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THE JOURNAL. |j Camdcsi, April 29,18119 THE CUBAN" QUESTION. The London Post of the 2:id instant j u conservative Whiz organ?has an j el..borate editorial .article on the Cuban ! question, in which it mentions that it Cj is asserted that PiCsidcUt Giant iias a L. loniring eye upon Cuba, and would not " be uruvilling to distract tlie attention j of the people of the United States from watel ing the course of internal affairs Q| by a war with sotnc foreign pi.wer. A J conflict wiili Spain cannot leave any doubt respecting the issue, unless Eng- ^ land and France should interfere. A p blow dealt at Cuba would be tantamount e, to a blow dealt towards the whole of the / West Indies, and the acquisition of ^ Cuba might be followed by that of Ja- p maiea and 3Iarticiiquc. The same paper quotes the recent acquisitions of territory by the United States as a proof that it wants to acquire by piece- /< meal all the possessions held by European powers in ihatlattitude, and would r naturally commence with Cuba, because j it bclougs to the powers having sot- ja tlemcuts iu the O'est Indies. France tj and England will doubtless determine whether these designs against Cuba tQ will be tolerated, or aid Spain iu retaining her colony. m The French press Las agitated the qucstiou much in the same tenor, and [(| special meetings of the French Cabinet ^ were held on Ta; sday and Wednesday, j1 which resulted in a special envoy being i sent last night to Londou witli dispatch- j es referring to the present complication w of events. , The Spanish loan of .?8,000,000 was | g. launched here to day through the mcdium of J. S. Morgan & Co., and is v meeting with success. p( The Cotton Trade.?It is stated that Pi the total receipts of eottou at all the United States ports for the week end- .j ing the 10 h instant were 27,007 bdes, rj which is a falling off of some 6,000 j bales from the previous week. The ag- ?, grcgate receipts since 1st September last rcaeh 2,073,461 bales against 2,14:1, 7IS, bales for the same time in 1867, at an excess of 68.257 bales. The exports for the previous week, and giving a to'al of 1,064,428 bales against 1,885,619 g, l?ilo<2 in nnrpocnonillnif f i itw q lsish l'P:ir i o J I (J, showing a decrease of 321,191 bales. gc The stocks on hand acc v33S,0ll balc3 p(J against 200,211 bales at the same date tj, last year, an increase of 77,S30 bales. ' The New York San says: "The Spani<;li Government are buying metallic [j c.rtridges in this country with which to ^ kill and maim the patriots of Cuba. j1( The Union Metallic Company of East c, Biidgepurt, Connecticut, are now at i work on an order from Madrid for Lu j, million* of these cartridges to lit the Berdau broacli-loadiug musket. The extent of this commission has rendered * necessary the conduction of a d >zon ,r( new furnaces, by the lnlp of which the ? whole Spanish order can be filled in three months, the daily production being 125ODD T Spain.?Tnc Spanish Constituent Cortes, uow engaged in the furiuatiou of a national Constitution, are cmbodying in it docress each of which is A a long step fotward in the direction of c< a republican form of Government. The n; adoption of the uuiversal suffrage arti- h ..m i...a hnan followcl bv two others, fo -y / . -each of which is a positive feature of a or free goveromeut of the people. Ouc of tl these guarantees eutire liberty of the tc press, an amendment proposing a mod- | m eratc censorship having been voted : fa down, and another establishes the right! tli of the people to enjoy freedom of meet- j p> iugaud association. Each of these im j so portuut features was adopted by a large re majority of the deputies. ! w or The New York Ti acs uocsn >t relish j in the idea of a war with England. It J fa bays: "We concur iu the ieu ral view ; w of the case presented by Mr Sumner iu ar his recent sp eeh. But we confess we , fa do not see huw evci on that basis frieud- J m ly ncg)tiations are to be easily opened j tl between the iho two government lor uu tl adjas'.uicnt of differences. The tenor I J ana tendency of :hut speech is toward ul war, rather than a peaceful settlement. Aud Senator Chandler's proposition in n the Seuate is unquestionably unci avow b edlv in that direction. The paramount al object iu both cases is to compel Eug- la laud to do what will most humiliate her, r< iu satisfaction of the wrongs she has done ri us. This