Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A^4ressDr1>rw George W.1 Bafcby be ^JttorWtt&iNi Carolina 'Press Jww* Je *)*ttt ?*x .iaaa Nx?j- rH .-nodJo the Press Association of South OKftl* ae td^c?c y~?ur''?wn-8tbut . to the disturbed 6twwB<wtof?ried fcnbr?keh, ?s; from '65 to '73, you would have^beSh like aWe'^-shell ? a"ud thTnegro, dis , .ndafifitlely:HTfeMls i _ ot^out'it is, the' *ru?&,cand by ' o^iibf-'^?^'I-?m^-sure^tW?B^! ^y>!irid Wjor/:Tote 6T ?-?^Kiejf i&e^fr** leneraTIy^veift! ions like this. a,nd if you d*d,.cdu1 ^ euV from1 nie, who, know ^ )s. j^d^^^au^^P^Qr ?adviser. _. _-J^e.3therefore,rI br^y>/o^tte^, forbearance which is bonrof tfiat^gTr"-' bred ? couHesy5 Tor which South Garoii niaWhave ever been' distinguished. A pretjy?*?'^^ irififceivere rfo'prliaWl^ne text'cnbse'nSI tbm^'^tmx^Jo^^tW' Pane me with.a:^B^nlbnnT.pTaperTna?be b and the average rural paper of-my 5 *W.instroc<rf?e* are odious, and I will not.ma ? Ilm ?>! i?fc^atfir iow,nc stUhjnty tif_ weulff?lTberi us, like Ecgl: TRlagd. JtteF antr/ir' rieecP other papers for spund an nc8> Jorfidf all . SBpK^^ow.l?.tEaV liolf^cal ^cience, rind t with your ideas of tbe subject ef"fo$rM am ?acccstomed to '-handle that class of iSSggr. and', like a, good business man .1 stick to my last.',\Ne "si??r, you know^ Lnd it may turn out that the Soutnefn' " ?T^aiB I will'not say) a paternal xela-.li i to, buthas a connection .with South-1 i journalism' much less remote than.we Id have' thevpablic" to believe.'" tVe shall see... But first.a digression. .'' I ' "When a boy-;I was sent,'to. school 'in Princeton, N. J. . : ..The propriety, .of send? ing a lad 400 miles away 'frqmhome'may' w$tth,e questioned. Certainly.it, may' be doubted' whenjUBg|dra?te^^nil.6d for, his- education is needed in the State of I^Huivity. Before the war, there'might haVe "been "?n;excuse for ind?lging.educa-, ^m^^ut wjbat possible excuse is Jjmr^Bjolg^iT 18 average Southern: yfsr ?Hin? ^?i^Mft schooi'eq?al to Nassau "Half. ByNqrlh;^ exnvconfession we .have a.schocT'bettef than that, arid equal to 'any on this con 'JLhout my .sehpol da^^im^meetoaj rerjaemher many things, 'but this thing especially?that.the SoutHem'boys- there taught mej,a lad'of iehi to lobk*down up? on the boys of the"North. "Was that wis dom cr fully? .And if .folly, - was/it <on fined to boys aiorief. Are all .'such' boys . Last fall I revisiteaNew Jersey." It is, | a idveTy land. Whatland is hoi in; " tober ? 'This land,"; said I to my "is'ndt jnsere^r. tame^- it is civilized, it is erilightenecl in its thorough culture:'-'' But I qare not to.livo in it ^o. there are people who would leaye Paradise; jo go'to- i Orange Court House,! and* I am one of them. Dwell in a coun try here - where there are no sassafras bushes, no sumac, nor any'. briar ? patches ?.' Never.!;, Sir John Malcolm telVof' the", aa^tonishment a^^gust qf";anf pldr^ere hearing, thjote" ^fiM^?^^e^ia ^Dg I^G^bg^Jbjm l^otf^s^'No more. ] live unae could I er a sky without- a buz ^?V } ^b-WKJ WWl** and wbt^ld till could. Eippiiis^rteautifttl;' w^Wrasbanded land, and lh<&^%wjKp?ell in it are a great people," not yet m. their prime,, mewing still a mighty youth?who that visited the ?'&D^itjon.''cau'.'douD^ it t arid with an inconceivable destiny before thera, ' We.rii&o-of theSouth are greaV^. greater in defeat, in tbe grandeur of self restraint, $Lslyon South Carolinians have just proved to the confounding- of your enejni?,)^jse^re^g^tst ia-defeafe tbu in%rn. 79m ?f&?oj thfaclwo neoiJ cometogether wiffi^t gush Jianlaronade or mental ves^j^Sf^^ friends, be one botl lOBL. prosperier without it Why cannot it be ? I do not knowfr? ^Hxy is it that no house is big enough; to hold one family after the sons and? daughters are grown ? Why must a magnet have two poles, and what is the meaning of this "inevitable battery, with one wire can"'do n?manner of work, and soniewhy there is an imper? ative necessity for two opposing electrici? ties.- ?Tust Heaven ! can it be that the world's .. . I be done without bate as as well as lb vestas much of One precisely as the . other? ?' Bab ! These analogies.are misleading?it's all stuff?the riwrs crazy.- ^ay you so? Then-:a?^?prepared to come flat' and plum to something' practical v:z: the notice, is the worst^j^^^;h^p*m-knave than f?ril, a hound whose hide I intend inpinmss up to.stink"4n^bynostrwft*P both sections. It is he, who^havinggdife North -and acquired morie?hy :hbok or ^f^P^^^l^-wSM*afcthe fame of the South,, disowns:her shame,; e^esVher sufiering!, and overwhelms' u*'] with-' hia advice. His advice;' qtfothfr! Why doesn't he come'dewrr and put? his shoulder to the wheel ? Advice 1 Upon my word, gentlemen, ^ratuituous advice, froin a fool of this sort is the acme of alt m??n^6ss-, It is the very inversion of generosity,: . which. naught impoverishes the"' giver, but ?' makes us poor indeed; i Will a beggar give me'a handful of bis"! rag? ? -'The figure is coarse, horribly coarse, but not so.'coarse as the fact It was a shoal of thisi kind of cattle (is tbattrish enough for you ?) of these ad vice-givers (Northern born though) who : 8wooped?dqwn .upon us aftex^he war to teach us h6w to grow cotton and tobacco with .m?cbiuery and 'free labbr;. They wgtiH .fcear: ^?tnip^ for they knew all '?Q^S^L'-'.Tke last nincompoop of them failed fgnominiously, and;in; iny^ State not a-few'of .them discovered' "that in the simple matter.of cheating any Virginia clbu-hpppenr- was inoie than, a match/or the;shrewdest^Yankee. ' Be^ihade*; Min fffi'nijwjpri(BBa -fbjr Jjia ;wpra?ou^ farm, one-third "cash, .and iri .si year or so took b?ck the farm Tor the deferred payments; The ?niore.fool. the.; Yirgini?n .for" Jihis goose-ripping policy, but h?he the less a fool'tie; Yankee. 1 Prior to'^h'e wartheSpufcherUfool made! bis njanSw? WsL? measure .of political e.vents;'anidi^ehtam lien' prpenae^?^ believed jn Bell and;Ever: ett (I.voted for them?none of my people. sn'aXf." be bigger fools; than myself,) in Fillmore, John Cochrane, Butler, Sickles. Bah 1 A s if th e designs of an army could b? discovered by the attitude of the chap? lains/the teamsters, sutlers and bummers in the rear, 'instead of by watching the movement^; of the. vanguard. Is the Southern; fool ..doing any; better 'now ? Does experience teach anything ? Very little to individuals; to nations nothing. " " When .thelw?r broke out the Southern fool began by underrating the strength of^is^enemy, by lookiog-down Upon the Yarikep-'ias the, Southern boys had done at Princeton^ Coming to Richmond after the\b?ttle..of]!uran?s3^, with the body, of a-.dead' comrade, I was told: that a great Southern Statesman, was in town. . I hastened to him at once, for I wanted to se?Aead. ."Mt.^^.? saidL/'tbe papers fus that Lincoln has called for 200, ..nien.^ ' He . laughed.'; a low Is ugh, leaned' back a 'little, and'said, cheeiily: "Oh,', yes;, the ^Chinese raised a million, and )usand ailie3 marched.straight to ? *"*<S? comforted. ^yCh'ih?3e< ideal prevailed a^'MomV, gomigry, wiere,.I am told, the", first order forearms; was 'forinine thousand,..possibly' ten thousand stand. Passing ever, the' - .