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Southi Carolina Manu factnres. eW are'indeb.ted "to a friend in . . t Carolina whose name we do o'think we are permitted to use, but who-is one of the most enterpris ung f its citizens, for the following neosting 'notes of a visit made by hiiito. the interior of the State, and tW,.-improved condition and en 16Iyging industry of the people whom he found there. South Carolina ,,wants:many such sons.- They are irprefsent little appreciated. In the enears that we have edited our R vjeviIqw, a less support has been ex tended by her to it than she has giv en-toi score of northern works. The 04krii, there is little taste in South Carolina, for industrial statistics and fauts bearing upon general progress. Th6re.is less real disposition to sus 1ainylthing, originated at home, hateer theoriesmay be naitntained 'o1hi contrary. As one to the "man 4or-bon, we are at liberty to speak thupp4@, though we "have not igjegl~anienough to.. permit .anothar, to do 'O Will slieact with the Vloquene?gAnd nower with which she abbeVill otheu can speak? Will ehere hope it-we believe-it! Oolninbia never before stood on auoh advantage ground of prosperity. She needs but a liberal policy on* the part ofler capitalists and banking institutions to make her prosper be. yond example in our State. She is being: bdilt up by mnechanies and ninufdetdrers, arid the prosperity which such men bring to a place is as solid and enduring as it is rapid and pdrceptible. Everywhere the busy huni of inddstry resaunds, and the'deinand for new laborers is in. creasing. .Carpenters, engineers, masons, blacksniths, car builders, stond.cutters, coach makers, paint ergxAll find ready employncnt here, ..and the completion of the railroads hitich now diverge frorm the point in eoery -direction, will but serve to aigifient the demand for skilful la bor of all sorts that now exist here. If these railroads do 'not greatly benefit Columbia-and it is predic ted by the croakers they will injure it--it will form a new feature itn thc histor'y of railroads that has no ceunt erpart int the past. But awvay wIth such croakin~ga! We have not p~a tience to expose the erroneous ar gtiment of those who forebode ev tVo ta which is self evident. hoikeethat has lately seen Co. Iumbiiv"who does not petrcive she is going shead? The gun factory here istnow" in full oper'ation. It is a fine building, of handsome propor -tionsfond is siutdon the top of a :X veryfhigh hill on the west side of ~alr Theimachiner'y is all of the ' tper'ect desctription, thte engine ~ die piece of work of Char ~ -etn inm'afacture, and all the parts '~< fthe arri they make rifles, musk et# pistols aiisabres, are made with nthe building in the most perfect rnaanner.. The enterprise of' Messrs. Bfoatwright and Glaze deserves to be w ell rewarded, as doubtless it will beby the large State contract which boy'havo taken. This Mr. Bha~trght is 'the same M Poeroy hasestablished a naal fator her, werevehicles llegunaresg proucd suior work mnshtpa r rdcdi considora y''be num6ors, and are .sold at prices q pu0eds dov as those of the same F naish broughli from the North. WVhen, dY~~~ ~~ his estallishment, the mechan' a offonthgarolinia, by skilful man-. e js ta 1 the patronage of their fellow citizens without asking any favor in price, they cannot fail to extort an extensive patronage ev. en from a people so prone as we are to preferences of everything foreign. The new fire proof building in the State house square is going up, and is built of native granite, of beautiful color and fine quality. Alongside of those gato posts of the capitol, which have been char. acterized as "enduring monuments of our shame"-being of Quincy gran ite, we have now similar ones of native granite-the massive iron railing having been extended from the capitol garden to the corner of Bridge street, and they are of such beautiful appearance as to contrast must triumphantly with the North ern stone. May we not hope that the building now going up will prove but the beginning of a State house on such a scale as will chal lenge as much our future admiration as the existing one does our pres cut execration. I must now beg to be indulged in carrying your readers with me on a visit to one of the most complete and pr-omiising little manufacturing establishments to be found aivwhere either within the State or out of it. I allude to the chair factory and turnery of Dr. Percival, a few miles from the town. It is most charmingly located in the sand