Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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.. 4 k V''#T ti'i JfcMjNrijffi |F"rfi1"1''"''' foni48liq <%oriomg. floUtfe Jadfe#flnlijp. pi ity <^urr?nt JUroa of lh< fag. 1 ~- ---- ~ M ^1 ^ ' 11 t li J ' VOL. X.?New Series. UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 28, 1879. NUMBKR 9. ' ' * -_ ? J. JL.. L. 1 Ll?I I 1 ILLL eu. - llj_l IL J. I I I !* ? ? I II. 4 SOUTHERN" WAR CLAIMS REP0 DIATED BY OUR CONGRESSMEN. Washington, February 14.?Iu the liouso the regular business of the morn%ig hour was the consideration of tho private calendar. The bill for tho rctircuicnt of Cron. James Shields was, amid a good deal of confusion, referred to the committco of the whole. The bill to pay John J. Armstrong, of Virgiuia, 81,840 for tho rent of a wharf in Alexandria during the war, was discussod at length. Mr. Conger started off iu opposition to tho bill, contending that, if its principle was a correct one, tho troops that marched across tho Long Bridge ought to have been preceded by army wagons loaded, witjv spe<ciet to Tneet tho enomy add pay tho owndrs of property which was to bo used for war purposes what thoy demanded for their property. Mr. Shelley, of Alabama, had no sympathy generally with theso war claims. There were no Confederates nresentinr* such claims. There were not in Alabama twenty war claims, and he certainly would uot vote \ for any Alabama claim wherein loyalty was set up. Ben Bntlcr, of Massachusetts, expressed his views on war claims. So long as such claims were presented for damages done during the war or tor property occupied during the war, so long would there be misunderstanding between the sections of the Union. Both sides desired that "bygones should bo by-goues" and that all ( about tho war should bo forgotten. There was one thing, however, which could not be forgotten and that was the valor and patriotism of those who fought for the Union in the hour of its direst peril. Nor would ( the bravery and earnestness, and he might i say, loyalty to the cause which they espoused of those who fought on tho other side be forgotton. He was willing that States should be put upon the same ground that the fathers of the Republic had put them upon iu the war of tho Revolution by as- | suming their debts for raising and recruit- | ing troops, and after that let no claim arise out of the war, except claims of J maimed and disabled soldiers, and with j that determination on the part of the | people of tho couutry, both North and , South, the time would not be far distant when the feeling of brotherhood would take into the charge of the government the maiuied and disabled soldiers of the Southern army, remembering their courage, their steadfastness and their gallautry, and forgetting the mistaken j ldgmont which made them fight upon the side they did. Mr. White, of Pennsylvania, opposed the bill as a war claim for the use of aud damages to property in an insurrectionary State. Mr. Aiken, of South Carolina, declared himself opposed to all Southern war claims. | lie was glad to hear that some members s on the Republican side were liberal enough j to vote compensation for damages to reli- | gious, educational and eleemosynary institu ] tions at the South. For himself his iude- j pendence would not allow him to do even , that. The Southern people should go back t to first principles and go to work and rebuild such institutions themselves. They had risked everything in war and had no favors to ask from those who had whipped them. He honestly believed that if the Southern States had been represented in Congress in 187 i, 1872 aud 1878 as they were repreesutcd to-day. there would be no such cry as that a hundred millions had been drawn from the treasury to pay Southern war claims. Judging of all of them from those that he knew, he could say of these claimants that a grander set ot villains had never drawn a dollar out of the treasury. His own little State had been represented in Congress by men who wore now, God only know where. They had naver been South Carolinians, and yet they had voted the claims of men who had not a just title j to a dollar. He honestly believed that the treasury was safer in the bauds of the men j who defended the Confederacy, than