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IST E W T ERMS. " SATES OP S0B8CKIPTI0S. One Wpy for one year, - - .$2.50 m ?? u six months, -1 , - 1-25 Ten copies for one year, - - 20.00 Twenty copies " 87,50 The clubs of ten and-twenty will be sent to any address.v Subscriptions will not be received for a los? period than six months. rates of a1>vkbtxs in q. Advertisements will be inserted at the rate of Oae Dollar per square of one inch space for the first insertion and Fifty Cents for each subsequent insertion. Liberal contracts made with those wishing to advertise by the three, six or twelve months. Obitu?iy notices exceeding ten lines will he cnarged for at advertising rates. For announcing candidates, Five Dollars in each ease, invariably in advance. Hew to get Immigrants. That immigration is desirable is almost uni? versally conceded. We need laborers?intelli? gent, and efficient laborers?but, above all, we - need good, substantial citizens, who shall nave an interest in the welfare of the country, own . property, pay taxes, and help by their votes and by the increased prosperity they would bring, to make taxes light. It is men?white men?who come here with, their families, and come to star, that we want. It matters comparatively little where they come from, providing they" are in? telligent, industrious, law-abiding people, and become permanent settlers. Europeans and Northerners should be equally welcome. Once established here, their interest and ours will be one, and all can work together to promote the - prosperity of the State. s vWell, the practical question is how shall we get such immigrants ? It strikes us that we are not at present, at least in South Carolina, taking the right course. We are calling loudly for immigrants, but are not placing before them the proper inducements to come here?that is as general rule. We appeal to them as laborers. We ask them to come here, and work for us for wages?very low. wages too. They can work for other people at home, or if they come to Am eri? ca, they can get far better wages at the West. But the better class of immigrants?the class we want?do not come hereto work for wages. Many of them may hire out for a time, and there will always be those among them who will be available as hired laborers, out the pri? mary idea with them all is to become land? owners, and make themselves comfortable, per? manent homes; and we shall never get them to com?> here in large numbers till we recognize thif motive and appeal to it in some effectual We hare-sarplus lands in abundance. Our undeveloped resources are immense. Oar cli? mate is unsurpassed and greatly superior to that of the West. No country in the world offers to - day so many advantages to the settler as the South; and,- whatever prejudiced or polically interested parties may say to the contrary, there v is no region where the immigrant, if well dis Stjjj-will meet with- a warmer welcome or der treatment, or find more sympathizing and helpful neighbors. Do not these facts suggest the means of in? ducing immigration ? We think so. The immigrants want land. They generally have a little money, but not much. Many of them are not able to buy land, but could put up ' & log-l||p8e and stock a little farm. We have millioityof acres good unimproved land that is utterly useless to those who own it. Might we not advaittageeusly offer a portion of this sur 51ns to immigrants on the sole condition that ley settle on and improve it. Who does not see that if one-fourth of all our land were disposed of in this way that the remaining three-fourths would soon be worth far more than the whole now is. One may give fifty acres, another a hundred, a third five- hundred, (divided into small tracts,) and so on. The- aggregate would arooact to. millions. Their let the fact be pub? lished to the world; itt several languages?made known throughout America and Europe, to? gether with the advantages of soil, climate and social privileges connected with .it,' and extra facilities afforded for getting to these lands and commencing operations on them. Here' would be substantial inducements to these people, and .?they would not be slow to see them. * ? All parties would be benefited by such an ar? rangement The immigrant Would get a home, the country7 would get good citizens, we should get the labor we need, (but shall not get by our direct appeals,) for these people would bring with them or draw after them' a surplus of bone and m node adapted to our purposes. We are aware that this is no new idea. A few have offered to give land to immigrants on certain conditions, and attempts have been made to induce a general movement in this- direction. The time had not come. We believe the coun? try is now ripe for it. What we want, at the . present time, is concerted, organized and per? sistent effort An individual can. do little in this matter. The people- of the- State, acting together, can do everything. Perhaps no better agencies for initiating the enterprise can be suggested than our County Agricultural Societies. Will they not takehold of the matter