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DY NHWS, A vaRTISING RATES. UOrdinary advertisements, ' Ecupyig bo 3 L'JDLIIIE EVEY TEsDA, TURS gs ~more than ton lines. (one square,) eili be DAY AND SATURDAY, sr in THE NEWS. at $1;00 for th v alad,Dsote o first insertioti and 75 centsa for each 'sub~ Vv Gaillard, Desportes & Co.uqen entootad I W Winnsboro,' S. C., at $6.00 per an- i g adve shue, in e ooia nmn, in advance. 1 tn Iwp~ ~ - ......~ ~~Fdf" nhoullciudg d cabdidatO to any offico CDE FAIRF'IELD HERALD, 4111FAIFIEL HEALD,~of profit, honor or trust, $10.00. blatrlago, Obituary ,ut ices, &a., will b, 1 UBLI81IED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORN- - -- - - - charged the same is adveti8emonts, whoi INO, AT $3.00 PER ANNUM. VOL. IV.] WINNS$OR0, S. (1, THURSDECEMBER 6,18 $, over tet lines, and must be paid for whei randed in, or they will not qunar ROANCE OF LONDON. TEE LIGRT OF YOUTH. "A. drear November night had lower. ed over .he Great Babel-London. The chill antumnal mist swayed hPavily in the air, and hung in dew-drops from the slanting eaves. "There was no brilliancy in the light. ed shops, and nought save the sullen glare from the lamps above ; and house. less dogs crept shivering into doorways, and houseless Want huddled itself besida them on the stones; while hastily and cheerlessiy the human current passed out ward, longing for the warm chininev. corner, where well-known faces would revivo the rpirits, and merry voices ring in siCally r.ue,l the hearth. "The pale, illiner tripped lightly on her way and forgot. her palpitating heart, and bleeding fingers in the joy of eman. cipation from ihe toil that was d.,!sroy. ing her. Sleek 'Fashion rolled on its carraige eushion along ih thoroughfare, and yawning its llst yawn, became sen sible to external objects. .&Adrgw Vice. 1'ered from the vagrant's eye, and stur, ny Labor ebowed its way along the trottoir -al .he prince and the peasant, the good and the bad, pursued their paths in silent haste-all, save the'pour mendicant musician, whj stood playing unheeded to the busy crowd. "Unnoted, indeed ! for what had the thronging wayfarers to do with music on sudi a night? Though his melodies tuight awaken visions of many a land of sunny France, in the age of chivalry --of the latticed bowers of Spain, and the rustic pipings that floated over Ty. rolean hills -what were these to the prosaic citizens of 'Chope ?' r "Yet the player did no ' though his efforts-and theye t4PIMAe skill -excited little charityit e mncltitude k,." t L g, giu he reum)ed -he vwIlw ti heshied 'energy, until his frame trembled with cold, and the spirit of i-ope gradually retreated before Despair. Then lie swept the raven curls from his brow; ard, while the night-dew sodden ed into his frame, he bent dospondingly overtho instument. 6'No pity for thee, Mariana !' he ctttered, tearfully; nothing to soothe wlhe agony and sweat of thy dyiner mo ments I Alh, why did we leave Italy I' " 'You come from Italy ?' said a atrai:ger, approaching the poor -musi ciiin. ' 'Si, signor.' answered the player; .nn4 he looked iuploringly . upon his 'uestioner. .'We are from the banks of .te bright Arno-my sister and I, sig. or; and the deatli-siroke is on her. Oh, I4elp me-help me, for the sake of Ma. ruina !'. "'Mariana 1' exclaimed the stranger, with a sudden start. "So wild and-agitated had his whole c-iuntenance gt-own at the nient ion of that name, thit a dash of lightning could scarcely have illuminated his features with more fiery lutre. ''I'he musician gazed earnestly up:n the form before him, but saw iothing to expl in the interest it had excited. The str er was slight even to attenuation his hair hung down his shoulders ' iick masses; and it was not until I , ed from the pale, mepgre cheek to I ack eyes and olive complexion. that the zer recognized sonme of thdra its of a untryman. "'I see it. now, siknor i' said the mu sician:-'you are from Italy ; you, too, have dwelt in ny beautiful Florence, bjeside ihe A rno. Is it not so ?' "'I hisve,' was the faltered reply. '' 'Ahid then you know how sad it is to languish for home, when cast roll bteten the foot and its native soil, A ud she,' continued the muisician - shle raves of the akies of Italy -in the deliri umn of her parting soul-our poor strick en MarianalJ-Yout start at that name, signor I' "'It recalls,' said the straniger, 'an echo o,f youthI, a forgottorn dr.'amn---het it -"His thin whiitem hands wandered over his face as if to shut-out the world for a 7monient, or hidte some fleeting emotion. - -'But you mire ini want,' lie added, aIter a p)ause-'thenl I will-aid you for (10o love 4 Italy.