Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THREE DOLLARS A YEAR,] FOR THE DISSEMINATION GF USEFUL INTELLIGENCE. - VOL.V~ WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 21, 1869. - THtEtERA LD 1s ?URBU.s8D sVMRY WEDNESDAY MORNING, At Newberry C. H., BY TI0S.-P. a R. H. GRE K - kius, $3 PR ANNU, INCURRENCY .,- gE ROVSIONS. -;,aagsiate iavariably in ad,ance. t- M3eXdoed, Funeral Invitations, O)bit esu ',taon4 Co an eations subservig private teestsu,ar charged as advertisements. SOUTH CAROLINA LOAN & TRUST COMPANY. Agim eapi, in lilliEn Dolla. _ THIS CONPANT IS NOW 31 Broad-st?et 1SouthWestern d for the receipt of Deposits. Dis %oaat on Paper, Purchase and Sale of Ex tsadhe transaction of a General Bank awe~dloDp upon terms es Jst .o rd Dectors. f is also a legal Depository for -n ur n receive Registry isaUest to Pay7on . I-303 CTORS: Wu, C. Bee & Co.; A. S. John Crews &Co.; Robt. Marv-, of ft.e & - W. B. Willama, Of W. B. ' So; .. Frost, of Frost & Ad. J. &Ad , of J E.Adger &Co; Henry of'.rdin Matthiessen a Co.; George L. DeBst, of Bulst & Bnit C. G. Memminger, bf*umasotr,Jerer, & Pinckney; T. J. Kerr, WT.mJ. a Co.;. D. Aken, ofJ. D.Aiken & Ce; John Campeen. of Caopen & Co; A. P. C sio..A "P CC W - en J. r 3rlaan . O'Neil, J. J. laregg, or feoeimation. address ftFj. 8 CAMEROv. Presidert. CBOS. R WARING, Cashier. thuimalem. S C., March 12,1869. Narh1.S1.m - , NEMERRY FE MA ACADEMY. RFY. J. M. HILLBOUSE-PRINCEPAL. iAris LAY.LL, Assistants. Ma F. Wasmsa-Professor of Macic : . & Pax--Chirman Board Trustees. r4ter, of 2j mouths, payable and Firxt Lsa's in ie. Engtish Grammar and eograpy,Arith 1 is*ory, . .. . $750 a eek, Frencb, Logic. Rhetoric. - u_ental and Moral Sel *1 ~00 IWPspfl will be charged at the same time 1ish mge en we of the preceding rates. MsIc, extra-$25 p--r session of five ,itb the Principal and others, en resnbeterms. Ta. g- struction afforded in all the tbnoebes of iberal education. CottonPluntCookStove; WITH .ain and Extenion Top, Isege.eaie ad test this.Stove and frE1Ue is4 all we represent It to be. For Eornomy in Fuel ; For Durability ; For Capacity in Baking, Boil ing and Broiling ; .2ipliityin Manage For CleanTi6ss in Cooking ; F~a~ p~er of Heat in and Iboi1img, with a very siall Consumption of Fuel; M'PrTBeamty of Design. For Smoothness of Castings aiid Elegance of Finish; 1Ib&Cotton Plant" 2T1~ANS IINEQUALLED, Sole Agent for one half the State of S. C. STILES HURD, with the sWeiecr & Wilson Manufac taring Celapanys ERIDGEPORT, CONN., Is enabled to select the most perfect - lished 3Iachima~ nd forward them to tikose who may want, at the manufac (urer's price, free of commissions to the purchaser. Any orders sent thtomgh Silas Jobsetone & Win. F. Nance, will Peeie prompt attention, Dec 16 - Letter on Agriculture. By F. W. BRUGOEMAN. Letter II-Free-labor, and Slave labor. However great the losses oc casioned by the war, and especi ally in regard to the emancipation of the slaves; nevertheless, the South will enter upon a. future, which, without this calamity, de plored and still to be deplored, perhaps would never have dawned. We life in an age, in which free labor, alone, is acknowledged ; in which, only by free-labor, can any thing great in handiwork be achieved. . In this respect, the South re sembles Russia. In this country also has slavery been abolished; and, in consequence, results have been obtained in agriculture and manufactures, which had, pre viously, been considered impossi ble. The reason, why. agriculture, conducted with free-labor, obtains a higher standaid than what has been gained by slaves, is very ap parent. As the latter class of la bor is very cheap, it is little prized. The slave will seldom do more than he is compelled to do ;for he does not consider his own inter ests identical with t':ose of his master. But with the birelinst it is different. The increasing wel fare of his employer is also ad vantageous to himself. When his labor has received income, he is justified in asking-higher wages, anTti- carriea him nearer ~te end *hicb every industrious work man desires to reach : namely the possession of a homestead. Now, those men who become owners of land, in this way-who were once day-laborers, but now proprietors, make the very best practical far