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WILLIAMS & DAVIS, Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art I nquiy, Industry and Uterature [TERMS--3.OO Per Annum in Advanoe. VOL. X.] WINNSBORO, S. C.,eWEDNESDAY MORNING, M Y 5, 5 [NO. 49 THE F A I B I E L II E ALiD Is PUBL.ISHVID WKLY BY W N A L I A I S & D A V I S. 2.rins.-The HERA L D i.' published Week y in the Town of Wifnsboro, at $8,00 n variably in advance. fW" All transient advertisements to be P'AID IN A 11VA NCR. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1.00 per iquare. 'THE JUS'UMFADU, SUICID1E. I met. him on th e boiler drok as we sailed out, of port. lie seemed to be a gentleman--one of the belter surt ; But ie had a imost ferocious look, a maniacal stare Such ais husters tind in tigers, when they rouse them from their lair. We met again at even, when the cabin lamps were lit : lie did by an ancient female in the ladi s' cabin sit. Then ie wore a look of sorrow-such a fearful ook of woe As N iobo andl her child: en on I he painted canvas show. And ie met again at midnight, as we glided down the :ream, And all around was sillne0s, save thO 'tonping of the sten ; Then ie iad a look t wildness-of misery ind despair, As he gazed into the waters, as if some, tiing drew him there. I sought a coiversation, and asked him if ie knew i'hnt we were on a diingerous boat and had a iesperate crow ? I told himt that the engineers were carry. ing .si-n too high, That any minit.e we might be meandering to'rds t.he sky. And that lie pilots both were drunk so 1 a nderst ooii; Thnt they mlight sinK its on the rocks I wish to heaven they would !" The stranger cried, "but no such luck will e'er be n'n, I trow, For doath in -Any shape would be a pleas Eure to me now. "I've sought it at the cannon's mouth and on. the raging seas, And on the North.iwestern Railroad, and places such ab these. Why will it flee ? I'he young and gay are called away too sUoon, While I alt lot, who ma ny years have craved it as a boon." 1 tried to cheer this gloomy map, and draw his thoughts away From dwelling on such di,mal things. -Sit, downt. miy friend , I -rity: Ifavcyou lw#ng wife nor c hl ,.oierih ed kindred dear ? Is there no one youi love on earth, no ties to keep you bere? s'Who is that dear lady who is travelling with you (tow ? Can she not clear away the gloom which settles ont your brow ? Alh, i here -he comes ; I'll ask her aid; most surely you'll repent." Bi,' up hejumped, threw off his hat, and overboard.he went. I turned to where the lady itood, and spoke to this effet ; 13asdan, you are his mother-in-A'w." She calmly aiW, "Correct I" [Port land (Oregon) Neos. iow "Landaulet" Williams Resigned. The lerald's W.shington special of Saturday gives what is undorstood to be the facts of the Attorney General's resigination, as follows "The resignation of Mr. Willian, though proclaimed a voluntary nt, was forced upon him, and it eames upon him as n surprise. Ever since his nomination for Chief Justice, and -particularly since the disclosure of certain facts cont e sted with the with - drawal . of his name for that high position, there has bean miore or less dissatisfaction ini the Republican party with his continuance in the Cabinet, and frequent ugly hints and charges from Republican sources have boen made against him, but tintiL lately they were all to nO pur pose. The President paid no atten tenation to these complaints of. cor ruption in tho Department of Justice until last Frid ay night a week,. ago, when hesent for Mr. Williamns and told him frankly that his presence in ( the Cabinet was embarrassing his Administration and the patty. "T1o this stunning announcemen Mr. Williams of course could only reply that he would not stand a mo ment in the way of the A dministra tion or the party, and that he would scud his resigtnation at otnce. But it was finally agreed that it should be withheld until the President's return from Boston, and that Mr. WVilliamns should remain in his office until some tirmc in May, to dispose of certain cases penditng in the Supreme Court. But whence this sudden overthrow of the President's late apparently unbounded confidence in this tman 1 It came from some trenchoerous leak. ages in th.a DepartmentofJustico. F?oi instance, a goodl natured friend toli the Presidet that one of the Attot ney General's eubordinatoslhad 'blowi on hiin ;' that the investigating com mittee appointed to examine thos< charges made against Mr. Williami when ho was nominated foi (Ohief Justice had reached