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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-06-02

The present charge on transportation from
New York to Cincinnati is $l4; to this place,
an average of upwards of $40; to St. Louis
about the same. on the freight paying lowest
charges, being much more than double the rate
at which 1t could be carried by railroad and ca
nal through Virginia. .1a
These charges to and from New York, can
be reduced, and will be, when forced upon them
to meet competitions, but they will meyer be SO
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-06-02
For the Spectator.
LITTLE DICKIE.

WHO FELL ASLEEP OCTOBER 18th, 1867
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-02-26
The Chinese Rebellion
. -. Wholesale Slaughter.

: According to our latest adyices
from China, { Hong KonggsS Decem-
ber 1e,) "the war in theNorth be-
tween the imperial d rebel
forces: is being vigorously waged."
10 show how vigorously, we are
told that a great battle at Shan.
tung promontory resulted in the,
defeat of the rebel army, which
lost $4,000 men. But subsequent
ly the imperialists were defeated
in their, turn sin severaIaev ere en-
gagements, with heavy loss" A
loss that may be described as
"heayy"" comparison to that OF
80, 600 men, which seems not to
amount to much in China, must
have been heavy indeed. Perhaps
it is better to put it at five times
$4,000, more or less, or, 400, 600.
This Chinese rebellion has been
going on for somewhat more than
eighteen years, during which it
has been estimated that from
thirty to forty million lives have
been sacrificed: If it continues
for twenty years longer-and
there seems tobe no special reason
why it should not, unless foreign
Intervention puts a stop to it
even the 5Oo,ooo,ooO of Chinese
population will begin to be percep-
tibly thinned out. Should the
Chinese persist in destroying each
other at such a scale of wholesale
slaughter, as in the recent battle
at Shantung promontory, the Rus
sian Gear may be constrained, if
only by motives of humanity, to
step oyer the "Great Wall" erected
as protection against Tartar in
cursions, to overrule the empire
and sack Pekin, like Genghis
Khan, in 1s12.-M. Y. Herald.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-02-26
Cotton.

This insidious enemy to our
prosperity, says the Cheraw I'D.
,verttser, under our changed eircuns
stances, is again holding onsits de.
lusive promises. After the produ.
Ger has parted with the bulk Of
his crop, at a ruinous loss, the
price has advanced some Eve cents
per pound in our seaports. And
this too at a time when the plaas.
er must determine the acres he
must plant the current year. as if
to induce him to risk the treach-
erous article again. Gould, we
make our voice potent, it would
be raised in warning of the fatal
deceiver. :. -.,... ~.....'.'>,5>c.>>
But many ask, what shall we
do? We answer 6rst, you had
better do nothing than to, do .
losing business, and second, that
corn peas, potatoes, &C., will pay
better than cotton: Largo guam
titles Of Tennessee, Georgia and
Carolina corn are sold: daily in
the New York market: This fact,
of ITSELF proves that it pays, or
it would not be shipped there,
South Carolina needs a full corn
crop to enable her planters TO
make cotton. .,....... =. .,.s4. ,. ;.
Southern white. corn sold: ia
New York on the l1th inst, at
$1.22 to STERILIZATION Crescent. !,
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-02-26
Social Condition Of England.

The London Revie,o devotes its
leading article for the new. year
to retrospect and a confession.
The confession is certainly can
did: -
AT this time there is no coun-
try, no matter how embarrassed
or how poor, in which there is 80
much pressing and painful power
ty, so much vice, so much misery,
as in England. We have failed
with our lower classes to such an
extent that in the country we find
some of them working like cattle,
fed and housed worse than cattle,
while in the towns We do not
know what to do with them until
they are ripe for dropping into
the seething pool Of vice and
crime. With ell our wealth, and
England is a wealthy country, we
have not succeeded in distributing
happiness or content in the pro
portion of which we could be
proud. ) We find massed against
US a gloomy and threatening
spirit Of insubordination, and q
gathering Of ominous elements,
from which voices are heard, that
having broken DOWN in our, task
we should give it up to those who
will change all things. Criticism
is nolonger a function limited to
one class. :. Our future masters be-
gin to take stock and value Of Us.
/ 'In= that social life in which
most of us are concerned, which
may be placed above the reach of
sordid wants, can we congratulate
ourselves upon distinct advanced
Around us on all sides we learn Of
families living upon fictitious in
comes, we find q rate Of increase
in the taste for luxuries SO incom-
Hensurase with the means fer get
ting them. honestly, that people
satisfy the craving with a reck,
lessness which brings ruin upon
them. Comfort is a word the
meaning Of which is beginning to
disappear. Every one desires to
be rich. and those who are not
rich keep up the pretenee until
the wolf is at the door, Z
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-02-26

