Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

Bates of Subscription. Sfcigle copies for one year - ?2.0? " u ?* six months- - - 1.00 Ten copies for one year, $20,00, and an extra copy to person making up the club* Twenty copies for one year, 937.50, and an extra copy to person making up the club. Fifty copies for one'year, $T5.00, and an extra copy to person making up the drub. One hundred copies for one year, $100.00. and a premium, of Five Dollars to person making up the club. The clubs often and twenty will be sent to any address. Clubs of fifty and upwards sent to a single address only. Subscriptions will not be received for a less period than six months. Payment in every case tobe made in advance, and the names of subscribers will be stricken from the books when the time paid for has ex? pired. Rates of Advertising. Advertisements will be inserted at the rate of One Dollar per square for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents per square for each subsequent insertion less than three months. A square consists of the space occupied by ten lines of this type, equivalent to one inch. No adver? tisement counted less than a square. liberal contracts will be made with those wishing to advertise for three, six or twelve months. Advertising by contract must be con? fined to the immediate business of the firm or individual contracting. ' Obituary Notices exceeding five lines, Trib? utes of Respect, and all personal communica? tions or matters of individual interest, will be charged for at advertising rates. ? Announce? ments of marriages and deaths, and notices of a religious character, are respectfully solicited, and will be inserted gratis. Under no circumstances will an advertise? ment be received for insertion in our reading columns. ?{n nndeviating, rale is to require Five Dol? lars in advance for the announcement of every candidate for office. On the Culture of Cotton. Un?oybtediy the commercial prosperity, not only of this country, bat that of a large por? tion of Europe, is directly or indirectly depen? dent upon the product of the Cotton fields, and fortunately for us, i: has been demonstrated that no other people can successfully compete with; us in its {"redaction, either in quantity or quality. When the war between the North and South broke out, the effect was soon per? ceptible in England, the greatest cotton manu? facturer of the world, and in a very little while a large portion of her mills were idle, the ope? ratives thrown out of employment, aud to a great extent remained idle during the whole period of the conflict; collections, were .made in all the dependences of Great Britain throughout the world, to support the starving multitudes thus thrown out of their accustomed employ? ment. In 1S60, just before the war, the impor? tations of cotton into England amounted to 3,838,000 bales, from all sources of which 2, 482,000- bales were received from this country. When this supply was stopped by our intestine war, all England was aroused to the importance of the crisis, and numerous companies were formed, with, immense capital at command, to instigate the production on a larger scale, in. other parts or the globe, wherever it was found that the soil and climate would permit its growth. The British government united in the movement thus made, and their cousnls , and other officials, everywhere, were required to aid in the work of extending the cultivation wherever it had a foothold,and to search out localities which might he deemed saleable for the experiment of its production. An inter esting'mstDry might be written upon this sub? ject, but our object lies at present in another direction?and it will be sufficient to know, that notwithstanding all the efforts which were made although the quantity was increased, yet the quality was in no instance, we believe, found to come up to that raised in our Southern' States. That grown elsewhere was used, as ?Sefore, in connexion with what could be still obtained from this quarter, and thus a total stoppage of the manufacture of cotton cloths was prevented, bat the finer qualities of the textile could be obtained nowhere else to com? pete with the American. ' The product of last year shows, that not? withstanding the demoralization to a consider? able extent of the tabor of the South, the yield is equal probably to that of any preceding year, and as it is to be hoped that more system will be introduced hereafter into the raising of the crop, an increased yield sufficient to enable us to possess the markets of the world will be the consequence. The area of