Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Jtoaps m4 Jfarts. i Mr. Snooks says the reason he does not many is, that his house is not large enough tc contain the consequences. , , 1 A Hartford author is engaged on a history of woman's progress from the earliest ages, to be entitled "From the Fig Leaf to the Crinoline." What crop is that which is none the worse for being backward? The pork-krop. If you don' I believe it, try it backward Sheridan's "magnificent turn-out" atNev J -d?l V: < Urieans nas Deen mucn tuacuss^u. x>ui uu> mus> magnificent "torn-oat" is the pne just furnishec him by the President Plymouth Rock is becoming very unclear and unseemly, from the habit of pugrims spitting tobacco juice and throwing tobacco ends and tn< remnants of luncheon upon it Deon't! The Orangeburg limes says that the dwel Eng house of Rev. A. F. Dickson was burned dowi on Saturday of last week. Besides the house, i large amount of personal effects was lost Peruvian ladies are noted for their exquisite ]y small feet, and get them by having the little to< amputated in infancy. A Peruvian surgeon, skillet : in the business, is going to San Francisco to opei an office. The Bennettsville Journal states that Nat Williams, a negro lecturer, charged with preachint incendiary doctrines to the freeamen of Marlboro has been arrested and taken to Darlington, when he will be tried by a military commission. The scaffold bad a goodly harvest last Fri day. No less than fifteen persons "buffered th< extreme penalty of the law" within the limits o the United States. Two of the number were wo men. The contractor for watering the streets in i New Hampshire city was busy at n isduty recently during a heavy shower. "Why don't you stoj sprinkling?" asked a citizen, "don't you see tha it nuns?' "I do," was the reply, "but I am al ways willing to work when the Lord helps me.' There is a well, about 30 feet deep, nea Sodbmy, Vermont, in which the ioe formed in th< winter remains thronghont the summer. Othe: wells which have been dog in close proximity t< this one exhibit no such phenomenon, and the sa -rants are unable to explain the mystery. ??Hie First National Bank of Washington advertised in the City papers, last week, for Con federate 8 per cent bonds, it having received ai order from England for a small amount The price offered was two dollars and fifty cents foi each one thousand dollars. A Brooklynite tells a queer story about th( lovely wife and daughter of a milkman, who tool daily baths in the lacteal fluid to improve theii complexion. The milk was then watered and sole .. at fifteen cents a anart It didn't need any doctor ing to give it "body," after that A few davs ago, twenty-seven women, oi ? Rcdfield, Iowa, decided to abate the whiskey shopi of that place, and did so. They were arrested, tried and acquitted. Subsequently they were rearrested ana taken before another Justice ofth< Peace, twenty-five miles distant, where they wen again acquitted after a three days' trial. Hie Richmond Christian Observer, of the 5th instant says: A few weeks ago at a festiva1 for the benefit of the Presbyterian Church al Wytheville, a handsome Tea Set was purchased by many of the citizens of the place?who by a vote awarded it to the Rev. Joseph H. Martin. It was a well deserved tribute of respect on the part oi the community. The negro waiters "tried on" a strike last week at the "Chattahoochee White Sulphur Springa" Their demands were refused, and all left. The guests set to work and waited on themselves till new ones could be hired. The gentlemen washed the dishesj and at meals the ladies ate first, the gentlemen waiting on them. When they were done, the gentlemen sat down and the ladies served them. The Griffin (Ga.) Star says that at the recent session of Henry County Court, the jury, composed of six white men and six negroes, tried a negro for petty larceny. The proof was indisputable; and was backed by a confession of guilt from the accused. Notwithstanding all this, the sin negroes positively refused to find a verdict, and a mis-trial was ordered. The names of about five hundred applicants for a passage to Liberia, in November, are now upon the books of the American Colonization Society. These are residents, mostly, of the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia, and are nearly all of the class popularly -tnnwn as 4lfreedmen." The Societv has made an earnest appeal for funds to enable them to send these applicants to Liberia. The Weldon (N. C.) Neics, got a look at Gen. Canby as he passed through tnat place, on - his way to Charleston. The editor draws the following pen-portrait: "He is a fine looking man, possessing hut little the appearance of a soldier, reminding one more of a sturdy old farmer than of a military commander. He was dressed in citizen's clothing, and had no appearance of ostentation?withal a pleasant looking individual." An Englishman has devised a plan for supplying the residents of crowded cities with fresh country air, imported at so much per cubic foot. A net-work of underground tubes, radiating from some place beyond the reach of the foul exhalations of the town, is to run through the pestiferous alleys and stifling back streets of tlie greal cities, and the emaciated occupants of tenement houses and oellars need only turn a faucet, and the . breath of the daisies and the odour of new-mowr hay will rush in to revive and strengthen them. "If confiscation is ever begun in the South. it will end in the North." At the Chicago Labor Congress a proposition to call upon Congress for twenty-five millions of dollars, was advocated upor the ground that "workers who have produced all the wealth in the oountiy are certainly entitled tc a share of their own money." This reasoning, says the World, is the backbone of Thaddeus Stevens's scheme of mild confiscation. Tho same sort of reasoning would distribute all the railway shares in the North among the navvies whose labor built the roads. -? Since the trial of Surratt, his quarters in the jail have been moved, and he now has one of the rooms of the second story, fronting South, which 1 : !iL TT T-l ' 1. _ ue occupies hi common wim xienry uounson, who ia charged with the killing of Thomas Smoot, foi seducing his (Johnson's) wife. Surratt has of late much improved in health. They are well fixed in this room, each having a cot on which thev sleep. They have some books and papers, and when not reacune, conversation is engaged in. Surratt alludes but seldom to the charge against him, but speaks of general topics. He seems to think much of his Zouave uniform, and wears it nearly all the time.?Correspondent New Torh World. A miserable picture, even in the old times of slavery, was a white man who had to work him self, but was ashamed of it. To see an individua noWj cleaning his boots, and if he hears anybody coming, hiding the brush, or to see a fanner work ing in the field, but laying down his hoe at the ap ? roach of his neighbor, is bad enough; but not s< opeless as one who prefers to suffer rather thai work even in secret. The man who is not ashamec to say, "I am poor, and have to work with mi 1 1 1? j xl 1_ _ ' i _ own nanas, ana me woman