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- -- - --- --t TilE TI-VEEKLY NEWS s. IS PUBLISHED EVARY TUESDAY) TIURS- ri h ing not -l--'h410a OPO40m will be DAV AND -A RDAY, inserted inIH Eye, at for the Arst asrtion 76 est*ht eacb sub *By Gaiflftd- Deapm~es & Co. O~iA n Winnsboro . ., at '6.O0O per an. a e o g , wh o contract umi in Advance. P h ropor o Iffumsu Aii~.S poffio THE FAIRFIED HERALD, A A4ay ofil VOL if. -I N S O O 3 0 - piUw2. 0 .;I* qfPot.q r, .m*w mi te, will be Is PU AHSHFD EVEgY WEDNErDAY MORN- -a a e i o wen .N,ae.oPN l.U. VL II]WNNBRO. S. C., T UESDAY, JUIX 3, 1866. 66. ove to ieDTIforh - e '- hauded :L*.h1ftL.m d1w. at annear. *A S?AREWPLL, . BY 0LARA V. DAROAli, -fnd who shall guess ry of onr happitess 'hav beon if w9. - .wed." ON. As * ti'ouble4 sea The s .ue ni? - d. mid pralse.. ll pas ah e , d frce. I t i s n o t V t1 i l s , t no c}ange; at PoV1e asti..strange Whic resoe'er we An gives'th h. And fron the y syirIt weas. lit. Yes, weary of our happiiee, Wo yet rmight-be i6w were Wed g. Arni tho' your'heart and mine has bled ',er vaitilshed hopes ani visions fled leve let 'is part' ! Be this Caress The last 1:ha evelLOa Ve &hol bless istorical Skelches of Fairfield District, BY D. 11. Al'ORn11uT. No. 2. Wlcn'the Cherkoee and , Catawba Iniliaiis made the hills and valleys of Fairfield their hunting grounds, there was 1gaio of varioum kinds? Chief among t ho' cts of their purnuit was ie buffad HOW }>oa ,.nd barrei grounds in bI .' 'Jt lix Cherokeeioalled the buf. .ydaruliJ(, A'(the very great bull," or t ,hFaWl.of G od." Prou the hair of tViiYn;imnlll the )Yoidn manufactured a lrid K cloth of-giMt comfort and Jn 1760 a Mr. Gries, an old - pl:i, crossed the Wateroe a4 Grave'd Ford and formed- , sttlemont in the present torritory..if .Sairfleld. Qo eliuben rarrison was one of the parA tY; and as the od iiai Graveshad dis c1vered tracsof buf(po ir the paths leading up froi.. the river..into, the wOod.s 1arrison and . somne others in the pioneer party s1lidd forth in W.I)eTrh of game, qid weio dtot ing in Socuring thiee fat 'bttffaloe? ',hese wore carried 4oto'imp,aud skin2d'atd cut up, and the pieces put Upoul logs to cool during, the night Iut as wolves abounded In the dedp dense forc4ts, and got a edut.of: 44e mest spread out,-they toq osU 6 in for spoils, aud-by the mornng- a great deal of the game hadkd4ippeared. Pearsop, in his manueript, .tolls of opo Mr. Bushby who lived tohe hgq of' one hundred ail ten years,:aud, who ro litted that lie d4. often soon,-at ono mne, three theWn4 -dialoes on'tuo 1ong Meadows.of Little,liygi r I,' [Have any of thek-rEadori df the 111.1ATn ever hsird $f ap ff r mains being foill i 1st jgaogso pf the Distriot4} .i: - It is diffieult. fi u~ td1W toealise that we dwdll. 4ro tfd %dfalo w hunted by the NIld tifan of tpo for est ; and thait tihd on'ly . weapon usedl' were the bow and the spdar. And all this hiuuthig feb Was -dono a-foot. TChosse pointed flint*#jvalt ti.ro scattgr .s ld hre andi there *over oiffrhillis and ihl are deeiinoIlly, fntigad' to this day, could a tald unfold had *i, the gift of eoc blsggyo uhaepicked snup one i*1toh bg 1's-lood sfl 'i omlo flee'Otorl tiireo don'i Zon of the dark forest. They wore useld to 1oint the arrow, but the ar rows'ha'c all moulded into