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flw Caucaster CfDorr. : | '' ? VOLUME XVI. LANCASTER C. H., S. C., DEC., 12, 1867. NUMBER 41; Sut LovingootTs Dream. < I was orful dry totber day, (Jeorge, an' ( (India a lot ov green whisky, I jisl sucked I | In a skinful ov it strait along. The fust | mouthful I swallered I hearn splosh in my ( keels. I wur dry and empty both, by < golly, so dry that art or hit riz purty well j Up in me, hit soaked through and stood | fcll over me in drapa, tnakin mo look li!te i a big relikule kivered with beads, but I i swelled tighter urter a while, then I tilled 1 Up purty soon. As soon as I cood rotcu t bit by tunnin a spoon handil down my I tb'oate, I shot off steam, and sot into fovin routi. Hit warnt long before 1 , found mys?if tangled by the laigs in the I ( tlorg fennel, and I fell in h heap down bill, 10 I tbort llie mos peaceful thing I could do war to go to sleep, a thiukin ov . a runnin wintnill. Well, 1 dreamed me a dream. I thort | 1 wur in hell, and had bin sent tliar fur ( votin the Uadtkd ticket. I felt the jestice ( ov the sentence so much that I didn't T^el ] no oneasy and mad about hit as I would , a bin ef they had ami me thar fur muf, derin a bline olo 'oman, or mahin a hack |->g ov ailm gal's fust hahy, arter aoakin ! hit in turpentine, or aich like cotr.mon j wickedness. 1 thort I bed bin thar long enuf to sorter begin ?o git used to the it... -i.i-i... .>? j .i? ut mo ?T?n^fv> inrv mum uowvi mar, an I niitss say ! thinks liit a little better j than tlie truck what ihe skulkers out ov , the Confcdrit nrmy biled for the govern ' mum, because bit didn't create the appei | tite to en*, steal or do<arl half as soon on 1 me, in Topbet, a." tbat. 'Twas Aafer whis i ky, George, safer ahisky. Well, I tliort ' bell was a jierfec roun hole?as roun ns a b un shell, right hi *he settler ov tbu yeartli. The walls war glazed as slick as ! Ml' inyiin peel in, ftnu wur but jeat lialf fall ov melt) <1 dinner pots, dorg irons, an ole clock wales, wub a scum of smoking | brimstone a foot deep Tlje )>uvil staid | aboard ov a bote, and bad bissclf rowed , roun jest as l.e pleased, by tlie jury what I found the bill agin 1'eft Davis. They looked like thnde 11ka tb have another )?>p at that job. I think, by trolly, thade ' limit, a l?''g spell afur tliit found hit j al"h. I tliort 11ftr war long lather aidged clea'.a nailed In the wall to clime by.? Tim wiir f tjunr nidged up, ao the clitnin j has all to be done on one side, ami when 1 fellert got tired o* swimmin, they jest aot Into cliinir the cleat*. I noticed that new miner! wilt powerful fond ov climin.? I Thadfl ?orter slack oil ?oineliinee, ontil Ilia ?unk into the melted clock wates up to tli? pint ov their tail hone, and by the goat ov a steered monkey, tlieyd come tip overhanded to their work agin, je?t a i wrigltn and a snortin. They worked like ] aqurila on a tred mill. Durned ef tit a i d dent keep (lie thing roMin itrtle along, ahd George, jest a* sure a* yon Ar n ftit i high, that's what lecy* the yearth turnin roun ; I found liil out at last. Well, one day the trsp dore opened j and the Devil ordered old Forney to steer under the bole lie steers wild, no after | awimmin nearly all over hell, he got thar, when down poured into the bote the durndest sluice of mean looking cusses , you ever seed. Everybody already thar turned thar heads to look at 'em, an clum faster, rkeered at Vm by golly. Tha wur ! lUdikils, the last durned one. Sum had j rope* roup their nex, with a running noos j ahind the year, sum hsd holes in their ! heads, sutn had a big gill cut under their I chin, and everv one showed sines of hard times an hurry. 1 seed Stevens, Sumner, Wade, Duller, stirnsmed the Iteast, an Wendell Phillips. "Iley," acz the Devil, 1 "abit'i rong above?colery !" "Wue nor that," eez Sumner, "the Constitution peoi J pie has rit an or k? rce we are here; swr your Majesty, is Preston It rook a here!" j "Oh, oo," em the Devil. "Well, sez Sumner, sorter brighlnin up and ruhbin hin It ant. "I'm domed glad he ain't." ? 