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. . __V_O_L_%_________________ .I4oYR VOL,. III.l WINNSBORO, S. 0., DESDAY. SEPTEMBER 25. 1866. 1O TH TRi4EBBILYNN8, PUBLISHED. iVERY. TUESDAY THURI DAY AND SATURDAY, VV aillard, Desportes & Co. I i Winnsboro,' S. C., at *6.00 per an. num, in advance. frE FAIRFIELD HERALD, I U9LISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORN ING, AT $3.00 PER ANNUM. mY FATHER. DY HIY 'R. JAOK$ON, Or GEonotA. As die the embers on the hearth, " And o'er the floor the shadows fall, And creeps the chirping cricket forth, And ticks the deat h-watch on the wall, I see a form in yonder chair That grows beneath the waning light There are the wan sad features-there The pallid brow and looks of white. My fathet I when they laid thee down, And heaped the clay upon thy breast, And left thee sleeping all alone Upon the narrow couch of rest, I know not why I could not w6ep The soothing drops refused to roll, And oh I that grief Is wild aad deep Whilh settles tearless on the soul. But when I saw thy vacant ahair, Thy idle hat upon- the wall, Thy books-the peolled passage wherd Thine eye had rested last of all ; Thb tilee beneath whose friendly shade Thy trembling feet had wandered Iforth, the very prints thtme feet had iade' When last they feebly trod tle barth. And thought while countless ages Red The vacant seat would taoant stand; Unworn thy aT-Jasy book unread, Effacca thy,f f0 aps froi the sand, And widowed, Ahis cheerless world The heart that gave its life to thee. Torn like the vine whose tendrils outlid More closely round the falliog tree. Then, tather I for her sake and thee, Gushed madly forth tlp scalding &"ealn And oft, and long, and bitterly Those tears have gushed I.Ylatet yeats; For as thi world grows -cold around, And thingo take 4n theik real hue, 'TiN said to learn that lote Is found - Alole, above the starS Itith you I Aleplagi A. Doega, Thls,djstnguiqbqd,atateam , and pati. san st0l lives in the bearts and memoty 'of his countrymen, and will continue to .tio so while the pfesont generation shall live ; and when it she11 have lassed away, cobitng generatioa will see him throttghthe moni. uent which is now being erected at Ohloago by his friends and political admirers. . We take the oilowlgbIographiesI sketeh -of this ian ftm the New York M6wu s - The President 4f the Uited States, lrt General of the Atmly, 4he ItM Admiral of tue Navy, 'and many -tb4uands- of their fellowo km will assemble to.day on the boaift Ake Michigan to d . Monor to lien k. Douglas It is not often that statesmen And their edlo. gisle among men of their own genefation. The one wbo stand around the grave of Douglas wer his companions.. They *new hitn well. If the ourso of nature he should still be with them.-forDouglas died cid. paratively young, in the very fullness of hik. life. In thot, the orator who will to-day discuss his career is.almost old enough te have been his father. It is thirty-two years alas Dougias, a poor wayfaring Yangee o,went.tn seek fortunes in the State which afewllhon e red him as one of het ,nost emninent eltisens. He wandered early oa his G Mouitsa home, with nothing but a plain lew England e.ducation, an4. a determin tien .to rise. Tired of'eabieettlmMg bud teactl, he engsged in 'what tras dulled e'studyingiaw." The fame of,Jacson ftlled the landi, anhIe a.aarn Yankee, not oppressed with sriples, saw thbai the sign in Tennessee,~was the-star of conquest. His .rat' rival, Lincoln, was keepltlg a post.ofie, fresh -from the glories of the illaok Hawk war. Andrew Johnson was Mayor of a little euatain .town .in .Tennessee, Jefferson Davis1 a I,ieutenant of dragoons,,was chasing f,he .Indieags, Jev.rd was grieving ever hsis .defeat as Governor, BJceokigridge wasO stndying.th ordieos of Ciepro agais, Jatillne at a ifeuatey di Ipge, Ohasee was endeavoring to galsn slay practice in Cininnati, Bsneoe was atet ing the Boston bar,-Brodewiok was tting stone, Grant was ' sehool.bey is his teentl, Farragut was .watching e64. honor of his flag on the torrid opat's 'ftakit, and te ortator of to.day, tirb Of Vr end lay, ' qnteted polities aid messe the' New Vs seorethiry of State. #1utlke'ayo thee non. Lincoln espoolaly,'Duglaasse ed early He'betodnd 04 that hard