^lUe^ot^t^irigpro^.wtr^ j at the head',qf> grand armies and. ^rp^/.j^ssiirg^bvgr Tree's extreme. Ui?3>ih not' nol'dihg !hia lieutenants' > t|^tefiieatac^ani?bUiiy,' I come! to\ the' capital mistake of' the war.' It ^ ".n^turajjjthpi.?puQiern? /dpi should n$ke It. . A handsomegentlem?u?I can see him. now; we . all remember .hiin;-| above the medium height; a suit of black broadcloth, black satin vest, felt hat; gold fob chain, gold-headed cane and high heel, JjCT-tPp boots'?;a- gentleman' who did nothing with his hands and a good deal' wrth'liis tongue,' {hereby - making' himself very agreeable to- himself. But 'tS^"'*rj^-'onp''re^fe'e'n?ng- quality about tfi^Hb^?be'wouldn't take" the lie, and he; would fightr^w?qld snuff'but your cephalicmcz at* ten paces, or fight you with "anything from a toothpick to a co lumbiad. A fight to him was a five initiates'; affair, vand if enough life was left in' -oimselKbr' his enemyLt? shake H?jsBMel waSjirea'dy to'makeTfriehds, and' there?'an ehd'on't. What; more natural than that he should believe that war meant.fighting. \ errororHEe whole, struggle. War?nine of it, at least, as Alexander H. Stephens said at .the time?is business, tfie^iaraest, possible matter of fact bus-? I SeS7 jhat such business as 5s done every; j day here on your .wharves and streets,1 ohly^vith more energy. Did any of: you elfter the11 Yankee lines atthe close of; the' war ? I did, and what did I see? ;1 saw in succession':a'^eam!';ofinpujje-cplored mul^- ? te?m of cream-colored mules, andTs*1&hm of sriW-wnrte'muTes,lBix to teamj ^and.a^l .sealjiat, .(specimens of J tfi^rrain,)the wagons.bran neri, and the wagon "cloths' arural1 cleaner 'than the shirt I was then wearing. A little furth? er''on I saw 'a corps of 20,000 negroes, whose Pamp was like a May ground when Merrier England was i? its grime. Why, gentlemen, war to this people was pastime; it' was iesthetic? and poetry; and I can readily believe, 'what'has often been as? serted, that the Yankee contractors would gladly have paid' the es pens es of both sides in order to prolong the war indefi? nitely^*. Ah! but they- had the money. Yes, the paper; whereas we had the great staples which were absolute values, only we did not have the business sense to use themv- fit 7-/7 ;;? iu! KS -.' - What i3 the relevancy of all this? What is the use of raking up the ashes of the dead past ? The war is all over? long, long ago. Say you so, and think you so? That is what ails you now. The Wars of powder and shot are to the warfare: of life what' the few hours of | :fighting are to the long months of prepa? ration which make or,mar a campaign; and in.this life-warfare, as in the noisier and briefer wars, you are to be saved by your strong, hard business common sense, and that alone. The end of the struggle at Appoinattox was but the beginning of j another arid much'more desperate strug? gle?the object of which is the conquest of your most cherished ideas in politics, religion and social order?the arrange? ment of the very molecules of your brain ?the facing about of your inmost^??ul-1--. ;np' less. This is the new "irrepressible conflict,* which, like the old, will bring, us all to grief, years hence. A twine of two-threads, scarlet andsable,State rights and^slkvery; was' involved in the late '"rebellion/' as t our: 'considerate Yankee friends love to miscall it.". One1 )was sev? ered completely, and, State rights man asXkm, I would to God s?m?times that jtnevpther hadV been' definitely cleft in twain, for then would we have been saved exceeding trouble in time to come. ' The next form of Southern fool which X shall' consider is! the1 agricultural fool; what I should call in Virginia the tobac? co worm, but in this'State the Cotton tot. Gentlemen, there are Hottentots and | ithprp 'ior? Cfottontots> The oxides of ' years lie upon my geographic memory, and I am a little; confused as to Hotten? tots and Patagonians. I only know that they are extreme Southern people, and that neither are famous as yet for intelli? gence." The Cottontot belongs to the same category. A Cottontot I take to be a person who, growing nothing butcot ton'j'iias'to buy every earthly thiug that be uses or consumed; consequently rarely or ever saves anything, and finds himself at; the end of the year the property of his commission merchant;?himself the property of the Northern man, for you'll look in vain to find a business which does not have a Southern noodle at one end <pl?ying drudge for a smart Yankee at the ietherV The Cottontot, I say, finds him? self the property of his commission mer phant, who don't want; him?won't have jbiniuattariy'price/ afldyet can't get rid of him without bankrupting himself. A pretty1 ^exemplification' of the vicious business circle all around, isn't it? : My .friends, during the'twelve years that "iave elapsed since the war, at least thirty-six^million bales (three millions a year},pf cotton have .been grown at the. South'.,' At"$50 a bale, a low estimate, th.is tamounts to sixteen hundred millions of dollars. What has become of this enormous amount of money ? _ What benefit have we derived from it, and where' has it all gone ? Thanks to the Cottpntpt, it has gone precisely where it camo from, and ^beyona a mere support, weliave derived no benefit from it. Is thi8togoon forever? Yes, as long as the Cottontot policy ?3 in the ascendant. Because cotton -is, o&r money crop arid because we baVe' visually driven East. India cotton out of the market?M, Kivett-Camac, late cotton Commissioner/, having been forced "or lack of cotton business to go into the holy opium traue ?the Cottontot is again exclaiming, "Cotton is King;'' ;H?S he heard of the new Egyptian cotton ;^lant, the "Bainia?" JNot' Jhe. arid' if he, jieard he would not heed.' .Weil, Cotton ta King, in a sense. So is tobacco, so Is ta?^ provided you have, enough of either, and it will fetch a good price. If tar was two dollars a gallon, and I held a millio:-: barrels, tar would be king, and I wouLi be a prince. But if. tar ruled at that pace, there would be a corner in tar in K'sw York, .and you arid I arid other Co'!!-ontots would not" own enough to grease; a cart wheel. The Cottontot is a ;ol in various other ways?in the mode, far example, of buy? ing bis goods. There can be no plainer sition than this?that when' position a man has cheated or deceived you repea? tedly, common sens .