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Ex-covernor Allen oni E. A. Pollard. The foilowing article, from tie pen'o Ex-Governor Allen, of LouisiaRna, an now editor of theo M4exican 7ijes, 1 clipped from that paoer of .the. .th o January. !t iq ia comiosition wrtliy o the immi0torial Jmunill.s. In its power, ir its force of bitterness and sentiment, il is an unequalled piece of writing. O the personality of the article we hav4 nothmig to say, b.it submit it to our read ers as a specimen of most extraordinar) coin posit ion.- Charleston Dait.y News The civil war in America is endAd and the "banner of the bars" that wave< over Jackson and gicamed upon th( track of Stuart's reckless riders ias beet put away as,men hidu the trinkets of i dear, dead love. Although the blood of Virgi:na's bes and bra vest is not. yet dry in t.he valiey. nor has the grass grown over the pro mature graves, of the manly Confeder ates who fell before Petersburg, yet Mr E. A. Pollard, a pretty writer and tal ented editor, in a long newspaper arti ele, denonnees ex-President tav. Gene lks Lee, Johnson and Beatiregard ; an< says "lie FeIothern people digrace< f.temiselves forever when they 'refiused ti fight, to extermination ; that they lael coiuiage and endurance---statsmanshi -and inte0lligence." lie criticises citm paigns, ridieules strategicol movemn nti sieers at retreats, aid laughs at: ever heroic effort of the brave men who hav left to history an immortal name. Vh is Mr. 14. A. Pollard? HRe is Virgiaiat,,t he editorofthe tichiond Ex aniter, and the author of tue "Southeri I Iistory of the War." We have gric for the first, blushes for th secend, an contempt for the last. During a'l those years of carnage an of blood, this Richmond Examiner wa an insatiato fiend of opposition and ha tred. Step by step it broke down tli brave, fond heart of Sidney Johntson again and again it lacerated and gore( the sensitive soul of Beauregard ; weel aft r week it denoiced the heroic effort o' Joseph E. Johnston ; anl now, whel .Jelerson Davis is chinned amid t. waves of his rock ribbed prison, it. trie to -,tab his repittation anld his hionor. It is not often fhut men like Pollar and Jordan can gloat over the agony i such a spirit and the degradation of suncl a name. It is not often that sich a bosom as Leo's is la id bare for the thins of every ruiflian's spear, or the ditgger o every coward's hand. It is not offel iliat. I desolated nation writhes under ti blows of its children anl the cruehies o its own offspring. It is not oftan tha the world furnishes huma1ni hyenas t< exhine tie boudies of her sainted dead an.d howl in honid delight over the re volting feast. Pollard wanted extermination, bit i was in New York city, hob-nobbin, wit.h Gre eley, and tellintg.'the pleasan s ory in his pleasant way of the foei years' war. He wanred fifty thousani inei to light a million to titj death, bit he never fell in beside theim atid proffer ed to share a common fate. Like Job'. war-horse, ie snufTed the battle fron afar! Shoddy is cheap, and humbug i, cheap, and Hentry Ward Beecher's pat ent sermons are cheat); and sincerity faith, honor, chivalry, maithood h 1o10 pure and unpopilar. Pollard's mother State lies prostrate in tle dust, her hearth.-stonies desoat antd her idol shtatteredl. All over the land hto can see her hereaved dlaughtterI weeping for thte young, fresh faces that looked back to them from thte heat and yellow dust of the conflict jest before the htorses' feet trod thtemt downt. Hie car almost hear thte breezes from te W il derness singing their melanceholy dirget over Stuart an-i A sh by, and Pel ham, and Hill, and Jackson, dear to God. H< has no' love, nor veneration, nor tender ness, nor pity for any of these ; but tear img open thte graves of the immortalizet dead, Ite blends them witht t.he living ir Otto saurlguds uatiie of contemzptu Drape the picture of a itation int itt agony,, and cover its laurels with tli4 mourning eypress. Furl the conquered banner with a farewell look, and shtrine its memory in our heart of htearts ; but t< the brutal hardihood of those whto cursn antd villify & ruitied race, give yen. geance, scorn, and a never-dyintg con tempt. .History tells how Coriolamsas.halted hig victorious legions beyond the Yellowi Tiber, but that. $ero. fiddled'av gdodl~ butte while Rome' was burning. Amik the graves of is kindred, -the anguisil and despair of brave men in'their crush, ig overthrowv, amid the blue skies and green fields of htis nativity, E:'A. P'ol: lard dips htis pen itn gall ,ofU the New landi hate and writes the record o: *eerlnsting infamiy and disgrace, at spect do gold-nmino4da tsr people ? They nevof all, their earthly am are * WTNSBQRO! Tharsd nng n 9,16 Solget for this paper in Charleston, S.C. I have a supply of ieVenue Stamps of vA-ious denominations, which can be had by applying either -at this office or /at the office. of the Clerk of the Court. 