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WEDNSDA MORNING, FEBRUARY 23, 1870. N.8 VofI Jin . n v .... W E D N ESD A Y TI4IERALD IS PUJLISIIED FYBRYEy WENESDAY MORiNING, At NeWborry C. 11., B~y 'Plosr F. & IB. H. Uronokor, Editors anTI Proprietors. Invarldbly in Advance. x'i v yier is setoped at the expiration of 'The p mark denotes expiration of sub. r ttou. 'Return of the Mria1 Voyager --Miraculous Escape. T'ho Augusta Constitutionalist -ihiblishos the following thrilling .account of the -ADrial voyago of Prof. King, who made a successful ascension from that city on the :9th MESSRs. EDIrTos: At fifteon -minites past 4, the preparations 'being all completo, the balloon was allowed to swing by a single Topo, the ballast was adjusted, and 'rising clear above the reach of tthose below, the cable was loosed :and the voyage began. The wind swas high, and I. moved off rapidly, un a North-casterly direction. I know by the shouts of the people, which were given with a will, that my balloon ascension thus .far had proved satisfactory,'and I tbegan to look around on the grand .scene presented to my view. The -atmosphere was very clear, giving Uno a prospect bounded only by the horizon, which was sharply 4ofined, and which presented a line unbroken by any mountainous projections around its entire cir cumforence. The whole face of the country appeared exceedingly level, though occasionally I saw some hills, but the general appear ance was that of a vast plain. I had a fine view of the city just at the start, but in consequence of moving away so fast, I could but notice its general appearance of regularity and neatness. Hearing a train of cars beneath, I looked down, and found that I had over taken the Charleston train, and was having a lively raco with them. They tried hard, as I have since learned, to keep tip with me, but in vain. I crossed the road diagonally, and left them away bQhind. At half-past 4, I had reached the height of one mile, and feeling a little chilly, put on my over-coat. To the left of my course, I saw three villages--they were Granitev-ille, Aiken and Blackvil. The general appear-. ance of the country was as if' the wholo fac.e of it, had1 boon once a .completo forest, and spaces made here and there by clearing oft' the timber, thus leaving the great mass of' woods, and dotting the ounItry ov~er with plantations. (Occasionally I camoe lowv enough ito hear' voices of persons below, but though I triedl repeatedly to get sonme informuationi of my whero abovts, I faijled to clicit any re eponse to my questions. As I passod over one house, I felt quite .euro that the (dwellers therein hadI j'cived a terrible searre, for theI %yon.on were soroaming ini a torrii Ile manner, aided by a single male voice. The wind bore me rapidly by the place, and I had my quiet Jaugh at their expense, when I #pw a flash near the (1oor of the 'house, followed by the report of a1 gun. I have no dloubt the shot was intended for the balloon, but1 I was out of the reach of any or 4linar'y gun, andl so had another laugh to my'self. As a sail on the < wveter .is a good atlpptizel', so is a voyago in the air, and this was noi eeption. eing wvell provisioned, I partools of a hearty supper, stop ping Qccasionally to observe the 1novonients of the balloon, and toi put oqt q little saind oecnsionally, for the sun was getting lower, and the gas thbat had been warmed by Jts rays cooling and condensing, 4 thus gradually losing a portion of 4 Jts buoyancy. Night was up.. proaching, and though I felt sure that it should be moon-light, I looked in vain for the silvery orbl. Thinkcing I must be mistaken, I thought of' landing without fur $hor dlelay, and looking below foiond that the sun's ranys had lefti the earth, though it was stillswhin Ing on the balloon ; In passing Aor somo water almost directly boneath me, the refleotIon of the ynoon ont its surfaeo,-brlght as the original, caunght my eye; the bat - loon hiad hidden it from me, so~ I1 contIiged on bny journey. D)uring thc.day..ight, I had noticed smoke eiuring up from the woods in ma ny places, but nowv all over the country near and far the fires could bo seen, fairly sprinkcling< the earth withi lights; in some places they were so numerous and no''t.oteithatIn they ave in - qj'XjjUt' ilppearance of a largo city, with its thousands of gas-lights. I thought at the time, however, that no matter how fine to look upon, they would be dangerous places to come in contact with when landing. I