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THE JOURNAL. fifimiion. August 20.1809 1 o LITERARY. Gen. J. B. Kershaw will deliver a lecture before the DeKalb Literary Society in the Town Hall, on Monday evening next, 30th inst., at 8 o'clock, P. M. The public arc invited to attend. TO THECIT1ZENS OF KERSHAW COUNTY. Feeling the importance of extending every facility in our power for the preservation of the material interest of this County, we, the Commissioners of Kershaw County, desire that whatever influence or responsibility we may have, should be exercised for its benefit, and anxious that a consultation of the citizens (in co-operation with those of Lancaster) be had, to mature plans by which the construction of a Rail Road to Lancaster, to connect with the S. C. R. R. at this place, invite their attendance at a public meeting to be held at the Court House, on Monday, September 6th, at which time and place, plans for effecting this object practically will be submitted. J. F. SUTHERLAND, J. S. MERONEY, J. A. BOSWELL. THE CIRCUIT COURT. Last Tuesday was "Return Day" for our District. No great deal of suing has been done to this term. We know of bat two cases on tbo Sessions side, of any interest, both murder cases.? The Equity Docket having been nearly untouched for several terms, has assumed a capacious and formidable size.? We presume that the session will be a fatiguing one. Judge Boozer will preside. HOMICIDE. * Jof.l A. Schrock, Esq., Magistrate, . r held an inquisition, on Monday last, upon the body of Paul Williams, (colored) deceased, at which it appeared that about four o'clock, on Friday afternoon, last, deceased and one Hubert Nixon; lads of twelve or thirteen years of age, had an altercation; that deceased threw a brick at Nixon, which striking him in the mouth, knocked out one tooth, and loosened another; that Nixon Moboit nn anmft lirir.k. thrvw at de ceased, striking him upon the right tide of the stomach, somewhat in front, from which wound deceased came to his death on Monday morning between 3 and 4 o'clock A. M. A post mortem examination was made by Dr. S. Baruch, from which it appeared, that decomposition bad already begun; that the bladder had burstcd, and other evidence of great internal injuries sufficient to cause death. The deceased had no medical attention whatever, showing a degree of in humanity in his parents, which should be severely rebuked. Nixon has been committed to jail: reOSPHATE MANUFACTORY. . .. We have been kindly permitted to lay before our readers, the subjoined letter from a practical business man of Charleston. It explains itself and the argument must convince any reasonable mind. It is very desirable that the stock should be taken at an early day, as other parties are very desirous of investing in the same property referred to in the letter. We therefore urge our planters to come forward immediately, and let us keep this money making speculation among our friends. The price asked for the place is 650,000.? Shares 8100 each. A subscription list can be found at Messrs. Hodgson & Dunlap's. Charleston, Aug. 21, 18 09. . Dear Sif; Mr. has placed in my hands, your letter to him relative to the formation of a Stock Company for manufacturing "Fertilizers" from the "Phosphate Rock" of our State. I notice you are confident that at least $25,000 would bo subscribed to the Stock of such" a company by parties in your section. I have very recently visited Mr. 's plantation and examined the ground pretty thoroughly and from what I have seen and heard from others who havo examined his place, l am convinced there is money in it at the price he asks for it. He estimates that the strata underlies jibout 150 acres of his land at a depth of from 1 to 4 feet, and that the average yield per aero would be 800 tons, .which would make the aggregate yield 120,000 tons, which, at the price he names for the place would cost 42 cents per ton. Now to inakc a liberal allowance for over estimate, I propose to make the calculation on the supposition that there is only 100 acres of rock, and that the yield per aero will be only 500 tons; this gives 50,000 tons at a cost of 81 per ton. The cost of miuing and washing, I put at 82.50 per ton, (the calculation made by me from data furnished from Mr. 