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TWO DOLLARS P13H ANNUM. }? VOLUME VI GOD OUR COUNTRY. SATURDAY MORNING. 'AUGUST .1878. ALWAYS IN^i' NUMBER-20 IS a Licht Running, Fasl Clinning, ami clean Staple Making (Jin. Price Ue? duced. First Clans. I am taking orders,also, for the BROWN GINS, TYITII FEEDERS AND CONDENSERS. This Condensing Gin is a favorite. Qin flSil>K and SawM furnished if ap plied for early, also J$rir>IU?s. Order our Leather and IS libber Gilic inj? iu time and save moiiev. JOHN A. HAMILTON, Kc.*t to Mi. JJ. ii. Cornelson. jul6-tf A LECTURE TO YOUNG MEN. ?Just Published in a Settled Envdnpe. Price six cents, Jtejj A Lecture <?n <ho Xn SiiggJt tare, Treatment, iind Kadical cure of Seminal Weakness, or fSpermatorrlio-a, induced by Self-Abuse, Involuntary Emission, [ihpptencv, Nerv? r oiu Debility, and I inpcuimeuts to Marriage generally; Con.-mmj Lion, Rpilepsy, and Sits; Mental and -Physical Incapacity, ?c.?By ROBERT .1. <'! ILYKK\V Kid,, M. 1)., author of the ''Green Book,'' it". Tlie world-renowned author, in ibis admirable Lecture, clearly proves from his own experience that the awful consctiucii .ces of Self-Abuse may he efleciuaMy re moved without medicine, ami without dan * grroiiB surgical operations, bougies, iiistru* incuts, rings, nr em dials; pointing out a ?mode of cureatoiicv" certain and eflectnal, oy which every ?uHcrcr, Uu m.tiler what A Ins condition may In-, mav cure hii>i>ell |^^^>V>.^5i.\M7--ViT i radlejjiHi1 t&T This Lecture trill 'prove a l - .i m Hhousands and thousands, j* ? Sent under seal, in a pkiiii cnvel?pyfo* ?any ^address, on receipt of six i entg* a>r two poetage ..tamps. :" ? ?Address the Publishers, THE CULVKRWKLL MElHCAI/Cp., ?41 Ann St., New York; Post Ollicc^Uojc, m&i. "*y *_jby^y?. JAT THE STt iKIv'OF MIS. K1KSK HOBl^SOi\. I ^Vork done Cheap. 1 have just received, u large HUlSjly of) the celebrated . <" ITiUmi re l ls*s:.*Xu r nip- Sccil. Which I am oflermg to the public ai*vViy low prices, and to.Granges at special rates Terms Cash, 'ipjr oct20 Iv ATTOKNKV /ii^fv.... AND ' COUNSKLLOK AT LAW, ^Corner.-Church and ^t. I'a ill's Street Orangeburg, S. C. |npr'l 6 3in ?GIN GEARING" j? tSHAiTLNG AND DOLTS \ \ CHEAPER j^TTIAN EVEK BJEFOllK . ? AT Til 13 FOREST CITY FOUNDRY H AN1)| MACHINE WORKS, |GEO. 11. LOMBARD & CO., AUGUSTA, GA. KjffGIKES, COTTON SCREWS, MILL GEARING And Machinery off Kinds .Made and lie paired. oct27 l-'?OS 52 ITO REJSJ T. Tliat large ami commodious Brick Store, formerly occupied by Mr. C, It. Jones. ~^or terms apply to MKS. M. E. MONA MAUA r-.autrll tf. T?f anted 28 or SO Hoarder* VV at Forest (ilen Accident v. Hoard only EIGHT DOLLARS per Month. p. w . conn, Principal, Du rant, Miss. iay!8 tf [lO Sfake Money lMeasanMy and fast, agents should address FIN BY HARVEY & Co., Atlauta, Ga. june1 Jy Liberia. ^Vc clip Lho following extract of interest from Mr. Williams' loi ter in (he N<:tes and Courier on the manners and customs of" Liberian planters : Monrovia, Liberia, Juno 17.? When I closed my last I was on my way up the St. Paul's llivcr, having lci'i Chay-Ashland, and started for further exploration ? Five miles above Clay ?Ash land wo stopped iit 1 lie plantation of.Ies.se Sharp, a native of Columbia, S.C., w ho left there us a freeman, u number of years before the war, when a young i mau. lie is light colored, and has a line sugar plantation, which pleased me more than anything ol the sort 1 saw on the river, giving evidoneo as it did of thrift and cure. lie showed us with much pride ovci his onnc fields, of which he has some 150 acres, which looked unusually clean and free from weeds and grass. Their owner seemed delighted to meet som e one from South Carolina, and he and 1 hud a long talk, comparing notes about Columbia and Columbia people. The general li!e of the older and wealthier planters along the .St. Paul's resembles.in many particulars that of the Southern planier in the "good old days." Having a goiid brick house built, and his coffee, or sugar plantation well under weigh, the tiller of the soil generally takes" i his case, wears good clothes, only exercising a supervision of Iiis affairs. '1 he spirit or wine decanter is almost invariably at the service of his guests, and when ho goes visiting or to Monrovia, he steps into his canoe, calls, his crew together, and travels comfortably und sedately. As the, present generation is growing old, the ; children take charge after the return , I jj'j ?ytJieii^^A^?"