point whore, for the good of al oonoerned, it was doomed ex pedient to stop the investigation ant shnt the books. Upon this broa< hiut, touching a matter of which h' had hefore hoard nothing, tho Piesi detnt sent for Mr. XVilliamis and sug fnestn.1 the p-opr':oty of his resigns An Off Colored Sermon. "BETTER 00 TO HEFL1. FROM DE PEW ALKVEPI', DAN FROM DK MOUNAH'S BENU1H A FOoLIN'.91 "Now bredren and sisters, we wants mounah's heah to-night. N9 footin'. If you can't mouhn for you' sinadon't come foolin' roun' die alth. t knows yo. You's tryin' mighty hard to be convarted 't'hout being burt. The Lord's 'spises mookery. Sometimes you sinnah's comes foah' and holds your belad too high a-comin'. You come foah you's ready. You starts too soon. You don't repent. You's no mounah. You's foolin' wid d Lord. You co-ie struttin' up to do altah ; you flops down on your knees and peu peeps fru your fingahs, die way, and you cocks up your eab to 1 see who's makin' do bos' pray'r. You's tirely tirely too peart for 4 penitents. ou's no monah. Et I you comes houh to fool, you bettab I stay away. Bottab go to bell from de pew asleepin' or from your cabin I a swearin', dan from do mounah's bench a fooliu." Ef you's not in ytarnesti keep away from heah ; I don't bodder us. Do you want us to 1 ouls.ves boaso and weah out ouah t lungs a-prayin' for you when knows you's ouly foolin' wid d6 Lord? I. tells you to be be mity 64hful. I want to see you a comin' so burdened by do weight. ob your sins dat you can't hol up your beds. I want to ee you so heart-broke dat your kneea I knock togedder when you walk. You mus' be low minded. Do Bible lays I great stress on do low. You's got to get low down in dus'. De good book says, '1ow (o 1) in de votletu of de I book itis writ.' Now, min' dat, an' 11 be low."P Then addressing the members of the uhurch more particularly, he said : "rederen in do Lord, you ulus' be airnest prayin' fo dose pure sinnabs. You mus' wake up. In din .pring titme ob de yeah, when do leaves ii a comin' and de flowahs'is a twinklin' an bloomin', what does de leaves and do flowahs say I Day sea: 'Git up !' ['Amen, dat's so', from an old brother in the corner.] It is uothing ; do day is brakin.' 44it up U Wake up in de mohnin.' (Amen I wike 'em up, brudder Clinton, from de corner. I 'Top, miuy ob Y?u fes.. sabs ob 'ligrioas been"sleepin od do wheels ob time. Git up an an put your sholdah to do wheels. Den, when you kneel 'roun dis altah to comfort do nounabs, don't holler. ['Amen, halloluyah I' yelled a sister iom the women's side J Ebery time you hollers do debble he put 'nodder thought.in your harts. Yo'd bettah whispar to de Lord dan to holler at do debble. Talk low. 'Let de wouiahs pray for demselves. You bodder dem wid your hoilerin.' Git down, 'long aide 'em, and 'struct 'em. when dey ax, but don't waste oreff ober lem who's peel in' roun' listen en for nice talk. Don't tell do mounnah to watch for visions an' wait for miracles. Just show 'emt how to res' on do whod aud resk do promia Johnson and Brwnlow. The Nash"ille (Tenn.) Banner evidently does attach much imupor tance to the war of words which is likely to ensue between ex-Pre,ident Johnson and ex-Benator Brownlow as a result of the recent bitter letter of the latter. It says: "'rho truth is.that neither of these venerable East Tennessecans are like ly to play any very cons pilnaus ~art in the future political affairs of 'en nessee. One has declined into the lean and aslippered psntaloon stage of nonagenarlanism, and can only sput ter like a dying wick in a socket. This is too energetio and Intelligent an age to be trammeled with the wornout nonsense of a sihurian politis cal epoch. There is not enough virility left in the possible combet ants to make a wordy war Interesting, much less exciting enough for a politinai issue. Younger voices fiom more vigorous and less diseased mind and bodties will drown out the bhrill piping of querulous and garrulous ol d fish woman." A new silver coin of twenty cents is soon to be issued at the United States mint. If we remember cor rectly, this is one of the serios of ooins in conformity with the metrio system recently urged by Mr. Nathan Appleton in an open letter to Secre tary Bristow. As tho twenty cent piece will about correspond with the franc of France, Italy, Swituerland, Belgium and soee other countries, this is the most impor tant coin that could be put in circulation to mn e,urate the adoption of the metrio system with usn. We have already ton cent piece, and with this