at once and in earnest ? The con? vention of such societies to be held in this city, in May, can then take measures, m concert, if practicable, with the existing Immigration So? ciety, to organize a general agency for the Stale, which will give unity and strength to the move? ment?Rural Carolinian. The Working Immigrant. The statement appears in a Charleston paper that a company of Northern manufacturers? Messrs. Harris & Co., from Massachusetts? have bought the fine water power of High Shoals, in Anderson county. The purchase covers fifty acres of land around the Shoals, and the price is $10,000. The purpose of this company is to put up extensive cotton and wool factories; and towards this end they are said to have already given out contracts for preparing building materials. These facts are of a two-fold importance. They indicate a confidence in our State's pros? pective speedy resuscitation, and they announce 8igpr?*tep already taken in that direction. But theeer??aiaiderations?the desirableness, the expedient^- and the necessity of such enter pjait^a&tfiisr?dftuot need urging at our hands. Northern capitalist* may need arguments to in? duce them to make such, hut our own people, bo. man, axe already anxious to have them made. So entirely is thfe the- case that we, as a people, make no inquiry about a> man's politics, if pn.ee we know that he comes anix>ng us to invest his money, or hi3 muscle, or his brain. We mention this, also, for the purpose of I calling attention in another form to the differ? ence between the immigrant and the carpet? bagger. Messrs. Harris & Co. are immigrants, because they come to work. No matter what their poli? tics or their color may be, they are welcome. They come to make money?and that is what we want them to do. They are immigrants; and the difference between them and the carpet? bagger is that they come to make money and to make it honestly, while the carpet-bagger sneaks in among our most ignorant population, and by corrupt means and by falsehoods, deludes the, ignorant people inte? giving him an office. The immigrant comes to become a citizen, while the carpet-bagger comes to plunder the citizen. Messrs. Harris & Co. order2,000,000 of bricks and go to work as if they mean business. We trust they do mean nothing else; and we cordi? ally invite all such?all immigrants?to come, and to come at once, nor stand on the ceremony of their coming. We have carpet-baggers to but we want ixcawgtm^?Colurnbia ? Mr. Greeley says that the solution of the question whether woman is equal to man de? pends upon who the woman and who the man is. A Model Address on Agriculture. The following brief and; exceerlingly . well timed agricultural address was delivered* be? fore the Hebron Agricultural Society of Craw? ford county, Georgia, By its President, Pearce L. Lewis, Esq., and is copied from the Southern Cultivator.' It contains food for reflection, and may-well be styled a model of its kind: . Grentlemen of the Society?Associations of men for .effecting the various purposes designed for common benefit, have been justly regarded among,the most efficient means of insuring suc? cess. And why ? because in no single individ? ual is found tbe requisite capacity, either phys? ical or mental, to accomplish all that may re? dound to his own advantage. But where the united energies of the intelligent and* well in? formed portions of communities are concentra? ted, a moral as well as physical force is render? ed available, sufficient oftimes to overcome ob? stacles, which even the credulous may have rarely conceived of as within the range of pos? sibility. At the meeting of such assemblies, j by comparing individual views, experience and practice, each one becomes, as it were, a maga? zine of the aggregated information of the whole. Different plans lor the Improvement of lands, various modes of culture being contrasted, new thoughts are evolved, important improvements are suggested, useful ideas are eliminated, and he must be an indifferent observer indeed, who does not carry back to his farm some knowl? edge, some valuable hint, which may aid hi? judgment. Agriculture is the most ancient and honora? ble occupation of man. It is the foundation and support of every Human trade and occupa? tion, rso avocation offers a greater field for ex? periment and for the application of science, directed by sound judgment. No pursuit more calculated to expand the mind, bring into vig? orous exercise au the mental powers, and de velope the physical organization. As a science, Agnculture requires much study and research; as an act, much skill in numerous and varied operations. In b6th thetj respects few other Sursuits require knowledge or skill in so many ifferent things, or require so much instruction. Yet it is almost a profession without any regu? lar or ordinary means -for instruction?one in which almost every learner is without a teacher. While there are many farmers who have im? proved their lands and realized a handsome profit on their capital., which would be deemed a rare and remarkable measure of success or Sin, in