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When I K?an to Kerry.
BT JOHN O. RAXK.
Whon do I moan to marry T Well?
'Tis idle to dispute with fate ;
But if you ohoose to hoar mo tell,
Pray listen whilo I fix the doto.
When daughters haste with willing feet,
A mother's daily toil to share ;
Can make tho puddings that they eat,
And mond the stockings which they wear.
When maidens look upon a man
A m tr klswaal# 1.1 ?.
jno >* uiuipwii mcj wuuiu luiirrvp
And not as army soldiers scan
A sutler or a commissary.
When gentlo ladies, who hare got 1
The offer of a lorcr's hand,
Consent to share his "earthly lot,"
And do not mean hia lot of land.
When young mechanics are allowed
To find and win the farmers' girls,
Who don't expect to be endowed
V ilta rubies, diamonds and pearls.
When wires, in short, shall freely gire
Their hearts and hands to aid their spouses,
And lire as thoy were wont to lire
Within Xheir aires' one-story houses.
Thon, madam?If I am not too old? I
Rejolcod to quit this lonely life,
I 'II brush my bearer, ccaeo to scold,
And look about me for a wife ! (
Friendship of Men and Women.
The chief thing wanting between '
men and women, as it seems to me, is '
friendship. Of love aid peelic ad mi- 1
ration there is abundance, of course,
and to spare. The world could not go
on without these pretty amenities : but
we wan*, friend-bip far more (ban all
these?the uftectiunateness which has 1
no relation to love, but which would 1
ensure equitable treatment from each '
<???i, w.. I.I i l...n :t. <
iv catu. ?? c vuuiu im*u liu ucucr gill
than tlie reception and bestowal of such
a feuling. But to obtain it we ought '
to make ourselves more fit (or it than,
we are at present. For though we
wore certainly not sent into the world
solely to supplement men's lives and to
have no original object of our own,
.till, we cannot do without their liVing;
and it ii only right that we should set
our watches by their time. They arei
clearer-headed than we?less prejudiced
if le>a conscientious; inore generous
when generous, and more tender when
tender. Being the stronger, they are
larger in all things?even in their love.
When they love, they love better than
we love, but less absorbingly. We
give the whole of our lives to love;
they keep one portion of theirs for work,
and another for ambition. Still the
half measure of a gallon is more than
the full measure of a pint; and weight
for weight, the mau's love is greater
then the woman's. This is a tremen
dous heresy. I know, but it ia a truth
notwithstanding; and we ought to be
able to recognize all truths when we see
thern, bow disagreeable soever they
may be to our prejudices or our pride.
One of tbe fundamental differences
between us and men liea in the differences
there is between instinct and pas
aion. We are instinctive, and men are
passionate. Now, passions admit of
the modifying power of reason better
than do instincts, because of the peri
ods of cessation. Tbe most passionate
roan is not always at blood beat, raving
and ramping aoout the world like an
unloosed demon ; bat Instinct ceased.?
It is eternal, continuous, unchanging ;
deaf and blind to all but iteelf?-a great
amorphous giant, with only one eye in
the midst of its forehead, and that eye
turned inward, lieason regulates in
stinct?as much as an infant may lead
a lion 1 And is not this complete subjugation
by instinct one of tbe reasons
wiiy women are so difficult to manage,
and so possessed by any affection tbey
toay bavtf
A method employed in Oermany to
keep rosebuds fresh into the winter con
sure in tirst covering the recently cut
tern with was, and than placing each
one in a closed paper cap or eone, ?o
that the leave* do not touch the paper.
The crp ia then coated with glne, to
exclude air, dust, and moisture, and
when dry ia etood up in a drawer in a
cool place. When wanted for use, tba
rose ia taken out of the cap and placed
in water, after cutting off the end, when
the rose will bloom in a few hours.
A new military pena| code has been
promulgated in &aredeo. It abolishes
i orporeal punishment ae being contrary
10 principles of humanity and injurious
to the dignity of the aoljier,
Mechanical Ingenuity of Farmers.