wno is not usnaiuei to acknowledge that her husband is not rich, ant that she has to cook?these are the people who art to revive our broken fortunes and repair the rava ges of war." The New York Weekly, and the Nationa Intelligencer, state that "Judge Magrath, ofSoutl Carolina, the United States District Judge of tha State in 1860?a violent secessionist, and the uian who "adjourned the Federal Court in Charlestoi forever, on the grouud that "the election ofs sectional President by a sectional majority was i sufficient cause for the freemen of South Carolin; to assert their inalienable rights of self-government and for the State to resume her unquestionabli sovereignty, an<J snap the bands which bound hei to a hated Union" was. during the reign of Gen eral Sickles, his chief clerk, his confidential advi ser, and the warm defender of his course." In 1849 a Colonel in the Austrian armj caused a young Countesss to be publicly whippec for concealing one of the revolutionary party. oh( died shortly after, leaving a son, two years of age, Hie son grows up, and, with the purpose of aveng ing his mother, perfected himself in the use of the Turkish sabre. When he thought the time had come, some few weeks ago, he went to the countrj seat of the Colonel, then Baron Prangen, and slapped him in the face. A challenge was, oi course, sent; and the young man chose as weapons Turkish sabres. They met and after informing the Baron of his origin ana purpose, the son of the outraged Countess proceeded to slice and hack his ancestral enemy into small pieces. He if said to feel better now. "M. De Dreyse," the Erfurth (German) ] Gazette etates, "has invented a new rifle which , . throws grenades or explosive bullets, and which is ; shortly to be tried at Spandau. It is a breech ' loader, on the system of the needle gun, and sends * the missiles to a great distance and with extraor- 1 dinary effect. Its indirect fire against fixed cover- ' ' ed targets is affirmed to produce most surprising i i results. The grenade, wnen filled and ready for use, is perfectly safe in the pocket, and so delicate , in its construction that, once it leaves the muzzle ^ of the rifle, it will burst in passing through even a sheet of paper. On exploding, the fragments produce most disastrous effects, scattering over a r space of five feet by three. The rifle is light and | easily handled. ?ft* i editors: JAS. E. WILSON .JAS. F. HART. [ YORKVIL<L<E< S. cT: . THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. 12,1867. ? m J Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that . our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash, in advance. X.?The paper will bo discontinued on the expi, ration of the time for which payment lias been * " ' ?? 1?l! 'v-\ r made. a JSUDScnoer iiiiujiik ? v-^v; uum-.u?.nvu the wrapper or margin of his paper, will under^ stand that the time paid for has expired. POLITICAL COMMUNICATIONS. 3 As we occasionally receive communications on f the state of the country, in a political point of - view, which we inviariably decline, we wish to define our position in this matter. i Such communications are not declined in any t disrespectful spirit towards their authors. We } have no desire to choke down the aspirations or sentiments of any man. But the Enquirer is > not intended to be the medium through which the people may learn the "views" of this, that or the [ other.politician. It is a private concern, the pro* prietor of which does not choose to become a lad} der by which others pre to climb into office at his - expense. We have a right to publish or not to publish such communications; but as we could not , fairly admit one and refuse others, we prefer to refuse all. Any other course would soon make our J paper a mere record of private quarrels and dis' cussions, in which our readers generally would take no interest. , To avoid making the paper a political hack, it I was announced in the prospectus that the discusr sionof "political or vexed questions" would be I eschewed. While we claim the right to express our opinions on such questions whenever we see proper to do so, as a rule, we treat of politics only f as news, aiming, as a family paper, to keep our 5 readers posted on the various political changes and [ events of the day. OUR NEW COMMANDER. General E. S. R. Canby, the new Military , Commander of District No. 2, accompanied by his j family and several members of his Staff, arrived in : Charleston on Tuesday, of last week. The Chprles1 ton papers of Friday last contain the orders of ' General Sickles resigning, and of General Cani by assuming command. In the orders of General Canby, he announces that "all existing orders and regulations are adopted and confirmed, and will be observed and enforced unless hereafter modified or I revoked by proper authority." General Sickles left Charleston, on Saturday last, for New York. THE AMNESTY PKOCLAJHATIun. 1 The President has issued his long talked of amnesty proclamation. The preamble, which is very long, recites the substance of former proclamations, and makes the amnesty proclamation of May 1 29th, 1865, the basis of his present action. He i then declares that all yet unpardoned persons may : now receive pardon, by taking the well-known am1 nesty oath, except those who are included within one of the following named classes: ! 1st The Chief or pretended Chief Executive officers, including the President, the Yicc-Presi- ' dent and all heads of departments of the preten1 ded Confederate or rebel Government; and all who j ; were agents thereof in foreign States or countries, ' and all who held or pretended to hold in the ser! vice of the said pretended Confederate Govern1 went, a military rank or title above the grade of 1 Brigadier-General, or naval rank or title above ? ; that of Captain, and all who were, or pretended to i be, Governors of States, while maintaining, abetting or submitting to and acquiescing in the rebellion. 2. AS persons who in any way treated otherwise than as lawful prisoners of war, persons who in any capacity were employed or engaged in the military or naval sendee of the United States. 