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The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1867-02-08
TRIAL.oF THE STEAM PLoUGu-.

TRIAL OF THE STEAM PLoUGu--.
Quite a number of the leading PLAN
ters and merchants of our State were
present yesterday at the trial Of the
steam plough, imported by Messrs.
Longstrect, Owen s Co. The trial
took place at the Fair Grounds of the
Mechanics and Agricultural Associa-
ton, and the apparatus, under the
direction of Mr.. Max Eyth, late en-
ginccr-in-chicf to the Pacha Of Egypt,
evinccd to the fullest satisfaction of
all present its wonderful capacity as
a marvellously complete and effective
agricultural implement. Some Of
our most extensive planters who were
present at the trial we're cnrapturcd
with the swiftness and accuracy with
which it performed its work, albeit
the ground was unfavorably adapted
to a true and fair exhibit Of its pow
ers.
The plough moves between two
engines with such case and cclcrity,
guided. by enc man, that the work Of
forty ordinary ploughs with all the
necessary hands and accompanimcnts
can be performed in twenty-four hours,
and every moment of favorable wealth
cr may be improved with such promp-
titude and certainty that no time is
lost in preparing the soil for what
ever crop may be designed. The
advantages of this wonderful improve
mcnt need only. to be seen to satisfy
all who are interested in agriculture
of it's adaptability to our soil, and the
economy and practicability of its
working on a large or.small scale. II
is such an enterprise as should inter
est every planter and merchant in the
Statc, and promises yet to revolution
ize thesystem of Southern agriculture,
We can. i'll afford to let planters Of
Egypt, who have tested this machine,
surpass' us in enterprise in the culture
of our great staples, and with the ad'
vantages of the steam plough we may
vie with the world in wealth and pro-
ductiveness.- .-New Orleans Crescent.
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F1NANCIAL.-The New 70

F1NANcIAL.-The New York
World says: "That a panic and
ruinous decline in prices are inevita:
BILE is an opinion accepted by every
one.. The only question is as to tue
date when this panic and ruinous de-
cline may be expected: The Nation
al Banks, money-lenders and bull
clioues, who are all mixed up together
in carrying heavy loads of stocks,
aro not likely to collapse without a
desperate effort to galvanize van e,,t1;e the
Stock market, and dcludc the public
into buying their watered railway "; and
steamship companies shares. Their
success in thus deluding the public,
time will show. At present the pub
lie are not buyers. The public are
short of cash, having paid tins last
wear aboutsix hundred millions($6O0,
00O,OOO) in "very hard cash to
Government for taxes, besides prohts
of 20 to 80 per cent. on the capital OF
the National Banks, to those prlvlleg-
ed aristocratic institutions. The Stock
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BoDD1ss.-A large number, of the
Cotton hIanufacturers of the South,
areenow sending their orders for that
useful and greatly needed article
bobbins, to the North. In view OF
the demand, and at.the same time the
inconvenience and delay attending;
shipments, Nr. Il. T. Nelson has.es-'
taablished fac ory at Augusta, Ca,
where he turns out. as cheap, and
good an article as IS made N the
United States. ~ ~ 80; :: !
These evidences of growth should,
be generally noticed and commented
upon by the press, and their authors
be encouraged. Messrs. Childs &
Co., of the Saluda Mills, are using
these bobbins,with great satisfaction
Patrohize your own people! # 8
South Carolsaien::t.
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and Columbia Rail Road has already
been chartered. An airline between
those places would pass but a few miles
from Camden, and would cross the
Wateree at point almost impractical
BILE, because of the wide swamp and the
low banks of the river. If deserted by
the South Carolina Rail Road, we must
put out golden wand and by its ma
gic touch, bend the Road in this direc-
tion-a very slight bend@7and put i
across the river at the CaAden bluffs.
If the Camden Branch were abandoned,
We Emight, perchance, find means to
make the South Carolina Rail Road
Company pay for the proposed improve;
ment. We do not desire to see an iron
barrier extended across the State from
Augusta to Wilmington, rending oa1
city of the waters, with her proud mem
i oriies Of the past, from her trade con.
nections with two.th thirds of the people
of the State-yet it is but fair to warn
her opulent~ arid intelligent capitalists
that but little more of the grinding
pressure of the last two years is re-
quired to produce that deplorable re-
suit. Our people have been ryqniet,
but they are neither dead nor impotent
When we hear that the work has
fairly commenced upon, the Camden
Branch, we may indicate a project
which will enable Charleston to recover
the trado north of us, which she has
lost, and may hereafter lose.
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The new Plan Of Reconstruction.

