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THE ORANGEBURG NEWS. PUBLISHED AT ORANGEBURG, S. C. Every Saturday Morning. ?AMUKL DIBBLE, . Editor. Y. C. DIBBLE, Associate Editor. WIARLES If. HALL, Puhlitu . ?:o:? TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. fene Copy for on? year. $2.00 " ?? "iWBix Months. 1.00 ii it .< Three ?. 60 Any one Bending TEN DOLLARS, for a Clnh of Ytew Subscribers, will -receive an EXTRA COPY for ONE YEAR, frco'of charge. Any one sending FIVE DOLLARS, for a Club of New Subscriber*, '?will receive an EXTRA COFY for SIX MONTHS, free of charge. ?:o:? ^ RATES OF ADVERTISING. I Squaro 1st Insertion. $1.60 ?? Ud . 76 X Square consists of 10 lines Brevier or one inch of Advertising space. AAmiYiraS^alor'H Notices, if accompanied with the ?n?kw?.$2 76 - tf. Wet aC*cVHuprtnicd with the cash.$5 00 Contract Advertisements inserted upon tho most ttbcv-al t<ectos. ?:o:? VtAttttlAGE and FUNEUAL NOTICES, not ex ceeding oue Squaro, inserted without charge. B&- Terms Cash in Advance. ~?a fob 2.1 o ly CARDS. XZTuJ^lR, <fc DIBBLE, Attorneys and Solicitors. Will Pravticoin Courts of the State, und also of the United Slates, especially in the Courts of B A N K R U I* T C Y. OEANGEBITRG, S. C. JAMES F. 1ZLAR. SAMUEL DIBBLE. M)'2il * ly Attorney at l-nw unit Uolleltor lu U Q U I T Y, Office iu Public Buildings, COU RT II O U S B' SQUARE. ORANGEBURG C. II., So. Ca. 0..c7 ly De TREVIXLE & AMAKER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, 0 rangeht; nj District. w. j. DkTreville, a. r. amaker, Orangeburg C. H; LewisVille, S. G. feb I tf ? < ? FREDERICK FERSNER, DENTIST. "WILL BE IN ORANGEBURG EVERY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. ?6y* Rooms at Masonic Hall, opposite Cornelson, Kramer & Co. ril i tf IE. EZEKIKL, WATCH MAKIttl ANI> JEWI'XKK, (it Store formerly ocoupicd by C. null k. Co.) OliANGKBVRG, 8. C. ALL WORK WARRANTED, may? tf "ol^tfG^ BY IV. It. TREADWELL. THIS HOUSE HAS BEEN NEWLY FIT jiiil ted up, and is now open for the iiccommodo liiJLtlon of the public. Corner Russell and Broughton Streets. mny 0 0 BULL <fe SCOVJLL, AGENTS FOR THE Eunilable Life Insurance Company OF NEW YORK, POLICIES N ON-FOR FE IT ABLE, Dividend Declared Annually to 1'olicy Holders fob 23 td V. D. V. Jamison & Son. OtTcr their Services as AUOTIONEEE S to the citizens of Orangcburg District. Sales attended to in any part of the Dis trict. V. I). V. JAMISON. S. fl. JAMISON. jn'n.4 tf RENTAL NOTICE. DR. L. D. ;IADZIN8KY RESPECTFULLY IN forms tbo Public that lie has Established his Ollice for the Practice of Dentistry in all its branches, at his Residenco on Market Street, Oppo site Whiltemore's Fnctory. Work done in Gold, Vulcanite, Silver, and Pla tins, and all work warranted for 12 months. L. D. RADZINSKY, M. D., may 15?ly . Surgeon Dentist.? POETRY. [From tho Now York Day-Book.] Tho Awful Dose. Tho DoctorB met in Lousing town, Ami ennic to the conclusion That Michigan would surely die With weakly Constitution. To work thoy went to euro her up, And to impart new vigor; Thcy made a pill for her to take, And in it put a idggcr. Alt ho' 'twns sugar-coated o'er, ?Twould do great execution, And call'd tho nasty woolly dose ??A now Stnto Constitution." The patient tried to swallow it, To better her condition, And, shudd'ring, tried to rinse her mouth, By taking "prohibition." The Doctors tried to force It. down? They worked like any digger ; But no ! she couldn't swall ondt? So up she spew'd the nigger. The vomit acted like a charm? Such awful mixtures shockud her, And tho' she's getting better fast, Sho curses all such Doctors. And soon she'll be herself again, Enjoying life with vigor, And hopes she'll never have to lake Another "dose of nigger !" W. It. RANDALL. Paw Paw, Michigan. V A R I 0 U S. THE J Charleston District Meeting OF THE M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH, HEM) AT ?RANGEB?R?, S. C. MAY 21st, 1808. Bisljpp D. S. Doggctt, of Virginia, presided at this meeting ; nodT -.v.iu a. ;??">-nst.iii^ assemblage of delegates front the various Cir cuits in this Church District. We publish, by request., the Reports of the various Committees of the meeting: HE PORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE STATE OF THE ClIUUClI. Your Committee have heard with feelings of devout gtatttude. to God the unanimous testi mony of the Ministry, to the extended inte rest in the public preaching of the Gospel ex hibited