Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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|/ .iV; ' TIE WEEKLY IlilOl TIM EE. f'- ' l^otod'to ^jgipunKurn, gortiqullurq, gomi)?th[ dJqonomg, foUie Sitvift^g|klitii}a, mtd ton Current Dues of the fag. \ vow IX.?-New Series, Wton c. ir^^uttt NTTTMniTD no THE UNHOLY ALLIANCE- ? chamberlain and blaine make common ( cause. , Woodstock, Ct., July 4.?Ex-Oovcruor Chamberlain in his speech here to-day, utter r a long history of tho Louisiana and South j Carolina cases, and a general denunciation of tho President's policy, attacked his civil scrvico'polioy, and proceeded as follows :? t Jjook next at tho relations of this adminis- t istration to tho present financial issues.? t President Ilayes has heretofore entitled c 'himself to the confidonoo of honest men by g his courso on this question. Nothing, sir, B hut the necessity of gaining support for his g ^^Southcrn polioy oould havo induocd him to f ^^Kontemplate an alliance with the silver cou- j ^j^spiracy, a conspiracy which regards silver e yith. fttTpt.Qn'y because it has lost all virtue . d>Tk otkrrei>6y is ^ cheaper than greenbacks. It is the inho- t Tent and unavoidable weakuersof his present position, tho effect of his wretched Southern policy, that he must conciliate an outraged t party so fat as possible by yielding now to the demand for the spoils and now to tho dc- v mand for cheap money. Again, the Repub- c lican party by all its recen^ platforms is ^ pledged to oppose the of subsidies to . private corporations. Mrnfl#Uon who to- 11 day knows anything of the efferent of the in- 0 fluences which arc gathering at Washington ? is ignorant of the fact that a vast scheme is steadily maturing, unopppscd, if not favored, " by this administration, which aims to take from our puttifo domain and from our public treasury untold subsidies to baild a Southern 0 Paoiflo railway, a railway for which there is n no present public need, and from which pri- 0 ^ ?vate eapitaliats would ahriuk with ooutempt. r ?in the ttffin of this gigantld effcrt at public ^ robbery will ooine the revival of the defunct Northern Paoiflo, the building of levees on c the Mississippi, and kindred schemes suffi- ? cient to again corrupt tho morals ana blast y the prosperity of the whole oountry, and all ^ this is the prioo which must be paid for the c privilege of overthrowing two lawful State v governments aud trampling upon the priuci- ^ pies upou which our goveruuieat aud insti- " tutions rest, the rule of the priority. Sir, thore are laws of moral cause and effect as 0 true aud certain as any physical laws. 1 No political leader, no political party can * forfeit honor or desert principles atone point nod maintain them at another. Integrity is J indivisible 1 ou oaunot bo dishonest on one 1 subject and houost on others. The Preai- ? dent's Southern policy, conceived ift his own **" *tainti; artboBk atld 'oflendc to his pttrty, reck- * less of justice aud of constitutional duty, if ' unopposed will more and inofo weaken the j? moral bonds which have hitherto, in spito of . all its failiugs, secured to the Republican party the confidence of the majority of the u most intelligent and patriotic Americans for I1 more than twenty years. But, fellow citi- ^ zona, this gathering is not for me alone.? ^ Others, whose titles to yjur coufidcuce aud . attention are older and better than mine, are 11 here. The subject which I havo discussed 0 still stretches on before me, but I must close. n We are summoned to the duty of exposing 1 aud denouncing a gieat crime?a crime more a wanton and unpardonable than the criuio 1 against Kansas, which aroused tho sleeping conscience of the North, and gave its earliest * "victories to the Republican party. That crime was committed by a President at tho F bidding of tho party whioh elected him.? This crimo has been committed in defiance ? <of the principles and pledges of the ltepubiican party, and in defianco of tho personal * declarations and obligations of the Presi- 0 dent. r No man who counts the cost of arraying F himself on tho side of froedom and constitu- ? tional nrinninln* in wnrt.liu in onliof in (!