looked at my compass Occasional. ly, and sometimes found myself going North of .East and somo times South-east, the upper cur rent carrying me in the latter di rection. I did not know my ex. aot whereabouts, but hoped I was nearing Charleston, and thiscaused me to continue the voyago longer than I otherwise should have lone, The moon did me good 3ervico in the reflections given as [ passed along, showing the exact laturo of the ground, whether iwatps or dry land. It was past o'clock, when suddenly I left be. mind mo all signs of cultivation, and started into what seemed to no to be the beginning of a dis. rit bearing a character entirely lifferont from anything that had tome under my observation before. knew I must be approaching the tlantic, and thought I could nako it out in the distance, and it tow struck me that possibly I night have nothing better before no than that which was now un lcr me. I had struck the swamps n the vicinity of the Santee Riv :r, and being overflowed by the -iver, they presented for miles the nost uninviting prospeet for a anding I ever beheld, and my re icf can be imagined whl passed tgain to dry land. I now allowed the balloon to ottle gradually, with the view of anding as soon as an opportunity >ffcred. I floated along for some ime, however, before a clearing ame in my way; when this came Lt last in the shape of a field walled tround 1.y a thick wood. The -ate of speed at which I was raveling and the uncertainty with vhich height is measured by the ye in the absence of day-light, howed me the difficulty of land ng under such circumstances. L'ho attempt was made, however, >ut without success, just touching he tree-tops on the opposite side >f the lot. I had one bag of bal ast left. It was immediately brown over and kept the balloon )ut of the trees for a while, but it oon settled again and brushtd the ops of five or six pines, causing it .o rebound from fifty to an hun ired foot. This brought to view mother field just ahead, on which ,vero a number of naked (lead >ines. To have the balloon im >alod on one of these, is prIobhlbly ,bo most dlangorous position in vhich the moronaut could be placed, md( I would much rather have akon the chnnces among the ;reon pines, but my ballast was gone. I quickly let go my drag 'ope, hoping to clear' them by let ing the r'opo drag, instead of car 'ying its dead weight in the bas tot, biut it was not enough, and in mother moment, the "IIyperion" lashed broadside against one of ho tallest of these fiendish-look nig skceletons and was fastened in ts arms; the sudden escape of all bhe gas must, of course, follow, md what then ? I jumped on to ~ho edge of the basket, seized the irag rope with my hands, took a urn around one leg, and the next noment would have been safe up. mn the ground ; but the gas had scaped in less time than it took no to make my preparations, land vith a crash, the rotten limbs gave ~vay, and the whole mass fell to other. The distance from the round must have been from fifty ~o sixty feet, and1 howv I escaped 1vith whole bones, seems to me, at ~his moment, a miracle. The shook was terrible. I arose imnme ilately to my feet, staggering thout lk,o a drunken man, and yet mstonishedl that I was able to do to much. I soon regained strength, however, sufficient to enable me o reach a house near b)y, wvhere 1 ound some very intelligent eol >red peoplo,. whlo did all that lay, in their power to render me the 1ssstance I neeoded, I suffered much pain during the night, and :lid not pretcnd to sleop; but by 1'hur'sday afternoon, I had so far recovered as to be able to see to the nacking of the wre of the 10alloon, and at 7 o'clock that eve ling, I started in a wagon for Gourdin Station, on the North eastern Railroa(l, 50 miles from Charleston and 18 miles from 'hero I landed. The place of my descent was in the extreme South eastern portion of Clarendon County, S. C., on the plantation of Mrs. George B. Golby. On Fri day morning, I took the cars for Charleston, and left for Augusta the same evening. Tho trip in the balloon was made in about three hours and a half, and the dis tanco made not less than 130 miles. Yours, truly, S. A. KING. Cotton Stealing. The bill introduced by Mr. For riter, of Sumter, to regulate the sale of cotton and designed to af ford some remedy for the terrible evil of cotton stealing, and the illicit ti,ffic in seed cotton, from which the p!anting community suflered so much the past season, :ame up for consideration, in