3. All persons who at the time they may seek to obtain the benefits of this proclamation are actually in civil, military or naval confinement or custody, or legally held to bail; either engaged directly or indirectly in the assassination of the late Presi dene 01 ine uuueu oun.es, or in auy pjuu or wuspiracy in any manner therewith connected. OUR AGRICULTURAL EXCHANGES. , We have on our exchange list several valuable i agricultural journals, whose claims upon the farming community we have long been desirous to bring before our readers. They are as follows: ' The Southern Cultivator, published rnonth ly at Athens, Ga., by D. Redmond and James | Camak, at $2 per year. This old established journal is, perhaps, better adapted to the wants of the cotton States than any other, as it devotes so much attention to their principal crops and soils, and their system of labor, manures, &c. Although the editor under whose management the Cultivator achieved its present high position is dead, its last number gives evidence that it has fallen into the hands of successors who will keep it fully up to its old standard of excellence. The only objection which we have against the Cultivator, is the inferior manner in which it is gotten up. Its typographical appearance and style of binding will not , 1 at all compare with its cotemporaries in agricultural journalism. ' The Southern Planter, published monthly at ; Richmond, Va., by C. B. Williams, at $3 per t year. This valuable journal, like the preceding, is i an old established monthly, dating back to 1840.? It is chiefly valuable to cultivators of grain, grass, t and tobacco, though it contains much useful infor mation on the raising and care of live stock, and { the cultivation of orchards, gardens &c. The September number contains sixty-five large octavo pages of reading matter. ) The Farmer, published monthly at Richmond, i Va., by Elliott & Shields, at $3 per year. This is 1 a new enterprise, started last year, and devoted to i "Agriculture, Horticulture, the Mechanic Arts j and Household Economy." It is conducted with a ability. The last number is illustrated with scve ral engravings. The American Farmer, published monthly at I Baltimore, Md., by Worthington & Lewis, at $2 i peryear. This journal was established in 1819, t and claims to have a probably larger country cir 1 culation than any publication of the kind, South I of New York. So extensive a circulation, after an i existence of nearly fifty years, proves that the Ai mericau Farmer is well suited to the wants of its > subscribers. 3 The Maryland Farmer, published monthly at [ Baltimore, Md., by S. Sands Mills & Co., at $1.50 . per annum. This magazine, though last mentioned of the monthlies, is by no means last in our esj timation. It is one of the most valuable of them 1 all, and we cannot understand how so large and ; handsome a publication can be furnished at so low aj)rice. This journal devotes more space to the [ cotton plant and its enemies, than the generality i of agricultural journals, besides giving a great deal P of information applicable to other branches of farrn1 ing. F The Country Gentleman, published weekly at Albany, N. Y., by Luther Tucker & Son, at $3 per annum. This is an old and very popular weeki ly, whose columns originate much of the agriouli fcural matter that appears in the country press both with and withoutcredit Itseditorial and other cor respondenoe will always be found interesting, espe- ] aally to the farmer. . 1 The Farm and Fireside, published weekly at ( No. 402 Locust St, Philadelphia, Pa., at $2 per J annum. This is a new agricultural and family , weekly; but it has already taken its stand among i the best We see its name below many articles in < the agricultural columns of our exchanges, and we 1 sometimes recognize uncredited articles as originally from this paper.- The typographical appearanoe and style of the Farm and Fireside, make it an or- , nament to the centre table. We can cheerfully recommend any and all of the above publications as fully worth their prices of 1 subscription. Every farmer who wants to keep up with the times, ought to take an agricultural paper, and we have furnished our readers with a very good list from which to select POLITICAL NEWS. ? Returns from all the counties of Virginia, except eight counties, received at headquarters in Richmond, show the registration to be: whites 110,000; blacks 90,000. The counties not heard from will increase this majority. This is a great fact ? The Registrars have been through Mecklenburg county on their first round, and the whole number registered is 1,564 whites, and 1,458 blacks. The Charlotte Democrat thinks it likely 11 3 3 ?!11 *MAHAAIIA wKifA toe secona ruunu wui lu^icooo mo nmn. ? The Baltimore Sun says a letter received in Washington from an influential and distinguished citizen of Ohio, represents that that State will give from thirty to forty thousand majority for the Republican ticket, that the Republicans will carry the Legislature, and that negro suffrage will be defeated by forty or fifty thousand. ? A Washington correspondent of the Boston Fbst says that Sumner has addressed a letter to an important personage in Washington, earnestly warning the Radicals against Grant The letter charges duplicity and conservatism upon the General, and hurls several Latin and Greek denunciations at his head for abetting the displacement of Stanton by accepting the Secretaryship. Grant is 6aid to be exceedingly annoyed at the insinuations of Sumner and Greeley, and in consequence of the Iribunes impudent assaults upon him, cherishes an antipathy towards all newspaper men, which has proven fatal to the enterprise of the correspondents who visit him. ? California has put the ball of reaction in motion. At the election in that State last week, the Democrats succeeded in electing the Governor, two Congressmen, and nearly the whole of the Legislature. ? The Atlanta New Era has been oflicialy informed that registration in Georgia, so far as heard from, is something over 183,000. ? The Conservative Convention of iJabama, which was in session for several days at Montgomery, adjourned on Thursday last The Convention adopted a series of resolutions, acknowledging the control of the Federal Government and the perpetuity of the Union, but asserting the supremacy of the constitution over Congress, which is but a part of the Government All the new rights of the colored people were also acknowledged, and co-operation in their improvement promised, but they were asked to trust those they know to be honorable, and "deal cautiously with strangers who bear no evidence tbat they were honored where they were better known." ? Gen. Sheridan turned over the command of the 5th Military District to General Griffin, on the 5th instant, and lett j>ew uneans tne sane aay. AGRICULTURAL NEWS. ? The Laurensville (S. C.) Herald tells about a squash in that District, which measures seven feet and six inches in circumference, and weighs one hundred and seventy-six pounds. 3"he seed from which this mammoth was productd, were procured from the Seed-House of J. J. Gregory, Marblehead, Mass. ? A New Hampshire farmer says that he knows by his experience that the manure from fifty hens; if carefully saved, properly composted, and judiciously applied, is more valuable than fifty dollars' worth of any of the manures that can be bought in the market. ? A dispatch from Savannah, Geo., elated the 5th instant, says: "Reports of the Sea Island crop are discouraging. From the South Carolina coast it is reported that the rain and wcrm have made great havoc. On the Georgia coast the worm has only appeared'on two islands. The other islands expect a fair crop. The estimate of the island crop last week was 35,000 bales. This week it is only 30,000. The rains continue, but the reports from the interior are that good fair -crops are expected of Uplands. The quality of the new cotton received so far is as good as usual. No new Sea Island has been received yet." ? The first bale of new cotton from South Carolina, has been received in New York. It was classed as middling fair, and was purchased by the Wamsutta Mills, of New Bedford, Mass., at 32 cents per pound. ? Gloomy accounts in regard