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President, Ladies and Gentlemen : That I take the Renovation of Worn-out Soils as -my .text on this occasion will, I trust, be regarded as no special reflection upon the Ag? riculture of Maryland; for such soils may be found in every ope of our older States, and in almost every country where exhaustion by cul? ture is possible, unless China and Japan sup? ply exceptions. To wrench from an arable field whatever of food-forming material its soil contains and will readily yield, then repeat the same process on another field, and then anoth? er, is the barbarian's natural method of swin? dling Nature out of a scanty, precarious liveli? hood, whenever game has become too scarce and shy to supply him with needful food. It is a simple repetition, with the inevitable mod? ifications, of the process by which his progeni? tors, rendered hunting for a livelihood no long? er productive or even possible. To destroy without reproducing, to live this year so as to render living next year more difficult, to ex? haust or dry up the fountains whence life and strength have flowed sweetly and bounteously, are the barbarian's heedless methods, from which many of our people are not yet emanci? pated. I have seen in New England a field which once bore good wheat sown to rye year after year, till its crop had steadily dwindled to five bushels per acre, when it was thrown out of cultivation and given up to sorrel and niallein, with the sage observation that'it washed badly, and so had become good for nothing I Yet that field sloped gently to the southland, if well subsoiled and then plas? tered at a net cost of ten dollars per acre, would have produced a jrood crop of clover im? mediately. The husbandry that had wrought its rain was simply barbarous, though*, those who tilled it knew now to read, write and ci? pher, and wen) grossly ignorant of nothing but the art whereby they were trying to live. I protest, at the threshold, against the cur? rent notion that poor men must grow poor crops, unless they have taken some monkish vow to remain poor forever. Here is one who has inherited or somehow acquired a cot and a few sterile acres, but has no money, no team, no fertilizers :; what shall he do? I answer, Whatever he inay do, let him not cultivate one acre more than he can so feed and till as to E've reasonable assurance of a good crop. Far tter work out by the day or month than to waste your time and strength on cultivation to no purpose. Let him have one acre plowed and subsoiled thoroughly, fertilize it amply, set a few fruit trees along its north side, and make each square rod do its best in the pro? duction of roots, vegetables and Indian corn, while working out by the day four or five days in each week, and six days during the hurry and high wages of the summer harvest, and he will get ahead much faster than by half tilling ten or fifteen half-plowed, niggard, unmanured acres, and thus growing what will range, ac? cording to the season, from scanty half-crops to no crops at alL And, if you tell me that he ean find no one to hire him, I say, then let him pull up stakes, "go West," and keep moving till he finds some region where honest work may be readily exchanged for honest bread. One of the first elements of successful reno? vation is a law, such as we have in New York, and I trust in most old States, compelling every man to take care that his animals do not injure his neighbor's crops?iu other words, that we must thoroughly fence our respective cattle yards and pastures, not our whole farms. The saving in fences thus effected is immense; but that is only one of its blessings.. I value above this the liberty accorded to each of us to grow wood on our own lands wherever we will, with? out being obliged to fence out our neighbor's cattle, especially while roaming in ravenous pursuit of food in early spring. If you mean lo renovate your farm, begin by throwing out the acres you can not fertilize for some years ahead, and cover these with wood as soon as you may. Gather or buy nuts and seeds, plant them in your garden, and transplant the young trees to the crests of your ridges, the sides of your ravines, when barely a year or a year and a half old, and keep setting trees till all the lend you cannot fertilize and thoroughly till is covered with thrifty timber. The very first step in renovation to the average farmer is to limit the ares, on which labor and capital must be bestowed. If I insist on deep tillage as essential to good farming, you will understand that this, like ev try sweeping rule, is liable to exceptions. For, 1. There is much land too rocky, too precipi? tous, or too sterile, to he cultivated at all; and, 2. There is good land so full of stumps or strong tree-roots that it should bo got into grass as speedily and cheaply as possible, thus to re? main till it may