the production will be enlarged, and we find that the supposed cottou belt is now being overleaped, and it is cultivated farther North than heretofore, and with profit, by the introduction of improved varieties of seed, and of good qualities of fer? tilizers. In North Caroliua and Virginia, in localities where bat little cotton has he feto for 2 been grown, the area is being considerably in? creased, ana we fire frequently called upon from those States to give more of oar space to the consideration of its culture. ' The first consideration, after the selection of the situation for ita production, is to determine the requirement of the plant?and although in ear numbers of last volume, we give the expe? rience aud advice of such men as Mr. Dickson and Dr. Pendle ton, it is necessary that we should fit this season, when preparations will begin to be made for the planting of the crop, to offer some further suggestions upon the sub? ject The main requirements of the plant are pot? ash, soda, lime and phosphoric acid?and prob? ably the simplest manner in which these can I be supplied, will be found in the following for- I im;la, which will do for an acre: 8 loads stable or barn manure?or, 100 lbs. Peruvian, or 150 lbs. fish guano?or, 20 bushels cotton seed. 7 loads marsh mud, or woods mould, for the ?apply of humus. .200* lbs. bone dust 1 10 bushels ashes, or 50lbs. muriate of potash. - 't bushel plaster, and 2 do. salt These ingredients should be formed into a compost, layer and layer about, permitted to remain in bulk a few weeks, or uutil it is time to flush the land for planting, then to be shoveled over and thoroughly mixed, spread At a recent club meeting in Washington broadcast and ploughed in. parish, La., held in Dec.. Mr. James Morris said that ho bad thoroughly tested the .use of raw-none superphosphate, and found that the difference between the rows where no manure was applied, and those where the superphos fmate had been was in favor of the latter not ess than 300 per cent on land the poorest quality of hillsides, the soil containing about 75 per cent of sand. Another experiment was shown. A plat of old, thin branch bottom had been fertilized last year with superphosphate?200 pounds to the acre?rows unfertilized being left at intervals. It was planted in cotton last year, and gave a satisfactory yield. This year the same plat was again planted in cotton without any addi? tional application of manure of any kind. When the crop was gathered this year it was found by careful and accurate weighing that two rows occupying the same space un manured last year yielded 42 pounds of cotton, while the two rows adjoining?fertilised last year?yield? ed 92 pounds, a difference of 50 pouuds. It was found by calculation this difference amounted to 469 pounds seed cotton per acre, worth at present prices about $28. This is a remarkable strikiug evidence of the remunerative value of a good, houest superphosphate. A correspondent of the Southern Farm and Home, a practical farmer, gives his views as to the value of the cow-pea as a fertilizer for cot? ton. The analysis of the plant he shows, appa? rently upon good authority, to consist of "Car? bonate of potash. 44J parts; phosphate of lime, 25J parts; carbonate of lime, 9 parts; carbon? ate of magnesia, 6? parts; and silica, 4 parts. The seed gives: phosphate of lime, 61$ parts;' phosphate of potassa, 31J parts; sulphate of potassa, 2? parts; and silica, 1}. Now, if this analysis be correct, it is evident that phospho? ric and carbonic are the chief acids, and potash and lime the principal bases which compose the cotton plant, and that the fertilizer which contains these in the greatest .degree most be the best suited to the cotton crop. The com? mon cow-pea fills the bill exactly. It is easily raised, will grow on any soil, and costs very little. An analysis has shown that 100 parts of the ash of the cow-pea contains 34J parts of phosphoric acid; 40} parts of potash ; 6} parts of lime; 5$ parts of sulphuric acid; and 6} parts of magnesia. The pea vine gives 38 parts of lime; \1\ parts of potash; 14| parts of car? bonic acid; 4? parts of phosphoric acid; 5\ Sarts of silica; 5? parts of sulphuric acid; J parts magnesia." To renovate the worn lands and make them fertile for the production of cotton, the com? mon cow-pea may possibly be unsurpassed by any better agent, by sowing them in June and plowing them under in September. This, how ever, will take time, and what we now want is a suitable provision for the coming crop. In the Field and Factory, we have the plan of the Rev. John Lnsk. who is