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v -- ' > ?-;w.v^- -,.: : . - T. i ' ; r* Volume a?. camden, south-Carolina, April i, i8g9. number 33. -* " "v ' - a-" ' MISCELLANY. ? 'THE SOUTH AND THE NEXT ^ COTTON'CROP. I, Tho approach of the planting season t in the South, and the policy to :bo pur- v 'sued with rdgarfl'to 'the next crop, are t matters of more than local interest.? t *In fact, the whole community, North 1< and Sohth, everywhere connected with l< ^the cotton crop of 1869 is a subject of si "the highest importance. Nor is this ii .interest confined to our own coiintry tl The cotton manufacturers of Europe t! and the ootton proddcers of India, E- w igypt and other places will find their d incfuafi^ "seriously affected for good or n ill by the prospects and results of the h coming season. "King Cotton," for a ? dethroned monarch, still exercises a do h . 1 cided and positive influence in the world; c and this influence seems to be increas- o ing rather than diminishing. At no. tl former period have the prospects of this f< staple elicited a deeper or more general j 'tl 'concern. n The action, therefore, of the South in fi reference to the new crop is of the first it importance. No backward step should p be taken, but the same intelligent course p which has proceed shell remarkable li m Vesults the past year should be contin- b ued the :cotuing season. It has abund- si 'alhlty tlemonst^lfted the vitality cif the South and the possibility of raisiog tl 'cotton more successfully by freed labor '1 than 'by slave labicJr. All that is needed tl - ? - - _i now is that the lessons of the past mree j years be not lost, in order that the S'?u'h F Vhhy retaiia ?fie 'i/h'hkage ground it has t? gained, and c'n'tcr Apon a nefr career of 'social and iudustrialjdcvcl6t>rf/ent hnd. ff prosperity. ( ' ?i # "At the close of the civil war the rnVi-* h glo element of labor was about the o'ilyi n means remaining in the South from the ui industrial fflt&tkftoti 1V? whffvh that xec-> ti tiort was left. But even this Tc&Curce P' was sadly deficient. The frcedmcn were fo badly demoralized, Fftsttbordlnate and tli pretentious; and, at the same time, the white population was exhausted, angry to and jealuus. All classes were utterly o' broken down in spirits, while there was tio money or credit anywhere. In this d< Vitreinity the planters turned to cotton tl as their only hope. Prices had been pi high, and it waS ihoiigh't tMt they would continue so, and on the basis of lc t-be Yften ruling rates contracts wore en-. is tered into and plans made for the year, tt It is scarcely recessniy to repeat the bi 'disasters of^that and the succeeding seasons. The result of the polvcy palr- Sl sued was, that, during "the Winter of 'c 18C7, a cry of famine arose from the w inost fertile districts of the world, and ?| the little remnant tEe war had left appeared to have been lost. Relief wis a' sedt; rind the dangfer p'assed away, lea- p' ving a severe experience, which has I' resulted however in the grcitest good 'e id th'at seSrion of otir Country, enabling A them, in fact, to raise a crop of cotton at about ten cents per pound, and to b sell it at more than twenty cents. Over p two hiiodred arid fifty milliofiri of dollars n will pass into the South from cotton V alone this season, placing the planters '-I' 1 U J ^ in a position of comparative muepcuu- p ence. In tracing the causes o 1 the success of 1868, as contrasted With the disas- h ters of the preceding .^eato, tie find the t( dearest indications of What should be 'l the policy of the South in the immedi- d ate future. Faililre at fir^t Was not the tl result of deficiebt^crops, but rather of u the acts of the freedmen and the plant- 8< fere themselves. Capital to be sure, was 6 shy and distrustful, and could only be t< i hbtained with difficulty at high fates of o Interest or on extremely unfavorable 81 I ferfflff. L'alWr also Was demoralized. In 81 Wy many cases the freediuen, having a Hk bewlv tasted the sweets of liberty, reB I use if to Work, of if they worked,' it was B With a great lack of fenergy and efficienB Thfey