and the new twenty cent pice it will be easy later to carry out the rest of the system. A contemporary says : "Every country edit,or ought to send his papeir to the leading men in Con -gress." WVe hope not. We ahal - positively decline going to Congress You Got Him Bl." fiather a seri6omo' incident oo murred at a station on the Richmond k Danvillee railroad a few deya ago. an engineer having ooesic to baek ils train on to a siding to take on an .tra car, a negro pw o was to do the loupling got oaught in between the >umpers of the of'oar and the train, ind t1foukh 'V .seriously hurt had he breath pretty well knocked out of imPnd iwas uuab;e to move. An. ihee ro who saw his predIcament repOUP to the engine, and drawing he engineer -aside said to him in a onfidential whisper, "Boss, you got What I "You got hitii, Boss, sure enuf die lime. He can't move nor holler ieeder." Still puzzled, the Engineer again lemanded an egplanation, when ,bo niegro sank hii voice lower, ind giving a knowing leer, said "Boss, I speos.you better ruu; no Pody seed you," and then disappear id. About this time the firetan who :ad gone back came forward and ex lained matters, but it is evident hat negro No. 2 thought the squeeze ras done on suppose.-Richmond En. wirer. Georgia intersted In Ike Cetennial. The Albany News wants the press ssociation meeting hold on the l7th natead of the 19th, of next montb, so hat the menmbers can- att6nd the decklnburg oeni6niial celebrAtion it Charlotte, on the 30th of the s-ime nonth. Grant declined, in an inAult ag manner, to be present at this 3outhern centennial, but that is no eason why. the press of Georgia hould not be represonted. A cordial nvitation is extended by our beauti Iul and hospitable sister-oity, and we kope it will be accepted by a host of itizens.-Allanta Constitution. victimsofohni. Morrell. Five human skulls were found in a. ave on the road le%ding from Gads. len to Col. B. B. Wharton!s,- one day ast week, three of which were rought to town Saturday, and left at he drug store of Stephens & Liddell. 3ome physioians say they are the tr..i. . wL. parusa. -j.ore is no elling how long they have been itt he cave, or how they came there. one suggest that they are the re. nains of victims of Murrell.-Gads 'Ale.) Time. The trouble has been growing, in ;tead of diminishing, at the Ila zelton wines in Pensylvania. The other lay the sheriff become satisfied that it was useless to try any I. nger to preserve order in the coal mine re gion by a posee conitatus, and called ror troops. General Osborne at once ordered the Ninth Regiment of Infan try and the Wyoming Artillery, of Wilkesbarre, with a battery of four guns, to proceed to flazelton. A fire broke out accidentslly in one of the mines at Stookton, and the minors at a meeting especially called to consider the question, abso litely refused to assist in putting it out, although such action on their part is in direct oppossition to their interests A message from Stockton was sent or asis tance to put out the fire, r,nd i squad of special police were detail, ad for that purpose. A Sensible ConclusIon, A venerable African, over in Ala bapwa, has sententiously expressed the principal cause of the decay of Southern prosperity in these words: "Afo do war de white gemimens 'tend to do pollytieks, and do nigger worked--consequenee wss, de erops wan good an' white folks had plenty of mnunny. Nowadays do whitet gomimens and do niggers am boto gone erazzy on poll yticku t don't, neder of 'em do nq work, and conse quence 14, ain't n6der of 'em got niuff to buy corn bread.'' A suit for damages has boon begun by the five members of the Louisiana Legislature who were ejected from their seats by Gon - do Trobriand. This will bring an important phase of the rece nt struggles in that State before the cour ts.1 t seems probable that the case will ultinaately go to the Supreme (Court for adjudiction. Whatever may be the resul., it is at least desirable to have judicial light thrown on this question, and the law clearly stated as to how far the Feder al arm is empowered to interfere with legilators petoefully engaged in carrying ont the wishes of the people who elect them. The Moultrie Hiouse, Sullivan's Islandi, has been opened, band is a charming summer resort. As my wifesatood at the window one beautiful day watching a man with a monkey, a man came along with a broth of a boy, who was driv ing a stout . little donkey. To my wife then I spoke, in the way of a joke, "There's a relation of yours In that carriage." To