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1 -Fm "V a.. . VU .. II] wINNI RO,S.C., T HU RSDAT, *OVEMBER 15, 1866. 125 TIlE T I-1VIMYEWR, j L'UIILISIIED EVRtY TUESDAY, T tIURts DAY ANAD S.,TURD.%,I I'v Gaillard, Desportes & Co. I t Winusboro,' S. C., at $6.00 per tln. nttn, in advance. liME FAIFIELD' HERALD, I tini.IS.0ED EVERY WEI)NESDAY DOltN ING, A-r 3.00 PERl ANNUM. [From the New Orleans Picayune.] Let Me Sing a Song of the Olden Time, Let tme sing a song of the olden tilme, Let. me dream a dream of the paet. Whie the stars gleam bright in their gold en light, And the night sdles are galtering fast. I would wreat he a chaplet of eypress leaves, And gem it withit cypress flower, And crown the grave where the wild flow ers waye, O'er the friend of mny happier hours, I not asd to night, Ihlough the stars are brighl, Atul my ceiek.s have lost Iheir hue - lor hieniory bri%gs-n In her ren wingls Sad dreamis ot'tiy'fallen true. Sad echoes nre floatintg upon Ithe nir, The v'it-I is sobbing iloud, Aud thie tiisy ap1 violet blou1oi.ig sweet, Aro imy bIravae soldier's only shroud, ht I'll ringg a song of the olden time, I"II dream a dream of t he past VIi ilet It stars are bright, in their golden light, And Ilty tcr.;sy are falling faQt.. ct:'.. efNew Orleans, La. [Prom the Anti-SlaveryStandard.] Wondoll Plhillips en Grant and Sherman, '"'I'ie l'ay has gone hy," said a frienl, '"'when it man ca:l ,e Pre" sident of the Uni .el Stat: Iterely bhenttse lie keep" his miott:I bt111." No liying again a --,ig in pokoi 'here is a retteeere which hidet s n o hinl . .ness. Surely that is no gtaltiahmtin for ri'sponsible ofliee. '''here is a re etience whil hides somthing W witisi to know WhItt that soietliig is before wte truf-t s'lIt i'eticenco tech 1 ower. ifGeneral >tranut's friends mean t o a'k Ithe country's support of hlimr as P'residlet, Ihey must allow Vs at least al mn masl, wear the tntifort of one party or the o,ther. This Genet a Grualt deelinee to d1o. I lien, like all neutrals, he mnust. be y'trehesl and prev:tited trout wirchief, bitt never tCustd. Tills o.cohltt werettik, judginlg kimenly by his words or lack of words: When we como t'o aclions. he lots himiself' ha the tool of the reaction. Alike from the dities which li neglects aut[ from the sttservien - st which 'Ihlow.4 when Ito does act, wo inl'er A t Gratt, does test want to havte ny opili oits on .lte great. r:ttional prol-leln. lie is oalont to be o iti neaosouitg tool of tacit bout him as his own guns in Virgitia. la these days, lowver, we need a man, andh apt. merely a fgured-head, for Presideht. Va who, loldlng the thunderbolts of tIe aOernmitt in his hatd. allow.:d the N::v P1tns lassacr and th Memphis riet cbotniler who lets the world see that I th torritory ho professes to have cm, eI' r I law ca1nnot he eXectlel, na r.s one 'of iid otI1 cluios is safe benelath t e i, , Is either incompetent or disloyal. If this is ftdlmeoiten of his lit ntess fir oflie', the nt fit has had. more than enough of him. Ili: futur' shoull occasion ' n surpri-". 'Tho routino solnlier, liko the routi io a,tilol", is gehorally till fit for anything el':'. Shtertin cant lide undier no such n'eeus There is ito -lioiht hie hii genius. l1 :ttt''-on t ells of a Colonel lloid, i W est Ptin r, u hi ttrock IhIo triurnnitus ohf a cato titol: 1. iay housndi blows withi a Iitn:i..I that at b:st ilni'oke them. Jut so Gut int broko thie r'ebolliott;, S3hermnan conquetitredl it h his bri'tns as truly as wit.h his s'wordn. Iile will neover be a King Log It is vitally imtpit'. tant that his steps toward the Priesidanecy abiould he vigilanitly stcr'tutizld Ihhng titt a io.ident. of' the SoothI, lie hts all thie n-ti: o.r pirejudioos antd abIsuird .opi.nivais of ideas it - ce r:ement-:. lIe ittn nothitng buil t u's ti and Jtemtptuous5 critihismt f'or Anlas.sanichsis; W, of' coiurso, thne geogr'ahin-ili Se. t'but tho prinipes,iide'asn, andt uros w hich wh'io hoatrs it Wne fear' h1e has lear' nI litl frotm t.hte .war. liigontled, hal f-ittni itemI, inttensely.scotionnal the itnomie't.itarmedl 'esis. tenico ceaists, he is jnust I lie mian to i arvo Sthe South in her eff'ort to regain by intrnigueo what site lost by arms. If' he is out' next Pr'esit. lhe wIll carr'y out to itii fulihnltet , ont nami l Helen, t hat dlisgrace.f'ul indo a Not'm.n