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two dollars imc!! annum. >? GOD TVjSTI^ OUR COUNTRY. always in advance VOLUME V SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 23, 1878. NUMBER 53 DeTreville & Hoj? ward ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW OrnngcburK; <'. Bi., ft. James S- lleywai I tf. Will practice in the varioiiH Courh ?f the State W. J. DeTreville, Jtm ca W. B. TREAD WELL DENTIST "Will attend to patient :i< their residents cither in Town or Country; Address through Post Office or rail on tnu ill ri i dent Coner Kussel an?! TroadwcU Street*. Prompt attention will be given ami hatis* faction guaranteed. \V. n. TRKAHWKf.L. nov 3 ly Knowlton & Wannamaker, ATTORNEYS AND] COUNSELLORS AT LA W, Orniisebm'.n C- 12??> s Ang. 15. Knowlton, F. 51 Wannmunker, Orangeburg C. IT. St. Matthews, may 5 I s77 n H??SESM?EING AND BLACKSMITH WORK THOMAS RAY, (Uussell St. Opposite Hurley's Corner.) All manner of Smitli work anil llorse shoeing properly done. Fancy Sen 11 work. Uniting lb" firave Lots. A trial solicited. THUM AS UA V: sipt l t;'. I? the most Kenliil balsam ever used .by nifferers from pulmonary diseases. It is composed of herbal products, wnlcn have a specific pfTect ??n the throat mid luniTR; dotnclics from tin- nlr cells nil Ir ritfitiii(r matter; anuses It to he expecto rateri, nml at ?nie?- chcuks I lie Itillanmi'n Inn which producoa the couirb. A slnirlu do*>o relieves the mnxt (list r<>*,.tiiir pnraxysm. soothes nervousness, ami cnunlcn tlto -.ui rerer to enjoy nulet rest at lilirlit. Iteini: t? ploammt cordial, it tout's the weak stom ueh, and Ib spocially recouuiiunueu lor children. HVhict others say ad c itC o Tutt9s Expectorant. Had Aslbma Thirty Years, I1ai.timohb, February 3, i?7*. ?* I have had Asthma thirty years :??>?* never iountl Cmedicine that had Mich a happv effect." W. F. HOGAH, Charl-s St. A Child's Idea of Merit. Nbw Oklkans, November ji, 1S76. "Tutt's 7?xpertnrart is a familiar name in my house. My wile tliinks it the best medicine in the world, stnd the children *av Jt is 'nicer than molasses candy.'" NOAH WOODWARD, 101 N. Poydras St. "Six, and al! Croupy." "I itih the mother ofjsix children ; nil ofthemhave been croupy. Without Tutt's lCxpcclnraut, I don't ?hin U they could have survived some ol' the attacks. It is a mother's blcssintr." MARY STEVENS, Frankfort, Ky. A Doctor's Advice. *' In my practice, 1 advise all families to Keep Tut'.' Jtxpectorant, in sudden emergencies, for COUghJ, croup, diphtheria, etc." T. P. ELLIS, M.D., Newark, N.J. Bold by all druffgMs. Frlcv $i.OO. Vjjie. 35 Murray Street, JVeic York. THE TREE IS MOWN GY ITS r.TblT." ? 41 Tutt's Pills arc worth their wr -htin fynld." REV. I. U. SIMPSUM, Louisville, Ky. 1 "Tutt's Pills nre a special Me? .>tr of the r>i:- ? teenth century.*'?REV. F. R. OSGOOD, New York. "I have ur.ed Tutt'iTPITls tor torpor of the liver. They are superior to r.ny medicine lor biliary dSs orders ever made." I. P. CARR, Attorney nt Law, Augusta, Ca. " I have used Tutt's Puls five years In my family. They arc uncounted forcortivcncssaiid biliousness!" F. R. WILSON, Qeorgotown, Texas. I ?'! have used Tutt's Me.lii ir!e wit'1 preat benefit.'' W. W. MANN, Editor Mobilo Register. "We sell fifty boxes' Tint's TilU lo live of all others."?SAY RE A CO^^Cartarsvillo, Ga. '?Twit's I'ills have muyto bo tried to establish their merits. They work like mncic." W. H. DARRON_. <JB Summer St., Boston. " There is no medicine s > well adapted t.> the cure of bilious disorders as Tutt's Pills." JOS. BRUMMEL, Richmond, Viryinia. ''' AND A TrfOT^TTND MORE, tisli! by drxinyista. Hit cents n h?.r. Ojjlcc 3li Murray Street, Kcw York, TUTTS HAsffp? HIGH TESTIMONY. 3 FROM TUR PJICIVIC. JOr/tt.W'lL. ?