dust an1 left only the imperishable flint. How the Indiank reduced such hard stone to the desirable ihapo, passes our -coin prehension. But the niml1 deer added to the list oif game in the primitiv6 days of this District; Herds of sixty or sov enty head werd visible all over the country, and so numerous 'l the first settlers in this section repoi- them, that they could be seen at any time from their huts; The licks werd - vorito resorts for both buffalo wh'd deer; These licks are not diirbly forgotten y6t. 'hdre is -dn not far from Winnsboro, towards -he dast, near the head watQrm of Indian deck a branch of little'Watoreo creek, alid on land now owned by Mr. Jho. Wylie; The existence of tito Pok Aomewlidre in that immediate quarter gavo rise to the name of the little stream running near by, that is "Lick Branch." For the bcnefit of the y6ung it Is well to say that these licks to which the wild animals. resorted wtre salty, places where they were fond of licking their tongues On the clay to get a taste of the saline uosture. But there were also bears,'panthers, cataniounts Aind wild cats found here. The beaver, the muskrat and tho. ot tei, the fox,' opossum and raccoon abounded, all these except the beaver still being 'nro or lespfp sustenance to the early English set tiers. Boar's oil was highly prized by the aborigines, atd both the warriors and.the women kept their hair .always shining with it. In prepatilg It for use the Indians perfumed it with sat safras and wild citnamon. They alsp prepared it in another 'ay ' to . used as a healing ointment, and this they regarded as a sure remedy for Arains, acbes and old pains. The priests and. prophets were indncted Into office by the unction of bear's oil. They al anointdd,the bodies of living and ded wvith it. Logan, in, his History of upper South Carolina, expresses the doubt that perhaps not one specimon of the bear can be found east of the Blue Aidge. lut this is entirely a mistal en ideas Bears are much 'more ii merous ifthe lower part of this Stato yet,.than nany pdYsons suspect. It has only been a few weeks, since we tublished in the Ntwv an acdunt of a very large one killed 4n the gantee in Williatnsburg District. The goitle man wihd bagged- the mobstar bear is well )naWito thp writ r, :he writer maW a part of anotbor -largo beer that was killed on Black Itivpr in 1858, uot,hoforethbo.old aninjal had killed and d6voired sevdral old Nows, .hich he socniMd always to pfefdqr the fat.; t,er 'shants.. -- > ~ .. The wild-eat .was another comniook -sniana4 in this section- in primitive dages t Though a 'rare ight, If o aa$h,'here now, get 'thEe arc a .great ' ny sne part. df tIse iltate to tis. da,y.. .It~ is .vdry. , destructive en young bigsg an~d with- Itdlhng mid 'po# erftut claws- will te'aradeg' frihtfhl y whbn broulght'to b. The bga'Ver, tlomughaumoron, seo ha. entirely-dliapeareil., The history of this harmtert attlimal .sfntimately ?'a398 iat' ty 4~ipgiiqnt of e,mnUidh3 0r' Vase .tQ. le,1t41& to band haei of a "heavr lhat ?" (II the beaver existed in England, on the con tinent of Europe, in Asia, and all along the Atlantic slope of America. Unluckily for this ingeius animal, some began to. use itsfur for covering getleien's hats. With the spread of fashion kept pace the hunting of. the beaver