bfeof me who suit,any soil and ev'r lititude. Totrid or krigM, sunshine oW snow, the life In hirh ws endhrieg .lHe beliesed in the rowdy virtue of 4seSan beities, on4 had much of.the fowy in hispat'ute. ljmI. Cged his debates vy 'meh as Mr.a lnadtag*u i ie bs.sn sheer thu iIg. -u e4%t4Qtla6sI Shows no deba pore bmun - and yetmse powerfu, than those,o emJs* l4i *aoa ae Nebraska I a~Itw 4 .s a . bate thathe fOWt power trhio)i :nade @ ?r6l while he lived,ge0 i5 h v American stalesq " *We ay "Awsmen tatop, 96 e c annet rank Mit. Deuln a eth Sien whose lives kate bs a partth nation's hIstory by the very nationality of their services and their fame. His"career in Illinois w" that of one who conquered bt. energy, adaIty, and qualities of mind and body that made him the leader of a mob. As a popular leader, no one pohmses. ad so many elements of success of Mr. Doug. la, and whon we say this we have answer ed the highest- demands of his fame. Con science would have made him a Radical, but by pandering to an Illinois mob, he managed to be for the greater part of his career always victorious. By siirrendering himself to the spirit of slavery, he became conspiouous as aleader of the extreme pro slavery wing of the Democratic party. Du ring the period of the Southern domination thav succeeded the fall of Van Ouren, when publip men of the North strove to outdo pach other in pandering to the South, Mr. Douglas wont beyond them all, and offered sup the Missouri Compromise as a sacrifice for the Presidency. What the extreme men of the South did not dream of doing what they scarcely dared to ask, Mr. Douglas did. The repeal of the Missouri Comprom. Is@ ras the great eventk o, his publio life. It is not for us to consider his afterthought of an argument called "Popular Severeign ty"-no an argument, indeed, lbut an ex Ouse and propitiation. The nation saw only al ambitious, striving politician, clamoring for the' Presidency, and willing to rise upon the ruins of a sacred, time.hotfrred com promise. Whether ther judgment was the true one or not, we have - not the power to say, but oertainly the American people thus belIeed, aqd Douglas lost the confidenos that otherwise would have made him Prel dent.- Even the Missouri Compromise would not pdpitiate the South; and at Cirt. einnati the mem,for whom he had incurred public seorn, for whom he had risked his fame and fortune, abandoned him' with cow. krdly timidity and selecte, James -Buphan an. This desertiot convineed the aspiring Senatot that the system of slayery added to other sins that of duplicity and heartless ness. Prom'the modkent of Mr. Bpohona's election, Mr. Douglas peased to act with the slave power. Had he Ujid through the war, this might have bie the turnlig-pont of w illustrions and weeftl career. e creast ted'hi Anti-Leo ton parW 'and' fought 1r. BuOhanan with aS mueh courage as tiad. be expected from a statesman who woold lesist upon being' politician. If. saw nothing grander hi out system than the Democratio -party, and to this party he elung with Supertitions tenacity. 1I% tesed that step in 1860 *hR the Unirva 0zed fpr him, when leaders of. the Uti p arty weft willing to oahry his oyq, oather than abandon an o tanisatio- that wae really Ws hands of thieves and molsy ehangess, he stood begging is the Seste foibl old - comittee, only to be repulsed wi4h contempt by . the South, and to go to Illinois and do their biddInF. It,was the waat of moral purpose which niakes flb erete expediess that in the dase of Dodg. lass led hivi to seek a third party when 1e ran for the Presdenoy. ' His friendi in the South saeriod him for' Brookinbri4ge. hile the fMiends In the Nofth, claiming to follow his puindiples, .walked ver him, as a bridge, to the side of the vlitious IAnoole. ILw&4 In these last days of his 'aer that we 6ad the real awr ' of Doaglaa's life. Taking hint allIn aQ, as one of the lustiesit men of this generation, his Oie reminds uS of a panish Matador who goe" 4own' to the arena gorgeous with spangles sad feathers and valiat with his spear. i UG threw the redrogat the country and wad# e'magalt, cdnt 6 ht. 'But matadors have misfortunes, and this from Illinois was tossed ad gored, and trampled, ding in. 