The Fairfield herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, November 26, 1873, Image 1
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FAIRFIELD HER ALD
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W M2 l~ M A M, & D~ ES
in the11 T.)%% r W1mor iliiI ot ) , itt C3.00 in
" All tinsicut adivcrtisemeios to c
p aid int ati ice.
Obitu ary Nutioces and Trilues .$1 00 per
8a-iae.
"Oil to Cuba1i."
T H E K 1,NTUCK Y V. I lIlt I0.
There is (if course great exeiticn cnt
in all the chief cities, partinbl,y in
New York and New Orlcans, over tlie
bloody cws of the lat t .o kor three
days which has como to us frotn Cubi.
'ho truth is the linited States an.
thoritics have ahways played the part
of spies aid fools with respect to thie
1ilibui sters who, from time to time,
have 5et their plans for li but ating th
Queon of the An:illes. We ow0 th'e
'Vehnical law of nationi ntch ; we
owo it strict ob.servance where the
interests of civilized and cIiial na
tions are concerned ; but we owe it
nothing where Spi in is cinceiricd.
There is iot one sin;gle moral obliga
tion atttaeling us to Spain. The
Am'nerican poeop le owe tle S :miar i
nothing but iet..stationl. Ih hl v
not forgotten the inurdered Crilten.
den ai h mncii, adl thoy vill inot
forget them, atlI ought not 1 ,t) fort.t -t
'60hem, unt1il a free fl..g tihts over llr-e
CUha. But this (--m be acto-111 h11. 1,d
only by the fillibu:ters. If thy ba.l
bceri let alone tey wiould hiave no
coil pl ished it years aigo
T!he inte-mleddlmg. Yanhlco spirit
hasi$ beeni a inmar ihplot anid hughar
thr ,oughou t. Theie i~s not sens.:- in
mak ing ourscives tl-, b ,-: pctal pAtice.
1nan for a set of excerablo Sp:nish
cut-tliroats who py ii> lhced to the law.,
of natur tiO tich lC8. to ih I 1:1vs i na.
tions. In the case of tle VirgiNi)18
the technical law of iationos is against
us. .lButt there is nio reason why wIe
may not thut our eyew to th'e ole ra
t ion of the 11ilibusters until thney liuvi
achieved what the destilly of an cin
terprisiog American clearly point- at.I
If the Pedeial authorities will keep
their hands o.', we shall e o'ibla iui
undated withi in a twetlemn'h by a
flood of roaring heroes who wil give
us all the revenge we want, ni th
islknd into the barg:ain. That is (Ihe
way to squ'sare a1ccounts4 with Spin,
and it is the only w:-y. Inl the maSn
ter of technical 171iva we cant do noth
ing.-Courokr Jui .
Fortlcomi ilig P1igriliit er.
A commitle.e has been frmod'. inl
Paris for organizing a pilgrimge
from Nice to Jrusaerm anid tih holy
p.laces. Thii modern criusde is tlp.
pointed to leave Nice on the 25thI1 of
Jatuary net.. It will proceed firsI
to Loretto, nonar Alnoona, and thence
to Brindisi, where it will take ship
for Alxandri1, anld thence visit in
suet-ession Cairo, tle Suiez Canal,
Port Sail, d affa, Jeruisa lem, the Demil
Sca, the River Jordan, bet-hlehemu,
Saillaria; Ga11ilce, Lebanoni and 1.).i
Mtasous. Naples, Iomno, A irisi, Flor
cuoe, Venico, Milan and Tiin w ill
b visited on the homeward journey.
The pilgrimage wt.il1 ex tend oveir
three months, and each pers;on t akiing
part in it will have to contribu to
1800f.(8500.) Jamdies will regret to
learnx that thcy are to be cx sIudtedi,
the pilgrimai ge he ing eon h ie to mn
only. A broad hint is conlveyed Lto
any uinibelievers whoi inighit fool dis
posd to make an excursion that t heiri
company may be d ispenised vith d in
the notice that a certificate of
"Iiabitusdes Chretienfls,"' signed by a
wvell known prniest, will lie required
from each intending pilgrim. The
pilgrimage will be led by the Abbe
Augusta Alboniy, misi.'4onary, and a
Knuiglt~ of the Holy Sepulchre.
Dollars Agaillst Hllor.
Fifty six persons have bteen torn
from the proitection of the Amoericani
flag butchored at Santiago die Cuba.