growl, thant drowned~ even the hinder of Niigara, frightened hnim mdd i comrades fromt comipletinig. AfIo livIng t Wetyt years lit thet P'othi in itijujate r'eih ions with ..hot' leaders, aft or sweepintg I hroulgh her terrtitor'y at Ithe head of a vie. t'ritous armty atnd tkintg the latest surtveiy -osf her' mood aond resoureos. lhe proposed to troat the war its na frotlio, andi let both see, I iotns resume, subhstaittiitlly. t Ite relations * hey hold. hofore the rebeilion. Gentero:1 Ebeirt@an Is too.shriewd anod calpable a matn to adlow of'one explaiing~ t his on tany grotijid ef crodulity or tmi.sappreheonsion. Such ni ell'or could h&vo Comio only from a iii in. curably Sotuthera in itsi hinas sabn opinions IIf the hotL'fwres of usfoh civil .war'. conid ntot hurn t his folly anti wickednte.n soutnt It himt, Inanse tu~ lit. haini what honolr ltand ftair lay ik mand .While lie hadt noit relish for thle #itn of allowing negroes to fightt. andl Iluntg bli..induence wrginst . ht,It ioirnid that. 'to admit the negro to this struggle for aty purhoso was to give him a right to stay in it. for tll, ant tint when the fight is over IIho hand tint drops the musket canhot bo detled the 'ballot ;" still no mai lifts sinco hear<l one word f'rom him in sttppirt of that role of justico anl fair play. His narrow, sectional hate has smothered his logic. Ilia old, bitter aristocracy of 'he skin still clings to hin. There is an old proverb that "an In tlianiz.e.d Etiglishmtan is a devil incar. unte." A Northern-born slaveholdor was always the worst tyrant. A Northern poll. ticint e:eeped in Southern hate is the most incurable of all bigots and most dangerous to trust with power. .VENDK,L PtIL.LIPs. Labor for the South. We do not know what to say on this subjept. The labor of freedmen, at the close of operations for the season. has proved to be an utter failure. The experitmcnt of introducing white labor froI the North is nearly as bad. if not worse ; so that the Southern planter must be at his wit's end to solve the problem of la bor. At Beach Islaid, in this State, they have an agricultural club, and the in format ion there developed shows that the great question of Southern labor has yet to be solved. Mr. Jonathan 11. Miller made a statement to the society, which would induce the plan ter to believe that foreign white labor canuot be relied upon. Mr. Miller say,. "At.th coimntenceetnt of the year, I iamploved as atany negroes ts I thoug ht n cessary for the cultivation o y lan11, but itt conse(Ience of it t)ortit n of thwim being dlissatisfied, dis mui.,d them, thinking I could procure iitiere inl their places. In thisIl was disapplointet, and after repeated of fort8 to otiiu other negroes, and fail Ig, i)il'er-ig to4ay the;n' a.t,.thrl'*.ato of $12.50 per month, I wits induced to try white labor. Consequently, I wrote to my brother-in-law, Maj. N. W. Smith, inl New York, to send me fifteen white laborers; which it did thirteen mien and two women. They arrived at Augusta on the 15th of March, I -paying their passage to Sa vannta;h by steamer, and thence by railr'ad to Augutsta, at $25 dollars each, and was to pay thetim at the rate -for men, ,12.50 per mooth, and for tlh itomen, $8. At the expiration of tie first imoutlt, their wages were paid them, and they insisted that their wagcs shou!d bi raised, for men, $15, and fti wnmen, $10; -notwithstanding thiat they had made a contract for the list mont ioned amount, before leav lag New York. I agreed to do so, as theY worked very faithfully. Their ratiOnS were Corn h0~rea(1 itnd bacon ; as t hey we're not aecustomctl to the corn, I gave them oceasioat:lly rye and wheat bread, wit it fresh beef ; also, vegeta bles, snch as pe:s, turnips, sweet and Irish potatoes, as s0011 Its I raised them. I also frnished then eoffe likewise tlte.ir bedding, they furnish ing their own Clothing and paying their doctor's bill. At the end of the secoitd month, several of the best workers amongst them insisted on their wages being increased still high er, two of them $17 per month, and one who acted as a gardener to $25. I put up the wages of the two to $17, as they wero the best handa, and the gard nier I dismissed ; several of the others left ; one of the women I made cook and wash for the men." M-. Miller goes on to hay that the plmr. of introducing foreign white a