The Fairfield herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, May 12, 1875, Image 1

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C",, WILLIAMS & DAVIS, Proprietorseal A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Artj I nquiy, I nd ustry a nd',U fiertat Lere. ~S-~O,PrAmmnAAI VOL. X.I WINNS'BOR), So C. WEDNESDAY MORNING2.11AY--4~85. No5 F I I UiL111B R A li D (id/ti%d*nFRK.Y BYi W 1 Ist a1&V,gA v . .-ras.-AIte:HRRAhD it published Weck y in thqT*@whi of Winnobbto, at S-.O n variably~ ivr alcance, W'9*A1 irmansient,advartlemluelts to be 1 A ID f1# Dft PAOM O*I4Y-Notiees -anm Tributes $1i0 per qiatres, Aiamnatie, A Dr,TAt1.EnO &CO'yN ( C itP Fike.T BATTLE OF I JIK RKVOLCTON. The&p blod shed in .a cunfick betweed -tteolonists and the King's troops was at the battle of Alamanoe, in North Carolina, on the 16th of May, 1171-,Qut)ie 24th of April.of that y Wr'oV?I tYV Warahed from from the town of Newbern with about three hundred mdn adi sainli "train of artikory.. O14he ed and 4th of May he,46t4ren t1, ned by deteb. ments which nut him on the way and by a troop of light horso, until the force undtioso pmPna"d :.oYooded a thousand mleest-. Oil tihe 15th of Alay he appronohed the camp of the Regu lators* cE .-Uteek, in Lte count e-story of that battle is 6atng. When TY o v of Alaum seut a redreta hin ro pluined ,fofofi a of ou deeds and of landed poll tax of two ollars abo liAhed, and e&IRia s.tpapi py~va.e4 and punish oil 6-okrudf bey- -vould pay no0 ufiN%WbWtd, on, -their. right t d liertje of tho e y.reWjNeAi LAte oupstitu.. tiou ?rAjdd b th m,aadtheir de tormin aill Niti , it onif anoiet seed to 184,e 6Ud an b e* folluwftf ' hs It uimSnA whilo 'h9 sent U.Id Walk t '. icupiredt c -AtO latpr/Sp were -a tured by - t ia'ttef 4iedto trees, .d N% -t .1114 p iso 0. $$ i 4 promia of the ei any evp . I id their 0 W bve li 'd hour n d o0 er-iag defy l the aw mawo a 30g 1 m M rg bunld 11tl f .t"t tLtorm; Olinp latorl u Mie,t tOO h qd.N T:4 wher Atet bweivngir. hats se a Vihet'ofgdit'e Gov.. t and -&&vqa42 j 4XIA4 -,%t FFQAp I'A tomn m wmHsgthec-dhnvargets, w%,41 i. perse tbthy .rb fused ir out llte m. -thq 4'. .ri oft,e agastrate,MlIa Notnpm derst,sWifggtMY( te6 !gtui pio: poseda.i\pAfh,~u.hter msIha. the front of A19 J1n94, o a. pues aifety, he'% 61uf ottiA'Ni ifa, 'woUid be taRNd"Jf- 't116&6 gentlemen. TI' this they ,-returned,1no. direct answer, but offered* to" surren der the two prisoners if the Governoi would'"asordedr those he had taken, seven in number. The pro. position of so uneq-ml Ln- exonange1 implying. acooession ou the part. of the Giovernot, was at firat rejeuted but afterwai d, at the s,licitation o his men, whe' merOe psprehiensive o the t,reatjpent. tl64se t,wo persol inigheri~Ve, he agreed to the ex chan'gt; The-tnemy being tardyi their compliante, and--the army cor plaij Otthe etremne heat of th sun anistig'geatimpatieni to a'epoo,t we thought- advisabi to lead tfhem on. They marched il profound silence till the lines of bot iartaes mne,'iost'breat to breast lhe Goy rnorforbade his men to fir unt,il he' EddT'eW fhem. '1fhd troop in the firaf rank were almost mize with thoMi of 'the vanguard of th one( s)iOt~loned a little befor~e th imai$g f~~Yand who pow began to r~ tire ogma it,, shouting de6iAnce at1 d Aring.their appopomta to adianem The arm kept on till within twentj five t d themn,'and then halted The Rda1sdra.coonlipued to call - the gevetdy to order his men tg fit severaLj-Lhemn advanoing towafd th stil[u,ed,4 y b aQ alw to A 4i- defeneive postion, leavit the Ghoterhor aw& his 'troops open I theft f wh114 inost of them' wei secG fdig hJ: no;Ather patly -e1 tu <syth I thqg; d 4 ot dreqt lay to~n'tihirarms they s hould, I fired on.' 