Some of the mnurderoed men wore citi
zens (of the United States. Ono
might suppose that this ought to be
cause for comipal it on our pa rt, but
we aro told from Waishington that we
must do nothing to provoko a war
wvithi Spain, hetause we owe a great
deal of money to the foreign holdern
of our bonds, arid a war wouild put uip
the price of golbI1 Are w-> a niatiotn
of' fools or poltroons ? Do tha an..
thorities at Wa'ishtingto bl elievoe tht
the A.merican peopile will aillow this
great crime of tin Spanish buitch'rs
andl tis i inslht to the A me ricani lRe.
publ,1ic to bes tamenily submittedi to on
such sordid conlsiderations5 ? If they
do they are vtinar'int of puhlic seniti.
mecnt.-N. . IilraM
Active pre paraui'ms are on fo~t in
ourll natvy yards, apparently for somec
great enterprise. Thiese preparatioins
may 1)0 bona fide. ; but they may be
intended cas1. a tubl to the whale. If
merely designed as a diversion to the
public excite-mont. they are not
enoulgh. It will be dangeou to the
admoinistration to trifle with the pubi
lie senti menit upon these Cuban her
rova nny lonser.-N . J lcrald.
Ali Ali:;'/uli.ul lrpuihli.
A 110st011 lItii of a recnit date
contaii tho following ififormattion
coilceIrIningli the new "womlIall's town"
--the laht. Hston pr''gesive ex.
peimentO i T:,e v-rior says :
The establi Sli1olt of a womuan's
CaII,:ouiiyl v within ha limita of the
tin of WobuIrn. nboit twelve miles
fem'a liH'st.rn, V is betgun yesterday by
IVe forond rai.ing of tIle lrinbo of the
firt. huilding. Lu this coanmunity
ul! the land is to ho owned by womon,
and No far us the mniag(Iient of the I
WAYir "Mte village i:, covee!rned(, wo.
hi'non , t' i th. i toT I realrs.e- to the
exoc-t jf the- uitter ponlitioal dspai
fh'alion (,f the steitner sex. Thot
nolvenbers o, the commuilnity are olig.
0:1 to ament, to a cons1'titutioln whiI Ii
is to govetru it, but further than this J
thoy are en!res;trainled ; exce.pt, how,.
evcr, that they are expected to attend e
:t Jeast once a week upon tlie un
Scvtarian service to Ie h(eld. The 00- h
eiUpattion of tIh rnidents in Aurorn C'
rillage will lie vried, and indusi ail
;chools are provided ti lit rlrons for Y'
1h-. different, hinds of work to be 11
0me, iolicing a do.nuetio sAhWol fo r
il rit ( ion in h)mlIIi duti e'. k:iellh
omestead is t6 lie accompaniea .'d with
1 garden ; and gardening and fruit
'aishi wil be a favorite ocupateion.
- ' Oe of tlse, and that wvhich
1 C oft :1:11: !c hair I' I( i: 0 2 In
Ina hmen pushed linarer to rsi:to
h-:u11 ally o.her conneeted with (lie en.
e*rpiri:e, is the e.staIlihmnur'nt of a
.nil.dry wher0 1i facilities areo he
q 1rIIh- for deiine work Oin i l!rg
cah" and brining moey in)to this
hns far dveidedlyv needy village by
omi p1ti ng ith Ithei famrous Troy laun.
Irkcs. 'A b oat ],000o pois.ons are Coml
"ited t the tontei pri ie, though thy
Ir ioce all 1: ;n ad not, to be reri
IlontiS. The .site of, thevilao iis a
ineand it ofesall 'manner
if obonools. The commuity is call. of
l "the We~a' cs:nmclGr
len llames'teadL nu, and it. io L
talisled ly act of the3 St:at Legis.. it
ature, l
Not l)'g I ag died"& the CA. Ib ssll
Cnotwni in tlt, Sotllwest as "0 wI
Rus-'oil,' who was n 0CHenry Clay 's
rivat Sce(ctary. I wa IV-Is a mnanl of
nte''ie egolism, whose Chief object
in lie w..s to I e !dmuired and notori,
)us. Years and ycars ago, while in "
Ahe M issonlri Logtilature, ho got (he ".
lolriet1 whiCh clung to him all the ti
reS'"t oIs life, and actually cari ied "
himi wut f his political career. It A
w* d'uring a vivlent cdebate in which
tt, ilhown an abs:I"d pomniposity,
rUh t one of his political comrades rose
Snht11'ly told a little story. Ile
MY ht oe Uht RusselI, while 0
tiae'ling throuigh the wyood., lost his a
way, and being a Ftranger in that a
p .rt of tho country, became rather P
tcervcou'. Whil e in this sorry plight
lie suddenly heard a voice not far ti
way. cnlling out, "who, who, who ta
ire you ?'' Te aimwer was loaud and d
proinpt : I m Colonel William if. 2:
Ruossell, for' many' year:; a 0loominent
nethemr of the Kentucky Jyidatur, ir
was Shool Coiniifssio.,ner for the I
-onthern distriet of Kentucky, am
niiow the Represcnt tive of Calloway b
eLounty in the Mi.<soiuri Legilature, t
amii spoeken of' as the W hig camndlat 1 e I
for tie niext Congress, anmd I am Ilo st,.
