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- O L . r --- ---WIN- -SBO--O , S- -.C . V O L . I I.] W IN.l O .C . S T R A , O T B R 6 1866. 107 S.r *ITE 111 ~TEIXL1NE11S, PUBLISItED EVERY 'TIUESDA, TilRS DAY AND'.3ATURDAY, 'v Gaillard, Desportes & Co. I Winnsboro,' S. C., at $6,00 per a. unn, in advance. lE FAIRFIELD EtALD, 1 UBLISHED EVNRY WEDNESDAY MORN -ROy AT. PER ANNUM. [rott TIlE NEws.] OUR PRESIDENT. DBY 'ETITE. I oor fallen hero! Can Ilhy people's moan, 't heir stifled wail--as crushed boneath the yoke f un'olenting tyranny. they writhe * agony-bring back thy former.poweri %'las! the strength thott hadal lies buried deep , ithin thy Country's gm've, and thou art left eart-hroken-lelpless-in captivity. S silently thou bearest nil thy grief o -protid to groan-thou art a horo still! i t thino the lip td sue for inerey ; no, ot thine the heart to quail before thy dooma Iby sense of Ionor far too hig to flee .4 coward'felon from the dungem4walls. 1 hy wasted frame ai pale wan qheek alone Are tokens of thy inward agony. 'y fato than our, mnote dark, we love thee a still .*. - As when the Bay-wre4th crowned thy hope-. ful brow. 0 Als chieftain then, . we almost worshipped thee, Wh,.-n inthy care our infant nation ly As child ill amils of wat cliful Hire; and now, We ononot love tieeless'when, forour sakes Thou hast a prison only, for thy home. . 'I he thirsty blood-h8unds of a Northern cilmeic Are craving t4iy life's blood. Tioir cruelty I.emsains unsatisfied while thou hast breath. 'I lie. gliimering hope of fIuture liberty, Their icf hearts would. quenah-exultingly. Would view success irk all their deoon's w4rk. 'oor fallen hero ! Are tht.ro none to raise. Thy powerless limbs? 11'hy yoke that cr'slh es thee is on 'tliy people; they have lost their strength. 11ut e'en among thy country's former foe Are there not some that generous pity reel 'or noble captive doomed to suffer t:us ior this origie only--ltat, he bravely strovo 'To oveiturn oppression and obtaita A ione where Liberty night dwell---an failed I -ilope faintly whispers, "There are generous foes Whose every effort, shall be made to turn From hi-n the traitor's doom." God grant it so. And may the'Nat,ion's leader still befriend Our cherished her6, and exert. his sway That Tyranny may yet be crushed to earth And Freedom proludly lift again her head. [Fr the Itouston ('exas) Journal.j The Gallant Pelhiam. . Where is there a solie~r of the old army, whlo was on.~te heightenfFred. rickaburg, bt can recollect tlae heroe y'onndt Pelham, 6g1tting.is gutns in front of Fran9lin's .corpls.. One thtrill of ad. mirat,ion ran .throughouut.the army, antd the.great heoro; .ns bravo as1-.e an.niod. cst, had his reward int the general orders of Geni. Lee. of th~e battle, wi.oeF-he styl ed htim "thea gallatt Pelhmam.'. a name that. tvas atvanceo adopi.ed throug~hout th's mient is enihaniced by a' fact thtat.the wi4 the onIly Otne ever mnztionedhby Getn. Leo. in General order4, tjadlr the rank of a General. WVewatched him fIg ting with unrG znlittings ardor the guns thtat he command .ed. -Now-firin).,r,'nw retreating. atnd 'then 1-eturnhig almost to the vorv line .o)f bhq, returniing foe-at each disailvrgo .ta silver lite of white would gleta where Ithl( line of blue had before stood. It wavs a grand at4 terriid sight. We could ha all 'tirotund tile shtouts of our uiten as/l;oy crig ;~ "See. how We fights. Wh i.it? What a soldier! I t is .Pulhiatrl" and chever after cheer wenft up whe.n nsmkinglud stand near tec: te of' the fi.d,f I. fouglit - miYtif. 'narlv. every.hior-e,he had 'was ki-ieki, ,an h'e tnQn t,ornI to fragmen. by-ebot, and sh II. Then w,ousdtodor :hsppi for glid ing to. the right Ofu camne .htonewall Jaeksoni's ,and' A.P AHill's -norps, andi the lines collided.' Pb) kn'p wdrk -wis done, and Gen:' Joe, i 'pr,esetce "of'his <corps commanders and 'is staff ria&l the rtPmark, "Is it not' 'a -wonder hlow one. so 'voung cio be so brave ?" This co4116nt l&rolght from him 6nly a blnsh upon his.beardless check. Brhve andilheroic heart, we saw him fall it the front of Averill's fierce sur priso, *He was leading to the front some stragglers, and endeavoring to rally a broken line, his fine shbre glis