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Williams & Davis, Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquirv, Industrv and Literature. [Terms---$300 ner Annum, In Advance VOL. IX.] WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 7,1874. [NOA8. THEN FAIRFIELD HERALD IS PUnLISHED WEEKLY BY WILLIAMS, & DAVIS, Terms.-Tu H[uRALI is pub)ished Week in the Town of Winusboro, at 63.00 ill e eriably in advance. Agg All transient advertisements to be p aid in advance. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1 00 per square. A Model Senator. There is one dibtinguis.hed gentle. man now sitting in the Senate of the United States the value of whose oath and conscience can be estimated from very complete data. The lobby may predicate of him with perfect safety that while he will, under all circumstances, take everything that ho can get, he will also take any thing rather than nothing. We refer to the Hon. John J. Patterson, Sen ator from South Carolina, some strange facts in whose biography we presented recently to our readers. A brief review of his history may not be out of place now that Congress has begun its work and this precious law maker is about for the first time to take his hand in it. The honor of giving Mr. Patterson birth does not belong to South Caro lina. We believe that the only na tive politicians she possesses are of the Afu ican race, and these, although strong in numbers, seem to have been mastered, possessed, and made slaves of by paler professors of stateeraft who bwarmed in upon them from the North as soon as our armies had made it safe for fellows who hated powder as much as they loved Plun der to go there. Mr. Patterson was one of this band of emigrant states. men, and the Coummonwealth out of which he carried hia loan carpet big, with a noble re.,olution to fill it sonic. bow beforu he sot foot again on his native heath, was Peanslyvaria. Penusylvania is too aboundingly rich in the kind of genius which Now York has recently honored in the person of Mr. William M. Tweed to ufford'scope for the operations of a ruind like that of Patterson. The ground at home was pre. occupied. The crumbs allowed to fall from the public table were sorry diet for a hungry hanger-on sv 'i as he, pos seessed by a very ti, eworm of ava, rice, smacking his chop.i as he gazed. at such scamps as Kemble gorging their fill, and convinced, at last, in sheer heart -sickness, that they would never quit the platter until they had left it shining like the table weY.re of Jack Sprat. True, Simon Came. ron was not altogetber unkind to him. Hie permitted Mm to do low errand., for him, and on one occasion signified his sense of the menial's merits by employing himi to biibe tuembers of tho Legasloturo to vote for him for Senator. The scheme having miscarried, by reason of the failure of the men whom Patterson bad approached to take the pay or do the word, that faithful fellow swore before a coamittee of investigation that be had never been employed on any such business, and would have scorned to undertake it as heartily as Gen. Cameron would to send bin on it-which last statement. u.s doubtless strictly true. 'The report of the committee exposed and re buked his barefaced perjury in no netasured terms. Considering the aptitude that he had shown for business, it is really amazing that was the most pro nising job that lie ever succeeded in getting his fingers into as long as lhe re main. ed in Ptnnsvlvania. Had he not while still a very young mant, bought a ntewspatper Ott his credlit by false pretences, 8sold it, again anid pockmeud the purchase money, and snapped his fingers in the face of his unhappy creditor, who was nigh impoverished by this piece of roguery ? Had he not forged his father's namtn to a niote for sonme thousands of dollars, whieb he produced after the death of that parent with the honorable design of cheating his sisters oui, of their pa trimony ? Had heo not hired per. sons to swear that this forged noteo was genuine, and did he not boast after ward that he had tricked a court and jury into a falso verdict b5 his kind of help 1 llad not his own counscl f .rsaken