'Stop a minit," eea the Devil, wait till I sotte you all out." He took up a i.eedil , , at long at a harpoon, and with a big quile ( of trace chains he threaded it. Then he picked out all the common cus?ee among I 'em, an ttrung V.n on the chain, an hung the hole bunch over the aidge of tha bote in to the brimstone. Jehoiaphalt how they aiuled anil dove and aloehed an ^ aprinkled hot iron about with their taila. A a'.ring of aun pearch wood a bin no ( whar. While the Devil ?ur a aortlo the amall ' fry, Duller, anroamed the Ileaat, aidged I back to whar I eot in the bote, a keepin 1 one eye aorter on the Devil, an (other on 1 me, and he wbiapered in roy year, "whar'a Hiaphuaf" I, "don't know, why." O, notllin, only wanted to aee which 1 node the moat o? our traida, hiut or me." I Then be whiapewed, ('l.at mortal o(T ere I ov h't-n wtill aot or, the Devil) ,4aay, do ] yon knuw whar hit nnjeaty keeps hit ^ t V spoons f* Sez I, "does you see that chain hangin over the starn ! he keeps | bid in a big pot sunk at tolher eend ov hit." lie jest went over the starn head ' i fust, and conned hit down the chain, out- 1 snside under the brimstone. Arter being j down a spell, he cum back tookin diaper* ! iled like, but his gineral loox wur power- 1 fully improved by a bath in melted brim* itcne. 1 swow ho lookta heap more like ? human. Sez he, "gone, pot andall."? I opened inv eyes. Sez he, "haint Fori ( nev got em f" Sez I, "Mebby so?he's binfmnblin round the starn a good while." | l-terned ef lie didn't enrch every pocket 1 ole Forney had, and the ole eus never J colch him at hit, end tie got ik* ipoons. j While this wus agoing on, Old Thud ^ wur a trying to claim kin with the Devil, | a compsriu hi* foot along with olu Nick's. I think the pint wur to git oflis, for ! hern the Devil keep say-in, "No, ro, I be Jurn ef I do; we has order here now," an all the time ole Wade were a pesterin bis Majesty for a free ticket on hiadogge ry. I seed that the Devil wur a gittin monstrous oneasy. Wendel Phillips kep a watching fust the side that went down i undei theclimers, and then the hide what | come up out ov the lake. He just hop* ned overboard and Ilium nunr it.?? - I tried liia durnest to turn hit tGlher way. ! He grabbed llto slnpin side ov the cleats, | and held on a* long as he couM, and > then slosh back ngm among the melted 1 dorg-iroos and brimstcme. I reckon he must a made fifty trials afore lie quit and ; swum hack to the hote, and then lie sot ' in the most yoirnest manner, to persuade i the I >??vil to take (lithe e'eats an nail em ! on again upside down, so as to run hell , backward, an o? korce the outside world J with hit, without givin a reason why hit j would help the matter. This made the Devil bile over, lie ted not a duri.ed one ov em should stay thar another hour, that thade raise a rebellion and destroy , the institution, and thet wha: would tlie ^ *u(iu uuf jMirucuiany 11? .,ni/lund f? | I tell you lie jest rared ret he, "III clear j my dominions or you diirned quirk," and i lie ranged a liig hum mortar what were j in the bote, point hlank at the hatchhole, i and he loaded in oie Wade, feet fu?t, aud , made Forney teteli hit off. By golly, he went whitzen thru (lie hole, and hit rifned whisky on the lake ontil it burnt blue.? Next he grabbed ole Tliad Sez he, tremhlin, "l'lea**, your Mageaty, lode her in with me," pintin to a she nigger strung on a chain. Ret the Devil, "No, > air, I think we can manage her arter you : are gone, and besides she loox like alie ! needed a little reat." Bang 1 an I jeat . cotch a glimpse ov Thad'a crooked foot ' scrapie a splinter off the hatch. Com in j nex, he yoked Stunner, and ho begged to i he loaded lied fust, as he aed he'd always traveled aturn fur?t thru life, an he wanted io nnian hi* J'-rny llie same way on account of hi* record. So sturn f?