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V~oL IIb] ~~ORO,~. ~ STLI ,.JUNE 3,1Mi 62. 48 PUBLISIIED EVERY TUESDAY, THURS DAY AND SATURDAY, y Gilflard, Desportes & Co. t Winnsboro,'S. C., at $6.00 per an num, i.n advance. T E FAIRFELD-,EjtALD, 15 PUBLISHED EVERY W JEDAT MORN INo, AT $3.00 Pi ANNUM. OPOR THu 1WS.] "Thoro thowleked ceaso from troubling. '4hnd there the wearyteat rest," Job mt: 17. TOlli Toll! Toll! .Though thypalo ki'9 sOhe with a burning pain; Work I Work I Work ! With a, heavy heart and a rei4ry brain. Weep! Weep! WeqpI . All alobb art thou- let thy tears flow on; Mourn! Mourn I M urt I For .hy heart's f.ndest ido 'are gone-all. bono. - Throb! Throb! . hrab I 11IWly throb, -ushed heart. There are foes atound; P*y i Pray I Pray! . Th, % rmuring thought in thy soul be Nund. Rest! RestI Rest! 'Thou shAlt toil .no more-Angels kiss thy brow; lome! Ifomo! Home! There thy loved ones dwell. Thou shalt loll no more. Toil-grief-pain. Ara entombed with the past, never more to roam; liope-joy-love Are enshrined in thy heart-thelr eternal home. -'1-TIU. lny 13, .180. Bill Arp Is called Beforo tIe Recoustr4e tion Committee. fsUPPRESSED TESTIXoNY.] .'o the Editor of the _elroppliax *Record., MR. EDITOn: N1urder will out, and so will evidence. 1aing seen Dan' Rice's testimony before the Destru tion Conmittee, I have felt sorter sliglted, because no mention aint beone made of inine.. I suppose it has been suppremed, but I am not to be hid out of obscurity. Our -country is the special jury, and. by.,and-by this businos will go up before it on ap peal. The record.nustgo up fair and complete, aud thorofore I'll tako o4na sion to make publio what I swore to I said a good deal more than I oati put down, Mr. Editor, and at timos my languige was considered impudent, but they thought that was all the bet tor for their side, for it illuArated-the robellious spirit-I hard one of 'en say : "Let him go on-the rmling pas sion strong in death. He's good State's evidenco.t .,hen I was.put.on - the sta)d, old unutwell swore me most fiercely and sole Omnily to speak tho truth, the whole truth, anid nothing- but the trthm, and I observed that 1e was then enter tainming abot:a quart of double rooti tied, and -it Jeoked like it had soured -onm his stomach. Old Blow was settin off ont one side, with a memnoandum book, getting ready t1o ,noto down somo garblpdextact." Old Iron-works *as Chairman'm, atid when he nodded his- Repubian head, old Iloutwell, says h'e "Your name is A.rp; I believe, sir 1" "So-called," says t "You reside in tihe State of Gor gia, do you 1" "I can't say exactly," says t " .livo in Rome, right in the fofk of two Injun rivers." "In tihe State ot Georgia '1" says ho, fiercely. "In a stale of uncmertality abouts ~that," says I. "We don't 'know whether Georgis. ts a State or not. I would like for you to '4$ae yourself, -if you knoiy. . The state of the 'oun tryroquires tat this matter sliould be settled, and I will ,proceed to "Never mind, sir," says he. "How ,old are you, Mr. Arp Ti" "That depends on oircu~mstanoe," says I. "I don't know heOther to count the last five y'ears or not; Dur oug the war, your folks sid tha a 9tato couldn't secede, but thatwhle ho was in a state of rebellion' she ceasod to Ohist. Now, you Way we vea, out and we simaat ot hanr antit 1870. A man's. a t'h got 9methin to d,o with his'rights, And if we are not to vote, I don't think we ought to count the time. That's.aboyt ao ntr as'Ilcan'co*e-to the ago;q1r.0 "Well, o," say6 heA "irq you fi. millar witkAe politloA seAtiniental.of the citizens. of your Sate11' ' "Got no.4'tizoiis yet,. oir, that we ki):w of.