> J- ?? ?? ?. W? ???J wv VUIIUW tu %UIO ? new struggle for tbe honor aud peace of our ? (country. If I have to-day spoken the seuti- ' imenta of uooe but myself, be it ao. Sileuoe is ' rfor me oowardioe. If, as I believe, the heart * of the nation is true to the old eause, to the ' .principles of free government, to the prinoi- ' pies of the Constitution and thnj^eolaration 1 of Independence, then let it tSjyjgJgtyd, let it ? . peak by the voices of our leadflVt ' Let the<? ? W memories which haunt this day be our in- ~ spiration. Let us walk again with Adams ? and Hancook and Jefferson of our early re- 8 volution, with Linooln aud Stanton and I Sumner of the later revolution. Shades of * the great founders and saviours of our loved 1 country be with us in this strugglo ! Speak c to us again your great lessons of patriotism, 1 t of courage, of self-sacrifice ! The marble and f f bronse in whieh we have preserved your hu-18 man forms will crumble and corrode, but let ' jour uneonquerablo spirit* never behold the day when a blow struck at the heart of the 1 Republic- shall find your ohildrens' lip* J dumb, or their hearts dismayed. j When OoVernor Chamberlain had coneluded his speech, the Rev. Mr. Stoddard, 1 of Fairhaven, Mass., arose and said, that be desired with all duo respect to Governor J Chamberlain to say that ho believed the sen- 1 timontaexpressed in the address did not represent the feeling of New England. He 1 I then called for all those who endorsod the ! " policy of President Hayes to signify it, and I three hearty cheers were given for the Prcaident. Somebody then called for three ' cheers for Governor Chamberlain, und they were loudly given. Mr. Wait, president of the convention then arose, and stated that it should bo understood that every sneaker was personally ' responsible for what he said. As for him- t iclf he had an abiding confidence iu the incgrity of President Hayes, and confidence n his policy. Mr. lllainc after a full statcmcut of the 'clations between the United States uud Mexco, spoke to the younger generation, "who tonstituto the larger part of my hearers.? The war with Mexico is merely a diui tralition or an historical fact, but elderly aud nid^lo-nirnrl ?',1 J!l - win reuuny remember hat tho final act which precipitated actual lonflict bctweeu the two countries in the pring of 1846, was not so palpable nor so nenacing as that which is now being forehadowed on tho part of our uation's future roui the same disturbed quarter in the poiticul heavens, and if the course of our government shall now be guided, or even largcy influenced, by .the uicn and the ioterestc hat stand behind this movement, some'ol hem masked and some of them in sight, we aay find ourselves rushed into a war rcquirng indeed but a petty faction of our miliary strcugth, yet involving a serious drain ipon our treasury, to bo reimbursed in the ud by a cession of territory acquired at the rrong time, located in the wrong place, inlabilcd by an uudcscribable population, nddug weakness where we want strength, disord where wo need peace, a lack of patritic aspiration where, most of all, we require he devoted spirit of a true American nationlity. We are passing through an era of est and trial for the Republic. The war of he rebellion is long since over, but politial questions resulting therefrom, tho ucw djustmcnts rendered necessary by the issue f tho conflict, the permanent status of a ace brought into new relations, havo not ct beon settled upon a basis that gives adouate guaranty for peace, harmony and seurity in the future. I do not wish to exag crme incso sources ot disquietude, nor do 1 risli to underrate them. They present the rave problems of statesmanship for the prcsnt generation, snd it remains to bo seen rhethcr our wisdom in peace is equal to our rowess in war. Nor would it be just to igoro or belittle the grave difficulties which he States lately in rebellion have upon their wn hands and within their own borders? ucstions which they alouu can adjust, but rhieh are assuredly rendered mor i difficult o them by their jealously and distrust of he National Government, and in certain aspects these qucstious arc being contiuuully ouiplicatea and rendered moro embarrassing y the action of these States themselves.? Vlien, after the close of the rebellion, the itatcs engaged in it were readmitted to a articipation in the government of the Juion, they all cnjiic in with constitutions istiiictly recognizing and affirming the par mount authority of the National Government, and the paramount allegiaucc due to t from every citizen of the Uuitcd Stales. Several of the States thus reconstructed iavc since changed their constitutions, and u every instauce save one, they have struck ut the paramount authority of the Union nd the paramount allegiance of citizens to ho National Government. * The latest cxmple is that of Georgia, that has just voed for a convention to revise her constituion on which she