The Fairfield herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, January 28, 1874, Image 1

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w? Williams & Davis, Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquirv, Industrv and Literature [Terms---$3.00 nor Annum, In Advanor VOL. IX.] WINNSBORO. S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANIARY 28 1874. [NO. Til M FAIRFIELD HERALD 13 PI bl Si D W 1:) I : :K1, Y nY WillIMAA3I4s, & DPAVIS. Trm-Ti iT aI i u,) Is pulisih.1 Weel in the Town of Wiinsboro, at 83.00 i triai>bl ill adi'ance. r Ail IransAict. advertisemnls to b p lil in advance. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1 00 pe if p1iare. lccting of tlie 31exicain erll iins, WVAJIniaron, January 17.--Thre Mexican veterans, at their recent Ieeting, agreed upon a memo. r ial to Conigresf, askiig pensions for those who were engaged in that, war, or their survining widows and chil dIrenu. In accordance with previous :arrangements, the convention, in a 1ody, proceeded to the Executive mansion, and arranged theuselves in line in the East room, when the President entered, and was received by ex-- Goverior lebert, of Louisiana, who, as Mar-hal of the convention, said the incoibers were glad to 'recogn ike in him n old compana ion in-artmi, in the glorious and victori 'ous battles in Mexico. The Presi dent bowed his th-inks inl reply, and then, accompanied by General Den ver, tie President of the con ventioi, pa'ssed from one veternti to another shaking hands. General Cad walader of Peniiyl vania, presented to the President, in a few h umorous re ma rk., anl old colored mat an, anarmed .Uncjamin John.son, who, during the Nexe- in war, served as G eneral Scott's cook. 'Ile President and members of the convention seenied .to be much gratified with the meet ing. Pretsident Grant was a lieuten iunt and Regimental Quartermiastcr of the Unitedl States --Ih Infantry during the 1exican war. . On retIIrning to heir h1ll, thie Pre:ii eiit. called their at tutiton to a beatiliful vase which had been pl.ced Iponl a centro0 table in front of the, platf-rm, which c:mtne froim South Uarolina. lie asked the Coivention to receive it standing. lIe then call ed upon Jrdge .\laeky of South Carolina, to give its history. The vase- standa upun a cgnare base of bout ten by twelve inches and three nleh,-s i ill height, restin g upo n cagleis' claws, all ofl solid silver ani b ulitti fully ebasAd !In frost work, represen.. tutg the enarge aid repuke at New Or lea ns hi. vase was purchaed stIely by the ladics of South Carolina 2,)0 0t sui.scribiIn g fo r* tiat, prp'1se, und boro the follit.'ing inscription* "Presetd by the ladies of South Carolina, to lajorIineral A ndrew J aIk- oil. Janua ry 8, 1815.' Inscri1p tions o!, the uiverse, r ont of at Ill of South Carolina ni1l inutto on loth sitdes in full : l'rested by Gene., Val Anidrew Jack.,on to Captain W. '. Stauley, in trust for the lkst sur vivor of tile l'alinetto Reglietont.' Ju1udgO Mc.ukey said the vase was pr esncated to (enral Jaoksoln by the ladios of the Third Cong rezsiona I District of South Cariolina at the close 6f the WAIr of 1812. General Jackson bequeathed it to the St .te to be given to the mann who, in him next foreign war, shopuld be deemed 'entitled to it by actk of valor and gallantry, It was dlteided , after thIe last, war, th~at no one in an sho uld be selected to hld it ; and it was pro sentedi to Captain W. I3. Stanley te hold in Itrust for the last survivor of the Palmtcto liegiment. A res A utioni was a'lopted-, asking Congress to remove the dlisabilities of those who took par in the Alexi ean wvar, but who weore enigagedl in tha late civil war, from receiving pen. sionq. Judge. Mackey reported ai constitution and by-la ws for the gov emnent of the permnanenit associationi 'to 1be known as the National Associa tion of the veteransa 6f the Mexicani War, and providing for- its oficers, mode of moanagemenit, and for annual ineeting in Washington, on the 22di day of F'ebruary-thmat being one of the days upon which the battle o1 Buena Vista was fought, as well as being the birth -d ay of Washington. Thelr convention elected the follow, ing officers. .Preside nt; General Georgc Cadwa1 ader; a Vrie-~Presidlenit arnd Consello: from eaceh Stale and( Territory, fiv< Secr-etarica anid a Treaisurer. The convention to-night adjournet sine theC. Free Schoharsilp. We anrnounced to ou- readers, somi weeks ago, that Colonel Thomas hai pslaced t wo schmolarshsips ini the Cart linia Mlilitary Institute at the disposa of the Survivors' Arisociation. W aren now informed that W. Christi, ilenet, President of t he Cokesbrr AMasonic Female College, has like wise given two scholarships to the As sociation. Applications for th above scholarships should be addrey edi to Col. James II. Rion, the Chair uman of thec Executive Board. Thi liberal action on the part of thes institutions comncd them to th~ favo-~ of every true Carolinian. i'ho:ni.e. iCollections for domestie mission inGaeChurch, New York, on Sun day, amounted to nearly eight thone adollars. Clocks. nV THE nrv. P.. wEN'iwOaiTIl, D. D. "What ails the olocks V Nothing but the imperfection coinon to all huma tn th:nory. Who ever know t.wo olocks to run togetber ? W ho ever lay awake at night inl a great r city and didn't hear the church clocks strike ten till eleven aud eleven till twelve 7 When Charles V., Em'un peror of Germany, went into voluu. tary exile, ho busind his leisure vith patpers, inusie, and clocks. Aft er trying in vain to make two tium pieces go exactly together, he came to the wise conclusion that it was no %Vonder that no two men agreed ex actly in opinion, since it was impos sible to get agreement between two pie'ces of mechanisn as perfectly alike as art could inake them. A clock is one of' the most sooial things in existence. It is impossible to feel that you are alone in your house, thouli your family be all away inl the country, with a clock to ding;- jol lily on the mantel-piece, or soleuoy in tie hall or corner. A boy's first ambi tioni is the possesion o1 a watch. A watch is a life-long companion the first thing thought ot in the morn ing, the last oaro at night. And how does the little monitor repay ti at ca re by telling us faith fully whenl to go to ba d, when to get up, when to go to the bank, to church, to dinner, to the ertrs, when our first baby was boru, and when our dear tuother died ! llow m cny pleasant and sad associ. tions are connected with the face of I the mysterious little cluter of wheels and springs that has danle i A your folb in all your journeyings for yeirrs ! 'Tbo wife of your bosom has not clung to you so tenaciously as your watuh. 'he worst thinmg about the loss of a watch, when a mleanl, incak thief clutches it, is the loss of so many cherished sciations. It is not the 11ironeY value-we have lost au old friend, one of the family. But why is there so niuch disagree. menit. in timle ? Why ii thatt now and then every thing is all awry amiong the tiie-pieces of the city I Why is il that a nnal knowing hie has a It perflect Iime.k-nkeeper in his old bras.i elocK, his English levdr, oi. hi Pal i ebionometir, fels an involuntary Shade of Suspiciell croS ing his tinind wh hei liho nils lie is one, two, three, live or fifteen minutes out of joint with the o on hellt) ? It re-sults fom a fact u i-- many pe oIpl do not k ;iw,1a which :Ili are pio:e to for. got when thy ae acquaint!- with it -u:4m'ly, that the sun is an itrregu ,r imC kOeper, anld tiat a good Selh or a good watch is a r--gular timlt keeper--vary ini g Mily- a few n iutes or a few sceOnds in a year, w e the sun now hoots aeada and no1w falls b.-hiind ; and pcopio have In ire oo I fide iic- inl the sun-on e of God's gre-it time-pices -than they have in mian-nutdo moehanism. And yet lie fault i. in the sun. There are only four days in the year in wh ih the run :nid a perfect regnltcr are together : Christm ! iH oe of those danys, the mid dle of A pril the nm, thou mi dle of Jucne, thenit the firt f So ptember. On ihesv d. ."he f unl and - ou pocket chro,. icomieter' ill agr'ee it tw'elve at nioon, and on no0 other~ days ot the yeair, In mid-F'ebruary i't should be a qunaitem' pa11t twelve by your re'gclari going time-'keeper, when thle I agsginmg sun hai~s the shadow of' the stile across the nlooin~ uiark, in mid- May, ambi tions Sol is ahead of you ini an~xiet y for dinnetr ; in Jutly behind, in Oceto ber ini adlvance again. 