mers. The benefitsof free-labor will not long remain in concealment. The increase of wages will coipell the farmer of the present day, to abandon the old ineffectual man agement, and turn to the improve ments developing,.here and abroad. The question whether the eman cipated negroes will answer the purpose of day-laborers, (to become, aerwards proprietors), or wheth er tLe stream of Immigration from foreign countries is to be furterencouraged,eazi only be de ~termined by the future. The' county of New berr'y seems inclined to accept the latter view. If this' s really so, the people must not be deterred, by a few sacrifices, [omprotecting.an.d encouraging, the laborer already arrived, if they wish to secure in future, a con tin ation of Immigration. FAIna BUILINSs. We call that practical, which accomplishes the end designed, Farm buildings should answer the purpose of protecting the cattle and harvests from. bad weather and thieves. The stalls for the cattle should, first of all, have a despository for manure. Do the buildings in use, herec, ful fill this requirement ? According to my observation, only partially. The warm climate of the South does not make it necessary to have such close buildin~g as in the North, but they should be so con streted as, on t.he one hand, to shelter the harvests from rain, and, on the other, the cattle from draught of air. I will return, hereafter, to the particular con sideration of manures, and remark, here only, that. in order to secure good manure, the stables must be loored with stone or brick, or at least -with thiek planks. In tbs stables- now in use, where there is no such flooring, the best manure soaks into the ground, and is thereby lost. In this con sideration properly built stalls, most important requirements of1 good husbandry. Another error in farm buildings consists in want of compactness they are too wide apart. They should be built as nearly together as circumstances will admit. Such farm yards, as we see in England and Germany, cannot be arranged here, because the wood en material of which the houses are made, are so liable to destruc tion by fire, that very close prox imity between buildings is impos sible. Yet important improve ments can be made here, without increasing the danger of fire. Above all, horse-stables, wagon sheds and harness-rooms belong close together. If the farmer would closely consider how much time he loses, by the wide sepera tion of these buildings, perhaps he would be concerned of the wisdom of pulling them down at once, and creceting others of more prac tical design. Perhaps the neces sity of paying higher wages will give an impulse to improvement in farm architecture; buildings will be erected upon the prin ciples taught by experience and science, rather than according to inclination or accident. It may be mentioned as another advantage resulting from compact arrangement of farm buildings, that the proprietor can overlook the farm-yard and prevent idle ness and theft. A good farm-yard ought to be built in the form of a square. On one side of this square the dwell ing house must stand, and on the opposite side the stables and the ba-; 4anather pi" .the gi n house, and opposite this the sheds for the wagons and tools. Suffi cient room ought to be preserved between these several buildings to lessen danger from fire, and offord space for manure pens, &c. If, now, the spaces between all the buildings be filled up-that is the square enclosed-by a strong and high fence, and the back doors well seamed, the proprietor can supervise every thing from his chamber and his laborers can have no opportunity to indulge in mis conduct. The Letter of Governor Scott. It beseems -not a public journal todally with impurity, or to speak, without graive cause, of the .man whose life is notoriously corrupt ; and we have felt no pleasure, as we expected no profit, in baring to the broad light of day the wan ton and persistent slanders of the person who is now styled-Gov enor of South Carolina. Had the shaft been aimed at an individual, however high in character or po sition, we might have hesitated to arraign R. K. Scott, Governor, at the bar of public opinion. But the white people of the State in which we live, and whose every interest is ours, had been out rageously