br athrough the agencies of Now York iemig eation companies is all a humbug. Theset societies, when they got orders for laborers, send out runners and gather tip the dregs of the city of New York, and all such as they can pick up, riud make{ from three to ten dollars pet- head for each .hand furnislied. Tlhtey chai-go both parties, and om.' ployer and employee--the former for ltirinig him laborers, and the latter for getting situations. They bind botir nart.ies in contracts, whtich might do m thte North, but, an we htave no laws 0o etnfotce such contracts in lto'So,u thi,I ad( its thtere is no honor in sitcht char wcters, Mi'. Miller looks upon the :ompjaniee and most of their laborers is mo-re.swindlew4he solo ob,om,i b... ing to make all the money they can ont of the South-the societies by. fur nishing thon, and the laborersbr ob taining a free passage to tle Sot. I'l(en:x. Tn MEXICAN QUE TION.- de spiatcl to the New York Re , of Monday, says Gen. Grant has at last--nz pro. bably per instructions from tha esi. lent-taken up the Metfoan \na - in earnest, and will attend to it eal so far as lio can be concerned On Saturday morning, he invited nor Romero, the Mexican Minis "to a confidential interview at his he uar tors, which meeting took plas nd lasted for some time. After- nor Romero's departure, there- was a staf' nmdeting. What connection th may or may not have had with 1f loan business, I cannot say,' 0 thing more : There is no reason to- ieve that the Mexican questiotr Neb re opened with France, but A6Nt t re mains just whero' Thid last pa ' bed note from Drouyn du l'Huys Sr. Seward placed it. The Gove nrcnt is waiting to soo how the Pre t act up to the first of the comi ear. If at that time it is seen that o is any bad faith exhibited or a enoy to duplicity, then such aotiln 1 1 bE forcibly recommended as wll tXe our feeli gs and interests .to. ie spected. .. President Juarez has writt4l: a$ let ter, in which he again, Paorts up willingness to consider any. ootb looking to a cessiop of tie' ern States of Mexico to the Uni teo. FurthermQre, it Is well that. some three years agoDot omija go Cartez ae to hLa h tyr.d - 1ro.' p,osod,,}efo' ation to the Untte~d tates tiie &tatj of Chihnahu and States of' Mexico on the Pacific coast, in order, as he said, to free them from French interven tion, and that Juarez instructed Senor Romero to officially deny that. Cartos had the'right to make any.och propo sition. The beginning of the new yea' will witness the inauguration of tinbroken Rteam communicat ion artmnd the gl'obe; It l's hienceforth prosecuted' r'egularly. rThe steamship Henry Chfiney.will gail on the 1 th of hececmber. for the Isthmus; will connect tihere with the Gulden - City fur San Franci'o ;- and from San Francisco, on. the lst day of Jnnuarv. the steamshit, Colorado will Qail for Yokahamn, in Japan, stid Ifong Kong, in China. I, arrived at the latter port., the passenger still wishes to journey Westward. lie can proceed by by the boats of the Peninsular and1 (h. nital Company to Bombay, and onward through the Red Sea to the Isthmus of 4nez, which, crossed by tail, conducts in the British line of Mediterranean steamers, touching at Malta and Giba rahar, ani arrive in England, where he ann take paseage. "BuicK" Couixo.-M. M. Ponmeroy, ditor of the La Crosse Democrnt, wil his winter visit all of the Southern Iates, traveling by public and private onveyance, from city t p'lantation, xtending his knowledge of he coun ry, and writing fully, impartially and ruathfully, of the wants, capacities, re iources and b'sines,c of thin South ; the enuminent and suff,rings of her people ;. he ravnges and marrings of war; the ravery and the vandalism of' troops ; .he .condition of' negroes be'fore the war md since ; the triue workings of' the P'reedmen's Bureani; and all suich infor-' ntion, which will be ol untold value to he cosmtry. A tew kind of harpoon for whale Ashing us just been invented. It is sr arrange,l a to contain a imouuid of powde*, togethero utt a ik whigh becomes ignited in about wre seconds, and can thei. detroy thme whale instantanueonesly without-censing t1e. sin its hold. This harpoon will be of lin. sense ties for the fisherie. of the great rhahes sidled sulphur bolteop whsiEh abond n the meigiborhood of Icelad and Spits tour'g. UIp to the present timse helse