The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, February 08, 1867, Image 2
Correspondence of the Courier.
# Washington, Jan. 31.
The city is thronged with strangers
again. The financial, commercial,
and political- classes of the country
are represented here. The President
receives more calls than lie ever did,
and almost every one seeks to have a
conversation with him, and leaves
with a full assurance of his own proposed
knowledge of the President's
.political Views and intentions upon
every subject whatever.
Some of these men, who make up
the Congressional' lobby, have exercised
an important influence. They
will give shape to the tariff, which is
still to be acted upon. They have,
so far, prevented Congress from tak.
ing any decisive course in regard to
the National Banking system, the
currency, the sale of gold, &c. It is
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believed tnat rue x>auonui x><tun. iuuby
will succeed in starving, off any
modification of the National Banking"''
Act. t
It is also quite certain that th^busi-"
ness influences brought t? bear upon
Congress have had an effect in opposi.
tion to the impeachment and other
measures that arc urged by the Radical
extremists. This influence is now
very powerful, and may continue to
be so in the next Congress. But there
is a strong Radical clique here, with
General Butler as its chief, that secretly
works to promote impeachment
at the session commencing" next
March. It is believed by those best
informed that the -Committee of Fifteen
will recommend, if they make
any report at all, that Congress stand
by the proposed constitutional amendment,
a?ud act, at present, on no other
measure of reconstruction.
The failure of action on these subjects
at the present session will, it is
thought, protract the next session
into the forty-first session, and amount
to nothing short of the President's
plan of restoration.
The principle of the Bill for. the
reform of the civil service, which has
just been . brought forward in the
House, was recognized and established
in the Constitution adopted by the
late Confederate States. So also
that Constitution embraced the improvement
now proposed in the Senate,
making the Presidential term six
.years, and without ineligibility.
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Touching the Pocket Nerve.
^ rcauntg journals lr.il a J"
North and West, already had a depressing
effect, unsettled tisc finances,
and cost the country millions of dol- 1
ars. Capital has taken alarm, work '
men are being dismissed from employment,
stocks arc gping down, the demand
for National securities has diminished,
and indications of a financial
panic increase. As a consequence,
the principal Republican journals
throughout the country, (which,
as a general thing, represent the intelligence
and wc:Jth of the communities
in which thev arc published,)
with but few exceptions seriously de
precatc even a remote possibility or
conflict between the Legislative and
Executive brandies of the Government.
The New York Tribune is
foremost in its opposition to impeachment,
and indirectly charges the Herald
with a design to break up the
Republican party by its advocacy of
the measure. Such a result would be
almost inevitable, and other leading
journals foresee disaster to the country,
and ruin to the Republican party,
if the agitation is continued. The
Chicago Tribune, the great radical
thundercr of the Northwest, is out in
an elaborate and forcible article afainst
the.impeachmcnt of the Rrcsient;
and the Albany Journal goes
so far as to say, "We believe the
country will suffer less by a continuance
of Andrew Johnson in office?
even if he should repeat his 22:id -of
February speech once a week; and
Appoint none but copper-heads to office?than
by the perturbations which
would follow an indictment in the
House of Representatives.
* Washington Star.
Financial.?The New York
World says: "That a panic and
ruinous decline in prices are incvita
ble is an opinion accepted by every
one. The only question is as to the
date when this panic and ruinous decline
may be expected. The National
.'Banks, money-lenders and bull
cliques, who arc all mixed up together
in carrying heavy loads of stocks,
are not likely to collapse without a
desperate effort to galvanise the
Stock market, and delude the public
into buying their watered railway and
steamship companies' shares. Their
success in thus deluding the public,
time will show. At present the public
are not buyers. The public are ;
short of cash, having paid this last
year about six hundred inillions(?t>00,000,000)
in "very hard cash" to
Government for taxes, besides profits
of 20 to 80 per ceut. on the capital of'
the National Banks, to those privileg- j
ed aristocratic institutions. The Stock J
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market to-day has reflected the pfbstrate
and hard-up condition of the
business community in a stagnation
of buying demand and weakness "in
prices ominous of an impending panic
in stock values. There is no scarcity
of money, but .there is a scarcity of
confidence and a scarcity of buyers.
