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VOLUME XXXIII. ' CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1874. NUMBER 33.
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PHOTOGRAPHS.
a . i
Tha undersigned haying returned
and opened a gallery will
be .pleased to see his friends.
With more experience and IMPROVED
APPARATUS he feels
mote oapable than eyer before
of pleasing the people.
Oome and have your pictures
Trrfr Vr*? grim Winter with
kli frost sod snows pounces np?
on ns.
Qtllsry in Workman House.
JLB.LEE.
Cmrfu, 8. C., 8?pt. 11,1873.
A FAMILY ARTICLE.
If?ta Mki $12.60 par daj, $76 p?r WMk.
All BNTIBBLY. NSW
assise MACHINE
VW PliMlU VN,
ONLY FIVE DOLLARS.
' With tk* New Patont
BUTTON HOLS WO{RKlE
PaUatad Jua?7th, 1671.
AWAXDMD TH HMT FEPfTDM AT TBI
icnucjLX LsmrtJTK
AlOMAXTLAJn) uorriTUTs PAOta, len.
Ml woaadtrftal and olagantlj conatnaoWd
toVDM MAOKUlYor Family Wtrk. Com.
{! * ia all it* Part*, Usm tht Straight Ay?
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right Pwuiti Motion,d Now Tension, Self
Vedfl sad Cloth Guidsr. Operates bt Whbil
ud ftf a Tani. Light Running. Smooth and
Mini?, like all food high-priced machines.
Mas Patent Cluck to prevent the wheel being
tamed the wrong way. Uses the thread
Street frees the spool. Makes the Elastic
Look fmoi, (inest and strongest stioh
known;! irm, durable, elose and rapid. Will
da all Binds of work, fuu and eoaree, from
Camanac to hoary Cloth or LBAyjua, and
nftea all deoeriptions of thread. ThisMachine
k kbatut ooesTBocrsD to giro it STftnaOTH;
all the pot* *f each Machine being made alike
Iy si as* is try, and beautifully finished and
or i??' It is easy to learn. Rapid, Smooth
and RUmt in operation. Reliable at all times,
and ft PnacnoAL, ScinvTinc, Micbajucal
bmurtxon, at ft Greatly Reduced Price.
A flood. Cheap Family Sewing Machine at
last, f he Aset and only success in producing
ft Tahuble, substantial and reliable low prieftd
dewing Machine. Its extreme low price
Beaches all conditional Its simplicity and
strength adapts it to all capacities, while its
aaay merits make it a universal favorite
whsforat used, and creates a rapid demand.
IT IS ALL IT IS KBCOH.KKNX>ED.
I aaa cheerfully and confidently recommend
Ms nsoto those who are wanting a really good
lisisi Machine, at a low price.
Mas. H. B. JAME80N,
P so tone. Will County, 111.
Prissof sac)( Machine. "Class A." "One,"
(warranted for five years by special cert 14
safiA) with alt the fixturu, and everything complete
belonging to it, including Silt Tbkiadum
Rinnan, packed In a strong wooden box,
asd dsUrcrort toauy part at the country, by
>Threes, mm of further charges, on receipt
of prion, only Pirn Dollabs. Barn delivery
guaranteed With each Machine we will send,
em receipt of $1 extra, the new patent.
BUTTON HOLE WORKER,
Owe at the most Important and useful inventions
at the age. So simple and certain, that
a ehild saa work the finest button hols with
regnJarUy and ease. Strong and beautiful.
Smoiax Tanas, end Extra Inducements to
Iau aad Fisau Agent*, Store Keepers, Ac.
who will establish agencies though ths country
smd and keep oar Nxw Macbixis on Exmtttm
sad Sale. Cocbtt Rights given to
matt agents run. Agent's complete outfit,
famished without any bxtxa chasos. Sam
M NiMMf, descriptive circulars contain,
ing Arm, Testimonials, Engravings, As.,
ft*., Nltnu. We alto supply
AflKJCTLTUHAL IMPLFlffcrrS.
Iltl* PatHti and Improvements for the
Vimial Oardea. Mow#r?, Reapers, Cul.
tieators, Feed Cutters, Harrows, Farm Mills,
Htfiwi. Harvesters, Threshers and all artieles
aeeded far Farm vork. Rare Seeds in
large variety. All moneysent in Poet OSes
Meaey Orders, Bank Drafts, or by express,
will be at oar risk, and are perfectly secure.
