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SOUTHERN HERALD. rl -g| iftHEIl KYFRY THI'K-DAY M<iltNlXfi rr X>. N. .Martin it? 00., OFFICE iTSTAXBa BANK"': Bl M FAST «!•»: HILL *f. • —• |{nt<‘N of Subi»rriplion. Oce copy one year .V*. 0*» one e*-|’F •'* 'TuM.lh. S 00 One •°| , y t** re * montli*,, Imi gg- Order* tar JoL WuRK aud AIiYEETIr* INO respecSlully solicited, aid promptly attended to. ——. . “ilSakt* Hasit-Mtuvly.” The general observance of this sound maxim would save a world of trouble to pol iticians, but they disregard it entirely, and <ro off, to use a homely idiom “ half cocked” whenever a movent tit is 'guested for pub lie consideration. oit i- now in rei mice to the proposed Notional Convention at Philadelphia, in \ugn-t • ! the pre-- i seem to ‘jump at conclusions” withs hound, and one of our cotemporaries ha; taken up on itself to nominate or elect delegates for the State at large, to w t : lion. A II Ste phens, Hon II V Johnson. II n l>. li Hill, and lion. A II Cob|uitt, —all unex ceptionable men, but inctt ol too much good *en?e, we take it, to accept a nomination made in such a manner. Keep cool, gentlem n, lot us discuss the' Question a little We have over a month’' time to meet the isoie, and it tit ■ appoint nicnt of delegates is to he mole hy the press, or hy his excellency, the Gov r ten days will suffice tor the purpose. But if the people are to act advisedly, wo would sag cest the first Wednesday in August as the proper time. This will give three weeks time for examination of the question, and two afterwards for tae g dug-forward of the delegates. ]>ut we must insist on our “ condition precedent ’’ before we can yield our con cut *to the proposed measure, lo ok at the facts of the situation '. For over a year has President Johnson declared his policy of reconstruction, and up to this day, w..at progress has eti ilia l»* in the work ? lie may have done all he could, or all that a li.idie.il Congress wou’d alio-.v him to do, but tint 1 it' he.-, pn i-i us li t in its benefit* to the S.tuli Bit he has not done all tl .i’'iii ini l Ma_i-tr.it the country ought, to have and me to p-eoti-iii the South, or eoneili.it In r puo;>!.- 11 has not treated Jcffet-ou Divi- uitli that nciu ency due to one so exalted and so pave ! He has allowed him to he heavily ironed and treated with inn uniuy lie has allowed and stiP allows Ins illustrious p- soner to !; tortured by u-thtss ttoi-es and Satan's it, vention 0‘ Cah-iuot Bight li -iriug upon liis couch ! Id fuel N .tlire's soe-t re storer. balmy s'eep ’ uittWf'-uch uireu:n-t i-i --cos ? Who can long li v>• wi limit sleep ? Andrew .loliti'on is r- -pounibie t- r this ' or rible iti« [ ni-si rC >t», ash- is the Head of the Government and e-n re i- fonton, or any oilier Cabin. t ofli ■r t! '.viu tn-t obi v his t-iders. What th. . is -foe li. t\ Sorb to \n df'-w -i ohtisoii that ’thi -m doh ;-i»es to a CollVt oto ol I ■ It eui' ? N-- 1 rg ! nothing! Andean . S u 1 t n t;m of note and hinioritbl.- -j - t... go f rw ml and taken seat in that L ■ ••-. wi■ Id a h. -■ v-or al most ol J< fief on 1 'avi- . .glia' < |.|'at ;.li'h ? What ('onlederate (Ictu r ,I, tie oilier <if • n gross, or private citiz n jot liaml* with their Lite em mi'-s u! fir ' s ••tiring tin* release of the late hr side ,t of a ••lost cause.” I- his fate t, he ignored hy S -itlt em men? <!'d I'oi dd ! lladur let re main, as we all : r"—ou l.iws, and sTatig vs to the (lovcrtoiieut ii-i ('"iisf.iunou . hour Fathers, uuiil h. a | r ■ a in i.-u .if./. • ammstj/ on tlio part o' the Ih --I • t tie doors of the pti->n lion »r • thrown op n, and the people’s repn . • . tir. is p. rnt 1 ed to go free as others, no mor- guilt 1 .- s tii.m he, have gone before hi o. — hiou ('•:!.■« The Louisville Journal ox Gen. Grant's late < >itt>Kit. - Ih- following re minds us of “ uu and In tig syne." We read tin- order with nnminjled sur prise and amazement.. We could •co-c-Jv at first think it g< nuirie Not in ■ akin to it ever came from the distinguished Lieuten ant-General before, lie i-y otic ol'the very last of the eminent men ol the u.vion li on whom we should have expected either the usurpation or the tu-anni -il t-x ueise of po-,v cr. But this order of his t! omiod out, will, in our view, he gr s> tyranny. \\ e at confident that the Pre-ident, who, more than almost any other public man in the eciontr- . makes the Constitution his guile, and guards, with j<-ut- ;;s care, all the rights of all the people, will annul the Li, u'cuant- General’s order without delay Disfranchised.