The Stock market is suffering from
the want cf confidence and the want
of buyers, and not from the want'of
money.
StJUTHE-KX School Books.?It is
no longcrpos.siblctousc in our schools
the books of Northern origin. They
arc found usually^to belie our history,
slander our people and spoil our
language. We want the truth, and
not fictions, which arc not only tcrri- '
bly false, but terribly dull and stupid.
We want the English language,
and not a brogue. We rejoice to sec
that proper efforts are making, in the
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'proper places, to*givc us tueson 01
.books we need; ?gr the' edncationfof
the young. The Professors of the
Virginia University, all Southern
men, and all highly endowed and
highly capable, Jiavc the matter in
hand, and, through the press of C.
35. llicliardson & Co., we Jure almost
fully provided, already, with an entire,
complete and most excellentSouthern
School and University series.
Professor Geo. F. Holmes has
prepared for our children a pictoria
primer, an elementary speller, and
five successive pictorial readers, all
admirably, conceived, finely illustratrated,
and excellently gotten up.?
School charts accompany this series.
Professors Venablcs, M. F. Mowry,
Lc Conto, Gildcrslceve and De Yere
follow with text books in language
and the sciences; Holmes, Gavarrc,
Porter and Simms follow, in history;
and, all together, make us independent
in educational matters, if we arc
not-in political. We counsel owr people,
as well as our school tcncfiers, to
examine these volumes, and we should
insist that the time has come when
Southern children should be taught
bnly by Southern men. If not capable'
of teaching our own children, we
have no right to children at all; and
we certainly can do them 110 justice.
We arc happy to see that the Senate
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UlUU JLXWUiSVUI IkCUi L'SUllMU I bO VI uian,
of Mississippi lias recommended this
series for adoption in all the schools
and academies of that State; that the
General Assembly of the State of
Georgia has' done the same thin.?.
other Southern'States is calling upon
their people to do likewise. Let the
'ball of reform and progress roll 011,
and all impediments be swept out of
the track.?Charleston Mercury.
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Trial-of the Steam Plough?
Quite a.number of the leading planters
and merchants of our State were
present yesterday at the trial of the
steam plough, imported by Messrs.
Longstrect, Owen k Co. The trial
took place at the Fair Grounds of the
Mechanics' and Agricultural Association,
and the apparatus, under the
direction of Mr. Max Eytli, late .cnginecr-in-chief
to the Pacha of Egypt,
evinced to the fullest satisfaction of
all present its wonderful capacity as
a marvellously complete and effective
agricultural implement. Some of
our most extensive planters who were
present at* the trial were enraptured
*??? !* tl?A ortffiiAic vvwl nrumiM/iv
Willi iitv iriiu uiiui aujf wiin
which it performed its work, albeit
the ground was unfavorably adapted
to a true and fair exhibit of its powers.
The plough moves between two
engines with such ease and celerity,
guided by cue man, that the work of
forty ordinary ploughs with all the
necessary hands and accompaniments
can be performed in twen ty-four hours,
and every moment of favorable weather
may be improved with r-uch promptitude
and certainty that no time is
lost in preparing the soil for whatever
crop . may be designed. The
advantages of this wonderful improvement
need only.to be seen to satisfy
all who arc interested in agriculture
of its adaptability to our soil, and the
economy and practicability of its
working on a large or small scale. It
ie cnr?li fni nntornvisn n? slmnld iritpv
est every planter and merchant in the
State, and promises yet to revolutionize
the system of Southern agriculture.
We can.ill afford to let planters of
Egypt, who have tested this machine,
surpass us in enterprise in the culture
of our great staples, and with the advantages
of the steam plough we may
vie with the world in wealth and productiveness^?New
Orleans Crescent.
, Negro Migration.?For two
months past a large number of the
colored farm-hands of the State have
left the middle and upper districts,
and have gone in large numbers to
the South anq Southwest. They have
gone to all sections of the Shouthern
country?Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas,
Texas, and" Florida. This
last State appears to be the favorite,
and some five tlipusand to six thous!
and, at least, have passed through
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this city, houncl in that direction.?
