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11PUBLISHED EVERY TUBDAY THUR- Ordinary adyerllaements, oeupying not Dnore then ten llne%. (one square,) will be DAY AND 6ATURDAYr --inserted in '711E NI;W, at S1.00 for the $Y D AY AND &AT Co.,first insettionand 75i cents for each :sub y D e W ,s e eq u n t i n s e r h o u n . Winueboro, S. C., at, $6.00 per an- L%rger advertisoments,when no contract. is made, will be charged in exact propur num, in advance. ( _______ ion. HE FAIRFIELD oERALD of -rofit, hono; r trust, IO. Alarriage, Obituary Notices, &c., will be 3 UBLISIIED EVERY wEDNgsbAY AMonN-"hre h nb anvrieet,we INt;, AT $3.00 PER ANNUM. V e IV, WINNSBORO, 8. 0., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1866. 11.oo ten ''"ues, and mut he paid ror when handed in, oe they will not appear". WHY DO'T YOE TEKT$F PAPER? Why don't you take the paper? They are "the life of my'dellght l" xcept about cletinn times, And (lion I read for spite. Sultseribe, you cannot loose a cent, Why ishould you be afraid ? For cash thus spent, is money lent, On interest fourfold paid. Go, then, and take the paper, And pay to-day, nor pray delay, And my word heard, it is int'erred, You'll live till you are gray. And old newsmonger friend of .nine, While dying from the cough, Desired to hear the latest news, While he was going off. t took a pr.per, and I read Of son.e new pills in force : sII bought a box-:and is he dead? . ! hearty as a horse, f I k ew a printer's debtor once, oked with scorching fever, swore to pay her bill next day, I her d;sease would leave her. f 4t 1 morning she was at her work, Divested of her pain; get to pay her debt, n down again. sai, take these silver wheels, the printer now !" , she slept, and then awoke, ealth upon her brow. Iwo men as much nlike. or you saw two slumps, o phrenologist could tind, ifference in their bumps. ns nok the papers, and his life Is happier than a king's; ,lis children all can road and write, All talk of men and thingt. ie other took no papers, and While strolling through a wood A tree fell down upon his crown And killed him-"worry good." Had he been reading of the newst At haone, like tioigibdi- 3ntm, 'hi bet a cent that accident Would not have happeued him. iy don't you take the papers ? or from the printer sneak, cause you borrow of his boy, A paper every week, or ho who takes the papers, And payt his bill when due, an lice at peace with God and man, And with the printer too. The South, If the spectacle of a great soul, rtrug. glng heroically with the waves of ad. verstty, is pleasing to the gods, the spectaclr of a people, transfixed with the arrows of tnisforttne, and bleeding at every pore, yet ut:ering no exclamation of angtish or of danger, and neither losing faith in Heaven, nor in its own uprightness, is truly sub:ime. Such an exhibition. grand and affecting to all minds which can appreciate moralgreat no<s the South now presents. i the persecutions of their enemies were not conpltely blinde:d by party passions, they would feel more reverence for the South in its misfortunes tttao when, at the summit of its prosperity, is guided and controlled'the destinies of th) great tnation. With communities, as with in. dividuals, it is only the fires of adversi. ty that reveal the true character, and prove whwthi.r it is mado of gold or dross. To such an ortjual has the South beent subjected, and we ass8rt that the result hats demonstrated that it is at sentially great people. and wi'l be remmt.tnbere1 and admired in history as mteh for the serene fortitude and noble dignity with which it has sustained the dhireet calandies, as for its brilia,tt slttesnmanship in the period of its pow.' er and influernce, and for that m.gnifi centt valor itn battle, which lhas extolth.d the admltirintg acclamnations of'the world. WhIat the Soutth WAS in the days of her formatr greatno-os. we all k'ow, it wa.she who gtee'to the world its "ane WVashipgLwon'"~(he mpan ral p rbv ]{eatvant fyr the lhiefertt.4 4nik. can .Indelpendence ; the mat n wpn and chasrA ighYrr thWN Agen. cin ::he s,toessftul condnQ of the Americaou Reublution,.and thi trisimph. a: estatbhakmut.oof' tM4~ geste*,'Rs. mullic - of mol n dimue, It swan her efleron whou arrdt tht: Deoailation-of Independence ; her Patrick Henry whose eloquent voice thrilled like F clarion blast the hearts of a strugglinp people ; her Madison,' who illuminatec with his wisdom the true principles o the American Constitution, and bii Marshall, who remains to this day, th< unapproachod and unapproachable glory of American jurisprudence. The saga city of her statesmen in the nationa counails, conducted the United Statet qn to a career of progress and pros perity unexampled it. the records o nations, and the ' splendid genius of hel soldiers. in the field crowned with im mortal chaplets our military renown. I was her Winfield Scott, Andrew Jack son and Z:tchary Taylor who, from ti snows of