-\ . "A GREAT INVENTION has horn inmle l>>- 111!..TfTT, of Isew \'nrk, ?which restores vouthful In aittv to (hi- hair. Tiint emlnont chemist hns surceeded in fjrcilucliiK a Hair l>ye which Imitates nature to perfection. t)id bnahelors may . now rejoice." f? l'i-ico $I.OO. Office 8ft Muermi St., . JYeto York. Solil by nil druyyists. ??BHBsDsKM?X*?s i-i iMay 0 1S77 \\ TP?11 S A I j \ *]. A house ant! lot at .Jamison's Turn Out bounrlod on (bo I'ttr-t by H. ('. Hail Road;' Will be sold cheap. Apple to MKS. II. M. A M.i:i:\vs. aug II If. vitnr lirotlt sold Low Down S 7 A. KISCUER. South Carolina. Wu take tho following instructive. iKirriilivo from n lecture delivered heibre the Historical Society of the South Carolina Conference by Rev A M < 'Ii rietzborg : '1 h.e v.hiie. population in the Revo lution amounted to forty thousand. A ft or the peace, in 17Si), multitudes from liurope, and the more north erii part.- of Americ.i, poured into the Stute. Pendloton and Greenville counties Idled so tapidly, that, in the year 1 sou, they alone contained thirty thousand souls. Ttio last foreign emigt ttion was in the closing years of the eighteenth century?the. occasion, tie insurrection in the Isle of St. Do miiigo. A glance at the manners and cus toms <>! the earlier sott Iers show how great the change a century makes. Now, roads, and bridges, ami ferries abound where then only the Indian trail existed, end railroads speed the traveller, when in the early time he could only trust to his own powers of locomotion, or to the rude canoe, lb :;.~t< of burden were Jew, ami goods and chattels had to he eonvcyed as ! ..-; tin \ might. The swamps, and branches, and blazes upon the trees the only guide to the traveller. Dirt homes were not uncommon, an exca vation in the lull side giving shelter until it rude cabin could ba construc ted. Outside the city of Charleston i!,.' dwellings were all primitive, and i \ (ii in the city itself there was noth ing pi'utial until Ion ? years had gone by. The town itself, according to Fi?d ward t ri| map, published in 1701. was exceedingly limited in extent, covering but a modicum of the Penin sula on which the present city stands. Goy. A rchda'e sneaks of the wide 11 ad, extending out fi.r three or four miles, with the noble forest growth ? ] "that no Prince in Europe, by all I their art, can make so pleasant a sight." Landgrave rttnith'V account .-talcs, "that the young girls received their bonus i t ."> o'clock, having dined al 1 *_\ i > peeling them to withdraw about six," as their fathers having learned to obey ll e Ciirtew toll in England, retired nl seven in the win ter, and seldom beyond eight in the summer time. The i ioms of the nouses were till unenrpeted, the rough side's of tin' npertinents of the eo or of the wooi' used in their construction. A MS, history of the Legnro family twenty year.- later, state.- ' fhe ivhit inhabitants! veil frugally, as luyur\ bad not yet crept in am n_ the in; and cxcepl a little rum and sugar lea and c< fli-c. were mi lent ith whai their plantation.'- alhudi d them. It was customary lor families to < 1 in? ? at 12, and take tea at sunset; alter which the old folks mm an tuiel their streel door--. nr. like good, obi fashioned !?( i_-' 1 ( rs, i st id at igi d Kind gr< etiugs m 1111 c o h ? tli r from house to h on e; while he 'young peaple assembled in guuips to walk or p ay ubou! the sticets. < ii moonlight evenings the grown girls :111? 1 young men amused th'.inselves in placing Trays Ace1, blind man's bull', etc. Marly hours were much ivgnrded, for ii was con sidered u great breach of family < 1 i eiplinc lor a child to .-lay on n ter nine at night." Hot ween 1730 nel '-10, the town consisted < 1 from live to si.\ hundred houses, mostly of wood cover.'