^" .^o^'ooiVug ivlia' ' fihial:rjl iour." In vifjgi?f.all thi.s, it ".re j^idrciiious to suppose that the !t^ei4^^Qiif^^lttp^i^ i?H? barbar ism! ?ji;tli?v contrary, it is appar ent" tlfat each' generation' 'is <M&ging .thcvi yjffirffiy?. nearer to. I'Srftet c^cS^a lion. ^Willie theqo old lords of the soil.in their conscious or unconscious jiping.of their former master's formor lives, present occasionally ludicrous .contrasts to their niodols by ignorance 'and lack of culture, their son* and daughters are growing up better educated, trained and supplied with tlie requirements of intelligent men and women. 1 saw the Liberians (especially the younger ones) brought into contact, and consequently con trast, with tho Azor'* immigrants. It showed there and then that whether the negro is capable of attaining tho white man's level or not, he is cap able of becoming much nearer a per fect man than ho is in America, ft showed that there is more capability in him for improvement than wo have developed. It is conclusive evidence thai there is a vast amount of good mental {.round Jying fallow, wasting or tunning to noxious weeds, in the negro. It is ns well to say it right here?despite their many ignor ances, their conceit, and their im providence and inertness, the avor - age Liberian is in most ways im measurably superior t<> tho average American negro, and those nt Siena Leone arc as far above him in ac quirements as the clouds are above the earth. In the social refinements the better classes of colored people there seem perfect. In one liti ig I con hi notice distinctly the three de gress of progression, ns illust rated by the English Colony negro, t he Liber* iail negro, and the American negro ? the observance OV table eti quette. This is a small matter at. first si.c\\t, but it tells a Btot^whon looked into. The Sierra Leone people display a spontaneous and unconscious scrupu lousness regarding the observance of all p lints of table etiquette, such as is hardly seen in thojbest American households, and puts an habitual sitter at hotel tables to diligently re calling the precepts inculcated in his youth regarding the proper manipu lation of table furniture, &o. The Liberians uro apparently much los?; enlightened on this subject, and seemed, with one or two exceptions, to pay lit Ic attention to it, while the \ Azof's people had each their own original and untrammelled style, the main object scenflng to bo. the con sumption of the greatest possible amount of food in the least, possible time. Almost everybody, both in I Siena Leone and Liberia, had Claret j nt dinner, and there was usually a glass of Sherry or Maderia tendered [ before or after the meal. j froth with tin South. But all i this is wandering far away from my friend Sharp/ which is my hioi geographical point. Ho displayed a feeling which s-ems quite prevalent among a large portion of the Liber iaus?a desire to do his trading with ihe United Slates,if possible with the South. More than one repeated to mo hi-= expressed sentiments, that i "in spite of everything" their sympa thies were with the land of their bii th, and they would like to deal with her people. It. is.it flattering compliment to the business men of that sect ion, that they seem t^ possess the confidence of those who knew them years ago, in the highest degree. One of the leading Liberians said : "I know the men who generally do business in South Carolina are gentle men, and that they are above a dirty trick, or taking advantage of a man because he is far away," (tho speaker is a Carolinian.) This feeling seems to be generally entertained. It may perhaps be partly nLtributed to the desire to escape from tho monopoly held by a New York'.house, who do much business along tho West Coast, and have been clover enough to obtain almost complete control of the Liberian trade, which seems to be quite a plum, ^ Thoy ?