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-~ow t~ L _il_ irDiitA _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ t- b Williams & Davis, Proprietors.] X Family Piper, tevoted to Scien5b, Art, Inciirv, Industry and Literature. [Terms -$3.00 uer Annu, i A anor VOL. IX. WINNSBONQi S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 10, 1873. T I I K FAIRFIELD HERALD ic Ptniirsil wE.:KLY nY WIILL.MS, & DAVIS, Term.t.-Tt r It IMAMn is pu~bheel Yjek inthe Town of Winnsboro, at 13.OO in 1 tri'lyi in advai~nce. "All tran 4ent advertisements to bo Obituary Notices and 'ributes $1 06er Square. The SlumtbIlng lilock of Pol ygnamy. At the outstart of Congress the question of Utah iffairs will ari, (in the ad mission of Cannon, the Mormon Delegate, to a seat in tho flouse of Represcutilt ives. Cannon is a polyg. anuiat. le has four wiveo, and, it is said, was selected by ri'gIaw Young to represent the territory in.. oder at once to bring Congressioial actiun 0u! the eubjot of polygamy to a test. Cannon is a shrewd, keen mon, apd C known to be one of Brigham's :ost t trusted advisers. General Matwell, t who was the commander of a brigade V of Michigan cavalry in the Army of the Potomao, and who is at pre"sent d the United Statos Marshal for Utah, U is here to coitt Cannor's seat. Maxwell is the representati'e of tie Gentle element, which i4 the term for all the people in Uih who d.o not be long to tho Mornion 'f0ith. Jie claims that thofyh he bad but be tween 2,000 and 3,000 votes he rep. resetits the only Ioyul and qualified voters of the Territory ; thaf Can- C non's vote of soile 20,000 or more was 1| comiposed of illegal voters, Mormon1' 0 who had di squalifed themiselves by I P trcasonable sentinent6 and .ctions against the general government, un- P naturalized foreigners, of whieh the I I larger number of the Mormon people d are formed, womreni voting under com pulsion, antI uven children. It will almo be alleged that Cantion is hinaseif an Eng lishmant, who has never foir sworn his alb-giance. It will he urged that his admission would be vir tuaily an endorsement of the crime of I polygamy, and that it will be so viewed by Briyham and his followers. 1. It will be further ulleged that Cannon I is not a free mural agent, that lie has o taken an oath in the Endowment d louse, in which lie has declared that 1 his allegiance is due to the Mormon P Chur ch, at.d swore to obey the c6un- a setsof its he-id iin prefeitUe to the laws of the Um ted States, and lie is thereforo a direct represeaitiv' of theociatic rule now prevailing ill a Utah. As it is well kneo'n among the friodis of the adminiscration that the r PIte-idiient is very mu ich in eianeta about the entorec ment of the .av-th i that Territory and to comp!ho t lhe liberation of its people from thec des putic power of the Mormon Cha'b, it is geierally believed that thd re - publican meibers will all vote P 5g ainst the admission of the Mornop Delegate. A memorial setting for'h tho aehlornble state of' afLirm in that t Teri itory ias been inmerous.ly signed by e~.id.mtr and forwarded to Con. gress, with a reodes. that such laws will be passea as mtay be neemry t to correc: the evils ;'nd abuses enu meratod ant i eve tue people the p-d. ti teition o' a free civil govermnent, and bring the teorritory ot Utah into harmony wi the Fedoral goverri. C metand republican insittitutidosB. It is very probable that the presoiit C Congress will take somne doided an. Lion with regard to Utah. IForemioat f among the act* proposed will be lheo passage of a law more clearly defining t he jur isd iction, of Itie Tecrritoria court4, the power of the federal anil teriitoriatl d i-trict courts to be spe.t ciically de.