Canada to the tropic sands o Mexico, gave to the world exhibition of the superior martial shill and prowos of o'tr countrymen to foreign enemie which it had ever seen, it was the con summate statesmanship and all-embrac ing patriotism of her Henry Clay which three times saved the Union he loved si well from the perils of division and civi war. These, the fathers of Americal greatness were chihlren of the sunn South, of the great and glorious mother at whose breast they were nursed, of whose lap they first htoo< erect, fror whose lips they first learned those let sons of patriotism, virtue and vale which mnale their country great amon the nations, and their names immorta among men. Nor has the South contributed less t the material than to the. political-an military importance of the nation. Tii vast domain of the tee-ning and produc tive West was given by the South t the American Union. It is no figure c speech, but the literal tr..th. She ha been the mother not only of statesmer but of States, and those States the moe fertile, and trstined tq.,leiorre the, io f opultourird~p6WNirfu AMerian com mon-wealclt The woude.tful variet and extent of the peculiar production of her own soil, of cotton, rice, tobacc and naval stores, have laid the founda tions of American commerce, and cot tributed by far the greater jart of th revenues of the nation. strip fror American progress and wealth the ee ments which the South has contribntei and what would remain ? Wha would have been the Rvolutton with out Washington? What- its growt and fortunes. but for the gift of thi South to the United States of the ric est, portions of its territory, and ti commercial, manufacturing and natione wealth derived from the products e Southern agricultural industry ? De prived of those accessories to this great tess, the Tnited Sta'.es, if it so much a existed, would be a fourth or filth rat power, without rank or respect amon the nations. All this glory of the South is past and now does the land sit desolate the was once so radiant with benifioier power? Stripped of four thousand mil lions of property,\bereaved of three hur dred thouanid of her children, shut ou from the Union which she did so mne to build up and enrich, she yet maih tai.s a composure and fbrtitude mor marvellous than her proudest achieve ments in the council and the field. De spoiled of her earthy possessions, lookin back upon the most dismal blight tha ever came upon the fortunes of a pec ple, looking forward to the gethering c sombre clouds that threaten her tute dertruution, with earthquakes rumblinf beneath her feet, and at her heart an gnisht and despair tuggmng like wi,l beasts, nto querulous complaint drop from ther lip., no frown of indignation a imnpati..ace disturbs her brow; therei madhness ~r,d resignation, but nlotoa object glance itn her heroic eye. "The'Nlobe of nations! theres she stands, Childt9.s tadcrowailes, iahervoteeiesswe An esQty tuiti hin'her- w Ither'd hands, WYhoie holy;dust ta. sontter'd long agos. Tbhe Solo's 4o:4 ont*fins.no ashes pow, The very sepualohye.s Beo sepanthess Of their heroheo d*stlors :dost; thou ftw, OldTibe. l through a msarble *uhlderness, Ittst with: thy yettow weess and mantle he bhy is a billiard-player like ihief Ini a orovd?f Bocause lo aInm for the noskot.. Tut PLANTER's TROUBLs.-.-A re cent visit to some of the plantations in the interior of the State has enabled one of our rural contemporaries to witness the tribulations of the planters - under the now regime. He s&ys the freedmen invariably carry out their engagements in bad faith.; niturally indolent, the negroes let sllp.no eoca I sion which can exempt theum fro work, and seize upon every Abterfug Which may enable thon. to drive a*ay the f hours of labor in .their calia., But r notwithstanding the great utider of eases of shamni sickness, there gre, un fortunately, many more of.real disease than there were during the oeistence of slavery. In a dump, flat regon like f lower Louisiana, fevers are frequent as well as dangerous, and thos whom they attack need assidious at+untion. The negro, with his well-know' indif ference and improvidence, is ure to fall a victim if he does not rccive the kindly ministerings of the white peo ple. Under his master he .