.I with clapbourels; hut shortly afterwards the style and comfort of dwellings wer much improved. No carriages of any hind existed; travellers were ex posed to the heat of the sun in open boats r on horseback. An apro chriphal record accounts for the pre sent bend in King street, as the path in ong which the cattle rame home from their pas tu rag >. Another glimpse of the manners a..d customs of tho people, and this, too, in tint upper country,closes up this p i tiou of our subject. James Duncan, thes >n of the fust settler in in Ncwberry county , gives the follow ing description between 1700 and '70. 'ihe customs atp.i aniusemcnls that prevailed among the first settlors wore: Wrestling, running loot races, jumping, fiddling, dancing, .shooting i blind man's, hull'. Hiuflle the brogue, (whatever that may !)??.) sol ing of pawns, rimming the thimble, (wh > knows what thai is ?) erili and taylor, grinding the bottle, (a blackened hat rubbedov r the f-teo >vhiloih>i ;i >?.?..-? looks ti> see. the not lie dance,) 13 colli er, I'm bobbed, (hero all soieiiee is at fault, the last survivor unable to tell what, that is,) black hear, dropping the glove, swimming and diving, and the like. Their dress consisted of hunting shirts, loggiiis, moccasins \vi t h buckles and beads upo i them. Tho men clubbed their hair, and tie I it lip in a little deer skin or silk bag, or cued and rolled up in a b'ack rib bon or hears etil mil dressi d and dyed back." He pdsitixel) states?see Mill's -tati-ii'-.s?i but it may well bo doubled), thai "the men shaved off their hnir and Wore white linen caps with rullles ar-und them. The wo men's dress." ho continual, "washing' eared caps, Virgi ii bonnets,short and long gow is. s'avs, stomachers, rpii'tod petticoats and high wooden-heeled shoes " One of the customs of the country as lute as 17?0, was, after the manner of an Irish wake, that of treating at fun erals. On the authority of Dr. Howe, we learn: "In the last century the practice of drinking at burials of the dead prevailed to a melancholy ex tent, and not a lew instances are given of ministers bein g disciplined for in dulging too freely on such occasions. And too frequently the living were not sullieieiitly sober to follow with becoming decorum their departed Iriends to the grave.' . iitdi uiiclerical eon l.i.:t w u not un common during the century. An early statute of the neighboring colo ny of Vi ginia reads : ".Ministers shall not give themselves to ryots, spending their time idelio hy j day or by nighi. playing at dice, cards, j unit oilier oi..a\vi'o. gunu;-, (i .', u.. ... times convenient, they shall hear or read somewhat of the Scriptures, or shall occupy themselves with sonic, other honest studies or exercise, ill ? ways doing tin: tiling- that shall an pertayue to honest e, and en 1 savor to profit the I lunch oi God. having always in mynd that they ought to excel I all others in p-triiy of lifo, and should be examples to the people to live well and Christian lie." All ihe clergy, of course, wi re t ot of this chaiactcr, Id,; that imi'iy >> to in were i ' t lind leaders 01 ihe blind;" i> lull v | t \ ,i i lit. he lie.:- ? i history show ! ihegrcal need everyvsher?? foi a [>en era I revival <'. religion, which, und or Ciod, b\ tii Wesley* und Whitciicld ii Luiupe, ami, about the middle ol the century, the lilniis and Team aits in America, was inaugurated, and in the closing year- id ihe conturv, by the iiilluc.m.t Methodism, spread over this' onlineut, and i? stiii spro.i I ing over the worul It would be pleasing to know tin mailer and manner of preaching in those early days, bui only here and liiere do we get glimpses of it, or rath er of the length of the service, or, more properly, ihe sermon. The canonical twenty minutes' nfsome, and the thirty or forty of others of to day, contrast badiy with the t ipiivor four hours of tb'e fathers Hut of course the world in vis, and so should the srermon. The old Puritan seemed to consider the more gloomy the re ligion t ie better the typ.', and if Sun day could only h.' made a sorry day, it was all the more acceptable to a stern juridical deity, a il he that