any safe business; yet there are per ps twenty times as many others, possessing the same facilities who have realized but little annual profits, and no improvements whatever. These opposite results are owing to unequal amounts of knowledge 'possessed: by different farmers. This inequality belongs to farming, in very fax greater measure than is possible in any other industrial pursuit. To supply this want by proper instruction should be our single aim * (however diversified the manner and means) if designed to promote Agricultural improvement and interest. Little has yet been done by governments, owing to misdirected ef? fort, and almost nothing by other associations. As the great disadvantage under which agricul? ture suffers, is the want of knowledge, so the great remedy must be to collect, ernlwdy, in? crease, and diffuse information. It only re? mains for us to take advantage of the circum? stances that surround us, throwing past preju? dices to the wind, and satisfying xmrselves *by actual experience and research. This accom? plished, these old fields will again blossom as the garden, our credit will be maintained, dire necessity will no longer compel us to sever old ties and associations, to search for more produc? tive soils in less congenial climes. And now gentlemen, I have only to return my profound acknowledgement for the honor bestowed upon me, to express my regrets that the brevity of your notice, prevented my doing more ample justice to a subject of to much interest. Let in? dustry guide the plow, and science bear her lights along, and success in renovating our worn-out lands is certain. A Curious Wedding Incident.?Although the first recorded miracle in the New Testament was the converting of water into wine at a marriage ceremony, it is nevertheless not al? ways safe to imbibe, even at a wedding, unless you know something of the vintage. Mistakes will happen, as was the case not long since with the Rev. Dr. ?i?, of Newburyport, who was called down from his chamber to marry a cou? ple. The hour was late, and the minister's wife, who had retired for the night, did not rise to witness the ceremony, but gave her husband particular directions for' the entertainment of the wedding guests. "Don't forget to pass the cake and wine) Doctor," said she. "The cake is in the ^corner cupboard, and you'll find the wine on the third right-hand shelf in the side? board.'* The Doctor promised obedience, and, putting on his garments, went down to perform the cer? emony. When he returned to his chamber, half an hour later, he found his wife sitting up in bed, with an adxious expression on her face.. "Doctor," she cried, "did vou give them anv wine?" "Certainly, my dear, just as you told me." . "Not from the decanter on the third shelf of the side-board ?" f "That is exactly where you directed me to find it." "DearI dear! Did they drink much of it?" "Why, yes, they emptied their grasses." "What shall we do 1?Doctor, I made a mis? take?it was ipecac wine you gave them. Oh, how sick they must be T Do, dear, put on your , cloak and go right after them?they can't have got far." The minister found his bridal party at the > corner of the next street. "What made you drink the wine P* he- asked. "Couldn't you tell by the taste that there was something wrong about it?" The bridegroom answered between his qualms "She whispered to me that it tasted dreadful I queer, but I told her 'twas because xoe teas get I ting married f* ? Some of the newspapers are telling of a young New York journalist, now dead, "who, "during the Johnson convention in Philadel? phia," naving left his note-book at home, took down a speech on his shirt collar and cuffs by the light of a flickering gas lamp, and while jostled by the surging crowd. It is a little strange that this should strike anybody as a feat worth mentioning. It was Secretary Belknap, we believe, who, at the battle of Atlanta, when shot and shell were flying everywhere, at the rate of nine hundred to tne square inch, coolly and quietly stepped upon the rebel fortifica? tions, and seizing by the coat collar a rebel Maior-General, weighing about three hundred and eighty pounds, lifted him over the breast? works, ten feet high, and flung him into a pile of hay standing some fifty yards within the Federal lines. That night the rebel General, having stabbed himself to the heart with a bar of soap, jumped into a spittoon and his remains were never recovered. General Belknap, how? ever, survived the other perils of the struggle, and subsequently became Secretary of War. Oh, yes; these incredible things are of common occurrencenow-a-day.?Louisville Courier- Jour? nal. ? At a trial in an Alabama town not long since, one of the witnesses, an old lady of some eighty years, was closely questioned by the op? posing * counsel relative to the clearness of her eyesight. "Canyon see me ?" said he. "Yes," she answered. "How well can you see me?" per? sisted the lawyer. "Well enough," responded the lady, "to see that you're neither a negro, an Indian nor a gentleman." The answer brought down the house and silenced the counsel ? A reconstructed Louisiana judge decides that "the modern tendency of legislation is to construe Constitution? in accordance with the will of the people, or to suit the emergency of the case, and if they won't bear such construc? tion, to ask the people to change them." The Confederate Dead. eemoval of their remains from gettys bubo. - - The accompanying letter and circular explain the work proposed to be done by the Holly? wood Memorial Association, in removing to Richmond the neglected remains of the Con? federate soldiers who fell at Gettysburg: Lexington, Va., March 8,1868. My Lear Mrs.