iu tho t hands of those who held it to-day. Tho people of South Carolina, no matter what , their rebellious proclivities had been heretofore, were to-day as stroug and united in dc- , fence of the govoruincut as the people of any { State in New England or the Nnifthwest. , JIo and those of his colleagues who truly ( represented that State were hero to protect the treasury, and Hie best way to protect it , /so far as these claims were concerned,) , was to drive every one of them from the ( halls of Congress. [Applause on tho Dem- j ocratic side.] I Mr. Keifor, of Ohio, criticised Butler's . fir/>o"h. citiii'jr tho nart of it in reirard to , pensioning Confederate soldiers, and asked whether he understood hiui correctly. , Hutlcr : I repeat that, whenever the ques- . tions of the depletion of the treasury by ( these claims is over, L think that the pity, the humanity of the North, will take caro , of the maimed of the war. If you wish , to know it, I see no more reason why a Confederate soldior, maimed and crippled iu the honest dischargo of what he believed to be his duty, should not be pensioned, than why a Confederate general who honestly believed he was doing his duty i should be put into a Republican Cabinet. fCcncral applause and clapping of hauds on ^ tbe Democratic side ] i The debate coutinuod fit great length.? Mr. lilaekburu, ou the question of the ..llcgcd disloyalty of the Southern semiuaries, asked who had shed lustre on AmdHean arms before tho war broko out; who had not been a graduate of West Point and had not then learned (from llowle's Commentaries on the Constitution) every thiug that ho ever kucw of the limitations of the Constitution '( That "hornbook of the nation" was certaily tho most advanced advocato ol tho right of secession. IIo entered hia protest against the iujusticc done to the South in imputing to it any responsibility for these war claims. The South did not ask for the pensioning of her soldiers.? ??ho had staked her all on hor convictions and never in tno futftre"would complain.?Sho bore her losses, and simply protostcd that it was neither generous, nor kind, nor maniy, uor mcrcilul to drag her into this question, and to make licr the football of the passions of men who seemed to have at heart the serving of partisan purposes rather than the advancement of common good. [Applause ou the Democratic side.] Mr. lleagan, of Texas, expressed the wish that some means should be adopted either to wholly exclude all such claims, or refer them all to a tribunal where they could be passed upon on their merits. Ho regretted that his friends on tbe Democratic sido should ha?e allowed themselves to bo placed in the attitude of favoring claims lor which they had no sympathy. Without action on the bill the committee rose and the House took a recess till 7 P. M. ?o* Home-Made Fertilizers.?In accordance with article 3d of tbo resolutions adopted in a farmers' mass meeting, held at Grccnvillo Court House on the 3d inst., the committee on "Rest modo of composting and utilizing the materials of the farm for purposes of fertilization," beg leave to report: That in view of the fact that only a short time remains till the season for the application of manures for the crops of the present year, your committee have thought best to routine themselves to the mode of preparing such compost as will be soonest roady for use, and which, from practical experience, they are willing to recommend, viz: Let a place, or more than one, as may bo accessary, be prepared in the field upon ?.i..i... - u_ ..?J u_ ?i. itiiiuii vuu uuuipuoi in iu uu usuu, uj uia&? ing level aud suiooth a space of twelve or 51'tcen feet in diameter; then haul ouy thirty bushels of cotton seed and place near the spaces, one sack of salt; this being lone, commence hauling stable or barn yard manure, and with shovels or forks, put a layer of manure three or four inches thick jn the spaces prepared for the compost heap; then spriuklc cotton seed and salt as the manure is unloaded, at the rato of fivo bushels of seed if the manure is from tho itable, or ten bushels if barn yard manure ;s used, and one bushel of salt to each twoaorse load of manure. At least each third oad should be of woods mold, rakings 'rom fence corners or tho dirt from