<JJL- ^vw.' j ToVei-3'Thing thai is sold in Liberia, the (he Monrovian storekeepers replen ishing their stocks from the New Yorker's ships, and paving, certain ly, very good prices in produce or money. This is, I think, one of the obstacles to Liberian progress. Com petition would enable them to sell higher and buy cheaper, thus stimu lating trade, and necessarily increas ing prosperity. Various Dutch and English linns havo been established from time to time, and, receiving their own goods on their own ships, have been enabled to undersoil au 1 go away ahead of the Liberian merch ants, making fortunes while they plod along in t he same old ruts. Th* first order for Charleston. Jcsso Sharp, who seems to bo one of those men always willing to back up bis words by his acts, showed his sincerity by sending a cash order to a largo Charleston firm for sashes, tim ber, do., lor his house, the goods to be brought by the Azor on the return trip. While on this subject I will say that the new immigrants all manifested the same feelings. To precede the narrative a little, whan I returned to Monrovia, and in answer j to questions told them what I had seen of tho country cotton, exhibiting I the snmph 3, they generally find joy I fully exclaimed, "Well, you bet the ! cotton makers are here now. We've got lets of cotton seed and tools and when you come back again i: you don't see cotton hales around hero you kin whip ma/' The next inquiry of several ef them was as to w hether 1 thought it, would be possible to deal with their old factors in Charleston, and all of the Carolina darkeys seem ed anxious on the.subject. Tho mat ter may be worthy of consideration by Cliarlestnn business xocu. If many of the colored people come, a valuable direct trade may bo opened. It may bo more of the "sarcasm of fate," but exactly the slate of affairs exists here now that 1 imagine made slave labor necessary in America. That is, every man is a landholder, an owner and an equal. No lower classes havo come in yet to do tho manual work. There are no servants, and servants uro a necessity, excopt in an imaginative jackass's Utopia. A few of tho poorer Liberians hire out, but. they are as good as their ''>' ; I ! hirers, and consequently' naatters don't work smoothly. AIL such '?servants" are addressed hy?cvQry-. body .as "Mr." and "Mis-s^lfc^tutpds funny to hear the muster of fejfcjiouso nay ' Miss -, a gl^^?t^^ator, ploaso." "When I visitc9mio<4?r$n duut i heard him ask :<J^c.i,Ros3, will you bring in the Vl^$ This is, of course, a great hindr.tf^Cvfri.lho. cultivation of land on an;" oxteiHiva scale, especially when t'ierq^atp no borsra. It, cramps fearfull / the's'iyyar production, where mutl labor is indespcnsuble times. ,So, disguise it the Siberians have, to depend , on slave labor at last, l">r il*obni' that. They hire fionr^a i$$Wknr&. a certain number of his.H". lerstitfbn-' bound slaves for so mu'h rum,'.so many brass kettles, iron b?r^aud ?r'.n:i.--, and so much calico piid^ohinr. Tin "hands" work well an.^tn'6?faith ful and obedient until ki^' Lb rough caprice or having ')?.en paid,, and wanting them to cut ^ca/JtauijS. ?uders to them it* como oatoc." 'XhtifF?. they leave in a body, just, maybe'^-sT the planter needs them mo&, and lhjj? Libcrian government is too'weak'to enforce the performance of contralto made with its citizens. One'secret of my friend Sharp's success I told is that ho makes an excellent quality of. rum, with which he pays i: king for "help," and is shrewd euoug-%,to keep on good terms with the potentate by sending him an extra cask now not! then. In this way be anct.tt few o.'.iers manage to secure labor when they want it for their l?U acre farms. One of a ih'^ujtt acres, though, it would bo di.llcult^o work hero. There are som?fta>gtpar atively free natives who hire?lwapl'y, but l|icy su'c .U|^(^^^|^^^^-v^ can pick up a few always, enough to* man your canoe or dopdd.-j obs, a'i'd if you treat Liicm kiiidly, thoy -\vi 11 hire out to yjii again, and do any kind of work. Thoy caj? not be de pended upon in any considerable number, however. These ua lives are abjectly afraid of the white man, having acquired the idea (probably from the Liberinns) that hois not only an habitual cheat, but .au habi tual cut-throat. It requires several mouths of acquaintance to get them fairly reconciled to the Caucasian. Then unless he be a bastard to the lime who doth not smack of obser va tion,tlicylike him above all,and will give him the preference in hiring. These natives will take anything, and the Libertans (who "lied bore from the slave holder's lash") do not scruple to ad min is tor unto them a trashing when provoked thereto. The native, frequently discerns tho anger in his employer's lace