The steamer Dictator, of the Florida "
line, has been a favorite boat with
them, and has probably tahen from
three thousand to four thousand. On
Saturday last," the steamship Adelolcft
tliis city for Galveston Texas,
having on board some three hundred'"
to four hundred. The number that
have left the upper country in wagons,
it is difficult to estimate, but we have
heard the total number* that haveri
left put'dowii at twenty-five thousand. 1
5* Charleston News. ~'
Aid for tiie South.?The following
from the Boston Post,;of Friday,
will be of interest to some of our
readers:
Boston, January ??1, 1S67.
Editor Boston Post: I observe an <
appeal in your paper, from some ope j
in South Carolina, for the starving,
people of that section. It seems to.
En vnflior- an infnvni.'iT or irreaTrhi?ta
call, but ifffisnn rMllitiona! indieati<^{
of suffering among tho.jc who certainly
have been our fcl 1 o w-c o u ntrymen.
If such now, have they not still a claim
on.us as neighbors; and if aliens, have
they not as good antic to our sympathy
as the Cretans? Whatever side
of poljticsVe take then, as Christians
let us help them?let some organized
movement bo made! In New-York
there has been a public meeting, .and
committees have been formed to procure
relief for the sufferers at the'
South as well as as iu Greece. Cannot
Boston do as much ? In default
of any general movement, I beg you
will open a subscription at the office
of the Post and put me down for one
hundred dollars.
Yours, very truly, &e., J. S. F. '
[Annexed is the appeal which we
republish. It is adtlresstd to the
Mayor of this city, but wc learn that
his Honor has net received a copy,
and had no knowledge of such a com-'
munication until it appeared in the
Post, to which paper it was dily addressed
for publication. Under these
circumstances the Mayor does not
feel authorized to receive .donations,,
more particularly as the appeal directs
to whom remittances should be
made. But if any arrangement should
be made for the collection of money
in this city, wo have the Mayor's.assurance
that he would allow his office
to be designated as one of the places
n 1
ior sucn a purpose.
Concerning the suggestion of our
correspondent, J. S. 1<\, we should .
sums subscribed to aid the famine^
stricken people in the district indicated
by Mr. Mittag.?Ud. Post.
A SOUTHERN Al'l'EAL
* Laxcasterville, S. C.
To the Mayor of the City of Boston :;
Dear. Sir": The "Athens" of Am
erica will not, I am confident, turn \
a deaf car to the appeals of suffering I
humanity.
A great number of human beings
must perish for the want of provisions,'
unless immediate relief is afforded,
in this section of our common country.
Even a small contribution will !><r
gratcfully received. 1
Dir.'ft to the "President of the
Charlotte and* South Carolina Kail-1
road," Charlotte, North Carolina, ;
Yours, &c.,
- . J. F. G. MITTAG.
January 21,18U7.
Prospects in Arkansas.?TliOi
Camden, (Ark.,) Eagle, of the 1.2th
says that .town is overrun with negroes.
The fact lias drawn the attention
of the lied and Arkansas Hirer
planters, and under a brisk competition
the rate of wages has matcrially
advanced. In Tact it is now so
high that many fear that the uplands
cannot be profitably cultivated. The
planters of the river bottoms may make
a small margin of profit. But 'the
prospect is so discouraging that the
number of acres planted will be smaller
this year than ever before.
The Difference.?While our Legislature
did nothing for the people
but gave a depreciated currency, our
sister States of Georgia and North
Carolina have shown their wisdom,
patriotism and sympathy for the people.
The former we have already
noticed in its legislative enactments
t*o1w?-F fn loffni* Rfofn mm
Vi JLil U11V/ iUllVl K^L-IALV^J Uilu \J L
the most encouraging signs of good
sense is a bill introduced into the
Legislature autliorizing a loan of
$10,000,000 of gold in Europe by the
State. It is stated that assurance
has been given by the projectors of
this bill that the loan can be effected
in Europe on favorable terms, and
can be easily accomplished.
Columbia Phamix.
The New Orleans Crescent says:
"Cotton is low. Its net return to
the planter, after paying tax, freight,
commission and expenses, is not more
than it was "before the war, and the
expenses of raising it, yet to come
out, is treble." N
Is not this enough .to satisfy us :
that it is our interest to raise more
corn and less cotton ? I
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Friday, Fcbruar) 8, ISii?.
= Editorials,
AVe have tho gratification of announcing
an engagement with Gen. Kershaw
for the contribution, weekly, of
one or more articles for tho editoral
columns of the Journal.