A special dispatch from Washington
to the Charleston Daily Ne~s, dated the
4th inst says: "a conference Of Gov
ernors ohR, sHARKEE PAnsoSs and
MARVIN, and other prominent Southern
ers, with the President, has culn.iua-
A,.a;.asi.a.-.-.-E-x.e.st
resolutions, providing for suffrage with
out distinction of color, with a qualif-
cation Of reading; writing, and property
amounting to $3.50. The resolutions
were transmitted to the Governors Of
South Carolina and Georgia last eve
ming, with an advisatory letter. Tele-
grams have also been sent to the Legis-
latures of Louisiana, Mississippi, and
other Southern States, inviting imme-
,diate action upon the proposition
Upon this line, it is understood, the
new policy Of the. Administration is
based, coupled with amnesty, but pro-
hibiting the leaders in the rebellion
from holding Federal Office.
The Hon. HOWELL CoBB, Of Georgia,
has been telesraphed to, requesting him
to come to Washington, to take part in
the further maturing Of this policy.
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k1p FOR THE South. New

AID FOR THE SOUTH. The New
York Tribune announces that prac-
tical organization for the relief ofthe
suffering at the South has been formed
in that city, under management OF
ladies of the highest character and
position, with no reference whatever
to political relations. Steps will be
taken SO to cooperate with General
Howard as to avoid waste or misdi-
rection in the distribution of the sup
plies, and Commodore Garrison has
offered the use of steamer to con-
vey contributions to any point which
may be designated. The New York
World has a notice apparently Of the.
same movement, which says.
sNo political color whatever is to
be given to this movement. 1t will
have but one object, the saving Of
them that are ready to perish, and
will be administered in but one spirit,
the spirit of that charity which bless
es both them who receive and them
who give. The ladies are encour-
aged to their good work by Mayor
Hoffman, by the Catholic Archbishop
of New: York, by Bishop Potter, by
DR.. Tying, and a number Of other
eminent laymcn and clcrgymcn.-
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Do not EniGra.e.

AtArecent Convention of the Farm
ers Of Virginia, held at Richmond, Ex-
Gov. SMITH delivered an address, from
which t g following is an extract. His
remarks are as applicable to South Ca
rolinians, as to Tirginians, apd We COM
mend them to the consideration Of all
who contemplate emigration. Govern
or SMITH said: "He had earnestly i'm
pressed on his friends not to leave the
country. Where would they 60? Vir-
ginia was tho place for them, after all.
Let every Virginian say 't:'is is the spot
for me; here. is my ancestors home. 1
will die here, and spare no effort to
restore my native State! Where could
they go? TO Mexico ? No. 10 Brazil ?
To the West? No. For there they
would be overwhelmed by hordes of
foreigners. He had travelled much Of
late, and took occasion to converse with
the people. He came to this city and
avs palatial residences going. up. Thou
sands of dollars were thus spent, when,
if they had been applied to manufactu-
ring purposes, other people would be
buying from us. He had been to Dan
vile. He saw there water front of a
mile and half, which could be devo-
ted to manufacturing purposes, but he
found the merchants there putting up
fine houses in the country, where they
spent some Of Q time which ought
to be devoted t. business. He saw fine
stores going up here, in Which to sell
shoes and hats, from New England,
wine from the Rhine, and silks from
France; whilst in place Of them new
factories should be established, in which
the Confederate soldiers could get EN-
ployment. He looked forward with
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this city, bound in that direction
The steamer Dictator, of the Florida
line, has been a favorite boat with
them, and has probably taken from
three thousand to four thousand. On
Saturday last, the steamship Adele
left this city for Galveston Texas,
having on board some three hundred
to four hundred. The number that
have left the upper country in wagons,
it is difficult to estimate, but we have
heard the total number that have
left putdown at twenty-five thousand.
Charleston Neavs.
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AID FOR TIE SoUTH.-Thc follow
ing from the Boston Post, of Friday,
will be of interest to some of our
readers:
Boston, January 81, 1867. :
Editor Boston Post: [ observe an
appeal in your paper, from some one
in South Carolina, for the starving
people of that section. :. 1t seems to
sbe rather an informal or irreguf4a
call, but tits an additional! indication
ofsuffcring among those who certain
ly have been Or fcllow-countrymen.
Ifsuch now, have they not still claim
on.us as neighbors; and ifaliens, have
they not as good atitlc to our sympa-
thy us the Crctaus? Whatever side
of politicswe take then, as Christians
let us help thcm-let some organized
movement be made! In New 1ork
there has been public meeting, and
committees have been formed to pro-
cure relief for the sufferers at the
South as well as as in Greece. Can
not Boston do as much? In default
of any general movement, l beg you
will open subscription at the Office
ofthc Post and put me down for one
hundred dollars.
Yours, very truly, &C., J. S. F.
Annexed is the appeal which we
republish. 1t is addressed to the
Mayor of this city, but VIC learn that
his Honor has net received . copy,
and had no knowledge Of such a com
munication until it appeared in the
Post, to which paper it was daily ad-
dressed for publication. Under these
circumstances the Mayor does rot
feel authorized to receive, donations,
more particularly as the appeal di-
rccts to whom remittances should be
made. But if any arrangement should
be made for the collection of money
in this city, we have the Mayors as
surancc that he would allow his office
to be designated as one Of the PAGES
for such purpose.
Concerning the suggestion OF our
correspondent, ]. S. T., we should
&C ',,..so ttl!u 'feF ""su =...Sst
sums subscribed to aid the famine:
stricken people in the district indicat.
ed by Mr.. Mittag.-Ed. Post.
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. To YaHPayers.'