11. A. GAILLAIRD. The Crescent Monthly. Our notice of this embryotic South. crn periodical was crowded out of this isrite. How doesRotation of Crops Improye Land. Although it is said that rotation of crops improves lanil, yet we doubt whether it dos inprove it. It is more likely that such a -system preserves the productive qualit.isof the soil, but we very much (iestion .hu improvement. Grarting however tha't arable land is improved by rotation, the question arises, how does it do it ? As corn and cotton are the great sthplo products of this section, they will serve our purpos es best for illustration. Suppose a field cleared ant ready for ' the corn. Of course the surface is free from al1 vegetation The seed are dropped and soon the plants make their f appearance. Now begins the work, which continnes until the - crop is "laid by." The growing corn has been kept s clean of all grass, which prevented the soil receiving as "much from decaying vegetable matter as it was giving to the corn. And therefore the crop and the soil stood in the relation of creditor and d debtor-the corn being the latter. Up to the time of the 'laying by," the soil has produced nothing but what has to be removed. From that time I however there begins to accumulate f some compensation for the heavy draughts upon the fertility of mother earth. The grass which then springs r up is allowed, though not always, to re mai in the field, decay and fall back into the soil. to reinvigorate in some measnre its wasted strength. Finally the or 'p is gathered and the ficit,a -'ft to itself. If now by the next planting season no deterioration of that soil has taken place, it matters little whether a different erop be planted or not. But a change has taken place, and it is for the worse. And that change may be thee retically expressed thus : The present fertility of the soil is equal to the diO'er ence between its vr(qinal and its resto'red fertility. For example,-the original fertility of the field was 10, the restored feitility 2.. Hence 10-2 equal to8 would give the present equal to 8. Or the for. mula p equal to o-r. Evilently now there is no chance to make as;good a corn crop the second year as the first. (It is assumed that there is no manure used which is nearly the rule in practice.) According to this theory it is clear that the same soil by a repeated culture of the same crop would eventually be. come worthless as far as that particular product is concerned. And facts here accord with theory. Buet insteadI of repeating the cult.ure of corn on this soil, it is planted with cot',on. *The same system of keeping down the grass is adoptedl this second year, only it is carried .to a greater ex tent. A judicious cotton planter knows the importance of keeping a clean field of cotton.- This plant glories in the sunshine, anad is very susceptible of any thing like outside pressureg Nor does the "laying liy" comie as soon as with corn. No body objects to the tall grass around the taller corn stalks, but', wo to the grass that tries topvertop thes cot ton plapt.in the fi~ilt of .a .muan who knowe whlat's "wvhat. That invader Iis fought bitte1'ly until the time comes when his young blades can be torned over to the tender mercies of Jack Froat. We have said -that when the corn was gathered oft' th'o h6I and the next S jnfding season name ~tth ' ftd had agod ais to its~ "4y y.i'rc ig is IdQpL that that. chan~ge wqald be lhe ifl'erence between Sbhe @iinal fr.imi. and the aiount absorbed and carried off in the crop, if here were no dompenoa. tion'1o t rosolt from Olecaying Aegetatle Imatte 'nd tljeqtorioratiqn is owipg to'0 fat' that the testitution by this decay'is not equal to the deprivatioi by the crop. If it were, the present fertili ty woul i a'ways be equal to the origi nal. Bitt no gathered crop leavea the soil as it was when the seed wore plnt ed. And again there is no crop but what leaves some compensation for the virtue of the soil abstracted by its removal. But some crops leave more, some less. Hence this theory which is confirmed by fact supports the adviD cates of rotation. It also teaches the economy of adopting such .a system of rotation as shall retard to tlo greatest extent the deterioration of the land. From this we learn that it is all inipor tant to tha farmer to altarnate his crops, or rotate them, in such a manner that restoring crops shall succeed exhausting crops. By "restoring"' and "exhausting" crops, N e do not mean those which take loss or more front tle strength of the soil, bit those which by more or less work required thereby compensate for their abstraction! from the soil by allow. ing more or less decay of vegetible mat. ter. Agriculturalist? may differ as to the system of rotation, but there can be no doubt that in every system the most ex. haustive crops should be removed as far as possible from each other. It would appear that in this section the most profitable rotation would be, 1. Corn. 2. Cotton. 3. Peas. 4. Wheat or oats. 5. Then corn again, &c.. Without going into a discussion of the merits of the above system of rotation, we submit the following points. 