's actual expenses up to this time, is 82), to this, add 81 more per ton to cover interest on money invested in land, making cost Ul i-lUCK C-:,UU pui k<jli. luuujr wiu|ii?iivo not own'mg mines arc paying $0.50 to $7.50 fur the same rock and those at the North, in addition, pay fnp $3 50 to $4 frioght. l>y owning the land, the company saves in the cost of the rock from $2 to $3 per ton If other companies can pay, say, $2 50 per ton more for their stockholders, it is very evident that if the company we propose to establish is properly managed it must do so also- * * * * Keep the ball in motion in your part of the country and if you can spare the time to ascertain definitely what amount of Stock can bo taken by your people, write me, and I will then make my arrangements to start on my trip, stopping first at your place and consulting with you. The proprietor of the place 1 is willing to subscribe to 8:i5,000 of the Stock. Do let me hiar from you as early as practicable." Til?: RURAL CAROLINIAN. We have received the prospectus of this Magazine, to bo issued on the first of October by Messrs. Walker, Evans & | Cogswell, Publishers, Charleston, S. C., D. E. Jacques, Editor. It will advocate "Improved Systems of Cultivation, Di| vcrsity of Crops. Methodical Management, Orgauizcd Industry, Thrift and Economy, and inculcate cheerful labor and patient waiting for the Present, and hopefulness for the Future." The publishers state that they intend to make it the best and handsomest Industrial Magazine ever published in the South. It trill coutain sixty-four large pages of reading matter, (nearly twice the quantity given iu most similar publications,) and will be published on the fiist day of each month at the low price of two dollars a year, in advaucc. RAIL ROAD MEETING IN LANCASTER. We learn from the Ledger of Thursday last, that a meeting of the citizens of Lancaster was held on the Saturday [ previous to consider the tollowing proposition, made by the corporators of"the South Carolina Central Kail Road : 1 st. If the owners of the Coruden Branch will by vote agree to unittf with us, and take stock in our Company in exchange for their stock on equal terms, thon we will lift their road for thirteen miles and turn it round to Sumter. 2nd. We will run from Camden to Lancaster if the people of Lancaster will give the right of way free, and subscribe ono hundred thousand dollars to the stock of the Company to be paid in land along the route of the line at its assessed value or in cash. The following resolution submitted by W. A. Moore, Esq., was unanimously adopted: Iieaolved, That this meeting unanimously accepts and express unhesitatingly the opinion that the people of Lancaster will unreservedly accept the propositions submitted by the Corpora tors of the Central Rail Road, communicated in the letter addressed by the XI? 7? T T7? Tinl/lonn Qnnn f Af frnni I HUM* 11. U . lyuuaraouuj ubUHbui iivu< Chesterfield County to our own Senator, the lion. R. M. Sims. The Revivals.?The religious meetings at Beauty Spot Methodist Church, says the Bcnnettsville Journal, closed on Thursday last, and resulted in the conversion of several, twenty two of whom joined the Church. The revival at Hebron Church, which commenced on Friday last, still continues, and is iargely attended. There seems to be a powerful awakening of the Holy Spirit, and the community seem powerfully impretscd on the subject of religion. At Brownsville and Beaver Dam there are also revival meetings in progress, which promise to be abundantly rewarded by a largo number of conversions and accessions to the several churches. Verily, the spirit of God is at work among the people." Still they cry Forty Acres and a Mule.?At the recent township election in Lancaster, says tho Ledger, one of the colored voters who was rather slow to exercise his now born privilege, made the enquiry, " what this election was for? he didn't understand it." lie was answered by one of the ardent, that " the Surveyors arc to lay off for the colored people their forty acres of land, the Selectmen will levy a tax on the rich men with which to buy you a mule, the Clerk will record your title, and the Constable is to see that no one disturbs you in your possession." The darkey was rather pleased with the idea, but when the ardent presented him with the radical ticket and read over the list of names, he recpcctfully bowed out, exclaiming: "1 don't know'bout gitin' lorn mon to fin <lnt. irth for fflC." He refused to vote and weut home. We understand that this idea was industriously circu'atcd and impressed upon the ignorant colored voters hy the leaders of tho party. Good?A carpet-ragger, whipped by a Negro.?The Georgetown Times says : " We learn that un Monday last a carpet-bag