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Williams & Davis, Proprietors.J A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquirv, Industrv and Literature. [Trms---$3.00 ner Annum, In Advance OL. IX.] WINNSBORO. S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING JANUAlY 2I 1874. [NO. g0 TI1 IIll PAIld'IELD HERALD 'IS 'ULMiSilED WElKi.Y nY V1LLIAIS, & DAVIs, Terns.,Tnti 1iKRA. is pulhishtld Week In the Townii of Winnstoro, at $3.00 is - triably in advance. it"- All transieit 'advertisemenis to be p tid i a advance. obituary Notiecs and Tributes $1 00 per itquare. Tho Prostrate 81itc. IiENnY WAUt nIMfEKiiER ON THE FATE OF SOUTH CAIONLIA. It would he hard to find in the history of modern nations a more saddening or. disgusting picture of the wreck and desolation of society than is presented at this taoment in Sonth Carolina, and the condition of South Carolina, we suppose, while -porhaps more picturesquely misera, ble, is but a typo of the social Wretchedness and the political shame which attach to. the -ther States of 'the far South. These are facts which concern not alone the States immedi. stely immorged in this civic chaos. Tihe nation is a partuershil) in dis cases and disgraco is vcll as in 'enefits -; with the sulloring of one member all the members suelr, and whatever is a blot upon Texas or 'Georgia trains through to Maiee. The time has fully arrived when all bitiiiens who dto not believe that n'our politica'! system can staniid anything and defy anything" ihuuld conde cend to cast soie Serious glauces upon the hapless circumsita'nces of our friends anld brethen of the South. ern States. Of'this ve may be sure, that. the preseit apathy of Northern people upd thi suibject is largely 'coni itioned on their ignoramice of 'the real state of the case ; and the difficulty with i us has been that we would not all go to the South to see for ourselves, and that we could not thoroughly confido in the 'testi:ony of tho'.e who did did go. It is greatly to be desired that some Noribern m nc:1 of real ability, and ot unquestionable repute anong us, could pass through to the iSouthern lands and study the actuil bit-liILtion, and report to ues in terns \vhich we could ultogether trust. From this point of view, we deem It an event to be particularly mncii tioned Pthat one such citizen, Mr. Jaums S. Pike, an old abolitioni.t, a .journalist of high standing, and, by appointment of President Lincoln, late minister of the United States at the [lague-, took tho trouble to go to South Carolina during the last ses. sion of the Legislaturo, and to spond two monthIs it its capital in the atudy of men and things. lie has now mado his report, and has embodied it in a little book, just issued by the A ppletons, and bearing the gloomy title that stands at the head of tbis article. The.book is so smlall that It can be read in an evening, but it is large enough to give to every A mor Joan anxious reflection for many a diy. Mr. Pike finds society in South 3irolina "bottom side up."' The people of chaructur and culture, who, In a normal and righteous state of affairs, would gi'e di rection~ and tdne to public proceedings, are trampled under foot by a host of toting barbarians--"the most igno rant democracy that mankind over paw''-" the drogi of the popu latiou hab ili tated in the robes of' t heir in telligent predecessors, and aseerting over them the rioe of ignorance anid corruption through the inexorable machinery of a majority of numbers." Qarpet-bag h-ul Is at an end in South Carolina, for the carpet-baggers were on the outside at least, white mn. Eten negroes tainIted with white blood, and so unfortunate as to have the inobl2 blackness of the ancestral oomplexion debilitated into some shade of yellow, are beginuinig to feel the contemptuous antagonisih of the unmixed African, who means to have things all his own way there. By sheer force of superior nuimibers the ignorant and unprincipled class es have taken complete possession of the government of the State. And what sort of a government have they formed '? According