1. Rotation is beneficial because it retards exhaustion of land. 2. Rotation rather preserves the fet. tility of land, than improves it. 3. That 9ystem of rotation is best, which allows the longest interval be. tweon the planting of the most exhaus tive crops. Charleston Board of Trade. The Daily News of a late date gives an account of a meeting of merchants in Charleston to establish a Board of Trade. The meeting appointed officers temporarily, and -arranged for a future meeting at which'a constitution and by laws are to be adopted. Success to them. To Messrs. Sumner and Stevens. If you two great Head Centres of radical Republicanism in Congress can ]raw any comfort from a contemplatior Af the results of your political course for our months past, you are welcome uise thte following.'. Sou have consumed time, to be paid ror out of thte public treasury, in vent. ing your spleen upont eight out of thirty of the population of tbe Union, by di recting all your influence to confer a dloubtful privilege upon four. You have kept the Government warring against the South twelve months after the Bouth had ceased to fight. You have checked the wise and noble policy of the President to restore the Southern States to their original status. You have fag tened upon the South an inistitution aalled the Freedman's Bureau, whieb has done more to ostrange the two races Bouth than all te evils-oS slavery com bined-toil thousand- times more. Tou have clearly shown-that your aim Is not so much to elevat, the 'black mian as it is to disgrace the white. You have erippled thte energies of tho'outh, and rramped the expanslots 'of Northern spital to an etnedthat defids all oomputation. Youndre Alling the'South with a. political gangrene that bids fair to. prove an incnrablooanoer on the body politic. Yeu ave"hntling the country on with railrosdsp#ed to a cun'dition of distraction and tersuoil, anarchy and ruin that arIi rIealdPsdemonium itself.. In short, so far as our Iposit,ion and ma.u enoe'go, you shotV yourselireb til aptpt schglrs ofshe .?thee of the poway of th*.air. wh.nervert, the afrlraat mun The Eellpso FrIdiy Night. To-morrow (Friday) night there will be a total eclipse of the moon visible here. It.wi3l bigin at't, 19 m. The total darknesswililiegin at 101, 25m. The middle of total 'darkiiess will be at I II, 14ni, and the end of total darkness at Oh, 3m. The eclipse ends at ten minutes after one o'clock. Before the natural laws which.govern eclipsea were discovered, these phe nomena were viewed with trembling awe by mnny superstitious people. An' eclipse was made capital of by the Chinese Astronomtre. It is related of Columbus that when he first landed on the island ofJamaica, being short of-pro visions for his men, he -alled upon the natives for a supply which they refused to give. -Ile knowing that an eclipse was just about to take place, called to. gether the head men and warned them that by withholding supplies from him they were offending the. Great Spirit, and that He would show them that He was angry. Shortly after the eclipse did come, and the over-awed natives poured out the provisions at the feet of Columbus for his own and his men's use. In former days in South America whole neiglhbnrhoods 'would assemble during an eclipse, with cymbals and horns and various ihstruments with which to make a noise, and make the welkin ring with their indiscriminate sotifids. They supposed that by this means they frightened away the evil that had befallen the sun or the moon. While the unlearned long ago witness. ed with astonishment this phenomenon on account of the mystery which en veloped it, we on the other hand in this day of advanced knowledge contemplate this grand celestial spectacle with pro. found reverence for that infinite wisdom whichi is exhibited in the beauty, har. mony, ordar, consistency and grandeur of the laws which control the solar sys tern. RecadinK Club. The advantages of an institution of this kind in our commnnity can hardly he questioned. We have suggested the idea to some and, so far as we know, some scheme of this kind would meet with a favorable reception. T.he young men of the town ought to be particular. ly interested in it. It would be a means of componsatiiig in some measure for the check which the war gave to their course of education. They could not of course expect to redeem the past Lime lost, but they could in the-Reading Club make the best use of the present. It would be better thus to spend an Uvening than to wasto it in idle and fruiless frivolity. Therefore we suggest a meeting at the earliest practicable opportnit.y of all who are interested in organizing a Reading Club. By coining together and having a free and full interchange of views and plans, some scheme would be hit upon that would be acceptable. We invite correspondence ouching this subject, and will be glad to lay be. fore our readers any suggestions upon it. Condensed History. We clip the following list of our Presidents from the Spartanburg .x press, and commend it to all 'who desire to keep before thorn a bird's-eyo view of the executive heads of the Union. Washington and Adams start the line, Jefferson, biadison and Monroe, Young Adams and Jackson in '29, Van Buren, H-arrisoni and Tyler too. Polk, Taylor and Fillmore, Fr k Pierce, '53, Buchanan ahl Lincoln, next weosee. Thm SntofGog.