for his skin aid fur. And not until the species had been exterinnat ed in all the above eolintrie- did th war upon the beaveri.ccns.' Te re mining beavers whi*i abound oni the 1Aific slope'of Amq'rica may thank e silk-worm for dr4wing off the fire offeiv ilization. The best fur however for hats and "beaver cloth," is taken from a species of beaver' found inl Chili, soinewhat different in its char actoristies from the beaver originally found in this contry; Tweity years - agog as inany of the young inn of Winnsb.oro mity remem ber, ti6re wasa Place called "Beaver Dan" not more than th'ree quartdrs of a mile from towp, down -on -the Aiken's Mill brin'h, at the head of what was familiarly known as the "meado%v field"-no4 the property of Mr. Charle' QateAeat. A one of the dommon inghits long ago, it may be well to give i brief do seription of wlhiat a beaver dam' is. When the beaveri were abdt to conl truct a dani, which they did in Jufie and July, they 'would ass'mble t6 gether, as many as two hundred sonio: times. They i4e' "der tWe.ground noak.th<j Qdge.of thle Aeam and where tIre ihter la A otR 411 9ng and failing, thQy build no dam. But as most streamis do this, these colonies ,of workers generally found it necesta ry to build one. The first operation was to out'down a trce near the marpin of a stroain, and -let it fall Into the water. This catting was 'doiie with their' teeth. And they would cut through the trunk of one from' twelve tofifteen inches in diameter. Upori this tree as a basis tiey *ould ariauge other smaller trunks of trees, placing' them one end on the upper side of it; and the Qthr end down in the byttonm of the stream. These would be arrang ed so as to. form an inclined plane just as men build dams. All this frame work .would then be filleil in with clay, sand twd muck, and patted down firm ly:with their paddle-shap-d tails and their broad fore feet. The Indians understood tanning the 'deer *kin, as well, it appe-irs, as the negroes in the low coun'try do. That beautiful butc(k-kzh Ui iwed so of'teil by our merchanits ail watch-mnakers was not jmkpi, wn to themn. They used the brih:s of tie dcor to tan his skiii just s is 6uY tthis day in those part of onState where this animal is found. T(is. a singular fact thiit'he brain of any an iial is sufficient to tan its own hide. Eved -the. rat's skin can b mado beautifully white and.clear of all hair in five minutes, jaat by rub. bigitt braiins over the f!bh *ide, ,holxdinxg it for a few muinutosibofowe tho, fite, and then rubbi-ng it briskly, in the hands. N. w Va' '-V.-:Ar--- hn dred buxhlo ti ei whtent; .raised no;r 'Hamnptonu, Virginiau, "M(ac sold in ftahi.' -mot-o'omTetday' at *3'80 'rkfiusliel. 'of'good ec'lor, ' fj9 fi wh'.oariksti, Iwas rec#Iivedi JhaIxltimord fi*d -a,a1 eax.. irndws hQlI for *2.59 vb1M ~. -log P ho. a h.5 SiltIl of rng*r o,Oic 0 The B6,in Silk Dresse. "Why, lli WIp .wh st stp q,gico for a Wedding dresi ! Yout th6'r ressej rtf very good eylik, and yoa h6bW.jX#y y,,ot bat' a hr,,f;n slk to be larrie in I O heiurd ei witch a fancy in a gt* tsexVI 'is truep )Wnt, at j(yhoi<e may tet-ih sornewl.i s6mure? but you ki, very well that I an about 16 bd: thW'v fe of In 'oor ancelhiuic, wIo tlep-,uds on; h daily abor for !ipport. As th4 wieI' supl ' nOan. I niust neessarll8'li knit iiy ii:11 ' :i to-.M II My ciroumstinAes, and I 1hhe flk. It it, bett,er to ptrcha-e sonotirit i'hNli w,Afld be it,,of-l for 3sote tin o to ."Pol JaMa to conUulL tPy appedraice "Aqta spTi i(l belile for oPO 'hort, eveking.