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s" VOLUME XXV. CAMDEN, S. C., FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 7,1866. NUMBER 21.
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From the Charleston Courier.
FOR LIBERIA.
The African Colonization ship Grol-.
cond.t, Capt. Joseph Miskclly, will
. sail from this port on Saturday or
Sunday next, with six hundred and
fifty emigrants for Liberia.
AVe learn from Mr. Win. Coppinger,
Agent of the Society, that some
three or four weeks ago there were
twelve hundred applications tor passage
to Liberia this fall. The Society
has also received numerous letters
of inquiry from parties anxious to go
in the spring. The passengers to go
by the Golconda are mostly from
South Carolina and Georgia, some
three hundred being from Columbia,
Newberry "and other places in the J
interior of the State.
The vovagc generally tabes from '
c O p I
thirty-five to forny days. Two of j
the parties are old residents of Li-1
bcria, returning home. These arc a j i
Dr. Isaac II. Snowden, who has been
residing in Liberia some fifteen years,
and the Kcv. II. \V Erskinc, wlio
i 1 , 11 Krt,, 1.,. i
was raKcn mere wueii ?i sumn uuj uj
his parents from Ivnoxville, Tenn., i
ami, after a residence there of thirtysix
years, is now on a visit to Amcr- ]
"dca. He is now Attorney General of 1
cthe Republic of Liberia. lie. takes <
with him his sister, 70 years old, and i
her husband, with their children, <
frand-childreu and great-grand-chilrcn.
i
The Rev. John Seys, Consul Gen- 1
eral for the United States Government
and resident Minister at Libc- i
ria, who has crossed the ocean six- i
teen times, also goes out in the Gol- ;
conda. i
The Golconda was bought by the 1
African Colonization SoeietV last <
September and iittcd out for an emi- <
grant ship for this purpose. The vessel
was purchased for $30,000, and
the expense of provisioning and fitting
her up has cost some $50,000
more, in r.]l $S0,000, j
The emigrants are given free pas-;
sage, and are supported by the So-:
ciety for six months after their arrival
at Liberia, l>y furnishing them j ]
with provisions and a house to live in. 1 <
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' Urants ot Iroiu nvc to leu acres 01 <
land arc given, according to the size -of
the fanily. i
J\lr. Coppinger gives some interest- 1
ing statistics in relation to the popu- j
lation, trade, &c. % ij
Liberia is on the "West coast of' 1
^Africa. The Republic has six hun* j 1
dred miles of sea coast, and extends , ]
inland from fifteen to forty miles.? !
The soil was bought from the native . proprietors,
they having jurisdiction 1
and ownership. Tlie American col-J <
ored population is about fifteen thou-,
sand, colonized by the above Society. J
There arc about three hundred thou- j
sand natives residing on the soil, all j
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amenable to the lajvs 01 mc jLvcpuuuu.
Public schools have been established
-and there are several seminaries sustained
by missionaries of this country.
The college at Monrovia has a
faculty of foui* colored men with
about forty students. The college is
jtfi# most flourishing' condition.
..Considerable quantities of sugar,
coffee and cotton arc raised for export,
and a large trade is springing
up. During the war this trade was
,mainly with Great Britain, but it is
-now taking this direction, where it
naturally belongs. Palm oil, an
article peculiar to Africa, and obtained
from the palm tree by the natives,
ife also a chief article of export.
It is used mainly for the making of
: palm soap and for lubricating macliin.ery.
The value of the article exported
in 1804 amounted to two million
pounds sterling, or ten millions
fof dollars.
No white person is allowed to own
;land in Liberia .or become a citizen
,of the Republic.
A tract of the Colonization Society
.gives the following account of a su'gar
planter:
Mr. Jesse Sharp, who was a house'
I
painter at Charleston, S. C., removed
to Africa in 1852: had a few acres ol
cane on the St. Paul's river, has aided
in getting a mill by a judicious
Vice-President of the American Colonization
Society, and made his first
shipment of sugar to the United
States in March, 1859. lie has
been steadily adding to his fields of
cane every year. In 1803, a much
larger mill, with improved machinery,
was advanced to him by two active
friends of Africa, costing about two
thousand dollars. This he paid for
in 1804, with warm expressions of
gratitude, and in the fall of 1805, he
had some two thousand dollars in
money in New York for the purchase
of goods, and over twenty thousand
pounds of sugar and nine thousand
gallons of molasses undisposed of at
home.
The editor of the Liberia Herald
says:
"For the information of those who
arc incorrectly asserting in America
that "Liberians have not anything
else to cat but roots and wild animals,"
we have thought proper to
give a list of such animals, fruits, and
edibles as are in general use with .us
in their appropriate season.