The following resolutions were adop.
ted by the Legislature at its late ses.
sion. We publish them for the benefit
of all Interested
Resozred, That it is not only fair
right and proper, but essential TO order
andAgosd government, that the pay.
mont Of taxes levied Under Act Of the
Legislature at its last regular Session
should be equally enforced against all
who are liable to pay them, therefore
Resolred, That the Comptroller Gen:
eral do require the Sheritfs of the seve.
raj Districts, to- enforce the collection o1
the tax executions against all default,
ing Taxpayers. :.
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A SOUTHERN APPEAL
LANCAsTEEVILLE, S. G.


To the Mayor Of tile city of Boston :
DEAR SIR: The "Athens" Of A.
merica will not, l am confident, turn
deaf car to the appeals Of suffering
humanity.
A great humber of human beings
must perish for tue want ofrroyisio"s,
unless immediate rclicf~is afforded,
in this section of our common country.
Even small contribution will ba
gratefully received.
Direct to the "Presidcnt Of tho
Charlotte and South Carolina Rail,
road" Charlotte, North Carolina.
Yours, &C.,
j. /. G.. MITTAG.
January 81, 1867.
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Correspondence of the Courier.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 81.


The city is thronged with strangers
again. The financial, commercial,
and political. classes of the country
are represented here. The President
receives more calls than he ever did,
and almost every one seeks to have a
conversation with him, and leaves
with a full assurance of his own pro-
posed knowledge of the Presidents
political views and intentions upon
every subject whatever.
Some of these men, who make up
the Congressional lobby, have exer-
cised an important influence. They
will give shape to the tariff, which is
still to be acted upon. They have,
so far, prevented Congress from TAX
ing any decisive course in regard to
the National Banking system, the
currency, the sale of gold, &c. 1t is
believed that the National Bank lob
by will succeed in starving, off any
modification of the National Banking
Act. =, sSss-sa4:.
tits also quite certain that tha busi-
ness influences brought to bear upon
Congress have had an effect in opposl-
ton to the impeachment and other
measures that arc urged by the Radi ,
cal extremists. This influence is now
very powerful, and may continue to
be so in the next Congress. But there
is strong Radical clique here, with
General Butler as it's chief, that Sc
crctly works to promote impeach-
ment at the session commencing next
March. 1t is believed by those best
informed that the Committee of Elf
teen will recommend, if they make
any report at all, that Congress stand
by the proposed constitutional amend
ment, and act, at present, on no other
measure Of reconstruction.
The failure Of action on these sub
iects at the present session will, it is
thought, protract the next session
into the forty-frst session, and amount
to nothing short of the President S
plan of restoration.
The principle of the Bill for the
reform Of the civil service, which has
Just been brought forward in the
House, was recognized and establish
ed in the Constitution adopted by the
late Confederate States. So also
that Constitution embraced the i'm
provemcntnow proposedin the Senate,
making the Presidential term SIX
years, and without rc4cllglblilty'
LEO.
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PROSPECTS IN ARKANsAs.-Tho.
January 21,. 1867.