Maj. Blair has also promised us contributions
for its columns as often as
his leisure will permit.
The Mails Again. AVe
are requested lo state that on
and after the 9th inst., the 'Mails for
the Bail Boad will be closed at 1 o'clock
P. M. on Tuesday's, Thursday's
and Saturday's..
To meet the change in the de
parture of the mails, our day 6f publication
is changed to Thursday. Advertisers
will please hand in their faVfore as-early
as practicable on Wednesday morning.
The Tea-Party.
Those of our friends, who wis^ to
spend an hour in pleasant enjoyment
will not neglect to attend the Tea-Party
advertised for this afternoon.
lie Prospects of Camden.
In a recent article in this paper, we
took occasion to recapitulate the history
of our troubles with the South Carolina
Rail Road Company, on the subject
of re-building the Camden Branch In
the same number, we announced upon
tho authority of a loiter of the President
of tho Road to our resident Director,
that tho work of reconstruction would be
commenced by the 1st inst. Some of iho.
views with which wo had intended to
follow up the subject, have been modified
by this encouraging information,
but it may be well to express a few
thought* which we then entertained.
A Rail Road is a necessity to a country
like ours, whose staples are bulky
and difficult of transportation. Cotton,
turpentine and rosiu cannot profitably
and easily be -whisked away to a distant
market by wagon, over the ordinary
country roads, as the experience of the
last two years has sadly proven. The
turpentine^ farms in thro* -fourths of
this District, formerly so profitable,
have been discontinued. The considerable
population encocred inits nrowic-im
mis-' disuppJorw?the tlfpusahds
of acres of laud before so valuahle,
liave become almost worthless while
the mercantile operati:ns of Camden,
based upon this commodity, "have been
wholly suspended. It is true, the area
of cotton planting,"so greatly diminished
by other causes, has not been similarly
affected, because of its higher value.
and the necessitv of its nroduction.
as tho only article upon which the planter
can rely to compensate his labor, in
these days of trial and. difficulty. Hut
how seriously lias the planter felt the
loss of liis homo market, and the heavy
cost of transportation by wagon? To
the merchants of Camden, how ruinous
has been the loss of the cotton trade?
Last year, the staple went to tho Charlotte
Rail Road on the ono hand, and
the "Wilmington Road on the other, almost
from our very doors. Sumter,
Columbia and Charlotte enjoyed the
trade upon which Camden formerly
prospered?which gavo character to the
place and raised the standard of our
merchants to a point of honorable and
elevated respectability. Our Town property
has depreciated to less than half
its value. The rugged ruins left by
the torch of the incendiary, still frown
grimly in their ashes and but one solitary
building has reared its .head on
broad "street, since that dismal night,
two years ago, when the conqueror drove
defenceless women and "children, in terror
from their flaming homesteads.?
Many of our best peoplo have been
forced to seek rofuge in other and more
thriving communities. 'Schools have
been oroicen up,?cnurcnes deprived
9f half their worshippers, and home
circles rendered desolate, by the banishment
of many of the brightest and
best beloved?all for the want of a Kail
Koad. "*
It would be cruel to lift tho veil which
half conceals the fearful struggles with
poverty and want, of those who still
remain, to fight the battle of life in the
homes of their ancestors. A peoplo
thus suffering must have relief. This
we have all along felt must come with
the re-building of the Rail Road. With
that, we shall see the grey dawn of
better times, soon to be followed by the
rosy sun-light of prosperity. If these
fail us, theu, with the desperate energy
of a last hope, we shall throw ourselves
into a now enterprise which promises
us even better results. "Very soon,' an
air-line Rail Road will be finished from
Hamburg to Columbia. Tho Sumter
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^ni^Baa^a^^nmnMnnM^Min^na
and Columbia EailJRoad has already
been chartered. An air-line between
those places would pass but a few miles
from Camden, and would Cross; the
Wateree at a point almost impracticable,
because of the wide swamp and the
low banks of the river. If deserted by
the South Carolina Eail Eoad, we must
put out a golden wand and by its wia-'
gic touch, bend the Eoad in this direction?a
very slight bend?and put jit
across the river at the Ca?feien bluffs.