tening in patriotic circles over bis head, and his clearvoico cheering up each weary heart to one more honest effort, when ia shell burst over his head, and one fragment went hissing through his brow. Ile fell, and for a monent there was a pause. Stnart for- a m6'ment stopped anld looked itt him, and said :in a sol-mt tolie, the tears trickling fron his eam, "Sorving on hiy staff is fatal it Is fatal." The following narrative of .1Ie.nry Gilmore tells the rest of the close of this pure good lif- . "He wits thken from Clh. fieid by Col. Harry Gilmore, laid tpon his h'brse an I placed in the charge of two dismounted men, with orders to carry him to anl anh bulanco. and call a surgeon. Col. Gil more thus relates in his book; enfiil'ed Four Years in the Saddle,' the sibsg. queri't fate And brutal treatneit ef ovie of the noblest spirits that perished for the 'LoSt Caus(i.' ,'On ny way to' Culpeper, T over took, nea Brandy Station, the nyo menI had placed in charge of Peliham, naikmgp thmir way,back: to -Culpep.er, with the body acros.s the . hrso,'jtst as they had started fromt the field of bitLo his ieadand hand; hanging down oil oP:e Side, his l'gs on the other-fce, hair and hands soaked -and clotted wiIi d(] and blood. "Overwhelaed with horror, I had him lhaid onl the grass in the fence cor ner, and then, to ' my astonisildent, fotind him still alive. Imagine my in dignation and 'vented wrath. when I found' that instead of looking fr an am bailainee, they had noved toVard Cul. poper, a distance.of ei'ght, miles, four of which they had already accomplished. I firmly believe that had 4urgicil hid been called t,> remove the -compressioi of the brain, his life muight have -bee saved. "A anbulancep was immediately sent fpr him, and by the timo I had dispatl ed, mly busines; with the telegraph, Pel lftiad arrived iii town, and was at, once conveyed to Bessie's home, where the ladies had all things in reAdiness for his reception. Three surgoons wero $0011 in attidance; and after, by gentle hands ha hatu betin washed with warn watbr, his feet and hands %wathed itn flannel. and sonie braindy p'ired-n.his Mouth, the surgions coninewced releati'. Img. the (om1pression o: t1h, brain. The piece of shell that, had struIk hini was iot larg,,r,than the end of imy little fin ger. Itente're~d 'jnst at1he -cnrl of the hair oti the back of -the h d, raking throngh the skull witholit . n iercing tIte brain, coniing out twb iiches below the point where it* had entered. The skull was badly shattered between the entrance and the- e7it of the:shull. As the st;rgeons removed tn'2a pieoes,se lected one as a mmenito gqf.ono of the most gallant and highly et Tmd Offi cers of t,e Smttrn arMy. J w Iegl years of Age, -'- . . The . surgeons soon prpgouicod' i -case'hopelea. a'A lot ' othg rq 6f Bessie al p miesoNer* j-6*4 crowded in. 6 pj ,,p. in. Ilhis'e opek.ud-Ie turned toward me In'an inuaonsacious -lok-losed- thetA-drev along breath, nd .died withouat a strug. gle. We dressed-hi.im, in his best urn form, an'd had but just laid' hirm on thte bed, when the dqor ,was gently opened, and Stuart entered, . b'vimg returned fromn the 4ight as. Kelly'sa lord. Great tsturs.rolled. down his qheeke as hte si. lently geaed, ppa,hlwlifaJss~ 11orla an~d tlien retr.igd " hichanmatq'woh (agigue,.ilay:dowr' uporkt,b.q fior6aaed slep'tudJf b3eside the mio;tal rem,taus 9o npaon 15hp1 lad ri4den,to- th, d-ht morninag itn tone.of war."' . i .ae '.2 good lad. He, was dawiedrah bedn in .lbaa,and 'bortedi benaekte her love sol..Ina fica,nosd hi.hayla in state, and the ladies of the -doomed city not only :co.vered the coffin with wteaths of evergreens. immortelles and pure %hitp'rose9, to designate the puri ty of his life, bub they paid to the form -san peur, sans reorocAe'the tribute of their tea'rs. Everywhere un the way he was greeted with funeral honors, and the noble heart of Pelham passed into history.,s the type of that pure chivalry that. glowed tn thdi hear; of theyouths of the ariny, and.*,thu lose of whom hath caused much 'iotirning throughout the Southern land. I w-ttd the.'boVl gla$ of the oppor. 