-: I have felt great in? terest in the success of the scheme of the Hol? lywood Memorial Association of Richmond for the removal of the Confederate dead at Gettys? burg, since learning of the neglect of their re? mains on the battle-field. T hope that sufficient funds may be collected by the association to accomplish this pious work. I feel assured that it Avill receive the grateful thanks of the humane and benevolent. May I request you to apply the enclosed amount to this object. * . * * .? * * With great respect and esteem, I am your most obedient servant, R. E. Lee. "To Mrs.-, Richmond, Va." The above letter was received in Richmond by one of the directors of the Hollywood Me? morial Association, enclosing a very handsome contribution from General Lee to aid in the re? moval of the Confederate dead from Gettys? burg. As it was a private letter, it was not gublished until permission was granted by reneral Lee.. In a subsequent letter, dated 17th March, 1870,. he says: "My former letter was written -for your own eye, and I am always reluctant to be unnecessarily brought before the public. Still, if you think that the publication will be of any aid to the cause which the Hol? lywood Memorial Association has so kindly un? dertaken, I cannot refuse the slight assistance within my power." We are informed by the President of the Na? tional Cemetery at Gettysburg?David Willis, Esq.?that the charter incorporating the asso? ciation in charge of that national cemetery provides only for the "interment of the remains of those who fell in defence of the Union." It is estimated that 7,000 Confederate dead were hastily interred at Gettysburg, 600 alone hav? ing their graves marked. The marks on these 600 graves, Mr. Willis informs us, are fast be? coming obliterated. The remains of the 7,000 of our Kindred who there offered so willingly their lives for us and ours are constantly, we are told, being thrown out from their shallow sepulchres, "as the farmers cultivate their fields." An appeal has been already made to the Southern people by the Hollywood Association to aid in the removal of what we once esteemed "our beloved and honored dead," from Gettys? burg, a work which General Lee terms "a pious work," and of which he, in his letter above copied, says; "I feel assured that it will receive the grateful thanks of the humane and benevo? lent." This appeal went forth more than a year ago, and about one thousand dollars-have been received^by- the association from the fol? lowing sources : <: . ' From Norfolk, Va.. about. .$450 From "Richmond, Va,, about..294 From Gen. Lee and his family, about.125 From a lady in Louisiana...25 From the State of Alabama.....?85 From the State of Georgia..46 These .figures require little commentary. We would simply ask: Are they a true indication of out estimate of what we fought, bled and died for, during these memorable years between April, 1861. and April, 1865? Is .life so cheap in this our land of chivalry, or is a name and a' nation but an empty sound ? The Legislature of Louisiana has recently?nobly, we would say ?authorized $5,000 to be paid from her public treasury for the protection of her dead at Fred ericksburg. It was a-righteous act on her part, for it is her solemn duty to guard the graves of | her children wherever found. They rest, how? ever, in Virginia, where the grave of the South? ern soldier who fell under Lee and Jackson will ever be a hallowed spot. But our dead at Gettysburg find no resting-place. Their bones lie scattered on that terrible field, exposed to every insult, polluted and cast out by North and South, by friend and foe. The Soldiers' National- Cemetery has no place for them, as it is only for "the remains of those who fell in defence of the Union;" and they are thrown out of the shallow sepulchres in which, in our haste on the field of battle, we interred them, exposed to every insult, "as the farmers culti? vate their fields." If there is indeed any one thing that makes us tremble most of all for the future of our country, it is the quick oblivion that covers the past. The nation that never remembers the past, will never be mindful of the future. The present alone will be its God. "We ask, shall this be so in the South? Shall the North provide for its dead, and have we no thought for ours ? Where is our boasted pride and chivalry? Eighty-five dollars from Ala? bama and forty-six dollars from Georgia!. Nothing fromjSouth Carolina ! Nothing from Tennessee 1 Nothing