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VOLUMEXXV. CAMDENTS. CTTHUESDAY MOHNIXG. JUNE 13,1867. NUMBER48.
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From the Heio York Herald
COTTON PRODUCTION.
Wc published on Monday an interesting
account, from the Times, of
India, of the cotton crop in a portion
of the British East Indian Empire.
Ti\wm thic wo lr>nrn that England has
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been making extraordinary efforts
both to increase the production and
to improve the quality of this most
valuable article. These efforts have
been successful, too, in increasing the
production; for it is estimated that
over a hundred and twenty-five per
cent, more will be produced in the
Bombay presidency this year than in
the year before, without taking into
.account the increasing production in
the provinces of Berar and other parts
of India. The yMd of clean cotton
is nearly three hundred thousand
hales, reckoning, as wc do. four hundred
pounds to the bale in the Northern
division of the presidency alone,
for the year 186G-'67. Where thirty
pounds an acre only were formerly
raised seventy pounds are now obtained
through improved cultivation and
better seed. But the report of the
Cotton Commissioner states'that the
efforts to acclimatize the Sea Island,
New Orleans, Peruvian, Egyptian
and Dhanwan cotton have all failed,
aS "QtiVrt ITinrr.i.,..
_ Berar. The Commissioner
says that cotton production has already
irainedsueh a position in India
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as will cna"bh- it to bear the full force
of commercial depression and the
lower prices that must come. lie
has "110 doubt that -well directed
means and energy will prove as successful
in the long run" as they were
in the So.uthern States of America.
While we need not be alarmed at
these efforts of the British to compete
with us in the production of cotton,
and to make themselves indeper dent
of us for this prime article of manufacture
and commerce, it will be to
-compare the'short-sighted and inju rious
legislation of our stupid Congress
in checking the cultivation,
with their liberal and far-seeing policy
in stimulating it. Our war, in
cutting off that supply of American
cotton from England upon which she
had mainly depended, has been the
chief cause of the attempts to pro-i
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auce li cisewnere so m 10 uicikc uci
independent of this country. She
liad, however, for years before the war
been looking for new cotton producing
regions and stimulated the cultivation
wherever there was a prospect of success.
Millions of pounds sterling
havebeen-spent in the efforts. British
statesmen are far-seeing and do
not let the petty prejudices of party :
politics or faction interfere whenever j
national interests are in question.? ;
See how different has been the con- j
duct of Congress in taxing the pro- j
duction of cotton at a time when it
needed all the encouragement possible,
The cotton States had been'
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desolated by war; their lauor disorganized
; their capital gone; their
machinery and implements of industry
worn out; their plantations in
many parts unprotected from river
overflows?yet, with all these and
other obstacles and drawbacks, Congress
laid a heavy tax on the production.
We put a check upon the
growth of an article more valuable to
the republic many times over than $11
the gold and silver qf all the mines in
ihc country. To this article we had
to look chiefly for paying the balance
of trade against us abroad, for paying
the gold interest on the national
debt held in foreign countries, and for
keeping specie at home. Nothing
would promote the general prosperity
and commerce of the country or bring
us to specie payments sooner than
large crops of cotton; yet our sapient
legislators have burdened and checked'the
production. We know of nothing
in the history of legislation
more short-sighted and stupid
Still, as we said, we need not be
alarmed, with all these depressing
circumstances, that the cotton trade
will pass from us, or that England
can successfully compete with us in
the production of the material. Nature,
and not man, has decided this
matter, 'J'hc Cotton Commissioner
in India is in ecstas}r because tbere
they have increased the production
frpm thirty pounds to seventy pounds
to the acre. We raise, from a fair average
crop, four hundred pounds on an
acre. Besides, the cotton of India is
much inferior to purs. It is the short
staple kind, iiot suited, without being
mixed with ours, for the manufacture
of the best materials. And they have
failed to acclimatise the American
varieties in India. Nor will England
ever he able to do this, unless she can
turn the Gulf Stream which sweeps
along this continent to the coast of
India, or can find another such Gulf
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Stream witli its Climatic nmui-uws
elsewhere. It is this wonderful and
beneficent phenomenon of nature
which gives us the necessary showers
of rain alternately with the warm
rays of a semi-tropical* sun, that
reaches a certain belt of our country,
the great cotton producing region of
the world. This it is which brings
tosuch profitable maturity that beautiful
and valuable annual plant wliieh
clothes the world and covers the
oceans with the sails of commerce.?