-: requires that you. shall drop him in ski atly and deal with him no more forever. Duty 'to?'yourself, and your family demands that you should never forget and. never forgive in this case. Aud what' is true in business is ? equally true in politics, is it not? Your political life depends on yonr answer to this question. But what does your Cot? ton tot do ? Coming to town and finding some adventurer wii'h a lot of auction, goods or a compromise stock, he quits the old established ho a i es, weir known to him, and spends the ery money duo to these houses in buying trash and shoddy from' this adventurer, Finding himself cheated again, he simpy laughs, and says, "I. tell you these ch-piare smart, they iare keener?, they are,'' out if the old es? tablished house so f.Mch- A3 disappoint him he damns it as infernal,, unprin c'ipled .Yankee concer?5.,,>-:..' ' ' Here, then, is.the sc arce of nearly alt our woes?thisj Cottc tot devotion to.a I single crop. and the 3 :companying over smart nw-s. The cure is plain enough; and. it has been adinir My formu 1 ated by one of your city paper, in the aphorism, "Breed and 7neat first.,- sotton last.".. The. mission of Southern journalism is to put this 'motto at. the he-.d of every paper. Ififom Norfolk to Galveston and to keep it. there.. I would print it ia indelible "ink on the foreheads, tat'00 it in the arms, and brand it in the palms of the Cotton? tots. But the press ha:- not been idle in this good cause, for already we see the | effect of its. labors, li'r.- John Ott, one of the ablest, and certainly one of the most useful, men in Virginia, furnishes us with this most cheering fact, viz: "In 1876, the West packea\104?J5,867 pounds less pork than' it did in 1875. This is the, reason assigned by Western journals: The. provision, trade,- owing to falling Rrices during most of ;he year, proved as profitable than U?sal; "and,, on ac? count of the political complications in the Southern States; the demand for dis? tribution has been for several months in? terfered with/ " Oho 1 Mr". West, your excuse me thinks is soi-ewhat thin; we are raising onr own park; that is the whole secret. But'will the cure just in? dicated suffice? I doubt. It is a fact .which the press will-do well never to for? get that the increase in our provision, crop is due much more to the low price of cotton thau to the wisdom of the Cot? tontot, and if cotton again touch 20 cents, he. will drop corn j instanter.; So: would it be in Virginia i f the low grades of tobacco should accidentally double in value. There is, as I w oll know person? ally, no cure'for foHy;. Bray a'Cottontot" orahumorist in a mor!.ar, he will;be a Cottontot or a humorist .still. : Gentlemen, :we want tip be friends with theNorth7 we w?nttowin back/ I will not say their love?grown men care little for each other's love?but we do jiraht' W win back their respect;' and there, is but, one way under heaven to doit.: "Rey venge I Timotheus cries," and I am for vengeance, immediate a^d dire. I would not rob them of their money as they robbed us of our slaves; I would'not have them suffer and be strong as we have suffered and are strongs and intend to be stronger, but I would inflict upon them that suffering which brings not strength but weakness, namely the suffer? ing or impotent envy. I would snatch the last man of them bald-headed from taw, and go into the wig business to-morrow morning. I would make every one of them gnash out every tooth in his upper and lower max illaries, so that I might' forthwith be canonized by dentists the North over as St. Gumbo in 'Fra False-set-o. This slang is detestable, bu t do you . know I like it. Slang does so pierce and grieve the small souls of purists?those petite maitres of literature, with wh?m Shake? speare and myself; who closely resemble, each other, never had ar'd never can have any patience. My friends, we are to win back the re? spect of the North just as the respect of every other people is won, and that is by regaining our lost wealth. Less cotton and more meat first; and, second, manu? facturing* our own cotton. This is the'l solution of the whole difficulty. The first j two pages of Adam Smith tell what ad? vantage there is in manufacturing raw material, and, ifyou consult Col. Chilton, at Columbus, Ga;, 01' Col. Childs; at Columbia, S. C, he wiiil give you the ex-' act percentage in our :;avor over the New ? England mannfacturei's. Agairist their] seven months of consumption and five months of production, we have eleven months of work and only one. if that;-,lof enforced idleness ;? but if, on that account, we underrate the power of accumulated capital, the thrift, skill, energy and daring of New England, we will be but repeating the folly of a certain hoy at school in Princeton. Nullum nurnen abest \ si sit prudentia. We cannot possibly be too wary in this life-aud-death industrial struggle with a people whose capitalists.) are at this moment trapping out cotidii: and iron mill sites in the South as min? utely as the Prussians mapped out France previous to the -late war. But supposing we get rich, enormous'ir rich, as we ought to do, and in time most certainly will, what then? Why every man of us will pull up stakes as soon as the summer be ?'ns and spend every Burpluscent in New brk, Saratoga, Long Branch and New Eort. And who shall blame us, seeing ow frightfully dull our own watering places are? Nevertheless, nothing is more certain than that Georgia and South Carolina are destined to be enormously rich. It is written in the book of fate, that this noble coramoriwealth.shall have recompenses for her unparalleled afflic? tions.-. 1 And when you get rich I-want.ydu to come -to Virginia. Dfrjyou ever think of the good old State? I hope ho. Your brothers sleep Under h?r7 sodj and from that sod many, of you febSt are now living have looked up%ight'after night to the' urfanSWering stars; woadering Where you would be on the Triorrm ? Yes;' you re? member Virginia1?^ can- iievef Target her. Her men are K?ch t?o pr?ne to claim all glory for "jit ;nselves and iheir State, but her women, have'you no tender recollections :of them iri'the hospital arid the home? ?Well", thon, get -rich quick, and come back to old Virgiriia's shore. We have got.'-there, the.prettiest and sweetest girls, in' the habitable world. This t,say in a tone'so low that only the llpng male ears of this audience can hear ime.;l'fflif?&fr.. We'have got also a full'lihe of the most bewitching widows 'that ever lightened mourning and ."took. ;ri?tjce." Also, we have1 'some females , that are not so-pretty.' tVe'do nothing jb>;halyes.in Virginia,'.tyd1 whei?we,'?et lapput producing /an'ugly, woman W. put upon^ the market an acute,.penetrating, !?hffusiye'>-pervasiveJ rictf d,ajia, altogether aTmmpni?cal variety ..of, hideousiiess that nothing; earthly can , touch. ? But for pretty girls and widows: 'you' can't ? go amiss. They are so thick'in Bichmond jthat if i??'venture on the street with ah; umbrella under your arm, and' 'ha.nl around suddenly,' you;will knock" ;doWn two or three of .them. , Theyhave been ;wilting '.with .the iweetest- patience for ?the kings and'princes of-Erirope.to. come oyer aha marry them, but'the "?bis. Jpver there have gone; to fighting and r am afraid their patience and their few good 'clothesWill', wear, out together. And when I" tHink of their bnght 'eyes dip: : m i ng, and the roses' in.their cheeks fading in old-maidenhood, . it almost .'kills me. I can't marry them alir^woutd to good? ness" that I;could~I naye.dbne.alfthat the law allbw&meto do in this1' m'atterj and now I .want you to quit plajtfbg Cpt toritofc, gefc ; rich quick, and cPnVe to/Old Virginia and help me out in the matri? monial line. "We five a fine Set of young men/growing up land already -grown. !plenty,old enough '.to,..marry?blooded iiellows^that. have gone tp; work,; and; 'like racehbrses' at the' plough,' interid $j break the traoesj "burst their laedrte' or make: a deep furrow ? in 'this hard ;old; workday world. ''''They wouldrnbt'object' to marrying any man's rich sisterj.hut. of iall men's they Would prefer a South' Car solinian's. Come, then: to the: Old"Do-' mimonf-a fair exchange is flo ,?g 'a^by'theg^si the next generation Ht' two will see a Trace'of men compared'with'.; whom Washington and Calhouri, Jeffer-U son and Pinekney were but teetotums and mnmblepegs.'"