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The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1870-01-26
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foreyer.'' ,g.. ..,,',, ,a;j .ai,t ,t.Ag.,''
Crumbs. "% ~ Hl I'
Day before yesterday was one of the
most disagreeable days we have wit
messed in some time. The same night
the heavens were lit up with frequent
flashes ashes q. lightning and loud elashing
of thunder afterward and rain md
mud abounded.s& bs9& as.Gi.
Gen. w. Loring and II. n. tSibly,
ex-Confederate Generals, have been
appointed Generals by the Egyptian
Goyernment,in in it's war with Turkey.
They have already sailed, it is said,
for the seat Of war. f'e33h!tfa ssa
A faowery exchange says the oys.
tel, is what is known to science as d
marine aoo2balous smollusk of the
lamellibrahohiate order Of theyaenus
ostrea, It is also known to science
that they GO good with vinegar, dis
gulHaaed even in such Q name. as the
above.4a 4ilD4 yaasst sv hsd fsas}
The following is Tho way one of our
South Carolina Senators, making ont
a Quarterly Return Directs lis hhii olearrk lar
when asked how totspell Post, Office. [
Post Office clerk, asks Postmaster
B. ll6Stai ,5f,-..
t""How you spell Post Office 3n
Anawer--Big r NIT q little q ST.
Post, big Q nit o. little /, couple of
times ,ice-7- Ofiee4-s Post ofloe. By
tam--sign the papers and send UNI
off," fad yH X 84gE -
Read and ReGeef.
We find the following bits of wis.
dom uneredited in an exchange. We
40 not know, therefore, who first wrote
them s'ssly ;asstt
Don't buy patent rights to soil
again. 2gH s; G DER -sH ir
Buy q farm wagon before 1 q fine
DarSiage. tlspl hFaaaal ainEi.
Don't become security ifor him, who
waitsI for thesheYiff. 80 ~ ystas,.. ,
Don't starse your land Il you do
you will growilaan. s,a,Is liT~a~
- Don,s bny D piano for your daash-
eaIs, while yonr sons need a plowa .
.aUont leave to memory what should
DE, ysitten it makes lawsnits.
Dent let your borses be aesn stand.
ing geo rnuoh at thu aaloou !. IL dnn,t
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1870-01-26

Virginia Negroes Going West,
Nearly every day large crowds of
Virginia negroes pass through this
place, on their way to the west,
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planters, Notice.

Planters would save much useful
time and labor in sending in their
wagons and ploughs, &C.; to Mr.. w.
II. Duva to repair at once.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1870-01-26

srEoIA4 NoTIoE.-.To partios IN want Of
Doors. Sashes and Blinds, We 'refer'fof tho
advertisement CT P. P. sToalo, che largo
manufactures of'thoss goods in .Ghhrlnstnn.
Price list furnished on applicaliepgs donf
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1870-01-26

Street Journal, Of New York, and the
Charleston Courier, three of the lead
ing financial al5andsoommefoial, papers of
this country,and may be depended on
as strictly accurate for the day on
which they are made.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1870-01-26
Latest Quotations of
SOUTHERN SECURITIES,
..3.. CHARLESTON, 8. G,
Corrected Weekly by A. @. KAUFMAN.
eali, Broker, No. rs Broad St.
Januarwl@.1Rzo-

sg@nuaryl8,l 1870.
STATE sEounIrIEs-South Carolina, old
MtSoo ..osg 90, 'ew,o@8o; do, registered
RAILROAD STooKs Charlotte, Columbia
and Augustn,-@55: CIR enville and Co.
lumbia, l3@2; Northeastern, 7@S; Sa-
vannnh and Charleston, 23@23]; South
carolina, (whole shares) 5000 do, (half
dol ls@lSA.
SOUTH CAROLINA RANK BILLS.
Shank Of Chrrlcsto -M-
Shank of Newbcrry, %
Bank Of Camden, 5tM-
Bank of Georgetown, -M2O
Bank of South Carolina, 1OM-
Bank Of Chester, 15G.-.
Bank of Hamburg, 5M-
Bank of State of s. G. prior to 1861, 600
BANK INK, or 1osa State of 8. G. issue 1861
*Planters' and Mechanics Bank
Charleston, %
xpeople's Bank Of Charleston, ID
*Union Bank Of Charleston. ID
Southwestern r II Bank, Charles
ton, (old) - o5@-
ton, (new) ESQ.,
p.a.e Dank o, Charleston, Go
Charleston, -M4
Exchange Bank of Columbia 2OM-
Oommercini Dank OF Columbia, 5fG1-
Merchants Bank Of Chernw. 5M-
Planters Bank Of Fairfield, 5m-
State Of 9. @. Bills Receivable, pap
*'hlis marked thus (*) ore being redeem
cd at the Bank Counters of each.
jan 22..ly
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1870-01-26
9. G. Railroad Company.