-igniated, and the Mormon probate courts, which have arrogated a to thicmiselves iall the powiters of civil and crim in at cmurts, andil have clal'mod and exerisied conmmoni law and eban -t bery jurisdiction, to) be restricted toi the prob.ite of wills, atid the oilhert duties prop~erly pertaininig to such courts.K Severo Fighiting in the ashaontec Country. The British military undortakting for the conquest of the Ashiantees isj likely 'o prove a very troublesomb,ifu not positively haz irdous, uffair. Telegrams from Cape Coast Castle report the occurrence of sovoe en: gagoments between the European ~ rdJyalists and their native auxiliar ies arid the soldiers of His Majesty King Coffee Cialeali. D~uring a battle, which was fought nionr Dunquah, for.. t y Englishmeni and nattiv~es were killed an td wounde~ld. T1hie Ash antees at tacked the Europeab .position at A bhracramnpta with great impetuosity; b'ut weie repulsed, after fighting an ht our, with a loss of thirty moeff. TIhie foreigners were it this instanice pro tected by earthworks, a fact which speaks still more decisively as evi deonce of the gallantry of the Ashian-. tcees. The WVar Office in Lontdon is likely to be conviinced that~ "the 001. otod troops fight bravely." The dleathl of Mrs. Ternan, thS ones popular acotress, is announced. She w its known as Miss Jarman. Her last appearance was at t'te Ly~eum, L oindon, in 1865,uandor Mr. Fehter's mi anagemont, when she played Alieo n "Tho M a,.e o aona-. ." Tax Titles-A Iniportant Decision. In the recent terin of court held At Walterboro''a casq 'iuvolving the val'idity of tax titles was tried beforo Judge Malier. A plantation in St. Paul's, belonging to the plaintiff, wpo' <old last year for non-payment of axes, s'nd h'oght by the defendant. 'l'e plaintiff claimed that the law had lot been con.piled with, in that the )ontidaries were not ctirreotly given n the advertisenent. Judge Maber, in hi., charge to the jury, fully sus aines the tai law', but charged that beo effect. of it being to depiivo per n11e of their property for less than a air comnideration, it was necessary bat, persons claiming inader .to itles bould be required to show that he law had bcet strictly complied ifth. If the giving of the wrong >iundaries was calculated in thet pilion of tho jury to mislead 'parties uterestcd, end lead th em to suppose bat 'the property advertised was not heirs, then the pluintiff was entitled o a verdiet. The jury returned a erdict for the defendant. On mo lun thi e plaintiff vwas granted ten ays from October 29 in which tb lake up and serve a case puIa 'erve otice of a new trial. tntry of judg. tent Was stayed tiil the determina ion of UAh no tice. A British lceet on lic Way to Cuba. The Iew York Herald says: "A itish fleet is now under way to uha, with orders to obtain the re ase of sixteen British subjects taken i board the Virginius, who are imn risoned at Santiago. This releaise to be obtained by fair mean", if )ssible, but to be obtained anyhow. n addition t9 the -essels already un or way 'the nost powerful i'roorolad i the British squadron, the Royal Ifted, flagship. of the admiral, car ,intg sixteen guns. has been ordered Sail fr..m.. Belimu'da to Havana. he Bl itish fleet in the Wet Indies not as numucrous as the Spanih, but ill a formidable one. Great ritain ilI demand, besides the re uase of the sixteen l3ritish prisoners, idemniity fol the' families 'Of nino Keouted one;, but is to pro'ceed in 1-pondenitly of any action -on te part the .UniLod States. The sixteen risoners abovo hientiohed ale all ama ica negroes, mostly minors. Dr. T. J. Moore, the brother.in w of Senator John J. Patterson, in redenit ibterVAew with ther Columbia )rrespondent of the Charleston ews, sa3s that he is cogniznt of the Lscally steps of Patter.on's career, ad that, in point of character, he is swindler and a cheal of the first ato'. He tebtifies of his own knowl. Ige, thiht the statetpents In the New ork Sun, showing ilm up, are true. [e asserts, furthermore, that, while a aymaster in the United States arnly, Oring the winter of 1861-62, at h1lceein, Virginia, he defrauded to soldiers of an Ohi6 regiweiit out. $3,.500 ; and that; continuing this vlnling' wolk upon the soldiers, lie a- finally T guoted as paymaster by se Senate. Nioiro says that lie was utterson's privute scretary at the no, and kubeis whereof lie speaks. if further charges that Paterson -od to indu him (Moore) to forge x-Comptrollher Lea phar t's name to rtain Sinte guaranteed bonids of the reenvillo and Columbia Rrilroad ompany. They c'ould not b q sed~ ir lack of the signature, and Patte n proposed to supply it in tini way. le represints Pazttersont s quaking ithi fei i4 arn investigation into tife iets 4 bis elee.tion as Senator. Ini sat eltotioi,, Moore says that he did ot hide his puirp( e to buy votes, nid actually pikid for theiji at. p ricos arying from $150 to $1I,000 each. 