to the tosti mony of IMr. Pike, the rule of South Carolina should not be dignified with the name of a government. It is the installation of a huge r-ystem of brigandago~ The men who have had it In control, and the umen who now have it in bontrol, ai-e the picked villains of the community. T1hey are the hlghwaynmen of the State. They aro professional legislative robbers. They aro nien who have studied iandt practiced the art of logalized theft. They are in no sense different from, or botter thatn, the men who fill tihe prisons and penitentiaries of the world. They are, in fact, of tprooise ly that class, only more daring and audaoious. The sole, base object Is to gorge the indivlidual with public plunder. Ihaving done it, they turs around and buy immunity for their acts by sharing their gain s with the ignorant, pauporif~ed, besotted crowd ifho hake lcsen thoem to the statiomi they filll, and which enables thoem thut to rob and plunder." - If it be asko I boiv the'corruptio of the South Carolina Governmen differ from the exeptio'na'l ven diit of certain Northern Legislatures, th is Mr. Pike's ansi'r : The lattei ivile less in effroutery had in dtgre than the former, aId springing froi different causes, can also be promptl remedied by exposure and by au ap peal to the intelligence and virtue o the constituency ; in the otler east there is no such tribuhalto appeal t< It is a moral m6ra'ss,'in which ther is neither standing nor holdin ground." "8-) tainted is the. atinos phere with corruption, so un'iversal ly implicaLed is everybody about th governincnt, of such a character art the oriaments of society at the capi. tal, that there is no such thing .as au influential local opinion to be brough against the scamnps. They plunder and glory in it. 'llow did you get you money 1' was asked of a prominen. legislator and lobbyist. '1 stole it, was the prompt reply." The impression made upbn us by Mr. Pike's report concerning the pros trate State is that nothing can save vociety there from utter dissolutiou but the speedy achievement of rule by tha classes who ought always to rule. We regret that Mr. Pike, in anuouneiug an opinion substantially (he Samie as this. senms to us to imply that, these classes can be ascertained by color. We know that this cannot be his real meaning, but the force and value of his book arc likely to he abiated y 'a certain indiscriminate denunciation of black 'men because they are white. %% hat is wanted to save South Carolina is not a rally of .vlit.c mn.ten against the black people; but of loiest ineni of all colors against soundrels of all colors. We tasust not despair of the Repub lie, even though that lIepublio be 8ou h Carolinacc. and eveni though it have becomo a den of thieves. 4nd the specilie advice vhich Mr. iake gives as a suggestion of remedy to the people of that State is in the nioin wise and good. Ile advises 'tleu to hold onc 'to the fh'itb 'that 'the S tt- cani be redeemed; to make a systematic effort to alt ac for'eigln immig rition to the stlte ;, t'. get rid of 'Wtteir h'ereditIcry pr'judice a.gaintst strahgers, and of their old time intolertnce (if opposing opinions. It is not. a war of races or of colors that should be brought on - but a caltm, inesolute, pa'tieut iner'eae and conbiination of the forcs of good in society again'st the forces of evil. Suciety needs to be turned right side up ; and inl this effoi' let all inen I. aip w lo evin, whatever be their color. A bee-raiser in New Englin'dl il said to have 1atteitud a,: inventiou for tie plotection of bees frotn. the at tack., of' the honey tuoth, which enters the hives at tight and rifles the stores. The idea arose out of his fa miliarity with the ..daily ro' tine n'at of bees ouly, but of hens. flena, he observed, retire to rest early ; bees seek repose carlier still'; E6 sooher are they sunk in slumber than the moth stcis into their abode 'cid db. vours the produce of their toil. He has now built a stand of hives wit-h a leu house above it. The bees iirst betake thcemselves to their dwvelljI acid settle thecmselves for the