The annual meeting 5of, the Stock.
holders of the South Carolina Rail.
road Company, will be held in Char.
lesion, on the second Tuesday, in Feb.
rnary next. ,
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Fire I'm Chester.

We regret to !learn that de.
structive fire occurred in Chester on
Saturday night last. 1t commenced
in the store of Mr.. Friedorburg, on.
tircly destroying his store, with the
store of Messrs. G. and I Hindmand,
and l. j. McNinch. The office of the
Chester Reporter was partly destroy.
ed, tho press and several cases of
type were consumed. Mcssrs. McLure
d Bradley, the proprietors, promise
the resumption of tho Reporter j in
about three weeks. The Masonic Hall
was also burned. a,f -.
We have not been able to learn
whether there was any insurance 9TH
er than on the office Of the Reporter,
which was insured to the amount of
500. The fire was the work of an
incondiary.
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Tho Grand Chapter Of South
Carolina. EA.> [attsm,

The annual oonvocation Of the
Grand Royal Aroh Chapter of South
Carolina will be held in tho city Of
Charleston on Tuesday, the 18th day
of February next, Tho various Rail-
roads in :his State will permit the
Grand Officers and delegates to 60
and return for one fare. 1t is boliev-
ed that there will be a large attend
aioe as business of Importance will be
presented for consideration.
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Conn mn aaeroial.

WINNspono. January 25.-88 bales Of
cotton were sold in this market during tho
past week at 20@23, '
Special Notioem.
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When Dr. Bacon, Of New Haven
was introduced to Pere Hyacinthe he
was obliged to- welcome tho latter
through sthsa mouth of his son. The
} Doctor was equal to the emergency,
and his frat speech was. to inform the
sPere thati"we are laboring under ono
iot the disabilities which the Tower Of
Babel imposed, and which, the Day OF
Pentecost has not remoyed.n ,.,-.s q,
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1870-01-26
|simply civil for our generation. Fof-
lget the contrary notion. Look at the
pressas as IL is, and then be prepared
toswork in; the present for the future.
; EreeyRDisCsassioss.

We give the Phenin to-day the
,beneftsofa printing in full, in another
column, its comments upon a late edi,
torial of theWINksb ,Ro News. Con-
trovorsial writing is the easiest in the
world, SO wefwill avoid it, romember,
ing Goldsmith's humorous charaoteri-
zation of the sschoolmaster as one who
"e'en though refuted, ho could nrguc
stiii.'' Truth, without contl oversy
will more effcctually prevail. ' r
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1870-01-26

>
a recent utterance Of the celebrated
French surgeon, NJ. Nelatop, has. caus
cd great sensation in the. medical
world, and is likely to produce, q IRE.
markable scMsm in tho professions
some months ago we had occasion to-
notice statementof,M. Claude BERNARD,
who pretaced \. one of his lectures by
declaring s ths. x ssS;2cc;.e
did not exist, and that we must luok to
q experimental physiology (as,he enphem.
t,ls!lcaliy termssyiyiseotlon) to furnish us
with foundation for. all future science.
III. Nelaton now goes even further than
his colleague, ,eand, while Iullyaagreeine
with HIM, that la nsedeciae. scient ;tious
does not exist, denies the necessity OF
its lexistence.f He condemns o. false
and delusiye ali systems based on aex.
Perimental physiology and ,n,ieroscopical
/ Investigations, and, lin fact, every source
OF Information not derived, from direct
observation ofSthe patient. SO bold an
z dssertlon hasFnot passed amcmllenged.
; 'M. VerneuilAin tho Gazette Hebdoma
.adairsi de,laj Medicine, inquiries whether.
. nfter2denying the medical professs,ont tbe
aid 'aftbe microscope, Ms N Ella ton vii!
not call oiEastronpmers to yreaouucesthe
oussiof thea telescope. seEsd ssef8S5s !
The shift ing ofsa. bog IS reported from,
Ballylpaghfprd, eaunty, Kerry Ireland.
1, Ihe bog. WHICH covered ever 900 seres,
hmoyed tp q stanceiofyearlys half q mile
Anlapd, creating great Yconsternationl In
he neighborI,ood, Several Gsblns lyere
ithreo.Walnr dow, and cattle; and llofs.a
we're l9st l9t "a lake tpyk. .he place Of f,li,e
bog. Tbs.ipl4 bisants on i,l,s skirts III
the lnorass basoly escaped, the motiJn
Sfthc'bog being saddenau itiesfcctca.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1870-01-26

