The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-11-10
lCor, Charleston Courier1
From the State Capital.

From the State Capital.
COLUMBIA, November l.---Our ETH
opico-carpet-bagger. war languishos
Elliott--tho Dssdemonaless o hello 0
the domestic tragedy-is absent OF
business. Kavanaugh = Irishmel
though he be, and an officer high II
the Grand Army Of the Republic, a.
he claims to be--swallo&s his potion
bitter as it is, and keeps quiet. II.
needs morphine. Wimbush, having
failed to get Leslie's land.organ tt
play the tune he thought he had pait
for, has retired in disgust and is "at
home" in Chester. Leslie alone
Leslie, tho irrepressible, tho great
daddyist Of the mongrcl adventurer.
: leslie alone holds his ground.
Upon the Wimbush- Leslie SQUAD.
BILE, an intelligent negro volunteered
to mo an explanation of how it arose,
Ho called no names and named no
parties, but his language shows that
the negroes are beginning only just
beginning, however-to see how things
are going for their race. My colored
friend-one whom I have known for
fifteeu years to be honest and truthful
who is now Radical, says that tho
land quarrel arose from one party's
trying to get little bit of what il
going and the others trying to take
alias thoy have been doing up to
this time. The conc party" Is the
negro, and the "other party" is the
carpet.bagger. My friend expressed
himself as in favor of the one party
fighting it out on that line if it takes
all summer. He seems to have i'm
proved his opportunities Of education
q little two cieverly for the comfort OF
the carpet-baggery, for which he has
heretofore obediently voted. He
knows Wimbush personally, and be-
lieves that if he had been u white
man aud . Radical, Instead of man
and brother, he would have got the
favor that he asked Leslie. Wimbush
goes home to prepare the minds of his
constituency for this new feature in
Radicalism.
TIE FAIR. T
The Indications from all parts of
the State are that the crowd at the
Fair next week will be uuprecedcnt-
edly large. Especially from the up,
country comes in the inform alton tba,
everybody with his wife and family is
making ready to spend three or at
least two days here during the Fair.
SO we'll established in tho public mind
is this fact that party of gentleman
from St. Matthew's arc coming pre-.
pared with tents and camp outfit to
entertain themselves during their so.
journ at the Fair.
The tournament idea seems to have
taken with the young men, and knights
from several parts Of the State, espe-
cially Columbia, Winnsboro', Union
and Abbeville, are known to be grid
ing themselves for the trial of skill.
The fear Of too large a crowd of
knights seems to have determined the
the Juvenile perhaps I would be
nearer the idea by saying the juueniN
o. folk---to get up more youthful
tourney, where the lance instead Of
the broadsword shall be the imple
ment used. 80" .t'i 4
THE BLUE RIDGE RAILROAD.
The resident presence of Mossrs.
Patterson and Crosswell, two Of the
contractors for the finishing of this
road. in Columbia. and their foundry
operations in getting out iron works
here, conducted by Mr.. Steers, sub,
contractor, confirm the rathsr dubiouS
public mind upon the question Of the
bona .fde character Of that contract
We are now fully assured that there
is none of the Spraguo- Pierson Colum,
bia canal dodge in it. 1-Gt s.a
g.ssg THE CANAL. -,stl.
lis now one month since the first OF
October, nhen it became manifest that
either Sprague had fooled the COM
mission--Governor Scott, Post-msster
Wilder and tho late Mr.. Lswis-by
imposing upon them contract that
has resulted in doing nothing with the
canal for more than. q, ear z; or elso
the commission-Soott, Wilder and
Lswis~rhave, dealt tgtreacherously with
South Carolina, tby giving the contract
to Sprague when they knew he was
contracting in bad faith. Which is
it? .ss.g., ss ..ss #
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TnE SrpaEmE CounT TO BE AnoL.
IsHED--The Radical schemes forever