wlich sho re plied, as the donkey she spied, "A h~ Peris of the soa. A ship lately arrived home at Bristol, Er gland, after a successfel Pacific whaling voyage. Timne was when thonsands of vesselstraeked the great sea-monsters, in searoi of oil, but the disooveries of the minetal article has made $hre trade no longer remunerative, oi at least, much less an object of pursuit. The ship re ferred to was the West Wind, oon manded by Captain Parker, who met with a mo4t porildes adventure dur. iog the cruise, ana which came very near oosting him his life. Under the most favorable circumstances, the oeupation of the whalers is one of great danger and physical trial, and very few ships ever return to port without losing one or usore hands by the ordinary exigencies of the ser-. vice. It seems that Oaptain Parker was out from his ship with a boat's crew, chasing a uhale, and having fastened his harpoon to the oeasture, It dove ausual, and the line coiled in the bow of tie boat, began to run out with light ning -peed as the monster sunk to the extreme depth of the ocean. At this critical juncture, Optain Parker went to the forward part of the boat to be sure that there was no "twist" In the rope to pre. vent its working clear. The line was running out with! such rapidity as to cause smoke to;lae from the wood work of the boat*, and the captain threw water, as is the custom, upon the spot. By some unlucky Itrob of the boat lie was canted from hisposi. tion, and lie naturally threw o.ut is left hand to prevent himtelf from falling. But in doing so, he unfor. tunately placed it so that the rope uoiled about his wrist, and he was overboard and out of sight ia an in. stant I lie was perfectly conscious while he was rushing down, head eforthost, and with incredible swiftness,' and it appeared to him that his arn would be torn from thesocket, so great was the resistance of the water. During these awful moments he was well aware of his perilous situation, and that his only chance for life was to out the line. But how could' he Nio this? He could not move his right arm from his hide to which.it was so closely pressed)y the fore' of the U1111-I1rougn W1UU w"Itouuaug drawn. The pressure on his brain grew more and terrible, and a roar ing as of thunder sounded in his ears. He opened his eyes for a single in stant, and it seemed as though a stream of fire was passing before them. And now came that inevita ble activity of brain which charac terizes all such perilous situations where one's whole life seems to pass in review in an instant of time. But the captain was a very practical nia, cool and courageous always, and conbequently still self-possess ed. Ile began to struggle with all his niusoular power to reach the knife which he wore in his belt. Ie felt that he was growing weaker every instant, and it was now or never with him, though we should say, paren. thetically, that what requires so long to describe, occurred in time which measured by Seconds, rather than m,iniutes. Oh I if he o,u'd but comn mand his right hand for one stroke ups n that fatal line. Now his heart began to fail him. He did niot abso lutely despair, but his brain reeled, his nerves seemed to relax their teni Aion, light and darkness appeared to alternate before his eye-balls, and his headi felt as though compressed in an iron viie. WVas this his last mo ments iHe thought, in spite of the agonizing pain he endured, he w ould naake one more brave effort. The line providentially slacked for a aecond, he reached his knife, anid a-s quick as thought Itself as tIhe rope became taut again, the keen edge of the blade was upon it, and by a desperate effort of his arm it became severed. lie was freed, and commenced his upward pass-ge, caus ed by the natural buoyancy of the hiuman body. A fter this he only re mnemberod a feeling of suffocation, a gurgling spasm and all was over un til he awoke to an agonizing pain of reviving oonsciouisnes', in the arms of his boat's crow. Truly one of the most remarkable escapes from death oni record. Don Piatt has this Capital notice of 8pencer, the little fat sutlor whiom the negroes of Alabama thrust in the Senate to represenit that State:"t required a war that emancipated the slaves ar d sunk us deep in debt, tc say nothing of the frightful carnage to produce such & Senator as Spencer We can comprehend thre presence o: an'Ignorant negro in the Senate, foi his color is is em blematic of the Re publican party-his very odor i characteristic of its corrupt conditiot --but Spencer is one of those evill that defy philosophy." The Kansaa State Relief Societ; authorizes the announcement thati is preparing ti wind up its affairs an< retire from the field. The dog tax in Massachusetts is $ per malo and $5 for a female. Th dng tae uoss to t.he sheen fund. Rults of the Road. The great leading rule is that no one has the right to be' In the mIddl of the road, except *hen to other person is present to o'kink hi ?