."'/*.'' I :iThere' is/one other weakling;"to1 tth?hv If would like% pay my respects; I hiean the Southern politician, who . fancies he !crin become, a statesman by rejecting * the iaecruisitions. of modern" ?r}ience, the. ajjy-; 'plication pa;rticularly pi biology to'social' problems, and, cohfining . himself to the i old ruts', "I hop^s ' to I 'xnake'; .a little ill idigested history and the speeches of a' few eminent men of by-gone age serve in 'the stead of those general laws, which embracing matter and mind alike, enable [us " to forecast the; future, and to foresee !rmf whatwe think we oughVto be, but what in the nature of things must inevi? tably he. Time will not permit me ,to;do. ;more "than allude to" this .'.subject; but, 'coming down' to imi^ediate matters, I should ? say. that the'supreme'' Southern political tool is he who, in this critical moment for his section, places confidence in any promidek WatevW bade by his jparty foes. ! "In conclusion, let me thahtyou forin ;viting? jme ?toJ address you. No'compli ment is' more grateful Jfcoi a Virginian than one that comes from the people of Carolina, for here' he finds a passionate, devotion to th'e'State .' whibh; rivrils' if it1 does not su^ass^iiBWnStete pride and' love. Carolinians I do you love your mother.?. Does a mother love her afflict? ed and stricken son ? ? Does a son love tb o j invalid moth er for whom i he. sacri? fices his time, his pleasures and his hard won earnings? Love her! He would die for her. Yea more, he would Live for her, would "lend her half his powers to eke her living out." And when ime painful! night watches' arc all; over and the patient sufferer is had in that iiarrow bed where there is no more suffering, the son "com es back from the * grave, bearing with him an amulet that no man may ever see but which' will - keep hi m un? harmed through life. 'Nay, henceforth a newer and: more elevated life, hallowed by self-sacrifice, is his. So with you, Carolinians. You-bave suffered as no cultured people in modern times have suffered, and, so sure as Heaven, the steadfast love you have shown to your murdered mother will bring its exceeding great reward; 'You have trodden the wine press alone. Here fell' the utmost fury of your enemies, and here came the least sympathy of your friends, for was it not said (the idiots have not yet stopped saying it) that you "brought on the waT?" The wine press! Your State was the wine press and your souls the grapes on which'for twelve years a mob of jeering de vife, drunken with I excess of malice and of hate, . danced to the derisive laughter of half the nation. Twelve years, four thousand days and nights of torture, of shame, of humiliation' for yourselves,'your Wives, your daughters, yonr tender "children" Pour thousand days and nights, and to the proud and ; sensitive nature smarting under indignity, every moment is an age. Burke and Pitt I lifted their voices in behalf of the dp pressed Colonies; the "loud cry of | trampled Hindostan" awakened the elo-1 Suence of Sheridan, but the Poland of imerica? >J - "Found not a gene rous friend, a pitying foo, Stxength ioher. cljaw, Jnor :mercy in her ?woe 7" j -. -, "Nalcedana desolate she stands/' * ??' ?* Her name a by-wordlh all lands." K .gi/tU rwfc No man of commanding genius in el ther branch of the National 'Legislatures stepped forth to plead her cause in words that might have shaken both Continents and be quoted for all time. Not one of the Northern poets?those gentle beings whose hearts bleed at every wrong from Tart?ry to Timbuctoo?-could peri a line for Carolina. Gordon, of Georgia, as yonr friend, good and true, and at ?,ue' last your advocate and champion Was that press which-then aforetime loved to call satanic?the New York Herald?-and the poets" who sang your wrongs were of your own rearing. . Yes, Carolinians^ you have been tried as by fire, and by that fire the dross has been purged away, leaving metal of proof only. I look to see here a race of men nobler than any that have gone* before. Already 'from the flames emerges a figure, calm; contained, majestic as an antique bronze?a form to which" all eyes were lately turned in admiration, and in grat? itude that outweighed admiration, for he had saved- his country from civil'war? Anaxandron Agememnon, Wade Hamp? ton, King of Men I Happy the land that claims him as her Chief Magistrate. Happy the Nation if he Were but its ruler. Having suffered all things, he' would see that no section, no State suffer? ed needlessly. Having braved all things, he fears nothing; ana having endured all things, he would brook with equal pa tierice. the m?lice of his, foes and the deadlier flattery of his- friends; Itis tdd much'to-hPpe that he. will take the place in Washington for which !hio is so well fitted? It'may never be; but the day that sees him or some such Southern man installed in power*Will be the dawn of peace, the .end1'of the war. , "! - - ?Brittetay- Ittm told that near athah?' there;is somewhat .to eat and drink? with-, a!." Obniie/ let u^ sacrifice the' bird, dear t?,-Mi^erlrri/le1i''?^;boil'-the'owl in Faler-. hip pr the'Cffic?ban vintagej1 and, Jhav-' in? dined .on Foojls, we will sup 'on con? centrated wisdom. ? Men usually follow their wishes till suffering compels them to follow their judgment OSCE MORE FOR THE LOST CAUSE. Mr. Jefierson Davis Makes a Speech to a Mobile Association. j -The following remarks were made by the Hon. Jefferson Davis to the Lee As? sociation of Mobile; on the occasion of the"recent excursion to this city: '' ! MB. chairman :and MjE^bees" op i the Lee Association?Ladies and ;Gentlemen : I amjdeeply.sensib,le. of the'honor yo? ;Kave'oonferTft^rup6n ine by this visit, and gratefully recognize the kindness which has prompted the ; complimentary expressions of your orator. Not the less so because I feel that they very far exceed any merits which the un? prejudiced would ascribe to me. Believe me, I am the more proud of I this, as it is the manifestation of a more rare virtue in the people I have served to the best of my ability. Never before in; the history of man has there been, so far as I.know, an instance in which a fallen chief was followed with more affectionate devotion than his associates had felt to .; ward him in the days of his power. 