Au imals?Domesticated ? Cows,
bullocks, swine, sheep, goats, ducks,
fowls, pigeons, turkeys. Wild?Deer
in abundance; partridges* pigeons,
goats, cows, doves, red squirrels, summer
ducks, rice birds, ground doves,
etc.
Fruit?Water melon, musk melon,
mango plums, orange, rose apples,
sour sop, guava, tamarind, plantain,
I
UaiUlUcLOj ^lUIUIIiUUllKlj 1V1IIV1IO*
Fish?Mullet, whiting, perch, pike,
bream, bamconta, mackerel, cursalli,
lierring, drum, catfish, grippcrs, oysters,
crabs, carp, sun.
Edibles?Sweet potatoes, arrow
root, turnips, carrots, shilotc, cymblain,
chiota, pawpaw, lima beans,
xlira. peas, radishes, beets, cabbages,
snaps, cucumbers, greens, salads,
cassavas, yams, corn.
Besides the foregoing, there are
nany others, which we have neither
:ime nor room to arrange here. -i
A coffee tree once planted and
cared (which takes four years) will
yield its increase two crops a year,
rear after year, bringing its reward
vith it?a hundred, a thousand, and
:cns of thousands, will do the very
;ame, and certainly the scions, or the
fCC'l, urotoxic bought in sufficient
quantities 111 Liber!?. Arrow root,
;inger, pinders, and pepper, grow
vith almost half trouble, yielding in
full abundance if half planted. I11liero
frrows luxuriantly beyond all
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possible expectation; ami as for fruits,
:he orange, lime, lemon, sour sop,
jtiava, uiango, &c., &c., we place Liberia
against any country in the
ivorlil, and with a fraction of labor,
compared with the benefits tliev
Field. Vegetables?the yam, potatoes,
cassada, plantains, Indian corn,
jeans, peas, &c., &c., tjjnc would fail
11s to tell. Put tlicm in the earth,
and they arc as sure to produce as
Llie God of nature is to bring about
the seasons. Still the idle will not
have them. The lazy man lias no
part in this lot of good things. The
word labor frightens the lazy man,
and he will not curse us with his presence
and example. The industrious
love that word, or the thing it means,
will come determined to do, and coming
will conquer and be rewarded."
NORTHERN BOORS IN THE SOUTH
One of the most painful phases of
the present condition of the South,
is a disposition that too generally
prevails amoung Southerners to return
to unfortunate customs, and rely for
"amusement" and "instruction" upon
the books, pamphlets and magazines
published in the North, and now scattered
broad-cast throughout the land.
In them may be found "amusement,"
it is true, but what is it when found?
It is nothing more than the "amusement"
which must arise from the con1
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temptations 01 ui.c liiienorjij 01 men
who (lave write, but dure not act-?
who are afraid even to speak openly,
but rid themselvcr of their spleen by
sneers and inuendos against all that
others venerate and revere. The
"instruction" to be obtained from the
same source is the lesson that we
must depend upon ourselves rather
than upon others, and that we must
not expect one particle of magnanimity
or disinterestd courtesy from
the large majority of Northern literary
men. They debase the dignity of
their own high calling! They willingly
cater to the morbid fancies of the
uneducated and unrefined. And, nol
[ content with having cultivated and
petted the brute instincts of the mas
ses until the very name of ordinary
i American literature has become a
bye-word and a reproach, they arc
anxious to drag down others in their
easy descent and make them as rude,
as immoral, and af shameless as they
arc themselves. There is scarcely a
book published in the North that
does not contain some direct or indirect
attack upon us; and even in the
rvwrnc fir* vrilirrinne will ho
[""b *" *rw ? -found
insulting sneers and epithets
.levelled at the suffering South'.
Still, in the North there arc some
men whose eyes arc open to the glaring
errors of those amongst whom
they live; and hut little could be added
in any "way to the following just
and temperate article which we take
from the New York News:
Some of our exchanges find fault
with Southern communities for objecting
to the introduction into their
schools of text-books written and
published in the North, with a strong
Northern bias. These books, either
directly or by suggestions that the
mind of youth can understand, are
defamatory of Southern institutions,
and give a very deep coloring of
Northern prejudice to the lite war.
It is very natural that the people of
the South should object to a course
of education that would train their
children to contempt and hatred of
the heroes and statesmen of that section.