*t he come ! outen the hatch hole, and I recon sturn j fust he busted a^ain suinthin away yoio dar on the outside, llutler's, surnamed the Beast, turn euin next. While the Devil wur a loadin him in, I observed , hiio busy hutnin up his pockets. When the mortar fired I was watchin tlie hatch hole elost ; I did cut like the idea ov his lea*in, but durned ef he went thar, he | follore I the line of liis cock eye, and bust, ed inter a million pieces agin the wad.? Sooons an broastlnina fell ? font >11 1 r over the lake, nn I hearo the wiminin nil cheer. The Devil then ticked hit lip*, en went for Wendel, but tie jest loped o\er board and dove, and to save liia life, the Devil couldn't find hirn. He'll mine trouble lhar jet, aee il be don't. Nex he grabbed Forney, hia steersman, an a< z be, "you don't steer to suit me," ar. he comi menced Joadin him in, and don't jou believe, just as the cuaaes bed wer goin j out ov site, he whispered in the Devii's ear that I was Jamisoo, the acter. The Devil remarked, "I've got nothin agin Jamison; you is the one," made at ine by golly jest beca?e ha seed the lieast outmo art fed him in the spoon bizineM. Thar will be peace in bell for a short while, if the Devil can ketch Wendel, and reconstruct the durned raskil. I r?eon ha will ketch him for he set all (be rerenu detectives artnr him, an I tell you, j [Jeorge, hell is full ov the mean cusses, < in more a comin. Ole smutty reached for me last one, and put me down hia gun, ' i I eat into beggln hard. Be* he, "you mui '' ;o, the prosperity of my kingdom de< 1 j mauds that nuthin liavin the smell or i radikil on to hi* dote kin stay here." "tut out your tongue a little furthor," j ] laid a physician to a female patient; "a I ittle further, madam, if you pleate?a I Htle further still.** "Why, doctor, do i >ou think there's no end to a woman's | ongtro V cried the fair invalid. , t Appropriations for the year 1868. 11 It in hereby ordered that the following ! judii shail he appropriated for the pay" meet of the various offices nnd expenses of the State Government: I. Executive Department: For the i salary of the Governor, $3,500 ; for the Private Secretary of the Governor, $1, 200 ; for the Messenger of the Governor, j $100 ; for the Contingent Fund of the ' Executive Department, $25,000, to he { subject to the draft of the Governor, and | to be accounted for annually by him to ! the Legislature; for rent of the Goven : nor'a house ic Columbia, $300; for two watchmen for the new Slate House *nd*j , grounds, $000, to he drawn on draft of i ( State House Keeper; for the salary and I services of the Secretary of Stale, in lieu of all charges against the State for signi 1 iug commissions, $">00. I II. Lroirlativc IJepautmknt ! For I the salary of Keeper of State House and ' Librarian, $300 ; for contingent expenses < of Legislative Library, to ho paid on draft of Librarian, accounted for by him at the i Treasury, and reported by the Treasurer i to the (ieneral Assembly, $'200, if so much i bo necessary. III. Judiciary Dkfartmkkt : For the ; salary of the Chief Justice, $3,500 ; for j the salaries of ten Judges and Chancel j lorn, $3,000 each ; for the salary of the AttorneyCieneral, $1,1 00 ; for the ssla ries of fiv? Solicitors, $900 each ; for tlio salaries of thirty one !>istrirt Judges, at j $500 each, $15,500; for the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, who shall ho the Li brarian, $300, the same to include the expenses of fuel; for the salary of the Messenger of the said Court, $2'25 ; for the purchase of hooka for the Library of the Court of Appeals, $1,000, to he drawn and expended hy order of the pre? j aiding Justice ; f^r firewood ar.d fuel for ^ the Court of Appeals, $50, if so much ho necessary ; for the salary of State Report er, $1,500; and the several nppropria tiona aforesaid, for the Clerks, Librarians, j Messengers, Reporters, and for the inci i dental expenses of the Court of Appeals, j shall he paid by the Treasurer only upon ' warrants to he drawn by the presiding Judge of the Court of Appeals, at such j time and for sucli portions as he may j deem just and proper ; and it shall he the duty of suid Reporter to attend in ; person or by deputy the sittings of the Court of Appeal*, and to report such *ri guinea!