be thoroughly pulverized with? out injury to team or plow. But any field that is to be cultivated henceforth, continuously, or by frequent alternations of grain with grass, ought to be plowed deeply and thoroughly, both surface and subsoil, as a preparation for profitable tillage. Mind that I say sub soiled, which means pulverizing the subsoil and leaving it subsoil, not turning it up to the surface and leaving it there. I think I have seen even this done with profit, especially where the subsoil is clay, with several inches of sandy loam above it; but subsoiling is quite another process?one very generally required; while, up to this hour, not one acre in each hundred under cultivation in this country has ever been subjected to it. I cultivate steep hillsides of sandy or grav? elly loam which, but for subsoiling, would wash fearfully in every violent shower, sweep? ing away their finer particles, to be lost for? ever; subsoiling prevents this by presenting a deep, loose, porous soil, into which water ialling on the surface sioks rapidly, and much of it remains in the subsoil till it is needed and drawn upon by the growing plants above it. As to fertilizers, I place gypsum or plaster first on the list, without supposing it to be of equal value everywhere, or even of any value under nil conceivable circumstances. And yet I doubt that a hill or dry plain can be found ten miles inland, on which a first application of plaster to the extent of two hundred pounds per acre, would not be repaid in the very next crop, more especially if that crop were clover. Wherever ground plaster may be had for less than $20 per ton (as it can be in most parts of the Union), I hold that each farmer who has not yet tried it should buy at least one ton, ap? ply it to ten acres in strips of two rods' width, alternating with a like bredth left unsown, and carefully watch the result. If no benefit is realized, he may nafely conclude, not that plas? ter is a humbug, but that his land does not need it, or that Ihe has not known how and when to apply it. In my own case, I judge that I have nought no other fertilizer that paid so amply and speedily as plaster. As to lime I am not so confident. In any district where it is burned, so that the refuse from the kilns may be bought unslacked and scarcely yet cold, for a few cents per bushel, there I can- not doubt the profit of its applica? tion to almost any dry soil, but especially one well supplied with vegetable matter?a drained bog or swamp for example. The English ap? ply it profusely to heavy clays to break them up ana render them friable; and they would not persist in so doing without reason. Wher? ever the spontaneous growth of sorrel and other acid plants indicates a deficiency of alkali, there I judge that lime would prove servicea? ble. If unreached wood ashes could be had as cheaply, I would much prefer them, especially on sandy or gravelly soils; but, as no sensible cultivator of such soils ever sold his ashes, they are rarely to be had in considerable quan? tities, except in the cities or larger villages which still relies mainly on wood for its fuel. I consider every bushel of ashes from wood burned within doors worth to a farmer half the price of a bushel of corn, since, by judiciously applying it, he may increase his corn crop bushel per bushel. As to lime, I regard well burned oyster-shells as worth to the farmer twice as much by weight as the average of lime qnaried from a ledge, though this is quite di verse in quality. Where it is mingled or heav? ily charged with magnesia, its agricultural1 value is slight, if not questionable. Yet plants need lime, feed upon it, thrive by it, and 1 have known large crops of wheat grown successfully on a field whereof the soil for at least two feet downward was at least nine-tenths broken lime? stone, resting on a solid bed rock of that same. I apprehend that lime is destined to play a very important part in the renovation of our worn-out farms, though it may never be used so bountifully here as in England. The late Prof. Map es calculated that, since mineral par? ticles act: on vegetation only by their surfaces, and our lime is many times finer than the Brit? ish, an application of 50 bushels per acre here was equivalent to one of 250 bushels of that burned from the coarser chalk of the British Isles. I have a very high-opinion of salt as a fertil? izer. It may. not be wanted near the coast, where a saline spray is often driven inland for miles; but I estimate its value at twenty-five cents per bushel on my place, which is some twenty miles from Long Island Sound and nearly twice as far from the broad ocean. That is to say, I consider ten bushels of salt per acre, applied to my fields, one-half in each of two successive years, about the best $2} worth of plant food that money will buy me. And al? most any farmer can obtain refuse salt from