^^M^^^Mtaj;^ffc5S-?S*^"S555a5*"SSESSKSSSKESSSSS5a5SES^S5SS5SSHaS55SS VOLUME 28. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CABOLINA, MARCH 25, 1869. NUMBER 32, . ?????????????? Miscellany. STOCKitotf 1?NG IN HIGH c PLACES. 1 After the dose of the war bills of tbg g Bank of the State of South Carolina be-1 \ Canie almost worthless, notwiinstanumg t that the State was said to be liable f>>r , them. The bills sold at 6, 8 and 10 t tents on the dollar, and as late as last j September could be bought at 12 or Id j. At these prices, the bills were publicly n said to have been bought Up in large amounts by Governor Scott and other ? persons who controlled the State legisla- p tion, and the statement, as far as we know, was never denied. While the f, bills w?'?e still at a low price, an atf't, \ 0 was passed by the General Assembly which authorized the fundiug of c?vr- ? tain classes of bills of the Bauk of the f, State, in new bonds of the State, wliicfo j n the Goverr.or was authorized aod ai- f, rected to issue. The exchange was to t that Governor Scott ran the bills up to 00 ana ran mem w down to 20, and now runs them up to n, 60 again. so that he might sell bills jn nt 50 which were bought at 10, and buy them agaiu at 20 to be ar sold once more at 50 or 60. But we >-thirds of the whole, tl' At the time they retired, the appropri- w ation bill was not passed, and other im sc portant measures necessary to the progress of public affairs were incomplete. So that il the Republican Governor of the State needed a pretext for fe-as- ei sembling the Legislature it was ready r to his hand. He will avail himself of this pretext. lie has already i.ssutd Lwrits of election to fill the seats of those n< members who resigned, and indicated et his intention to convene the Legislature Boon after these elections are held. ? As our readers understand, this moveinent of the Donioorats was to defeat a ' vote on the fifteenth or negro suffrage amendment; but since it can only post- o1 pone for a while the action of the Le- j tl nmon/liiiAtit nnlhirif? gisiuiuic UU'MI Uiabaiiivuuiiiviiv, will be gained by the device, while their ^ act belongs to the class of irregularities that seldom do credit to those who em- w ploy them, and never ichtn thry fail.? ti We have never yot known an instance o of this sort of strategy wherein the re- v suit would not have been better had those who withdrew remained firm ut a their posts discharging their duties.? j c Men should always be in their places,! u \ ???? ????? espond when called, and stand up to >otb duty and honor. This is dctnandid alike by wise policy and moral and >olitical accountability. We are painfully suffering the Conequences of the ill-judged policy of our )emocratic friends in Congress tfc he fashioning of the reconstruction ncasures, had they co operated With he more liberal portion of the Itojjubicao party, those measures Woilld have teen much less rcpulsive^mtlch less ppressive to the South. But they seed upon the short-sighted policy of 'making measures odious" in order to olitical advantage in discussing them iefore their own Jjcrtple, while our's iave been the helpless victims of their diousness. The Democrats had better run their 1.1 ?/irf nrot-hiitil her. and fit Ill Ml III IIIIU J/"i v, u? v. ^ ler up anew, with new commander*and ew everything. They can hardly make leadway with such navigation as has irected their course for four years past. Richmond Dispatch. The true Southern people must stregie to succeed in their private business ffairs. In this way alone can we cope nd keep up with 'he corrupt and unnst government, and save ourselves and unilies from ruin and underserved ioimy. We see all around where radial pimps and scape graces get office, hat they know as little of economy and ood management at home, as they do f the duties of office. They get enorious salaries and fees and they spend hem recklessly. They use the office to ratify revenue, and make few firm Jrong friends in their own party, or Iscwhere. They are the creatures of coidcnt literally and entirely, and not f merit. By and by, these offices and nil emoluments will be pone and they ill have neither money nor friends left, ict us store up money and friends in bundanee, and one day we will he nng, strong at home and strong ltcuch the nation. We must do like its Jews. We must stir soon, work