'Tat' 6fdek tke Govern' nvfh''ed : wherfeupotn, ?laing tn I - - his men, I eal led but, "Fire on tom, or on me" Tae action now began, and almost in stantly became general. The-inorgonts pursuing the In. dian modo of fighting, did considera. ble injury to the King's troops who would h ave been defeated, but for the excellent service ' done by the artillery, which the Regulators, be ing poo4y armed, w6re unable to capture. Nevertheless,' with the odds against them, they fought des. perately for more than an hour, and did not take to flight until all their ammunition was expended. It is our duty to d) honor to these men. Disdaining to live uider a tyrannical government, many of those who survived the battle of Alam-nue orobsed the up,untains into Tennessee opened nb. settlements, there, and on the 4th of October, 1776, fought the memorable battle of Kings Moun Iain. ExIraordinary. We bear of a remarkable instance of a cat nur.-ing a young rat. Mr. Jas. A. blerryman, of Malboro, we are reliably informed, several week. ago caught four young rats, eyes not then open, and gave them to a cat to eat. She ate throe of them but has kept the other ever since nursing ,it just as she does her young kittens of whih' bho had several born just before the rati were given to her. This has been seen by twenty or -,more, persons of that vicinity. \Ve re furthermore informed that this Pame oat is also nursing a young puppy, which does not seem altogeth. er sd remarkable as the other iow ever as cats do not often eat puppies, .hut are su pposed alwiys to eat rats vhen they get an opportunity. WTilson 1%1ain deakr. . AI Good Wofafi . Mrs. Conway, the dtatingtilshod itrese, who (lied the other day, is s,v" rmly priised' by the press. The Tames says she never turn'ed a deaf RAr to an appeal for aid in any chari. fble object. Her first pe formance ,fter the attained success an an mO 4toss was for a charitable object, und hbr last appearance upon the stage -Was for a like purpose. She liso eoeerfully offered her theatre for a 11.2nefit matinee for the family of the .late Dan Bryant, when she knew that 4he washerself on her dcata bed. If .iat is not a Christian woman, how Wany 4re tkoro off the stage $ The fool-killer should be let loose likonoe aimong the young ladies of Jow'York. It is-*e4potted, on the imost undoubtful authority, that a h1umber of young women htvo formed Yclub for the purpose of glorifying to charms of a popular young actor, .1hope personal beauty overbalances 4.is moral character. They have call. .1 it after his name, and the con(.3 .on of membership is that each new oomer 'shall give a dinner to the -barmer, invitinig, of course all the old members. No other man is al lowed to be present. This is bad enough, but the worst is Yet to come. One of the menbere, who might be ohiled the most woe-begone idi >t of the lot, has fitted up a shrire in the saored recesses of a closet .where she ileep,s oabdleb -bur,ling continually a:ound a photographic likene-a of ~$he adorne~d one, and sits before it in admiration for hours at a timo. Another Exposure of Radlical Rosettlity in Louisiana. The impeachment of Ch,arles Clin. ton, the Auditor of L~ouis.ianao, is the result of an exanminatiun or his ac counts, made by a joint cotm,ittet of the [Legislature, which sets forti 1 his delinquencies at great length I This report says that not only hiave I hi. books beent kept In an irregula: -manner, but that in many inst.anre, a the Auditor bas,seemingly with in, Stention, transgressed the law, whil4 a the deranmgement of his accounts i. B such that.ib is quite -ipracticabl< a' to ascertain what the actual oi a equitaible debt of the State is, 'ei the la bonded or floating, andi equally ir. -possible to find out from themz what e is due -to the State. The roer B further shows that the Auditor h,a 1 been in the-habit-of masking unwar e ranted settlemeonts with defaulti' a tax collector.; -that he has mis-np p ropriated thie*State funds;, that h Ihas issued warrants for many mori I. legislative empla yecs than die lav allows ; that in one instance war L. rants to the ambut of over *10,001 n -had been issued to a pretended