-it$ to the use of one-half the highw4y, which claim he ha preisely the same right to assert when traveling i the same direction that he has *hen he 41eets another. This Is the law of every State in the Union, and, so far s, we 'are informed, of every civilized contry ; and all persons violating it are liable. for all damages resultibg from their conduct. W hen teams meet, the American law is that each, turning to the riht, shall give hal( the road. The custon and th e law of England require teas to tur o ut to the left, as expressed tn an old doggerel: The rate of the rea Is a paradox quite; - In riding or driving along. . If you keep to the left you are sure t* go tight, If you.keep to the right, you go wrong. In passing, the person In front ia .4uired to turn to the left, so as to allow the person in the rear, gho is traveling at a more rapid pale, to pass by on his right. Where teams approach at - right angles, or intersecting roads, it Is, the duty of the persoa who, by turning to the right., would passjo the rear of the other team, to pull up, and allow the others to pass. In wide streets in towns or cities, these general prir.iples abould al. ways be observed, though fro the necessities of the osse, person are loss strict in keeping on the proper bide of the street, being frequently obliged, with proper,eare for the rights of otbers, to past - to the other side, to avoid a crovd Or othor oh. struction. A person with a light vehicle, meeting pass a heavily-.den tsini, .espeially if the latter is going up a hill, wall generally turn out *ith out requiring the muan with the loid ed wagon to give half the road ; but the law impo-ea no such obligation in any case, and, under all cirount. stanceo, requires each to give halt the road, unless by Aooident 9r some ob. struotion it Is found impoasible t4 do so. If a person happene to be In the wrpng place on the road or street, a not entitleid to damages if, yt he uase of ordinary and reasonable diligence, he could have avoided it. A Slippery "llion Hleir." The following letter has been re ceived recently by a prominent bank. ing firm iu this city : JACKSON, Tzari., Apr. 12th, 1675. DIAn Si,-I hope you will pardon mes for troubling you with his letter but I ask this as a favor on the 12th Jany there was a gentlaman by the name of Stookton stope'd here at a Hotel kept by a widdow lady and represented himself as having made his million of dollars on Wali street and retired from business and was traveling down South here for his health. lie also represented himself as standing A. one. with your firm and that your firm would cash his chek for ay amount but notwith standing his wealth he skipecd out and managed tocbeat the lady cit of $15 dollare and heat several other hotels on his travels through here. When he loft this place ho left all the Blag. gae be had which was a dirty shirt and a papeor collar whioh speak- weal for a wall etreet retii-ed million Heir. If you can give mne any information of this maan (0 Stockton) you will do mnc a favor hoping to hear soon I am very Truly etc. 8. R1. KNOX. 1'. S. since writing the above I learn he did not leave the dirty shirt but stuck it in his over coat pocket. -N. Y. World. A Petrified Goose, The Yolo (California) Mall some days before the first of April told the following goone story :"While hunting tn the tulos near.the sink of Caohe creek, on Monday lost, Abe Green, an old hunter, discovered a pe trifled wild goose, standing upright, with legs buried one-halein the adobe soil. Hie thought at fiet it was liv. iing, and creeping olosely up, fired hi. gun at It, but the bird did not budge an inch. He. thought it very strange, and walked op to It. lie found it dead, and in trying to pick It up was astonished at the imamens,. weight. 1I hed turned to stone, andia mark on Its wing near the forward point show ed where the shot had struck it,. knocking a piece off, lie managed to raise at up out of the ground, apd when he laid it down a piece poppead from its breast, disclosed a hollow inside, from which pure, clear water commenced running. Its feathers were very natural, and its appearabee was calculated to deoive, so life-like was it. Hie took it to bieebie, down the cana a few miles back of Wash L ington, whore It can be seen by those I who wish to se such a strange and unusual sight. 