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COLUMBIA, SV C. Saturday Morning, July 19,1873. The Utilization of Small Water Power?. Ia nrging* the necessity and advantage to our poople of engaging in raanufao tures, we generally limit oarselves in thought to the manufacture of cotton into cloth and yarn. But the aid of water, wind, stoani, machinery and skill may avail us in many more ways, and be made labor-saving and productive in a thousand uses. What a change would not steam power-and labor, well applied, effect in our vasl swamps, in converting their?tately growth into lumber, staves, barrels and shingles, and, afterwards, in preparing the soil for the crops which it is fitted to produce a hundrod-fold. How many and varied prolits, what pleusani comforts about oar grounds and home? steads, might not a littlo skill and inge? nuity effect in utilizing small streams for roaring fish, pounding rice, grinding corn, running oottou gins, &c, &o. We have an agreeable recollection of a hasty viBit, a couple of years since, to the plantation of our friend, Major Tuom"s W. Woodward, near Wionsboro.. We found some springs gathered into small reservoirs, in which arc reared fish for the table, and are then led along to a little fall, and there delivered on a wheel, which turns machinery for grinding meal aud grits and ginning the cotton crop. The mac'iinery and gearing cost less than eighty dollars. It was working beautifully when we ear? it, and the mules, instead of tugging and toiling in turning the heavy gin wheel, were enjoy? ing themselves in tho pastures. We have within a few days past seen another judicious application of water, on the place of Mr. J. E. l?icklo, on Big Creek, on the edge of the village of Wil liamston, in Anderson County. This stream, which, notwithstanding its name, is small?not more, we should think, than about eight-horse power?is neatly bridged aa it flows past the mineral spring, and presents a pretty appearance, and Borue fine bottom laud. Mr. Fickle has also pat it to other uses. By means of a small race, about three and a half feet by sixteen inches, conducting the water from a shoaly point in the creek, it is led first to a water-wheel of eleven feet diameter, turning an eight-loot band wheel. This pots in motion three ma? chines for breaking, cleansing aud card? ing wool, used in the order named?the first receiving the wool in its rough slate, as it comes from the sheep's back, and breaking it up two or three times; tho second cleansiug it of burrs, and deliver? ing it in bats. In this state, it goes into the carding machine proper, and comes out in nice rolls, ready for spinning. For this service, twelve-and-a-half cents a pound is charged, aud that much added to the value 01 the wool, which, wheu thus prepared, is worth sixty-?ve cents a pound. The charge for curding wool aud CJttc-n together, is fifteen oeuts a pound. The machinery is managed by one man and a boy, and will turn out, on an ave? nge, 100 pounds in ten hoars. It is a valuable and useful littlo affair, and yields a handsome income on the outlay of 82,000 for tho machinery and SI,000 for the building. Tho expenses of management are small. The water having discharged this duty, next runs a grist mill, and then proceeds to grind the bark required for a tan-yard of eighteen vats, and in grinding up cob and all the corn which is fed to the working animals of tho farm. Thus we see this small stream put to varied uses, all profitable and remunerative. An? other gentleman, just below Mr. Fickle, runs a cotton gin by this sumo powor, und receiving a fourteenth toll, cleared twenty-six bales last season. From all which we may learn, that like "tbc sweet, small courtesies of life," small manufactories havo their own charm uuu value, which wo should not bo slow to appropriate-and enjoy. Ingenuity and enterprise should come to tho aid of in? efficient, unwilling, slovenly and unpro? fitable labor. -, ? ? ? The story is told that two reverend fa thors visited tho German colonists iu South America, and frightened tho mar riod women into the belief that they were not legally married, and that nnlcss they were married over again by thorn, their husbands might leave aud marriy ugain. We would like to sec priest, rcotor, elder or justice attempt to frighten tho married folks of Chicago by such talk as that. They would blunder as badly as the mis sionories did who tried to frighten tho Grceulanders by telling them that, if they did not repent, they would go to a region of everlasting firo after doalh. The threat only tilled tho Bhiverirg savages with an ecstucy of delight. - ?? ? <?