firmi 0 which.had no actual existeno,, an< 0 that in a single item there was found dan 'crror" of more than $300,000 n In short, this report, which is signe< y boy sombe of the most prominent Re g- pu,bliqans ir~ the Legibilature, show o that 1de accounts are not only incor eo root, hutilt-they have been inte - tionally falsiflqd. Clinton, the im 4 pea,hlad Auditor, has been one of tb Smost pnsfienons officials of the Kel e, logg qyerrement, and he is a carpe' rt hagg na a (bristng statesmah < i. the IgI ' nbnded- type, hiavin is haban j istinuisG etfor h is profeslo An Empress' Jewels. A richly furnishe I d,mblo parlor in a prominent betel in Wa.hington, ID. C.,-two glowing heaters casting forth summer like bemiu.,overshadow. ed by massivo nairrors with eniho.s. Od frames. In the back I ailor a par ty of lour were seated in a corner, and a s1igle gentleman in the oppo site c..,rner leaning igaintst tle man elpiece. In the contre of the little gioup a scribe of tihe press was seat. ed. The other three were ladies, aid on the bosom .of one, a golden, brown buired charmer, one of our New W orld queet.s, sparkled a breast pin woundrous ip its beauty, and shining liko far off Alpha Lyra. "Co.ue and exiamiine this rare work of the cutining oraftnit's hand," stoke tihe toribe. 'The man with the pale face,tho cirling hair and the full dark eyes, a itudent who had oft burned the usidight oil in deep researhes, approaced the gay and blitbosomne beauty, who,. in nor fleoy tube of white, seemed like a mcesenger of light and love and juy from the other world. In the oentre of tie beast pin th.no a superb emerald, worth a king's ransom ; diamntids and pearls surrounded it, arranged in orustcs, circles, tri-ungles, and fromu its cetrc depended a lovely pearl embosomed in a shell of gold. And then, as the emnereld met time eye of the studeit, it.,seeuied to sparkle with a strange light and to flash out . mysterious meanings, aid looking clo.ely upon the traubluccmt stur of green, lie beheld a strange beenle leneath the shadow of the pyrV1 mnid" of old Egypt two ma1n sat enigig ed i:i deadly contest, not with deadly weapons, p.st. Is, sword, or knife, bit with tihe piniited pictares that fir.t were invented to soothe the madne.-s of the um1h111ppy Charles of France. One was a Spaiiard, tall and mwairtliy; LhC other a darkhaired sin of ,raels banizbed race. "The stake is yours," cried the -Jw is de.,pair, and I am a ruined uman." - "Not so," said the other, "the breast jewel 5 ou carry within your bosom, that still reniains ! stake it againbt all I have won."' The Jew shuddered. "The jewel is eacred," he o it-d "for year it has been .anded do%wn to imy trite., shoulu I lose it, life 1mIust go atlo." "lie that fears should not play," replied the Spaniard. Aladdened boy the taunt, the des perate gamester drew from his bosom the costly gem in whose centre a great emerald shone. The cards were dealt; tle Spani;.rd %Von, and then, with a n ild, piercing shriek, the Jew placed IL pistol against his head, and his blood stained the lustro of tihe sparkling gold and precious stone. Tihe Spai iard coolly wiped away t%e gore, and placed the ormiament within his grasp, "My beautiful Eugenio will prize this tiniket," lie miutered. A cool, dark, Filent man was the Count de Monitijo. And then another scene appoared u pon tlhe sum faoe o'' time emerd d, ever bathedl multitudimous light. A -tal l, i;l-shamped man, with curling mnuustache amid pointed imiperi. I, for ever drmeamy with time drmeam of' desl i n,iu an obsoure Spanlish chi oeau, atfi:acted by a charming brownm haire'u girl, in forum and femture, in grace, with anid sparkin time coumntorpart ot our heroine, and uponm her boom a a regnil ornamment, the cemntre stomno anid emerald. "And who is yonder ladly ?'' he~ a ked. ' i>genmio N Matia de Gtuzumani, Counmtess of Teba" was the repl~y. TI'he nma-m was Louis N apoleonm, and Jan,. 