* nix] statement* of feet* hi may be necessary to a correct understanding of the decision* of *aid Court; for the pay of jurors and constable*, JfrGU.OOO, if ; so much be neeessarn. * i IV. TRKAauriY Dkvautmkxt ; For sal ; ary of Treasurer of State, 3,200, includ* i ing the salaries of one or more clerks ; I C _ ... - t - * n - ^ ' I mr *H.nry 01 me i>ompirouer tveneral, ! <( 2,500, including clerk'* salary, said clerk to l?e appointed by, and rem"vcd at the pleasure of tlie Treasurer and Coinptrol i lor-General respectively; to the Cotnp troIler-General, <=200 for making out copi 1 ie* of the tax returns in 1868, for pub i lulling the tax and appropriation orders, [ if so much bo necessary, $>00, to Le expended by the Comptroller-General and accounted for to the General Assembly ; for the contingent expenses of the Cotnpt . troller General's and Treasurer's office, j printing tax books and instruction* to cob lectors, and distributing the same,<13,500. i V. Tiik Univkumtt ok So. Carolina: For the salaries of eleven Professors, $11, j 000; for the Librarian tf the University, 1 who shall be the Secretary of the Hoard 1 of Trustees, $000, to he paid bytheTrea surer of the State quarterly in advance, his drafts being countersigned by the , Chairman of the Kxecutive Committee of the Hoard of Trustees', for salary of the Treasurer of the University, $400 ; for salary of the Hursar and Marshal, $4C^, and for repairs to the University buildings ' $2,000, if ao much he necessary. VI. Ordinaht Civil Expiimks: For payment of contingent accounts of the State, $25,000; for dieting and trans porting prisoners, $00,000, If so much be necessary ; for support of free schools, #25,000, provided, that tlia amount thua appropriated shall be distributed accord ing to population, and slinll be applied to the benefit of all classes; for the Lunatic Asylum, #10.718 ; provided, tbat the sum of #0,000 shall be refunded to the Treasury of the State, when the arrears* gee due from the Commissioners of Poor of the several Districts shall be paid. VII. oantnakt Local Kxp?ndituh*k: For maintaining and Keeping open the [toper Hospital, In Charleston, #3,000, to he paid to the Medical Society, In trust ' ror the Uoper Fund, to defray the expen* > tee of said hospital; for the salary of the [>hy?iciau of the jail at Charleston, com- I Tioncing the 27th day of Marcb, 1867, ^ I >500 ; for enforcing the quarantine in ] South Carolina, $1000 ; and for the aal ' iry of the Tort Physician of Charleaton, I nclnding boat liire, $800. VIII. For the Rupport of the Catawba 1 Indiana, $1,200, if ao much be necessary, I o bo paid to the order of the Indian ' \genl, and to be expended under the or ler of the Governor. IX. Public Buu.dinoh : For comple. iinjf the roof of the Biate House in pro- , sesa of construction, $2,000, if so much :>e necessary ; for continuing the conOruetiou of the Penitentiary, for the pay ' >f ofTicers and guards, for subsisting guards and convicts, and for clothing tcmvict*, $8tX,000, to be paid on the dr-if's if the Governor, from timo to time, as the several sums may be needed. X Extraordinary Exurnditurks :? For the rent and fixtures of a house for [he use of the Court of Appeals, $300, the contract relating thereto to be approitpfl kr itla tiisi.'aa * . ? ~j ...v %/?