One or the component parts of a
rood farmer in mechanical ingenuity.
Some lose half a day's time for want of
knowing bow to repair a breakage
which ac ingenious person could do in
Sve minute*. A team and two or three
men are sometimes stopped a whole
Jay at a critical season for want of a
little mechanical skill. It is well for
svery farmer to have at hand the facilities
for repairing. In addition to the
moro common tools, he should keep a
lupply of different sires, of screws, bolts,
and nuts. Common cut nails are too
brittle for repairing implements or for
other similar purposes. Huy only the
very t>e*t, and anneal them, and they
will answer all the ordinary purposes
of the beat wrought nails. To anneal
them, all that is necessary is to heat
them red hot in a common fire and cool
gradually. Let them cool, for instance,
by remaining in the fire while it burns
down and goes out. One such nail,
well clinched, will be worth half a doe
en unannealed. Noibing is more com
mon than for a farmer to visit the
blacksmith's shop to get a broken or
lost bolt or rivet inserted, and often a
r ingle nut on a bolt. This must be
paid for, and much time ie lost. By
providing a supply of bolts, nuts, and
rivets, much time and trouble may be
saved. They may be purchased whole
sale at a very low rate. These should
til be kept in shallow boxes, with com
partment* made for the purpose, furrmhed
with a bow-handle for c<>nveni
ence in carrjing them. One box with
half a dozen divisions may be appropri
fed to nails of different sizes, and an
ather with as many compartments, to
screws, bolts, rivets, etc. Kvery farmer
ihould keep on band a supply of copper
wire and small pieces of sheet cop
per or copper strape. Copper wire is
better than annealed iron wire. It is
almost as flexible as twine, and may be
bent and twisted as desired; and it
will not rust. Copper straps nailed
across or around a fiacture or split in a
wooden article will strengthen it in a
thorough manner.?Rural Affair*.
Preserving Eggs.
No egg is fresh that will shake; this
is because it has lost some of its albumet..
No egg has ever been preserved
[>ver a month that will not shake ex
cept it be air-rooted, which is a term
not generally understood and is a new
process. The egg has been coated
wiiu ever / conceivauie composition,
ave? with solid stone. vet the watery
material escapee. The philosophy of
ihie is that there is air in the egg be
fore it is treated, and this uniting its
oxvgen and carbon produces decompo
nit ion by carbonic acid gas, the yellow
of rlie egg first breaking, then follows
the destruction.' Eggs are naturally
designed to last as long as the hen requires
to get her brood, and the life
germ can he preserved % few weeks?
seven or eight?but no longer. The
egg itself may be kept in a preserved
state for two years by greasing with
butter, oil or lard, but fiom the time it
is thus put up to the end of two years
it will daily lose its albumen by transpiration,
and wbile its carbonic acid
escapes to a certain extent, the egg
meat will be reduced two-thirda, and
will shake. For culinary purpose.!
they will do well. But we want a
whole egg, not a half one, and we want
ibera tre?tt. Hotter and lard and suet
have been used for half a century, atiil
nothing baa recommended itself over
the liming system in a commercial
point of view. The theory has always
been, and still is, that to keep an egg
freah the air must be excluded. It is
the only philosophical treatmsnt of it
that can be made. Externally kept
from the air, the latter is powerless to do
harm, but the air inside no mortal can
prevent, and that alone in lime will de*
compose the egg.? Scientific American,
IIow to Rktain a good Fack.? A
correspondent has some good ideas on
the importance of mental activity in retaining
a good face. lie says: * We
were speaking of handsome men the
other evening, and I was wondering
whjr K. had so lost the beauty for
which, five years ago, he was famous.