This is beyond the competition of
British capital or British national
pride. We have, in years before the
war, produced over two hundred and
fifty .millions of dollars' worth of cotton
annually,* and if Congress does
not ruin the South and the production
of cotton, by its absurd and dangerous
legislation, we may exceed that
amount hereafter. The demand will
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uu increasing uuiiuiiuauj^ ac tirin&ution
advances, arid, in spite of what
.may be done in India and other cotton
countries, we can always command
the markets of the world.
TT1. Ciiuiim1-' c.'l' III C
Country.?Mr McCulloeU, the Secretary
of' the Treasury, in reply to
an invitation to a dinner tendered
him by prominent citizens of Boston,
regrets his inability to attend, arid
makes a few remarks upon financial
matters. lie says that the bounties
to sojdiers, preparations for the Indian
war, the intended large issue of
bonds for the Pacific Bail lioad, and
other liberal appropriations for miscellaneas
purposes, together with the
partial failure of the-wheat and corn
crops last year, the tardiness of reconstruction
in the South, the reducedtaxes
and general dullness of trade,
will prevent a reduction awl prooaoiy
produce an increase in the "natiopar
debt for some time. He gives tie
following reasons for not contracting
the'currcncy at -the present time,' but
says lie is as much in favor of that
policy as ever. *
Fintr? The views of a majority of
the members of Congress, as indicated
by a number of votes last winter,
were adverse to immediate contraction,
and I have not felt at liberty to
place myself in practical opposition
to the law-making branch of the Government,
without whose support I
must be powerless.
{Second?There have existed for
some months past anxious forebodings
of fiinaneial troubles, and while they
continued 1 have been apprehensive
that a contraction of the currency,
the object and effect of it being misunderstood
or misinterpreted, might
produce a panic in the commercial
cities, which, extending over the country
and beyond the speculative intcr'
csts, would injuriously affect legitimate
business and the revenue depen|
dent upon it.
WLlvil T.nvnrr iimnnnt.S of Inter
j J., cwv*. D~ _
cst-beariiig notes arc to be paid or
, converted within the present and
j next fiscal year, to which it seemed
1 prudent for in'e first to direct my attention,
leaving the question ot a
curtailment of the circulating notes
! tp be determined, from mouth to
! mouth, by the condition of the coun|
try and of the treasury.
Fourth.?Anticipating that the
\ failure of the wheat crops and the
i other circumstances alluded to would
' seriously affect business, I have conr
sidered it important that the public
mind should not be diverted, by the
criticisms and complaints of those
! who are opposed to contraction, frpm
; the real causes of trouble?that a
; sound policy should not be put in
peril by being made the ^scapegoat"
for evils resulting from different cau1
ees.
GENERAL ORDER NO. 33.
HEADQUARTERS, 1
Second Military District, >
Charleston, S. C.,May 30, 1867. J
General Orders No 32,
I. Any citizen, a qualified voter
according to the requirements of the
"Act to provide for the more efficient
government of the rebel States," passed
March 2d, 1867, and the Act supplementary
thereto, passed March 23d.
1867, is eligible to office in the provisional
government oT North and
South Carolina. All persons appointed
to office will be required to
take the oath prescribed by the Act
aforesaid, and to file the same duly
subscribed and sworn, with the Post
Commander.
IL All citizens assessed for taxes
and who shall have paid taxes for the
current year are qualified to serve as
jurors. It shall be the duty of the
proper civil officers charged with providing
lists of jurors, to proceed
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wiimn tncir several jurismcuons,
without delay, and ascertain the
names of all qualified persons and
place tlicm on the jury lists, and from
such revised, lists all jurors shall be
hereafter summoned'and drawn in the.
manner required by law.
III. .All citizens are eligible to follow
any licensed calling,'employment
or vocation, subject to such impartial
regulations as. may be prescribed by
municipal or other competent authority,
not inconsistent with common right
and the Constitution, and laws of the
United States. The bond required]
as security shall not exceed the penal
sum of one hundred dollars. One or
more sureties, being citizens, and
worth in the aggregate double the
amount of the bond over and above
just debts, will be sufficient.
IV. The Mayors of cities, and
other municipal and town officers, and,
all sheriffs, magistrates and police
forces are required to be vigilant and
efficient in maintaining order; and in
the discharge of their duties they will
be expected to co-opcrate with the
ini i uar V a,Uiliorities.. - ' " 1 1
V. Post commanders may summon
to their aid, whenever the ordinary
means at their disposal shall not be
sufficient to execute their orders, such
of the civil officers and as many of
the citizens within the territorial
limits of the military pest as may be
necessary; and the neglect or refusal
of any person to aid and assist in the
execution of the orders of the commanding
officer will be deemed a misdemeanor,.
punishable by such fine
and imprisonment as may be imposed
by a military tribulial, approved by
the Commanding General.