—Tlio Columbus .'■fon says, that “nearly til! the he-t men of the two old national patties in Tennessee —all the old wheel horses of the Tenne-sea De mocracy and Whiggery—such men as John Bell, Cave Johnson, Neil S. Brown, Goo. W. Jones, Win. H. Stcph ns, Wm. T. Avery, J no. L. T. Sneed, Langdoti Haynes are disfranchised, laid on the shelf, ostra cised from public affairs, while the riff-raff, low plotters and schemers, turbulent nobod ies, political paupers and adventurers—-such men as Arnell, l>uggan, Brownlow, &c , &e. —sit in the seats of power and control the destinies of the State ” Rebellious Demons* a ations. —We beg leave to call the attention of the Radicals to various symptoms of a disloya. spirit ex hibited in the Southern States on the 1.-st Fourth of July. In quite a number < f places there were demonstrations by the newspa pers and among the people in favor of the Great Rebellion 6f 1770. The names of G. Washington, ringleader of the insur gents; T. Jefferson, red waistcoat fnan, and author of the Declaration of Indpendeiu e, so-called; Patrick enry, who wanted “ Liberty or Death G< orge Mason, and other notorious and acknowledge i reb-’ls were 'eulogised in terms which sho - that the spirit of rebellion -is not 'jet crushed in the old hot-bed of the American Revolution. The inclination to distinguish the Fourth of July from other days still prevails among the descendants of the men who raised 'heir hands against the lawful authority of King Georgs, aud stripped him of the brightest jewelg ot his crown The thing demands looking into by the Reconstruction Commit tee and some measure adopted to make trea son odious. —Baltimore Transcript. Wiio can Represent thf. South?—A South Carolina gentleman in Washington writes to the Charleston News that the 11 A" ho -<x/ l it ion Cortrrn/ion >cill oof tb?*r a!> nir/. SOUTHERN HERALD. iii ii, \. m turn A 01, S> o it t It r v u ij rralb. I'illili, <;< ui'gin Jnlyi»C. llou-.'las it ml Si-wanl. It is now settled that Seward, and not I’resident Johnson, i- to deliver th orati u at the hiving of the corn r spine <if tin- Douglas Monument shortly to take place in Chicago. S.V rrd -• mT<By; ~ry smart ] in liis way; but th it way die- no'. h.ippL-ti to he in the line ot’i-u!*»_-y or hi.igr Ip’iv.— Let atiy one read. f *r iximp'i-, the compari son he e--ay- h ;w- u the great Napoleon and John Quincy A lam-, to he convinced what a pitifully p...-r judge of char r lie J is To run ap-a I ' 1.-. eu Naj.-ileoti and Jo n (Ju'tiey Ad mis, a- Sew rid. as supremely uoiculoiis tn run a jav.ll : bet >ceu the ".rd!;, eagle tha*, s.ui gazit-g. braves the highc.-t cut: -.r- an, and the e tt temptible wl that haunt-the ceiu- tery-elni, and makes night hideous wi'h his laughings over the grave of your buried hopes. The j Southern and many of the Northern friends of Douglas will have cause to regret that the author of the “ irrepressible conflict’’dog trine was ever called up,.ii to piitd the |,.r trair. ot the great advocate of “ unfriendly legislation” alias “ squatter sovereignty,-" I alias •• abolitionism.” ewardhis a'r.vi.fv -iatel that the 1. h ,ur- of Sr, phetl A. I)o tglin W ton were spent with i.itu i Sew ird ) and Lin coin in organizing n-si.-tatiee tin t-ur, s to the utliirn scc.'sston tnoveuient. What here tofore lie nit rely alltid -d t •. ho will i-lab-uve to the full in liis fort iu-oiniog speech, and : the qU' S'ion will be settled w: ether Doug 1 .- approved or disapproved the coercive meas ure- ol the L: ico'n admiyiistratinn. We are satisfied that lie heartily appro-.[ t ! e war, 1 and died an etioiny to the S eith. a- i itter a tno hitti r, ,-t. Sew .rd will bring all th air, tiiiuking he i- doing great serve the m-moi-y of hi- dec- i— I IVi, nd. 1 he-e same t: u. of. at Jest n.;i!iv of. . tin-in—who w ft i- flu I h,v Jto'.igi ,s to ! light ns. an ! a- v~ r.i'e tl-. a! • ine.v solicititi - us to join th ito ak and :- ’ . R-| ii- a's How v. ,-i-ev iFa' thete i- not auuthi-r DoUglnS- li I.oil - th- if t' • i- g sh * again ho made, ;ha will u-t tell th,-:n a .; to light Hu- S at'h, and devastate it ? W doubt i,- t tha; th- C m-i r. -Ac No: -it aud 'he Itadical North ha? aud and •> '- • < ■' 'other as much a- a me m wife and a mean hu-'-em i ever hat< 1 and despised each i.