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%xksm $nftllipar. NEW TERMS. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy for one year, - S 2.50 ? ?. " six months, - ; - 1.25 Ten copies for one year, - - 20.00 Twenty copies **' i* - - 37.50 The clubs of ten and twenty will be sent to any address. Subscriptions will not bc-received for a less period than six months. BATES OF ADVERTISING. Advertisements will be inserted at the rate of One Dollar per square of one inch space for the first insertion arid Fifty Cents for each subsequent insertion. Liberal contracts made with those wishing to advertise by the throe, bix or twelve months. Obituary notices exceeding ten linee will bo charged for at advertising rates. For announcing candidates, Five Dollars in each ease, invariably in advance. Duelling and Public Sentiment. It has been supposed that the practice of duelling was gradually dying out in this conn try under the influence of an improving civili? zation, but we fear that the facts do not warrant this conclusion. The occurrence of appeals to what is called 'the code of honor," but which is in reality the code of revenge, have become of late, at least in some localities, alarmingly frequent. There is a prevalent public senti? ment in some sections of this country which stigmatizes a man who refuses to accept a chal? lenge. As long as this state of public senti? ment exists, duelling will continue, and all ap? peals against it, to reason, religion and human? ity, will be of no avail. To call it barbttrism is to give it a better name than it deserves.? Barbarians have no higher law to regulate their conduct than their own savage passions. With them revenge is a virtue. Ihey do not, with Bickly cant, profess a religion whose great cor? ner-stone is the forgiveness of enemies, and at the same time set up an altar to a demon of re? venge, falsely called honor, and sacrifice upon it their sons, and brothers. Of all the astonish? ing inconsistencies of humanity none is more wonderful than the contrariety in some Chris tain countries between the professed religion and that social opinion which casts a cloud upon every man who refuses to engage in what the law of God considers murder. It is not the duellist that should be denoun? ced, so much as the revolting inhumanity and hypocrisy of a public sentiment which, calling itself Christian, requires men, under certain circumstances, to expose themselves to the double crime of murder and suicide. So fir as reasott is concerned, dueling does not settle the justice of any quarrel; it does not even prove the courage of any combatant. Instead ot put? ting the weak on an equality with the strong, it often institutes a reign of terrorism, in which the skillful dead-shot tyrannizes over the ptjace able and well-disposed, wearing complacently ! the belt of courage and chivalry. It is as (?ften ! the wronged as the wrong-doer who is the vie- \ tim of an appeal to the code. The New York World, referring to the late duel in Memphis, between Hamlin and Freeman, says that "that state of feeling is pretty clearly barbar? ous which permits any man to take a shot at any other man by so simple a device as calling him bad names." The following correspon? dence, which led to the meeting, as published by the Memphis Avalanche of the 27th ult., will explain the allusion : "Memphis, Tenn., August 18,1870.?Mr. Ed? ward Hamlin, Memphis, Tenn.?Sir: This will be handed to you by my friend, Mr. Charles P. Woodridgc. I wish him to arrange with you, or your friend, a speedy meeting in order to settle all existing differences. In this commu? nication it is hardly necessary to refer to the past. Let it suffice that I shall, and do now. de? nounce you as a coward, poltroon, and a base scoundrel. If this is not sufficient to induce vou to give me the satisfaction every gentleman has at all times a right to ask of another, in? form me, and I will cheerfully give you. Respectfully, "E. T. Freeman." "mpefield, Ark., August 20, 1S70.?Major E. T. Freeman?Sir: Your note of the 18th inst. has been received. I am unconscious of having done any wrong or of having given you any.cause for this most extraordinary commu? nication; but the peremptory terms of your note debar me from any reply other than the acceptance of the meeting you desire. My friend, Mr. Scales, is authorized to represent me, and. will arrange the terms of this meeting. "Ed. L. Hamlin." Mr..Hamlin fell, mortally wounded, and be? fore he died reiterated what he says in the above letter, "Freeman, I never said aught against you, or injured you in my life." What the cause of the offence was is not stated, though the world infers that both the young men were 3uitors for the hand of a young lady, which she promised to bestow upon Freeman. Without vouching for the accuracy of the state? ment, the note ofthe fallen man is enough to show that he was the victim of a monstrous and remorseless despotism of public sentiment, which he felt that it would be in vain for him to. resist He avers that he is unconscious of having done any wrong, or given any cause for the challenge, "but tho peremptory