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FAIRFIELD HERALD l VU in I SBol'o, I.MEANS IAVIS, EAItor, WN3ttY Al0r1'Rig Allglst 18, 1875, +veral months ago $47,000 woro stolen from the Treasury in Washing. ton. The thiovos have been doteotod sndI looked up, and part of the money r.uoverod. ihat Brigham Young wants to sell out. in Salt Lake and take a church in J:mooklyn, and that President Grant tikes three fingers of gin in his morn. iug oocktail are the latest;disoovorios of journalism. Plymouth ehurch has not yet suo ceerld in raising the $80,000 bonus voted to Beeher so enthusiastieally, tend it is thought the church probably will -be mortgaged to secure the requisite amount. Messrs. Butlor, Gary and Shop. pard have been employed by the citizens of Edgelield to asiist Solici tir Runkle in proscouting the Edge field officials. It is a disgraoe to justioo that they have romained so long unpunished. The attempt of Parker to escape, and his recapture, convinco us that Comptroller General Dunn and At. tornoy General Melton are in earnest in bringing his crimes to light. It ao quits the administration of the charge of plotting for Parh or's eseape. The jury in the trial of John D. Lee, the Mormon, for the massatire of emigrants eighteen years ago at Nountain Mloadcws, have disaurcel and boon discharged. Nine gentiles were for conviction, and one gentile and two Mlormons for acquittal. Details of this atr oci "us inassacre have been given in a former issue. It is to be hoped another clfort tu bring the wurderers to justice will bo more ruiccessful. People would not be conoorud at the tidings of a rebellion in Ierzegovina, were it rot that this threatens to bring on a general .Europoun war. Ilcrzegovina is it spcek on the umlap of Europo tome whero about Turkey, and its revolt is likely to bring 'I urkirh dominion in Europo into question. Wo Shall keep our readers posted as to the progross of the llcrzegovinian revolt A cln.jpu.: lhais been recenltly hl't) (1 at N n u. cy, in 2 ance,~~Li to discus.s Lh< vexedqueei oflth discovev~ry of *Ame~rica.. an iy dlist inguiished~a wnsworo preril, and1 all thei dlifferent theories carefully considor ad. The' Ph~oeicians, i-ho losit tribeu -of Israel ; the Norsemn and thtc Tcelanders have each been accedited with thie diseovery' of this ConitiinentL and I ndiaunounds and remains, a wvoll as the peculiarity of thcir lanu guage, havo boeen adduced as i~ roont of the respective thoorics. But miany S&wans are of the opinion that the American race wvas indigenous and one quoted the remark of Voltaire that if the Almighty ceated ilios; in America, he could just au casily have oroated men. The ques tioii is stiil left in doubt. It is hop1)d(. to have another session of this congress at the A merican Con. tonnial. The Phomiix has again rison from Its ashos. Mr. Solby claims that lhe .has agoured first-class editorial talent, nntnannounce that, after the manner of th~e New York Ilerald, the Balti 11ore0 Sun and the New Orlens TIimes,8 the namo11 of the editor of the Phonix will be veiled in obsourity. Th'le Phonix is net ambitious. It should not pattern after these small journals. TIhe Phonix alro defends its past course. Theli public would prefer that the now Phixi. allow the dead past to bnry its deaid, and that it wing an entirely new tlght. Mr. Selby is ai good printer, and ati onorgetic man of business, and if heC will only procure thio services of ai able, fearless and stanoli editor, and leave thu political course of thie pa per entirely to him, the Phon2Iix may reiinstat' itself ini public confidonce, We shall Observe thle unfolding of thiu newI leaf in it s h'istary wit-l intcerest, and we sincerely trust thant wo shall in future have only to com mand our contemporary. IThe New Pheo. nix las our best wishes. Secretary ])lano of the Interior has~ gotten into a peck of trouble. Every one known that the Indian ring savagos'or years. lint lately, spe ciflo'ilargos have beon brought rgainat the ring by Prdt. Marsh, of Yalo Collego, and other gentlemen. 