represented as one of the best practical planters in Hinds county. Miss.; lie almost invariably from the i seed of one bale of cotton makes another bale the ensuing season, by the following'method: "In December, January or February, with a turn-plow, he runs a centre furrow, following j the turn-plow with the bull-tongue or subsoil j plow?in this furrow he sows 80 bushels of freab cotton seed, and! in addition, all the ashes he can obtain from the public colleges 'and j schools at Clinton, or about 5 bushels of ashes [to the acre?then he laps two furrow slices with a turn-plow over the cotton seed, so as to rot and prepare them for plant food, (it would be better if the seed were crushed or chopped.) ! At the time to plant cotton he beds up his land in the usual way, but takes care to follow the! turn-plow with a bull-tongue or subsoil plow, preparing his land thoroughly and very deep, j to withstand the drouths of summer. By this sensible plan he made one bale of cotton per acre, the last very often makes a bale and a half to the acre." The tap-root of the plant is said to equal the average height of the plant, and consequently the soil should be prepared to asufficientdeptn to enable it to penetrate much deeper than is afforded by the general run of planters. At the end of the tap-root the fibrous roots strike out, feeling their way for nourishment, like the rootlets of the cereals?they also serve as braces to the plant Deep plowing and subsoiling, therefore, in. this, as in most other cases, are absolutely necessary, and thorough pulveriser J tion is little less essential, as by these means the roots penetrate to a depth which, in times of drought, will enable them to find moisture to sustain the plant and prevent it from shed j ding; -?nd, (as remarked by a correspondent of j the Field and Factory,) during a wet season, your deeply p .owed ground and mellow, well pulverized beds, will absorb the surplus water, storing it up, as it were, for future use, and the I plant is well fortified against many of the re I verses it too often has to contend against?it be i ing prepared for a wet or dry season. I The intelligent writer above alluded to con i eludes a very succinct paper upon the cultiva? tion of the plant, in all its details, with the following judicious remarks, of the correctness of which there can be no doubt: "Land that is deeply plowed, thoroughly pulverized and planted early, if well manured and properly cultivated, will, no matter what the season may be, yield a satisfactory return. One great obstacle to the cotton planter's suc? cess is, too many acres are planted, and conse? quently the necessary attention cannot be given the crop. It is fair to presume that, with one half the number of acres, well manured, deep? ly ploughed and properly cultivated, more cot? ton will be made, and with less labor." We shall, as the season approaches, from time to time present from reliable sources, such instruction as may be deemed necessary to aid the many new beginners, now embarking in the culture, in their labors. Of one thing we are certain, that wherever the cotton planter j j can obtain cotton seed, and will gather and i , crush the bones that are wasted, or obtain the bone-earth from the mill, and the ashes from t his own and the premises of those who will not use them, which can be gathered in every neighborhood, by mixing these with the barn? yard manure or that from the compost heaps as heretofore recommended, he can go ahead with his planting, in the full assurance of success, having prepared the ground properly for the crop.?American Farmer. I Keeping Old Sheep.?Sheep should never be kept until they lose their teeth ; a very little observation and more practice will enable any person to tell their age by the front teeth, and for the benefit of those not posted in this art we will give a description of the teeth at the different stages of the growth and decline, so that all may learn, as we once heard of a per? son who went to buy a flock of sheep, and pro? nounced them all too old from the fact of hav? ing'no teeth in their upper front jaw. .Perhaps he has learned before this that they never had. A full grown sheep has thirty-two teeth? eight incisors in the tower front jaw, and six molars on each side in the upper and lower ,|aw.' The lamb at birth has two incisors pass? ing through the gunis. When about a month old, it has eight comparatively short, narrow ones. At about a year old, sometimes a little more, the central or "lamb teeth" are shed and replaced by two broad teeth. The lamb teeth continue to be shed