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The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-09-15

LOST BY NOT TAXING County
PAfER.-Generally speaking but little
Importance is attached, to the taking of
country newspaper. This neglect and
Indifference had its practical reward the
other day.
Some time ago gentleman in this
town was appointed an auditor to distri.
butte the funds in the hands of an admins
istrator amongst the creditors. No.
tice Of the auditor was published in two
of the county papers.
1t so happened that few creditors
residing in certain portion of the couh.
ty who had collectively claims to the
amount of seven or eight hundred dol.
lars, from the neglect oftaking county
paper never heard of the audit until
after. the report of the auditor had been
confirmed by the court. They then.
came into town to enquire about the
likelihood of securing their claims call.
ed upon an attorney who examined into
the matter, and informed them that they
had forever lost their money, and we
presume charged them five dollars for
the information. All this resulted from
being too penurious or too careless to
subscribe for county paper.
These gentlemen have learned les.
son that will last theu the balance of
their lives, and asa warning to others
who from the same motives fail to take
their county paper.
There is scarcely a man in the com.
manity who will not he caught up some
day on legal notice, but that does not
take paper, unless he clandestinely
reads his neighbor's, and every gentle
man should be above literary pilfering
like this, so says an exchange.
MORE TRoUBLE BREWING IN Lou.
IsIANA.-The Sunday Herald has the
following special:
New ORLEANS, Sept. l. --Governor
Wells has this morning determined to
raise a 30 called loyal militia force
throughout the State at once in view of
the fall elections. 1t is to be composed
of black and white troops. No one to
be admitted as an officer to the ranks
who was in any way connected with tie
late Confederate army. The election
under Governor Wells recent proclama.
ton to fillvacanciss in the Convention
'of 1854 will take place on the day de.
signated.
Governor Wells will promptly remove
all authorized gentlemen who do not in
good faith cause the elections to- be- held.
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A coarse, ill-natured fellow died one
day, and his friends assembled at his
funeral, but no one had agood word to
say about the deceased. Even at the
grave all were silent. At Length o
good-natured German, as he turned to
go home, said "Vell, he was a goot
schmokef!' '' j5, t'N
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{ ra XTq February 9th, 1858. J
Editors I1steIfqenc6F. i-ia tuE
In the last weeks number of your
weekly. paper we notice the action of
the House ofl Delegates on the Slst of
January upon House. Bill No. 9, enti-
tied "a bill amending the law in rela-
ton to the eompe petency. witnesses, to
WIT: ST hat no person shall be incompe-
tent as a witness on account of race or
We were not a little surprised to see
so much opposition to the bill in qnes-
ftion, as wellast the arguments advanced
against its passage. But tiwe9were more
surprised, and atthesame time grfeved,
to see that our representative; Mr.. BEN
nett, voted against its passage. His
reasons Ofor voting against the bill
sound strangely indeed in the ears of
men who have been tried, las his con-
gstituents have, for the past five years
in the civil, or i might say iljlciDit, war
which has been Brought to their very
doors, and convulsed the whole coun=
try. We would have been glad, had our
delegate have extended his remarks,
and Informed us how the passage of the
the Union canssi Does lie suppose that
he can in any way demean himself in
the present Legislature SO that those
who SO bitterly opposed him at the late
election would be Induced to vote for
him at another time. How does he
think itwould weaken the Union causef
Does he dream of uniting the two par
ties, and fear that this bill will be OBJ
jectiouable to the enemies of the new
State and federal government, or does he
think that men who have lstaked their
all upon the result of the war and the
triumph OF the national. arms, can be
driven from their principles and party
because, the Legislature dared TO do
right and voted for the cause of justice,
simple Justice to the unfortunate negro.
We solicit space in your columns,
desiring that our principles may be un-
derstood, and to proclaim that the con-
stituents Of Mr.. bennett do, not enter
tain any OF the fears expressed by that
gentleman at the time of giving the vote
in question, and we do not hesitate to
assert that not Eve loyal men who vot-
ed for, and elected him to his present
position, would endorse his position
and vote upon the bill in question. S
Respectfully, tas .sig 6
UNION MEN OF GmMER,
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TIE RICH MEN OF NEW YoRK.A1ex-
T. Stewart, Scotehman, who
came to New York in 1925 as young
man, with $3.50 in his pocket, and who
straightway commenced peddling hos
iery and. small wares, selling lace by.
sample, and soon after renting little
hole of shop In Maiden Lane, is by far
the richest man on the continent, The
value of his real estate is between fifty
and sixty millions of dollars, and his
total possessions cannot be less than
one hundred. and twenty millions of
dollars, upon which he does not owe a
dollar. His income from real property
is between five and six millions, and
the net profits of his BUSINESS are ten
millions annually. He does the largest
drygoods trade in America, If NOT in the
world, his business this year amounting
to hundred and ten millions, while
that of his nearest competitor, g. b.
