The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-10-06

! tion of the banks of New York, as
exhibited daily by the Clearing House,
where hundred millions or SO of
. transactions are represented or adjust.
I cd by u small balance Of one or two
millions, will show what IN affect the
! telegraph may have in extending such
system to the whole country. The
question arises here-and it is one
which especially concerns New York,
which is destined to absorb the finan-
cial business of this Continent or of
worlds the power over all these
mighty interests and operations to bo
left in the hands of few individuals
or telegraph companies Shall all
the communications which regulate
the commerce, trade and social inter-
course of the whole country be left
under the control Of few monopo-
lists? We might just as well think
of letting them run the machinery of
government.
No, tho time has como when the
telegraph should no longer DO in the
hands of private companies or indi-
viduals. The British government has
had the sagacity to SEQ this, has pur-
chased the lines in England, and on
the lst of January next will take en-
tire control, in connection with tho
Post Office Department, Of all telc-
graphic communications. Tho great
nations have moved slowly in this
matter, aud have followed what the
lesser ones-such as Belgium and
Switzerland-have done before. All
will have to come to it in time. There
is no other way of preserving the
secrecy of communications inviolable,
of preventing monopolies from using
the telegraph to the injury of tho
public, and of cheapening the trans
mission Of messages. The charges for
telegraphing now arc enormous and
out of all proportion to the capital
actually invested in the lines. Under
government control and in connection
with the postal service they could be
reduced to u fifth the present rate. In
every point of view, then, for the vel
fare of the public and interest of the
government, Congress should ut once
establish the experimental line We
have spoken of and prepare the way
for controlling the whole telegraph
system of the oountry.-N'ew York
Herald.
Mr.. Sumner proposes to fight the
State campaign in Massachusetts on
the negro and the debt, or, as he is
fond Of saying, "the national freed
man and the national creditor" Mr..
Sumner is evidently not yet done with
the negro. Caring, no doubt, very
little about tho negro's corn, bacon or
clothes, and Indifferent as to his fu-
ture, he yet continues to use the magic
of the "negro's woes" to stir up the
waning fever of party agitation, and
hypocritically crying, "let us have
peace" he is the very embodiment of
that prejudice, passion and hate which
continue to divide country that all
good men now desire to see genuine
union--an ocean-bound republic-re-
speotcd abroad-in peace at home.-
The New York FYwM says with truth:
"The rancor which pervades Mr..
Sumer's speech is very characteristic
and its habitual exhibition proves
that, With all his mock philanthropy,
he has bad heart. There is in some
speakers kind Of generous indigna-
tion, which glows and kindlcs with
spontaneous heat, and impar's fervoy
and vehemenco to The higher passages
of impassioncd .cloquenoe. MIR. Sum
ner has none Of this; not even any of
the adroit, racy invective Of Wendell
Phillips, which is read not without
amusement Of political opponents
Mr.. Summers 10 the mean petulance
of termagant. 1t flashes out in no
dexterous hits; it Eliminates in no
scathing outbursts it is ropulsivo
drizzle of chronic ill-naturo and igno-
bio spleen, which defeats its own pur-
pose by its undiscriminating imputa.
tion of bad motives. Mr.. Summers
moral incapacity to recognize the vir-
tues or do justice to the character Of
political opponents rendors his abuse
as Ineffective as the vulgar vitupera-
tion Of common scofd." ia@ @
UNFAvoRABLE ADvICEs FROM CUBA.
--Advices from Cuba received few
days ago confirm tho account of tho
battle of Las Tunas and the eapture
Of Colonel Bonejas' train. A letter
from distinguished Southern gen-
tleman now in Cuba, at ono time a
member Of the Confederate Congress
and colonel in the Confederate army,
states that joalously, influenced by
malignity or Spanish gold, has neoes-
stated a reorganization of the Cuban
army and compelled General and
President Cespedes to take command
Of the army. Goucral Jordan is to
be chief Of staff. This letter also
gives an account of the assassination
Of tho Maroano brothers, of Domini-
can birth, by the Cubans. These
brothers occupied tho positions, one o