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VOtL. III.] WINNSBORO, S. C., TUESDAY.A,UGUST' 2 1, 1866. 87 EVERY TUESDAY, TIIURS AND SATULRDAY, ,Gaflard, Despor'es & Co, lit Winnsboro,' S. C., at $6.00 per an. iumn, in advance. THE FAIRFIELD hERALD, 1 -PUBLISIED EVERY WEDNESDAY DIORN ING, AT $3.00 PER ANNUMl. [rot THIC NEWS. j FAIRYAND. Wouldst know Why fhe violets blue, Speaking love so true, In the tracklers forest grow? Why thOei fragranco sweet in the hidden deli .eens wasted oft? Shall we tell--shall we tell? C..n'st guess Wily the wild rose sheds, Where no mortal treads, l'erfilume, in the wilderness? Wl1y the lily hides in the silent. 7ale, And its sweetness breathes on the passing gale ? DoFt think That they blootp for naught Hast tuou never souglt To discern soe sweet link 1"t wixt mortals here and the spirit-band ? flast thou never dreamed of a fairyland? And where, Dost ask, are its holers? lit the heart of the flowers In garden jnl glqn ? Yes th -re. And we enil thet fairies--that mystic band That dwelt sinseen in the fairyland. Too sinall For the human eye Their forms to descry, Yet we oft may hear them call, As their sentinels soar OJacir 'customed round; And a magio spell in% each voice is found. In turn, Round the earth they scan, That the heart of man May not evil lessons learn Viom the fiendish elves of the darksome 0 ves More disnal and drear than lte silent graves. For ill Does the elf king strive Uut when good deeds thrive, Then fairies control the will. And in contest fierce are theyoft-iimes met, And a soul is the prize for victory set. Above, To the spirit's holne, Do the fairies roam, . And with messages of ovO To the earth return; for each blissful thought Every sinless joy-is from Heaven brought. Then say, Do the flowerets lone 'Neeth the moss-orosted stone, Their sweet fragranco fling away ? Does the woodlatnd flower by the zephyr fanned Bloom in vain ? Alt I no-these make fairy. lasid. Stay Mlaws. To the Editors, Lepidlet.ure and 1'.ople of Southi Car~oti-m: The Legislature will sott be convened for the putrpore of modifyiug our District Court system; so as to meet the r'etuiremnents ef the legislation of the late Federal Congress. It is the-design of a strong influence in the 8tane to uso.this extra session ror tJse pur pose of passing laws to delay or kinder the colleetlon of debts. I wish, briefly, to state the effect of the attempt to carry out stuoh a desIgn. Such laws cannot he made valid without an amendment of the Constitution of the United Ft rtes. Lawyers who say otherwise nre badly informed or wilfully mislead the people Our present distress Is owing, not so much to the devastations of war and emianoipation tas to the shock gives te our credit by the Passage of our late stay law. Otherwise. New Yourk, I h l'xdelphla and IBaltimnore, withI mnillions seekinag investeent, wouta not re fuse.us oa a credit. This es not, opinion bont fact. ?te merchants of these cities Ctay so. They are alarmued at the aniimus of our0 legIslation, and it will reqailre at bdast vaeroegu.lar sessIon .f our Legislature to pass, without an attempt at the passage of such laws, to restore commercial confidence. No law has ear been passed, interferlag lith the laws of trade, that, has not produc 'ed e-i a.ud hairm to these intended to be lienefit ted..- There are eases where the pre 'rent ion of the eollection of a debt would be ekota tuoral crime. T&eroa ate others where the sacrifice of a debtor's property would be an act worthy of Shylock. An honest public opinion will regulate I he arm of the law in these cases. Why is it that now with Sheriff's armed with sundry . fi. 's, very few levies are male ? The agitation of the subject of the stay laws holds our false hopes, and prevents creditor and debtor from compromising. It is not true that ereditors. as a general rule, design the collection of the claims : they desire to have them secured, which. being done, they are ready to grant any reasonable indulgence. Out Legislature, if they close the civil courts and leave the criminal courts open, will thereby leave tle Judges in a position which -will enab"o thItem, as honest Judges, to declare ail laws delaying or hindering the Collect-ion of debts, "replgnant. to (lie Conl slitutio.ti of the United States." To close the civil'courts, then, all courts must be closed. - What follows ? Vide 0en. Grant's order: "The United States military will have cognizance of all crimes and misde meanors. wiihout regard to the color of the parties!" Liberty has already gone. this will take away her shadow now left us. Suppose, however, lie civil courts to be closed, what then? The Freedman's Ilu. reau will collect tie debts owing to freed men. What follows? 