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Anns and Ammunition
Jacksonville, March 18.-The steadi?
er Three Friends of Jacksonville, in
cotnmaud of Captain Napoleon B.
Broward, arrived here at noon to-day.
having successfully succeeded in land
ing io Cuba Gen. Eorique Ujliaz>,
Maj. Chas. Hernandez and Duke Es?
trada, besides 51 men taken off the
schooner Ardeil from Tampa, and the
entire cargo of arms and ammunition
of the schooner Maliory, from Cedar
Keys^ It was by long odds the most
important expedition that has set out
from this country and the Cubans here,
when they learned that the Three
Friends had safely fulfilled her mission
shouted "Viva la Cuba" until they
were hoarse. They declared that it
would change the character of "the
whole war, as the unarmed men would
now be armed aod those without ammu?
nition would be supplied, and that
Maceo, who had before been wary and
cautious, would be more aggressive
than he had ever been before.
The cargo of arms landed -by the
-Three Friends aud Mallory was as fol?
lows : 750,000 rounds of cartridges,
1,200 rifles, 2,100 machetes, 400 re?
volvers, besides stores, reloading tools,
etc.
The Three Friends met the Mallory
at Alligator Key. The Ardeil had
just finished transferring the men to
her. While they were rendezvoused
there behind the pines in a deep corai
walled creek, three big Spanish men-of
war steamed slowly by, but they did
not discover that there was anything
saspicious-looking inshore, although
wirb a glass men could be seen in their
lookouts soanning the horizon, as well
as searching the shore. Sunday, about
noon, no vessels being in sight, the
Three Friends took in tow the Mallory
and steamed southward under a good
head of steam. The Three .friends is
a powerful tug, and by donday nigh'
was close enough to the Cuban shore to
hear the breakers. Several shipiights
to the west were seen, one of which
was evidently a Spanish man-of-war for
she had a searchlight at her bow and
was sweeping the waves with it, but t?e
Three Friends was a long way off and
had no light and was soon out of the
neighborhood of the Spaniards. At
10 o'clock that night by the aid of a
naptha launch and two big surf boats, ?
which had been taken out of Jackson?
ville, the Three Friends landed the ?
men and ammunition from ber bold and
from that of the Mallory. It took
four and a half hours to complete the !
job. There were hundreds of men on
sbore to assist and they did it silently,
appreciating the peril of the u?dertak- J
tug. The Cubans on shore recognized
Genera! Collazo immediately and no
words can describe their joy upon see- 1
ing him He .is a veterau of Cuban
wars and is one whom Spain fears. In 1
.fact, it is known that duriog his so- '
Jjourn io Florida be has been shadowed <
.by detectives, who have been instruct- *
ed 6o spare EO expense io keep Collazo I 1
'from reaching Coba. When it was 1
whispered around that Collazo was 1
.really among them, they seemed not to 1
believe their ears, but came forward 1
and looked, and, seeing that there was
. i
realiy no u:istake, threw their arcii 1
I about bim aod wept. 1
Major Charles Hernandez and Duke ^
Estrada were also enthusiastically I
welcomed. 1
[t was reported that, night that Ma?
ceo had received the arms of the first
?expedition that set forth three days
before the Three Friends landed
These were not from the Commodore,
for they reported that they were now
on the lookout for that vessel. They
said, too. that at the end of the week .
four expeditions were afloat. Two, in- j
eluding the Three Friends had landed, i
ind two mere were on the way. Tues?
day morning as the Three Friends was j
returning, she sighted a steamer that
answers to the description of the Com?
modore She was beaded southward !
and pushing along apparently at the !
rate of 15 knots an hour. This ves-1
sei has an engine capable of driving a
ship rwice her size and bas a speed of
17 knots aa hour.
- ?a?--ian
Lieut. Stokes at Work.
The adjutant and inspector general j
yesterday sent out the following special !
order pertaining to Lieutenant Stokes'
work of instruction :
"Realizing and appreciating the!
necessity of the cavalry forces, I am
endeavoring to bring them up to ai
mach higher standard. Lieut. Marcus ?
B. Stokes of the United States army j
having been detailed to this State for
doty with the militia of this State, ie
hereby authorized to proceed to Hamp
too county and issue such orders to the
troops composing the First regiment of
cavalry, Col. W. J. Causey command?
ing, as he may deem necessary and
for the best interest and improvement j
of the same."
Followiog this order, Lieut. M. B.
Stokes issued the following letter :
Col. W J. Causey, Commanding First |
Regiment South Carolina Cavalry: j
Sir : In accordance with special order !