30, 185,3, he married the girl whose bosoam radiant with its amightmy enchantmnent had attracted his attoui tion. Again the scene fadeod, mind aniother appeared ini its pliace, and( this tmumn showed Pamria in flames, andt umnder the mid tule of' the Commumne. Sedan had been lost. Kinig William wias master of l"rance, aundi thmo I im peial famuily had fled to the wrh;tm cliff's of Albion for safety. So sudden wias thme flight that in the confusion soino0 precious jewels were left bohinid, and sooni tao mystic broastpini won tromu tIme desperate sonm of AIonao on the plaimns of' Egypt, wa., in time ha;nds of the Commmune,and then eame. a wily French Jew, whon forooing the early downmfall of thme Red1 COps, cutnningly ) possessed himnslf of the omiramld ruig and fled with it to this country. "And frotm whomi didl you obtain this beauteous char m L'lmperatrice 7" abked the student. I 'From a gentlemian who fled from France during the trouble there," a replied the pleasant roiced lady, and bendingforward to adjust a tiny slip. -per, a richly carved, gold comb drop. .ped from her shininmg tressos on the a floor. .lThe aoribe handing it to her - he continued :"Hie presQated it te - e, and thea suddenly disap. g Th I a is the story of an Kn.presb is jewel. T1his is no fiction, reader, bul n. iitol for. Tlhe.ladv iq a reafer on a visit to Washington, and on bosom sh' wears the strange orbniat the entro of'which iq a sdperb'en ald, and we would willingly wa our fair Washintgtod belles oo give their little fingers to examl jewel that has sparkled on the bo of anl Emipress, andl thit to, ado I lie persou of a dauglAtier of our rep lie, one who to iufilnite por:Oi charms adds the grace of a well..h lady, and whose fault is that re d not believe such a thing ai truo 1 exists in life. Northern and Southern Soldiers. The Memplis (Tenn.) Appeal p lishes, with wartu indoroai,ent, a I t.r from Capt. J. 0 Dougherty, 1 of the One Ilundreth PenneylvA Volunteers, in wbich he says: "P mit me to reuind you 'that in t cemetery at Arlington and otl places inl the North t he dead of I two artries lie by side each receivi oinal care and attention from ( UGo veri ment. [ have lately observ with regret tint many of the C, federa,e dead remiain on the bat lield of ('hicamauga, and it has c curred to ine that the (overnmi would ebeerfully them to the N t.ional Cometery Lt Chattanooga the atteniom of tihe proper autho ties Was called to it. Such an a would receive the endorsement of t entire country. All good oitize of whatever party, will rejoice the action of the Grand Army of t Iepuiblie, at Chiont)o, inl inviti the ex-Confederate.4 to j.-fn in the iion t-) b) hold in that city in Ma bit to tIc Ninth Army Co'ps (Gt eIl Biurnside), belongs the 0re< of originlating the imovemeint. i's ainial reunion, at Iarrisonbu ill Septeiber last, a cordial invil tion was extended to (Gent. Lor street's Corps to join in the reuni in I.'75. The two corps llt nearly every battle in which th V(re elgaged inl the Eist tad ill t West, henee the feeling of 1eapC that grew up between them. more beautiful or tribute oan p1lid the memory of the gallant de of late war than to strew their graN with the choice flowers of spria Let us, then, bury itn oblivion the bitterness of tile counflit, and unite in the coninag ceremon wherever we may be, makii-g no d titsetion whatever between the bi and the gray." A correq.mdeit who has a p sentiment that the everlasti 1l3eeler trial will culinitato in hung jury, suggests, as the tI has become a tational one, and ml be settled some way, that it 1,e si mitted to the wholu body of eleet inl the Unlited States as ia jury. I .