Pight. The liens then come home to roost or their perch, and, as they take theil plaice up~on it, their weight sets some simmyle miechanismca to work at once ani shuts dowin the door of all the hives. WVhen the day da wvns, however, thc hens leave their roost, and the re mioval of their weight fiomi the perch raises thea hive doors and gives ogres to the bees in time for their morning' work Andy Johnson favors the Granges lie probably wants oflice. Nine thousand coal miners iii Penn sylvania have stopped Wet kt. Heavy floods in the N~orth ani West, No ice lias been taketi frori the lludson River this winte'r.. Congress is still fighting over li iialary bill. Lamar of Miss~sipp has hiad at pai'alytle strorte but la rB covermng. Clarltagena still holds out. Th new governnierit in Spain has liot ye betin ovei'thrown. Jatstelar remain in Madrid. Theb Conservatives of Virgini have not yet nominated, a eandidat foi' UJ. 8. Senator. Lt. Got'. Wither. A. II. Stewart and Christian arc mos promiinent.. A bill will be introduced into Cor g'-ess providing for .a national rail wamy between New t'orki and Omahc lifteen hundred miles long, devoto exclusively to the transportation < agricultural proditets. The rat< will bo fifty cents per ton for ever hundred miles. The cost to L $115,000,000, of which the govori weont las to guarantee $30,000,000. Says the Wilmington Star young man about sixteen years < age, named Atwood, a nephewr of MI I". A. Newberry, of Magnolla, die at that place 00 Tihursday from tI effects of an overdose of chloroform used in the performance of a dent onnration. Suicide of a celebrated Cook. t - y John i Miohels, formerly we a known in Columbus, Ohio., as "tI , 'Fren'ch cook at the Neil House, a committed suicide at the LIagoud a House, in Spring6i<id, on Saturda y morning by taking arenio. During the past few years Michels .oedhaional violent drunken spree have made sensational phases in th pathe. of policemen. fie was of larg i build and great muscular power, an, at a certain stage of intoxication wa - :furioup and utterly reckless, armin - himserwiti carving knives and fire arms, and offering the most determin ad resistance to capture. When uc uhde'r the influence of liquor, Mich 'els is said to have been kind in hi Treattin'e't of his family. Michels was a nan of educatioi and of extraordinary accomplish ments in 'li's bsiness. He was Dative Belgian, where his brother, i wealthy hote' keeper,, now resides He spoke, half a dozen language fluently, and wa' well versed in music le learned the business of cookinj in Paris, and became so colebrate a a cook that Del monico brought iiin to New York in 1858, and for ;ou years paid him a salary of $,(f0' per annum. Afterwards he wunt t4 New Orleans and worke'd at the St Charles Hotel for $00 per month with a raise bf $56 per m6utl in his salary after some ionths' ser. vice. Boston was the next plac< where "he was employed, and th< next, the International Hotel al Niagara Falls, from which place h< camie to Columnbus abeut six yeart ago. He worked at the Neil House for several years, except at intervals, whon it became necessary to dis charge him on account of bad habita. lie was a tupLrior cook, however, and his hei ices were always in demand when he was in condition to work. A marriage in a buggy is announe - ed as having occurred lately in V ir ginia. But is that any excuso for the bride becoYuirg a little sulky a few d'ays aft<,riiwrds ? A second Episcopal congregation has been formed in Raleigh atnd hev tdward J. Rich, of Maryland, bas been called to take charge of it. Tucker Hall will be used by the ne congregation until a church can b< Vbuilt. \\e leari from the Ruleigi News. The Galreston (Texas) News "1mmigrants continue to arrive it large nuimbrs. IN addition to thost froin the older States, Germany con tributes largely to our population by eVery vessel froi her shores. One hundred and fifty Germans passed up the rqilroad on Monday. One hun dred of them pruceeed by way of th( dan Antonio road from Harrisburg the balance went up the Central." 