Who aire y ou ?" Of course the ques h
ion was repeated, amil the answer A
as e'gaini r'eturnmed withI all its link
e'd dignit~y unt il the audientce ner~nam
e'd withI langh ter aniid gree:ted p'oori
lRi:mell whenever hie idared to ise5 L
wit hi "who1, who areo yo' 0' And so
be got his n amec of "'Owl Ru-sell.'" n
n
The Micm ph is A ppcal nays :Near- r'
1y two thousand of thme citizons of g
Mempis havoyl passeid away from a
carth sirce the yellow fever began its is
deoathi-work in Septoiember last. Think: t;
of this army of niear'ly t wo i~thonaid tL
men anid woinenD, varied here and al
hiere with littl10 chiild ren, sen t to It
thle ir lonig accoun t. T1hey wvere - i
st ronlg in oheaIthI and full of' life and. b,
hope sevent week aI tgo. Tihey in ight
have l eon PsVae ! T(he homtes that TI
have been dalrkenied byv their deaths,
and thle bioarlt that still a chie for the di
inever retulrninlg lighlt of 'heir smuiles, c
and sweetniess ot their love, might t
still be brighit and happy with t heir 'p
li ving presnce. Thme widows anid or
phars that mourn for thorm, as only '
th poor can meourn, thmat have been
cast upon1 (lie cbarity of strangers and
thle shiort-lived benevolence of a
worIld too liusy to remiimbehr thiem to.
iforrow, imighlt htave had themir natural
perotectors': tieday wvinninig for thiemi
their bread, A fearful reCeponibiility
rests someiwhiere.
**~.4~. -* --- o
A dispatch from WVebloni to the c
Rhaleighi News, dlated November 1 0th, Ih
says y att night, about 11 o'clock, r
the county jail at Ilatlifax was dliscov. t
ered to be on fire on (lie inside. The I
flames were beiyonld control when the I
dircovery was lirst made. Tlho build. a
ing was entirely (destroyedI, and a a
prisoner lnmed Bill P'eele, a notorib
onisly bad character, who was in for e
larenc,is supposed to have fired a
(lie building, was burned to death.
Theli county losses in the dostruotion
of this jail abont $1,000. There was I
110 in,;uranue.
An Irihuman's Lel!cr.
'he following is a true copy of a
etter received in Boston from across
,he water :
Mr D4:u.a Nreui-:w :-I have not
i. crd anything of ye since t I
ait time I wrote Ve. I lave moved
rom) I) thii plaec wlere I now live, or
.lhould hIve written to ye before.
I d i not k now wi'ro a letter
uight fil d first ; 1ut. I now 'take
ay pen in lianid to drop you a few
iles, to inform you of the death of
our own living nucle Kilpatri.k.
lHO died sutdely (cafter a Iong ill
ess Il s7x monthli.. 'Oor manal, he
uffer<I d a grwit deal. lie .ay a long
nie in convhilsion, I erfeetly quieMl
ad jpeechless, and all the timo talk
ig iticolierciatly and inquiring for
'ater. I'm very muhat Ia 481 to
ll von what his death :as occasion.
d at ; but the doctor thinki it was
ecasioned by his last s.ekness, for
e weas not well ten (1ays durinig his
ainement. Ilis age Yo know just as
eIll am I can tell ye ; he was twenty.
'a rs old *ist Plarch, lcking fifteen
onths ; and if he had lived till this
tie, le would have becn dead six
onths jist.
N . .-Take noti:;, I enclose yo
>is not,, which lie tends to ye uli
)known to ie. Your mother often
>eaks of ye ; she would like to send
11 the bI in ;'.. cow, 1. would enclose
ir to ye buill for tle horns.
I weidb of y- not to break the
al of this lutter until two or three
irs, after y rea;d if, hy which time
'l le better prepared for the sor
I'ATllC O'BRANAGAN.
To Mihei Gflancy, No---1 BroAd
reCt, Uinited States of Amneriky,
.Ates of MassacliiSetts, inl Boston.
Lel Is Have Peace.
A short time a*go the particulare
en otr;ge alleged to have been
l'u nitted by neg~vroes in (, rant parish
., we, 0 piubished in the pres. but
was holed thtit the sttntnnt wasat
mx. The details were too revolt
g for bclief and the whole story was
mied by th wo-called government
the tate. \Ve now have the
quil in a few lilies from NoV Or
ans. Seven of the nine negroes
bo were implicated in the outrage
ve b-een killed by citizens. So tho
repressible contest goes on, and se
receive illustration after illustra
Ml of the advantages of such popular
vcrnmient as fedorl bayonets havo
reel G the people of Louisiana.
