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* i* m \ -t- * i ~ ni >i i n-. ' i?- i ??? i , i m? VOLtTME:28. CAMDEK, SOUTH-CAROLINA, APRIL 15, 1869. NUMBER 35: " .. .. ,, , * >??- ? i a ndinm tttij at. ?t atts_ MISCELLANY. GRANT'S FIRST MESSAGE. Washington, April 7.?The following message of the Presideut was re' i i_ r\ LMH d #K1. ceivea oy v/ongrerr, m %J U MiKfMmy lino Afternoon: To the Senate a d Iloutt of Representatives: While I am aware that the litue iD which Congress proposes now to remain in session is very brief, and that it is its desire, as far as is consist* lent with the public interest, to avoid entering upon the general business of legislation, there is one subject which concers so deeply the welfare of the Country, that I deem it my duty to bring it before you. I have no doubt that you will concur with roc in the opiuion that it is desirable to restore the States which were engaged in the rebellion to their proper relations to the Government and the country at as early a period as the pcopij of these States shall be found willing to become peaceable and orderly communities, and to adopt and maintain such constitutions and laws as will effectually secure the civic and political rights of all persons withiu their borders. The authority of the United States, which has been vindicated and estab lishcd by its military power, must undoubtedly be asserted for the absolute protection of all its citizens in the full enjoyment of flic freedom dnd security which is the object of a republican government. But whenever the peop.'C of a rebellious State are ready to enter in good faith upon the accomplishment of this object, in entire conformity with the constitutional authority of Congress it is certainly desirable that all causes of irritation should bo removed as 'promptly as possible, that a more perfect Uuion may be established, and the " -bountry be restored to peace and prosperity. The convention of the people of Virginia which nict in Richmond on Tuesday, December 3d, 1867, framed a constitution for that State which was adopted by the Convention on the 18th of April, 1888, and I desire respectfully to call the attention of Congress to the propriety of providing by law for I lie holding of an election fur that State at. some time between the months ot May and June next, under the direction of the military commander of the district, at which the adoption of that constitution shall bo submitted to the citizens of the States And if this should seem desirable I would rfccdmmcnd that a spare vote be taken upon sueh parts as may be thought expedient, and that at the same tinm and under the same authority, tiidfe shall be an election for the oflcere provided under such constitution, and that tKe constitution, or such parts thereof, as &hail h&ve beto adopted by the people be submitted to Congress on the first Monday of December il^xt for its consideration, bo that if the same be then approved the necessary steps will have been taken tor the restoration or the State of Virginia to its proper relations to the Unioti. I am led to make this recommends tioD from the confident hope and be!i< f that the people of that Stite, now ready to co-operate with the national government in bringing it again into such relations to the Union as it o^ght, as soon as possible to establish and maintain, and to give to all its peopl* those equal rights under the law, which were Asserted lb the declaration of iudepandence in the words of one of the most j|. lustrious of its sonfi. I desire, also, to ask the cousidcra'' lion of Congress to the question wheth f fer there is not just ground for believing that the Constitution framed by a ('on Ventioo of the people of Mississippi for that State, and once rejected might not be again submitted to the people of that Btate in like manner, and with the probability of (he same result. (Signed) U. S. GRANT. "Washington, D. 0., April 7,1809. In Hayti three hundred llaytlen dollars are now quoted as equivalent to one dollar in gold. ) IIA VTI. wi Hayti has become as fumous as Mex- IU J ico for revolutions and outbreaks pcner- a I ally. It is a government of blacks, and 8tl the progress of matters in that favorite 'll isle does not reflect mttch luster on the ',( fitness of the eolored race for self go- a" vernment. The opposing parties are re nejjroesland mullattoa, and between tln-ir feuds aud the lumentuble idleness of all bl classes the island is gradually becoming a wilderness. In Hayti insurrection, ^ j r.u_ ,u | marked wild mntuiiiw u< mu u?m. ? .? ?