'hie wHite man will tranAer his dead claim to a negro! This is not coniectured - it was done in one Dis trict. to so- to exten', before the annuling ot time late stay hlkw. Ag:tii, suppose the hand, of creditors, who are citizens of th' Stato, to be tied; then creditors, who are citizens of other States, (now a large class,) - whose claims exceed $500, will Sile in the Unitied States Courts and lie marshtials will collect, aided by a posse of F, deraid bayOnCIs, it Uces iry This is not all. Debts above $500, found el on lills of exliange, (Act of Sept. 24, 1789. See 11,) proiissory notes, ([ Mason. 251,) and notes payable to bearer, (if le. ters. 318.) /ona fide conveyances of titles to land, (II Sumner, 252.) w hI ich four class. es of causes ofaction willenibrace in aiount three-fourtis of all debts,..will leave the State and becoime the properlty of citizens of other States, who will sue in tihe United States Courts. Is it trte that creditors have no con. science ? Ns it trite that all debtort are honest is it. true thit creditors are always rich and the deitors poor? Is it just ito disregard the rights of the creditor, although a poor widow or orphan, and to protect tlie debtor who may be in posession ofi It wilows'orphin' or properly, wit hout any cowideration paid ? Is it nt trime that thise who favor repi-Iimion and stay laws are, as a generil 'rule, popularity seekers. ort- those who wtuore Ol in they expect to collect frot their debtors I I Iy tle nian reduced to poverty by the late w!ir, and cain sympatthize with him in his struggles, even.where, ins his extremity, Ie desires to stay the hiitd of just ice; but great is my contonipt for the lawyer, or well-informed niati, who, for a little poput larity, will delude his fellows and ruin 'is country-for it is too true that our honor and our credit are all that are left is; take them away and we are poor indeed. Let public opinion alone, and fear not tlie bug-bear of the poor debtor being "sold out of house and home." I ask when, and in how many instances in our State. froni its ear liest history, lias a man and his family been sold o-t of house and home and turned out of doors by his creditor, unless the debtor connived at it himself, in order to take the beietit of the Insolvent betor's Act, or where the debtor was fraudulently making wiy with or screening his property? LAtssrz Nous FAiE. TiE WEATMn AND CioPs.-The weath or in this section continues dry. It is nowa settled conclusion that the :orn and cotton crops must necessarily be very short. Ala ny farmers inform us that they will not nuake as much of a provision crop--corn and wheat-as they did the famous "dry year," 1846. All vegetation Is much parch ed tip, and the pasturage is about destroyed. Consequently the CnttIa are beginning to fall off, and, without rain soon, the pastu rage will be worthless. On accouit of the drought, and on account. of its tonginess. Instead of pulling the fodder frontlie stalk of corn as usual, we here of farmers cutting down the stalk wit hi the fodder and corn on It. The fodder Is said to be as tough as leather strings, in puilling -We hope the erops niay not turn out as short as In the "dry year," but, at present It reminds its forcibly of that dreadful year. Is famine to be added to the other horrors which hang over and oppress us? if so, heaven send us safe deliverance.-Lauren,. viile Iterald. A "kerosine telegraph'' juas been~ invents. at B#ston, In which lnterpsittent light and darkness take the place of the dots and lInes on telegraphie paper. Signal. san be read wIth it in clear weather tee or fiffteen sites, and with about thme rapidity of the ordibary electrie telegrapb. A new fire alarm bell, for the post.offlee tower in New Yortr, weIghs 8,800 pounds and Is oxpectod to be heaM' witbhik a ra4tus Gov. Urr's Apcelf Ii Philadelphia. The Democrats held a large meeting last night at their hall in Race street. which was addressed by many prominent speakers. Gov. Oer being called upon, dell ovred the following address, which was entiusiasti cally received. Ha said : lie considered himself fortunate that he appeared before his fellow-citizens on this present occasion, when they were just about opening a campaign in ihis the Keystone State, and ten years before he had addresed the people before him,i and probably the fathers ot'iome of them, in company wilih the late distinguished and latenfed Doug. Is. (Applause.) He would to God that the departed statesian wts with him on the