annually and replaced by broad, until the sheep has eight incisors of second growth, when it is full mouthed, which is at the age of four years. ,At six years old the incisors generally begin to diminish in breadth and lose their fan-like shape. At seven they become long and narrow, stand about perpendicular with respect to each other, and have lost their round, cutting edge, and so continue to diminish until at about the age of ten years they become loose and begin to drop out.?Southern Cultivator. The Bar-Room.?Young man, has not your eye been frequently attracted to a sign having the following ominous word on it, "BAR ?" Avoid the place; it is no misnomer. The experience of thousands has proved it to be A bar to respectability, A bar to honor, A bar to happiness, A bar to heaven. Erery day proves it to be The road to degradation, The road to vice, The road to the gambler's hell, The road to the Brutal, The road to poverty, The road to wretchedness, The road to robbery, The road to murder, The road to poison, The road to the drunkard's grave, The road to hell. ! Some, it is true, do not pass through all these stages; but intemperance persisted in always ends in the drunkard's grave, arid we have too much reason to fear, hell. The bar-room is truly The curse of the drunkard's wife, .? The curse of the drunkard's child, The curse of the drunkard's home. Those only who have known the bitterness of a drunkard's wife or child, can know tho misery and horror of a drunkard's home. Young man, before you enter the bar-room, stop! Ponder the paths of your feet ere it be forever too late 1 Man of family 1 ? flee from the bar-room as you would in honor fulfill the pledge of love made to her who is the companion of your joys and success. q ? A Chicago woman tried to commit suicide by swallowing two yards of shoe-strings, but had got so accustomed to lacing that they didn't have any effect upon her. A Romance of the Sea---The Strange Story of a Female Sailor. The new steamer Victoria, of the Anchor Line, which arrived at New York to-day from Glasgow, brought back to her native shores Maggie alias Billy Armstrong. She had served before t he mast in several British ships. Her sex having been at last discovered, she found herself at Glasgow, and in petticoats again, about the time the Victoria was to sail. As an old sailor she had gone to the shipping master of the port, and he brought her case before the managsrs of the Anchor Line, who gave her a free passage home. During the passage I have bad many conversations with our romantic fellow-traveller. I subjoin an account of her story as nearly as possible in her owii words. She is nineteen years old, of medium size, with a play of humor about her eyes that partially redeems the plainness of her determined, somewhat masculine face. So high has she held her female virtue through all her vicissitudes that when a steerage pas? senger of the Victoria insulted a woman in hefTpTeBence, two or three* days ago, she very calmly 'struck out' from the shoulder and knocked him down. "My name," she says, "is Maggie Armstrong, though I called myself Billy when I put on Santioons. I was born in the State of New ereey, America. My father is a farmer five miles from Trenton, and he has told me hun? dreds of times that I could do more work than any num. I was always of a wild, passionate nature. I used to hate men when I was at home. I thought they ought not to get more wages ;han women, ana I often wished I was a man. My mother died eight years ago, and left another little sister and me. Father kept a housekeeper until I was able to do his work, which I did till the first of last April, when he took s notion to get married. This new wife he got in'New York. She came to our house and thought to rule me and everything; but I soon tnight her her mistake. I left toe house and wont and hired out at a neighboring farm? er's. My father came after me and took me home, and I stayed eight days, leading a cat and-dcg life with my stepmother. I thcughtl could not endure that long, so I took a strange notion into my head. I was up-stairs one day along with one of my school-mates. I was engag 3d in cleaning and folding my father's clothes, and I said to her that if I was to dress myself in bis clothes he would' have a job to find roe. She laughed, and said he would. There was a silence between us for a few min utes, t nd without saying anything more about it to her, I secretly determined to try it At two o'clock that night, or the next morning I mean, I went up stairs and dressed myself in my father's clothes. I took the scissors