the House, on the 7th ult., and was lost by a vote of 62 to 2. We annex the following report of the discussion on the bill, taken from the "Courier," in order that our honest farmers may see how their interests stand with those who assume to be their represen tatives. Mr.Ferriter has discharged his duty in the matter, in the in terests of honesty and the coun try, and the result is before us. We say, emphatically, let there be no more burning, but let every man protect his own property. This he has a right to do, and this our hoiest people will (10. [Sumter Watchman. DeLargo moved to strikeout the enacting clause. Ferriter, of Sum ter, who introduced the bill, said that in his section of the country (Sumter) cotton stealing is an ovil, and the peoplo domanded some remedy. Little stores were opened in different parts of the country, and at night thieves would steal cotton and sell to these stores. The people both rich, and poor, demanded protec tion from these midnight maraud ors, and this bill will give the remedy. lie said although the bill could not prevent the thieves from stealing otton, yet it would provent persons from realizing on the stolen 'cotton. It would pro tect the poor colored man who raises a few bales, as ws"ell as the rich man who raises a thousand bales. It was for the benefit of' thme whole people, lie saidl he could( tell of' cases wvhere the fields werme white with cotton at sunset, and at sunrise it had been entire ly str'ippe(d. Such actions had ox asporated the peop)le, and a short time ago the storoe of Mr. IRobert son who had been accused of buy ing stolen cotton was burned to the ground, and if the citizens can not be pr'otected1 they will again take the lawv in their own bands. This cvii of cotton stealing was growing, and in one county of this State thirty little stores had been star-ted in thirty days, who were carrying on the illicit trade of buying stplon, and no doubt urged parties to steal it. The tr'ado is all car'riedl on between 8 o'clook, P. M. and dlaylight. lie saidl the idoea of cotton weighers was no new thing, for fourteen years ago in the town of Cherawv, they had' cotton weigher*s. Cotton is the great staple of our coutstry, andl the p)lantor', be he rich or poor, must be protected. It was the wish of the colred people that some such measure as this should p)ass, as he had been among them in the field and on the highway, had conversed with thomn and knew their wants. lHe hoped the enacting clause would not be stricken out. Tomlinson opposed the bill, and said the Legislatutro might as well pass an Act to regulate the sale of rice (and plenty of that had been stolen,) corn or any other commo dity, lie did not believe the amount of cotton had beoon stolen as has been asserted,. The gen tleeman from Sumter (Forriter) had referred to the burning of Mr. Robertson's store in Sumter nby indlignant citizens." lie would ask. had it been shown t..at . Robertson was guilty of receivin stolon cotton ? 1to said ho be. lioved tho burning of Mr. Robert. son's store was a political not, and for no other causo, for the men went there in (lisguiso. Ie said all this clamor about stolen cot ton is raised for political effect on. ly-it is :ill bosh. lie desired it to be understood that ho was not speaking in ia spirit of( domagogu. isn. IHo said the Legislaturo has no right to interfero in such things; to pass the bill would be to oppress a majority of poor poo plo in this State. DeLargo opposed the bill and said ho thought the bill was born in hell and concoived of the devil. 1Io hoped tho bill would be voted down, and show to these people who como hero and say if the flogislaturo will not (10 so and so they will do so and so. They may burn down stores onco too often. The Stato now has the power to take hold and punish such niduight marauders. There is sutficiont law on the statute books to punish stealing, be that the stealing of cotton or anything else. If the law is not severe enough then amend it. What more protection is noodod ? Sure ly tho bill before us cannot grant it. There is law enough to pun ish receivers of stolen cotton also, and how ridiculous it seoms for men to talk of taking the law in their own hands. If Robertson had been guilty of buying stolen cotton, why did they not arresi him--instead of burning his dwel ling and driving out his wife and childron-and then apply the law which, if they did not think wa: severe enough, let them come t< this General Assembly and asl that