*as well 1 fed, and when sick well cared 'kr. On every plantation there used to be a r regular hospital, kept in first rate or der, and superintended by a compO. tent physician. As soon as 8 hand -fell smck, he was sent thither a prop erly watched and provided . r. In r nine cases out of to pront ly got well aid returned to his wor The I result was beneficial to .boti) g ies to the slave in his bodily hd th-to o the planter in his profits. tt now J everything is chunge. T4 slaves e have been , reed,,and are a longer under ,onstraint to remain it pitai. L On ,many phce4 tliejhave' b oi r ed the oa}wof_ ysoia}no and 4 es, s: medigines, anL everything .1 , that would restore them t health, they t will only. go to the hospital. ut in It no cpse will thy aoe t. T r to Sta in thei o .etI nt e treated by charlatans of their own s race. The unwholesome food with v which they gorge themselves, and the . nasty "medicines" which the voodoo - doctors pour down their throats, either a carry them rapidly to the grave, or in a definitely retard their recovery. Throwing aside the question of hu h, manity, the planter is even now, inter t es;ed in taking good care of his labor era, and would go to any expense in h doing so. But what can he dot He a has no control over the volition of - these overgrown children; and when a called by agonizing cries to tre bed ,1 side of the unfortunate wrotcl, writh f ing in the pangs of premature dissolu tion, he can do naught but tnrn away with the mournful and bitter reflee a tion that, in former years, the hospital e might have saved the victim of'fanti g cism and superstition. Oh, arrogant, self-conceit l plilan thropists ! who plume yourselves so t proudly upon your speculative theor t ies, it you would only stare human - misery in the face, you wouldgive over . some of your ridiculous and unfound t ed doetrines.-Newe Orleans Crescent. The British Board of Trade, in its e latest published report, givea sette important statements in regard to the density of population in'various coun tries. According to this report, Great Britain contains 285 persons. to the . square mile ; Italy, 226 ; Prance, 180; I Prussia, 179; Austria, 155; Spain, r 84; Turkey, 19; the United States 11 . the Rissiani Empire, 9; Rufsia in Europe, 32 and Brazil, 3. The Seight European countries named con a tam over 270,000,0.00 population. rTeNews York Bun says: "Semveral hundred Irish immigrants, recently arrIved are leaving this port every week, on their way hacg to, their native land. They came herel with false Ideas of the employment -that awaits 'thonm, and finding themselves disap pointed, tbink poverty ini their own country penferable to similar destita tioni among str'angers." w Men's lives should be, like the day, more beautiful in the evening ; or, like the. anmmer, aglow wIth fro.mise, a and the autumn, rich with the golde: s sheaves,, where good Words ua4 doeds have rinedonn thn feld _ 1FRIOlITFUI. ACCIDENT TO A r1P. WALKER -A shocking catastrophe, which may be attended with fatal re suits, occurred on the afternoon of Nov. 18th, at the Willows, Miss Rosa Ce leste, the well known fnnambulist, or rope-walker, was advertised to wheel a barrow with a. mrn tiamed Kennovan (lhe pedes rian). in it, along a cable str"tched from a high platform to the top of tht pavilion. It appears that when the time came to perform the fea. it was found that Kenntovan was distrustful of Miss Ce. leate's ability to wheel him across in spfet.y, and had been nerving limst'lf with lqugr. Miss Celeste declined to undertake the teat with a timid man; but as the audience, misconstruing her action,;jeyred her for her want of- com age, she was stung into the imprudence of attempting it. Before Miss Celeste had gonie ten feet front the platform. and when she was twenty-two feet from the grounJ, her companion in the barrow changed his position. By the aid of the balancing pole sheo ha;l nearly recovered t.h siaiuek to her equilibrium,'and again ess>lyed to go on, when the foc-lisht man moved a second time, and Celeste, lKennovai and barrow caine to the earth. Konno. van was ntndermost, and, besides bruises from the fW, he was terribly mntigled by the iron wor*,of the barrow, which tqre-his ear from the socket and lacerat ed the musclss of his neck. Celeste clhng to her pole, and one end of it striking the ground, broke her fall before it snrapped, and she struck on her elbow, breaking it. and her shoulder bone, brt. saving her head, and thns e's caping instantaneous dentb. There are doubts respecting the fte of both, as th ' neditnl att,endants canntot tell whsat ittlalalinjjrIes have been received. 'A n "to Journal. THE CRowNING OUTRAoE OF TiHE Houn.-A military conuiission with bristling whiskers, glittering epanu. letes and.clattering sabres, was organ. ized on yertorday, to try for his life a citizen of Virgina,,in no way con nected with the army or nary of the United States, Neither was he priso. nor of war, nor did le take any active part in that noble struggle for nation al independe ice which shallow knaves have nicknamed a "rebellion." The alleged offence for which this gentle man is to be tried in time of profound peace, bya commission of alien sol" dierA, was not conmitted within th< limits of a camp or garrisoned fort, and the charges aginst him have beer passed upon a civil ceurt of competonl atd appropriate jurisdiction. The sold iers wro propose to perform the murderous farce of "trying" this civilian, will do so in the teeth of at decision of the Supreme Court of the United States just made public, whicl expressly and emphatically denies the sight of such a tribunal to try any offence committed by a civilian ui which the courts can take rightfnf cog. nizance. And yet, in spite of that de, cision, by virtue of a lawless ulaso- of Congress and of a military order froir the War Office, the rulings of the Su. promo Court are to be subjected b) the iron-heeled boots of the soldiei to very much the same treatmeni which the-Bible is said to get from th< of the idolatrous Japanese.