throughout the District, in the presence of large and attentive congregations. These gratifying statements prove that the gospel is still a power in our huW, that Methodism still has a strung hold upon the popular affections, and that our doctrines and teachings and econ omy arc not only attractive but generally popu lar. We think this Conference has grcnt cause for thanksgiving, that amid all the recent changes, the turmoil, strife, confusion and dis aster through which we have passed, and the inevitable modifications of our church econo my cjiuscd hy these events, the popular heart Btill beats responsive to the forms, usages, doc trines and pulpit ministrfltious of our beloved Church. In this fact the Church has tho strongest ground for encouragement, and the most urgent prompting to zeal in the cause of God. Whatever may be the changed circum stances of the country or tho modilicd instru mentalities for usefulness in the Church, the great bulk of the population in this District who without God and without hope in (He world look to us for religious instruction, ami arc dependent upon us for religious guidance. A great and effectual door for preaching the gospel is still open to us, and no Church could ask a greater privilege or have conferred upon it u greater honor. It is to be greatly deplored that while our Church is still in a position to lead in the grand movement of the Gospel lor subduing sin, suppressing vice, promoting virluo, elevat ing morals and spreading scriptural holiness over all these lands, that her energies should be so seriously restrained, and her success re tarded by the want of those co-operative agencies that do so much to promote a success ful preaching of the Gospel of Jesus. Your Committee have heard with deep concern and profound sorrow, the gcueral acknow ledgement thnt family worship has been abandoned, is still neglected by many members of the Church, and that this ineloncholy confession has to be made even in connection with some of our official members. That as a natural conse quence in many sections of the Church throughout the District there has been devel oped not merely n leniency of roligious feeling against tho demoralizing and dissipating amusements and indulgences of tho world, but even u fondness for thorn, and a disposition to permit und oven encourago the attendance of the children of the Church upon thorn. I'urullcl with this, und most likely as a di rcct consequence, wherever this tendency has been developod, there is corresponding declino of interest nmong the members of the Church in the social mquub of grace, the prayer meet ings, clnsH mcotiugs and love feasts. If friendship with tho world is enmity to God, if piety is incompatible with worldliucss then is Methodism in changeless ant agon ism to these indulgoncie8, for its missiou ns always announced, is to spread Scriptural holiness. If connexion with any Church, if connexion with the Methodist Church, if all Churohes means anythiug, it menus a renunciation of the devil nud nil his works with the pomps und vanities of the world, "and no one cau indulgo in these thing* without being recreant to tho most solemn covenant eugngemcnts of bis Church membership. No member of this Conference could hnvo failed to remark in the very full reports brought before it relative to tho'spiritual con dition of the so vorn 1 charges within its bounds, a very striking coincidcnc^^Vhcncvcr the spiritual condition of u change lias been re ported as sound and improving, and wHenever religious progress is reported as being devel oped in the membership, exactly at those points the prayer meetings arc reported as well attended and a. disposition to revive and keep alive the class meetings and love feasts indica ted; This is no accidental concurrence of facts?it is the direct result of sound religious effort always. No Church can be strong that has no praycV meetings, n<> Church can he weak that, has a prosperous prayor meeting. Upon Christians is devolved the solemn re sponsibility as well as the wouderiul privilege of intercessory prayer in behalf of a world lying in the wicked one. The success of the Miuistry nud the progress of the Church is entirely depeudant upon the agency of the Holy Spirit, and Gud is more willing to grant His Holy Spirit to than that aa/c lion than earthly parents are to give good gifts unto their children, and if we luck the soul convict' ing, soul saving power of the Holy Ghost in our Churches, it is bocuu.se we do not ask for it. "Ask and ye shall receive." "Ask and receive that your joy may ho ?m?