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ams & Davis, Proprietors.] A Family Pape, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquirv, Industry and Literature, [Terms---$3.00 ter Annum, InAdvano VOL. IX.] WINNSBORO., S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 19,1873. 'NO. 2 THE FAIRFIELD HERALD 18 PUIILISHIED WEEKLY nY WILLIAMs, & DAVIS. Trms.-THs llanALD is published Week Jb the 'town of Winnsboro, at 911,00 in t sriably in advance. ip All transient advertisements to be ptid in advaneo. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1 00 per sluare. Fasion Gossip for the badies, All persons who have a present or rospective interest, in weddings or balls are notified that white kid gloves are no longer imparative. Pale shades of blue rose, lavender) straw and peorl color are preferred, and three buttons take precedence over four or muore, Much time and attention are now devoted to the AD'ORNMENt' OF THE TIRoAT, whose beauty has too long been ignor. ed and neglected. For many years linen collars disfigured the softest and roundest outline by their harsh pre cision and dead contrasts. The love liest throats became merely sallow, ungainly cylinders, At last, after many gener:itions, good taste prevails so far that some consideration is shown to throats. Where linen once disfigured beauties, lace and' tulle now impart grace and softness to the least preposesing women. Fashion is revelling in tl.e invention of pretty ornaments for this new feature of at traction. Velvct ruffi, lined with white pink of blue silk, with inner quillin 9 of tulle or Bi ussels net, are seen everywhere. Neckties enn be worn at the base of these, the ends crossed or knotted in front, with a locket in place of a breastpin. THE LAST NECKTIE is a velvet ribbon an inch and a half wide, with ends embroidered in blue or scarlet bees, and fluished with fine silk fringe. Others are of soft armure silk, brocaded in whito. Seafs of crep dec/ne, six inches wide are worn around the throat, until furs become seasonable. Plain nocties are basted In shallow pleats, sur mounted by a simple ruche of tulle or wash lWnde. Another style of ruff or "round collar" is easily made. Black silk or velvit for the interior is lined with sillc of any color, run together on the wrong side. The strip is graduated from three or four inches in the middle to about one and a half at the ends. Turned on the right side, it is box-pleated in double or treble pleats down the cen tre. The top and bottom of every pleat are then tacked together, and form a succession of roses and hollow shells, revealing the colored lining and the inner ruff of tulle, which rests against the throat. TIE NILSON COLLARET is both sorvicablo and attractive. A band of silk, edged on either side with Valenciennes, is cut to fit the back of the neck and pass down the front to the waist,strapped across the breast by two bows to hold in place. Black lace scarfs around the neck held by scarlet bows are also quite effective. Black velvet vests, piped with silk and edged with Iaee, preserve or renovate dreasses, offering the rare combination of style and economy. are of soft twilled silk a foot wide. They are worn, too, on theo loft side of the back, passed througo the large sash buckles, which aro now a full dress necessity. A steel anchor for this purpose, wIth bet tackle and twelve buttons to match, can be bought for nine dollars. In Tile Eddy. While Northern manufacturing companies are either suspending opera. . tions altogether or running on shoi at time, a Canada cotton company b n just increased its capital stoek fro $250,000 to $500,000. The New Orleans Tiimes thinks t hi present is the golden opportunity i ol Northern operatives who are thros ni out of employment to conmc Sout h Land here is cheap and productiv e the climate is agreeable in winte .r lightwood abounds, and more fresh a and happiness exi.,t for such po. creatures than they over dreamed <, We learn that New England ai Naw York Chiefs of IFire Decpartmei it frankly told So-ut horn Chiefs that t h day was not far distant, in their op its ion, when thie Northern people wot 1 find the best refuige for their capi ta and persons in the South. The pn )li cy of- the East and Woot, at WVa sli ington, has been directed to crush I > this section and save the North ; bu God is putting their schemes into th fire and making them understand th emptiness of. mere riches, founc le upon- matorialisma and corruption. If our planting comhmunity Wil only feed itself, as i'ar as pose Ibbi this year, raising mutch less of cc itte and vastay more of breadstuffs an ment-praictioing. strict economy ' thb while-the