importers, manufacturers, tanners, repackers or dealers who buy salt meats or fish by the bar? rel and sell them out by retail, if he will but inquire and be patient. I could always buy all I wanted in New York at or below fifteen cents ' per bushel, and I have had a car-load at a time Eiven me by one who had no use for such salt, ut urgent need of the room it occupied. Such wind-falls come every year to those who a e looking for them. One of these days (but not in my day) we shall have great pumping works beside our harbors, sounds or inlets, lifting sea-water by the thousand gallons up to a height whence pipes or tubes will convey it, aided only by gravitation, to plains and valleys far inland, which it will oe allowed gently to overflow, irrigate and fertilize If, after a time, fresh water shall be deemed desirable in its turn, then the salt of the sea-water will be percipita tcd on its passage by some cheap chemical agency, ana only the thus freshened water reach the soil. The prominence given to phosphates, and to phosphatic substances, in our day is fully justi? fied. In rude ages when cultivation was desul? tory and crops scanty and capricious, while an? imals decayed where they died, and bones were thrown anywhere so that they should not be in the way, there was little need of applying {mosphates to the farmers' fields and no call or them. At length, all is changed. For half a century England quietly bought up the bones of all animals that died on or near our seaboard and applied them to the fertilization of her fields, while our farms, through the sale of milk and of living or slaughtered animals, were steadily losing all that hers were gaining.? When we at length, awoke to the suicidal mad? ness of this display of ignorance and heedlcss ncss on our part, we had to recover the leeway thus made; and I have no doubt that we had, and still have, meadows and pastures which would still give fair crops of grass, but on which a sound-boned, strong ox could with difficulty be reared. Hence the policy and necessity of applying phosphates, in some form, to the well-worn fields of our older States?a necessity which is not at all felt in newer re? gions and on virgin soils. As to the ordin?r}* farm-yard manures, no one need be told that they are excellent, so far as they go?that he is fortunate indeed who can obtain them in abundance and at little cost. They contain in available form most of the ingredients required by ordinary soils to fit them for producing excellent crops, or, more accurately, they embody most of the elements of plants in such form that plants may readily absorb and thrive upon them. You may have them iu abundance, yet still need certain min? eral additions to your soil?lime, sulphur and phosphorus especially?but a very small outlay will suffice for all that you need of these, if you have iu abundance farm-yard manures, so that these be well rotted and wisely applied. Ho who has these where they ought to be can soon buy and pay for all else that he needs. But the farmer who can apply twenty cords per acre from his barn-yard to ten acres per annum of his farm is a marked exception. There are more who could not deal with one acre per annum thus generously. For, while manure is the life of the farm, nothing else is treated so wastefully. Thrown out to be drenched by water from the caves, then bleach? ed in the sun and burned by internal fermenta? tion, most farmers treat it as a nuisance rather than as their most essential resource. We must chauge all this if we are ever to see our farms what they should be. I have a paved cellar expressly for manure under the entire cattle-fioor of my barn, with a floor, and scaffold above for my hay and grain. This is very convenient, but not entirely satis? factory, while it cost more than the average farmer can afford. I recommend to him the following substitute: Dig out the centre of your barnyard to a depth of six or eight feet in the middle, mak? ing it a pit or hollow, with regularly sloping sides, liaise the outer residue of the yard with the earth so excavated, so that water can never stand anywhere else than in the hollow. Mow all the weeds and brakes you can find in the roads around you, in your own fields first, then in those of your neighbors who will let you, gather dry leaves wherever they are not need ' ed, and litter your cattle generously, alike iu the stable and yard. Cut your straw and stalks, if you can, and let everything that remains un? eaten be quickly transferred to the pit. De? vote at least a week in the fall to the collection of litter of all kinds, and make the week a month if you can possibly spare the time. No labor on the farm pays better than that which is devoted to increasing the size while improv? ing the quality of its muck-heap. If your soil is sandy or gravelly, and a pit or bank of clay .is convenient, one hundred loads