uudorleath old houses, with which the cotton iced and salt must be mixed, as with the )thcr. When the compost heap is thus nude up to a point like a potato bank, itriko it sharpcly with a hoard or the back )f a shovel all over, so as to make it compact ; then cover the heap with earth to ,he thickness of three or four inches, and he work is done. No water should be iscd, as the moisture of tho ingredients vill be sulhcient to produce fermentation, io that in two or three weeks it will be eady for use. One small handful is suffiiient to each hill of co:u on thin land, and usL as small a quantity as can be put in lie drill with an ordinary manure box is mough to equal the yield of cotton that-is jommonly produced by tho uso of couiuicrlial fertilizers. The reasons of the above plan for compostiug arc as follows : 1st The field is the best place for composting, because extra handling is avoided ind all absorbtion by tho earth iu utilized. lid. The ground must be smooth so that ill tho compost may be easily taken up. 3d. Good stable manure is highly aminoliatcd, and therefore cotton scyd (which alio contains a great deal of 'ammonia) need mt bo so freely used as with ham-yard uiuiuro 4th. Salt is used because it contains nanuring properties of its own, is taken jp largely (without undergoing any chouiijal changes), by growing pi nits, ami therebre is a preventive of injury to the plants ay insects, it also attacts moisture, thereby tiding in the fermentation of the other iu^redicnts. 5th. Woods uiouhl, ratings of fence jorners, &c., contain vegetable matter, ami ibsorbs escaping ammonia from the manure, aotton seed, &c. 6th. Tlie heap is covered with earth in ardor to keep out rain, and keep iu all escaping gasses. Kespectful ly submitted, M. L. Donaldson, /ll. - ! /? v/iiairuian 01 v/ouiuimee. ? ? 'Could you tell mc, sir, which is the othsr side of the street ?" Ou being told that it was across the way, the tight one said, "That's what I said ; hut a fellow over there Bent inc over here." . CO UN AND COTTON ON OLD BROOMSEDC LAND. Weroceuly hud tho opportunity tocouipa ' coru nud cotton side by side, ou old broon sedge land, and whero we 'know the lac thoroughly. It was very poor, haviug bc< cultivated about twenty years, with no a tempt at improvement. The land was i poor that wo did not think it capublo producing either coru or cotton Bufheient pay for the plowing; and corn it certain has not produced, for we do not think tl crop on tho broouiscdgo part of tho lao will avorago five bushels per aero. Evei angle and corner ot the broomsedgo field visible to a marked degree iu tho poverl of the corn, good coru appeajiyj*^^"*^ rare Drooollwljff. uiTol. oWfluH^U portion planted in cotton is as marked i the roverso. The broomsedge land shov cotton doubly as good as that on tho san land adjoining, whero there was_no brooc The proprietor being with us cxplaine his management, and convinced us of it intelligence of his proceedings. The broouiscdge held was early broke up and prepared for cotton, but planted lat in order to givo time for work that woul be necessary ou other land. Planted lat< aud on broomscdge land, where nothin else grow, he kuow by oxperieuce that th cotton could wait uutil the crab gross lam were worked up, which could not be deferre This management enabled the same numb, of laborers to cultivate that much moi cotton, addiug eight or teu acres to the o dinary average cotton crop per haud. An this cotton was in.'splcndid condition and wc fruited. The staud was excellent, havin been doubly seeded to provide against th | old turfs aud the hot dry weather of tl: early part of the season, which usuall causes much of the youug cotton to di out. Tho proprietor of this farm, ft gcntlema of observation and exporicncce, has a goo reputation for cotton crops on Florida ? well as on Georgia lands, aud wo will no rovcal to his neighbors "hat his reticenc would not?that the old broomsedge is h bona aza. lie has more than onco put in full crop of cotton on his other lands, an thon added some immense old broomsedg field lor late work, to employ his laborei when the first was off his hands. II neighbors thought him Qvot-crppped?tlu lie would not be able to keep down th grass, but he knew there would be no gra: in the old