cannot be done by negotiation, ei It cau only be done by war; and whenever the attempt tc accomplish it iu that p way is resolved upon, we hope the job p will be let out to Senator Chandler and la his constituents. They seem to have a: more leisure on their hands just uow >! thau the rest ul'the country." [i si I'ig Iron.?An invention fur the S rapid manufacture of pig iron has been ei perfected at Marquette. The Advcr- v tiser, of Detroit, says that by tiiisp.ro- g cess the inventor can convert the Mar- ul quettc ore into malleable iron in f. rty ai minutes, manufacturing with such ra- t pi lity also as to turn out thirty tons a b day. The fusion is most complete, aud si the quality of iron produced compact, ci smooth, exceedingly tenacious, and read- o ily malleable. So far as we arc able to b judge, it is a complete sucec-a. Smie !i of the e niipleo'd <ampics in large and gi small rods had be. n bmt hot?at dif- j it ferent stages of heat?and cold without b racture or frayiug. Other specimens ad been cut in too cold, showing denity and toughness. TI1E CONGRESSIONAL RECESS?A CLEAR FIELD FOR THE PRESIDENT. At half-past otic o'clock yesterday lorning the extra session of the Senate ailed by the President to assist hiui in ic distri butiou of the spoils, wasbrought ) a final adjournment. No special act f Congress having beet, passed providig for a summer or fall session to keep atch and ward over "the niaD at the dicr end of'the avenue," as in the ilmy da)s of Andy Johnsou, there will ? a Congressional recess until the first [onday in Dcecinber next, unless the resident, in the interval, shall deem it epedient to call the Senate together r executive purposes or the two houses r legislative business. Iu short, the , resident is left for seven months to .'ton in the conduct of the domestic id foreign affairs of the Government, ith or without the further assistance of ongrcss, as lie may elect. T - ? ? -l - i?: it is given out uiiii, uuviiig iB.uicu F all the important domestic and forgo offices, having secured all the legistiou necessary for Southern rcconstrucon, having provided snug places in ic recognition of equal political rights i white men, an! wotneu too, and red en and black men, war, and peace en, including the Quakers, and being i no particular hurry to settle the Cuat qucstiou or the Alabama claims, eneral Grant will take things quietly uring the'absence of Congress, aLd, i/,* ?> !ill flilrtrrs will maintain the noli svrvv " * ? ; r ; of p.acc with foreign tn'-ions. There ill be no trouble with Enjund, we are Id, and from what Las been said about auford, nominated for Spaiu but not mfirnied, we are left to infer that Mr. ish has taken a loaf from the foreign alicy of Mr. Seward, and would rather ly a pood round sum for the island of uba than pet it for nothing. We must, however, be excused in le liberty of submitting to General rant that decisive action in our forgn affairs is his true policy, and not masterly inactivity." We have hud Liite enough ofthatuodcr the 'wo Johnms. Toe House resolutions on Cuba id the picat speech of Senator Sum.-r on tiie Alabama claims embody the revailing public opinion of the United rates on these great questions. Nor j we think it will he wise, from promt indications, to sit still an i let these roigu complications drift along till ic regular meeting of Congress next inter. On the contrary, we-holu that i carrv out any decisive steps contem- | arod by the admiustrutiun, requiring ie cu-opcrutiuii uf Congress, it will be ,'ttcr to call an extra session uf the two jusos to UiOet these propositions at an irly day than.to wait till next Decciuir; or if General Grant, like General aekson, on the main question, were to issuuc the responsibility," of a deeivc ultimatum in advance of a call pou Congress, be would be in no danjr of a doubtful support from Congress r the people.?M. Y. Jh raid. From die New Ye:!; Chipping and Commercial List. HE COTTON TRADE?SOUTHERN PROSPECTS. The cotton trade on both sides of the .tlautic, continues in an anomalous mditiou Stocks arc everywhere ruuing low, with no prospect of rcplenhment (ill another crop shall be ready ir market, as there is a progressi\e deease of receipts at our own ports, while ic Indian supplies promise to fall marially below those of last year, and the inor sources of Egypt, Brazil, &c., ufrd only a bare average quantity. Alii ugh prices arc about three cents per mad b'ilow the highest