.1Y. Jlcrald.
Falst Trollers.
Coldsmifth Maid and Occiden t. have
cl trotted a mile in 2:16" : Dexter
d Aiaerilan Girl in 2:171; Luoy
ii Lady Thorn in 2:18-; George
i11mor in 2:19.; Flora Temple and
alerton in 2:191 I yenry and Sensa
)n in 2-201; Camors in 2:201; Aloun.
ill Boy in 2:20j; (IGazelle in 2:21
iy Gould in 2:21r.; Rowland in
21; George Wilkes in 2:22; Lady
and in 2:221; Huintress and Jennie
2:22.A; Flora UelIe, Nettie and
la.ter in 2:211; -il Kilburn Jim in
3. Twenty-four hors.s in all
Lv recorded 2;23 or b-etter. Oi
ese hr.-Cs, fourteen are Messengers,
itr aro) Mbirges, fiive are by Ram -
et ianlis, tv: w or by Vol untear, two
lward Everet t, and two are by
lexander's Abdallahl.
TIhe Eal~uy ecunty Newvs man has
is to sa) of long secrmions
W i (do not like long sermnons;
'ver law ary oine wh'o did ; bt,
any peOple4 atre aifraid to sayV to,
ermions should be good, but it is a
ire case for a !onig sermion to bo
od throughout. T'hey are scarcely
countary newiij;pers. 'The advan
ge, if aniy theisoe be, is~ on thle side of
nu editorils, for we can iroad them,
we may elect ; but, if caught by a
ng sermion, between the piul pit anid
U docor, wo hav'e 1no remedy but to
ar it,
ic Ct'iil Fotr )1 ile :itiC0 ill~ Cilfrl il
A foi* ;;ile reco caime off rcently
y at nii Fr inci~sco, between the
al ifori ho lirse Thad S:evens , and
to froem New York, .Jo Daniels aind
rue ilne. Tho conitest was for
vrenty thiouaiid dJo'llirr in gold'
had St:evensi won after f',ur elosely
mines.tedi lieats, provig hiimsc if (he
ancet hourso ini america probably
Ithe world. Th'io telegra phic re
rt staites that Trne Bluo broke
a)wn in the ibir hiiieat.
Ulany of 011r funny nion have dme
royed their p~opularity by ajpeariing
. the lecture platform1. M1ark Twaina
mldn't stand it : Josh ilhlngs laid
imiiself out, and we have sorrowful
~collections of being wofully sohl by
at flattest of would-bo. bumorists,
ii Perkins, or Mark D). Lr~ndon.
n few words, Eli is a fraud on the
age-and it wouldn't be a great
~retoh of consecne to pronounce
im one off. .But Bailey knows
nonghi not to go to New York. and
ot to lecture. Sensiblo Bailey!
Theo obituary notico of a Kentucky
ady includes the fact that her hair
ra8 six fdct eight inchics oug.
'I'lo architect of tho Vnderbilt
University in Nashville, 'T'enn., an
nounces that Ie will have the founda.
tious for the strcture conpleted be.
fore the hard frost of winter sets in.
Al. exchange annouticcs that "A
llow in the hitchen,'" commenced in
a previous number, will be resumed
inl its next issue. Pqrt of it "ill
pro!bably 1e" given in ')roken China.'
Block Island is'covered with 'noiv',
and the sportsmen find diifliculty in
reaching game in consequeneo of the
blocked up condition of the roads
althongh the island one of "little
1 hod 'j s."I
The Young '%en's Christian Union
of Bost oil invito a lIt hose members who
are nunable to be with their kindred
on TIhanksgiving Ahy to join them in
an old fashioned New. England din
ner on that occasion (November 27).
An Eastern paper is of an opinion
that the reason Why. some of the
Spiritual malifesta ors draw such
full houses is becau so many peoyle
who are about getti n married want
to know how easily nots can be un.
tied.
Arthur J. Whiteside, second officer
of the Cutinard steamnship Siberia, is
conmmended by the .Uoston press for
prisoworthy efforts to rescue a sailor,
who had fallen overboard, from a
watery grave, although those efforts
were, unfortunately, unsuccesfil.
'The Boston Transcript suggests
that a few intelligent ladies miglit do
3o.:ton good service on the School
Comnuittee. Ther6 are too many
"'old oinel'' now oil the Board.
Tie same might Le said of school
conimittecs,in other places besides
the "11 ib.''