present. occasion. Iis great heart, his large patriotism, was needed in Such a cri sis as this, because that help would stimut late the Democracy of the Statioa the con test in which they were about to embark. l1ut siice that time, alas ! many changes had occurred. The gulf had now'been clos ed. and lie and his fellow delegates.had come to this city for the purpose of reltrion, for the purpose of meeting the conservative and national tIuen of lie North and the South. (Great applause.) lie did not purpose on the present occasion to review the causes of ite separation, bit. lie would review two or three point.,; in connection with tle late controversy, which would show thema, and sthouw all honest men in the country, that Ite people of tie Sout, wh,en once they hal sirretidered, when one they had laid down their arnms In good faith, were ready nid tit to be trusted by the people of 1hle North (Applatise.) When tle olntest that is now over cominenced, lie People of the South believed that it. was right to secede from tie Ution. His audietuce did not helieve that it was right, or thatt the Sout hern people were compelled to leave t lie decision totho oMy arbiter force. The people of the Nort I said - the Union could not be dis4olved. The peoplq- of lie Sout It siiid they hal a rigti to withdraw troin lie Union. The contest camne The South was stilijogated, the Northern principles tri. untphed. and tite iterpretation the North gave lie Sotith w %vas complete, and, what is more. it was linml. Governor Orr would state that every man in the So(a consider. ed riha: decision final. because it Ias boen rendered by tlie highest trihual on earth lite t0i1lhun11 to whieh they had appealed. (Appliuse.) It was ipronounced by the last arbiter, by tle highest powers. It was a decree that was irrevocable. Mark this fact. The nationlity of the country has been seitlel. The Suouth bowed to the do trino the lleople ofthe North rremented to ttem. which they had cilincil'' ' IouJ .le field of hattle. -(.\piplmuse,) No inan now inquired whether it hal been fairly or pro. perly decided. It was stitlicient for tlie Southern people that it had neen decided. They intetnded to carryotit the decision, toil, exclaimed Gov. Orr, "tlie people of the 1outt wait you to help thot to c-Irry t out.' (Great applause.) lIII hisCottrover-. sy, t le dread appeal to itiiskets and bnyo nets, tle South ern people had sttfered niueh. Their banks were gone, their credit, aye, even their property ; and civil law in abey ance, oftentimes openly defied. They had I eei a long time without the benefits of that civil law. They were placed in a bet 10er PO.4ion tan the Northern people to judge Itt advant iges of civil law, for t hey had been without its benefits. They yearn ed for it and were determined never again to sep-iritefrom a safe and protecting Gov ernment. (Apylautso.) IThey 'were deter. tinied to stand by all their pledges, to re deem all their promises; and Governor Orr would say, and lie would take pleasure in iaying before this Northern audience, fhlat A-9 Southern people. often having tinder gone the greatet privations, came back, submissive and willing to do all they could to restore peace. trainquillity andi happiness again. Ile would.say for thliemt that they are realy to acknowledge the public debt. This Government was their 0overninent, and its debt was theirs. (Apphuse.) It was I heir debt as Iuth as I hat of the North eri people. It wa.s the speaker's Govern. mettt, as it woud be hischild's doverrnient, and his grandchild's (Jovernment. Althoiugh the debt iight have been contracted in a manner of which he did not approve, xt ill it was the dlebt of tie country--he debt of the Governmtent. -ThIu4gi head -i( ec, one of those engaged in the rebelhtom, lie was anxious tat his Governttent new mightu meet all the demands of her creditors, le desired tat his Govertnment, his .chlild's IGovernment, his grandeltild's Governmient, mg tadbetore the Sationts in all the pride ndgoyand grandeur of a gr-eat people, withlout a Irlot or tarnish. on her taIr reput ation. (Great applause.) LETTER FiM FMitNANDO WOOD. l'NtLADILPHUA, Au;uust 18' I am earnestly .desirous for the entire succese of the mtovement proposed to be initiated by thle Convention to.tnorrow. It sueocessil, the result to the cottatry will be of the momt salutary eharacter, , ut It cannot be situeessful if Its proceedings shall Ibe disturbed by any causie wh4tew'eI. Y am informed th at a serilous disagreement1s like lyle. arisee in' oonseence of an aftemapi to be made to egolude' sopne .dqlegalt, syself included. becaufe our poliletl record is distasteful to Radicals and their sympathi zers. Now, although I feel confident that such an outrage would not he perpetrated by the Convention, and though I have noth ing to regret or take back, as to tny course during the war, and I do not. admit the right of any one to question it in the Convention, yet I an too much devoted to the ncoon plishmeut of the high patriotic object inview, to permit, my presence there to be the means of disturbing its deliberations or an excetto for an assalt by its 8enemics outside. There fore I shall nol attend lihe Convention as a delegate. (Signed) FmINANDo Woo>. GIRnAnD IROUs-9P1 .A%.p Augtist 14. 