1 Adam was proudly conseions that a he niever made a mistake in his boy hood. 'The Althorof Lynch Law. The Lynohburg (Vs.) News lateli recorded the death of.Charles Her Lyn6o, 'whp, It is stated, was th iramdsoo of Charles Lynob, the origi nat'r df the famous "Lynoh Law.' The old tree Is still standing in thi yard of the family homestead frou whiph Jt 'gq, .byqph' victims werq sespended. '.4 A'itatement is eon firmed by the authority of Webster who says "term Is derived from i Virgidia ftemer named Lynch,. whc thus to9k tike law into his own hands.' DestrOction of Cuban Sugar Crops. A recent letter from Cuba says th4 sugar crop of Cienfuegos was expect ed to be about 65,000 hogsheads, oi twenty-fve per cent, more than lasi last year, but the burning. of the plantations by the patriots will re. 4uae the, crop to about 40,000 hoga. heads, while next year, even if com. plete peace should reign and the sea. ion be very favoroble, not over 18,000 hogsheads would be made. Since Mr. ee ir told how Sam Wilkeson sat up in his red flannel night shirt and swore until everything in the room was blue, there has been a talk in New York of getting up a joint stock company for utilizing Sam's profanity by putting it up in six ounce p ickages and selling it for a heap aubstitute for indigo. A peculiar libel case is to be tried before the Chester county (Pa.) ourts. A Mr. William Benner post ed a notice on his property forbid. ding a neighbor, named Lewis IT. Hammond, or hiq family from tress. passing on his grounds. Hammond retaliated by a similar prohibition of Benner from his grounds, adding the words,."As I have only four turkeys left," and therein lies the alleged libel. Information from Lexington, Ky., the. home of Hon. John C. Breckin. ridge, reports his condition as not so ravorable as was hoped with the ap. p roach of warmer weasher. .Ee has been confned to hisroQu fh'rough the winter,.and hi Yrie6di have- it times been anxious as to the - r4irult of his lisease. No immediqte.tqtious con.. 1equenees are feared, but the recent ievere weather has had. very. unfavora.. New Yorkers are at last becom. ing jealous of the superior st) le of attire worn by the Judges of the United States Supreme Court, and [ lve accordingly presentod before Legislature a bill requiring the Judges of the State Courts to array themselves in silk robes after the rashion of tWeir Washington breth ren. The secret of this movement is possibly to be found in the fact hat New York feels the necessity of silk rubss or tomething else, as a means of elevating the judicial digni. If there is any praotical benefit in Spiritualism il. does not show itself in such occurrences as the following - Mrs. Henry Van Buren, a lady about sixty years of age, died ii night or two ago in Kingston, N. Y., from an overdose of laudanumn. The deceas ed was a believer in Spiritualism, and ddring last winter attended a number of seances. Previous to her death Mrs. Van Buron had said that the spirits had said that she must kill herself, an.l It Is thought that this was the ro*son why she killed her self. Thomas Whbyte, of Petersburg, Va., has presentpd to the Virginia State Library a curious and valuible lithograph. It consists- of a smaall portrait of a venea'ble nbg:o, under which Is, in fao simnile, a note 'froms Lafayette, bearing date of Septem. her 19, 1784, certifying that the beater had done essential sorvice aa a spy. In the British camp, and ox hiorting citizens of the State to see that he was rewarded. There will be nio more politics to speak~ of for five months, when Maine will hold her Stntd election. This will be followed by elections in Cali fornia, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico. Ohio will elect a Governor in place of the venerable M r. Allen, whom the people seem kindly dis p osed to relieve from further service, Iowa will have an Octobeor election, and Massaohusetts'and sevea al other States will hold elections in Novem. her. These elections will test th< public sentiment and prepare the way for the great contest of next year, and perh aps will forecast the result. The Librarian of Priooton Colleg< has addressed a circular to Southors 'alumni of the institution,' askini them to send any lteorature of the lete war thef possess. The colleg< has already received