ity<1, tint! snve all. And we need not tow all our treasures to "Sherman's u nrners" or radical tax thieves. We I last only guide and puo shot twice the groin and dangerously wounded* iown and Captain Haynes were under < impression that they had wounded e Indian, but later reports state that, j returned to his house, where the afir occurred, last night, and stole two >rses in revenge lor his supposed beayal. Fineh was a native of Ohio, id served in the Union army. About six weeks ago, Eva Wcntworth ' this city, accidently cut off the thumb her left hand. Dr GrisWold was lh:d in, and, upon examination of the ound, concluded to try an experiment, e took the severed piece?which had in in a cold room for an hour and ten inutes and Was apparently dead? oistcned'it in warm w iter, and fastened to its plaee. Soon the parts began i unite, ucw skin formed, and anew lil is now growing When we saw le thumb, a few days ago, it was nearly oil; the girl could use it, aud there is arcely any scar visible. Circlet)tile Democrat. An Excitement Among the Ori- i ntals?A very curious scene occur- i id recently in TJalilornia, caused by 1 le arrival of a large shipment of Chi2se women. Every Chinaman consid- i ed himself entitled to a wife, and do- i irmined to obtain her at whatever cost. < /hen the steamer was coming up the 1 arbor the news spread like wildfire 1 trough the Chinese quarter, and at nee cn.wds of their people started for ( re landing. Every possible means of i anveyance was iu demand. The high jned merchants and head men, who rcre determined to prevent their counrywomen from falling into the hands f their brethren of a lower caste, proided themselves with pauses to the dock cd went in hacks and on the streetare; while hundreds of women, with mbrellas spread over their heads, crowded into express and baggnge-wagon8, and the regular "pirates," or sanpans, as they are called in China, hurried to the place on foot. At least, 1,500 Chinamen had assembled Ifcforethe steamer came in sight. As soon as the officers commenced land* ing the women from the steerage the excitement became intense, and it required a large force to prevent thcra from breaking down the gates. All the boats in the vicinity were engaged at high prices by the parties to be rowed - - iL-i to side of the steamer, hoping oy mat means to get access to the women, and it required strong measures to prevent their hoarding the vessel After the bouts vterc engaged a terrible fight commenced as to who should occupy them, and many who had paid their passage were thrust back into the crowd and their place taken by one who did not scruple to take a sail at another's expense. While this confusion on the outside was going on the women were landed, to the number of 390, and placed in half a dozen rows. The examination by the Custom House officers (most of them young men) was exceedingly interesting. Large quantities of opium were discovered on their persons stowed away in different places. When the search was completed, they Were stowed away in large express wagons aad conveyed to such places as the merchants and head men directed. An officer was placed in front, two on each side and one behind each wagon, each armed with a heavy club, to beat off any love smitten Oricntial who might try to board it. The NeW York Herald sayB Parson Brownlow presents the most extraordinary picture of physical debility that wa* ever before witnessed in any legislative assembly* Thad. Stevens might have been considered, when brought into the Senate Chamber on men's shoulders to take his place among the managers in the memorable days of the impeachment trial, the best illustration ap to that time presented the triumph jf intellectual will over a shattered and - I !