and cut my hair as short as I could, and then went down stairs again and took twenty-five dollars out of one of the bureau-drawers, for I knew it wa.i no use going away without money. Then I went to the station and took the 4.20 train fo\ New York. I wandered about the city a good deal, stopping at a small hotel in Warren street, I think. I hadn't begun to make up my mind what to do, for I had never been o New York before, when one of those runners hailed me and wanted me to ship on a freight steamer, which he said was going to London and back to New .York in a mouth. That seemed to suit me, as I was curious to see London. He shipped me as engineer stew? ard. I never was sea sick once?in fact I Dev* er wan so well before in my life as I have been at sea, I always used to have Jersey head? aches in the summer-time at home. No more feverishness now.. All the engineers were very well pleased with my work. But they informed me that the ship was not going back to New York, but to China, when she left London. So I was discharged at my own request in London, the lead engineer presenting me with ten shillings for being a good, clean lad. With this a nd my wages, fifteen shillings, and what was left of my twenty-five dollars, I was ena? bled .0 live in London three weeks. I went all over the great city, and saw no end of things. As soon as I learned that the steamer was going to China, I made up my mind that I had got to get back to America as a sailor, if I ever got back at all. So I used, during my spare hours on the steamer, to practice going aloft , or, if they were stowing sails or doing anything of the kind, I was sure to be on hand. I used to go into the wheel-house, too, and learn to steer, and before we got to the Banks of Newfoundland, I knew all the compass. When, therefore, I shipped on board the bark Princess, bound for Middlesboro', it was not as an apprentice, but as an ordinary seaman, for tiro pounds five shillings a month. I had bought a sailor's chest ana recruited my sailor wardrobe with a set of oil skins. These I had take i from the Sailor's Home boarding-house to the forecastle of the Princess, and my life as a common tar began. There were only eight of us in (he forecastle, and as I was always first to reef the topsails and furl the small sails in a gale of wind, we got along very well. I was discharged, finally, with the rest at Middles? boro' after a three weeks' run. Then I thought I should like to see Shields, which is only six miles distant. I went there and tried to ship agaia; but here arose a great difficulty. Un? fortunately, I had lost my discharge. The captain of a bark, the Eskdalo of whitby, bound for Italy, would take me as an appren? tice, but not as an ordinary seaman?that is, not at first, -for- he did take me when he found that he could not get any apprentices. We left Shields loaded with coal for Genoa. We had bead winds and bad weather in the English Channel, but the Mediterranean was fair enough to make up for it. We were in Genoa nine weeks in all, and it. was after we had been there six weeks that I was found out not to be a man. It happened in this way: "There was a brute of a sailor in the forecas? tle, tvho was always imposing on me; when we wer; shoveling coal in the hold, he made me fill wo baskets to his one; I was telling this to the rest of the crew after we were done work ; he gave me the lie, and the result was a knock-down fight between us; he was the big? ger, and he got the better of me, and I began crying. This led to suspicions of my sex. I stoutly maintained that I was a man, but it waf no use. The affair got to the captain's earn. Now the captain's wife was on board, and to him and her I was at last forced to con? fess my whole story. I was soon habited as a woman again, and engaged as stewardess in the cabin for the homeward run. Stopping some weeks at Malaga for cargo, the bark landed finally at Aberdeen, whence I came by train to Glasgow." During the passage from Glasgow to New York the hero and heroino of the foregoing sto,;y has conducted herself in a quiet, modest way, except in the matter of knocking down the steering passenger for insulting a woman ; and as for that you never saw a quieter or mod ester knock-down in your life. Maggie starts at once for New Jersey and her father.?New York Tribune. How to Destroy Nut Grass.?I have seen various suggestions offered as to the best means of getting rid of that terrible pest to all pit-nters, nut grass; but they have all failed to suggest the true remedy. I have it in a nut? shell. The nut will not propagate if the plant