misrepresented and abused; and, without hesitation as without personal malice, we hast ened to expose the calumny, and to vindicate as best we might the good name of this State and of her people. And in declaring that the white people of South Carolin~a will not submit to be hectored and bullied by negro soldiery, and thatt they will never so far dishonor their ancestors and shame their wives and children as to bow to the rule of negro militia, we but gave ex pression to the feeling which quickens the pulse, nerves the arm and flushes the face of every re spectable wvhite man from the sea board to the mountains. It was not to have been expected that this feeling would have met the sympathy or indeed entered the comprehension of a man like Gov ernor Scott. The information which is now sought to be branded as false, andI upon which was founded the ar ticle which is characterized as "a blood and thunder. fulmination," was given to this .paper by a South Carolinian, of high position and unimpeachable integrity-one who has worn, with dignity .an*d dis tiction, the official robe whieh Governor Scott now sullites. That information may have been, mis understood in somie unimportant partiular but the whole suansee is coroborated by the very words in which its correctness is denied. Governor Scott admits that it had "a slight foundation in fact" and that it was necessary "to disabuse the negroes of Abbeville of the notion that they were to be im. mediately enrolled," and also "to direct them to return to their la bor and their homes." And yet Governor Scott is- weak enough to ask the people to believe that there was no cause for excitement; no cause for the negro leaving his plough, and deserting his home ; and that the Governor of the State knew nothing of all this beyond what he read in the columns of the Charleston News. But, as we have said before, ex. perience teaches Governor Scott, absolutely nothing; and he appeals ( to his past courre for his justifica tion. To a past made up of foul wrong and wanton aspersion, he appeals for his jgstification, and repeats the mendacious tale that "for many months outrages and murders were rife in several coun ties of the State." This he ac companies with many a mocking sneer and the declaration that, "no silly affection or assumption of su periority by the privileged classes will be tolerated' by him. The greater portion, however, of Governor Scott's letter is devo ted to abusing t1b paper whi h has performed, an4 will. continue to perform, the :4isagreeable task of making him known as he is to the people of S6utb. Carolina. To his abuse we iendifferent. In the record ofThe Charleston News must be found the' only reply it would, become us to make. It is not. Governor Scott who shall judge us and oar motiveg. The people of the Stterthe white peo ple of the State, must be our judges; and we shall meet their verdict with confid' cc.. We have felt that their repu tion and their honor were in-. a measure in our keeping. We hedone our beet to prorewtrseivcs fty-ftr trust. And if we desired encour agement and support, and the as surance that we have chosen the right path, we should find all these in the circumstawce that Governor Secitthas4thought us desewing of his vituperation. The praise or the thanks of . this person might stain oer. ueptatiotn and cast a shadow' on our.name, but :4is con demnation is a coveted honor and reward.-Charleston . Retributive Jdistice. The mills of the gods are said to grind slowly, but sure4y. An Ohio paper says that EDWIN P. STANTON, later Secretary of War, is in a dying condition and suffering seer'ely. What an awful death-bed will be that of this wretched man ! During the six years of strife that he wielded despotic power, ATTILA was not more merciless, ALvA was not more cruel than was STANTON, to all who had the misfortune tLo fall.into his clutches. DANTE'S fancied inscripilon over the Gates of Hell was written over all of STANTON'S dungeons. He revelled mn the torture of his vic tims. He was never so happy as when he could decree the mis ery of a whole faiiy. -Mercy, charity and~forgiveness were stran ers to him, or if he heard their voice it was only to refuse their appeals with scorn. For these deeds done in the lesh, be mply probably be