11 For a people capable of such magnanimity, j bus/would indeed be a tame spirit who did not feel it to be a glory to have suf? fered. . ! We have passed through a terrible ordeal of deprivation, of wrong and in? justice :i and you have borne it. with a fortitude only equaled by the gallantry :displayed in your .desperate effort to j maintain a cause which has been crushed, but not destroyed, for it was the cause of [truth, which is eternal; and with all {these sad memories clustering around you, you come, not to upbraid me as re-, sponsible for your disasters,'but to.shield me in the depths of my adversity with !the. iwnrm i 'covering: of your hearts.' best :affections. Cold indeed would be the nature which did not find in this a solace for. all its disappointments, and a. conso? lation for. its ruined hopes. ? jrFrom. the bottom'otmy heart I thank yon. . Though . the silver lining of ? the cloud , be but faintly discernible, yet be not dismayed. But ? that I need not say Itovf men^fao^isever" feel rany other I fear than that of doing wrong.' Then let me j jsay >ratheiy.^B^'not without hope;" i The: i cause for which you straggled-was; that of justice and of. truth. The triumphs of these may. be postponed, but in the order? ing of Providence must come at last. Your motives must be appreciated, sooner or later, for your sacrifices were made for constitutional liberty; and those who died bravely, though they fell vainly, are not to be reckoned as the most unfortu? nate ; for, whether bearing a sabre, or a musket,, whether on the battle field or upon the vessel's deck, the'proper place for man to die.is where he dies for man. j For the honor of the comrades whose untimely deaths you mourn, for the re? spect due to the cause you loved, for the pride you feel in your-ancestry, for the hopes you cherish for your posterity, let, not your eyes, revert.constantly to the {>ast; but, confronting the present and ooking patriotically on to the future, let Sour efforts be made to repair what has een. injured, and to build again, higher land broader, on a more solid foundation, the j temple of human, liberty, after the model left you by your fathers. : ; You engaged in no war for sectional aggrandizement; you fought no battles for personal advantage;you were prom pted by no malice; and jour knight? ly escutcheon is tarnished by no sordid hate [or. desire for mean! revenge. . The war left you stripped of all save honor, and your chivalry was as incapable of inflicting wrong a3 it was of submitting to it tamely.; The past demands,, then, knightly generosity and faithful devotion] to the principles you inherited from revo? lutionary sires, and which you will best bless mankind by transmitting unchanged to your posterity. _ Thrice and four times I am thankful for the indications which the day brings to us of the revival of the spirit in which our Union was founded, frpm which our prosperity springs, and Upon , which its perpetuity must surely depend. . *ii?J'iwiA I had not expected to do more than simply' to. return my thanks to yoU. It would, be in vain- for me to attempt to express; the gratitude I feel. My cordial thanks .are all I have to give, and they are truly yours.?New Orleans Times. Capital Pnnlsbraent?Ancient and Mod .'? era. Crucifixion was a very ancient punish? ment. The Syrian, Jews, Egyptians, Persians, and especially the Carthagi? nians,'used it. But in no part of the ancient world , was this punishment so Generally resorted to as in the Roman lm pi re, where it was regarded as the most infamous of deaths. By the Ro? man law the , culprit was scourged pre? viously to the crucifixion, either in the praetorian or on the' way to the place of execution. On his arrival there he was stripped of his garments, and then either nailed cr tied by the hands and feet to the cross,, or, as sometimes happened, only fastened to it? by ropes. , La order to hasten death'; it was the practice to break the legs, or to pierce the Dody of the suf? ferer with appear.. By the Jewish law it'was qfdaineq that the body of the cure prit should be removed from the cross on the day of his execution; but the Romans frequently alldwed ' it to" h?ng iintil it dropped'piece-meal to the ground. ' Among the Greeks capital punishment was inflicted by the regular killing, or as in the case of Socrates, by ordering that the victim should drink a bowl of hem? lock, which is poisonous. The ancient Isrealites stoned their culprits' to death, and in Rome certain criminals were de? stroyed by throwing them from the Tar peian Rock. In England, during the middle ages, death was the ordinary punishment for all felonies; but if the culprit could read, he escaped with life on a first conviction. In the British army and navy, within the present century, soldiers ana sailors have been literacy flogged to death."' with a cat-o'-nine-tails. Sometimes' 1,000 lashes were ordered. The infliction, though much mitigated, is still continued in the British military and naval service.' In the American it has been humanely abolished within the last thirty years. During the first French .revolution what was facetiously called "Republican marriages", (where two persons of differ ent sexes; bound together by strong cords, were cast into the river Rhone at Lyons and left to drown) were outrages upon humanity. i Formerly, in Scotland, culprits' heads were chopped off by the jnaiden. It was Gan oid contrivance.revived) having been ; psed in Persia in early .times.', In Italy : its name was manuaia, and culprit-nobles had the privilege of being decapitated by it, and a similar instrument had been previbusly used in Germany, In.France. in 1632, .a D?c De Mohtmbrenci had been'executed by a similar instrument at Toulouse, and a century back the Dutch employed it in executions. Therefore in October, 1790, when Joseph Ignace Guillotiri, a physician of Paris,' proposed to the National Assembly there1 the use of the beheading instrument which, per? petuates his name, he only improvea'on an old idea.?Troy Times. ? Had there never been a cloud there had never been a rainbow. A Strange Dream. , As illustrating the manner in which impressions of the "past may emerge from the brain, I shall here furnish an instance bordering closely on. the supernatural, and fairly representing the most marvek ous of these psychological phenomena. It occurred to a;physician, who related it, in my hearing, to a circle whose conver? sation had turned oh the subject of per? sonal fear. "What you are saying,"-.he? re marked, "may be yery^rue*; out I. can assure you that the sentiment of fear,.in its'utm?st degree," is mucH'lesi common' 'than you suppose ; and though: you may be surprised to hear me.say it, I know from personal experience that this is cer? tainly so. WhehT was five or six years, old P dreamed that I was passing by a. large pond of'Water in a very solitary place. On the. opposite side of it there stood a great tree, that looked as if it had. been Struck by lightning, and in the pond at another part an old fallen trunk, On one of the prone limbs of which there was a turtle'sunuiug itself. On a sudden a wind arose, which forced me into the; nond, and in my dying.straggles to e^ri-. cate myself from its'green and slimy wa<! tere I awoke, trembling with terror. : '"About' eight years subsequently, while1 recovering from a nearly fatal attack of acarlet fever, Ulis dream presented itself to me, identical in