The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1868-09-09
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DANGER AHEAD. The Presidential plcc
ton is still two months of, yet tho Radicals
OF the Great West, says tho Richmond Dis.
patch have already discoverd notable
scheme concoctcd by the "rcbcls" of Ken
tncky Tor giving the electoral vote of each
OF the States Of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
10 Seymour and Bnr. a Louisville CORES
pohdent OF the Cincinnati Gazette is cntl
tlcd to the credit of having made public the
means whereby these unrcpcntant ''rcbels"
hope to reconstruct tho Administration at
washington. "Out Of their mnjur' of
9o.0o0 in Kentucky" says this v liter,
"they can very we'll spare 10000 vctcs for
each one Of those States, and ir the man
nor Of conducting tho elections ,herc are
rs loose rs we are Informed the last election
was here, we have no doubt that the impor.
'a'ion of voters In large numbers across the
line will be attempted, to carry those States
Tor Seymour and Blair. They say that
l0,O0o votes will carry any one of those
States; and who, knowing The stuff they
are made Of will doubt that they will sup.
ply that number if they can be procured "
We counsel the Radical office holders not to
he too confident Of Grants election. Il is
pam mat as there arc ninety thousand
voies to spare in Kentucky, the Dcmocra'
can send twenty thousand instead ,r irn
TO each 1t The States Threatened with lhi,
| terrible rrupton, and still have left in Ken
lucky majority of thirty thousand.
But does any sane man believe this cock
and-bnll story? W, advise the Democrats
OF The three States i'll question to be watch
inl and active The meaning of the Ga<cue's
correspondent may be that rs the Radical
voters Of Kentucky cannot possibly aid
Grant by their votes at home, they intend
to cross The river and put them into the
ballot boxes of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois
The Radicals will always hcar watching. -
no trick is so mean that they will not resort
to it; no gamo SO disgraccful .lat they will
! not play at.
THE PRoSrECT BRlamTENING,-ThcW Wnsh.
'ngton correspondent of the Baltimore San,
under date Of August 81. writes as follows
The news received here from the West,
by letters to the Congressional Democratic
Executive Committee, ana to private inli
vlduhls, confirms the statements made in
letters last week that the cause of Seymour
and Blair is gaining steadily. n letter
received this afternoon from Il prominent
politician in Northern Illinois, who is fully
vcrscd in the politics Of that Stntc, saws
That the Democracy arc backing their asscr-
lions with deeds, and are wagering odds
that they will carry the Congressional Dis.
tricts now represented by Mcssrs. Raum,
Cullom, Baker and llardwig. and also the
State, while they offer even bots on Chicngo
and Cook County,
Another lcttc received here from Chicn-
60, says that If Pennsylvania and Indiana
vote for The Democrats in October, Illinois
will be carried by 10000.
AN E'GLE KILLS CHILD "A Tippah
county (Aiiss, } school.tcnchcr writes to the
Winona Democrat rs follows:
"a cad casually occurred ut my school
few days ago. Tho eagles have been very
troublesome in tho ncIghborhood for some
time past, carrying Off pigs, lambs, SC. No
one thought that they would attempt to
prey upon children; but on Thursday, at
recess, tho little boys were out some dis
t"nce from the house, playing marbles,
when their sport was disturbed by large
c"glc awooping down and picking up little
Jennie Kcnncy, n boy Of eight years, and
flying away with him. The children cried
out; and when got out Of tho house tho
eaglo was so high that could just hear tho
child screaming. The alarm was given, md
from screaming and shouting in the, oir,
no. the eagle was induced 10 drop his VIC.
tim; but his talons had boon buried in him
so deeply, and the fall was 80 great, that ho
was killed; or either would have been fa.
tai" "hs h3"nt Gt..' n
Senatpr Doolittlc, in speech he made Mt
Milwaukee, on tho Sd inst, said that both
Grant and Sherman two years and q half
ago, authorized him TO warn the pooplc Of
Wisconsin against the consequences Of re.
construction. They then predicted that
nothing huta standing army could prevent
civil war under existing circumstances. -
The measures which they authorized Soma
TOR Doolille to warn his people against MS
calculated to produce civil war, Con. Grant
is now pledged to support, and yet there is
no evidence Tint those measures, ifporsist-
cd in, will not produce OWL war. Suol, q
man, with shifting OPTIONS, Is not tho f,an
to DO elected President in these, trying
times.
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Itisstated TINT The forciga population Of
tho United States nro raising fund for the
purchase of q homestead for General Henry
a. Wise, in tokcn, Of their appreciation of
his resistance to The prescription, of foreign
ers by tho "Knns.Noii,ing" party. The
Soiems originated North, si,ys.- there ssesns
10 bono doubt Of its success. About one
Thousand dollars Will be raised In Richmond,
In sums ofono TO fye dollars IL is intend