was readmitted to ropreentation in Congress, and her distinguished ieuator, Mr.IIill, is credited by the public tress with dcclariug that among prinio moives for changing the constitution of Geor ;ia is to strike from it pages the assertion hat the late war was rebellion, and further, 9 erase and annul that majestic utterance ontained in tho 33d section of tho declaation of fundamental principles which eatresses more true patriotism than was ever cfore proclaimed on the soil of Georgia.? t is in these memorable words: "The Stato of Georgia shall forevfllr remuin a uictn>er of the American Union. The people hereof are a part of the American nation, fiver* citizen owes paramount allegiance to he Constitution and Government of the Jnited States, and no law or ordinance of his State in controversion or subversion hereof shall ever have any bindiug force." iifiity?isreported assaying that this patriffiyyOVision should be struck from the organic law of Georgia, and he concluded hie peech by assuring his hearers that the full >owor of tho South is just dawning, and that he day is not far distant whon it will conrol the government of the Uuion. In view >f these significant facts and still more sigtifiennt tendencies of the Southcru part of >ur country, I ask men of nil parties here as embled on tho soil of Connecticut, if they hink it wise to provide now by the acquisiion of Mexiodfc territory for the creation ol iddilional States holding theso views of the National Government, as inevitably the} vould hold them by reason of proximity ol ocation, by the character and creed of men vho would naturally inhabit and control .horn. In States north of cortain lines u jountless majority of the pcoplo of all partict jolievo their paramount allegianco to be du( a tho Government of the United States, s( .hat a conflict between a Northern State anc .he United States is practically impossible fa a majority of the Statos south of the same line, a groat mass of those who term them elves the governing class believe in an al legiauco to their respective local govern ncnts superior to that which they owe to th< Government of the Union. It is the sam< icrosy that hurried tens of thousands oi >ravc and honorable men into a conflict with ho government in 1JB61, and now sixtecr years having elapsed, with their frightful re* i cord of war and blood, of cruelty, of carnage. the tragedy onds in one important aspect , just where it began, with the incu who precipitated the conflict in solid power from , Maryland to Mexico, resolute in purpose, and holding with tenacity the creed that tin. derlay the rebellion, a creed that is utterly [ irreconcilable with the least devotion to the . Uniou of States.- I do not have the slightest doubt that their views are honestly held ( by those who avow them. , Mr. Blaine then went on to review the policy of the government in past times in an, nexing territory, and claimed that all annexations for sixty years from the foundation of the government had been in the interestpf the South, lie next advocated the annexf atiou of Cauada, and coucludeiVdj^4avuig f tho government ought to be controllfcu by' , the North, and that every possible danger of its falling into the hands of the South should be avoided. The Day We Celkuuate.?John Hancock could not have been very warm when he signed the declaration of independence, or he would not have had the energy to sling the ink round iu the profuse manner indicated by his signature. But John was a youngish, vigorous sort of man at that time, and being the first ou the list, perhaps he wanted to let posterity know by his sign. manual that he wasn't afraid. The weather, however, must have told on old Mr. Hopkins, for his pen wabbled about as if it was slipping through his fingers, and his sig- 1 nature looks as if several big beads of perspiration might have dropped down upon 1 the ink. Aside from the weather, it uuut have been rather a warming time. Yet the ] rest of them seem to have written off their l names in the utmost coolness. 1 Those were times that tried men's souls and signatures. These are times that try men's paper collars and stomachs. That is the only difference. Many a patriot will start out this morning like John Hancock's signature, bold, firm and erect, aud will come ; home this evening like Stephen Ilopkin's j signature, wabbling aud staggering, and not very certain where lie is going to stop. A decent respect for the opinions of mankind > will fail to deter mauy men from cclebratiug this glorious one huudrcd aud first anuiver- ; sary of the occasion when we assumed a ! separate and equal station among the powers of the earth, by imbibing a prodigious amount of good lager and mean whisky.? When-lnUW y?J' An 1- .?