of simple clay {>er acre may be Bpread over your grass-lands ate in the fall or early in the winter with profit, while clay soils are in like manner improved, by a dressing of sand or fine gravel by loam. Fill up any hollows or depressions by thus coating clay with sand and sand with clay, and large crops will respond to your persistent, wisely directed efforts. Of course, a whole farm cannot be thus thoroughly treated at once; but get a few acres into perfect condition each year, lay these down to grass and proceeed with the next lot, and your whole farm will soon be a model, alike for facility of working and cer? tainty of ample harvests. I am writing for poor men, who do not admit that they should therefore be poor farmers. The rich can buy fertilizers right and left, un derdrain, subsoil and till to perfection; but I address the thousands whose will is good but whose means are scanty, who cannot afford to "branch out," but must make each year's sav? ings pay for the next year's improvements. To tell one of these how he might profitably spend several thousand dollars forthwith on his farm is only to annoy him * he has not the money, can not borrow it, and can spare nothing where? with to buy iL So I have said little of under draining, because that costs at least one hun | dred dollars per acre, and is not in order, except on a small scale, until the farm has been made I productive and profitable. Let the farmer of scanty means improve the first dry autumn to underdrain thoroughly his wettest, boggiest acre; when thoroughly dry, let him sweeten this by a liberal application of lime, and tho? roughly pulverizing its soil, note well the two or three succeeding crops, and I think he will be convinced, as I am, that under draining pays, at least wherever it is undeniably needed.? Underdraining dry upland will come far later, and, as to many farms, may never come at all. With irrigation the case is different. Doubt? less generations will pass before our fields are blessed by that Universal Irrigation, by the aid of wells pumped by windpower, which I thoroughly believe in. That must come slowly, gradually, in ages, not years merely, and will not be hurried. Let me speak only of what is practicable and advisable to-day. Most farms are traversed or skirted by some sort of brook, runnel or tinier water-course, which may be dry for a part of nearly every year. Each is fullest in Springs, when fed by copious rains, and often by melting snows also. Its current is of course, richest in plant-food just when most ample. A slight dam thrown across its channel near the upper side of farm or field, with a mere furrow run diagonally thence through the field or fields below, so as to lead the water gradually away from the brook-bed, escaping across the lower bank of the shallow ditch at intervals until the last drop has been used to moisten and enrich the soil through which it hitters down to its natu? ral bed?such is a rude outline of a very rude device for doubling the crops while-increasing the permanent fertility of a larger or smaller portion of every farm. Of course, the mode must be varied to adapt it to the volume of the stream, the lay of the land ; but an intelligent farmer will know how to avail himself of the topography of his freehold so as to insure him the largest increase of product at a moderate, perhaps inconsiderable, cost. I am confident that our country's annual harvests might be largely increased by irrigation, with an annual profit of ten to twenty-five per cent, on the to? tal outlay or cost. I need not say that this question of cost is one that the average farmer must continually ponder. He would like to do and to buy many things that he cannot afford?at least, not yet. The need of improved and more effective im? plements of husbandry is forever staring him in the face. Mowers and reapers, tedders and horse-rakes, stalk-cutters, feed-steamers, &c, &c., are all good in their place; but he cannot yet pay for half of them, while he must pro? duce and sell in free competition with those who possess and use them all. Of course he must give more labor for every bushel of grain, each ton of hay, than his fore-handed neighbor does; and this disparity the progress of inven? tion is steadily increasing. It is this rather than the inferiority of our soils that is carrying the grain-fields of our country farther and far? ther West. Minnesota and California did not average twenty bushels of wheat per acre last year?did not average, I believe, so large a yield of this foremost of bread-grains as Penn? sylvania did?but the former States grew their crops mainly on vast plains or prairies, by the help of the most efheient machinery, which enabled their farmers to pay high wages and yet realize fair profits. We, too, must ultimate? ly use steam and most effective machinery, or submit to be driven out of grain-culture