-para'e ballot-bf;xezi be provid for all t.e general or State clectio in which the voters can east th billto, " uilty" or "Not Guilty A verdiat (if some cousequenoo c thus be obtained in ide of a year, a the country will be at peace. Two brothers named Gaff have tablished a munnoth hetinery Colorado, tenl miles fro-n Denv. r. covers about four acres, whicL is I| out likec a village, with streets aven ues, ailong wichad are hbuitt ib ro.ws ot hiouses of valrious desig lt'4ulzar faaii<.s of hens aare assui to thaese hiaanses, anad it is foutnd ~t they quaickIcly domatest icalto h lemnseI wvith11ouat traoubhiing thiei r naei g'ab The wpponlatioan of the vi .lage about '2,(00, dividedl closelIy i soGi ii el-'qes' ot b ahlwias, ('oel Stanngl ies uandI Dorin gs, anid chilet prodtucts are eggs and spr ciekeOlns. S'aild1ys iniclutded thae dust5~riaous aiatrmolts of the villzage ta ont daaly from forty to Pifty dozen eggs, whaich are seld in Dotavor from!i tiirt.y to fi fty en ts a dozen, . bruothaers G.aff express but a pint regiet, anid that is thaot they did foaand their' colonly ificeon years a whean eggs brouight live dollars dozena, atad a spr ing chiicken wzas wc a penny wveighta of gold dust. Wh'Ien tail thte jouirnlals of the cn try raaise a good tight arm in ecan,e of mraleity at does thea| A ntonia (Tex a) i l(ll, then. r we hiope. Says the h erald stern "ileroafter we t.hlall publish the oft the nzamnes of those who go a I ing ont thla ords (lay and ftaii send us a string of tront. Per'ah suckea lhave teao miany hones in tI to aillow us to forget thaat the ant elemeaanat of our popuilation 'ouk t1.e press to eradicate thais gros deascerastion of the Sabbath.'' IA n Illinois farnmer, who fouartecen children and a healthy w says that thae bottomi of the pottuto seems made of India rubber. An ditor oat west, wiho thought wages deamanaded by comapositors an imuposition, disacharged his htat aind inatenld8 doinag his owna t.ype-z titng in thme future. IIe says: owmGU To tqje eXblonbiwat WVi diaNdeD) pv priuaalls wE ht Uoni(lnded. To do oUn i o Wno O sEating IN 'r,e fuTn11e.:; MDL n,sWI do otseo est gi(eu-r J 'I' rv ini t T ?r her Cen. W. !. Gary. ant, r- Gen. W. M. Gary, of Edgefield, ger S. U.:has boen inter-iewed by a re u,d porter of the Advertieer aud very a frankly, lucidly and we think, sago Will 0iously presento; his views on the po ros litim.1 situation. Having -given aR pub. h1is opinion trat the chaies of Domo hal cratic suocces. qre very fltLtring ; red that the straightout policy id the oew beat ; that' a Soi'. heri 1wan should not oTO be put upon 'the Presidental or Vice. Presiduntal ticket; and that the only true issues aro Coistitutionalid1 versus Cept,ralism-0cn. Gary ro4. pectfully disag.ieca with Senator il.. Gordon on one point,as followt; et- Rep.-:You have doubles.4 seen the ite. nlewspaper accoiint$'of Gen. Gordon's liai views so to-the Greeley - uidveint or- in which lie nay-, in substance, th*t Ahe it acoompli.Ahd. more good for the ier South and the paity tjan all other lie eff rts combined. Is your opinion og akit to this? he 9en. G.-I do not agree with Gen ed Gordon as to the good efjetw of tihe mi- Greeley,tovement. It w4s a fraud tlIe 'upon both varties, and as such' was lo- only accepted uy Democrats who mit were hungry for office, aid by disap, a- pointed Radicals wle :ould vot get if office at tie hands of their-own party. ri It w, a destitute either of .policy or Ct prinuiple, and as such deserved not he to succeed. It debiuched the South te politically, and in ny judgment did at them great;harm. I did not vote fur he Greeloy aud Birown-[ did not, vote rig at all. -C- Gen. Gary wa- certainly a . "fight. y ; ing man" during the war, und there. n-- fore, in uttering these sentiteits, is lit certainly ot atiendable to the criti At cism that Gen. Gordon's statement, rg in this matter, is only opposed by a- men who light with the pw. g- Gen. Gary then goes on to repel on the idea that a Democratic triumph in woulLl prove a source of danger to ey any of the negro's just rights or to he his pursuit of happiness. On the !ct contrary, he properly murmise thaj q o the only sonlioo of ir.itation--the Cal be pet-b,ggcrs andi soallawags--would ad be removed, and the interesca of the e South would dictite kinduess ig. ness aud good will to the freed peo Il ple. IIl We qote the concluson of thfe in es teiview : is' Rep -After the termiaition of the U0 war,what wa.,theltirst cause of all our woes t llas universal sufr5-age any thiig to do with our present coadi re t oi ? "g Gen. (I.