The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1868-12-16

| The report of the Secretary of the
Treasury Is printed. The funding Of
tthe public debt ind tho oSi1traetioa
fthos paper circulation by tho RrreeII
! demption Of tho United States notes
is treated a>elaboratsIy,o though the
secretafy opposes a>forccd resumpl
tiop, or the, manning 4of, qanyltime BY
lsgislation for resumipg specie payl
ments. The funding Of the public
dobt as step in that direction may
be poted as follows: Up to Deoember
!, SS7,629,35O of seyon-thir,y notes
have been funded into ? Six por9 Cent!
fiye-twonty bonds. OF 9thfs amount
thcre have been funded Of the first
series t$295, ,565, roo: second Series,
S3So, ieS,2O0; third series, ,$l97,-
875,450. This leaves Outstanding Of
this class of securities bit $2,383, I50.
The icompound- Interest, notesI-all of
(which became due between tho alOtb
June, 1867, aud tho 10TH of SOcto-
ber, 1865, -have no. all been red coin !.
ed but'havc been exchanged for 'thrro,o
per cetit. certificates, leaving but a
few millions outstandime..I 'Sa ,'foaH
| ooo' otory estimates the eXpen-
dIturcs for the fiscal year. ending Juno
80, 1870, to be $3.50, 900, 900. in round
mum mum bors, taouyh the War Depart.
partment, in the event of an ,Ihdian
var, will cail for several additional
millions. twenty-five millions re re-
Cqulrod for bounties by this Depart
Ement for the present fiscal year are ar,
not required for the next. Tie re-
port will further show that bctwMseaeun
November |, 1867, and November I,
lS6S, the public ,dobt, loss cash in, the
trensury, has been reduced $35,625
ioSs 81 These are tho twelve months
Iin which the comparison, is made. If
the November iucreaso wero added in
this statement, of course tho de crease
would be seven or eight millions. less
i The receipts show that the internal
revenue will be about $l20, 100000
i Tor tho present fiscal year, and rthe
estimates of revenue for the next fis-
oal year are about $80,0OO,OOO4 less
than last year owing to the reduction
| OF taxation. The report shows i, the
interest on the public debt; to be, in
round numbers, $l4O.O0O,OOO per
annum, or $l 900, 900 more than the
estimate for this fiscal year Wash.
'ngtondispatch ofMe Ncw Yo,As World.
| 70 How LoNo WE MIeur L1vE.-Pro.
fessor Faraday adopted Flourin's phy-
siolog'cal theory, that tue natural age
man 'suone hundred years, The
duration Of thc life he believed to, bo
measured by tho time of growth.
When once5the bones and .eph ysis0re
united, the body grows no more, Iand
attwentylyears this union is, Effected
in man. In tho camelit takes place
at eight, in the horse at Ave in the
rabbit ono. The natural termination
oflifo is five removes from tho several
points. Man, hcing twonty yoara in
growing, lives fiyo times twenty ears,
that is, one hundred; the camelfis cight
years in growing, and lives five til6es
eight years, that is to say, forty years;
the horse is five years in growing. and
he lives twenty-five, and 50 with other
animals 0H'"a sl"'" U1&2@ Z.
The man who does not die Of Sick
ness, lives everywhere, from eighty to
ono hundred years. Providence has
given to man n century of life, but he
does not attain to it because he, in
herits discase, eats .unwholesomc food,
gives license to passions, rand,permits
vexations to disturb his healthy equi.
!s,s pGls0' .l9' ll9' d9es not not die; hs kilts him
The learned professor also divided
lifc into equal halves, growth and dc.
cline, and hnlyes into Infancy, youth,
virilityjand ngo.' 70 Infancy Extends to
the twentieth years youth to the If, IF,
tieth, because it is during this period
the tissues become firm virility from
fifty to seyenty-fve, during which the
organism remains completes, and Mt
seventy.five old age commences, to
last longer or shorter time, as the
dimiuses of reserved forces is hastencd
or retarded. ,3
/ DEATH OF GEO. MIXER Eso.--The
New York Sun of 7th instant, says {:
t'The flag oftho Astor House was ut
half mast on Saturday, on account of
the death Of Mr.. Goo. Mixer, Of South
Carolina, son of Daniel Mixer, who
built the Charleston Hotel, aEilong-
time friend of tho Stetson family,
and staunch union man during the
late war;, Mr.. Mixer and q friend
were recently compelled to pass a
night in tho South Carolina swamps,
and as a consequence were seized with
miasmatic fever. His friend died
soon after at Charleston Mr.. ( Mixer
came North in thehope Of recovering
his, health, but thet disease had
made too muchinroaa upon his system,
and he died at tho Actor House 81.
Saturday morning. e 'O' : ),
| lNroRTANT TO NATuRALrzED CITI.
zsEs. Mr.. Reyesdy ] Johnson made ID
his Brighton speeoll an announcement
that will please |ourl irish citizens.
| He kA,, .llh. Laf lxE Z. AtHs..tsL