A book that teaches that Robert
E. Lee is a traitor, or that Stonewall
Jackson was untrue to his obligations
as a Christian and patriot,
will never be welcome in Southern
households, nor adopted in Southern
schools. Nor should itr be. The
people have accepted the result of
their defeat, but that does not involve
the humiliation of being exhibited
tn their own nffsnrinrr with t,ho
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mark of crime and degradation upon
their brows. Their cause . is lost,
but its memories of heroism and dc'
votion will not be abandoned, but
will pass from father to son, from
generation to generation, not as a
disgrace and shame, but as something
to bo proud of' and that the Southern
people will be proud of, even in
the centuries to come, in despite of
all the efforts of Puritan historians to
brand the record with disgrace.
The deeds of Confederate soldiers,
the sacrifices of the Southern people
in their struggle for independence,
will fill a page in history that will
rd'YayS compel the admiration and
respect of the enlightened W&'hl. It
will have its value, too, in teaching
1,r\t\' slnnv M TM'IAA tllA
IJI L* U|'pl 14 Vf it uv.ui ii i'iivv
strong must purchase the privilege.of
trampling upon the liberties ot the
weak in a land where freedom is a
birthright. It would be well if the
ltadioals would bear in mind the lesson,
and accept it as a warning to
cease their persecutions of a race
conquered, but not tamed; submissive,
but not lost to a sense of manhood ;
feeble* dispirited and poverty-stricken,
but still with some resources at their
command to resent insult and resist
oppression.
The Statute of Limitations Suspended by
the War, &c.
We learn from the Baltimore Sun
of Friday that an important decision
has just been rendered in the Circuit
Court of the United States for
Maryland,' by Judge Giles, in the
case of the Jackson Insurance Company,
of Memphis, Tcnn., against
James A. Stewart.
Tliis ivns an action on a hill of ex
change drawn in Memphis, in February,
18(31, at sixty days, on James
A. Stewart, payable at the Farmers
and Planters' Bank in Baltimore,
and accepted by Stewart, but protested
for non-payment, April 20,
18G1.
Plea, statute of limitations.
Replications?1st. That Avar existed
Avhcn the cause of action accrued,
and that three years had' not
elapsed bctAvecn the close of the Avar
and the commencement of the suit.?
2d. Thai the President of the United
States declared Avar against Tennessee
by his proclamation of August
in 18(>1 winn.li wjvs in force until.
by the proclamation of the President,
June lj, 1SG5, Tennessee was restored
to the Union, and that the intervals
of time which elapsed from the
maturity of the hill to the beginning
of the war, and from the close of
the war to the commencement of this
' suit, did not together amount to three
years.
i To these replications a general dc;
murer was iilecl by defendant.
After full argument, the Court)
Judge Giles, decided as follows:
Unquestionably in this ease lex
fori prevails, and not lex loci contratus:
hence the Court will apply the
law of Maryland, which requires
suits to be brought within three
years. 1 Md. Cons., art. 57, sec. 1
and 2.
In this law there arc certain specified
exceptions provided for; but it is
n. mistalcn tn tlmf ovpontlono
ri ?- ?v/r"vy.,o
may not arise other than those mentioned
in the statute. The law always
supposes the existence of a
party in being capable of suing; and
if, when the cause of action accrues,
t here is no such party capable of suing,
limitations do not begin to run
until such a party comes into being.
Hence, if war had existed at the time
this cause of action accrued, limitations
would not have begun to run
against plaintiff's claim until the war
ended. .
On the 7th of September, 18G1,
this Court decided that the President
of the United States had the ri^it by
proclamation to recognize the existence
of a state of war; and that the
war, from and after the date of such :
proclamation, existed between the
States mentioned in the proclamation
and the rest of the United States.? j
Also, that the late war when so dc- <
clared and recognized by the President's
proclamation, became a civil
war, and imposed upon both bclligor- ,
cnts all the rights and consequences
of such a "war. This was one of the
earliest decisions in regard to our
late civil war, and the principles then (
enunciated have since hecn fully eon- (
firmed by the Supreme Court of the i
United States in the Prize Cases, 2 j
Black, 635.
The justices of that Court were 1
unanimous as to all the consequences
which resulted from a state of civil ?
Avar; but the three dissenting Judges !
Avere of opinion that the Avar began j
only after the proclamation of the
President, of August 16th, 1SG1,
passed in pursuance of poAvcr conferred
upon liim by the act of July
13th, 1861.
As regards the State of Tennessee, :
there can be no doubt that Avar existed
in consequence of the proclamation
of the President of August 16,
"1861, and not before, as that State
was not included in the previous proclamation.
It is a avcII settled principle that
contracts madebefore the war are only
suspended by the Avar, Avhcrcas contracts
made during4hc war arc void.