all respects, again.. Even up to this time I think I had never seen a living tortoise, .or turtle, but I in? distinctly remember that' there was a picture of one in the first spelling-book jthaVhiad been given me. Perhaps on ac? count of my critical condi lion, this second1 'dream: impressed, me more dreadfully than the,^first. j ?,? ,k: .fr.j: ,.v ^ .r. ? "A dozen years more elapsed, 2J bacl become a physician, and was now active? ly pursuing my professional duties in one of the Southern States. It so felL out that.one July afternoon I had to take a long and wearisome ride, on horseback. Ii Was1 S?ndayj and extremely hot: the path was solitary, there was;not'a bouse for miles. The -forest; had.; that intense silence so characteristic of- this time of the dayall the. wild, animals and birds had gone to their retreats to be rid of the heat of the sun. Suddenly at one point of the road I came upon a great stagnant water pool and. .casting: my eyes ? across jit, there stood a pine tree, blasted, by. lightning, and, oh alpg^ that was, nearly even With the" surface 'a turtle wtis! bask-" ing in the sun; The dream* of my infan? cy was upon me ; the bridle fell from my bauds, an,unutterable fear o versbado wed me, and I slunk away from the accursed place! ' ' "Though Business occasionally after-' ward would have drawn me that way, I could not summon resolution to go, and. actually have, taken roundabout .paths,, It seemed to me profoundly a mazing'that the dream that' I bad had should after .twenty years be realized, without respect to difference of scene, or climate, or age. A good clergyman of .my, acquaintance took 'tne opportunity of11 improving the"; circumstances to my spiritual'advantage,' and in his kind enthusiasm?for he knew that I had been more than once brought I to the point of death, by such ievers?in-. ! terpreted my dream that I should die of marsh miasm. ' <?>?<] I "Most persons have'doubtless observed that, they suddenly e a counter events of a trivial nature, in their course of lite, of which they have .ah indistinct recollec? tion that they have dreamed before; For' i a long time it seemed to me' that this was a case of that kind, and that it might be 'set down among the mysterious and un? accountable. How wonderful itis that we so often fail to see tne simple explan? ation of things, when that explanation is actually intruding itself before us! And so in Ibis case ; it was long before the truth'^gleamed jn^upon me, before., my. reasoning* powers, snook off the delusive impressions of rny senses. But it occurred at last; for I said to myself, ? is it more probable that such a mystery is true, or that I have dreamed for the third time that [ which I had already dreamed of twice be I fore ? Have I really seen the blasted tree and sunning turtle ? Are a weary ride of fifty miles, the noontide heat, the silence that could almost be felt, no provocation to a dream! I have ridden under such circumstances many a mile fast asleep; and have awoke ana known it; and so I resolved that if ever circumstances car? ried me to those parts again, I would sat? isfy myself as to the matter. "Accordingly, after a few years, when an accident led me to travel there, I re? visited the well-remembered scene There was still the stagnant pool, but the blasted nine tree was gone; and after I had pushed my horse through the marshy thicket aa far as I could force him, and then dismounted and pursued a close in? vestigation on foot in every direction I around the spot, I was- clearly convinced that no pine tree had ever grown there ,* not a stump nor any token of its remains could be seen ; and so now I'have con? cluded that at the glimpse of the'water, with the readiness of those who are fall? ing asleep, I had adopted an external fact I into a dream; thatifithad a roused the trains of thought j which in former years ! had occupied me, aadahat, in fine, the j mystery was all. a delusion, and that I I had been frightened with less than a ' shadow.'/..,. . ;, . : ; ; The.instriictive story of thi^physjcifthi ; teaches'.us how readily and yet how* im? pressively the remains of old' ideas may' be recalled; how they may, asit were,'be' projected, into the space beyond us, and take a position among existing realities...J For this all that is necessary is that there should b6 an equalization of old impres? sions with new sensations, and'that may be accomplished either by diminishing the force, of present sensations,; or by in? creasing the activity of those'parts of the brain in which the old impressions are stored up. ' 1 \. Thus, when we are falling asleep, the organs of sense no longer. convey their ' special impressions with the clearness and force that they did in hour waking hours, j and this gives to the traces that are stored 'up in the brain the power of drawing up? on'themselves the attention of the mind. :? Dr. S. W. Draper, in Harper's Maga? zine fof'May., Who aee Blessed ??-Blessed is the man who minds his own business. r Blessed is the woman who never says to her husband: "I told you so." ? Blessed is the man who can sewon his 'buttons when the baby is qryin'gv1; ^ . Blessed is the woman who wnnft. marry \ \z widower?providing hjO's-ybuj: father. Biessed.is the, mother-in-law Who never reminds you that you married aboveyour i station..| '?? ? . kf-VfCi :??f<l Blessed is the rich relation who . never looksidownion.you?whe?youiare in the gutter, ?on i\ ..' I n sii?; la Blessed is the poor relation Who never looks up to you?for-mouey.. f. owo mi Biessed.is the old maid that don't bate, old people and children. .?,,.<? Blessed is the old bachelor that don't: hate cats and pincushions.;; ?; . ? ? ? Blessed are;the parried people that don't wish they were single. . Blessed are the single people that are content to remain so. Blessed is the husband who never .says his mother's pies were better;than "hie wifeare. A Woman's Adyenture wltti the Goat. The, Lodge of Freemasonsm WooaV town, finding their Lodge-room growing' more and- m?re dingy-and dustyy^de^ itenniiiedrthafe.it should be cleaned- and renovated as far as soap'and, water could (do it Thg job must, of couree^jje put, liiitb feininihe.han'ds; and it'wa# voM, to jernploy'Mrs: K^tf^Sn^'^irWrnan? The door-keeper, well aware that Mrs.' K., was ope of the independent investi? gators, ;whp' like to see^nd,, judge., for themselves, went' early tneilext morning, jlferi^ed^tfiout leave ?ftM^ftirVoilly' goat, and; notwithstanding some vigorous protests;on the part of,the animal, con? veyed him up stairs, placed' him in. a closet opening out of the .Lodge-room, and secured him bjr turning the Button/ but, without locking the door, pat the key in his pocket. Then; with a face as (serious as, if he had justr heard,oftjie jjofc I'bery of the bank where his aunt, of whom he had great expectations, [kept' her trunk, he wendedinis-'wa^'to^tbe dwelling of Mrs. K., and requested her to come to the Lodge-room- immediately after, breakfast, that he.might give her jtfte necessarydirections. ' ''.'*'.'.'