almost entirely. Do I hold, therefore, that our seaboard farm? ers must abandon the goodly region in which they were born and follow the Indian and the pioneer on the paths which point ever toward the setting sun r By no means. A part will do this; let them be wafted on their way by our heartiest good wishes, our fondest prayers. But a large fraction of our sons and daughters will remain by the graves of their fathers, and till the fields on which their eyes first opened. These, too, must have bread-corn ; and I dis? trust?nay, I dispute?the wisdom of obtaining this wholly from distant growers. An individ? ual, a family of cultivators, may do it with ad? vantage ; I doubt that a whole community of fifty thousand farmers ever did or will. A mining, a lumbering region, is apt to have an unusual proportion of its inhabitants living from hand to mouth ; I doubt that an exclu? sively tobacco or cotton-growing county can be found which does not present a similar social aspect. Diversity of employment is essential to general thrift; rotation of crops is vital to the healthful vigor of the soil, the prosperity of its owner and tiller. I do not say that no con? siderable community ever throve by making gimlets or growing hemp exclusively; I do in? sist that any such exclusive devotion to a sin? gle pursuit must ever prove, in the average and in the long run, mistaken and pernicious. Let the South grow her cotton, the Northwest her wheat, the mid-West her Indian corn, but let each steadily enlarge and diversify her range of production, and let the Atlantic seaboard show what may bo done by a system under which grain, grass and fruit are annually grown on the same little farm. If no grand successes, no brilliant hits, are possible under this econo? my, it is evident that great disaster, signal fail? ures, must likewiso be rare, sjnee the deficien? cies of one crop will usually be balanced by the excellence of another. Upon large fields, entirely freed from stones or other impediment to thorough culture and brought up to a high staudard of fertility, Indian corn, oats, or rye, clover and the best grasses, may be grown in proper rotation with profit within two hours' ride of either of our Atlantic seaports, where fruits, roots and vegetables are unusually pre? ferred, therefore probably grown at still greater profit. I speak from experieuce, and know that I am not mistaken. Nay, more. Any man of ample capital and fair knowledge of agriculture may buy a thou? sand acres of the sandy "barrens" of Long Is? land, New Jersey, or the Eastern shore of Ala rylaud, and, leaving alternate strips of a hun? dred acres in forest, which are to be gradually reduced to squares of ten to forty acres as. the residue is brought under tillage, he may fertil? ize each acre that he tills until it will produce fifty to seventy bushels of corn per acre, and, feeding every bushel to animals reared for mar? ket, he may realize a large interest on his in? vestment while maintaining and even improv? ing the productive capacity of his soil. Mind that I do not say he might not do better by de? voting his cflbrts mainly to the production of fruits and vegetables?that is an independent consideration?but I am satisfied by my own experience that barren lands may be rendered fertile, right on our Atlantic seaboard, grain and grass grown from each improved acre, and these turned into mutton, beef, pork and poul? try, which, being sold, will yield a liberal pro? fit to the farmer, and enable him to sell off im? proved farms to poorer cultivators for more than they cost him. In other words: I hold that millions of acres right about us, which have never yet yielded to civilized man any crop but one of firewood or charcoal, may be profitably cleared of its mainly stunted, strag Sling trees and bushes forthwith, made to pro uce ?100 worth per acre of food next year, and every year thereafter, giving employment and subsistence to hundreds of thousands of | workers, and that larger as well as surer pro? fits may thus be realized than by mining for gold in Arizona or hunting for whales along the coast of Alaska. If this be true, is it not truth of decided im? portance? Our cities are overcrowded; we have too many merchants; too many lawyers ; too many brokers ; we do not lack capital; but our wealthy men know by sad experience that to lend is often to lose?that those who seek to borrow on farm mortgages are almost never ready to repay. I urge them not to lend, not to speculate, but to apprentice their sons to the very best of our farmers, rub up their own knowledge of agriculture, hire the best fore? men they can find, and resolve to become farm? ers while abiding gentlemen. Let those who already own fertile wild land improve i% \rlet those who do not own, judiciously buy; and let each cautiously proceed, destroying no timber without careful consideration, but