'fraudl 0f tho.grossest character are proved beyond a doubt. Orville Crant, a brother of the President, is mired to the arm pits in those frauds. And it is further uroven that Delano and Grant . himself have knowingly shielded those guilty parties for some time. The former retorts by abusing and insulting his acusers. Bet they have made out such a plain case against him:that the general sentiment scoms to be that he had better stop down and out of his offlce and retire into obscurity. Governor 1ilamberlain returned from the North on the 7th, and his again assumed his official duties. Ilo should loso no time in pushing his measures of reform. Six months ago Governor Chamberlain was probably the most popular man in South Caro lina. But people are losing cotta dene in him somewhat, we regret to say, whether justly or unjustly, remains to be soon. Reform is pro gressing very slowly. Gen. Iloge's theory that reform means reform in the future and an ignoring of the past, is not accepted. Past frauds must be punished, aud if the ad minis tration falters in this respect it will lose the confidence of the honest, in, telligent voters. The Union-Herald, the organ of Governor Chamberlain, sonie time since remarked that the adininistration will take its time in reforming the State, regard less of what the Vininsboro Ni.:ws wislhes. Now, it matters little what any indi vidual paper wishes, but when its wish is the desiro also of the entire people, the Governor is unwise to disregard it. ''hercfore, this piee of advice is furnished gratis to the Governor, to hurry up his reform, and thus reinstate himself in the public es-teem. The Nr.ws has been criticised fur saying that Governor Chamberlain is a necessity. lHe is a necessity, be.. cause he has inanifestod a desire for reform, and the power to cItet. it Ihut should he fail to dt.) hI.s .lit , hs, would then be no lhngL r .i 'cc.it., but a burden, oi a par with ail other worthless or corupt officials, and the State would again ho brought to ruin. For the Governor's sak?, then, and the sake of the people, we trust lie will prosceute his reforms with earnest, noss and vigor. The third term spectre, which somed but lately to have been exer cisod, is a again manifesting itself in a very lively wanner, and promises soon to become as matorializod a spirit as Katie King or the Indiau Girl. Pennsylvania declareI against a third to. n, and President Grant seizinge this as the firat;opplortunity of deningI his viows of the subject, in spite ot the faet that South Carolina six months previously had declared for a third term, procimiind that ge would niot again becomo a candidato unless an '"imperative necessity' de. miandod it. Since thein, several re publ ican conventions have repudiate:I thme third term heresy. lBut the Ohio democrats in adopting a platform which, it is charged, moans inflation, has created a lively stir among all parties. T1he hard mOnov radicals olaim that this inflation heresy will ruin the country unless it be nipped in the bud. They claim that the only man capable of "saving the Union" is President Grant, who, by lis veto of the infhtion bill last ses. ion, becaimo the most promidnent hard money man in the United States. It is olaimed that the "imperative necessity" has arisen and that Grant must again become a pret-idential candidate. There seems to be no doubt that overtures hiave been made to Grant, anmd although lie has no t ex pressed himself, every on., knows that "hiarkis is wil lini." There is, thore.. fore, every probabilbty that the next eamnpaign will be a crusadle uainst those two bugaboos, inflation and A Remarkablo Career and a Viarning. Eight years ago a seedy adventuir or came to South CXaoina, wafted from Ileaven kuows where. In a short time lie vwas metamLnorphiosed tnto a mnagnte of this proud State. For four years lhe feasted on the fat of the laind, bought fun houses, sported mnagniticent. quipaiges, anid builtI a fnme "'haul ." Four years later lhe is arr stedl ami thirownm into jail. .lis trial, from thle po..ition of the criintal, thle magn itude of hism o'ence, andi~ thei plitical efrect of his conviction or acqu ittal, was inivested withI a reoantic interest. lIe was conmvictedl, andl ronmnded to prison. On a dark night hoe made a hair breaidth escape. wm consid.. trial, that a man who for four years had defied a whole State, should have succeeded . in eluding his 1 jailor. Respet for his shrewdness was still further increased. But 1 the glamour surrounding his ease was rudely dispelled by the news of his recapture. lie was detetod, crouching beneath an old.quilt ' in a rude country wagon. 