day of deliverance wi 1ilk adva~nced immeasurably, and a le asso taught our -oppesrwhhwi, < be forgotton prfori wic wmum h Dr. Molt and the Sultan. HOW THE CONFEDERATE OFICERS GO'T malPiLOY1E0NT IN THE KHEDivE's ARMY A number of Confederate officers, st)s a Washington letter, got ew. ployniclt in Egypt at from $250 to $60 per mouth, in the following cu rious way. Gen blott, their ranking oflioer, was the son of Valentine Mott, the groat American surgeon, who cut the wart off the Sultans head %1he0n all his Turkish rhubarb-men were afraid of the Caliph's vengeance if the.y should hurt him. blott took iL in his bead as if the Caliph was a tur nip, and great was tile wonder of the faithful. For this the doctor Was 1e warded, but he despised the decora tions which were teuderel him. His son Thrddeut., however, availed him self of the old surgeons's fame when lie went over to Turkey in Andrew Johnson's time, to investigate the complicity of our miniter, Jay Mor ri, in the Cretan revolt. Thaddeus .lorris married a Greek woman, who furnished the harem with haberdash ery, and got admittanoo to the Sultan's bowers, wiiich is in t be East, influence. l3lacque Boy, a convert the faitth, and afterwards Miinister to the Uni ted States, married Gen. Nott's sisA tur. The Khedive of 10gypt, who is always seeking to get in1duence with the sublime porte, his sovereign, of fered Gen. Mott a staff positi -n in his army, expecting to be a step nearer the car and the mouth of the Sultan. He also got the idea that he would have a uumber of Americau officers brought out to Egypt. for thtese would be detached for Europeo.n diploma cy, and would not so 'much excite the Sultan's jealousy. Mott caoe to New York, and there he saw a great crowd of discharged rebels drinking around the hc.tele, poor, ruined, and borrowing. His warm heart took pity on thej, and he would say to this one onae and that one : "Well, I'll give you a position." He was obliged ';o dischargo the bills of some of those, and others had not even the money t o ride in a carriage to the steamshi p). .tranger than Ficilon. A Nort h German paper ndvertis es for the . American heirs of Catha rine Spelli.' ig and daughter Dorothy, both of who In died a violent deat in 1852, at An sterdam. The stooy of the death of Ohe two women, so long ago as 1852, and the finding of their inurlerer tventy years after, is a rev alation ->f actual. ooeurrences which are as t arribly trrigic as may to found within ie lids of romanoe. The widow -, Uatharine Spelling and her daug' ater Dorothoy, were joint pos. Bess0 -rs of diamonds, money and bonds wor h $150,000, and occupied a house by themselves on Hoo em street, A a sterdam. One day in tho summer of 1852, a placard appeared on their do )r saying that they had gone to the co' intry. Six weeks roll d around, an a still the placard remained on the do. )r. The suspicions of the police we re aroused by the long absence of the Women and the house was entered. The placard was found to be a fear ful , leception , the bodies of the two won ken were found on the floor, their dial nonds, money arli bonds missing, and nio ulue to the murderer and thief fou' id. In July last the house was tor a down, aed in its destruction ca' ite to light a circumstance equaling in horror the discovery of the assassi ni ition of the two lone women. Be tr teen the house taken down and the a joining one was a space of about a f< >ot, anid confined in this narrow cell i as found the skeleton of a man whmught midway between the top and he cottonm, an ;on the ground be I menth him wvere found the diamonds, lihe bondd and the money of the mut' ilered women. The assassin in at. ermpting to escape, had missed hil footing, fallen between the houses and with a strip of blue sky visible 'above the high walls of his tomb bad starved to death. Ganno Not the Excrement of Sea Bilrds, The long received opinion thai guano is the deposit of myriads of see birds, aceumua ating thmrough long ages, is rendered untenable by the recent investigations of Dr. H abel After treating the guano with an acid miorofeopical and chemical examina e ion revealed that the insoluble resi due was composed of fossil sponge l and other marine animals and plant , precisely similar in constitution t4 , such as still utist in those seas. Th - faot that the ainohors of ships in th 1 neighborhood of the guano island I often bring up guano from the botter . of the Ocean, is quite in oppositio - to the prevalent belief. Dr. Hanbi a therefore considers that the deposit t of guano must be the result of th a accumulation of fossil plants an a animals whose organic matter ha j been transformed into