- I will thank you to speakof us as 'pdople." "Well, sir," says he, qil humor. your obstinacy. Are the people of your State" "Don't speak of it as a Stdte, sir if you please. im on oath now, and you. nust excuse Muo for being particu lar. Call it a 'section.' " "Mr. Arp, are the People of your section sufficiently humbled and re pentant to come back into the Union ou such terms as we may think proper to impose 1" ' "Not much they ain't," says .I don't think they are pr.pared for It yet. They wouldn't voluhiarily gd It blind ainst 7our hand. hy say the dea wasn t fair, and' o vo narV ed the .cards and stole ihe6 tr',n4,; but, at. the same time, they doft Cear'o a darn what you do. They have }O., c ome indiffrent, and don't care noth it) about your Guy Fawkes busineAs. I moan no respect to ydu, gentlemen, but I was swore to tel,l 'a whole truth. Our people alit a nbtkin you only out of curiosity. They don't e., poet anything decent, orhonorablo,6r noble, from you, and they'vo one to work diggin, and plowin and antin, and raisin boy children." Right here the' an,w'h a1 randun scratched dQh g"U4r I tract, and old Bou da "'m statin facts,o says i. YQ muit draw your own infernc6s,- The are raising by childrin An about thatl Any treason,?, gin t a man raise boy childron 1' qr'aps you'd like to ancU4 the Const14i9; and stop'it. Old: Phara i tared stop,it among the Israe# tes' uk t didn't lay.: He finally oaugi tho dropsy In the R,ed Sea. 'We are'rais in boy ahildi'en for ihe fun of it. They are a -good thing td h4V6 in the house, as Mrs. Toodles would 'say. "Mr.. Arp, are not the foolink of your people very bitt'r to-wardithe Nortfi.?" "I beg your paio, sir, but u'l have t Apit thb qusstion, *e ' 1 have ,to split the ins*r. OUr peop have a very high regard for 'honorable men, brave uten, hoblo-hearted' men, and there'6 a heap of 'em North, sIt,. and there's a heap of, wido*s and or phans there we are sorry fre ; but'as. fo.- this year radical party, they look upon -'eni like' they were byinas a a scratchin u the dead for a livin. It's as n1atu hatp 'om as it is to kill a"s1a14 " s Uttorly , impossile for me to te tl' strougth,!andlokgth,. and higt, depth APd broadth of t4.eir contempt for tai.paVty. They 4owk upon a radical as-aa-as-.we ,as a begger o% Uorsebsok- b4*sr4 ail.. in roiund a dead eag.-a sukO dog ersepin up to the.tail of a. do&4,liou. 'the talk about hiri. 15rownlow , to abuse 'em; to use language', 9!k%'a, like.ho did: a few years pgo when -he poke agaiRst ';ye' If they o:hir Jrownlow he'll spatter tenps hell) deub 'em All over, and.3lin. 'am, *nd alqb%, ber on, ?em about ,&right, j qpd, 1 ,VO stiok, for the poro. arp ,opsnan at~ tir meotals spongy. I'd, like sto .teps o eboujtte,r ro as and .hear himself. .jt would, be hn a squirt-gun full of cow-4 bave' tion?" . . . , . "That's. autolat, sir' says,pid Bloutwoll. .0Ef it was i tb tr pover to do sow woulq your peoplq ron&w "the fight V' "Not unless they could, h0M th agreq' to 'handla off." -Evokth~en th*e' wouldn't ihe no. Oght, for we op'*det "$ 4do eari A ponthe "Theysay i's - er air-'a 4npt xst b nature is pras tib. ~ol'aie 0 atz equal. That ini i i 4I i 'Ath, b t it's always !beeni a.:" t201al lie, Th9rells 8r* .OKmWY Aowhere. J Qm htip Walk to and hed * i it gv to.me. Theie's rabn 0*at % 'en that vote me, and te aded UP up, stop by step, froln mysort Mr. Da vis and Mr. Stopjggig, and -soen. Lap, and Howell Cobb,. - B ll, and theiirort, for,the& iighbps in the nation ; and ln it'goes fron mo down doiW, do\v 'wn the ni gers, and the Rep9blica and o radicals, and that's as 1pw hey . There aint no lity, a. you ca1 t mak, one. W ote niggoTs cedin. I'll yPR 'Lip, a Ti 's 'head cbnter., A041 vote 'out forty, and th'o first tjing ypu ow we'll. elect sevbn big, blaA ni., iiggra. to Congr6em. W 1 do it' ertam-. seven of 'em eighteen e to strong,. with African nusk. The' her robol StAtes wil do. the , .i ,nd: you'll have aboist. , tj 4 draw Pe4ts with, and Jon ian al eI