8!n if' you have a good timen-keeper, dlon't touchl it, don't undertauke to chase imp thie sun with it, or the noon-bells it' thiey follow the sun. Keep yotur eye ont the almianae, and see, from day to d ay how much too fast or tot, slow thu ir regular sun is of your regular goiing tinm-hooper.-. Y. Mfeth&odist. Thec Iowa Sonate organizedl Taoes dany by the election of Republican oflicers, andi iniriaited busincss by passing a resolut in denonneing the Congressional salary grab ; favoring~ a law requiiing the rcturn of all back pay, and declaring the acti.>n1 of the Prcsident in signing the hill "contra - ry to tho best interests of the countt'y iand meriting, as it receives, the uin Iqualified disapprovatl of the pcople of lowa.' The French mean to catrry out in SAlgeria thle plan which had been pr'o jposed by American engineers lor' thet .Colorado wast.-to introduce thn 1 waterA of the Med iterraneian iinto thet e (1esert and form an inland sea.Th Sdepression which it is intended ti ill is abotut 225 miles in length, ant . is sout h of the A tlas chain. It is believed that seaports might 1)0 buil e anid tribes which now hardcly acknowl .edge the supremacy of the French -subdued. Prof.Y JosphLeone fortnerly o noaw Professor of Geology and Natnr al istory in the California Univer aity, has just published a book en a titled "Religion and Science," whticl is eonsidered a valuable contributior 1to the Theological Discussions of th< Ncw's of tile Duy. A new De:mocratid weekly cahd the. 'NationLI M til" has been started in Philadelphia. John I. Valentine, cotton fac. tor in New York has faiied. Gov. Davis of Texas has decided to vacate the GnIbernatoial Chair Force hans not yet beent us4ed. The I ndiains inl MinetlC0Lare st4arv ing. Two children and one imn have boen eaten. Louitina affairs have not yet been settled in tle SenLLate. P1incbback hus not yet been seated. Tihe New York commissioners of Emigration cOdoItmplite paying thle fares of ia large number of i:lle able bodied Emigrants to various portions of tihe South. The Spanish Frigate Aripiles has sustained serious damnages in Now York harbor. A motion was introduced in Congress to issue $42,000,000 additional our rency. It failed to receive a two third vote made under suspension of Win. Graham formerly State; Sen ator of New York and president of a Bank has been sent to the Peniten. tiary for two years for embezzling $170, U000. Col. Fred Grant., whose ripid promotion lhas caled suoli feeling among (id arn.y olieers, recently repaiied to the dawldli.g of Don Pi-Itt, editor of (the "Washingtnt t Capit al' to revengo hinielf for cor taiii tricturcs in that paper. .)on. i Pi att. was absent, and Fred's wratbi Was una1iippeas;ed. Next day, a car.) ap11peared inl the paper from the Iltr 01' rerquesting ill persons hav*ingn bui.,Oss Iith Lim to Come to his olice,r and not to inivade the sanctity of his I domestic relations. Fred up to last aco.,units bad not accepted the invi- s tatioll. I Tile 5larriage of the Duke of Ediniburg To.day the marriage of the rcoond son ol Quteen Victoria, the Duke of i~niurg, with te Grand Duchess Marie, lie only daughter of the Czar of all the.l*luasias, will be formally solemliized inl the i n capital. 8 A 8t. Poter;hurg letter says t "Onji Sund oay, thie 14Ith ins4tanit, (lhe Dke of EIlliburg arrived at St. l'etersburlg inl good health and capi tal spirits. Abut. tin hour previous ly lie inperial earriage and sledges ar'iVeld at the railway -tation to receive him, and presently a guard of honor, with a baid at its head, anild thie Rt5sial eagle displayed, was drawni up nii tho pl;itfoiim. Soion af ter, the GIrad Duke \ lexis appeared oil th scene, and, saluting the guard with a liearty "good 110111ig, sol diC rs, was received with a stentorian t repomise. Nex-t came the G rand Duke Nichob.s, who00 received the same geini, and it n1oW only 1ro millned