chals, haive not been sought to be saptur d for the reason-that. they isisk to he-bos om at the ses'as soon se taI. are -mortelly rounded. A rird rield System "Notwithstandiug what we have said of the profitable experience of those who have practiced the four-field sys tem with clover, we should be tempted to guard agarnst and risk of ultimate failure by a change in one point. We should utake the four fields five, and sowing timothy seed with clover, take a crop of timothy hav, when we now take wvheat, and hr ' follow imme diately after the ly. The year devoted to clover in this case, be a year of pastur:a d thus allow a considerable addit . , the stock. This stock would, advntageously, consume the large quantity of straw and corn fodder, otherwise entirely lost except for mannre, and thus bring a large extra item of profit. If to this stock the corn be fed as it should be, the manure would be greatly increased in value? and the fertility of the soil proportionably in proved. The only objections that could be made to this change would be that the additional' year given to' gras might al. low the nwtrve' grasses to mt'ilt ly to the prejuiree of the clover ; andl that no old a sod r.it ht be tinsitablo to the growth of wheat. These would be fery. material olietion shouid they t>e realized in practice. The whole profit of the system is baod 'upbrr the success of the clover, and that m%t be made Recure hAt any rate; and thk' wheat crop on the tbver falliw is the chief money orop.iand deserves to be especially re garded. - - As to the effect upon the clover,. we think that a well-set sod of clover and bimothy woold, during, two years. so completely hoki possession of the ground as to excude entirely all intruders, and 'het-the intermediate workings between W lttet , .ntfi4t'%6ai 'uitli ha suffeient to put the ground in a good state of preparation. As regards tihe wheat, assuming, as said above, that the clover and timothy will exclude native 'grasses which might prove hurtful to it; and being well assured that the sod of timothy which would prevail when we break the ground for wheat, is very con genial to thwt crop, we apprebeud noth-, ing on this score. It is said, indeed. to take a preparation for wheat, oi.ly in. ferior to clover, and, in this case, the good effects of the clover growing of the ptevinos year areadded tat the good qualities of the timothy sod. Snch a sod, it' has been asserted, is especially advantageous on lands liQble to ieavin)r inder the infineues of frost. W'heat is said' to be undr nn' circumstances so secure agaihst "-winter-kiIling.' go soil in the world is .o uncertain as th;t of the prairie oi- aet'ount of winter.kiilig. TYet tho early settler raises wheat on the original tough sward with very uni form success; so it is maintaitned that. the sod of timothy is, itt this respect, very favorable to wheat . Onder the influence of theso opinions we should h temnted to seek the advantages offered by the extra grass crop, and maks, at least a fair trial or five fields instead of fotr."--Amrican Farmer. GENaiAL SHtxtMAN'd SYMPATHY WiTH TU. PUIK8i\T.--l..ieattenant Geineral Sherman, when in Washington, madreno secret of his support of the P'resident's policy. On one occasion he said: "Soldiers have something else to do now besides fighting. We fbught the rebels as long as there were any to fight.' What we have to do is to secure the sul,jects for which we fought. W'e fought to restore the Union ;; let us re-. store it now,," He frequetntly express ed hits surprise and it'dignation that hie Southern Siatess were dbprived of the right of reprmesentation so.long sfter the terur.inatin of the war.---Q. 1". Corn mercial Advertier. It isu iintimated from Wvashington that the Pu'esident will, in his f'ort.hcoming nmessage to Congress, lay t2efo,re Ita body an. amueiment to the (j6nsi itutiont simdlav to' the one passed- at t he last sesutotw of Coattwus, with a few medi& estions. WVhaght agreedymqsef.o wear a plai Wastdosa o'kep acheek onLhiemach. ADVEltTISING RATES. Ordinary advertisements, occupying not more than ten lines, (one square,) will be -nsorted it ThE NEWS, at $1.00 for tho first insertion-and 75' cents fot' each sub sequent ibsertion. Larger advertisements, when no contract is made, will be ch trged in exact propor tion. For announcing acnndidate to any office of proth, honor or trust, $10.00. Mat"riage, Obituary NGtices, &o., will be charged the same as advertisementa, when over ten lines, and inust be pail for when handed in, or they will not aplear. RoMurertc S-rony.