could not see the necessity ; B for Wort:, and it required the bitter hardW ships of the Winterof 1866-67 to bring i ' - - f rthem to their senses. The planter, too, ' heeded a certain kiod of experience.? t They had seen cotton at high prices for \ a long time, and had concluded it was f to remain so. Consequently- they bid v high for labor and put into the ground j lOthing but_cotton. When, however? hey Wgan to market the staple, as rices had fullen to a decidedly lower svel, it was found that it did not return h'efctlje cost qf raising it. Corn'trod rhekt they "had neglected, and it was | he bitter experience they 'then -passed htongh as a consequence of this neg?ct which showed them its folly, and |- m |i t fit .# ' jd fheih to a wiser -course the 'past seaon. Thus suffering and an identity of aterests brought all classes together as hey never hefcrre had been, showing he frecdmen if he would eat be must rork, and the planter that he could not epend tipon eioTb'itacft figures, *btft iust hire his labor so that he cat raise is crop bt a reasonable figure, and lust give up a portion of his time and ind to food products. If litis'crop of Otton had cost as much as the previous nes, or if the South had raised no food, hey wotld have been compelled to srce the staple upon the market to get heuisefves out of debt to provide the ecessilies of life, and very Jittlo benet would have resulted, to them from the mproved rates. On the contrary, the lahter now clearing over ten cents per ound, and the SOuth is making milOns of dollars, placing thern^ as we efore stated, in a position of great trengtli for the new year. We have, then, in the experience of he past, an unmistakable indication of tie course that should be pursued by le'couth, in order that tho-advantage tic nor possesses may'be maintained, 'irst, then, it is of the highest impnrince that the planter should not be led ' y present prices to contract with the cedmen a-t exorbitant rates. The crop 1 rust be raised'economically and chcapYur there is no wisdom in supposing i'Jt it can be marketed except at a figre very much below present qflota- 1 ons. Tt mtst be remembered that the ices now obtained act as a premium ^ r the cultivation of cotton throughout i ie whole world. Largely increased ippliesare likely, under tlvis stimulus, - - - . . l I Lt I i be raised in India, Egypt, Brazil, 1 id other places, and although the insumption is ste'adily iireretreing, a jcided deduction in the rates must Ve 1 ic result of this eager competition in I reduction. Wo Vi'O'tTeo 'tM't there is 1 uhc indisposition Among the freed men ( contract for lust year's Wages. This 1 rigfot whore is be worth more; hut for i l'e planter to agree now to pay an exitant rate, just became cotton at the 1 lomclVt is high, would be only to enire for both parties disappointment aji'd is8?in fact to check tho prosperity hich the past year has begyn to develp throughout the South. Then, again, is of the greatest importance that as iiich wheat and corn and provisions be lanted as was planted the past year.? t is desirable that cotton should be the :ading, but not the only production.? l disregard of this idea was the error f the first years afr.cr the war, and short readstu:T crops in Europe, put up the rices of corn arid Wheat to figures which isulted in the fearful distress of the Winter of 1867-68. We think a little caution now on those oints would be of inestimable value ) tlie Scuth for years to come. Not bat we desire a small croj> of cotton to e raised?for we believe the true invests of the cottoih States demand a irge crop and low prices, which will rive out competition?but simply that be greatest economy of production be sed to contract for labor based on pre;nt rateii of cdttou be triiide, and a sufcient supply of food products bis put in > make tfint section independent of there for their daily bread. The tibcrvance of tkesc precautions will enure a prosperous year for the South, nd do much toward imparting activity o the iudufstriotte of the Whole country. Merchants Magazine fair February. I TIIE CUBAN REBELLION. Private letters fiom Cuba