" Oh, it's because be never did anything,"
said n., he never worked,
thought, or suffered.' You must have
the mind chiseling away at the features.
if you want handsome, middle-ag'd
men.' Since hearing thai remark, f
have been on the watch to tea whether
it i? generally true, and it is. A hand ome
man who doe* notiiing but eat
and drink, growa flabby, and the fine
linea of hia feature* are loat, bat the
hard thinker haa an admirable sculptor
at work, keeping hia fine linea in repair,
and constantly going over hia face to
improve the original design."
8omx IIoo*.?The Marion Cretctnt
says Mr. Charles Ilaaeldell of that Cnun
tv, last week killed two of hia bogs,
which when dressed and hnng up.
weighed one thousand and twenty
five pounds. Out of them weighed six
hundred and one pojoda,
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About Blood.
Observe your mother when aire is
packing a trunk, and you will see
whatever the is most afraid will be
spoiled, she is most careful to put in
the middle, that it may be least exposed
to accidents. And this is what a
kind Providence has done with the arteries,
which have the utmost cause to
dread accidents, while the veins, which
are much belter able to bear rough
usage are allowed lo wander about
freely just under the skin, lint when
the bones happen lo take up a great
deal of room and come near tha skin
themselves, as is the case in the wrist,
the artery is forced whether he likes it
or not, to venture to the surface, and
then we are able to put our fingers
upon him. And there are others in
the same sort of situation ; the artery
of the foot for Instance.
Ynn r.,^i ki?i t. ?J
? VU l?ni ?JM|IV PWIX3 UUMMI 19 IXJU uu
you not! Well, it is tio more red then
the water of n stream would be if you
were to fill it with little red fishes.?
Suppose the fishes to be retj, very
small?aa small as a grain of sand?
and closely crowded together through
the whole depth of (bo stream ; the
water would look quite red, would it
not! And ibis it the way in whicb
blood looks red ; only observe one
thing; a grain of sand is a mountain
in comparison witb the little red fishes
in the hlocd. If I a ere to tell you they
measured about the three thousand two
hundredth part of sn inch in diameter,
you would not be much wiser, so I p > <>
fer saying (by way of giving you a
more perfect idea of their minuteness)
that there would be about a million ir.
such a drop of blood aa would hang on
the point of a needle. 1 say so on the
authority of a scientific Frenchman?
M. Bouillet. Not that he has oounted
them, as you may suppose, any more
than 1 have done ; but this is as near
an approach aa can be made by calcu
lation to the size of those fabulous blood
fishes, which are the three thousand
two hundredth part of an inch iu diameter.
Giants?In a recent lecture a dis
tinguished gentleman baid :
The giant exibiied at liouen in 1330
measured neatly eighteen feet.
Goradius saw a girt that was ten feet
hgh.
The giant Galabra, brought from Arabia
to Koine under Claudius Cui-ar,
was (en teet high.
Fannum, who lived in the time ol
Eugene 11, measured eleven and a hall
feet.
The Chevalier Scro, in hid voyage to
the peak of Teneriffe, found, in one ol
the cavern* of that mountain, the head
of Gunich, a ho bad silly teeth, and was
not less than fifteen feet high.
The giaut Feriugus, slain by Orlando,
nephew of Charlemagne, was twcn
ly eight feel high.
In 1814, near St- German, was found
the tomb of the giant I*ornnt, who was
not less than thirty feel high.
In 1580, near Konen, was found a
skeleton whose skull held a bushel ol
corn, and who was nineteen feet high,
I The giant Uncart was twenty twc
feet high ; his thigh bones were found,
in 1804, near the liver Moder.
In 1820, near the castle in Dauphine
a tomb was found thirty feet long, six
teen wide, aud eight high, on which
I was cut in gray stone, these words
" Kintolochua Hex."
i The skeleton was found entire, twentyfive
and a quarter feet long, ten fee
across the thoulders, and five feet fron
, the breast bone to the hack.
I Near Palermo, in Sicily, in 1516
I was found the skeleton of a oi*r>t thir
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tj feet high; and in 1550, another thir
ty four feet long.
Near Maxrins, in Sicily, in 1815, wm
found the skeleton bf a giant thirty
feet high ; the head wm the size of i
hogshead, and each of bit teeth weigh
ed live ounces.