-I think n hk of states a ma.nship on the pait of our iecet. er onemies was the cause of our woes. It They did not make the dist.inction Lb' of a civil wvar between tie citiz,ns of )>S the United States and war with a *ct foreigh power. The treatment si ould ed have been more imngianimoios to th 1S conquered. I think univemas.. suf frage han had a great deal to do with our present condition. If it wore not f,,r universal suffrage, the worth, ird intelligence and integrity of our State would not be subordinated to ignorai.ce and dishonesty. i Iep -In conclusion, allow me to in ask one tinglo questai as to our State Goveiient. Do you give v . 11 ha berlai A credit for integ.I ty of heart and purpose, or is he igrather acting a pant, from the dic. ts ates of a stern pas ity ntco.wiIy 1 e<t Ge .--I am nwt u,i-pa sed to analyse ator quqestion t he mro:ives that i nnluerac athe present actioui of Gov. Chlamr'oer. ra. i. I a free to say that so far his ioadmninitration has greatly benetited Gn', (eneral Gary has, for many yearn, lieodInlost, ailoine in South (Xa l hir, igamoirng her d istiuiguished and gal lant ii.en, in opposing uiitortunate "'re f ori' iad delusive acceptances ol an -abhomninable aituatioii. i ac an 'lecoargiat ulate hirmself thrat in spite of' csneers and populari'y, trio cuunti'y is raidy edr Ing ris policy anid po jrincipale4. Thalrt should b>o consola S tion arid comfort enough to last the rth Mirance of Iri l1. ieneral Ransom's~ Speccht. T'h is great andi patriotice speech delivered in thre Senate of tire United SStates by North Carolinar'r .gallarnt anal able :snator ini l"ebruary laust, iLon thre L,ouisianar embraapho, hias laern h-published in pampilhet turim, miakingi to sixty-eight pages of closely printed riauster. It is the spechcl, riot only dof a stratesmian anid pratrit, but of a ralgeintlemran anid scholar. We n~ i. Ii it, to coldb read by every oeNorth arid South. Th argumentis cnl.ie iri anid tIhe style Ciceronian. Thre senitiments are worthy of a gallant has soldier and( air honorable mranr. T(hey ife, dlo credit to tIre old North State and bin tIhe whole South, as well as t,he high est honor to the noble Senator who uttered them. Well may North the 1Carolinaa be pioud of her accomplish. vas od statesnani, fearless soldier and dii, generous patriot. The wIfe of a colored member of gas Congress lately remanrkud to a friend. aae "Chile, dis Vt aislhington is a nost {pe 'ripensriveo. place ! W hy doy done ar,- charge mre a dollar an' at quarter for rse. wasliiug a dozen pieces ob clothes! II rys- iaoblaer axed maore'u a dollar ianamy . lfe P' Georgia, (f ops, The wheat orop, contrary to ex pootatious, . fortunntely , u,sptained very little injury. frqVn. tile lite:..o1 weather and freeoes Wth fsvora. ble seasous fro. now on- the crop will be a very fair one.-Daleni Ciiren. Fu-T.-The fruit 6o0, thblaf.r, shows no sigt1 of injury by tho late frost, and I romies - well. - The ttees arp loaded down with hdalthy 11ok. i.hg young fruit" iid; if nothing' be ealls it, thete ; will a bo; a' unu6ally largo orop gatho'ed.'-Jr bd. Vnoi-f.-A trip to-the, 4o0thern t part of'the eo 4ty thiwoe4 revealed,t the Itot to gs at. eo,1n , * .l00n anid. I looking as fgPs 'sif it had not been e i6jure,by its We ,.oo.ld. Uott'on ."Us 04 advanced 'ar qqong.4 to tell - much about it. if the presut ivarm c wenther contin uqa ,'o on gwl e,t i a healthy start, apd the farMa,rs ,:will I be euablel to get the aru, . Q.V doista '/7es, Cuoi-s.-Wheat and corn as a general thing tire backward. 