soon called to answer. Did he forgive trespasses: as' he hopes that his may be forgivenr? Did he have mercy upon those in his power ? Let his whole offieial record an swer, and if in all that hideous catalogue of ferociona eruelty and crime one act leaning to mercy can be found let him still have hope. If ever-contemplating an early end of his mortal career-bhe ven tures to ask forgiveness for his manifold sins and wickedness, must not the gibbeted remains of Mrs. SURRATT and of Capt. WIrz rise up before him; must not the groans of the thousands whom he consigned to dungeons and tortur ring in his ears; must he not feel that the brand of CAIN i5 upon him, and must he not ask himself what right he has to ask mercy who. never showed'any. We hope he'-may live to learn the depths and atrocity of his crimes; that ,his conscience may infict upon him all.the tortures which he made others feel, and that finally, purified by uuffering, his penitence m*y be accepted as sinere. He that hiai noinoney needs no purse. A True Woman. A few days since the New York World indilged in some pleasant pasquin'ade over the speeches de livered at a festival of the "So rosis"--a species of feminine fool- 1 Dry now pretalent in Nei York city. A lady reader, however-a genuine one, two, from the ring )f her sentences-takes it seriously, 1 and goes for the editor in gallant tyle. One such as this "South ern woman," is worth a ten-acre geld of Anna Dickinsons, Lucy 3toues and Susan Anthonys, and all the shemales who are shreik ing for the suffrage, and seeking to be "post-mistresses." She mis conceived the object of the World's article, but has been delivered of a fne letter: UNGALLANT EDITOR OF THE WORLD. Sir: Hear me for my cause ; I come to defend my sex, but not to praise them. Because one high down lady indulged in transcen dentalisms, why do you seize the opportunity to denounce female humanity as a class of "pretty little fidgets," and "doddering, dismnal little souls ?" The great mass of women, 01 Editor, are not members. of Sorpais, nor admirers of Anna Dickinson. They do not bewail their wrongs, nor clamor for female suffrage; nor yet are their brains located . in- their chignon, nor. their souls devot ed to dry-goods. They are the dutiful daughters,faithful wives and devoted mothers of the land. For every ""fidget whose horizon is bounded by the nursery or a milliner's shop," I will find you a male mortal . w hose horizon is bounded by a billiard saloon and a spree, or who devotes quite as much anxious thought to the cut of his coat, and the style of his unexpressibles, as the bell does to her train and panier. And for every nian who "bears a cross and a burden in the doddering dismal little soul be has madly s;vorn to love and eherish," I will find a trae and devoted woman bound to a brutal, or unfaithful, or drunken husband; bearing her burden pa tiently, though it drives the light from her eyes, and hope from her heart. I hope you will not think me - vain if I'cite myself as a fair e,ample of -the mass of my sex. I claim to be simply an average American woman, neither above, nor, I trust, below the great ma jority of women.. Well, .I am a wife, arnd my husband,. although posessing inteiligence and infor mation infinitely superior to mine, does not go to a club to escape my society, but spends his leisure hours at-home. I ani mother of three babies, and I take care of them. I1 dress according to. my means, and sufficiently in thc mode to avoid oddity, but I don't care three Confederate cents what "the style" ls, or is to be. More over, I am a cons! ant reader of the daily World politics and all. I took the latter study in order to be able to talk with my husband on subjects that interested him, but I dare say I am better posted on the state of the country than half the men who are playing billiards or muddlingr themnselves with fusel-oi while I am taking are of my babies and making my husband's shirts. I declare I am not a "fidget," or a "doddering, dismal soul," and I furthermore declare that what I am the great mass of my sex are, while many are greatly superior. And I fling down the gauntlet to any one who undertakes to prove the contrary. Indignantly, yours, A SoUTHERN WOMAN. MARIED.