for the emperor to arrive, which ho did in a few mninutes aifter 2 o'cl3ok, ecom1panjicd by a brilliait staffaiong wl.0ni was the British ambassador. So soon as the t rain adIi(1 eltered the station thc Duke of Ed. inburg jumped )nti and advanced to the eiperor, who gave him a ,Inost af1ectiona;te welcome, as did also tlhe (Grand Duktle Alexis ini turn', thie band I onni~le phaying 'God Sav'e tihe Q-'ieen.' Thei chii ef thioroughIifaues wvere gay ly dlecorated with Iigs, chiefly Piussian antd English. When thle du tke arr'iived at the winter pal see lhe was received b~y the emipr~ess andi Prii tcees Maria, togcthler with the im perialt ho usehold(1." W ith thlis even)Lt the reigning fami-. ly of' Great lBriain will be allied by mIarri'iage to Rlussia, Germany, and Denmark. Th'o whites ini llaiifax counity, Yir ginia, 1id ing atfter the war thbat they were gieoatly outnumbered at thec [po118 by the blacks, wore influenced by sonmc of the most, intelligent lead.. era in tho Conservative party to aidopt a policy whicb might be advantage ousl~y imitated in other parts of the South. Instead ofplacinag themselves o inl ntanim to the, colored people th 1.0 -en'le u\hliteni set to work to conUilite tI m and gain their coni dence. la I K66f they nminated for tihe tegisilature two negrocs whoseo views were inl acoord with their own, and elected them. T1hero is at negro iajority of about l,100 votes In the county. Sineo then, by a continu ance of the samile conciliatol'y policy, the Cionlsrvative whites have boon gradually increasing their influence over their colored neighbors until at last this negro county, with its vast preOn)1deranciee of blatk voters, lhas elected to the State Senate Major Ilugland, a white Conservativo, giv.. ing him a majority of four hlundred and( fifty over a earpet-bagger by' the nlame of Eddy, who ran aginlst him. The interests of the whites and blacks in the Southern States are identical; f the prosperity of the former masters ,is essential to that 'of the frelmnen, who depend mainly upon them for omploylment and subsistence. The whites cannot take too mueh pains to impress tis truth upon the minds of the colored mna about them, as they appear to have done successfelly :nl 1nli fax cnn y...- N. Y Run. 8outherul Democracy and S011111tir Padi llisill. A great deal has been said about the relativo econonty with Which ienocratic and Republican States in the South are governed. ID suNti que,tions gneial statenienta carry with 1hem but little weight. Figures like thoso givoa in the annual Imes suget 0f Governor Smith, of Georgia, show best the dilerence between hon esty and rascality. Three lines are enough *: , eorg14. So. Ca. Leg. expenses 6f 1673 $100,000 $291,339 l'ritaing of 1873 20,000 450,000 siate tax of' 1874 41- mills 12 mills The great Democratic State of G1eorgia, with taxablo property balued at $250,000,000, will only q'end $2,722,856 this year, which neludes the sum of $823,460 devoted 'o the payment of the public debt and nterest. Iobber-ridden South Caro ina with taxable property not worth lnuch more than $100,000, is taxed ,his year the amiunt of $3,000,000, >f which a mount $170,956 is promised .o be paid out in interest, if the hold. rs of' the State b. -ds will consent to ;ive up fifty percent. of thb princi.. Il (of ,heir securities. The bonds of )emaocratic leorgia were readily ne ot iAted la'st yeair it par. Thel bondA !I S4outh Carolina, with three yearb' w1erd-Ie interest on them, sell at ten ents on the dollar. Again, it it said hit a Democratic 9tate will not cdu at., the poor. The State of Georgia ppr(jriates $250,000, to the free chools, an11d pays the noncy-. This upports the schools fur three n6nth. Vhatever else is required must be, 11d is raised by local taxation. One tore comp-irison between Demooratio onesty and Ring-rule extravagance nd rascality ! The Georgia Univer ity costs $32,000 a year, and three uidrcd and eighteen students ma . rici!ted in 1873. It received 10,540 froin tuition fees, and 610, 31 frmii it to est on the Agricultural Mld Scrip fund. All that the State s ruired to gipe was $8,000. 