VeLocifBDisa.?We hare beard to ratio
of velocipedes from the ether side ot the watel
that it may be interesting to know practical!
how fast tbey go, and how usefbl they at
Hkely to he. In France, where thte institutio
bae been most la use, thsy And no ditBenlt;
ia attaining a speed of from twelve to thirtrei
mUes aa hoar. Persoas skilled in workim
them will go lAy mile# in Ave hours, witkou
alighting from their vehicles. A party earn
from Koueu to Pans, on the Slat of last Sep
torn bar, a distance of eighty-A ve miles, betwee
the breakfast and tha Vrenoh dinner hear, a
early evening. A men hae driven one of thee
ona hundred and twenty?tbree miles, durin
twenty-four hours, takina his tine fur mat ?
food out of tbe (Nino. It ot be drives u
loop bill*, but tbo rider ?u(t dltmouul am
drew it, whieb, from La lightneea, la rar;
oatiljr done.
A Veteran Trfo.?The Naabeill
(Tennessee) Union, of the 71 It ull., saye
We had the pleasure of rueeling ii
the city yesterday, W. L. Barry, feq
the oideat printer in the United Staler
He ia looking just aa young a* when w<
first kr.ew him, over thirty yeara ago.?
lleia now in itio eigbly-oinlh {Mr, tot
if put to the ta?t, could aet up hit tei
ihoUMUid ewi H day,
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On Making Winter Batter.
When milking, be sure your bends
i ere clean. Strain end piece in crocks
i in e cool place in a good tuilk~bouse.
Some argue long crock* are the beet;
some that shallow ere the best AI
though the shallow crocks will raise
create the quickest, they are not so
i good. Let tbein stand in the water
until the cream is perfectly separated,
then skim and put the cream into a
large cream crock, where it it allowed
to remain until it is perfectly sour.
Here we may notice that the crocks
and all v?o?U mtod nliniiM h? tnulHsil
very lime before they ere laid after
using. Ia cold weather it is sometimes
needful to warm the sour cream bofore
churning, but it is seldom the ca*e.?
Freezing and scalding both spoil the
cream for making good butter. Churn
in an up and-down churn, which is undoubtedly
the best churn there is to be
found. Never use scalding water, as it
ruins the butter, but give good elbow
grease till done.
Although, in dairies of more than
one or two cows, a dog or horse power
may be added, which saves a great
deal of hard work. Take out the butter
immediately, a*>d work out all the
milk possible; then add a little salt,
and let it stand until the next morning,
when it should be worked over again,
allowing no milk to remain in it. Then
have your, butter crock scalded and
rubbed with salt. Place the butter in
it, packing as tight as possible; cover
with a fine piece of muslin, and cover*
ing with a brine which is to be made
of salt and wuter.?Stock Journal.
u Y*e " and M No."?A young lady
has published a poem entitled M Have
courage to say ' Nj.'" It is not, it
may he said, addressed to her own sex,
who need no auch advice. But " No"
is a most formidable word, and though
there are propel limes when it should
be used, as in cases that the lady enumerates
in her poem?whenever temp-led
by the syren to enter billisrd-room*,
to take wine, or visit gambling hells.?
But the " No." when injudiciously uttered,
is very often the seed of trouble
The " No " is loo often spoken by pa
rents from their own inappraeiation of
thing that their children desire ; And
the children refused, without a very
nice discrimination in the premises,
and feeling there is no harm in what
they may ask, impute the refusal 10 tyrant,
and as resistance to tyrants is obe'
dienoe to Ood, they covet more strongly
r the boon denied, and, if possible, secure it
in defiance of the mandate. The word
i " No,'* never should be uttered hastily,
r and never without a reason fur it, which
reason, if sound, will be admitted.?
i But the sullen, absolute, unreasonable
w No," produces ills that the parent
more than the child is answerable for.?