hills, a region that knows no unhealthy season. The wator power is supplied friom a beautiful lake %vhich, like ma ny others, hereabouts finds its source in the sand hills whence cones a never failingr supply of wa ter. It is as true as it is surprising, of these collections of fresh water, that they are in nowise detrimental to the health of the inhabitants. Is suing out cf the white sand, Leds, a number of minor tributaries concen .trate in sand bottomed beds, and so slight is the deposit of vegetable mat ter that their beds preserve almost their primitive whiteness. Their surfaces seem to subserve the cooling exhalation without evolving any of their miasances, which are so gen. erally cbaracteiistic of fresh ma ter bayous or lakes, whilst the clear, pure and deep mass of wa ter-fce of anything harmful, and with hank and botttomn of the most inviting character-presents in the heat of summer an invitation to ba thing which can hardly be resisted. It is pefCctly true that earth pre sents scarcely a spot where nian may thee easily pickl up a living than in these same sand hills, and yet theihabitants for the most p-art- ar the most wretchedlV inlert, and there fore continually stinted people to be fotind anywhere. This is owing on the one part to the absence of that stimulation which the State is hound to furnish in public schools, and on the other to the heavy dra. nuon their morals which the State electios biennially impose on them by means of corrupt piactices. Freemen are here, as with us in C'har-leston, openly and shamielessly., bar-tered for-, or bonght up like cat tle in the umrket, and whilst the politician perjiures their souls, the whiskey seller pcerishes their bodies. But amongst the sons of the desert, civilization is creeping in. Oasis at-e sprinin:g up eve-ywhere, and by the infusion of mechanical enterpr-ise, we may yet hope to see these so umch to be pitied suns of Carolina render ed virtuous, happy and useful peo ple. Almost every tmechanical es tablishtment in and about Columbia gives employment to some of the sand hill boys, and in the Factor-y of Dr. Percival, we are pleased to learn, are several ener-getic and r spectable young men, natives of these diggins, who wetre at wotk, and exhibiting all the skill and aptness of their inoi-e exper-ienced mechanical tutors. But to the faictor-y itself. It is not on a very large scale, butt as complete as it can be for all the purtpose contemplated by the enter pt-ising and well11nanaging gentleman who prjected it. Tfu-rning in all its varieties is done her-e, with the grecat est pr-ecision and nicety, and1 with almost incredible rapidity. In the manufacture of chaiirs, when the gir cnlar and vertical saws have answer cl all the dlemands that may be made on them. ther-e is but little re quired which the lathe cannot ac comnplisb; and here it is (lone to per fection. Chairs of beautiful and varied patterns, some of thmem orig inal in design, and superior, as af fecting comfort and elegance, to any we have ever seen of northern make, are turned off by hundreds. The caning is done here in beautiful style, and some of the female slaves em ployed in this department exhibit, af ter a brief experience, a facility and quickness really surprising-inas much as they perform what is re garded amongst the Yankees a full day's task with the greatest ease and in a more perfect manner. We were shown several specimens of caning from different northern factories, executed by first class op. eratives, which, upon comparison with those executed by the women here, are found to be most decidedly inferior to the latter. The painting, both plain and ornamental is also dgne here in the best 'style. But now for the most important item-the cost! The chairs are made at a less cost than in any northern fac tory; even now, whilst a part of the labor here is paid for in this pioncer factory at a rate much beyond what it will be procurable at as soon as a sufficient number of operatives shall have been drilled on the spot. The sophomores and juniors are studying faithfully, and are forward scholars. Ere long we may look for graduation of seniors. who will immediately set about the work of pioneering themselves in other parts of the State. Thus it is always that a mechanic al school, like a literary one, con tinually sends forth its graduates to enlighten and benefit society. But we icturn to our assertion that to make a chair here costs less than any wnere at the north; and how can it be otherwise? The power which nature