--and of Mariana.' ' An4, as dii last words crept from lin hadh tIe ihmtest iabe~r. he took the violin from the musician's hand, and slouching his hat over his eyes, assum. ed a position beside him on the curb. "'With something of astonishment, but more of the Useless apathy of devpair. the poor player yielded without a re mark. And the stranger wiped the damp mist from the strings, and tuned the instrument afresh, until at last all was prepared. Then it fell into the hollow ,of his breast-he raised. the mag. ic stick with a triumphant gesture, and a hurst of impetuous harmony came like a torrent upon the bystanders. "Alh I alb I the spirit of ni'c has found i.S master genions now ! It quails le. fore him; it opens its richest harmonies with the hand of a prodigal. As the golden shower fell on Danne, falls the stream of melody at the touch of the stranger. Like the low wail of an in. fant's Inment.atione-like he joyous lanl of an Italian lazzaroie-like the s whisper of a maiden who tells her lo e -hke the mournful sigh for one loved but lost, steal the golden ngtes frot, the Ortmona, Every passion has found a voice, e41r thought of Love, or War, or lestlessness, or Peace, now flashes from the striigsin cadences of unearthly skill, "And Orpheus has charmed the inani mate things of clay. First. one and then another pause to listen in bewilderment; and the iew become many, and the poor musician's hat grows heavy with the coins that pour in. . Little sympathy had the multitude with his sorrow or famine, but they pay him now, as they would a successful tnountebank, and he acknowledged it with tearful tears. "Suddenly the .'stranger, who had given no symptoms of surprise at his success, came tq a pause. He returned the violin to the player, arrestdd a pub. -lic vehicle that wts pzesing, and motion. <ed his.companionto" enter.- -^ " 'Whither will you lead tenow 2' asked the musician, as they hurried through the crowil. "'To Mariana I' replied the stran9e4; and they drove silently away. "Following. the direction pointed out by the musician, they threaded devious tracks throughout the maze of the great city. And far from the ha,unts of wealth, in a narrow, lonely streei, where the darkness was doubly t1rear, their conveyanco drew up, and the musician alig:tcd, followed by the strainger. "They found admission' by a key which the tenant produced, and mounted the crazy stairs for some distance. At length, the musician stopped at a cham ber.door. He listened, but was still. Some anguish shook him ; some dread to encounter the miAery within, made him tremble ; but, at a signal fro'm the stranger, he opened the door, and they stole unlselessly into the apartment. "It. required no second glance- to tell that it was the chamber of the dying. There was a character about the disar ray in which everything was scattered ; there was a charnel breath in the at mosphlere that'hnng around the lowly couch, which spoke m plainest language of the grave. "The musician drew aaide the curtains, so that. the light of the lamp fell upon the occupant, of the bed, revealing a. female form of rarest beauty. The ap proach of death had reft no charm fpvm that mathless countenance, which seem ed to have gathered up its lustre in'one expiring flash of lovelineas ; but the long dark hair streamed in ebony waves along the pillow, and her eyes were closed with the-exhaustion that succeeds pain. - 'She sleeps,' said the poor musi. cian, kneeling beside , her ; 'anid . her dreams are not of this world, for she seeims happy.' "As lie spoke, a burning smile lit up the wanl features of the girl. The nt. sician was so wrapt in his watchfulness of her face. that he saw not the agony which shook the stranger. .' Still by her, side, the watcher smoothed hter pilloiw, and drew together the wanderinig tresses with childlike fondness. While he btusied himself in these oflioesof a devoted los'e, her cotun tenance grew yet mnott bkighit, 'and an inexplicable. spiletidr plis3'ed'around her parted lips. "Suddenly her eyes opened; she started up from her couch, and, sweep. F ing the dishevelled hair from her fore- n head, gazed wistfully -bnud. The fI stranger stepped forward Vom the sha dow in which he had s ; her eyes a fell upon him, and she uttered a wild a shriek of joy. 8 "'It is he! ' she cried, and her arms E clung aroung his neck-her head sank c upon his breast with enraptured glad. 1< nes,-' it is he /--the lost' lover who C was mine in happy Flor4oe. Did I i not say that he would co again, to I rest upon my bosom I' s " 'Mariana l'said the stroger, while r tears fell from his eyel4 summer , rain ; 'lottk at me ; say u forgive I --that you will yet be I "Again the unutterabi endor rest od on her lips. ' t " 'And you have won ftni,' she con- c tinned, wit hout heeding hit tast words; Il foretold that. What cotld arrest the , enins of Paganini I' " 'Why speak of fame' w?' gasped the listener through his a; 'tell of a yourself, Mariana-that will yet 1 live to bleS tine ofI '- 'Hush I' she exclaimed interrupt.' i ing him with a hasty geatu Hi%yes 1 grew fixed ; she pressed Ii clner to C her flutturing heart. 