8onie farmers have not yet pluhted. or Are just beginning to planttheir cotton. - Tbe recent frosts ,and -ool iwahor hAve injured cottpn,;eofroi r nd vege. tablos and reta-ded -their, growth. The fr6ib crop has been hurti.lit not all killed, as was thought by somet hind we believe will tuin out bettor, than last year. We believe with.. favorable seasons that the different crops of the country will yet give a good viold.-Hamilton .Joarnal. . a OUR C('" Rad;l,.ti.L-From lo ) best informatiov vhichw Cali gaih. fr Dr froti the platiters; corn'and- cotton do ale smailer and less advanced oh this tlefirst, day of S*aj, than it hisbeen ror years. The athid 'wa's 4'yg d, but the late hard rainq' ad colsl weather has hadi the'effct of 1r ing it som1 what ioug h we e0 I):t serious _r at' vo'l d6 io farniers gre prett' Mei U ith Lthir work,an'd tie linda t genpr. " hi thin'g doing wel'l. khore Befig to be a disnbsitipt on thi Pat't"of t66 0 planteri toAalc;hot and 'olS, dr A and wet, n. they cti, anto' . .a: the best of*h. Oats are very", filh and as yet we have heard no '6oin- l plaint, about rust. All the planters want fron now on is a fair showiig 8i on the weather, and they will nike 9 it lively for the grass and woods.-- tl Th4t4asville TI'ie. at C' C( LD AN Ciors.-This has been a very cold spring In these parts and the late frosts, freezes and cold winds and rains have done con. siderable damage and retarded farm ing operations. Little or no irijury " has been done to field crops beyond & onu:ing delay in their planting, as there was scarcely any cotton up. 8 The corn was nipped considerably and in some spots completely bitten down, though most, if not all, come out again, and grow off as mell A8 d ever, though it will, of course, be made a little backward. Small grain looks very fine and promises a heavy yield. Sone of the more ad. vanned may possibly have been in j1tred by the cold, though we have no complaint to that effect. The fruit is very seriously injured and there will lie a short crop of peaches and d mnost su.nmer fruits. (Ourdens were C very munch damaged, all the early ~ vegetables which are tiusceptible of injury from cold being badly bitten I or completely killed.- Washingtni I (Gazette. S Bill Arp has been. a ebief engineer of a Rome spelling bee, *ith the folP lowing meclancholy result : Mr. Nevin -1 desire to secuto your opluwns for a few days for the correct ion of may own blunders. Miss Bettie Shnroy shire spelled postilion with a dou ble I, and I pronounced it wrong. I mauke the amnende with this apiology that WVorcester has ono 1 and Wob.1 ster has but one in the text, but atdd - ".omeotimies written postillon. Walker has two l's. I shalt be gonie a fishinig for the next- week and hope when I return all things will be sere ne. Ch AB. H. .my N. 1H.- have considered to be a spellist at the next bee, at which time tll part ins taggrioved can get abund ant satibfaction. U.1li1 . T1hc Phliladolphbia Timeos does not believe the story about the failur'o of garden "sass." it; says :"The Jay (Joelds arid Vanderbilts -and Daniel Direwa of the market gar4ons, twbo deal in such stock as gree.n pcas, spinach, lettuce, turnips, kale new potatoes, green corn, asiparagueo, atid the other del ightfu,l vegetable for which-the mouth watersat this season ha ve got up a corner anid are;iaking, a cat's paw of Ocn, bleyern ei thme Weather Hureau, to pull their oliest. nuts out of the kitchen fire" ,Hero is something thgt sho6ld be inore generally knows,. t .is. .aid that bed lbugs will live a year siv1h out air or foodJy if placed in, a her motically sealed bottle. 