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? .-.. - -o ?. xitjio Desp?tcbea. PARIS, January 23.-Thte conference se? lected M. Waleski to convey the protocol to Athens. He has been instructed to wait five days for an answer from the Grecian Government. BERLIN, January 23.-The journalists of this city have held a meeting, and have adopted an address to General Grant, Pre? sident eleot of tho United States, asking bim to propose to Congress tho establishing of an international copyright law between the United States and Germany. HAVANA, January 25. --Four soldiers were assassinated Sunday. Great uneasiness ex? ists. Affairs In Washington. WASHINGTON, January 25.-The Election Committee heard thc Louisiana contest. A further hearing to-morrow. The Recon? struction Committee heard a number of radical Methodists iu opposition to the plan of the Committee of Niue, os to its effe?ts on church property. The House allowed tho Arkansas Representatives full pay for tho Fortieth Congress. Robinson intro? duced a protest against the ratification of the Alabama claims treaty. In the Senate, the Judiciary Committee reported adversely to seating Hill, from Georgia. Trumbull presented a minority report. The Retrench? ment Committee reported the House bill repealing the tenure-of-offico bill, with amendments. Amendments to the House bill repealing tho tenure-of-office, provides that Cabinet officers may be removed during tho recess, and other officers shall be suspended at the President's discreti< n. An autograph petition from Mrs. Lincoln for a pension was presented to the Senate to-day. In the Senate, tho Judiciary Committee will report adversely to seating Hill; among other reasons, because the Georgia Legisla? ture comprised ineligible members. Trum? bull's minority report favors seating Hill, because he is an unobjectionable man, and Congrees has recognized Georgia as a Stato. In the Senate, Edwards, in reporting amendments to tho House bill repealing tho tenure of office, moved it be indefinitely postponed. After a struggle for precedence of business, Sherman's curroncy bill was postponed and tho Pacific Railroad bill dis cussed to adjourmcnt. In the House, among the bills under regn lar call, was one appointing a committeo tc investigate the election irregularities ic South Caroliua; appropriations for improve mont of the Savannah River, severn! rail road and removal of disability bills. Coo loy introduced a bill for the botter protec? tion of loyal mon in tho South. Prince, of Georgia-incorporating tho Southeri Express Company. The suffrage amend ments Wi re postponed to Wednesday; nm tho Djm er Railroad was resumed and re ferred to the Committee on Public Lands which is equivalent to killing it. Adjourned -o Kew? Hem?. RICHMOND. January 25.-Gen. Stouemai issued au order to-day, appointing Gens Wilcox and Granger, and Col. Franklin, t< constitute a board which shall investigad and report on applications for any of th< offices iu Virginia, except the Executivo ant State offices in tho capitol; and thus enabh the Commanding General to fill vaconcie; now existing, which it is contemplated ma] exist within the next thirty days. Tlie mi litary have so far removed 729 civil officers leaving about 3,000 offices whose occupant! aro ineligible and to be removed. WILMINGTON, January 25.-Robbers at tacked the houso of ex-Sheriff Reubei King, of Robeson County, near Lumberton North Carolina, on tho 23d instant, mor tally wounding King and S. E. Ward, i visitor at King'? house. There aro litth hopes of his recovering. The perpetrator, of tho foul crime escaped. SAN FRANCISCO, January 22.-Additions Japanese news has been received. The Mi kudo has issued a proclamation announcing that peace reigns throughout tho land, am justifying his opposition to Satsama an< tho Southern Princes. All things seemec progressing favorably for tho Southeri cause. The Northern Princes openly disa vow tho conduct of Enom?tto in stormini Hakadadi, and sinking several of tho Mi kado's vessels. No Northern army is nov in the field. Tho Southerners aro disband ing their troops. Tho attack and captur of Hakadadi was achieved under the supei vision of European officers, the Southerner offering but little opposition. Admiral Gucomattu issued stringent o? dcrs for the ?seizure and cofiscation of ul foreign vessels caught conveying troops am stores. There havo occured many broncho of neutrality by foreign ships. The Tv coon's brother, Menboneavo, arrived fror Paris on the lGth of December, aud soo after had an interview with tho Mikado, an it is reported that ho was entrusted with mission of peace to his brother. CHARLESTON, January 25.