k o u fegq impon, yovr d,ek. td'e6t r%d sway lies arid vormin, 1n41 e AM pooned at the saino'shop. 44 the fair. sexes can 4et togather In gtl.lorlee, in4 mix , odori and ' 1i eir s6ent abtromincuoi. W 11 give you a tu - ben;t of your c%vll jights bill, iee if we don't.' ! u on-id by ur cards. W6 are bid , tir t he. V are Payi .ou.t a Id'yonr du 408 and -back ratj'94op tiQ44n - Dences, and.your Iikl%b. ie.pej,e ald i your la W-"kv havm y i ,ikn~,e ~J4Are Mji~ 64 ibuldn ?1t px*o e peao $41 'sl9r' W a etgbot two eaf6 tgo; ".aicso yo i'l bo seilla the and for th'0land tax, and yoxio try-' if yotir best to Ulay the devil geoeral bitt god'll Catehit in the loUg rin. o if d6n. Talk *bolit Fe. lant.' When tio ood m6n of the N6rth hnd the o2 all got t6goiher h6y01l. walk oVO the track so fast t'ha. fouwon'th'ao timu to get 6ut of the way. You'11"ub de'info obscurity, nd yoI eifldu iwill deny that their ladid 1ei kivdF eo06hgilA' id such a, party. 4Txous me, entlowen, but Pih a lit-' bot w 1 41t1" aqYW$6dY fQ J alr. a weAd and toil' Pr'otection tarIffs for Philsylv*-. 4ia and five' n a pound tai on SouthW. bin Cotton- -t'Its average worth and your ?Oi will 1nanagd sone way dt other tsteal'tho' other 'alf.' My advice to you is to qidt this foolislhncss aid boin'to traVel the only, road to peace." Old Blow couldn't keep up with his garbled 6xtraots. , ,What inh pho President so pop lar at the South tf "Contrast, 8k-centrqst. .Io iuore. he ain't liks your. party, ie, more Popular hq. is. ie . ulq t u about rkvgli,I vkoiy ,i$ o ,t him alon. but yoo, . AyI pno Ohat soluetimes . e 4on' 1 d himmelf. XIU oil i n0' lar: a while whq rbis, .proclai tion restored 44 wit oi1 WeR, wo, or not. 3ut do You o . on a - peach him. &Vd I.WI riPig to. a foou... 44,,y e b pelgware in q we41and, t PV 11; mambers bq ),ero *k seats a~d Jthey'.Ilook %oun4 ats .~ poiItogl wgec)k and i and .Indor said ptoalage that's bep going 91 Med Wheepinh:Wedep ,ee opetRi~i wuld tife i'eb1 a de' y follow~ Ge Union ,a Sherman 1" "Sorry you in'itioned hn: Weid have ,to hiro'hikihi I idokon, Es at camP. fiddler, an4,t 1 .hikdi Sing uaH1 7o lumbia", by firolle$lt as a wa1'11n to the boys hol nan It is to burn cties ind 'wns and make war upon fenceless women and children,, air, our boys wouldett fi#l8.4 ndor n *t this Omo the mat wifht ' nie mok-anduinput down soine more gar bled extracts. 4"Do ou think, Mr. Arp, that if the Sonth aould ever hold the balance of power, they would pay for their ne ,groes 1" "I can't say, sir. But I don't thnk thboOuthf has lost anything 'hat way., Wo got their labor .hoforo tlo war 6'- their vittels and clothes md doctor'abills, and we get it nw tQr about the- sane. It's alfsettled down that way aidt6ybq.i, Btiroat doitMient help it.I .k. . ditenq is in the distribu; u", Some of -1#vWon't own a inany a# o - e to, bu;t everybody has got a 1 or or 'two now, and they'll-all vdte 'em' or tu rn 'eni off. A nigger that wouiadh6t-yola* I told liia, shouldent black 3u6. boots." t- tthis tiut the ,committee looked at o anlot1jer, pidorpin to be bothered andstiis'1ed. Ga-rbled extracts were pi aowitNith. a vinA. Meo)6dtwoll says,lke, '"Mr. Chair mai, I 'think, sir, we are about through wi,th the :witliess. I thiuk, sir, i testimony settles the question ad' to wVat we ought to do- with South ern traitork." The ohairMan give me a Republi Ota 46d' and remarked, "yes, sir, I Piwq dp. The #oowirels burnt Btr Anp. Or. Davis' ison bIte-Etracts fron O'le Diary of the. Post Srgion-Thrillin.j Scents and Ilidont; The NeW Yor' 1#rld. of:the 46th, do Votes bvei. , fourtsi golumbs to. extraots rroinl the ij story of Mr, bavis' prison life at, Fortress %Ionroe, written by the post sur geoq. We lake snoe extracts from the World as our space will permit: TVE PBitR, iVp 0r IgrSOM DAVIS BM. 'A, 21, *1866.