recognize any obligations based on
slavery. 1t is the great funda-
mental principle Of our party, that
slavery and everything connected
with it, or growing out of it, shall
cease to exist 1,<have all conf
dence that a principle so just and
so noble will overcome all obsta-
cles.. Let us, as the representa-
5tives ofsuch principles in South
Carolina not fail, at the very
threshold to do our duty.
Z A few words in reply to the
gentleman from Fairfield who op-
posed this measure last week. |
can imagine two reasons, why he,
as q lawyer, should oppose this
proposition. The ene-his great
desire that. there should not be
even semblance of violation of
law. But il. he will goback of the
law, to what should be the found
alton of alllaw; to the great prin-
cipies of justice, his objection on
this point must fall to the ground.
The other reason is, one common
to all lawyers; and which may ac-
count in some measure for nearly
every lawyer opposing any meas
ure of relief-the desire to have as
many lawsuits as possible, and as
many people ruined, so they can
secure the loaves and fishes. i
have too much confidence in my
friend from Winsboro, to think
that this. latter motive has any in
fuenee with him. But I cannot,
for the life of me, find any reason:
why he, asian individual desirous,
of the prosperity and welfare Of
the. whole people, should oppose a
measure, SO wise and just, and cal
culated to afford so much relief.
go = = -,E
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-02-26
The editor of the Nashvill

The editor of the Nashville
Banner has seen a corn cob,
shaped like a human forearm,
with a perfect human hand and
fingers at the small of the cob.
The thumb and fingers of the
hand are complete. Even the
veins of the wrist and the finger
nails are visible, and the simili-
tude is so striking that he could
almost imagine the veins and
sinews instinct WITH human life.
May it not, inquiries the Banner,
be warning hand upraised, tell.
ing US to abandon the culture OF
cotton, and give our undivided at
tention to corn {?
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-02-26

OcoNEE.-The last number OF
the Keowee Courier announces
that it's next issue will be at Wal
halla. The Anderson Inteiligencer
states that meeting was to be
holden 90 Tuesday to locate the
Court House of. Oconee, the new
District or County wherein WAL
halla is situstsds
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-02-26

Renewed prosecutions of the
Jews are reported in Moldavia.
Their houses are burned or torn
down, their stores sacked, and
their persons horribly maltreated.
In some cases they have been
obliged to escape secretly to save
even their lives. 1t is said that
the authorizes did not even pre-
tend to prevent these outrages,
All who attempted to defend the
Jews were treated in the same man.
q
per.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-02-26

The Cotton CRoP.-The cotton
spectators, having combined to
raise the price of cotton, the South
ern planters are in astate of "high
jjpks." The spectators design to
stimulate a large crop; hence these
prices in advance. They conf
IDENTIFY rely upon the gulllbility of
our farmers, and already rejoice
that the alluring bait has been swal:-
lowed. A correspondent of the
New York Herald thus writes;
THE recent rise in the price of
cotton. has already produced a
magical effect in the South"
Yes; and the decline in cotton
next fall, the Augusta Constitution
azist suggests, will produce another
effect more melancholy than magi-
cal, We 6eaF.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-02-26

The Early County News is
down:on Florida as heavy as eyer.
Abiding to the offer made BY the
Florida Railroad Company to give
lands to actual settlers. Bro
Grouby says it is like Offering a
fellow thousand dollars to take a
front seat in hell, Well, if he
don't want to 60, to either place,
we reckon he can stay where ha
is for. a while. The people Of
Florida certainly don't want him,
if those are his sentiments, and
the inhabitants Of the other place
well, we stop right here fog
the present.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-02-26
Defence of Slavery" is the one by
which he is best known to the
generality of readers. ...
The John Adams.