-Arrived-bri W. M. Nash, Cardenas. Sailed-brig Et ms, Now York; schooners M. D. Haskel Boston; Mary, Bucksville, S. C.; Minervi Havana; J. L. Leach, Georgetown; Surprise Philadelphia; W. H. Steele, Baracoa. THE GEORGETOWN RAILROAD.-We ai pleased to hoar, says tho Georgetown (i C.) Times, that application has been mad to tho l?gislature for a renewal of the olia: ter of this important work, preparatory, vi trust, to moro vigorous efforts with a vie, to tho completion of tho same. Thei seems to bo some desire on the part < Northern capitalists to invest in Southei railroads and other enterprises, and th would bo an opportune time to invite attei to this road. Tho road has been alreat: graded to tho Northeastern Railroad, and would reqniro no very great outlay of cap tal to finish it at that point. KIN A % CI AL) A (VD COW MICK. CI AL. Co LUM m A. January 25.-Sales of cotton to-day 99 bajea-middlings 27"?c. NEW YOEE, January 25-Noon.-Stocks strong. Money easy, at 7. Exchango 9. Gold 36. Flour 5@10c. better. Wheat l@2c. better on upriug. Pork Armer-new mess 30.25. Steam lard firmer-barrels 19?4(a)20. Cotton lower, at 28 7 PT M.-Cotton doll and lower; sales 1,200 bides, ?it 28.' :,. Flour-shipping grades firmer; all others dull aud heavy; superflue 5.86; common to fair extra South? ern 6.75(oV7.20. Winter wheat dull and heavy; spring more doing for export. Corn slightly favors buvers. Pork 30. Kettle lard 28^. Whiskey dull, ut 1.00@1.01. Freights more active. Governments closed strong. Money in large increasing call, at 5(V/)7. Discount 7. Sterling U$6@9%. Gold 36Southern securities Ann-South Ca? rolina 74; uew TO3.). Stocks excited-clos? ing strong. BALTIMORE,'January 25.-Cotton quiet, nt 29. Flour und wheat dull. Corn Arm white 85@80; yellow 86@87. Pork Arra, at 31@31%. Bacon active-sh miders l?f? 15.V:j. Lard 20/ NEW ORLEANS, January 25. -Cotton un? settled-nominal middlings 27,,4'($273<i ; sales 1,150 bales. Gold SO^'. Flour dull and unchanged-super 6.75; double 7.25; treble 7.50@8.50. Corn active, nt 78(^80. Pork active, at 31.75@32.00. Bacon dull -shoulders 15,}?'; clear rib 18,l.j ; clear lo?^. Lard quiet and firm-tierce 20,'.4; keg 23. Sugar steady'-common 10'.-.(Vi^10^4'; prime 12??@13; yellow clarified l?>?@15. Mo? lasses steady-common 04; choice 71(a)73. Whiskey dull-Western rectified 95(oU.02. Coffee steady-fair bP-OrlS'o. Prime 16,'.j @17J?. CINCINNATI, January 25.-Whiskey steady, at 97@98. Provisions firmer and higher. Mess pork-30 bid, but 31 asked. Bacon firm and scarce-shoulders 14; clear sides 18. Lard held firmly, at 20. MoRiLE, Jauuary 25.-Nothing done in cotton to-day-tho market entirely nominal. AUGUSTA, January 25.-Cotton market dull and heavy; sules 150 bales; receipts 830-middling 20. SAVANNAH, January 25. - Cotton de? pressed and closed dull and drooping;Tsales 150 bales; receipts 1,000. CHARLESTON, January 25.-Cotton dull, unsettled aud lower-sales 350 bales; buyers offering 27; sellers asking 2S. Receipts 1,395. HAVRE, January 25.-Cotton quiet and steady. LONDON, January 25-3 P. M.-Consols 93',,. Bonds 75,'J. LIVERPOOL, January 25-3 P. M.-Cotton flat-uplands Llj?@?l>?; Orleuus 11%@ ll 3.j'; uplands afloat 11}^. LivEtutPOOL, January 25-Evening. Cotton dull-uplands ll^fViHl'.. ; Orleans sales 10,000 bales. .' Office of Udolpho Wolfe, SOLS IJJVORT. IU--TUESCHIKI>AM AuoM.vrnSciisArrs 22 BEAVER STREET. NEW YOUR, NOV. 3, 'C8. l\> the People of the Southern Stuten. When the pure medicinal restorative, now so widdy known as Wolfe's SCHIEDAM SCHNAPPS, was Introduced into the world, uudor tho endorse? ment of 1,000 leading members of the medical pro? fession, some twenty years ago, its proprietor was well awaro that it could not wholly escape the penalty attached to now and useful preparations. He, therefore, endeavored to invest it with the strongest possible safeguard against counterfeit? ers, and to render all attempts to jarate it difficult and dangerous. Ii was submitted to distinguish? ed chemists for analysin, and pronounced by them the purest spirit over manufactured. Its purity and properties having been thus ascertained, samples of tho article wore forwarded to 10,000 phyacians, including all the leading practitioners Hi the United States, for purposes of experiment. A circular, requesting a trial of tho preparation and a report of the result, accompanied each specimen. 