be not allowed to go to seed for two years. It must be allowed to shoot and be prevented from go ng to seed for two years; you will never see I any more of it. The principle is this, the old nut exhausts vitality in that time, and no new nut is formed or matured, when not allowed to go to seed. This has been actually demonstra i ted by me for tho last fifteen years.?Rural ! Carolinian. I ? A city fop was taking an airing in the country, tried to amuse himself by quizzing an i old farmer about his hald head, who solemnly j remarked, "young man, when my head gets as i soft as yours, I can raise hair to sell." ? The reigning belle at a fashionable assem? bly in Wisconsin lately created a sensation by 1 sreezing her teeth out. All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? "This is the rock of ages," said the father, after rocking two hours and the baby still awake. ? A tourist who was asked in what part of Switzerland he felt the heat most, replied, "When I was going to Berne." ? The first exclamation of an American belle on entering the cathedral at Milan, was, "Oh, what a church to get married in." ? Among the items in the report of the overseer of the poor of a Bhode Island town is this: "Cash paid for funeral sermons, $4." ? A Western editor concludes an affecting appeal to delinqueut subscribers as follows: "May the famine-stricken ghost of an editors baby haunt his slumbers." ? They have tried it some time down in Texas, and have come to the conclusion that a cattle herder can't be a Christian, and that he stands no chance of being saved. ? "Margery, what did you do with the tal? low that Mr. Jones greased his boots with to day?" "Please, marm, I fried the griddle cakes with it." "Lucky, for I thought you had wasted It." ? A Nashville washerwoman, finding in a lot of dirty clothes a new fashioned shirt open ing at the back, sewed it up, cut open the bos? om and sewed on buttons, to the intense disgust of her customer. ? A fond husband boasted to a friend, "Tom, the old woman came near calling me honey last night." "Did she, Bill? What did she say?" "She said, 'Well, old Beeswax, come to supper.'" ? ? A Western paper, with well-developed mathematical tendencies, calculates that Cali forma has raised wheat enough to furnish the flour to put a griddle-cake two inches wide around the earth in forty minutes. ? "Sally, what have you done with the cream? These children cannot eat skim milk for breakfast." "Sure, ma'am, and it isn't my self that would be after giving the scum to yez. I tuk that off and gave it to the cats." ? Old feather beds and pillows are greatly improved by putting them on a clean grass plot during a heavy shower; let the beds become thoroughly wetted ; turn the beds on both sides, Let them lie out until thoroughly dry, and then beat them with rods; this will lighten the feathers and make them much more healthful to sleep on. It removes dust and rejuvenates the feathers. r* "Patrick, the widow Malony tells me that you stole one of her finest pigs. Is it correct?" "Yis, your honor." "What have you done with it?" "Killed it and ate it, yer honor." "Oh, Patrick, Patrick, when you are brought face to face with the widow and her pig on the I judgment day, what account will you be able to give of yourself when the widow accuses you of stealing?" "Did you say the pig would be there, yer riverence?" "Tobe sure I did 1" "Well, thin, your riverence, I'll say Mrs. Ma loney, there's yer pig I" ? A well-known miner of California recent? ly visited his mine and stepped into the bucket and was letdown. During the descent the rope broke and let the bucket loose. Its occupant seized the upper end of the rope and hung suspended. The engineer, unaware of his predicament, lowered the rope until he sup? posed his employer had reached the bottom of the shaft?it %eing 250 feet'deep?and then stopped. Meanwhile the victim clung to the rope and shouted for help, but none was near. At length, when exhausted, he indulged in a silent prayer, in the expectation of being dashed to pieces by the fall about to take place, and closing his eyes, let go and fell?about eighteen inches. When found he was in a state of unconsciousness. The Death of a Dishonest Max.?Boy6, is there one of you who would be willing to have these sharp words said of you, after you have gone from the field of life? Then be sure to form a character for probity and integrity now in youth, that no one may be able to speak so of you: It is over, lie was buried to-day. He did not live to be old, and yet his life was not a short one. He did a great deal of business, and