and repudiated him by rea son of this presence, and asked that the judgment should be reopened that the fraud might be exposed ? Ilad he not cheated everybody that could be brought to trust hinm, and were not his owmn kindred the most empha. tie and <eoling witnesses that he wa a chronic villian ? It was, indeed, some balm for his wounded mind that his patron Caime ron when Secretary of WVar, app~oint ed him a paymaster in the army. But the sola te was a small one and lasted him but a little while, for the Senate refused to confirm his appoint ment for the perfetly ridioulous rcr. son that he made love to the army chest and put the wages of the veter ans whom lhe was sent to pay into his own pooket. It is no wonder that, whlen the ter minatIon of the~ war opened up to this restless, hungry, disappointed patriot, 00nowaIdmiae yce dulous blacks as it field for the en ployment of his talenits, he shoul have tunde his way thither withot any del. y. And his success has m: ted the dreams of his ambition, n matter how wild these may have beet le has become enormously riel lie has, without a cent of capita bought and told railroads that be longed to other people, and hits mad a profit out of these jobs comparo with which the patrimony of whic he spoliated his sisters is a mr brass button. iHe has had his finget in every sActe of villai oy direetel aigainst the tr1eastur'y of' his adopte State or the confiscated homes of it pe ojie, tod hats not scrupled. whIto be was done with stripping hones mci, to cheat his confederates it a ickeduess out of their share of' th spoil. li has b.en one of a flook o political buzzards which swoopic from the dark aud unclean places o the North, have peeked out the eyes and eaten out the heart, and consut ed the marrow, and picked bare thi bones of a stricken State, to whic: they iyere lured by the smicl of he decay. And better thanti all, lie ha bought front the irresponzible ino groes who have got Carolin m ii It it a the place he now holds in the tJite, States Senate, and a fellow, tliousand: of whose moral poers-yea letters are to-day picking oak um tnd phlit. ing clhair bottoms in the penitentiary sit$ itt the Leat of John C. Calhoun I This man is not likely, even werc ie as bashful as he is brazoit, to be at all out of couitotance whenie !ooks around himt at the tiany potent, giratve and reverened gentlemen who have got their seat pree;scly asi he got his by paying for the:n. Nor is he like ly to lose itn pocket in the entd by reason of the largemsse he Se0teCed atmottg his colored coistituieits ct Caroliia. HIis motto, like that of Capt. Simon Suggs, is that "soce body's got to suff'r," but that "some body" is never cither-a Stugs or a Patterson. It is the luckless land, the betra3ed Comnimwealth, tle outraged people, who by the myste rious e r.s;ion of hOavetI have either their liberties or their pur,es put withit rozecb of rottcu tevutdrea like these.-1V. Yi,),. The 1,e.w Tribune building now in New York will be the largest news. paper office in the world, as well as the highest building inl New York 1t is tine stoics, t. nd one hundrid and fifty feet in height, and on th< top of that there in a huge tower up ward of a itundred feet tmore. TIt< building fronts on Nassau strect in ty-one feet, on Spruce streel olte hundt ed feet, antd ot Frankfort street xinety-ninc feet Depth of main building oti hutidred aid sixty eight feet heigh of tower above fonttion two Itiun tired and eighty five feet. The ma toriais are t-tone, bR ich and iron, aIMt the butldint will be fire p'roof. It co.t, exclusive of the bite, is ";, 000,1900. W'alsh, tawfortd & Co., cotton merchant, of' New York, hivo failed The Virginus has bet--i condeane( tis a legal piz iZ by the PI'iza Coutrt it Lavana. Sickles htas resigned, atid ('alel Cut hinig has been appointed Ministe to Spain. Chtrist wnas week was event f'ul. A long list of tmurd ers and accidenit: is report ed over the whole coutn t r'y. T1he entginieers in Itd iatna and~ Oh i< hove sti uckc. In somet places thte tmilitita wi's cti athe out. No seriou distubitices occurted. Ex'Snaztor Gramhamt of' New Yorkh is ont triadlfotr emtbezz i og. 100,000J o. ads of the 1Rnk of Conotit t.tce. T[he P'r' sidentt h tas signe d thle bi I retmovittg the dlisabilities.