a STRANaE ColEolDENcE.-Nearly
twsnty years ago a, steam ship "SouM
iSarot'na' was built for the trade ol
Charleston, and hur draft of water was
go great that she pro' ! unavailable
Tbs nr,o South Caroliua.' now loading
for New York. carries az much cargo as
the old of ,lle same name, and her daft
of water is so ltlc that no condition oI
tide on Charleston bar can keep her out.
lS50-l870-well! !! the world has
learned something IN these two decades.
= -Chayleston Courier. II a..G
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*f'lis marked thus (*) nre being redeem
cd at the Bank Counters Of each.
jan 22.1y
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-06-08

SUDDEN RISE OF A TEXAN RIVERA
FAMILY SWEPT AWAY IN THE FLooD.-The
Austin cTexas) Journal gives the particulars
OF one OF the most terrible calamities of its
nature that ever happened in that State, by
which Col. Ii. G. Merriam, OF the oath infan-
| try, was bereft of his wife and child. Col
Merriam belongs in Maine, and the brief an
nouncement of his terrible bereavement
reached his friends here several weeks ago:
The Colonel, after four years of military
service on the frontiers of Kansas, New Mexi
co and West Texas, had received leave of alb
sence, and was journeying with his wife and
child from Ell PasO to the Texan coast. Tbev
had reached the head OF the COncho river.
and camped for the night on Sunday, the oath
OF April. The river is formed by the junction
OF the rilis of water from several large springs.
which have been damned into ponds by the
wild beaver, aud are well filled with large fish,
Inc stream is so small here that man can
step across it anywhere. The banks were
twenty feet above the surface of the water.
fat'gues with the long journey, the party
were resting when, early, in the evening, Col,
Merriam was aroused by the signs of an an
preaching storm.
The fall of hail was unprecedented. lasting
size nearly eleven, the stones being of the
nra;r =, mems eggs, and striking the tent and
musketry e iiho InaI VI lnceSSanJ
| coon os thn 81 went out into the darkness as
oGont I,S Az t seorm had ceased. to note what
49, ,.N nau oeei produced on this rivnlet To
HIS ainaZehenI ne found in tbe fo,,no~,,, ~
most dry ped OF the creek res;Stioaa taIy az
loaded and filled with hail, rollinn h .orrent'
white as milk, and silent as a river o F"H i lqIi,
at once saw the danger, and ran hac, o,t ne
tent, shouting to the escort and serva W .ne
turn out. lie placed Mrs. Merriam the n oh; 70
anu nurse In the carriage, and with the old , ~
tnree men, started to run with it TO the b;"h VI
| ground, a distance of not sixty wards Scsroo
lya minute had elapsed from the tim" a, re
aial" nau oeen gwen, but already the 49,, ~.
had surged over the brink IN waves of " s''a,i
volume and force as to sweep the mart ~ s sucn
yards. thirty
The Colonel called for assistance on so,,o
cavalry soldiers who had just escaped from the
United States mail station near by. but tba,,
were too much terrified to heed or help. CO..
Merriam then abandoned the hope of SAVING
his family in the carriage, and tried to enter
it in order to swim out with them, but he was
swept down the ice-cold torrent like bubble.
Being an expert swimmer, he succeeded in
reaching the bank about two hundred yards
below, and ran back to renew the effort, when
he received the tidings that, the moment
after he was swept down, the carriage, with
all its precious freight, had turned over, and
gone rolling down the flood, his wife saying,
as she disappeared, "My darling husband,
good by" The little rill of a few hours be-
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very touching in the speech of one of these
chiefs after the massacre:
1t is true. They have killed the woman
with child, the newborn baby, the infant tha1
crawled on the ground. Their swift hnllets
struck down the boy and the Young girl. the
young man newly married, the Young warrior
and the council warrior, the band Chief and
the war chief. Neither rank nor valor could
stop them: They did not respect the sacred
hairs OF Nlnamaskan-First of the Sun-the
hairs Whltened by many winters, They have
not spared him whom the young led by the
hand Il. e, blind. Terrible was their ven
geance! They have struck to the heart. The
spirit of destruction sided with them; the Sun
himself smiled on them from above. Will
hate those great foes? No, never! They came
in help to us chiefs. They have given salu-
tary lear to all our young men who were de-
spsing our authority. Yes! Let us have peace
with the whites at any cost, even though the
price be our blood.
After the massacre the smallpox ragged in
the camp and relieved our soldiers from the
additional enormity of having increased the
extent of the slaughter. But father Dever-
eaux's narrative only increases our wonder
that United States officer and United States
troops could be guilty OF an outrage so utter
w opposed to civilized warfare.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-06-08