could not enduro the nineteenthfy or ninety-ninth head of a discourse, only showed signs of his gracolossuess, True, Paul onco preaching long, until "midnight," Eutycus full down dead, but to Ihe advocate for long preaching, wo would say, all tho dif lerenco lay in the fact that. St. Paul was the preacher. And at this present, within our own hounds, a modern teacher of nonsense insists that six or seven hours is a moderate length for a sermon. But to the past. Sir John Dal ! rymplc, in his history of ihe Dario? sott leihen t of this early day, says: "They (the preacher) exhausted the ?pmv?l of the j)c.?[)le, by requiring their attendance at sermons four or five hours at a stretch, relieving euch j other by preaching alternately, but i allowing no relief to their hearers, j Tho employment of one of the days set aside for religious exercise4, which ( wa? Wednesday, they divided into llifee parts?thanksgiving, humilia tion, and supplication, in which throe minister* followed eacdi other. Ami as the service of the Church of Scot laud consists of a lecture, with a com- J incut, a sermon, two prayers, t hree psalms, and a blessing, the work of tliMt. day, upon the average of llio bmjjth of the service of that age, could not. take up Ic-m ih iu twelve Iruirs , tint ing which space of time the colo ny was collected; au.l kept close to gcther in the guard room, which was used as a chinch, in a tropical cli ntnto, und at a sickly season. They damped the courage of the peop'o by j continually presenting hell to them as the termination of life to most men, because most men Were sinners. (Ju rying ihe Pesbytcrian doctrine of j predestination to extremes, they I j stepped all exertions by showing that the consequences of them depended net on those by whom I hey were made." Doubtless they might have said in rejoinder, "an enemy hath done this.*' Mrs. Fludd, according to Dr. ITowr, in her MS. historyol the Legare fami ly, give* the following scene in church between the first emigrant, Solomon Lena re, and the minister, Mr. Stobo. ''Air. Legarc was strict in the ob servanee of regular loons, aid to his great annoyance the Rev. Mr. .Stobo, who preached at one tint sin the Con gregatioual church, gave sermon.! oi such uttusal length that they often inter for red with the dinner hour. A t length Mr. Lcgire wtw determined to j submit no longer to such irregularit y; u'n'iuhc hex* . v. .'..'..-iC.V k&i&i vUj his family in the mitist of the dis course, and was about to leave the 1 church, when the Rev. Scotch gentle man, nreceiviiiy; his intentiotj, called 1 out from the i-u pit: ?'. i y <///<?. u ? iitt!n fir-r is soon /"?//;' Upon which irreverent address, the Ihtgii- ; nut's French blood became excite J, ! and turning about in the mid-lie of the aisle, be mill mure irreverently i and not altogether to \\\< credit, re- ' ibrted, you iire ait >>/</Jho!!" i He i heu quid i v wehi home, with hi s (a.nily. ate bis dinner, return j:I with tht.mi to ihe church, an I then liste.no 1 t ? the balitr.ee <>i" the discourse as gravely as i' i: thing bad occurred." Hut, vet, one little fact few may know, that the woodsouee existing whore the city <>l Charleston now stands, was the oratory 'of,John New ton? ('owners Newton?the Oluoy b vmnist?th? :i an officer of a slave sliip. In a letter tinted about 17-1'?, be speaks of pouring out strong cries and tears amid that shrubbery; re turning to Fnghtnd, he became fam ous as u preacher of righteousness. Homo Manufactures. I.Y ti. WAN NKR. I will call my e.-.-ay stray thoughts ami matters of fact,by an immigrant, on home n auufuctures, and when done with the facts I will give you some figuies. lb-lore I go on this errand allow me to say, "Don't ex pect a speech Irom nie." Speech making ain't my business. Only the hope that iu\ inattcis of fact will be beneficial toward enlisting home entcrpri.