The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1865-11-15

Alexander II. Rivers, Of Charlottesville,
says that he was informed by Secretary Sc,
ward that he wished to make peace between
the North and the South that, as TO the test
oath, if he had been in Congress ne should
not have voted for it but, said he, the oath
is Law, and any Congressional district in the
South "had better send an idiot OF g chtll tc
Congress who can take it, than to send wise
man who cannot"
The work room of James Watt, the irven.
tor of the steam engine, tsjust as he left it.
in the attic of his house. where he was driven
by scolding wife. The. will of his son re.
quired that the room should be left just as it
was when his father went out of the room
for the last time. The door was recently
opened for the first time in thirty years.
We learn, from one of our Northern ex-
changes, that son of John. Brown has just
made speech in which he urges the negroes
to arm themselves and insist upon ruling the
South by force. President johnson has just
made Speech in which he urges the negro
to go to work and leave their political future
ito Providence. Which advice will the color,
ed people take?
Egypt is suffering from scarcity of bread
stuffS, the 1'iceroy having by his lucrative
monopoly in the cotton trade, substituted
cotton to such an extent for corn all over the
country, that Odessa and all other grain de-
pots have now to be Iansacked to prevent
starvation from succeeding the cholera.
The Spaniards must be very fond of fetes.
They have just been holding some to celebrate
the entry of their sovereign upon the fifth
month cf pregnancy. Considering that Queen
Isabella has four children living, and has sew
eral times had expectations of others, The
event is not, one would t!ink, so rare as to
cali for much enthusiasm.
A female refugee (white} who had q. large
family dependant on her at Memphis, Tenn,
and who had only one calico dfesS, excited
the sympathy Of some gentlemen, who made
collection for her. which amounted to .Sl5.
She was profusc in her profcssiors Of graft
tude and at once repaired to a dry goods
store, where she paid thirteen dollars for a
lace collar.
4 speaker at a recent Fcnian meeting in
Worcester mysteriously inirnated that Fen
ian on board the Great Eastern purposely
damaged the cable, because he was determin-
I'd that informers should not have the use OF
the cable until Irish independence is achiev-
ed. .
Gov. johnson, of Georgia, has been Off
cially notified by the Secretary of State that
the President cannot recognize the people OF
Of any State rs having resumed re:atons OIL
loyalty to the Union who admit as legal Oh
jcctions debts created or contracted in their
name to promote the war of the rebellion.
They have found piece Ct pctr!ficd wood
| full of nails in California, and the CouSa Sun
asks who drove those nails in that wood. Inc
! Indians vino irhabit the country have no ldca
of working in iron. Perhaps it a piece OF
one of Sclomon's ships that he sent to the
! land of Ophir after gold
They arc calling loudly for wives in the
Rocky Mountains. y good wife, 1t is SAID,
will fetch most any price. The fact is, the
lonely old batchelors out there have grown
desperate, and don't care cuss for expenses
so they get q good article Of WIFE
! A convention of the planters Of Alabama
will be held IN Montgomery 90 the IIth IN
slant, to devise some plan for the procuring
. of labor, and to take action on such other
matters as will advance the agricultural IN
! tcrcst Of the State.
! A Texas letss7 says, eve want not on
IL farmers. but mechanics Ol all kinds. We
want rough labor, skilled labor, edncated la
Dor, human labor, horse labor and machine
labor
Charles F. Brown, of New York, is tic author
ofthc ".irtcmus Ward" papers going the roan(
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