supplies in this sand hill is as coanstant and regular as it is exhaustless in quantity, and keeps within its proper metes and bounds without any restraint of bank or dam, for just at its narrow mouth is placed the mill race whielf a single flood-gate controls. Around and in sight of the mill grows the very kind of' trees that this manufacture re quires for its materials; oak, bird's eye and straiglt grained maple, Oeach, walnut, birch, elm and Chi na tree woods, whieh, together, fur nish almost all the materials that ev en the highest art in chair making calls for. The trees are merely strip pea of ,their limbs, and in the green state, without evcn stripping oil th bark, are put undez saws, wLhi by various cuttings soon re duce them to the diminutive shapes of the trade; then by a quick and moSt perfect process they are seas onIed, in a few days, and afterwards Iimnished up for sale. .Uy this means the lumber is laid down at the mill at thme smallest possible cost, 1no ex pense of' large lumber store houses is iicurred. andmI no interest paid on capital lying idle in a lumber invest iient. Almost every particle of the forest trees is used to advantage ev en the bark being stripped fromn the edges of the sawedl picces to finish thme ma~terihd now comning much into use, for' rustic arbors and chamirs, & c. , for .ardens. In every depar'-ment of this model factory, we perceive in.. dications of a thor'ough pereception of the art of' producing the largecst rep resentationi of' mer cantile value at the sinallest possible outlay of' domes tic means. The imater'ials at the very doom' cost al mo~st nothming; the watem' pow er, never failinig, wvorks without wages; and the tmanual labor,. costing even now as little as nothern labor', may be and will be,. under' a l' cival's skilf'ul amid enminemntly prac tical managemenit made, by the judicious intermingling of slave, male and female, labor' with that of thme native whites, and theiir imported tutors. cheaper thman it can possibly be had for in any northern locality. H ere then, with all the elemients of' cost at the lowest i-ate, the war'es of' this factory would contend success fully even f'or a for'eign inarket, with the keenest yankee coimpetition. As to thme home market, the D~octor will have undisputed possessions to the extent that ho can supply thme va rious styles called for in the trade. It costs qunite ats much to bring a Wind sor' chmir from New Ha'mpshire or Massachusctts, (the pimnciple soeats of' this kiuid of mainufacture,) to Co huinbia, as the orig inal pirice of it in the home mnarket. We wb~ill catll it precisely time same. Thus it ill be seen that, even admnitting the cost of manufacture here to be as knuch as at the north, which it is nut they will yield a profit of one hundred per cdnt if sold at the price Which the northern chairs cost laid doiin here. oil r O. Feeding JIorse, liand Preventing Glanlders and Far cy. A DISTINGUISHED veterinary sur geon, Professor Dun, of-the Edin. burgh Veterinary College," calls at tention to the following errbrs in the dieting of farm horses, whigkhare not less common in this counti than in Scotland.-1st. Much to*Afng an interval is allowea to interve'ne be tween the timo of feeding. Horses are frequently worked six consecu tive hours, during which time they receive no food whatever. 'his prac tice has been found by expiience to be prejudicial to thir health, in duCing debility and priposing them to diseases of the dig tive sys tegi. The natural habit (and or ganls of the horses alike pr tha t he is not designed for long as the smallness of his stomah ii0dicates the necessity of supplyst*With comparatively small qMiiids. of aliment at short interval When at liberty, lie eats duri nty four hours. This natur 3 May be modifld, but pains a qtak en not to run into th d E op te treme. A horse or '6n at work through the da on* lie firm, should have some ,-.nutritioi food every five hours at tHe outsiq; if the purpose is not to airglii constitutional poweri. hen plow team is taken early W Mor ing, and expected to wo till no before regular feeding it -,tlte preg ent practice of the beat teh fdr mers to give each hors3 jl bin a pound or more of io meal' or hean meal cake bet ed nine and ten o'clock. Some predo 'iixoat and heatnrppmea l A with water and "Irdn' racked; the cooking enables -the digestive or gans to renddr the nutritive ele ments at once available for the sup. port of the exactions of labor. D1r. Dun is acquainted with several far. miers who gives these cakes whenev er the work is severe and the hours, long, and all of themn agree that their horses are now in much better health and condition and less frequently attacked by indiges. tion and colic, than they were when subjected to protracted abstinence, and without aity intermediate meal. 2d. Food may be improper on ac count of over quantity ex-:ess of nn tritiveness or Lad quality.