'hose are da maging stiatemenits. If' rite;uad sustinled twhere thicy *will ave their full ad~d legitimate efl'o it, he privates motives of personal re ant mont and malignity; vhibh Muoore oes niot denty influences him in mtak nig theni, will be overlooked in theqir iupjortant bearing on tho publ ic nterests and io their tendenoy to roteot the public mrorals.-Phuenix. 'Turn the State Over to. tne f1nihltr forrluieill." The drangeburg Times Codsefva.. lve) thinks that the .recommondation fa member 6f the Gen'erail assembly e "turn the State over to the Geonet-. ii Government as a had job'' is not lame idea, and shows bow rotten hings are generally where the mem sor figures. The Times suggests this plan to carry out the idea :"L~et lthe counties of South Carolina have a sonvntion. Let each County be represented at a State Conference, atid tixere appoint a delegiation to go to the head dentre of Railroad Radi ealism and make ani exhibit of the dloings of its birelings. Protest at Washington agaitast further taxation, under such a filthy, disgusting, loath seoae State governrfient, and ask to hio a Territorial dependonecy, or rd con quoered p rovinooe, anythitig rather than the football of Mo'ses and his cre w." The Orangeburg hranoli .of the Citizens' Saving.4 Blank was closed ori Tuesday last, in obedience to the in innction of .Jndge Carennt. Sinking of the Ville)a *ai're. LounoN, December 1.-The ship Trimuountain, from New York, arriv ad at Cardiff, at an early. hour this morning, bringing intelligence -of a direful disaster to the steamship Villa Du Havre, which left New York, November 15, for Havre, under coin mand of Capt. Surmount. At 2 oiclock on the morning of the 23d Noveube the Ville Du Havre collided with the British ship Lochearne, from London for New Yqrlk, and nunk shortly after. 226 of tle passeugerd on the steam slip lost their, lived., The Trimoun tain rescued eighty seven of her pas. hengers and crew, and bri"ght them to Cardiff. The Villo Du iavre oarrielo no steerage, but had 130 cabln pas.en. gurs, and a crew o'f about 150. Cap taiin M. Surmont, the commander of the Villo Da Havre, is Fleet Coin. modore, and has been in the pervioe of the line sigpe its orgaaitation. Judge Pe'kham, who was among the lost passengers, was one of the niost prominent members of the judiciary in New York State, and was Judge of the Court of Appeals. The cause of this fearful disaster is, tat the phly had 12,000 tons burthen drawing twenty feet of water. She was launch ed at Glasgow, Scotland, in Novem. ber 1869; her dimension are : Length 236 feet ; beam 35 feet ; depth of hold 21 feet. She was in this , port in September, 1871, and attracted wuch attention, as she lay at her dock, in the East River. She is of what is known among ship build'ers as a muediuiu rn9del. The officers of the Ville Dd Havre reported saved are the captain, second captain, second officer, fourth oficer and purser ; eighty-seven persons were saved. Several notable Boston families were aboard. The Ville Du Haire was the Napoleon III, blit was altered and enlarged. Except the Great lastern, she was the largest ship which ever entered this port. The Lunile Asylum. From the tJnion-Herald we clip the following items ho boerning the Luna tic Asylum . The institution was founded in 1822, . bdt iot opehed until 1828. I According to Dr. Ensor's report, i now ready, thgre have been odmitted I since its openirng-males, 1,205 ; fe. males, 1,192-total. 