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VOLUME 28. CAMDEN", SOUTH-CAROLINA, APRIL 29, 1869. NUMBER 3T. ' ? -* * m? i?1 AGRICULTURE. A Vine vard on Every Farm.? 'Some day in the fhture the art and practice of wine making will be as familiar 'and universal among us as the manufacture of cider is now. And the juice of V the grape, properly prepared, is greatly Superior to that of 'the apple in health Stud strength giving elements. It is an 'easy matter for the majority of farmers to provide an ample "supply of wine for their household use, at a comparatively trifling cost. A half acre in each hum 'dred of cultivated lartcl set with vines 'of hardy varieties would be sufficient if well cared for, to furnish both fruit and wine for the number of people oe'cupying, on the average, that area.? Doubtless there are limited regions in ? i 'otir country where grapes would net succeed; but the area is vast tvhere they would thrive to a 6ufficieut degree to make the growing of them for family Hise satisfactory; although it might be :far from profitable to raise them for market. In any neighborhood or localSty where a solitary vine does well, it is 'certain that enough others will tnrive 'to supply the wants of the prpulation. JBy such universal planting only ciin wo hope to see the rural population of our land supplie J with truit and wine; 'for the products of the favored grape 'regions, where the culture is carried on 'extensively, "will be mostly absorbed by 'cities. Let every farmer have his vine.yard as well as his orchard, not planted Vith a view to selling its products, but to consuming them in his 'bwn family. It'is pretty safe to assert that where apple trees will flourish, some variety of grapes will do tolerably well along side 'of them. The manufacture of wine for home use should be conducted almost precisely like that of cider. Have the i'rait ripe and clean; mash it and press Wit the juice with care, let It fe:r merit a few days, like good cider, tl en rack it, ? *and cleanse tl e ca ks and refill them; bung tight and rack again early in the Spring, and the third time on the approach of hot wcatln-r, have sound, 'sweet casks, luep thc'ni foil, and store in a clean, cool cellar, and your beverage Nvill excel in grateful flavor and healthful, exhilarating effects, when the hard labor and hot suns of Summer tempt its trial. It is as easy and simple to make 'good wine as good cicfer. The yield of wine Will probat.ly average four hundred gallous per acre from well-'culiivatrd "vineyards of strong, hardy varieties, like the Concord, IveS and Clinton. Rural New Yorker. How To Get Bio Crops.?As a , hi he. farmers are much more ambitious to get big prices, th:w big crops. There arc few farms whose average production Could hbt be doubled in a very short time by morfe capital and labor.* It is Safer to Use capital in farming than in almost any other bbsincsS. The credit of the plow is quite as good as that of the t - Ibomand anvil; and the capital will come, ' * If it is called for. Use more manure, ^ and get thirty bushels of wheat where ^ you now get fifteen, and eighty bushels % of corn where you now get thirty. The quantity of grain per acre is mainly a question of manure and tillage. A big Compost-heap tnakes'a full grain big. With high manuring, the soil needs deeper stirring and a gradual bunging tip of the subsoil to the surface. With the present horse-harrows and cultivators nearly all the cultivation can be done by horse-power, at a great saving of expense and a great increase of the crttps. Keep Your i>and uood ?we are { apt to cfop our land uutil the soil is exA hausted or greatly reduced?indeed, m ferop it so long as any profit nan be reinlized. This is very wiong; it iskill lug land ; and its complete restoration B thereafter is impossible. It can only H be brought up to a profitable point by manure and labor, but never to the Original, if that fertility was lafge. The way to seed down before the soil !a reduced. Then there will be a better catch and a more certain crop. Land Should be kept up. That is the great Secret.? Carolina farmer. It is thought the wheat crop of California will be unusually large this year MISCELLANY. ? THE MAY ELECTIONS. , Until the general elections "which t take place in October, 1870, there can ( be 110 thorough change in the political t and peysical compkxioti of the General Assembly'of the State. Elections will, 1 however, be held from time to time c to fill vacancies caused by the death c or resignation of members, which will t give an opportunity of increasing, in s some degree, the white strength of the t Lower House. There are, besides, many 1 ontirifvaud townshio offices to be filled, j t and so inipo'rlant is' it to obtain as rap- J t idly as possible the control of our local ! r affairs, that the most earnest