4,000 of tho most eminent medical mon in tho Union promptly responded. Their opinions of tho article wero unanimously favorable. Such a preparation, they said, had long been wanted by tho profession, as no rebaneo could be placed ott tho ordinary liquors of commerco; all of which were more or less adulterated, and, therefore, unfit for medical purposes. Tho peculiar excel? lence and strength of tho oil of juniper, which formed one of the principal ingredients of tho Schnapps, together with an unalloyed character of thc alcoholic clement, give it, in the estimation of tho faculty, a marked superiority over every other diffusive stimulant as a diuretic, tonic and restorative. These satisfactory credentials from professional mon of tho highest rank wero published in a condensed form, and euolosed with each bottle ol tho Schnapps, as ono of the guarantees of its genuineness. Other precautions against fraud wero also adopted; a patent was obtained for tho article, tho label was copyrighted, a ./Vic sii/ii/i; of the proprietor's autograph signaturo was attached to each labol and cover, his namo and that of tho preparation wero embossed on tho bottles, and tho corks were sealed with his private soal. No articlo had ovor been sold in this country-under tho namo of Schnapps prior to tho introduction of Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps, in 18f>l; and the label was deposited, as his trade mark, in tho United States District Court for tho Southern Dis? trict of New York during that year. It might bo supposed, ny persons unacquainted with tho daring character of the pirates who prey upon tho reputation of honorable merchants, by vending deleterious trash under their namo, that tho protections so carefully thrown around those Schnapps would have precluded ibo introductions and salo of counterfeits. Thoy seem, however, only to have stimulated the rapacity of impostors. Tho trade mark of tho proprietor has been stolen: tho endorsement which Ids Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps alone received from tho medical pro? fession bas bean claimed by mendacious humbugs; bia labels an bottles havo boon imitated, his ad? vertisements paraphrased, his . iroulara copiod, aud, worso than all, dishonorable rotailers, aftor disposing of tho genuine contonts of his bottles, have tilled them up with common gin, tho most deleterious of all liquors, and thus made his name and brand a cover for poison. Thc public, the medical profession and the sick, for whom tho Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps ia prescribed as a romedy, aro equally interested with tho proprietor in the detection and suppression ot theso nefarious practices. The gonuino artiolo, manufactured at tho establishment of tho under? signed, in Schiedam, Holland, is distilled from a barley of tho flnost quality, and flavored with an essontial extract of tho berry of tho Italian Junipor, of unequalled purity. Hy a process un? known in tho preparation of any other liquor, it is I freed from every acrimonious and corrosive ele 1 mont. Complaints have been received from the leading physicians and families in the Southern StatcB, of the sale of cheap imitations of the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps in those markets; and travel? ers, who are in the habit of using it an an antidoto to the baneful influence of unwholesome river water, testify that cheap gin, put np in Sohiedam bottles, is frequently palmed off upon tho unwary. Thelagonts of tho undersign nd have been requested to instituto inquiries on the subject, and to for? ward to him tbo names of such parties as they may ascertain to bo engaged in tho atrocious system of deception. In conclusion, thc under? signed would say that bebas produced, from under tho hands of the most distinguished men of scienco in America, proof?