'he South Carolina University has no tidilent:; save a few colored me,n the .rieuiltural Land Scrip has been Id, and not a 2;llar has accrued hicrefrom to the State, and $50,000 IC lemanded for the support of the Jniversity for the present year ! I & Clurier. A Lile Bil0. The Governor sent into the legis. it ure on Wednesday a little bill ~for ,100,47-,28 of Morton, Bliss and '0., of New York, calculated up to st January, 1874. These bankers ay that this is a baluneo long past u0 for losses due kor loans made on he faith of the State. They have i'ltatcrals, but are loth to sacrifice hem at the low prices now prevail. ti h3 meicy market. They piopose o receive in payment cOrtificates of 'tatc stocc, bearing seven -per cent. llterest, payabbll st January, 1875, nd made receivable for taxes. They ave learned the hang of thin's, theo 4w York bainkers. The way to nahe any claim good is to convert, it uto bonds or btock and make it 'receivable for taxes." Tl tax. >aying p'ortion of the people are look Il upon as so many donlkeys to bear if these burdens. Verily, they are *o patient that thtose whlo load them corm to think they like the funl. D~eni'ed all other virtues by those who run the machine of government or thorn, they are conceded to be cery nseful in submaitting to an as essmnent of $50,000,000 above the ~aluo of their property, and in cheer 'ully paying a direct tax of two per enmt. upon the exaggerated sum. bet us gratefully recall Job's pertin 3nt questlonll ." Why should a living man eomaplai n?''-Phwn ix. Ilecollections of the Past. In te Douglas-Lincoln conteat 'of 1 856, the qjuestion of slavery and the, Donstitutional view *of State-Rights regarding domestic institutions was aho promuinent topic of both orators. Dougtlas said: "I hold that this Government Wha made on the white basis, by white men, for the benefit of white meni rind their posterity forever, and that it should 1)e adnmiistered by white men anid none others. I do not be;. liove that thd6 Almighty made the, negro capable of self-government."~ Lincoln, far from denying this proposition, wont, if anything, a bow shot beyond the "Little Giant" in alflirming it. Here is his own Ian gua go "I am not, nor ever have been, i favor of making voter's or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold oflice, nor intermarrying them with white people ; and I will say in addition to tis, that there is a physical difference between the black and white race, which, I-believe, will forever forbid the two raoes lving together on terms of soci~l and politicalI equality. And inasmruch as they cannot so live, while they 40e remain together there must be a posi tion of' superior and InferlW; and I, as much as any other man, am in'fa vor of having the supbrior p'odtion assigned to tho white racet" Terrible Accident. A teltible accident oceurred ih Louisvill', Ky., in which nearly an 'entire fumily was destroyed. About 5 o'clonk this morning, Mrs. Jaics Meluinuis bad filled ani azilino lamp ah'd lighted it. and was in the not of puttiug on the olininey, when the lamp exploded, 6iling the 'oom with a sheet of fire. A daughter, aged seventeen, who was standing near, was .saveloped in the flainos and Mr. McGinnis sprung to the resdue of his family. lie threw the nothel and infant daughter through a window into the street. In attempting to save the oldest girl his clothing caught fire, and he and the girl were literally roasted alive. A son, aged eighteen years, throw a bucket of water on his sister, and extinguished the flames, but shti hnd the father were so terribly burned that the flesh dropped from their bones. The girl died about Ii o'clock this morning, and the father at 12.30. Mrs. Mo (innis and ibrant daughter are lying to night in a very critical condition, and but little hoies are entertained of their recovery. The V'oy i6 alsoj seriously burned. tinteresting tcremnong-, On Sunday last., at 12 o'clock, fho Jewish synagogue in Augusta, Ga., was filled Ifith 9pectators to wituos the ceremony of the conversion of M iss Jennie h all, of 0 reonville, S. C. to the Jewish faith. She had for somne time previous