Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' Ujl r ' ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ , '''" ^^ a M |||M ,,,, gasnggreanaggg?aa sjgga r..^ii- oaii hi mi ir iijr~-"--^"^l^'Miail,aww?*'*W?Mijjl|^ VOLUME XXV. CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 28,1807. NUMBER 8B; 'i f ' ? trailmmmo i m i- 1 i mhii : i nnn PUBLISH KD WEEKLY I5Y THOMAS "\Y. PEGUE3. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Three Dollars a year Cash?Four pollnrs if payment is delayed three months. IIATKS ()V- AOVEltTlSIXO, l'F.U SQUARE, For the first insertion. Si.50: for tlieseeon 1. $1.00: for the third, 7o cents; for each subsequent insertion, 50 cents. .Semi-monthly, Monthly and Quarterly advertisements. $1.50 each insertion. l The space occupied by ten linos (solid, of ^ this size type) constitutes a square. Payment is required in advance from transient advertisers, and as soon us the work is done, from regular customers MISCELLANEOUS. ~ From the American Farmer. ' THE SULKY CULTIVATOR. Tit reply to inquiries "we give below a description of the Sulky Cultivator. "We learn from reliable sources that it has been [sufficiently tested to de-1 t ermine its "working value, in the j bands of an ordinavilv intelligent i o I wowcman. * :TUo driver, it will be observed, takes his ease in bis sulky, and inay whistle all day through bis own corn I field. He drives two horses, one 0:1 ?aeh side of the corn row, and the working may be continued till the Corn is shoulder high?which is long enough. The description here given is4hxt of .the manufacturer. ' Those who have used the Cultivator, will heartily agree with us, t .that the work is well and thoroughly j done by the use of the adjustible j -shanks and reversible shovels, whereby any reasonable quantity of earth can be thrown either to or from the icorn; that the shanks are so attached to the frame that the shovels can lie arranged to run close together, or distant from each other; and that while the front shovels can be adjusted to throw the soil either to or from the corn, the rear shovels can he arranged to .operate the reverse, plow} ing either deep or shallow, as it may be desired. * -i m?. ! The driver can easuy aim ji-uumj j ^ guide and turn the Cultivator bv tlie , use of his feet, having Loth of his hands free to manage the team ; by pressing on the stirrup with cither to the right or taft, as the c#>c may be; j and when neither foot is used, the | Cultivator will follow the direction of i the team. ^Vefully appreciate the necessity; I -of having agriculture} implements j strongly built and well proportioned, and have spared 110 pains to make 'the ^Stafford* simple, durable, and substantial, used nothing hut the best material, and employing the 'best me chanies and workmen. The draft is as light as that of any j | cultivator built, but in this respect ! y exet'lling rnanj* now offered for sale, j 1 Wo have but to say that it is not ! hard work# for two horses, as cvi-! denced by the thousands that are in ! use, all of which have been operated ; -with the ordinary funning teams of! t O the country. By the use of this Cultivator much manual labor is saved, one person? ' | riding on the plow?doing the work i of two single shovel plows, or of four j lUeu with liocs, completing his labor j with but little fatigue. . , -The main frame rests on an axle- j ':tree supported by high wheels, runi ning four feet apart. The frame is | about two and a half feet from the k ground, and to it arc attached four * : plows?two passing each side of the I row to be cultivated. It requires hut | one man to operate the machine.. j . .The driver controls the direction of j the Cultivator with his feet in a very .-simple and effective manner, having both hauds free at all times to iimn age the team. The process is as folk I Jews : The tongue is pivgtod the ji front end of the fnuue work, and extends two feet back to the point where if. is nivoted ; on the rear end of the tongue there is a circular arm, which rests and slides on a corresponding t circle attached to the frame work ; four stirrups or projections are placed on this circular arm, on which the driver rests his feet; and thus, if lie k presses his right foot, lie changes the L line of the draft, and the machine Jr : turns to the left; if he presses noitli .er.foot, the machine follows the di. erection of the.team. J3v this simple" ^Wvtigoa?ent the .