point of the ason, the staple is still much higher, datively than goods, many kinds of hich arc quite as luW as Colore trie war, i a guld valuation. With no abatccnt in the cost uf producing goods, it lluws that manufacturers must be orking without profit, if, indeed, they e not losing m n y. In the manucturing districts of England a guod any failures have lately occurred, and ic rate of consumption is fully ten toasand balo3 below what it was in itnuary. Under a normal condition 'trade the price of cotton could hard fail to materially appreciate, as spiners were rarely ever s > bare of supplies; ut as the case now stands, they find it uio-t impossible to get back anew dolir for an old one, and hence they are ;duced to the necessity of the most gid economy, iu order to meet its ad. The high prices of cotton during the ast six mouths have stimulated the lanting interest SuUth, and no doubt as irge a breadth of land will be seeded i can be afforded under the necessity [' an increased devotion to food crops, a view of the many difficulties which irrouud cotton culture, the lending outhern journals are giving the fariurs and planters the very practical adice not to place all their trust in the rcat staple. There is an abundance 1 land in the South to raise an abundticc ol food for cor suniption, and cot>n enough to snnnlv the whole world. 0? -- ?rrv ; ; > ut unfortunately there isnn in^i^juntc apply of the ri?zht kind of labor. Still, uiupetcnt Southern authorities arc of pinion that with an ordinarily f'avorale season, the next crop will not unkcly reach 3,000,''03 bales, and may o to 3,250,000 bales. Southern opiuiu with regard to free labor, too, has ccn very sensibly modified oflatc. mmm mmmmuim TIius, Mr. Henry A. Wise, of V giuia, lately remarked that the Sou has been more than recompensed 1 all the trials, sufferings aud losses in dent to the war, by the overthrow slavery, and substintially the same se ment is reiterated by some of the pro ioent Southern journals. To the nati at large, the resuscitation of the old i dustries of the South and the inaugui tiou of new ones is of the highest ii portauee, and the quicker they becoi vitalized and quickened, the sooner w national, financial and commercial pr< perity be reached. Enabled tocommen the new year with handsome resu of the product of last year's business, t South may well in 1800 grow crops ai raise the necessaries of life in su abundance as to place it in independe pecuniary circumstances, the idea h taken firm hold of the plautcrs th uuder tl:e new condition ot tntngs, smaller area of land better cullivt must bo ihc order of the day. .Agai it may fairly be assumed that the free men, haviug a little recovered from t exonerated idea naturally entertain upon their emancipation, will work nm steadily than heretofore, while the pla ters will have learned that fair wagcaai in the end, more profitable than the cc of labor under the old regime. Whi the Cotlou crops will be the great pi ductof the South, there will be iucrcas manufactories erected, and with the will spring up innumerable towns ai village-;, bringiug in their train, witho doubt, a higher state of prosperity inei table than has over hitherto bc< reached. Exprrimknting witu andwtt out Guano, and witii Dikfkrej Kinds ok Cotton Seed.?TUc ^iac (Ga ) Telegraph says : Whi'at iu Kufaula the oilier day, \ learned that two prominent planters Barbour County, Ala , had entered tl year upon a series ofcxpcrimcnts in c< ton growing, with different kinds of it uures and seeds, and that a pretty lit vy wa.;er had been laid between the on the result, of their experiments.Each planter is to cultivate but oneac of ground and use the manure and se of his choice, and the one 'hat raii the largest amount of cotton tak stakes. The one has planted t Heeler cotton seed and is using t Peruvian guano; the other has plai ed the Dickson seed and is using ot manures generated about his barnyar and stables. The result of these experiments wi doubtless, be valuable to the planti interests in that section, if not eli where, and \vc shall watch, with noi little interest how both parties coi out next fall. Murder in Orangeburg ?The ( nngeburg iVemm, of Friday, says : We have to chronicle another m shut in the Fork. On la*t Mood niornining about six o'clock, as Mr. 1 L. W. Riley and two colored labon were making arrangements. in liishoi lot, to commence the week s wurk, t white men, Ilansfurd