broomsedge field to keep dowi and by plantiug late and seeding well, h would got to it in time to keep the lan loose. This accounts for some of his uut sually large crops of cotton to the numb< of hands employed. His experience is th: corn will not pay on broomsedge land, bi that cotton will. Oh the same farm our attention wascallc , to the excellence of a field of corn, th seed having been procured in Tennessee.Nothing was claimed for the seed bey on good quality of corn, but the fact that i came from a moro Northern climate; an if this was all the advnutage, it nppearei to us to be sufficient inducement to chang . our seed every year or two for Norther j seed. Planted side by side with horn seed, the Tennessee ecru has less stall with a great deal more grain, large ears, with thinner and less husk or shuct and so well filled out that the grain ofte protruded beyond the end of the shuck. We noticed this remarkable differenc in corn once before, on our own premise: and decided that, the introduction of sec corn from a more Northern climate was materiel benefit to our farmers. The ver ! same varieties we plant, fresh from Tonne: see, altogether surpass ours in productioi the first year. In the second year it is sai i to be no better than ours. If true, it is a important matter for the consideration c our farmers. We kmnv very well, that there arc otlu seeds, especially in our garden list, that d best purchased annually in the North, be we had not classed ecru among them, an do not now, believing that the dificretic above alluded to may be accounted for i our general neglect of seed corn seloctior Seed corn should be selected in the fiolc where the farmer can note the conditio of the stalk, the difference in cars and th early or lateness of maturity. Every farmer knows that some ears ripe much earlier than others, and that all ovc any held he may select. He knows ah that some arc ill and some are well shape* and tilled out iu different decrees, eve under the same conditions. All thismrai something, and the use of farming intcll geuee is to find it out. If three, five t eight bushels more per aero of corn can b made with the same labor, on the sam land, by a little attention to seed, would i not be wise and prudent to give that litll attention ? And what is hero said of corn applies t nearly all of our seeds. Good seed is ho the profit, the other half being in goo cultivation.?<S'antunah News. . - "Man and wife arc all one, are they not 5 said she. "Yes: what of it? said he susp ciously. "Why, in that case," said h wife, 4,r came homo awfully tight last nigl and feel terribly ashamed of myself th morning." lie said never a word. m jf suffkeing8 at 8ba. /? > Dreatlful Experience Of Two Sailors, (he r0 only Survivors of a crew of Five. ^ 1 1(j New York, February 13.?A special Q from Faluioutli, Englaud, says that Chief ? Officer Foot and Charles Cosmau, seamau. w the only survivors of the American schooner i Estclla, of Portland, Maine, bouud from t Yarmouth for the Island of Antigua, West j I Indies, with a general bargo, were landed I ^ there to-day. They commenced their voy- i l(j age on tho 28th of Dccomber. After leav- t ing port thoy experienced terrific weather, i q the wind being vory high, and lay to for i t three days, waiting for tho fury of the ] v, to subside. On January 5, during |Q Cosman only was oh dcolc, tho other four V3 being below. Captain Hursey and Chief |Q Officer Foot and the cook caino on deck as a_ she turned over. The survivors thcu succeeded in getting ou tho sido of the ve:sei, l(j the oook fell off exhausted after thrco hours. |Q Tho captain succumbed to the exposure and fatigue after holding on until after . 8 o'clock in tho morning. Tho vessel finally, ? 