This principle is fully recognized by
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late civil ^ar,
- In ancient times private property
of alien enemies, anil debts of every
kind, were confiscated to the State.
Happily all this has been changed
in modern times, and now, while contracts
made during war between alien
enemies arc absolutely void, being
against public policy, private interests
are protected, and bona fide contracts
made before the breaking out
-of a war are suspended during its
existence, but revive at its termination.
To the honor of the United
States ami Great Britain be it said
that these, rights have always been
respected by them.
It has been repeatedly decided by
both' State and Federal Courts that
where, by a legislative enactment,
parties arc prevented from prosecuting
their claims, the interval during
which such invention lasts is not to
be counted * part of the time allowed
by the statute of limitations. Now
the power to make war and peace is,
by the Constitution of the United
States, delegated exclusively to the
Federal Government; and as during
the war the plaintiff, being a corporation
of the State of Tennessee, had
110 right to bring suit against the defendant,
who was a citizen of Maryland,
the Maryland statute of limitations
was suspended during such period.
The general rule unquestionably
is, that where the statute of limitation
has once begun to run, no
subsequent disability will arrest it.
But we have already-seen that a
legislative enactment suspends the
running of the statute, and the same
result follows from the declaration of
war by the supreme power of the
latul. For it is a well recognized
principle of the law of nations that
tne right of a creditor to sue for the
recovery of his debt is not extinguished
by the war; it is only suspended
during the war, and revives in full
force on the restoration of peace. A
war, then, having certainly existed
between Tennessee and the Federal
Government, from the President's
proclamation of August 16th, 1861,
and "which, although a civil war, yet,
according to the decision of the Supreme
Court in the prize cases, carried
with it all the consequences and
disabilities of a public war, it follows,
therefore, that the plaintiff in this
case could have instituted no proceedings
in this Court until peace was
proclaimed by the President's proclamation
of June 13th, 1866.
This suspension, being by the exercise
of the paramount authority of
the Government, cannot be held to
work a forfeiture of the plaintiff's
cause of action, but that his right to
sue, suspended by the war, revived
when it ceased. And as it has not
been three years from the maturity
ot the cause ot action to the commencement
of the war, and from the
termination of the war to the commencement
of this suit, this suit is
not barred by limitations, and the
demurer is, therefore, overruled.
The case being then, by agreement,
submitted to the court, judgement
was given for the full amount
of the plaintiff's claim, together with
interest from the 26th of April, 1861
to the 16th of August, 1861, and
from the 13th June, 1865, to date, no
interest being allowed from the time
during which the war lasted.
Mcsscrs. George Wm, Brown and
Arthur George Arown for plaintiff;
Jcrvis Spencer, Esq,, for defendant.
, Georgia?Interesting Statistics.
The following table shows the value
of various items of property, together
with other returns, as exhibited
upon the "Tax Digests" of Georgia
for this year :
Land, $103,112,524
Uity anil town property, 89,396,181
Money and solvent debts, 34,521,678
Merchandise, 10,932,173
Shipping anil tonnage, 215,607
Stocks, Manufactures, &c., 4,120,489
Household and kitchen furniture, 1,182,408
Property not enumerated, 28,751,667
Total value of property returned,
$222,183,787
Total value of taxable property,
r 207,051,677
Polls of whites, 86,000
Polls of negroes, 65,909
Professions, 2,182
Dentists, 103
Artists, 44
Auctioneers, 31
Billiard tables, 140
Ten-pin. alleys. 20
Public race trucks, 2
Number of sheep, 433,479
Number of sheep killed by dogs
in twelve months, 25,432
Number of dogs, 92,303
Number of children between 6
and 18 years of age, 132,485
Number of children between 16
and 18 years of age, as guardian
for, 5,771
Number of hands employed, between
12 and 05 years of age, 139,988
Number of maimed soldiers, 914
Number of acres of land, 39,11G,929
pram the Charleston Daily yews.
WORK FOR OUR WOMEN.
The following touching and sensible
letter has been addressed to us,
and we publish it, hoping that it may
be productive of good :
Crr vuLKSTON. Oct. 2, I860.
Mr. Editor?Dear Sir:?Have
you ever thought for one moment that
our city is filled vrith helpless widows
and orphans who are dependent,
whose husbands have fell in the defence
of their country, and left them
penniless and thrown upon the cold
charity of this world for a support,
and that support we expect from our
fellow-citizens. Now, Mr. Editor,
wc arc willing to work, and can do
work, and we have tried to get it from
the numerous clothing stores in this
city, but they are willing to sell their
goods to us but make up nothing here.