teacher, who styles himself Major Joseph 11. Simonton, was drubbed with iqual severity and justice by a freed man, whoso nauie have not learned. This interesting performance took place within the walls of the Georgetown jail, where tho two celebrities were spending the summer months iV?n nnrnece nP pn/*rn111nnr YUVJUHVU iKf I llib ^ui^'Vuw v* their health." FOR TDE JOURNAL. "THERE IS LIFE IN THE OLD LAND YET." It does not require the earnest will, the sanguine temperament, the ardent hope, the "faith and good works" of our strong workers now to perceive the dawning prosperity worked for, prayed for and looked for during the four dark years just past. We are not yet rich; many years of trial and labor are yet Before us with their ''sweet uses" before the goal will be won?but the comfort of her people is greatly improved; all worthy of the nanio of "Caroliuians" have buckled themselves to work, fitted their backs to the burden and realiicd their necessary condition. The result is already assured?victory?spite of unpropitious seasons, good cultivation and close attention, have secured a fair result to agricultural labors, and the prices of our staple promise a full re* T 1 ? 1 wara. i,ancis in una uisinct iiavu doubled in value within a year?there is employment at good wages for all laborers and a comfortable living is assured to ail who will work for it. A few buildings are being put up in Gamden, a Phosphate Manufactory is it) process of construction, and to crown all with a sure and permanent good to every resident and to every acre of land in this District, we are authoritatively iuLrmcd that a direct rail road through Ivcrshaw and Laucaster Districts is a fixed fact of the early future. Perfect health has blessed our whole District, aud the loathsome disease, "Scallawagarie" has only attacked those whose taking off is a blessiugto the community, it marks its subject as plaiuly as the leprosy. "The liny is on his horn" of each victim and "cave" sets him aside as an "unclean thing." SENEX. TnE Law of Divorce.?The Greenville Enterprise says: Judge On* has rendered an adverse decision iD the ease of'Jobn II. Walker vs. Mary J. Walker, petition for divorce. The ease has been held under consideration since last court, and the legal profession will be indebted to the Judge for the very learned and able opinion in the ease. We have examined this opinion; it will form a landmark in future eases. The Judge distinctly indicntcs that the Court of Equity of this State always had the power to exercise jurisdiction in divorce eases. We have long been of the opinion, notwithstanding the uniform disclaimers of the Judges, and have always believed that a Court of Equity could and ought to havo granted divorces where there existed the scriptural justification. It is manifest that Judge Orr would restrict the granting ofdivorce to casesofthemostaggravated character, and he would not suit Chicago or the State of Connecticut. IIon. Jefferson Davis?The New Orleans Picayune has information that in a very recent Jetter Mr. Davis spoke of his health as by no means so precarious as has been lately represented. In addition to the foregoing the Picayune has a copy of the Glasgow News, ~e T..)? 00?V> AAnfnininn n rnnnrfc of the U A U LI I J Ml/lllj VWUlUIIKiJ^ w I v^/v. . WW "Highland Agricultural Society Show," in which it is mentioned that "special interest was excited among the spectators by the presence of Mr. Jefferson Davis, the President of the late Southern Confederacy, who drove about the grounds with the Marquisof Twceddale. A Singular Story.?The Washington correspondence of the Baltimore Gazetlt furnishes that paper with the following political rumor: A singu'ar story is running the rounds of-political circles here, growing, out cf the extraordinary and othcrwiso unaccountable tergiversation of the President in turning suddenly upon a I party lie had just Iiiiusclf formed. It n is to the effect that the Goutwell gang b has promised, in consideration of Grant's t total abandonment of reelection, to a create for him a new military office t higher than that of "General," under t some new name to be hereafter invented, s and to include command over both sea t and land?the salary to equal at least b that of President, to be paid in gold? t and to commence the instant his present d office expires. A proviso, it is said, is c to be added, in plain words, giving a t clear field to gifts and donations, and I gratifications, foreign or domestic. The i; only difficulty in