*'asdthe stay law Coer the G3ove a veto. "Iirave a pt everything, and you ough~ safd. a, married mian, who fb i,boot-Jack aft4r$i#~if, in -"Ye.," said . e to' know where you TELEGitAPR I G. From Was llgton -Congressional. WiSflINgTON. March 20.--The Sun. ato was engaged to-day in :the discus. sion of the resoltition offered b% Sumner" to amend the journal of Friday by strik ing out the voto, of' Stockton. df Now Jersiy, on his right to a seat ; and by a vote of 22 to 18 reftised to refer th6 question again to the Judiciary Com mittee. Trambull, the Chairman of tho Judiciary Committee, made a speech declaring that Stockton was legally en. titled to his seat The question is still pending. WASHINOTON, March 26.-The Su. preme Court has decided that shares in the National Banks are taxabli by State authority. A large crowd awaits the veto of the Civil Rights bill to-lay, but it will iot be sent in until to-morrow, or next day. Senator Foote is lying in a very critical condition. Some Testimonies froilm the War Docu ients. fThe Philadelphia Age makes some inter esting extracts from the volumes containing the.report of the committee of Congress on . the conduct of the war. The first has re ference to General Banks and his encounters with the immortal 8tonewall Jaekson, with. some introductory remarks by the Age: OEN. nANKS AND STONEWALL JACKSON. On the 29th of May, 1862, the Confede rate authorities announced that (en. Banks had been "idnominiously driven" down the Valley. Stonewall Jackson literally -oased him to the Potomao. if General Banks had come from any other part of the world than Aliassachusetts this would have been the end of him. t New England can b ar this sort of gnouliy," and he was, -transferred to a conmniand in the advance of Pope's army. Thus in advance, on the 9th of August lie encountered his old friend. Gen. Jackson, at or near Cedar Mountain, and had a sharp struggle with him. Banks thus describes it, with an incidental allu sion to Issus and Granious : "The battle raged for two hours, and un, til the combatAnts were separated by the darkness, with as much stubbornness as ever men fought in the world. Alexander'a troops never fought better. They. held their position till dark, but the enemy was, so imuch stronger that it. was impossible to a1vanoe. In te evening we fellback," &o., (vol. 8, p. 40 ) For this General Pope censured "Alexander." 'The rat im, that according to his own showing, Banks was goarded ito this battle, for he testifies. thus: "In the morning General ltoberts (Pope's Chief of Sinf) said to me in a tone which it was hardly proper for one oficer to use to another, 'There must. be no pack ing out to-day.' lie said this to me from' six to twelve times. I made no reply to him, but felt it. keenly, because I knew that my command did, not want to back out. We had backed out enough- Ile repeated this declaration a great many times, 'There must be no backing out to-day.' To be sure General Pope denies all this, and in a letter to the committee thus cruelly and con-' temptuously extinguishes his refractory subordinateb "In my otliclal reports. I endeavored, as far as I possibly could, to avoid the censure justly chargeable upon General Banks for, his management of that battle, though L was warned at the time by officers of high rank, that; it was misplaced generosity, ani that my forbearance woZ *ssuro4 be used against me there believe it possible, an wIt h General Banks wIth th derness, as ,L knew .and Sth him in his mortifioatIon'at is previous enconntier with . fectly understood hiis natu re,. - trieve his reputation." , @1 TUIDUTEs TO Tiun CoNraDERATRsag' General Hooker, in his testijnony, speak. as-follows of the opposing armies: General Hooker, lanihis testImony, (ps 118) says: "0Oir artillery had always bee superior to that of the rebels, as was alsb tufantry, peept in dIscIpline, and that, for reasons not necessary to mention, never did equal Lee's army. With a rank and file vastly Int'erior to our our own, intellectual. ly and phsically, Genet:al Lee's army h by disce noa alone, ecdI~ ,a ebaraete for stea 1,ness and *e4 muy unsurpassi inm ud gment, in eleat or mode times.' Whave #9T4f been able to riv Gemleral )feede speaks of "the brave a p 4aye' of the .Confederates Ue' ipse.9ok talks of their "won 49 ('I~.~"%hing eould have bee anote e ibd"--and -General Pleasanto deseib ag thme disgraceflal running away tk. esveath arn corps at C)hancellors .sOoounts-for It b.the "tion1b&ned e upon the iaginatoof t,)o'sound of m ketry ; the yells of the rebls and their i oresig a'liery Ase." -It was a the cal emot of StontsaRl Jaokson's which 'eould -produe betterm tha any ot hsr spae -bave ever seqa on th.ld of battde. I ooud 11 opq of his attacks anywhere lhi# fte battle was Stonewall sonse dest 1 Uf,I K. AIE km properly Sundersig i 0 M # SA f rir , j. Rt