'tunity to bear i tustimony, feeble nA j' is, to the ' ;dre, to the hon'r, the peth ss counr f the stibject of this Trlvor.. Judge Aldrioh's Oha;rg to the Grand Jury QftRfolanld. We are greatly. embarrassed in the management of uIr domestic affairs. by the presence and,.interference of' the ,Treedmon's Bureau. I believe, if the dificiult and delic4d4 problem of' organi I zing the labor of our femer slaves was entirely left'to us; who once,owted the fredmen, unaerdtn,d their charaoter and feel for their dond.ition, things would be so managed as 16 'kabie us, very soon, to-regain theV onfden6e and to infuse into their nilidsaa feelig 1! secu-% rity ahd prot'eetita,:whMi wili be mutu ally benefici;'l. J}ut, as mattets now tand,' distrust is'b4tehderd, the freed men are taught to bit suopicious of their old miastors-o believe that their inter ent are antagonis7- P1ncouraged to distrit9t their iit9;MIVibahd afd'i all which would soon cease, if t.his ilitpr. esteed and prejudieed Burpau was reno.v ed. It is a great, useless, expensive and mischievons machinery, which seems to be kept. tip simnply to grind taxes ont -of the people for the supportof cunning polit:cians, excited lidatice rind political preachers. Our black people. "wards of the nation;" as they are,cnlled. wJiose best friends are the men who reared and 6wndd them' would receie.little sympa. thy from their new-found friends, as do the Voor white people of the North, wer6 it not for the millions' tdnoney weich the d'ongress has placid at the dis posal of the 11uieeatu. All that we can do, tnder present circutstauces, is to trout them justly and kitidly. enlcourage them to work, and assist them in every way to better thibir 'condition and it prove-their edtcation. The State h'as placqed them a fully under the protec tion of the law'as the white residents, 4nd it, ts.notly our ditty, but our in: terest iu see that they -receive this pro tection, and are not imposed upqn, Ilere and there, I have no doitht, there are inst'nces where a feeling of' domi. neeriug is manifested against the negro; but these instances are rare, antd, I will venture to say, it will be foutid- on er ammation, that the men who thus out. riigo pqblic sentiment are those who never owned. aves and were always known as bullies and rowdIes. Suoh violations of .the law are not to be en couraged. The negro, 4ow, AV lie ias .ui,dqr the old system. is prmtected by the laws, 61,1it is oun pUlicv,-as well &S* one duty, to see that this protection is seotir. ed him. We must let him know and (ael, t,has we tre his best'friendi, that we -wjll susttin.him -whenti le is . right, nd kihiis erieourage him to hecunte e isiful mruli.or of sticiety. In no other way can we make him a profitablh laborer; in no other' way.can we induce him- to assist in dev'eloping thle. resources of tbe cou~ntry. It is true, he .follows,. now, his old instincts, and there are frequent. cases of theft, iebc niust he punished, until be. earnes thei ditich'aid feels the dignity of freedom.~ In time', .he will discover thlat he mnust anusiain the in,ati tutions of society, as we.lI.ag the white mian, and thait it is his initprest tu do so; hat wvhenever he des. cotnniik crime, let ty puieiltmenut 'ie admiuiatored .in, due courgs of law, by the. proper authorities, mnd he'will ad?on. begin to feel his iespon' sibilities attd fewar the diagrace and 'pun ishmenlt waiieb follows a vlolatjon of' iJie law, 6f.Uha'lan~d. If a 'differeat course ba.ptfraued, and thie 'aggrieveuI parties. sahte the punishment'' into 'their own hands, it will enite a fnadine af ,.... nent'and hostility, which will bring on collission, and may end in bloodshed. The respectable colored people-those who have always maintained good char acters and secured the esteem* and confil dence of the whites-should stand up for the improvement and respectability or their race, and bring all violators pf the law to justice. This is a high duty which they owe to themselves and to the country, because if they wink at crime and screen offenders, the disgrace attaches.to the whole race, and all suf for alike in character and reputation. They must do as the white people do when the-lawe are violated, turn the of. fenders over,to the magistrate, let war rants be issu-d, witnesses *bound over, And the case b.ought