The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-07-14

WrllihS Io that paper rom w aShnStQn,
on the 4th inst, says:
DR.. Mackey has not abandoned all
hope of the Colcctorship at Charleso on.
IIe had another interview with the
President on the subject, on Saturday,
| and came armed this time with letter
from the Governor OF his State
FoURTH OF July SERMON. II he
United Fire Compa' on Sunday at
tended tho African Church in body,
and listened to sermon from Rev.
Brown, the same who prayed on Mon
day that God would permit the colorcd
people to continue their feet upon the
necks Of tho whites, and sand Ian ZEN,
loo an de dust"- Charleston 'Cou-
ricr. l". '4
THINK OF IT. On Thursday Of last
week twelve thousand Cinnamon ar
rived at San Francisco. 'Unless we
greatly mistake," says the New York
Herald, "this exodus from Asia brings
with it the settlemnnt of the negro
question" 1t brings with it the issue,
Who shall rule this country Z? Euro
peans, Asiatics, or Africans? Or will
they all blend into Happy Family?
STATE TAxEs.-Thc Columbia Pho.
nae says: "Many citizens of Sou,h
Carolina refuse TO pay their State tax,
on the ground that it Is an illegal impo.
silion. even accor ling to the present
Constitution and laws Of South Caroli
ma. The question will be carried into
the Courts" ia
A Boston apothecary's assistant re-
GENTLY put up prescription, ,and found
that his customer had passed on him a
bad twenty-five cent piece and five
cent bit. He told his employer
'Never mind,' said the philosophic
Yankee, elf the five cent bit is good,
there's clean profit of three cents
The Memphis Appeal Of the 2Slh Of
June records the fact that the steamer
Thompson Dean passed down the Mis-.
sissppi the previous evening for New
Orleans, having on board, booked for
the Crescent City, FIVE hundred coolies
the first of what it hopes will !, be
heavy IMMIGRATION to the South OF that
kind Of labor. l.......
Landseer's face is Just that, of the
bachelor artist. who could reply jocnlsr-
ly, when one of his friends urged him
to propose for Rosa Bpnh urls hand -
"l1ow could live with woman who
has beat me in my own limo OF art" r.,
The railroads ccntreing in Atlanta,
Ga, will shortly commence to bnid one
OF The finest passenger dopots in the
South. 1t is to be of granite, and all
its appointments will DO finished in the
highest style OF art. .n
The oyster beds between Staten Is
land and Kcyport, New jersey, have
suffered from an incursion of drum fish.
Twenty millions Young oysters have
been destroyed, and the loss is estimated
at 100000. ~ tn5s a@ 81 Raaru
A Nevada editor lately saw white
and q negro boy hitchcd together and
driven by a little Chinese boy. They
were "playing horse" Tho poor man
saw in the incident an element of
great danger to our constitutional
rights. 'Tt,' ~ '"a
The man is merely mumbling in his
sleep who talks at this day of the Con-
stitutional Union of our fathers. It
went down in tho delugc with African
slavery."-Ncao Yorb Herald. 4.
San Francisco is extending out to
sea. The sale of lots that are entire
ly covered by water and over many
of which steamers daily pass amount
cd at last accounts to $4,000. ,aE
A New York paper says that a
leading politician in that city had his
'spirit photograph" taken by Mulmor,
and a"being with horns appeared in
tho background as his protecting spir-
it," rH aat rt:gN .'.g.,
FKe who reads and thinks little
must work hard, and tho family pinch
and save. Ono who reads and useS
skill may work less, and sleep on
spring bed.
David Dickson, Of Hancock county,
Ga, has l,G05 acres OF larf planted III
cotton this season. Upon these 1900
acres land Mr.. Dickson uses fertilizers
at an average Of s25 per acre. $. ="
A Western says: WANTED at this
office an editor who can please ,cvery-
body. 4, Also, a foreman who can ar
range the paper as Ia, allow every mans
advertisement TO head The column"
An old Canadian farmer rays that, a
stalk or two of buekwheat planted in
potato hills, or intn hill of cabbages,
melons, or cucambers, ;will,kevp off all
bugs al ~Na M n,',, a..,
Mr. Wright has renewed his lease Of
the Nickerson House, Columbia. for
another year. 81 a.ti AG a.rssze yianI