'hey say that Governor Moses, o 3outh Caroliba recently stole two thirds of the misage o the Govern. or of New Hampshire, and the De, troit Free Press thinks it a wondei that he did'ilt steal it all. The Free Press may be sure that the 6thr thi( was valueless, for it has been severa years iAce a South. Carolina officia neglected to steal anything that wa worth stealing.-CUourier-Journal. A can'vass hav'ing been made of tb prevailing estimnates of the comin cotton crop among membera of th Cotton Exbchange, 124 estimates ar found to give an average of 4, 1t0, 00.0 bales, the estimates ranging fret 3,700,000 to,. 4,600 000. A cotto merchant of New Oriorins,. famiilia with the subject, diys that the esti mates published last week of th num bar of bales which will be receiv at the port of Ne~w Orleans next yea as 1,200,d0d is too ldw. lI'o 'esti mates that New Orleans will receiv before June, 1, l,200,000 bales ; be fore July 1, 1,250,000, and over 1, B00,000 by September 1.-N. ii Journal of Commerce, Januarg 5. C.riott. it is 'a sadowhiat 'edrious faet tha atiog eio flp'cimaens of bad EnglisI tbecorrected by the pupils in th dopartmptro of rhetoric in Hlarvar< O dileie (Pr~fossor A dam s S. Hlill, are sentences from the writingo Swift, Cqleridge, George. Etliot SFroude, John Henry Neawmna Richard Grant White, Bret Uart and WV. D. Howells. Some of thes exmlssiijgest tho sus picion tha t he arvard Professor wishes fo better bread than caa be madec wvheat. There is a valley in Montana fiv thousased feet above the sea, an ~north of the forty-eitth parallel< s latitude, whueie snoW never falli ~'Indians, ti-appers and old settlers san 0snowr was never yet seen on tia ground in "Valley Eden." Whi; snow falls to the depth of seven io eon the surrounding mountains am ,valleys, never does an inch fall < .this favored spot. dA negress, speaking of one of bi ie children who was lighter e~lored thi a tyhe rest, said -"I nebbeir could be al dat brat, 'oaudo lie show dirt Sbtit Carolina. il The call made by the Chamber of v Comneroo, Obarloston, for the re "1 assoibling of the Taxpayer.' Con. a vention, meets the earnest approval Y of the enlightened Conservative prens of South C-arolina. By somno it is thought that the situaition is so des 6 porato-that the political, ofni,.iol e and financial ring, by oombined pow. e: or, has taken so 'tirn a grip upon the property and libeities of the lpco 3 plo, that relief is hopelesi and resit g anco impossible and that of conte quence no-good can come from such a convotion. t We think differently ; on the con. trary we think the time has come 8 to put into operation such a move mont as was pioposed in tire Cham. r ber of Commerce. A convention composed as this is of tire intelli. a gene and virture and the property s holders of the State, cannot fail if it adopts the suggestions of the press, to put in motion a reform which will cnd in measures of relief. It is true, such a convention uan i not legislate, cannot reduce the taxes which so fearfully oppress and threat. r ei to destroy ; cannot chraige tire elcetion law which makes the fran chise a far- and a fraud upon tihe . voter ; cannut drive out tihe olicials who steal and plunder-cannot di reetly redress tihe evils of a vulgar disposition which has no parallel in history. But it can expous those evils to the gazo and wonder of the cuuntry, wvhich is at present unwil linrg to believe their existence ; it canl show to the North that the govern rue't of the State is ail intolerable oppession, a disgrace to civiliAtiol ; it can domnind that togues and plan. derers be brought.to justice : it can petition for iedress of grievantces, and domand at the hands of Congrcss a government republieu in sub stance as well as in forur. These are high matters, but they are iot beyonad tire reach of the convention. 