tone of your note debars me from any reply other than the acceptance of the meeting you desire." Why should it debar him but because of the inhuman tyranny behind it, which would make him a marked man if he allowed himself to be spoken of in the language used in Freeman's note, and did not offer up his young life in its refutation ? His last message to his father, "I died a gentleman," shows the true source of all these horrid tragedies. That source is the false and cruel system that makes it essential to the character of a gentleman that he should accept a challenge. And this too prevails among communities which profess to receive .as Divine a revelation which makes God's forgiveness of men dependent upon men's forgiveness of each other. Happily there are few civilized por? tions of the world in the present day where such a flagrant inconsistency, productive, too, of tlie most deplorable and bloody consequen? ces, can possibly exist.. There were few coun trie-, even among the most renowned of hea? then antiquity, where dueling was found es? sential to the character of a gentleman and a hero. It is a scandal and infamy to our own boasted civilization that any part of our couu try-should be in this respect behind, the civili? zation and morality of ancient heathendom.? Ball. Sun. ? A Strange Suicide.?A strange suicide was committed in Harrison County, Missouri, on the 1st. A traveler stopped at a farm where they were threshing out grain, and going in the barn-yard began talking to some of the men at work, telling them he used to work with a machine, whereupon he asked leave to drive. His request was granted, and after a short spell he asked if he might not feed the machine. It was quite appareut that he was well posted in regard to threshing, and having fed for some time, he looked around at the driver with a nod, signifying that he wanted more power. Standing still till the cylinder was flying and buzz ng around like "double-geared lightning," and every one becoming alarmed at the awful motion, he jumped head first against the teeth of the cylinder, and in le-^ than an instant he was ushered into eternity. No one knew him, and there were no papers upon his person by which he could bo :dentifieu. -o ? The dearest spot on earth?tho store where they do not advertise. ? What man wants?all he can get. What a woman wants?all she can't get. ? From the census returns, it is said to ap? pear that Tennessee is the healthiest region in the world, and most remarkable for longevity. Woman Suffrage in Wyoming. The novel spectacle of women voting has been inaugurated at the recent election in Wyo? ming territory, as our readers are already aware. A lady correspondent of the Cincinnati Times, writing from Cheyenne, gives the following de? scription of the great day for the late "down? trodden and oppressed" "sex, and we think it worth while to re-produce the sketch for the especial benefit of those in our midst who may be anxiously awaiting the time when woman suffrage will be in vogue here: Being aware of the fact that you are no wo men's-rights man, I wish to give you some idea of how election day passed off. I suppose you are aware of the fact that the women of Wyo? ming have had the right to vote conferred on us. .1 say us, for I am one of the Wyoming women, and feel proud of being called such. Well, yesterday, the 6th, being election day, our citizens turned out en masse to celebrate the great event?the day when free women turned out to do what all true citizens call a sacred duty. I only wish you and all other anti-women's rights men could have been near by to see how proudly the men walked to the polls with their wives or sisters, mothers or sweethearts, on their arms, and I know you would have been pleased. When it was first proposed that women should vote, the women felt delicate about goingj; but our preachers nobly stepped forward and told the women not to be backward, for they would set the example by taking their wives. So the women then took courage and came proudly forward to do their duty. There were judges and their wives, lawyers and their wives, doctors and their wives, preachers and their wives, merchants and their wives, mechanics and their wives, and laborers and their wives, and all classes, both rich and poor, came forward and cast their votes, each man feeling proud of his female companion. There has never an election pass? ed off so pleasantly in this Territory before. There were lots of men collected around the polls to see how things would be conducted; they were talking and laughing and discussing politics, but as soon as they would see a woman coming they would all stand back and make room for her to pass. Even the rowdies kept still while women stood near. I never saw a more orderly set of men in ray life, and each man that came forth with a female companion to cast her vote at the same time he cast his, that man looked proud and happy. My hus? band took my mother and myself to the polls, and I know that he felt proud of having that right; and as a person would walk along the street it looked so nice to see little groups of friends and