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Ravages of the enemy in South Carolina.
The Fairfield (South Carolina) Courier gives a long account of the excesses committed by the enemy in the town of Winnsboro', from which we extract the following:
"Our once beautiful town presents now a most pitiful sight.
Residences and stores that once lifted their proud heads to Heaven are now numbered among the things that were.
Charred ruins now meet the gaze, where once the busy feet of man passed in the daily pursuits of life.
And all on these outrages, the writer gives a sketch of the devastation occasioned on the route taken by the enemy, some portion of which we copy:
"Leaving our town, the enemy took their line of march on the State road, leading to Blackstock's, South Carolina.
On the route, their road can be easily distinguished by tall chimneys, standing solitary and alone, and blackened embers, as it were, laying at their feet. --Every fine residence, all corn cribs, smoke-houses, cotton-gins — all that could g