the way of earring out t the stipulations of this treaty, it would c seem, is the possibility that Iloutwell t may himself be defeated before the pco- 1 pie and a Democratic House of llcpre- r sentatives installed before the time allot- t ted for exchanging the ratifications. a e THIS IN-COMING COTTON CROP a There is every prospect this year of a large cotton crop. In the ycur 1859 and 1800?the year before the war? 1 the cotton crop of the United States amounted to 5,196,94-1 bales, of 400 ' pounds caoh. Last year, it amounted ^ to 2,430,893. This year, it will pro- f bably reach 2,500,000 hales. What, 8 now, is the prospect of high pricep f of being realized? We think good.? 1 The cotton interests of Europe and a Amavt/tn olnno reniiiro. it is estimated. a IXUlVItVU H1VUV , an annual supply of over G,000 of bales; 1 whereas the present available prouuc- J tion of the world will not, this year, J amount to 5,000,000 bales. The fol- v lowing estimate has been made for this f year's cotton crop: \ l Easl India 1,500.000 bales ^ Egypt 2U0.000 Turkey, Levant, &u 12.500 Brazil, Peru and West India ...707.500 United States 2,500 000 All other sources 50,000 i Making 5,000 000 bales ? Now, if the world's consumption a- t mount to G,000,('00 bales, we have an t apparent deficit in supply in (he raw f material of 1,000,000 bales at the end . of the present year. If these figures c be correct?and DeBow's Review is our t authority?there is every probability of the present high price of cotton bciug maintained. Let this exhibit stimulate ? the energies of cotton producers. Let t the farmer work on industriously until a his crop has been gathered, and in se g curing his own interests, ho will be ad- t vancing the interests of the public. s A Georgia paper, with little taste and , less judgment, sneers at South Caro- , lina's devotion to cotton-making, at the exjense of political aetivity. Let us say to our cotenmorary that, in the pre" * - -- 1 I t sent condition ot our oiaro ana nur i . people we deem it a pious task to whi- ! ten seme fields with cotton and to make others gladden the sight with corn and wheat UDd oats and rye. The intelligence, worth and substance of Georgia now control the ballot; but bero, in South Carolina, those elements will reach the goal that Georgia has already won, only by passing through workshops, and cotton and cornfields. Industrial development at once causes and sustains rightful polhical adjustment. Upon the foundation of our industries, let the temple of our restored liberties rest broad, solid and majestic. Culumbia Phccnix. Tiie New Cotton ^ Crop.?tiie i prospect for the south.?A fow * bales, aud the first of the uew crop, ' have come to tho New York market? J That from Georgia, (says the lie aid,) classed as low middling, was sold at 1 auction at thirty six cents a pound and 1 that from Alabama, classed as strict middling, brought forty eight and a 1 half cents. These, it is true, may be !' termed rather fancy prices, as the first 1 bale or two of the new cotton crop al- s ways brings more than those that come after. Hut it is an indication of what * the price will be hereafter. Wo may conclude that the crop of 18G9 will 1 realize an immense sum of money.? , This crop is variously estimated?be ' tween two millions and a half to three millions bales?probably it may reach ; two millions seven hundred or two mil- 1 lions eight hundred thousand bales II ( the average price throughout the season * of sales should not exceed twenty five ' cents a pound?though from present ap-( 1 pcaranccs it will be higher tlian that? 1 the crop will be worth over two hundred j millions of dollars. From all the lights before us there is reason to believe it ' will bring that price in gold. The pro- * duction, too, is in addition to the rice, sugar, tobacco and other valuable crops of the South for exportation, ucsiues. ? that section of country lias paid more ( attention to the raising of groin, corn and other articles of food since the war, and is now, perhaps, independent or near- ' ly so, of outside supplies. In short, the * South this year will have a surplm production to be sold over and above the production of necessities worth at least ' two hundred millions of dollars. Who ( will not .?ay the South is becoming ( rich again ? Wc must admire the won- ' derful recuperative power of the people > there, and congratulate them on the splendid prospect they have of material prosperity. With more labor and capi- t tal to develop their resources tho