to . trial. In this way, and in no ot her wAy, can society be protected, and the character and dig nity of of the race promoted. I think the black people who are trying to do their duty to themselves and to their country, will tqke this counsel. It is he counsel of wisdom and the advice of a friend. As pauperism is not, to be enconraged,. so ought vagrancy.to be punished 'ihe laws. if ptope,rlv enforced, are amply dtifficient to put down this evil. Let every person, white or black, who is living on the community, without known or visible means of support, be brought up f9r exanination' and .if lie cannot give a satisfactory account of how he niakes his living, let the laws ngiiinst vn-graney be,rigidly enforced, and ,im vagrant put t work for the publie good. In .hiv way, the highways and public 4uildinga of the State niay . be much _imprioved, and the crowds-of idle coismers," bot I in the cities and in the country, greatly diminished. A Singular Charaoter. There are few resideni of Mobile who have not seen the Sicilian, Andrea, hobbling through our streets upon his patched crutch, and walking stafI, or lying -on some door ste-p. basking in -the stn, always wrapped in the rags of pov ertv--a picture of filth and pauperism % ithout a parrallel in this or any other city. Many reports are given of his early history, of the cause Py which he lost his leg,and of his eccentricities; but from'the!se conflicting statements it is difficult to arrive at te truth ; and no inducement can be offered him to speak of his past career. ImporI,uniti,s in Lhis direction are most certain tn be met, by a fit of passioni calculated to deter the most persevering from pressing t',he sub ject too Ct>selvo. Bi report Atates that in his boyhooA,e was one of. Lafitte's crew, and lost his leg during an aCtion between the Gulf Pirate and Eaglish non-of-war, This statempnt is without any sub stantrill authority, but there seems to be uch more truth in the following. which his jnst been related to its, by a gentle. man who has seen him almost daily for the last fifteenyears. About eighteen years ago Andrea resided in New Or eanl. nld while one day- assistiikg to Put suRme (Heavy.tiinber it a vessel under going repairta, one of th4m fell upon and crushid his leg. Ampi4tion becarn nesedsary, and was p.:rffrned at the farine Hospital in that city, and a few years afterwards he camne to Mobile, *here.he soon became an i.nstitution. H6 lie relatives here in good circtum stances, who have made many efforts to reform his vagrant habits, and once pre vailed tipon hin with-such Success as to ests;blish him hi a fruit-stand, fitted up for his bente&, in which he contitnued but a few days, when he broke tup his stands and boxes, pitched his fruit into the doek, anud without giving a word of explanation resumed hia uncouat!. habits. le has been repeatedly provided 'With good clothes, which seem to disgust him more they appreo gentIlit,y, and. few days wil.- find th~emi torn. up, patolied and repatchbed, until all serbfthmpe of shape las been destroyed in thian, antdAndrea aejoices in, his rags agait.' St'rangers, hbinkint him an objec: of chari:y some. time, offer hits mnoney,-iwhidr lhe almost aviAriably.thr9ws back a' them in a At bl-rage and passioni.li f Whtd driVen by hunger he -i sometimee ask f'or'a pieco of bread, wl*chi ne..aver.refused himn, but more freqn.ent , . ADVERTISING RATE ;.S. Ordinary. advertisements, <ocupying no. ruore than ten lines. (one square,) will be inerted'ie TilE NEWS, at W1.00 for ihe first iusertion and 73 beuts for eah sub sequent insertion. Larger advertisements, when ho co,ntract. Is made, will be obarged in exact propor tion. For announcing a candidate to any office of proflt, honor or trust, $10.00. Marigo, Obituary Notices, &o., will be charged the samo- as advertisemeuts, when over ten liiez, and must be paid for when handed in, or they will not appear. ly enters a saloon or bakery in whateve' part of the city lie may bet and helps himself to any article of food desirable to him. and coolly emergee into the street again, without saying -by your leave," or "thank you." At the ma'rket he- has been known to taki np a fish. sometTimes devouring it raw, but