nitrogenoi substance, the 'Pineral portion rc i maining Intact. ni Last week an i mportat gran d meeting was held in Atlanta, Ga.Ti c wag Iresolved that Atlanta grant o wou'd send 3,000 bales of cotton b n Port Royal Dominion line (wh 401v i that is) direct to Liverpool durit . the season. The Tennessec Plan. The State of Tennessee, under a lecision of the Supreme Court of the United States, was mnade liable for the outstanding issues of the Bank of the State of Tenncuwssee, to the extent of receiving thern in payment, -f the taxes. The charter of the Bank was copied from the charter of the bank of the State of South Carolina. Ten nesso could not afford to receive the bills, and cancel themn in one year, so a law was passed allowing the $tate Treasurer to reiasue the bills as fast as they were taken in. But on each bill reissued tho first year, was stamped a certificate of the cancel moot of twenty-live per cent of the face value of the bill ; so that each bill for one dollar would be current at seventy -five cents. The bills reissued in the second year were similarly stamped, and by this process, at the end of four years, the whole issue was cancelled. In this way the decision of the Supreme Court was made of. fective,and the bills were redeemed in four equal yearly instalments. We did not propose this plan, in the case of South Carolina, because even one-fourth of the amount of out standing bills is more than we can naw aford to pay. They can very well float along, and be taken care of by posterity. The main point now is, to avoid an increase of taxation. Almost any sohemo which is based on that principle will commend itself to the pcople.-Netvs ur d tiourier. Railroad Constitutlon. We learn that the Western North Carolina Railroad has been purchas is ed by the North Carolina Railroad and hence the two roads will be eon solidated, which will insure the com plet-itll of the former west to the State line at the earliest practical day. The contraet for this was made by the North Carolina Road, of. which Maj. W. A Smith is President and Receiver of the Western, in New York, last week, by transferring to the North Carolins road the bondsf judgments, &c., held by the Southern1 Soeurity Company and It. Y. McAden, Esq. We learn that this plan was proposed by a former Presi. 1 dent of the Western North Carolina Road novsald 3OVO go, V a60% nu ougIy recommended, without success. 'T'he wisdom of the final success of the measure will be felt in the certain completion of the Western Road to its objective points, and all its accru ing benefits.-Statesville American. The news from Havana of the shooting of Gen. Ryan, the Guban General, with others of the prisoners captured on the Virginius, created much feeling in Washington, where he was well-known. Gen. Ryan was a great ladies' man, and created a sensation while promenading the avenue, with his military cape) large Taxan braid hat, long curling hair, &o. Ito always carried a heavy cano, and was generally accompanied by an unusually large blood-hound, who was a terror to many pedestrians. te frequently had diftculties in the I hotel lobbies, generally following up a discussion on Cuban matters in that: way. le was about twenty-eight years of age, and was well educated. i We have societies for the protee tion of everything worth protecting, with the one important exception of human life. As a mere suggestion, we would ask whether somne philau-. thropist might not institute a society to pres .nt : I Silly children playing in a pub lic road thronged with vehicles. 2. Stupid donkeys looking with lighted oandles for leakage in gas pipes. 8. Foolish aerobats dancing on tight ropos or swiniginig on trapezes at giddy heights. 4. Reckless men traveling by rail way unaccompanied by one director or two bishops as guarantees against ac cident. 11. IHard working ballet girls pur suing their avoeitiors in .dresses which a single spark will wreath in flames in a single omient. We offer this suggestion without the fainteost hope of its be carried into effect, ye! legislation anid phlianthro py have been wasted on more insig nificant matters. Few people have any idea what pay the National Legislature receives for making laws for railway and other corporations. The estimates for the salaries of senators for the fiscal year s ending June 30, 1873, arc $555,000, i and for the pay of officers and em 1 ployees of the Senate, $144,000 ; far I conatiingent expenses, 199,000. For s salaries of members of the house the a estimates are $2'400,000; for salaries I of officers and employees, 218,000;i a contingent expenses, $267,000. Au s other cause of the increase is that the - number of