New SHARON elected Perham delegates on
Saturday.
The four delegates chosen in Belgrade fol-
the State Convention are in favor of the nom
ination of Mr. Perham.
IT is telegraphed from Washington that
Senator Morrill, of Name will endeayor to
secure the passage Of a measure for the revival
of our shipping interests, by moving it as an
amendment to one of the appropriation bills
twill probably embedy some of tine features
OF Mr.. Lynch's bill which failed in the House.
SENATOR CRAGIN's chances for renomina
ton in New Hampshire are good but he is
not sure of the result.
The returns OF the Oregon election contest
are very close. Grover, the Democratic can.
didate for Governor, is probably elected by 4Ot
majority. A Portland telegram says that the
election passed off quietly. The Republicans
claim majority in that city and county and
gains in other counties, and believe the vote
in the State to be very close.
THE Reconstruction Committee have at
tached to the Georgia bill the proviso that
nothing therein should interfere with the
election in Georgia this fall as provided by the
Georgia Constitution, and resolved to post
pone action with regard to Tennessee until
the next session.
The majority for Emery, the reform candi-
date for Mayor Of Washington is 3214. The
total vote is 16.97S, falling only 993 behind
the registration. The Bowen Republicans
elected two Aldermen and five Common
Counclmen, OF whom two are colored. OF
the Emery Republicans elected five are color
ed The Emerytes are largely in the MAORI
ty in the Common Council while in the Board
OF Aldermen with those holding over them
there is tie.
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fore, which child might step across, had be-
come raging river, covered with masses oil
drift-wood a mile in width, and thirty to forty
feet deep!
The bereaved husband procured horse
from one of the cavalrymen, and rode far
down the torrent, but could see nothing in
the darkness, and heard naught but the wild
sounds Of the wave. So passed the long and
weary night.
Before day the strange and momentarv
Hood had passed by, and the small stream
shrank to its usual size, and ran in its won't
ed bed. The sad search began. The drowned
soldiers and servants, four in number, were
found, and the body OF the wife taken from
lne water about three-fourLhs of mile below,
and prepared for a journey of fiity-three miles,
to the post of Concho for temporary burial.
Not till three days after was the body of the
chlld found, four miles down the stream, a
long distance from its bed
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The Oneida Disaster.
To the Editor Of the Press:

To the Editor Of the Press:
notice the fact that efforts are being made
to raise fund to educate the children of
Capt. Williams who was lost in the Oneida.
1t was through the fault of an agent of the
government that those children are fatherless,
and therefore Congress should care for the
| children. The Oneida was deficient in her
complement of boats by three, and those the
largest, = deficient, not this the neglect of
Capt. Williams, for he had repeatedly made
requiSitiOn for them, but through the refusal
or neglect of the Admiral of the fleet to sup
ply them. Thrty-nine persons were saved in
one one ofthe cutters. The Hiego Ne,vs, a
paper published in Japan by Americans says:
8" all might have been rescued, say the surviv-
ors, had we been in possession of our usual
complement o. boats - The late COM
mander of the Oneida informed us casually
when last at this port, that he had made
requisition upon the American Admiral for
boats to replace those that had been lost in
the severe typhoon of August last but as yet
no notice has been taken of this petition.
Why this important fact a TACT reported by
the Court of Inquiry which the Admiral him
self ordered, should be concealed by the
American first, is beyond comprehension.
Broadside after broadside of editorials have
been fired at Capt. Eyre OF the Bombay
nothing but Quaker guns have been fired at
Admiral Rowan. Eyre Is beyond the reach
of our guns, Rowan is at short range.
The writer, feeling a deep interest in this
whole subject, consulted an old, experienced
merchant of New York, an extensive ship
owner, whose name is more widely known in
Maine than that OF any other merchant, and
this is the answer of his firm-"We don't
know of any help for the relatives dependent
ON those lost in the Oneida, except to petition
to Congress for relief We don't believe any
liability can be established against the Bonn
bay. When the accident occurred there seems
to have been difference of opinion which
vessel was in fault, and we know by expert
ence that it is almost impossible to prove
clery where the fault lay, and we are cener-
ally satisfied to let such matters go and bear
our own loss"
Now that is a very judicous opinion, and
cite it because it has been suggested that a
suit be commenced in England against the
owners of the Bombay, a rich corporation,
lor the loss of the Oneida. Under the cir
S,uihstances it is easy to anticipate the YER
dict OF British jury.
1t was through the fault of an agent or
s,neer vi the govern .nent that Capt Williams
was not supplied with the means Of escape:
t .no government Is responsible tor the act of
the agent, and therefore shoud make GOOD
the damage.
Lev the friends of these fatheress ones pc
Illloh 10 Congress for relief and then this
nia''er VIII be properly ventilated. CAsTINE.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-06-08