efforts J 'should be made to elect in every in- t stance a known and responsible citizen, a The county and township officers are i brought into immediate contact with a the people. They have great power in 1 encouraging good feeling or promoting * dissension. It rests with them, in a I great degree, to determine what shall a be the county taxation. And apart 1 from the intrinsic value of the office, and apart from the influence which it may exert upon the public mind, we hold it to be of the greatest coincidence to show at once th it we do intend that the State shall not always be governed by ignorance and vice. This cannot better be done than by electing good men to every office for which an election may be held, and this must be done without regard to the apparent importance of the office. Some victories will keep our people together. They will encourage them to be hopeful and corilident, and, in this way, will have a moral power, a bracing force, out of all D oportiou to the intrinsic value of the offices themselves. A beginning should be made at once, and the occasion presents it.? e 11 in the elections ordered to : be hicld o'n the 25th May. ^ v On that day two county commission- ^ erstnd a "coroner will l e elected in Abbcvillc arid i'n G'cor;ctc'frn; a county commissioAeV iind school commissioner | in llarnfrcll; a judge of the probate court, a coroner and a county coin mis- I . . . c siouer in l''airlicld: a school commisc siouer and a eomncT in Anderson, in ^ Laurens, in Orangeburg and in Ilichland; a coroner in Chester, in Chester- . lield, in Edgefield, in Oconee, in Pick- ^ ens, in Sumter and in Union; a clerk of | j the court and a coroner in Darlington; j a county commissioner and a coroner in j Kershaw, in Lexington and in York, j and a county commissioner in Horry. Everyone of thescufficcs is important, and none more so than that of-judi:eof the probate Couit and county coiumis- ^ sinner. The county commissioners have jurisdiction over loads, highways, fer- [ ries, bridges, "and in all matters relating to taxes and disbursements of 1110 ney fur county purposes, and in every other ease that may be necessary to the r internal improvement atvd local concerns j ' iii their respective counties." mcy ; [ raise money, they apportion taxes, and ' f have the power to levy a lax of three a mills on the dollar, which Would rcpie- c sent a total county taxation of over half c a million of dollars. Their authority 1 has appan ntly very little limit other ( than their own discretion; and it surely j t is a duly which we owe to ourselves as j businessmen, as men who de&ire that i the State should prosper, as men who | i wish that the freedtnen may have full |; work at fair Wages, that we should open I this commercial campaign "without a I moment's dtlay, and striwe as hard to i elect the county commissioners, probate 1 judges, coroueta), and others, as though I I we wehi again on the eve of a l'reSiden- 1 tial election. I We do not regard the c'ection of ] these officers as a party question; but ' i i...i,? ! < cis i u 11J4, us ii i nv;i j-ii i iiu uiiu'iiuiiuiuuius i of the respectable white men of the State are Democrats, we must expect it! 1 to le said that what we want is not a ! responsible candidate, but a Democratic victory. This wo cannot help. Takiug it for granted that we will only vole lor j men who know what their official duties ! arc, aud who have sense enough to dis- \ charge them properly, where can we'go I outside of the Democratic party ? This I may be an embarrassing cqpelusion to :ome to; but it is the truth, nevertheless, tnd it may be said further, that if we tl verc willing to arrange a mixed ticket d he Radicals would force the direct v juestion by nominating a straig'ht'party E iekct. b These matters of cietail may, however, z< )e safely left in charge of the citizens r< >f the different counties. All that we tl lesire at this moment is to impressupo'n t< hem the necessity of obtaining'posses- C ion as rapidly as possible of every elcc- 8( ive offee in fhe State. Hitherto the tl tadicals have had things pretty much t< heir own way. What they win now n hey must win by hard fightfag, and fel lot by the supineness of our people.? livery county will, we trust, begin the ol vork at once, and if they labor quietly a> md steadily, there will be a tale to tell tl in the 2Gth of May which will encour- si ige the whole State, and teach the a Radical paity that t'he revenues &nd si veaith of South Carolina will not for tl otig be controlled by the native-born ci idventurer or the] scheming foreign a; cnave.? Charleston News.. c< tl White Immigration to South o Carolina.?The Baltimore Sun of hi futsday says, that a large number of oreigu emigrants have left New York ,j vithin ill's last few days to try their forunes in the Southern Stipes. A