-machine is guided ijuitc easily, while the team keeps on' ^ straight course. P 'Attached to the cultivator is a fender, ijhjch effectually prevents the small'corn from being covered. This is so constructed as to be readily put Ipn or taken off, as the size and growth of the corn may demand. This feud cr is self-adjusting, .accommodating itself to uneven ground, and to the direction tho Cultivator uiav be guided. The application of 1 self-adjusting plows,' to this CulUvator, is so novel, that it has excited te surprise and admiration of all who have scp:i or used it. uVll farmers are aware that if t he common plow strike an unseen obstacle, such as a root or a rock, the obstacle must either give way or the team be brought suddenly to'a stand, or the plow or harness or both must break; and the trouble and expense i accruing from such accidents, arc iire ! portant considerations. In Stafford's Cultivator this objection is entirely overcome. The shanks to which tlic plows are attached are pivoted to the frame work, and to the front shank is attached a chain, which goes forward and- passes around a pulley and then hack to the rear shank, the point of the plows being back pf a : perpendicular line from - where the j shanks are pivoted to the frame. Now \ when the front plow strikes an obstruction, it raises itself until it clears the obstruction, while the rear plow, remaining in the ground, fcrhigs :t te its place again. The rear plow op-1 crates in the same manner, except] that the front plow remains in the ] ground and brings it tv its place im- i jecdiaieh*. Throwing the plows out of the ( ground, is done by means of a joint; in a frame in front of the axletree.? ' The driver, by rising partially from ! his scat, and throwing his weight on j the front of the frame work, causes ! the joint to go down, ard raises the ' rear plow entirely out of the ground, j while the front plows fall back under j the axletree. The plows should always ho thrown out before turning 1 round. The. plows arc made of the best i cast steel, of an oblong shape, and | can readily he so arranged as to j make a wide or -narrow furrow, or-yo" as to throw ti;e soil to or from the corn, j The depth is easily gauged by length- 1 cuing or shortening the chain men-! tioned previously. A prominent feature is the case ' i i i .i /~i i . j j T with v.'incii tlie vuirivnror is xurncu. i It can he turned around in one-fourth , the space required for other wheeled [ cultivators, without cramping the \ team or straining the machine. It1 will aho operate in all kinds of rround." Don't Cultivate Ordinary Land Without Manure.?Recollect, it costs you on our average soils, ten dollars or more, to make an acre of, corn xvitli hired labor, and fifteen or | more to make and gather an acre of cotton. 1!'you do not look closely after your hands, it will cost vou&l good deal more than that. Now, j every acre cultivated, that "will not i yield crops wortii at least the above | amounts, will not only be 1:0 profit. ! but run you into debt. Larger crops ! still, *eip\ircd, to .obtain a profit on hired labor. Lands, U?eii,Ardiich will not yield such crisis, we must let rest, or nmitwro them sufficiently or we lose money. -At lcnjst half of our poorest J soils, hitherto devoted to corn and j cotton, should be thrown out to rest and the balance enriched. How loYig will it take us to exhaust what little capital we have left, if for every acre, on which we can make a net profit of ten dollars we continue to cultivate i five, which lack from three to ten dollars each of .meeting (he .actual cost of cultivation. There arc few lands which will not yield a profit, if commercial manures arc judiciously ap plied. ... Tjie way to Avoid Calumny.?' 