2,397. Out of these there have been cured And dis. charged 460 males, 370 females, total, 1 tio. . .t During the past y'ear there bave C been admitted 51 males, 49 feialep, - 'otal, 100 ; and discharged, iales 17, females 20-total 27. . By the tabular exhibit of each year t it appears that physical disease or in- C jury hao ,been the predoninating r cause of insanity annag thos'e admit- C ted to this int-titution. The Bankrupt LaW Dooled. Senator Aforton has a hill whiqli ha proposes to in roduo. immediately on the meeting o1 (lie Sen te ro rep'eal the Bankrupt Act, and to iake its repeal cover all eases under it since the financial troubles commenced in S'eptember. Ho pronounces the iol. uiitary clailso iii it as nowr being usend an inifamnous provision, and anti-lie. publican in its character. Hie expects to carry the repeal of the bill with out opposition.--Baltimore A sttorican. The ap'eco paymernt experiment is gradually fizzling oq t. Richardson issues the f8llowinig.,, lipartmerit of t instructidtil of the 27th ult., in rb fer once to the liruited dit, Ufeenents of' ailooie 601. Ilieu ol' Siridcj, are heoreby sojiiodifled tha theri after in making flisbhrsembnt , sil var cnin will he paidl only in the fracliunal parts of a dollar. 'I'Fhe director of the italian Oper-a llouse in bariB, is still In -ecaroli of teuors and bary tones: At present Mmp9. Krauss and Mile. de Beullocs are the chief attractions, but the subscrihers are asking for novelties, the old reperloire being exhausted. I he tenor, inor de Bassirni, of the ~n Carlo U aplee, ip to be tried: Tii5 disbovery ef a new Sweedish magnitude is antbounced. Martha Eorison, a servant girl 9'f Stobkholm, is about td procede~ to Pafi for dt. bationi. Shte is tiald tohiave a marvel. our voice, and already figures in print as the "future rival of Christine Nile Tl0 wedding ring is pu upon the fourth finger of tbo woman's left hand, becouse in th e oiiginal fir mulary of mnarrliage it was,. plabod first on the top of the thumb, with the words, "In the name of the Fiather," then on the next finger, with "And of the. Son," then en the mid. die fingar, with "And- of the Hloly Ghost," and finally on the fourth, with the "Amefi.' The Wililogtn Journal says that Capt. M. L. Blaud, of th U . 8. Ordinance Department, who has been on a tour of examination of Fort Caswell, found the guns to be titterly worthless, and the F'ort totally un nrenared for d afano. 11ow a RoBN Bloome In a Coffia EiAfht:'1 Years. Mr. Wrn. Whiteheqd, w ho re.ideol near Claytiville, in this county, died io June 1870, lurly k tht lear he made y will and beltueat he d tie ilu. nificeit inin of two ihouz-and eight hundred dollars, for the pur; oe of moving the tbodics of. the decacd inembeto of his family, and to i-i. prove the groundp, to one burying ground near the mouth of Heaver Ureek, in this county. The excoutor, Mr. N. R. Whitehead, proceeel - ti iischargo the duties by employ ing Nr. John B. H1iaiilton to remove Ihem, improve the grounds and erect. 4ead and foot-stones at their graves. Aml1oig those to be removed was1 a :bild of Dr. Will Cutran (if Clays. ville. On Monday week, the loilh not., Mr. 11. disinterred the child, who was buried in a metallic case, on ,he 6th ltty of July, 1855, in the Whiteiend bu' ing-ground in CaI.ys. rille, and being.unablq to remove (he ierews in the. faoe la0 of the Oie, ras compelled to saty it off. Upon -emoeing, the face plate a sisht was -e-iealed that struck them duinb) with Istonishmient. Instead of finding, as hey expected, a few bones as the re nains of their honsehold pet. that hLd >een buried eighteen years and four nonths, . they beheld, as it were, a leepiog infmnt. The child looked as iatural as life, and was in perfect tate of preservation, with the excep. ion of the nose, which was goi. The loetor being present, immedi:ately arried it to his hlome, whe e, nine cen years ago, it was the of the tousebold. This was iideeJ great ruriosity, and many of the cit w~2ns of 31aysville and vicinity caimo to the lootor's office, where the body re nained until Saturday, to see it. O1 )aturday.the doctor brought. it from laysville to this city, amid took it to he residence of Mrs. Hi. Shumate, rhere hundreds of our citizens loeck d to see it. 3ut the strange pa Irt, a not told. The child, which wits wo years old when it d.ed, wis very oud of flowern; arid tiaore especially f the damask rose, and whE i takeni iy its grandmother, with whom it was great pet. it would go to this rose ush. When the child was dying its rand mother pulled two daamxask ro.c1 uds, not yet bursted, gave them to lie child aud it died with theim in its and. After preparing the body for. urial, the rose buds were placed uo)n11 ts breast and buried with it. When he face plate was reniove,l from the ase, and when brought to this city, I he roses vere not only it a i erfect tate, but the leaves were as girenti as ver, and instead of being buds, r.t hey were when placed upon th. bild's breast, -ad become blown oses. This is the most remarkalle; ase of presrva; ioan we have CvIir card f.