'T'he right of pctlion is the rivht, of all. Loking abroad, thre convention can lay hold of this grout right and present their grievances in the halls of Congress-proclaimi themrr in lie ear of the natiou ; at home they ca.u appeal from the ballot box to the Lrial b) jury. It it be s:.id that the courts, iii political matters, are as con rupt as the commissioners of election, there is this diflerence-the judge doev. his work iu tire face of the pliblie, while the comnissioner stuffs the ballot. box in the dark. They have tried tire ballot, n',.w let them try the court-, and the righ t of petit ion.- Ch arlute Obser. Ver. Brevitics. Raleigh, N. C., had ioa two inches thick on Wednesday. Eleven orange treca in Florida bore 12,700 large, luscious oranges this season. It is said that fifty-two ex-Confede' rate officials occupy seats in the House of Representatives. A Cotton seed oil factory rcentI ly estamblishred at lryao, Texas, is| proving a complete ->ucess. Eggs are. '75e bpricco in Navada, and farmrers vow that hrensoan scarce 'ly be inrduced to lay at that price. It is easy to say "remember tire r poor" now-a-days. A felow don't a have to go away from home to do it. r T1hey are complaining of too mucir - rain in Californnia, and it is feared C that imuchr of tire wvheat a]h-eady ' sown has rotted in tire ground. r . Jay Cooke's privarte resiudencee at e 'Cheltou ilills, Pan., which cost $,000, . 000 in its erection, is about to be -purehrased for a Cat.iiolie convent. -A hen stopped a train err a Penr sylvania railroad, hrer body striking the trigger that put on tire air brakes; but sire will never atop another. t Tire "speechres" paid for by tire government during tire last presi - a dential camp aigh cost thmo neat lit tle j asum of $2,204 ,000, an id thre wvork of ) foldirng tire m 2,284,05. TIhat 's tihe f way tire money goes, pop goes the , Treasury. A curious inrod oh fishl-lr tchine is saidl to be0 followed ini China. hlay Sing collectedl tire neces~ary spawn, r rom time waters edge, then fishercrmreni Splace a certain quaint ity in an emt y herr's egg, whtich is sealed ump with wax anid put uinder an sitting lhen. o After some days they break tire egg d and cempty the fry into water well ~fwarmed by tire suni, and there nurse ~thema until they are sufliciently strong yto bo turned into a lake or river. On Saturday night in Chicago while oo. Rlobmiann, aged 50 years, m frighten Nicholas lhoss, a deaf miute, by poirting a pistol at him, ther weapon exploded, and tire ball enter or entered Kloss' head, causing death: in on yesterday. On seeing what h< ar had done, Rlebmann plunged into ti< so river but was roeoed, but is now stark rmad. To tho Citizou3 of Fairfield Ceunty, Under the direction of the Tuini gration Society of Fairlield County, o the undersigned Cominitteo respect. 2 fully and earnestly address their fellow citizens of .'airlield. 16st. On 1mm* iji;ration genera!ly, g On this comprelhensivo subject we h1 feel that litte need be said, as it is d a matte of Faullciaet momient to havo U0111111cmidced itself to the particular c V'rsbid(eratioi of every one who, in our aillicted Country, looks beyond the year current-yet wheni we con. . ide (ho ivast results irisiing from tho I removal of a heavy percentage of tho Y population of tie Old World to the ever welcou mng chiores of the Now, we cannot but. invite most caruestly the attention of our peoplo to the 5 numberless advantages to be derived therefrom "provided it bo properly and prudently directed." No on; doubts that the wvealth and prosperity of every community i in proportion 10 tle number and produiwing capaci of its population.-Tho denser tho peiling, the greater the value of haild and its pi odl uct.,, and the higher te culivatiOn and civ lization, at h.ast in chri.t ianlized ewil co luunities. The wonderhil r.sults of immigration have iever bein S plainly exhibited as ii the progroSiof the gre-it West (11r1 111d North Western sectionls of the United Statc. .liut a few. years :go an unexplored wilderness, it now bo-s large citic:, plrospeious manu fact aries, thr ivilg Jarns tind alto gether a life and %igor in huinllli ill. provemflents searcely to be comipre. bem! d. Pur tlie rc.suclts they havo nei3ther to thanlk a more productivo t soil nor happicr climliat i ic iluenice 0 thun 1nr but the tcady annual a IIUw Of the a1mOtingth, industry ud int Ifigence whlich luropo pours into v ar torders. With theso patent 9 faets hele Us We Collie . 