Claf1in & Co., is seYenty-fiye millions.
Stewart is -headed. hard Sisted,
selfish trader. BE has no scruples, of
honor about breaking down weaker
competitor, which he can do without le-
gal penalty. His fortune IS the result
OF a very close application to business,
sticking right TO the line of hfs own
commerce, and is a relentless c0mpet-
itor with all his rivals. By, his great
moneyed capital he can and has broken
up thousands of fyounger and less affiu-
eflt men. He does cash business,
buying and selling for cash. The sec
ond wealthiest person in New York is
Commodore Vanderbilt, whose inter-
est in stocks, real estate, ships, &C.,
though huctuating, is estimated at nj
ty millions. He also is shrewd specu<
lator, of Hollandish descent. His I'M
scrupu1ous tscorners1 in the stock mar
ket have made him the dreaded lion
of that thicket. The commodore gives
but little to charity, aad has but one
weakness, that is a fondness for horse
flesh, being one of the men who can
sport d $50. 900 team on the Bloomingdale
road. William b. Astor is the next in
order. His real estate is valued at thir-
ty-fiye millions, most of which was in
herited from his father, john Jacob As
tor. He is a noticeable example where a
son has inherited the acquisitfveness'of
the father. He is of the old Knicker-
booker descent. he has carefully hus-
banded his inhefitanee, and is adding
to It for his heirs. He sees little of socf-
ETY., gives littIeto the deserving charities
and thinks other people should be as
saving and thrifty OF their pennies as
he is.-NeiD York letter.
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4
THE Ma,oy countg Herald, a journal
of Tennessee, denounces common
schools with great energy. fThe di-
rect tendency. of all common schools, :"
says the Herald, lis to weaken the ties
and lessen the influence of the family.
What the South needs, then, is some
wise system, which, while 1t teaches a
reasonable amount Of reading, writing,
and eiphering, wilIpreserve the moral
and social integrity of her character.
This system to be administered by men
who are themselves honored types of
that character. We do not want free
schools" 1t Is needless to add that
this journal is a great advocate of par
donfng Jetf. Davis, and OF Immediately
admitting the rebel States TO a full
share in the government of the Union.
l5fzly.T ~
a REPoRrER of the Chicago Tribune
furnishes to that paper an account of a
singular interview with professional
seer or astroiogist of that city. The re-
porter Disguised himself in female ap-
parel SO effectua1ly as to deceive the
prophet into the belief that he was
really woman. The apartments We're
crowded, and several hours were con-
sumed in waiting for his turn before
the reporter gained an interview. The
astrologerj assured him that a malign
spell was hanging over his life and
blighting his prospects, and offered for
was a widow, had not loved the deceas-
ed husband, would be married again to
q niidd dle-aged gentleman, and would
go to Europe oula- bridal trim
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ThIe m bethany college Anair.
cOrepqRastosqt ne chteqy0 Republican


ao4 BETHANY, w. VA, Feb. 6, 1866. Z
Many of the readers of your paper
have Heard Of Bethany College. tThis
Institution was. founded about twenty
five years ago by the celebrated Alex
tander Campbell who iG still its Presi-
dent. = Long regarded as the principal
seat of learning of the Disciples (some-
times called Campbellites,0 n! denomi-
nation of over 400, 900 communicates in
the Mississippi valley, a considerable
portion of its patronage was drawn, be-
fore the war, from The slave States.
with the fall of the rebellion, this pat
.ronage has been renewed, and during
the present session nearly a dozen rebel
soldiers have been admitted as students.