Safe delivery of all our goods guaranteed
"An old and responsible inn that sell the
beet goods at the lowest prise, and can be
relied npon by ear readers."?Farmrr't Joursslt'-Fito
York.
J0T Tfot RupontibU for RtguUrtd Lttttrt.
Ambbss Oanans
JEROME B. HUDSON A Co.,
Corner Orsonwioh ft Cortlandt Streets, N. T
Sept. 26, 6m.
asrmAtiPV Me U/ITT CD
WIBHWriEi T W nil! kilt
AUCTION
AND
C?Mi?ion Merchants,
Brosd-St. Camden, S. 0.
Will attaad to the selling of Real Ertats,
MniIhUm, Product, to.
BtiiMN entrusted to thoir oar* will moot
with prompt attention.
litvsi mad# as ?oon aa tales are effeoted.
KING'S MOUNTAIN
Military School^
YORKVILLE, S. C.
TM> Institution it fully supplied with arms
aad all ntotseary tcieatiflo apparatus; aad
the reseat ezteatiou of the course of studies
plants it la the front raak of South era Educa*
tioaal Institutions. The first session of 1874,
will begin on ths 2ND OP PIBBUART.?
Apply for eatalogne nontaining full particufst.
A COWARD/ Principal.
ate
Yv&P
mm? vnrfldtim? nnim? dfmwiv
1UA fATUiUXA ilUIILD lmiUAUl.
This unrivalled Medicine is warranted mat
to contain a ainglo partidle of MxacukT, or
nay injurioua mineral subsance, bat it
Purely Veg-etable,
containing those Southern Roots and Herbs
which an all-wise Providence has plaoed in
oountries where Liver Diseases most prevail.
It will euro all Dioeatoo cauttd by Dorangomont
of Ihe Livtr or Bowtls.
Simmons' Liver Regulator, or
Medicine,
Is eminently a Family Medicine: and by being
kept ready for immediate resort will save
saany an hour of suffering and many a dollar
in time and doctors' bills.
After~over forty years' trial, it is still receiving
the most unqualified testimonials te
its virtues from persons of the highest character
and responsibility. Eminent physicians
commend it as the most
EFFECTUAL. REMEDY
Y For Dpepepsia, or Indigreatioxx.
Armed with this ANTIDOTE all climates
and changes of water and food may be faced
without fear, Asa remedy for MALARIO US
FEVERS, BOWEL COMPLAINTS, RESTLESSNESS,
JAUNDICE, NAUSEA,
IT HAS NO EQUAL.
It is the cheapest, the purest and best Family
(Medicine in the world.
MAJTUTaCTUKBD 010.T IT
J. H. ZEILIN & CO.,
MACON, OA. AND PHILADELPHIA.
Price $100- Sold by all Druggists.
January 1, 1878. 12m
FALL
AID
Winter Goods I
A.T
jr. A T. I. JOKE'S
CHEAP
Cj^lSih: store
Our 8tock of
General Merchandize,
Consisting in part, of
IDIRTZ- GOODS,
Groceries, Hardware,
Cutlery, Boots, & Shoes,
Notions, Hats, &c.
Will be sold at the very lowest prices for
cash or its equivalent in barter.
Ill Goods sold by us are warranted
as represented
We have a large and well selected stock 01
North Carolina Shoes,
Which we offer at low figures.
We pay the highest market prices for
Oottoo and other Country Froduoe.
Agents for Neblett 4 Goodrich's Cotton
Gins, which we offer at Manufacturer's
prices.
19"All Goods purchased by parties re ding
within the corporate limits of the
town will be delivered by us free of charge
J & T- I. JONES.
Camden, Sept. 25. tf.
Bagging, Ties, &c.
40 bales BAGGING, various brands,
? tons ARROW TIES.
MACKAREL. in barrels, half-barrels,
quar rels, kits and at retail.
CROCKERY. Ac. Ac.
^ AAAlVAf) lktT
\9 UOV IVVVITCU
J. & T. I. JONES.
August 28. tf
Bagging* and Ties.
10,000 yards BAGGING
25,000 pounds TIES.
For sale by
BAUM BBO.
Butter and Cheene.
50 boxes CHEESE,
25 firkins GOSHEN BUTTER.
For sale by
BAUM BRO.
NOTICE.
All person* indebted to me ere requested
to pay up immediately. Those who do not
eomply with this request by the 10th of Janvary,
1874, will find their notes in the hands
of an Attorney for collection.