An exchango remarking upcn the
umaner in which mourning is carried
on in the South Pacific, the Louis~
Ville Couriei-Journal expre:ises the
opinion that "some prominent finan
ciers in Washington coluld tell how
mourning is carried on in the North
Ptacilic.''
The ]uncmn will case, at Battle
Creek, Mich., in which so many be.
quests to the Methodist Church are
involved, ,is been brought to a
pause for the time being by the dina
greement of the jury to ~which it was
submitted. Ten of the j'urors voted
to su.tain the will, but the, sympathy
of the other two was with the Duncan
heirs.
A loston paper thinks that. the
country would be the gainer ir all
over it, and by all parties, thero were
as much interest taken in civil service
reform as there should he in domestic
rervice reform. A reforth in tIe
nianaeiet of their domestics by
American mistresses may also be ro -
garded as among the domestic ro
forms demanded,
How Economy EfeNs B"iMilss
It will surprise any one who bas
not nade the calculation, says the
Methodist, to discover how slight a
change of the habits of the people in
the direction of 0cotiolily will pro
duce great effects in the business
world. If the expenses of the
people of the United Statbs are re
duced to the extent of one-fourth of a
dollar each, the total amount of re
duction is tOn inillions, or three hfin.
dred miillion~s a month.
This means so much less business
done, and the inconivenione of theise
who have prepared stocks of goodls to
sell, Onl the expectation of the usual
volume of trade. If all the p cople
in the land determine to we'ar their
hats, and hoots and clothies, a litt'.e
longer to make wvhat is already in use
servo for thle present, those who siialle
andu sell hats aind boots and clothing
will fuel the differeneo in their trade
direatly. And this is abhat the pec
plo are everywhere doing, from the
apprehension that their resources
will be during the coming winter,
diminished.
C'onsitderably Nhot,
Among the recent arrivals at Ful
ton, Arkansas, was M. WV. Dickson,
a ranch ma-n of. Brown County, Texas,
whero he lhau five thotisanld head cf
cattle. A few weeks ago he was at
tacked by (Domanches, and Kiowas,
who shot at him. Thirteen bullets
took effect in h:is body--one in the
righlt shoulder,, six in the breast and
abdlomen,, four in the left arm, one in
the right side of thle neck, and one in
back in of the hieadl. lIe was resetied
bieforo the Indliani had time to scalp
him, and bad to stay not home two
weeks on account ol his wounds.
Covernor's P'roclattiorn.
Moses lhas stolen time enough from
the pursuit of his various robbing and
black-mailim'g schemes to issue a proc
laumation setting apart Thursday, the
27th instant, "to be observed as a
day of Thanksgiving andl Prayei' to
Almighty God." I to does it up in
about a. few,.wvords as it could well
ho put in. Tfhanksgiving and prayer
are good things ; but we wotlu't
care to takeoany stock in either at
the call of such a reprobate asm "our
native young Governor."-COhester
R~eporter.
Out of thme 30,000 Americans whom
the last census of Paris gives as per
umnent resident', 28,000 are from
Southern Statei.
Woman To ho Front.
While the wild women of tie Eas
have been 'pJaying fantastic trick.
before high itveu," the .raceli
Western women have quietly taken ad
vaintage of certain State la ys a)d slip
pod into oflices of responsibility ani
emolument. 'Tlie iost notable, a.
well as noest recont, illustrati-i1s I. L
those of Miss . Fradier andl se-veral
other females, who wore clected to b<
county sup-rintendents of ed ucation
in Iowa. These Iowa wonmen, ,having
the proper legnl ,ualitiebtion, at.
mempted to get caucus nomninations,
Failing, in a number of instances, to
secure such endorsement., they in.
variably vboso 'Mrr. Squill ' maxim
and proved practically that "a bolt,
is always in order."' Their only
compaign motto was "Let the, bes.t
woman win !" . In thirty cointles of
Iowa thirty four womnenran, many o'f
'khomn verb Riected, defeating ignomi.
niously the male "brutoea" who liap.
pened to contest the field with then.
-The time honored newspaper roos
ter-ought it not to have been a
crowing hen ?-was brought forward
the day after the election and such
head lines at these oro produced in
nrint'.