<vi vuciiLc, uciuro me inonay is drawn on his order. XI. It shall be the duty of the Commissioners of Public Buildings in the sev. eral Distrifta to furnish tbe jailor or sher iff thereof with a sufficient number of blankets for the comfort of all prisoners, and also to pa) for such medical attention and medicines as may be required by the sick. The sheriffs and jailors of the sot eral Districts in this State will promptly make requisitions upon the Commissioners for blanket*, and, if the same are not ' furnished by the Commissioners within ! five days, the sheriff shall report the fail- | tire to these headquarters, giving the names of the persons who may be the Commissioners in bis District. XII. The contingent accounts of clerks, sheriff*, coroners, magistrates, constables, and other officers of this State, shall he forwarded tr? ttia (.?vti?. ? i ?- - r?.w.?>. I who shall audit the same, and if found conformable to law, he ahall draw hit) warrant upon the Treasurer for the payment thereof. XIII. Toe Act entitled "An Act to provide for the issue of bills receivable in payment of indebtedness to the Stale, to the amount of $500,000, passed Decern her 31, 18(35, and the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the redemption of hills receivable, issued by this State," passed ed September t!0, 1800, are hereby continued in force. XIV. The Treasurer of the Stato of South Carolina is hereby authorized to pay the appropriations herein made, and it. 1 .? iiic nninuea oi pilOUC OUJOers, pl?VHltle 1>V law, out of funds applicable thereto, which have fallen due since the first day of October, 18G7, and which may here? after fall due. XV. No monies rai.seJ under the pro visions of this order, or the Acts herein mentioned, shall he applied to the pay merit of principal or Interest of any debt contracted or incurred in support of the late war against the United States. I loitKini.K 1 > a It b Aii it i kb IIT AN A frio an Kino.?The latest news from Abyssinia developes King Theodore in a still more blood-thirsty aspect. He had made an expedition to the small Island of Metrata, in the Lake Tana, and put every iuhabii toil In .1.... lit i.~ ? ? 1 umiu ujr ? , iiicu nt) mane a trip to Ifag, A flourishing town in Foggara, aeized 1,500 peaaants, placed them in five large houses and burned them alive. It is said there is now not a single man, wo man or child, alive, between Debia Tabor and Emfras, on the borders of Deinbea. In the camp, his Majesty has been pur suing the same game. Having heard that 2,000 of his troops wished to desert, be hsd them surrounded by the others and their throats cut like cattle; the mothers, wives, children and nearest re latives of the men being pistoled by the soldiery. 265 chiefs of districts have had their hands and feet cut otF aud have been left to starve. Til a Florida Ei.kction.? A corres* pondent of the Savannah Republican writes as follows from Jacksonville, under date of 23d inst. If we are correctly informed, and we believe we are, there was not more than 000 white votes cast in the State, out of over 11,000 whites registered. The result of the election in Florida is marked and significant in the extreme.? It is a clear indication of the actual drill of public mind, even in that State which ha* Seen relatively undisturbed hy social outrage* and excitements, and where the line of demarcation between the races has been lest visible and not so rigidly insisted upon, The white Republicans in that Htate number about 2,000, including the native Union element, loyal refugees, or Northern emigrants, and not one half of them are said to have voted at this elect lien. Delegates to the ConventionThe following are llie delegates elected to the Reconstruction Convention of this State so far as heard from. Of the one hundred and twenty whoso names are given, fifty four are white and sixty three negroes: Abbeville.?John A. Hunter (White,) Baily Milford (w.,) HuUon J. Loinax, Thomas Williamson, Nelson Joiner (Colored.) Anderson.?William Perry, Dr. N. J. Newell (w .) Samuel Johnson (c ) Barnwell.?Charles P. Leslie, Niles G. Parker (w.,) James N. Hay no, Julius Mayer, Charles