No. 12, adjutant general s office, March |
19, 189G, I will be with the different j
troops of your command for the pur- ;
pose of drill and instruction as follows :
Tuesday, March ol, Troop F. Peo?
ples'; Thursday, April 2, Troop D.
Daley's; Saturday, April 4, Troop E.
Long's; Tuesday, April 7, Troop C.
Bower's; Thursday, April 9, Troop A.
Brunson's; Saturday, April ll, Troop
B, Steinmeyer's.
Very respectfully,
M. B. Stokes,
Lieut. U. S. Army.
Wily Not Sugar Cane ?
In the Southern Stales: Magazine
(or March, Mr. James ll Randall,
wiio is now as practical as he once
was poetic, and whose "malaqua"
theory has done so much to destroy
the "malaria'' superstition in our
coast country, lias an article of valu?
able suggestiveness
Mr. Randall says that the owners
of a big plantation on the Savannah
river near Augusta, capable of pro?
ducing great quantities of corn but
so subject to oveiflow as to make
that crop a frequent failure, thought
of sugar cane as a substitue and re?
quested him to make inquiries in
Washington as to the adaptability of!
such iands to its successful growth.
Senator Caffery, of Louisiana, re?
sponded as follows :
' The water that ruins or injures
corn in the Georgia river swamps
will not hurt cane. ? would prefer
that the water should be kept out,
but brief submergence such as you
mention will not affect the cane
Frost does not hurt it either, and
windrowing mitigates even freezes,
which rarely come before harvest
time in November I should think
that great cane crops might be raised j
and gathered on the Savannah river
plantations, and that sugar and mo?
lasses production, according to cir?
cumstances, would pay At any
rate, you ordinarily lose your swamp
corn, and can save your swamp cane.
There is no better forage for fatten?
ing stock, especially hogs, than ;
sugar cane ground up in the ordinary
fashion."
Maj. S. A. Jones, of Mississippi,
an authority, 6aid in effect :
"I think well of the Georgia
swamp cane culture. Never was
there a better time for experiment.
There will never more be free su<rar
legislation in this country. Cuba
will be crippled for a long time
Besides, as Senator Caffery says, and
as the Louisiana planters have found
out at a saving of many thousands of
dollars, the food stuff of cane is im?
mense In Louisiana, mules are fed
upon molasses. In our town of Aber?
deen one gentleman fattens about
1,000 head of cattle habitually, and
his food is molasses at eight centR a
gallon and cotton seed meal. We
dilute the molasses at the rate of one
gallon to two gallons of water, and
then spray it over or mix with meal.
The cattle 'lick the platter clean,'
and no doubt, if gifted with articu?
late language would, like Oliver ]
Twist or the average schoolboy, ask ,
for more."
Asked as to the raising of horses |
and mules in South Carolina on cane ,
products, he said : ,
'.I would advise South Carolina to
imitate Mississippi, if she can. We ,
had a great advantage, in my section* j
jf the State, of living alongside of (
Dr in close proximity to the Illinois ,
Uentral and Kansas City and Bir?
mingham railways. Poverty and ,
protracted drouths among farmers of
the northwest compelled them to
part with many thousands . f their
horses, most of them being of fine
blood from splendid imported or do ! i
mestic thoroughbred stock Horses j i
became cheap-in many western j ?
parts too cheap for anything but '
killing and canning. But vast (
droves came southward to the only j
market where, as happened this year, ;
farmers had money to purchase bar- j
gains And they got th?m What
our farmers chiefly wanted were j
mares for breeding purposes, as well ;
as use As Misssissippi has become
a great grazing country, she is pre I
paring also to become a great horse, !
mtiie and cattle grower, not only to
maintain a home supply, but a sur- :
plus for sale abroad, instead of de
plorihg the advent of western horses,
South Carolina should, ii of a busi?
ness turn, avail herself ol the
western animals, at a bargain, and ;
prepare, as Mississippi has done, to
turn the advantage to account for :
future usufruct. She cannot raise
horses and mules sufficiently without
the stock, and Providence hes de?
livered that into her hands. At least
that has been the case in Missis?
sippi. ''
These hints to South Carolina j
farmers are too valuable to be passed j
over heedlessly. No State in the j
South needs more sorely a crop j
which can be raised on the coast j
lands formerly devoted to rice and
the inland river swamp plantations !
where corn growing is made, by pe- !
riodical freshets, a mere lottery.
Why not sugar cane ?
