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' fa - I ' . 1 * S~gs~? I ???????^ VOLUME 29. CAMDEN", SOUTH-CAROLINA, AUGUST 26, 1869. NUMBER 2. miscellany, FrOm the Columbia Phoenix. THE CHINAMEN. Mb. Editor : As the question of a supply of labor by means of an extensive importation of Chinese is at present Uppermost in the minds of many of our bitterns, who claim to have the future Vrclfare of the South at heart, it may bot be out of place to givo a short account cf thb character, the habits and the industrial capacity of these people * 1 ? n rt into nil P wnom we propusu iu uuu6 <uvv midst. A celebrated German landscape painter, Edward Hildebrandt, lately deceased at Berlin, has left an account of his recent journey around ? the world, which is not only highly amusing and instructive, but also entirely trustworthy, on account of the high character of its author. He says: "The Ohinese are more cleanly and vnenre industrious than the Hindoos; but they are fearfully perverse and immoral. 4 saw on my journey, (through the celestial' empire,) numerous corpses of children floating in the rivers. In Hong Kong, my friends had already prepared me for these horrible symp : ? ? ? 1I?t? Jvnf rotion terns or l/Oinese iuiiuKsiaii\,jj Vuv I saw the fact before my eyes, I almost i lost my self-control. Infanticide is the 1 order of the day, owing to the crowded ' population and the difficulty of gaining 1 the necessary subsistence for the family. ' The new-born girls generally fall vie 1 tims to this horrible practice?especial- ' ly when they have a weak constitution 1 and unattractive foatutcs. The unnat- ?' ural parents throw their children into 1 the river, or expose them alive, a prey 1 to dogs and hogs. In tho larger towns, 1 which are not situated on tho rivers, 1 the corpses are thrown into pits, which, ( from time to time, arc filled up with 1 quick lime. The activity of European j 1 mysionaries is powerless against this 1 practice^ in fact, their efforts are on- ^ tirely without result." Still, in spite t of this moral degradation, the author J ? ? nrn. in some rCSDCCtS, I OajOy 111V VWauvwv - ; 4 a very interesting.people. Their shops a goffer to the foreign visitors inn itinera- c lie objects of attraction. ' Tbcir fantastically gotten-up tea ser- 8 vices, their carvings in ebony wood, e their chairs, sofas, tables and bedsteads, 1 tuadc of the costliest woods and inlaid ( with a curious mosaic, composed of s small pieces of white and red marble, . cannot be too much admired. In their 8 agricultural pursuits they excel any a other nation in economy. Every third ^ man carries manure ou his back from a f the towns; even the shavings of the beards and the trimmings of the finger ^ nails are brought up and turned to ; account by the gardners and farmers in 8 the neighborhood of the cities. Interesting is a dinner at the house of a ' ."Mandarin." The "Tschau-Tschau" 1 consisted of at least thirty or forty-five z courses. Hard boiled eggs, which had ' been preserved four or five years under 1 ground, Iudian bird s nests, shark fins, I pickled and dried rain-worms swim- 1 ming in a bluish sauce, bachees of large ' and small caterpillars were, with many ( others, the dishes with which the travelers were regaled. Our thirst was quenched with a light luke-warm wine. A quantity of confectionary, composed of sugar, almonds and hog's lard, constituted the desert. The rat is the favorite game of the Chinese. Gourmands know how to appreciate the difference between land and water rats moro that zoologists can do. The former arc ?aid to be superior in flavor, &nd bring consequently a higher price. or? ,'n anfth demand as to form an IJ.UVJ ^ ^rtlcle of trade, so tbat the newspapers -of Hong Ivong habitually quote their market pr.ce in their price currents.? The literary and scientific knowledge of the Chinese is of the lowest order; their judicial proceedings are barbarous, ihcir punishments inconceivably cruel nod loathsome. Nor is there, it seems, cny hope that this nation will ever attain to a higher degree of mental culture, owing to the strange "stability" of Chinese character and customs." With such accounts before us, it behooves those among us, who do not look merely to the immediate advantages of an increase of manual labor, to consider well before they act whether, by bringing in such a set of men amongst us, they are not preparing a worse curse for our children's children, than African importations have proved to be, and whether it is not well to weigh the truth of the maxim, that a bad citizen is worse than no citizen at all, aud that a base, low and immoral inhabitant will eventually prove a curse and not a blessing to the community in which he lives, whatever his capacity for physical labor or the cheapness of obtaining it may be. A. S. nrnrpv tnt a nrw rolK. nis exploits in fLorida-?