members of the House now is 292, Instead of 242, as under the old apportionment. Four millions o of dollars fot' one session of Congress t is rather a steep figure for taxpayers e to contemplate. y A iWetroit Sunday school teaober >r was oaught in a faro bank .there re g cently. He. was famillar with Pha rank. Robbery. The Railroad Depot at Rook Hill was ertered last Baturday night. and the safe robbed of its contents, $875. The receipts for the day had been shipped to headquarters fortu' nately for the railroad coinpany. No clue to the burglar exists. In breaking open the safe, he injured himself, as blood was found on the loor. We hear of robberies and burglaries from all aide&1 We warn Dur peoplu to bu careful to lock up their houses at night, as bands of ex perts in the profession of thieving, ire going about the country, and tdvise the police to keep a close eye )n all suspicious looking strangurs who itop over in Charlotte.-Observer. A scientific writer has recently col ated a group of facts illustrative to he effective of oscillation on power. ul bodies when not frequently bro con by vibration. In crossing large Uspeosion bridges: it is esteemued iecessery that processions should ,reak step in order to insure safety I mld it is told, in illustration, that vben the first suspension bridge was uilding in England a fiddler offered o demolish it with his fiddle. 8trik. ng one note after another, he even. ually hit the vibrating note of funda. nental tone and threw the structure nto extraordinary vil rationp. Only euently a bridge went down in ?ranco under the tread of a regiment if infantry, who neglected to break tep on entering it. Three hundred .ersons were drowned. The experi nent of breaking a tumbler or other mall glass vessel by frequent repe. Itions of some particular note of the .uman vole belongs to the same lass of phenomena. A Scotch parson had a farmer eighbor who was in the habit of hooting on Sundays, but after a rhile this sabbath breaker joined the hureb. One day the minister to Phose church he belonged met i rieud of the farmer and said : "Do 'ou see any difference in Mr. 1. ince he joined the church ?"&"Oh, ves," replied the friend, "a great liflerence. Before, when he went ut to shoot on Sunday, he carried is gun on his shoulder. but now he arries it under his coat." The prisoner who was asked if he ad anything to say before he receiv. entence, told the Judge he would ike to have sentence transposed, f it made no difference to him, so he ould receive ten cents, inAttad pf entence. Alfred Saville, who died recently if yellow fever at Shreveport, was a elegraphic operator in the Confeder. Ltc service during the war, and noted 'or his buccess in sending forged and nisloading dipatehes to Union gen. orals. On one occasion he took 3ossession of the wires between Nash. ,ille and a body of ederals operat .ng Southern Kentucky, and tele. graphed peremptory orders not to send Lny more troops, but plenty of pro . isions and ammunition. An old 'riend, then in charge at Nashville, letecting the peculiar touch or fin. .Pring of the bogus operator, flashed IaEk to him this pood-humored an twer t "Get out, Maville, or I'll send ,he cavalry after you." Saville -olunteere d his services at Shrove ort after every resident operator had seen strioken down, and died at his post. There was rejoicing in San Fran sisco. On Saturday last, five hun irod Chinamon took leave of that sity to return to the more congenial ilimate of thme Plowery Kingdomi, mever-so they expressed themselves -.to return, Most of them had made their pile, and will probably take high social position as soon as the acit becomes known to their neigh.. bore a,.d acquaintances in Niogko, WVing Wang, and the various other delightful localities from whence they emigrated. The F'riscoans inti mate that as many could be spared every day in the year, as long as they may hold out, without disarranging the pressent harmnonlons condition of things in that city. It is very unfortunate that so nmany of the refugees from Memphis should have been induced to return to their hornies while the city was still . ourgs ed by the pestilence. The circular of the board of health inviting them to return would seem to have been an ill-advised action oni the part ->f the board, for a number of the returned absentees have been stricken down by the merciless plague, and some of them must pay with their lives the penalty of their rashnesms in too soon returning to the city. Eloped with his owa Wife. The Springfild (Mass.) Republican states that a Lowell man has just eloped with his owfl wife. He deser ted her for sanother woman seven years ago, and she went