-.1 peelally As r anm tdR Ih,f4rftt a ' "There is sotiethiig hi that, I evciA mny Maria'. wdding dre-s, - .S It, neiiael wear it again t the wnrd. She bi1 a whitq satin, with a'luce dros' QVe'It Oh. slo did look beautifully I ) I dp,$4 !.u to see. a handsome bride." "Yes it is ve.olt!well for V t1 11e a ford it. 11ut it M9uKAV4et 1011..1 fie to lill'lthao an eXpLi ress fot. or even for 'a lbw evehinks, hd",''"by''41 expenditure of half'tre,otk, ,-4an 'pVriL enrlm tflat which will be ser,vicyalUlq Ipr some. years. litt corme, phton'your bohne,p4 step over to odr iw hous l si'ail turt ir ed-at. least all that is finishcd;, IA lf'f more highly than I shbuld if it was'not so near sAy tother'." * a * e * "T here, William htleu this' aill, pAti.M lor, this kifting rooni, i1nd-thtd (hmigrp, to tinish at bis leisure, whpu L.itit ef emp>loynoint. Se! hlow' vrii It Iatget, 4) hAbd for 1MV Wll&"' "Yt1 don't stkr you ta going-to b owni work!" pretile,.d" shudiik-t n could nt do ill,with fits. -4 ' ,I.y bear, W tr'a e 1 hayo I To be sur4, jUi s I* e1ongI( t1y can briing your taind. tp it b kj b et14" ks o so dtiefeettly nn*OWa days. . tere Slarit, -ste has moved Into-an elegait,4 hdse.ll; furnished fripu top to 'bot4oui. ;,Sb61 keeps a great girl to dq the w'6rk a little one to waL rfid o ~ -h' o ~ Itn a 46,'"g'o on' beautifully, I prounisa you I". . . "ller husbantj is a young lawy4, is lie not. 's hI wealthy.?', "Oh ! Lt is very. well of'.1 ie does uot get much0 prilcliceo 4q. byt I Iqll- Iye' *III ili li ItIvir A th'ouan aruat; ilpterestLJiid hia' never-Otil ltp:)4 parrit<l a nihqi .:io,%l .tjkir ,li t a h4fll u1td6ladk, irdd theirCom'llex' *, pcitilly if. They 4re oxposed.t' bwrp4I ,wpI( noI wjish to 4;t r deeMy, but I'db thiik that, fdr pi e4-'s a'-e u tialke ' te f iitivyl f hi tiil * e tdO.l l little di1ryt 4 io' .ms, ),.,, - "tOil' aunt exct'use ily laughip n-r1t yet'to leArntat ii td&sii'ho'et' b~Idtien whether it. prodticet hard hands 1o Iite soft hands, whether il gives t44 9hqk a brown of a pale htue, IA any 'dislat.e:etu to hint. You mutist get acquaibted with William And hIear iin 6onvorse. Yon :will not Itink otI hi i ad hanuds nstiud 4if r*nintl,, leti, intAligetir cotiterfaht'ce wll drive lis brottavdnkin qiiitt out. of: -your head. Ilhit Conle, you doll'ayt pgig gg fr niture-h6dyu t iusi,t see fIV thy Ice cli.s," "Oh I yer it'r - i f ille *t tt rh. 'The Iyg)hstth nny'-lhv'o takii care oi, you knoif-" ' yes, we' oohld ' 114 * '*n11 I insisted. uPoaAWiIllIutMkM "'th n'i' ivRi.h tay grand-utholer lft. i ' tf $ it 'few knadred.dtkbMs' WhFe ~Yho i ' .0his plaed, ill ordel'P4 699: er Io world.. "We both-have titliff*It t 1d6of debt' that we are detenhh(red"tib1 h I di' Ai: If we cad possilyt hel tf.i ' WWft"d Iico press for bed clothes thfl Is. ' ''-' Yhjry, wjat ft quatiify 'of 'hed and 1a14. linon I-it is really tilbel' tI. 