was widely known. The flags hung at half-mast, for his name had been a good deal before the public. Yet nobody respected him. He was not honest; and that was the fatal drawback which always kept him under. He was shrewd enough, but he never had any solid, substan? tial prosperity; and the sole reason was, because he had no inborn integrity. Providence so orders things that dishonesty thwarts the most cunningly devised schemes for making money. Were it not so thieves would become rich but thieves never become rich in the true sense of the word. Their f;ains are uncertain, and their lives are thrift ess as well as unhappy. Apart from all reference to a future state of | existence, there is no better platform for this world, no better basis to do business upon, than that of the Ten Commandments. DOORS, SASH and BLINDS, MOULDINGS, BRACKETS, STAIR FIXTURES, Builders' Furnishing Hardware, Drain Pipe, Floor Tiles, Wire Guards, Terra Cotta Ware, Mar? ble and Slate Mantle Pieces. WINDOW GLASS A SPECIALITY. Circulars and Prlco List sent free on application by P. P. TO ALE, 20 Hayne and 33 Pinckney St*., Charleston, S. C. Oct 3, 1872 13 iy SIMPSON, HILL & CO., DRUGGISTS, Sign of the Golden Mortar, Anderson, S. O. IN addition to their large stock of DRUGS, MEDICINES. ?fcc, rfec, have just received a large lot of COMMERCIAL SALTPETRE, For making Fertilizers. ALSO, Tho latest and most improved patterns of j Lamps and Lamp Goods. CALL AINX> SEE. SIMPSON, HILL & CO. Dec IS, 1872 S3 TRIUMPHANT! ?o THE CAROLINA FERTILIZER WILL BE SOLD AS FOLLOWS: CASH PRICE. $48 per Ton of 2,000 lbs. TIME PRICE. $53 per Ton of 2,000 lbs. Payable November 1, 1878, FREE OP INTEREST, Freight and ?ravage to be Added. ITS SUCCESS IS UNPARALLELED, AND ITS STANDARD IS A JfO. 1. CALL ON AGENTS FOR ALMANACS AND CERTIFICATES. GEO. W. WILLIAMS & CO., Charleston, S. C. SHARPE <t TOWERS agents at Anderson, SC CHERRY <fc BLECKLEY agents at Pendle ton, S. C. BROWN <fc STRINGER agents at Belton, S. C. J. A J. L. McCULLOUGH, Honea Path.S.C. THOMAS CRYMES agent at Williamston, 8. C. Dec IP, 1872 24 4m CAROLINA NATIONAL BAI OF COLUMBIA, S. C. CAPITAL STOCK PAID IN, 9300,000. Board of Directors: L. D. Childs, Pres., Jno. T. Dabby; J. W. Parker, Yice Pres., R. M. Wallace, C. D. Melton, Solicitor, Jno. S. Wiley, R. O'Neale, jr., E. Hope. W. B. Gulick, Cashier. C. J. Iredell, Ass't Cashier. IN addition to the ordinary and nsnal busi? ness of Banking, the Carolina National Bank of Columbia, S. C, issues Interest-bear? ing Certificates for any amount, payable on demand, and bearing SEVEN per cent, inter? est from dato, interest collectable every six months, if the Certificate has not been previ? ously presented. Deposits in gold received on same terms, and interest paid in kind. Depos tors have all the advantages of A. SAYINGS BANK, And the safety of their deposits is guaranteed by a paid-up capital of Three Hundred Thou? sand Dollars. Persons having funds which they' wish to invest temporarily, will find this a safe means of investment, returnable upon demand, and always ready for use should a more profitable investment offer. Remittances may be made by Express, and Certificates will be returned by mail without delay. Columbia, S. C, Nov. 28, 1872. 21?3m "HOME SHUTTLE" SEWING MACHINES. ONLY $25.00. THIS is a Shuttle Machine, has the Un? der Feed, and makes the "Lock Stitch," alike on both sides. It is a Standard, First Class Machine, and thconly low-priced "LockStitch" Machine in the United States, This Machine received the Diploma at the "Fair of the two Carolinas," in the city of Charlotte, N. C, in 1871 and 1872. The adove Machine is Warranted for Five Years. A MACHINE FOR NOTHING. Any person making up a club for 5 machines will 6e presented the sixth one as a commission. AGENTS WANTED?Suporior inducements given. Liberal deductions mado to Ministers of the Gospel. Send stamp for circulars and samples ot sowing. Address, Rev. C. H. BERNHEIM, General Agent, Concord, N. C. Dec 5, 1872 22 ly Treasury Department, Office of Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, December 20, 1872. WHEREAS, by satisfactory evidence pre? sented to the undersigned, it has been made to appear that "THE NATIONAL BANK OF ANDERSON," In the Town of Anderson, in the County ofj Anderson, and State of South Carolina, has been duly organized under and according to tho requirements of the Act of Congress, enti? tled "An Act to provide a National Currency, secured by a pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemp? tion thereof," approved June 3rd, 1864, and has complied with all the provisions