freveal a aost unhapfajr state of affairs in that isaud. Many outrages are committed iy the Spanish volunteers. Arrests are ery numerous, and a wide-spread alarm >revails among the people, hundreds of rhom are fleeing from the island io daces of safety, many of them seeking refuge in the United States. A letter from an American in Cardenas says : "The revolution is progressing, not withstanding all the efforts of the Spaniards to stop it. The treasury is bankrupt, and appeals are made in the papers for subscriptions to support the volunteers in the field, but I think it will be in vain, fn a few months the yel'ow fever aind cholera will find abundant'food in the ranks of the unacclimated Peninsulars that are coming or are already here. They are afraid here that the insugents will make a raid upon them and destroy the crops, though they try'to put a bold face upon the matter. H undrcds are being arrested all the time. The Moro Castlo is said to be full of prisoners." , *^rdni a letter writteD at Manzatiill by a nafiVe Otfban, we muke the following extract: . !( r"*i " '!' V Affaire here arc growing worse and tvorse every day. The insurgents are Tapidly increasing ih nhihbsr, and extending themselves all over ahe islarftd. They have taken Stony all the slaves from all the estates in This toefghWrhood, and have armed ull the kble-bo<fied negroes. ^The Captain-(Jeneral granted h general amnesty for all the insur gents who w6uld lay down their arms, tret they have not tukenjthe least notice of it. On the contrary, their hatred towards the Spanish Government seems to increase daily, and Xhe'y all tfppear determined to threw off the Spanish y -ke. The City of Bay&me, which was the focus of the insurrection, was completely destroyed on the approach of the Spanish troops, and jiow thousands of families aTe wfitidering about the country homeless and in the most deplorable state imaginable. The Government forces are acting shockingly, stealing and assassinating in every direction. Here we see nothing but soldiers and Spanish volunteers, for all the Cuban yo&ng men have joined the insurgents. The following ifi an extract from a letter by a yoOng lady in Havana to her father in Troy, written a fortnisiht since: Havana is becoming deserted of Cubans. The castles and prrfiions aVe full, ai.'d most of the prisoners are innocent people. The volunteers guard them, and arc iu subordination to Dulce. fie commanded 90me of the pViaonc'rs si nt to Spain, and the volunteers refused to give tliem up. They treat them unmercifully, and yesterday took eight, and were about to shoot them, when Dulce'ti second in command arrived in time to prevent them. Gen. Dulse's officers say they are the worst "canaille" thut ever was seen. When they are on guard they pass the residcuccs of those who have relatives prisoners, and tell them their friends have jHst been !6'r are to be shot. But of orrft, and only one, brutal thing thai .'occurred during the three days turmoil will I tell you. In a street bear here they caught a little child only five years old, and absolutely tore it in two before the father's eyeB. The father has since become insane.? They have threatened Dulce's life, and iilso his wife's, for she is a Cubari,and many of her nephews are in prison.? One of them was killed by a brilte Willi a blub, anil the family are now in mourning for hiiu. At one time they left their prisoners two whole days without to*3- , w Warning to Thavellers.?Day before yesterday, as the Augusta train started, a colored boy was detected in the act of practicing sleight of hand |on a bundle of one of the passengers- He fled &h snnn as he war deteoted after re ceiving a box o'o his ears from a bystander. There are a parcel of idle vagrants who hang on the skirts of the incoming ancl outgoing tttlios; and rob the passengers (Jf ilieit small parcels. $ot many days ago two young ladies had their fine cloaks Stolen by someone these railroad th'ieves. Passengers must be oh their guard. Charleston Neics. Tiie Florida Orange C^OP ?The Palataka Herald, of the 17th instant, says"We are gratified to learn that the Orange Groves