South- , ern States will become very soon the richest country on the globe. Tue beautort Negro.?A correspondent of tho Boston Traveler, npeak- s ing of the condition of tho Sea Islands and tho negroes, savs : Away on the sandhills, in the bombproofs of forts, under old forts and de- 1: caying tents, this family of colurcd i % aen, during the war industrious and lappy, are now passing their lives in ho wilderness of the desert islands, , - ' 1_ / ' long their shores or in the wooas 01 he inner islands. Such lives will soon ie passed. For they till us that the urf which can be heard so distinctly is he only voice that sings the dirges of tundrcds that almost daily are laid in heir cold square tenements that are lug in the sea beach. Going down to leath, a whole race ; at the rate of a housand a day, and leaving none belind to bear their names! This, then, b freedom! Sufferine for food, fbrclohiDg, for everything; having no moicy, no trade, no employment; nothing o hope or live for. Free to search for abor they cannot find; free to die unlOticed and unkenneled, one aitcr anohcr until the fatal fiftieth 'year comes round, when at the present rate of disease, the whole ruce will have gone to . gloomy hereafter. The Davenport (Iowa) Democrat ells of a singular case of superstition : 'Clvatling with an aged lady, wo no iced the wonderful preservation and linr fppfji ?nd could not TC raiu from mentioning it. 'Yes,' said he, 'I never Intel n toothache or lost a ooth, because I bit tho snake.' On nquiry, she stHfed that when children t home, her father had madcthenj bite i rattlesnake, he holding the reptile by he head and tail; each child bit along he entire backbone, not violently-, but ust so as to indent the skin ; and this vas considered an infallible recipe afaiust toothache and decay, aod which he old lady believes up to the present tour." "One by One Roses Fall."?The irrcstof carpet-bagger Collins yesterday or the murder of ez-Congrcssmon :Iaughey, the death of that patriotic tatesman, the sentcnceof Hou. T. Page, >f the Senate, to five jearsat hard labor, he commitment of Hon. Peter Goodc 'or rape, are all conclusive proof of the ihilosophic remark made by the the radi:al organ a few days ago, that ,fcne by me the ruses fall."?Monfyomsry Mail. Receipts of New Cotton.?The rcicipta of new cotton, thus far this far his season, at all the shipping pets as tdvised by mail accounts, foot up fortyix bales, being considerably less than he receipts at the same time last year, bowing that the present cr?-ps is at least wo or three weeks later :hm the pie rious one. Social Life in China.?In China una and wife never walk together arm n-arm in public, nor even side by sido, >ut the wife always fellows her lord at u expectable distance, as the women do nuong the American Indians. At so;ial parties the sexe3 sit at different tables, occupying separate rooms, and vist only uuiong themselves. Strangers of ippoxito sexes ire never introduced, nor lo the women ever speak to the men, micas relatives or \ery Ultimate ass-'ci ites of the family. There is no such hing as social lite, in our sense of the void, among the Chine.-c. And all heir social and domestic theories and jracticos are based on the id> a of wo nan's inferiority and insignificance.? >hc is regarded only as a servant and in 10 sense lit to be a companion an equal )f man. She feels her inferiority, and n the main submits cheerfully to her n'| - :1? -e .1? iQ? UlC. L hU lUl'il Ul nuiuail o. nguio ias never entered her niiud. So tho oughly is this feeling of inferiority in rraincd in her nature that, in the only jook ever produced in China by a fenale author, the proposition is gravely itated and elaborately argued and illus,rated, that ''woman was made for the ianic purpose that tiles are?for men to read upou." They are astonished to ico tho freedom und equality allowed jetwccD the.sexes among Europeans and irguc strcnously against it, aud, when vanquished in argument they reply with heir usual stubborness and pertinacy, 'May bn good for Melicato man; for 3hina man no good." Since the comng of European ladies into China, some >f their women have begun to entertain ionic little idea of their rights, and it ias now become a proverb among the nen that "the most dangerous things hat can bo imported into China are orc-ign women and foreign gunpowder." Sfet, on the whole, the weaker sex are athcr kindly treated, and, in general, ire not much abused. The New York Democrat?Pomcroy iditor?announces the beginning of volinc 2 under the fairest auspices, and innounces itself brimful of hope and }luck and determination. It intends ,o succeed. A yeiitleman who has just reached 3uIveston from a pret'y extensive tour jver Eastern Texas informs the editor )f the Arnrs that the oldest inhabitants lave never known the crops as promsing as they now are. An old lady, possessed of a fine for,uno and noted for her penchant for the iso of figurative expressions, one day issemblcd her grand children, when the loovcrsation took placo, 'My children/ said the old lady, 'I im the root and you arc the branches. 