'Tf any one speaks ill of thee," said ; Epictctus, "consider whether lie hath ' truth 011 his side, and if so, reform i thyself, that Ids censures may not I effect thee." When Anaxiinander | was told that the very boys laughed j at his siiiffinn;, "Ah," said lie, "then ! r must learn to sing better." Plato j being told that lie bad many (neuiios i who spoke ill of him, said : It is no : matter; I shall live so that none will : believe them." Hearing at another! time, that an intimate friend of his j had spoken detraclinglv ofhim. he j said : '\i am sure he-would not do it, j if he had not some reason fyr it." This ! is the surest as well as the noblest, way of drawing the sting out of a! reproach, and the true method of; preparing a man for that great only I relief against the pains of caluui iv? j a good eontriouc. From the New Orleans l'icayutie. THE REMOVAL OP GENERAI, JOHNSTON'S REMAINS. At the hour of "2 o'clock yesterday afternoon the St.'Louis Ceu}ctry ^'as the scene of an' assemblage, such as never before had been witnessed witbr i \ those ancient walls, which enclose the mortal remains of so many who, in their time, had been loved and revered by the papulation of Loujsana. It >yas the occasion of the disinterment and removal of the remains of one who, though neither a native nor ti resident of New Orleans, was perhaps dearer than cither native or resident, in the hearts'of itspeople? General Albert Sydney Johnston, the hero chieftain of the Confederate army, the victor and victim of the bloody field of Sliiloh. . The State of Texas had sent a committee for the purpose of superintending this duty, and yesterday was appointed for the exhumation. It was generally known throughout the city that the disinterment, and removal were to take place yesterday at 3 o'clock, but 110 formal invitation had been.issued to the public to attend the Ceremony. Although the event was one which appealed directly to the sensibilities and emotions of the people of New Oilcans, the ceremonies were conducted without any of the pagentry and pomp which usually characterizes such occasion. No blazonry of military rank marked the'simple processions which accompanied the remains from the tomb to the steamer. No note of martial music measured the solemn tread of the long line of mounx-r.s. No stranger could have supposed that the plainly attired pall-bearcrs who walked beside the hearse wore Generals high in rank and in reputation?men who bad led armies to battle and to- victory ; who bad defended j cities and who iiad organized cam-; paigns. Among them were several who bad been the-friends and -associates of the deceased in the old army of (be United States, sQine .who bad been bis in the recent war, who had stood beside him on that fatal | but glorious day vliich deprived the j Confederacy of his services. There I was Beauregard, the favorite son of j Louisiana, who immediately succeeded him in command of the army, there was Bragg, bis energetic and indefatiorihln chief of staff: there was Buck "rs - - ' per, who so gallantly fulfilled tli.c chieftain's orders, by the heroic but fruitless defence at I)onclson, ] t is remarkable. too, that among this distinguished assemblage, there were three men, .Beauregard, Bragg and Hood, \vlio had each in turn succeeded to the command of the army upon which the life and death of its first leader seemed to, impress a peculiar character and a strange fatality?an army, whose history was illustrated by so many heroic deeds and so many signal misfortunes?an army which seemed to have inherited its !tcy>risin from his life, and i,ts misfbrtiin.es from Ids death. Besides those just named, there were present amogg the pnll-bcarors, General Richard Taylor, who achieved the splendid victories of Mansfield and Pleasant Hill; General Harry V. Hays, who commanded the famous Louisiana. Brigade in the army of Virginia: General James Long-, street, whose name is memorable ?s a commander of a corps in General Lee's army, and who won distinction on so many battle-fields, from Virginia to Georgia, at Manassas and the second Manassas, at Gaines' Mill, Frazer's Farm, CUicamauga and at .1 nr-n /1 1 1..0 tlie \\ nueniess ; vtoiiui <u tjcu. .? uuuij?- : sou, so renowned for his partisan exploits; General 11. L. Gibson, who! fought under the lamented Johnston at Sltiloli, and who led his brigade of'Louisianians through all the bloody battles in which the Army of the West was engaged; General Pabney II. Maury, whose gallant defences of Mobile, added a tinge of glory to the closing of the war; Colonel George Peas, whoso valuable services in the Army of Virginia are well known io ?