S. l'orter a Milledge Porter, his brother, residei of the Fork, colored the lot, uucxpc edly to Mr. RiJey. Shortly after th arrival Mr. James W. Jonlan, an e ployoe of Mr. Riley's came in andspo to the Porters, shaking hands \vi Hansford. Milledge Porter had in I hands a double barrel shot gun, a told Jordan I hat he had come to arn him and take him to Orangeburg, the same time pointing lain gun at hi Jordan remarked : "Don't reckon, I I surrender." Jordan then took Ril aside and asked hi in what it meant. Riley said he "did not know, ask h tor his authority." They then stepped back to where? Porters were standing and Jordau ask Porter to let him see his authority arrest. Jordan and Riley both w< standing between the Porters. M ledge Porter replied that lie'did not ha ? T _. l ... ,1 ^?,J \ any. ooruan luunu uuu .< Riley who was stooping over a lift getting something out of his pock when Hansford S. Porter predentin; six shooter, over Riley's shoulder, fir< the hall striking Jordan centrally in t breast, and entering the right cavity the heart. Jordan fell in the arms Mr. Riley, and died in about fiftc minutes. The Porters then delibera bade good morning and walked off. the crack of the pistol the colored tn l-'ft, leaving Mr. Kiley alone with t dying man, and having no weapon any description at hand, and the Port being fully armed and apparently d pernte, he was powerless toarrestthe Sometime since, wc gave an accoi of the shooting of Mr. John Porter brother of Ilansford and Milledge, Lartiguc, in the Fork, and it is si posed t at the Porters believed JorJ assisted Lartigue in that transacts The ball that killed Jordan passed o' the shoulder of Mr. llilcy taking the 1 from his coat, and the powder burni his neck; in the meantime if Mr. Ilil had had sir lightened up he would ha received the discharge himself, and would have had to chronicle also t death, perhaps of this estimable g< tlenian, as Milledge Porter stood rea with his double barrel shot gun level! to shoot Jordan if Ilansford failed. The Coroner's Inquest announc the deed a cold blooded murder. T Porters, as yer, have not not been rested. Mr Jordan was the sori-in-l < >1- T\..V anil OI <>ir. 1/UIJIl.l X UUII^J auu Tiv. , honest, hard-working man. lie lea^ a young wife to uiourn his untinu fate. A colored boy by the name of E % ir- ward Black, was found dead a few days ith since, in the field of Mr. Paul C. Stro for man. The finding of the Coroner's inci quct.t was?died from neglect and hunof ger. He was a boy of unsound mind, >n- and no one knew that he wat about the m- premises until discovered by Mr Stroon man in going over his fields the day ben fore the ir.qucst. He was dead, and ra- by appearances, must have been dead in- fur several days. ne ill Counterfeit Mv,nky.?Largequan 33- titios of counterfeit paper quarters arc ce being circulated about Fuycttevillc. Its They can be distinguished fr-un thegcnhe ui"e 25 cent greenback, by being a litnd tie wider and not so long, and by a dcch feet near the eye in the picture of the nt man's face on front side, and by having las 'be words on the back in large letters iat The large figures 25 on the back are a nearer the left in the genuine than in ed the counterfeit. There are many other u, differences when closely inspected.? id- There seems to be a special agent about he here, as the bills are new and come out ed by the hundred.?Fuyetlevillt Euyle. ire n- The Neoro Minister to Hay~i v, Opposed by Wiiites and Blacks.? >8t. A letter from Port au Prince to the New lie York Herald says : o- "The grand excitement here since ed the arrival of the steamer from New :ni lork is tac news mat a courea geiuipod man is to supersede the present Auieriut can Minister, T. H. Hullister. As tlurc ri- is no other Minister resident here, and ;n us he is chief of all the foreign representatives in rank, the Charges d'Affairos from England, France and Spaiu, who n- are gentlemen of high social position, Si do nut foci complimented with the news un The American consuls and other officers representing us here do not wish etc fo have a colored man for a chief. We in have had, visiting aud stationed, at lis this port during the last ten months, 3t- six American sliips-of-war. The coniia inaudants and the officers under them, ;a- like the other gentlemen of our navy, iin are persons of culture, and would not ? relish this change. ltumor says that :rc President Salnuve (ne.ro) was hoard cd yesterday to remonstrate with the Au:er;es ican merchants in town against this :es measure, and that the parties all agreed he in scutimcut. The President remarkhe ed (so the story goes) that lie had alif. ready more black men here than he ily could take care of. lie considered the ds hluck race equal to the white, but asked very pointedly whether our Governill, meut ntcrtainrd such sentiments, and ng if so, why did we not send black men so toreprcsout us in England and Fiance? t a He .