to California and got rieb, and returning a few ago, found him repentant and quite tender toward her and her money, so they iiset by appointment at the depot and eloped In due form, California haing the objeotive oont. As Usual. The Southern Home contitins 1he following extract and comments on the Ku Klux Law. "A case involving the constitution ality of the Enforceeint Act from South Carolina, argued last winter by Reverdy Johnson, against the con. stitutionality of the Act, was also on the docket for decision, but the par. don of the party by the President, on account of extenuating circumstances In tho cafe, has necessarily concluded the case by abatement. Mr. John. son was quite anxious that tle cabo should be decided last, term and was hopeful of a decision sustaining his positioli, relying soknewhat upon its ranction by the Chief Justice." Pro. ceedings of United States Supreme Court. Here we have the denotenment of a case on which an unusual degree of attOntion vas fixed. It was a test case; and hundreds, aye, thousands, of respectable persons, involved eith er directly, or indiiecily by the in famous Ku Klux Bill, placed upon it their sole hop of deliverance from persecution, Bne and imprisonment. A large sum was contributed by the people of South Carolina, to bring i the matter in proper shape before the Court Iand the best legal counsel wan retained to urge its considera. tion. A majority of the Uourt, it was understood, was in favor of tak. ing up the caso ; and one of our most dibtinguished townsmen had it direct ly from the lips of Hon. Reverdy Johnson, that the Court had come to a decision, and that it was adverse to the cuustitutionality of the Act. But the country waited in vain for the promulgation of the dcoition. Should the ku klux bill be declared unconstitutional, the demon's dance Df persecution in the Snuth must top ;9 and knowing this, the ad minis.. tration took care that no such an . uouncement shoud be made. Report said that Grant had the Supreme Court In his breeches pocket I and so it appeared. The long-robed Im. beciles know their own interests too well to bring in a verdict against the pet scheme of Congress and the President; consequently, the docision do long and eagerly expected by the suffering people of thA Carolinas, was withbeld frow the public. until through lawlessness, intrigue, and V timidatioh, the Radieal managers at moplished their selfish and in iqi \tous purposes. Then it was hoped that we should have a decision. But no; it would not do to admit that the government had wrongly punished hundreds of innocent mon. A pardon was issued to the unfortu nate man, whose liberty was in ques tion, and as the dispatch tells us, the case has "necems.%rily concluded by abatement." We have headed this article "AN Usual," because the transactions on which we have been commenting, are1 the usual reiult of all attempts to obtain a decision of the Supreme Court on constitutional questions adversely to the Radical party. Our readers will recollect the shufliing and delays in the Milligan case, in 1866, and in the Yerger ease in 1867, and in numerous other cass, pre senting similar features, It would seem that theo highest judicial tribun. anl of the country is a mnere puppet in the hands of the dominant faction at Washington. Nor need we hope for better things so long as Rtadical ideas, anid Radical votes, are in the ascend. ant in the country.-&urthesrn Homin. Mr. Hipple Ihal,'who arrived late. ly fromn England as the representative of the AngloA merican Lasnd and Emigration Company, of 34 Bridge street, London, has effected arrange menitas ith leading capitalists in New York and in other cities throughout the country, whereby large tracts of desirable land will be immediately placed in the company's hands for negotiation. A flourishing young colony has already sprung up under the auspices of this orgatiation neanr Staunton, Va., and others aro expect ed to soon follow. Onr young friend, Will Rlobinson, oneo of the "model farmers" of Cabar rue country, passed through toWn yes day with a drove of 125 fine sheep of the Merino breed. These sheep he has just pnrohnased from Col. D. Wyatt Aiken, and is driving them, from A bbeville, 8. C., to his farm in (Cabarrns. Among the ewes are 25 which have been recently brought from Pennsylvania. Oia of the ranis for which Mr. Rtobinson paid Col. Aiken $52, will be on exhibition at the Fair of the Carolnas,--Chaar lofte Observer. A justice of GuhrCounty, Iows, decided in the case of a oltisena who brolight suit against his daughter's lover for ejecting him from his own parlor one Sunday ni ghit, that court ing is a necessity and mtist not be interrupteth~ therefore the laws of Iowa will. bold that a parent has no legal rig~i insa room where courting is afoot and sb the defendant was disohsrged and th6 ' plaintiff had to Spay the costs. A tetrrible tom$ion-peenting 4 bride with a policy of insurance on her husband's life for $20-000. Mlcting of the State Agricultural and 51cchanicul Society. COLUMBIA, November 12. 