The MASSACRE OF JEWS IN RoUMANIA.-A
Paris dispatch OF Monday, midnight, says the
Information respecting the massacre of the
jews IN Roumania emanated from the Central
Committee of the alliance Israelite Univer-
sele" OF Paris, who published a telegram from
Constantlnope, announcing that on Sunday
the 10Th of May, the Christian populace of Be-
tuschany, in the province of Roumania. at
tackled the Jews by preconcerred ssnul, com
milting terrible massacre. Men, women and
children were slaughtered, and the scene is
described as terrible beyond expression. On
the following day the attack was continued
All the Jews had fled from the neighborhood
The Jewish telegram referred to described the
fury OF the populace as horrible in the extreme,
and imploI ed that succor should lie immediate
ly sent them, as they are homeless wanderers.
No contradiction of these accounts has been
received, either in Paris OF London The Jew.
ish kilograms may have exaggerated the mas
sacre, but it is generally believed they are sub.
stantially correct. The Israeltes are moving
with unusual zeal in aiding their unfortunate
brethren, and much suspense is manifested
among them that the story of their wrongs
should be discredited in the United States.
They consider relief from all sources as of i'm
mense Importance.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-06-08

The COAL DUTY.-The House. on Mon
day, really showed desire to somewhat re
heve the necessities of the people in a materi
al manner, by adopting by large majority. a
resolution instructing the Ways and Means
Committee to report bill repeating all du.
ties on coal. If iron, as we remarked yester-
DAY, is the backbone of all our industries. coal
its companion mineral, is the foundation OF
social comfort and indispensable to national
prosperity. The maintenance of a duty on it
we have heretofore argued, could not be de-
tended. 1t does not protect any manufacture
or 1lnterest, but is rather the agent by
which the productiveness of MANY of these
are enhanced. The people of cities and man
ufacturing districts have been struggling tol
years against the monopoly exercised by g
Jew IN this great necessity; who have levied 8
tr'pute upon the poor of the country. burden
ed the cost Of manufactured articles: increas
ed indirectly the price of food and lessene,
the value of the workman's labor. The fen
dency OF the removal of the duty, if the Sen
ate concurs with the House, will be to equal
ize and regulate the cost of COAL relieve th,
country of fuctuation of prices, induce ;
steadier and more certain remuneration TO,
the manufacturer, and at the same time al
low the coal mining interest just and eouita.
BILE profits for its enterprise.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-06-08

TIE PIEGAN MAssACRE.-Father Dever-
eaux, Catholic priest, reports that the Pie
gan Indians are now thoroughly humbled and
sue abectly for peace on any terms. But
while the Father justiies the recent massacre
by its results, bis figures regarding the num-
Der in camp and killed differ someW hat from
lnose previously reported, and certainly do
no' mltlsate from the unexamped ferocity of
'he ahalr. lie says the camp contained 4S4
SUNS o' whom 1913 were killed, including 96
warriors 90 women and 81 children. The Of.
feet OF this Wholesale massacre, he thinks has
been salutary, and that it has nrevo,+od 49,,
BILE this spring. He says the vouno mon oe
the Piegans intended plunderinc and L;II;n,
Older chiefs had tried in vain to control ,ho,,
They lost authority and fell into coptemnt !
The chiefs now ask for peace, and thank the
government for killing the young men whom
they could not control There is something