nia ority of them were young and healthy j nen and women from Germany, and g) he remainder were Irish, English and ^ French. South Carolina was the destio lation of most of them, and in most . a jases the emigrants had come to this p :ouutry'tinder'the auspices of some of ^ he Southern emigrant companies who ; ire trying to attract labor and capital rom Europe, to aid In the development if the Southern country. The greater number of these imini- ^ ;rants will, probably, settle in the up er districts of the State, where they rill have every opportunity of winning ^ iy their labor, houses and lands of their ^ wn. They will be warmly received. or we feel more and more every day P low much wc Deed har.ly and honest r'nitc men to help u's in making what I tinnrrr"j tnnv he neeessarv in our atrri- I "'"j ? -j o ? ultural py-teiu, and in controlling and ... si lirccting the colored laburers, upon rhom wc main'y rely, in Newberry )i>trict where there are several hunIred German sett ers, the experiment ^ kis been perfectly successful, and the hrifty Teutons have shown that they rill become a valuable element iu the ommunity. Wc have room for bun- ? ireds of thousands of industrious white ^ nen. South Carolina is broad enough 0 give each of them a quiet and happy ^ tome. Aud for each immigrant there hall be a strong clasp of the hand, and 1 warm aud hearty welcome. Charleston Xcws. r Too Much of the NidofcR.?It is u eported that Clay, the aristocratic } 'gcinmen of Color" of New Orleans, aprointed Minister to Liberia, and Pro- p essor Basset (colored,) of Philadelphia, p ippointcd Minister to Flayti, have each D leelined the honor. This is so very 'j ;nrioi3tliat most People will ask why t Hi tlinso dtwliried these hi?h ,, iffieial distinctions. We Suspect that t] he true reasons arc that they prefer to ^ stay among the white people; that they t TCoil from the idea of living in a com- ( nunity where there is nothing but nig- ^ ^crs; that for Clay there is too much of i :hc nigger in Liberia, and for Bassctt ^ [oo much of the nigger in Hay ti. Even ;| in the old slavery times, between sla- a very with all its drawbacks, in theUui- s led States, and freedom with all its ad- a vantages in Liberia, there were many a blacks who declined Liberia for this situ- r pie reason :?"Don t want to go, massa, where dete's uuffin but niggers." Be- <] sides, in sending the black man Clay, < for instance, to the black Government t of Libet ia, Clay may think after all "it { is only putting me on a level with a nigger." The mission to England would ^ be a different thing. The United States nigger is as good as a white niHn, and must not, theieforc, he picked out as a nigger for Iiayti or Liberia. i N. Y. Herald. B The King of Sweden writes a poem i every duy. J \ The Washington correspondent ol ae Baltimore 'Gazette, writing on Mol ay, says : "While the political carni al is in progress in Washington, anc iterative favors are being scatteiec road cast among 'free American citi ms,' a courier arrives frotn the far of ?gion of Texas wi th official reports fui re Wtir Department. At the little >wn of JdFcreou, on the head of Lake ladCo, are now 1,500 United State* ddiers, occupied in guarding thirty o! ie most respectable citizens of the )wn, who were arrested more than foui tontus since, and who have never beet llowed a trial or a hearing of any kind Co one of them has ever been informec f the cause of his arrest. The cou'riei nnminr?pd tn thfi War Denartment thai nuvW..v??. * r 16 soldiery have constructed a stockad< moulded with a ditch fifteen fp'et widt nd fifteen feet deep, and within tlx lockade erected e. frame 6hed in whicl ic prisoners are kept. A guard ii instantly on duty within the stockade nd another outstde. No one, not ever lunsel, is allowed to speak to one o icse prisoners, except in the hearing f a file of soldiers. Even their wive; nd daughters are forbidden any in rcrcourse whatever, except in par /.iilnr enopii wh?ri> a ladv is occasion Ily allowed to talk to her husband ho is brought out nnder a guard o iglit] men to the entrance of th< :ockadc, but all such interviews art mited to fifteen minutes. These pris ncrs have made appeal after appeal fc^ trial, but all in vain. The War De artinent receives and enters upon iti les these report's of 1 free Americat itizons' imprisoned, but says?'Gcner I Reynolds must attend to their re :ase; it is no business of the War De artuicnt." Spain and the United States.'he Foreign Relations Committee havi efore them a list of five hundred ant venty-spven summary executions re orted to have been made by the Span ill authorities on the Island of Cub: itLIn the last three and a half month Tms list if to be most diligently scaunci -first, to see if it is entirely correct ;cond, to sec if 'anv Americans arc io luded in it. The list produces grca xcitemcnt, and even if Americans ar ot fuuud in it, ingenuity is aidiug in ignation to discover if the cruelty car otbe made the object of represcntatioi f some sort or other. The rumors re arding contemplated expeditions froi: lie State to Cu'aa are not. incorrect. 