1 shall remain Camden until the first of
April, and will hare a lot of fine Horses and
Mules always on hand, which will be sold
lowsr than slsewhersin South Carolina.
W. H. HUDSON.
Doc. 26. tf;
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*
A Bridegroom's Troubles.
IDIOTIC PROCEEDINGS IN IOWA?A BRIDE
NAILED IN. i
Last night a party drove up, assembled
in the parlor of a hotel, and sent for the ^
landlord. They had come in from the
prairie, and were in search of an official to
tie the knot that should make them one ^
and inseparable forevermore. I was in- (
vited to witness the ceremony, and, as- ^
cending to the parlor, found the expectant (
bridegroom, a man about forty years of .
age, and a fair and blushing damsel of (
sweet sixteen, waiting impatiently the ar- (
rival of the parson. For somp reason no
preacher could be fonnd, and they were ^
obliged to fall back at last upon a very ]
young fellow, a newly elected Justice of
I the peace, who had never before officiated j
at a ceremony of this kind. He was very
nervous at the idea of having to perform
the ceremony, and brought with him a
copy of "Every Man His Own Lawyer,"
through which he looked for tho desired
form. Not 6nding any, and the crowd
growing impatient, ho told the couple to
stand up and hold up their right hands.
This done, he pronounced the following
charge: "You, and each of you, do
solemnly swear that in the case now upon
hearing you will tell the truth, the whole
truth,'and nothing but the truth, and that
you will love, honor, cherish and obey
each other during the term of your natural
lives, so help you Hod." Both answered
solemnly, "I will." Then the justice
charged them a dollar each, and pronounced
them man and wife. One of the friends
then produced a jug of whisky from their
deigh, and proceeded to compound a >
punch, of which the whole party drank j
freely, and then had a dance. As they ;
* w _ iL I
could nod do music, meir cnons were | j
principally confined to jigs and break ^
downs. At last the party concluded to put j
the happy couple to bed. The bride was 1 (
willing to go, because she said she was , (
tired, and her shoes pinched her feet, j j
The girls of the party took her off to her
ohamber, and soon announced to the i |
bridegroom that everything was ready, i |
The fellows then intimated to the ^ride j
groom that they proposed to divest him of | ^
hi* wearing tpparcl. Ho ob-ccio<l, und , ]
then a scuffle commenced. The bridej
'
groom was strong as an ox, and. getting }
angry, he blackened one fellow's eye, and j
tore another oue'scoat off bis back. In j (
the turmoil tho whole party got out of the
room, and went to the saloon close by and
took a drink. In spite of all persuasions,
the newly married man declared that he (
was not going to let them take off his i
clothes. His friends then got a rope. (
and, making a noose, slipped it over his ,
head and tried to drag him up stairs.
They noarly choked him to death, when (
the doctor interfered, and cut tho rope. (
^Then they fastened it to his legs, and, in (
trying to drag him up stairs, broke a
lounge and tore down half tho balustrade. j,
Finding they could not get him up stairs, j
they went up to see if they could not make
the bride get up and come down. Hut she j
had locked tho door, and would not let the (
crowd in. Some of them got a hammer ,
and nails, and getting a ladder, put it upon ,
the outside of the house, and climbed into {
the bride's apartment and nailed up the |
door firmly, saying if the bridegroom ,
would not let them put him to Led, he
should not get into the room anyhow. 1
They hid the ladder and went off. Tho (
happy man finding the way clonr, walked |
quietly to his room and attempted to enter. ,
He could not get in, and he shouted. "My (
dear, open the door." She informed him ,
that it was nailed up. He then tried to ,
kick it open, when the landlord interfered, j
and told him h?* was not going to have his ,
furniture and house ruined in that way. j
He went out and tried to find the ladder, j
L ?a U? /Ja if A f loaf onnid fin/*
UUb UU WUUiU UUb UV lb. 41V IH9V nvutw vi>?
remembered that a lightning-rud man had
some ladders at the other barn, and down
the newly married bouI hastened, and at
5.30 in the morning succeeded in joining
bis bride in the room above. ';
Council Bluffi Xcha. 11
I j
The third annual statement of the p??rk
packing operations this season in the West i
have jqst been published. Returns from i
389 points and 21 additional estimated, 11
gives total packing of hogs, to date, of I
4,700,000. Estimated for the season , i
393,000. Packed at these points lust sea- i
son. 5,526000. Hogs packed this season
equal to 4,774:000 of last year's average
weight. The estimated decrease in average
weight is ten per cent, showing a decrease i
of 176,000,000 in the aggregate weight. ' i
Decrease in the production of hams, shoul- i
ders and sides is estimated at 106,000,. |
000 pounds. The falling off in yield of
lard is estimated at seven pounds per hog,
being an aggregate decrease of 46,000,.