when his appetitep' gi'ves him leisure; he goes through a proceess of cooking it peculiar to him self. Without scaling, cleaning, or giving it any civilized preparation whatever, lie will place it on the coals of some of the furnaces on Front street, ond per mitting it to broil but a few seconds, draws the tempting morsel forth, and instanly devours it. Taking his p->si tion in the sun, the vermin with which his rags are populated soon warm into life and activity, when Andrea's occupa Lion begins by in onslaught on the grey backs. He 'will go uider one of the docks when the proceAs of ablution be conmes a I(<wessity with himl), waslh his clot hes, an') afthr hanging then out to dry, takes hi crttchtes atid swill ) t.he opposite side of the river, i-emaining there nitil his apparel-is sufficiently dry to be worn, when he returns and resumes his peregrinations through the city, travelling day and night, sleaping -in the, sui or in the rain. wherever and when. ever fatigue overtakesl Jim. J4.ndrea is never dishonest-takes nothitig without being seen, and never. accepts anyt.hing tLat i.; not. nbsoluely; necessary to the support of life. His constitution is of iron ; lie has never been sick, or, rather, has never been. 4nissed from the street, iless (it is said) on the full of the moon, whei lbe becomea niorose, and apparently out of his miid:. Left to hiimsi-lif he is harmloss enough, but when s-t npon by iniqchievotis boy.i, is easily worked into a dangerous pas sion.-Mobile Gaze te. Beform in Ireland, JOlN DitOi'S LETT.R TO TUI Iltisl LtAa oul s. - . The requisition to Mr. Bright (reportt; , in the Herald on Tensd.ny) inviting him to. , a public banquet in Dublin was, the Dub. lin Freeman's Journal informs us, numerous ly and influentially signed by clergymen. magistrates, municipal rep.esent.atives, and the following inenibers of Parliament: John Bagwell. George S. Bryan, .1. j"ower. Bart. ; Patrick O'Drion, 1art.; C. A. 1O'oghlen, Dart.; Benjamin Whit worth, Cha.rles Moore; P. It, Barry, Cork ; Myles O'Reilly. Tho 'O'Donoghue, N. D. Vurohy, John Brady, John Esmonde, R. J. Devereux, J. Gray (Knight),. It. Armstrong, First Serjeant; J., A. Lawson. E' Sullivan, V. 1t. Barry, Third Serjeant ; John F. Alaguire. John B. -Dillon, Sohin A. Blake, D. J. Readen. Tho following 'is a copy of Mir. Bright's reply: , RoenoAL.:, Sept. 1, 1860. Mv DrAn Min. DI)r.aox'- adi' afraid you. will think me long In answering your letter ofthe 2 ult., and in reply to the invitation to the proposed banquet., wvhich haps duly reached me. . The invitation Is a very re.a markable one, and I cannot doubt that it, * represents an- important amount of publio ,opinIon in Irelan1i. TIo myself it is e testi mnony of approval and .klind feeling which I estittate most -hlighly, although it involved me in no small daiiculty, for I have been hoping for a quiet. autunn, 'with an absence' of publIc meetings 'and of publio .lanor. I am not.eonident thaI-myscoming to Ireland wIll be.9f-sqrelse ; but as to many among you are 9tf opinion that aorsetbing may.l e ions te make~ a iore perf'eo6 unio.i between the liberals of I lad and th'o, liberal party here, with a 'vewto'wiser Iegishation f'or your cuatry, and for ours, I have not felt myself.as .liberty to reflude the inviLe4ion ,whioh has luen sent to me. I aqcept it with.gratitud. to tliose frem whon i Itdomes and with a hope that up doing solI may not, be stepping beyetd the bounds of what, * seems to be tny duty. Somei -time during the monath of Oct ober wilj, I hope, be eon venient to all comteerned: but.! must, ask' you t.o leave the precise day to be fixed two or thrge week ahence. About the middle of thie month wil (probably be the beet. time for mAe, If there he no objection to It, en the parn of muy1t-lendi in Dublim, With many thapks to you, ai to those ott whose behalf yomi have *tligen to me,. I am vey sincerely yours, * - Joutx Baion-r. Gen. Budler waute te kce-p the South out of'theo Umion outil thefHeavens melt with fergent, heat, His Iii is, proba bly, that esnch A ."heatL would' umel . 4poons mo' im1noe, gnid "the Soth'' he unable to idatify its propetty. 'i. ill be ho'.ter thtan he wants it,'unei day or' aother. we ame afraid.