We have known a house made rnisera
ble for a month by a parental refusal of
some little indulgence ibat had no
i hartn ip it beyond the fancy of the parent,
and bent brows and sulkly looks
i hardly compensated the affection that
f mistakenly prompted tbc denial. De,
pend upon it, there is often more dan>
ger in saying " No " (ban " Yes."
Dow an Alabama Planter Saved
\ ma Cotton.? An intelligent planter in
( Alabama entirely escaped the ravages
of the caterpillar last year, although it
' destroyed the cotton upon every other
plantation in his county. Hi* crop
t *u the finest he ever raised. The
! caterpillar came up to the fields of all
his next door neighbors, but they did
not cross his fences. The reason of
1 this was, he issued the sternest orders
that not a single bird, except the jay,
should be killed upon his plantation,
K under any pretext whatever, lie allow
ed little willow groves to grow in his
t fields, and to them be sent a sack of
oats every morning, which were scatter
ed upon the ground. The birds fed
upon the oats and swarmed in thou*
sands around his fields. They exterb
minated the cotton fiy. And hence
' there were no eggs, there were no cat*
r erpillars, there were no larva, but there
e was a blooming garden in the midst of
" a blighted wilderness. Tbsre is no evil
' without its remedy?there is no disease
j without a core.?Afacon Telegraph.
The new wing of the Treasury De*
- part men t at Washington is rapidly ap
* proacbing completion. The three upr
per stories are finished, and earpets are
- now going down ready lor occupancy
* by lha Internal Revenue Department.
A The lower floor# will not be finished for
p two or three months* The walla of the
1 M cash room " ere to be paneled with
1 rare specimens ol Italia.i marble. The
marble will coat about $40,000. When
finished, it will be the finest room in
0 America, if not in the world.
1 Maj. Bit ward Anderson, a veteran eitisen
"* of Laurens, died in tbat riling* on Friday,
* the 8th >aat., in ths 86th year of his age. lis
e ?raa a natir# of Union, and removed to
Laurens in 1824. For a great many years,
^ be held the position of pustniastar, and iisr>
1 ing his long and useful life, had the entire
confidence and respect of Lb fullow-oilircn*.
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Self Sustaining Farms.
Ex Governor Z. B. Vance, of North
Caroline, in bit .tddrwt before the Border
Agricultural Fair el Danville, e
few weeks ego, offered the following
practical suggestion :
In e country so sptrsely settled ao
ours, end where lands ere held in such
large bodies, the theory of a division of
labor is nol sound economy in farming
operations. Every farm should be as
neatly independent and self supporting
in all respects as it can possible be
made. In morcantile patience, a farm
er should, if possible, be a general
dealer to at least the extent of bia own
consumption, l'lanting, therefore, as
contradistinguished from farming?by
which we understand a special devotion
to cotton, rice, tobacco, or any
great staple?is lislde to this objection,
it is nol self sustaining. An iropeifect
and unwise arrangement, that is, by
which so tnany of our planters expend
the proceeds of their staple crops for
provisions and stock, thus paying double
profits and oommisaions as well as
shipping away the f.r ness of their
sotIh every year and placing nothing
back in lieu of it. Every man who
tills the soil as a means of living should
surety first provide himself with everything
which his farm will grow before
he plants a single seed for sale. Another
great objection to planting, or
special farming, is that it is ruinously
destructive to fertility and an enemy to
the improvement of lands. It i?, I believe,
an nccepted truth that there are
no means if permanent improvement
in our soils equal to the cultivation of
some of the gras?ea and the rearing of
flocks, which both retain and return
fertility to tbe earth. We are here directly
on the dividing line between tbe
planting and the grazing regions of
the United States, and by a judicious
and scientific intermingling of both, 1
give it as my unhesitating opinion that
we stand in a better position to secure
wealth by agricultural means than any
other people on the continent.
Planter and Farmer.