000 pounds, equivalent to 143,000 tierces.
The sugar crop of Louisiana is estimated
for this season at 100,000 hogsheads.
Northerners at the South.
The Springfield Republican, commenting
upon the debate between Senators
Merrimon and Edmunds, says :
We share in Mr. Edmunds' pleasure at
learning from the lips of a Southern Senitor
of Mr. Mcrrimon's standing, that in
it least one Southern State the natives
ire beginning to get the nonsense out of
iheir heads and the rancor out of their
hearts, and to heed the apostolic injunct
tion about using hospitality, and entertain
ing strangers. Tho quicker and more
thorough the process, Jthe better for North
Carolina, and the coihltry at large. We
:ould wish, though, that he had not laid
such a strong accent on the word "gentlemen,"
or that he had taken time to explain
what he meant by that uiuch ubused
term. "Gentleman" used to mean, on
3outhern lips, a man who had a greatgrandfather,
and a larger or smaller number
of (unpaid) servants?a man who
didn't earn his own living. But the great
mass of our Northern people have neither
joat of arms nor family portraits, and
they earn their own living It is these
bonest, hard working, frugal people?
small farmers, artisans, mechanics, thrifty
trades-people?whom the South most
aecds to-dav. They can do a great deal
more for her, if she will let them, than she
:an hope for from the capital classes par
xeellence?the millionaire railroad men,
manufacturers or real astato speculators.
But these people have a New England
pride of their own, and as Mr. Edmunds
:oId his friend irom ixortn uaronna, uiey
ire not going anvwbero, where they can
tot take their pride along with them,
villi the assurance that it will be sufe
from outrage. We wish Mr. Merrimou
md bid fur this kind of immigration a
little ^ore explicitly.
We nre afraid, too, that it will hardly
jo prudent to argue from, the state of
hings in North Carolina to a goncralica,ion
embracing the entire South. Mr.
Kduiutids might have reminded Mr Merrimon
that the latter State iiud always
been rather looked dowu upon and snubbed
by their neighbors, as deficient in
blood, gentility, "Southernisui. ' We susjieet
there are stilly fioo&uywjt) commitaitics
in wliich a Vunkc^^f'uriio r, shoemaker
or storekeeper, would find himself
rather lonesome, and his wife exceedingly
bomesick. Dr. Henry W. Bellows, a very
>on?ervative man by temperament, and not
^ivcu to exaggeration, writes from Florila
to this paper : "The skin is tolerably
unooth, but under it tho Soul born flesh
jreons still, and is very sore and exasperited
towards the North. While Northjrncrs
arc treated civilly, there is very
it tic social communication between North
ind South, mid the bitter feeling toward
he Xni tli is far from being fol'tened, Jf
concealed. It will take a whole generalion
to change this Marah into a sweet
tpriiig." And the most enlightened of
Southern newspapers, the Louisville
Covrin- Journal, is at this moment engaged?more
power to its elbow!?in an attempt
in persuade the Kentucky legislature
and people, that immigration would
be a good tlting for the people of the
State, and that the old cry of "Kentucky
for Keninckians,"has outlived its usefulness.
TiieIUnkiiupt Law.?The New York
Bulletin throws considerable light on
some of'the objectionable features of the
bankrupt law by reporting the answers of
well known merchants and business men
[Dodge. < laflin, Opdyke, Mayor Havetnoyer,
&c.) to categorical (juestions regarding
the working of the law. These
gentlemen, to the number of a dozen, are
almost unanimous in the opinion that the
law. as it stands at present, has not benefited
the commercial community, and is
not an i ff. cttinl un ans of collecting debts
Mr. Dodge says he has got dividends in
only twelve or fifteen out of one hundred
uid twenty-five eases and Mr. ('laflin that
'out of thousands of cases they have rarely
reooveud anything, the little that is
realized bo ng eaten up by the expenses of
passing tin ugh the court." On the nthhand.