If the Camden Branch were abandoned,
wo fmight, perchance; find means to
make tire' South Carolina Eail Eoad
Company pay for the proposed improvements
We do not desire to 6ee an iron
barrier extended across the State from
Augusta to Wilmington, rending our
city of the waters,'with her prouij memories"
bf the past,'from her trade eon
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nections mm iwo-tmras 01 tne people
of the State?yet it is but fair to warn'
her opulent mid iqtellfgent capitalists",
that but little more of the grinding
pressure of the last two years is required
to produce that deplorable result.
Our people have been veryqniet,
but they arc neither dead nor impotent.
"When we hear that the work has
fairly commenced upon ^ the ?amden
Branch, we may indicate a project
which will enable Charleston to recover
the trado north of us, which she has
lost, and may hereafter lose..
To Taa-Payera.
The following resolutions were adopted
by the Legislature at its late session.
We publi-h them for the benefit
of all interested:?
Resolved, Tbat it is not only fair,
right and proper, but essential to order
and*go?d government, that tne payment
of taxes levied under Act of the
Legislature at its last regular Session
should be equally enforced against all
who are liable to pay them, therefore
Resolved, That the Comptroller General
do require the Sherili's of the several
Districts, to. enforce the collection of
the tax executions against all defaulting
tax-payers. .
The new Plan of Reconstruction.
A special dispatch from Washington
to the Charleston Daily Notes, dated the
4th inst says: " A conference of Governors
Obe, Siiabxe^ Paesoxs and
Mabvix, and other prominent Southerners,
with the President, has culmiua
1 1 aailw i" 'urn fir ?
resolutions, providing for suffrage wilh
out distinction of color, with a qualification
of reading; writing, and property
amounting to S250. The resolutions
were transmitted to the Governors of
South Carolina and Georgia last evening,'with
an advisatory letter. Telegrams
have also been sent to the Legislatures
of Louisiana, Mississippi, and
other Southern States, inviting immediate
action upon the proposition.?
Upon tliisTine, it is understood^ the
new policy of the. Administration is
based, coupled with amnesty, but prohibiting
the leaders in the. rebellion
from..holding Federal office.
The Hon. Howell Cobb, of Georgia,'
has been telegraphed to, requesting him
to comedo Washington, to talce part in
the further maturing of this policy.
Do not Emigrate.
At^recent Convention of the Farmers
of Virginia, held at Richmond, ExGov.
Smith delivered an address, from
which t' e -following is an extract. -His
remarks are as applicable to South Carolinians,
as to Virginians, inad we com
mend them to the consideration of all
who contemplate emigration. Governor
Smith said : "He had earnestly impressed
on his friends not to leave the
country. Where would they go ? Virginia
was tho placo for them, after all.
Let every Virginian say 't. 'is is tho spot,
for mo; here, is my ancestors' home. I
will die here, and spare no effort to
restore my native State!' "Where could
they go ? To Mexico ? No. To Brazil ?
To the West? No. For there they
would be overwhelmed by hordes of
foreigners. He had travelled much of
late, and took occasion to converse with
the people. He came to this city and
aws palatial residences going.up. Thousands
of dollars were thus spent, when,
if they had been applied to manufacturing
purposes, other people would be j
buying .from us. He had been to Dan- j
v!llo_ TTa sa w there a water front of a
| mile and a half, which could be devoj
ted to manufacturing purposes, but he
j found the merchants there putting up
I fine houses in the country, where they
' j spent some of t o time which ought
I to be devoted to business. He saw fine
stores going up here, in which to sell
! shoes and hats, from New England,
! wine from the Ehine, and silks from
I France ; whilst in place of them new
factories should be established, iu which
the Confederate soldiers could get em|
ployment. Ho looked forward with
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hope, though the. signs of the timear '"
were ominojW- Let us look forward
with hope, and let us go to work and
do our duty." *
Georgetown Hail Road; ,
;jAt a meeting of the Stockholders of
this road, held in Georgetown .sax. tlfe
23d ult., the following resolutions were' *
adopted/
Resolved, That the Secretary an<^
Treasurer be requested to call for fE'ef
unpaid amounts of the lst^ 2d:j "3d, 4tb"
5th calls, ^d,- in case the same is not
paid, that he be requested to take. ,thrf
necessary legal steps to ertfbrce'the payment.