-aid the que-tion was not what he ? i*. r i_ . nc thougtit about me cqnamy 01 races, dui that he did not consider this discrimination in favor of I la) ti to be compli)r. ujcutary." an F F.KTiLiZEits am) General Freight ?The fallowing tables show the qualify tity of fertilizers and of freight of all ,ra kinds shipped over the South Carolina rM} U ii'ro.id in three months ending March wo *^? 180D. UJ FERTIL ZERS. ,ts To Augusta and beyond ....3510$ tons. ct. To Columbia and beyoud....4759 44 e;r To Camden 230$ 44 To Way Stations 23ulj 44 ke 7 [tj, Total 10.815 44 [,js This, at an average ol S70 per ton, ?j represents a money value o S757,U50. est freight of all kinds, including af FERTILIZERS. 1,1 To Augusta and beyond... 9382$ tons. ,ut To Columbia and beyond.. 10.834 44 ?y To Caiuden 739$ 44 ? To Way Stations 4705 44 iii) Total 22,052 44 he Several recent events in Knaland nre <or leading to a largely increased euiigra 'r,! tion from fliafc country to thN. '1 he '* most important of these are the clo.-ing lVC of two great dock-yards by the admiral ' p 1 - - J it. _ AtM!lfA a4 Proofnn Tl p " ty, ana uie ioii^ an me ai ? .vov?u. .. 'c? workmen in both places are coming or ''*> are preparing to come to this country in ?!l very large numbers, and they will be of -d> the best class of emigrants, men skilled 'IC in their work. The present condition of the cotton manufacture or of the shinbuilding business is not such as to afford en any very good grounds for the belief te that the men will find employment At promptly, but it is apparent to all who an read the description of the state of uffairs he in manufacturing towns where work is "1 slack or wholly suspended, that the exprs change of England for America will not es' be forthe worse. If these two branches m of trade should improve in activity the "'t addi.ional supply of workmen would be , a greatly t > our udvantnge. by 'P* A case of inhumanity occurred in a 'an beautiful New England village recent 5n- ly, which it would seem difficult to ^er parallel. On the night of ihe 4th of ,nt March last there was a terrific snow storm in Vermont. The snow piled in ey heaps, the ronds were made impa.-sable. lVe and the Green Mountains were whitenwe ed to an enormous dcplh. Upon the b? afternoon preceding such a night, hd overseer of the poor in a small town i?- ?? j - r?...;i? ?r ??? ~JJ near reacnaiu iurui u a inumj puu'?d pers, a widow aged seventy-four years, an unmarried daughter aged thirty-five cd a little child aged eight years, and a lad ho belonging to the family, out upon the ar- high road, and bade them begone to aw some other town, where a relative had an offered thein shelter. They plodded tes along until overtaken by the storm. At ;ly one cottage at the foot of the mountain they were refused shel'erjat another !d- further up they were again refused ad mittance. and in striving to reach the third and last they all perished, and when the storm hud cljfcred away and roads were brokeu out their frozen bodies were discovered Murks of the struggle they made for life were evident, the lad having reached within twelve feet of the window of the lust house, and his dying cry for help even was unheeded, the reason being given that it was not recognized as a human voice. The Newbern (?*. C.) Times says that on the 20th ult., Mr. James R Steward, of Bachelor's Creek, discovered a swarm of bees in an old tree, and he, together with his brother, cut J 't"> nni-nnofl nfsnvinc the II UUWfl till NIC yuipv?v swarm. In the tree they found a little honey, which they secured. On taking it home the whole family partook quite freely of it, and the effect was too terrible to describe. The whole numher that tasted the honey was seven.? Of these two were not affected, three were made nearly or totally blind for the time being, and two, a child two years and one yonngor, died within 15 minutes. The mother was so bl.ud that she could nott sec the infant in her arms, but