--(' ian ( Ky.) .Demo rat, Nov. 21. The New York detc~ti.es are still luzzling tlhcir wits ovt r the v. ho ere. bouts, of Sharkey. The ru:n1or of his aving taken pass;agc oil a i.: ouid for Brar.il haIvi.; beenl pcune.. ured bf the psissenoer cleric, tho ory was started nait the missing iurderer was, seen on a l'%mansy l vaia.L tailroad traini by soUie N ewark adies onl then day of his escae.O 'heir attenti.,n was attracted to an idividual in fe male attire, w hioe1 etieaaner aroused their supicion. ii they? passed out of the cr ar the~y beei'ved as the peersoli drew hcis or er dress to aillo~w themu to Mse that he object of' their tsuspieitins worea ray pair of pataloomis runderi'eath. it. 'heir suspicious were conxnculi ied to be detectives, who haivo since mad iligent sea reb Ior t he murdi'ererC in euwark and ot her palace alotni; the ine of the road. Over twenty hOuties were searched by) the dete, ,. ives Mlonday, but no trace of the fu titive was discovered. AlboutL Inirty, laces wer?' ransaceked )esterday w.ithi ,be samr result. TPhe detectivest are. rai-king very guietly, anmd are fordid len to talk ab.out the business in handl irnder pain of having charges prefer.. red against them. Chief Mlatselt be Ieyes that hSmbakey ibstill in the city, rid that the avennes of escape are t o. (tisraed that esoape isi nhearLy imppos-m i ntbie. Sharkey's t wo female cotcfed :.ratcs stiilI preserve their Ccicopsure and ohuckl at ~ the authorities when Lhief are aisked for inff)onnation cone Cerning the escaped bird. A National Convention of colo i ed inen is to assemible in WVashingt n on lde 6th of December. In a Oon ven. lion to send delegates, which met at Frankfort, Kentucky, resol utions were offered, which go to show that the miuimbers are not particathurly grate. ful to the Recplubbean par ty, and will demand something mocre substantial thban the empty right to, vote tihe white Republic~ans into all the fat ofies. They wanit an equal division ot the spoil, and threaten to bolt if their do. mands are niot grunted.-~fDtimore Gazelte. Last year Wahburn's majority was 74, 274 and Grant's 74,212. T his year Wacshburn's total vote falls 8,691 below his majority Inst year. Hlow many more 8such victories can the iRonnblinan. oat ss hu. ts.ta. 1.1u tinan 1 ilnL en0uity has perfe-'t ;' a machinla.e that noakus it po idlo for any OL0 with C.pacity elough to tlir a grindstone to rform tihe mtost di' cult Mu-ic for the pia no. Tho ma China is niot a Myth, a:Iys the Cincia. ii.tt Cnoierei:. 'e ma w it Only yesterday. It IaF1 jniet been ,im1poi ted fronm Parik, and was attachil to the piano only the day before. It pl ayeud selectifns fromn " Brber of Saville," I.laust.," "Taurha usaer," and ot her oporas. Indeed, its capaci. is unlimsited. It can1 play Ott Sight any picon of ntusie, and its playing cta1mt bo diisrtinguiheditl from 1 that ot a livin;r phi3r. It is capable alsa of playing on an organ, or ainy instru mnCut having keys Simailar to those on* the peiano. Another instrument of the same hind, tiho only ouu in the city, has already taken the place of all organi.st at orn of our chorelbes. ThIe mabine is a marvol of comnpli. cation. It Qocupios a posi tion in front of the key-board of the piano, and extends from above the key-board to the floor. Directly Liver the hoys of the piano atre key s correspoliiig to tle piano kt1, . Trse are the fingers of the machine. They ate as manany as the keyp, a1ail Ibtla h ew machine has 1111 advanbge over the human player. lw these fingrs arre ade to work i thw pro blem,, which we eail