We had before supposed that our j
climate-in this legion, at least- |
would not be favorable to this crop ;
but if it is not affected by frosts and j
if even November freezes may be j
mitigated there is a certainty of its i
suitability to our coast region and a ?
strong probability that it will sue i
ceed far into the interior. Certainly j
if it can be grown successfully near,
Augusta it can be made an equal
success near Columbia on the rich ?
bottom ?ands of the Congaree and 1
Wateree There isn't a county in
the State which has more reason to ;
test the accuracy of these theories ?
than Richland. The county received
its name iiom the fertility of the
great fields which border its rivers,
and it is bitter irony that, owing to
the lack of capital to repair and ex?
tend the oldtime levees along these
streams, the freshets make our rich?
est lands the poorest in results. We
earnestly hope that some of our j
farmers down the Congaree will
make sugar cario experiments this
year, keeping records which will eu?
labie them, ir lire crops withstand
overflows and mature before the
autumnal freezes, to extern] the culti?
vation with assurance
In relation to horse, mule and cat?
tle raising; the molasses idea is a new
Ohe to us ; but we know that sugar
cane tops constitute the standard
stock food in the West Indies. It is
eateri with .avidity and is all sufficient
for fattening. This fodder ought to
be as useful when eared as when
green, and the curing should be as
easy as that of corn fodder
We know that sugar cane lins been
successfully raised in small patches
throughout the low country. Is
there any climatic reason why it has
not been made a staple crop ? Or
why it cannot now be made one ?
We shall be glad to print any infor?
mation on the subject ; but mean?
while hope that experiments will be
undertaken in our rice-fields and
''bottom corn" lands subject to over- :
flow -The State.
Inman on Cotton.
New York, March 18.- Referring
to the recent activity and strong
advance in cotton, Mr. John H. Inman
to day expressed his views as follows:
On October 16, just five months ago.
March cotton sold on this market, ar 9.
50. From that time there has been
practically a continuous decline until j
March 5, wheo contracts sold at 7 20
a decline of 2^- cents. My estimate of
the crop is the same to-day that it was
five months ago when cotton sold at
9 50; thar is 6,900.000 bales
The above decline brought our mark- !
ct much below European parity and led
to large purchases of contracts in New
York against sales in Europe.
My experience is that, after a steady
decline of so loog a time, an upward;
movement is inevitable-a movement ;
which will most likely recover half of ;
the 2? cents decline and therefore earry ;
us back to 8? and 8J cents before tbe :
cotton seasou ts over.
With rapidly declining stocks and j
the fact that it is five and a half months :
before new conon' it occuis to me that 1
the persistent sellers short of August j
may get into a very uncomfortable po- !
sition before the season is over. Unless
prices advance materially, I don't see
how New York can avoid having a
very small stock by August 1, say not
over 50,0"00 bales. Trade in America is
bad. perhaps worse than at any time
for oO years ; but against, this, trade in j
Europe is good and Liverpoo' and the ;
continent will take a large amount ?fi
cotton at the cheapest price they can ?
get it, but will in my judgement pay '
8|- to 8-J-. cents if necessary. Almost j
every crossroad in the south is shor; of ?
the crop and to my mind the extensive j
preparations and increased acreage and j
prospects of the new crop are greatly
exaggerated. At any rate, it is the j
reason that makes thc crop and not the j
icreage.
r?e Bermuda Steams South, j
Somersport. N J., March, 18 - \
After three failures. General Calixto 1
Grarcia is **.c last upon his way to Cuba j
ro fight against, the Spaniards To?
gether wi?h 6? of his countrymen, fae \
was put aboard the steamship Bermuda j .
off here this morning by a little pas i
penger steamer frovi Atlautic City. ! '
The entire scheme was cleverly worked
out and the agents of the Spanish gov- (
etnment are said to have been badly
~ j
taken in. It is no'* known that the
members of the expedition left Phila- :
dr-lphia ia a rather open manner on ; ;
Sunday night in a tug. To all intents j
and purpose it was proclaimed from the j
house fops that their destination was ?
the Delaware breakwater and that it '
was from there that a steamer would be
boarded for Cuba It is presumed that
tho Spanish officiais bad the tug follow?
ed when i:. ?eft Philadelphia. The Co?
ban* wenr upon this presumption, at ,
least- and during a fog on Monday af- ,
remona, their tug doubled and return
ed np Delaware bay and the river tu
Camden, arriving Monday evening.