-h.,-r; tint wo must not forget that nevcrthch s tliey are tnnn and wile, a . 1 until they are ah.-nlutely diver,-.--d. and iiarc become irre. eoiiciiably uli, tiate 1. any third p:i>ty —in which category is-tlie South—should be vet chaty of interfering in the least, by th e , word, or sign f outturn-*n i.\ Mts-m tii —A coup'-j op gentlemen from »;issouri recently called upon the I’r ,-idetit and ini',■ruled him of a dcep-lai 1 seh,one on the cart of tic- r.- lieals to carry t!- Miss mri • Ic.-tioti by fore es arm- if nee .—-try .Secret leagues wtv r gmiz ,1. the militia Wucd, a id arms had hen sh'q-p and t.i vart--u<Npart- of the State by (■ i\u riiur I ietclier f , the purpose of it.- fluenetii* the election. ’!" IV- -id ‘ a -tin and jhe g-< n'!- m ,ri tha' : s it was Id- dut-v to nrotect all cu:z--ti- ii tie: r-i.l .m it ol their rights, ar. such it wottM mly be fi ees .-ary, in ca —d such outrage... for the citi zens to applv ‘A him. A Durr Kxtremitv.—-The It -1 teals prooosc to luak it an olieti-e putd-liahle with fine and iniju-lsontu, lit, f,r at. - tie t , have Confederate lumJa or tmie.- in hi- j • session They have virtually pus-gd the same law also in respect to greenbacks They do not make it an offense to have them, birt, by opptessive tuxes, they make it an impossibility to get them or keep them. WSk. Ilenry T. A'ardell, a ruggist, and citizen of Macon, committed suicide in that city on the night of the IStli instant, lie is reported to have been generally esteemed as an amiable and intelligent gentleman.— The jury of impo st- guv -a verdict that, when he did the deed of self destruction, h was laboring under a temporary aberration of mind. BS?* The Fracdman’s Bureau bill wa-, , n the ltitli instant, put on its final p:i--u it. the House, immediately after the reading ol the President’s veto message, and p issed by the requisite vote —yeas 103, nays 33. It was at once sent to the Senate and that body also it by a two-thirds vote yeas 33, nays 17. The bill is therefore a law. South America. —There has been a great battle fought in South America, iu which the allies . ilruzil, Uruguay, and the Argentine Republic) gained a victory over the Paraguayans, who abandoned the fi and with a loss of G,OOO killed and wounded, tj gnus and 4 flags. Loss of the Allies, 2,000. rhr, Alonzo Greenlow and A. B. i'avlor fought a djel, the 12th of July, on the Tennessee and Mississippi line, near Menu phi-. The latter w.- kiT.-l at ‘he fir:-' lire '•'Mi, ?’ ii is Migfilirr tlmii it..- vu nri!,** tiBIFfi.V, liM.ll, lilißltll Sum lit, .111.1 it). I*. The Wi-t •rn heat er ; . insto ad off the him-.-iitah!-.? faiiiir.- pr ii Ifr it all >•' mg. tor a month «,r tw > | reeading the liar Tc.-’ing. i- lik-dy to turn out wry large and fine. All the croaking about- the wheat crop w:.- hut the <■•!•! ili.-ingenuous ruse, prae ' ticc-l • •ry - ••:. and- uiatii gin a n>- an 1 se.ii-htic-s to get iii o! the old steck on liatnl, at more than a lair t rice. ' - . < ' t tie nd breed Buck town copper mime s, -itu;.', I near (heve-latid, ila.-t Tenues - ••, ar.- \i- tig, it n reported, larger! am .tints of copper than they ever did. The ' company in charge of the mines are now w -rkit-g on a vein of the yellow sulphuret of o i.p.-r which is from forty to sixty feet in width, and so far no bot'tuu having been f.-uud to it. Sect iry S< .v.ir.l stri • g'y - . the Philadelphia t ouvention uml expresses' the belief that no party, as n-'\v organized’ ean rc.-tore the l uion. while Attorney Gen eral Speed opposes the Convention, and places his trust in the Bopuhliean party. Rev. Dr. Nathan Hoyt, of Athens, Ga . died on the 12th instant, after a pro tr act, 1 illness. “ lie was the pride and idol i.flits congregation, and universally re spected lor !i- piety arid line feeling ” lie was nearly t ighty y t at, of age. C Tin- Rome <'■ ”ri r, of a recent date, . s-iys that tJ■ • ii. .1 ■ph 11 .lohn -ton ha- uc , c-.