neighbors, both men and women, talking and discussing politics. I, for one, think that it will make men and women more united. We will all work together for one common cause; women will take more interest in the welfare of the State or Territory, now that we are allowed to have a voice in its poli? tics. Well, Mr. Editor, to tell it all in a few words, our election day was more like a great holiday than anything else. Our little band of pioneer women has shown in part what can be done. I and my friends here in this Territory have voted once, and I hope to live to see tho day when every woman in America will have the same great privilege. Oh, how I do wish our champion, Fanny Fern, could have been here yesterday, so that all women could have heard her opinion given through her powerful Een 1 or that Mrs. Stanton could have boon ere to have taken notes, so she could have told how things were conducted, for she can express herself before the world! I hope to see the day when women can come forward and express themselves and to think without fear. Well, I will say for our Cheyenne men they acted nobly almost to a man. They sanctioned women voting, and our head men took the lead. They will always have the gratitude of us wo? men for their kindness to us. Every man knows that, as a general rule, women are grate? ful, and will not forget kindness shown to them. -<p The Cotton Crop.?An exchange says: It is confidently believed the crop of the current cotton year will reach nearly if not quite 4,000,000 bales. This calculation is founded on various facts. The first is the great increase in the use of all kinds of fertilizers at the South, the demand being constant and fast increasing. This has brought into good condition many plantations that had previously been allowed to run down to a low state. Periodicals of all kinds, all through the South, have done their utmost to stimulate this movement, and it has been also rendered contagious by the mark? ed success of those who have used the fertili? zers. In some cases we perceive a disposition to carry the policy to extremes unknown even at the North, and by a lavish use of fertilizers to produce extraordinary crops on small areas. Another reason for this belief is that the avail? able capital of the South has increased, since the close of the war, with a rapidity scarcely conceivable. The planters have lived economi? cally, and have put all their surplus means into new stocks, machinery, fertilizers and buildings, and are thus better able to raise increased crops. Under the new currency act the South will re? ceive the lion's share of the new banking capi? tal and circulation, and the facilities for busi? ness thus afforded will impart a great stimulus to planting. The new banks will give an aid to weaker planters that will be of great assis? tance to them, and very much money that is now horded at the South will be released and fet into active use. Another reason is afforded y the steady emigration of colored people from the northern tier of Southern States to the cotton region of the Gulf, attracted by the demand for field hands and the better pay of? fered there. The freedincn are also working with more energy and zeal than formerly, the success of some of them in saving up money and becoming property-owners having opera? ted as a great incentive to others. Finally, the railroads are all now in good running order, and new ones arc being projected and built everywhere throughout the South.. ? Grave charges are preferred against the Hon. David Butler. Governor of Nebraska, and regular Republican nominee for a re-election. It is alleged that, being c.e officio President of the State Board of School Fund Commission? ers, he loaned himself $17,000 out of the school fund, and with said money built, or is building, a private residence in Lincoln, the State capi? tal; that in addition he loaned $10,000 out of the same fund to his business partner, one The? odore, to open a hotel in Lincoln; and that while ostensible security has been given for these loans the property mortgaged is by no means adequate to their repayment. Great excitement is reported in Nebraska on the de? velopment of these charges, and the Republican State Executive Committee was convened upon the 17th instant to consider the same. The re? sult of the deliberations of this body was that Governor Butler must cease to be the Republi? can nominee. To this the Governor responds, in lauguage more forcible than elegant, that he will see the committee-first. The Omaha Tribune, the leading Republican paper in Ne? braska, having declared thar it would not sup? port Governor Butler unless he at once submit? ted to and came forth unscathed from an inves? tigation, we presume that the Governor's im? pudent defiance will lead to a new nomination and a split in the Republican ranks. The re? sult can hardly be other than a Democratic triumph in Nebraska this fall. ? A laboring man at Providence-is fast learn? ing that "honesty is its own reward." Some time ago he found a purse of 500 sovereigns, lost by an English officer, and, on returning it to the owner, received a simple "thank you" for his pains. The other day he picked up apock et-book in the street, which contained green? backs and papers to the amount of $3,000. As? certaining the owner's lmme from tho papers, and his residence from the directory,he carried the property to his house. The owner was very thankful, and proved his gratitude by tell? ing the finder that he was an honest man, and God would reward him lor his honesty. Advantage of Diversified Chops.?The large cotton crop this year, and the consequent lower price of cotton in the market, is direct? ing attention to the propriety and advantage of more diversified crops in the Southern States. The impolicy of growing cotton al? most exclusively in the South, is the more man? ifest this year by reason of the drought in the Eastern and Middle States and the war in Eu? rope, which have advanced the prices of bread stuffs and provisions, to the great profit of the Western States. In view of the present situa? tion of agricultural interests in the various sections of the country, the Commissioner of Agriculture has recommended to farmers the more general adoption of mixed crops. In some sections of the Western country, he re? ports, there are miles of one kind of growth, probably corn, the height and close culture of which to a stranger looks more like a vast for? est than what it really is. In others the favorite cereal may be wheat, which, as far as the eye can reach, is seen bow? ing its golden heads to the passing breeze. The Commissioner calls attention to the fact that while the weather, which is often destruc? tive to one crop, may be favorable to another, and that risk or failure is consequently greatly increased when a husbandmau confines himself to one or two products. A more general mix? ture of crops would afford protection against the losses caused by exceptional seasons and consequent sudden variation in prices, and would also lessen the exhaustion of the land following the continued devotion to one partic? ular product. The suggestion of the Commis? sioner is well-founded, and its adoption would more generally develop the agricultural capa? bilities of the country, and add greatly to its material wealth. Because certain Southern States can raise cotton, sugar, &c., and other more Northern States cannot, it does not follow that those same Southern States may not profi? tably grow breadstuff's and provisions. An Infernal Mistake.?"Many a shaft at random sent" hits something or other which the archer little meant to touch. We have icard an anecdote illustrative of this truth, which has probably not appeared in print be? fore, and which has been told us as a genuine history. It happened in a large city?never mind what city. There were two pretty sisters who had mar? ried, one an eminent lawyer, the other a dis? tinguished literary man. Literary man dies, and leaves young sister a widow. Some years rolled away, and the widow lays aside her weeds. Now, then, it happens that a certain author and critic has occasion on a broiling day in summer to call on the eminent lawyer-husband of the elder sister. He finds the lawyer pleading and sweltering in a crowd? ed court, sees that the lawyer is suffering dread? fully from the heat, pities him, rejoices that he himself is not a lawyer, and goes for a cool saunter under the sheltering trees of a fashion? able park and garden. Among the ice-eating, fanning crowd there, he meets the younger of the two sisters, and for a moment thinks he is talking to the elder. "Oh, Mr.-," said the lady, '-how dread? fully hot it is here!" "Yes, madame," replies our luckless critic, "it is hot here; but I can assure you the heat of this place isn't a circumstance when com? pared with the heat of the place where your poor dear husband is suffering to-day." A horror-stricken expression comes over the face of the lady; she rises from her chair and flounces indignantly away. "Ah, me miserable," soliloquizes our wretch? ed critic, "I've been mistaken the one sister for the other, and she thinks I meant to say that her husband is?not in heaven." The Test of Honesty the Payment for Your Newspaper.?The following from the Liverpool Mail, discloses an important fact, and no person can deny that this new test of willinguess in debtors to pay, is based upon common sense. We were not aware until recently that many newspaper publishers arc consulted, to a large extent, by people in order to ascertain the pe? culiar standing of persons. Debts for newspa? pers become due once a year, and persons who pa}' up regularly once a year, for their papers, arc considered prompt men and worthy of con? fidence. We had a person come into our office the.other day and say; "Do you send your paper to Mr. W.?" We replied that we did. "Well," said the man, "he owes me ?5, and I can't get it; I don't think he's good." We looked secretly at his account, and found himpaid up. We then replied to the enquirer: "That man is good. Your debt is safe. He may have forgotten it, or something else may have prevented his paying, but he is good." The man's eyes brightened. Said he: I "I have written to several printers, and could not find where he took a paper; I thought of you and said I would come here." This is the way to find out whether people are good. We ascertain what papers they take, and contrive some way to peep into their ac? counts. Men who are good are very sure to pay for their newspapers; and if they don't pay for these, we don t think them good. We were forcibly struck by the idea. 