*: C'hurciC ?i-'i-^iiigi: iiuu-i, bcru-sked ~Vn-hy the Church, as a Church, and it is done in the prayer meet ings. If the Church throughout our District will unite with one accord in asking, we tall not doubt that before the year passes we shall wit ness another Pentecost and the early conver sion of thousands. Your Committee present for your adoption the following resolutions : Resolved, That this Conference hereby re cord their devout thanksgiving to (iod over the reports so generally mado here by the Ministry of the continued attendance upon their pleaching, of large, attentive and serious congregations, and that in this fact we see ground of great hope, of good to tho country and prosperity to the Church. Resolved, That this Conference has to re cord with profound regret, a great departure from primitive Methodism in so many of the chaigcs of this District in the neglect of fami ly prayer, and the discontinuance of class meetings, love leasts and prayer meetings, and that healthy spirituality in the Cburcli can be preserved only by diligence in the use of those means of grace. Resolved, That now as ever heretofore, wo hold ourselves most solemnly pledged to di> countenancc by precept and example, by our selves and our families the popular dissipations and amusements of the irreligious world, aud that we will labor especially to preserve tho young of our charges and families from their seductions. Resolved, The Pastors of the several charges in the. District be requested in their Pastoral visitations and in their I'ulpit ministrations to urge the importance of family religion, anil at tention to the duty of family prayer upon till the families of their several charges. UEPOHT OP T1IK SUNDAY SCHOOL COMMITTEE. Impressed with a profound realization of the momentous character of the subject submitted to them for consideration and report, the Com mittee on Sunday Schools regret that the brevity of time at their command h;:.s prevent ed more than the very partial aud imperfect performance of their duty. They are pleased to be able to congratulate the Conference on the increased interest in the Sunday school cause, which, the reports from the various charges indicate as being very general throughout the District, You have heard of schools being established at several points formerly destitute; of more energy on the part of teachers ; of the yearning love id' pastors over tbo tender lambs of their flocks. Many of us too ha\e seen for ourselves the children exhibiting it great appreciation of the privilege afforded them of learning in their youth tho truth as it is in Christ .Jesus ; many of us lutvo heard them sing, as it' with inspired voices, tho sweet songs of Zion j we' have wit uessed unmistakeabie evidences of tho moving of the Holy Spirit upon their hearts,?and, contemplating all these things, wo enn but ex claim, "the Lord is doing great things for us whereof wc uro glad." Your Committee regard Sunday Schools as the most valuable aud rdiablo adjuncts of tho "Cfcurch in its mission of salvation. Where properly fostered and conducted, they arc truly ipnursorics. A large proportion of tho most jjious and most esteemed of our members havo aocn trained iu tho Sunday School, and their anistnin experience, consistent walk and ac tive energy, arc hut the legitimate fruit of the Weds of Gospel truth, planted in their hearts Jmilc children, by faithful teachers. A large wnd flourishing Sunday School indicates almost invariably a profporous Church ; while a nog TJgted, uninteresting and decaying School al ys betokens in the Church a decline of Spirituality and power. nvaluablc and essential at all times to the jjospcrity of the Church, your Committee ink that there is now especial ncccssi.y for oir general establishment and increased ofti ency. The baneful influences to which most iudsof intelligence arc subjected} thcteudency towards rationalism, uuitnriamism, ritualism,? iufidolity or a perversion of God's word sogene lly to be noticed; the now multiplied scduc ve temptations of the world the flesh and the (Ppvii J?all confront or environ the youth of aahr land, as they pass the threshold ofmun : obd or 'womanhood. flow can they success filly resist and overcome these pernicious fgenoics' and proclivities, unless when children, fy.early youth, they arc thoroughly taught the tfmdhuiental truths of the Bible, and accept e;p~critncntally that rcligio'n which is "the ;i ?wer of (iod unto Salvation to every one that !