been desirous to e'nmbrace that faith, and had beenl in sttueteil in its doctrine. That day had becal appointed to a public de claration of her belief. At the ap-. pcinted l'our, th6 minister-, Revt M. .. Levinsohu, delivered a lecturb; t.rter which, Miss fail recited the ten oommandments and the Jewish ereed, and afterwards was callel 'up to the altar, where she confessed her faith, and proclaimed in the IHebrew lan guage, the words, "Hear, 0 Israel I tihe Lord is our God ! the Lord is one I" The minister thereupon gave her the name of Sarah Robecca, and blessed her with the priestly benedic tion, which finished the 'eremnony. After the conclusion of the ceremony, she was mnarri'ed, , nocording to the Jewiih ritual, to Ellis Lyons, Esq., 'of A ugusta. Presideut lirtnt. Thinks the lRepublien Porty Over-Weighted. Porbaps the most significant speech the President has ever made of a political nature was addreksed re. ecently to some prominent Republi. cans who ballad upon him at the White Hoube. The Freident said . "I begin to think that it is time for the Republican party to unload. There has been too much dead weight carried by it. The success of our arms during th'd r'eobellion, and the confidence that the Republican party was artong enough to hold up any burden, have imposed all the disaleo tion iu the dulf States on the Ad 'ninistration. I an tired of this nonnenso-. Let Louisiana take care of ' irself, as Texas will have to do. I don't want any 'quarrel abont Mississippi State matters to beo re ferreod to mme. This nursing of mmontrositics hiaf hearly cxhausted the life of the party. I am done with them, and they pill have to ake care of themselves.'s Wu give 'our readers thme lettoeV of Caleb Cushing to Jecfferoon D~avis that cooked Cushing's judicialj goose. It is a simple thing to do so deadly a mission - WAEnm Nc'rox, U), C., Miarch 21, 1861. flon. Jefferson Davis: My Drun& FRIRzN-The bearer of this letter,.Archibald R~owan, has had seven years' e~perienee in th3 Ordi nance Department at Washington, and has be en an efficient oi'icor. Hie has been a eontributor to Dollow's Re view, where be has discussed the comnplicationb and eadseA which have resulteil in. the destruction of the American Union, and now leaves her e for the Southern Con federacy thiroug'e loyalty to the Son'th-. I think you will find himi of service to you. Y1our friend,.. OAllB CUSIIING. Yernsonsm having foreigh cor'resp'ond' ence now-a-days wait for the fast steamers. As a consequenee the Cunai-d fact steamer Calabria, sailing from New York on thme 7th instant, carried out ninety-ei ght bags of mail matter which had aceumulated within twenty-four houra, while the slower steamer of the previous trip took out thirty~throe bags, the gath erings of three dayA. Worn~n's ability to get ofihe Is saj'd to be practioal ly tosted in Illi. nlwhere in tiso lower Hlouse of the Leguilature a third asistant clerk is' to be .eleoted to fall a vacancy. Miss Vhton, of Chicago, is a candidate, anud -so .is Miss ,Kate rithghm, of S8pringaold, to say nothibg of a young gent wh*' represents the sternier eqx. It iA said- he Atands no show bgafnst the ladiles In a body Ao ohitaIrod~s as that hanis Blislt of 'fluicy tul i'hmisc Senator Sumner has always on. tertained uch an antipathy to tl lato Chief J ustiice Talley thatl he ha defeated regularly the propoit ioi to placo his bust in the Sup:iiren Court chamber. Oi Lriday, diuriti his abenco from his sent, a bill w a, brought forward and plassed, makin provision for a bust of Chief .Jistit Taney, and also one of Cbief Justiet Chase, which will undoubtedly pas (tie Mouse. The Newark (N. J. Advertiser says : ''There is really n) reapon in ethiei Why tho features of Judgo Tane' should not be preserved withI thost of his follows in that high ('l1iec. No one holds t.hat he was ot-her than an upright judge, however broadly many of us may differ from hi ideas.'' VASINGToN, Jan., 20. -- The nomination of Morrison It. Waite, of Ohio, to be Chief Justice of Supreme Uourt, was a surpriso to Senators aind all others about the Cpitol. The Senate reerred the nonilnat-ion to