'Well,' said he, "I will send my bill by the post," Iu a few davs the person came in again. Said he, "I sent my bill." "Well, did he pay you?" "Yes, sir," and opening his hand he showed us the draft. "There," said he, "give me a printer's book after all, to tell whether a man's good, there's a complete thermometer; we al? ways know a man to be bad if he don't pay the printer." Logical Grammar.?Nothing like Gram? mar! Better go without a cow than go with? out that. There are numberless "professors" who go "tramp, tramp, tramp, my boys!" around the country, peddling a weak article, by which "in twenty days" they guarantee to seta man thoroughly up in the English language. An instance in point comes from Greenville, Alabama, where a "professor" had labored with the youth of that people, and taught them to dote on grammar according to "Morris's" sys? tem. During one of the lectures the sentence, "Mary milks the cow," was given out to be parsed. Each word had been parsed save one, which fell to Bob L-, a sixteen-year-old, near the foot of the class, who commenced thus: "Cow is a noun, feminine gender, sin? gular number, third person, and stands for Mary." ".Stands for Mary !" said the excited professor. "How do you make that out ?" "Because," answered the noble pupil, "if the cow didn't stand for Mary, how could Marv milk her?" _? Marriage is to a woman, at once the hap? piest and saddest event of her life; it is the promise of future bliss, raised on the death of ali present enjoyment. She quits her home, her parents, her companions, her occupations, her amusements?everything on which she has hitherto depended for comfort, for affection, for kindness, for pleasure. The parents by whose advice she lias been guided, the sisters to whom she has dared impart every embryo thought and feeling, the brother who has played ^with her by turns the counsellor and the counselled, and the younger children to whom she has hitherto been the mother and the playmate?all arc to be forsaken at one instant; every former tie loosened, the spring of every hope and action in to be changed and yet she flies with joy in? to the untrodden paths before her. Buoyed up by the confidence of requited love, she bids a fond and grateful adieu to the life that is past, and turns with excited hopes and joyous antici? pations of the happiness to come. Then woe to the man who can blight such fair hopes? who can, coward-like, break the illusions that have won her, and destroy the confidence which love has inspired. ? It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go alone. Robert C. Geier.?The telegraph announ cet the death of ex-Judge Robert C. Grier, of the United States Snpreme Court, at his resi? dence in Philadelphia. Judge Grier was in his 77th year, and for several years past had been suffering from paralysis. He was (a native of Pennsylvania, having been born in Cumber? land County, in that State, in the year 1794. In 1812 he graduated from Dickinson College, and was noted for his scholastic attainments. For some years he conducted a college at Nor? thumberland, in the meantime preparing him? self for the legal profession, and in 1817 was admitted to the bar. His first public office was that of Judge of the District Court of Allegheny County, in his native State, a position winch he held greatly to his honor for many years. In the course of service in this capacity he gained a great reputation for legal ability and lor the justice of his decision from the bench. Sir. Grier's standing in his profession drew to him the attention of President Polk, and in 1846, on the decease of Judge Henry Baldwin, he was appointed by the President Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. Judge Grier was a Democrat in his politics, and in his opinions as a Judge of the Supreme Court he sometimes incurred the disfavor of partisans of the opposite school of politics. He carried with him to the Supreme bench the reputation which he had acquired as a State judge of Pennsylvania?that of a thoroughly proficient and learned jurist. Judge Grier's most famous decisions were those connected with the fugi? tive-slave case in which Passmorc Williamson figured, and in the Dred-Scott case. The de? cision in the former was given in the Circuit Court, and that in the latter in the full bench. Mr. Grier's decision in these causes cclcbrcswere opposed to the anti-slavery sentiment of that day; but however political partisanship may have dissented from his views, his integrity as a judge and his sense of responsibility in his high office were never questioned by political opponents.?N. Y. World. The Virtues of a Lazy Man.?The lazy man is always too good-natured. He never flics into a passion. He might crawl into one, but the idea of his