from Mississippi f Noth? ing from Texas! Nothing from Arkansas ' Nothing from Florida! If this had been told in their lives to the seven thousand men whose bones now lie on the field of Gettysburg?the "seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal"?do you think they would have so willingly offered up their lives for us and ours, to make us a nation, to give us liberty, if they had been told that we would let their bones be thus thrown out of their graves "as the farm? ers cultivate their fields?" In the name of our country, in the name of . our kindred, in the name of honor, and in the name of humanity, we ask the.Southern States and Southern peo? ple, one and all, to come forward and rescue our name and the cause for which so many died, from this infamous reproach, that, unless immediately removed, will be a lasting reproach to the latest day to us and our children forever, individually and nationally. Virginia. Communications and remittances may be sent to Mrs. George W. Randolph, Richmond, Virginia. Southern papers are respectfully requested to copy this appeal at once, and bring it to the notice of the Southern people. -: ? A correspondent in Mississippi asks: "Is it true, as some of the Northern papers continue to assert, that the negro Revels occupies Mr. Davis' old seat in the Senate?" No; it is not true. There was an effort made to secure it for him, but it failed. It was intended that the history of the times should record as "the grand? est providence of the nineteenth ?century," that the^hnmble negro Hiram Revels occupied in the United States Senate the seat in which once sat the arch-traitor Jefferson Davis. And in order to bring it about Sumner, Wilson and a half dozen other negro-worshippers approached Senator Ross, of Kansas, and said to him. "Arise, exchange seats with the man and broth? er, Revels, that history may tell, to the perpet? ual confusion of Southern chivalry, that a de? spised negro occupies the scat of the traitoT Jeff. Davis." Mr. Ross looked up from the sheet of paper upon which he was writing. "So this," said he, "is the seit in which Davis used to sit?" "Yes," replied Sumner,~"it is." "And you and the negro you've got here want me to get out of it and let the negro get into it, do you V" "We do," answered Sumner. "Then," said Ross, taking up his pen, "I've only to say that I'll see you and the negro-first." And thus it came to pass that tne "grand provi? dence,", for which the Radical muse of history stood waiting, failed to take place.?Louisville Courier-Journal. True Birx.?Senator Carpenter, (Radical) in the debate on the credentiahyn Ames, ut? tered the following truth, which was, no doubt, laughed at by his Senatorial hearers: "I have often felt of late that the Judiciary Committee is a useless branch of this body. It belongs to a state of things which I fear is passingaway. It was createa in the early days of the Republic when the Constitution was re? garded as supreme, beyond the reach and above the power of Congress." The Penalties of Groat Wealth. ClNCnnsTATT, March 21,1870. ?. Editor Times:?I find the following para? graph going the rounds of the press:' "The Tat Contributor' has made $10,000 out of his lectures this winter." He would have made more if he could have lectured and tend? ed door at the same time." Where the paragraph originated I know not, but it has caused me a great deal of trouble and annoyance. Aside from the clamor of j creditors which it has raised about my ears, I am. besieged with begging letters from all sec? tions of the country. I never realized before the penalties and vexations attending' the pos? session of great wealth. Every mailbringsap? peals from a horde of needy applicants implor? ing meto give, declaring that I could not pos? sibly miss the insignificant amount they ask out of the wealth Ihave amassed. I have been compelled to employ a secretary to open and readmy letters, for if I undertook to do it my? self I would have little time for anything else. Every night I make a bonfire of the letters ac? cumulated during the day, in a vacant lot at the rear of my house, and the illumination maybe seen for miles away. One writer, hovering on the brink of the grave, could die happy if I would send him money to defray his funeral expenses. Though failing rapidly, he says he will try. to hold out until he hears from me. If | he does he wHJ live forever. Another man could get married if I would send him twenty dollars. That man will thank me some day that I didn't Bend it. One wants me to pay for a memorial window in a church in Alaska. Another solicits a contribution toward building a monument to deceased sutlers. A man in Pen-Yan is ready to name a bull-headed canal boat after me if I will furnish an outfit; and a correspondent -wants aid in founding a pious soup-house among the walruses, admonishing me that I can take none of my great wealth with me when 1 die, adding that is easier for a needle to enter the eye of a camel than it is to "go through" a rich man, or words to that ef? fect. Some of these beggars, finding their ap? peal