- - ? ; - Outraoe in" Sussex County, Dei, ? A correspondent from Seaford writes the Lewes Light that a whito man living near iiridgeville, Del., has beon hold to bail in the sum of 33,000 f?.?r his appearance at court, for alleged attempt at rupe opou the person of a oolorcd servant girl. The mail i? nrirried <\u ! : ? ?ttt-ra! -.il drew. A Fair Proposition. Watwr, good water, pare, clear water, is what the people of Columbia bare been used to and what thej intend to have; aud now to convince all who are so blind as to try and persuade them? selves into the belief that the old springs will not Bupply the oity with water, be? cause they have failed, or that we use more water than formerly, a most absurd supposition, I make this proposition to Colonel Pearce, which will test the mat tor in controversy: That Colonel Fearce give up the . atire control of the Water Works to the Mayor for one month; con? tract to bo drawn so as not to prejudice his claim iu the suit now pending; nor will he (the Mayor) u?e his works at the canal or his river water, (that is bis ex? clusively; to vary our diet, giving ua alternately bull-frog hash one week aud tap-pole soup the next,) and it' the Mayor does not furnish us with plenty of good water before I he month is out, then we will take frog soup, hashed tad? poles, or anything else we can get. This will bring the thing down to practical results und prove that this model manu? facturing company kuow nothing about their business. The springs are there and will yield the water, if properly ma? naged, it is not our business tu suggest to them how to do it. He is paid 810, 000 a year to find that out. There is no doubt that more water is drawn from tho reservoir than formerly. Why? The reason is obvious. One goes to his spout; begins to draw water; it is muddy; otter smells bad; in old limes, ander such circumstances, all he had to do was to let it run for a few minutes, and the water soou ran clear und pure; but now, the longer it runs, frequently tho worse it gets; and, as it. i? uot lit for use, it is left running and wn-ttd. That is tho secret of the waste. Lf it was good, there would he no disposition to waste it. I havo written the above without any consultation with the Mayor; but X be? lieve ho will abide by the proposition, which is offered in good faith. It Col. P. has any respect for the people of Co? lumbia, or any for himself, he will com? ply with the above, or do any thing else to relievo himself from tho odium that is being heaped upon him by all classes of our citizens. GOOD WATER. P. S. Hope the Mayor will come out and say whether he will accept or not. Summbu Gaiidenisu.?The ehi-I charm of having a garden of your owu is the fresh state ol the vegetable? whioh daily garnish your table. Any ono who has always depended upon a store for his supply does not have tho f tiniest cou ception of the superior rl tvor, toue nnd elasticity of vegetables gathered fresh every morning from your cwn garden. Aside from this benefit, gardening is the most health-giving occupation known to man. unless we except that of a physi? cian. Which we don't. There in a man who lives on lue other side of our street who has a garden, and has fresh vegetables every day, our folks say. Wo don't know nuythiug about thut, but we do know he has a g-irden, because we see him out in it eye^y morning, in shirt-sleeves and slipper?, picking cucum? ber and squash bugs. We know when he gets hold of one, by the way he thuts up his mouth aud fingers. Sometimes he doesn't catch the oue he is after, und sometimes he makes a halt* dozeu passes at ono bug. Every lime he makes one of those passes, he says something. The first remark is not very plainly beard, but the next is quite so, and tho observa? tion that follows after the sixth unfortu? nate pass, appears to go? oouiplptely through the head, lie jumps around this way for about an hour, und having got his blood up to fever bent, goes in and drinks a cup of boiling ootl'ee, and and then goes to business. At noon, he goes out there to kill a couplo more bugs, but doesn't do it. He linds two hens from the next house in the cucum? ber patch. They have scratched down to the cool earth, and thrown the parched soil of two cucumber hills over their backs, and, with oue eye closed iu a speculative way, are thinking of the