- of hlani-v, IBoeoek atnd Trgg, of Vrii: n leagan i of 'lTex'i. Attortney Gen. Will ims htas decid ed that ihe V irgin ius was tnot ett it let to carry thte Utnited S' atea fi *g. Pttersoti, thte owier deities thie, uam demnatids tan intvetIi g tiot. G ov. Booth of Catifornia ha I s hbeel elected U. S. Senator over the rema Ia r Republ i "an antI Demtar~e aui didates. Ile is a mtoderate liepubloi can and an active enemy of monopo lies. The Congressional Directory Is nos comph andt ready for press.I makting up its~ biographical sketoche of member's the fact has been dlevelot edl that about forty, thld military o civil offices in tIhe laite Confedor ac andi also, thtat a cotsider-able nttmbeo espeially ft'om the Sothi, were con nooted witht the Frteedment'st~ Unre'au ''Tho Confederates have taut htori't.ed fumll statemitent of thir oflicial reclat tions with thte rebellion, but thtos who bad position in theo Freedmnct' JBureanu, have without exceptioni, iti diented a desire that nto mentio ahould be made of that fact. Rlaleigh News The Saturday b< fore the adjournmont of the Generi Assetmbly, a large nutmbe~r of tli tmetmbers cotntributed, as a Christnmt gift, one day's per diem, $5 caub, the orphan asylum. Tihe amour narogated over $300. Delith of llCnIry llociefort. d Count Victor do louebefort Lucay, better known as lemi floeiefort, whose death at the Frech nonal colony, in Now Caledunia, is report cd by cablo despatches, was born in Paris, January 30, 1830. 1le was the Fol of a marquis, and was elu. cated r.t St. L.uis college, where he was remfarkable fhr bis love Of anld talent iu poetry. 11i. lively Con tributions to thle C/rivari as d ra matie ,:'itic, procured limi0 the ap pointnimt of tub-inpeetor of tine arts at. Paris. As editor of the Filaro, to the sitaff of wheich ho was appointed in 1833, he acquired a wide reputation as a vivacious und witty m:iter, whose forciblo atyle and cutting sarcasm iua't him feared In his op.onents and re-Npected by his as1ueiates. Rochefort at the same time wrote sevei al comedies and vaudevilles, which, although they possessed but little literary merit, gained him great popularity and iuoh imincy. Oi the income aris ing from his plays alone, lRochefort could havo lived clegaitly in any City of Europe. 1 ibs course wa.4 un. wise, and his abuste and tirades against Ahe .1nperur beceame e ex treme and audacious that ho found himelf forced to repsign his position oi the Figaro. lie then establisbed La Ladtruc, whi -h, animated by the same spirit of hostility to Bonapart. isi, h was :on obli:oed to remove to Brussels. While inl that city he foughse everal (,1els, and in 1869, was electcd a member of tile General A s:eIbly. li re,urnied to Paris Inder a safe conduct from the .isliperor and took his seat. Ile r(o.> kiltama a jo in alI known as Lh Aarsellaise and it was for cor Hian ex 1 4issions in its columns that Victor Noir met his death at the hiads of Piinee Pierre Bonaparte. For his acts d uing tL.e reigii of the (niontue he was tried ani tris puittd. ie leaves a wife and sev cral )oung children. Key West, oui Lreat naval rendez voun, is an island four nile!s long and oe ttn a quarter broad, bounled on one si-le by tie Atantic, and on the other three by the Si-aits of Florida and the Gulf of Mexioo. It, has a ipiitation of ijin e thousa ndl souls. Ihe houses are of wo )d, N ith s-pa cilous pivzzats, sh-iled1 Iy cocota and alhoiond tret-s. Tb1,.. ini bVr is capa ciolus, Wher the larg-st shtips ein ride ill s.ftty. It is priteelted by a fort, has barracks, whiarves, etc. Cuban reigees make ip a majority of its i biitii aits since the Lrubiles bctween Spain tai-d Cubat. A.gassiz was tWi Mii:rried, his sec ond v.ife being Mlis. Lizzie Cary, daulhiter of 1r. T. G.ary. lie has th rtc chibiten, Alexanider Agassiz, Ida, (Mrs. Iliigginsoii), and Pauline, ihri. Shaw). lie died onl th 74th I itnniversary of the deatti of Washing ton, and ab no-t at the samine hour of tie day, Wv.,hingtki dr iIn! between h-e antd twelve ('Clock on the