. The John Adams.
+ The finishing strokes in break
ing up the old sloop-ofwsr John
Adams are taking place on the
Marine Railway in Fairhaven.
She was purchased from the Gov
ernment for $4,000, and it has
cost 81, 900 to tear her to pieces,
but her present owners will get
enough copper and iron from her,
with many good pieces Of live oak
timber, to give them a profit. Her
keel is as good to-day as when she
was built-50 years ago or more.
Some Of the copper bolts passing
throagh her stern dead wood
were over ten feet long. q. - -:
- :, ENeao Bedford Standard.
The perusal of the foregoing
paragraph fiings US back, in an in
slant, upon the memories @of fifty
years ago. We dare not trust
these memories so as to. o.@speak
with confidence of the facts, but
there is no doubt that the John
Adams was built in the waters of
Charleston harbor, at the. ship
yard on: Cooper River, we think,
but possibly at Accabee, in the
AshIy. She was built somewhere
about. the beginning Of the war of
1872, and, if we are not greatly
deceived in-o our memories, by the
Statesof South Carolina, and pre-
sented by that rebellious State to
the Government Of the United
States, then a feeble maritime
power, without a naNy,rtor one
only sneered at by Great Britain
as s'half a dozen eoekboats, with
striped bunting at the n,asts." 1t
was through the patriotism Of
such rebels as John. G: Calhoun,
William Lowndes, and such men,
of the rebel State Of South Carroll
ma, that Congress carried that war
through triumphantly, ard in
spitesofthos Eirtuous Puritans, Of
New England-all the virtues
who then opposed the Govern
ment, got up the Hartford Con:
vention. and threatened secession
--ail the while boing busted in
lending aid and comfort to the
enemy. These are all interesting
bygones, awakened, in memory=by
this little paragraph about the
corvette John Adams. What is
said about her, touching her con;
dition at breaking up, conveys a
striking compliment to the. Char
1eston ship builders at that day
We're the Government Of the
United States capable, of that
grand sentiment of generation, she
would have been rebuilt, restored
and kept renewed: forever, as a
monument Of a period when there
was patriotism, and virtue in the:
land. --...,..- 80. 49,. ~. = ~-->
We shall be pleased, if any; Of
our old inhabitants, drawing upon
memory shall be able to supply
our deficiencies in the facts re-
.garding this vessel. We should
be pleased, among other things,
to be able to put upon record the
name of her builder. We have
the farther impression. that,
though vessels had been built in
Charleston harbor, even in colon
ial times, the "Ship Yard"-so
knowp-was permanently estab-
lished first on Cooper River for
the construction Of the John
Adams.-Charleston Courier.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-02-26
The Late Bishop Hopkins OF
- = Vermont. - a-i- IT, ~

-. - gss--
J We have already had the teie-
graphic announcement of the
death of Bishop Hopkins of Yer
mont. at his residence, near Bur Bur
lington, in. that;State. ~a,: .,1<r-
Bishop Hopkins was senior
Bishop Of the Episcopal Church.
zHe1was born in Dublin on, the
.seth,of January, 1892, and was
therefore in the ? seyenty-sixth
year of his age at. the time Of his
decease. He was. intended for the
law, but after receiving q classical
education he passed, a year IN a
5seounting-roem. in. Philadelphia.
In his nineteenth year he cons
meneed the, manufacture of iron
in Pennsylvania, and I've years
later married a daughter of Cas-
par Otto Muller, a retired mer-
chant of Baltimore. Having lost
all his means By the prostration
of the iron trade, eonsequentupen
the peace of 1915, he turned his
attention to the law, and in 1878
was admitted to the bar II. Pitts
burg. After pursuing his profes-
sion for several years he entered
the ministry, and when ordained
was chosen, in: 1924, rector Of
Trinity Church, Pittsburg, where
he soon. became prominent. In
the Diocesan Convention Of 1927,
he was nominated for. the office of
Assistant Bishop Of Pennsylvania,
DR.. H. u. Onderdonk being the
opposing candidate. The votes
being equally divided, Mr.. Hop
kins cast his vote for Mr.. onder-
donk, and thus secured the elee
ton Of the latter. in 1881, Mr.
Hopkins was called to- Trinity
Church, Boston, as assistant min
ister, and was chosen soon after
wards Professor of Systematic d.
vinity in the Theological Semina-
ry in that State. In the spring
of 1882 he was first Bishop OF
Vermont, serving at the same
time as rector of st. FanPs
Church, Burlington. In 1886 he
resigned his rectorship to devote
himself more unreservedly to the
charge of the diocese and to the
building up of the Vermont Epis-
copal Institute. Last year Bishop
Hopkins attended the Pan Angli-
can Synod, held at London. He
was all his life a dilligent student
and a prolific writer. In his lat
ter days bis sympathy with the
South gained him many warm ad'
mirers in that section, but brought
him into corresponding odium at
the North. His work entitled "A
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-02-26
The New Lingo. p