'He was captured without ret.istance ; and weary, dispirited, and travel-worn was locked up In a folon'a cell, and thence transported in irons to Columbia. Ilewill be again put on trial, not for an indebtedness of hundreds of thousands, but for the theft, of' a coupon, just as d. zens of thieves are tried at every term of court. The romance attending Parker is die pelted. His borrowed plumage has boon stripped front him, and his deformity is apparent to every eye. ills ill gotton gains have done him no good. Had be remained at home, he might Ltave lived in ob nourity, but he might also have borbe the name of an honest man. But now his name is heralded .abroad, coupled with crime, and no one is so poor as to do hit reverence. And yet Parker is no more guilty than many of his associates. Let them take warning by his fate, hant tremble for the day of retribution that will surely overtake them too. Tho North (Jarolina Election. After a week of suspense it seems at last to be settled that though the republicans of North Carolina gain. od a numerical majority in tho' popu lar vote, the democrats have a majority of two or three in the Gon vention. At first the republicans claimed and were conceded a ma jority, but fuller returns changed the result. We are gratified that the democrats gained a victory, but we are also not displeased that they have received a bad fright. 'The old North Stato trembled iin the balance a long time. Although within her !borders the whites have a majority of forty thousand votes, yet many of tlose Tare republican:. It was not until last ye..r, in conse. quenco of the passage of the civil rights bill, that the democrats ob taitod control of the state, anid elect ed a throe fourths majority in the Legislature, But they were nti utistied with this victory. The constitution of the State had been drafted by the (Janby L ogisla. turo and contained many objectiona ble features. In addition to this, it provided fur the election of judges by the people, and as some of the circuits are republican, republican judges have beceh elected, whereas, if the lection had been lcft to the Lecgislature, thme eutire judiciary would have been democratic. For these and other reasons some of the democrats deaired to eall a conven tion to prepare another constitution. T'his mcasuro met, opposition ic the detmocratie ranks, and a call passedl the legislature only by nn applica tion of the part~y lash. Thoe campaign was very aerimionious. Many per sons wore desirous of lotting well enough alone, and thought that the requisite changes in the constitution could be inade. without the interpo sition of a convention. Reports were airculated thiat the conv'ention would abolish the homestead law, and this sot the poor people against it. It was alleged that a usury lawv would bo entgrafted in the qonstitutioni and this ralienated capital. Them radicals feared that their judges would, be legislatedl out of their seats, and that measures Injuriotas to 'their party would be pand, and they combined solidly against it. They asserted that in case they eleetedl a nmajority of the delegates they would adjturun the conventtioimmodiately. This zeal on the part, of the re publ icanus, added to democratic apathy, catme necar ruining the democratic party. As it is, they have just escaped by the a-kin of heir teith ; and their nmjority is so small they cannot eflect any radi. cal change in the const itumt ion. The result of the election will mako it moi o difficult for the democramts to carry the Stato in the general eleo, to, whten every democratic vote will be neetdedl. The dnectrats of North Carol ina showed a great want of plOitical Sa igacity in ealhing a convention and rismkinag all they had gained. They us b lthemselves for the~. had sear the recived We opethey will learn ai lesson, It would athppear presumnptiouis in us to lechtire North (Carol ini:ans upon thecir locail affairs, wetro it not that we are deeply intterestod in thte sue.. eens of the national dlemoorney and we t hink i ts chmatnees of success areo leimne bey onew lo..,l bl..d t is high time too for the demoorats 1o coape blundering. We trust that he Noath Carolina Convention will )o very: circumspeot, and will furnish io carnjbaign doouients for -radioal. sin. With this hope, we drop the ubjeot for the nonco. Poor Parker. We learn that a great deal of ympathy for Parker is being mani FostQdsi Columbia since his reeap ,ure and itLprisonment, Tender hearted persons are on rasting his past luxury and present lisconfoit and exclaiming "How are