1873. The State Agricultural and Mechani cal Society met in Carolina Hall at 7j P. M., and was called to order by President T. W. Woodward. The Secretary made a report of the proceedings of the society, held In Charleston, in April last. The Scoretary road the resolutions adopted by the spring neeting of the society, setting fourth tho relative positions of the State Agricultural and MechanicalSociety and the Joint Stock Auxiliary Assooiation, which, oi motion of Mr. J. S. Richardson, was received as information. Mr. t. S. Richardson moved that a committee of two be appointed to audit the accounts transfored by the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society to the Joint Stock Assooia. tion. The President appointed, in ac cordance with the above, Colonel William Wallace and Colonel James McCutoben. Colonel J. P. Thotnas moved that Dr. Columbus Mills, President of the Agricultural Association of the Coro hlins, be invited to a seat upon the floor. Adopted. Col. D. Wyatt Aiken moved that the Agricultural and Mechanical So ciety and the Joint Stock Association appoint a delegation of five memiber each to attend the Agricultural Con vention, to be held in Atlanta, Ga., on the 25th inst. Adopted. COl D. Wyatt Aiken offered the following resolution : Resolved, That the o~acers super vising the next annual Fair be re. quested to offer such premiums as will induce the various Counties of the State to compete for the same as Counties. Adopted. On motion of Gen. AT. C. Butler, the old officers of the Society were re-elected by acclamation. On motion of Col. I. M. Sims, the Vice Pteisidents were increased to six, and the Executive committee were increased to nine. In accordance with thi, resolution, the following additional Vice-Presi dents were elected i Gen. Win. Wal lace, of Union ; 11. 1'. Crayton, of Audursun. And the following addi tional nmembers weru *added eo ie.. Executive committee : 8. 0. leans, of Spartanburg I Col. E. B. C. Cash, of Chesterfield, and J. ). Aiken, Esq., of Charleston. ol. J. P. fnomas moved that Capt. J. S. Richardson and Col, D. Wyatt Aiken he appointi-d a con :nittee to plc.ica t tiht) claims of the Joint Stock Association upon the Patrons of ilu1sbandry of the State Grange of South Carolina, and report the result of the adjourned meeting of this 8)oiety. On motion of S. C. Means, Esq., an invitation wis extended by the citizens of Spartsnburg, and accepted by the Society, to hold their summer meeting at Spartanburg C. H., on the second Wednesday in August, 1874 ; and that the President, at his leis ure, appoint members to prepare es says to be read to the Society at that meeting, On motion of Mr. Edward hIope, the Society adjourned, to meet again on Friday, the 14th, at 7& P. M.,in Carolina Ihall. D). W YATT AIKEN. Secretary. Too True to be Plecsant. The Louisville Courier-Journal says :The people of South Care. lina are anxious for the Govern nment to establish a navy yard at Port Royal, in that State, which is said to be admirably adapted to such a purpose.'' Of the scheme the Ce hu mbia Union-Iherald says : "If such a measurc "old be carried through, Port Royal hould soon be a most royal place to go on a fishing excursion. It would bring $20,000,. 000 more into the State, and $20, 000,000 is a good thming anywhere within reacb." Such a sum certainly is a good thing to havo anywhere in reach, but if placed anywhere in roach of the men who now control the political affairs of South Carolina, therne wouldn't be fifteen eents left at the end of six weeks. One of the notable results of Tlues day's elections is the selection of the Democratic candidate for Congress to fill the vacancy in the fourth district of Miohigan. This district has al ways been looked upon as hopelessly Republican, and lhas always given majorities of thousands for the nomi nee of that party, The election of an opposition Legislature in Kansas secures the return of an anti-adtninis' tration United States Senator in place of the notorious Cald well. "atop Thief," 't'Qnl Vive," the clever dotumbla orgspondent of the Charleston blews Courier, toll. the following good There was quite a hubbub on the streets to-night, caused by the chase of thief, who was caught. The ora ciigcyof "stop thief" fent. all cnmer f thme