1 jrcc of formidable dimension is bein: rcpared. A prominent Western Gei ral of volunteers is iu command alread) nd attention is being diverted from th eal port of embarkation by the public tion of false places as intended. Th eal point has not been selected, but i rill be neither at New Orleans nor Nei 'ork. This may be relied on. The last pre lOsal of the insurgent agents is that bot parties be allowed to buy arms and atr auniton in the State in open markei rherc seems to be uo way of getting a his, unless it he allowed suo rosu snoi f recognition. The initiative in reccj lition our Government will not take ?ut the insurgent's friends here avc hat the steamer expected from Ver }ruz at New York to-morrow or nex lay will bring nefrs of the insurgents b dexico and Bogota, and that their at vill be soon followed by Chili, Colombi md Ecuador. This is what they saj iiid of its truth th"c arrival of advice pc learner will soon show one fray c nother. It is certain that insurger igcnts haVe been prosecuting effects fc eedguition in Mexico and in theSout 'xinerinan Republics for many week; [ho hatred of those couutries toward Spain has been their lever. Meantim he Government's intention to protci Vmcrican citizens in Cuba, and Amer :au vessels in Cuban waters, continue inabutcd. Washing ton Cor. N. Y World. A Montana editor describing a youn ady from New York, says she is "a oris of a lonely girl, sharp as a frost norning, full of tricks as a deer, and a lappy as a whole flock of snow birds. f A Washington letter to the Balti more Gazette says : "The fearful deprav- It ?y raanifestd in official circles here far e I exceeds anything ever before known, g 1 and it has'become so open and palpable k that leading radicals are expressing u f great disgust. In a 'conversation last t r evening, a radical editor wlio, iti the c > better days of the republic, had been a 1< i prominent Democrat, declared that no v 5 government on earth could long con- t f tinue under the corruption as now T j openly practiced here in high quarters, 1 r and his honest belief was that the only i i salvation for this'country was to rein- t . j state the old Democratic party. His o [ brother, also a radical convert from the a r Democracy, exclaimed, "Treason, trea- h t son." 'You may call it what you please/ a ; said the first speaker,'but no one knows v i better than yourself the truth of what I n ; say.' General Sickles, who was pres- f i eot during the conversation, remarked, t 3 'I don't know about reinstating the De- t ; mocracy, but I do knoiv I leave here i this evening thoronghly disgusted at f what I have witnessed.' During the j conversation it was stated to be a fact a ? - f 3 that a brother-in-law to President Grant " - was regularly engaged in selling,an3 at r - high prices too, his letters of recommen- 1 - daiion for office. In a word, tho Fed- 11 , eral Capitol is now regarded by all ^ f parties here as a vast gamblimg hell, in ^ i which the public offices are played for, * 3 won and lost as coins of gold'atid Silver 1 - would be at Baben-Badrn." ,c i An Appeal in a Good Cause.? "[ We print below an appeal that has been e ( sent us by tbe ladies of the Confedrate < Mc'tnorial Association of Lynchburg.? They ask of the Southern people assistance in the good and noble work of 1 of placing monuments over ine gjaves of our fathers, brothers and sons, and ' we are confident that they will not ask ' in vain. We commend it, therefore, to 1 e j the attention of our numerous readers, 1 and we bespeak for it, in obedience to the request of the ladies of the Association,a place in the columns of our pn'per: j The ladies of the Confederate Memorial Association of Lynchburg Virginia, ! ; would respectfully call the attention of 1 their sisters of the Southern States to the fact, that several thousand soldiers from c the various Statesarc buried in the cemetery of that city, and earnestly solicit ' I their assistance in the work they have ' g nudertuken of erecting a suitable monuluent to their memory. The Lynch- 1 burg Association has aready enclosed ' the Cemetery, turfed tTie graVcs, and n are now collecting a sum to defray the n expense of the monument. The im- ' ' poverished condition of the people of Virginia, prevents their caring for the ! graves of the Confederate dead who re- ' 6 . I pose in her soil, in the manner they desiro. and they confidently appeal to 1 the women of the Se'uth 't6 contribute to their holy work. Any (-locations may be seut to either of the undersigned of the Association. ' Mrs/H. F. BOC.bCK, Presd't. L