- ? nable character, aud always ptlt down at with indiscriminate slaughter, occur tli once or twice a year. Occasionally er these outbreaks become formidable It enough to be styled involutions, but tb without that le-souing of atrocities inc;- th dent to struggles on a large scale. Hay- w ti, like Cuba, ia tilling the papers. Like n< Cuba, it will sooner or Inter become "an ca object of in'erest" to our Government; re and therefore a rr&umc of the situation wi on the island will prove interesting ? I)' Gcffrard was recently nub ted from the p? Haytien Presidency by Salnavb. Doini- p'? nique, another negro <*!iiefrain. has risen into prominence, and is struggling for gi Salnave's jjlace. Cooflicts are nutuer- In ou?, tho victor never .'ailing to wre k the most dihe vengca' re on oil unfortunate enough to fall into his hands The war is to the death, and im bano of In ft[ dians, painted and Hrnatiicntcd with ! feathers, ever danced around their vie- ^ ! tims with more diabolism in their hearts j than do tho ''upper dogs" in the flay- ea I tien slaughter. These fiends liave de I veloped atrocities enough to commend i thetu to the management of the Shelby ''a county jail, and are rapidly improving ri* ; on the noble art of torture. A few il- da lustrations will not be amiss. The prin- siJ 1 port o! entry occupied by the in- A' j surgiiitH is A tit CJayes, a town of eight bo thousand inhahitnqts^w Aftnr several JH} ' unsuccessful attcnipts^ad been made by ^ Salnave to recapture the town, lie enter- 90 i cd into negotiations with the Piquets, M ! the most savage of all the ncgrofes liv hti liig in u.e inter or, mem n i they would attack Aux Cayefc l?y land I mi whilst lie b'inib>rd< d it by wafer the) I liv slioiild have the pillage of the city." w The Piquets pres nted themselves a< - he cordimdy before Aux Cuyt-s in crcat ye numbers, and ll>e same time, Salnnve Ni with two armed steamers entered the *'1 harbor. Instead of layiuir doWn his nruis as advised, Doumiquc determined w< to defend the city 'othc last. It w.is his only chance. If he had surrender- uj: ed, both himself and those who fought a?_; under him would haveb.cu mercilessly w< slaughtered ; anu if the place were ta \Y ken by ?toro?u, they could but meet ch the same fu?e. In either event, also, of as the inhabitant^ well knew, they di would be put to death by the Piqeta. tu and the eity given over t?? plunder und Wi devastation. On th'* 15th of February Hj, a simultaneous attack by laud and wa- ar ter was made upuu the town. At this fl, critical moiueut there was an apmur *|'| within the city from a mob ofiuw Wo- th men and a few ot their uhcttors who wi till- d the place with y?dls for S-dnave As these unarmed women advanced in a compact body, sh >uting and shrieking, H iloiiiuiquu "turned llis artillery upon them ami sent catibister into tlo-ir ci ranks, slaughtering them right and left." an At the same time a detachment of his followers entered the prison, where over (,f a huiidr d men, women and children j >c were incarcerated, and massacred the i e.i whole of them. Sain ive huvmg exhaus'- k( ed liis ammunition after a brief bom- pji i i .; ..-..I, .i, Utird IIJ' II L, ( UUUitar * ivi wn wi a I*|UUI^ > (j I withdrew also, and tin* filing ceaftt-d fur I ui the da) on both aides. iN'c* supplies J Jj of niuniunifi:?, were however obtained, I n< and th< following tnorniog the attack | of b\ land and the bombard mi ot by the br steamers in the harbor wax resumed. to Atjer ? a sharp Conflict the Piquets sue- Ba Betted in forcing their way int. tlie ' vi cit\; bnt in the midst of the fierce strug ' at gle that e sued a fresh b .?ly of in-ur- I H| gems ckntc to the rescue Iroui. Laiise, a I fl, place some thirty mi Is distant from { r;, Aux ('ayes, a-.d attacking thcPi-ju uis tli in the real put tliem to route. '1 hen 1 m commenced another horrible slugtitcr. in The fugities were chased iu every di-1 pi rcction, and all the prisoners taken, I ta lie'ht-r wounded or unwouuded were urden-d in a mannertoo horrible lorete. Of the dead bodies fuiind in the recta, or killed outside of the city, two indrcd and fifty were piled up in one >use. The house was then set on Are id its contents burned to ashes. Alady, we are told, "eleven thousand res have been sacrificed in this tfirrie warfare." This slaughter recalls c bloody days of La Vendee and St. oiiiingo. General Hanks asks that e United States establish a protectorc over these Haytiens to the end that ey ultimately become free and enlightled citizens of the "great Republic." is a pleasant picture to contemplate ese bright days, especially iD view of e fact that the Ilaytien hatred of the hite race is so intense that not only is ) white man allowed to exercise pollti.1 privileges, but he cannot even hold al estate unless he marries a negro Dinan. A people with these eminentliberal and philanthropic ideas would ove an invaluable addition to our pollution, and it is to be regretted that ?ward is not now in a position to ne>ti?tc f'>r the ibhltid. We should no nger be deprived of this Carribbeau iin ?Mem phix ArafancJuf. MfetttusEr.ati Drownkd in the [,001>.?We riiakc the following exact from an article contri. uted to the !)iiisville Democrat: All frc know of the origin of the rth and of our race we learn from evolutions. The chronology used by e civilized world is founded on the itu furnished us in the ' ible. We ckon the date of the flood from the tes found in the Gth chapter of Geoet. We learn from this chapter that dam lived, before his son Seth was rn. 130 year*; Seth lived, before his n Kuon was...horn,.. 