in? tens* heat and the short grass crop. When they sea him, and the prepara? tions of welcome he hrs hastily got to? gether, they get up and leave. Tbe first thing ho throws at them knocks a limb from a choice pear tree, and !he next thing, which is generally n pnil, goes through a glass ccver to rotuc choice flower seeds, aud loses its bail. He then goes h to th? house and getb .some more boiling coffee, and says the uiau next door is somethiog we never put iu print, and goes to business again. At night, he comes home again and kills bugs tint? supper time, and then goes in, with his lingers smelling as if he had shaken bauds wilh twelve hundred bed? bugs. Ho keeps his boy home from sohool to watch the garden and guard against the encroachment of straying cattle. The boy gets several other boys to come over and help him. Tiny lake a half dozea sheets out of the wash, and put up a circus in the back part of the yard, and some vicious boy who hasn't pins enough to get in, leaves tho front gate open, and when the circus is in the midst of its glory, tho cry of "a cow in tho garden!" breaks lip the performance, and sends both artist and aiidb'?eo iL pursuit of the beast. Wh*u 'vtr neigh? bor comes home (hat night to gather vegetables fresh from the garden, and sinash bugs with his linger and thumb, aud goes out and looks at the destruc? tion, it is altogether likely the first thiug I ho thinks of is the danger iu eating store vegetables which have been picked homo days before, and allowed to swelter aud wither in noxious barrels, and how much belter it is to have everything fresh from the garden. l?ut wo are not certain. Neither is the proprietor of the circus. ? fj'inhurtf New*. ? ? A court iu Grayson County, T \i -, has I sent one man to prison for live years lor murder, and another tin !o.ir!? in ve:tr.? Domestic Soene in Dakbubi.?If a flash of light could have beea shot-over Danbury j jat as the raio commenced to descend on Sunday night, it would have rerouted the moat astounding eight ever witnessed here. It is estimated that 300 bare-legged men and boys and about 200 inadequately-clothed women were at one time atruggling across wot stoops and through impenetrublo darkness, with a most astonishing varfety of tuos, boil? ers, pails and barrels, to catoh the rain? water. Everything that could bo em? ployed for that purpose was brought out, and as there hud been no rein iu six weeks, and the stoops were slippery, and there was no time to lose, the natural ooofusion of legs, language and utensils was, something remurkuble. Ouo man on Franklin street, who was dashing out? doors with two tubs aud u boiler, lost bis foot-hold, aud, sliding across the stoop, went oil into uu open hutchwuy, down a stairway, aud half way across his cellar tbo tubs and boilers arriving abtut the Bame time. It was some twenty minutes before ho could converse. A fleshy guntlcruau, named Hayes, lost his balance while on a chair to Iis the conductor, aud full into a tub that he didn't know was there, und tbo neighbors were obliged to carry both himself aud the tub into the house to gut them apart ?a job that was considerably aggra? vated by the promiscuous profanity and abuse, which ho leveled at everybody during tbo operation. A boy on Seventh street run against u portico-pust with such force us to render him nuoouscious, and the moment he camu to. hu con? ceived tho idea that his father hud kicked him. As he didn't run backwards against the post, the impression appears all the moro reinaiktiblo. There were other accidents tho same night; but what renders the ulYuir peculiarly painful is the fact, that not one woman was in uay way injured. Wo don't understand that. ?Danbu.ru News. Owing to the extreme precautions which insurance companies generally tako to protect themselves in the word? ing of their policies, it is by many per? sons considered almost n hopeless un? dertaking to enter into u legal contro? versy with them when a misunderstand? ing arises about payments. Tho Hart? ford Times, however, tells of a case in which the .Etna Lifo Insurance Com? pany was obliged to pay $2,000 on a policy which ncvor was issued, aud which it never intended to ieSUO. A speciul agent took tho application of a man named Tuft, at Prairie da Chieo, Wisconsin, aud sent it to tho general agent, who forwarded it to the home ollice. Tho risk" was declined, and the application returned; but tbo special ageut who had origiually received it ne? glected to notify the