the law be amended. But u they did not i and men wh are outlaws come here an ask us for protection. Ohl con sistency thoi art a jewel. Lot ui tell these gentlemen of Sumtcl county that if they again act con trary to the law that there is pow e' in the Stt.to that will mak< thon stand to law. This bil would be an act of oppression t< the poor, ats it proposes to ta> t.hioms to fee a commissioner, an< upon the whole, it is dangeroui and special legislation. B. James, (colored,) of Sumtei favored the bill and believed th< measure would benefit all the po pl, rich as well as poor. Ito did not believe the assertion of' th< gentleman from Charleston, (Tom linson ,) that (lhe des2tr'uction o cal action. 1lic said lhe kniow Rob ortson, and1( as far' as Robertsonu p)olitical status was concerned, ii w as not up to high wvater mark.c ie said cotton hand been1 stole,' from the fields of poor color'ed men and carried at night to littkc stores and sold. Smiling (color'ed) of Sumtore, 01) p)osed the bill. H1e had conivor'sod with wvhito and colored people in his county in rofer'enco to this bill, lie believed (lie intent oi the bill was good, but it was spo0ilt in drtawing it up. This bill does not catch the dishonest man at all. It will not (10 to compel a 1)0or man who has a bag of' cotton to car'ry it to town or await the p)leasure of the Commissioner to examine it, before ho can sell it. lIe believedl thio bill entirely do. trimontal to theo interosts of the poor man. WiIlor opposed (tho bill, and looked upon it as an attempt to reovive the pr'ovisiotns of (lie 0o(1 nogr'o code, iIe was not sur'prised at thie sour'co frotm whicht thoe bill or'igitntod (Sumtor.) lIo said lie was born in Suntor, andl woll roo-. ollected the timeo whenm a poor' col. ored man wished to sell a few eggs, &c., unless lie had a pass from his master, lhe was put in the "bull-pen," anid no0w about the same pr'oposition is offered her the appointmen t of Cornmission Oira to inispoot andl weighm cotton, ie styled them as tr'ickster's, who wanted( to buy the cotton from the 1poor coloredl man at anor nominal figure. lIfe was frooe, and wanted1 every man to be free in his actions andl in the sale of his products, be they lar'go or small. Whipper opposed thie bill and saiid there was numlicnt. law tc punish either potty 01 grand ltar cony, and why not apply the la'? In regard to the appointment of Coinmissioners ho wanted to know what guaranty there was that said Commissioners would all be hon ost men, and it' not would they not encourage stealing of cotton and sell somo f'or their own bone fit ? And again would it be possible that the cotton thief would go to the Commissioner or with his stolen cotton and there establish his guilt ? What is want od, said ho, is a Commissioner on each 14rgo plantation to protect the poor laborer and see that ho is not robbed and cheated of his hard earning. Ramsay (colored) of Sninter, and Chesnat (colored) of Kershaw, also made brief speeches in oppo sition to the bill. On the question of striking out the enactin- clause of the bill, Do Large called the yeas and nays, which resulted as follows: Yeas (2: nays 2 ; absent or not voting, 59. GRACE OF M.oTloN.-There is no gainsaying the beauty and general fascination of' American women, but some of them are lamentably deficient in a certain finish of' man nor. They are graceful, but too quick in their motions to achieve readily that admirable reposo ;nd distinction of bearing w1hch is so indicative of education and good brooding. The first law of a lady's code is to move slowly. The importance of its observance is hardly at first apparent. It enables her, however, to retain her presence of mind, t0 be always on the watch, never to commit a biunder, not got vulgar ly excited, and never to seem in I hurry. Slow motion is espeeially neces, sary upon occasions of ceremony 1 in getting in and out or a carriage ascending a flight of stops, or tra Versing the length of'a room in It c presence of of her persons. One is often shocked by seeing ladies in rich dresscs, and ovon with trains, trip up and down steps, across pavlnments, and in and out of cat' riages, in a conscious way that, in dicntes very brief possession of state appliances, and so untierring is the indication of inaptitude that oven a street crowd will jeer at this evidence of wan1t of habit and traini ng.-.Dcmorest'. ./onthly. "Ga iMr, Su m D 1)a"s" - .I)t OumTINO I\cit'XT.