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V ' .w. - J' Resolved,
That, as soon as the meanrf ;
are raised, the Directors are requested
to have^tho route surveyed froA fhe'^ * ?
terminusof the present'graded, portion*
to Lancaster C. H.
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^Soldiers.?Misfortune hS^ifalleii. ^ *
heavily ypon Mrs; Donald Rotfe>',of . *
Orangeburg, the great Iriend and- '.
nurse of soldiers during the late warl
The property of her husband is .'advertised
to be sold by the sheri^ on - *the
next sale day, and she,will Bedeft
without houso or home'. Many of the .
soldiers who have bpen relieved by
her kindness have expressed a desire
to a'sist her in this hour * of ber distress.
She labored for. no pay during
the war, and'now asks for no ye- ..
muneration for services, but wc? feet- '
that it would be a lasting reproach
upon the country to aHow her to be'
turned homeless upon the world. We-' *
therefore- propose to purchase^thej
plantation for her. Two thousand J:
dollars have already been secured for*
this purpose, and we earnestly solicit "
contributions from all who are willing:*
to assist in. this.noble work. Sena
yoiir money a3 speedily as possible/
Remit to Mr. Leonard;Cbapin^?Charleston
C., Rev. W. G. Connor^
Orangeburg, S.,C., or Mr.Jf^G,*
DeEputain'e, Columbia, S.. C. Alt
papers friendly to the causo will con-' .
fer a favor by copying this. . _;A
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Bobbins.?-b. large number-of the*
Cotton Manufacturers of the ..South,
arc-now sending their orders format'
nseful and greatly needed article-^--'
bobbins, to the North. In view of
the demand, and at-the same time the'
inconvenience and delay-,-attending:
shipments, Mr. H. T. Nelson Uas^esP
tablished a fac ory at Augusta, Ga.,
where lie turns out as cheap, and
good , .an article as is made all' the-1 ~
United States. - V 71
These evidences of growth should;
be generally noticed "and commented'
upon by the press, and their authors ' , .
be encouraged. Messrs. Cliilds &
Co., of tliQ Saluda Mills, ?re Using*
these bobbins-with .great satisfactionPatronize
your own people! . :
South Carolinian'.-.
Contra cts iN'CoNrEDE
rency.?Chancellor Lesesne at Chap'
Icston has recently decided in' the'
case of Jackson vs. Lazarus, that the' *'
principle is held that debts Contract-"
ed in Confederate currency must be*
jdischarged on the basis of- the value'
of tliat currency, as compared, with1
gold, at the time that the debt was'
incurred, and consideration giventherefor."
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This establishes a precedent k*
South Carolina for all cases involving
the payment of debts or obligations
contracted in Confederate cur-"
rency.?lb. * . * '
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Stolen Cotton.?Our energetic
Chief of Police, brought into. town,,
yesterday, a wagon load of cotton?
five bales, which he captured en route
for Orangeburg, S. C. The cotton 1
was stolen several days since, from
Mr. Win. Sumner, Pomaria. When
overtaken, by. Mr. Green, the.negroes
accompanied by the cotton, with the'
exception of the wagon?decamped,
and could not be overtaken.?lb.
Aid for the South.?The New
York. Tribune announces that a prac
tical organization for the relief of the
suffering at the South has been formed
in that city, under management of
ladies of the highest character and
position, with no reference' whatever
to political relations. Steps will be
taken so to to-operate with General
Howard as to avoid waste or misdirection
in the distribution of the supplies,
and Commodore Garrison has
offered the use of a steamer to convey
contributions to any point which *
may be designated. The New York
World has a notice apparently, of the
same movement, which says:.
- uNo political color-'whatever is to
i :? +k;d m nmanf 1>. wilT .
j UC gl V uil LU ClXiO UIUTVUivuv* *v ?...
have but one object, the saving of
thein that are ready tojcrish, and
will be administered in but one spirit,
the. spirit of that charity -which blesses
both them who receive and then*
who give. The ladies are encouraged
to their good work by Mayor
j IIofFman, by the Catholic Archbishop
; of New York, by Bishop Potter, by
: Dr. Tyng, and a number of other
| eminent- laymen and clergymen.?
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