the mighty fallen." Poor Par. ker returned to Columbia in a pitiful plght. His poor haids, which for years had seen no harder woik than the deft manipulation of bonds and skillful seissoring of fraudulent cou pons, were all torn and bleeding from contact with the ragged edge of the lightning rod down which he climbed when escaping from prison. His wrists were fettered with mana olop, those wrists that for six years were employed only in fettering the State of South Carolina with the manacles. of bankruptcy and disgrace. His once fine raiment, purchased from skilful tailors with the publio money, was torn and mud-bespattered. Ilis internal organization, pampered and made tender by a life of luxury, was injured. by his fall. Ho is a wreck. And seeing this wreck, po plo grieve. They forget that Parker is the architect of his own ruin-that his present prodicaentt is a fitting con, sequenco of his whole career. Had he committed no crime, he would be now receiving no punishment. He is not the proper object of pity. If there be any grief at all manifested, let it bo t'mat Parker is the only eriminal upon whom the tardy Nemesis of the law has visited re tribution. And let our sympathy be extended to Parker's victims. There are thousands of men in the State to-day, puro and noble, whose hands are scarred and torn by hon est laborious work, rendered necessary for the support of life, because, be-. ing too noble to bow the knee to Baal, they have seen their patrimony stripped from them by a gang of plunderers, invested with supreme power and lad nn by a ring of which this selfsame Parker was the moving spirit. Thousands there are, reared i luxury and once knowing no wants, who to-day are compelled to wear threadbare garments or apparel of the coa'rest fabs ic becauso their every effort'to regain what was lost by the hard fortune-of war has been para hyzed by a miserable swindling govern. tment, of which Parker hold the purse strings. Thousands of women, the purest andi best of their sex, are seen daily borne to premature graves in conse quece of overwork rendered necessa ry by poverty and the denmoraliza.. tioni of labor, and because they had not the ineans requisite to enjoy thoe advantages of skilful medical treat ment and t1.e course of life and diet necessary to rostoro them to health. W hen .this panorama of ruin pa0Ses slowly before the eye, it shuts out from view Parker's bleed-, ing hands arnd manacled wvristsj and shat terod hoalth; and the vast field for sympathy thus opened, precludes the diversioni of ainy of it to the individual who has been ebiefly instrumental in eflfodting such a condition' of afe fair's. Pubjic opinion is becoming'cnttire ly too mawkish and sentimental. 'So soon as a criminal' hiegins to reap tho reward of lisa misdeeds ho is ~anonitedl as a martyr. rn this acudition of tlibigs, how ean the fear )f pumnishmwont decter misoreants from sinning 1 It seems to us that the peopleC of Southm Carolina can finud enough in their own condition to lament without showing sympathy for the chief cause of their misfor t unes. M. Etditor: Tfho great fuss and confusion that has unnecessar ily been going on the 'bore" since the announcement of Lte election for sheriff, and which sems to increase caoh day is, I thiink, a disgrace to any community. [Ltd Spotted Tfail been in the "boro'' i few nights ago, ho would have been putt to shame~t, for lie would have teard his native "War whoop"i rendered in seven different languages reompanied with a noise similar to the combined roar of Niagara, Vosuvius, the scream of forty steam svbiales anad the big bell of Moscow :l~rown in ais an accompaniment. And a! fur one Sheili I Oh I that th - -- -- I - M - A mighty mountain would bring forth its mnouse and lot us have peace. I ask in }behalf of decency and morali ty if opr council 1s powerless. If not, why:alow such indecent, and savage conduct to bo carried on with impu. nity 1 A good deal has been said in the papers about cleaning out the stables, i d I think that some of the stables 1 the '"bore" need looking after. A careful observer might also find great cause of complaint with some of the bar rooms. The grasshopper, caterpiller and ,buffalo gnat have all proved to bo .groat annoyances In the West; yet the 'people there have great cause to be thankful if they have been spared from i sheriff's election such as Fair. field is now undergoing. If - our