a large collo tion of pamphlets, papers and book' relating to the war history of th< Noth, atud the hope'is that a valua ble collection from each section maj be got together. Brigham Younig'sa hvorito v. Ri.Amvy. Another Terrible Cyclone. AVOUBTA, OA.p Mity 1,1875. Georgia and 8onth Carolina have agaiq boon visited by a cyclone near. ly equal In inte.nsity, fury and do struotiveness to the one of the 20th of Sfarch. At 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon a brief dispatch was recived from Rutledge, a village of 300 habitants on the Georgia Railroad, 115 miles from Augusts, that every house in the town, except the railrood depot, had just been blown down by a ey clone, and a great many people were supposed to be killed and wounded along its traok. . The tormido was passing when the dispatch was sent, and, notwithstanding repeated efforts were made during the afternoon and until 12 o'clock last night, nothing further could be- hoard from there. The wires from hence to Rutledge ceased working a few minutes after the reception of the dispato. KNOVILLC, May 1.-A heavy storm occurred here this afterndon, blowipg down the county bridge over the Tennessee river It also dam aged the Charleston Railroad bridge. Loss to the county, $40,000. Mrs. Polk, widow of the Bishop Polk, died at the residence of her son-in-law, Dr. Joseph Jones, in New O,leans, on Saturday last. The Picayune says that she was a most es timable lady, and adds : "To thous - ands and tens of thousands, who never saw her, her departure from our midst will bring recollections of a name cherished and revered in the history uf the South ; and many an eye will moisten in sympathy, when far and wide the men who wore the gray shall hear that the dearest friend of the good and uoble Polk has joined him in another world. We are infotmed that the discov. ery of overlooked vouchers in the treasury vaults materially reduces the amountof coupons alleged to have been- fraudulently exchanged by ex. Treasurer Niles U. Parker. The sum found Is.about $190,000, leaving the iauountIn q'jestion only $200,00, instead of $450,000. Comptroller General Dunn is engaged in carefully going over the entire interest. account by assorting and counting the great AB6V AW%"bYG6 'H11bWredgY'Or.1-A0 condition ot affairs.- Union-liald. At Liepnitz, in Germany, a periodi cal of a wholly novel charaete has just becu started. It is called the Antieritic, (Der Antikritiker,) and its object is to give authors an oppor tunity of answering adverse reviews and of criticising their critics. Herr Nebring, the editor, will publish all communications which are paid for, those only excepted which might in volve him in a suit for libel ; and he looks forward t', a hoaithy result to literature from this new experiment, "Since the vital air of all intellectual activity is freedom, and nothing but freedon." A bashful young man recertly cdl ei upon some lady friends, and after some time in conversation, rose t(b take his leave., lie waa bowing him self towaid the door, the handJe of Iwhich ho seized with his face sti)1 to the company, and-in another moment was gone, and the door closed behind him. Then to his horror, he dis coveied that he had shut him himself up in his a china closet, while, the iucontrollable laughter of thme ladies by no means tended to restore the equanimity. They had to dig up an Iowa dead man to get some money and pronmis sory notes that were in the pocket. of the suit in which be was buried, and thus is furnished the first sub stantial argunment against cremation. If the corpse had been buried burn ed with his clothes O, the money and notes would have been lost forever to his sorrowing heirs. Thme Texas-Mexican war has brok. en out afresh. That this Govern ment should permit these hMexican forays upon one of its States is a shame. It is not negroes who are bomg plundered, however, and benee it has no very perceptible impression at Washington. "What arc you doing there 1" Naid a grocer to a follow who was stealing his lard. "I1 am gettin fat," wattAho reply. "Idiot 1I' exclainmed a lad.y comi1ag out of the theatre, one evoo lng, as a gentleman accideutally stepped~ on her trailing skirt. "WhIich one of Ius ?" blandly responded the me.. The fifth annual iuternatiinel dog show wats held at Glascow, Scotland, on the 30th nit. No less than~ 52 imoals of different breeds were ex hibited. Mr. Beecher says that a go. .d dog is fit. for immomrtlity. Now all theo dog ower wm gow to hi, ud'e. ,,uiW iaf dr pr Titr th~yi o