2 1 To the effect of wholesomo atreamns ot' imliigratioi directed to our own -Stato and County. The vast arela of wiatste leads-the comipara tie .steiility to which they have been redu 1e 1 by t proverbially thought .:,s and expensive culture by slave t labor and its even iore unfortiate t sucee For, that of tho omancipated i n1;ro, call aloud to every intelligent E 0i)Zi lls fu'r 8,10 1 mey or re- t dre s. liui.I G I k.: ands of t cres, now, n ' m- ..' , but a t po.itive burden to their owners, ( would he bruonhit to a valuo and t ftiiity beyond thir virgiii condi. ( t iitn. Undter the intelligent direction I .ind caeust, iilu:Ary of the steady lr11oUpeani, the widernes of blarron I field: and gullied hills 'would de- I 1 iglgt t. with an i aspect of teeiing I plenty, and our desert places iblossom < hl. the lose.' But it is not our I 1u: powe to hold ip to your eyes any I Ianmciful picure of new born prosperi- I ty, bilt biiply to eiilit your aid and i sympathy in sober truhs ; and this b'riips us : 3lV. To (lthesocial, moral and po itieal significallce of a healthy imu nigratioii. No man who i. lrilging up or ex pects to rear a family in the land of hIis fore fit hers, call view with indif fereice the grciat question which we lay before yo'u. Gu arded as it nmay be2, the $Uocia Is~ystemi of .tur commu ni: 13y i in peri1. The influence of ne2(gro) snumpr12 i;en y iil tell upon our chiild ren, ul Iess th u balance be quicik -ly changed. WVith no unkindness to the recently eimanciipated colored 2 men, wo decclaire that tho stan d:,rd of imoiralit y willI be lowered if r the~y be perrmittd to st.and as the 'lri'iaig ae his needs n - eaboration. P.olitically who sobin as~ not to see the ad vantage of taking s from the biankl~ of the party now roul - ing, the lower to long held and1 so a buea~ly abused. l'resumining (111at t here i2 no citii'en nor, t:axpayer who has t not pondeoreda deeply upon the in-. r, famous ((orrupt ion of our present p)O. Slitical syste o, wo will rnot insult your initelligene1c2 *y calling to mind the ad ilvanitages in this respect to be hoped for. I Lving t hus tuichied briefly upon thi necessity of1 intro' neing immuigiaI tioni into our Stato and County, will r call your at:et ion to ihe recent efh'rts. - thaat have been mado to offlect this oi much esi1Mired result. la response2,c t o tllof a "Mor (2lhan2ti the ctizeins of WVinmnsboro as somibled at- thle town hal I on Saturday r the 1 0th of . January, and organ izod the "'Lsai rfielId oinnigraition Society"' for th pnurpose of introd ucintg iman igran~fits into ["air liold. They cor dialIly invite all citizens of this CounA Sty to cooperate with thomt, believing athat only in this way, can , any prao rtioal good lhe accomnplished, Th'e so ciety proposes to act as a medium of commnunication between the imi-l 0 granats atal the farmers, introducing h the forner into this County, at tho o actual cost of bringing thonm hero. 3, ft isa, therefore to the manifest advan 0 tage of every citizen desiring to see t. his barren lands settled by a sturdy io hard working population, to join this a- society and lond his aid and influenco mn to this good work. As it Is the ob so ject of the Society to have r. large 10 miemnbership, the fee for joining will a- be one dollar, and the piroceeds thus derived will be devoted to assisting Palmello Sitle liie i ;irtlio! :lgenry. I-I-Is 01J, I-x T. ---'I'he objecUt this Agency it to introduce and sett in South Carolina the best poiib elasses of llbore's 0nal1 citizesi fro other countries, anrld thereby a4i developing the resources of ti4e Sot Ita Na in odiato work is the directit of the tide of imnigration into Soul Carol ina, to supply tbo great domat for labor and citinohjAiip. 1I- 1-r N Avun.