1 L ? " " c UJ iuc uuiiiuu u> kuu WHYKS UUU Dl'lUg 1UI1 of water, righted herself. Foot and Cosman i 3 managed, with great difficulty, to make < |('r their way onoe more to the vessel's deck.? t They laid planks on the windlass and water i j8 barrels, which served aB their bed and rest- t j ing place for three days, expectiug every t 3r moment that the vessel would sink beneath 1 re them. Oh the fourth day a barrel of ap- ] r_ pies floated from the fore hold, which, they i(j succeeded in captuaing. The apples wore saturated with salt, and caused tho poor j ? fellows most intense thirst. They also ob- ( , taiued t box of salt mackerel, which they y 10 greedily devoured. One day before they l? were rescued a barrel of flour floated out t [Q from the hold, and they made dcugh of a t portion of its contents, but a heavy sea , n springing up, a wavo washed it away. 0 j Jauuary 19th, while the wind wa6 piercingly 1S cold, and the suu was about going down, w the wreck aud the unhappy men as they ,e were floating on wore seen by the Spanish ^ j_ brig Dorotea, which buro down upon them. s a Soon they came alongside and rescued the ^ j survivors, who were hoping for death to >e come to their relief. When tho Spaniards 8 [g took them off they had only seven apples ' js left. They were in such an emaciated 1 condition that they had to bo lifted from ' e tHe ptnnk bod, to which they had tied ,s themselves to prevent being washed off. t .a 1 ' llow Farmers Lose Money:?By not , 'C.i- i J 1 j taking one or more good papers. i Keeping no account of farm operations, ^ paying no attention to the maxim that *'a < ^ stitch in time saves nine," in regard to sow- , , ing grain and planting seed at the proper j lv tiinr> , Leaving reapers, ploughs, cultivators, 1 &c., unsheltered fr'?ui the rain and the heat L of the sun. More money is lost in this i ~j way annually than most persons would be ] willing to believe. i'evmitting broken implements to be , scattered over the farm until they are irre- f ' parable. 1'y repairing broken implements n e at the proper time, many dollars may be a " saved?a proof of the assertion that time ? ^ is money. j Attending auction sales and purchrsing v 1 all k>nds ot trumpery, because, in the words ? '' of tho vendor, the articles are very cheap. , Allowing fences to remain unrepaired jj until strange cattle are found grazing in n ^ the meadow, grain fields, or brewsing on a : the fruit trees. p iMsbclieving the principle of rotation of ? a crop*, before making a sinirle cxp2rimrnt. ? riunting fruit trees without giviDg the ' trees half the attention required to make ^ j them profitable. Y b Habit of Shihkino.?Tho habit of t ' ^lurking is a great evil in ou land. Sad ?] and hitter arc the experience o multitudes { who have lost positions of emolument and r 't trust by shirking duties and respo sibilties i ^ devolving upou them. They saw their mis- E take after it was too late. It is a bad ? sign to see a youug man contracting the ^ habit of shirking. You may set it down r.t 8 once that sooner or later he will be a drone r ' in the great hive of human industry, living 8 ^ without any nurpose in lifo and senned by t * all who have willing hands, and follow up t, what they can find to do. Young man, if t f you want to gain the confidence a.id esteem j of your employer, never shirk from a duty. ^ , If o\crlaskcd, Ly in your complaints, n t ' you will always get a heaving. If you will begin life a shirk, you may set it down P9 '.s a fixed fact that the fi;?b . will follow you I through life, and as a "success you will be c an utter failure." * c s 1? To Mem? Crockki'".?To mend broken i l1, crockery, use lime and the white of ar. egg. '? It is a slioug cement, easily applied, and | gene.ally at hand. Mix only enough to v 0 mend one article at a timo, as it soon hard s " ens when it cannot be used. Powder a a ^ small quantity of tho lime and mix to a t paste with the white. Apply quickly to i the edges, and place firmly tognther. It \ will soon become set and strong, seldom t brcuking in the same place n^ain. 1 Is i it Tell us, somebody, why our lawmakers . is are never arrested for passing worthless bills.?Boston Transc. ipt household receipts. An Ounce of pulverized borax, put into i pint of boiling water and bottled for use, trill be found invaluablo for remoriug jroaso spots from woolen goods. Vegetable Soup.?Puss through a sievo ill the vegetables used to make vegetable itoek ; melt a pieco ot butter in a sauce-pan, tdd a little flour to it, mix it well, then add the vegetable pulp. Stir well, and moisten with as much of the stock as may be necea- . , jury. Let the soup boil, stir into it, off the ire, the yolks of two eggs, beaten up with i little water, and strained. Serve with pieoes of toasted bread fried in butter. A RilistiJFoRjjRKAK.FAi>T.?Trke