-lUchnnn Times, Dec. 20 lhsts WORtu CountTrNG T< MI.xMev.-A bit of' glue dissolved it skim milk avid water will westoase ob~ erape. Half a "cranberry bound oni I corn will soon kill it. An ink stand wa turned over upon a wvhito table cloth ; servant threw over it a mixture of sil n pepper plenitifully, and all traces o idippareid. Picture fraines am glasse ar preserved from flSeahby paint ing them with a b,rush dippe.d into mixture imiade by boiling thrtte or n onionas in a pint of water- Bedl bug, are kept awasy by washincr the' erevice wvith strong salk water, put, ont with brush. Soft uo;p sbould be kept ina dry place int the cellar, al not be ust unt thrtes monuis uld Tir-: CoxrI.IeT or Autitulty IN NoRTtr Ca.nu.x.--G1:m:tuA. S:CK.rs OviEnttUt.t.D.---'Ie North Carolina Com mnissioners, we lea.rn frout tihe! Washing ton paper,t, had a long interriew with President Johnson on Wednesday -who contunicated to them his dccisiuan, hot t i regard to the ordor of General Sick les and to the interfeience of tho olli,:er of the 1"reodmen's Hurauii in ninlerous cases where colored children had been bonntd out. On both points the Presidrnt, decided that the olineers were in error in inter fa'ring. Secre ttrv Staututt i'sed ia. Structiont to Genelal Sickles, directing him to rezcind his orders pruhiiiting th. execat ion of j-dicial orders inlhtc ing cr poreal punishiaent. These intstruction5, wtire delivered to Governor Wurtlh, to be l:anded to Ueteral Sickles. Geerai lloward al:o issued awl de. livered to Governor \W-orthorders to Ihis stlbordiuate officers to cease anv inter ference with fhe laws of North Cuaroliat when thev bear equally upon the whites 'And blacks. ndge Iitufn xplained ftliv to (ele. ral Iloward Itho character of the liaw fo binding oat children. If orphans are without ay property f r their support they are bond out by order of the court bt chiidretr havingr parents liv. irig eannot be ae ptrenticed t0cept by the parents themaselves. Wiih ans ex planat. tion Gen. Ifoward did nit hesitate to is;uo the orders desired Iv the North Carolina Comii-sioners, who left \Ved. ne:day evening for houtn. A , O.tx to's l't:rnc-rtox.-'IlTe lat e Lord I,actaulay, in May, 1J 7, wrote a letter to It, I lRandal. of New York, in which he expre--se;i his earnest con viction3 in rela:ion to the future of t hu U iiited States. IIe saul It is qlite phaiin' l, vonrGovern ment Will never be able to rest rami a dist.rssed i and disco,;tented lmjority. For withi yoi the majoarity is lhe ('ov. ernmeni,t, rtnatd h"as the rich, whlo are always a no rit.tiy, :tbsolutely lit it. nerev. * * * * * 1 seriously apprehemI that. y%-oil will, in some such a -ason as I have d - scrihed, do things which will prevet. prosperity from retnrning; that vou wil aet like a people who shotuld in a year of scarci.:y devour all the seed corn, and thus the next veer a year not of scarcitV, but of absointto f ntittn". There will he, I fear, spoliation. 'I'he spoliation will increase the <tstress. The distr",ss will ptroduce fresh spoliation. 'T'h"oere is nothing to sto vbu. Your Constitutioni is atll sail and no anb or. As I saiti before, when a society has e rre:e I on ttis down ward progress, era her civilization or liberty nust, perish. Either soat Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of Govermneut with a strong haad, or your l -polic will be ,s htarfully pliidered aid wai I., barbariana in the twentith centnrv :as thet Roman Emtnpiru was in tie filth, with this difference ; 'hatt e 11 tns and Vandals, who ravaged the Roman Empire, cante from without, and tht. yor IInns and Vandals will have been et gendered withn your own country by your own nst,ituttans. -WHAT'S IN A NAM 1-A gentleman had five datlhters, all of whom he brought up to become useful and res pectablo charactetra in life. Th'ese daughaters married, one after anothaer, with thte consent of their father. Thel. first ttmarried a gentlemnan by the namne of Poaor, the secondi a Mr. Little, thle athaird a Mr. Short, the.fourtht a Mr. Brown, the tifthu a Mr. HIogg. At the wedding of the latter her sasters, with their husbandsd,. were present,'and thre l old- gentlomani said to the gauests, "I have taken pains to educato my dauaghtters, that thety mightt act well thteir part in life; and from their ad avantages and improvemnenta I fondly ahoped that they would do htonor to may family. iind that all my pinsu ~ * care und-expcttions have turnted out nothing but a .Poor, Little, Short, B3rown. li4gg. .