The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-05-05

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and control the destinies of,the Union
The elections in the Northwest last
fall, as compared with those of two
years before, prove that the antagon
Ism of the people towards the S1utt
is on the wane there; and in a few
mo reyears we may exclaim, ,"Now Is the
| winter Of our discomfort made glorious
summer" You will say this q hope.
full picture. Well, am a hopeful
man. Better that than to be ever for.
boding evil. The past has its lessons
Of bitterness and oppression but 1t
Is difficult to believe that this country
can long be ruled by party whose
pathway to power is strewn with the
wrecked rights and liberties of indivi.
duals and States. Z Iaa -t ,au
81 aron H,.~. j.. T. TasztvANr.
The Contemplated Expansion of Our Ter
, ,""' sitorial Republic.
The New York Tribune advocates
the purchase of the Dominion of
Canada, and of course the vast ex-
panse stretching far away above it to
the North Pole, which is marked upon
the map of the world as British
America. Gen. Banks advocates the
Immediate annexation of San Domin-
60. Cuban patriots and rebels, both
! Creole and Republican filibn>ters, not
fearing either the famous Spanish ga
rote nor the tripartite treaty of Eng
land, France and Spain, by which the
possession of the Queen of the Antil-
les is guaranteed to the Spanish throne,
are preparing the "lovely isle" for it's
manifest destiny-annexation to the
United States. Mr.. Caleb Gushing
has defined the Southernmost limits
of the Great Republic which, of
course, will include Mexico, Nicara-
qua, Honduras, Panama, 60.
The history of our territorial ac-
quisitions may be briefly summed up
as follows:
n.a aas y. So. miles.
Territory acquired by re-
bellion against Eng -.5
land, a, D., 1888 Sl5,Gl5
Louisiana acquired from
France, 1903 9so,eas
Florida, acquired from. .,.,,,. !,
Spain, 1921 "a ..I,a 5o,2es
Texas, admitted to the - +, /,
HUnion, I845 ,,t,,t; =, !, 237,5O4
Oregon, settled by treaty,
1890 sso,4s5
California, conquered from
Mexico, ls47 GAO, ,762
Arizona (New Mexico)
acquired from Mexico
by treaty, 1854 27,5OO
Alaska, acquired from
Russia by treaty, 1856 Ill 1900
Total 3,57S 394
! A country that has increased from
Sl5, ,6l5, to 3,578,392 square miles in
eighty-six years, may we'll look for
ward to continental Empire.
Spiritual TEsTIMoNY.-Tn case
in New York the other day, Judge
EdmuDds testified under oath as fol.
lows: So s.a.,,.r
81 believe those pictures are photo
graphs Of spirits /, | believe that the
camera can take photograph of
spirit. believe also that spirits are
not immaterial /; in my opinion every
thing has materiality they are suni.
ciently so to be invisible to the human
eye ; and, therefore, I do not see why
they cannot be taken by q camera. I
believe chat the camera can take pho
tographs of spirits which I can see.
The other day was in court in
Brooklyn, when an accident insurance
case was on trial. I saw the spirit of
the man who had been insured that
spirit told me the circumstance con-
nected with the death; he told me
that he had committed suicide; I drew
a diagram Of the place at which his
death occurred, and on showing it to
the counsel, was told that 1t was ex-
act; ! had never seen the place nor
the man, and no one in the court
room saw the spirit except myself !;
the appearance of the spirit was
shadowy, transparent; I could see
material objects through it. The first
spirit that [ ever saw was THAT Of
Judge T4lmage, who was leaning
against window easement, which
was plainly to be seen through the
body. have aeen spirits clothed in
their everyday dress as we'll as in
grave clothes, but never saw one with
out clothing" "'1om
ScALrs RIsING. Who wants to 90
on a profitable scalping expedition
A Texas paper says: e ~ ,'0i
"The price Of Indian scalps has ad.
vanoed since the notorious OUTLAW
Glsaton made eontsact with tho
authorities of Chihuahua, Mexico, to
furnish them at ten dollars per head,
and attempted to ring in Mexican
soalps Mt the same price. Colonel
Buck E.rry, of Bosque county, in
writing to . gentleman of Corsioana,
says that o purse of $1,000 has been,
made, up for the scalp Of each ana
every Indian oY thief Killed in that
ssotion.O $500 "t,fA ''at'6- S#F al"#t