18t0.-To Chniriman Naionl Union COnvetiOn-Sir: I htave t his iday received from the National Union Committee,through tte lion. Willinin S. Grose:eck,chairman of joint Ohio delegation to your Conventi ion, a ticket of admissior as a delegate from that State. The lion. George W. Cook, chair itan of Democratic delegation from Ohio, has also cotintimcated to tme the following resolutions this morning adopted by that delegation : "Resolved, uinnimously, kPy tic Ohio Deno cralic Ie/eyation. That we recognize the right of Cletent r.. vallandighamin a duly clected delegato from the third Congression. al Distrist of Ohio, to hold a seit in that Conventionl. -That wa should regard his exclusion from such seat as an unjust itad mreasoait able infritigenient ol the rights of the Demo eracy of said district, and are rea%dy to stimid by him inl the assertion of hi-j rights an,i the rights of his const it uents. "That wo enudorse cordially the purity nui patrintisit of his motives aind his fit. iess every way to sit, In said Coivention ; yet, for the bake of harmony and good feel ing in tlie -t!ne. nJ in order to secture the great etids for which its is calle, we con. -ent, to his withdrawal from this delegation and ia seat in the Convention, if in his judg mniil, his duty to his constituents shall jus tify such withdrawal." Yielding my own deliberate convictions of duty and right to the almt.:4, un1tanimtous opinion-s and desires of friends whose wis lomt atid souAdness ofjudgmuenlt and sincerli ly ani pori"fy of m1otives, I may nlo. qt.es' Lion, to (tie enld that there shall be no Ile text even, from any quarter for atty cointt verted questions or disturbitig element ;n the Convettik to tmarits lia-umoy, or sin. der in any way liho result to the catte of tle Constitution, the Union andi lie plittii liberty which sholl follow from its delihe r-limns and its actions, I hereby withdriaw f ..m lte Ohio Democratic delegation. aqd decline taking Imly seat in tie Convention. I alit profoundly conscionls tIhat tie sano tity atid niagnittida of the interests iitvolv. e, tit lie present political canvtss in the Ulited States are too immense tint to de mand a sacrifice of evety personal consid. oration itn a struggle tipon tle issue of which depel-ie, n I solemnitly believe, tIe present plecev, and timliately the existtive of free republican government otn this con. iment. rusting that your deliberat ions may he harmonious, your proceedings full of tle spirit. of wisdom and patriotism. and its results crowned withi a glorious and saving trititph inl the end to thie great cause in which every sym1paithy of my iear. is ei listed. I atit, rospect fully, &c C. L. Vaumn.a. Words of Advice. The Wilmington Dispch givos Its readers the fullowing words of advice: We wast( too mneh tim this Smithern country. Wo pay too little attentiott to small thiigi, and in otir search aet er it. poind-4, forget that thoy ewl (-:r.rit of ftetuh es, i we Ivill look aftvr thi Tiert, are s n lne- u biih we oti!r t lea in fro-n hat rnce wh bh we are So mch di'poseil to .tiner it-ti C Yankeem. They art- silerior,; itt the greittest of all abflitius-that of making Hio l.y. Hie who bumilds tup ta natin's gret.. ness by die piower of his inllti.nmee andh inItellect is ia statesmatn is worthIy. of thei highest commetndation. lHe whIo satvis a nation bmy .he forco of his vatlor ntu skill deserves more, But to him Who furniishtes a namt ion's fintances tdhoutld bet accorded htigher praise than all these, for witbout, him no stateanship, no mih-. tary geiuIs caun bild up or save a 'rThe Nortihern people are great finaniu. ciert Becauuse tuey understand the~ art of acqniring and keeping mnoue , they have become powerfnl. The SomIi-. ern1 pe'oplu posseas -nany elements of greatnes's, but in- this most imuportnnt, particular they are lacking. We do niot hope that thte experienlce which they have gained withitn.the .lgative years will makat them pa or ~ ttManion. to