-'l'he Columbia Gulardian says: 'Quitevni amusing scene, and one inidienltive of' the dignity of' that angust body, oc cur'red in tile H[ouse a daty or' two since. Doe ar'ge hiav'ing prtocurode( something in tiho appearanceil~ Of an apple pic, was dividling it very generously among such of' his con frrsas were seated niext himi, w hen Elliott, w ho was s;eat ed somol dlistance off,r'uishied uip,aind in rather poremp)1tor'y termts, demaluied a slice. As the pie, so De)Lar'go's Ii berality had diminished, and there being but a single sliico remin 1ing, ho replied to Elliott's demand by r'amming that hastily in his own mou:,b. Elliott w~as not to be so easily i'obbed of' his expected treat --like an eagle lie poun icedi upon0 de-largc member from Ciharloston andl grasping him b)y tihe thrioat, endoivored to choke himi iinto a more generous state of mind. Be ing the stouter, andl having the advantage in position, lhe standing and the othotr seated, Elliott sue cecod in jammring IeLiargo's head down upon his chair, when the latteroended the encounter by using his knife upon01 his antagonist's leg, sending h im scampo'irig away to his sont, amid the laughter of the Hlouso." .Princs de la Tlour' d'A uvergne, whio has obtained a grant f'rotm theoSultan of the piece of' ground wvhereon Chist taught the Lorid's pr1ayer', is personally superintend ing the ereetion of' a templ)e on thospot, which will contain the prafor in eveory language. She is an enthuisiast, and works among the Stones with her owvn hands, ani has already sp)ent over $50,. 00) in carrying out her project. The leader of a recent camp. meeting in Ohio announced. "The bro hor-in-lawv of President (Grant wil nlow iead nta ini nen'ay,. We have becnl thinking to-day of the times that are gone-of the comrades we lorod--of the frionds we may neve'seo again. We re call the weary march ; the glowing watch-fires of' the bivounol; the shrill tones of the bugle ; the soul. stiring roll of the drum ; and we hear again the thunders of' battle and the wild cheor: of' charging columns. In recalling those days, we forgot their trials and sorrows, their hardships and deprivations, their ghastly sights and sounds of pain and remember only their joys. When we spreal our blankets 'neath the stary dome of' night., and went to sleep, to dream of home and loved ones far away. I When tho toils of' the march and tho dangers of'the fight . were over how we gat lie'ed a'ountild the camp111-fire to drop ia t'ar to the memory of' the fallen, and ex chalnge greetings with those who wor10 spared. Au h the cruel war is over now, and the whilom coi rades are scattered fr anid wide. Somo of thotm are to he found in the busy marts of' commorrce while others cultivato their deso late fields. Many have sought their fortunes 'neath alien skies, while more, alas, are taking their sleep on lonely, far ofif battlo-fields. ThoAo are gone from us fbro'er. Never more will we hear the sounid of their friendly voices, or feel the WiarIl pressuro of' their manly hanls. '1'hei' eyos are dimmed and their stalwart forms a'e slowly moulderinig to the dust. Never,unttil tle resurrec.tion norn, will we know where our 1lost and loved ones are sloping. 'l'hey fill unknown, but not unh onoir1d I'graves; at whieh, in coming years, the votaries of freedom will kneel and render that homage ever due to exalted worth. Comrades, sleep on. Tie roarp of battle will tovCe" again 1,i'ii break in upon your sslumbors; the voico of loved one. woo you from the tomb. Your monunonts are the blue arches of' the sky, and your dirges aro night ly sung by the murnuring winds. Spring will deck your humble rest ing paices wit.h her fairest flowers, and Winter wrap them in his ivy shroud-i, bu t fit beyond the Spring's sweet flowers and \l'in tor's snows you' souls I'e at rest. in the bosom of their ithe mal a and their (God. 