10??y?tits; rE rTd, Ifcforc his son Cainan was born, i years: Cainan lived, before his son ahatahul was born 70 years; Mahultl lived, before his .son Jared was rn, 65 years; Jared liVcd, before his n Em .eh was born, 162 years; Enoch ed, before his son .Methuselah (687) is bom. 95 years; Methuselah lived, fore his son Lantech was botn, 187 at; Laiucch lived, before Lis sot? mh w shorn, 182 years. Noah, hence, is born Anno Mundi 1056. In Genesis, 71 h chapter, 6th verse, i are informed that Noah was tiUU ars old when the flood of water was vm the earth. Add 606 years (his e) to 1056. the date of his birth, and i have 1656, the date of the flood.? 'c learn frotl) the 17th verse, 5th iapter of Genesis, that "all the days Methuselah were 969 years atid he ed " By relftrehcfe to the fbfejroinjj ble. it will be seen that Methuselah is horn Anno Mhtidi 687; add his ;c (969) to 687, the date of his birth id we haVe 1656, the time "when the >od of waters was upon the earth."? he conclusion is us certain as Satires, at tiie oldest man was drowned for his ickcducls. A Duel Between Neorof.8 ? o< ry Wright and Ilenfy Masot) are ro rival Henrys, both negroes, and idowcd with a high sense of huuor, id a prodigious propensity to pUgnaouSncstt. Hettkccn the two families which the two Henry's arc honored ions, there has for some time back tisted bitter feeling of the kind spi* 50 ot by a white man named Shakicare when he wrote "ltoiueo and nIiet." Yesterday, at noon, the place, i alley mar the bayou, and between lcksoti und Overton streets, there was > sylvan landscape, but the tinkling the coffee colored contents of the i)nit made a running accompaniment the buhie tone* of the two knight'y hies a* tiny engaged in angry oonlv.. i i.i.. i.i a ? ;i?u rjry iviiijjiiiijr ui?i? u woo up td pi-tols drawn. One Henry aliot, n3 the bullet tore its way along the >h nrt the shoulder blade cf the other; [.idly a second bullet wa-i sped after e first, and this time it glided into the e'i, under Henry's jaws, and rested his tuouth lie sptt it out and pre .red to take rcv< nge. Hut tlio d.isrd who had taken two shots, was fly j in# as do knight should flee, and the i bill scut after him struck whero no ' knight should be wounded?in the back j of the oeok. Both Henrys were laid i on beds of pain, and their necks were i both subjected to surgical scrutiny? when it was announced as probable that after some suffering from sore throats, 1 the two Henrys would "lire to fight another day."?Memphis Avalanche. 1 A Fixe Portrat or Butler.?Don Piatt writes to the Cincinnati Commercial: "Tbe'Ntew York Timet is pleased to say thafHotler is forking himself into the leadership of the House. Benjamin, sumamed Butler the Beast, is certainly rery busy, but I rather guess this does not mean leadership. If I understand. the honorable gentleman, he means mischief. Butler is an ambitious man, as we all know ; he is also a sensitive man, as we a!l do notf know; and he has jast about ait much conscience and principle as his Satauio Majesty. I don't mean Milton's devil, who was a gentieman, which Butler is not, nor that other personage spoken of in the Book of Job, but the rival old-fashionod devil with an odd foot and a narrative attachment, and hu<re horns, who goeth about seeking whom he mny devour. Disappoint- 1 cd in not long since?stung to the quick by the open contempt shown him by his fellow-members?lie is striving Id divide and destroy the Republican organization This has been his hiftory.? fie will rule or ruin. lie hates Grant, while pretending to be his friend. He ? - TT f hntes tho iiopublican party. uc nates everything but Hen. Hutler, because he is Hen Butler, aud Hen. Butler he despiSes. Tho^e who have .seen him in contact strith Grant tit 11 m^if^the ill-concealcd ednfttnpt of tfj^^roident is in strik ng contrast with the smiling sycophancy of the member from Massachusetts. It is not possible but that Butler perceives this himself, and it does not seem 10 strengthen the love between ihc two. It will be some time, I opine, before the subtle disnrganizcr make the frank, the straightforward soldier believe that he is a friend." SOUTH CAROLINA. Y?