vomited after drinking salt and water, and was better Others were similarly affected, but all, with the exception of the ones already dead are again restored to health and sight. Why some w--re affected to blindness, while others died, and yet two who also partook were not even made sick, remains a mystery. The Philadelphia press gives the fullnrctiirr nr>ivinfit of the exnoriuionts on ? --I the body of Gerald Eaton, who was lunged last week for murder : Arrangements were made by the friends of the condemned fo have in effort made to resuscitate the body. Accordingly, a committee appointed for the purpose were waiiiug at the prisou at the lime of i execution, and the body, wrapped in blankets, was brought to the university. The drop was four feet; the cord a oun j his neck was a small one. He hung by his neck tliiity minutes, and there were signs i f life only four minutes after the drop. Teu minutes after being cut down, he was placed upon the table in the amphitheatre, the time elapsing from the execution being fortyfour minutes Six ounces of whiskey were injected in the bowels, and one gallon of pure 0x3gen gas was forced into the lungs, and a powerful galvanic battery applied to the medulla oblangatc and the pit of the stouach. At the sametime the tongue was withdrawn from the mouth, and the body turned i'roiu side to si J-., after the method of Marshall Hall, for artificial respiration. In four or five minutes a marked change occurred in the countenance; the chest gradually expanded, the eyes open, d, one arm was drawn up, and, Ly mean? of a s:te'h<?copc, contracti ms and dilano nf the ho:irt were distinctly I heard. So evi cnt Wire tin* signs uI | life that his friends really exult d over the fact that lie really lived. Another gallon of oxygen was intodueed into the lungs, and the batte y wns charged so that (ho current passed the rn'irc length of the spine, and the artificial respiration continued. For a tew moments the signs of life increased, but in a short time disappeared. Nitrous oxide gas was injected into the lungs by an artificial opening into the troche* made by Professor Duffec, but still to no purpose, and at the expiration of one hour and twenty five minutis the experiment ceased, and the body was handed over to the friends. Remark\ble Death.?A few day* since a man named Thomas Jame*, re?iding in Albany, died very suddenly, and his friend* were unable to discover any cause for bis sudden demise At the mortrm examination, which has just been held, it was found that a piece of chip had lodged cros.-wisc it: his bowels, stopping the passage, and producing the inflammation which caused his death. It has been ascertained tl.at -he deceased accidentally swallowed this chip while drinkingsome rin and molasses a short time since, the chip having evidently been detached from the molasses cask. Burned to Death.?We learn from the A?hville (N 0.) ATrwx that the house of Mr. .Jonathan K. Reese, about nine iuili s from AsMvuie, was ournea recently, and his wife aud chiid wore consumed in the flames. He was absent from home. The child had been sick for sotuj days with whooping cough, and the mother had lost much sleep It is supposed that she fell asicep before the fire, and her clothes caught, and in the struggle the bedding was set on fire. The bones of the mother nd infant were found among the ruins. We learn from Herlin that a Prussian officer who was iu the Confederate service during our war, and who was on duty at Charle. ton, has co nmunicated to the Prussian Government the secret of the construction of the torpedo of American invention, which was found very service ible in the defence of Charleston haibor. Experiments were lately made at Kiel with this particular torpedo, in the presence of naval aud military officers designated by the government and they wore perfectly successful, as they blew a vessel, which had been prepared for the purpose, all to pieces. The officer (Von Scheliha) who cuimnuuicated the secret, has received an appointment on the staff of the Prussian service. ? Arctic Exploration.?Dr. I. I. Hayes lately delivered, in New York, an interesting address on Arctic explorations. The lecturer noticed the Cuurse of Frunkliu's McClue's and Kane's explorations on the maps, and explained wherein he had deviated from their course until he reached Cape Union, 100 miles North-west of the limit of Dr. Kane's expedition, and whence he (Dr Hayes,) within 