<i ?;?1,1? . .Jl.^? l- i ? * ' inuuiu, ?iitu uuhi mi; u;tu nic consequen- |< ccs arc horrible; when the whisky alone is < poor it destroys a very good beverage, and i the results caunot be counted upon with any J i degree of certainty. ' i 1 We have nothing to say concerning the day wo celebrate. We are all patriotic, and I it has all been said. But we have a word of j advice for those who celebrate tlie day, and ' it is this : Don't cclebrato too much. The thermometer is floating around in the nineties, the sun is scorching hot, and souic people have already succumbed to excessive heat. Sometimes a man puts something in his stomach and wants to keep it there, and he can't; sometimes he puts a thing in his stomach and then wants to gee it out, and lie can't; sometimes, again, he puts something in his stomach for his stomach's sake, and it all goes iuto his head and he feels top-hetwy, < nud then tries to feel all right, and, equally, he can't. None of these conditions arc desirable at any time, aud especially on a hot day. These arc all tho suggestions we have to i make concerning the appropriate, decorous and healthy observance of the nation's natal day. By noting them there may be some ardent brother who will be spared the regret that this day is still so near, was so dear, and seduced him with so much beer, and left him feeling so qucor.? Columbia Register , A Singular Coincidence?In 1853 four gentlemen entered their sons at a hoard o -t n ? n?k gbuuui ai> wauouurry, m oouui Carolina. They had been for yoara intimate friends, and wero clcrgymeu in tbo Methodist church. These boys remained at this school^ room-mates and class-mates for two yoars ^d entered Woflbrd College, standing relatively first, s.coud, third and fourth.? They rcmaiued at this institution four years. , ? and were rooin-mates all the tiuio, graduating relatively first, second, third and fourth , in a large class. They entered a law office at Spartanburg aud studied law under the p same chancellor. The war broke out, and ( at the call for troops they entered Jenkins' , rifle regiment froui South Carolina,and were f mess mates in the same company, lloiog : near the same height, they stood together as I oomrados of battle in ibis regiment. At tho t second battle of Manassas, August, 1863, a , shell from a Federal battery fell in the ranks , of this company, and killed these four men } (aud no other in the company.) They are I buried on the buttle field and sleep together in the same grave. Their names are Carpers, ' McSwaic, Smith and Duncan, antfrt^ons nf Punaro T^i. R"** W. ^.?uv|/ vn^/vaif) A?V1. A/I. I'lVimniU, iVCf. Dr. VVhiteford Smith and Rov. Dr. Ddnean, of Virginia, and tho last brother of Dr. , Duncan, of Randolph (Macon) College.? \ Tho grave is marked by a granite cross enclosed with an iron railiug. , 1 Many a fellow is like a nig; you never t look to hiui for a straight tale. THE COMPOST HEAP. In the first place lot us have a clear understanding of what a compost is. The word literally signifies 'a puttiug together,' and no word could better express the idea. A compost is a compounding of such elements of plant food as will best sorvc to render land fertile. A good cook brings his food on to the table so compounded with fat and lean, so seasoned with salt and pepper, and so prepared for easy assimilation that the very smell stimulates the appetite and the stomach fiuds no trouble in its digestion. What the cook does for the food of man the farmer should do for the food of his plants. Compost such elements of nutrition as will best nourish vegetation, and let them lie together aid cook during the warm wnnilmr will J>y the bout generated internally by uxlu/Lioii/ favored by (he gonial condition of tbo air. The compost heap may be likened to a loaf of bread, in which a little leaven has leavened the whole lump, converting by a chemical process unpalatable dough into sweet food The simplest form of vegetation requires at least a dozen elements for its perfect development. Hence a compost properly prepared is the true idea of plant food. It is nonsense to suppose that because the potato is a potash plant it can live on potash alone. All plants and animals must die unless furnished with food compounded of a dozen or more elements. Not that every fertilizer must be such a compound, for ninny, generally most, of the elements of plant food abound in the soil and