YIV No ticenrse for the sale of intoxicating
liquors in -quantities less
than otic, gallon, or to be drank on
the premises, shall be granted any
n'ovson other tkan an iniirkccper; the
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.namber of "such license shall be determined,
and the fees to be charged
for oaeh license shall be prescribed
and collected' by the municipal or
town authorities and appropriated
exclusively for. the benefit of the poor.
If any person shall be foirnd drunk
on tbc premises where liquor is sold
the liccnse tnav be revoked by any
magistrate^ The tax imposed hy the
internal revenue laws of the United
States is an additional charge and
does not excuse the party from the
observance of local regulations nor
exempt him from the payment of such
other license fees as may be imposed
by municipal or other competent authority.
VII. All can tracts, hereafter made
for the manufacture, sales or transportation,
storage or insurance of intoxicating
liqgors, shall, within this
Military District, be deemed and
treated as against public policy, and
no civil action, spit or proceeding for
tbe enforcement of any sgeh contract
shall be entertained in any court.
VTTT Tn rinMIrt cnnvnvaiices on
railroads, high-ways, streets or navigable*
waters, no discrimination because
of color or caste shall be made,
and the common right of all citizens
therein shall be recognized and respected.
The violation of this regulation
will bp deemed a misdemeanor
and render the offender liable to arrest
and trial by a military tribunal
to be designated by the Commanding
General, besides such damages as the
injured party may sue for and recover
in the Civil Courts.
IX. The remedy by distress for
rent is abolished. Where lands are
leased or let out for hire or rent cotton,
corn or other produce of (he same,
when severed from the land, may be
impounded, but the same shall not bo
removed; and cotton, corn or other j
produce so impounded shall be held j
as security for the rent or hire so
claimed, and may be sold in satisfac-!
tion of any judgment for the same;'
Provided, th^? any unsatisfied claim
for labor bestowed upon the cultivation
of such cotton, corn or otjier produce,
shal! in no case be postponed
to any demand for rent or hire; but
to the extent of such claim for labor,
there shall be a lien on such cotton,
corn or other produce, having preference
over-any claim for rent or
hire.
13v Command of Major-General
D. E. Sickles: . ,
J. W. CLOUS,
Capt. CSth U. S. Infantry, A. D.
C. & A. A. A. G.
Official: Alexander Moore, Capt.
3Sth Infantry, Aid-dc-Camp.
INTERESTING SKETCH.
VISIT TQ THE TOIVID OF LAZARUS AND
TTTF. GARDEN OF UETIISEMANE.
The Rev. R. A. Holland is contributing
to fho Louisville Courier a
series of interesting letters from the
lloly Land, which he lias been exploring
for some months past. We prosent
below graphic pictures of the
Tomb of Lazarus and the Garden of
Gethsemanc. which wc select from his
letter of March 23d, written from
Constantinople:
THE TOMB OF LAZARUS.
But I digress. The path is precipitous.
We dismount and lead our
horses down. We have reached the
tomb of Lazarus. We enter by a low
opening, and feel our way down a long
winding, dilapidated staircase to a
small chamber, the walls of which are
partly plastered, partly the naked
rock of the cavern. From this chamber
a few steps lead into a low vault,I
imagine not more than nine feet
square. Therein lay the body of Lazarus.
The closenesl of the atmosphere
limits-,our inspection to a mere
glance. We retire to the birgcur-oom, .
and sitting upon The iloor, I5ible in
hand, one'of us reads aloud by candle
light, St. John's account of the miracle
and' of the Saviour's intercourse
with those whom it most affected.?
How touehingly simple, how surpassingly
beautiful that Gospel sounds
when read 011 the spot it commemorates.
The past tense becomes the
present. The scene is most finished,
but transpiring. Right there in that
cell the corpse has been lying for four
days, and every day Mary has been
here to weep. The noise of conversation,
as of many persons above, I
began to hear.
A shadow is in the door. It is His.
.The long-expected and prayed for
has come from beyond Jordan. His
mellow voice, tremulous with emotion,
but.loud with authority, peals down
the arched stairegse jli.d echoes among
these sepulchral walls, " Lazarus
come forth." It goes deep beyond,
reaching into the regions of
death. Hush! do you hear that rustling?
See! becomes stooping, "bound,
hand and foot wit If grave clothes and
}iis face bound abptft with a napkin."