The sitnation of the college in the in
tensely loyal Pan Handle of West Yif-
Faculty to repreSs every disloyal mani
festation, and the espgjti dlG cQfps of the
whole school had, until recently kept
the chivalry1 infi order, and rendered
their conduct tuneXceptionable Butthe
venom was in their hearts, and only
presented itself a few days since when
Brig. Gen. T. Z M. G Harris addressed
our citizens in behalf of negro schools
The General himself was odious from
having sat in the military court that
tried the assaSsinS of-ou -lamented
President;, but his; subject the elevation
of the negro, was more than rebel hu-
man nature could bear. That he must
be- eSoptraged was. plain; that 1t must be
done secretly was palmer stills Ascer-
tanning that heswou1d sleep at the
house of a fellow soldier, Major Adams,
these brave hefoes, having waited until
darkness and sleep would be likely to
conceal their deeds. assembled there
aboutimidnight, heaf thirty in number,
aud Immediately commenced a furious
but harmless assault, upon the ears of
Gen. Harris, making the air hideous
with the music of tin pans, groans, and
disloyal cheers. But they had counted
without their host. The Union stu
dents, Awakened by the unaccnstomed
sound, rushed from every quarter to
the scene of operations. The chivalry
scattered inI dismhy, but, many were
overhauled on their retreat. Twenty
two were identified and were promptly
dismissed by the Faculty, with the ex-
ception, of one or two who seemed to
have been the dupes of others. Most
of them have started for the institution
which Dldgndnimous citizen of Chicago
has recently endowed with $10,0 600. 1
mean Washington College, at Lexing-
ton, Va, presided over by Robert E.
Lee. "a d q NIB. W. JoHAsoN.
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30 HVAsHINeToN,' February 8, 1850 q
Editors l,ttsHEgshess+r: 'hi9S'd 4si.e,
The proceedings of Congress still
maintain. a. dark eomplexfon and little
is done that does snoti REFER in more
or less remote degree r. or e9tSpteft ,tS tef
Popuiaion hSweysff, from r,,a1. sne
it is settledb that hoisLopposed to negro
suffrage at the present time; he is espe-
cially posed Itoithe Bill now before
Congress giving negroes the gupq uffl4llZ
fed right oBSuffrage inithea Dtstr1otnIo
Columbia;iandI withlhisy present isentis
mefitsj would veto that bill if'it passes
CoHgraAssss Of soIIfse this gives great
umbrnge to the emists, as Mr. Ste
vens,ffiends are called, and the politi=
cal cauldron ofthe dark elementof soct-
ETY. Is bling sand boiling alta terrt-
pol+eE;Tase406 WHH lpN0Dri WT'
: FohS TThE BENEFIT OF Eo9AIis1s.. =
Senator Wiley, of Western Virginia,
has made movement in the Senate
looking to the relief of Our loyal fellow
citizens in the border States whose
property was taken by the quartermas-
ters for the use; of, the Federal army.
Should some measure of this kind be
passed by Congress,Iit will be welcome
suffer oHy1 having Epr9ytsions, fotages
fmmediate use of the National forces.
Such hardships as these were more Sc
Yerelys felt in Eastern and Western Vir-
ginfa, and Maryland, than any of the
other States.
HON. w. II. SEWARD SECRETARY OF
STATE.
The news from France announcing
the factlthat the Emperor; ;Napo oleon has
made up his mind to withdraw the
nh
a thrill. of pleasurRble emotion in this
Community, Gas Iitb undoub viii
throughout the country. This Aact
alone is sufficient to stamp our venera-
BILE and illustriouss SECRETARY of State,
Hon. William H. Seward, as the chief
of American statesmen. and the prince
of 2dipfomatsIa The EMPEROR OF ethe
French, jNapoleona Ill., is, universally
esteemed one of the most skfllful poll
ticians, one Of the most perfect diplo-
matists the world hasteNer known; land
yet5our goodg quiet; uuassu umingI ISecTe-
tary twists, him aronnd,s and doubles
him up at,pleasure, notwtthstandinga all
1t is not generally known, and. perhaps
never may be, the full extent of that
idee Napoleon fegaf fding Mexico: but of
one thing we. fndy be swell assured, that
il would not have been well satisfied
with the Rio GT1nd6riyer as its bound
ary. .I II Il ILII' e1sdggGf, ,sLtltfafss '5flstg -
Mr.,Seward has done remarkable
work; without threat or bluster, with
out war Sbr che expression ofCeven an
angryjword, he has caused the ruler Of a
great empire 70 chGn1e his tGetics, and 70
dOIDuigt OTecoQTtitiOT to the 9DiH o the
-4meyicuR people, He was equally sue
cessftI in zhis,, contests, During, the war,
with the great but willy Palmerston,
and made him tkeep hands off" our
affairs. ], regret 10. say it, we have but
one such man, and he deserves all the
honor. his fellow citizens can heap upon
him.,5,ai,s F.lli 7. - % .9sTte. J.tG. y. as
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HnnnntIdorii d WheeIIng--Hef sees Josh
Hiilinurssas. and 4 AIE. Isurneff and Visits

HunEId0rIin yEheeILng--E4e sees JOSH
e BtIlinga and A1E. Rurneff and, net, Visits
the heLegtslature. s.iifF, 7,f4iiii Oh .4JiI
We clip the Following iracy para
graphs from Hunl1idorifs letter in the
last Eairmont Yedete - -. - = ,,.l ~. -.