." : An hour later the woman put in an ap fearance, /'armed and equipped" -with room, brushes, pail, tub, etc., ,. She found the custbdian of the premises awaiting her arrival. -:"Now,i ma'am,?* said he, "Til'* tell you ' what we want dene, and;how we came to ;employ you..,The Breth^;said^t, was : difficult to get anybody to do the job ana 'not meddle with the secrets In that little closet; we have loBt the key,: and so can? not lock the :door. But I. assured . them that you could be depended ot^"^j:i-Tuo j ' "Depended on ? I guess I ein, ,'. My {iodr, dear,' dead-and-gohe'; husband' be owged to'; the"1 Freemasons,- ? ?''or' Anti i Masons, I don't I know which. i He 1 et m o into all the secrets of the concern, and 'showed me all. the marks the :gridiron made when he joined, apd .lota, me how i they' fixedipoorMorgan '3 and," "sure ?s^T live, I never mentioned a. word about it to a single soul to this day. If nobody ! troubles your closet to; find ,pulj your, jsecret?tillTd?; they'll lay there and, rot j-rthey will." ? ? ' :i T'^? ] "Yes, I thought we couldn't do^-better jthan give you the job. Now I want youi to commence, in that corner,-and give the jWh?lerdom a thorough cleaning, and' re-, member/ I have0 pledged 'J?dy wHr?'?h?' honor for your fidelity. VovtVgo-into' that closd." With this par ting injunction Emphatically;. uttered,'. belie? Mrs; K,jto ?her task'.;. ,The village of "^ooa^iowh"^as. small, and centered about, the post-office^.' store and meeting-house.. Mr3. K. did [dot see that the sober-faced door-keeper just stepped into the post-office on the {first floor of the same building, and awaited the result., She only, listened till she was sure he had descended the last stair, then turned to gaze at the pro? hibited door. V ? "T.r (.:> ?' j "Don't go into that closet!" she .re? peated, in a stage whisper; 'Tilwarrant there, is a gridiron there,. or, some non? sense just like the Anti-Masons. I will just take one peep; who'll bbxhe wise^i I can keep a secret. Besides, that .close '?^be.?n mjlnnnd till.I.see. what's ,in rijtj ahd.^T never^could work.worth;, ai ?c$xt, wnen there's anytoing;oh'my minj^'. jjL. Stealthily on tip-toe, she approached the closet, turned the '.hutt?n, the 4oor from ins nap by tue suaden flood of hguk making a spring"to regain'. bis liberty, almost upset her ladyship. " Both started iforthe door,'which, alas!' was barricaded with house cleaning paraphernalia. - The momentum -of the: charging, party; was not to. :be retarded by such slight obstacles; aha'all'went down" the stairs in ' one avftancne. - '?" ' ' '"' "! ! -Ttie crash br??ght?'to the spot ti??P tber people of the village, headed by the sad eyed door-keeper.. He released the goat first, a cripple for life; then he assisted iHe-ctarwommVW arise from'lhiaer ""a1 pile of tubs, pails,'' brooms,''brdsh??, -efK~ No bones were -broken-, and strangely enough, she was but slightly bruised .ex? ternally ; her injuries were nearly all, .in? ternal, her feelings Ve're'farribly l?ce ',' rated. - "Have you- been v taking'-; degrees, ma'am?" inquired the sympathetic cus? todian of Freemasons' secrets. ?Taking degrees! If you call tumbling froin. the' top to the bottom of; the stairs, j with the devil after ye, taking things.byj degrees, I haveand if ye'.'frighten jfolka' as yo' have me, and hurt them to boot, IH warrant'they'll make as. much noise; as I have. '?'"'/; ' '.. There hadn't been, a mj^fIyn*^jrJ woman in 'Wobdstown for many ? ^ay^, "I hope you did hot open the closecr* said the1 impertUrba-ble'dobr^keeper. "Open the closet ? i Eve ate -the apple when she was iold not to. If you want a woman to do anything, tell her not to, and she'll'db ? certain! Open the closet'?' You said the secrets' were there, and of course I wantedito know'em. ijustfctt fastened the door, and out popped the critter rightrin my face. I thought the devil had me, ? and I made for the stairs; . the devil butting me< ?aVevery jump.' '> ~w guess I'll go home," she addea^ '^your may get somebody else to.clean up^yoW old room." . 1 1: *.! ! "But, ma'ain you:arein 'possession of the great secret', of the Order, and must ?o.up and bo initiated and. sworn in, in ie'regular way," remonstrated the door*, deepen :: " "' ^Regular way?--Regular way,'indeed! ; You don't suppose'I am going near that I place again, to ride that critter without saddle or bridle? No I never 1 NoJ never! I'll never go nigh that plaee' again, nor 'your hall neither; ana if I icanprevent it, no* lady shall'ever:idjhVj [ the Freemasons. ",Whyj I'd sooner be a Maltesian, and be broiled on a gridiron !ais long as a fire could be kept unider.itj, . and be pulled rVbm gwret tb cellar,- wjith' '& halter around myneck. pustas'ttyp^r] dear husband was; - He lived1 through it," but I never could live thrb?gh' such ah .other ride as I took to-day^ ? : .; I We would remind our lady readers ?that the "Brother" to, whom Mrs. K.; owed her sad:experience not.to be taken ?s a representative Mason. A good Mason is always the champion of'the' fair sex, "gentle or simple "?iV. E. She mason. . . -. * - ? . i ; ? t WEAirnsraXipiiTS^-rA Vermont farmer says he weaned a last spring colt in the,, .following'.manner:.. ,.r ..... ., .--..j ? "I fed grain or meal to the -mare when the colt was with her*. The colt soon; learned to eat meal with the dam; After he has been taught to eat' with the mare he will eat as readily when he is removed from her. I put my colt in a stable where he could have plenty of exercise in a large yard, J^ijm. With hay alia bran mixed with milk, .which I soon taught him; to drink without the bran.'. I weaned him from tho mare, in this way. when ho wa$ tee months old; heseemed ?*?f8?g^?iW tbink.did^as^we?.^i though he, h ad run. with the m are .two months loUg^er! It is much be^r.TOFthe' : mare, and more convenient if one wants to use her, as most people do in the coun? try, .while the colt is with her. This way' of weauing colts is very convenient^.and, one can feed milk at such times-as seem judicious, substituting grain or shorts for the milk at any reasonable time."--JT:-yi^ JUSGAL ABVBETZSIMG.?We are coxnpelled4o require- cash paymonts for advertising ordered by Executors, Administrators and other fiduciaries, and herewith append the rates for tho ordinary notices,, whhfirwlll. only, be inserted when the money comMNHtfrtheotaeT: Citations, two insertions, .... $3.00 Estate Notices, three insertions, ... 2.06 TG ?0B^S3T<m?SiriS.?In order to receive attention,' communications must be accompanied by the true name-arid address of the writer.' Ee jected manuscripts will not be returned, unless the necessary stamps axe famished to repay the postage thereon. ?J- We "are not reswnatble tor the views and opinions of oar correspondents. . - All communications should be addressed to "Ed? itors Intelligencer.", and all checks, drafts^ money orders, Ac.,' should be made payable to'the order ?f.: . E. B. M?BBAY & CO., _ Anderson, 8. C. Fence or no Fence'. i Whether we,ehopUi, enclose our crops ?and, "turn ojjt/' the remainder of our 1 farms; o'r fence'op the 'pasture and leave 'the cultivated portions unprotected by j any'kind'of fence save the law of the land,.n'rp questions that have now and the*-agitated the minds of the people Of iejery>:pue.of_the.