applicant of the re? jection. Taft died, and tho United States District Court iu Wisconsin de? cided that the company was liablo to tho amount of insurance applied for, as it was its duty to notify Tuft within a rea? sonable time of rejection of his applica? tion, so that he might have obtained iu snranco elsewhere; and that the failure i of its agents to do so was likewise the failure uf tho company. A Woman Marries a Woman.?An extraordinary law-suit is now going on i iu Paris: Somo years ago, a surgeon made tho ncquaiutauco of a young girl, ; who soon became a mother. "I cannot murrj' you," said tho doctor, (although he was not married;) "but if you can tiud any one else to mako you his wife and adopt tho child us his own, I will leavo him all my fortune." Hut a hus? band could not bo found to accept these conditions However, among tho girl's friends was a school companion of her's, whose brothor had just died abroad, and she proposed to take her brother's name aud attire, and to marry her friend, to savo her from disgrace. This was done, and they duly married und lived before tbo world as man aud wife. The doctor died in course of time, and, according to his word, left his whole fortono to the child. The soi ilisant husband also died, and tho secret was discovered. Hearing thin, tbo relations of the doctor have brought nu action against tho child to recover tho fortune. Tho money, they pay, was left to tbo child of M?ns, and Mme. A.; but as there was no Muuf. A., there, oould be no Mme. A.?ergo, the child could not be theirs. The suit is still at this point, the plaiutilT's ease being alone heard as yet. A FluIITINCl CURE.?The Now York j Herald bus a correspondent who writes : from tbo camp at Vera, of the Spanish 'euro, Santa Cruz, who, at tho head of j about 1,000 armed followers, seems, ' though a Carlist, to bo lighting on his own book. The remorseless severity of his discipline brings to mind tho lato I dictator, Lopez, of Paraguay. Ho is de? scribed as using the bastinado aud tho I bullet with promptitude aud rigor, oco j nouiiziug bis shooting, however, by I using lour balls for his victims, instead I of the customary twelve in tho Carlist ! army. Ho makes requisitions ou tho j poople around for cows and oxen, and i even for shirts for his men, whom he j compels tbreo time-, a week to change ! their shirts; and as they are uot permit* I ted to carry any baggage, and hardly have a shirt beyond that which the;' ' wear, ho has invented a mode of requi? sitioning clean shirts against ?ho duty ] ones which ho leaves to tho inhabitants, i Although a champion of royalty, he bids i defiance, to Don Carlos and threatens bis ' generals, winch would seem to bhow a I uot very encouraging .state of unity, ! which is strength, nuiong the supporters j of the Carlist cause. - ? The Newport (Ky.) lender says that ? Ann Hagar, a colored woman, died near there on Saturday, at the ago of 122 years. She had been blind for twenty years, but retained all her faculties uulil death occurred from old ago. Th? Chicago Times calls young Wal worth the "vcllow civon d mm direr." Tl at\- a ".-.ov. IV \v iy < i . Utting it. A,TkRbiblb Tuagedy in Bkl?iusi.? Toe Belgium newspapers give tho fol? lowing account; jfo.f a dreadful tragedy that occurred three weeks ago in a Tittle village near Brussels: A farmer and his wife had plotted to murder their niece during her sleep, to rob her of 1,800 francs that she was taking to her sick mother. In order to foil the future searches of the police, tbey, previously to perpetrating the crime, were engaged in diggiug a larg? hole in their garden, so as to bury the body in it, when the young girl, who, not being asleep, had heard her terrible sentence, rushed out by the window, and run to the police sta? tion, distaut oue mile only. Bat us Boon j as she was out, tho daughter of the wicked farmer, who was not expected home that night, came back, and, not wishing to awaken anybody iu the house, went noiselessly into the bed where her cousin had been lying a few minutes ago. She soon fell asleep, and thus her mother, not being aware of the Providential sub? stitution, owing to the darkness of the night, broke her owti daughter's head with an axe. This being done, the two were going to the garden, carrying the corpse, enveloped in a bed-spread, when two yen d'armes, accompanied by the fu? gitive girl, rushed into the house with iauterus iu their hands. At tho sight of their niece, whom they thought they had