'Ve that. are Ileft. in the land "where we are dreain ing" will ever keep greens in our ieart'ts the recollection of your sac'ificos, andil will f'o'l'ev' bles and prieserve'4 y'our m emoruies. In each meitet ing between Ite living, as the years sti'ot ch tlibrough~l the vista of1 li fe, sad hearits will beat in unison, with the pre'v(ious recol lec'tions of' the past. ; anid w~lhe the gloious remembanesi )i2 ofCC 1 the m arch, the bivouno, anid the baLt lo fi ehl are revivified amti trianiisfigur1ed1 in to Ihigh r'esolvyes, anid noble pine poses arund the festivities of' pono, dlea th will r'eveaol its eri inorenCsi ng muster roll untIl all of life shall have shaken earth from its immor'ality andi( this genera tioni, with its r'o u nd or arim ies miai battalions be translated to thle sphor'os. And niono in that spi ritI host will have a birighte cr m nore impor'ishablo r'ecord( than the Con federate army. Its battles are among thli grandest in the 'od aurora of' war. Its heroes are the people's idols, and their names andI momrtorios will livo in perennial beauty when flags and14 tombs have crum bled in to dutst. And1( may we not roverontly trust in all the future transformaiztions of' the r'epulici, that the high rosolvs'e ndl unselfish p)ersovo'rnces of tho mar'tyredl dead, will nervoeos tority to fulillI its highest ideal in the economy of the universe, un. til the sun in daily course shall look down upon a united nlation one in history and in hopo.--IFall's CJounty Pioneer. Thli New York papor's make merry Over a couple of fashiona bly-dressed women, who have fig. uired extensively during the last few days in Wall street, making purchases and sales of' stocks. They are saidl to be quite au fait at the business, but the ifereld is puzzledl to knowv whether they are to be classed with the "4bulls" or the -'ber's." Woman's sphor'o is widoning The Lato "Thundor All Round the Sky"-The Kentucky Tornado. The lato oxtraordinary "heated term" F'or mid-winter has culimn atod West of the Alleghanies in a great storiml or Connlooted chmain of storms of hurricane winds, light ning and thundlor, rain and hail, stcl as, in the region involved, aro not expected till the month of .1tuno. Ferom our telegraphic ad Vices, it appears, that on the night of the 16th, (Sunday,) a heavy thunder-ntorm passeld over St. Louis, doing considorablo damage to chimnneys, signs, awinings, trees, f,'ncus; that, on tlhe saui evenilg, i simihar storm prevailed1 at, Nash ville atnd thereaboutts, doing con siderablo damango to buildings, that through central and South orn Ohio, there was at tihe Same timu, at heavy rain fall, flooding the smauller stramslif and) creating a freshct in the (.)hio itiver itself; that the focus or contral point of this extelsivo Commtlloto) among the clme)Is, appears to have boen in the Mamm11tnotIh Cave, ait Cavo City, and in that ne ighborhood, whero the storm mmppeared a full blown West I ndlianl'tornatldo, swoop. ing fnceos, troos, hlousut+, ov"ery thing, bof 'oo it, and involving a lam entablo (estruction of human life, to the number of twenty-tivo or thirty porsons or lore, in that sparsely-sottled dist rict A day later they had a thunder stormtit as ftir I,ast as t he IHludson Hiver, andl as filr North as PougIl kecps)ie, wthilo in this city anl atlon4 the Athmttiv coatst, lenwnedttl. andl Sout,hward, two or three days of clouds and fogs and rain, with somie snow /"away lown East, have marked this most extra ortdinary visitation of the warm anti heavily char-god oxhalaltions from the GUtilf' Stream. BedI ucing, o1101), il thoso ril1ns, snows, liail storms and hurricanes of the in tortval between the 15th and 19th da1ys of this 111011th to the difforing phases of ot1o great storm, oxtond in1g from t110 cotton region of the South to.tho Now 1)ominliou, and from the Atl:mtio coast to the lociky Motltaills, th question rc c'1s, what, caused it ? If we look Vor the r-emnoto Caus(es, wo miuust apply our explanttion to the re collt hetvy stormluls passing over the itish islants, which, we thllink:, nmy involvo some extraor ina:ry perturbal ti/os i t(he ltmos pll'rl- othe eni'ymii htii 113t b iro i :i of the gtob wMiti th Novh tem. the vn DThd hotm boars to ti an w,iill noto.')i what111 tho toolribl even kimie ani(Id findo, say anIdM dol in referenc to Hthe11 wf il bo afteriO(l he is03 dead, o will e frm s8houi paylto te oi ions1 tof to th fbaor ohr frvorcofhatn, to wicXfhtan a oll wa hther-ockb fol-'Vy submts, bin endd ina do'. N struction1an prditon, h811 i00 th' Ods do'l ear aistra Cif' the fi' damnod IlfOThyeyondl goChmei itsag to i g rinti'o, o terchanooi to a bad or001 f othe rlii that oh X sd ead. Wha Oao uch foro-i pitlo frl is' i if tht(tIO 1Oit) jontavono thelir. ow wiles di Whingar to shvegooe seec of'th oteraA lyo-t hi rion Whtormety forhisn toomily, ie thre folof nbusico, costslteirn ow tilOios fw dollarsoTe ddnthingte o inaion hof some ofn thomaand leros, opnionno nhow havesROmlhi' from shos thion sow tofmndWhn tooard, he sover the olr of an ensaveen tho isthreyoingin of miins road.m Don domnd yourious tospetin othog mat to opiin hol aenomr.n v" ADVERTISING RA Advertisements inetted at thid sat4 per square-ooe inch-for flrst insertu 81 for each subsequent inserli;o column advertibemunts ten per cent on Ot Woticcs of meetings, obilunrios and trlutes of respect enmo rates per square as ordinary advertisbcgients, , 1pocial notipos iq 1QQol column iO 4 t per line. Advertisements not mnrkc4 with the n"pl, ber of insertions will be kept hi till tlrbid ani charged accordingly. Special contracts made witti large r.dv#r ter, with liberal deductious on above odad. ?r'w ? Pa. r'z Dopo with Nostness and Dispateb. Terms Cash. TUHE SPAUows.