The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-02
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erity and prevent the possibility of being ruled by
negroes and fanatics" Hero it is every man
in the Southern States must now sec that tho old
plan of largo plantations must be done away with,
and to keep such places, now that the negroes are
free. is neither practicable nor desirable. Large
plantations, if practicable against the true III
terests of the South. What they need is popua-
ton population is political power and wealth.
That being tho case, how arc they to acquire tins
population? The answer is easy. Let every man
in the South instantly subdivide his land into forty
acre tracts, as near as possible dividing the WOOL
ed and cleared land equally mt any rate giving to
| each forty acres, five or ten CT wood. When TINS
is done. let them oel 10 the people OF the Western
ates to give to each settler from those States al
ter 1ate forty acres land requiring no other terms
than that each settler shall bring with him team,
| farming Implements, and means to build house,
| and fiyo wears T. idence. In Illinois, Indiana,
| Ohio. and other Western States, land is worth
from $50 to $50 per acre. These lands arc out of
the reach of the thousands and hundreds of thou
sands of young, cnterprising and Industrious
men, who arc looking about for wives and future
settlement Open 5hese alternate forty acres of
good rich lsnds to them, and instantly every
avenue of travel will be filled with intelligent,
thrifty practical farmers, going South with their
wives, their horses and improved farming imple-
ments, to settle on the lands donated them. We
mention Western men, because, as contrasted
with O foreign population, thoy are skilled far
mers and moro desirable in every way. Let this
be done, and in five years at most we shall have an
overwhelming white population ruling the coun-
| .kc and h1I1IH
schools, colleges, academies, churches and rail-
roads, where now there arc none. Let this be
done, and we shall soon see height OF prosperity
| in the South mover dreamed OF by them. Inc
BRowNLows, HUNN1cUTs. and all such fanatics,
with their negro votes will vanish like the mists
of morn before the rising sun. Let this be done,
and the alternate forty acres reserved Will De
wol tn five-fold more than the whole is now. Let
this be done, and tho South will rise up again as
ruling power in the land, and coniscation and
| excessive taxation will vanish.
IN REFERRING to the appointment of General
| CANDY, the New York Journal Of Commerce says: :
| seThe appointment of General CANDY appears to
be judicious. He is an officer OF distinction, brave,
firm, and said to be discreet and prudent. During
the early part of the he was stationed west OF
the Mississippi: and his operations were but little
known here. Our citizens had On opportunity to
become acquainted with him in 1864, during the
riot times, when he was placed in command Of
this city, and were favorably impressed with his
abilities, especially his GOODNESS and judgment.
From this point he was ordered to tie Department
of the Gulf, where as far as we know, he gave
general satisfaction to all parties and all peoples
by his steady, strong, just administration of af-
fairs. Recently he has been on duty at Washing
ton, and is thorough-going Union man. We
trust that General CANDY will vindicato the
wisdom of the Presidents choice, in the eyes
of the world, by his strict conformity to the
new and well-phrased order that he shall,
when necessary to faithful execution of tho laws,
exercise any and all powers conferred by acts OF
Congress upon district commanders, and any and
all authority pertaining to officers in command of
military departments In connection with the sub
iect the Washington Chronicle says General
CANBy, who has just been appointed to tho COM
mand of the Second Military District, is said to
have remarked yesterday, in conversation with
friend, that he was not political partisan, but
that he he'd studied the reconstruction laws
thoroughly and approved them, and that he con-
sidered their faithful execution essential to the
welfare of the nation He thought it the duty of the
Southern people to accept the terms offered them.
He is also said to have expressed his appreciation
Of the utility of tho frcedmcn's bureau and his in
tention Of giving it's agents all proper and neces-
sary aid in the execution Of their work.
IT Is A GOOD THING, says an English paper, that
India seems likely to be able to supply the whole
world with quinine, for not only was the American
supply uncertain, it was actually threatened with
extinction, owing to the reckless way in which the
Indians killed the trees in tue process of stripping
planting, of course, no new ones. Mr.. McIvoR
who has been ably seconding Mr.. CLEMENT r
MARKHAM's efforts at chinchona planting finds
that by removing only one long strip of bark and
covering the wound with moss, tho
bark is renewed, provided the cambium be not in
jured. The new bark, moreover, is thicker and
richer in alkaloids than the original one. Indeed,
Mr.. BRoUaHToN, the newly-appointed 'quinolog-
ist" at Ootacamund tells US that the
average yield Of cultivated plants is nearly two
per cent. higher than that Of the Wild American
Sunpl6b-t per CCul, lnoltdu VI IOlu t.lU w O.oO
per cent The only drawback is that the kind
which grows most freely in India is the rcd bark,
the quinine from which is usually mixed with n
considerable portion of chinchondno and other
allied alkaloids, along with resin and coloring
matter not easily separable. Still, however, since
we shall use probably more and moro quinino
every year. it is better to have the mixture than
none at all. Mr.. BRoUGHroN suggests that these
''amorphous alkaloid substances" may have vir-
tues of their OWL; but possibly, with moro perfect
processes, they may be found soparable. Any
how, it is betor to take what India can give us for
dispensary use than to prepare (as they do in
some dispensaries) their mistura quiniR out Of
concentrated infusion Of quassia and calumba,
with dash Of aromatic sulphuric acid.
THE FOLLOWING LETTER has been published by
the gentleman to whom it was addressed in the
Now Orleans Crescent. How to rid the country of
the ravages Of that hitherto unconquercd destroy
err the I'm, is matter Of the greatest conse-
Quence to the whole cotton region of the South.
Cotton planters who are suffering rom the rava-
ges - the worm or caterpillar ought to put to
work Immediately to give the experiment trial.
1t is simple and easy Of access EASTWOOD
LANDING, July %, 1S67.-Mr. II. NJ. IsAAcsoN.-
Sir: Suppose you would Ike to hear something
further in regard to tho crops and worms. My
crop is growing finely except portion of it that
is in the grass. 1 have some worms but
they are 80 few they have not injured my crop yet
They have mostly put up in chrysa',s. Some have
Matched out, and will 90 to reproducing in few
ko1
crop, but will not destroy it until the third genera
tion, which will be three weeks from the tcrmina-
ton Of the second. Ihope to be able to make Mr.
Worm change his base. Last week made somo
experiments which convinced me can drive them
Off III succeed, which do not doubt, will bo
able to save two-thirds of my crop. The remedy
used was unslacked ashes sifted over the plant
The worms left in ono hour after the application