air, and it may only be necessary to supply those that arc lacking in order to render a soil fcrt il<? Thin loads us to inquire of what the compost heaps should be made. The answer to this question must deprnd somewhat on the condition of the soil aud the nature of the crop to which it is applied. If the soil is naturally full of vegetable matter and inclined to bo cold, it would be (oily to make muck the basis.of the compost heap. Sand ir sandy loam would be much preferable.? ! On the other hand, if the compost is to bo ipplicd to sandy soil, uiuck is just tlio tiling for its basis. In like manner if the compost is to be used for a nitrogenous crop, cabbages for instance, ammonia iu some form liould be a prominent component part. In gcucral it uiav be said that i?liosnlintenfTnm? I I I ammonia, and potash arc the constituents 1 most likely to be found wanting i i our long cultivated fields, and most essential to plant urowth. These therefore should enter largely *-? *W_ ?uu,fn,i Knap OtJu>r rimfU.itncuts should he added as the soil demand, or opportunity is furnished to supply them. Among these we may mention chloride of sodium, (common salt) and sulphuric acid, which can most economically i>e applied in the form of sulphate of lime, (plaster.) All the iuorgauic elements of vegetation may be found in ashes. We'thercfore put upon our compost all the ashes, leached or urileachcd, upon which wo cau lay our hands. These constituents of the compost placed in juxtaposition and being mixed and covered with some absorbent, such as muck, earth, or leaf mould, heat up by chemical action, are decomposed and rccouiposcd? in other words arc cooked, forming new compounds which arc readily assimilated by plants. The muck and leaf mould are also hastened in their decomposition by the influences of tho decomposing mass, the whole forms a food which plnuts devour greedily. Hut 'whore shall we get the phosphate of lime, the ammonia, and other constituents of the compost heap?' is the ucxtvcry proper t|ucstion of the farmer. Hones arc the great resource for the phosphate of lime. These are lying around every slaughter house, every tanyard and almost every farm in the country, dried by the sun and air, and consequently slowly decaying. Let them be gathered and broken up by a sledge hammer if there is no mill convenient for grinding them, or they may be put into large hogsheads with alternate layers of wood ashes and kept cbnstantly moist for a few months during warm weather, when they will be found sufficiently softened to be cut with a sharp spade. In this condition put into a fermenting compost they will further disintegrate and add greatly to the value of the pile. Thi next constituent of the compost heap is ammonia, and this may bo found in barnyard manure, night soil, dead leaves, and dead animals of all kinds, the refuse of the tannery, the woolen or paper mill, the slaughter house, the cesspool, and divers other places too numerous to bo mentioned. Precious as ammonia is, there is probably no substance which is more wasted. 11 is going off 16 the sea in our sewers by thousands of tons each day. The rivers which pass our manufacturing establishments and dense villages nrc full of it, so much so as to be sources of miasma during the warm and dry months. There is no lack of ammonia, if farmers will only keep a vigilaut cyo for it. In font t.Knv mnv cluit fKnU U I - ?.m .mv. j j mkmv iiivii cji/o auu viiuii noses will tell where ammonia abounds.? Ten ohauccs to one they can smell it asccuding from their horse-stable*, barn-yards, privies, and cesspool*, to be wafted over others' lands, upon which it will desceud with the dews and rains. Our advico to farmers is to look sharp for amnion in on their own places first, and when they have exhausted this resource go to thi village, where night soil will be given them for the hauling, or to the woollen factory, where waste shoddy, or to the paper mill, where the waste __ -uw.? J AO. * " 1 t ; I'.'fct . iu-J-Jf sizing can be had; both these articles abounding with ammonia, and both well calculated to heat up the compost heap and set the whole in fcruieutntion. Living near a village, as we do, our great resource for ammonia is night-soil, and there can be nothing better. Dead animals is another great resource, and it is wonderful what an nmouut of these a village will furnish if the farmer will only let it be known that he has a golgotha where they may be buried. There is no trouble in finding ammonia if we only search for it. Potash is not so easily found. When we could buy