme lirat prizo K Viennn.. low Ben lJttler's Enemics Proved Ihcir 'VIl'tc. ooo of the richest things that over trati4pired 'in polities was developcd at the Radical Convention in a:-sa On tho subrlco'nit tec (consistinit of three) aippuintedi to draft the reso lutions was iMr. iioar, the Radical Congressman from Worcter, ;ho though he'did'liot vote inl CogirresS for the back pay, yet did not return baid grab after .e had got it. 'Thiscommtittee reported tho erics" of'rnsolutionwi substanizally as drafted by Mr. Uonr and ,ubsequenutiy adopt ed by tho Converition. itjj obs.-rved ht the resolntion relatiug to thu so-called 's-Ilnry grab" is so carefully worded au to entirely okoludo the writer of the resolution from any censure or con dentation. The Boston Traveler thinks tiis is "vxoxy jud'iciots on the pa 'of Mr. Hoa'r." When this resolution 'was presented to the committee, the following amendment was ofored and debated at length by Mr. Hoar and others Jsobted, That the flRopublioan par ty of Alassaclus.etts desires to include in -its condenin 4tion of the lato in cruhvo if 'grevional salariers ,1H those who received the money, as well as thoso who vo;ed for the meuiare. Tbis ainendment was ;!pted by a to.jority of one vote, Mr. Ioar voting agarist it. It was subsequliently e considercd and tabled by one vote, thalt of the 110on. Mir.la Th im- it appe-is that the only way in which Mr. Hoar, who rcs.cive-c his pi-epor tion of the grab, avoids a rn.solution of1, conleinatiouen is by ino.d est ly giving the costirig vote to defeat it. Verily, Nlasac*huaetts is well repre. sentcd in Con grcs".-Frma the Rai. fird Ti.'as. VhioI the (ood Th4eiplar Ionga was in resrion ut i lill .ituu, Satiur'daiy night, oi ephl)oien of powdelr ocet..m-ed I beneath 'the a floor of the ichool- homse in which the organizati:n met, with I sufll ient force to tip over the- IlIles and lainps, whii the fir, bir.t tOhroumTi t t i in hw p'.c nd ie 'the house wi.th a tiing ::he. A forther examinatioi bv da.li, reveabl Ow,~ ftilpt dliIi.j.; ha1d be':'n lifted enioitgh to allow the fundation; to be puihed out of ph:ee. A powdeclr can that w~ould hold1 about twent.y.ivo pounds was fourd under the Ioui.c, tort to piece. The floor beiug a don-le one it. Wa4 stronglIf coOngh to ;aidhstand lie shoek-evenl to sliightly lIfting the hotl.e and pu ing out lthe wal--th.a enalhil I le powder to expend its farce li:raly, aid %-:artng the ev'ident intcetion to blow up ifte-n or twenty men a"( wonu -Ob( rrcr. Uiting~ Divorces. The husband van divorce h vwfe at pleasure and Icave her the charge of matina!lining their children, in the i 'iid of Corea. If she proves un faithful he can put her to de-atih. The first wife may be divorced in Siam, hut n. sold, as the othis may bo. She then may claim the firsr, third, and fith child, a1 the nlt( r nato children are yielded to th hIs band. .When a man da.res A divorce in the A rotic regions, lhe lea ves the hense in anger, and do~es not retunrn stands 'thle biat, piacks up her clothes aund leaves. If the parties chiooso to) spa rate in (hina, th y break a pair ofch.p stcsor copper coin in the p'res*eire of witniesset, by 2'high actioun t he ~'union 'is disslvedh. 'The husbiand mutst. restore to the wife thle property beloniginig to her prior to marriagc The lcals in rrub, There isi, siy the St. Louis Rie publican. troui>'e among the lhd ictn! whiebc, while i' Tlords amufisieen. t outsidera', is death to the lRads. 'J.'hurmnan has spiked Morton's guns in O)hio the Anti G rabbers of Iowa havd eradhedl John A. [Jigan's bugrle; the "Respectability" of biassachnI sets have dismadutteA hoe whole Lous~ Branch foitifiention by rejecting t he bo~s'en pet of that establishmnent fun. Batter : mtor Ilarlan is invitedi to remain far away frodli 4 le WVest Matt. Carpenter is flounidoring in the inuddy pool of social andi political disreputo ; anrd flow bomoe the Rlepub liclui niowusapers of Iowa and <4 of that S'tato rise o i, rinI whlat he did with huis share (f tho t(!..ry1 sway,"' befuoc he si. I be permitt ted to openiI his nt h in, boblf of the nominees of the party. Truly the situatitun is bein-criIig in terestin'. A French counites- soized a philoso phor at the supper table, ard, ainkings hier voico to a whiis['-r, raid!, "Whilo they are eutting up the fowls, and we have got five milnts to rpare, do tell mo the history of the world, for I want to know it so inuch." The Supremo Court hants decided that .Masters in Erquity are not liable for investments made in Confedor~to -securities under the nanctioni of the cotrt.