--By tak ing too large a quantity of food into the stomach at once, the immediate had consequences imay be wind col ie, inflamation of the bowels and the surrounding ncnmembranes, a founder, and, occasionally, the swelling of food eaten dry, causes a rupture of the stomach er intestines. An an imal scantity fed fIom day to day, sometimcs gets loose and finds access to a bag or bin of grain anid being huingiry, gorges himself almost to sufoceation; or- a bad servant nsay feed to ex:cess, and out of all reason. We have frequently wondered why girain or- water- taken into the stom ach of a horse should so inanediately affet his feet, produin~g the inithan ation calledi lawmnis--an inllaimed state of the extreme vascular mem brane or luminua of the hoof. Let us see if we can get at the philoso phty of a conunon founder-. A trans lation of a positiv'e disease froma one par-t of the system to another by what Doctors call metastas is coin mnoni enughi; but a hor-se may- be foundered where thei-e is no p'ositive disorder ini the dligestive organs, and only' an unniatur-al irritation from the presence of water or- fod impirope ly taken into the stomach. The ex erecise and heating to which lie has beeni subjected on the highway or elsewhere. have brought the v-ascu lar and tender parts within the hoof into a condition approxinmatinig iimination, befor-e eithci- wai~r or food is swallowed. The anitecdent hard service of the feet is a material fact in the case; fnr without previous driving, and too often very hai-d driving, an acute, founder is seldom seen. A sudden shock is inflicted on the nervous system in the stornach, which is soud, and its for-ce shatters first, not tho sound stomach, hut the heated, enfeebled, and partially in flamed feet whlich are connected with the stomach by abundant nerves. If the feet of a horse be covered with water this revulsion from the stom ach to the lainina of the hoofs seldom occurs to an injurious degree. 'This brief explanation indicates the pro. priety of bleeding, and letting a re cently foundered horse stand in a stream of water to cool his feet. Give him rest and physic. Proper feeding implies the use of neither too much nor too little grain, and a due proportion of hay, corn-blades, shncks,.straw, peavines, or other forage, which better be cut before it is consumed. If this forage is sound, bright, and was harvested at the right time, less grain will suffice to keep horses in a good condition. Where ona ls neither bay, nor blades, nor - xr, much care should be had less h. '..ly nutritive food, like corn, produce eruptions on the skin, enlar gement of the liver yel. low water, and other maladies. If no other bulky forage, can be had, horses should have brows with their grain to aid in disfcnding the stom ach and intestines; for bulk is an im portant element in healthy digestion. Glanders and Farey have a co'm mon origin, the vitiated state of the blood, and are regarded as only dif ferent stages of a progressive disor der. As induced by insufficient or bad food, farcy as usually appears first, and may continue some time before any symtoms of glanders pre sent themselves. Farey is charac terized as an unhealthy inflanation of the absorbent vessels and glands, which become swollen from the depo. sition of lymph, and soon ulcerate 'and discharge matter of a morbid and varying character. The poison from farcy-buds is carried in the blood to :ail parts of the body, and under fa -vorable circumstances, rapidly produ ceoiself. Tubercles are formed in fifthe'lymphatic glands' and in the sisfance of the lungs. Ulcerations 'appear on- the mucous membrane of thic ndstrild, ivl~h is at kedn'o a count of its high vascularity. Those parts first under disintegration which require for their healthy existence the largest amount of blood. Be tween the first symptoms of farey and glanders, and the fatal termina ticn of the disease, a very variable time intervenes, according to the strength or feebleness of the consti lution, and the virulence of the mal ady. Whatever impairs the general health, or in any way vitiates the integrity of the system, may be re garded