and the stick in his band, and precipitately takes to (light, leaving, if necessary, like Joseph, his garment in the hands of the. pursuer. All the revenge ho over takes is to quit and go homo. It must be an inspiriting spectacle to reo what was described to me in au incidental way l>y the chief actor himself, a free black Liberinn man, soundly cudgeling a free black native man with a Btiek, while two more froo black native men were Hying over the neighboring hedges to avoid simi lar castigalion, Iho three free black natives having boon caught in tho act of dragging a bag of rice through tho mud. Such things make me weep when 1 think that Wendell Phillips was not there. The native is rarely "sassy,'' and tho most be docs is to complain in a sort of whine, in bis broken English. It is a universal custom for them to address all who they consider M superiors as "daddy"' and "mummy.'' (This Information was a great comfort to me, as I had been much scandalized by being ad dressed as "daddy" by a fat Kroo boy, within an hour aftor my landing.) The difficulty regarding house serv ants is in a great degree obviated by a practice now fortunately becoming common. That is tho hinging out of native children by their parents to serve in Liborian families until twenty one years of ago. There woro ? i ...? from two, to six of these youngsters around nearly every house I visited, and very bright, "handy" and honest* 4*ev. seem. In return for ther sorvi jjcs they are clothed, fed, learned reading, writing, Christianity and her' handmaid Civilization. Quite an attachment in somo instances seems to exist between master and^ servant. This shows a long step for ward on tho part of the natives?an appreciation of their inferiority to civilized people A people or a man Who cjm bo h\at|ft to seo their or his; own imperfections;- is not beyond hope. Perfect'solSatisfaction id tho greatest bar t^Unprovemcii't, us it is tho most.uumi3fctkable mark*'of a fool, Had the. Li berians a little of the Jumiblcness and conciousnesa of in feriority of tho natives, I might have more hopes of them. So far, the civilized natives havo made little rapgress. When they return to their 'tribes thoy have to d?ffEuropean eMthejf>*-as, if they didn't tho rasdi e!ne nian would probably attribuin the ^Blt" misfortune that befell to his jKofntnu of thSjCiistoms of, his ances jt^rs? >yhich are more honored in tlie Creech''.cloth than in the observance of pantaloous and paper collars, and a '?settling" dose of poison would re move the progressionist. Their knowledge of the reading and writing of tho English lnnguage, too is now "generally employed in aiding the king in some villainy. During thei r residence with the whites, they usual ly pick up a knowledge of conimer - ciai values, which makes them useful in facilitating the tritdhig operations of Iheir tribe. As the numbers of theso civilized ones increaso, how ever, their influence is bouud to bo felt for good. .? - ^\i2?)'*!h ^ the natives, il.ioav ho mentioned that, the principal tribes'" hereabouts are Maudingoes and Vei's, the former noted for their aptness in manufacturing and trailing, ami the tatter for having invented (pa* nit not ye: applied for) an alphabet of their own. These natives generally live in thatch villages, and 'subsist mainly on rice 'and cassada, vai icd by occa sional game, on a free lunch com posed of Ida ck ants, caught by sink ing a kettle in tho ground and allow ing them to tumble in. Wheaton bread is a very rare treat, and they beg or trade for it eagerly. With considerable regret T took leave of my friend, the planter, and we re eiiibarko 1 for tho return trip. Whore we stopped was about twenty miles above Monrovia. A Conversation, Overheard. Bam.?"Peter, what does you think about us all going to Liberia V Peter.? 