* unanswerable of the purity and medicinal excellence of the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps; that be bas expended many thousand dollars in surrounding it witta guarantee's and safeguards, which he designed should protect tho public and himself against fraudulent imita? tions; that he has shown it to be the only liquor in tho world that can be uniformly depended upon as unadulterated; t 1?Ht tao ha? challenged investi? gation, analysis, comparison, and experiment in all its forms: and from Tvory ordeal tho prepa? ration which bears his name, ?eal and trade mark, lias como off triumphant. Ho, therefore, feels it a duty he owes to Iiis folluw-citizens generally, to tho* medical profession and tho sick, to denounce and exposo ttio Charlatans who counterfeit theso evidences of idoutity, and be calls upon tho press and tho public to aid bira in bis efforts to remedy so great an ovil. Tho following letters and certificates, from the leading physicians and chemists of this city, will prove to thu reader that all goods sold by tho undersigned arc all they aro represented to bo. UDOLPHO WOLFE. I reid hound to say, that I regard your Schnapps as being, in every respect, pre-eminently pure, and deserving of medical patronage. At all evcnts, it is tho purest possible article of Holland Oin, heretofore unobtainable; and, as such, may bc safelv prescribed bv physicians. " DAVID L. MOTT, M. D., Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York. 26 TINK STREET, NEW YOUR. Nov. 21, 1807. Udoipho Wolfe, Esq., Pr?tent. DEAR Sin: I have made a chemical examination of a samplo of your Schiedam Schnapps, with tho intent of determining if any foreign or injurious substance had been added to th? simple distilled spirits. DEAR Sir.: Thu want of pure Wines and Liquors, for medicinal purposes, has beeu long felt by thc profession, and thousands of lives have loon sac? rificed by tho use of adulterated articles. Delirium tremens, and other diseases of the brain and nerves, so rife in this country, are very raro in Europe; owiug, in a great degree, to the difference in the purity of tho spirits bold. We havo tested tho several articles imported and ?old by you, including your Gin, which you sell under tho name of ?romatio Schiedam Schnapps, which wo consider justly entitled to the high reputation it has acquired in this country; and, from your long expenenco as a foreign im? porter, your Bottled Wines and Liquors should meet with tho samo demand. Wc would recommend you to appoint some of the respeetablo apothecaries in different parts of the city as agents for tho salo of your Brandies and Winos, where tho profession can obtain tho same when needed for medicinal purposes. Wishing you success in your new enterprise, we remain vour obedient servants. VALENTINE MOTT, M. D., Professor of Surgery, University Medical Collego, Now York. J. M. CABNOCHAN, M. D., Professor of Clinical Surgery, Snrgeon-in-Obief to tho State Hospital, etc., No. 14 East lCth street. The examination luis resulted in tho conclusion that tho sample contained no poisonous or harm? ful admixture. I have been unable to discover any trace of the deleterious substances which aro om ploy od in the adulteration of liquors. I would not hesitate to use myself, or to recommend to others, for medicinal purposes, tho Schiedam Schnapps as an excellent and unobjectionable variety of gin. Very respectfully yours, (Signed.) CHARLES A. S?KLY, Chemist. NEW YORK, 53 CEDAR STREBT, NOV. 20, 18117. Udoipho Wolfe, Esq., Present, DEAR SIR: I have submitted to chemical analysm two bottles of Schiedam Schnapps, which I took from a fresh package in your bonded warehouse, and find, as before, that tho spirituous liquor is freo from injurious ingredients or falsification; that it has tho marks of being aged and not re? cently prepared by mechanical admixture of alcohol and aromatics. Respectfully, FRED. P. MAY CH, Chomist. KEW YORK, Tuesday. May 1. Udoipho Wolfe, Esq. LEWIS A. SAYBE, M. D*., No. 795 Broadway. H. P. DEWEES, M. D.. No. 791 Broadway. JOSEPH WOBSTER, M. D., No. 12? Ninth street. NELSON STEELE. M.D., No. 37 Blceckor street. JOHN O'HEILLY, M. D., No. 