iII of the lth of December, 1799, and Pl'rofesor A,: asiz b etwcen ten aid cv-I och-blik nt tle itight of December 14, 1863. A la1dy sy thle first time she was kissed she filtL likeo a tubh of ros:es swi iin sg in honecy, cuiognei, tint mlegs anld crainberies. NilC felt as if s01me thing wasi :unning th rough her net yes ton feet of dianmonds, escoirteid by several little ciapids in chariots dr-awn by angels, shai~ded by honeysucklets, aind thle wholo e spread with inelted r'aisAbows. FIirm in the e-lectin f ('C ooth to be0 governorii, texI ini thle <lt'tioni of . \dins ry supre(!lw jtiiud, antd niow in toheuetiou of Iii thi to the Uinitted St:.tes 8'-ntarec, C..lifot nia has set the independenit political hall in mntion. 'PThe sun is r isinig in lie Wecst , a nd -tist ward the star of emp jirO take s its way. A motng ho siee:i- i'ions against A I toirney-Geerial W illiamts in the 'nvestig it iniu~ nmaking' by the ,en ite jtiuiary commttiittee is that the goveunuco h ben imadle to ~imy for the carri.,g-i used lby Mrvs. Wil liamt~. A voueri for its paymniti hiad been; illeid in thle treansur 'y de partmnt. Onie of the most seriouis char i'!P, hto weve~r, prefered cl aigaiin.st the ait.t.oney-;gun-ral is lit- neglect, to prtoceed atgains:t, the corrupt oflcials in the wecsbern jiudicial di-tiIct of SArrnsa . TVhe report of at Special A gentt Whiitnemiy has lbeen beif~t o Mr. Williamits for moiro thtan a mionth, di-elosig corrupution and bairefaced robbery. - lThte owner of Camtden I~ous~e, a t'iselburst lhas been qu 'ito lucky. -ieo has found benuevoloeco pays. 3 W lien, in I1870, lie ofl'ered the Imt a perial famnily an asyluma at Canmdon 1 llouse, ite, being an enthusiastic II Imiperialist, ftully expecte t~lhat they would soon ret urmi to the 'Tiileries. There was lit tle chatnco that a briof -residence would mako Chiiselburst a ,1 CashionalIo locality. Tlhe imperial o family, however, remain there, and ,x in three years have mado thto land o adjoining C'amden 1House of fabulous Lt value. Chtisoihorst has becomo fashionable and its owner vey riglt The Socil Market. "Jenkins," of the St. Louis Globe furnishes a review of the social mar hem of St. Louis for the past week We give his quotations of "matri moniaL" and -party" prices MATIMONIA.. Thle week ending last evening wai extremely dull, and the stringence in the matrimonial market still con~ tiitues. Projoeted fathers-in -law ire carrying daughters at enormvous imar gins, and are anxiously awaiting a ebanie to unload. Mlothers-in-law are extending gvrea, ter nacominodatioris than ever before on long calls, which are now quoted at 73oa2 i. m., never before havi ng Xeede!(Cd I1 1. Dl,, but this is coni sidered an effort to corner on bride grooms. Brides are in good offering, but held at rates above the views of purchasers, and fathers in-law are o-leneurageing all efforts to bull the market. Be idegrooms are quoted flat, and steadily declining. A few optiui calls are quoted at Gal2 tionths, with increasing prices. Mitrimonial bonds are quoted too higah for the average reach. lUrideniaids are lively, but in liglit dematid, itnd groonismen are oot appieciatec. Brides, uneneun bered with mothers-in-law, are look ing up, and grooms are going long at a slight extent. The price of minis ters has declinad to $5, with a ten. dency to fall still lower, notwith standing efforts to keep the market up. PARTY In parties the market is stagnant. Firstelass are quoted at $2,500. with 11) offers. A few were had at $1,000 attd F1,500, and a few at $700 and $800. Second-class, with nothing but breadstuffs, at $50 and $75. Third class, no demand. liuersout are offering at reduced rates, and there is no apparent dis position to advance. Dinner goers are short. waiting for a fMll. Bal a are a (rug and still declining. PezIiot quotes a little activity in suburbai and outside transactions, hut dull on legitimate. Stags are quiet, and those pleasant back-room parties, embracing quai', imperial and "Aunty," which accompany financial buoyancy, are scarcelp nota ble in prices current. lzaiicmi's Place .,r Confinecent. The Island of Stfarguerite, where BMzaine is to