"Thie Whole Anti-Monopoly Tick.
et Elected"; "Cornstalks Willi Make
Sugar"; "Miss Walker Defeated by
Thirty-one Votes"; "Miss F'rn ier
Eleceted"t ' Certain itch'elor lap
py."
lowa rejoices in strongaminded fe.
male politicialns, but Illinois can
boast of a wonderful female lawyer
who has fought bor way to what is
called "the front rank of the profes
sion." 'llr name is lulett, and she
was poor but intellectual, not to say
spunky. S9oiio years ago, before the
removal of the female disability
clause, the big-wigs of tihe Suprete
Bench rejected hi' app-lication to
practice. But the law of 1872 made
the conrse clear, and Miss Aulett, is
one of the professionial lights of th'o
West. The Chicago Tribune says
that "under the lilinois law', woman
can eig'ge in any masculine occupa
tion cxcept the military. The dis.
qualification may even yet be renov
od, so that lovely womanui can ohoul
or armns, hurl a catapult, and lire a
blunderbuss."
l'ut th mai *ho ran against a la
dy in Iowa and rcceived eight 'Otes
to her two thousand is reported as
consoling himsell with the reflection
th a t this is an "oWt year" in pohties
arid that the panic has crazed tho vot
ing population.
It is .said th'at un Englislhinpm
touched hlis hat to the statue of .)1
piter in the Vatican Gallery saying,
"Your majesty, wheni you come into
your kingdom, remieitber that [ was
not forgettfl of yo't in the day of
disaster I" We hope the ladies will
remember, in their day of triumph,
how vci-y.courtcous the writer hais
)een in their day of disfranchise
ment.. /lacc aux damies, Alesicuirs,
place aux dames !
Wo have received a letter headed
"Pitt County Poor iiouse," from
Job 1t- Wyatt, the father of llenry
I). \\ yatt, the first martyr in the
Confoderto struggle, th only man
killed st Bethel CJhux oh, on the 10th
of Junc, 1861. The poor old father
writes that his necessities are great.
It. is to thme shame of North Carolina
that ho is in the Poor :touno. lIe
says that a fund was raised for him ini
Charlot te, some yearu ago, nud that
Capt. E. C. Yellowly was written to
in order to ascertin to aboom the re
huittanlce should be senat. ie repliod
thmat Penuel Patrick, the Oversoer of
the Poor Ihouse would be the proper
person to receive time donanion. It
never game.
We c arnestly nppeal to the people
of the State to forward contributions
to Mr. Wyatt anil wipe off the dis.
grace of having lhe father of the first
victim of the war suffering iri a P'oor
H ouse.--Nukern Hlome.
-A hiro'dilY Uiow.
A San Francisco paper roletos the
followving incident which recently oc
curred t,!iere, which sihows how easy
it is to collect a orowd in a large
city :"A nman carrying upon his
shoulder a heavy ironm bar strnck it
aganast a Iar{; (;lns windowv aiid
craceked the pane. The street was
one whior leadoed vehiles frequently
passedl, and so to prevent the jarrin'g
from eausing the cracks. to extend, a
rilng wnA dfawn6 about thme spot. on the
glass with a diamondu point. Somne
body caught sight of' the shiverod opot
and the circle about it, and etolipbd
to look. .A nother. d11(d liken~ ise: the
crowd increased, and in a rhort time
four policemen arrived on thie run, It
hamviung been reported at headquarters
that a pistol lIall had been fired into
the office, and that the place hiad been
robbed. Of cou aso tlo' coniing of the
police drew a still larger crowd, atid
the office wa i! n'most besoiged. Tlhe
ekoitemeist could not tie allayed, and
the crowd dispersed until a placard
was hun g up givmg~ the cxphanat ion
of the af(fair, and even then a number
lingered near to njpell out the words.'
Tile student of th eological
Seminary,nat Columbia, have employ.
od Mr. Albert Gueprry to paint a por
trait o'f the R'ov. Dr- (George Towe.
Advertising ini Dull Tines.
There 'is a world of truth and wig
,don in the following paragraphs from
the New York Evening Post. There
is no doubt that.there ,is a great deal
of money hoarded, whiol people will
epnd if properly nd cod. The mer
Clant who suspends nis,,.dvertising
simply suspends his business.
The Milwaukie Wisconsin relates
the following :'.
"After the crsish of '57, when
.eyerybody. wi.s alnost aggrd to
death, and the croakers predicted
that the conntry had gono smash, a:
dry goods house was oponed in this
'city., which proceeded on the9 princi.
ple that in order to reach the hoard
ed mlonecy inl theo po'ekets pf.the 1peo.
ple, the proprietors inunt cell at very
reasonable prices and advertise very
largely. , *hey ,worked vigorously
upon this principle. 'heir, bo'th.or
mnerchants who did not advertiso pro
* dicted that tho new , comers would
bo ruiined, as they paid Joo much
for advertising. Nevertholeqp thsy
persisted. Ia a single year they aId'
hive hundred dollars in gold to the i
Daily Wisconsin forgadver,tising, and I
at the end of seven ye ra t ioy retired i
from busines with a fortuno of one
hiunired thousand dollars, while oth- I
or muerchants on the saine street, some
of themn opposite their store, had fail
ed." * . .