-pt. -1 the Presidency of the Selma- and I Tennessee R’ner Railroil. i he 1 s- by the hunting of Briggs’s Print and Dye YCoiks, in liiiladelphia, on the 12,d. of July, ant iutifs so two minion dol lar- Stveral hundred hands were thrown out of employ nu-nt. T -'ton King and James 11. Lane, bn. . i v,'..»:n comuiitt- and suicide, were niem r - --I ' S:u ' * -g’..'!icr, ari l were b• h in nihi-rs of the Baltitiu.ro Cotiv -ntio.i. r-%. Geo. Bruce, a well well known typ fmntl r. rce -u:ly died in New j'ork, at the 1 v,iin- -I age of eighty live years. £-• ' 1 J-'ti. Grt t.t has eonelud i not t i ac t-tit tin. IV- iJ. icy fi- th- xt term. He will !••' fit- pe pie l.miw when he is ri-.-.-ly to : rve lilt ill. i ' v i t-»r Jim Lane, who .-hot himself f i" the head, a sh rt time ag >, died id the wound on the 11th ins! mt. i flier,• were only three elot- tiKn*s in k in.-.t-, City, recently, i-t one. week. I’l, yslt.lt-' Cox Y UNTIO.V cl’ Guiutii y.”—A sp-eiil meeting oft! ,- ('nn \ .-tut' n will he l-.i-M a! Ma.-on on We i.••• 2 v the ’ "itli ot August. Ml nietiibi-rs who ean possibly atten-1 1 thi- -.-tort, are requested to l-** present, as . iio-iin - ui' iniu-.rtatiee r tiuires th ir action. Members of Planters’ Convi-nti n-■ of oth . r State-, who f.-.J a pr cut ar»d future iu tervs: in the agri ultur 1 cun-lition of the h, are earnestly ittvi-e-l to |,-irticjpa‘e in the th lih- reti-uis of this meeting 11'comm in calamities, poverty and deso-1 lati.ot ev.-r unite in brotherhood and e-.mmon I destiny, now is the time for tfbtive svmi>::thy I and practical co-operation. .1 V. Jones. First \ ice-I‘resident, ‘•Cull n Planters’ Convent: :i of Geor gia ” July «•! . IMUi— 4t Mu Davis.—The Louisville Journal says': “ According to the most reliable ac-. chunt-s, Mr Davis, if not soon permitted .to go at large, will di- in prison without a trial, alter the long confinement he lias endured And this, wo cannot hcs.it.Jo to say. wiould hi. ;; in ■ ,-t deplorable thing. It would a calamity in a national point of view.' It : would create a feeling of intense hi’teriiesa against, our Government in the heart.} of millions of our own people, while foreign n ; tioris would, with aim, s' one voice, and that . a voice of thunder, cry out ‘ shame 1’ .'May | Heaven avert any such monstrous evil!” i »-¥,T j 1. cutenant .Maury, now on a visit to Europe, lias ju-t submitted to a commis -ion in Paris, composed of naval officers and ; engineers, presided over by Admiral Bonez - Vt ileauntezy, anew torpedo of his own in vention, which he offers to the French i Government, h e tfleet of this torpedo is described as being more certain and mur derous than any hitherto known i t Europe, ami ii supposed that some agency Cr more p wi lful than gunpowder is used iu its com pos tion. •«*- Ct-fI*A 1 *A Washington telegram of July 12th j says that Secretary Dennison has resigned.] ; He writes to the President that the call for a Convention at I’hi.adclphu is antagonistic to the j),'iiey ol the paity that nominated ' and elected .Mr. Lincoln, and over the Con vent! .n 1' which he was President, aud he th t lore withdraws from the Cabinet. It i.- lum ii-d that Atlmney General Sp- ■ and has tender, and his resignation, and that the , Secretiry af the Interior, Mr. Harlan will 1 do the same. _ Is dependent or the States!—Mr, , Sumner, of Mass., is reported ;having said ■ in the Senate of the l nited States, the oilier day, that “the time hail come for them (the Senate) to assert the independence of the National Government over the States.” A Preventive or the Cholera. —The habitual use of onions as an article of food, is said to be almost certain protection from ' cholera, even when in immediate contact wit l.xir | I•• f- !‘>»,i g t, tribute t-i the m. iii-.ry ~fa l.rave »n.l trt.. i 0,-, at- ~.|.ii.-r. l'i• -t■ i.ittiin. G«.. who *a» ,f ii t.y t!,.- el emy !,.-sr Avreai lire, X. a. Mo. , ! - ] Lit IK n. I*. II alstfil 111 - -•!. !'., ’.m Jii.p- -be I tear. P- - - in tlia (I :-■< . Ye* It- : . p.-!e .It-p.ili.J-' g bar, A: 1 t :.D ih trut*. A *.>n there wnv <»l' |»n*«ir«'». In life’. V’*Ui,g l‘G-1 rt flit «i A> \% Il , Tii<* worthy *tnl of LU t|v*Srca, 'i he !u .i • 1 «*rpwn. A 1 r;iv. . h«»ui? m Vr m«*t the f •' i! •* Mr.. \ I.nriJ t*. *a\.• , Bui h *!. f ,v. ni«! a y U ’.v Ami •’ *i ’H »M LTttV»* B-’M.c fr* ’ th** ! »“i\ Irnttlc livhl r i») : .nh«T■!