orly fLinly indi. cate in this dcscriptioin. The top of the usachine is nbout one foot in width. It hai inl the ecitre two rollers, which are moved by a cratuk. These carry the musie lroiugh, and as it passes, the pianio plays it. The music iii oil an pper, but it, is not writteln. The notcs are made by cutting aquiare holei thrrngh Lhe paper. As these holes paSS a --rtain point, they allow a haLtmmer to pass through, and the stroke of that bi11 amCr is comtintau icatei to its uwn k.:y in the pi::o. 110h hey has its brinmr, It only requires that thbese boles he cut at proper intervals to1 strilke any number of keys iii any given series. The ntnline has a pedal arrange ment which connects with the pinno rad enabl( the player to have the el'ets produced by an ordinary play er. It also has al arrangemnent to hange the force of the toGucl. It is a Frenaeh ina.,trumient, and his been hnowna but a short tiue. T'lhe iianufacturer i as aordera leyonid hia capacitv to fill. 'T e t.vNo miachines in tl.is city will doubtless attract atnuchl at tenat ion. The Ville lI lim1-e flima!r. SpIecial dip-tehe.. give the follow i ag items of irterest iaout the loss of the Ville du llavre. 'lost of the puausciogern were too t arriflel to try to aove t huesielves. lany prayed, [atd mlaUtny laid down w.ith the calmneacss of utter d.-pair ; some hearing water pouring isto the ship, niever quittled therte rooits, atnid wlola families Ltu, went down together. TheIa fotir boatLa lowetei by the Loch Earn oiud passengers al cresw ilaati fag olu lhe 3- hol dilag to phink s, uoy0, p'Irs, anad whatever couild beot sai:,, .d upon as the wreek we lit own, Mlian3 lad tius prepoared themselves froma lie lirs',. May of thjo womiten ma ved wverie floa tin g inatI tWi te at-r. 'Te captaini of t-ho' Vi'le (in llavre is -epoi teal to haave beeunqt iite exhitanis. ed by3 his thlrec dassad n~lliights vos1 ill comanad wli an the cllis it ook place, was lost. TIho suferinags >f thosec who were reaeouedI was in .eaise, tihe gold heinag very severe. aiatny per.onsl~ were netarly inasensi ble, udl i wo i ia e uttyrrly puiishied in a e-arly at t a in ater of haapaard 1 , a-a imeaa peirmaittedl ni org itizad eIffort to itt aIpt a Cit ic. Teai pu rsuer of the a ta lamer .says : "In a few tinrutes~ thle shliip be-gant to ik. samaaida t thet gie atent disardera ad frtanti tlor ror. The laeaetic was a~wful -bayoayl till d us. caripftiona. TUho air was ruenl witli shlieks ; hut someia wore heaird siyinag calmitly, 'as we mutt die, lot us die ntoblIy.' The waiter rushed inato the haold with irncredi. lbe vesloiaty . I dii dre5~Sed mrysaelf land; wid a. i comapan ion jtimzpa-d ovurbotard and swama to - ward the Locb Earn, then t:all tiatmile dli.,tz at. At I left I haeard thae ship or acking, au-I look1iag b ahr, say hecr r> dowia wnh orne plumrfle forwvard. Fair a moaiiata the shtadeks were ter rible, thecn all wais sileat. Alaa ! it was athe silenae of death."' .The ('ronvetionu of GanuigerR in A tinuna a Nov. '26tha, itaopted res.ola it in to establisha the direct shariment, of cotton to) EuI~ropje :to urgeu the re funding of th'e cotton t~t to legiti amatto cli imantIs, 'andr thla remtoval of atlI imlports excepat oin coatedtaed l.uxuries. They enadorse arnd urge tha con a'tructioa of the Atlanata and Oroat Western Canail. Milton Mfalone, whao was condemned to be hung in Athbnta, Geoorgia, last Friday, took morphine ton the naighat previous, from which he died next day. The Suspended Memphis bank, hlave resumed bnsinesna 1ow Five llaes of ('01t1il Were Protlue oil One Art. EUIlors Saondersvi'( Lierald: A cording to promi iso and for the fart ing puidlie, I herewith append a bi a1nd correct account of tho. prepuriin m.anurin and cultivation of wy no of cotton grown thitisoason., ''ho soil issandy with clay sub:o Hias b-een in cultivation for 60 or . years, t suppose. About half of t1 nere was an old dung hill, the oth half very poor before manuring. TI guano 1 us-ed was Rettlewell's A. A or Phos'phate Peruvian, 1.400 pound raw pire straw, from the woods, ( ox-cart loads ; green cotton seed, ( h-ushels; stable manure well rottoe 400 bushelq. The