-Thd Procebtion into the ffr was under this imdq4I%te inspection of Major Ge eral lalleck and CAOrles A. I)aa,, then Assistint 'Secretary 'bf War; Qebsil Priead, . the Miahiga'no.valey, who. imsmediately trected the-eapture, being the ofioer in command of th-e guard from the vessel to the fort. First eate Major Gencral Miles holding the arm of Mr.* a 4, who was dressed In a suit of plain Con S*#ate grey, with a grey slouched lint Otl*Rys thill, aAn now lookitg touch. wasted And very agrd. I ediately t e came Colahol Prlahard acconipanying Mr. Clay, with a guard of soldiers in their rear. 'lhust.hey passed throtigh files of men in blue from the Enifteo's Landing to the Water.lauery Posterut; and on arriving at th coasetnate whialt l1ad beqn, fitted up into cells for tHoir inuarbe'rai Ion, Mr. Divii was shown imto casemae No. 2 and .Olay into No.4, gwards of goliors beitg stationed in the acili numberd one, three and flie, upon ath side o them. 'they- entered; the Ievy d'oors longod be.hind them. *nd in that elang ias rung the fnal knell of the 1601,1le, but now extibat'rebellion. Dqsig ush,diqt his- inner tell by.Gn. .rql Milies. and e twp doors leading there. into fN-em tlie gilard..'ounm being' faitened, HMr.'Davis, k)fier eurieyiog the premises for sotae moments, ant looting out through, tiiI embtoaurs Withl sudh thoughts passing ovier. -hia-lined)and expreiye fioo 1e manu.y im jlq;ed pddeuly p Atj biTsef In a chair pToigbh'l. , on Li0p5, ai aske Eae of then soittis pqdiug op ad 'down "within his oehi this signdk iegt, qutipb "Which way does.th omubrasuro facuf" '* The oldier wae sileats 1used*ed tthls of. the.two paci.g'den a tfinter., cbegs, the SA*droui kthesoldier, as5 if t1iitst jiad been de~ pa~Jad not, heard hilni, the prisoner a*t' e ,piled hl inquiry. - lint-theoecoUd sodiewa remaiaed s: ent as ti gp laiseys o nly iWasfrbidebu'4o s1#iak. ', .Vpifjpid .- y lqi, tharowiny,l I1e.nds up and brqakiug into a blit I .iga aft'#Iit h%. dml bodidthiden tatig1 .psur dioiblin%elA ad t?4en, riala fr'opi Lir, ite egmgdp a ibaek agd forth ADVI3TISING RATES. Ordinary advet'tisAments, occupying not more than ten lines,. (one square,) will be Insert0d in TH, NEWS, at $1.00 for the first iqscrtion and :71k cents for each ettb sequiodt insertion.. LeArger advertisemeas, when no contract is made, will be eWVged in exact propor tion.e ' for announcilg It ondidatp to any office of profit, honor or trust, $10.00. Marriage, Obituary Niotlaes, &eti, will be charged the samo as idyirtisements, whenk over ten liaes;-apd Must be paid for *Aon handed in, or'they )ll hot lpipohr. before the embratire, .now looking at the silent sentry across the moant, .ad anon4t the two silently paoing soldieguwho wero % his companions Ii tho cosemal. ' is sole reading matter,;, a 'l-ible and'a prayet- book, his only companiias those tio silent guards, his only' food the ordinary atiods of bread-and beef served out to th iets of the garrl4on"-thus passed the I day and night of, the er-Presiden's coftnoment. SEWAD'AND STANTON DISoltACH A)NIA AN INVAMID IN IRoNs.. Ott e morning of the 23d of May, t Yt bitterer trial was in store for theAdikk spirit-a trial severer, probably, It ever in moderp times been fntie any oo Who land Oijoyed such' This morulnin Jetrerson Davis was' iaced It was while all the swarming -S of the armies of the Potonmao, the 't%nesseo itand Georgia-over' two hundred thousa-ii bronzed and laurelled .veterans-wero pro paring for the Urand 'Review of- the next inorning, in which, passing in endlets suo cession before the mansion of the Presi. dent, Ihe conquering military power ofthe nation wa%s to lay down i14 arins at ilia f(eet of'the-civil authority, th, tIla following scene was enacted at Fort Mji*oe: Captain Jerome 1. 