* for •-! t«* how. li** Wolf iff /’.!/ ; ’* lluLij ■" * ?i I#* • 1 l p,.n l.ia brow. ’• I W>!l to pe. IliV llllior oil." lie rni.l , ■ liivbirit- I* o'.-r ; . I hop* to i et il.e II..! v < hie ' No enter I -V !, fen i.’.e fri. ti I. W'uv liei.l . e**<- t!:■ or -live. ('rtn.iik Li- c'.bii / life—it* cu-J, ( T to.ti.lib- g: ave. Comp,.-** upon lii* lowly Liei’, v Kro "■ "i':«t to " il.-lit.-: His man'. , l-atui-cs seemed t» <■/.*»», And vr.-ar a smile. N..--V to th* trmn|iet tongue . f fume lie's lieedl.-ss in L's .lentil, 1 hough man may seek to win n name, 'I i* Int a brent li. The -1 the still-ilk the iron hail. 1 '.-s! I .theti ed. lie o’er . •'UI- ill til is- . ll«U by nuillbms, f„:|, And wm- no more. Your gallant h- art. in denth is still. No n:or you stout'y tirnve T ie f.emini's wrath. Lu: nobly tiii A soldi.-l's grave. MM II). t.i Mill a, t. a , .1 1. , -. V tiv, 1 Sii'-,. b-peoeD of N aHaitilighaiii* A few days .-dure, \ align ii -ham made a characteristic speech at Columbus, • >!iio.— Discus sing the proposed amendment to the Constitution, lie said : I ndi-r, land in I am-not opposed to these amendmen -i j!-,- --- tl.oy are amend ments to th ('• :,.- titiui ti, i.!t!- tit'li I think, with the President, that tome should be made while ih-ven Stu’es tire out. Whenev er nil the States are again hack in th ir plu there are m::i ■ amendments which I j will desire to sec adopted. 1. We wilt want to gu-ir.e.foo the liberties of the white .a, 1v ; r.»vi bn rhe may stand , here as .Mr. J- weft. 1. ■ rme as I am doing, i am! as Gen. '; ug-in will do, and ta’k !.* flu people at >u‘ their rig! ' without h itig.ar rested and thru ! int i : ba-t’le—[Cfl'ecr-.d 2. I want an am -tidnu-nt 'hat will proclairn , in tenn.s even in no d.r ■ -■*! . tha' no Presi- | deti* i -.ever so pend the /-///.<;.( rw/ms, ‘ tin I tha’ the writ ean u.-r, r he snspendc I ... I-y tin: I'resid -nt ort' ogres', except far the particular spot .vlicre jn-lic-ial j-rocc.-< I overthrown. th 1 want an amendment that will fir ver crush under foot.—aye, with an iron heel - that execi hie doctrin born of the lata dcs-1 I .fi.snt, -tlio' tli-re ii war pow-r higher than the ('• oist’uution, an-l that all the Pres ide ti thattohi to I- me aw irsc <!■ <pot ' than t!:o Czar <!' Ku '- 1, i- to get uji awr with one of the States, or with some Power. That damnab'e ilo-tritu i want to bo made so datum.hie that the lepro-y of sin and datnr.'vji ..i will e'ttig around it I ircvt-r.— [Grc-.he - J \V"I '.'l “ '.\tr, M.'.V J NHT.ANI). , There is am, i r nmendment I should ; want to pr p >-■• as an humble ciriz--ti. if I never get b • -ri that.. 'Who are your < -on stitutiou tirl. -rs? They are from New England • v or Sumn- r . arid j .tir Wilsons, and all that ei t *; and that other t hus <! J t meanest Yank -* y t. vour Western Yankei - in Congress, wli > |egi> ’ate for the hem i t old New England, end n gleet the interests of their own con-.ductus. We have sonic of that sort in <)! . > mi l not fur from this dis- * triet. If we are t i have alteration.-- in the Constitution when all the N'a'tcs have been ■ restart 1 ?!, (here is thi to be submitted. < ihi > has three millions ot people. Ear off in th’ N-rtheasr, bv r tin- barren hills , . and :, ’-girt c<*a-t, 11,: t! ;se little .States, not • much larger,'all togethf-.r, than the State of • < thin—Rhode Isiand, very nuu-h after the fashion of Delaware, which <ll Major Noah in olden tit.-ii ::,I !, • eoul-l pqr in his hr -eeii. « pocket, it t ught to be put iii sonie hody's pocket, 1- r that old tyrant that domin <. red lo re for three years, i- now Governor there—l mean Burnside; Connecticut, New Hump-hire—,-.ix ol thesg .States, two hundred years old, have t-t.ly three millions of people. How many Senators have t!uy got ? Six. How many has Ohio? Two—and such Senators: jiardo-i me. [Laughter] 1 i-tn i not sure they- ought not t. > bo reckoned to New England. 1 judge so from tluir votes •on tariff questions and similar measure'’. — Three miTßcui ol Yank cs ex- rei- • -ix ti- • the power;4ft4ht: Sen,:-.- Chamber that the same number of citizens iu Ohio exerei.-c. That is equality f.r y u. And yet they must needs change the basis.ol r, presents ] tion in order to force negro equa’i. :. -h I South. It is not because of e! i. g the I Constitution that 1 opp ,-c- tlict*- amend ments; b.