murdered, the two wretches took off the covering and found their unfortunate child killed by their own hands. The man, taking a large butcher's knife, plunged it into his breast, and fell dead on the ground. As to the woman, who was prevented from committing suicide, sho became insane, and is now shut np in u lunatic asylum, where she is expect? ed uuon to die from mental exhaustiou. A more horrible account has rarely been registered in the annuls of crime. Every day either tho telegraph or some Now York paper assures us that the com? bination kuowu as tho "eotton corner" must iuevitably break in twenty-four hours, but a good many twenty-four hours have passed und the "corner" still retains control of the price of the staple. Prom ull appearances, however, the right between the bulls nnd the bears of the cotton exchange is oue of the most obsti? nately contested and desperate struggles which has ever taken place in the great commercial centre of New York. If the ! bulls succeed in holding their ground? aud they have done it most successfully so far?the inflation of prices may not only help them, but ulso beucht tho Southern planters and the factors from whom they have received such heavy ad? vances. But if the bears find themselves uble to break the combination there will be a crash from which tho most disas? trous results may ariS". The decline in prices, if it comes, will take place just before the w crop comes into murket, and tho pi voters will have to stand tho brunt of the tight. The re-action? which will naturally follow?will come too late, and before there is a rally iu prices the crop Mill be out of the huuds of the producers and iu the bauds of the speculators, who will reap all the advan | tages, while the farmers must pocket the loss. _ Tub Cash System in St. Louis.?A number of leading business men in St. Louis have held a mooting and resolved to adhero to the rules of the Merchants' Exchange, of that oily, requiring that iu future ull mercantile transactions shall he ou a cash basis. It is agroed that on and alter the 15th of July, all sales shall be for cash, (unless othei wise ipecitied,) and all bills shall be payable on delivery of tho property sold, or a warehouse re? ceipt tberefor. This rulo is chiefly in? tended \o apply to the produce aud grain trade, and it remains to be seeu whether the merchants of St. Louis will act up to it. The plan of cash payments on deli? very has been adopted in tho tobacco and pork trades, and with the best results. Aud so it would bo found in all branches of business, facilitating operations, re? lieving responsibility and risk, prevent | iug future dittUnllies, aud avoidtug final bankruptcies. A Dublin correspondent, who, we will guarantee, bus seen a copy of Dr. D. Jayue's iilmaune, aud who cold trace a resemblance between an alligator aud a crocodile, sends us the following with tho pat advice that we do not allow the thieves any quietude: An Item von a Cycloivedia?Credit Mouii.tKK.?A huge tape worm fouud reveling in tho bowels of Congress. A hngo ilose of vermifuge (iuvestiguting committee) caused the patient (Congress) to void several links of the animal; but owing to its remarkable tenacity of lifo j and its power not only to live but to grow new links when only partially de? stroyed, it is feared it may continue its j ravages. Subsequent symptoms of the patient (tho voting of back pay) tend to con 111'ai these grave apprehensions. A Fatal Blow with the Fist.?Ou Tuesday, Captain Eugene Atno was at? tempting, in the press of boats, to hurry his boat into tho lock near tho bridge over tho liackensack ltivor, near Jersey Uity, N. J., when angry words passed be? tween him aud Thomas Finn, the ferry master. Finally both men clinched, when it i:j alleged that Finn struck Atno a territic blow on tho main neck cjrd killing him almost instantly. Don Carlos is in Spain, signalizing his re entry by proclaiming that ho comes j "to light for Uod ami his country," that is, for Carlos and monarchy. In the j meantime, the cabinet disruptions aud I domestic troubles and labor insurrections j are shaking tho republic to its centre. I Carlos, it would seem, has everything in ? his favor, aud the next turn may see him j on the throne. "What's the date of your bustle?'' was what an anxious pupa of Cobleskiuasked : his well dressed daughter, after soarch ' Ii.g for the latest copy of h;s paper. L ?vo ! tl< r ink u the I it< st >hle <.f writing I'-.tid, so cdlu d. b.