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No Stand zr Monkkt.?-Judge David
K. Carter, formerly of Ohio, now
one of the judges of the United Slates
District Court at Washington, is a gen
tleman of marked character and abili
ty, and, withal, a little eccentric. Not
long since an Italian whs tried and
convicted in liis court for some offence
against the laws of the United Stales,
the minimum punishment of which is
three years' imprisonment in the penitentiary
at Albany. Before passing
sentence the Judge asked the culprit if
he had learned any trade, to which a
negative reply was given. The Judge
then said : " In imposing upon you the
lightest sentence permitted by tbe law,
*nd in view of the fact that you have I
no practical acquaintance with any of
the mechanic arts, the Court would say
that during the three years' confinement
to which we now seulence you,
you will have ample opportunity to
learn some trade that will enable yeu
to earn an honest livelihood ; but
should you he unequal to this, yet deport
yourself so as to win the approval
of the officers of the pruon, I have no
doubt, aa a reward for vour good conduct,
they will cheerfully request the
Governor of New York, at the end of
your term, to present you with a hand
organ and a monkey."
The poor Italian, dumbfounded at
the sentence, exclaimed, with uplifted
hands, " Ah, Judge, not ze monkey 1
not ze monkey ! I can stand se three
year and ze hard work, but I no stan
ze dam monkey P
Tdlr Murmukinos.?Those who are
poor in worldly goods are too much
tfisposed to complain, l'overty is the
crucible in which manhood is tested.?
You may be poor ; but if you have
honor and industry and energy, you
will succeed. All the envy and malice
and hatred and petty meanness of 3 our
enemies cannot prevail over true manhood,
we care not how humble may be
ila garb.
IJo not stop to brood over jour misfortunes.
Poverty may be a niUfur*
tune; we dare say it is. But do no;
add to your woes criminal weakness.?
Oo resolutely to work. Look not at
your present poverty. The proud, disdainful
glances of the rich ; the malignity
of your enemies, (all honest men
have enemies ;) lbs jeers of those who
plume tb?ra->elves on their doubtful
lineage; should but strengthen yo?r
determination to place yourself far
Above tbeto all.
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ArroisTussr.?The tfeverno/ ban appoint,
ed Charles J. 8t<>lbrand ss Superintendent of
the Stats Penitentiary, in place of Msj.
Thomas B. Lss, who hat discharged lbs duties
of the office in a meet creditable manner
since the Inauguration of tbo institution. The
appointment of Stolbrand bes not jret been
confirmed by the Senate, but we presume thai
tbrre will bj nodifienlty on this score, as the
appointee Is thoroughly Radical, we believe,
lie is a member of the Legislature from llrsu|
fort, and la a foreigner, lie was in the Federal
army, and Is said to bare enjoyed the
benefits of a military education in Kurope.
The first known ef him In thin State was as
, Secretary of the Roeons ruoUvu Contention
in February last.
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Self-Made Men.
The maxim that M every man is (be
architect of bis own fortune," baa been
strikingly verified and Illustrated in the
history of Ainerican statesmen. We
find the following oollectioa of fact* respecting
some of our great men, that
may prove interesting:
Very few of tbe fathers of our Republic
were the inheritors of distinction.?
Washington was almost tbe onlv gentleman
by right of birth in ail llial astonishing
company of thinkers and aotors.
Two or three Virginians, John
Jay, of New York, and half a doten
meaner moo from otb< r provinces were
exceptions. Hut Franklin was a printer's
hoy ; Sherman, a shoemake , Knox
wava bookbinder ; Green a blacksmith ;
John Arlao,. VI i-1 -
-hu inaniiiai, idb boi1s ot
poor farmers; and Hamilton, the roost
subtle, fiery end electrical, but at the
iam? time the most comp- aid and or*
derly, genius of all, excepting the unapproachable
chief, whs of as bumble pa?.
rentage as the rest, and himself, at the
begining, a cleik or shopkeeper.?