Slowly ho mounts the steps. lie is
on'the threshold. lie has passed out
under the sky. Listen again ! "Loose
him and let him go!" And Lazarus,
the dead brother, no longer dead, is
in the arms of his bereaved sisters;
no longer bereaved. Neighbors gather
around anjl passionately greet him.
Bethany is glad. The news flies
throughout the land. Crowds come
from Jerusalem to see "the man" who
has wrought the wonder, and believe
him God*.
Reluctantly do we tear ourselves
from the hallowed place. We go
from the grave to the house of Mary
and Martha, and that of Simon, the
leper, where, while Jesus sat at supper,
Mary armointed his feet with
costly spikenard, and wiped them
with her hair, and, as the room then
was, even so to-day the world is "filled
with the ointment,"
TIIE GAllDEN OP GETIISEMAI^E. . j
We return to Getlisemane, over the
southern shoulder of Olivet, by the
road Messiah followed on the morn
ing of His triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
Our raps are more successful
this time than before, for the
heavy iron gate soon swings open
with a creak, exhibiting the tonsured
head of Padre Louis, who invites us
;nto the garden. It disappoints us
at first. There is too much of art,
too little of nature. The happy medium,
so desirable and so rarely obtained,
between culpable neglect and
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excessive care, is not found here.?
The fancy, which has already prepared
a Gethsemane of its own, does not at
once recognize the claims of this;
objects to the imprisoning walls, to
the trim parterres, to the front-yard
neatness of the railings, to the prayer
stations arithmetically calculated,
and marked by crucifixes on the stuccoed
inclosurc, to the air of perfect
readiness for the security of connoissour-ship
in the whole.
But the eye speedily becomes accustomed'
to'wha-t it cannot alter, and
concentrates its attention upon the
olive trees doubly grand?grand frorn
their own association with incidents
of which they are the sole surviving
spectators on earth.. These trees are
eight in number. Their gnarled and
massive stems, and far-spreading
leafy boughs give them the appearance
of patriarchs in the attitude of
blessing. I cannot understand why
they should not be as old as the eVent
requires, nor do I desire to under
stand, it" an illusion lovelier tlian Uie
truth is to be dissolved by the explanation.
I abandon criticisms to
erudite cavillers and recline under
the foliage of the largest and most
ancient of the trees?the one supposed
to have shadowed the victim in His
prostration of agony. Here, then
with soul exceeding srorowful unto
death, He fell on the ground and prayed,
while His deciples slept a stone's
cast hence, too fatigued to \vatch with
Him. Ilere thrice He bowed himself
and groaned the entreaty to be delivered
from the mysterious pup; Oh,
the intensity of., that struggle. ' It
wrung the crimson perspiration from
his temples and forced the strcngthning
succuor of anxious Ileaven; but
its issue was victory, and its fruit"
eternal life. I
will not, Courier, trespass upon
your patience by detailing my rejections
while resting under that
venerable olive, by telling how
with mental vision I saw 'Judas, one
of the twelve, coined accompanied
4vy ? gteafc with swords
and staves from the chief priests
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UI1U CIUCIS Oi II1C (ICUJJie, illi u i:u?,
after the kiss of murder was planted
on His pa^g cheek, I saw the. Son
of Man rudely grasped and led
away to Caiaphas, to Calvary.?r
For once upon the tide I should be
borne by it beyond my intentions?
beyond your wishes. When we
were about to 'withdraw, Padre
Louis presented each of us a delicate
bouquet, composed of roses,
jonquils, marigolds, and other flowers
which he had culled and arranged
during out short stay. I took mine
to my room in the hotel,-and by putting'
them in water enjoyed tlicir
beauty and aroma for several days.
They died tod soon, as all lovely
j_ t.?i. _i.
IHllIgS UO, UUt II1CU LLiCUIUiig auii
blooms in my bcirig, and
"Their fragrance hath made
A garden within me where memory strays
Evermore, with faint footfalls/down blossoming
ways."
The Future Cotton Pickers of
tiie South.^?Wc see in Trinidad
monkeys are picking cotton, and our
Texan friends are endeavoring to
persuade the monkeys of that section
to make themselves useful in the
same way. If this reform among
these interesting quadrupeds is effected
a change from life of idleness to
one iri industry?the age will have
something to congratulate itself on.
While our colored citizens arc voting,
the monkeys, can pick cotton.
But in what light are we to view
these new cotton pickers? Will they
be slaves or freeman? Should we be
permitted to enslave them, is there
any fear, at some future day, of an
emancipation proclamation robbing
us of our property ? Will it be neces
sary, incuse of emancipation, to have
a monkey's Bureau ? Will these cotton-pickers
be entitled to vote? We
should like to have those questions
answered, for.it is inconvcnicn* after
building up a system of labor to have
it suddenly demolished.