flying into anything is pre? posterous. "Who ever heard of" a lazy man breaking into a bank where a crowbar had to be used, or drilling into a safe ? Nobody. He rarely lies about his neighbors, for it would be too much exertion ; but he can lie at a bar? room all day. He is of inestimable value to a billiard saloon, keeping the chair warm and watching the game, for few would care to play where there are no spectators. The lazy man never gets up revolutions, insurrections or other popular excitements, and don't make a nuisance of himself by tramping round the country making incendiary speeches to promote public discontent. In his own neighborhood he is never a busy-body in other people's affairs. Lazy men don't disturb the quiet of peaceful neighborhoods by putting up factories, and such abominations. The Three Great Fairs.?People who have time and money may make a delightful circuit this fall?the circuit of the three great Fairs. The Augusta Fair begins on Tuesday, the 25th of October, and lasts five days. The Fair of the South Carolina Institute, in Charleston, begins on Tuesday, the 1st of No? vember, and also lasts five clays. The State Fair in Columbia begins on Wednesday, the 9th of November, and lasts three days. Each one is to be on a graud scale; and each city will, in all respects, put its best foot foremost. A week in Augusta, a week in Charleston, and a week in Columbia. Such a trip might be made equally delightful and improving. -<e> A False Statement.?In consequence of statements made in a letter going the rounds of the press recently, to the effect that there were several thousand Confederate prisoners on the the Dry Tortugas in a state of destitution, with? out means of getting away, Mr. G. F. Marlow, of Selma, Alabama, addressed a letter to the War Department asking as to the trutli of the statement. The enquiry was responded to by E. D. Townscnd, Adjutant General of the United States, who says : "There is not a single Confederate prisoner in the custody of the United States anywhere at this time." He further says : "There were never more than two thousand men, United States soldiers, prisoners and all, if as many, at any one time on that Is? land. All these statements concerning Dry Tortugas arc utterly false." -o ? If misfortune comes into your house, be patient and smile pleasantly, and it will soon stalk out again, for it can't bear cheerful com? pany. ? Patience is exemplified in the man who left his wagon while his horse balked, sat on a stump and read the Bible till tho animal was hungry enough to go home. ? "Sir," said an astonished landlady to a traveler who had just sent his cup forward for the seventh time, "you must be very fond of coffee." "Yes, madamc, I am," he replied, "or I never should have drank so much water to get a little." ? God manages the seasons better than we ; in a day, or in an hour perhaps, the cloud will pass, and the heavens glow again upon our un? grateful heads. ? "Pa," said a little friend of ours, "what's the use of giving our little pigs so much milk? They make hogs of themselves." Pa walked away. ? When Jemima went to school she was asked why the noun "bachelor" was singular. "Because," she replied, "it is so very singular that they don't get married." ? "My dear," said a sentimental wife, "home, you know, is the dearest spot on earth." "Well, yes," said the practical husband, "it docs cost about twice as much as any other spot." ? A lady, in reply to some guests that praised the mutton on her table, said : 'Oh, yes! my husband always buys the best; he is a great cpicac." ? "Solaced in durance vile by the radiant smiles of connubial love." Translation?His wife went to sec him in jail, where he was sent for stealing. ? We see it announced that the editor of a Yorktown (Ohio; paper went up in a balloon, in pursuit of some of his delinquent'subscribers. A contemporary suggests that he has taken the wrong road, as such chaps always go in the other direction. ? "See hero, Gripps, I understand you have a superior way of curing hams. I should like to learn it." "Well, yes; I know very well how to cure them ; but "the trouble with me just now is to find out how to procure them." ? "Mary Magdalen had seven devils cast out of her. I never heard of a man having seven devils cast out of him," growled a cyni? cal old bachelor, in the course of a discussion on the "woman question." "No, they are not cast out yet, I believe," was the respo'nsc of his fair antagonist. ? An ill wind, indeed, that blows nobody good. According to the king of "Wurtemburg, the present unhappy war in Europe will swell emigration to the United States to enormous proportions. There is room for all, fortunately,, and the more we have to help pay taxes the better. ? A gentleman in New Orleans was agree? ably surprised the other day to find a plump turkey served for dinner, and inquired of his servant how it was obtained. 