-an incendiary and a robber.nice revelations. The following extract from a private letter, which we have received from a responsible source, throws some light upon theproccediDgsand reputation of our Honorable representative while in Florida: "At the time of the evacuation of the little Town of Jacksonville, Florida, by the Confederate forces and its citizens, in the latter part of 18G1 or the early part of 1862, Iicas (here, having baen sent from Virginia (by a special application made by Governor Milton to President Davis) to drill Borne of the Flori da State troops. I was the officer who conveyed the order from General Trapier (then -commanding that department) to Major Charles Hopkins (commanding Hopkins Battlion) to proceed it once to Jacksonville, for his battalion ivas then at Baldwin, and burn the sawmills in and around the placo, together vith the foundry and any other build ogs that might prove serviceable to the memy, but "spare and protect as far as jossible alt private dwellings and proicrty except such as was specially spccfied iu the order." The enemy's gun>oat had, I believed at the time of the mrning, the very night crossed the St. Tohn's bar, and were cautiously feeling heir way up thr river. The saw mills ind foundry, as was ordered, were soon onsigncd to the flames, as was also the urge hotel, (tho Judson House,) and everal stores?thestores and hotel, howver, not by hands of Hopkins Bat talon. Mr. Bowen was one of the perperators of this outrage, and I will here tate, on the word and honor of a man, 'that on the nieht of the fire in Jack onville, I saw him, one of pricue movers nd instigators in the "gutting" of C. L. lobinson's store. I there saw him move md assist in moving blankets and sheets illcd with goods and merchandise stolen rom said store, and knowing, too, that klr. Robinson was a "good Union man," o-called ; and mark me, at this time this 'Honorable" gentleman, C. C. Bowcn, lid not belong nor was lie in any wise -onnccted with any organized Confcderitc force, but came to Jacksonville, upon his occasion, solely for the purpose of pillage and plunder, and the goods he itole, for lie did steal them, he appropriated to himself. He was at that time known in Jacksonville and aiound the eastern part of Florida as a low, rucan, contemptible 'one-horse gambler,' one who would lie or steal when it suited him to do so. lie was at or about this time, I think, associated with a man by the name of Woodward, also a gambler, but by far a more decent man than Bowen Woodward, since the war, has been imprisoned on charges made against by C. L. Robinson for acts said to have been committed on that same night. Woodward is not.the man who should have been confined. Mr. Bowen is the gentleman. I have given you this little of his history, so that he may know that the world knows him. I am perfectly willing at any timo to substantiate what I have written, by any num ber of wituesses.? Charleston J\eics. The situation grows more complex in Spain. Another Republican demonstration had taken place, according to our late advices, and the Carlists seemed to be rapidly gaining in strength. A capitation tax had been decreed, but it was not thought probable that it could be collected. The bishops, doubtless anting under compulsion, had renewed their adhesion to tho Government. A Thousand Years as a Day.Not long ago, a friend handed us, fo perusal, a neat, morocco-covered pam phlet of eighty pages,?an Americai editor of an English work entitle ''Th< Stars and the Earth,"?containing som old and somewhat familar astronomies truths, very beautifully and poeticalb told, and made to illustrate very interest ingly and poetically some of thegrandes ideas. It is a well known, demonstrable fac that light travels about two hundre< thousand miles per second; that it re quires about three years for the ligh from a star of the first magnitude ti reach us, about one hundred and eight; years from a star of the seventh aui about four thousand years from a star o the twelfth. The converse of this is equally true The light, therefore, reflected from th( earth which strikes the eye of an obs?r ver on a star of the third magnitude would show at this time, the conditioi of things terrestrial about first year o Johnson's administration. A dwcllci on a star of the seventh magnitudt would look upon us as we were during King, William's war," while an inhabi tantof a twelfth magnitude star would behold the earth as it was four thousand years ago, and, peihaps, witness the confusi.n of tongues at the tower of Ba bel. Imagine, now, a