The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1867-02-13
News Items.

PANAMA, February 1.-The American
Consul, Little, died with yellow fever. The
inycr is raging on the steamer jamestown
The city is full of tn" pcs,ilcncc. anI fever
is epidemic in the Islhmus. Cholera np
pearcd on Gren i, River. IL is abating
LINN, January % Tho American steam.
CT Jaseph Clark is here with yellow fever
HAVANA, February G.-Cholcra, small
poS and yellow fever still prevails. At ST..
Thon IS 700 cholera deaths have occuvl, Il ia
five wceSs. The small rpx is abating.
Mo auzns whites suffer most
WasniHGToN, February ln.-Thn New
Orleans Eiot Committee will rcpor. to- mor.
row, con'lemuing Mayor Monroe and cen
suring the PRESIDENT. They say The loyal
people d y moi rrotcctcu. and will in con
ven''on report q bill appointing Governor,
and Council under whom The State can re
organize. Only lcyalis,s, regardless of
color, will be allowed TO vote.
RALEIGH. Feb. 9,--The Legislature has
passed the Relief Bill staying off tho pay.
mcnis Of debts twelve months.
WAsuINGroN, FEBRUARY 7.-Gcn. Daniel i
Sickles' wife is dead.
Louisiana has unanimously rejected The
Constitutional amendment, ana unanimons
ly concurrel in tic Senate bin calling for a
State Constitutional Convention
Governor Brown, of Georgia, is here.
The Pennsylvania House passed the Con-
stitutional amendment by n party vote
The President has'apprOvcd the bin tam
pciing with the securities aud The currency
il runallcs printing thereon any advertise.
mont. Also, The habcas corpa. bill from the
benefits OF which persons now held for
rebellion are excluded.
Fred Seward has arri' cd rs mystcriously
as he Departed.
The Internal revenue receipts to-day were
over $500, 900.
CHARLESTON February 7.--Govcruor Orr
is here. He is hopeful of n speedy rcs,o.
ration, on the basing of impartial suffrage,
aad will convene The Legislature rs soon rs
North Carolina acts. 's.
NEW ORLEANS, February 7.-Ortcga and
his compntrio.s will be court -mnuiaicd nj
San Luis Po'o>i. Immense preparations
arc being male at Hacntccas TO receive
.Innre2 on tho 18th Reliable ndvices say
100 Imp rial >ts are advm cling on San
uis Potos " II instructions TO fight, ant,
i;vi, torious, suspend hostiIities for on cleo
tlon.
LoSDoN. February G-Lorl Stanley has
asked Scward'io state plainly ihc poinls OF
he claims on which arbitration is desired
4 new Atlantic Telegraph Company is
forming. vim Azores and Halifax
BERLIN, FEBRUARY 5.--Tho Bavarian
Prince who. with his ancestors, enjoyed a
monopoly OF the postal service Of Germany
| 400 years, sold the right 10 The Prussian
Government for 3, 600, 900 thalcrs. IL
RICHMOND, February 4--Thc Examinc,
Publishes anew plan Of restoration, in nh
authoritative shnpe. The constitutional
amendment is to be adopted; the laws with.
drawing from tho Union to DO declared
null the United States dcbL TO be sacred
the insnrrcctionary debt 10 bc forever ro.
pndiatch persons born in,lhe United to be
citizons thereof and Of tho States in wliio
thoy reside; representatives TO be propor,
to d to the wlolo number of people
excluding untaxcG Indians no other sun
rage qualification than $3.50 taxnhlc pro
pcrty md ability to read tho Constitution
in English hndw i chis nama. Thc amend
inent to tho Constitution 10 bo in accord-
! ance with the above, except that none slal
be excluded from franchise who have here
ioforc exercised it BY the proposed restric-
tions. The Democratic members have beer
formally consulted on The new plan; moi
thor hn.it transpircd that the Republicans
have made pledges binding them in ( case
the South adopts it,.
is prominently mentioned, in cnnnec
Lion with the new plan, that Governors Orr
Of South Carolina, Sharkcy, of Mississippi
Parsons, of Alabnma and Marvin Of Florida
approve Of,ito ltis also stated that til,
PfesideE. endorses the scheme.
Tho ice in the Potomac broke to-day
and three spans of the long bridge 2ar,
gone; The RAILROAD bridge is gone, IN,
therc are approximations for the safety o
the. ilarpots Ferry bridge.
The snb-oomnitteeo of. Ways mud Means
reports ad, ersc)y TO the reduction of th,
wbiskey TAX. "a s,S.f (, ~
| WASHINGTON, February 5,.-doy. shar
Likely is in bad henhll. and will leavo a 8 500,
ds he isable. Coy. PARSONS leaves to.nnor.
row The features Of the new project, n.
published North nud South, aro garblet
! and unreliable Gentlemen prominen4 1,