\:lioveth." ??Wherewithal shall a young man . 'cause his way ? By tukig heed thereto ac ( ?rding to Thy Word." Yout* Committee would be pleased to lay 1 oforc you the various methods oi conducting \ und ay Schools, which, in difTcrcut localities, Vcproved successful ; but time docs not per jjiit. Wc desire however to urge the impor- j nee of the efforts of Superintendents and (tellers being directed to the early conversion T their pupils. Jn some schools the theory j * religion only is taught, and but little effort made to secure its immediate practical tulop on. This, we think a very great mistake; in any instances, a fatal one, Superintendents ?d tcachors, h.v direct appeals to the heart ur conscience; by continually (muling up* rist and llitn crucified as a present Savior; prayer, argument, persuasion and entreaty, mid endeavor to lead their scholars to re ntancc, faith and the oxpcriencc of just idea tion. There is n > time so propitious for ti pro fession of Christianity as the early morning of life. This acknowledge!] fact should never be forgotten or ignored hy those interested or en gaged in Sunday School labor. Your Committee beg to present to the Con ference the following condensed ami, wc regret, not perfect, statement compiled from Reports which have been presented and from the Min utes of the last Annual Conference : Number of Schools in the District. 2"i " Officers and Teachers. 107 <? Scholars. li'll " Volumes in Libraries . 'J'.?77 " Church members. 81151 This lust item we report for the purpose of showing the largo discrepancy between the number of members and of scholars, and that we may suggest the importance of speedily bringing within Sunday School influence tlu children of the Church who ate yet uncarcd for. We beg hi couclusiou to submit the. follow ing resolutions: JtrtohetJ, That the members of this Confer ence pledge themselves to renewed efforts here after in the establishment and enlargement of Sunday Schools. Rcsuloal, That wc recommend to the Pas tors of the District the formation among their respective charges of Sund ly School Societ ies, for tho purpose of regulating and maintaining the several schools. [From the Abbeville Ummer.] German [tiiiiiigrulioii. [We arc under obligations to a friend for a co] v of the letter which follows. It embraces some practical ideas on the subject ?>!' immi gration, und as it i.- a matter which deeply con cerns our pci pie, wc cheerfully give place !?> the letter :?Ki>. Han n kh "] I will give you the results of my inqu' about the German settlement in Ibis hist riot. It is called Germantown, and is located twen ty live mih s east of this city, <>n the Watt re . fifteen miles east of the South Carolina Hail road, the nearest depot being Clarkson's Turn out Operations were commenced on the first of .November last ; and the settlement consists nl' lour families ol Germans, numbering nine teen persons. Seven negroes are hired its farm builds^; and theso with line able-bodied Ger mans make, the stun total of twelve farm-la borers. The settlement \v:is made by and is under the superintendence of Mr. Loiding, a German by birth, but a Confederate by four years of war-times with us, in addition to several years of business residence in Charleston. Imme diately after the war Mr. Loidiug took his family to Germany, to await better times; nnd whilo there had numerous applications from families of farmers and laboring men to bring them to the South ; but times were not then favorable for that. This tendency in that peo ple to ComCj added to a desire to do something to aid our prostrate country, induced Mr. Leid ing to form thoprofct of forming a colony. German town is the result of that prujet. In fixing upon a spot, two points were kept iu view?healthiness and fertility. A tour of inspection in company with a Gcrmau fresh from Germany was made. In examining this locality?