230 Fourth street. B. I. RAPHAEL, M. D., Professor of th.3 Princi? ples and Practice of Surgery, New York Medical College, etc., No. 91 Ninth street, and others. Thc proprietor also offers for sale Hot lied Wims unit Liquors, Imported and bottled by himself, expressly for medicinal uso. Each bottle has his certificate of its purity. Nov 12 3mo UDOLPHO WOLFE. DENTISTRY DR. D. L. BOOZEB, grateful for tho liberal patronago ho has received from tho citizens of this city and tho surrounding District, during thc past year, respectfully announces that ho now permanently establishes himself in Columbia. All operations on tho natural Teeth faithfully per? formed. ARTIFICIAL CASES, in every approved method, carefully and satisfactorily executed among which ho would call special attention to that known as Reynolds' Patent; and of his suc? cess in constructing Artificial CascB by this beau? tiful and durable process, bc i?> enabled, with con? fidence, to rofor to his patients and to tho patontce. Office on Main street, over First Na? tional Bank. Jan 8 WANTED. CORDS Seasoned PINE WOOD-Cash down on delivery. Applv to WM: A. WRIGHT. Tan 33 3 Nickerson Houso, Columbia. 50 $25 REWARD TITHE above roward will bo paid to any ono who X will return to tho Chief Constable's Office, a Smith A Wesson's Cartridge PISTOL, loft unin? tentionally in roar of Janney's Hall, on tho morn? ing of tho 22d instant. Jan 23 3 NEW GOODS. "y|^*E have just received a large ?apply of DELANKS, POPLINS. MERINOS, And other DRESS GOODS, purchased for cash, at greatly reduced prices. Wo aro now offering great bargains in theso goods. Tho Ladies will find it greatly to their advantago to give us a call, as we can asauro them wo will givo them bar? gains. J. H. A M. L. KINARD. Jan 20 6 State Ia?gtalntare. THIIlTT-EIOflrfn ?AT'S PROCEEDINGS. SENATE. SATURDAY, January 23.-Tho Sennto us sembled at 12 M. Message No. 22 from the Goveruor, rela? tive to Executive business, was presented to the Senate. Tho petition of tho County Commission? ers of Chester County for npproval of spe? cial tax levied, was referred. Tho petition of thc County Commission? ers of Orangeburg County, praying for a loan of Si,OOO from thc State, was referred. Tho petition of John T. MoAlhuney, of Colletou County, praying the General As? sembly to recommend to the Congress of tho United States tho removal of his politi? cal disabilities, was referred. Thc Committeo on Engrossed Bills, re? ported as duly and correctly engrossed, and ready for a third reading, a bill to euablo tho Savannah and Charleston Railroad Com? pany to complete their road. Ordered for consideration on Monday. Mr. Corbin introduced a concurrent reso? lution, which was ordered for consideration on Monday, that a joint committee, consist? ing of two on the part of the Senate and -on the part of tho House of Represen? tatives, be appointed to investigate nnd re? port what Acts are important to be pnssed at this session. Said committeo shall ac) during thc remainder of tho session, with power to report the same as standing com? mittees. After routine business-motions to post pone, etc., pending a call of thc Senate, adjourned. -o THE HONEST PARSON.-A friend of mine says a writer in Chambers' Journal, who is i parson in the country, and a sort of moderi Vicar of Wakefield iu his ways, came up t( town last week, and reaped thc disadvan tages of change, in this respect, that some where or another he got a bad half-crowi palmed off upon him. This annoyed bin exceedingly, but most of all because lu feared it might somehow get into circulo tiou, and perhaps reach hands that couh less afford to receive it than his own. H would have thrown it into tho gutter bu for this consideration, and was ponderiuj how ho should get rid of it, when it sud denly struck him that he was late fordinue with your humblo servant, and therefor took a Hansom with nil speed. So nervou was he at tho idea of keeping my othe guests waiting, that when the cabman said "Eighteen pence, sir," he gave him thc ba half-crown, (which happened to be his onl; piece of silver.) in chango for a shilling and tho poor fellow drove away. Howevei before he was out of sight, my bene'voleu clergyman remembered what he had dont and lied down tho