On. Monday night I went to hear,
Josh Billings, the humorist, lecture at
Washington Hall. There was q good
deal oflecture in It. In fact most OF IT.
was lecture. Itwas funny, and made
me laugh. Josh is so inimitably pn-
handsome that it makes me laugh 10
look at him. He is most uglys-infin=
litel q, wickedly, and ineffably ugly.
This fact added great force to, his wit,
and if you did not laugh at his prov
erbs, you were sure to laugh az the
'brute-like way in which his ln1sshapen
mouth went of in repeating them.
His yulgarity was middiing. well con
cealed by yerbiage, but cropped out as
often as gentlemen accompanied by
ladies desired His lecture was in
terspersed with those good things OF
his which have been going the rounds
of the papers for two or three years I;
the body of It was composed Of sayings
which have to be- peddIed around the
country, as no one Will publish them
that is they have to be heard, mot seen.
There is one genuine thing lapout Josns
and thatis his Henry W. Shaw
of Of.ROughkeepS1e, NJ 400 4 Z l1It1 ll--a
On Tuesday evening i had the dis
tinguished honor ofhearing and seeing
Ali. Burnett, Of Cincinnati, whose show
was much more popular, and the owner
of which; is n much ihandsomer man,
than the former. Alf.'s best efforts at
ugliness, in his representations of char
aeter, approximated pretty nearly to
Josh's natural style, but Joshis face was
made by nature, and is therefore sue
cess. Distorted art, with the cultivation
ofsyears, cannot compete with,it, 81 81
L visited 1.-The House of Delegates ON
Wednesday, and WAS introduced to
some members whom i had not before
met. & Looking over onithe right of the
Hall, as Iwalked up the aisle to take
seat beside the Speaker, ut his polite
request, I thought L saw ALI. Burnett
repeating his Hard Shell sermon. Ask
ing for an Introduction i was presen-
ted to ttAIr Cooper, one of the Delegates
from Hampshirer' i bowed, and turned
away. in tears; but as, I did so, what
should rise before me on my left, but
the vision of .Josh Billings y in the
native majesty, of his supreme ugliness.
He was advancing. 1supposed, instant-
ly, he recognized me, and stepping to-
ward him, was just upon the point of
grasping his hand and exclaiming
HHow are you, 2',when the speaker
announced 'Mr. Ephraim Bee, of Dod-
ridge" shook him cordially by the
hand-"only this and nothing more"
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The nnx.orRed Hair.

Formerly, at school, the red-haired
boy or girl was the butt for every joke,
the scapegoat for every mlschievous
trick and escapade. Ifan inquiry was
made as to the perpetrator of any Of
fence, sit was the rouquin who did 1t,
chorused the boys; 1T was the rouquine,'
cried the girls. Children whose heads
were dressed in red lost their patrony-
mic at school, and were simply known
as the Fouqnin or the rouquine. If, as
was generally the case, freckles We're
an accompaniment, the victim was said
to "bear the brand of Judas" In his
face. What wonder. then If, with this
treatment, the red haired child became
sullen and dfsagreeable, and in some
sort naerited the reputation given him
beforehand? I? In the tale OF "'The Fair
One with the Golden Hair" no child
cou1d.ever have imagined the face of the
beautiful princess framed in red locks
1er hair must have been dne threads OF
real gold! AS to red haired princess,
such a thing was never heard OIL The
fairy tale would have lost all its inter
est In the eyes of children had such a
heroine been possible. Cooks even of
this color were looked upon with dis
like. Mistresses pretended that the PEE
culiar odor of their hair lent itself un-
pleasantlyto the sauces, turned the milk
and spoiled the jams.