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is specimen from 2 new.
grammar to be gratuitously eircu- :
lated for the use Of conventions
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The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-02-26
Asylum for Useless Young
Men.

y
Men.
In every community there is a
certain percentage ofuseless young
men, whose ultimate condition
must excite the sympathy and
consideration Of every philan-
thropist. What Will become of
thema We do not put the ques-
tion as to their future state, but
how will they round off their
earthly existence? They have no
visible means of support, still they
hang on, they vegetate, they keep
above the ground. In a certain
+ literal sense, they may. be said to
live, move, and haveab being. They
lounge in Offices, promenade the
streets, appear at social amuse-
ments, play the gallant to good
natured ladies, and attend to the
necessities oflapdogs. Theirmore
quiet and undemonstrative life may
be described as an intermittent
torpor, in which meals, cigars,
drinks and sleep mark the changes.
Their existence would be a mys-
terry, but for their bearing rel
ations to, other substantial peo-
pie known as ''pa," "ma,'' or "bet-
ter half" who are able to maze
provision for the waste and pro-
lection of their bodies in the way
of clothing and food. Still, ought.
these tender young men to be left
to the chances ofparental or domes,
tic affection2 All are not equally
fortunate. . y...'-.. =.
What shall we do. with those
whose dependence is precarious?
They do not admit Of any util:;
itarian, disposition. In cannibal
countries they could be eatenas
q substitute for veal; their bodies
would also make excellent fertili-
szers for sterile lands; but the pre-
judices of a Christian people would
revolt atthe solution oftheproblem.
A certain number could be en-
ployed as lay figures in the shop
windows to exhibit clothes On,
bnt the tailors might not have con-
fdence. in them Most of them
could color, meersehaums, but this
business would produce little, rev.
enue. What, .then5 shall be done?
The tax now falls upona a few, and
it ought to be distributed. We
propose, therefore, a State Asylum
for useless young men. An in
stitution ofthis kind could be cas-:
ilE filed with. those between the
ages of eighteen and. thirty, who
should be grouped and associated.
together so that the rude jostling
and friction of the working world
would not disturb their delicate
nerves. - <. 60,
Here they could cultivate their
moustaehes, part their hairbehind,
and practice. attitudes. In this
resort, with a little enforced ex-
ercise to keep their circulation in
healthy state, with dolls to play
with as compensation for the alb
sence of ladies' society, these. use
less young men could be supported
with ease and comfort, and all in
dustrious people would be. willing.
to pay the expenses Of this in
stitution, rather than bearthe pain :
full solicitude in regard to the well
fare of these superfuous members
of society. When provision has
been made by the State for idiots,
for insane, poor: aged and crippled,
is it not astounding that asylums
have never been erected for still
more helpless class ? Let this
philanthropic enterprise be started
at Watertown Refronaer, -
TIE COTTON CRoP.-The cotton
spectators, having combined to
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-02-26

The --LATEST, We learn that in
stead of asking a man "What will
you drink ? it is becoming fashion
bic to say, Nominate yourpoisop,"
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-02-26

An exchange says that the fol:
lowing is a specimen from 2 new I
grammar to be 2gratuitously cireu-
lated for the use Of conventions :.
The New York herald., 1868-10-26
BROOKLYs INTELLIGENCE.