Counoil has no jurisdiction in the ;Town, then I appeal to the great grand fathetr at Long Branch to let us have peace. Some one of the poets has said : "Music has charms to soothe the savage." Yet the combined efforts of the colored band have boon tried, and they wont soothe worth a cent. So in this emergency, what are we to do 1 If any one can tell he will oblige. ONE SOREIrY DISTURBED. [CoMauUNioTED.] Mr. JEdttor : FId passant we observe that the city of Doko (which means in the originial Greek-"where the Iron Horse drinks water," ' is rapidly growing in residences, we think in a greater degroo than Ridgeway, the latter place you kcow, laboring under an insurmountable difficulty. "Laud, land everywhere and not *a foot to build on" can be bought. Just one thing is necessary to nip a city in the bud and this is .it. Tourists yet unborn will visit this good place for a town and weep that it is not. At Killian's we spoke to a young gentleman of the yardstick from the capital-in search of capital amid those arid sands. lIe was on a collecting tour, Mr. Editor, and when he so informed me, I felt my diaphragm rise 1 I'd just like to see a fellow, decked out in the latest fshirn, dun me this weather wothinks he'd be well done when 1 finished with him, provided always, nevertheless, that his dimensions were not greater !bau iA. ..... i. con. sideration. Columbia looked refreshed after her bath, and the carriages looked "shiny," and the drivers more bois. terously importunate, as if their throats were also slaked by a bath I But we were deaf to the bedlam they created ; we wore passing on to Shunim ! The country below Columbia is in sharp contrast, with that above it. Below, you have a beautiful level prospect, and everything seems to acceord with n)ature's law-order. The fences, cotton and corn rows should really be called "straight, ad the railway stations, which you apprioach in rapid succession, (ont being just 1760 yards from the other,) are regularly arranged, and being newly painted, wear an air of respect. able prosperity. But of all the stations 'the ehiefo is Graniteville, at once the Venice and the Lowell ot South Carolina..The noiseless drives and the parti-colored boats on the sinflous eanrls produce an air of quietudo and beauty I have not found elsewhere. I woen Mr. G. HI. M. could rovivd here many memories of the Doge ndn thod nuptial. of the Adriatic. 'The factory with its ap pendages of churchas, schools, opera. tives, cottages &c., is vast in extent and impresses you with the fact that the manufacturo of raw cotton must produce a handsome return both to laborer, the capitalist, and to the contiguous public. Augusta by gas light is beautiful, her streets of "magnificent diksnes" her stately buildings and beautiful stores of fancy merchandise all con tribute to make her, what Columbia once was, thu most beautiful city in the South. Through a long night in berths (that were berths only in name,) we jolt to Macon, which is on the Oem ulgee,one of thme tuost fertile por., tions of middle Georgia. It is a large city, looming up in mnanufac tures, and the wholesale or jobbinig trade is quite important. Thie car shed here is as line a strtnoture, of the kind, as can be found South of New York, and is a model of archi. teotural skill and~ convenience. Theli care shown passengers is really re freshiing; and all along the line, since leaving the C. C. & A.' R. R., we find ice in the water cooler. Columbus is a large manufac.. tunring town on the CbaoeL--o river, and is growing in enterprise annually. The hum of he spindles (numbering thousands are heard in many dirootious, and felt far beyond Matson's and Dixon's line. Crops are more promising in Fair $old than anywhere else along the line of railroads, and here in Alabama the seasons have been and are very capricious. Some plantations have not had a corn season since May, and others, frequently ' adjoiniti, have been often visited by copious show ers. This phenomenon has been attributed by scientists as a sequence following the transit of Venus. MICAW Et. [coMMUNICATED.] Tour Through the Up-Iountry. Mr. EdAlilor From Central we visited Salubrity and spent the day with same hospita ble friends. Hero we found the purest and coldest water in the up country, save on the mountain tops. (rops are exceedingly fine, both corn and wheat, in this seotion. Thence we traveled by private conveyaus o to old