being of unlimited power of vision and comprehension, and susceptible of being transported in at ioconccivably short spaco of time, froir earth to a star of the twelfth magnitudt and you spread beforo him a panorama of the world's history for four thousand years. * * -* We can readily understand, therefore hot? it is that, to an infinite being, whose omniscient eye looks forth, at toe same instant, from all the planets and stars all the doings of the ages past are evei present, and "A thousand years are at one day." We present another homely condcnsa tion of a beautiful thought, and Icavt the work to delight our readers to ? greater extent, Could we, for once, be gifted with th< power of locomotion with as great rapid ity as light moves, and start upon out journey at the instant a butterfly passes us so swiftly that we can hardly distin guish its colors, we might, then, at oui leisure, count the grains of colored dusi upon its tiny wings j or, if our journe] began at the moment a flower bud be gau to unfold, or a flash of lightning gleamed across the sky, we might devot< unlimited time to an examination of th< phenomena. L. D. B.?Rural JVeu Yurlccr. What Can be Done in Soutl Carolina.?The Columbia Phoenix says : ' We paid a visit, on Wednesday, t< the model farm of Mr. James M. Craw ford, in Cotton Town, near Columbia and inspected his cotton field?which in size and quantity of the bolls, fa exceeds anything we have ever 6cen o heard, of?the famous Georgia bra< acre, of which we published an account a day or two ago, not excepted. At old and experienced Mississippi cottoi planter made an examination and cal culation of the crop on one acre as i stands in the field?the "brag" lot? with the following result: He countet three stalks, taken indiscriminately fron this patch, which averaged 300 boll to the stalk, 52 rows to the acre;7< stalks to the row; allowing 100 bolls ti the pound, shows 10,920 pounds to thi acre?provided, of course, that it ma tures. Some of the stalks had over 50( bolls. Mr. Crawford has another mos excellent lot of four acres, the smallcs stalk counted in it containing 80 bolls another 156, and still another 358?ai average of 200 bolls to the stalk. Th< entire crop was grown fnin the wel known Dixon seed. Doubters can ex amine this cotton at any timo. Th ordinary stable manuro was principally used, and the soil is far from being th best in this vicinity. Thorough tiling did the businoss. Mr. Crawford de clares that a man who cannot mak good crops in Richland, had better la; aside agricultural implements. A Sad Romance?The Wife of a r Day?Love in Death.?Some three - years ago, a young German, whose fam3 ily had immigrated to this country, came e East from San Francisco to pursue his e studies for the Presbyterian ministry at 1 Princeton College. His health was feej ble, and it was thought best for him to spend his vacation as much in the open t air as possible. He accordingly hired himself to a farmer in Bucks County, t Pa., and spent the summer in out-door 1 occupation of a light character. !. A few weeks ago, when the Pacific t Railroad had just been completed, and d the public were still talking of the last yr spike with the golden head, a young lady 1 purchased in Philadelphia omi of the f very first through tickets for San Francisco. She was the fair daughter of a Quaker farmer, who lived near where > the young German student had been em. ployed during his vocation. They had met, loved, and were engaged to be marj ried. But his health had grown worse, f and his family had sent for him to come r back from California. Letters from him to ; the Bucks County farm-house told only r of still further decline. The young girl pined under her trouble. At last, o#e I Saturday, came a telegram, asking her I to come to him at once. Her bctrothad ; was sinking fast. On Tuesday she was on her way. The road of iron that spans the continent was safely traversed, and I she reached San Francisco. [ The rest of the story is briefly told. , The newspapers of Eastern Pennsylva , nia, a month ago, announced, under the , head of "Married," the wedding in San k Francisco, June 24th, of a gentleman of I that city to a lady of Bucks County, Pa., Following it, under the head of "Died," June 25th, was the name of the hus5 band. The wedding had been by a , death-bed. The Quaker girl was the t bride of a day. Excitement and Short Life.? 5 The following, by an unknown writer, accords with our observation: "The deadliest foe to man's longevity is an un' natural and unreasonable excitement. 