> are pleased to sec the spirit of energy anil progress that now characterizes the movements of the farmers and planters of South Carolina. An agricultural convention is to be held at Columbia during the month, and a State agricultural society is to be organized at an early day. The press ot our sister State, with their usual ability, and their unwaveriug fidelity to the great interests of the people, are doing Splendid service in arousiug the farmers to the importance of thorough organization and a determination to adopt a system of agriculture in keeping with their altered condition. It seems hard for many of our planters to realize that the old system that once prevailud in the Sduth niu't be abandoned if t'uey would win success. Labor being scarce and unreliable we must cultivate lead land and cultivate it better Thorutiirb cultivation, liberI I .1 ai manuring aou mc un<- ui wuu>-b?t...^ machinery' will do much better towards removing the many obstacles that now chock ofir progress in the great work of recuperation. We hope our South Curolina friends will resolve to do their work thoroughly. There is no reason, to our uiiod, why every acre cultivated in cotton should not he made to produce two bales of five hundred pounds each. We expect to see t!le d?iy when three bales per acre will not be considered it remarkable yield. But to ac. complish these results we must adopt a new system. With fewer hands, fewer acres, more manure and better cultivation, wc shall sooa be enabled to make firming profitable. The press of South Hamlioa with its ' eagle eyes, sees that agriculture forms ; the basis of our future prosperity, and it is making an effort now that will reunlt in ?tiu>ci>MA ninl nrofit to all concern-! cd. We biJ our South Curjlina friends tfod-specd in their iiohic worn. y\ nen ire bring oUr lands op to the maximum production wc will be independent, and can dictate terms to even the haughty md powerful North ?Wil. 6'tar. Terrible Death.?A man named Clark, was burnt to death, about seven miles from Purdy^ a few nights ago, Bays the BoliVar (Tenn.) Bulletin. It seeius that Clark and a companion were playing cards on the night of the fatal occurrence, and that they bad retired at rather a late hour. Subsequently, they were aroused from slumber by the roaring of the burning building, which had taken fire from some unKown cause, both rushed for a point of safety. Clark in his hurry forgot some six or seven hundred dollars, which he.had placed uudor the head of his bed, and, after getting cleat of all the dangers,be went back to the room for his money. As he stepped into the room, the floor, which had been burning from beneath for some time, suddenly gave way, and he was thus plunged into a lake of fire. His body tVas burnt tti a criSp. Core rdR Ingrowing Nails.?It is stated that the cltiteriiulidn by hot tallo^ Is an immediate cure for ingrowing piif S amnll nirro nf KrillntV in a spoon, and heat it over a lamp until it becomes very hot, and drop two or three drops between the nail and granulation. The effect is almost magical. Pain and tenderness are at once relieved, and in a few days the granulation all go, leavng the diseased parts dry, so as to admit of being pared away without any inconvenience. The operation causes little if any pain, if the tallow is properly heated. A Virginia Couple Determined to Get Married.?On Monday morning a party Of four arrive? here in a two horse carriage, after a drive of sixty utiles from Stafford county Va., where for want of properly qualified officers, marriages are not possible just now.? fining tr> thA Citv Hall, a marriuce li ~ - o " J ' o ? conce was procured for two of the party?Mr. James Pearson and Mis Annette Davis?and the vehicle drove up to the door of the hardware store of Mcador&Co., oppdsitc the Metrop"litan Hotel, when inquiry was made for the senior member of the firm, who is pastor of the Island Baptist, dhttrch.? Tiiis gentleman promptly answered the call, but suggested that the store was hardly the place for the performance of the marriage ceremony, and ivitcd them to drive to his residence. The party after consultation, declined, saying that they had about sixty miles to go, and desired the knot be speedily tied. Accordingly, the party entered'the 3ldre and took their places, when, with the clerks and customers as witnesses, the twain were made one, and drove off for their Virginia home, well satisfied with the result of their visit to the metropolis ? WnaKinntnn S/nr. A Good Education.?Mrs. Sigourney says : A ?ood education is a fortune itself. I do not mean that it will Secure wealth. Bur it brings something better than gold that perishes, fur this may be suddenly lost. Fife may consume it; the thief may take it away; but that knowledge which enriches the mind, which moderates its desires, which teaches to make a righteous use of time, and promote the happine&s of others, is f-uperior