NOW all tn1S Is cnangeu' req na1r lS
thegmo6le. The young mother prays
that her coming babe, if a girl, may have
red locks, and, if it has, Its fortune Is
made. The red haired beauty is taking
her revenge; she carries her chignon
Ikea flag, and gathering under it, aid
ed by fashion, every shade of chesnht,
blonde and black, transforms them all
into red. But tout passe, tout 1asse. and
tomorrow the mode may change. How
ever, although the triumph Of the red
their glory but hemeral-still there is
no doubt that they will never descend
to their former disagreeable position.
The prejudice of ages having once been
removed, they have been admitted to
an equality with their more favored sis
ters. But now word of advise and
warning let them descend a few steps
of the ladder they have climbed SO tri-
umphantly, lest a speedy reaction may
precipitate Them therefrom. +!
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NatlonaI Assoelation of sehool super-



~ i1ntendents,
The National Association of School
Superintendent have just been hold
ing their first session at iwashington
City, { [Repres entatfvesi Swere EpreAent
from most of the northern and western
States. We observe that Prof. White,
of this State, was present. participated
in the discussions and was one of the
the two Vice Presidents of the Associa-
tion- Among other resolutions adopted
were the following:
ResoEUed, That, in the opinion of this
assectatiOp1 the establi blishment ofsys-
TENS of common schools in the South
ern States will do much to harmonic
their relations with the other States of
the Union; and that there Is nc, other
plan by which they 4eat more readily
and certainly secure the development
of their great material resources.
earnestly sSmpatliize' with the people
of the South in their desire and efforts
to secdre a system Of public instruction
for the purpose of universal education,
and that We most cordially invite all
friends of education in the South to at
tendsths meetings ofthef national edu-
cationa1 associations Of the ensuing
SS<ASSAs r-A@fi eLtl-s4 s7-sA 10
The association will hold its next an
nuaI session at Indianapolis, COM
mencing on the 18th of August next.
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..H1eAwAs o,i n 1 sS1als B Huorhs- b j i
sos.The Buckhannon Rspnblieaa re-
ports that as Mr.. Jarrett, ofWeston, was
passing near5t1s foot OF Rich Mountain
on Monday last, three men armed with
revolvers stopped him on the road,
when he attempted to draw his own re-
volyer,, one Of tiaenn fred at him, the
shot taking effect IN hisleft arm, wound
ing slightly. They then conn pelled him
toiellver up his pockef5book, contain
ing one hundred and seyenty-hye dol
lars they; ALSO took all discrimination.
Eemptfedh his revolver, returned it
TO him and LET him gpi0n his Esy.
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Mr.. GID. PRENTICE, of the Louisville
Journal, makes the snbioined interest
ing statement: sis
s.If, in the very incipiency of the re-
bellion, we were notified that seventy
five thousand dollars in gold, fifty
thousand of it in one place and twenty
five Thousand in another, the latter sum
to be increased indefinitely, was await
ing our order (avowedly not as a bribe,
but to save us from possible loss pro-
vfded we would go for a peaceable sep
aration- of the North and the South,
upon the basis of free trade between the
two, discriminating against the rest of
the world; If we were very soon after
ward offered most enormous price for
the sale of our paper to a disloyal COM
mittee of another State; and ii, very
much later in the rebellion, we were
told by the high Confederate authori-
ties, that, on condition of our adyocat-
ing peace, or using our exerttons IN
Kentucky in our own way to promote
it, we should have as much cotton guar
anteed to run out of Wilmington as
would place us among the rich men of
the nation, surely these things were no
crimes of ours. 2 Every body knows that
such offers, If made, did not influence
us. Not for a day through all the re-
bellion did we cease to urge with all our
power the, vigorous prosecution of the
war" t..,i.ss - 5s-.is- rd
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JonN BKoUeH1rkN's Tread light, for
my heart is under your feet, love-" is
more than equalled by lover who thus
goes skating on his Iady's heart:
as tsHer heart IS like \ frozen 1alLe.
- - OnlWhoSg cold brink l stand; ist
fis,is Oh, bnckle on my SPIRITS SKATE
- And take me by the hnuds
s,ssF And laads thou loving saint, tha way
10 where the ice Is thtnt
> That Il may break beneath my feet,s
Ia And let Rioyer tr- r55 s. tss