be contined, is one of the two Lerin islands on the Medi t erranean coast of France. The I irger of these islands is St Marguer ite, the smaller St. Honorat. Buth are fortified islands, and have been used by different Frenchgovernments for maly years as at place of seclusion fur State prisoners. The fortrestes on St. Mlaiguerite, to which Bazaine i- destined, is fa med in story as one o the places of the imprisonment of the "' man with the iron mask." While confined there, as the romance goes. he wrote his a ory on one of the tilver plates on which his meals were served and threw it overboard. A fiherman picked it up, but being un. able to read, brought it to the Gov ernor of the eastle. In consequence of this incoident the prisoner was re moved to the B atile, where lhe died. In later days St. Marguerite has only been brong ht int o notice as the tonm porary abidinag plaice of some of the clinlitunist prasoners. Probably, as theo French always have an eye to the hiistoricaIlj finess of things, Ma rshal JLziaine wmy now occupy the same tp .rtments one tenanted by the It ib;tiner whose story is one of the sad dtas well tis the most romantic, epious of mnodorni hiistory. 'Te sale of tha~t onice famous news papenr, thec New Orleans Picayune, for $2( 1000 on t welve mnithms time, looks as ift ho n.emiropolis of the South might lie in its decadence. The Thle P'ica3 une was established in 1837anitd under George WV. Kendaill, i:5 old proprietor, enj.'yed great popa 1 trify tand prosperity, but si-ice thbe war lhe Timexes has superseded it in circula' ion, ad vertising and general usefulness. A ifashionaible lady's hair is now, as ta rinle, arranged ini whtat is called the Pa, inem-~ style ; there is a grace fl seifflding of curls, tier upon ier aboive thle f'orehuead, so that lit a shirt dI ist tine-c the hair has the effect of hong :ipplintg waves, natural, but careless looking. Those curls lire extremely light in front, and inter laced at the top of thme head ; at, the back thiere are two long ringlets, which fall as low as the waist. It seems that thare is to be a con test of t he Texas election. Thme de feated Repuiblicans are not satisfied with the irreparable pulverizationi they met with ill that eleetion, and not knowing what else to do, the3 propose to make a contest, with th< possible chance of getting it before the president or congress. WViliam 0. Butler, candidate ot the Case ticket years ago for Vicu P'resident, has been elected Presiden of a Bible society in Carroll county Ky. Newspoper "Beats." We suppose there must be, at th< most modest calculation, between ifteen hundred and two thousand persons in this vicinity who get their newspaper reading for nothing, in oluding the unconscionable individu. als w ho steal papers from other peo. pie's doors, or borrow from their neighbors, or loaf around where a newspaper is subscribed for, and paid for, and monopolize it to the exclu sion of the rightful owner. We have had soveral subscribers to stop their subscriptions, for no fault of our cariiers, a3 they admitted, in non delivery, but because their pape-s, after being delivered, were taker by some individual, as short of con science as of cash, who would take possession of it. Thus, a newspaper, which ought to be well supported by a community for the general good it does to that community, is made to. support the town, in a measure that is, it is expected to live withou resoulces and to advertise the life and business of a town without the support which is requisite to enable it to keep up to a metropolitan standard of exuellence. An indi vidual should blush to read a paper habitually which another individual pays for, There are too many peo. ple who read papers which they do not pay for, and this Is for their cye, especially, with the purpose of sear ing their conscience, if they have any, and for tha purpose of appeal ing to those who do subseribo aid pay for newspapers, to keep then filed and not permit to go out of their possession,in justice to themselves as well as to the printers whose capital and labor are invested in a business which serves to advertise the commercial status of a city in pro. portion to the enterprise its sub stantial patronage enables it to dis play.