Miss Carrie M. War'wic, Scc'y. Memorial Association of Lynchburg, ( -t Va. r. ' ) t m >, Corn and Cotton in Georgia.? ir We sec it stated in the Columbus and a Macon papers that the crop in Georgia X this year is about equally divided bey tweeii corn and cotton. Should the t seasons be favorable, corn will be lower a than it has been for ten years. It is ji generally manured and the stand was _ At niesent. it is too ear >r ly to say much about cotton. The Mait( con Journal snys'emphatically : "There ir will not be any more land in cotton in h South Western Georgia this year than s. there was last." [8 It :s not yet too late to plant corn in e South Carolina. Half corn and half cot?t ton should be our motto. We do not ( j. wish to be prophets of evil; but we know is that, unless we make breadstuffs enough to relieve us from the necessity of buying them in the North and West, the cottoo^crop of 1869, '70 will do the j; g State at large, the planters and the far-! II mers, but little lasting good. The mo- j y ney received for the cotton will be paid j :.s away for corn, and so will end the chap- ' 1 " ter. 1 Love your lnemies. ?J nere are iww :inds cf love, involving the same genral feeling or springing from the same enteral fountain of good-will 'to all manind, but diffeiing still so far'ah to acfait of separation in idea. The one is hat feeling "by which we a/pprove of the onduct of anotheY, commonly Called the 3ve of complacency; the other, by which re wish well to the person of another, hough we cannot approve his conduct. ?his is the love of benevolence; and this jve we are to bear our enctnics. It is mpossible to love the conduct of a man hat curses and reviles us, and injures ur person or property, or that violates .11 the laws of God; but though we may late his conduct, and feel deeply that ufe re affected by it, yet we may still wish rell to the person; we may pity his madess and folly; we may not return evil or evil; we may aid him in the time of rial, and sCck t6 do him go6d here, add o promote his eternal welfare hereafter. Albert 'Barnes. A young man applied for a situation s a private tutor. He was subjected o a series of questions which somewhat uffled bis temper. At length came ho inquiry, "Can you draw, youDg aan ?" "Certainly," replied the candilate. "At ten years of could draw ciler; at twelve, a picture; at fifteen, a land cart loaded with cabbage; at sixeen, an inference; at twenty, a btll of T Tu;ma ixchange. it I were aa auiur, j. uuiviw could draw the largest kind of a house* >uthein? a teacher, I am ciDtent to draw i salary, and the bigger the better." '" T J- ? ? ' 1 OU II UUj naD tut, A PuizLED Yankee.?Jenks telfi i good story of a man on a Mississippi iteamer who was questioned by a Yankee. The gentleman, to humor the fellow, replied to all the questions straight Forwardly until the inquisitor as fairly puzzled for an interrogatory. At larft he ioquircd : "Look here, Squire?where was yeoil born ?" . . "I was born," said the victim, "in Boston, Tremont St., No. 44, left hand side, on the 1st day of August, lSZtf, it 0 o'clock in the afternoon; physician, Dr. Warren; nurse, Sally Benjamin." Yankee was answered complete^.? For a moment he was stuck. Sooh, however, his face brightened, and he juickly saie, , "Yaas; well, I calculate yon dont re3ollect whether is was a frame or brick i - - J- 9?> nouse, uu ye ; "71 Tr~: '.i A young man asked an old man for bis daughter in marriage. The answer was : "Go into the orchard and bring in i number of apples. Give me one-haft of the whole number and the Another half of the balance and half an apple over, and to the daughter one-half of the remainder and half an apple and have one left to yourself, without cutting an apple, and then if she is willing you can have her." He solved the question. How many did he bring? The McArdle Case.?The Supreme Court of tho Uuited States, in case o'f McArdle vs. The Uuited States, decides that they have no jurisdiction over the case under Acts of Congress iVbeiitly passed. It will be recollected that McArdle, editor of a Vicksbirg ^'a^'elr, was arrested by militaTy authority 41 Vicksburg, in 18G7, aod thrown ih& prison by the officer commanding for alleged seditious language. I * ?' t One of our cotempcaries, in an obituary of a young lady who lately died, closed by saying, "She bad an amiable, temper, and was uncommonly fond of ice cream and other delicacies." A Sharp Rebuke.?The Rev. Mr. Whitefield was once accused by one of his hearers of wandering in his discourse ; to which he replied, " If you will ramble like a lost sheep, I must ramble for you." Why is a baker a most extraordinary glutton ? Because before taking break, fast he Gnds it no inconvenience to (h)eat an oveu. Dickens has been threatened with a libel suit by the proprietors of th$ Aihahibra.