-Sj?tes of this .union. Firm adherents can be found to both sides of the''question', i,iWe 'confess'? having never become clearly settled In OUr'-cpm ion upon thjs^uhject dm-f ?-: , . When we see, pur noble forests felled annually by'the thousands of acres to procure fresh laud to cultivate; after we have, by a most slovenly system, galled iand impoverishedTBrmany more fertile acres; when we know that far more econ? omy could be practiced upon the farm by avoiding the necessityvof having so many thousands'Of rails mauled every winter; ! when we: know thatfalniost every farm? house burns as much wood iu each fire? place as ought to supply dwelling, and kitchen, and washhouse, during the .cold season ; .when we know that a strip of land teri feet Wide' running around every j aide of the i field, and this frequently the ibest.land in the field, is lost to cultivation j because of the. fence; when we show that i every negro in the South will have a cow. land never thinks he is a freeman until ! he can tie his own cow's horn to her fore |{ foot Upkeep her from jumping the fence ? that he won't fix up ; when we think of the,thousands of dnilars that are lost to the: intrinsic, wealth ..of the country. by the mauling and hauling and building j and repairing that is necessary to keep < up the fences around:our farms; when j we think of the.pro vocation to say hard iwprds when fox,hunters, tramps, jump? ing cattle brother, nuisances make gaps ,in our fences, and cannot be punished for 'it; when we think how easy it would be . to make a fat cow:':OUt of a poor one, a I profitable cow out of an expensive one, 'if the owner waa pjniply compelled to keep it. up, take care of it, feed it. treat ft 'as''the returiis would ^rove it'should be treated? when! we'thinfrit is the crop that brings im the money -and enriches the country, and not the forests.or pas? ture lands, and are therefore the more worthy of lawful" protection oh that ac? count; when'we think: how much better one good cow' is than a herd of poor ones; jwhen we think how easy it is to herd jcattle and sheep and even hogs together, ; so that they will need but the care of a . single person a few hours each day to prevent their strolling out of sight; when we think what a pleasure it is, what a real luxury to sit and watch improved herds and flocks pasturing aad grazing lover luxuriant meadows and fields j we isay, when we 'think"of all these things, we' can but wonder legislation has not' long since required our farmers to set about improving their stock-by abolish? ing, the existing . fence law and allowing our Broad acres to be cultivated without the miles and miles of hideous worm ifencesjeyery where seemi:.' %.l ; But then, when we.have looked at the other side of this question, and thought .how. ignorant most' of pur people are, eveH of the old establishe?aw upon this subject, ? and how isparsely- settled our country ia, and how. much easier it is to enclose, tbe cultivated fields than it would be to. enclose all the remainder of the majority/bf ^Southern-; farms, ;ahd -how every farmer would think he was bound to fence in all tbe balance of bis:lands if he were permitted taihrowout his fields; and what a small proportion of the labor? ing classes throughout the South are landowners,'(even though every'one that can owns a cow,)'and how that class are opposed to a stock law, because they think; that all .the, unenclosed. pasture lands are, by. a natural right, as free to their cows' as'to the'owner of the pasture, add of what minor importance to? our farmers the care of'stock is when com? pared to the infatoatipn they.have, for the "cottcn-patchJ'.and. what wonderful social and industrial revolution it would make to establish a stock law and abolish our fences, wo have halted between two opinions.. , Much' cap be said on both sides of this question, and more on the. other, look at it as you win. | Absence bf fences is an evidence of progressive"&min^e-' Whenr we go into a city, a.town ? or village,. (and there-, are some of these last in the. United .States) where the roses grow, as it were, "out? doors," and the vegetable.gardens are not encl?se?i 'we^tWcekuow there is an ordinance, there preventing stock going at large, 'and'with this 'idea- is also im? mediately /. conpled the thought that the cows there are carefully housed and- well, fed, and, jn consequence, the people have . plenty ofmilkl . . Butif we see a'village with its streets and pavements -filthy, and the lots jail enclosed, or , even a . farm with high .. "staked and ridered" fences,, we are not., long in coming to the conclusion that idlers and depredators, fonr-footed' and horned, axe round aboard I, We once heard a.man say a.traveler . could go alone' from northern Missouri into'Iowa "and tell, without .being, in? formed;'when he'entered the latter State, because all the farming 'evidences were so mach more progressive and thrifty; and he attributed it all to the fact that the stock were enclosed in Iowa and the drops' were hot; whilst' in Missouri the reverse* was;the'caseV We have been told, too, that iu North Carolina, where the option, was given to counties to vote "fence.or no fence," wherever "no fence", prevailed the people have become recon? ciled to it,' farnk have been improved, cattle have increased in number ana value', and the farmers would not, if they cx)uld. return to. the "old rut.". "We have also beard'grumblers at several places where we have seen the no fence law in force, but we did not regard their com . plaints because the thing seemed chronic, ;and we all know there are some men who ? would suffer torture if they had no op 1 portuh?y to'jg^mble. Fences "'are 'bV; no" means universal througho?t 'the' tjnion; Several-of the Northwestern States require owners to en close their stock. In portions of North 'Carolina, Virgin i a and one or two north reastern 1States7 the sam'e law prevails. In one or two of the southwestern States the effort has been made, but-without suc? cess, to abolish fences. .. ? In Europe, land is top valuable to be 'appropriated to''fences... In England hedges superseded fence, and how hedges j ;are considered objectionable because their roots - monopolize '?too- much land.? Throughout France and northern Italy, 'and Pentral .and northern Europe, fences are almost unknown. Often the divisions of land do not appear at all. Wire fences were even'abolished, and tbe only land? marks are stone posts at the corners of Pthe land to designate its outlines.. This question.of "Fence or no Fence" will, in all probability, come before the Legislature at its present session for ac? tion, 'as the State Grange appointed' a )committee to memorialize that body upon jthis subject, and we trust they will per? form the* duty imposed upon them. The icommittee consists, of Messrs. Iredel iJ?rie? d"?o*r ^WltrtBtaan.ofEIcii^ rland ; and R. C. Carlisle, of Newberry, practical men who. understand the sub? ject ?is well as, perhaps' better, than the Legislature themselves.?D. Wyatt Aiken rtnNews and Courier. .??;'<? * : >:t.