wood ashes for tcu cents a bushel these furnished an abundant supply, but now they ..re scarce at twice and thrice the price. Wherever unlcachcd ashes cau be obtained for twenty-five cents per bushel, aud leached for half this sum. the farmer en.. VMM |/Ub liU better material in his compost. If placed, however, in direct contact with animotiincal compounds their tendency is to set the ammonia free, and it must be absorbed by soil or some other covering of the compost or there is great waste. In the present dearth of wood ashes Providence has furnished another resource for potash in the mines of (formally.?Ai.kxanhkii iJydk, m Neva York Times. Pattk.nt.n(i Am>iai.s.?A very common error among farmers, which need correction, is the opinion that animals may be fattened in a few weeks and fatted for market by heavy feeding, or, as it is termed, by pushing. Many farmers do not think of beginning to fatten their hogs or cattle for carlv winter uiarkcJLMHl'1 ally commenced. " Iiclr food is then suddenly changed, and they arc dosed with large quantities of grain or meal. This sudden change often deranges the system, and it is frequently some time belore they recover from it. From observation and inquiry we find that the most successful managers adopt a very different course. They feed moderately, with great regularity, and for a longer period. The most successful pork raiser that we have met with commences the fattening of his swine for the win tcr market early in the preceding spring.? In tact he keeps his young swine in a good growing condition all through the winter. He begins moderately, and increases the amount gradually, never placing before the animal more than it will freely cat. With this treatment, and strict atteution to the comfort and cleanliness of the animal, j his spring pigs, at ten months, usually exI coca .nit? pounds, ana nave sometimes gone | as high as 430 pounds, and wintered over ' each a weight of 500 or GOO pounds.? ' The corn which is ground and scalded be' fore feeding, nets It i in, on an average, not less than 81 per bushel when the market price for pork is five cents per pound. Tiik Tuuk Causk of IIokack Greeley's Death.? The Sun, in all article on Horace Greeley's death, claims that the loss of the Tribune, and not his defeat in the election or domestic afflictions, was the cause of his insanity and death. It publishes a /he simile of an article written by Greeley, for insertion in the Tribune editorial columns, of November 8, 1872, claiming the authorship of an article entitled ' Crumbs of Comfort," which appeared on November 7, 1872, simultaneously with bis card in which he annouueed bis intention of resuming control of the Tribune. His disclaimer, which the Sun says is now published for the first time, is as follows : "liy sonic unaccountable fatality an article entitled 'Crumbs of Comfort' crept into our last uusccu by our editor, which does him the grossest wrong. It's true that office seekers send to pester him for recommendations when his friends controlled the customhouse, th dfeh the '-red-nosed" variety was seldom found among them. It is not true that he ever obeyed a summons to Washington iu order that he might there promote or oppose legislation in favor of that private scheme. Iu short, the article is u monstrous fable, based ou souic other cxpcricucc than t?,of t\P ?V?n : > ? V> vuv VUIWI UJ IIIIO JUU1IIU1. The Sun says this disclaimer was never published in the Tribune, by order of the editor in charge, though Greeley begged und entreated for three days, that it uiight. Greeley then begru to realize that he had been deposed and that if he remained connected with tho Tribune any longer, it must be as a mere subordinate. lie would not consent to that, and on November 12, he left the editorial roouis of the Tribune forever, a broken hearted man, and he never returned. Almost his last coherent words were: "The couutry is gone, tho Tribune is gone, and 1 am gone." A youth of six years, on returning from church, inquired of his father if those who engaged in silent prayer on entering the church, nil itmdo ii?c nl' ttm 11father was unable to inform him, but asked what led to the inquiry. The boy replied that he overhead the prayer of Mr. X., who on bowing bis bead, made use in an audible voice of the following' words :? "I wish to Iloaven I had bought a barrel of flour beforo this cussed war broke out. Always iny luck." There waa au old doctor, who, when asked what was gcod for musquitoes, wrote back : "How do you suppose 1 can toll . unless I kuow what ails the musquito ?"