to the cotton crop in the west continue to reach us. The Shreveport (La.) Southwestern, of a late date, says: "During the past week we have received letters enough on this subject to justify any reasonable man in opening a second-class postoffice. Although they come from all points of the compass, thencontents amount to about the same, and it looks to us as though it was a preconcerted plan on the part of our correspondents to overwhelm us with gloomy aocounts of the Cotton crop. They open black, get blacker, and close the blackest of anything in the letter line that we have seen yet, the subject of politics not excepted. All have the worm, some are ruined, and others expect to be. Out of thirty letters lying before us, not one speaks hopefully of the prospects. Some think they will make one:third of a crop, while others would be satisfied with seed." ? A Vermonter has produced an apple some five inches larger round than the trunk of the tree that bears it ? The grain crops promise abundantly all the world over. The London Mercantile Journal surveys the various grain growing countries of Europe to ascertain the prospects of immense supplies. No deficiency is apprehended in England. In Paris, the stock of flour is the largest ever held, amounting to 800,000 cwts. The last harvest in the South of Russia is most abundant; the exports from that section are expected to reach 2,000,000 quarters. ? ? GENERAL SICKLES' VERSION. General Sickles, in a communication addressed to General Grant, covering four columns and a half in the Charleston Mercury, gives his version of the conflict between the civil and military authorities. The following extracts from the communication present the cause of the difficulty, and the basis of his action: Early in the present month a communication vras received from the Marshal for the District of North Carolina, dated July 30,18C7,Jmfbrraio?me tnat uoionei rranx, commanding tneiuiuiary jrust of Wilmington, had forbidden the enforcement of an execution issued at the June term of the United States Circuit Court. The communication, although exceptional in tone and matter, was referred to the Post Commander for report. Colonel Frank himself, about the same time, reported that he had temporarily suspended the proceedings of the Deputy Marshal, assigning as a reason for his action, that the enforcement of the execution was believed to be in violation of Paragraph II, General Order No. 10. This action or Col. Frank's was approved; and he was directed to report all the facts of the case, when further instructions would be sent to him. On the 17th instant, Col. Frank having reported that the Marshal was proceeding to enforce his process, the following communication oa the subject was, on the same day, addressed to the headquarters of the Army: Headquarters Second Military District, ) Charleston, S. C., August 17, 1867. J Adjutant- Gen. U. S- Army, Washington, D. C: The Commanding Officer at Wilmington reports to me this morning, that the United States Marshal for North Carolinaj is instructed bv the AttorneyGeneral to enforce immediately all executions of the United States Courts, and to report the names of persons offering obstructions, with a view to I '' 3 = proceed against them under the criminal laws of 1 ;he United States, and asks for instructions. I caused the .Commanding Officer to be informed p that on the receipt of the reoorthe has been or- n lered to make in relation to the pending cases, he fj will receive further instructions, and that mean- i, whOe he will not permit the order or decree of any a jourt to be enforced in violation of existing railita- t ryorders. * * .. # * * # * If. the United States Courts in the rebel States ? be allowed to control the military authorities, the f execution of the reconstruction Acts will, for ob- a vious itasons, soon become impracticable: Some 1 of these courts trill begin by declaring these Acts a of Congress void. (Signed) D. E. SICKLES, , MaJor-General Commanding. On the same day, the following reply was receiv- r ed from the General-in-Chief: t War Department, ) 1 Washington, August 17, 1867. j ( Major-General D. E. SjcJcles, Commanding, &c. : Yonr dispateh; of this date, received. Follow the coarse of action indicated by yon, as right, and j regard my despatch of the 13th, as entirely with- 1 drawn. . < (Signed) U. S. GRANT, General. < The instructions contained in the foregoing pro- | gramme have been observed. No communication 1 from the President, on this subject has been received by me. ':? ' General Sickles proceeds, at length, to give his 1 reasons for the coarse he pursued, and argues that 1 he has usurped "nb power, but kept within the < bounds prescribed by the Reconstruction Acts.-? General Sickles';defence?if snchitmay be called 1 ?is an able document, and, while we do not agree ' with him in many of the conclusions at which he 1 arrives, if our space permitted, we would publish 1 the report entire. ; He concludes the report with the 1 declaration: "I shall faithfully obey any order you ] may give me." " ? ... > i MERE-MENTION. , A clerical error of$12,500,000 in the debt state- i tnent has been discovered, in favor of the Govern- j ment, which leaves the debt out-standing, less cash < in the Treasury, $2,505,000,000. "The Col- i umbia Phoenix, learns that one of the last official i acts of Gen. Sickles was the appointment of W. ] Beverly Nash (colored) a magistrate for Richland | District."" "The Mercury says that the "streets ] of Charleston begin to show unmistakeauie signs < of the approach of a busy season. New stocks of goods are arriving and being placed in store, and I merchants from the country ore already in town I purchasing their Winter supplies. "The specie in the Bank of England, for the first time in , fifteen years, exceeds the circulation."""" There f are 30 pounds of blood in a well man, and 245 < bones. Women have the same numbers-whale- < bone not included. The Detroit Press propo- . ses Joseph Holt for President and Sandford Conover for Vice-President. Are they to "swear < in?' ""Among the victims of the yellow fever ] at Corpus Christi, Texas, was the acting Mayor, two clergymen, three doctors, two druggists, and < five undertakers. - . ' j Assistant Attorney-General Binukley is a nephew ] of General Joe Johnston. He used to be Clerk in i the Land Office, and afterwards sub-editor of the i Intelligencer. "'" ""There is a blackberry patch in I Maine twenty miles square. Ten thousand bush- ' els were picked there this year. *A new ri- j ding habit for ladies?which allows them to sit , astride the horse?has been introduced in the < Western cities, """'^he people of Richmond, Vir- i ginia, talk of erecting a monument to the memory 1 of John M. Daniel, editor of the Examiner, of ' that city, during the war. A New York cor- > respondent says the Herald claims to expend a ( million and a half per annum, and the Tribune and j Times about a million dollars each, in the publica- t tion of their journals. In the small State of 1 Connecticut, it is stated that no less than four hundred and eighty-eight divorces have been granted ] during the past year. Napoleon III, has j ruled France as long as his uncle did, or will have, by the end of this year. "" "The Washington i Chronicle says that Mr. Stanton will be back in his < place as Secretary of War in less than eighty days. j We hope not "John G. Saxe says that it is a common notion in Boston that, if a person is ^ born in that city, it is unnecessary for that favored mortal to be "born again." A Havana paper | taunts the United States with the fact that of all i the monuments and statutes proposed to the mem- ] oiy of Abraham Lincoln, not one of them has been erected. ^ j EDITORIAL INKLINGS. ' Another Submarine Cable. 