- - I> prosrrutc Doany organism j dui; uruwuow's appearance shows even greaterinlications of physical wreck and ruin, ind yet the latter lacks nothing of the tame unconquerable mental fire and jnergy that marked to his latest ujouents the character of the Great Com noner. When taking the oath, Browndw lay back in his chair, his head bent lown, his face shrivelled, ghastly and )f Unearthly hue, his handH clasped in aony, vice-like grasp, and his whole appearance indicative of great physical ieprcssion. As Mr. Colfax read the jath the poor old I'arson raised his feeble arm, which shook with palsy and iropped every moment to his side.? Assistant Seargcant-at-Arms Bassett (rent over and sustained his arm through he remainder of the ceremony, though the old man made one or two desperate efforts by himself "to sustain the right irm by propping it with his left hand. After he had taken the oath, the Parson stretched forth Ills hand for a glass of water, which shook wildly before it reached his lips. Tho ordeal, slight as it seems, had completely exhausted him. Why is the President Inaugurated on the 4th of March??The Vicksburg Herald, in asking the question, makes some very interesting remarks, which we publish as interesting to the curious: "Wo remember many years ago, when a child, to have heard this interrogatory answered in the declaration that, iu consequence of the change occasioned by the addition of one: day every bisextile or leap-year, the 4th of March occurred less often on Sunday than any other day of the week, and for this reason was selected. Curiosity has prompted us to make the examination, and we find that, in thirty Presidential terms, from 1789 to 1905, the 4ih of March U..? ? >'! will torn fullon nftonpr nn Sunday than any other day of the week except TueRday. Thus we have the 4th of March in those years coming four times each on Monday, Wfiduesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and five times each on Sunday and Tuesdaj The Federal Constitution was adopte on the 1st of March, 1789, but the fin President (Jeorgo Washington, was n< inaugurated until April 30, 1789.? Washington's setond term, commencio on the 4th of Mnrch, 1793, fell on Sui day, as did also the term of Jam( Monroe, 1821, and Zachary Taylo ail of whom, we believe, were inaugi rated on the 5th of March, the follov ing day. The 4th of March will ah be on Sunday i i the years 1877 an 1905, completing the the thirty Pros dential terms enumerated." A NEW INVENTION. A patent was obtained a few daj ago by the American Fibre Compan for an entirely novel mode of construe ? ? ing foots atid walls ot nuuaings, waie proof floors, tanks, &c. The fibre used is made from the cat or reeds of the cane-breaks of tl Carolinas and other southern States di integrated by the explosive force < steam by the process recently describe in the Richmond Dispatch. The fibi as it comes from the steam gun is in tli shape of long, fine tendrils, resemblin oakum. The fibre is twisted or spu into a single yarn or strand, several < which strands are interlaced so as I form a stout matting, which is charge with a composition of tar and pulve ized slate or soapstone, limestone, &c forced into and amongst the fibres b great pressure, so as to make a soli slab. The fibre being thoroughly dii integrated and very absorbent, forms good base for the mastic. A series of these slabs made with ral bet joints are joined together and naile to the rafters, the joints areccmentec and then another scries of the slab: made in the same manner, aro laid ovc the other so as to break joints in ever direction, the npper scries being faster ed with a mastic composed of the pu verized slate, etc., and tar, and joinl being cemented together. A ligh strong, solid indestructible siao is tin produced thoroughly water-proof an practically fire-proof also. A simile composition, .used for proofs in Montrei and New Orleans, is unaffected by th hent or cold. As the steam-blown reed fibre can b supplied from Norfolk Va , and Wi uiington N. 0 , to New York, Riclimonc Baltimore, Boston, etc., for fifteen t twenty dollars per ton, and the pulvei ized slate can be obtained at about th same price, and i;hc tar is cheap also, i is claimed that this invention secure the cheapest as well as the best an most durable roefs ever made. The rocf resembles a solid block c slate or stone abjut *no inch thtefc. i coating of sand is forced into the con position bo as to lighten the color an raalcc it resemble stone. The cost i less than half that of a tin roof. The inventors propose to make th same slabs available for the outer wal of buildings in lieu of bricks, stone, c wood. The same company have als obtained a patent for a substitute fc lath and plaster. For this purpos fibrous composition panels are mad by the above method from the stean blown cane fibre, in conbination wit silicate of soda, (liquid flint,) lime, an clay. These panels are fire-proof, an well adapted for ceilings, inner walli and floors, also for cabins of