in this latitude have rtA^ knAn tnhiwA/1 hrr lliA OOrr.ri t V fl ftLo UUW UGCU IIIJUICU UJ bIJO OWWAVJ VI ?t?v winter. The groves here and further South promise an average crop. THE POLICY. It is important to the interests of every people, as well of individuals, that i Bgriculture should be fostered and en j couraged. Politics rnny be very good, i in their way, but a surfeit of them is: i rather dangerous and hurtful. Wercan ' have too much of thorn; but we cannot' take too mucliajgriCulture. We cant make < too mucl) to eat and to wear. For food | i and clothing we shall find purchasers i ^ ana consumers. Hence, it Were wellto let politics ? one, when they can 'tis j no good, and devote ourselves to Indus- i trial pursuit!, whlA cati always do us j good. Thif is particularly the case now with the South. We have settled ' our political rial us and affairs, as far as- i ;we are able to do at-prpsent; ajnd the ' less we have to do with tnem tne Detter. : Let us, tberefoi'e, tfrm 1o tbe cultivation of crops., tlie production of bread, and tHe deve'opraont of oar resources: ' generally. In these pursuits 'there is enoujgh to em ploy,'bur people constantly; and y?tton t? clothe,bread <o fceH;, must and will 'frhd patronage, 1 if' not at hornj, at least abroad ;and the , surplus, after feediog our own people, can very profitably be sold abroad. i We believe that our people are be- . ^rrrninff In Jiwalf> in the ?toY(6rtance of ? 7?vT ''L ~~r -_v ' this subject, nnd po ^ec the necessity of . labor in tho right direction; and will,, we hope, persist in the good work. If i '* % ** 1 1 If we must bnve a policy this is it, and all should be actuated by ft. The plah-1 ' tor, the fkrth jr, the market gardener, 1 arid all the Various brihches pf indusr' 1 try should unite in its adoption'and | furtherance; and our section will soon ^ be abundantly blessed with prosperity and health.?Augusta Chronicle. ^ 1 Toe C6tton Tax.?Do our planters < know that the tax on cotton has Uot ftceh repealed? Are they making their cab i colations^'on abasia which allows two i and a half cents per pound for the Go-- < vernment-? The law levying the tax I was not repealed?the crop of 1868 was < spirally exempted from its operation. I If there beU6 further legislation on the i < mt'otOinn. the will bo collected on I . tin; present crcp. 1 Would it net be well for onr Boards of Trade in the cotton S.ates to oiike application to Congress for a 'repeal, or at least a further suspension of the law. Public meeting of the planters might be held, and memorials gotton up for the snitoe p'urposk.?lb. Fearful FI oHtwith a Doq.?Mr. Ihitn'Ck jFlih'n, a butcher of this city, a few days since had a desperate conflict wilh a savage dog, in which he came near losing his life. The circumstances we're as follows: A bull ierri'pr, weighing about one I hundred and sixty pounds, had been kept to guard .he slaughter house. It i was known that he was savage, and I therefore he was usually kept chained and muzzled. At this time, however, I the dog was chainVd nor muzzle on < him. Mr. il'tfrt was in his stocking i feet, just preparing to kill, when he ob- i r'erved the 'dog conie sneakingly towards I him. Not thinking anything of it, i however, he gll 3wed the dog to approach ] him, whqn the brute suddenly seized i him by. the thigh. - ., Mr. Flinn endeavored to pat and conk him, btit the animal mean^ mischief.? i Coaxing did no good, anil ,he at once i commenced a terrible attack upon Mr. < Flinn; and releasing his bite on his thigh endeavored to seize him by the throat. Mr. Flinn, however, prevented the dog from doing this, and a terrible struggle commenced between them, Mr. Flinn fighting for his ljtfb arid the dog to tear him to pieces. They were fastened in a small slaughter house, so that Mr. ?lipn had no chance of escape. There was anothet man in the slaughter house, but he took a panic, and ran rip a ladder fh'td ji loft. Mr. Flinn finally succeeded in getting his hand down the dog's throat, and seized him by the tongue, which he endeavored to tear out. Sometimes the. cfog, whose weight was equal to Mr. Flinn's, would almost overcome him, when he would ?"