1 - ? ?VI. v.i ? XT? Ww . xne SUDOianue cauie ircmrai axgj ?cov, , Fla., and Havana, was successfully laid duriDg the month of August lost It was made iu England, ] and is warranted to last fifteen years. This impor- j tant work, which places the West Indies in tele- ( graphic communication with the principal cities of the United States, was much needed. Life Lengthened by Marriage. Dr. James Stark has brought before the Royal Society of Edinburg, a paper of Statistics relative to the comparative longevity of married and unmarried men in Scotland, prepared from a ] nine years' average of the deaths in that country. 1 From his calculations, it appears that at every ags 1 from 20 to 85 years, the number of deaths among 1 unmarried men is greater than among the married. ! Taking 100,000 of each class between the ages of 20 and 25, 1,174 bachelors and 597 married men j died in the year 1863 ; which shows a mortality of j two to one agaiast the former. Of the same num- 1 ber from each class between 25 and 30, 1,360 bach- ' elors died during the same year, and 865 married ] men, or a little more than three of the former to t two of the ktter. The difference in the death t rate continues to decrease as they grow older; but < still there is a difference in favor of married men, ! even to the advanced period of life between 80 and ' 85. Beyond this period no statistics are given, either because so few live beyond that age, or be- | cause the calculator could find no bachelor so old. The above factscontain a solemn warning to ( bachelors, old and young. They prove that their wftv nf life is not favorable to a green old age.? But as they always have a chance to improve, it 1 is to be hoped they will take warning and procure 1 a "life-preserver," each for himself, and that with- J out delay/ The ladies are too kind-hearted to al- , low them to perish in the above wholesale way, ; simply for want of a help-meet, or as it is sometimes put, a "help-eat-nieat." , Proclamation by the President. On the third instant, the President thought ' proper to issue a proclamation, wherein he' sets j forth that "impediments and obstructions, se- ] rious in their character, have recently been inter- j posed in the States of North Carolina and South < Carolina, hindering, for a time, the proper en- ' forcement there of the laws of the XJnited States, ' and of the judgments and decrees of a law- , ful court thereof, in disregard of the command j of the President of the United States; and where- { as reasonable and well-founded apprehensions ex- 1 ist that such ill-advised and unlawful proceedings ' may be again attempted there or elsewhere," warns "all persons against obstructing or hindering in , any way whatever the faithful execution of the j Constitution and the laws; and solemnly enjoins < the commanders of the Government, civil ana military, to render due submission and obedience to said laws and to the judgments and decrees of the courts of the United States, and to give all the aid in their power necessary to the prompt enforcement and execution of such laws, decrees, judgments and processes; and enjoins upon the officers of the army and navy to assist and sustain the courts and other civil authorities of the United States in a faithful administration of the laws thereof, and in the judgments, decrees, and mandates, and processes of the courts of the United States." It is certainly a sad state of affairs, when the President finds it necessary to issue a proclamation for the purposes of restraining his subordinates from violating the laws; and invoking the people to stand by, and aid him in upholding the only safe-guard of their liberties and their welfare. y 'rouble in the Menageries. to An exchange says: "The zebra and two ta- J? ire belonging to John Robinson's circus and me- "i ageriewere poisoned, near Lynchbnrg, (Ya.) a Si sw days since. .It was quite evident that the an- b' mals had been poisoned by some malicious person, Cl nd that the deadly agent used was that most sub-" le of all poisons?known as strychnine. The ta- I tire are said to be the only two of their species on ? his continent They were procured only after hi jreat perseverance; and cost Mr. Robinson the hi leavy sum of $15,000. The zebra was very valu- * ible also, but its loss can be more easily repaired. Fhe loss of the tapirs is regarded as almostirrepar- a] hie." . t, Mr. Thad. Stevens' menagerie, at Washington, a ias also been maliciously damaged. A fellow ^ lamed Conover recently chunked his interesting y ind playful "Beast," known as the "bottle imp," q jesides pouring vitriol on the countenance of his a :elebrated impeaching hyena. These two animals j, ire too tough to be killed by anything short of a a stroke of lightning; but they have been so seriousy injured that it is very doubtful whether they can d ;ver be exhibited in public again. In addition to J hese misfortunes, Mr. Stevens has had to sustain R ;he loss of liis two zebras, .rnimp ana x/amei, wmuu t vere on exhibition iir the provinces, where their [ Fantastic tricks had attracted much attention from t the public. This last loss is not so irreparable as 1 the fonper, as there are plenty of zebras left in his 8 collection, ready and anxious to take the places of t his lost pets. Bat he has no "Beasts" at all equal f to bis "bottle-imp," and his Washington show will e consequently open under very unfavorable circum- c stances. At last accounts, Mr. Stevens was ex- 4 tremely unwell, his misfortunes having entirely * disarranged his bilious system. Nothing but a co- Q pious administration of "odor d'Afrique" can ever a restore him to his wonted serenity. r A Conservative Negro on Radicals. c James P. Fielding, a colored candidate for Congress in Georgia, prefers to trust his chances t for electiou to the Southern white men and oonser- r vative colored men, rather than the Badicak His I iddress-to the people of his district shows that he * takes a clear view of things, and sees thrqugh the ? hypocrisy of his Radical friends. The following t brief extract describes their object and tho means E by which they hope to gain it, as clearly and con- i cisely as we have ever seen it described: 4 "They know that we are in the alphabet of let- 8 tens, and their object is to tale advantage of our general ignorance and universal credulity, and by ( pandering to our evil passions, and the vices inci- _ lent to ignorance among all races, they expect to " ilienate us from the only true friends we hav6 on _ the habitable globe, ana array us in political and ~ leadly strife against our former masters and pro- _ tectore." . r An Embarrasing Request. The Richmond Dispatch tells the following j, listressing story, which shows how ridiculously the adies will sometimes bother their bachelor friends: "An inveterate bachelor residing in this city revived a letter from a couple of meces a few days I rince, in which, among other things, was the fol- I lowing request: "Sena immmediately the Man we ii love. The bachelor was much perplexed, and totally at a loss to account for such an unusual and istounding request. In the first place, it was the irst intimation he had ever had that his nieces did f* love a man, and in the next, if they did. he had j< nob the slightest idea who that man could be. He d rt once wrote, enclosing that portion of the letter, t rnd demanding an explanation. Yesterday he re- 0 jeived a response, in which the pretty nieces, with many apologies, explained. They intended to 0 ivrite, "Send us The Land We Love"?General D. H. Hill's popular monthly. The substitution )f man in a former letter was a slip of the pen.? ^ rhe bachelor uncle accepted the explanation, but ;ould not suppress the thought that if the dear girls had not been thinking about the masculines v he mistake would never have occurred." Radical Convention at Raleigh. * For several days, a Radical Convention has ^ been in session at Raleigh N.'C. The following esolution in regard to Confiscation was adopted: Resolved, That the Republican party of North , Carolina, on the subject of confiscation, and all" ither matters pertaining to reconstruction, will a faithfully adhere to and abide by the reconstrucion plan and measures of Congress. The Raleigh Sentinel, thus discourses upon the Convention: " ^ "It is said, by those who were so unfortunate as jo be present, tnat the pow-wow of the white and ? legro Radicals, on Wednesday night exceeded all ' powers of description. Confusion, disorder, vitu- r Deration, appeals to the passions, vindictiveness, a bate and effluvia, were rife. There is one veiy e loticeable and marked difference between the pre- t sent Radical Convention and that which met in this City, in March last, to wit: in the character v md appearance of the white delegates. The pre- 1 sent is incomparably inferior in that respect.? 5 With, of course, some few exceptions, as was re- t narked to ns by an intelligent colored man, they 'are the sorriest looking set of white men" we bave ever beheld." J rhe Great American Desert. A writer from. Nebraska explodes an old geographical fiction, and draws a picture which hose of our readers who studied geography fifteen ^ fears ago, will readily recognize. He says :.... t "In an atlas I used to study, long ago?and lam no ihicken-^there was laid aown just west of the 8 Missouri river a tract, broad and expansive, called T The Great American Desert' I recollect a for- 1 lorn buffalo, with tail erect, sprawled away outside j )f this tract, to show that he did not belong in it. r jl 1J 1 -J *a U?*a tn i* An arivr tormo or?H lDQ C0U1U IJUL UUUIU LU 11KO 111 lb VU tt?!j M/iuiu I wuu j, jven an Indian with his ponv's tail turned to the Desert was chasing off at full speed for a better 1 ocality. As an infant in geography, I always .ook a great amount of stock in this Desert idea, c vhich now I think, after all. grew out of the con- c :eit of some lazy engineer who got sick of the vast f expanse of chain-dragging, ana lumped the whole is a region not wortn ten day's work with chain md leveL He libelled the fairest wheat-growing c section in the world. To-day thousands of acres e if the finest wheat that ever grew yellow in the summer's sun, are bendingand rippling on the ferdle bosom of Nebraska, to give the lie to the old ltlas and the topographical chap who misled good iMalte Brun. j German Immigration. ], At the last session of the Legislature ofS. E Carolina, an appropriation of ten thousand dollars c (vas made, and a Commissioner appointed, for the purpose of inaugurating measures to secure mum- c ^ration to this State. The Commissioner dispatch- t )d several ageuts to Europe to forward the scheme. e Capt. Melchers, one of the ageuts, an intelligent B German, of Charleston, writes from Oldenberg, under date of the 19th of August, as follows: a "A number of emigrants are getting ready to e sail on the 1st October. The bark Gaiiss, Captain dieting, will positively leave on that day, and Messrs. Delius & Co. have promised that should i sufficient number of emigrants offer, they will 0 =end another vessel to Charleston in November or December. Some of the papers and ship-brokers ire totally opposed to our scheme; others are in n Dur favour, especially the firemen Morampest. a " large daily, ana among the brokers Mr. G. P. Eb- g jling, office Nine Bourse, Bremen, whom I would joraially recommend to such of our friends in ? Charleston as may have occasion to send for any of j? their relatives and acquaintances. If the State of South Carolina will guarantee 5 per cent, interest ? for five^ears, on a capital of from 4 to 500,000 dol- P ars, this sum might be raised in Bremen for the purpose of establishing a line of steamers to Chareston. I have seen several Bremen merchants vho have made this proposal. It would no doubt nsure a current of emigration to Charleston." Social Equality. j Hon. A. G. Brown, of Mississippi, in a re- e :ent speech before a mass meeting of blacks, ex- 11 Dressed the following admirable views on social jquality: . ? "Men make men equal before the law; that is p hey confer on them equal civil and political rights; Dut they cannot make them of equal stature, of jqual wisdom, or of the same color. No more J ?n they make them socially equal. Social equably depends on agreement. The laws cannot force ti t. I am no man's equal, socially, unless he agrees y jo the equality. No man has a right to demand ?a! t against my consent; and this rule is universal si ind all pervading among men. Your race is no jxception to the rule. The honest, industrious and TugaJ among you do not admit to social equality q he dishonest, idle and wasteful of your own col>r, nor do white people. Social equality is simply w i matter of private agreement, and is not to be b xmtrolled bv any public law. Whenever the blacks u lesire social equality, and the white people agree ti i yield it, we shall have it, and not before: It ] kes two totnake a bargain, and I. risk nothing saying that neither whites nor blacks in^the >uth want to make this bargain now. < I have R . it one idea to add. It isthis: there will be ' al equity in the South between the races, qnite t. ] i soon as the same thing oocure at the NortiH-fer ??.; happen to. know the? the Southern people have R. much higher appreciation of the black man's onor and character than the Northern people ive." - ' C olitioal Meeting at Helton, S. C. peri A large number of the citizens of Anderson, for1 id'surroundhig districts, gathered atBshouon (W ie29th ultimo, for the pnrpoee of hearing dis- istl issed the political issues of the day. The aasemlagewas addressed, by Maj. John B. Moore, CoL barren D. Wilkes, J. Scott Murray, Esq., Gov. I >it, . J. P. M. Epping, United States Marshal, ' nd others. The IrUeHigencer famishes the followig in reference