'he vl moment when he of all ane seeeCglid upon t4 liv-ever to touthis red ftgaby note. What,the war would have ms4o Douglas, it is vain to imagine. Ile wpa a struvous Amerian, and he know that the Suter guns meant-war. The last wtWds othislft were loyal and brave. - He saw the neessty of atioa aitp ad eiergyt Wileurging 'and warnipg It,foplo, sad Isisting Upoa mal, patridt. Ati". the strage teen. y ofhis natr sought its '600' in the. deukio tka gib vow"Mia rtya. not be perpetUal unless eey Deiacrat be. eamswajai The pas was"all isl, ano if men olid be Demodra, let them 0 ht Mr. go0la's philosophy as4if s1u a h1ther 1ea' Ie didVag see Lprnople in e Issues great deong stugiigto estead i seinall power-a mht ation wajting with aserie that it ha auttared. Re was -k i, prisetcal lived terely lb the da, aad bre . arn. Set p.yer than for dal'bred, iwd,1like *li apte den whose lives saeele,leafs bat 4i hsnrk doistve . ' i Thes fi1 sha o' crate *is as*qesk feell 1 a __ I.~~ that he we apil I uIgh Tribute to"hle Charaster of gia. In a long editori arti e calling for a subscription of X161000 to Washington College by %he fri,di and' admirers of Generl Lee in ]Wand,, -.the London. Standard of Au 17th, speaks of him as follows: o "There is "o1IMi hero-there are few,if aniy, atibng those whose name shines with the,pu" laistre in history whose charactertl*.P commanded so high a trinute of a ffqtign and admiration from their frtendi,'of respect and honor from their foes,'astlat -of.General Lee. No life more.perfeatty heroic, no reputa. tion'more untarnished even by the wii. nor blemishes-vwhioh are hot uncommon ly found in unison with the highest heroism, has eyet bebu connected with a' great natidna.1-t p: e. No shade of vanity'or egoti nthiug of the self. will or petulange Oten - oharacteristic of conscious tinge of affecta. tion, no tint evei 'of the pride almost inseparable frout or4inary greatnes of mind, which 6i' endurb anything but humiliation, ItCi ds dsubmission as a disgrace, alloy ilig'i ple grandeur of :.he Virginia s1dier' nature. A piety without the slghtest hadow of Phari.. saism, a sense of#uty which the sac. rifioe of every person feeling and inter. :t appears a 2 er f oure, have roarked his wh sooiqe and guided his every pnblic aat*ht . as a soldier or a a citizen- A -Amil conetitr and the nearest livins re-1 rsentative of. the rt champion f 'rican indepen' ience, General Lee h been the Wash inxtnof the 0. war; like WashingtoMa ' vy dared not hate," but " th e ohlderk stain of doubt*-if npt 6fdishonor, -which the death of MsjorA Andre has left on his prototype. : 'o more "selfish man and stains gen.man" evir lived; no soldier eve set a ~*re admirhble exam ple of the soldierly virtues of honor, chivalric genoMy, and wany simplici ty; nd great lan .ver retired into ob. nourity, afer wids.suing alike the ruin of his cause ad the destruction of his private fttune, with more of pehristian patience and f&rtitude. . "Of his. 'litark achievements we need not spea. It is enough to ay that all his viotorles were won against endrmous oddk I -,6h&t his four years' defence of VirjAv few parallels in history as an qxtp,p)e of great ' results accomplished 4ith small means and it fearful disadetrIages - What is now more intereting. remember Is the per.' sonal oherainerJ tfh man, a#.displayed ,in the variousttiences of that trying struggle: thsiople honesty and kidly feeling whIel ted him* to- console his soldiers ai W. recoiled from' tle 6anUon-Drow eights of Gettysbuig, with the assuwce, "Ii is all my fault;" the uuffected*& epreciation which pronounced w newall Jackson fell, "I would vi ise sake of our cause, thai iad b44. 