-The New York Ierald of.yesterdity says : A somewhat, remarka ble.ch'nge of fortune has occurred to a young man known by the name of George Olson, and occupying the humble position of lamp trhnmer and "Jack of th-e Dust" oi board the United States steamer Madawaska, now in port, by which he has suddenly come into possession of $30000 in gold, together with the ilunagrian title of Edward Louis, Count Bafthyanyi, and the oxtenhive estates attached thereto. It appba't's that Olson, or the Count, left his c'ou'tt'y in 1848, wheur very young, after his father had been exo cuted for treing concdrn'ed ill the rebellion' tinder Kossuth (to' whom' he is nearly ra lated), and has s1inc been' in the United States fie kr' littl'o of his fam'fy or their real position, ani supposed in cohsdqtenco' of his fathers disloyalty all their posses sions had been conti eated. Finding it difficult to gain a livelihood he joined the United States navy andl was drafted on board the Unite-l States steamer Madawaska at a lanttdsnan, was employed as a lamp trimmer and assistant. to the captain of the hold. llappenig to get hold of a newspaper a short time since, lie discovered an advertise ment requesting Elward .ouis llatthyanyi to comnunicate with certain parties and ho would ''hear of something to his advantage." Our young blue-blooded Iungarian lam p trimmer lost no time in complying, and haping proved his identity, received an in Atalvient of t300,000. Instead of inforlii.'g' his"comnianding olicer of this strange vi cissitudo of fortune, 1hich had metamor phosed a Uniteil States navnl lamp trimmer and "J'ace of the Dust" iuio a llungarian'" noblethan', *ith a revenue of upwarj of $50,01 0 a year, Batthyanyi, or Olson, de serted from the Madawaska. lie is now in* Washingfo: under the patronage of the Austrian Atribnrsador. endleavoring to pro. crtte a fot'mal dischargo from the, service. That he will succeed we have not the'slight est doubt. Ttt.AT's So -A correspondent of the Chronicle and Sntincl, d iscussimg tit most fensible mode of obtaining release from the general and opprasive butdin' of debt, says truly ."The beat and strest way to get re lief is for every able bodied man to go to work at something; a ", ' y i1dus ry, each and every fatnily wilt tc relieved. Debts can he paid very fast with the pre--ent high prices of farming products, and most men can pay one-foufth their idebtedness this winter, even with one third of a cotton crop ; and, where they cannot, and have done the best , they. couli they will not be sued. "Many debts Rhould be reduced heavi ly. The people have lost their slaves, and mneh of other property, and every credi or shottl feel' willing to give up w part of their claims ; but theso thinga should by by the mirn.al consent of par. tie=. tx w *' *. * e "I am suprised to see so many men wa'nt to htold on to large bodies of ind, anid remain im debt, too). Bet ter' - givo their credlito,rs :.art of' theo land and rid themttselves of' debrt ; for there is nothmiii so depressitng to ~ tman's spirit.sas to bli in debt. Stmall fatrms, wilh plenty of guano and goodl farming implements arm nmuch morm profitaible, with less risk and Jameos Brboks, proprietor of' tlie New York Neeninug Erpress,-lia' lien elected to Congress by a majority. This is a rebuke to the Radicals in Congress, . who ouistct1 Mr. Brooks from his scat, to give' place to Dodge, Radical. A colored cook expecting company of her own kind, was at a loss bow to ontertain het friends. H1cr mistress said : "Chloe, you must make an apolo gy. 'La! missus, how ean I make it ? I got no apples, no egge, no butter, 'io nu1in to make it wid." In his letter to Calvin Colton, S'hp t'elaber 2, 1843, Henry Clay wrote:. "The slavery question ib tho free States will destroy all liarmony and finally I d to disnin.-n The conse queniosY disunion are'pepptpal war, the extinetion of the AMrican racs and ultimate military despotism." A country man who was ch:arge4 with ten gallons of whiskey whieb a' grocer pttt in an bght gallon4eg, said he "didn't wityl the mene ver. oharged so 'much aa ho did the strain' in1 the keg.