-Misp Mary Gran t, of Richmond, Va., was recently mar ried in that city, to Mr. Ford of Goohland county. It will be re collected that both the bride and groom wvere subjects ofa scurrilous article in the Southern Opinion, which resulted in the killing of the editor, H. Rives Pollard, by the young lady's brother. An exchange says: "A colored clerk, Miss E. J. Ketcham, has just . been appointed to a desk th'e Treasury department at Wash ingtn" If'there is any truth in the r-ecent revelations of Han nah ~Tyler, that Ketcham is a significant name for the Treasury department, "without regard to -ace, color or previous conditioni." (Wilmington Star. Wanted-a female velocipedist, t get up an excitement in Wah non. F! alan LYmIL L ru - -a-a v4.v. It will be remembered by many >f our citizens that at a wedding ?vhich was solemnized near Rusty pt, Georgia. some time in 1845, ;he bride's father was killed in a iifficulty with a brother of her usband. This occurrence is, per iaps, b. ought too readily to the ninds of our readers. It is, to .hose acquainted with the circum tance, known that the bride of )ut a few hours attempted to kill scr husband with a pistol. The vife and husband parted. She vent to an interior village in Tex s, and he remained, until the var, peaceably upon his planta ion-although he- married in the neantime, and to him was born a on, which son entered the army )f the Confederate States, and fol owed the banners of Dick Taylor, 1agruder, and others of *e noble :hieftains who commanded the oldiers around the Gulf. After :he war the young man wandered tbout through the Gulf States, and inally located in.Texas where his ather's former wife lived. She had resumed her maiden name, w d was the proprietress of a arge and well-paying hotel, where She had accumulated an immense ortune. Arriving at the village, the young man stopped at the ho el, and was well provided for by the enterprising mutron. Neither knew the relation of one to the )ther, and although there is a vast difference- in their ages-he but a stripling youth, and she a weel-preserved, comely woman of nearly forty-an intimacy sprung up between them, which ripened into affection, and resulted in the proposition by the young man of marriage. He was aceepted, and in a few days the quiet hotel was the scene of marriage revelry. Thus the solemn wedding cere mony united a man to the wife of his father-his mother, nearly and to the would-be assassin of is .fat#r., Verily trut.h ia sran gerthan-fiction ! A man. rparries his mot her !-Athens (Ala.) Post. TB$ JEALOUSY OF GIRLs.-Girls, too, are awfully jealous of each other_. I should call this the girl's distinctive fault. See them when they are introduced, or when they meet at a ball or croquet party ; see how coldly critical they look at each other; how insolently their eyes rove over every portion of their rival's dress; read in their faces the outspoken scorn as the resuilt of their scrutiny: "You think you have done it very well, but you have made a fright of yourself, and I am much better tan you I" Watch their disdain for the more admired among t hem; and how excessively naughty for attracting so much attention thcy think that Ada or Amy are, about whom the young men cluster. How bold she is?-how overdressed she is, how affected she is?-and, oh ! ho w ugly she is? Sometimes, if~ they are deep, thes will overpraise her enthusiastically; but the ruse is generally too transparent to de ceive any one, and simply counts for what it is-a clever feint that doesn't answer. It is quite a study to watch the way in which girls shake hands ~together, or take hands in dances. Thbe limp, cool, impertinent way in which they just touch palms, and let their arms fall as if paralyzed tells a volume to those able to read the lettering. A WORD ABOUT BABIE.