'liersona who dosite to keep their- ' bg ;bugs over .she Winter withoubfooding them wvill do well I.e remembere thiu.11'Aq. umarulh ofsoisutigo respafol4 % 9Q*I 1UQ Poof Girls are Rlbd by, $owing Muchini Agents. he hi ow Swing aChino CoM, P entered into a controct with Joel~ Jt. 4WMlliam C. I Aiokox wreby thA' lattdr -wfe to idse lowiug macliesi r4ahtifatured by J company in the nytno of tha com . p iihbl biug tadb to the esse. ' lkoiin, wontli'ly - instal. ne1t by the leesors, the- latter so uring titlo '.hen,,bo, payinants, ag. grogat3d the.prile, and it default Rpro nmaglAd nionoy- *already p aid VRs t0 bil"forMkited. The traname. ions dere Wholly- those of , Miokox, ho.Company.,winlg gura"te4. a cor ain aiault o f.a0h JuaOeine, pad outractng totoak back evvry mia. 11ie r dgu rie'A watovdr' cause Ioing rotlb 40 Per, cent. "of the est price. The leasors o( those ma 4ies, which amounted -to many iudr0s, coiprisiog 'ohiefly: ho6si. ri.ea.ud yoqg girls in poor air 0u)staneos.,wqro, a llqged, dealt plleitl/ with un 11 thy ad paid p to the last instalmenti thaby 61. isioiias for payment being granted ; ha, o.t,he inst iistalm)eJt t'comaing ue, the._Messrp. .lipk4 ?uld and. 91y"forceelos tholease an4 forai Iv Lakiifh the 'ilchinok'thrbugh retendedi 0iy -ftharsba wit hout tny igal prboende They would then re. iru them to:thp company, domand ig paymwent at 40 por cent. under ie cotitiact.' Tii resulted in many jits -for damzgai being brough ga.inst the company, and yestorday . applias,tioll was mae by the oom.a iny to iqstraiu-tho Mcss rs. 1i1ro);. om foreeloling these leases. The moision was &otser4ed. What DoUn'1 Rit Ry Ab.ut It. We printed the othr day an ae. unt of old 7aoh. 0handler's going h*ato "Newpapor 4ow,91 at W ash. lgtoi, loaded' to the guards with rath, *hiskey and eight or ten ret o)versto,shoot Mid Patt, whom he Id't. dt. The Aon.tells.Zhe so iwl in h'. Cqpfal payer of last Sun "T'he nett da" w Ifad business ith thb, Bergeant-at.t'ms of the onato, Mr. French, and while sit itting upon a sofa talking to that outleman, wha should loom up at I1o door but the war man of Michigan, nd as h- approached directly upon a we gently slid bur right hand into be pocket of our overcoat, whor' our ngers gently prpseo4 o revolvor, and ad the ex-Spinator rhade any o3ovo Idicating the production . of that avy, we rather fatter ourself there Pould have been a vacanoy in the ourt circle of Ulysses. We do not repose to bo snuffed out by an' ex. egator or anybody else, drunk,er )ber. We havo observed -thrqgg4 fo, in our, coieolpred career,, A hen a man is killed he is ju44 as ead when murdered by-a ' drSlukda tanu -as when doutived by a sa.S )mporance.1 FireCe1n'4 Tournamcut. CO.UMBIA, S. C.,1%ay 6th. In the Fireman's Turnament to ay the record of time wade by the onhcsting Hook and hadVer,.. I1ose udl Engine CompMntps is as,follogso: llook and Ladder O ompanses 'hconix, of Columsbia, I min.6& s'ecs.; io. I, 'of Charleston, 1 'mini. 85j see. Steam TCngine Co0mpanies .i 4iloa, f ?harleston, I mir J9). segs. Cagle, of Charleston, 1 win. d3 sees.; .ndepenent, of Corumubia, 1 mlin. 25f eons. ; -Palmetto, of Colotnbia, g wi'n. Ilose lleels :IPalmetto, of Colum >ia, I min. 184. aeos.; Marion, of ajrlestou, I min. 16& 5008. Tbe lodqpen4onte egeppeny po umnbja, refuised to enter the~ con te'aV' or theo hose' fle6 Prize, boldi" omo person hot running with' the /AHtug o f Charletoulifted,.the .:cover. r cop from.,tbe .well fo. ftpp ette,r 3omDpany. For the semo .reason the lEagte, of Charleston refin~ed to re 3eiVe the second prise of $50'as such, but accep.tedI'it ats a -donationjto be presented to the Orphan's Asylom. Businoums w as entiroly suspen~ded to-. lay in Colum,bia dluring the fesitivi ties. Nearly all the stofeh ''.e -' >losed and ohmty' stoeadtble *inaow and ho(nsetop withid 'sight of the oppe of the iontient, as wou-. as the treoteWes,.we ore rowitids~ter- ; 11.ed spectators, th has beeoa gala 3. 'easy etiough to Mnske -6tes, pa~ idtance oil apple, dealer,i. "Iu~ eir. fruitt-ye..boal kpow theg. Tho mn who,akes a will thee clays ia only pAving' tie way -foi tie ouvt to'ps'otiouwe hIta m (3ol or a Thle Nov.a n Ual 1ifornia papers ar. savagel'y d'tIing the 'g ttoniw 'Wiio*balt h.oo thme ittasstt' At tilu MiMvmiranta are 'tiut ing pr'iokiuiflJ thesie 'regi6lua;' hit dsd',iIW6kd'nott ad if the deil