-cause in .' e.r ' weeks it di-appear Boo A l 3t ^o'ajja-'-? dry. MATTEsa.'r?Tli^ prw of. single oopioe of the Phoenix ft fire cents. A much-needed raiu-fall, yesterday, de? lightfully cooled the atmosphere. Mr. McKenzie will furnish peach short-cake again, to-day. Try it. Do you want to keep cool? Go to Wearn & Hix and procure a nice carte. Agassiz says that the evening hours are the best for sleep. Yesterday was the hottest of the sea? son. The thermometer was up among the bigh-tiyeis. We are under obligul ions to our liberal friend, Mr. George Symmers, for a Lili pntian lunch. It was heartily enjoyed. Wo have been furnished with several open bolls of cotton, grown by Mr. Hugh Edwards, on Dr. Parker's farm. It was planted on the 30th April. The more people who know what yon have got to sell, tho more customers yoa will have. Therefore, it ulwaya pays to advertiso?in the right papers. The summer solstice has made many grass widowers in our midst. Poor fel? lows, they now Lave no one. to ask them where they have been, when they come home late at night. "The lunatics of the State Asylum in Alabama," says an exchange, "publish a paper." There are some lunatics out? side of the State Asylum who do the same thing. Gen. Worthington, the newly-appoint? ed Collector of Charleston, was sere? naded by the Post Band, last night. He expects to take possession of his office next week. Bat that has nothiug to do with the mammoth Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Factory on the confines of Bridgeport, where they turn out over 500 machines per day. Only call at their office, in Columbia, and get the best sewing silks, cotton, oil, Sec. * See Them and Thy Them.?Mr. J. M. llobirrson, agent for Halwick's patent improved curved yoke shirt patterns, is in Columbia, aud has fnrnished a num? ber of our citizens with these useful ar? ticles. They are said tobe the easiest and best fitting shirts ever offered; they require no stays to koep the bosom in its right position; besides which, the sleeves always remain in the proper place, re? gardless of any movement of the arm. Within three or four weeks past, there has been an extraordinary series of mur? ders committed by "lovers." Oar co? lumns have contained reports of at least a dozen in different sections of the coun? try. Does the published account of the doing of one such idiotic net put the in? sane idea into the head of another, and so pass the morbid influence until the crime rages like an epidemic? It is a most surprising kind of love which finds its dual expression in murderiog the ob? ject of the lover's affection. We present the Puajsix to its reader?, this morning, with its fair proportions somewhat curtailed; but the diminution in size does not, and will not, entail a corresponding reduction in the quantity of reading matter. The present size shall be only of temporary duration; certain changes in the mechanical de? partment of our office rendering it ne? cessary. We shall continue to furnish our readers with the latest political and commercial news from nil parts of the globe, as well as cater to the tastes of those who read tho paper for other than its importance in the departments men? tioned . Phcesix.LA.XA ?Watering-place ?otes? Greenbacks. Western farmers feed pota'.o bugs ca Paris green, aud thiuk it does them good. To make a tall man short?Borrow sevon dollars of him. Why didn't a dog waut a place iu the ark? Because he had a bark of his own. If seven days mnke one week, how mauy make one strong? There are people whoso calibre is very little, but whose bore is very big. List of New Advertisements. Novelties at McKenzio's, This Day. P. Cantwcll?F. M. Beef. The Kansas City (Missouri) Times calls for ft union of the South and West iu the political and material questions of tho day. It says: "Sooner or later the two sections will be forced to unite, or go into inevitable and involuntary bank? ruptcy. It is time that tho issues of the war wero buried. Having well nigh de? stroyed republican institutions, thore is no reason why they should destroy every j material, pecuniary, manufacturing and agricultural iutorcst as well. As a senti I ment, loyalty, perhaps, is swcot enough I to those who are fond of such embraced, but as a substance, it is as bitter aud as ? sterile as tho ashes upon the shores of tho Dead Sea." -??? The ca'tles in Spain which sprang uj in Louisville tho night beforo the hit ' public library drawing, would have mad a city as largo and quite a? line ;;- 1. ?:.