'Pillow, of the Third Penntsylvania artillery, enteved ' &1ison er's cell, follow.bd by the blakasItot the fort and his asslstdt, the lattor carrying In his hands some heavy and liarahly-rattling shrikles. As they entered, Mr. Ivis was reolining on his bed, feverish and weary after a sleepless night, the food placed near to him the preceding day still lying un. touched on its tin plate near his bedside. "Well,' aid Mr. Dvis, as they entered, slightly raising his head. "I have ani npleadant duty to perfordi, sir,,' said Captaio Titlow; and as be spoko the seVior 41auk-aith took the shackigs from his fo lltanc Davis leaped instantly from his recum beWattitude, a filsh passing ovei his fado toi'i'moment, and then his countenandu growing livid, and rigid as death. lie gasped, for breath, clutching bis throt with tho thin fingers of his rig t hand, and then recovering himself slowly nittion and-then to shrink with terror, Ias he glanced from the captain's faco to the shacklos--li said slowly and with a labor ing chest : "My Cod! You cannot have been sent,p Iron me V -Snch arq my orders, sir," replied- the offiaer, beckoning- tihe bla4untith to tLp proach, who stopped forward, unlookld /i# iiailock and proparing the 10ter4 todo thei'r o.1lico: Thesb fetters wero a' heavy Irob, pi'obably five-eighthis of an nol in thik no,s, am connected together bf a chain , bf likti weight. I believe they are now in tlO poss'ession of Major--deneral Miles, aid Nill, form an'!ntbresting relic. 'T.Vis is too itionstrous," groaned the prison er; glaring hurriedly round the room, as it' fo- some weapon, or means of self-des tru6tioz.. "I, domnand, Captain, that you lot ms see the comaithding offidier. Can he pretend t.t ideh shackles are required to secure the Btfb custody'of a ieak old nii%., so guarded aod in sutb% a fort as this ?" "It could serve no purpose," replied Cap (*Ili Titlow ; ."his orders are from Wash iugt4n, anti Wile are fromt him." .lunt. he atiAeIg'aph," intei-posed Mr. 1)avis, eaigery ; " te ialis be some mis take. No sich oxtago as you threaten tuo with Is on record- .rt the' history of nations. llog lim to telegrtph,'i aid delay until he an-. swer-s." . "NMy orders are petNemptory," 'aidi the ollicer-, '"anid admui of no delay. For your. own sake let mte advise you' to submit with patience. -As a soldier, Mr. Davisi you know,, must execute orders." "These are niot, or oys for .ashAr, ab~outed thle prisoiner,; osing all coq?aiol of himself. "They ai'e or-ders for~ a alr for a hangman, 'which 'no soldier'wessirig a sword shoai accept I' Itell youi the .orld will ring with this diegrAo. 'Thes wai is ever; the. Sonth Is otquered(; I have no longer any country buit. Auneripa, agd sit ia for thu honor' of Amines, as for my own honor and life, thant p lead agaunst,this do grgdalflions , 101%y ! kiti fl)e !' lie eleld pas sionately, throwkng his armns -wIde open and exposing 'his breast, "'-ather than'infiiet on . ma, and on -seg pople throught a thilt ln. suilt woass thien dea-th." ;. '-i.d "D)o youir duty blacksmith," siho ofI-' cet', w&llllttg tokatids'the eni'rasure as l'f hot oar-ing to' witnaess the perfornishee. "It only gives menreased pain on all sides to. pa'otract. this.initeryiow," pi these words the blackuinltlt advanced (b te shackles, an4'seeing that'the pis.. 6he.rhadl otie foot upon the chair. near hie t',adside, his r-igh.t hand-eating otd the i stak 4rdM, tihe bi'awney meohauio matde an at tempt.t1 slip one of (lbe shaokles over the anklu so''iged; but, as If wlith .the vee arenie an 4 trength,.whioh fireey can im part, e'ven to.thti weacest- Invild Mt, D)a*is syddenly soised his usteadilant anid hut-led hitIn half-way toross th'o roost. On4this, Cap~taii'Sitlow urned, and see ~g thatt r. Da.isJ)a .hqqko4 uegaing theo Sall i ir further resi nice begata 19-re nbonate. tlbintiar aIhV rief, qloar lanA