/ o _. all, and Colonel P. M. bucket, who commanded with signal ability one of the finest Texas regiments in the late war. The members of the Texas delegation, acting as pall-bearers, were Colonel Aslvhil! Smith, Chairman; Gen.cral N. G. Shelly ; Colonel P. AV. j Jones, and Major Tom Ochiltree. The line of pedestrians was many j squares in length, and after these: l came a number of mourners in carriages. The utmost dccoruiu perva-i dec! the masses of people who were assembled on the sidewalks to. witness the precession; and the feeling was manifested. to such an extent, that the transit qf the street cars and other vehicles was stayed along the-whole route? Upon tho arrival of {JfC remains at Algiers, they were placed by the pall bearers in the ladies' parlor of the dep'ot building of the Opeldiisas Railroad, where they were left in charge of Lieut. JblmCrowly, who- lost ahand at Belmont, and an arm at Shiloh, and .others/who were tainted while serving under the deceased at .his last great battle, 'n r:-j : This guard of honor, mostly from Algiers, will watch.them tenderly and well untibfhe. lioutnuf their departure for Texas1 this moriiing. The, remains willlrcach (ialvcston ou* the 25th Jiist/u-aiid-' pvohahly arrive :.at Houston oh Sunday next. liYom tlienee they are tq bo' forwarded at once to Austin, tlieir final testing place. rjv Gk rat Storm in the West.?A terrible tornado'swept across the belt of country :seventy-five miles above Yieksburg 'on the Jst- inst. Ifs course was southwest by northeast, varying towards west. It came in the form of a water-spout from the west, crossing from the Louisana shore at the Morgan plantation, sweeping through Island (J7, making a line through the timber some four hundred yards wide, and striking with full force the residence of Mrs. E. It. Nelson. In a moment every building on the plantation was prostrated, fences blown down, and everythiim that offered resistance jU> its fury swept away. ,On the Louisiana side every planr tation in the neighborhood of Milliken's Bend was more or less damaged. Br. Bancy's dweljjng house, steammill, gin house and quarters were blown down, and the negro quarters on the plantations in thsvicinity v;cre also' destroyed. The new Catholic churcl) nt Millikcn'jj Betid was leveled to irs foundation. Several negroes are reported killed ya the Louisiana side. At the very moment Mrs. Nelson's nlantation was reached A v ihc whirl J # V wind, a plantation some distance off was struck bv another and* distinct tornado, doing great damage. The largest trees were twisted from their roots, lifted into the air and carried in incredible distances as if they were cornstalks. Mrs. Nelson has a large family of children and grandchildren, numbering in all eleven. When Mr. Samuel Nelson saw tbat thc-dewlitng would he struck by the approaching tornado, he called to all the family to leave the house, unfortunately some of the younger members were in the interior of the house, and Mrs. Nelson, ever watchful over her helpless flock, went in pursuit of them, and were found, after the storm had passed off, buried under the fallen timbers, within a few feet of each other. Mrs. Nelson lived only half an hour. The two children .were found under the bricks of a fallen chimney, and :one of .them seriously injurcd. Every member of the family were morc .or less injured. A correspondent ofthe//c?vih?says; Tbe rails of a fence, for a considerable distance, were blown probably for miles, nslthev have not been found on the plantation. A gentleman who witnessed its passage through island says lie distinctly saw trees that had been-wrenched from their truivks, hundreds of feet in Hie ni*. The residence was apparently only touched by the outer portion of the column, but one row of the quarters and some j other buildings were struck with full! force, and the earth for a considerable J space?over two hundred feel?gives j evidence of a torrent of water having i passed over it, removing everything, j and hurling through the $ir y. heavy j pair of timber wheels for the distance of sixty yards. Bricks ltaye been found hundreds of yards from tUc dwelling. A wagon,' with a pair of mules attached, was carried in an opposite direction to the course of the wind, some ninety &et, overturned and sin ash eel, and the -mules lying partially under the wagon. 