planting with choice forest-trees every acre that is not soon to be brought under tillage, and so feeling his way carefully, observantly, thoughtfully to the full measure of that intelligent activity which, backed by adequate capital, rarely fails in any worthy pursuit and never in farming. There is scope and opportunity here for tens of | thousands of our affluent young men, now crowding into offices "and counting-rooms which do not need them, and I commend to their re? cognition the fact that there is no other career so truly independent^ so free from peril, so equable) yet chequered with a pleasing diversi? ty of daily interests and cheerful cares, so full of noble opportunities, so shielded from sordid temptations and maddening distractions, as that of the educated, fore-handed, capable, clear-headed American farmer. ? ? He has the largest life who lives in the lives of the largest number of people. ? Those days are lost in which we did no good; those worse that lost in which we did evil. ? The man who works out his present op? portunities to the fullest extent is the most successful man. ? Cleveland has a man who has been driven insane by lightning rod agents and sewing ma? chine men. ? To seek the redress of grievance by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush. ? An editor who received a letter in which weather was written "wethur " says it was the worst spell of weather he had. ever seen. ? There are two things in this world that are not safe to trifle with?a woman's opinions and the business end of a wasp. ? A Georgia laundress of color wept be? cause some paper collars which she tried to renovate "done wash all to flinders, for true." ? An easy way to get rid of cockroaches is to spread sprigs of tansy where they are trou? blesome, and they will leave. It is also effec? tive in driving away black ants. ? "What would you do if mamma should die?" asked a lady of a little three-year old girl. "Well, mamma," was the melancholy response, "I should have to spank myself." ? A lady correspondent of the Maine Farm? er says the following is an effective remedy for croup. "Half a teaspoonful of pulverized alum in a little molasses. It is a simple reme? dy, one almost always at hand, and one dose seldom fail to give relief. If it should, repeat it after one honr." ?.An exchange gives the following as a snre way to drive away bed-bugs from old beds : Take green tomato vines, put them in a basin or tray, pound them to pieces as finely as pos? sible, then stain the bedstead which they in? habit with the juice, fill the crevices with pieces of vines, and lay leaves under the ends of the slats. If this is practiced twice a year, not a bug will remain in the bedstead. DRUGS, DRUGS, DRUGS. A CONSTANTLY renowed stock of Goods for the wholesale or retail trade. Merchants and Physicians who have so no? bly .sustained us without a murmur at our prices will still lind it to their interest to con? tinue their patronage. ANT WHO OWE US Would confer a favor by calling and looking over our old books, as we must close them. SIMPSON, HILL A CO. Juno 13, 1872 '49 CAROLINA LIFE I80MCE COMPANY, OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE. -0 ASSETS, - - - - $1,100,000. HON. JEFFERSON DAVIS, President. GEN. WADE HAMPTON, Vice President, and Superintendent of Atlantic Department. J. D. KENNEDY, State Agent. WM. S. BROWN, Agent for Anderson County. Dr. P. A. WILHITE, Medical Examiner. Among its Directors aro snmo of the first business mon of the country. Wo guarantco honesty of management?i. o., speedy settle? ment of losses. Sept 12, 1S72 10 KAUFMAN & H0LLEMAN, Builders, Lumbermen, Lager Beer Brewers, &c., WALHALLA, S. C. All orders promptly filled and satisfac? tion guaranteed. August 15, 1872 6 3m* Hair Restoratives. HALL'S Hair Restorative'; Lyon's Kathai ron; Mrs. Sarah A. Chevalier's Life of the HfjjK; Burnett's Cocoaine; Ayors' Hair Vigor j'uhalfant's Coco Cream ; Mrs. S. A. Al? len's Zylobalsamum; Magnolia Balm. For gale by BENSON A SHARPE. April 2."., 1S72 42 WE MEAN BUSINESS! WE HAVE NOW IN STORE THE MOST COMPLETE STOCK OF Dry GroocLs, Grroceries, Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, Ready Made Clothing, Carpeting and Rugs, Trunks, Carpet Bags, Satchels, Wooden Ware, Crockery Ware and China Ware, PAINTS and OILS, TO BE FOUND IN ANDERSON, WHICH we will sell Low for Cash or Country Produce, or to Prompt Paying Customers on time. Always in the Market to Buy Cotton. SHAKPE & TOWERS. Oct 3,1872 NOW IS THE TIME TO SATE YOUR MONEY. AS the Presidential Campaign is approaching, we are preparing to meet the crisis, by laying in a SELECT STOCK of Groceries, Boots and Shoes, Hardware, Woodenware, Or any othor Ware that is necessary for a man to fight his way through* We have constantly on hand a large stock of choice BAGGING- and TIES, which we seU at reduced prices for Cash or Country Produce. Call