1 Every man is bom with a certain stock of vitality which cannot be increased, : but which may be husbanded or expended as rapidly as he deems best.? Within certain limits, he has a choice, 3 to live fast or slow, to live abstemiously or intensely, to draw his little amount r of life over a large space or condenso it L into a narrow one ; but when his 6tock 7 is exhausted, he has no more. He who lives abstemiously, who avoid all stimu' lanfs. takes li<rht exercise, never over s , - o / " tasks himself, indulges no exhausting 5 passions, feeds his tuind and heart on : no exciting material, has no debilitating pleasures, lets nothing ruffle his temper, . keeps his 'account with God and man squared up,' is sure, barring accidents, ' to spin out his life to the longest limit 5 which it is possible to attain ; while he who lives intensely, who feeds on highseas incd food, weather material or mental, futigues his body or brain by hard r labor, exposes himself to inflammatory r disease, seeks continual excitement, T gives loose reign to his passion, frets at every trouble and enjoys little repose, ' is burning the candle at both ends, aud is sure to shorten his day." True Enouoii.?The New York t Times says that the late war "changed " in some degree the theory of the Govern^ ment." Well, it did, adds the Rich1 mond Dispatch. It transformed a free s government into a despotic one. It con-1 ) verted States into Counties. It abolisht> ed the written Constitution by ouj fas there, and for it substituted an unwitten onc?(hat is to say, the will of the ma) inritv in Contrress. It deprived the JW"V o 1 States of every right they had, and there, t by deprived the citizens of personal ) right. We mean, of course, that these I rights are now held by sufferance, the e National Government having power to II take away whenever it shall feel so in clined whereas, before the war these e rights were considered so sacred that no 7 man would have dared to lay rude hands 6 upon them. e lm Gov. Scott is in Philadelphia, and 0 the Inquirer, of that city, compliments y him for many things which he did not do. Rules for the Post Office.? Those who aro not posted in Post I Office etiquette, will find the following h to contain some points: , ti W^g^ypq call at the Post Office for S your mail, and the postmaster hands it p out, ask hiui if that is all. ti If you ask for mail and he tells you n there is none, tell him there ought to a he; theu go home, and send the rest h of the family around to ask through the tl day. ? fi When you want a stamp on your let- 1 tcr, tell the postmaster to put it on; if a he don't like it, lick him. In case you * put on the stamp yourself, soak it in g your mouth long enough to remove the o mucilage; it will then stick till it is t< dry. 1 Be sure to ask the postmaster to cred- fi it you for stamps; if he has any accom- d dation he will doit. ci If you have a bos, stund and drum nc on it until the postmaster hands out &i your mail; it makes him feel good, es- d pccially if he is wailing on some one o< else. if y on cannot wait at the wicket for your mail, go inside and make yourself ? at home; your company is no doubt agreeable to the postmaster.?Sumter Newt, If your name is John Davis, ask if ' there are any letters for the Davises.? . II Take all bearing that name, open and PI 11 i_ u! i i j m: 82 reaa niissoauy b, jfziss jadu s ami iuib* Jemima's, keep them two or three weeks, then return them, endorsed, "opened by mistake, but not read." Toe Stamp Act Nowhere.?The * famous Stamp Act, upon which the war 8. of the American Revolution was fought and won by the fathers of free constitutional government, will noi bear 11 comparison with tho present American system of taxation. This is very ;3oint- ^ edly demonstrated in the announcement of the Revenue Commissioner thai, base ball club) are liable to taxation, and are ^ required to take out a license. Next, we suppose, we may expect a similar ukase against little boys with their marbles and tops, and the little girls with their dull-babics and jumping ropes.? ( Truly, radical economy is a great thing ^ in a small way, and requires a fine drawn talent to understand and apply it, so that it may have its perfect work cf op- e pression. e A gentleman heretofore prominently 11 connected with political affairs in Lou- ^ isirna, who recently arrived in Philadcl- * pnia, gives a very uucuumgiug bwuuuk of affairs in that State. lie says poli tical 1 bitterness has almost entirely died out, 1 and that the people generally are lurn- * ing their whole attention to business.? lie says the cotton and sugar crop of ( tho State will be larger this year than ? ever before, and that in all of the Scuth- { cm States through which he pass on his t way there he noticed every evidence of j returning prosperity. So far as New Or- s leans is concerned, he says tho city was x never in a more