-Bal'es are a great institution!i The fact is, the world couldn't J.,et along without them. What a lack would be found in animal gradation if they were missing! It would seem as if the little end of the horn was broken off. And how iscordantly would .sound the mighty wail which aggrieved hu man nature is continually sending up, if the alto-cry of infancy was vanting to complete the parts? What, too, would become of that reat host of artizans who cater for baby comfort and happiness, if these incipient juveniles were triken from the list of being ? Where would be the inanufacturers f cradles, of cribs, baby jumpers, f teething rings, of soothing syrus and confections, and of all 'e 'vast multitude of toys that are contrived to tickle the fancy fearly juvenility. Babies cer ainly are great institutiOns, and ve are more impressed with this het when we remember, that we svere at one time all babies, and is we grow older are tending to sabydom of old age. The ties that bind merchants nosely to their customers-Ad rr-tiet. It was a very pretty and very pious conceit of that old lady who kissed the dead youth for his mother. So forcibly has it ap. pealed to popular admiration since, that no inconsideradle number of live young men have had the sofa affectionate caress besto*ed o them, out of respect for the same venerable relative. A striking 01' ample of this, was afforded a few evenings since, by a young lady who enjoys the undivided afec tion of a handsome down-town clerk. It so happened that, some weeks ago, his mother died. his heart was consoled in this get'e bereavement by the affectionate smypathy of his employer's fasel nating daughter. It is not sttangs that this sympathy at last ripened into love. The parents noted and approved their daughter's 'ohoidg; but wisely kept their o*b counseL The interesting relations, howetj er, were destined to come to 1i in a way least erpeeted. evening, the young couple wen enjoying a pleasant tete-a-te in's secluded nook of the parlor. The old gentleman happened, t,y the merest accident, to step in and take a seat unobserved': by - the young- people. Suddenly his et tention was arrested- by ene those prolonged luxurious kisse which only lovers over intes' change. Silence like death, 'I say, Julia, what sol* .w 'that ?' 'S-i-r-sir ?' 'What are you doing thefef' 'N-o-t-h-i-n-g, sir !' 'Who are you kissing, there?. 'Only-only William, sir ; is mother's dead; you know-and and I thought it wouldn'tbe *rong to kiss him for her, you know, sir!' - 'Humph !' and the old ,It man took his leave, dqqt. thinking how fortante. . ceased lady was, to be so aRstiq ately remembered. AN Ex-:LE FEiMEEEz.N The Jouraat of Chemisfry i f'ttb one of the very best fertfimi used upon- the farm for altie cereal grains and root Crp thsy be made- in the'followmg me& ner: Take one barrel of pure, ftie ground bone, and mix it .*ith barrel-of.wood ashes ; dea'rthe mixing, add about three p$iM-G water. - The, heap may be msdV upon the floor of an outbuiling sir upon the,barn floor ; and by the usecof ahoe the bone -and ashe must be thoroughly blended tea gether. The water added-is-Jost suffieient to liberate the eaus alkalies, potash and soda, and thei act upon the gelatine -of the bofit disolving the little atoms, form ing a kind of soap, and fitting it for plant aliment. In this .*ay the most valuable constituents of the bone can be made immediately available, and the addition of' pot ash and soda aids in the forfu. tion of a fertilizer of inestiiaithie valuable. A gill of this iiteure placed in a bill of corn will wort wonders. It is also ezeellbt for gardens, vegetables gnd foi~ all 1einds of roots. It will be ready for use in a week after it is madqe An editor of a paper informs his readers that the ladies aliiaye pull off their left stocking last. This, as may be supposed, created some stir among his fair readets, and while in positive terp's $6fe 4# nied the statement, they insisted t bat he had -no business, to dr it, even if such were the fact,~ sui. pronounced him no gentlemad. He proves it, however, by a short argument: "When one stocking is pulled off, there is another left on ; ptulling off this is taking the left stocking off last." LAATIN* was asked by a friend -if he did iw6 spend too much money in advertising.-"No,' was his reply, "advertisements are absolutely necessary. Even divine worship (le bon .Dien) needs to be advertised. Else what is the meaning of church bells ?" A Portland druggist has this cheerful invitation in his windosw: "Come in and get twelve -emotiis forone dollar." They'e was a marriage recently on board of a railway traio to New York. Their children are expected to be very fast. "Straddle dresses" is -the mane of the female velocipedist 000. tume. Feed a pig.hinT wtfl. have S