We renmembor a similar. instance i
among our pwn advortisers ,in,..tJo
panic of of 1'01. A. merchant con
tinued his advertisement in our col- a
umns through the whole period of t
stagnation, and notwithstanding many I
piredictions that "it ,wouldq't .pay."
His testimony after wards wan tipt
his sa'es were steady and his profits
satisfActory, while many merchants o
around him who "couldn't afford to ad. g
vertise," saw the, his clerks stand idle n
behind the couitcra. b
A financial panie doos not nean P
thait no one has any money. There t
is plenty of moncy in the country,
and those who board It aro just the t.
ones to be eager for the "biangin"
which a fall in the prices holds out. i
But to buy they must know whore to r
buy, and the .merchant who tells a
the1ih will receie theircaei
A IWO il iull Acorl.
Colonel T. W. Breyard, ty.O,lehrole 1
leader of the 2nd Florida, honored' us tl
with a call lest week. He is hopeless n
of the future of Florida. In the good ti
(lays before Radical and earpotibpg
ruha, t he annual e-peonsOs of the Stste 4
CGovernienit wCrq $109,000., Nog
the impoverished people have to neet
an annual tax $250,000. In addition, 0
tU e negroes and the seallawags have a
issued $4,000,000 of 8 per cent. gold u
bearing bonds. f( the into.ropt o 1
the:e bonds hihall be forced, there W/i I
bo an additional tax $280,000 in gold. I
This would .amount to con fiscation. The t
present tex is 5 per cort. pn,. the o
property of the people, and ndi- 1
tional tax to meet the interest on the a
thievsh bonds would drivb all prpper- C
ty-holdors olit of the .Stete. Aetl
and Littledeld got the begro Legisla
ture to issue these bopmds to build a 0
Railroad, but the $4,000,000 were V
expended and Pnlj 20 miles built.- 0
from Quincy t6 Chattahoochee. hit- t]
Elefield must hlo getting good, ho spent
double that arrount in North Caroli- l
nit without, bu~ilding-a mnile. 1leod,
the late carpet-bag Governor; is now
in pover fy, spite of all his rogiieries i
Littlefield is also poor, while his il
Imustrious Confederate in North Care
lina carries coruporations and digni
tamries in biin breeches' poeliot.--towh.
er.n Home.
Iowa should ho the woman's farii- a
disc. A majority of the State officers, e
and also a majority of the State
*ludges of tho~ hdgher 9tato ooifrt, fa-. i
vor woman suffrage. The State IA- .I
brarian is a woman, and the E~nrpllineg
and IEngrossing Cler!ks ins tLq louse
are wvomnen. Women are reporters, t
copyists and paper foleri 1 til !
Stato capitol, and aix women are
serving as County Superintendents of ~
Schools.
Santiargo dOCuba, a city whgs,
name will hecrcoforth be heard pt <
a shudder, was formerly the capital
of (Cuba. It is a marintime city;.
and ini 1853 contained a poptilation of<
24,25. It as the scoond city in, siso t
on the Island, and is situated on the<
Santiago River, six miles from its
inouth on the sout~h coasti. It is wol
built, with wide streets, and houbo. I
ch iedfy of stone s..
Whenm farmers of th lw rwsti
eenvention assembled at Chicag~o, re- '
solve th'at pork is worth $5 peor hun
dron pou'ndsr the world affocts to
laugh at an absurdity. When the
nasil ritik~ors of the cuntry meet in
Pittsbuirg and resolve that ten-pen..
nies are worth $4.45, the world grins
and bears it. Such is the difference
twixt twoeddeddum and dweedledee.
Ex-P'resident Fillmore antl four
surviving mem bers of his old Cabinet.
-Conrad, of Loulsiana,- 8eereitary
of War, Hall, of New fZork, Post
master General; Graham, of North.
Carolina, Segrotary of tije N~avy, and:
Stewart, of V irginia,,8retar~y of the
Interior-are expected to visit
Wspingon hiswinter oa a'i.edl
iehnin.-N 7. Hral
The wtf feeling is -run'ing very
high among the biode Island veter.
ans. Many of them are singing, ac
cording to the Providence , Prest,
"We are poiing, Uncle Samuel,
three .hundred thiorsand, stronig.E1
This will inclue a l
and children in the Sste, Jesides
about q hundred and fifty Indians
"not taxed."
"Let us havO r crios the
Charleston New8 and . Courier.
"Apologies are nQt .Pnoighj. .,They
willn-ot trjqg 1yan io life or retoro
Fry to his weeping widow an( orphan
children . Spift a.vd docisivo actjon
is what to people now Llema'l0.!'