Pendleton, having a Loud op portunity to see many crops which we are happy to say were gener lly very fine. We saw one feature in farming that we weru much pleased with, viz! the sowing broad cast with pease the stubble field which is t6 be turned under late in the fall, It is said to eurich land very fast.. The pga crop is destined to be the clover of the South, although we saw many lots of clover in our travel grow. ing most luxuriantly. Old Pendleton, we are sorry to say, is not improving much, nor keep ing pace with the times. The Air Line running 5 miles above her has cut off and reduced her trade very much. We regret it, for we feel much attached to many of her citi Zeus. She has ever been noted for the hospi:ality, intelligence and re inement of her people, and no better society can be found anywhere than in and around her. Among the many old friends we met hero none we wore more pleased to see than the former editor of that, time-honored journal (now defunct) the Farmer and t'lanter, Maj.)r George Seaborn. le was ever devoted to agriculture, and Made an able editor. May the true ""oA . r... ' be spared yet many days, and his last days be numbered among his happiest. We also noticed another feature in farming we had to deplore-the planting of too much cotton to the exel'asion of other crops, a system too prevalent over the entire Sta.te, an in fact, the whole South. Ouir coun-. try has boon prostrated, nay inamost ruined, by the one-sidca poliey a: growi~ng cotton to the neglect, of every thing else. Ahunost the entire ener giesa ojthe vlhn ing inaterest har e been absor tbed iu ii. Previous to the wa the leadiung idea was to make cotton to buy negroes to miake mocio cotton to buy more negroes, consequjaently we wvere left in abaed preudicamaet. iNc groes went up, andi in mIany places an exhauated and almost b, ee soil ,ares us in the face. It is tr uly a .ad secace to ascend any little cmi !Ionce and view the lanidsea pe o'er. A great dont deal of our l..nid, how ever, is not. beyoend redempt~eion wit the proper management. In the first placeo we must diversify ocir crops. Our climate and soil is adapt. ed to the producotion o)f a great variety of other creps. Theire arc a pireat many other profitable objects of cul ture that the planter-s may resort to besides cotton, and which we believe will greatly add to their comfort, pleasure and pecunIary gain. And besides by raising only ono-thir.1 or one-half the amount of cotton, we believe the increase of price in the article woubil amply repay for- the deficiency ini quantity, ias ic is the anear city of anly com mod ity thant lar uercss its value. T1he priice will he ini pro por tionI to whIaat is raisel. Thenc iie .,ay let us abandon ouri par tiaiity for .a ising it to the exeluion of othe erops. TIhre o would be equalI it not miore r-omn leration. The. pl antoer that cult ivates a lull crop of cottonl, never has1 timen to at tenid to aoything else. It requires to be worl-ked latei in thec the saason thIan ni'y other l~crop, and you dIon't m'ore than get it laid by before you inutst commineineo pack ing ; and it consumes generally all the fall and witer to get it picked, ginned, baled awl hauled to mlarkot, and then frequently -poecuhatorn have entiro- control of the cropas, as we are compelled to sell to pay for- the hien'tI Imeat, clothing, &c., that should har-e been made at hone, ile h ao Linae to devote to miakinag nmanumre, in fact, does not understand the (iarst prinei plc of it. Ilis lot and stabales and pen are always bare of aniy litter-, whichi and a compost heap is rarely seen. Censecquently we must rely on the natural richness or fertility of the soil and( whlen one field tails clear up anot!her, and~ by such u'ans eintil on futuic generations a wvorni omit country. Ie has no time to maiike fenicing, proper. y 1eor add, aiiy imprIJovenment to hais place. No l..nodu ~aa rais ont ton a fra Itn to 1 2 ... p~ pound, and pay from 16 to 18 oenti for bacon and $1,50, to $2.00, per bushel for corn. We have either got to alter our system of farming, or the district poor house will have to be enlarged and the fortunate few that havo the ' spondulicks will have to take caro of the balance. We have boen told that the-crop this year may fall short {, yet it will not enhance the valuo of it, from the fact that consumers don't want it, one hundred and fifty mills, closed in Manchester and