--Nrchangc. Even the New York Times re joices at the Cuban embroglio, if for no other reason than that it has re sulted in the removal and d igr.ace of Dan Sickles. Dan began life as a New York rough. He will now have a chance of returning to the dirt from whence lie sprang. The Times dis misses him contemptuously thus: "We confess that we arc heartily glad the public service is rid of him, and we we earnestly trust that we have now heard the last of him. oi, at least, that he will not be chosen again to represent the American people, or any section of them, in any capacity whatever. We imay now state that the recent negotia. tions with Spain were carried on without reference to Sickles in any way-his own bad juilgment and worse temper having reidered it im pozsible for the Spanish Minister to hold any intercourse with him at a very early day. We may almost be thankful for this Virginius affair if it has been the means of digging a grave for Sickles." Mr. Hawkins, who has conducted the case in the prosecution of the Tichborne claimant, will probably be raised to the .lEnglirh bench in the early part of the next year, and will be one of the youngest mna that have ever received such a promotion. 11is reputation has been entirely won during the present trial. Ihis open ing speech in the case is said to have been one of the most brilliant rhetori cal efforts of the day. A Mexican Congressman has dis. caveried a new methoed of getting rid of railroad bonids. lie introdulced into the Mexican Congress a law whieb makes every citizen, het ween eighteen and forty five years of age, liabile to military duty, and to be drafted into the army ; but tile classes excepted are all persons Own ing one or. more shares in a national rail road. Railroading continues to thrive in Mexico. Riot at Aikenl. A riot occurred at Aiken, on Christmas day, growing out of an or der from tile towvn authorities pro hlibiting the liring of crackers or lire works of any discription. No atten tion was paid to the order by a por tion of the colored citizens. T1he town marshal attempted to arrest one of the offenders, who drew a pis tol and fired at the mairshal1, whose upper lip was cut off by the ball. A general riot thon onsuiod amiong tile negroes, in the course of which seve ral persons were wounded. An unscrupulous lawyer, when on a mining excursion, was d aseending a deep shaft by menans of a rope, which lie held tight in his hand, ie called out to a clergymen whto stood~ot the top :"Doctor as you have not conl fined your studies to geography, but know all things from the surface to tile centre, pray how far is it from this to the bottomless pit in tile in fernal regions ?" "I cannot exactly ascertain the distance," said the divine, "but let go your hold and Iyou will soon know." The engineers on nearly all the Wegtern Railroads struck on Satur day. sinkilig of (he Virpinitis-lleitse of the Su rvivors. The Ossipee reports that the Vir. ginius, when ol('f Cape 1:.' ad in sight of land, in spite of all the efl'orts of the crew aboard of her, settled and went down to th bottom. Shortly after the arrival of the (L sipec a reporter boarded the ves-el and had an intei view with the .llicer of thle (leck. The latter sild ie hail stiiet orders not to communicate with aiy body in elhatioll to tle cireimstane'ei attending the fomndering of the Vi r gi ius. lie would not even give t'e date of' the occurence, or the place where it hapIIC(l. The survivors of the Vir'ginius' clew have been released. Tho e'cw of t lie Vermont Cheered them 1as they passedh oIF. They were met on Ahirehy sbv. eral Cuban leaders and tahen to quar. ters. The only Sontheiiier ini tihe list of sur vivors is Phihlip M3etz zer, cigar maker, of Charl-ston, 6. C. The sur-vivors number 101, includhiig One Engl ishmiatn, on e Caniad ian, eight United Suitesmen, ten Jamaiua'.s, twenity-nline Cub)anls, Judge Nelson, of Now York. re centy deceased, was on the wneh .forty-nin years-serving in three Courts. II i .crv'ice 's jud41ge, ill point of time, was ih hout pariallel in this countr1y or inl Eghid. The yield of' gold illn Califos'irijai, in 1852, was $G0,00et000-ha.st year $15,000,0)00. The; A , a sa vs "' "Ot! pev.