450 miles of the Nor'h Pole, gazed in admiration on the open sea which surrounds it. He then described, with much effect, his approach to Greenland?the people, their dwellings and habits of life; their island icebergs, rising 300 feet above the level of the sea, and buried seven times that depth beneath its surface, three miles in circumference, and 300,000,000 tons in weight; enough, he said, if made marketable in the city of New York, to pay off the national debt; tho ^ feorda or bays, thirty miles in depth oiwl tun in width in which iIiaba iro b'Tgsare formed by the thawed smows of the hi?rh interior until, breaking from the land by their own weight, they flout on in imperious graudcur, until melted away in t' eir journey to the tropics. Other Arctic expeditions are now fi.ting out in England and Germany, and wc may yet hear more of this open Polar Sea Sorghum Sugar.?We have received fiom Xr. T. S. Preston, of Lynchburg, a specimen of sorghum sugar manufactured with the apparatus patcutcd by Welles and Hatcher, of Louisville, aud owned by the Southern Company of that city. This specimen is of the unrefined sugar after the process of separation from the molasses. It is very pretty, much more refined and pure than the first product of sugar fr'>m the cane. The granules are beautiful, and the taste very agreeable, re minding us of the oucc famous and popular " rock candy," which children "cried for" before the candy maker* had iuvented so many captivating varieties of sweet tilings. With such su.'&r .as the specimen scQt us by Mr._Pre8ton, produced from a crop which is so luxuriant and so easily cultivated, we see no reason why we may not make our own sugar, and rather become sellers than buyers of the article. The apparatus now offered to the public is said to be very simple aod efficient, and not to bo costly. We trust this enterprise may bo fully examined and tried. If it is all tha is claimed for it, we ccrtninly have a new souice of ecouomy, and therefore of thrift, opened to our farmers.?Richmond Duputch. Some idea of the manner in which the Government is swindled is furnished by the developments concerning the Brooklyn N ivy Yard frauds. For five yean the Govermeut has boon bled by these lJrooklin sharpers ofuntold sums of djou- * ey. The facts concerning ?! e bnildinir o' the guu park at Cobb dock, iu the navy yard in ti at city, are really starf'ing The New York Suns a'es that iu this contract adveitiscment ceiling lor bids were inserted according to the legal form iu all the principal papers and, after llio bids had been received tbey were opened by the board of iuspcctors, appointed for the purpose, and the contract awarded apparently, to the lowe t bidder. 1 ho lowest bid by any honest man was $390, UUU, as that was the least, with a Mr profit, that it could be done for. A cerfaiu coin tractor, however, offered to do it fir $300,000?l<ss than the material and work would cost eveu him. But before the contract had left the bureau at WasliinfoB it had grown by what is called "cret'i bg" to$o55,375. On the pica of extra unprecedented work, they contrived to obtain a second appropriation of 8386 500 more, in a mauner known only to the navy yard ring. Iu this manner their bid instead of being the smallest. wa< immense; instead of being 8300 000, it was $741,875. Not only this but other large amounts ofGoviruiunut property were used iu the work. A train ran off the track of the Long / Island Hail road on the 23d inst., and . killed eight persons, besides wounding a number. The State of South Carolina KERSHAW COUNT If. ? By J. F. SUTHERLAND, Judge of Pro- 1 bate. I WHEREAS, Charlotte Nash made suit to me, to grant her Letters of Administration of the Estate audeffccU of Ji>nas W . Nash. THESE arc therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and Creditors of the suid Jonas VV. Nash, deceased. that they be and appear before ^ me, in the Court of Probate, to be held J at Camden on the tenth of May, J next, after publication hereof, at II M o'clock in the forenoon, to shew cause, JH if any they have, why the said Ad mmtration should not be granted. Given under my hand, this 29th day of May, Anno Domini, 1869. Uxm J. F. SUTHERLAND, J. P. JH April, 29 2t. LEITNER & DUNLAP, ATTOMfiYS AT LAW, AND SOLICITORS IN EQUITY. WILL practice in the Courts of Kershaw, Sumter, Lancaster and Richland Districts. Office?Broad-st., Camden, S. C. 7,. LEITNER, J. D. DUNLAP. Feb. 11 6m