-tho one finully selected?tbo good health of the inhabitants bore ample testimony upon the first point. Upon the second, the German agriculturalist decided thus: ''The laud is nut of the richest sort, but it has nil the elements for a comfortable support, and by proper tillage?manuring with stable and barn yard manure?it can be brought into a high state of fertility; besides, if desirable, the al luvial bottom soil can be brought up to tho sandier elevations aud thus grcutly improve them." Thus assured. Mr. Lciding determined to secure (he place, and make it the centre of an extensive colony of Germans. As the safest mode of proceeding, he determined to begin with u few who were already resident in the Slate; and from this point advance to the de sired extent iu a few years. The four fami lies engaged had been living in Charleston, iu mechanical pursuits, from ten to fifteen years. 1 give you in the words of the colonist the details of operations at the outset : "We bad tine little dwelling houses built, plastered and with brick chimneys; also, outhouses and a general stable, to bold fourteen horses and their provender. We had two wells dug, one of* fifty-live feet depth and the other eighty nine feet. Wo split rails for 2f>0 acres; cleared two acres garden lots for three dwelling houses each. These gardens are now green with corn, Irish potatoes, cabbage and the usual vcgctabls of the region. We sowed iu November 30 acres in wheat, 20 acres iu rye; and since then have added eight acres iu Irish potatoes, three acres in sweet potatoes, HO acres iu GaU.,70 acres in corn, 3f? acres in cow peas, "amiTo acres in cotton. We had on an aver age six horses employed. Yv o ploughed the wheat, rye, oats and potato lands very deep and harrowed them with heavy harrows. Up to the 20th April, the lands bid fair to yield an abundant crop, but the occasionally heavy rains, from the 2<>th of April for near three weeks afterward, have materially injured our prospects, besides we hnvo lost a great deal of time in tilling because of the COUStaut heavy rain. However, under the blessing of Provi dence we hope to earn a living the first year and a surplus the next." All this is iu keeping with the German character; and its patience contains a world, of wisdom for our American rcstivcooss. In Ger many, the climate is So cold that they have but seven months out of the twelve in which it is possible to work iu the fields, and laud very scarce at that ; while here these Oermantown ers can gather in ten months out of the twelve and do farm tillage in every mouth of the year. This comparison, Mr. Lciding holds, will bring as many immigrants to South Carolina as we wish, as soon as the facts can become known and the country a little better quieted. In thiB colony they prefer the uplands, because there is less risk, although less profit iu suc cessful years. The German mind profcrs this sort of certainty, and is willing to labor for a certain though a limited gain. This is an cle ment of character wo very much need among us. Mr. Lciding says: "J am anxious to be come the means of bringing from overpopula Icd Kuropc honest and industrious and ambi tious'men?men who wish to rise?to this land so abundantly blessed by Providence in clim ate, soil, materials, and water power." With these views, based np?n his knowledge of both countries and upon this experiment thus far so successful, Mr. Lciding suggests a I plan for the gradual and rapid development of his own and similar colonies of which I see no reason why there may not be one hundred in South Carolina. ! give the several points in Iiis own words : I. <;> t such labour as the country now al rcatly has. If.they succeed they will induce others, 11 *?*ir relatives or friends, tu immigrate from Kurupc. ". Put up a comfortable little bouse in a healthy locality, for each family. 3. Turn over to the laborers fifty acres of good land fur cultivation, and furnish him witli a mule, a cow. and a sow with pigs. I. 1 urnish him with bacon, corn and pro vender for six or eight months. f>. Pay him ?tt or $10 a month, as a part of his earnings aud then interest him in the next proceeds (after having deducted his wages and his support. U. Give him a written agreement; that after one year and within five years you will sell him the bouse and land at a stipulated price. These conditions Mr. Lciding believes will satisfy the. Gorman immigrant; and be speaks from tho Gorman stand-point?speaks with a practical knowledge of the wants and feelings of tho German farmcn - The "good time coining" for South Carolina '; may not be so far in the future as Croakers think ; and my id?a is that the Very tfest if C not the oiily way to bring that day about in for our land-owners to colonize theiif surplus lauds j and Gonnuus arc the best of colonists. Let