?!n on^cpprl in frettincr him upon his "o1*4" o o back. Both became nearly exhausted. He called in vain for the craven up the ladder to come to his assistance; to hand hipi a knile or anything to de- ? ?patch the brute; hut every time hecime down a few steps, the dbg, who spparently understood all, would become more enraged, and Jiis Jjapic an would again ^efze him, and he..would, rap up the ladder. Acrowd of Women atid ohildreni nad , arouqd the Joor, all ,'cff whom lieard 'die '^gfct and cries, and not one thought of running to the ^ morocco factory, which Was a ahflfcLdia- ^ tance off,-and where several men were 8* at work, for assistance, but stood there ,D. horror strioken. ^ t Ffpally, yrhen Mr. Flinn waq nearly : an. Bxhausfcd, he managed to break away 6e from the fldfe, and by some means to get np in a window^Jwhere the sayage brute was, too much exhausted to follow him. Assistance finally arrived; Mr. Flinn 811 was rescued, but the animal, appearing to know he had done wrong, at once P? made his eseape. He was followed by ^ a crowd, who shot him. Mr. Flinn, ^ _i? 1:1 4.J u. J _n u:_ .i.ti... 4. ntieu uisurtucuj uuu an uto u.uuico wiu off him, and was covered with blood, . being bit all over by"the .animal. V Wilmington (Del.) Republican. co . ' wl . Bill to Strengthen the Public **. Jl_- *?- L 10 TL. . obc1t.? rranniTiycuTi, luarcu 10.?jl uc bill to strengthen the -phblic credit has ^ become a law, and is as followo-:, )ie Be it enactedrH&c, Th$ Th( pVder to "jh remore any doubt as to the purpose of 0f tjie Goveynmp'it to Jischarge all just obligations to tho public creditors, and ^ to settle conflicting and interpretations ke of the laws by virtue of which Such ob- jt? ligations have been contracted, it is hereby provided and declared that the faith oif'the tinite'd States is solemnly ^ pledged to the payment in coin, or its ^ equivalent, of all the obligations of the ' United States not bearing interest known is. United States notes, and.o^Allihe. interest-bearing obligations oftheUni ted States, except in oases where the ^ law authorizing the issue of any such PT obligations has expressly ptovided that a the same may be paid to lawful money, 3r other currency thin gold and silver, k But none of said interest-bearing obli- or Rations not ilrcady due shall be redeem- be id or paid before maturity, unless at ^ rfich time United States notes shall be ^ jonvertible into coin at tho option of at the holder, or unless at such ftme bonds if the United States bearing a lower vi rate of interest than the bonds to be re- vr icemed can be sold at par in coin. And the United States ilso solemnly pledges da its faith to make provisions at the earli- W( ;st practicable period for the redemption of the United States notes in coin. Lively Talk at the White House. ?The Washington correspondent of oc the the New York World says : There aro spicy reports of there hav- is ing been, on Tuesday, some very lively ot talk between Mr. Grant, of th,e White ? * i *?_ -n j j;- _r "ir". House, ana xur. jcjuuiuuuo; ul iciuauud, ^ the leader of the civil tenure suspending in the Senate. Mfr. Grant is under- ^ itood to have declared with the directness of a soldiefr tfi?t tHe Tcnure-,of-Of5ce law otigtit not to be repealed at once, cll ind if it Was not, that not a single appointrh'eht; except to aotnal vacancies, tj< should. !>e made. Mr. Edmunds, in wl view pf this depressing announcement, tb had the heart to come back to the Sen- se ate and do all he could to precipitate the death-lock which threatens to keep sa the old law just as it was. re f t Extraordinary and Fatal Epidemic Among Children.?The An- re gusta Chronicle and Sentinel learns from Sc a gentleman, who lives near the village, 8,1 that a fatal epidemic is now prevailing e' in Sahdersville, and wliich has, so far, ac baffled the skill of the medical frhternl- ? '0 J. ) ' __ ty there. From Sunday ihorning to Be Tuesday evening, it says, we learn that ^al there were seven deaths in the village, all children. The doctors say that the v?