the Cormnlittee, who will probably re. port favorably uipon it. Alany in quiricA were made is t. the standlin' of this gerntleian, lie not. havin' A iational reputation, hit leing tli best knowi inl tle State of which ie ii a citizen. The nioi niiia tit'l recalled the fact tiat ie acte t (I-o of the Counsel at the (eniva Tribunal of Arbitration, and some f the Senaators were acquainted with hiim, as an able lawyor of thirty years tanding ini Ohio. Although a Ilel)(11ican1, h11 is not an active artisani , aid - at the present time I'resdletnt >f tho Ohio Constitutional Convention. It was discovered, oi loaking at I ho Supremo Court record, (hat Ia year ago Mr. Waite was, oi motion of Caleb Cushing, adiicted to the bar of the Court aas an iatoiney, Contra ry to report, Mr. Waite never lebl a judgeship inl Ohio. Soitors of both part.iSe speak well of the noiniation and there scems to be no doubt of the confirmaition. 'ie Cli ll io .l1 rdertr. Bob Turner, of Potosi, Wi!ec nsin, has been arnated for the murder of his brother Albert, w hoso heaud Ie chopped off as ho wais cominig out of & mining hole. It transpired after his arrest that he murdered a boy named Nelley onl the 2.1th of Decemt. ber, and lie has confessed al.o to having killed a tranger whom lie 1notaitered in a deep ravine, 4and1 at another time a mian who was looliig for work. i prenteids ialso to have killed many others. Now that bo ias confessed he delights to talk of tle [manty persons ho has hillo, le gloats over the skill with whichI ha has concealed (heir bodlies and de elares if they were got together there would be nealy forty of thaeai. Thc 'fmS. In reforence to the taxcs now as. ssed oil property, we will State that we heard a good citizeni of li ou)ty say this week that Io had antc-war tax receipts on the property now owned by him for fifteen cents, teio then tax, while now he pays between eleven and twelve doalhars oni the stame property. 'There h~ as heeni no naow bunildinigs or (other impjrovements to accoutart for this groat dliffleren. 11on is this for high ? -Km'wr Courier. Stretelh of P'riyilege. Daughter of the house (to a prisi11 egedl old friend of' the famiaily) "Doaw Mr. Lupus, you don't seoem to bae on joyinug yoursohf. I should liko to hawo you waltz this once with me." P'rivilegdl Old Vriend-"My dem child, I don't daneo1 ; but, if it suit.: you, I wvouldnu't maind sitting hera with my arm round your waist whiile the otheara aire maaking thomsaolvec Geon. Sherman, when beforo th< uadltary comminittoo the other day, we ash I what lie thought of coloro' troops ; and to this question (Gon Sherman replied, that tic would not say that he preferred colored to whit< troops, but lie could not withhob. his testimony to the fact that th< two regioents of colored troops noi' in the service had fulfilled all the military d uties required of them, ai had proven their valor in many frontier engagement. Contracts for tho leghdlative print ing of the State of New Yor'k, war awarded last week to S. J1. Mairtlett for $28,000. Will Mr. Cardozo ex amoine the vouchers arnd tell us hos mueh South Caroliina pays for loagisla tive printing ?-Port RoeyalL Comrnic cial. A Now hlampshire leotuire com mittee wrote to Boston to learn wha Mrs. Scott-Siddons would road fas Tfho reply was "Threo hundred 'an, ex penses ; answer, as Mrs. Sidldon wjil ail for Europo at once if ye don't Want heur." "Loet ber sail," we the answer." Mrs. Willia Stamsa, sister< Jeftersoni DavIs, died at Wood'vill Miss., recently. Mr. Davis is nO the onl~v aurvivor of the family. 113.qp the Murderer, J. II. Vermillion willfully murdEr dered my brother, Robert lolliday, during Christnum , and has fled the Couatv, going West, it is supposed, in comipany with two other men, who a likewiso fugitives from justice. \ ermillion is about eighteen or twen ty years of age, live feet and eight inches high, blue eyes amid fair com.. plexion, with light, dark hair. It is h hoped all papers will copy this notice ) and 1.Sst in bringing to justiou a man who, without any cause, shot down an innocent, good citisn before his wifo aid children. (. W.r IOL~iD.