1 d rather thanyo'u;" christian chi hich no outtage could provokb t liatiorr which, afer Virginia had' endered a tlesert, withheld the at' invaded Pepa. 71 vanla; from ' g the most trivial in ury on persovt . property ; which, when his own estatee had been plunder. ed, ravshed adtonOated. took cat to proect the kenses and property of life simhies; the horror of uveloss blood. shed which withstod tho cry .fr retri. bution excited by the niurder 'of South. :rn:pri*oners in jU blood,,and support, the resolve of the,President that unless t,he actit .mnrdret 'Were tajcei ado bloed should 14e lu6 on the field of battle ; the toUkunselfishness "of his .ast words to his niling army,- on'the 9th'of A priL. "1 hg donemiy -lest for yon." But it shs hen all was Q96r when the chiefe( 'great and vioto:ious $rmy was a.prit .man iad a paroled risoner-thatW iliar gresitess of enae'al.Lee' . ies out witk ~neqpAalled brl*hneuss there were onl diE pevuod IIIldm 9 vot's s* sces' safs the s The Reds. at hilaadelplIa. Ono oa'anot read the detailed 'reports o the Radical disunion oonvention,,ately ii session at Philadelphia, without mingle4 feelings of amasemetit. horror, shame, gris and amusement. Are these fellows cray or are they more knaves-than fools? iIs lb instingtive query of every one. From the proceedings of Thursday .th following gems are reset: A BLASPHUMOUS 9O1NN. The Convention met at balf-past ten, an the Rev Dr. Newman, of New Orleans, yes terday elected Chaplin, opened the proceed ings in prryer. After Invoking the Divin co-operation for the rdinnval of all preju dioss growing out of race or color, the reve rend gentleman dwelt a little pn the aubjec of robonstruation as follows : 'Save us, wi pray, from pArtisan influences. Save ui we pray from, out.side pressuro." This wa a gentle hint to Providence to call off th dogs of 0onservatio-mn who are Crying t bark the Radical 'Southerners out of thel convictions. Then Mr. Neirman called th Lord's attention to the President in thi wise; "Hear us, we besetch thee, for ou nation-at large- Deliver us from the rule o bad men-[Cris of Amonj-aad especiall; from him who, throughseatanie agencies has been raised to authority over us-[yell of Antetal-and who, abusing that stathorit is endeavoring not only to take the life a the republic, but out personal liberty Shouts of "Amin,"1 Great God, interfere Amens till it seemed as if the roof woul< al.] Oh, make bare thine arm, and say us feom his 'ruindus policy [snens, an< ories of "Yes, Lord"], from the bad counsel of the bad men who surrou;d .him. U delegate, in an'. audible voice," "Yes Lord Seward and Weed, and all them hounds." We beseeoh Thee to discover to the Amer can peoplie the base h poorly of that part. that sustains him. ["Amen," louder the ever, including one rom Ben. Wade, wh was on the platform.] Oh, -send* spiri from Thy throne to arduse' the clergy, th men whq are thy representatives, who av to deelare she eternA 4*4ciples ef- ialIgiv and polItioal justioe, that they, in turt may arouse theit flooks to The danger whid threatens them. Save them, oh Lord, frot the ravenous wolves that would devou them. So pour out Thy spirit that the we men and children In the land shall be aroui ed to a sense of duty, to a sense of syjapath3 in this grand struggle. [Amen.1 Nov hear'Gs, and answer us. Preserve Thy sea vants before thee; have. in Thy kind car and keepleg their beloved families, far away sue great at all deliberations we may b guided to right oonolusions, and to sue conclusions as shall overthrow the polloy< o enemies; huoh conclusions as sha adane religion end civillsation; such oot elusions as shall redound to Thy glory. An to the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, we wi ascribe 'everlasting praise, -world *Ithot end. Amen," Having said this, Dr. Newman took hl seat, and a dispoqitlion to applaud wo manifest LhroughuU the audieUc. Maxin to Guide a Young ilan, Kaop. good company or none. Novet be idle. If your hands car not. be usefully employed, attend t the cultivation of your mind. Always speak the truth. Make few promises. Live up to your engagementp.. Have no intimate friends. - Keep your own secrets if you hav any. When you speak to a person loo him in the fago. Good company and good conversa tion are the very ainews to virtue. Good character ik abov, all thing else. Nevor listen to loose or idle conver sation. You had better be Poisoned In youi blood than In your pr01 ples. Your character oanvot b e*mantl ly inured except by your own acts. If any one speak evil of your, ]a y our life be virtuous that none wil believe him.s ac. a n-. pe . Always eak and sta ntepe Drink not intoriesting liquors. Ever li, misafortune-ecpe within your income4 no excp. When you retire to bed, think ov.e what you hyeo dond during the day, -Never speak ightly of religion. Make no baste tbe ,rieba If yo would prosper. 