disregarded, write again abusing me round? ly. They call me a mean, contemptible miser ?a hardened old skin-flint. ? They say I "grind the face of the poor," (a low fling at my poor audiences, I suppose,) and assert that I would filch the composing nickel from the ophthalmic membrane of a departed contraband. Then comes the threatening letter; one tells me, in case of refusal, to "beware I" another to "be d?d." I am followed home at night, and quite afraid to venture out after dark, all on account of that confounded paragraph. I want you to correct it; say that instead of making ten thousand dollars, I ran behind . that 'amount? | say I made it but lost it on gold?got robbed say anything to stop this avalanche, of letters. Yours, truly, "Fat Contributor." Hard on Secretary Fish?The New York Sun pitches into Secretary Fish with persisten? cy, zeal, and malice mixed up with it. It ex? presses the hope that the rumor of a recon? struction of Grant's cabinet is true, and then pays its respects to the Secretary in the follow? ing wise: ? Mr. Fish is an honest man. He is also a gentleman. His natural disposition is patriotic. He would not intentionally dishonor his coun? try. But he is not competent to direct the pol? icy of a great government in a difficult crisis. It would oe as proper to choose Gen. Ben. But? ler for Archbishop of Canterbury as to select Hamilton Fish for Secretary of State. How? ever, Gen. Grant did it, and the result is What we see; The administration is weak, cowardly, anti-American, truckling to Spain and bullying Hayti, giving moral support to the Brazilian crusade for the extension of slavery in South America, and. with no positive foreign policy anywhere except the jobbing, swindling treaty for the annexation of San Domingo. Such lack of brains, such" sterility of ideas, such total ab? sence of manly spirit, such indifference to American principles, was never seen before in the government of the United States. And for all this Mr. Fish is justly held responsible." -:-? A Card Extraordinary.?To the Ameri? can People, Greeting: I am commissioned to procure the name and address of every person in the United States who takes a friendly inter? est in Woman's Enfranchisement. In order to compile this roll of honor, I hereby request ev? ery such person, immediately upon reading this announcement, without waiting long enough to forget or neglect it, to take pen and ink, write the name and address legibly; and forward the same to me, postage paid?a trifling cost which you will not Degrudge to a good cause. Any body sending in one envelope all the names in a family, a village, or association, will render a helpful service. Three thousand American newspapers will oblige a brother editor by gen? erously printing this card in their columns. The purpose of this registration is to know to whom to send important documents. Friends, of the cause are urged-to respond so simultane? ously that their letters shall fly hither like a snow-storm. Sign at once. And the day will come when your children and children's chil? dren will be proud of the record. Fraternally. Theodore Tilton, Editor of the Independent, Box 2,787, New York City. -o Another Heroine.?The story of that in ?onions and able woman in'Maine, told a few ays ago, who lost her way one night, while driving through a rain storm, and who, instead of giving up and freezing to death, with her ba? by, unhitched'the horse, overturned the sleigh, crept underneath, and slept comfortably in the buffalo robes till help came, finds an antitheti? cal anecdote concerning a woman in Texas who displayed equal executive ability in a much hotter emergency. This Texan woman lives about a mile from the little town of'Waco, and a long distance from neighbors. She discover? ed her house on fire one day. The woman did not sit down and shriek, as the "girl of the pe? riod" might have done. She at once summon? ed her forces, consisting of one negro man, three ladies, and four little children. "Bring water," she said, "and saturate every blanket | on the place; and here, Lewis, take vonr ax and come with me." A hole was speedily cut through the roof, and while the others brought blankets and water, this woman and her assis? tant-on the outside spread them over the flames, tho fire was put out and the house saved. -<t> Northern Social Equality.?The Direct? ors of the Academy of Music in Philadelphia have refused to permit that building to be used by the negro Revels, who desires to address the people of the City of Brotherly Love. Eleven of the twelve directors are open pronounced .Republicans, and the Radical papers of Phila? delphia are very severe in their comments upon this action of their Radical friends. Public sentiment in Pennsylvania upon the negro question seems to bo undergoing uradical chance. A few days since a bill passed both branches of the Radical Legislature granting a divorce to a white woman on the ground that her husband was discovered to be a mulatto after her marriage. Three Radical Judges in Phila? delphia have refused to issue naturalization pa? pers to