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

oSS'Hhshb W couHiabu tue serious at
tention of the farmers of this vicinity,
and promise to become important
sources of income, ut no distant day.
Don Fiat, the accomplished Radi-
cal letter writer from Washington,
| expresses his sentiments as follows
We complain that those Southern
people do not accept the situation
and look the inevitable in the face.
Arc we not guilty Of tho same error /?
The difference of nationality led to a
bloody war, in which we laid waste
wide fields, burned the homestcads,
and killed tho best beloved, and yet
propose by a few crude statutes, to
wipe out the deadly antagonism, and
mako tho people, so punished, pa
triotlc, peaceful, loving body Of citi-
zens.
Had we attempted this in good
faith, we would yet be fgting the in
eyitable ; but feeling the impossible
ty Of suoh result, we have in fact,
used our power to benefit ourselves.
Our so.called reconstruction acts serve
New England, aud not the South.
Tho net purport and upshot of the
business is, to have q body of men in
Congress from the Southern States
who represent the money interests o.
Yapkeedom. We call them carpet
baggers. I met one, at tho opening
of the holidays, last winter, carpet.
bag in hand, making for the depot.
"Whithcr bound 7" I cried.
"Home for few days"
"What, going South ~
"Devil bit. I am making for
Connectieut to see my family"
Hc did not call tho land of his con.
stituents home. Of course not nor
does he consider the interest Of his DO
litical locality, but votes steadily
with the manufacturing capital Of his
old home.
Il. G. DeLarge, the census tuker Of
the county, has received a circular
letter from the Adiutant.G
Office, with instructions to enroll the
Inhabitants Of his district subject to-
militia duty. We are Informed that
such persons as are subject TO duty
will be enrolled in two classes one
composing all those between eighteen
and thirty years old, and tho other
those between thirty and forty.6ve
years. 1t is not proposed to cali out
the militia as yet. tho object of the
order being to complete the enroll
ment and census at tho same time.---
Char. Courier. ios ,E'&
Rip Van Winkle is not dead, after
all. He has only been taking another
nap? a lady who has just returned
from passing the winter. in, FLORIDA,
informs the Chicago Iduaace that a
planter made his appearance in. teyu,
from the depths of the. Everglades,
bringing with him two negroes for
sale! He was actually ignorant that
there had been war |! "Imagine his
feelings" at the sudden depreciation
ofbis property = " & ~7,:i,@
The Charleston Courier contains the
Following: at IS said that very
solemn looking colored member Of the
Grand Jury proposed that tho sessions
Of that body in future be opened with
prayor." ~ Es ~ tsNA
Indians made an unsuccessful attack
on. o surveying party on the Eapsas
Pacific Railroad on Saturday. On
tho Upper ,Missousi, the Sioux and
Rees have mot Ia battle. " 6
| i! Jonathan Mingos died st Albion,
Mich, recently, aged IT yeare. He
was Of the Narragansett. tribe Of In.
dams, and was a lineaf deseendaat Of
King Philip. y At tho time Of his
death he had In his possession the
powder-horn ,iwbish was taken froin
tho body Of that noted chief when tho
latter wae killed. q ~ vtt t1ass
The United Pfssbyterisa assembly
pronounced at its late meeting In fs-
vor Of allowinga q marriage with q de-
ceased wiis's oister. ''fN'sf 'TSs'3S 81
II Recent sxpsrimeata hayes that
clovor and other grasses will thrive
insly ID Graenvilfe County
lds n cosored mas recently applied fof
tsS The spPoihhsssatsss asssit of ii s,,aajjson aajjn Of tho
;harlsston a Isgt 0fEaan Housey 4 !
IA Nsw York oaiser Ind his mesa
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