as a cause of glanders. It fullows colds, influenzas, diabetes, and perhaps all other debilitating affec tions incident to bad shelters, over work, and insufficient food. Like all other diseases that mark the prena. ture loss of vital power, farcy and glanders are much easier prevented than cured. When from any cause the gland-, mucous or serous mem branes of an animal become inflamed, while its general health and constitu. tion are yet unimpaired, the purulent, or aqueous secretions that may ensue, as in colds or common distempers, are of a healthy natur-e, and they ser-ve to work off the inflamnmator-y action, which results in a speedy and perfect recover-y. To maintain the stamina of life in full vigor- in all ani mnals of any value, is an object of imporomtance; for the pinicipal applies to persons as well as to beasts and bir-ds. Proper care and protection, avoiding all extremes, and unneces sary exposunre, anid feeding regularly, that the system may nevei- be surfeit ed by- an excess of nutrien-t matter in the digestive and assimilated or gans, and never weakened by a defi ciency of the same, arc the cardinal points in animal physiology to be kept constantly in view. All infected an imals should be removed from those still undiscased, lest the exhialation fr-oim the former andl perhaps dir-ect contact, communicate the distemper to the latter. I n col nmn lib (lel dnt you ollen judge and iaisjuidge a nmn's whole conduet, settinig out fromn a wr-ong impress~in? Tetonie of a voice, a word( ini joke, or a trii le in, beha vio.url-thle cut of his hali-, or tile tie of his neckeloth,, may dJisfigurme him in your eyes, or poisoni your- good opinlion; or at thle enld of years of inltiumacy- it may be your clo sest friend says somnething, reveals somnethling which had-eviously becin am secret, which alters all your views about him, andim shows that lie has been acting on quito a dil'erent motive to that which y'ou filmcied you knew. Virginia has 600 miles of Rail road compled and 610 miles moro in progress. A LITTLE QUAKERESS IN A j1it RY TO GET MARRIED.-An amusing matrimonial story is told of the olden time of New England. It so fell out that two young people became very much smitten with each other; as young people sometimes do. The young woman's father was a wealthy Quaker-the young man was poor but respectable. The father could stand no such union, and resolutely opposed it, and the daughter dare not disobey openly. She "met him by moonlight," while she pretended nev er to see him-and she pined and wasted in spite of herself. She was really in love-a state of sighs and tears, which woman oftener reach in imagination than in reality. Still the father remained inexorable. Time passed on, and the rose of Mary's damask check passed off. She let no concealment, like a "worm in the bud," prey on that damask check however; but when her father asked her why she pined, she always told him. The old gentleman was a wid ower, and loved his girl dearly. Had it been a widow mother who had Mary in charge, a woman's pride nev er would have given way befire the importunities of a daughter.-Men are not, however, so stubborn in such matters, and when the father saw that the daughter's heart was really set'upon the match, he surprised her one day by breaking out "Mary, rather than mope to death, thee had better marry as thee choses, and when thee pleases." And what did Mary do? Wait till the birds of the air had told her swain of the change, or wait till her father had time to alter his mind a gain? Not a bit of it. She clapped her neat, plain bonnot on her head, walk ed directly into the street, and then as directly to the house of her in tended as the street could carry,,,her Spe .w.alked into the hitg knocking-for- kno -'ckigg asa : then fashionable-and sh' found the family just sitting down to dinner. Some little commotion was exhibited at so unexpected an apparition as the heiress in the widow's cottage, but she heeded it not. John looked up inquiringly. She walked to him, and took his hands in hers: "John," said she, "father says I may have thee." And John got directly up from the dinner table, and went to the parson's. In just twenty-five min utes, they were man and wife! MANURING SAND WITH CLAY. Judge Dowey, of Maidstone; Ver't., applied twenty loads per acre, beat fine when dry, and spread evenly in the spring, on a sandy piede cf land. The grass came on luxuriantly during the summer, and where he before obtained half a ton of hay ho got one end a half tons. Since the -,a ;ood crop has been annually produced. The best soils ai-e composed of '5 per cent. alumina to 5 per cent. of sand. These to gether make what we call a good loam, which has retentive power enioughi to hold manure and moisture. Clay on a sandy soil may well be called the best dressing which can be applied, because it is thie most dura ble of any. AN EFFECTIxoG Sion.