Africans, and the entire Radical party I in the State, with the exception of a few sub? sidized presses, seems to be taking the back track on the negro question. -o ? Physiologists and statisticians are contrib? uting much matter to sundry newspapers in or? der to prove, that the extinction of the negro race is very near at hand. One writer says that there are not one-fourth the average number of children from one to four years old in negro families that there were in I860 or previous years. ? The New York Evening Mail says that fe? male suffrage meets with much better support now than the abolition of slavery did in its early days. ? Chicago boasts uf a wedding where the blissful principals aggregated thirteen feet in length, and asks, "How is that for high I" IlTIEBESTING to Teachebs.?Mr;' Jillson, the State Superintendent of Education, has issued a circular to School Commissioner!? in the several counties, in which he directs that all original accounts or claims'of the teachers for services rendered in teaching beneficiaries should show: 1st. When the term of school commenced, j 2d. When the same closed or ended. 3d. The name of each beneficiary or poor scholar. .? Such accounts or claims should be sworn to and subscribed by the teacher rendering the services, and carefully examined by the School Commissioner of the county in which the ser? vices were rendered, in order.to guard against fraud; and if such accounts or claims should be found to be correct and just, they should be certified by the said School Commissioner. The time within which claims for services rendered during the year, commencing October 31,1867, shall be presented for payment, has been extended by an act of the Legislature to May, 1870. -o ? Non-paying subscribers are thus talked of | by a Western editor: "Wagons cannot run without wheels, boats cannot run without steam, bullfrogs cannot jump without legs, or a news? paper carried on everlastingly without money, no more than a dog can wag his tail when he has none. Our subscribers are. all good, but' what good does a man's goodness do when it don't do any good? We have no doubt that every one thinks that all have paid except him? self, and as we are a clever fellow, and as his account is a little matter, it makes no difference. Strange hallucination." ? In the Quaker town of Nahtucket there j used to be a military company called the Nan tucket Guards, the first article in the constitu? tion of which was: "In case of %ar this company shall immediately disband." Quick Returns and Permanent Improvement to the Soil. M?PES' Nitrogenized Superphosphate OF LIME! composed op Bones, Phosphatic Guano and Am* moniacal Animal Matter, All thoroughly decomposed and reduced to a fine powder by means of Fermentation and Sulphuric Acid, ADAPTED TO THE GRO WING OF C?tton, Corn,.Tobacco, Grain. Crops, Vegetables, &c. THIS is the oldest Superphosphate manufactu? red in this country, having been introduced to the public in the spring of the year 1852. The practical success of this SUPERPHOS? PHATE, even during the most unfavorable sea? sons, has been fully established by the experience of hundreds of planters and farmers, recent let? ters from nearly two hundred of whom are to be* found in the pamphlets last issued. C. A.. REED, A cent for Anderson County. Jan 20, 1870 30 8m Greenville & Columbia Railroad.I GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE, 1 Columbia, January 15,1870. ] ON and after WEDNESDAY, January 19, th< following Schedule will be run daily, Snnday ex? cepted, connecting with Night Train on Sou'h Carolina Road, up and down, nnd with Night Train on Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Rc<id going North: L've Columbia 7.00 a m " Alston 8.40 a m " Ncwb'ry 10.10 a m Arr. Abbeville 3.00 p m " Anderson 4.120 p ra " Or'nvillo 5.00 p in L'vc Greenville 5.4<5 n m " Anderson 6.25 am " Abbeville S.0U n m " Newb'ry 12.85 p m " Alston 2.1? p m Arr, Columbia 3.45 p m The Train will return from Delton to Anderson on Monday and Friday mornings. JAMES 0. MEREDITH, Gen. Sup't. Jan 20; 1870 30 TO THE WORKING CLASS.?We are now prepared to furnish all classes with constant em? ployment at home, the whole of the time or for the spare moments. Business new, light and pro? fitable. Persons of either sex easily earn from 50c. to So per evening, and a proportional sum by de? voting their whole time tolbe business. Boys and girls earn nearly as much as men. That all who see this notice may send their address, and test the bus? iness, wo make this unparalleled offen To- such as are not well satisfied, we will send $1 te>pay for the trouble of writing. Full particulars, a valuable sample, which will do to commence work on, and a copy of The People's Literary Companion?one of the largest and best family newspapers published?all Bent free by mail. Reader, if yon vrnnt permanent, profitable work, address E. C. ALLEN &CO., Au? gusta, Maine. 