Mr. Dodge says that "in private settlements
we have always received something.
and never so low as fifty cents 011
the dollar.'' but this is partially owing to
the fact that the most promising failures
are settled in this way. Complaint is also
made of the excessive fees, an I on the
whole, these opinions do not confirm Mr.
Jenckes's view that this is a -business
man's law . and not a lawyer's latv." Tlmt
the country needs permanently ;in equitable
and iiiexpRUKtvo bankrupt law there
can be no d ubt, ami it in tin- duty of
Congress to so amend the present Imw as
to make it such.
Andrew Jackson wns accused of bad
spelling, but John Kundoiph defended
him by declaring that "n man must be a
fool who couldn't spell a Wold more wny s
than one."
A Debtor For Life.
A STRANOE STOP.Y.
Twenty-five years ago, a young physician
named Weiting, of Syracuse, N. Y.,
was just beginning to reap coiumensurate
reward for a previous career of self-denying
industry and needy endurance?having
developed an ability as a professional
lecturer by which both reputation arid
profit were coming to him rapidly.
A part of the gratification ho experienced
in this rise was in the thought that it
would enable him, possibly, to help some
"forlorn and ship-wreckctf brother;"
wherever he went his heart and hand
were ever ready for kind and generous
deeds, and in addressing an audience he
was quick to discern in it any apparently
poor student, to whoso suppositious case
might bo addressed words of cheer and
sympathy.
During a series of lectures on physiology
and the laws of health, at Quincy. Mass.,
in the winter of 1PI9, he noticed among
the regular students a palcfaced, poorlyattired.
and singularly intellectual-looking
young manv whose earnest attention and
fixed gaxe individualized him to such a
degree in his observation, that at last he
found himselfalmost designating him specially,
in some of his remarks. From Quincy
the lecturer went with his course to
Plymouth in the same State, and when
there, again the strange youth appeared
as one of his auditors.* He determined to
ascertain who he was, but before he could
take the ordinary step!; to such end, the
faithful follower undertook his own introduction.
j After the lecture, one evening, the j
; youthful stranger sought the Doctor on j
; the platform, and giving his name as W. j
! Z. Wright. aBked the privilege of n brief!
conversation. He was. he said, a poor '
iMassnchiuetts boy, not yet of age, without;
relatives or friends, who felt in himself a j
possibility of great things, and an irresistible
inspiration to find some one who
j had the mind and means to assist. Accij
dent had led him to attend the first lecture
in Quincy, when at first sight of the
declarer's face he had been impressed
with tenxo of * peculiar natural sympathy
between theui.
Aside from the matter of scientific discourse,
the speaker's peisonality had exercised
a magnetic influence over him, not
to be described or resisted, so that he
had been compelled to follow to Plymouth.
It was his final conviction that the speaker
who so influenced him, could be no
i-olinr 1I1111 tlii> friend whom his
uvtivt o* I
J needs had instigated him to look for, and
' in this belief he now wished to submit a
I certain proposition.
The California gold fever had just bro!
ken out; ho felt absolutely sure that if he
could go out as a miner, it would be to
j certain riches, and his proposition was, I
i that in consideration of receiving half of :
! the proceeds of the golden venture, the I
lecturer should supply him with a pecuni.
' ary outfit of one thousand dollars.
' 1 shall surely succeed," concluded the
youth, with singular earnestness of manner.
"Only lend me the sum i ask, and
have faith in my honesty, and I will make
fortunes for both of us. Trust mo, and
trnti ahull find me true !''
Extraordinary and incongruous us this
proposition to a scientific lecturer was,
Dr. Weiting did not receive it so astoundedly
us a more ordinary person might
have done. The stranger hud magnetized
him in his turn, and the disposition to
charity, of which previous mention has
been made, inclined him to take a peculiar
view of the curious application. Hence,
instead of dismissing the applicant us a
lunatic, or as a very audacious and shallow
impostor, he told liiui to cull upon
him at his rooms on the following day.
Nor did subsequent reflection, and conversation
with his more worldly uiinded
i who was his business agent induce I
the benevolent lecturer to think worse of
his would bo Californinn. In short, at
I the next appointed interview, he thought
still more highly of the youth's sincerity,
ability and confident mission, and after an
earnest conversation ,bade the youth come
with him to Boston, where the money
should be given him.