to the elements ? Fire, air, earsh and water have no power over it. It can use them as servants. It walks with us into the vale of years, and docs Dot leave us till we die. Mr. Gilpin, of Colorado, ha3 written and argUcd that, under the Rooky Mountains are solid masses of gold of incalculable magnitude and weight.? The celebrated Western scholar Mr. Catlin, has just communicated to the world his belief that a great river, "lar per than the Mississippi, flows under the Ilocky Mountains! and he is about to submit the evidence which he has collected in favor of this startlitip hypothesis The river will prove veiy convenient for transporting the masses of j gold, when fouod. AUIV1VUUI VJAllAM WAAAAAM TICS. The annual report'of the Agricultural Bureau lids bcbiTpublisbed, but'ito btallies are for the year before last. It ia announced therein, that in 180T the proportion of land devoted to the cultivation of cotton, in the cotton Stated, was 44 per cent, while only $8 pfcir cenk. was planted in corn. This statement includes Tennessee, which is only to a limited extent, a cotton State. If we leave out Tennessee, it follows that over four'-t?Btbs of the area cultivated in tile South, is occupied by cotton, and less than four-tenths, by corn, while all other ? ? ?? -11" ? "SmM trtoihn AM Ana crops arc auuweu uuv ihu-kuiuo, vi vur fifth. In South Carolina the propertions were cotton 38, corn 40) and other crops 23 per cent. The above quoted figures are suggestive, and full of tutereat also, for the reason that we have no ground for supposing any material chango in the relative proportions of the same crops now being planted If thtePe be any difference, there will be more cotton and less corn planted in 1869. Now let us examinti the results. The report says the ...?on.? oiHtt nOflllM Vila 1 Qf) TM1 n nrhl. avciagy j iv* i vit pvi mv v, n ?*w ^ - ; per hand, 1,750 pounds In South Carolina the yield was 145 pounds per aero) hud 1,400 pounds per hand. The crop of 1867 was nedrly all soid at low prices and that simply because the planters were not able to hold it.-? Their ncces^itits were gaeatand pressing, and the vast majority were forced to sell iu order to buy?what ? Corn and wheat which they might have raised on their own land. The Bureau report furnishes no atactics of the amount of provisions sold to Southern planters at high figures, durine the winter of 1867 and spring of 1Q68. If these atactics could be furnished, we suspect the fact ennld be nnmlv Droned that fully ond half of that cotton crop was turned in W corn and bacon. The cotton crop of last year yielded double profits, while the com crop waa also good enough to CDable the planter to pocket his cotton money. Stili it is not yet certain that the supply of corn was entirely sufficient. It may be yet necessary to import considerable Cora: This is but a repetition of the history of former ycats. It is the old itory of robbing Peter to pay Paiilj fchlcil iiiit been snch a favorite policy in Southern farming. The only objection to it is >o uncertain. In 1867 it laid most df its supporters flat on their backs, wh.le in 1868 it set them up on a high horse. The practical question is what is this policy going to do for as this year?? Who can "lay whether the price of cotton is going to be high enough next I Full to pay for a possible deficiency in | other and abso utely necessary crops T I The price of cotton depends on so many j and so different causes, that to predict j it is mere guess work with all but the i favored few who can partially control If. A sudden war, and such is not impossible, mdy duress it, by raising the value of articles tntrte essentials, and dostroy its avilnbility to planters by keeping the crop shut out from market. An overcrop would do as much, and an unpetted financial crash would equally destroy the majket, by making money sc irce, buyers scarcer, and sellers eager. Arc farmers really willing to trust their whole capital to such au uncertainty, or are theygoiugto provide for what they know to be essential to a successful carrying on of their bussinefa, by planting graiu enough to ensure them against being forced to buy it at a sacrifice of cotton ? Time will show. Yorkville Enquirer. ' r% TRUTH TITLY SPOKEN.?"i>riua Pomeroy fitly sayS: 'Corn is Scarce in the South, the demand being for thousands of bushels in the North-west. How long will the people ofthat sectiod be content to raise cotton for the benefit of New England manufacturers, ra*1 ?""""'rtoo thoir ATtrn r?nn luer llliill piUI'OiWWD ?MW?. W ~ sumption ? It strikes us as poor policy to starte one's self to death for the pari pose of enriching encodes." Frank Pierce's Cabinet was the only | one in the history of the United States that remaiued unbroken from the beI ginning to the end of his administration.