-..A hundrod and eighteen sparrows have boon of fered upon the altars of science. The contents of the stomachs of the victims have boon oxatnined, tabulated and recordod. Three culprints alone, out of this hee atomb, were proved, by the .iut sparing search, guilty of bavng lived for tho past twenty-four hours upon grain. In fact thort. wore three thieves out of tho 118; all the other victims had worked, more or less, for their living. Beetles and grubs and larvt of all obnoxious kinds had been their dict. In seventy-livo of the birds, infants of all ages, from thQ caf low fledgling to the littlo Pocksy and Flapsy that just twitter aloug the ground, hardly any but insect spoglie were deteeled. What, would the starved -mnd inlustrioua pioneers who have reared their wonderful tern pi and city by th,e great Salt Lake havo given fi,r the aid of an army of English sparrows agtlinst that greater and far more foriidable host ofgratsw hoppers which thrice all but an. nihilated the settlemet ?-Leeds (Eng.) Builder. Wo have been requested by t gentleman of this city to stato that if any parties desire to import to this country some of the spar. rows ahovo atlludecl to he will order them upon being paid or gunmranteedi the actual cost of iln, portation. As we have steamera plying directly to England, we think the plan oftrying their eflica cy in the destruction of t hie Cotot worm worthy of a trial. Tho gentleman alluded to has a re lative residing in England who has volunteered to have the birds caugh t, and se they are properl.y providedI for oin thle voynge. (Courier. LrcENsa: roa GniMnr,r N'.-A bitl with the above title waus intro.. __ '3 ied In. .in, nouse, last.Satu rday. It provides that in South Carolina, after (lhe p)asage of this Act, all gamles of' chaneco, such ase faro, monte, rouletto, rouge et noir, rondo, or any ban kinrg gamo pjlaye*d at cards, dliec, or aniy othletr dev ice, wvhiet,her thme samo be plnyed foir mlon)ey, checks, credlit or anmy ot her replresenitative of value, there shnH bo h paidl intto thle trenvsur y oif lie CJoutnty whIiereini sneh gam res tire played the followinmg tarifY ,f' licenses, viz: 8-150,, (quarter'ly, fo r faro ; $200, quarterly, for each anud every othier gaume of' c hanieo; thaot, in all cases a separntto Ilicce n must b)0 takenI out, for ea*chi gnmoi played on the p)remris's ; that gam bling without a licenmse shaul lie pun iishedu by a fino of not less t han $1,000), or more thanii $:3,00, or by imnpri oniment inii hle Coun mty jail fori not, less t han three nor more thani twielv i. momtIhis. A N I m.iiLT.\NT I Nvi'oN'Pt-A Ct TT ON SEOi) j{ u i,EI--Mossrs. Brodjo & Co. have nowv On exh li bition at t hir otl(co Shawii's ('Otton Hseed hller~m, a machliid thamt wais in1 veni fod for1 the 0 1prpose of' sheoi ig thie 00t toil seed aifter fi rst removing thme lint. The husk is one0 of' the best fertilizers for c>t ton that is known, whlilo the kernel produces ain oil tht is unlsurpa)IssedI foir luibrlenting pu rposos. Tihe ref'us cake that is left after extracting the oli is also uitiliaced, and the cot,. toni good bids thir to becomo an imn p)ortanlt comminerci al expor~t from ourt Soumthorn ports.--ChJ'arkcs(on TL~um. STEAM PtfOU(aHf-.-Thec Clamron,. dIon Press says that two English gen.. tlomn, just from Englanid, lave ro.. cotly pumrebiased the large "Bloonm Hill"' farm, formerly owned bly thati wvell knowni and worthy citizen of' Claroendoni, Capta in T.1. (1. Riechardsoni, whor'o they anicipato farming on thme En~mglish plan, and- initend using the steami plough. They iro highily in telligent, energetic, and thmoroug~h-going business meni. T he Christian Advocate sa V* that RIov, Mr. Richardson, ~ Washington, Ohio, is probably the oldest living A merican olorgy~ man, Yet he appears by n~ means superannua~tod,' fbr, a. though .one hundred and six years /' >f' age, ho walks five miles on 8 - lay and proaohos a sermon