--We wit nessed a very affecting sight yester day. A girl was about crossing Mer win street bridge with a little wagon containig what a casual observer would suppose to be a child-a neat little counterpane folded delicately down from the "neck of the initocent, and its face concealed by a blue veil. Prescntly', in ascending the bridge, the vehicle unfortunately upset, antd out rolled the precious contents, irn the shape of--not a "haby," gentle reader, but a well filled whiskey, *jug!-whichi was dashed to pieces against a stone1 The grief of the "old folks at home" for the loss of the "dear craythur" whose "spirit" had just took its flight, was no doubt inconsolable.--Cler'elanzd True .Demn. If you wish to increase the size rnd pr-ominence of' your eyes, just keep account of the money you spend f hily, and add it up at the end yecar. I'vE J'INED THlE Cnnt wvhat, an old toper said, the as he 'brought up' ag Jackson's meeting how I shall soon die,C a long jouney.'' Cuffy, I guessy causo il's all t SAM SLICK ON UOH In his last book, Wio.;.% Modern Instanices.' Mr.11 marks in the follo'ing itru" Hope and Disappointment i 'Hope! what is hope? ex some unsertin thitig or fno Pr., happen. Well, sposen it don't b pen, why then there ii a n' ii erup of disappointment to that's all. . What's the use o at all then? I iever 6ooiildse use under the sun in it. Tha ought tb be struck out of everylA tionary. I'll tell Webster--soiwh n' he gets out a new edition of hisn Love Id painted likb a ttle with wings and a bow and arrdl called cupid-.the name of moth lap-dog. Many's the one IVo'pa ed on clocks, little, bhubby-cheqlie onmeanen, fat, inbberly, crittirsi suppose it typifies that Love is a fop Yes, and how he does fool folks, Boys and galls fallin love. -h- . is all attention and devotion,'and gall is all smiles, and airs, and&:gi ces, and pretty little winnin' way and they bill and coo, and get a ried because they hope. Well, do they hope! Oh they hopeA will love aU the days of theirlive and they hope their lives willbe e so long just to love each otberi such a sweet thirig to love. el they hope a great deal inore I:ge The boy hopes arter he's marridd hi wife will smile as aweet as ever -a twice as often, and be just asneIh and twice ad neater, her hair lop0-* like part of the head, so tight"' bright, and glossy, and parted onTh: top like a little path in the fo A path is a sweet little thing-or' seems made a purpose for couri it is so lonely and. retired" N~jG teaches its Use; le says, for.t breede as it whispersiises the;ie and help ohe gerin afore it rnove? ~Ot. Poor fel6 aint spoonyjat all. Is he ' nd hb hopois that her teinbper will b'as.e tle, and as meek, and a il as d in fact, no teiper at alI-al - billy-an angel in petticoats. she hopes every minute he ha spare he will fly to her on the'WIn" of love-legs aint fast enough, d running might hurt his lungs, butfl to her-and never leave her, but bi. and coo forever, dind will let h be his law; sartainly tont want h. to wait on him, but for him to t4 on her, the devoted critter-Ske heavenly ministeiing tvhite he bi Well, don't they hope they may go all this ? And do they 7 Jist into any house you like, and thelar two thtit talks in these hits been loL ers. They have said their say, an are tired talking; thy kissed the kiss, and an onion has spiled it! te. have strolled their stroll, for the de# is on the grass all- day now. dress is ontidy, and smokes - black pipo (he didn't even amo cigat before lie was matlnd,, the asheS gets on his waistcoat,;A who caires? it's only his wifee tseB it-and he kinder guesses he se wrinkles, wheie he never saw ' afore, on hei- stocking aneles, ai her shoes are a little, just a litt~e down to heel; and she comned idow to breakfast with her hair atnd da lookin as if it was a little mnoe-* er, it would be a little more b lIe sits up late with old friend,j he lets her'go to bed alone;. an cries, the little angell buti because she has a headac heart---ho! there's nothi but she is lately trouble in' bad nervous heada think what in thew The dashing yo got awful stin says house-k rips out an then, she hopes Why, but a