'TIh told me you were false,' .she whig red in his li ear; 'but it was not so; $ love me c now; you have loved me or, and we shall meet a ain 1' ;. y t "We will never pat eclamed Paganini, clasping her f' cally, as if p to a t her ,waverin t by the c bon of his embrace, 'le home be fiint and our hands shall unhed, as a our duals have been. T4 e.you will r live, M'ariana, to he' nne . C I will le thine,'aihe 'hu etl, famn. ly; "I will be thie-n,' 'eaveni' t 'Asid her he disais sUht11 :t1r c mheek tdiuched his. A slig,ht quiver t drept through her frame; a long, de-p. b drawn sigh escaped, and her loving o spirit had flow,,. IJ was but the dust of Mjri a that lay' fulded in the arms f of Pa1aini I" G LegUlatura of South Carolina. ti SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1806. SENATE. r The Senate met at 12 n. A message was received from the r House, concurrimg in the Senate's reso- tl lotion asking the appointment of a Com mittee on the part of the House, to con- o fer with the similar Conimittee. appoint a ed by the Senate, "to inquire and report c what, arra:gsments and provisions should 1 be made for the election hereafter of , Senators from this State in the Con. grese of the United States, in view of ti the requirments of 'An Act to regulate sl the timas and manner of holding elec tions of Senators in Congress,' approved July 25, 1866." The House appointed c Messrs. Mullins,t Haskell and Richard son the Committee. b Mr. Sullivan introduced a bill to pro- p vide for docketing constitutional cases l in the Court of Errors. o A message was recei4ed -from the a House of Representatives, and the Sen- a ati returned a message of condurrence, to asking tim Senate to permit a referene ft of the following resolution to the Joint el Special Commttte in relation to election of Senators of the United States, to wit: c< "Whereas this State is at present ex cluded from the representation in Con- ( gress to which she believes herself con t< stittutionally entitled ; and whereps at this time an election would have to be mlade inl entire ignoranceo of' the political ti issues inl whuich the Sta te would .be iln- v terested at thle time when, by any ap. a parent probability, sheo would be permit tLed to exercise her righut of representa- , tion; therefore, be it. , "Reolvcd, That, in the opinion of t< the General Assembly of thi,s State, it 0 is inexpediet, to proceed at tlais session tI to elaet, a Senator for thte next r,anatort- ti al term of six years, commncning on the se fourth of MardI text." A bill to provide for tile admission in evidence of' wills nmade in thle exection of a power, received t.ha,third ri-ading, tts title was changed to an:Ac - and it w as returned to thle ,ilouse of' Iepresen tatives. .- ' Mt.. Buist introduced a bil for the j o *nounIraSet and protection of lauro.- ti >ean immigration, and for the appoint. nent of a cominissionor and agents, and :r other purposes therein expressed. At h-lf past 12 o'clock p. m., pursu. nt to orders previously made, the Sen. to proceeded to the House of Repre. entatives and voted for Secretary of Itate 'and Commissioners in Equity in ertain Districts, which resulted as fol. )ws: Secretary of State-Gen. Ellison )apers. Commissioners in Equity Lbbeville, Wim. H. Parker; Lexington, I A. Meetze ; Marlboro, C. P. Town. end ; Pickuns, R. A. Thompson ; I-or. y, R. E Sessions; Newberry, Silas ohnston ; Clarendon', D. W. Cuttino; iiel, H1: A. Gaillard ; Sumter, J. R. endrick. Mr. Thompson introduced a bill rela. ive to legislation induced by the eman ipation of slaves. Adjourr.ed. . IOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The Senate returned to the House, n Act to alter and amend an act entl. ed "An Act to alter and amend the tw in relation to the method of count. ig votes in all elections by the peo. e;" w.ich wore committed to the )ocnmittee on Engrossed Acts:. Mr. - introduced a bill to estah. sh an additional class of flour, to be ailed Family flour. Mr. Hutson introduced a bill to ex. std,te time in which to record lost IEMitruments in writing;" also, a bill to rodide for docketing Constitutional ase in the Court of Errors. M. Warley introduced a bill to mend an Act entitled "An Act for the elief of prosecutors and witnesses in riminal cases not. tmpital ;" Mr. Ilanekel introduced a resolu ion, which was sent to the Senate for oncurrene; that aee6hnti ofe Sheriifi )r dieting prisoners shall be audited the Comptroller at the rate of fifty a day r. Perry introduced a bill to u or extend the time allowed to.the uville and Columbia Railroad o*pany to construct a branch of heir road from some point on their ain trunk, West of Saluda River, to onneet with the South Carolina Rail sad at or East of Aiken. Mr. Keitt introduced the following osolutiois ; which were referred to be Committee on Federal Relations : Whereas the changed condition of ur country, producad by the late dis strous war, is so great as to require crresponding changeg in the organie tw, before the entire system can be orked in harmony; and whereas the cople of South