The party afc once boarded a special
train which ?anded thent at Tuckaboe
The Cubans boarded thc steamboat At?
lantic City, which was lying waiting for
them. The Atlantic City is used for j
summer traffic at the seashore resort
of that name. It has beeo out ot com- j
mission for several months. On Mor- ;
day last the Atlantic City took out ;
papers of insDection from the custom j
house for the purpose, as supposed by
the customs officials, of putti?g her io
temporary commission, as it was known
that some parties had been negotiating
to purchase her. The Atlantic City
left Tuckaboe at 6 o'clock yesterday j
morning and steamed to Ocean City,
whero ehe lay all night. While the
Atlantic City was at Tuckaboe and
Ocean City none of thc Cubans were
visible on the deck, but this morning
when the whistle of the Bermuda at?
tracted the peuple along the coast, the
concealed men came on deck and gave
cheer after cheer as thc Atlantic City
steamed out ? * J mt-et the arms-laden i
steamer. Beyond the three-mile limit .
the transfer of the (albans to thc Ber?
muda took place and thc steamer then
proceded on her way. The euston:
house officials were caught Dapping and
could do nothing to hinder the traosfer
of thc men. They ar once communi?
cated with the authorities at Washing?
ton. R. II. Ingersoll, secretary o? the
company which owns the Atlantic City,
says that the steamer was only put in ?
commission for the purpose of giving
her a trial trip for the benefit of her
intending purchasers.
T?ie Cuban Resolutions.
Washington, March 18. - At rn
re;/;:i.-?r meeting o! tho senate comm?t
teo or? loreign relations this m oro tog,
the conference report on the (Johan rcs
olutions was discussed at length, lr wa.
understood that an effort was to be made
to get Mr. Sherman to move in open
senate to refer t'ne report hack to the
committee with instruction- t.> disagree
to the third clause of the ti o usc r?solu?
tion This was discussed ai the meet
\u-?, but fhe sentiment of the committee
was largely against such action The
committee, therefore, decided to .stand
by the conference report and urge as
speedy actio? in the senate as possible.
T.here is absolutely no doubt in the
minds of thc committee that the ulti?
mare result will be the adoption of the
conference report. Sherman holds that
as soon as the senate concurs in the
con fere t; ce report, the resolutions go at
once to the Pre-irient, no further action
by toe bouse being uecessary, iu veiw
of the acceptance of the resolution of
the resolution of that body by the sen?
ate.
Simon Hartman, of Tunnelton, West Va ,
has been subject to attacks of colic ahout once
a year, nnd would have to CM 11 a doctor and
then suffer for ?ooiit twelve hours as much as
some do when they die. He was taken re?
cently just the same? ?<s at other times, and
concluded to try Chamberlain's Colic, Chol?
era and Diarrhoet Remedy He says: "I took
one dose of it and it gave me relief in five
minutes. That is more than any thing else I
has *ver done for me." Por sale by Dr. A. '.
J. China.
Death Was PreferabSe
-
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Hood's Sarsaparilla Built lip and ;
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/ %
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This is a well-known merchant afc Xey i
West,. Florida. His account o? his condi
t?os after the grip, and how it was cured, j
should be read by all :
" I had the grip twice, which, cairne near I
ending my existence on the earth,, and left
me in a condition to which
Death was Preferable
About fire mont hs back I started ter take
Hood's Sarsaparilla. I felt the good effects j
from the first bottle and by the time I had
taken three bottles I was 5C per cent, a j
better man physically ll- . a before. I am
now Toll of ambition an 1 feel that had I
Hood's ^ Cures ?
not taken Hood's Sarsaparilla I should
now be dead and buried. I am thankful ?
to Hood's Sarsaparilla, which has- been
instrumental of so much good to roe as
fco thousands of others of our fellowmen." j
W. H. Wnx?A3?S, B., Key West, Florida.
Hood's PHIs become the favorite cathartic j
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For putting a horse in a line heaJ?hy eon- i
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They tone up the system, aid digestion, cure :
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To the Farmer* of S
Counties :
We will give one ton of .
Guano for the nest yield per ac:
use of said Berkley Guano.
One ton for the best yield ]
And7for the best 1,000 lbs.
Berkley Gold Basis Tobacco C
Sumter market, we will give ou
Tobacco Compound, the analysis
able, 3 per cent. Ammonia and
All the above fertilizers to
test to be decided Dec. 31st.
Respectfully,
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P. S.-Rules and regulatioi
later.
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Nwth Carolina Planter,
Who has never ronde a failure and resized
his tooacco frtrm over 200 00 per acre last
A valuable paide and well worth its price
to all Planters ot' Tonacco, especially ihose
with little experience, or who expect to cni
ttvHte Tob?ceo io the future.
Send 25c. in stumps or otherwise, tc
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Bishopviile, S. C.,
And p'oe ure a cop j.
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5 per cent. Potash.
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