one- . . * w WWff <mt 1? Inn Shoes, put m a frying-pan, turning a ;up of swcot milk over it; add one-fourth caspoonful dry mustard, a pinch of salt ind pepper and a piece of butter about ho size of a butternut; stir the mixture all he time, itoll three Boston crackers very ine and sprinkle in gradually, then turn it onco into a warm dish; send to the table mmediately. Parsnip Fritters.?Peel largo parsnips ind parboil them in clear water. When ;old, grate them, and to every teaeupful idd two well beaten eggs, a wine-glass of ioh cream, a little salt, and a heaping ablcspoonful of sifted flour. Boat all well ogctbcr,form into fritters, with well-floured " lends, aud fry to a rieh brown in equal portions of butler and flour, boiling hQt. P i. Boned IIam.?Having soaked * 'HrelB :urcd ham in tuptd-water over night, boil t until it is perfectly tender, putting it on he rango in warm water; take it up in a vooden 'ray and leave it to cool. Aftejrvard remove the bone carefully, and preBS lie bam again into shape; return in to ho beiliDg liquor, remove the pot from he flro, and let the bam remain until it is sold. Fruit or Currant Cake.?Currauts >r citr n for cake should not be "rolled in lour." but dredged or well sprinkled with ittcd flour, having first mndo the fruit as iry as possible, that is, alter washing and. Iru:ning the currants, dry them on the tove, and while warm and dry dred^w hem with sifted flour just before adt^ng hem to the cake, and the fruit ehoul "be ho last thing added. A Good CusTard.?Scald a quart or nilk, tako off the scum, and pour it lot on the beating eggs. Take five eggs j ;hrow out the yolks of,two ; threo tablcIDOOnfuls of suvar n r>innVi nC ??H - 4 __ D J ? |^*MVU VI OOIV, A Ulllp ur ,wo of lemon or orange, and a little vanilla. 3ct it to steaming in a close-covercd vessel, ind steam live or nix minutes; then set it )n ice, and it certainly is delicious. Tricksok .iieieni).1. Trade.?Washugton, February 14.?Mr. Albert D. Shaw, Jnited States Consul at Manchester, Engand, has sent to the department of State lie report of a trial involving the manner f manufacturing and packing cotton goods or the Chinese market. A contract was nude for the sale of 48,000 pieces of grey hirtings, which were properly p ed aud hipped io*Shunghui. On be ; oned t hat pert more thun half of the packagesfere found to be affectod by "mildew."? t was contended that this "mildew" was iot caused by any exterior influence, but y the nature of the sizing used by the lanufucturcrs to nuke tho cloth heavier nd thicker. This sizing ;s composed in urtof chlorate of magnesia chlorate of zinc, luo and china clay. Originally a flour omporKe w?s used. But improvements have been discovered, 'allow, oil or pi.rafline, mixed with starch, emoves any harsh feeling tho cloth may lave. By degiecs tho manufacturers found hit other iugredieu's could be added.? The cloth wrs not sold by the yard?only ?y weight, four pounds of cotton being nude to weigh eight and one-<iuarter pounds >y this process of sizing. Moisturo being icc^j .vy 'o increase tho weight, salt was dded It wrs contended that the "milLew" wus caused by the use of salt in the i .;Dg. Some manufacturers say they have dded an ingredient, in the form of an anticptio, which removes the danger from Lmpness. In the ci so before tho court ho "mildew" wrs found in the centre of he packages and not on tho outside as in >. chrges badly packed, Tho subjeot is aorlhy of attention by Americon inmafaourcrs. How to Buy a II use.?An intending >urchoser should have the horso brought ..i 1. -/ I ' 1 ' * * iui. uuiore mm, ana watoh the animal aa ho lands at rest. If the owner ia continually Urtiog tho horso into motion, and urging titii to "show oIF," something may be sus-ected, because it is wbsu the horso is at icifeot rest (bat his weak points are diulpred. If the horae be sound, he will tand equare on his limbs, without moving ny 01' them, the feet beiDg plaoed flat upon he ground, and all his legs plumb, and natlrally poised. If one foot be thrown forvard, and the toe pointing to tho ground, ind the heel raised; or if tho foot bo lilted Yom tho ground, and tho weight takon off t, disease or tenderness may be suspooted. ?Rural New York*)'. 500 subscriber wanted for the Times.