street after thej vehicle shouting: "Cabby! Cabby!" wildly, an waving his alpaca umbrella. The cabman however, though ho turned round, onl nodded good-naturedly, and drove ?wai leaving my poor friend inconsolable at th idea of thus having robbed an honest mai He told us the story at dinner, and most c us agreed it was strange enough that tb mau had paid no attention to his signal: but a police magistrate, who happened t be nt table, asked to look at tho shilliu which tho man bad given our vicar, au then quietly remarked: "?'es, I thought s( he has given you a bad shilling. " The Chicago Tribune, which suffered i heavily a few days ago for an unflatterio polico item, before a prejudiced aud vci silly jury, now has the word "alleged" ole trotyped, and uses it before every othi word in its reports. Here is one of its nc model reports: "It is alleged that one Frederick Meyc alleged to bo doing business in this city, w arraigned before one Hoyne, who is nllcgi to a commissioner of the United States, t yesterday. It is alleged that the allegi party, charged with an alleged fraud upi au alleged Government, assisted in soc way in smuggling some alleged drugs, whi are alleged to be of considerable value, is alleged that tho alleged caso was po.? poned until Monday, alleged to bo tho ll day of January. It is further alleged th tho alleged defendant was held to bail, is alleged that tho alleged Mr. Meyer, whe it is alleged kept au alleged drug store, bei before an alleged commissioner, whoso nat is alleged to be Hoyne, was required to gi a bond, which, it is alleged, requires the leged Mr. Meyer to furnish for the payme of any sum of mouoy which some onligl ened but not yet alleged jury may alic against him as damages sustained by t alleged Government." A CALIFORNIA MILLIONAIRE.-A lett from San Francisco, speaking of tho ric ness of tho White Pine mining district Nevada, says thero is now in that city middle-nged man, who a year since, was work by tho month as a mechanic, and c worth a dollar. To-day he is worth at lei 81,000,000 in hard coin, and his iucoi from one mino alone in White Pino is o\ $1,500 per day. Ho is investing his mon in real estate in San Francisco. Tho otli day, a friend was joking him on tho subj( of marriage, remarking that he could u< marry any young lady in San Fraucisco; which ho replied, "Well, I know a gal c West, who was willing to marry ino whet hadn't a cent, and uow I'm able, I'm goii to marry her." WHAT IT COST TO PLAY OWL.-A m named Issac Poison, in order to hnve soi fun, climbed upon tho roof of a shnnty < cupied by Lewis Goto, at ono of tho lnml camps near Qreon Bay, Wisconsin, on t evening of tho 8th instant., aud imit?t tho screech of au owl. Thinking it v really un owl, ono of tho inmates of t shanty took a gun, and seeing au object tho roof, fired at it. l'oison was shot in t head, and so badly iiijnred, that be died a very short time. Tho road to min-The highway to Po peii. A.ULotion Sales. Estate Sale and Renting oi Lands. IN pursuance- of adecrceof thc Court of Equity, the undersigned will rent, to the Highest bid dors, at Fairfield Court House, on the FIRST MONDAY in February next, at 12 M., thc following PLANTATIONS, belonging to tho estate of Nicholas A. Fcav, deceased, for tho year 1869-to wit: The HOME PLACE, containing about 1,000 acres. Thc Graham Place, containing about 2,000acres. Tho Dutchman Creek Place, containing about 2,000 acres. Tho belton Place, containing about 4,000 acres. The Ross Pl ice, containing about 2,600 acres. The Flint Hill Place, containing about 1,800 acres. Renters will bo required to givo notes, with two good Bureties to each, or liens on the crops, aa they may prc foi. Vie will also Bell, to thc highest bidders, for cash, on TUESDAY, tho 2d day of February next, and thc days following, commencing each day at ll A. M., at the several places above named, in tho order above given, commencing at the Homo Place, all the PERSONAL PROPERTY belonging to tho said estate, consisting of: 35 head of MULES and HORSES, \ 100 head of Cattle, moro or less, A lot of Corn, Fodder and Cotton Seed, Waggons, Cotton Gins, Plantation Utensils, Household and Kitchen Furniture, Ac. C. DURHAM FORD, JAS. M. RUTLAND, Jan 13 Executors. Commodore Tatnall