-iatiiC th-.- time inu-t ■ when | other, amendment, will be demand 1, and ; ,nc if them will t- to redur- New England :to two Sc:,at rs or at moot four, i . Mind, 1 w ,u! l prefer to take the Consti ! tut ion ju :as oar lathers made it. It was ' good enough lor them, and under it we have prospered as no nation ever did before. And 1 warn New England to beware, ic t domin ion and power, like riches, may take unto themselves wings, and fly away. Maoneii Iron.—A new arid singular source of magnetic iron Las been discovered. It appears that the shavings of iron and 1 steel, and especially the lung spirals produced | in turning iron on the lathe, are highly mag netic, especially in the case ol soft iron. This magnetism is pern, ‘.nent, and M. Greiss, ■ the discoverer, has observed that the South pole is always at the cn 1 which is first - touched hy 'he \|>L. I. \O. *l. NEWS. FACTS, &C The Railroads on tiie Tariff— The Philadelphia Convention of Railroad Presi d'-nts adopted on the Nth, a loud remon str.ini-.- a: iin-t the tariff ujh.ii iron and steel rails N"W th<‘ S-it!,i-rn people at least, mi -hr to remonstrate against the exurbit at.t tariff rate- h TANARUS:: tr iad* The South ern railroads will own the country iu ten \> iis by means of tln:ir transportation charges, if the farmers continue the foolish policy ot importing corn and bacon to feed , Ttihur * n'lpdoyt-.l in cotton product inn A negro has formally petitioned the Pro- , fate t' nirt of Tallaliati h:e county, Ala , to , be allowed to sell Itiuiself into slavery, lie 1 njs lie is twenfy-iw.i year* old. a good field i hand, and lie bt-lieVes Worth a thou-and dol- | i.-rs. He says tlicre me too many responsi l.il tit - surrounding him, and that lie is dis -it - ti.-.I with bis | lcm nt cn-llii n The Pro: .'-c Court having no jurisdiction in the ] premist.-. has for" ard. i hi- petition to Thad. ( Stevens. Tin x and y.r.v There w. re only *7. perso: s ju Mi inphis. in that voted agaii :-t ree -n Now there are not less than m'o haw / ../ persona claiming to be one of the six. i* Human na’iire is much the ame every where W e e old find localities where it is :.s trail as hi Mi niplii*. Mr- Eli \Y:, i., r, of Hartford, who has be come heires.- to a I’orDine of §US,*K> ( ),O<M) in Europe, is th • wile (.1 a machinist and the in. (her . I ~ev. •;•! eliildreti. The family will have for Eng’...:, 1 next week to assume pus sissioti of the property, and it is rumored 1 that tin y will ml -cq'ieutly return to Hart ford and erect a palatial residence in that city. The property was originally bequeath ed to Mrs Walker’s father, and as he was dead, the whole amount came to her as liis 1 only child. JUDAS WENT nt t AND IIaXUBO II IMsKI.E, A I iiiou man of the strict,* sense, ri ■ fl ing at ( larksburg, V irginia, Young by name, c.iimiiiitteil suiei.le in a fit of remorse for bis labors in behalf of the Jacobins. It seems that during the war and since, he Ins busied himself reporting nciglib iis to the Provost Marshal, and noting as a general spy upon the citizens. The day before his death he r< que.-vd a form-'V friend to go among those whom he had injured, and beg their forgive mss for him, and with a sense oi his sios pie M i.: upon a soul : > cowardly to repent, iiw nt out and ha:, , 1 hitiisrlf.— \orfo>k i 1 try ui ma . The Sat ami.h Her.il-i - ays that certain new cork is are planting on an ext* n-ive scale in that s -tion tin,l paying the frccd . in, i h\ “ vnWWe ” jewelry and trinks's. A party lms . • Nonli for a further supply Ito un-el the lu x! p iyiiient. Tlio Irecdmen arc di-toveririg the r-windlc, ar - dissatisfied, and tl.r Igui t , !.,-. . without fu!lifting their contract.. The Mammoth Gave in Kentucky is not without its story of love and romance.— .',)iiii i twentj’ years ago a dashing Tennes see girl promi-.-d her mother that she would never marry a eeria'u man “on the lace o( the earth”—tui-l suitor being particularly o’-j e-ion !! •to the !ady. S' th’re was quiet fir some time. Bu one pleas nt day the giy • girl and her lover run away and went into the Gave to pit now called “ Bridal Cham ber,” and iii the presence of a’fow witiics-es were there niatriiuoiiially united, about 23-‘i let t below tin: “ lace of the earth.” Tlio Wa-hington eorrcspotiduiit of tin- N. York Ciminereial says: “J \Y. |-‘. rney* frietul • c mpluin th -' the Chrouiele is not a sufficiently r< tnutii-rativo institution, anti they deuiatnl ttiat the official publication of the con r.