vicinity, and a number north in tho United States, because they can't got sale for the goods already manufactured. No money to purobase them in the South one of the greatebt markets in the world. It wou'd soom then that we have a large surplus of cotton on hand. Why should we not then risk at least a portion of our cro'js in something else, at all events raise our breadstuffs and meat enough for oar ownr family use, (which we can do in a pen perhape)' for God knows we can't outride so many lovers of country pork. From 'ondleton we totk the lud R. R. t., and paid a short visit to A ude -sun, (our timo been limited) which we found thriving and flourish. ing. Anderson ii said to be one among the wealthiest countli-s in the State. This place enjoys ti e advan tage of a fine university under the c'ontrol and management of 'W. M. Ligon, a native we believe of Fair field, a ripo schilar, good disciplina rian, e'cvor gentem in and a m. at com petent instruetor. Tite con. lencoment exercises were going on while %e were there but we could not attend them. Gen. Kennedy of amden delivered an oration, which was said to be one of the very 1 eat and most protical addresses. We were invited by Mr. L. to a dinner party whilst there but were overhaul nd on the road by our friend J. T. Whitfield and passed the timo so pleasantly that dinner hour rolled around before we were awaye of it, hence we dined with hini and his estimable lady. Whilst at Anderson we called on friend Hoyt, of the Intellizoneer found him well and doing well. le is a young man of talent and promise and hris paper is said to be ably edited. He has taken a high position in his county and no doubt righly' deserves it. On our return to Pendieton we met with our old room m ote and most particular friend, S. Bleckly, a mor chant of Anderson, a fine business moan, and the cleverest fellow south of Mason and Dixon'. line, (no excep. tions.) Ile was tin his wa to the mountains of Georgia, 'Ioeeoa, Tolula falls &,. We promised to join him at Walhalla, but several eireum stances e'mibined rendered it inoon venieint. Our Winnsboro bankers had not rtaked us quite strong enough or the trip and we disliked toin poise o unnat nt.nre. althouah it would have run as free as the tW'ater in nis own mountain rivulets, (we will make it again perhaps.) Long may ho wave aid be the hronred head of a large family of gals if he prefers it, as for ourselves however we like 'ema mixed. Fraom Pendletoug we again returned to Greet.ville hy the A. R. Ri. .n i arrived there at. 1 2 o'clock P. MI. 'tcippedl at the old favourite tire 31 nn ion House, found it in good trim thioroughly rcenovatedl &.e, it ist 'row owrned by WVm. Calnan, forme ly of the tColumbhia hotel I have no doubt hut that umnder his arran~ge "oirt it will still t'e a first class hotel. It reminded us of old times and hrough t bask somne pleasant associations on taking a peep into the 'all room. TIhe cornet banrd wais discourainig sweet music, anid youth and beauty .were "with joy uneon fined" treading the 'ight fantastic graefully enough. WVo recognised tsut fewi old negnltailtanues ini that hirppy throng. Where were the friends of our youth ? alas, sias many have passed from earth, whilat others airo scattered biore, there and everywhere--a~ feeling of sadness Camne over .us-so maany change. everywhere we visitedl. "Eant whio'dl be grave WVhen wine carn save, The heaviest beart fromr sinking, A'id miagia grripos' Give angel shapes, To every friend we are drinking.' ,So we adjournied to thre' barr and in a big bumper of sherry anrd ice dlranik the bealth, prosperity and hm'ppiness of our mountain friends, eveirwhere, hOping that we may ire to) sOe miore of them ini the future. JOMIH G IBB S. -AT TlIIE-. IV -. lt;a~ag ~wihes to inform lier that s he hias *)nst ret urnedl from ithe North after purichiashing a fin and comapiet e j st ock of N Al ilnery, conuairilng of Frenc, h pat arn I Mars andl Ilonnet s, St ra~w Cioods, Flow ers e very thaing unual ly foanid in a tirsi. class 31 illiner'y Estalilslehet. Al0 n a gutinpi line of White Goo,s l)h',s Goodas, Calicoes. lIIosi eriy (.1 oves, Net ions iiand Fanacy hoods. "ind othters too miiuneroiis to mrent ion, all of whinh iis exh'ee' e to arrive arnd bie open for' in sp'ectioni during ilin week. All I aisk is to call-and see for youirself whien my goods z.# 35,000 Heart Shingles for sale Chca p fo r Cashr. J. 0. Bong,