-ilinug opin ion is that (Iur gold unli;eS have become greatly e haust. ed, wher-eas, in pouini of fitet, :,t cely an inmiples'ion has been it tiade upon them, and nearly o'lir enltire 3ield to dato has been simiply i the prdluct of' our shallow laces or urface dig ginigs anLd the icrsults of' indlividu:1 llililig. T ie deiposbits l ing he. tween the Soulthl and \l id e1. i.:s of tl.e Yuba Rivcr alone, and which are but . mail sectiju of, a1 iigle count), are estiiatei to be a(1 equate to a yield of ',i 2,000,0(0 per antin fr 5-10 years to cme, or 000,OU0. An"Id now it is well i known, from actui'ral explortatiun, tlitt a numa ber of t he niniiiiig counties, such xs E'1 Dorado, Placer, Nevadla and Pluimias, Contain e1ach auiif'rouxs grav. el of from 100 to 300 feet in thickiess To undel take to make a statieent oi. the gross valuo of these depostis would ho simp ly to (eal ini figures that belong only to the treasu.n.'S of Oriental fable. All t11' .'1-: ed to devclop this wNeahh are capital and labor. Chilntse 1e10hil of laisiag moucy to bilki TemlphCS. Mr. W. Simpson, in a laper ot "Chinese A Clitecture," re: d beforiC one of the EnlsIish socielies, deselibes as followi the Chineso his bed of raising o100eV for tle building or repairing of temples : "In the s:lreet-s of' Peklu i oiie day found a 111:111 in a sort of woolen sentry box ; hirge ihii, had been dr-iven into it, - tat thieir .oit(3 project ed through This pr'veni te the inl f'rom claning ugainst the tdcs, niid the oly re.S ho hia was from sitting, oil a board withii. lie was a iionlk , and never tciied to sheep, for he had a striig withI which heo nig~ht anid d13 5y sunde ai larige Ssfoorous bell vc~er fcw miinutes as a sort~ of adver'tisceent of mioney ;r achi nilj repi e'cited a soumi, lxname wa'xs xstuck up1 on a bit of' paper, miid the nil was puoled out, mnakinig it mor e comaifor table J for th lierme 'lit. within. All the iiails r'epresenited lie niece-ssary amo1 unt for thie r'epai r of a temple11 whiichi was' clostc be hinid. Thiis151 O s iacomo prol l ceedhinig f'or i'ai inlg thec windi fori tichi psuro]ss. I was told thf tx. his~ imonk had beeni two yearsi. shut. up, and( thaxt lie would lieyb nothe year 'li befo e lie got utof' his (scoon oh' iiails. Mr's. Attorniey Genera'li \\ Williamis wais c'lt apjtuled i wheni, ten day13s (or lxo sinace, she receiveil ani elegnant bourinect fi om ir's. I 'residenit Granit, with her compi lmiieni Is on thle nom11 iation of the A ttorniey Ge neral asxi C hief Ju st ice. HurI whlile ''the P resi s n11t ipopose the Senaite disoses,"' and i it is doublt - ful whether the power of the admwin istrationi in the Senate, mlrsl edilli (( by C2onklisg, can seur' the inminia t in. Sh->'ulId W' Ifiam s to rejeoted or wvilhdr'awnl it rinciiiis to 1be Seenl whx~ethier the Prieshidet wil fa. 1lli bckx on his original ebsoice(, axlebs t'ushiiig. Fslih has heeni f1.; Cx'leb sinlce Ithei start', anld ho ma10y end his eve'ntfu'l life as Chief Justie of the Uiiited Stat es y et, ]Jut, psoor W 'ilI inms ! The death11 of Johni P. Ixilo brinigs to light a faet often hinilted lit pr'etty3 broadly before, bilt in wvhichi no lady's name hais ever been giveni iln pritnt till niow, to our kn'ow ledge. Thefi fact is thalt it wals a daughter of NIr Hale who was enigaged to .Wilkxes Booth, tho mnan who thot Pre.'il(idet Lincoln. In ]Bsooth's diary, which was taken from his body, ther~e wvas a pioturo of this laidy. The Enterprise street Railway in Charleston has beon cnmniletc Loidun's littlest "Gret Fog." Not only over London, but though all its streets and Fquares, its alloys and "closets,'' and its obscurest cor. ners there was, last week, brouding a fog conpared with which the fa mious London fogs of the past have been but gossainer mist. It came in a thick, dirty, yellow cloud, penetra. ting every crevice and oj.ci ing, creep ing a long tho thoroughfares like a solid though intangible mass. The A merican idea of such a visitation is that tile atnosphere has become