PRoSpECTs IN ARKANsAs:-Tho
Camden, (Ark.,) Eagle, Of the 18th
says that town is overrun with ne
grocs. The fact has drawn the at
tention of the Rcd and Arkansas Riv-
or planters, and under a brisk COM
petition the rate Of wages has mate
rally advanced. In fact it is now so
high that MANY fear that the uplands
cannot be proftably cultivated. The
planters Of the river bottoms may make
small margin of profit. But the
prospect is SO discouraging that the
number-o of acres planted WILDE small
CT this year than ever before.
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TIE D1FFERENCE.-While our Lt

TIE D1rFERENcE.-While our Lc-
gislature did nothing for the people
but gave a deprecated currency, our
sister States of Georgia and North
Carolina have shown their wisdom,
patriotism and sympathy for the peo-
pie. The former we have already
noticed in its legislative enactments
of relief. In the latter State, one of
the most encouraging signs of good
sense is a bill introduced into the
Legislature authorizing a loan of
$50, 100000 OF gold in Europe by the
State. 1t is stated that assurance
has been given by the projectors Of
this bill that the loan can be effected
in Europe on favorable terms, and
can be easily accomplished. :
Columbia Phgnsr.
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To SOLDIERS AND .Fn1Egps. Or
SOLDIERS. Misfortune has fallen;
heavily upon Mrs: Donald Rowe q,
Orangeburg, the great friend and
nurse of soldiers during the late war:
The property of her husband iss adj
vertised to be sold by the sheriff on
the next sale day, and she.wiltbe'eft
without house or home. Manyiof the
soldiers who have been relieved BY
her kindness have expressed a desire
to assist her in this hour Of her dis.
tress. She labored for. no pay edu-
ring the war, and now asks for no re-
muneration for services, but We fea
that it would be a lasting reproach
upon the country to aHow her to be-
turned homeless upon the world. We:
therefore. propose to purchase the:
plantation for her. Two thousand,
dollars have. already been. secured for
this purpose, and We earnestly. solicit
contributions from all who are willing
to assist in this. noble work. Send;
your money as speedily as possible.
Remit to Nj. Leonard Chaplin Char.
lesion S, c., Rev. ". 6. Connor,'
Orangeburg, S., c., or Mr.. .:G.s
DeFontaine, Columbia, S.. G. All
papers friendly to the cause will con-
fer a favor by copying this. I'D
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NEGRO MIGRATIoN.-For two
months past a large number of the
colored farm-hands of the State have
left the middle and upper districts,
and have gone in large numbers to
the South an Southwest. They have
gone to all sections of the Shouthern
country-Mississippi, Louisiana, Ar
kansas, Texas, and Florida. This
last State appears to be the favorite,
and some FIVE thousand to six thous-
and, at least, have passed through
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Touching THE POCKET NERVE.

seems, from Ycadlhg Journals l"tnS
North and West, already had a de-
pressing effect, unsettled the finances,
and cost the country millions of dol
ars. Capital has taken alarm, work
men are being dismissed from employ
ment, stocks are going down, the de-
mand for National securities has dl-
minished, and indications of fnan-
eial panic increase. As conse-
auence, the principal Republican, :iour-
nails throughout the country, (Which,
as a general thing, represent the IN
telligence and wealth of the commu-
mites in which they are published,)
with but few exceptions seriously de-
precatc even remote possibility Of
conflict between the Legislative and
Executive branches of the Govern
ment. The New York Tribune is
foremost in its opposition to impeach-
ment, and indirectly charges the Her.
aid with a design to break up the
Republican party by its advocacy of
the measure. Such result would be
almost inevitable, and other leading
Journals forcsee disaster to the coun-
try, and ruin to the Republican par
ty, if the agitation is continued. The
Chicago Tribune, the great radical
thunderer of the Northwest, is out in
an elaborate and forcible article a.
gainst the impeachment of the Presl-
dent; and the Albany journal goes
so far as to say, "We believe the
country will suffer less by a contin-
uance of Andrew johnson in office
even if he should repeat his 22ad .of
February speech once a week; ard
appoint none but coppcr-heads to Of
fce-than by the perturbations which
would follow an indictment in the
House of Representatives.
Washington Star.
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CONTRACTS IN CoNTEDER1TB Cur.