1 could name many incredible things that must be seen to be believed. A Maine editor says lie cannot imagine when editors have leisure' time, "unless it is after the fcrrvinan carries us over the Styx, and then we I have no doubt the old fellow would besiege lit" for a piiir on his beats." ' * Distress ix Loxpox.?A writer in the London Timet thus describes the deplorable poverty that exists among the poor in the East of London : Sjckcning tpul Jieart-rending have been the scenes- of distress I have witnessed during my four months' voluntary employment of doing what I could, in my humble degree, tp assist in alleviating the misery of some of my fellow-creature's. Upwards of 500 families during' that tinie have been brought under my notice, and I can unhesitatingly affirm spch a season' of distress and' 'inisofy was [ never before experienced in this locality. - He adds that during all the summer months, owing to the scarcity of work and the visitation of cholera, many families.had to part with clothing, bedding, and everything''upon which money could be .obtained, so that when winter .set in they liacl nothing left to dispose of, anch the pawnbrokers,-'whose shops are > already* crammed with goods, care but to give, the merest trill e for things which may never be Redeemed. Now tho'distress was fearfully and palpably developedby the continuance of the cold weather. To particularize cases of distress; lie says, is almost r beyond his power. It is widespread, and almost universal, lie has seen three and four fondles in one house where the fathers have had,, perhaps, not more than a few weeks' work since the middle of last May, and twenty, thirty, and even as many as sixty duplicates had sometimes been shown liin).?the silent, b#t mournful representatives of what was once a comfortable home. * A gentleman residing in the West India road, writing on Sunday last, state.? Jthjj.t lie had vjsi&d many of the working people at their houses'in that neigeborfiood, and tlj^t the distress among the mechanics and laborers is appalling. Many of thopa. lie says, are quite disheartened, sitting within bare wails, with Ipejthcr bed nor clothing, and with their children almost naked and famishing.. Strong young niou had burft into tears pri seeing him enter, and pojnted to their starving vivesaudchildren in silentjdlspair. Some amyng them hail been ycrv improvident; but ptlieys q^ite the reverse. He bad that /lay relieved a young man jyitji four children, who was an ironworker, and had been out of enmlovment for many months. lie was a teetotaller, aucl had husbanded his saved earnings to the last, and now, with his family, had nothing to lie upon but thebarefloor, and nothing to cover thc.n but a single sheet. The writer adds that he could fill p. volume with cases of like destitution, and that he fears the late conduct of the Shipwrights' Union at the Thames Ironworks will do much harm, and subject many innocent persons to suffering. The Hector of Bethnal-grcen (Mr. Hansard) writes that there is a great deal of distress there; the commercial panic, the chplera, and the frost had severely affected the working classes; that the rates are now in the proportion of eight shillings in. the pound a year; that the workhouse isfull, every spare place being occupied by bed; and that on 'Tuesday last, eight hours were spent in inquiring into the outdoor cases. The pittance of two shillings or three shillings a week, he snvs. miirht well he supple ! mcntedby private1 benevolence. The : Sechretary of tc Dock and 'Wharf I Laborer's Association, IIiVli street, I Shad well, writing on Saturday last/ I thinks he may safely say 20,000 of those classes arc now quite'out of emi ploynicnt and had not earned a shilling for tiie last two months; that probably 1 f>7OUO of tho^ are dragging i out a miserable .cyistanceby pledging little things apd selling articles of furniture; jp-nd that the rest are receirintr scanty relief from the parishes of AVliitccUapc-1, Benthnal-green, Spital- [ fields, Shadwell, IViphLr an,tl AVapl?n.g ^ # Pl,AXTJXl>-rrSoiM> Ar?VJCE.?A Mississippi Planter gives the following advice: There is danger that our own misguided policy uniy do us more injury itjian any mere jaditieal movement. Since our cotton is heavily taxed, tfuglut ;\vc not tg raise that which i< not taxed? As I have said before, the best and wisest protect on which < we can have against high tariffs and ; high taxes on our cotton, is to i^iut- j ftcture the cotton which we raise, and I I J might add, to produce the food wc , consume. 