Now, Mr. Editor, is this fair? I feel
satisfied, sir, that Ave can make as
good pants and vests as can be made
North. A word from you asking Iioav
many clothing stores make up goods
in our city. The question is easily
answered, I think?none. If any
who arc they ? It is a shame that
our people depend on the North for
Avhat can be done here. I saw by
your editorial, a fciv days ago, that
fu.. i ... ? ^.nn
0I1C (il UlU nuuavrs Has viujnujr iug iw
hands. How many out of that number
is employed here ? If each store
would make up one-quarter of their
goods, see the good it would do for
our helpless female sex.
I am yours, truly,
A MOTHER
With five helpless children, made so
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EALTO RATION TO THE U. STATES.?
The Philadelphia Age says of the
above subject:
There has been a very large influx
of foreign population during the pre
sent year. The number of arrivals
registered at Castle Garden, New
York, from January 1 to the 31st of
October, is 202,440, against 165,151
for the same period of last year?a '
rate of influx which equals the most
active years of immigration. It is ;
deserving of note, says the United
Economist, that a very marked change5
has occurred in the nationality of tne
population arriving at New York. A
comparatively small proportion of the ,
increase occurs in the arrivals from
Ireland, the gain upon last year be-*
ing only 5 per cent., while in Englisli
immigrants there is an increase
of 30 percent,, and in Germany of'
about 40 per cent. The following ...
comparison shows the number of ar- rivals,
to the close of October, from
these countries
For I860. For 1865.
Ireland, 62.145 59,876
Germany, 86,461 61,243
England, 31,063 22,843
.Totals, 179,669 143,983 . <*
The demand for skilled labor in
this country, occasioned .by the war, . .
has induced a large increase of im- c
migrants from England this year than
is usual. The fact that Ireland has|
not increased her quota in the same
ratio as other countries would seem
I to be due very much to the fact that
the condition of the working classes
I in that country is now in a steady
course of improvement, the large de!
pletion of laborers having produced
a reaction in favor of wages. The increase
from Germany is very strike
ing.' As a whole, the immigration is
of a most satisfactory character, and
will do much towards recuperating
the country from the effects of the
war.
Manufacturing.?To
show unmistakably
the importance of devoting
more attention to cotton manufacturing
at the South, it is only ne- '
. cessary to refer to the immense profit
resulting from the investment in cotton
factories in Lowell. The aggre
gate capital invested in her ten large
companies is stated at $18,000,000.The
amount of cotton consumed is
100,000 bales; tho number of yards.
produced, exclusive of yarns, is some^-'
thing over 100,000,000 ; and the'"
number of operatives is 12.000. The'
operatives are mostly women andgirls.
It would require at least 30,000
field laborers to raise this cotton, .
and yet it is converted into cloths,
and yarns by 12,000 operatives.?
The process for manufacturing the
cotton about doubles its value, and.
the average dividend declared
these companies is 33 per cent.?
When we consider the saving in
freight and the advantage which the.
local buyer has over the agent of distant
companies, it is manifest that
with the same efficient management
here which characterizes the Lowell
companies, a profit of nearly 50 per
cent, could bcvrcalized on the investment.
This leaves out of view the
general advantages resulting from
such enterprises?increasing our population,
erecting local markets, and
diversifying indsutrial pursuits. It
is strange that the manufacturers of
Europe are not induced to transfer
some of their capital to the South.?
They would thus outflank the tariff
imposed for the benefit of Eastern
manufacturers, and save the immense,
amount of freights and charges.
South Carolinian,
A Perjured Villain Arrested*.
?Sanford Conover, alias Charles A.
Duncan, who was implicated in the
recent conspiracy to coijvict Jefferson
Davis of being an accomplice in
the assassination of President Lincoln,
by means of suborned witnesses,
was arrested in New York, on Satur
day, and taken to Washington. The
arrest tras made on the affidavit of
Wm. H. Roberts, J. A. Hoane, and
L. C. Turner, charging Conover with
forgery.
The recent letter of Dr. Doran, in
the Pall Mall Gazette, calling attention
to the ruinous condition of Byron's
tiynb, at Hucknall, has been
productive of good results, ?500
having been raised at the last accounts
towards repairing and preserving
the tomb. While on this subject,
we may mention that an antique
folding writing-desk, which formerly
belonged to the poet, was recently
advertised for sale at Manchester,
its authenticity being vouched for by
the late Dr. Raffles, of Liverpool,
who was noted in his lime-time as a
collector of relics.?Char. Netcs.
A.
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