ADVERT4NG RATES. Ordinary idvertiiements, ocoup:ing not more than ten lines. (one square.) will be inserted in TIE NEWS, at $1.00 for the first insertion and 76 cents for each sub sequent insetiont Larger advertisements, when no contract is made, will be charged in exact propor tion. For announcing a candidate to any office' of profit, honor or trust, $10.00. Marriage, Obituary Notices, &c., will be' charged the same as advertisements, when over ten linip, and must be paid for when handed in. or they will not appear. matters of this kind than they ever be. fore bestowed. We would not have the national' character of our people merged into one wherein selfishness and greed of gain held a predomnating influence. But we would lave t practical business way of thinkint, encouraged. We would have otur people educated to know that toney as vell a- knowledge is power. A nd after ac<Iiring a knowledge of this truth, wo would have them atvail them solves of it.. lutt btvond anl above all else, we woild have them take off their coats and go to work like men. Each oio inl his :pherv, wherever it may be,. sliuld devOt- himlIself with a mighty vigor o tim inior of rebuilding that which las eien destroye: in ottr midst. The Somb nve is the stroig arms of her so- s. Sit is i, ditress. Her wealth and pro.pzqritv have been stolen away The-st t. be reeovered, or ruin will si. forever like a hungry wol:in her door Wiay, ready to swallow heri up. Let everybodv put to work to avoid tho drowAd calamity, which manly labor ca i only avoid. CIt 1"S IN SPARTAS'ILO -The Spar: taniirg Express says: From all the information we could gather on sale-day we have come to the cotichision that the corn crop of this District will 1) a tolera b1v good uitie. While tbe di, has shortetnd i lie crops in some p ' and ontirely destroved it in othiers,' t it has been partial, a large portidnot the D' triet havinga bev blesRed witV sensoni. file showers. Thle botio-ni Iands. every. where, make a good shoIwiIg, nid the inp-lanls have imtprvrel considerably sinet the late rains. We -advise all,. however, to economise food, and keep lit) slinpe'fIiotuA stock. Thel Spartan' however gives a more dismial atecount. It says: Last Mon. day heing sales day a larg muiber of tilt country friends were in town. We s, w% ptersnis from almo-t every sectiou of' the District, and sill gave gloomy PccuntiIIs Of tile prospects of the growing er p. Every svetion has beiin su!T- ing greatly for watt of nuin. The weat tiaving bve- thrased' it is accertained 111n1. it loes not averag ', in thie District, mnore ',Ai a third of a croD. H o !-Brod er Dettmocrats--there is work for it; to do. We have a coutry to rvecuetq from IIlin. fim-Iticism 11ml the danmable grip of New England intole rancte, priest-cralt and a favored: section alism hegot.'en inl ianorance anid nur. tired witi the . o! blood of itiocenlce. Pray for pitck! lie men-or cowa.rds. II' via are democrats and arf- afraia to own: y'our faith,sir down atnd let the wo. men(1 take y'our place. We can succeed: We cant sa ve thle cotun try ot' die in t hi attemiupt. All we ask is th is Equality of States or another w'at'. WVhit I metn to govern white n.en. Equal ta xationt or repudiaution. Iflre is our Ilannier, andl t hiose who l iki. it are asked to aid its in g'utting ir, bef'ore t-hit peeple. WVe wanut thte old ConXest itntition ; everyv Statot represenited in Conigress and tIhe right to regulate her owni ;aflirs: Utnited States Bonds taxed tin r'puidiated.- It is a cowardly tyranni en:1 wior,g to keep eleven States out of Ihe I em ple they built in their own blood. It is an insusl to WVashington that nig. get's moust gover'n white mleni. It is <hi innabi le~ to N- Enghindizo t he hot bireat)h of' westetrn aen inito coo)linig per. fumes to) regale thu ntostrils of pa~imerd abohin pi:ro 'tec'ted Bond HlderalI Andtu we say1 to) the. radlical trsai'ors inl Congress and t heir nigger loving backers if equald right s antd fain play be not giv< n he toiling~ whites iuld the matiy States of AtuX IS'?a. il e e >OoR wifl be another Graund March foim the Prairie. to tl.e S'ia, whtich wull Shormanize New Eng. land forever anid int the floors of tho 'apuol with the externination of nuri treaticial .intolerance ! A nd if yon ask what we tmean, yon will find it it) thuis pa per and htear it, on the platform fronm one Anericant who is the friend of' poor white men-the descendanit of Revolu. tiontary stock-who never bowed.his head to a tyrant or sold his~ honor for p)lace or gain, and who dares not, only' write and talk what he thiunka, but darse Creen, ( WsconnI)\emcrnts