our people go manfully nnd liberally to this work and the sceptre will soon pass iron* the dusky brow of indolent Ethiopia. I think these facts will bo useful for out people to learn, and that they may bo sugges tive of something practical. In addition to the Bureau of Immigration established by the State, there is, I seo, a patty in Charleston?Joseph II. Oppenheim?whose business it is to conduct negotiations between citizens and immigrants, aud to furnish labor from Germany or Ireland. But private in dividuals can readily manage the 'business as soon as they get the desire to act. JAS. WOOD DAVIDSON. Unequal Laws. Tbc Carl Schurz resolution at Chicago, adopts "the immortal principles of the Declare* tion ol Independence," of which the foremost sets forth the rightful equality of men beforo the law. The second Chicago resolution is a fiat denial of equality. The Northern white, it says, may deny suffrage to the blacks. ;The Southern white shall hot. This is equality! The Northern white, it says, shall distribute suffrage as he pleases,- each State properly controlling its own distribution. Tile South ern white ahull not distribute suffrage. Con gress has usurped tho power from each State und will maintain its usurpation. This is equality! Wholesale disfratichiserucnt of whites has been worked nt the South by the laws of Con gress.- But nobody has beon disfranchised who would vote to keep Badicnlism in power. This is equality ! One law for tho North, another law for the South on the supto subject Thi-< is equ^ity. No Negro suffrage at the North, where it has been uniformly rejected by the people for themselves. Wholesale negro suffrage at the South, where it is uniformly dreaded. This is equality ! No negro suffrage nt the North, where so few are the negroes that their ignorance could do but little harm through the ballot. Whole* I sale negro suffrage at the South where the I negroes arc half or nearly half the population, I and where their ignorance working through the baliot may and must do its utmost harm, j This is equality ! I Gratitude demands this, say the Chicago j Radicals, yet a larger proportion of Northern j blacks fought in the war than of the Southern blacks. The Northern black is denied tho suffrage. The Southern black has it thrust upon him. This is equality ! Gratitude demands this, say the Chicago Radicals?but gratitude to whom and for what? Gratitude to the millions of Southern blacks who helped the rebellion to the last hour of its life, who hud not pluck enough to strike a blow themselves for freedom, but now have freedom's highest privilege thrust upon them? Gratitude to the few thousand blacks who fought tho rebellion, but to whom suffrage is denied? This is equality. Senator Doolittlc proposed an amendment to the last reconstruction bill giving a ballot to every black soldier, proportioning gratitude thus to service. The Radical Senate r'?jcotcd it, for that was equality. The Chicago platform is a splintered chip which Carl Schurz cannot nail on the grand old Declaration of Independence?JV. Y. World. The Charleston Gazette, an able organ of the Irish, thus speaks of Gen Grant;?"Grant's submission to the Radical party, and trcacher ous surrender of charges, placed within his keeping, are fitting commentaries upon his character as a soldier. Ostensibly tho friend of Mr. Johnson, ho sought by the confidence committed to his custody to work the ruin of him ho served. Fcignipg n friendship, tho foundations of which diseased ambition had already sapped, ho yielded his lean and hungry soul into the hands of the nrch-impcaohcrs. Under their direction, ho ignobly prostituted the opportunities which circumstances gave him, seizing with avidity expressions of the President, with tho deliberate intont of forging them into weapons to be used for his destruc tion. kThe pitiful mcimrcss of tho man's whole course bespoaks the traitor. Kasan sold his birth-right, his own property, for a mess of porridge, the good received was tangible, and tho circumstances such as to mitigate, if not> justify the sale, and yet this samo Esan, for tho exhibition of what is iustly regarded a& a mem ipiritjjs held up to tho scorn of all time. Grant, without the warrant which hunger gave to Esau iu his pinched and starved condition, deliberately foreswears hsmsclf, abandons his principles and barters for the unsubstantial prfgctit of a nomination, the high trusts of a pen pie.