'Grandma/ says one. 'What my child ?' I was thinking how much better the >ranches would flourish if the root was indcr the grouud.' a??a??mmt?am??? mpmmm DIED?On the 22nd inst., Charles Louis, only son of Mrs. R. B. Chatten, and the lateC. L. Chatten, aged 1 year, 9 months and 9 days. Fond parents let your cheeks be dry, Let trouble and mourning cease, Your darling boy now lives on high, VV here all is joy and bliss and peace. A FRIEND. DePASS & HAY, ATTORNEY'S AT LAW, A.LMJ SOLICITOR'S IN EftUITJ, CAMDEN, S. C. BUSINESS will be attended to in all parts of the State, in all of the Courts of the State, and of the United States fur South Carolina, WILLIAM L. DLPA8S, J TnORNWELL DAY. Aujr. 26. 6ui FIRM LMVfliSITV, GREENVILLE, S. C; 7 THE next Session of this Institution, will open September 15th, and continue FOltTY weeks without intermission. Three vciirs Sehnlarshins mnv be ob tained of the Treasurer or Agent, conditioned ou the payment of Thirty Dollars Aonually, for those years, and eutitling the holder to the free taitiou of a pupil "in all the regular schools on the payment of the Incidental Fee of Five Dollars?except to holders of Scholarships, the charge for tuition and Incidentals for ihe year will be SixtyFive Dollars. For instruction in Practical Chemistry or in Modern Languages there will be an extra fee, the amount of which will depend on the size of the class. The regular school embrace Mathematics ond Mechanical Philosphy, Professor JUDSON. Latin Language Literature, Professor FABER. Creek Language, Professor SMITH. Chemistry and Kalural Philosophy, Professor HARRIS. Logic, Rhetoric, Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, Professor FORM AN. Dr. Faber will give instruotion iu German, French and Spanish. Boarding, excluding Lights and Washing at about $15 per. month. Persons desiring Catalogues or to obtain Scholarships en ay address the subscriber. JAMES C. FURMAN, Aug. 26?it. President. IN BANKRUPTCY- In the matter of TflOS. J. WORKMAN, Bankrupt. To ichom it may Concern. # THE undersigned hereby gives notice ol his appoiutment as Assignee of ThosJ. Workman, of Camden, in the Coup. ty ol Kershaw, and Stutc of Soutb Carolina, within tie said District, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt uf on his own petition, by W. I. Clawson, Registrar of the said District Court. JOS. M. GAYLE, Aug. 26?3t. Assignee. Assignee's Notice, IN BANKRUPTCY In tlit matter of Juacliim I alkcnl>crry} Bankrupt. ALL Creditors having Liens in the above stated ease, will establish the same, before Hon. W. J. Clawson, Register in Bankruptcy, nt his office in Yorkville, S. C., ou or before tho 25th day of September, 1869, or be barred from uny benefit in the decree for distributing to bo made in the said case. J. M. GAYLE, A3ft ?Assignee. XX U,< UVi v?. ?- O The State of South Carolina. KERSHAW COUNTY. By James F. Sutherland, J. P. WHEREAS, Mrs. Rebecca A. Hughes made suit to me to grant her Letters of Administration of the Estate and effects of Jos. 13. Hughes, deceased. THESE arc therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred a?d Creditors of the said Joseph B. Hughes, dee'd that thoy be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate to be held at Camden on the 4th day Sept. next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to shew cause if auy they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand, this 25tn day of August, Anno Domini, 1869. J. F. SUTHERLAND, J P. Aug. 26. 2t. FOR SALE. A GRAND PIANO. Price S30(X Apply at tins omce. _ Aug. 19. tf. I Important to Debtors. fj THE Books and papers of "The Branch of the Bnnk of the State of South Car? ^ olina at Camden," have been placed in ^;| my hands for immediate settlement of fl claims. H Parties canseoure mostadvantageottl terms before suit is brought, which will |I be done against all solvent parties by j9 return day in August. W. M. SHANNON, Attorney at Law. H June 24. H I