-aional debates be taken (rom Mis r-. iLves, of tlio Glob: and given to ' him.” | A Mobile paper -ays: The Austrian Em ; has.-ador arrived back at Mobile, from At lanta, with nineteen ex-'Tinted -rate officers, I all <>f wdiom have accepted positions in the Austrinn army. I.arge numbers of Mobil itms will accompany him on his return to IN • rope, starting on Thursday, both as officers and piuvat, Among the officers are Gent , Aiiingtou atid Col. P. Barry, Pensions.—Th- present pension list of the United States j. about ' 1 ‘1,000,000 per annum, and it is estimated that the pro posed changes will swell it to 822,000,WU. — hould the widows and orphans of the sol di rs of the War cl’ 1 12 be included, it will h- at 1'- . ’ ~.1,000,000. — .\ . 1 Ti thnnr The Richmond l.iofuirrr announces that anew flag is t * be raised on the State Capi tal s>. .-a, “ most of which is to be formed from the magnificent State flag which was first used to shroud the cufliti of Stonewall Jackson when his funeral cortege moved through the city.” lion. John Minor Bolts, in a political speech delivered in Baltimore on the Ith of Ju!; , i li that he was not one of those who v. ill V- the negroc s the right of suffrage : and he gave as a reason that they would be sure to vote with the Democratic party ! ’The New ) ork K.rpr*** savs : “ The close voting on the tariff in the Dense, Saturday, Bi t , .VI, and .Vt to 4W; indicates that Gen ital Bousseau is to be suspended with—like Voorhces and Brooks—while <!rinnell is to be kept in— a- be votes tlir -buo and g3OO . i < r rrntnnvf win tod. There has been an unsuccessful revolt in Spain Gen. Prim i- arrested by the French. A mammoth turtle, weighing seven hun dred pounds, i> on exhibition at Baltinnre. An Ohioan, named Ambrose B. Butts, recently lifted a dead weight of 2,7371 pounds. It is sai l that Mr. Davis l:a-expressed his regret at the publication of U>r. Graven's book. Gen. Jubal A. Early is engaged iu writ ing a hLtory of his Valley campaign. No title can be acquirsd to property won at a raffle, according to a Baltimore Court. Tie M ary landers aud Pennsylvanians who insist upon being “ protected,” to offset pro tection given New England, demand that the tax he paid on Novia tteoth .- >al. SO( Tin.R.V HERALD. Kiir-.,* sre-niun./s avi* it-vrasi-iso, < »ne voy.y ona yr»r |3 (M> < Ine copy tis month*... ..... ..ZOO 1 ' spyii n m. j ...i INI IttlKT IS ItilJDCt tw A-I |-»I»r. .taj. f -*a at th* *n.J of thttao* psi-1 for it n.,t pr*-. i9iaij r*n*w*-I. A !v*rti«.-.:*n»« in«*rt*.l «*. ij„ r%t „fr» Is H»r a-. 1 M'-y G«nt* |>*r a-piar* of Ten |jn*«. for tl,- »ll*i iVVMtty- fire tent# for each -nt incut insertion payable in a,lranr* 1 .literal -ledi- uous mad* on contracta for adrw ’-•ement* rtuming three months and lontr-r. The coffin which contains the mortal re mains of Gustave 111., requiring repair, was reetnt y opened in the presence of the King and <Jueen of Sweden; the face of the de ceased wa - found to he in perfect preserva tion. Fast s’.- inib, its ply the Hudson river. The I 'aniel Dr< w recently made the run from 34th street. New York, to Yorkers s dis tance of eighteen miles, in thirty five min utc>. This was done without any particular effort. A report to the House shows that there are two hundred and forty million dollars of the public money deposited in the sub- Trrasurj's depositories and national banks. Os this amount, forty millions are in the na tional banks of San Francisco. Othri.eo and his Occupation—Tlio Buffalo f\mrier, (Democrat,) of the 4th, says: *’ Rcticid Oum ireonlly remarked to a gentleman of thi* city, who met him in tlio Wert, that ‘ unles-i the Southern States wer* speedily admitted to representation in Congress, and the right of self-government conceded to them, we should soon have an other rebellion.’ ” It is stati-d that Queen Yiotoria sends a telegraphic dispatch every morning to the King of l'russia containing commonly only the words, “God guide you for the best.” Since the bar-rooms are shut up in New York on Sunday, some of the barbers have invented anew hair tonic—for the beard— which is applied just under the moustache. The Richmond Whij calls upon President Johnson to remove Secretary Stanton, so as to “ render it impo-uiblo for posterity to hold Mr. Johnson accountable” for placing manacles upon the limbs of Jefferson Davis. England is neutral in the pending conflict in Europe, as it was during our war. A pick-pocket is always neutral where there is a row going on. Ife cannot stop to quarrcF in such g'od times. Governor Orr, of South Uarolina, has is .-uod a proclamation calling on the people of liis State to select delegates to the National Union .Convention to be held at Philadel phia. As there can be found nobody in Canton, Miss , who is able to swallow the test oath without seriously shattering his moral con stitution, the post office there is for rent, having been closed some ten or twelve days ago. A French professor hai just discovered that the earth (locr not move so fast as if did two thousand years ago. The learned man computes that in one thousand six hun dred millions of years hence it will coin.’ to a stand still. Hhmi Prices in Vienna.—The price of every article of consumption as a necessary of life was rapidly advancing in Yicuna, iu face of a depreciated currency. Petroleum is found abundantly in Louis iana, and orders have gone North for ma chinery. It is designed to construct works to supply the Missis-ippi Valley. A feast for the historians—the discovery at a town near Mount Ararat of 3000 Arme nian manuscripts, hitherto unknown to the lit-rary world. Picture frames and glasses are preserved from flies hy painting them with a brush dipped in a mixture made by boiling throe or four onions in a pint of water. P or Forney wriggles liko a wasp that has had its sting plucked. But there is no help for him; he is pinned to the wall, tn ento m< logical specimen, and thtfe must remain. Five nobleman—the Karl of Breadalbane, and the Dukes of Argyle, Athole, Suther land, and Bueclcuch—are said to own on«- fourth of all tho land in Scotland. By the last, census of London it appears that there are more Scotchmen there than in Edinburg, more Irishmen than in Dublin, and more Jews than in Palestine. Gen. 11. F. Butler has incited the negroes of New Jersey to test before the courts their right to vote. He is the principal counsel. A large bed of plumbago (black lead; has been discovered near Houghton, on Lake Superior. It is said to be of superior quality Texas election returns favor the election of Throckmorton for Governor and the Un ion conservative ticket elected by an immense majority. A Paris letter says Napoleon received Beauregard with unusual cordiality, and sent a G ham her lain to show him into the Corps Legislatif. A Washington telegram having stated that “ Benjamin F. Butler is here professional ly,” the Augusta Constitutionalist ask? if the detectives know it. National Union Convention.— The newspapers are discussing the propriety of the South’s being represented in the C-eetven tion proposed to be held at Philadelphia on the 14th of August. The discussion will J übtless increase nominally the numbers of the- Union party as the advocates of repre sentation in a National Union Convention can consistently be known by do Other name than Union men. Hereabouts nobody seems particularly interested in the matter. We have been so bothered with reconstruction, oaths of all sorts, constitutional amendments Ac., that we are in the state ol mind, as to getting back into the I'nion, of the boy in the atory which to be so great a favorite with the stump speakers. It is something like this : In the days when the first emigration was setting strongly towards Texas, a traveler out West came across a wagon broken down in the road, by the side of which sat a half grown boy crying as if bis heart would break. “ What’s the matter, my son,” said the trav eler—“ Matter enough,” answered the bov, “ don’t you see the wagon’s broke down, and the mules is strayed off, and sister Ball she’s strayed off too, and the children ain’t got nothing to eat, and dad’s back yonder at the grocery playing poker, thrip ante mad mamy’s drunk, and I’ve lost my jack knife, and I don’t care a cent if I ncvcT get to Texas !” Washington Gazette,