Legislature wobap' pened to be out of doors, incontinent. ly to their room. A Negro Child Whipped to Death. Below we append the details of a Most brutal child-murder perpetrated near Burgaw, about 22 wiles from Wilmington, on the Wilmington and Woldou Railroad. The victim was a little boy about ino years old, and the murderers are Amos Grogory and his wife Mabala, all colored. The Wilmington Star says: Prom the evideboo elicited during the examiuation it appears that the boy, who is about nine years old, and who was bound to tho parties accused, was seizod by Mahala Gregory and tied to a tree, with his hands extend ed adove his head, the alleged offence being that of playing with other boys after bcing cautioned not to do so. She then took ajawitob, the boy hav ing been previously stripped and whipped him with it as long as she was able to do so, finally relinquish ing the task to her husband. Ito procured other switches and the bru. tal chastisement was continued, amid tho most piteous appeals for mercy from the sutering child, until It was apparently lifeless. One of tho witnesses testsfied that Amos Gregory said he would whip the boy until he obeyed him if lie died in five uiinutos afterwards. This witners also stated that she left while the wh-pping was going on, but returned bztween six and seven o'clock in the evening and found the child dead on the floor. She proposed to strip it, but this was objected to by Mahala Gregory, who wanted the child shrouded wili its clothes on, doubtless with the desire to conceal the horrid evidences of brutality which marked its body. The verdict of the jury was in ao cordance with the facts as given above. Amos and Mahala Gregory were arrested and brought to this city by Deputy Sheriff W. Ij Rivenbark and are now safely lodged in the county jail. Spralut's Carolina Property. In summing up the wonderful as, sets of Ilyt, Sprague & Co., the Fi' nancial Chronicle, of last week, al luded to their mill property at Co lumbia, B. 0. A correspondent of that valuable paper sets the matter right, thus: wm n, Koremoor f1 1075, Editor k'inancial Chronicle: Speaking of Hoyt, Sprague & Co., in your issue of this date you say "they have mills in Columbia, 8. C.." they obtained a grant of the water power of the Congaree, at Columbia, on payment of $--- and agreed to build mills, but so far have not done so. This has been a great disappointment to the citizens of Columbia, and also of South Carolina generally, as the establishment of mills there was looked upon with groat expectations or good results to the State, and because such mills at Augusta Ga., and olsowhere have proved Lighly profitable. I send this merely for information, as I know your desire to be perfectly accurate in all your statements. Yours,-. Winter Occupation for Uneiployed La borers. A letter to the New York Tribune, from Trey, N. Y., after giving an ac count of the workingmen's troubles in that place, adds : "The problem as to whaat the large body of laborers over the country, who are being thrown out of employment every day, are to do this wintei for a living has been solva ed by a numbet- of moulders of this city in a very sensible manner. "A. party of ten or a dosen are about to start for the Adirondacks, where they will employ the winter months hunt. lug and fishing. They eupet to do a lively business in skins and fish, and to return in the spring with well filled The Chicago Tribunte, referring to the election, says :"These who thinkt that these simultaneous Republican defeats arc tihe symptoms of an of-a' year and not the tokens of a revo lution, had better study the returns by localities, and th~ey will fiad that the heaviest Inroads h ave been made in precisely those p laces where the Repubhican party hias hitherto been strongest-in such Counties as Kane, Kendall and Buirea, in Illinois a such as Scott and Hlenry, in iowa g such as Douglas, Kansas and Racine, Wisconsin to say nothing of the State of Massachusetts which is strewn with local wrecks everywhere." This so. knowledgment from a fair, eapable and independent ,iudge, Is worth more than all the opuulons ex pressed by the partisan organs of the Adminisb:a tion. The Lioisville Courier-Journal, 'of the 27Vth uilt., says i"Mr. Jefferson Davis is again able to appear in the dining room of the Galt Hoeuse. is. illness lasted through several week., at one time assumIng s; very serious phase. He has now, however, qoite recovered, although his face and physique Indleate the great suffering through which he has pasued. His famnilyls with-himy and It is under' 4tood that he will start for Europe some timne during the winter, taking thoem with him,''