has returned to Sa? vannah, with the intention of taking np his residence in Georgia. The American Consul at St. Thomas, un? der date of 9th instant, reports the island perfectly healthy. A few years ago, New York received forty times as much cotton ns Baltimore. Last year, it has received only nine times as much. A man of sixty, who was sentenced in a . French Court to twenty years hard labor, thanked the Judge with great fervor. He had not expected, ho said, to live so long. Tho hopping around of a Grecian bend iu a ball-room reminds one so forcibly of a kangaroo trying to escape tho attacks of sand flies. Tho revolution in Hayti has of lato taken a turn decidedly unfavorably to President Salnave. A despatch announces another victory of tho Cacos, and that the revolu? tionists are gaining ground everywhere. "LET US HAVE PEACE."-In conversation with a Congressman elect from Mississsippi, Gen. Grant is reported to have said ho wanted political nfl'uirs in tho South settled ns soon os possiple, or before the com? mencement of his administration. Marchaud's Hotel, at River du Loup, Cu nuda, was destro3*ed by firo on tho 22d inst. Three of Mr. Marchand's children aud Mr. Wallace, a civil engineer, were burned to death. A number of others were moro or less injured. An Englishman, having lost five wives by deuth, married a sixth, and now thinks of Riving up the business, since a former hus? band has turned up, after years of absence, and claimed this one. Loudon was, on the 7th, entirely in pos? session of tho fog, tho darkest known this winter. Such a state is a complete calamity for tho metropolis, preventing business and encouraging accidents and offences of all kinds while it lasts. The navigation of tho Thames was altogether stopped. A mouse nest lined with fourteen dollars of greenbacks and fractionals was found at a store in Green Bay, Wisconsiu, where? upon a local paper observes: "This is another strong argument for the resumption of specie payments, as even the lower ani? mals are growing wasteful and extravagant uner an inflation of paper currency." Kato O'Hara, an operative in a cotton factory at Weltham, Mass., recently had her head caught in the belting in such a manner that her throat was cut nearly from ear to ear, laying bare the roots of the tongue, but breakiug no bones.* Sho was taken to the hospital, and is expected to re? cover. The. Griffin iStur says: "Farmers aro com? plaining of the scarcity of hands, owing to the fact that a largo number of negroes havo gono off to work on railroads in course of construction, and the balance of them havo their pockets full of rnonoy from their last year's labor, and aro as independent as a "tick in a tar bucket." The Rochester (New York) Union says: "Newspaper men and reporters receive in? vitations to all tho openings, from a saloon to a first-class hotel, from a school to a uni? versity. We aro indebted to a kind friend in the city government for an invitation lo be present at an opening of thc new small? pox hospital." A boy was sent by his mother to saw Homo stove-wood out of railroad-ties. Going out doors shortly after, she found the youth sitting on a saw-horse, with head down. Tho mother asked her hopeful son why he didn't keep at Iiis work. Tho boy replied thus: "My dear mother I find it hard, vory hard, to sever old ties." PERTINENT TO OUR TIMES.-If what the new Emperor of China recently said to his officials bo true, our posterity will bo over? powered with a bad smell. The brother to tho sun and moon addressed tho officers of his Government thus: "He who sinceroly serves his country, leaves tho fragranoe of a good natno to a hundred ages; he who does not, leave uamo that stinks for ten thou? sands of years." The National Women's Rights Convention at Washing1 on adjourned sine dit; yesterday, after adopting resolutions demanding suf? frage and the privilego for holding office for negroes and women; the right of tho samo to chooso thoir own occupations and receive men's wuges for men's work, and that, in. recotiHfruction, siiflrago shall bo based on loyalty / ad intelligence. A committee waa appointed to prepare an address to Con? gress and tho people. Several of the lady delegates have already determined on scuts in Congress,