' Wright went to that eitj, of course, re!
eeived the thousand dollars, and, with the
words repeated, "you shall find mo true."
departed quietly and resolutely for the
gold-fields of the Pacific Slope. By in- 1
compatible instinct, rather than reason.Dr. I
Wciling felt sure that his generosity in so j
| trusting a strange boy, bad not been fool- J
j ish?sure that he and Wright had been
predestined to a mutually beneficent assoi
cintion, and that the generous act would |
he blessed.
Nor was his blind problematic faith disappointed.
Within two years he received
from bis absent debtor from various ad
dresses in California mines, no less than
five thousand dollars in gold.
Writing at last to say that he was already
munificently overpaid for his benefaction,
and to release his grateful correspondent
from all possible future obligation,
he was answered that the contract
for the half of all mining gains still held
good, and should never be foregone.?
"The obligation of the contract is as much
with my maker as with you," wrote the
Californian, "and I insist upon paying according
to my agreement" So at intervals
of months, from year to year, but no
lon?rer with!:nlaces of address given, the
o ? w
overwhelmed benefactor was the recipient
of the golden shipments, until 1862 the
sum9 which had bei>n sent amounted to
about forty thousand dollars. Soon after,
these splendid figures had been reached,
there came another surprise. The voluntry
debtor wrote that he was about entering
a business enterprise requiring
thirty thousand dollars more capital
than he had at command and begged his
benefactor to lend him that amount. Here
again another man might have hesitated,
but the Doctor with faith unshaken freely
sont the money, even at great inconvenito
himself, in those war times. In 1864
it came back to him with full interest and
with it another letter expressing the most
ardent gratitude to his benefactor. "You
doubtless think/' concluded the writer
' that you have already been well repaid
for your kindness, but the time is coming
when you shall rcceivo further proof of
my gratitude. You will yet be the possessor
of a larger frntuno than you ever
thought.possible." But since the Jotter
so ending, and without address, Dr. Weit
ing has never heard again from Wright.
Whether the grateful Californian is dead,
or has experienced reverses of fortune
which he cares not to reveal, is unknown
to his benefactor, whose^etters to California,
inquiries and messages, have ail proved
unavailing to solve the mystery.?
Hence it is, after all, in a most unsatisfactory
condition of incompleteness that the
remarkable narrative finally comes to public
knowledge; but this artistic effect is
moro than counterbalanced by tbe high
and fairly poetic humanity running
through the given facta. Mid the fine spirit
ot inatHy trutsf-und consummate fidelity
characterising the respective actors in this
drama of faith.?Happy Home.
As Example.?Thee people of the
Southern States, who are desirous of securing
white immigration, may perhaps
gain hints of value from the experience
of Maine iu colonizing New Sweden, in
the northern wilderness of that State. In
December, 1871, the colony of New Sweden
was founded, and it now numbers six
hundred souls. The colonists have taken
up twenty thousand acres of land, have
felled twenty-two hundred acres of forest,
and have seeded four huudred acres of
mvic.2 Linft Tlio Stnlr. furnished the
........
Swedes, from the founding of the colony*
in 1S71, to September 30, 1S73, the sum
of *24,321, of which the Swedes have repaid
$3,028 in labor on public roads,
leaving a balance of little more than ?1(3,000.
which is to be paid in road labor when
wanted. Provisions and tools were tbo
principal articles supplied to the colonists
by the State which also put up twenty
six houses to receive them on their arrival.
Since then the Swedes have built
one hundred and four houses, one hundred
and thirty barus, two steam shiuglo
mills, and one water power saw-uiill. One
hundred and thirty men of the colony
have declared their intention ofbccoming
American citizens. Hut this is not all.
In addition to the six hundred Swedes
in New Sweden, there are nine hundred
friends and relations of the colonists scattered
through the State, adding, by their
industry, to the wealth of the community.
Tho fifteen hundred Swedes in Maine all
paid their passage to this country, anJ
brought witli them one hundred thousand
dollars in cask. It is esteemed that as a
producing force these immigrants are
worth one million five hundred thousand
dollars to the State, all this has been accomplished
by the intelligent expenditure
of twenty thousand dollars, a third of
which has already been repaid iu labor on
public works, and the remainder of which
will also he repaid in duo time.
Forfkitkd Lands.?- A glance at the
list of lands forfeited to the State of South
Carolina for the non-payment of taxes
during the year ending October 31, 1873,
shews how generally and thoroughly the
people of that State have been impoverish.