1 if wc escape general .confir.cation, there is danger that the policy wliicl^ we have been pursuing (ahu l feax will continue to pursue) wilt prdtfuie general starvation. I'think it yEf prpbable that Mississippi is'in ^ w^?e condition tordey, sp fai'aa thd'ttebesi saries of life are concerned^ s&e1 was on the d^y of the surrender'.!! Jlx . ' is all owing, I think, to bur Ja&cmpt to raise too much cotton,.in winch we have failed sign aUy;' and-chiemge of policy . only can siVe u^riuae/ou? supplies and let. cotton be our su^iM It requires mtfcV' during thb ye^ahdu m^bject many ii msafe tb'fel4 biifselvesr with the* ^ece^afie^Jama cdrnfortJ of life. J'>r. J0n> ? , kffUpM df, on "an average,, or. sev^n x^anf and fifty cents'.^p ^ land planted in cotton, _ \ Tfthis should liavk'tTie HfTfiol' nf m vertin" the attention of* pla^ersjrom cottofr to the prqd^c^.n.orca^^M meat, tlie South' inay;' led at the cipeffsd'o'f' j^ew/EDgtapp manufacturers and, NortuwestqrnTarJ1CV3. t r f. It would be well if ^lie^c^jinep could see that their radical friends ^ arc taxing their labor rather heaVfljj> Selfishness.?It is said iel$uj& . ness has no soul; that it is a heaj^pjF stone pneased in iron. Though/tne spirit of selfishness aims to grasp all, there is, in reality, nothing ."so- selfsacrificing. It robs its pwn,graye, mortgages its own bones, and sells its own soul. The-man who.is all for ^ himself, is better to himself than a suicide:- He perils all the future for a present grafification; lie borrows pleasure at an exhorbitant rate, cjf ^ usnry, and pays by the immolation of himself, body aiid soul. Having no eyes to see the miseries ,of the world, no ear for the waitings of the wretched, no heart for. sympathizing wU|i distress, he turns away from all, and seeks to enjoy himself alone. Hie imagines that his own good will be promoted precisely in proportion as he can detract or take from the general good of society. He conclucjeg that individual and social benefits aro mutually antagoiiistical. His mistakes make liim sick to acquire without imparting. The consequence ip, his whole mind becomes eyen,tu^l]y narrowed down to the little circle .of self, wherein he alone revolves as subject, attribute and object! ran^, lie is virtually cut off from association with his fellow-creatures?almost with his God. He i? self^acrificqa. Character is Power.?Itis often said that knowledge is .power, .and this is true. Skill .or faculty,of any kind carries with it superiority.;,. So, . . to a certain extent, wealth and poiWr cr, and genius lias a trp,nscendanfc gift of,mastery over,men.. I&thigher, purer, better than all, more constant in its influence, more lasting in its way, is,the power of character^jtliat power which emanates fro$ jl lofty mind. ; - ? - ' * " - ? ?t Take any community, who is tae man of most influence: To /whom dp aHloak up with reverence ? Not; the "smartest" man, not the cleverest politician, nor the mo^t brilliant talker, but he who, in a long course qf years, tried by extremes of. prosperity ancl adversity, has: approyed him- * self to the judgment of his neighbors}, and of all who have seen ' his life, as worthy tg be called wise and gqod. t Drink Less- With Your Meals. ?Many men have relieved themselves of dyspepsia by not drinking .anything during tbeir meals. No animal, except man, ?V,ey drinks ip connection with his food. Man ought not to. Try this, dyspeptic, and yo^i will not wash down mechanically thai which ought to be ^iia^tV5atc(^ ai4 ? motivated before it is swaljlojred. ? ? S-.t v iv T-oittstava.?The New Orleans Times says that Dr. A. Gourrier, of Iberville Parish, raised last year silk of the best quality. A dpzcp of the cocoons have been sent to tno Paris Exposition; also, a number of skeins of swing .silk?sojne pur? white, others dyed a glossy black. The silk of which they are made wa^ raised from eggs which h&d been in the Do jt;jr's possession fpr fpy'ty years. ? - Federiek Douglass, being at St. Lou's on the -7th inst., was refused y,l mission by every hotel in the city; aid had to go to a private house.