of said Act required to be complied wjth bofore commen? cing the business of Banking under said Act. Now, therefore, I, John Jay Knox, Comp? troller of the Curroncy, do hereby certify that "The National Bank of Anderson," in the Town of Anderson, in the County of Anderson, and State of South Carolina, is authorized to commence the business of Banking under the Act aforesaid. In testimony whereof, witness my hand and seal of office, this 20th day of December, 1872. (s-*?0 (Signed) \ L. S. } JOHN JAY KNOX, I >?,?' j Comptroller of the Currency. Jun 2, 1873 26 2m Fresh Arrivals. JUST received 600 yards Calico, Ladies' Dress Goods and Flannels. For sale low by SHARPE <fc TOWERS. Flour, Hour! JUST received, another car load of that SU? PERIOR FLOUR, Kennesaw, Marietta and Extra. SHARPE <fe TOWERS. Daily Arrivals. WE are receiving and have in Store a largo assortment of Mens'. Boys' and Womcns' Saddles, Bed Ticking/, Alabama Plaids and Blankets, A large lot of Boots and Shoes. In fact, we keep up our stock of Goods, with fresh arrivals every lew da vs. SHARPE & TOWERS. Just Received I BUCKWHEAT FLOUR, Cheese, Demerara and Poto Rico Molasses, Sugar and Coffee, for sale low, by SHARPE ?fe TOWERS. Clothing1. ALARGE lot of Clothing?Cassimeres and Jeans. We offer great inducements in the way of prices in these Goods. Call and see. SHARPE & TOWERS, No. 4 Granite Row, Anderson, 8. C Dec 5,1575 22 PACIFIC GUAM) COMPANY'S . (CAPITAL, 31,000,??.) - SOLUBLE ' PACIFIC GUANO. THIS GUANO is now so well known in all tho Southern States for its remarkable effects as an agency ibr increasing the products of labor, as not to require special recommenda? tion from us. Its use for seven years past lias established its character for reliable excellence. The large fixed capital invested by the Compa? ny in this trade, affords the surest guarantee of tho continued excellence of its Guano. The supplies pnt into market this season are, as heretofore, prepared under tbe personal su Esrintendence of Dr. St. Julian Ravenel, Chem t of the Company, at Charleston, 8. C, hence planters may rest assured that its quality and composition is precisely the same as that here? tofore sold. JT. N. KOBSON, Selling Agent, Charleston, S. C. JNO. S. REESE <fc CO., General Agents, Baltimore. TERMS?$4S cash; $53 time, without inter? est. To accommodate planters they can order now and have until first of April to decide as to whether they will take at time or cash price. When delivered from factory by the car load, no drayage will be charged. SHARPE & TOWERS, : Agents, Anderson, S. Q. Nov 28,1872 21 Sm CAROLINA LIFE INSURANCE 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 Countv. _ Dr. P. A. WILHITE, Medical Examiner. Among its Directors are some of tbe first business men of the country. We cuarant** honesty of management?L e., speedy settle? ment of losses. Sept 12, 1872 10 , GEO. S. HACKER Door, Sash and Blind Factory, Chariest on, S. C. THIS is as LARGE and COMPLETE a Factory as there is in tho South. All work manufactured at tho Factory in this city. The only House owned and managed by a Caroli? nian in this oity. Send for price list. Address GEO. S. HACKER, I Post Office Box 170, Charleston, S. C. Facto ay and Warerooms on King street, op? posite Cannon street, on the line of City Rail? way. Nov 7, 1872_18_ly m. ooldsmith. 9. KtXD GOLDSMITH & KIND, FOUNDERS & MACHINISTS, (PI! UNIX 1EON WORKS,) COLUMBIA., S. C, MANUFACTURERS of Steam Engines, of all sizes; Horse Powers, Circular and Muley Saw Mills, Flour Mills, Grist and Sugar Cane Mills, Ornamental House and Store Fronts, Cast Iron Railings of every sort, ineluding graveyards, residences, &o. Agricultural Implements, Brass and Iron Castings of all kinos made to order on short notice, and on the most reasonable terms. Also, manufacturers of Cotton Presses, Sac. May 18, 1871 46 ly Notice to Contractors. CONTRACTS for tho rebuilding of tb*> Slab town Bridge across Three and Twenty Creek, and Bailey's Bridge across Rocky Riv? er, will be let to tho lowest bidder, at the re? spective Bridges, as follows: The Slabtown Bridge on Friday, tho 28th of February next, and the Bailey Bridge on Sat? urday, the 1st of March next. Plans and specifications will be exhibited on the day of the letting of the contracts, and in the meantime any information concerning the same may be obtained by applying to oithor of the Commissioners. Contractors will be re? quired to give bond and approved sureties for tne faithful performance of their contracts. Bv order of the Board. ' W. W. HUMPHREYS, Clerk County Commissioners. Jan 30, 1873 30 ti