iifec. tiously dull and stagnant ; the gloom of an A inerican fog is no more serious than the absence of sunshine and a dispiriting heaviness in the air. But the fogwhich, over and anon, besets London besieging it like an atmnos 1lwric sponge, as little to be resisted by doors and windows and blinds as a goblin or a fairy sprite, as opaque as a stone wall, as pernistent as a mis erly creditor, as preventive of busi ness as a financial crisis, as hostile to the pleasure of the fashionable world as a plague of Florence, strikes prac tical blinidnes to the whole population and dlies the sun and moon, gas, kerosori and tar with an equal triuniph. At such a time the London blind have for once the advantage of thuir eye blessed fellow creatures. Lsed to groping, they may grope amid the fog as skilfully as under tihe ionuiday suin, and finld their way when the seeing are bewildered. For two days London was enveloped in one of these monster fogs, the thick e'st and most long enduring within the memory of living cockneys. It is alnost as if the great teeining hivo of humanl bees had been sulphursulfo. cated out of existence. The busy Thamues flows, for once in an age, unobstructed and free between the mn urky and littered lanks. V essels, coastwise and sea-worn, lie lelpless at the quays, and crowd closelv to. as if for mutual protection. Tho penny boats creep feartully from pier to pier, tieir lavish galaxy of warn ing lights p'iint ing but a dull red flush on the yellow canvass of the fog. Oin London Bridge, at mid day there is an irregular torchlight pro cession of people with links and lan terns groping to and fro, sceming, fron a little distance, like Ia phan torn saturnalia. Everywhcro is a groping and col liding, a dendness and silence in most places like that of midniI Cheap oide, for once, qea e& dsyTong babblo of eart wheels - shouting, its barricades of vehicles Afd d.growd ed paveients. Link i ,ival1c be fore carriages and ca . .; l-drayinon curse at the fog-blindness of the coachmnien ani omnibus drivers ; moneyed men, riding painfully to wards 'Change, lose precious asp pintitientits ; Londoners of forty. years staulding, attempt to reach tile green grocer's to order the faimily hupply, lind themselves lost in the next street, and wander for hours around a radius of a few yards of their rosidence; children are hopo lessly lost, and the police and the piohpockets are equally baffiled. The TaXppersmtonlvenionWi. The members of the Executivo Commiittee of the Taxpayers' Con veintion are requested to meet at the rooms of the (Chamber of Coinmiiereo in Charleston on Tluesday 1 3th day of IJanuary, instant, at I12 M~l., for the puriipose of consul ting ulpon theO pro posal of the Chamber of Commerree, that the Conventioni be reassembled to take into consideration the present condition of "the Taxpayers of the State," andh also a propiosit ion to enlarge theoi nmber of the said Convention. The following gentle The Execut ive Commnittee -James Che~snut, Johnson 1llagood, Tihomas Y. Si mons, C. WV. U)udley, E. II. (I. (Cashm, P. F. WVarley, A. P'. Aldrich, 11 eury Gourdin, II. C- Smart, WVil Il~ ii W alllae, 1I. L. M cCaugh rin, T. J1. Goodwyn, .J. Li. Weostmoreland, A. II. Davegat, A. 11. WVoodruff, John L. Manning, M. L4. Bonhamn, A. Burt. W.T D. PORTER, President. It was one of the nuwrerous Beech~ cir family who used to pray, "0 L'rd I keep us from despising our rulers, and, keep them fromr acting so that we can't help it." Mark T wain, in speaking of canni balism, grows serious for once, and. solemniuly declares that, for his own part., "lhe would go hungry for two days, rathc.A than oat an old personal fri en. Rev. M r. Vonables, who offlciated at the recent marriage of Secretary of War Belkinap andl Mrs. Bower, per formed a similar service at the mar riaige of the bride eight years ago. A private letter from Mrs. Lincoln denies that she ever held with Mr. hlorndon any such conversation as he claiims to qulote in his late lecture on Mr. Lincoln's religious belief. Rev. J. F. Spaulding, of St. Paul's church, Erie, Pa., has been eonssera - ted Episcopal Bishop of Colorado and Now Mexico.