steamboal railway cars. It is claimed that th fibrous composition panels are muc cheaper than lath and plaster, and thi they do not warp, crack, peel, crumbh or decay, and that they can keep ot heat and cold. Certainly these Inventions open wide field of usefulness. They seem t be based upon the most practical idea: and in fact bavo been tested to a su ficient extent to establish their utility As already stated in this paper, it i designed to erect in this city a mam factory of boards or.t of the cane fibn Richmond Dispatch. Some one who takes an interest i young ladies writes as follows: "It i hoped that few of the young ladies wi I Infuat fnahinn nf biackrninc OUUri,u, half circle uuder their eyes. It give a languid expreasion to the countenanc but terribly mars their beauty." < r- VARIETY, d ' at Cotton Fraud.?A most outrageous jt attempt at sw'ndling came to otfr ktioW? ledge on Satufday, and we publish the g facts to let rascals know that their tricks i. will be discovered, and they will meet ;g with loss instead of profit in their at' r, tempts. We went to Messrs. Stenhouse, i. McCauley & Co-.'s warehouse to see twe T. bales opened, Which had been plated. 10 Mr. Donald McCauley noticed something d suspicious about the fellow, and sug[. gested that the bales be more ftilly elamined. His suspicions were right. fnr nnnn nnoninrr ftioni ft lnr. d Touches Hjm Lightly.?The New |t Orleans Crescent, referring to the Cus3> torn House appointments iD that city, ,r says: "Of Gen. Longstreet, tho new y surveyor of the port, we prefer to say nothing, simply because his history as ]. a gallant Confederate officer is so well ts known that repetition would be supert, fluous, whilst his history as a Republii8 can politician would be neither agreed able to the public, nor creditable to ir hiui6clf." il Hatred of White ?According to Southall, of the Richmond Enquirer, Sumner so hates anything white that he refuses a white pocket handkerchief, nej ver wears a white neck tic, avoids white0 washed rooms, never wears white kid gloves, dislikes snow, takes ipecac in e preference to magnesia, writes on color:t ed paper, l as his boots blacked at every ,a corner, defends the yellow fever, mitij gates the black Vomit, objects to the bleeding of calves, because it makes the meat white, never rolls up the white of ^ his eyes. We would add to this inu dictment that he so hates the White j House, that ho cannot help objecting j to everything done Dy its occupant, De he Johnson or Grant. e AS>dEmdino.?The New Orleans '9 Picayune, announces the death in that ,r city at a hsopital, without a friend or 10 relative at his bedside, and utterly penir oilcss, of S. II. Goetzel, widely known ie during the war as the head of the leade ing publishing house of the Confedracy. He engaged in business after the war ^ at New Orleans, but failed, and since ? then has been in great destitution, d ? 3, A yoUng gentleman wearing a magis nificent new hat, visited a theatre, in e New Orleans, the other night, and careh fully placed it beneath his seat while it he viewed the performance on the stage. ;, When the play ended he discovered it that his neighbors had been using his hat as a spitton, and it was dripping a with tobacco spittle. A mArlarnfa flmn fnr ^ UUUUTIiNU.""Xl uivuviuiv viu?v *v. ! courtship is from twelve to eighteen r months. This, of course, greatly depends on other circumstances, but its length should not be unnecessarily extended. It is this sort of fashion? namely, that of an interminutle wooing ?that gave occasion to the young man's n objection to matrimony, when the same s was urged upon him by his lady love : " "My dear," said he, "if we were married, I don't know where I could spend e my evenings!" Many a young lady becomes weary of the tedious delay of \ her suitor, and many an an&ious suitor grows weary of the unnecessary scruples i of the fair owe. There is ? stoty toltl of a yiJunH: tJotfple *ho beg&n to cdutt ' at an early ago, who went On cOttrtlBg i when they ftere ottt of their teens; the > gentleman ventured to propose a Bet* tlement, but was begged to wait a short i time longer, and so he went Ob %aifc > intT on/t irrmth donorfod nnd thfl nledsred '"bi"""" j-"f- 1 1 o ? > couple, still courting. began occasion; ally to notice a grey hair, ot all untnis-.. takablej wrinkle, but still went on as. of old, fill tnore than half a