'Why, sir,' replied Sambo, 'dat turkey has been roosting on our fence three night, so dis morning I seize him for do rent ob "de fence.' ? The chaplain of the New Hampshire pen? itentiary declares that not a single printer has been in that prison during Hie nine years of his connection with it. The fact of the business is, every printer on a daily paper has in his composing-room a penitentiary of his own, and hence he has no inclination to patrouize any? body else's. ' ? Sorrow comes soon enough without des? pondency ; it does a man no good to carry around a lightning-rod to attract troubles. ? Col. J. K. Kelley, who has been chosen United States Senator from Oregon, in place of Williams, Republican, is a native of Pennsyl? vania. In 1843 he began the practice of the law in Lewistown, Mifflin county. Shortly af? terwards he was appointed district attorney for the county, and acquired considerable reputa? tion as a lawyer. In 1850 he emigrated to Oregon, which has been his home since that period. ? A wise old darkey in the southern part of Kentucky came to his old master the day be? fore the late election, and said he: "Mars John, I wants to vote the Democratic ticket. The fac' is I think de niggers ought to split up anyhow. If we goes an' votes Democratic, the Radicals say we is ungrateful, an' then the League fines us five dollars an' warns us. If we votes Radical, de Ku Klux'll git us shore. I wants to divide like, so as to make it de in? trust ob boff parties to treat us kind and friend? ly." That darkey is a statesman and a philos? opher. ? It is stated that since 1866 preparations for the certainty of war with France nave been going on so thoroughly in Prussia that not a railroad car even has been constructed either in Prussia or any of its dependencies?Saxony, Bavaria or Baden?in which the primary idea of its construction has not been military capac? ity and adaptation, rather than passenger or merchandize traffic, and on every such car to? day in use in Prussian Germany may be seen distinctly marked the capacity of the same for so many men or so many horses. ? The champagne wine producing districts of France, including the great depots of Rheims and Chalons, with their millions of bot? tles in store, having been occupied by the Ger? man armies, it is pretty safe to say that for sev? eral years to come the supply of genuine cham? pagne to the outside world will be very short. The year's vintage of the champagne region and the millions of bottles in store two months ago in the great depots of that region are all gone, and the total loss to the vineyards, wine makers and merchants directly concerned will probably exceed twenty millions of dollars. ? Switzerland, which a gentleman now there calls "an astonishing little country," includes separate states of four languages and two reli? gions, and is uuited solely by love of its free institutions. How will the war affect us ? is all that the Swiss ask. On the French frontier, the French-speaking population fears France; and on the Prussian frontier, the German pop? ulation fears Prussia; and in their hearts they are quite willing that the two powers should so devour each other that neither shall have any appetite for Switzerland. This is cited as a proof that common institutions and history, far more than race and language, are the "bond which unites a people. ? Every true man has some great central ob? ject of life?some central career which he hon? estly desires honorably to fill. The world hates the profligate, the wanderer, one who has noth? ing himself to do, yet looks with scorn on him who labors for bis daily bread. Honest labor is holy! 'Tis a glorious thing! And that man who scorns to soil the tip of his fingers in the honest toil for bread ana meat, is not worthy that he consumes. If a man finds his capabili? ties are not sufficient to enable him to occupy a place in the higher ranks of the universal workshop, let him work where he can; 'tis not unjust, 'tis not unlawful, 'tis not unholy, for him to long for what is above him, and strive for it with all his might, if he be honest in his en? deavors to reach the position to which his am? bition directs him. MUST BE PAID. All persons owing me for Fer? tilizers must pay for the same on or before the 1st November, or they will pay Cost. W. S. SHARPS. 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Leave Columbia.,...~.......m 8.15 a. m* " Alston.m.'.._9.38 a. m, " Newherry..................11.03 a. m. Arrive Abbeville_.-._._.?.8.00 p. m, " Auderson-. 4.30 p. m. " Greenville.5.00 p. m. DOWN TRAIN. Leave Greenville. 7.00 a m> " Anderson.... 7.30 a. m, " Abbeville_..._..._.9.00 a. m, " Newbcrry._._?._12.47 p. m. u Alston....? 2JS0 p. nx, Arrive Columbia. 3.45 p. m? JOHN H. MORE, Gen'L Sop't. August 4,1S78 6 Schedule Blue Eidge Railroad, ON and after this date the following schedule will be observed by the Passenger Trains over this Road : . up. down. L've Anderson, 4.20 p rat " Pendleton,5.20 M ? Perryville, 6.10 " Arr. Walhalla, 7.00 L've Walhalla, 6.00ans ?< Perryville, 5.45- ?? ?? Pendleton, 6.80 ** Arr. Anderson, 7.16 " Iu cases of detention on the G. and C. R. B^, the train on this Road will wait one hour for tha train from Belton, except on Saturdays, when ift will wait until the arrival of the Belton train. W. H. D. 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