Carolina are anxious at amicable relations should be re ored as early as possible between all arts of the Union, that peace, pros erity and happiness may return to the suntry. Resot'ed, That the General Assem ly of the State of South Carolina res ectfully invites a convocation of all e States composing the Government f the United States to meet as early a possible in convention, at such time ad place as the Congress of the Uni ;d States may appoint, to fully and tirly' -discuss and propose such tanges in the organic law of the re ublic as the changed condition of the >untry imperatively requires. Resolved, That his Excellency the overnor be; and ts hereby, requested transmit certified copies of the fore ,ing preamble and resolutions to his xcel leney the President of the Uni id States and to the Governors of the irious8States comprising tab Govern ent of the United States. Mr. Thomas Introd nced a reselution, hich was agreed to, that it be referr I to the Committee on the Military i inquire and repcrt upon the present mudition of the military academies of uis State, and to recommend such ae on in the premises as to them may etem proper and expedient, NOND AY DEO!BMBRER 8, 1866, SENATE. The Senate met.at I2'm. Mr. TIlman presenited the ptition of !YMss M. HI. Bide, pfayln legis1a. on to tirovide for th -eduoation of the orphan uhildrdu of ddedascd sol diers. Mr. Brown offered a resbhltion that a Special Committee of three be ap pointed from the Senates to meet and confer with a similar Committed from ti House of Representatives, on the subject of purchasing corit to meet the wants of the people of this State which was agreed to. A bill to repeal the usury laws of this State was taken up for considera tion, and after sone time,. passed in consideration thereof, the yeas and nays were taken upon the question, as follows Yeas.-Hon. J. 3. Kershaw, I'resi dent pro ten., and Messrs. Arthur, Brown, Bratton, Buist, Dozier, F'rier son, Grisham, Itennerv, MfCutchen, McDuflie, McQueen, Richardsonj Shingler, Skipper, 'fillnian, Townes, Townsend, Tracev and Woatherly. Nays-Messrs, Beatty Charles, Fort, Sullivan, Thompson, (1 W. Williams, Wilson, and Winsmith. lihe bill was therefore agreed to, and was ordered to be retum'ned to the House of Representatives, Mr, Towwnseud, from the Special Joint Committee appointed to mature a plan for organizing and establishing a College, etc,, reported a bill to car ry into effect the donation made by an Act of Congress to the - several States and Terri.tories which may pro vide colleges for the benefit of agri culture and the mechanic arts. Mr. Tracy introduced a bill to shorten and regulate the publication of notices to absent defendants in Equity. Mr. Fort introduced a bill to call a convention of the people of the State of South Carolina, Mr. Townes introduced bills to al. ter and fix the times of holding the Courts of Sessions and Common Pleas in this State ; to repeal the Acts es tablishing District Courts, and to abolish arrests and imprisonment in civil suits at law, except in certain cases. Adjourned, I11OUSE OF KEPR1SENTATIVES. At 12 o'clock, the Clerk called the roll, and the proceeding were opened with prayer by Rev. Mr. Boggs. Mr. W, A. Moore introduced a bill to extend the limit to the number of sureties now allowed on bonds of Com missioners in E, quity. Mr. Suber introduced a bill to' grant jurisdiction to the Ordinary in certain cases of dower. Mr. Springs introduced a resolution, which was agreed to, that the Clerk be authorized to receive the names of such persons as may have been omit. ted in the tax-collector's lists, in their late returns, to the Governor, who have been deprived of their limbs; or who were permanently disabled in the State or Confederate service during the war, and that he be instructed to pub lish and file a list of the same with the journal of the House, with the view to a permanent record. Mr. Wagener introduced resolutions, which were agreed to, and ordered to be sent to the Senate for concurrence, that it is the solemn duty of a State to provide a proper system of education for her children ; that his Excellency the Governor be instructed to appoint a commission of tl4ee persons to pr pare and report to the General Assem byaysetof common schools suita ble to our altered circumstances and the i-equirements of the ti'ues ; also, that the Committee on Education of both Houses report at an early day up on reviving our former schools, with additional provisions for the teaching of our colored people, until the above report of the commissiou can be had.. Adjourned. A mystery which quite surpasses 'mhar sphinx Is astonIshing tie New Yorkers. It, Is a living human head, resting upon a very amall cushion, and floating in mid air utdor a strong light. It. laughs, talks and ret nizes persons in she hall, bust th~, . o obvious bodly, and It. loas ait leaasW r4 - freom the fleer, ceilings andh walls., h. greatest pisuis ot.