8mall and steady gals give oem petenoy with trainiul of ,niod.. Neovr ply ttU Ito ~ *iO ' Mod tem ,tln hobbr then you may ndt w$$hitted 1i EAt yi.aeg et ue ADVERTISIG RATES, Ordinary advertiuteate, oompVng not more thadr tet lueM (ohd square,) 'will be inserted Ef ' A' S dW; at $1.00 foV the. first inse'tlor and 'debts for ta'eh sub' sequent ifettion. Larger adtertisemeWi, when' no odUtract is made, will bb chaiged in Uaot propot tion. * For andoutiflg teandidate to any ofAc of profit, honor er trust, $10.00. Marriage, Obituiry Notices, &o., will be charged the same as alvertisemente, when over teh lines, and must be p0id for when! handed in, or they will not appea. way to got out again. r Never borrow if you- can possibly' avoid it. Be just before gonerou. f Keep you'rolf lunocent if you Would be happy, Save when you are young to spohd when you are old. Never think that which you give foW' religion is time or money msspent. Always go to mecting whein you can. Reud some- portigu of t'e Bible every day. . . Often think of death .and you Re countability to God.: Rean ov-jr the above maxims once a week, Saturday night,- Gazette and Couri,r. a THE DANGERS 01? ITA1., SAD PLIGHT FOR LOv5RS. r Night before last, as the muoon rose' e over the bill and tree-tops, gilding r the spires of our beautiful city with r her silver rays, thero might have been * , soen upon the roof of an Egyptiqn cottage, which is flat and covered with S pure white gravel and pitch, a couple of lovers, seated, enjoying the beau ty of the scene, and "Though few the hours, the happy moments 0 few ; . s so warm with heart, so rich with love they I low. T that their full souls forgot the will to L ruam, And iested there, as In a dream at home. The sun during the dny had been r very warm, and thus they xnet to a spend the fleeting hours .of twilight, = enjoying the pleasant brceze that loated up from the magnolia garden , beneath, and interehanging thoae soul a lonin and tAe warm affections for ea other, Near each other the lov ers sat ; with'one arm. he encircled " the waist of the beautiful creature at his side, r. "Her little hand lay gently, eqnfidingly in, his," and all passed quietly. and lcvingly until the bell tolled the midnighthour. "None but the loving and beloved, Should be aw'ake at this sweet hour." The tolling of the .bell remImed thein that "Tired e's sweet '-resiorer, balmy d sleep- - ii was requisite for lovers as well as oth t era. Still seated near each other, the plighted vows-were again and.again exchanged, and sealed with kisses like "Linked sweetness long drawn out." At length, after many vain attempts tW sever these pleasant pleasures, the transported lovers found that they . were bound to each other by more o stidlin% bends than lovers vows. The het sun had melted the pitch, and af ter sittin5 so leag, and the night air -having cooled thme resinous. matter, they found they wore both "stuck fast." Tho' young gentleman first at a tempted to disengage himself, but found like. Aunt Joima's plaster, a "the more you try to pull it off, the tighter it sticks tith faster.". The - on aythen attempted to get up, . wvhicC she did minus thme skii-t of her e dross, and all her under clothes, as f as the ."tilters."- In this .phight phe .4 attemp~ted to relieve her disconsolate partner, but it was of no use,'he couldn't come. After some parley, came to the concluision he could man' . age It by slipping out of his paints,. Aeeordingly he aked of his comupan t, Ion if she.could lend him a psifo I pants until he could go'- home. Bhe thought her pa's would do, if they were not too long, Wjth this - infor mation he slipped off' his boots, and loosing his susjienders,, drQw himself ,out of his pants as easily as possible, and the 'disconsolate couple took. r themselves down stairs in a very blush-. Ing manner, an8 looking -very much like our first parents when they dis a .covre#tiat .they wore bumna n. The lady prop;rd4', ab quietly as possible, a pair ofthers fatlier's pan*a, which were rtnno ay quick, and the- Adonis. -4e.ied with. his paslt. rolled up I. abeli nces, The joke - wa's too g~dto be kept ; by1Ittle and. lIttle it lle4ed. ot, util th~e triuth had to some to exentpate the happy inne--' centv,-femapW dai5,us