-e induces me to take the stand. IIOMB MANUFACTURE. This great supporter of a country, nra we as a whole doing anything in this State toward introducing it among us? i am sorry to say no. Wo never have tried; we never gave a helping hand and a cheering word towards introducing it hero. Yes, there are a few exceptions, among our editors, who in their papers sometimes try to awake tho miud of the people, mid some low mechanics from the North who u /e immigrated 1 here, anil who ore working hard against the stream in laying the foundation of home industry. Many j amongst you will say, ''Wo get things so cheap from the North that it would be no use to try to compete with the North.'' This shows how little con fidence we have in ourselves, and how small nn opinion we have of the rich ness of our soil, which in every way is so lavishly bestowed ou us by Mother Nature. 1 am young in years, but I have seen the world, and in my Gfteen years of t ravel, in which I have ram bled all over this great Union, from ea.-t to west, from north to south, over Mexico, South America, Australia, Atrien, China, and over the whole of the European continent, I have never seen a better, a healthier, and for manufactures, a more su itable coun try than the upper part of South. Carolina. WATER POWERS; Find inc a country where there is such nn abundance of natural water power, large and powerful enough to run all the factories in the Northern States; and what are we doing towards I using them? Nothing, my friends I j The waters wi 1 run down to the sea yet for year? until you get con vinced that nut fanning alone, but home manulactu.es, too, will help to make this State the bauuer State of the Union. My friends, shall the waters, nature's great gift, still longer run idly without paying us their tri bute? Is not our State gifted with all the materials necessary to utilize these waters? POKES TS AND TIMUEKS. Fee our forests ! The pine trees ... I arc waiting for the axnicn to fell them to he hauled to the saw mill, moulding and planing machines, there to be turned into prepared j lumber, with which to build and : furnish for us comfortable housesaud ? j'u ??; i'.ur ? Now instead of tho h:\'u ry of a comfortable home, we live in log huts, :;nd the soft side of a rough plunk is our bed. There, too, are the oak and hickory, also waiting to be cut and manufactured into spokes, felloes, pick and ax handles, wagons, &c, The willows on the creeks grow and die where idle hands might be employed iu basket work. What are we doing with our cot- j ton ? We sell it to the North ?v to ! Englund to he worked into different cotton fabrics, and in the latter shape it comes back to us again, an 1 we, as I n good people, knowing no better, pay all the freight, commission, manu lecturing cost and other expenses w ith a heavy interest, and admire the wonders of the water powers of the North, which, with the bei p of ma chinery, are made from the fruits of mir soil an 1 with our money. How many people could we n it employ iu such enterprise % Well, my friends, the time is I hope not far away when we will make our own prints and other fabrics, and give our Northern friends a chance o buy from us. w OOL. How much wool yearly leaves our State, bought from us at a lrille ? We buy this wool back again at enor mous price in tho shape of woolen goods, such us clothing, blankets, hats, Ac. Many of you wear to-day a pound of wool in the shape of a Hampton or Tilden hat, the original cost of which was thirty cenls, and now perhaps costs you S?. Is it worth two, three or four dollars to make such a hat? .1 guess not. HIDES. How many hides are yearly ship ped to Baltimore and New York to be returned again in leather or in the shape of boots and shoes ? And what kind of an article do we get exchange? Why, the most inferior iu the world ! Instead of boots and shoes of full stoi k, we get them of the worst kind of