prosperous condition, and that there is a general disposi :ioa to cease talking polities and to fo'get 8 j the past. Eloquence.?But, as I said before, i we have proved to you where that town < line is. Yes, gentlemen of the jury, i there it is, and there it remain forever; and all the ingenuity of my learned brother can never, never efface it?:an never wash it out?No gentlemen, he 1 may plant one foot on the utmost verge of the outermost ring of the planet Saturn. then plant the other on Arcturus 1 and seize the Pleiades by the hair and wring them till they arc dry, but he can- <; not wash out that town line. Hon. Judah P. Benjamin.?Hon. * Judah P. Benjamin, lafe of the Confod- ^ erate Cabinet, but now of England; baa after two years appearance at the British bar, been made Queen's counsel, an honor almost without precedent in the promptitude of its bestowal. Aside from making him senior counsel in what- * ever cases he may be employed, the 1 promotion will considerably add to 1: is 3 emoluments. ' The Daily Republican, the radical organ of tho State, has made its appear- 1 i ancc. I The Tea that uomes to tub Jnited States.?Wo were in a tea .ouse at Canton drinkiDg such superfine ea as we never tasted in the United Itati's. We noticed that large jars were laced under each table, into which all he grounds were tossed. Chinese, do ot, as already stated, steep their tea in pot, but put it into your cup, pour in ot water, covering the cup to keep in he steam, allowing it to stand abouf ve ninutes, draining it off and refilling, 'he second cup is considered the best, nd.the third filling is very good. Bat 'hen the strength is exhausted, the rounds are thrown into the jars, taken ut doors, spread on cloths; dried, doomed, repacked, and sent over to as ! 'he average cost of tea in china is from fteen to twenty cents per pound, but utics, fieights, insurance, interest on apital, profits to importers and middle ten, swell it to prices which make it . a article of luxury. More poor tea is runk in the United State? than in any ther land.? Carleton'9 Letter. | Put 'a Hole Through it.?One ight General?-was out ou the line. [e observed a light on the mountain pposite. Thinking it was the signal ght of the enemy, he told his artillery flfinni- iJiof n linta pnuld he easilv nut """" : . irough it. Whereupon the officer turn)g to the c rporal in charge of the gon lid : "Corporal do you see that light V' "Yes sir." "Put a hole through it." The corpora] sighted the grin, and rhen all was ready, he looked up and * aid: "General, that's the moon." "Don't care a darn; put a hole through ianyway." *' , i. v.j.vj , - !*:!*' A Darkey's Enjoyment.?A piriotio Sambo left his employer, and rent to Charleston,, to enjoy the delights f 4th of July. After an absence of tout a fortnight, on his return, ho was sked how he enjoyed himself. He rallied that he had a miserable time; that te was sick, and nothing pleased him, nd my only enjoyment, he saidj was (ray brudder dead, an' I went to de uneral."?George Town Time. ' A doctor ordered some veiy powerful aedicine for a sick boy, and the father iot liking the appearance of it, forced t down the cat's throat. When the ? loctor called and inquired if the powder tad cured the boy, the father replied, 'No, we did not give it to him. "Good ? .... . . /.< .1 fu ricavens," said tbo doctor, "is toe cnna iving?" "Yea, but the old cat isn't, ve gave it to her. A Bondsman's Hire.?TbeCharles;on papeas report it as stated on the itreets that Benjamin Reils, bondsman or Sheriff Mackey, had withdrawn his lame from the sheriff's official bond, and nstitated suit against Mackey for $600, is due services as bondsman for twelve nonths. Junior class in grammcr; parse the entcnce "a radical." "A radical is a lompound, unconstitutional noun; black n person, African in gender, desperate n case; and is governed by negroes unler partisan rule, as one ignoramus governs another." A couple of fellows who were pretty horoughly soaked with bad whiskey, got nto the gutter. A iter floundering about or a few minutes, ont of them said : 'Jim, lets go to another house?-this hocl leaks." "Well Patriok," said the doctor, "how lo you do to-day ?" "0, dear, doctor, I enjoy veiy bad lealth entirely. This rheumatis is very listressing indade. When I go to sleep [ lay awake all night, and my toe is iwelled up aa big as a goose's hen's egg, 10 when I stand up I fall down directly, md so I do." ? r Rov. Mr. Richardson, of Wasbingon, Ohio, is said to be the oldest living \merican clergyman. Although 106 rears old, he walks five miles every Sunday and preaches a sermon. Mrs. Earnestine E. Mngrath, wife ot President Magrnth, of the South Caroina Railroad, died on Friday last.