'You know do preacher say tudder day, we was de Lord's chosen people now, like de Jews was in do old time. God tuck dem from ' under do bondage of Pharo, and do Yankees done for 113 just what do Lord done for de Jews, dey tuck us from under de yoke of dc Southern white man.1' Sam.?"Brudder Cain is de Moses, leading us all dis time through our i troubles, ami he send Brudder Curtis to spieout do land and now de news dono come lor us to go,?dat it is a goodly land flowing wid milk and honey, and growing do bread and do meat for de Lord's people, and cost nothing but do gathering " Peter.?"But stop, Sam ! Dat no Curtis what tell dat news, but ono Southern buckra man, name Wil liams, one false spie. Wo can't trust dat man." Sam.?"Wo have to wait for Bruddcr Curtis to make his report before wo can go ober in-to Liberia whnr we can cat, drink and sorb do Lord all de restob our days." Why is dancing like milk? Bo causo it strengthens the calves. Why is an Englishman like a beo? Because ho is ruled by a Queen. What is tho best way to curb a wild young man ? To bridal him. What kind of a ship has two mites I and uoenptiau? Court-ship. ? [&or tho Or.ui;;cbn>g" ??Time*.] .Holmes Co.,-Mm.,-July :2'2, 1878. Edior Ornnnt\)Urtj Tim An excess of w,o^hfts prevented rqe from writiug '.for several weoks. I am glad to seo tlic Ttr.ti&improv ing so much. You. aregfy'5 ?g to tho public, ft paper of Avbich yotrnecd never bo ashamed. Mr. Editor,' it ;? ',< u:, ncs heart to know-that the J'ilm^jt^l'ftto has. ho many patriotic ^a^s^^l^?g'Vo'* :L. sacrifice s<lf, for thosako <.f serving their' fctate;. b'a^is^:xip^^S^to-le?; 'ithc o'mce S6clc theI'tnRn." . . 'Mr. JJurhujn, .whil-i' bauiing in Fate's pqii'Va ?'v. ,,ji$t,boy- . ond bis dentil, and wfnUd'b^V'e t?eon drowned, but XJr tbe. .iin^i^aid of his brother aml^-^tfu': f-\?$f\ ' ' The " teachers'' ?r^uu-. county will meet i u. ^onvojfttiofi,inoxlf?Salurday, for the purpose'.''xif or^auiziog a pe'rmanout IVach^V''Association in the county. . . ? .? Vr&rfjk ANON'. -'_/?^?'Wt'.V' The uiraiice fof tho Farmer. ~~ ?' . I:.;'- . When ft shrewd rtan?^icturer fiuds .that tho marketv ia-'h^oming over stocK^d^with goods.sit?h^Ji.? Im makes, and that profits^ai'c '.jjMucing, he sets his wits and nShchlitqty at different work. The farmeafwhuld do .well to follow his example, ih-years like this, when the general su^05s of all crops 8et3 the agricultural public to appre hending low prices fiVtlieir products. Among new 'thing* iliat might be tried there arc ng&tach prominent articles as coru, v^nt and cotton, but the largest profit* are not always in tho greater staples. There is as much money for manufacturers in pins as in print goods, and tho farmer might find no uf?cji in cabbages as in ?> :"'..'.r.z\ ?ust mnrfcel8. alwnys those the furthest froru homo. For instance, liams and? bacon are' *?-.'. cheaper in Now York than in many ft small town in the great putk proddc ing districts, and some dcsirablo vegetables arc dcaior and of poorer **\.;i quality in the country districts thaii they arc bore, though many of ours, are sold at a probt from land of which,, a single acre cos's more than a snug ' farm in some States this side of the Mississippi. The farmer who will," carefully consult tho catalogues of, seed merchants ami nurserymen, look for markets near home, and keep his wits as busy as the successful mauu-, facturcr must do, will lind in the long run that tho most money does uot.. come from the most popular crops or " the greatest number of acres under cultivation.?N. 1'. Herald, ^ Some years ago the experiment q?a bridging Broadway, Now York, kmm the convenience of foot pafi?eugorp?.v was tried, and afterwards the bridge;.* was abandoned. Now Paris intends 1 to adopt the bridge plan, aad archedv gangways will be erected over the rr boulevnrds, leading from pavement/' to pavement. These "passereHes-fi; will foi n double arches at tho mooty*. ing of four streets, two bridges cross**; ing one auolhcr diagonally iu tho ,/ very mi.Idle of the street, and being so connected that the pasicngora on y arriving at the central point may \, take any one of the throe directioUsj^f that is to say, may cither go straight^ on or tum at straight angles to the rijrht or left. One of Mi. Edison's chief charac*. ; lerislics is said to bo a strong reliance1 upon himself. In other words, hof ' never gets discouraged. Whou it was, \ suggested to him to try a diamond pointed needle for the phonograph,. . ho said, "1 intend to, butI caunot^ get the lapidaries in New York tQ make just what t want. So I am going to rig up tho necessary tneohan-^ v ism and make a diamond-pointed needle myself." - 3 Vt New York city has a club named i* tho "Full Bearded Company," conO sisting of forty members with beard* ? ranging in length from two feet to four feot six iuohes. . ..j>4j Down to tho end of the fourteenth* *?* century no mention has been found of wood engravings.