pinestriw, cotton sood anl stable manure I hauled out in Jauim ry, and strewed broadcast over th land, then turnedl under with a tw hormo plough breaking eight inche leep. The with a * L te.n, ine scooter ran in the same furrow, breali ing from fivo la seven inches; in th whole thi teen to lifteen i iches doea I th'en followed in the scoqter furrol with the guano or subsoll furrow, H on, till comp i1leted. In February repeated the breaking in the saM inanner. leaving o0 m11,anuri6ng. I M\larch the sne0 again, breaking 0'" time cross wise or in oppa.,ito diree tion. In April I harrowed Cie lan twice, to level the soil .nnd -detr'O the y9ounIlg vegetation. Then I cheeli ed A fiy rows three feet each way wits a smn.all bull-tongue plough, a on the 18th day of May I planted m; cotton seed in the hIill, 6 or 8 8.0o dropped by hand . and covered witi tho fout. The scud when covered be ing on a level. ''ho seed were th "Cluster Cotton" variety. I pur chased them rrom David Dickson Oxf., O ord, On., to whom I mus contess I an ind ltod for my sucees to a certain extunt. The sed I. an contident. were half the battle. Thi cotton was thinned to one stalk ti tlie hill in J une, with exception of tlhi ouits1ido rows in which I left tw( stalks. Then I plowed with a 2, inch sweep, "l)ickone'n," verv ahal low, one furrow to the row, Just sera ping the cardh enough to destroy th young woeds and gra s. Did uot us a hoe in it, in order to avoid skinnii' the cotton, in fact had no use for aiy as the cotton grew so fa.t the shad, thereof preve,,ted all vegetation fro glowing undernea th. Very rot~e'e0 flly, T. C. AAVI n1I. A Thilling Tsngedy. 'I'le (idaughtc.r of Rev. M. ltclart son, livin'g a few miles froi th,is plpc< having some misunder-st andi ng .wit a gentlomian, went to hiis home, foun him at work, spoke to him and Ohoo hands with him, and thou irow froi ueimelor lier shawl a pistol, placed it: his breast and fired. The inan, i last acconts, was living, but in hopelIt5 eindJit ion.-Co'rinst4 (AIssi sip>i) A r, Nvemehr 15. The above article is true; and th gentleman wonded was Mr. Mar llayiIea, of McNairy county. It said tat he was engaged to be inarr -d to the young lady, is - Matti 1ieihardson, and was aibout to "g back'" uponl hsis plIigheted word an honor,1 an~d so notified his allaun'oe \When shie received intelligence of hi constemplated apost~asy she grow ind ignan t that she rodo everi Ilaynes' resident ina birggy in cor pany w ith a youang l;rot her, and eual inig liaynes towai-d hier she (drew fort a pistol from under her shawl at1 shotL him as above deveribed. Mi Riichsardson and hei- brother were b)o arresdted after tiM shooting and hrd1 preliomiinry trial hefore Jamiies Ilon Ionl, J'q~., who bound them over thes next terms of the Circuit Court MhcNairy county. Thjo bond of Mi Richardson was fixed at $1,000, a: was promptly given. Ilaynes w. werinded in the r ighst lung, anid li condition, at last accounts. was tremuely critical, lie is anew coin to this section and hails froan G4eorgi -Jacks8on ( Tennessee) WhigL~ &nd Tr~ Hero. 1: a paragraph from the Ne Yo, k World, which is suggested I the~ laztanut edi torials of ourtain f< low.s who arte for "war to the knift with Spain: All1 this gong beating, all ti I houting for "war," for the "inetai anneilxatIin of Cnha," for the seizu and1( excut ion of the~ "Spanish ni derers"' at Santiago, remuinds one, is true, ridiculously enough .of t old story of tihe poltroonin the, p1 whlo exolsaimns to, one who baa gross ;h,..:,tcd him ;'tSir, youthavo pull my nose, yon have trod upoin my to you have spit in my fcpoo iBowa air-you may go too for, you ji then arouse the sleeping lion I" A mong those muentloned for seat of Senator towis of VirginIa, John Lietelher, 1U. M. T. Nfunter, IB. Cochran, itobiert lM. Withers a IRobert (Juld. None of. the Sou tie IStates seem inclined to follow Ipractice once provalent thiere 'I still eomm ton at the North, of conti ing the same maon in the. Sea. ed Ne*s ofthe Day. Raphael seuinies, who bOt'umanled C. the Alabamat is a calidfdste for Iay n. or of Mobile. er A voicono in the i'inti mountains' C. near Eureka, Nevada; is erupting re dense snoko. Onl and aftor'the firot day of Janu ary next; the fee for registering lot m ters will be bo red'ood from tifteori 1' to eight cento'. r It is estimated that J0,000 French Canadians have roturned to Canada f'romn the United States within tho . past three weo-ka. *o A tire occurred in Now Orleans on J Saturday last by which sixty-nine houses were 6rued. Loss $0,000. 