--The A gency under control of no societv, boarl < corpoi a! ion, but is composod of pr< proprietors, 4guts and patrons, wh arec actuated by motives, of persour and public Lenefit. The ordinasr principles of hovtjvt litterprise sli] govern the Agency in its opcrntioum It is the design of this cnteipriso t make a careful seleotion of person ordered, and to give s pecial attentio to th introdution of familii.s into th State. Farmnors, gardenors, nmechau ics, domestics, &c., of almiost any na tiouality, oun be furnished, but pref erence is given to English, Irish Scotch, Swiss and Gerimus. Ll~l-Exr:-. AND Frs.--TI Agerae w~ili elquirce per.;ois or dering imiaWuigra ion to pay 0.0 for cae adlt, a dil $10 for cach child betvoe the an of four and four tUn, to de frity tOh expentsea of' t ra nportatiOu: and board from New York to any railroad towi or station in t lie Stato and, also, a fee of 5 or caeh perwin over four ea is Ald, one-half of whioh the enployer will pay, and tle othe; half' will be ebaiged to the imii grunt. The person ordering m, therefore, forward $20 for each im. migrail. aver fourteei, iid ti15 for each child Luweci four arid fourteen y ea rs of vage, chargieg th one $a 17.50, Itand the11 ot he r 12 .50, himsiself paying $?.50 (half the fee) for each. No chares far t .lupiortat iona or fee bu.iil b .ade for chidren unler four yeas; af aa. The m~oney' inust, ini li las t, ) for warded befer the ordais ten ab fi'2e.l. IV - l :n AI. fl i:.'.st il i.--l. T he Agency malIa r. voatiract., viti canioou laircr at 1'!2 lor mn -and $8 for womnto, per inoiith, including board. This canl be icaungeil by th le mituial conlsent of the eriployce and cin, ployce. 2. The Agecioy sgtigsta that cm llloyw th1O.' Oieir immigranits to te. turn the anis met idv:aiced for ex punIss iu salil in.tallinent , payii4 a part ill c sh 1". t. e:.h m3onti. I1 woulid be uell .-Lo, to uuseC .r'y of fort to ithho th :vc .i; , . con i ouir l.iati touitetid, pres pirous :md:'l clie ful. 3. Lc&l agens are t'oicite'd ill every County ill the S , to .ecule aid forward orders and m:.cy, ait to co-operait in deloivring the per s0ons oil arivmug at t he'irre.cpecti,i piacos, for whici a liberal commis bion will le paid. 1. Mlouey I1aust he0 cint by ex press, chock or pott oflioc order, ami all cou: Inlunic..tiolns taddre.--cd t (olumabia, 8. C. Sevanty.-eight theatres have beci bui ied inl tIe Uni'.cd States iu seven ty-live years. Siico the hard times. .truck Nevad they hi.tve sn.imed the ian ie of' kil!!na O'hlinamen~t? to uie.venll ciars. IRobert' Bolnnieri senst thet paoet Long fellow a cheek for $1I,000 as Chri.-tmzas gift, in aeturns for som: 1By spiecial ediet <>f the Fuall Rive nehimol cotaiinitteo noa pupil is to ba wippejid umitil thae day r~tter lie de serves it. A~ gr!antd esmbin ig of Frceemasott fuoms all 1 tpart tf t w mrl Iis ii posed.i ini Phiilhiali asJ one of thi features of' the Caentanniaul. A Uostonl shlipbullilIder tuays thea No a' 'ar ik waar t iimuclh of at rPi aifter all , beCinag lit tle beterLLw tha barn w ith thae .reviece caoibhed up. TIhe sayinag, "''JLa tot) tin," is u a vulgarismi. Shera iani K'nowi pt it into the mlitmbi of' Alasco) i thet play of ' s uU of Arragon."~ Du) s:rig the oth of I )ecembi e therei were~t coinedji tat theo Phaibde ph ia main t 3, I37,000 piccs, of tin value of $l1t50,783>. Stebblins s4ays: 'FIleriy poops! oughit. to I etiao early a. th i.s seaison < thIt atyear. I t is lbette~r for the halth. Be.-ides, it gi v. the~ yoaun fol ks a betteri ebuanlie." Ex-G(Iosernor Wiashbo trn, of Wi conssin, has rethedt to lhin ftam, nso: Madiain, whvero hea will go iin, taninrg prepratatory t~o beacoinag Girianger's c~adidate for Senaati alga ins. Mri . Csapent or. Of t he nine Ma.rsals of Franv who have baron contdemsined to deal sinco Giles do Lasval, Marshal< Rotz, was hung at Nrantesi in 144 Marshal Bazainoe is thes only one wi has not suffered capital punishmior . T he Ropuiblicani members of tl LwrHouse of the Ohio Leogisl ture refusod to vote for a resoluti denouncing tho salary grab boiau thso Presidont wus included in ti cedasuro of Congrer-s, arnd it was pai d hy a strict. Democratic vote. noody immigrants on .their, arrival Wo have made but an humble be-kin ning, but so earnest and full