\Y. D1108 oil Sephiells. The Charlotte (N. C.) Observer says a gentleman of that city, who wan in Mlemphis week beforo last, called on 11r. Davis, having known him well previcurly. In the course of conversation, forgetting for tho monont the d;ffereices which had existed between the late President inld Vico 1'resident of the Confedera cy our friend referred to a recent re mark of Mr. SCephens, in A-ugusta, that .Wo mu11st take Cuba at onice) when Mr. Davis, with a look of in. finito disgust, said ''Well, I am glad Mr. 8tephens is getting up to the fighting point at last." P1'ilronls of Ills lisaidry. One of the principal objeets of the Patrons of Ii hand ry, or the (ran gers, ao they are generally known, is to engage in cooperativo purchasors oif mrebandi.c of general consuimp. tion, somewhat on tho plan of the cooperativo stores whioh havo proved iso succUes.ful in Great Britain, deal ing directly with I ia nufriacturerb and wholesalo merchants, and thul dis pensing as far asi possiblo with tho scryiccs of the middlemen. Somo of the Western Grangers propose thd incorporation of the subordinato Granges into stock companies with cash capitals, and the appointment of agents to carry on the businoss Ot' buying and selling in wholesale quantities at every county seat where the organization is in operaition. Also, the establishment of grain cle.. vators and hay presses at colvOnient points for the use of members of thu order. This plan is to be presented for the consideration of the National G ranlge lit its next ineeting. Th1o public are aware of the great pro gress which the UGranger organization has mado in the West. In the Elst, however, it has met with less success from various causes, ono of the mo st apparent of whiah is the fact that in this section of the country, and es, pecially in the New England, States mechanical and manufacturing inldus tries predominate over the agricul tural intcrcsts, The originators of thbo Granges, approciating the sig niuficaeo of this condition of things, mind desirious of increasing the power of their organization, have mado an important movoement for the estab lislment of an affiliated aPsociation, land havo just organized in Worcester, Mass., a new order to be called the Sovereigns of lndustrry, which is to inluldeC iln its mnemi'erbhip niot only fa rmers, but all p~ersons idenltihled with industrial pulrsuits. Tho Or ganlizatio is1 ~ a national one, William~ HF. Earl of Worcester being its P'resident and( J. C. Abbott, Gleneral Deputy of the Patrona of Jiusbandry, its Secretary. Tile avowed objects of the new organaization are the bring ing of conlsumers and producers into closer contact in order to reduce tihe eost of the necessaries of life ; the reduction of oecessive charges for trumsportationm ; and the restriction of theo powvers of monopolics. It is proposed that agents of local Granger oIrgai zation in the WVest shall1 ship flour and grain to the agenits of the no0w order by the cargo, receiving in return the products of the faetorios and work-shops in the East- Like the Patrons of flusbandry, the new Ol'der professes no attempt or intend any polItica laction ; but 1no ono who has observed the important political resumlts whih have followed theO growth of tile GIrangers In ihe North. western States can dloubt that tile Sovereigns of Industry, it' they gain Iany such strengthl as the former or der, will make their influence felt at tihe polls. Governor Kemper, of Virginhib prop~oe to show a good example to othor Governors abolishing the ori -rnaImentall offico of 'Aide to the Gov * ernior."'' hie position of aide to thd -Governor, aide to the Quarter-mnaster -General, etc., are usually filled by hiarmless popimnja se, whose regular business demands but little of their timre. In a few minenes persons onlnettedwith newspapers have been - il enough" to accept the substantial U The coal mihes of Arizomaa Ahoin re *' markablo development. The coal me~asures a fond to cover almost f the entire foet.hillu from the north. o cr11 to the southmerti boundaries of the w i'ertitory, and to reach well dimt intd the nlaino .