11 Work has bkon , resumed in tho 6 steam milla at Newburh, N. Y., em 0 ploying 400 hands, and also by the 0 mills at C(ohoes, in the sam3 State, semploying 5000 persons. F. L. Taliitor, the defaulting c cashior of the Atlantic National Bank of, Now York; has been sea tenced to soven years' imprison 0 mont in the Albany penitentiary. 1 A Wasiington special to the Now a York Post says that (n attempt will be made during the next session of ( "toIgress to restoro the frtanking - privilege. [hgersAll, tio chair contractor and one of tho Tweed ring swindlers of New York,, has been couvicted and son tened to ivo years in the peniton .ary. Another ,mash tn the Wilmiuigton; 01116 il und Alglistit Riulrond. The crop of accidents on this rail way appears to be ripo. Yesterday another accident occurred, whicb fortunately resulted in the loss of no lives, although one person, the eii gineer of the train, was severely in pred-it being teported last evening a he had suffered a conpoun( fracture of his shoulder. irom wvhati we learn, it would appear that abont I two miles this bido the scene of MoA lay's disaster, (near Humtcr,) were procepding towards Columbia, an e engine and tendor, and behind these a. lumber train. Froni some cause the engineer of the lumber. train dlid not discover hissituation in time to prevent the dicster, biJt reversed his Iengino.and juniped off, sustaining tito. injuries above named. ''hie lumber train stuok thE tenq er of the engino in front, throwipg it front til e track. ''he tiraln then took i backward course, eaid iheo tfilrttlo of the engino hoing opecined wide on the reverse; went rapidly toward; Stunter. Revohiig the tre~tle, thn scene (of j Mqday's accident; in wont the whole d train on the tol> of the other debria k and there is the Imoss of it; as tho lo cai reporter is informied.-Union. it t a ".im, do men don' lmak sIVeh fools ob demeelves abou womnit a. do women do about .nen.-lf dey look at do .uoon dey soo p man in it ' if dey hear a mouso nibbling, it's a mani and dey all looij under do bed de last thing at night to find a ian. 'vly; Intibbir looks under do bid oto fida wom an, does you l . Mrs. E. R. Nichoba~in; wvio 1has been ini a delicate state of hoalth for a cnsiderablhe time, departed this 0life on Mlonday evening at 8 o'clock. 0She loaves a large cirple of friendi and relativ~ts to mourn her death. Chester Repiorer.. 1( Goveror. .TPwer, o M i4siss " i ppi, inaform's the Vioksburg 'Tiaiesa h' ii hat hi intends ,to test before I ho a Supreme Court of theoState, theo conr "- stitutioniality of the latto general 4 eleiion. The Governor has .alroad y aescured the services of distiiguishiI & coaisellvle nti ony eie Sr tally shot himself. 'rTe wound re a. suilted in his c'esth in a fow hours. '1 Ch~ester Reporter. Samuel A. Hitoboooek, ai. wealthy oitizen of Brimfild, Mass., and a gen-, worouis honofator of A mherst Collegit arid soveral eel leges in the West, died 1last Monday, agod, 80 your.s t 'loaves ansy estate ostimated at $3,000,000; t ",You needn't conge' on Saturday ro night or apy' otlior,.ight," was the r- soothing .reimarl( witten in delicato it feurald oliasraotojecon a postal earl he whioh . inged its way through the ay hoein'orth /tost office the ether ly day. ed - ' -d'+' Reoldcontributors from so large, a class in Enag land that th ey sup:porr nothaing..that has not been deolinaed by thes unappreiative editors of uithoj periodicals. ho . .. db A goodl lady, who on tihe (loath of A. her first husband married his brothecr, nid lias a portrait of the forme~r hanging irn in hei' (ining room. One daya the visito~r 6'ti'oing the tainting aske' nd ' li that a member of the faniily."' au- Oh 1 thtat'? mny jpoor brother-in-law;' was the ingoaidana r.p14'