purpose ,fs it,,that We $19 not besitt to can upon You o assist us. Our progress must necessarily be slow, but with every step accomplished, and with tWi introduotion of'every man or family whether Irish, English, German or what not, we can edjo' thessatisfying assurance of having done tha.t much towards the advancement of our om'. munity, and the emanoipation 'f onIi people. W. M1. D.WIGIIr , It. MEIANS DAVIS, It. L. DANNENBRG,. Commnittee. Gen. toriloi's "ccch on the Salarf WAsjIhoTorN. Jan. 12. - The ipecoli of Genoral Gordon, of Geor ;ia, in the 8onate to-day on the sala -y question was listened to with great itten~tion, es-peqinlly that portion of t which partook of the nature of a irsonal explanation, and which re erred to the surrender of Oencral Aco at Appomattox. Mr. Gordon nade it because, he said,,ho had beenl iharged with being influenced by woisional prejudice against the Ad nii , istration. lie said ho vas one o'f those who iold a conmnand in the Confederate irmy when it surrendered to General Arant at Appomattox, and until that iie ho had never known what grief ras. The nogotiations occupied aur dAys and four nights, and during 11 that time not one word of exulta ion oscaped the lips of the Federal onimanders. In fact, they evaded 1i conversation relative to battles in -hich the Union arms had been sue essful, and spoke only of those on agoments ip which they had beei ofeated. It sank d'ep, into hie cart, and ho mentioned the fact to rove that he was . not personally ostile to President Grant. Encroaching eivilliation appears o have scaled the doom of buffalo on ho plains. For the past two yearl ndiacriminate slaughter has been ;oing on, and millions of these ani? nals have been saorinced simply for heir hid'es. A correspondent came pon one spot where were counted ,500 carcasses of buffalo from which ha hides only had been stripped. )nly a short distance further on a undreA more carcasses were discov red, and, in fact, the , plains were iterally dotted with putrefying buf alo carcasses. It is estimated thai here are at least 2,000 hunters iq lamps waiting for the buffalo. One arty of sixteen Yilled 2A,000 buffa oes durin'g the past summer, the iidos of which only utilized. There iro nio buffaloes to be soon on the plains ci cept dead ones, and, hunt aq nuch as much as tity may, the Iportanion cannot at prosent find any ramo. 0 eneral Pavia, who led the troop n the recent coup d' etat in bad mate. ial for a Republican general. Ho vas a Carlist brigadier at twenty zinc, was afterwards an exile, and ~ook service under isabella, jand ooen nanded the only battle made against Prim and Sorrano. Hie wass capture-l tilon and reinained a prisoner fot' some timo., ie .is now sixty-five 'year's old, and is said to be a warm' personal friend of Oastelar. PFIpebackr, teho is abouit to take his seatsas a member of thil. United Statces Snate from Louisiana, wasn at the time .af General Butler's reignt in that State, found guilty of larceny in one of Guen. Bptler's courts, an4 ot.to the penitentiary for two years. Tke Senator Flanagan who held up his back pay, end shouted,. "Thuir it is," is chairman of the CJommittoo on Education, Charles Sumner being fourth on the same comnuiiitt~o. Flanagan is a Re~publioan. 1$ifty--three journalists died. i1i this country during the past year, of whom two committed suicide, three, wore accidentally drowned, and ond was assassinated, n~ot ipeluiding Ralph Keqelor,. the 'dsbui Qorrespon.. dont of tho N. Y. 'l'rubune, whose fate is still a ahstory. .A terriblo fire has ideft .. over. iend~a lud, defitroy'ing a vast amount of property. Among other bpildinzgs burned we o twe hiotels and two banks. 'l'ho contents of the vaults and safes of the banks were also burn. 0(d. .The~ totalloss is $i550,000, on which the insuranee Is light. , choolmaster : "Wha6 .1f, botf ing 1" Boy :"It isa when a man asks you to hold his horse, and just says, '1Thank yo." 'Ihgt lamb that Meary .had tmay io* Lake a back seat. An Atvol (Mass. girl has a pet dik that waddles t,0 Iohurch with hqra an4, is in every gar