'YoA lhave tile thtan uyMasia If-IF, 19bi 1 t. '4Yes-I always 'want tt -tdut/ce- .C shch thing.s. This l-tower -i' J 'WitI towOl-,tlis isit"Ol-Iny Ironl"t 01 h ir,t andi wooden wate-o?', - 's' 91 deolart, ssfo aY'a'id itouIghfful child I, Tatua:f swllVo'uhui tng about Iarla,' tbhkadb it'HaflaW ' od hearly1augh.v> ,k a site was ma.rried; .h titei H a'1 a 4t ask that chiki '-had httf t i' tltjterA . '-Wi Id.o Snp hing . ofw &i n&"-. "'v . -"I helueve,' hufntp?I Ihre"1shtd"WVoft all itnw. WIuu wilt got tr"yble ptIiiA4 T o lamt's lurown htsands'fi1hghtit du'oa, Av#fthIy. evening.4i' "Oth, nio! lbst a ). ust.tiuke the stage for M' i i's ,cirly Vt,r 4WP6ggm allow 'm' l.o re ItIat ca .t . "'Wta', tallows tiee4ttkdN'*h4fori tUt binsiwg, qlegsene4 -sds af~gOtslees4 self to a venerable -'ookinf twiin nte~ 'tita yui tell trio who resides in that elegant. rot two. whetre. hn grotunds arA lid out wit h Y, (VI: ')F 1, W "Of~h'fthe p:. qui&t14 I4V6ndkos }:ggj 'pWarts) not Is aa1114 41M4s16b It NVAhlsuch a rlP onWp*puld be Ca th sotuctling o hIIWstory. Mi"t the;;M A~f"ff r!Im in it, nothing at all sir. Ilis fattd m man of great learw 'gg ghe nearly run through, 6 fortuu r jo live in style. Hie dlied, an t reo boys, Thet -Mother, Who,olgifrom it place;fwis'i aoman of stro g n e nHqt,,jj puj ,paid atfi hIli tib uebtAnd the 1tht 0 buy hatltt hlkusef tbdh1Yg ar 1pbut two One #0'811 n, e e 16 0trad Ute Wt1ipAr,W tI'iCiy htyld I[: al Widow Perry's i allglt oVA|bvSbfti' 't as a ste).l-trap,Map ,Ns a right good scholar, and shwk xibellent wife. They hav ' a ong wo iort'l , verybody ffbn<hodj SSW iShVABi1M d')Ifaifimake bet }NJ{ysj,j 4hry$nes1Itatteoiehow, 0 n . ig cry to t 0i sharp ourlte au . e er p aFt im ntery ,stiiffiil" W4 We 4 ~ejqws,. 9u Plkevar<aw,hn bIfbI ea k1t4 bprso ;id' gelp or #leauroVA e-th both pulod one , ..4 ' unlure Ln botug s!obe, industrous I uleful ,a1d 4filti%,tp tbft r"iaidniug univer siyrlapedh4t To& t;4a man ~ t6[eU0 Squire te l1*#0icrew ih hidea nle r e 6d ho 4 byjbis own. I s w a. csin to TY11 Iiit .1,thorght .wh r o o r )01 arrie w lt.bithl.i le if RI fellow he 49tiusaj':dh, ubtwitliftding, to sup port his latL- Yj~ tte, :Re, Uok to rtfih,i~l~U fu1 I d nay tnt. pl6 ttantd,i'hee:wnqVe auer -cousin''Fttatch, but she litile thought her boyp-*9l4I: h9 gltd to go to that Hame cotsin for a h6me, while she wiild bo"glad to take up with the little homse 1rt0%drelmorndiko's mother li oil in." --Alif s, talied tie old du, "this 4* el4gill Wijrdj"1idtb nyl 6lud, if etteb t n aib1osm theigignsodettnida ddirgil geowld .n c good :4Mh't, ihe eIl'.t1P61of cot ansmemah'i@ J Ai4equir leI ,gal,haruti full mos qid, as are necmssary to pick the', cropi tlgn is rej'ite7 tb pl'l "id cultivate i;. TihitWitfmty 1 gthettn' nfitt ibe on)) setin -have bbyhiat/d by a w4wiv-.4 n Xavj achIjjf!, whicivis-laim db J.I L tpick At Uint' dir c ne as a nd, lif iddai JWi r rop %Oen Le6*; o d!ie Add eli J1100, by 0 Id COMio*j96 per .410,111 sm gt Ipfund.Am IWidrrinAtr V0a the i m -ozte orparts and as spee pit together witholit injry ti C ainl ritllerarrddr pilu Peft$#I otIn pamsQss Aruliled$)w,lbeb .figd uetdch mo tot 11, 1118W, JIII K.o oLt.I~s 11ol(),1 11.4e 1' gr a d a ri e cot.ton is freed from the , y a,. iovel-psoce.ea Alwai mrve power of the ma' ' ' aJ y&h simiple con trivan ~ miw th The Aejag reje.iiwMit koiom<sade'v an y iiy( et dsen Seln n for. r g jjrgo tal 1ti de ouK ld. 4J.mqMZ 'o Simday, receivotl~ vnsmts all tlay, ati& wnnerencaidna in t,1e en,ng.