and examine our Goods, and be assured that we mean what we say. Our motto is : Quick Sales and Small Profits. Do not forget our Old Stand on DEPOT STREET in passing by with your COTTON or COUNTRY PRODUCE, for it is well known we generally pay the highest market price for both. McGEATH & BYEIJM, DEPOT STREET. September 5, 1S72__9_ SASHES, BLINDS, DOORS, WINDOW FRAMES, MOULDINGS, MANTEL PIECES, A.nd Building Material Generally. W. P. Russell &d Co., CHARLESTON, S. C, East End Hasell Street, opposite the Wando Fertilizer Works, And in the immediate vicinity of the Charleston and Pavilion Hotels. ESTABLISHED 1851. This Firm are the only Practical Mechanics, Sash, Blind and Door Makers, by Trade, carry? ing on the above business in the City of Charleston. Mr. S. H. LANGSTON, Builder, of Anderson, is our authorized agent, to whom we refer by permission. i Nov 9, 1871 19_ SIMS' HEPATIC COMPOIJloi1 ffiWED LIVER CUBE, For all Derangements of the Liver, Kidneys, Skin, Stomach and Bowels. Put up in liquid form, already prepared for immediate nso, thns saving time and trouble^ and insuring proper proportion of each valuablo ingredient. * It is mild and gentle in its action. It removes the bile from the system. It frive3 tone and strength to the whole frame. It gives the liver a healthy character and restores the sinking and drooping body to health and strength. This medicine has been tried by thousands and never found wanting. Under its influence the face will have the bloom of health, the eye its lustre, the brain its power. It will invigorate the feeble, and prove the greatest blessing *<b those who suffer. Try it for vonrselves and von will recommend it to vour friends. FOR "SALE BY DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS EVERYWHERE. KING & BOSBO&OUGH, DO WIE, MOISE & DAVIS, Waldo.Fi.a., WHOLESALE AGEXTH, ' Proprietors. CHARLESTON, S. C. August 29, 1872 _0_3 m 1 SUBSCRIBER has just returned from Balti more and New York, with a large and well selected stock of FALL and WINTER GOODS, and if you want a iililll ' In Dry Goc-ds, Dress Goods, Shoes, Hardware. Hats, Crockoryware, Clothing, MiUinery and Groceries, calf at my STORE And I will guarantee that I wiU sell you some? thing, as my Goods and Prices will suit you, and no mistake. P. K. McCULLY, Sign of tho Bargain Store, North Side Public Square. Sept 10, 1S72 11 FALL. 1872. FALL. OUR STOCK of Fall and Winter DRY GOODS & NOTIONS Will bo complete by September 1st. WITH a resident buyer in the Northern mar? kets, we are prepared, at all times, to execute your orders, upon tho most favorable terms, or to serve you in person. We respectfully invite you to call. E. W. MARSHALL & CO., 113 Meeting Street, Charleston, S. C. IS?, Mr. B. 0. Maulpix is with us, and will be glad to see his friends. August 15, 1872 6 3m NEW GARDEN NURSERIES, Near Greensboro, N. G. THESE NURSERIES were removed from Chatham County, N. C, and established at this place in 1850, but during the war, like many other such enterprises, went down; but wo can now inform our friends, and the public gene? rally, that these Nurseries are once more in a flourishing condition, far superior to what they wore before the war. Our stock for Fall and AVinter sales of 1872-3 is largo and fine. Send and get one of our New Descrip? tive Catalogues, which is free to all applying. Address, J. LINDLEY A SON, Greensboro, N. C. August 15,1872 6 3m Important to the Ladies! Ladies, you can save Money, Time and Health by buying the IMPBOVED SILENT FEED Wheeler & Wilson SEWING MACHINE. IT runs lighter and is less complicated than any lock-stitch Machine now in the mar- ? ket 100,000 more Family Machines in nse than of any other make. Every Machine guaranteed, and instructions given at the house of the pur? chaser, free of charge. Office at Waverly Hotel, Anderson C. H. J. M. GLAXCY, Agent. PURS LEY * TRUMP, General Agents, Augusta, Ga. July 4, IS72 52 4 J. A.. REE SE, MAKER and JEWELER. ^? SHOP in West End Waverly House, Northwest corner Public Square, Anderson C. H., S. C. August 15,1872 6 TOBACCO! TOBACCO! THE undersigned keeps constantly on hand a full supply of Chewing and Smoking TOBACCO of various brands, which will be sold by the package or retail. I will sell by the package at Factory prices. Dealers in To-, baceo would do well to call at the West End of the Benson House and examine my stock. All Tobacco and stamps warranted. I also keep a supply of Tobacco at James A, Drake's, 12 miles south of Anderson. The purest LIQUORS are kept at mv estab? lishment, including Brandy, Whiskev, Ac. The Waverly House Bar is* again opeufor the accommodation of the public. T. J. LEAK. Sept 2f>, 1872 12 w. w. shackelfokt). wm. aiken kelly", SHACEELFOED & KELLY, Factors and General Commission Merchants, North Atlantic Wharf, Charleston, S. C, Agents fok Mono Phillips' AMM0NIATED CARRIBEAN SEA GUANO. Sept 26,1872 12 Sm