"Against the Assaulta of the blood
thirst w-ctdhok',",deblareaq the Alba
., J6anal '(administratioj't, "Qur
LYvernment.itnelf.wIl liavb' tic pro-,
~e& itejght..-and it Will d&this if
I Itas,to oqyAr the Puban waters with
imerican acn-pf-p., prd.
"An Armed Occupation of uban
Waters," aflirmus the . Boston Trai...
or1,f'by a Upited. States flot will
', ,o00 .obu'4,s them ieatineag apd
avagery of SpanIsh officals exereia
ng authority on the islwnd.".,...
"1f 8bain be p I[epnblio," duolar.a
be New Orlqqnn Times'(deipocratio),
$she should not be,pormittod by the
,rpatest LRopublic in - the world to
yrannize over the republican patrots
n.Cub
',',e Lius'ta (Ga ) Chronicle in..
lignantly asks "What reprration
hall the United States receive for
his insult to her ' sovejegnty ?,
[ypocritioal regrets, it opinos, will
q be.satisfactory to the Anerioan.
The Joichmond Whig.rewtr k tl 0
very good citizen should support tho
overnment in a judicious eourso
pon this question.and 4a ,aionin41
a careful vot to imitato the irst ntI
aission whioh. o havo condemnod in
io 8 anish offloial1.",
"We Owe it to Ourselveq,'' asqrts
ie jIartford,1'R.ins (.dornoloratie),
to gur oft insultqd nag, to Jhuman ity
self, to go at opop to the brutal
affians in Cuba who prpetrato theso
ries an.d teach,thier on6 .tsucl le$
:) as neitlher thoy nor the world
tall forget."
"We cannot Disgdis5. Vapc
vers.the .tynchbilrg Virgi nighit
le peace of the two - couljieis is
onaced by the qtAtus in , Cuba, and
iat interventionqfgsonce kind,on thp
Rirt of the, UJnitod States, aunot
oug be postp oned.'.
-1tQ ov. Johi.N. Palmer, of Illin.
,banIi~tten .a jotter to say t hat ill
is opinion qqestAonli o that of the
lodo of observance of tIC rablbath are
eyond the rightful domain of legis
jtnatit ,.ve~ry, porgon should
Seornittod ,wiut.log4 hindrance
, fo mself on. that, as
n all other days, how he will employ
is time, only Ihat lie shall not ih%
ny senso invade the liberties of oth..
ra.
A corres ondent .suggests, in view
F the possibiiity of a .var hetwoont
io United L}tates.and Spaiji, and the
lpturo ofjIaYanaby ,the AMericans,
iat Gen. Btler be p lacud. in com
and of the city. There's nothing
ke being in tithe..
Nearly two million niore. postago
~amps are said to be issued to post
mastero during the the ?nonth of Oc
ber thaiI dutring tiny .previous
on~tl.i pu the9 history of the postoflioe
epaartment.
.Tle bompleto returns fronm tir
tia show that Kenmper's. tunaority
ver hlughes ie 27,9Q3. ,This ,is an.
aorease ofdt,6832 over .Walker's.mas
arity in 1869. ilurrah for the old
)ominion. ,
The German Goverunent has mad~
be fourthm payment of tharee millions
my United 8e3atos ,bqnsis, i'Ushia ;ia*
ncreepmtg the, niilitpry .reavyo ini
oniseqjuence Qf the formatign of.. for
ified camps on theo lred gh frontior
09%dngue wore ofttai . predie.t6
thban the.end.of the n , pnd
hat 9vest, e og. frqguei)thy ol teiately
oftgaes to-como oil. .. The Ad,*tits
f Ter'ory island, Connecticut, prediet.
d tatit would come off 9al thier 56t
f November, and those. doluded poo..
'o have had one of the most.ngrees.
le sqrrios,--they find $henmspltves,
till In ,this wvorld instead oft beinjl
omewhore else.-Ix.
love smitten old bachelor of thio
laughter of the widow who had on-;
ahanted hIm. "[ dlon't know, sir ;'
na's age varips frotu. 43,0 25,"wa1
he artless reply, and the bachelor
was dlisonehanted.
Sat the trussian.,govoirnmeont hmaM
tgreed tppurphasa an taland of'gy prum,
an thg 0plf,.f California for thme' stim
tf .$300,o00. Not longa ag~o ti,
slnd was."lo0ated'' under ftexican
law bf,selrewd speculators who are,
new. in yioneessiop, and wbo hlave negeo
tiate4 the .sale swooenfily. Ana
agent sent by the P'r ashtn gotom-,
mept tc e inf'no tbd fland hs t
ore bl h gp~g ( i