L>, llayue, Abraham Mi J1 dleton (c.) Beaujort.?Francis E. Wilder, Rueben G. Holmes, James 1). Roll (w.,) J. J. Wright, Robert Sinalls, W. J. Whipper, Landen S. Lang ley (c ) Berkley.?Joseph H. Jonks, A. C. Richmond, T. Hurley, 1). II. Chamber' lain (w.,) W. II. W. Gray, Geo. Lee, Reojamin Ryas, Win. Jerrey, M. F. Reeker, (c.) Charleston.?Frederick A. Sawyer, CC. Rowen, A G. Mackey, Gilbert Pills bury, (w.,) A. J. Ransier, R. II. Cain, F. L. Cardoza, R. C. Do Large, Wiu. McKinley, (c.) Chester.?R. Rarton, S. Sanders, P. Alexander, (e.) ChesttrjicUl.?R. James Donaldson, (w.,) II. L. Shrewsbury, (c.) Clarendon.? FJias K. Dixon, (w.,) Will liam Nelson, (c.) Colleton.?John K. Terry, Jesse S, Craig, (w ,) W. M. Viney, Win. M, Thomas, Win. Drills. (c.) Dor tiny ton.?15. F. Whittermore, (*.,] Isaac Hrockenton, Jordan Lang, Richard LIumbird, (c ) Edgefield.?George 1). Meddes, Johr Wooley, F. Arnaitn, (*? ,) R. C. Elliott | 1*. R. R'vers, J. 15or.utn, D. Harris, (c.' j Fairjield.?James M. Rutlin, (w.,) II I). Edwards, II. Jacobs, (c.'j Greenville.? James M. Allen, J. M Runion, W. 15. Johnson, (? ,) Wilsoi Cooke, (c.) Georgetown.?F. F. Mill per, II. W Webb, (w.,) James MouHrie, (c.) Horry.-"Henry W. Jones, Auguatu j Reaves (c.) Kerthaxo.?J. K. Jillson, 8. G. W j Dill, (w..) John A, Cheanut (c ) I Loxxeaster.?Albert Clinton, Cbarle i i.-,.. \ y-./ Lexington.? I lou. Lemuel Boozei Simeon Corley (w ) Marion.? William Collin* (?.,) H. F 1 lay tie, Benjamin A. Thompson, J. W Johnson (c.) Marlboro.'?George Jackson (w.,) Ca Tin Stubbs (c.) AVicherry.?B. 0Jell Duncan, Jamc Henderson (w.,) Lee Nance (c.) Orangeburg.?K. \V. M. Mackey (w? I!. F. Randolph, T. K. Sa?fortas, W.J McKinley, E. J. Cain (c ) Jlichland.?T. J. Boberson (w.,) C. M Wilder, W. R. Nash, S. B. Tbompso (? > Spartanburg.?J. P. F. Camp, Co Wingo, John 8. Gentry, Rice Foster. Sumter?T. J. Coghlan, F.J. Kfosei jr. (w.,) Wm. E. Johnson, Samuel Le (c.) Union.?T. J. Peter, W. II. Sims, J P. Thomas (?.) Williamsburg.?Charles M. Olsen, i A. Swails (w.,) Win. Darrington (c.) York.?W. E. Rose, Dr. J. C. Nei gle (w.,) J. II. White, John W. Mea <c-> . . ? Pickens.?Alexander Bryce, Sr., \ Mauldin (w.,) EI. Ligins (c.) Tint Rkt-kai. ok tiik Cotton TaxAn Important Proviso.?The who! body of the Northern press and peopli not to speak of the South, are uow clan oring for the immediate repeal of the co Ion tax. Not a single voice, we beiievi has yet been raised against the measun and it seems to be conceded on all sidei that flnnorao will ?no./lil?t .* J *1 I, v?. ? ... -j'tioui.j inopuuu kU HI popular demand. We notice, howevei that noma of the leading New York joui nr.la augg. at that, in tlia act of repeal, ! clause should provide that no cotto should he exempted except that which i ' in the hand* of the producera. It ia urg ed that there will he no injuatica in thi for thoee who have bought have road : their purchases with the knowledge c I the law. Thia propoaed proviao wil doubtless have a tendency to check ship j roenta from the interior until Congres ah all have taken definite action in tb matter.? Char. Newt. "Betaev, get up and get ma tomelhinj to eat " "Why, John, there's nothing cooked.1 "Wall, c?l up and cook something." "There's nothing to cook." "Nothing at all!" "No." "Well, get up, and get a clean knift and fork?I'll go through the motiom anyhow." The Farming Business. The Southern farmer was badly crippled by the war, and also by unfavorable seasons in 1805 and 1800 ; and now by the low price of cotton has blasted ' his expectations in many respects, and ! consequently he feels discouraged. The unjust tax imposed by the Government j on cotton and tobacco has not only injured the prodacer of these articles, but has I curtailed the wages of freed men and oth? er laoorers, and in that way done harm ' to the country. The etlect of these things ! wc nre sorry to believe, will be to lessen the demand for labor, for no doubt