The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-09-27
ae Got him Oh the Wool.

ing to Z" was the uneeremonious salu-
tation of sable celored gentleman to
an excruciatingly well dressed darkey
whose complexion was not many
shades removed fror1i that of u stove-
pipe, as the latter person . made
graceful swing from the promenade on
Fourth street, where he had been ex-
hibiting himself for couple of hours,
to the envy of the sbucks" and "nuss
gals"
"Who-o-o you call nigger, sab 2"
was the indignant response, with
majestic roll of pair of eyes,
with great deal of white and very
little of any other color in them.
"Why I call you nigger," was the
fiat-footed reiteration of the "sablo
color" as 'he recognized 'in estove
pipe" gentleman who two years ago,
exercised his genius about town in the
white-washing and boot-black line, but
who,. sinces that time, had been
'sabroad," and had cultivated nous
taohe and foreign airs.
Glow me to inform you, sab, dat
you is labrin under slight delucina-
tion. Iain't no nigger."
eyes, you is a niger, muffin else
but if you amt o niger, den what is
you :" ua
ssI'se Quadderroon, sab % ...
"Why, my mother was white wo-
man and my fadder was Spanyid,
sab dat how | got to be Quadder-
rom" ua
"Whar did you git 'plexion Z"
"Got 'em in the Souf, sah-'feet Oh
de climate; every pussun in the : 4"
got um, sab.
"Whar you git wool ?S-sn \. Al5..a
you git dat @oo1?n ,'n 2
git dat by sad acoidum on my
mudder's sidei sab.
"Now how you git dat wool on your
mudder's side, if your muddcr was
white woman--say, how you git dat
wool H 81
s'Because shegot frightened 'fore I
was borned."'
''How she git frightened, ell Z"
"Why she git chased by black
man, she~did."
"Look her nigger, I doesn't want
to be personal, but from dc 'pearance
of your mudder's son, dero amt no
doubt but dat de time your mudder
was chased by the black man--she
was overlook"
The INDIA CoTToN CRoP.-Advices
from India via England predict that
the cotton crop of that country the
present year will show meterial fall.
ing off as compared with the year just
closed, the inducements to plant, SO
far as the price is concerned, not be-
ing so great, and the recent panic in
England. which seriously disturbed
money relations with India in con-
nection with cotton, acting as a check
to the free and unrestricted growth of
the staple.
Admiral Raphael Semmes, former
ly of the Confederate navy, has be-
come editorin chief and part proprieI
tor of the Mobile Gakette,. anew and
sprightly daily.I Pendleton Colston,
Judge Advocate. of the Confederate
navy during the war, is,to be assistant
cantor. o ..--t.i..4.- n, 8,t.,l
GRAsT's PoLITIeAL VIEws.---The
New York HeraM--rather shabby au-
thority--says in regard to the Politi-
cal position Of General Grant: Gle
has his private views about politics
and politicians and keeps them to him-
self. We believe, however, that he
has no such hesitencyin endorsing the
constitutional amendment now before
the States, and in advising the South
to adopt it and settle the whole busi-
ness"
Thercare new ON exhibition at Lonis-
vile, KY, several Specimens OF proce.
lain, from the Southern Procelain Com
pany, ofAugusta, Ga, made at the
Kaofin Pottery in Sonth Carolina, near.
Fly opposite to Augusta. These speci.
inetla are attracting attention. and con