?d by their carpet-bag and scalawag rul
The whole amount of delinquent payments
was 822,858, and for the failure
to pay this no loss than 208,553 acres of
land and 309 buildings were sold. It is
also stated that the amount of delinquent
laxcs as first levied was only 820,903, the
differentia between this and tha amount
collected, $,858? being made up by th?
penalties, costs and fees imposed upon delinquents.
Tbeso are the perquisite*
which fall to the lot of the men who rule
South Carolina. It is no wonder that the
people of that State pray for deliverance
from such a band of corrupt extortionists.
Ml. (JV. J.) Herald.
Troops in the South.?The following
is the first of the testimony given by the
military commander of this department,
and is worthy of the attention of our rea
ders :
Major-General McDowell, commanding
the Department of the South, appeared
before the House Military Committee and
made a full statement of the present conditions
and needs of the army in the South*
em States. He is clearly of the opinion
that no further reduction of the troups in
that section is eithor wise or practicable
this year.- The number of men nuder hid
command is between three and four thou.**
and. They arc scattered at the poms ail
over the South, there being not more thuo
three hundred or four hundred m?a at
tl^e largest post. This number includes
all wbo are doing garrison doty at the
fortifications on the coast. There are only *
fourteen companies, numbering less than
one thousand men in all, for the Stales of
Mississippi and Louisiana. All the cavalry,
numbering one thousand men, were
taken away a year ago, and sent to guard
the Hue of the Northern Pacific Bail iioad.
The general informed the committee that
it was the policy of the government to interfere
as rarely and as slightly as possible
iu the affairs of tbe South. The priuci
pal service of the troops is in aiding the
United States Marshals in serving
their writs. The troops were really no
more than a national police, and not much
if any larger than the police force of >Tew
York city. Matters were gonerally peaceful
in the South, but thore wouldcoutiuuo
to be a good deal of friction betweeu the
two races for some time to come, and it is
well for Congress to consider whether the
moral effect of maintaining a certain military
force in the South can be dispensed
with. The General emphasizes the necessity
of keeping up the moral force of
the army as a means of preventing disor- N
to alla^Lellng, wherSVliP ft *11 pUMtWe '
to do so, and has mingled freely with both
sides. He ridiculed the idea that there
was such a thing as a bayonet anywhere
in the South, or any necessity for it; yet
he believed ? certain amount of military
force necessary at present. He gave to
the committee detailed statements of his
forces and thejr whereabouts. Under the
circumstances it is hardly probable that
w;i1 krt VMA/In in OonnrA.
ttUJf 1CUU VV1UU nut UV uiuuw ?u
McDowell's department.
Spain, during less than a year past, ha
had seven different governments. The
Republic was proclaimed last February,
and since then there have been two cabinets
under the premiership of Figueras,
two under Margall, one under Saluiuron,
one under Castelar, and the present one
Serrano. Whilst five statesmen have thus
at different times during the year been at
the head of the government, there have
been six different finance ministers, and
the London Timts says they have managed
'to bring the credit of the country
to a level with that of most petty -;id dishonest
of defaulting States." It is a curious
fact that the intelligence of the overthrow
of the Spanish Republic caustd uy
advance of about one per cent, in Spanish
bonds on the London Stock Exchange.
Ann Elita on Mormokibm.?Ann
Eliza Young, nineteenth wife of the much
married Mormon prophet, and now in
search of a divorce and alimony, has advanced
as far eastward as St. Louis, ou a
lecturing excursion, her exhaustless aubi
ject being the sins of Mormonism. Or of
Mormon polygamy. From the brief report
given of the St. Louis lecture, al:o
evidently speaks as one having authority.
She is sharp, and earnest, she knows
whereof she speaks, and she rakos the
? i fnrn ft nil ..ill
poivgauiuua aaiuto V4 v?w? -v.v
.S!ic describes from experience the heartburnings,
the strife, the docoption, the unspeakable
misery and degradation of Mormon
polygamy. She denounces it m
without one redeeming feature and a* utterly
diabolical and repulsive. She re*
joices in her emancipation from this loathsome
system of bondage, and is in a fair
way to turn it to a good account. It is
said that oho is on her way to Washington
to illuminate the darkness of the Mormon
system of many wives before the benighted
law-wnkers of Congress.
A couple at Woodville, Iowa, have
been divorced four times, and now contemplate
a firth rc-union. ,
"Anti-breach-of-promise" ink. warranted
to fade away in a month, is a London
invention