The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1867-05-08
Appalling Destih,tion in Clarendon Dis
trCt

| Inc last number CT the Florence Tnzrtt
contains II long account Of a meeting held n
Manning. The county town of Umrcndo,
District, on April lG, to take into consi,icrn
lion measures for the relief ol the poor. Til,
| Following extract from The report of n cor,
mittce appointed at that meeting will eiy,
some iiea ofthc terrible distress which now
prevails in the interior Of The State:
From the most reliable information iho
we can gather, We feel that We arc with,
the limits ofthe truth when we declare tLo
OF the population Of our District, amountin,
to ut least 13,OO0, one fifth, or tweutysi
hundred human beings white ard black, ar,
| without provisions or means of s,pport nm,
must perish by tho most lingering and pain
ful OF all deaths if charitable aid does not
extend to them its supporting hand We
] estimate that this number Of persons must
be fed during four months of this year OF
famine before they can find resource from,
the soil where they live. At the smallest
estimate, allowing one peck of meal to each
individual per week, it will require ten
thousand four hundred bushels Of grain ia
feed them for four months Of the present
year, during which period they have no re
source but in the MD of the charitable
Bnsidcs this large number who arc even
now reduced to The last extremity, compris.
!'lg onc'fiih OF our population, white and
phck, from the information gathered bv
your committee, they feel pain and apprc
hcnsion in the conviction that every day is
adding to the number of the hopclosS,y lcs
lltrtc. We estimate that there nro two
nuns more OF our population in
"ns'r!ously engaged in tilling the soil
whose supplies OF provisions will he cx-
hansted in very few weeks, and who havc
not the means Of supplying themselves
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persons Of this class, and find that they have
made every cNcr!ion to guard nwains, the
evils 50 near ut hand, but without success
destitute of money, the pledge of their
crops has failed To supply thom with credit.
10 enable this large and cnerselic class
10 uvc through this period Of famine, and
prosecute their labors uutl the soil shall
yiclu them return. will REQUIRE, in the
DlStrlct OF Clarendon alone, Mt q very small
compensation. from eighteen TO twenty
thousand bushels OF gram. This class. If
nid shall be cXtended them, will have Tho
means ofrcpnying every dollar which shall
be advanced for their rehct But irniI can
not be obtained, they will be added in :, few
weeks, to the class already mentioned, of
the hopclcssly destitute.
Iae Washington correspondent Of The
New York Wcraid under date of April DS
gives the following interesting items
nni SJSnEins and Hhf tfe otl.Ss rar,!cs here, who
arc endeavoring to get an iniunciion from
the Supreme Court against the Presidents
execution Of the Reconstruction laws Of
Congress, arc confident, il is sail, Of suc-
cccding in thcir object. They count tho
Judges for ana against injunction, and tri-
declare in advance that tho ma
jority will he on their side, that is 10 say,
out Of ,hc nine Judges five will he for III.
junction to fonr against tho division of the
court being Inc same rs in the Miiigan case.
OF course tho decision Of the m& &Ority is
the verdict Of tho court. IL is iutimatcd
that the President anticipates such dccis-
ion, and even desires it; hoping in this way
to defeat the purpose Of Congress and to
carry out his own policy. The more far
seeing and conservative men look with dread
upon the prospect Of such decision, rs it
would throw the country into state Of an.
archy and confusion, defer rcstoration Of
the South for n long period, and ngitntc tho
public mind. All the work which is so hap.
PLY progressing in the way of reccnstruc-
tion would be destroyed, and n fearful con-
flict between Congress and the executive
and judicial branches of Tho government
would commence That would call Congress
together in July if nothing else wonld, and
the probability is that tho President would
be impcachcd AMI removed forthwith, and
the Supreme Court rcorgarizcd at once.
There is no doubt that Congress would as
scrt its supremacy in the most decisive
manner.
THE PROPOSED PURCHASE OF BRlTIsu
AMERIoA.-Thc Washington correspondent
of the Boston Posi- telcgraphs rs follows:
Since my dispatch of Monday last, stat
ing that another international land pur.
chase was on tho tapis at the State Depart
nent. l have been enabled to learn with
accuracy the following in relation thereto:
From tho time ofthe advent of the Derby
administration topower in England down
to the present day negotiations have been
pending between the Colonial Secretary Of
Great Britain and the State Department for
the purchase by the United States Of a large
portion Of British America. Mr.. Stewards
propositions have been to buy mp all that
tract Of the British Possessions lying west
of the longitude Of the Mississippi river,
thus giving to this country unbroken right
of way to the nowly acquired territory of
Russian America otwithstanling ..thesc
negotiations have been pending so long, it
is only oflate that they may he SAID to have
rcacncd point where oven thc preliminary
treaty could be named Ono Of the prom-
nent difficulties encountered was tho qucs-
ton of including Vancouvcr's Island in the
transfer, her Majcsiy's Government dcsir.
ing 10 retain that point for a naval station.
More recently, the English Government,
through Lord Stanley, has met The proposal
to purchase with renewed interest, and ono
Of the prominent dcsideratums put forward
by Secretary Seward has been n aproposi-
ton to make our Alabama claims, in some
degree, ono of tho Offsets to tho purchase
money hereafter to. be determined Not
one word of these negotiations has yet been
permitted to escape the State Department,
and il is supposed thnt Secretary Seward
relies upon the success Of tho Russian
American, treaty to insure The ratihca.
ton Of this approaching bargain with Great
Britain. Tho former territory would DO
literally left out in the cold unless tho in.
terminate tracts became our own.
The Pail hlnll Gazette says, owe lavc
the pleasure Of announcing to onr, readers
( the accession of n now European sovereign.
prinoc Henry XXI. Of Rcnss. .Greiz, having
attained his majority, has asccnded the
throne of that country. which since 1850
has been governed by his mother, .the prin-
cess Carolina, as agent The extcnt Of tho
territory over which Prince Henry XXI. is
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