| (jiseaSe is an inflammation of the mem- I St brano coVeriiigthe brain, the symptoifas th rcsenif/liog very much tfiose observed ho - " - '' V-n_ mvl _?t U I m ID congestive ODIIIS. xue muiuk unuar ly begins with a feeling of dull pain or "1 numbness in the arms and lower limbs, T1 and in a few hours the disease runs its gr courso. In nearly every case death th fias ensued rapidly, til VARIETY. (THE Almighty DOLLAR.?'IbaW** ' , i .7 fi* ^ ft* ' fL f^*fr ^ >rk Democrat chronicles jip fpllo^s ' s latest instance of Yankee cruelty d Pree5.?f^;': p , ?f :&.&*. 4 Five months, since a Ik. Ridley, of ...v .> ,1 A\>? L, wfop, amputated the leg of a five year i son of his, who had been^ injure^ be/n'g rtfn oyer Vy am omnibus. Fpr is damage to bis son he collected 16,rt A 4 4k_4 4k ? U?>'m v., n now turns uut i?u?* uiq wj p . ?/ . ik . ? v eat and next to great toe jwere alone jared, and this is - not sufficient >o reire pi ore than two splints, bandages d a little care. Bat, to recover daq^s, the Christian father gave the child loroform, amputated the leg below the iee, and recovered pay for damages alone had caused. It is not long ice the inhuman monster was ma-/ ng speeches against the Southern opje for ^hipping ^negro servants./ hat a regular loyal, Yankee, Will nop i for the almighty dollar, Odd only lows. . ,rr , ^ Of all the agonies 6f life, that wbiclt most poignant, an& harrowing is thg nviction that we have been deceived ?. ri.4. .... aere we plstfed ail tne trust oime. a'"-*? y ' '* Boggs.trfces ivr&rm.bed,. One morng an agent for a patent, fire-ex tin- iisher tried to sell hip a,recipe. "Lo^k ire," paid Boggs, "if you've got snjr ing tljat'M Bave?me fr^m getting oat bed io the coldr every morning ip iiI4 a fire for njy wife, to get biY&kf^if yrjubu'y it; but. don't pome roo^d ire trying to sell, staff to pat "em out s too mach trouble to start them!" v . It is estimated that the snow io Tubman's ravine, in the Whjte.mouotaim} at least thousand feet deep. Hopes e entertained pf a magnificent snow ch there next August. , A young lady _ iDLajfen. Erancisoo , t?.? ?*'? ??* kp[><m(Mb hV taklnft a rn will a mile partner in one of th| ivate boxes when the orchestra p'ayed waltz between the aots. . .? Let do man be too proud, to work.?^ 3t do man be too proad of a hard fisf a sunburnt countenance. Let hint t ashamed only of iguofanoe aod.elotb. et no man be ashamed of poverty.? et him only be ashamed ox dishonesty id idleness. , A mible egotism is the sublimest o( rtues) a fatee One, the weakest of all inities and the toofet flagrant of, crimes. We are always complaining that our iys are few, but acting as though there )uld be no end to them. Trust not him who seems more anxus to givo credit than to receive cash. Refrain ^frpm bitter words; there is ily one letter between them and swords. Prayer is ever profitable; at night it our hovering; in the morning it is ir armor. - hi.- if, a;Ik?... . . } Ye avaricious, remember tbat shrouds ive no pockets. ,-m-n * " v?He that cap gender a reason is wory of au answer. , J ' . ir * Hf?V V t.T * / A MX; Quiet consciences never produce ubliet conversations. , . < t '"' r How the Chinese, .manage tljeir dei?s: After a long period of wet weather, ben they hare prayed vainly for relief)' ey put their gods out iu the rain to e how they like it. The Appleton (Wis.) Pott says that It mixed with a little butter sells there adily at thirty-five cents a pound. Gen. Jordan, formerly chief ofBeaugard's staff who is reported to hare me to Cuba to take an important potion in the command of the flet>army is a very thorough soldier id a man of scholarly acquirements.?^ e is a graduate ot $csi Poitit! and - Hx: th .JT'r- . ip rved for maqy years in our old re^ur army mainly on the Pacific coast. An irrepressible boy of five yeare^ 10 yme compelled to keep , cfuiet ott inday, havidg grown weary towaW e close of a Sabbath day, frahkly and neatly approached his e^oelle/it bqt tlier strict father, and gravely said ? r. i .j- v? - i:*?v ? ra, ict a uuvc a mnv di/uuum ????. his was too much, not only fbjthp avity but for the strictne* of thtffh er, and for once he "let otter ca^ei*' 1 bedtime.