to the speeches of Governor Orr J nd Marshal Epping: Pre "Hon. J. L. Orr was then introduced, and, ad- Cat ressing the whites, advised them to register and ote for a Convention, as it was folly aha madness c attempt to defeat that object There were ^ 0,000 negro voters against 30,000 white, and as v he Convention woold look to the interest of the J., lack man, it could not be expected that one of hem would vote against it He then admonished P*1 he freedmen that, they must be industrious and wat ave their money, and reminded them that if they me ttempted oppression of the whites now, while in ?n he majority, it might be visited upon thorn in the uture, when the balance of power would be differnt, as no more negroes were to be brought to this ountry. He disabused their minds or the idea , hat they would obtain lands from the Government, 1 nd showed that this was not even desirable upon ha* heir part. The Governor presented every phase iryi f the issues before the people, with' grea/? force ^ nd ability, to the satisfaction of his hearers, We ne< egret that fuller notes of this speech are net at our t ommand. 1 . . *3 The regularly invited speakers having eoncluded, UUI fc was requested that J. P. M. Epping^of Charles- for on, be allowed to occupy the stand. That gentle- pe< nan made a short speech, endorsing for the most lart, the speech of Gov. Orr, but advisedthe ilacks to aahere to the Republican party, and re ommended to them the Union League. He faored high taxes upon land, but told the negroes hey were to have no land given to them. He ad- > aonished them against a conflict of races, deekr- 8? ng that tbey , would find 32,000,000 whites against to ,000,000 bjacks, and that the conflict would, be hort, and result in their extermination. i flb JHESTER CONTETBUTOEIAL. a . ? we BY WM. H. BRAWLKY. m( 1 > CHESTER, S. C., SEPTEMBER 10, 186*. - i SE/HBTRATI0H. ~ Rt The 14th, 16th, and 17th, of September, are the . j ist days for registering in town. ' Rr bishop' davtsT A This esteemed and distinguished prelate is ex- Mi lected in Chester, on the fourth Sunday of the M resent month. We regret to learn that his health P. s still very feeble. G< BATS AID THE 0B0P8. ?? Our fanners still complain of too much rain and ley oo much politics. The former is doing great inury to the cotton. The latter is deranging and ^moralizing the labor of the country to that ex- jftj ent, that grave fears are felt as to the possibility ^ f gathering the present crop, or cultivating an- nu tber- . ov< AMUSRMKTT8. en The Thespian club gave a pleasant entertain- dr aent at their hall on last Tuesday evening. The *a >lay was "The Gamester," a very moving tradegy, phich was well performed. " sta The gloom produced among the audience by its for ragic termination was dissipated by the rollicking qq. arce of "Handy Andy," which was admirably ed ilayed, and convulsed the house with roars of H< aughter. go, The Bailey Troupe seems to have become a fixure in Chester. Their performances are frequent, m{ ,nd well patronized. ^ THE ABHEST OF BELTOI GLUE. H< Deputy-Sheriff Gill returned last week from Mis- inj issippi, whither he went about six weeks since, ou vith a requisition from Gov. Orr, for Belton Cline, ne of the murderers of the late Alexander D. da Valker, of this District This freedman, it will he ba emembered, escaped from oar jail last Hammer, thi nd was recently arrested in Mississippi, and lodg- ed d in the Marion coanty jaiL Mr. Gill fonnd him i here bat did not bring him, as was expected, for no rant of funds. We do not know where the blame ;l ies, but certainly it seems strange that the State of to iouth Carolina should be too poor to bring to jus- im ice an atrocious criminal. to It is reported that Morris, the alledged leader to; n the plot to murder Mr. Walker, is near Vioks- ' ?urg, and was lately in company with the man arj 31ine. , Kl POLITICAL MEETH& OP THE FBEEDMES. . ac. There was a large gathering of the freedmen at an xethsemane, a new Baptist Church, four miles go o the North of town, last week. We hare under- th tood that many violent and inflammatory harangues J#i rere made by colored orators, urging their raoe to ea 'stick together," and have nothing to do with the ab >oor white folks. Such seems the prevailing send- su nent among them, and we may expect the nomi- th lation and election of a black delegation to the ap>roaching Convention from this District thi We are constrained to say that the efforts to ad onciliation made by some of our most respectable ior itizens have, thus far, produced but iitue good ei- nu ect The negroes seem determined to rale and an< uin. We deplore the result; but it seems we th< annot help it Like the little pig roasting on the pai pit, we hope "things will soon take a turn.' -li# Correspondence of tbe Yorkrille Enquirer. ^ ? fro FROM FAIRFIELD. pu Registration.?The opportunity for Register- [ ng, in this vicinity, ceased on the 4th instant; iut while it lasted, it was embraced, I think, by in tearly all that are allowed the franchise. The colred population are largely in the majority. Crops.?Fodder is mostly gathered. Corn crop " iot heavy. Cotton-picking has commenced, and he crop is promising; but some fears are entertain- $ni d that the frequent rains will be injurious, by caning the growth of too much stalk. vat The Freedmen in our neighborhood are'quiet nd orderly. While elsewhere, fears have been ^ xpressed that political meetings would interfere rith the gathering of cotton, "hull-gull" appears ' i ' .* tJlA o be attracting more attention, tnaneuner pontics "~~ r the crops. > |re A gentleman in Texas writes: b,e "On account of the rains, this has been a much and lore unfavorable year for working the crops, than for ist What little cotton, late in the season, we ot worked out of the grass, has been stripped by _. be caterpillar. I will not have seed with which to * . lake another trial next year. As far as I can i ear, the v? ,nns have stripped the cotton, and but req iw persons will make sufficient to keep up their fert irms. Good corn crops have been made in a large and ortion of the State." w: Youugesvffle, ? C.,Sept. 7,1867. ?} NOT NEARLY A DIFFICULTY. hos One T. J. Robertson (Radical) was very indig- abc ant because he was spoken of in rather strong a irms in an editorial published in the Newbeny ,, Itrald. He wrote to the Editor, Mr. T. F. Gron- . ker, and demanded "a full and complete retrac- w? on of the libel." Mr. Grekener said in reply: Iris "I cannot comply with vour demand for a full nal nd complete retraction of what you choose to ^ / ill a "libel," in the next issue of your (my) i i aper." b Whereupon Robertson rejoined as follows: 1 Newberry, S. C., September 2,1867. but b Thos. F Greneker: the; Sir: Nothing short of a full and complete re- we action of your grossly libelous article, round in q our issue of the 21$ August last, will satisfy me, * ad as vou cannot comply with my demand, you : lall take the consequences. rog T. J. ROBERTSON, we Mr. Greneker publishes the correspondence and for uamtly says: ,.'i ^ "We do not know what the dire eonsequeaeee are ith which we are threatened, as the "future mm- ^ er of Congress" left the town within five min- ton tes after the delivery of his second communionon." 