If we take these monkeys from
their native woods, and develop their
brains, and teach their young ideas
how to shoot, and humanize them,
and civilize them, and piake highly
respectable cotton-pickers out of
them, we dont want them putting on
airs, and talking about progress, and
universal suffrage, and social equality.
We have been "fooled to the top
of our bent" on this point already,
and can't stand anymore of it. Our
wants is cotton-pic}>ers who are satisfied
with the condition of life in whioh
.providence lias placed them. If these
monkeys are so full of aspirations
that they can't content themselves in
the cotton-fields, but are sullen and
discontented, and would rather sit in
the halls of Congress and listen to
the eloquent and humane speeches of
the members, or preside at political
meetings and talk about the rights of
monkeys, then- they are not the sort
of cotton-pickers that we require, and
before our Texan friends commit themselves
any further in this matter, they *
had better ascertain the height and
depth of these monkey's ambition.
Southerner
Loafers and Loafing.?."We know
of no more reprehensible practice
than "loafing." Some persons become
so addicted to it, that they en-*
tirely neglect their own business, and
spend all their time lounging in the
stoi'eg and places of business of their
neighbors. They seem not to be aware
of the fact that they are incommoding
their neighbor, injuring him
in his business, and annoying him in .
various ways; or if they are aware of
it, do not seem to care how much inn
jury oranno3rance ^hey. occasion, but
continue to force their company upon ,
him at all hours, "in season and out
of season." No class of persons suffer
more from this practice, thai*
newspaper editors. An editor's room*
or place of business, seems to be esj
teemed by these people as if specialj
ly fitted up and maintained for their
| accommodation. They enter it asdf
j it werethekr own domicile, which they
I kindly permitted the poor devil to occupy
temporarily?take the best chair;
occupy the editor's,desk; grab up the
latest exchanges, before the newsp^-r
perman has had an opportunity of glancing
over them, asked at the same
time, innumerable questions, and
otherwise interfering with the necessary
business nf the nffiee_- TTnu'ev
er desirable the company of such
persons may. be at times, it is certainly
not to be desired at all times.' Toq .
much, even of a good thing, is too
milch; and ive are sometimes induced ,
to exclaim with the poet, Saxe : "
'*We do not tremble w'uen we meet'
The stoutest of our foes,
"But Heuven defend us from the friend
Who comes?but never goes."
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A Little More Cider.?A young
i lady and a Good Templar in a Calij
fornia town, entered itito a lively dis- '
cussion, in the lodge of which she was
a member, on the subject of eiderdrinking.
Addressing an anti-cider.
diii.kcr, she said: "I love cider; it is
a necessity with me; I must have it
?I will have it. If this lodge decides
we must not drink it, I shall eat
armies, and then tret some irnod-look
-I <=> " ' o
li.g. fellow to 'squeeze me?for I tell
you I can't live without cider."
How to Make a Paradise. ?Buy
an acre or two of ground, 'fence it,
build a neat cottage on it; marry an
angel in hoops, balmoral stockings.and .
i jockey hat; take her to the cottage.
) yourself; abstain from all villainous
drink;. live upright before God and
man; work for your money. Do all
this and you will have come as near
gaining all the original happiness that
has survived the fall of Adam as it
i is possible for ordinary mortals.
Squeezing a Girl's Hand.?The
Pike County (111.) Democrat is responsible
for the following:
At a dance, the other night, not a
thousand miles from Pittsfield, two
clraps got mightily strcuk with the
same girl. She, not willing to show
'special favor to either, declined dancing,
and seated herself in the back
part of the room. Being chilly, the
fair maiden vofe a large shawl, and
one of her admirers concluded to
1 slip his hand under the shawl and try
' what effect squeezing her hand would
have. lie went for it and succeeded,
j Lord! how happy he was. He
! squeezed, and squeezed. He felt glorious
all over, and she evidently felt
glorious too. After a joyful time
spent in this way, -the lady threw
back her shawl, and revcalcd*to a little
crowd standing near, our two
youths squeezing one another's hands
most lovingly. It don't do to say
"squeeze" to either of them since.
A bachelor and a ypunglady bought
some tickets in a lottery at the recent
Sanitary Fair at Milwaukie, agreeing
to divide the proceeds equitably.?
They drew a double bedstead, a baby
crib and lunch basket, and the ques?
tion is how to divide them or whether
they shall not use them "jintly."