manufacture, as are made from split leather with shoddy work. Why don't we tan our own hided and make our own hoots and shoes ? There is . timber enough in the upper part of cot ion. South Carolina . to run fifty largo tanneries for years, aiul how many have wo got? Hardly any! Tho tanners of the North pay from 812 to ?18 for a cord of bark an I live by it. We can get any amount of it from S3 to ?G per cord. Toe tanners South are obliged to sell their rough slock to Baltimore and Northern markets, where it is finished, sold then to Northern Bhoe manufacturers, and our own leather comes back to us as Northern leather in harness, boots and hhocd Many of you wear to day a pair of Northern boots or shoes made of Southern stock. The general Opinion here is that leather and shoe luateral manufactured here is of no account. In this you are mistaken. Encourage your tenners. Sell them good hides, and I warrant you they will g've you good article back ugaio. IKON*. By hunting around your farm premises, you will find old iron en ough to make farm implements, mill gearing and other "iron ware to last you for fifty years. Gather your old iron before it becomes worthless. Start a foundry?we have pin? timber enough to keep a large foundry in coal for a long time?aed buy your iron ware for one-half the coat you do now. TOBACCO. How many of yo'i do not love a good cigar, good smoking or chewing tobacco ? What becomes of the to. bacco which you raise ? Most of it is shipped to the North and come back to you in the shape of Havana cigars, or of Durham smoking or some brand of chewing tobacco. Y m get from eight to fifteen cents for your weed, and after it has been sent North and been flavored a little, you buy it back at from sixty cents to oue dollar and over a pound for smoking tobacco or pay for it in the shape of cigar j from five to fifteen cents apiece. FRUITS AND V EG KT A B T. CS. Just sec the large amount ofpeach j ey. tomatoes, berries, peas^?foj^wh?^t^. you fed up to the "North iLU^tfnTflrywP?^ I get but a trifle, and then when winter conies you pay enormous prices for ihe fruits of your own soil by going to some storekeeper and buying a can of Bai:im .re canned tomatoes or peaches. My friends, I could go on for a whole day in showing you what we can and what we don't do, but I know that you will all say, "Howcan we start such enterprise when we don't know bow to do it?" I wiH tell bow. Encourage immigration Through it you will encourage homo manufacture. Induce the right kind id' immigrants to come here, and 1 assure you that in less than no time you will see home industry flourish, and our beloved Palmetto State in a prosperous and healthy condition. Before I close my essay, I will give you some statistics of the amount of money which yearly leaves our State never to return: Supposing we have, at a low guess, 700,000 inhabitants in this State,and put down, as an average, S30, which are spent by young and old during one year?it gives us the small sum of S21,000,000. Then put down 7000, 000 with two pair of shoes or boots a year, at an average of $2 per pair, 82,800,00. 100,000 sides of leather, such as sole, upper and harness leath er, at 03 a side or skin, $300,000. 100.000 inhabitants who smoke or chew tobacco at an average of $10 a year, 81,000.000. 700,000 hats, al lowing one new hat every year, at an average of $3, $2,100,000. Further, we allow for farm implements, farm ware, tools, Ac, 600,000. Together it sums up, S27,800,000. No wonder we are poor, then, if this sum leaves our State yearly, never to return. Why ccu't we keep it here ? If wo try we can, and I hope we w ill all join hand in hand, and lift our State, by agriculture and home manufacture combined, to that station where she ought to be. '1 he latest style the fair sex have uow-a-days to comb their hair?hang it against the wall. Rev. John Bean, of Baltimore, U ? dead.