1 LQMDJpL. ITEMS. J / MBW ADVEBTIBEMEJT8. H. Ql?nri^?hejrlfT? Soles. /L-<Jri*t?*he Georgia Farmer. M. Dobsoi^-Nofloe. Sfc Ciriit' QVPrtntewii BataaBrtl a fetiwaj BULETStitiwrati hring to the inclemency of the weather, the formance of Bailey's Varieties, ?advertised Tuesday evening, was postponed to tftiseVenidg, tie best that Has yet beenoffered to om; citizens. .v u>rr; r. ? vi'Hf)j'fry admitted to peaotkffi. n the proceedings of the United States Court Greenville, on Thursday last, it is announced t ? Chancellor Chambers, of Yorkville, i admitted to practice as Attorney, Solicitor and ctor, in die United States Courts for South olina. . - <1 in.- <i.'iii' ;~,j;? f, mammoth peach. Ve were shown a peach, one day last week, ?ch for Brohadpadagian proportions, "takes the ipidated linen Off the infantile tree," or, in plain lanee,' Stakes the rag off the bttahJ' Its.weight " ? ? i one pound ana one ouodc, nvnumwio, isured twelve and. onerfborth inches in cfreom* moe* It grew on the premises of Dr. J. Rufus ATTON, of this .town, io : 'H.iil ),:?* i / :>? . ,-^n..' )oring tEe past month this section of $e State i been visited by continuous ninch to the uy of the cotton crop, i Farmers piiechct an uplal amount of rot in the bolls, from the continiwet,aacl|t^e excessive, growth otthe plant? te upland ooni is flourishing through the floods; t the lowlands are submerged. "The corn supply this District will he. abort of the wants of the '< 51' '.un-n !< si rtOTv-<i . v >P yJl .wefc* fd yilBSWiia. - * Urt proprietor' of the *!oik Brtg Store," owing our puffing propensities, has furnished us era! 'samples fromsreoqnt invoice of choice sere, which we fere puffing now, and shall continue puff until the said temples are no more. Lovi of the Indianrweed'eUj^int^ riona popular brandyhyteffing ky, who, being a professional in the puffing as II as the healing art, knows how to please the ret deKcate sense'of tajrte and smeR0<'h '.. fii-i. i ,'itoy; injttiea ari<5 jjpbui-OOHBIOKBEBi HIM MOUITAIV BAIL KOiXt I!he following Are. thd ooneigneea jper, R H R. ad, from the 2nd to the 10th Wat* inclusive: J. U. Zurcher, Johnson & Darwip, JUliscnic atton, T. M. Dobson & Co., J. W. Avery&Co., R Adickes, W. A*- Moore ACfti ftrr-John *y, Col Ai. Cowintii.Caiw^l.C!W^jfciGo?> John ?0iJU)fci3fcJt -Wm-MM McCorkle, J. Moore, R. H. Glenn, Andrew Jackson, D. A trdon, J. k R B, Stowe, R R Dicksop, Mrs. a Wflk?e,;WflspaA Witherspoon, G. S. MobV 9- <Ud lu 'U uii ? 'ffltoMBMHaBEgkb?3 * ' [n accordance with the advertised notice, apodal meeting of the cofertd peO^afrfefflTioHiiwas held here on Pridayi-the 6th mstent The mber in attendance Was' not ltegO, perhaps not er one thousand altogether. The colored speak ? Randolph and Hiioys^advytieed to adres the meeting, were now at; but thedeficieacy 8 supplied by (jpitfe tmrmber of other breakers. Wm. R Rose (white) was called upon, and ted, in substance, that he approved of the platm of the Repubfican party, and was wiling to operate with that party in securing to the colorpeople, all the righto and privileges of freemen. ) opposed confiscation, and gave1 some whole ne counsel to the'enfranchised class. John W. Meads (colored) next addressed the seting. He adopted thw Republican platform roughout, but counseled harmony* and unity.? 5 ridiculed the idea of the oolored people obtainl lands in any dfber way than by paying fbr them t of the proceeds of their industry. elannibal White (colored) followed in a speech immgfbr his people complete polffleataqoality; t opposed fictions, and* advocated the claims of 9 Republican party, to the support of the colorpeople. m i ? G-eorge Wntaa8peoN (colored) dehvsred a n-committal speech. ' : 1,1 : Tom Baker (colored) thought the aegi oes ought have a share of the lunAa They had helped to prove the country by their labor, and, according . ? his style of logic, thoee who had done dus oo^it ' sharp the profit*Kf d w nk/% ifotM uao I ban 1 Meade (colored) tepfied," Btatrog that' shch an jument could not be used'by* the* speaker (Base ) ashe had heeirftee all his life, and had never quired any land yet; that hebadhorighttoany; d if land was given to hhri'it Vtonid do him no od. Baker could not cOroe into the'party on ese principles. john marun (white) induced'in Sectioning harangue, of falsehoods and facts, so badly used, that they could fl&ftdy be recognized as ijh. He "renounced" himself as a candidate for 9 Convention if one was held. '' n j. T. Lowbt, a former Representative from is District, was called upon by the crowd, and dressed it briefly, refuting certain errors of opmi expressed by previous speakers; disabusing the ndsof the audience, of erroneous impressions, i expressing his kindly interest in the welfare of ; colored people. He claimed to express in this rticular, this wishes and feelings i)f erery intel9&t whiteperson in the district i* dn '' Sannibal White (eoloivJ) replied, dissenting m the views of Hie speaker in regard to the Reblican party. j rhe ten speeches were quite a sufficient day's " rk, and the crowd of: colored people moved off procession, and quietly dispersed. . WALHALLA CORRESPONDENCE. Walhalla, S. C., Sept 7,1867. We hail this week from the extreme northwesti corner of South Carolina?a locality where one irsa foreign language habitually,spoken?an eleed, stony, broken region, where the air is as re and as free from malaria as are the most favorspots of Germany, Scotland, Spain or Switxerd. '.t is one of South Carolina's health-resorts, when miasma and mosquitoes of Summer render . lower lands untenable. Everything is favorato health?pure water, mountain air, abundant I wholesome food, and any ntkmber of novelties sight-seers, who have neverbeen here before. Vhen we state that the sofl'is stony and broken, do not desire to be understood as implying that 3 not available for Agricultural purposes. It J aires a little extra care in its preparation?some iliiing (of which the material is most handy i abundant) and, in some cases, subsoil plowing. th these attentions thesoil responds to the til- ( s toil with luxuriant crops. To illustrate: Our ' t, of the Walhalla Hotel, supplies his house mdantly with vegetables of every variety, from irden a4jacent to his premises. One section of - t garaen, non over a quarter or an acre, we esate, has this year yielded a hundred bushels of ih potatoes; and has how a fine crop of autnmbeans as a second crop. Una, you will observe, tut hundred bushels to the acre. Corn planted Inly is now over twelve feet high and well eared, "he crops of this whole section?com especially, all grains and a little cotton?are finer than y have been in many years ; and as for ourself, have never seen finer crops grown anywhere, fold-mining is just now exciting a large share attention. Several strangers, either representin terest elsewhere or upon private speculation, here examining the hills, valleys, and streams j gold; and they find it everywhere in quantities j iter or less. Some Me confident; and from venations we have had with oertain well-in- J ned parties, we arc satisfied that mining will. J long, he rendered valuable hereabouts. ,