many will abandon the cultivation of cotton to a great extent, and turn their attention to other products of tho soil, especially wheat and corn. A farmer in Georgia expresses his determination in the following manner, and i it might be more profitable for others to form the saino resolution ; 'The low price of cotton, though ruinous to us, will be advantageous in certaio results sure to follow. The demand for negro labor will not be so great; we will I have to biro for a part of tho crop, and let cotton be the surplus. I 6hall pay special attention to raising stock, plenty of hogs, corn, rice, small grain, make the plantation self,sustaining, and then what I can in cotton. Then a cotton crop is extra, and what it brings we can keep ia our pockets. There will bo a vast change in the planting system ; heavy manuring to make one acre bring its bale, and lying ' out in pasture, where stock can be raised ' and fed, plenty of hogs, colts, cattle? sheep, etc. This will be my plan, and it 1 is the only plan to save us." ' Thai's the idea, liaise your own provisions, horses and mules. After tlant( ' I n r* a uii fl* ?!?*? ?*?** - ---J? *? I ? Buu vioiiwjr u? inuu iu gram, U-C., lO ^ | secure this result, then devote what you ) can cultivate, in addition, to cotton.? 1 When this course is pursued by our planI ters, they will cease to (eel the scarcity j of money. 3 M M Incendiary Radical Speech. We call the attention of the military ? authorities to the following paragraph taken from the Winnsboro Neivt : r We are reliably informed that Heverly Nash, Esq , a colored magistrate in Kieb land District, appointed by the order that General Sickles issued, and a peace offir* cer, according to his office and his oath, recently made in Fairfield District, before '* one of the Union Leagues, a speech, of | which the following it an extract in sub* 1 stance : I ! - - I lie ssid: "Kather than yield the bal* lot box to Democrats or rebels, and hare '* wires and children of bis race slaves, be would take up bis musket and see the '' gullies run with blood and the bills cor* ' ered with bleaching bones ; and shogld ^ j those negroes be hung for kiting that ( boy at Walhalla, Governor Orr wouldn't 0 , be Governor six days. lie advised tha I freedmen not to contract for onedbifd, ^ i but to wait until the first of February, ' and they would have their old masters on '' their kneee to them, since the negro could 0 do better without the whito man than tbo 1 white man could do without the negro.? ' He said be was fifty seven years old, but that he expected to be a man yet?that v he expected to walk the streets of Columbia or any village, and when he offered l* his arm to any lady, white or colored,she would be proud to accept of it." Tiib IIurutcakk in Asia.?All the way from the Fhillippinc Islands coma ~ tidings of the wrath of the great tornado. e The storm has probably swept completely ' i round the globe, and raged with no leaa t. fury in the Asiatic Archipelago than in s, the Gulf of Mexico and the West Indian seas. For three days, tha town ol Meoiila was submerged, and in another part f8 of the island whole villages vanished ber' fore the psth of the tempest, and the ina habitants peri*hed by hundreds in tha n ' ruin* of their homes. It i* known that * j many vessels wore wrecked in Asintio waters, hut some time will elapse before e the extent of the damage to shipping caa >f be ascertained. > "Dear me!" sighed Mrs. Partington, '* "here I have been sutrering bigamies of 0 death three mortal weeks 1 First I was. seised with a bleeding phrenology in the { left bampshire of the brain, which was " exceeded by a stoppage of the left ventib " lator of the heart. This gave me an io* flamation in the borax, and now I am sick with the chloroform morbus. There is no blessing like that of health, parlicu* larly when you are sick." 1 The Viceroy of Egypt is the owner of more than one thousand steam ploughs.