And if we ooroe down to a late period,
Daniel Webster was the son of a country
farmer, and was rescued from the
occupation of a drover only by the
shrewd observation of Christopher Gore,
whom he called upon for advice in respect
to a difficulty arising from the
sale of a pair of steers ; and John C.
Calhoun was the son of a tanner and
currier; the father of ilenry Clay belonged
to the poorer Class of Baptist
minister*; Martin Van Buren, during
the fitful lei-ure of the day, gathered
pine knots to light his evening studies;
Thomas Corwin was e wagoner; Silas
Wright, by heritage a machinist; and
many others among oar stn'esmen
who receive the applause and reverence
' of mankind, passed their earlier years ,
at what, in other countries, would be
almost impassible distances from the
eminences which they now enjoy.
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BacOX asd Coax.?The Newberry Herald
ssys:
Cotton is a royal article in the world's
commercs; at present, it commands a royal
ptlce. We deem it proper to throw out a
suggestion upon tks next crop. From al f
wc can learn, more than ever, our planters
I have in view to nlsnt -1 ?
? , -??ivu aiuivek CADIU
3 vely. It It * dangerous experiment?
Kvery planter should, nt least, have In
view to raise his own breadstuff's. The
scarcity of corn and bacon cnhancea the
| priee of labor. Labor, for the last twelve
| months, has advanced at least twenty five
' per cent in value. The negro is disappearing,
nobody knows where, and white labor
does not, as yet, take his place. The whit*
man will pause before he cotues, as a labor*"
or, to a country not well supplied with
beef and grain. Even at the present price
of negro labor, the while laborer would
not be willing to compete. If labor is to
continue scarce, and the price of labor t<radvance
steadily by the increase of the ear- fsoe
in cotton, it is doubtful if the planter
will be remunerated sufficiently by the probable
advance In the price of the great'
staple. In all probability, the priee of the
bulk of the present crop is the maximums
that the staple will attain. The single article
of bacon now exhausts, to a large ex.
tent, the wages of the eotored laborer and
the profits of tha employer.
These matters should be well considered-*
in connection with pitching another crop.
A failure of a cotton crop, with no corn
and bacon would entail ruin and starvation
upon the majority of the popnlation. Let .
us have bapon and corn.
Extraordinary Pistol PracticeCaptain
John Travis gave another ? *?.
hibition of pistol shooting at bis pal
lery last evening, in which he excelled
any of his previous astonishing per'*
formancet in this citv, by n aeries of*
hazardous feats requiring the roost con*
sutuinate skill on hia part, and extraor?
dinary daring in that of lhM?ent!?*mai>
who assisted in tbem. Mr. John Rover,,
of Texas, held a cup on bis bead, and
Travis fired a pistol ballet through il
from the distance of twelve paces.?
This feat was repeated twice, the balk
going each time within an inch of (becranium
of the ventursome holder.?
The same gentleman also held between
his fingers a small lemon and afterwards
a business card about an inchand
a half square, and fhiough each*
Captain Travis put a bullet, at the samedistance,
with one of the regular gal*
, lery pistol*. Few people would care torun
such risks as Mr. Rover did, and
itwer *(111 eonW ?ac6?*?fullv iniiimw
Captain Tra?ia* wonderful akilV.
I I Chicago Tribune, Dec. 2T*
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Tna Agricultural Report ahowe that year'*
yield to be 005,000,900 hnibel* of corn, and
*,506,000 bale# of cotton. The cotton woe
distributed a* follow* t North Carolina, 140,000
halea; South Carolina, 150,000 baler;
Georgia, 200,000 halea; Florida, 35,000 bah* j
' Alabaena, IH5.00V balei j blw.taalppv 400,00?
1 bale* ; Louisiana, 250,000 balef ; Ten*, 200,000
balea; Arkao#**, 205,000 bale* ; Tennessee,
>00,000 bale*, other State* 75,000 balea. The
1 report atatea tbia eatimate which t* aarnredly
below, rather than shore the actual yield, 1*
not made for diatricts or cotton porta, tut f-ig
tfuto* foparateljr.