BUsaIAgy.--The stable on the corner OF Bridge
and Tallman streets, owned by Frederick Ruben.
grocer was broken into by thief on SATURDAY night
and was robbed or set OF harness w0rth forty
dollars.
LARCENY OF SPIRITS IL cask containing twenty.
eight gallons or brandy. which had been previously
stolen from the house OF Thomas Kerrgau, COO York
street. found In the yard gateway OF No. Navy
street by officer OF the Fortysecond precinct at
an early hour yesterday morning The brandy.
which valued AZ s40, was returned TO the owner.
TRIAL or A FIRE EsGrsR.-Neptune Engine Com
pauy No. proceeded with their apparatus 70 place
ON rurman street. near the Wall street ferry yeser.
day morning. 10 test their capacity in throwing q
stream OF water. The object was 70 dsproye an
assertion that had been made 20 the effect that
Engine No. tsteamerl could not throw stream 275
feet They succeeded In throwing water I'll feet and
raised 50 great smoke that certain residents on the
Heights complained to the police OF the annoyance
which the trial occasioned them. The boys were not
iDteriered with. however.
POLITICAL ARGUMENT AND CoERcIOS.-A young
man named Patrick 0'Rey was taken into custody
by oicer Ryan Of the Fortyninth precinct, at late
hour on Saturday night. on complaint OF Mr.. W. r.
Byrnes. of No. 7l2 Myrtle avenue, VINO accuses the
prisoner With having threatened 10 shoot him. IL
appears that the parties named were warmly en-
gagged In political discussion, standing on DeKalb
avenue. shortly after midnight and the accused was
under the influence OF liquor. Failing 20 convince
hts opponent BY force OF argument with the justice
OF his cause he drew out reyolvcr and placed the
rEuzzle OF the weapon TO compainant's head. as
up.h The prisoner was locked up for examination
befOra <ustice COrnwpi.
The New York herald., 1868-10-26

FATAL BURNING TRAGEDY IN MULBERRY STREET.

Coroner Rollins yesterday held an inquest at the
New York Hospital on the body OF Eliza Tracy not
Kerrlpan, as previously reportedl whose death re-
suited from burns received at No IA Mulberry street
on Tuesday last II appears that Patrick Kerrigan,
charged with setting fire 70 the clothes OF deceased
was not married. but haa lived with her for the last
two years. several witnesses were examined and
the Testimony went to show that Kerrgan had fire.
uucntly assaulted deceased with weapons, and on
the day she was burned ne cut her mead
open with milk pitcher. While In the hospital
atrlcx McCsbe, OF No. 15 Mulberry street. brother
or deceased, called upon her, when she told him
tha. Kerrgan set IRE 20 her skirts with lighted
match while she stoo ping 10 light her ppe
be also set fire TO bed which was on the hoor.
officer Ferdinand Kelly. Of the sixth precinct, dc.
posed to having been called into the house No. IL
Mulberry street Immediately after she was burned
room and found IL fuu OF smoke: Kerosene was ON
the door and the bedding was on IRE In the bed
room. After quenchng the Ganies the officer took
deceased 70 the hospital, when she told him that
Kerrgan had hit her on the head with lamp and
set her clothes fire. she afterwards refused 20 say
anything more on the subject.
Dr. Beekman acting house surgeon Of the New
York Hospital certified that, in his opinion the de-
ceased died from the burns she had received.
The Jury rendered "A verdict against kerrigan and
Coroner Rollins committed him 10 the ToInbs To
aw ait tho action Of the Grand Jury
lie IL thrty-dve years OF age, born in Ireland, and
laborer.
In relation 20 the charge Kerrigan says:--
az never was married 20 deceased have lived with
her twoyears; know nothing as to how she got on
flre; was drunk az the time"
Deceased was forty mine years OF age ana native
N ireland.