32?3m Tutt's Vegetable Liver Pills ! For Liver Complaint, Billiousness, &o. ? Tutt's Sarsaparilla and Queen's Delight, For purifying the blood. Tutt's Expectorant, For Cough's, Cold's, Consumption, &c, &c Tutt's Improved Hair Dye, The best in the world, Are for sale in Anderson by Walters & Baker, Druggists, and Druggists and Merchants generally thronghout t ho United Slates. July 29 1869 5 Ty Schedule Blue Ridge Railroad. ON and after this date the following schedule will be observed by the Passenger Trains over this Road : up. dowx. L've Anderson, 4.20 p m " Pendleton,5.20 " " Perryville, 6.10 " Arr. Walhalla, 7.00 " L've Walhalla, 8.30an? ? Perryville,4.10 " " Pendleton, 5.10 [* Arr. Anderson, 6.10 " In cases of deteotion'on the G. and C* R. R-, the train on this Road will wait one hour for the train from Belton, except on Saturdays, when it will wait until the arrival of the Belton train. W. H. D. GAILLARD, Sup't. March 10,1870 87 NICKERSON ROUSE, Columbia, S. C. THE undersigned having renewed his lease up? on the above popular House,-will endeavor to make it one of the most agreeable Hotels in the South. A call from the miblio is respectfully so? licited. _' " ?3- Free Omnibus to and from the Hotel. WM. A. WRIGHT, Proprietor. July 15, 1869_8 im JAMES H. THORNWELL, Attorney at Law, ANDERSON C. H., 8. C. Office in the residence immediately oppo? site Dr. Cater's, on Main street. Feb 3, 1870 &t 3ra M Private Sale! THAT VALUABLE TRACT OF LAND, en Eighteen Mile Creek and Seneca River? contain? ing 1770 acres, formerly owned by James Steele. The Tract will be divided to suit purchaser? Appljno W. H. D. GAIL LARD, Pendleton, S. C. Jan 6, 1870 28 Charte^ Advertisements. ; ?? ? . i ? "f/rhiers I Increase inr Crops and Improve Yoor I,and,by usfc PSENIX GUM0, Imported us direct from the Ph?nix Is? lands, Sou?-Paci?c Ocean. - . Wlcox, G-ibbB & ^kr/? HABP?LATID GUANO, PrcparJ at Savannah., Gau, and Charles? ton, 8. Cf irbich has proved Ja the soil tho best Maure In use. Gruano&ilt and Plaster C omp ound, Also nnitfactnred at Savannah & Charles? ton. Po sale for Cash or on time, by 'WLGOX, ?e ?U,~ ~ Importers <& Dealers in 94BAY STREBT, SAVAis'NAH, OA., 64EAST BAY-ST., CHARLESTON, 8. C. 24 BROAD Sr. AUGUSTA, QA./ Forurther information, address "as above for circuit, or subscribe to Swuhern Agric??uruf, publised by Vf. C. Mavroorphy ft Co., at August* and Sraanah, 6a., at the low price of 25c. per annaif W. S. SHARPE, Agent, Anderson, 8. C. DedO, 1859 ? 2fr 4m SLUBLE SOUTH Rhodes' Ground Gjpsttia. Circulars with detailed statements tot rsbed on application to the general agents, b: s. rhett ftTsotf, \ Charleston. S. C. Or to bleckley &"Evi5rs;. Agents at Anderson C. H., S. c Jan 27, 1870 ? 81 8ni. ^ GEORGE W. CARPENTER'S Compound Fluid Extract of Sarsa parilla. GEORGE W. C ARPENTER'S Compound Fluid Extract of Buch ul TBESE celebrated preparations, originally in? troduced by George W. Carpenter, under the pat? ronage of the medical faculty,-have been so long extensively used by Physicians and: others, that they are generally known for their intrinsic value, and can be relied on as being mast valuable' rem* edies in all cases where Sarsaparills or Bucha are applicable, and cannot be too highly recommend? ed. They are prepared in a highly concentrated form, so as to render the dose small and conven? ient. Orders by mail or otherwise will receive prompt attention. N GEORGE W. CARPENTER,,HENSZEY ft CO., Wholesale Chemical Warehouse, No. 737 Mitrket street*, Philadelphia. For sale by Walters ft Baker and W. H. Nardih ft Co., Anderson, S. c. Dowie Si oiofse; Whole? sale Apents. Charleston, S'.TJ. Ujr***'-* Ocl 21, 1869 17 HAVING the largest and most complete J ry in the Southern States, and keeping always on hand a large and most complete slock of DOORS, SASHES, BLINDS, Sash Doors,' Store Score, Shatters, Mouldings, &c, ftc, I am enabled io selllcw and at Mannfacturers' prices. N. b.?Strict attention paid to shipping in good order. July 22, 1:669 4 '...*?, A. I COTTON FACT?jt . , AND, . .. General Commisson Mercnaat, ACCOMMODATION WHAHF" . ? -t-4.; qisC^sA^ "? ? CHARLESTON, ?. t?. Liberal Advances made on Cotton. jgg* I will; when placed in farads, purchase a ad forward all kinds of Merchandize, Machine ' ry, Agricultural Implements, Manures, Seeds, &o. Sept 28, 1769 18 . ly J. -5. KOBSQ^-r Comxniia&iox& Merchant^ Mos. 1, & * Atlantic Wharf, ch ARLESTON, S. C. HAVING ample means for advances, a "business experionee of twenty years, and confining himself strictly to- n Commission Business, without opera? ting on his own account, respectfully solicits coa signments of Cotton, Floor, .Wheat; Corn, &e. Shippers of Produce to him may,.at their option, have their consignments sold either In Charleston I or New York; thus having the advantage of two markets, without extra commission. ) REFERENCES. Bishop W M Wightman, SC;' Col Wm Jobs*, slon, Charlotte, N C; Rev T 0 Sommers, Tenn ; Hoa John King, Augusta, Ga; Messrs 6Uosg* W Williams ft Co, Charleston; Messrs. Williams, Taylor ft Co, New York. ... April 29, 1869 . 44 ly h. BiscBorr. c. wrowsax, j. a. risr-un. I0JBK ScFAIX, WITH mmi BISCHOFF & CO., WHOLESALE GROCERS, AND DEALERS IH'' W IN ES LIQUORS, Cigriir^, Tobacco, ?c?., ? NO. 197 EAST BAY, Nov 20,1869 22