CONTRACTS IN CoNTEDER9TE Cur:
RENcY.-Chancellor Lesesneat Char
lesion has recently decided in the
case of Jackson as. Lazarus, that the
principle is held that debts contract
edsin Confederate currency must be-
discharged on the basis Of the value
of that currency, as compared with
gold, at tile time that the debt was
incurred, and consideration given
therefor. -.
This establishes a precedent In
South Carolina for all cases involv-
ing the payment of debts or obliga-
tions contracted in Confederate cur
rency.-B. 9.
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SOUTHERN SCHOOL BooKs.-It is
10 lon cerpossiblc to use in our schools

SOUTHERN ScHooL BooKs.-It is
no longerpossiblc to use i'll our schools
the books Of Northern origin. They
arc found usuallyssto belle our histo-
ry, SANDER our people and spoil our
language. We want the truth, and
not fictions, which are not only terri
bly, false, but terribly dull and STU
pid. We want the English language,
and not a brogue. We rejoice to sec
that proper efforts are making, in the
proper places, to'give us the sort Of
books we neek fr the education* OF
the young. The Professors of the
Virginia University, all Southern
men, and all highly endowed and
highly capable, !ave the matter in
hand, and, through the press Of G..
B. Richardson & Co., We ,';ne almost
fully provided, already, with an en-
tire, complete and most excellent
Southern School and University Sc
ries. Professor Geo: F. Holmes has
prepared for our children a pictoria
primer, an elementary speller, and
five successive pictorial readers, all
admirably. conceived, finely illustra-
tratcd, and excel!cntly gotten up
School charts accompany this series.
Professors Venablcs, NJ. T. Mowry,
lie Conte, Gildcrslceye and De We're
follow with text books in language
and the sciences; Holmes, Gayarrc,
Porter and Simms follow, in history
and, all together, make us indepcnd-
ent in educational matters, if VIC arc
not.iu political. We counsel our peo-
pie, as well as our school teachers, to
examine these volumes, and VIC should
insist that the time has come when
Southern children should be taught
only by Southern men. If not capa-
bic of teaching our own children, we
have no right to children at all; and
VIC certainly can do them no justice.
We are happy to see that the Senate
and House of Representatives of State
of Mississippi has recommended this
series for adoption in all the schools
and academies of that State; that the
General Assembly of the State Of
GEORGIA. has done the same thing.
anu .nas I..s ..:.::..eeeI.6I-nIabKlhd anu
other Southern States is calling upon
their people to do likewise. Let the
ball of reform and progress roll on,
and all impediments be swept out of
the track.-CRarlcston Ncrcu1y.
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STOLEN CoTToN.- Our energetic
Chief Of Police, broug int into town,
yesterday, wagon load of cotton:
Ave bales, Which he captured ea, route
for Orangeburg, S. G. The cotton
was stolen several days since, from.
Mr.. VIM. Sumner, Pomaria. When
ovcrtaken, by Mr.. Green, the negroes
accompanied by the cotton, with the
exception of the wagon-decamped,
and could not be.oyertaken.-lb. =
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The New Orleans Crescent saws:

"Cotton is low. Its net return to
the planter, after paying tax, freight,
commission and expenses, is not more
than it was before the war, and the
expenses of raising it, yet to come
out, is treble"
Is not this enough to satisfy US
that it is our interest to raise more
corn and less cotton?
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THE. .JOU URN Al.
Friday, February 8, 1857.
Editorials,

We have the qualification of announ-
cling an engagement with Gen. KER-
SHAW for the contribution, weakly, of
one or more articles for the editorial
columns of the Journal.
Maj. BLA1n has also promised us con-
tributions for its columns as often as
his leisure will permit.
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~ To meet the change in the de-.
parture of the mails, our day Of pubIca-
tiopis changed to Thursday. Advertisers
will please hand in their faebrs as early
as practicable on Wednesday morning
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The Mails Again. ,

! We are requested 10 state that on
and after the 9th inst, the Mails for
the Rail Road will be closed at l O.
clock p. NJ. on Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays.
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The Tea-Party.

Those Of our friends. who wish to
spend an hour in pleasant enjoyment
will not neglect to attend the Tea-Par-
ty advertised for this afternoon.