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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-03-18

CONDITION OF NEGROES IN AND AROUND
ENTHUSIASTICALLY Washington CORES
pondent OF the Springfield Mass Repab
lican, a loyal sheet, has the following re.
marks respecting the negroes i'm and
around Washington:
The negro, ut casual glance, does not
seem to be solving his problem OF freed
manship very rapidly. Every third per-
son one meets in Washington is either
black or spcckled, and is generally hal
lowing at the top Of his or her voice to
some other inky or variegatcd individual
to come and have q good time or is hav'
ing it alone. The black boot sinner curs
up on his little box, and winks at the sun,
singing, and rarely persists in backing
your boots. The servants who sleepily
open the doors of houses where one calls,
always respond to the demand if such q
person Is in, !Decd L dom no sah," and
leave to mount the stairs and find out fer
himself
In the House and the Senate galleries
hundreds of able-bodied negroes, who
ought to be at work tor themselves and
the good future, sill idly listening to the
debates. Every corner Of the capital
seems to be encountered with an ELhope.
who, ragged and lazy is still querryins
whether or not to accept the energetic dn-
ties as well rs the privileges Of II ecdom.
The saucy dn-nothingness of the Naples
lazzaroni affords the comparison; but do
not think me prejudiced or complaining.
The bright day for Sambo and his family
is coming. Little by little the unskilted
hands learn how TO build the structure. of
independent manhood. Wherever n me-
gro is in the city, he no longer cringcs,
but asserts his equality, often, of course,
too obstrusively.
My frequent walks on the Virginia side
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-03-18

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mums to each subscriber. Yearly. Sl:50.s Pub
licn,on Office, S3S Broadway New York.
Try it, Boys and Girls. spesineH copies, ten
cents, mailed free. ?
Jan 81, 1869 - 30 = 80
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RauAL1r1 P. O., S. c., Oct. Is, 1856

RauALrrr p. O.. S. c., Oct. Is, 1868.
j. NJ Robson, Charleston; S. c.:
We used combination of Soluble Pacific Gu
ans, 200 lbs. per acre. Hs use has doubled the
crop. and l believe, had We used double tho guam
tity per acre, the increase Of yield would have
been in proportion.
TIIOS. II. McCANN,
W. II. FORD.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-03-18
LIFE INSURANCE.

1.-THE important subject Of Life Insurance. a
gradually and deservedly ginning public attention
by the force Of its own merits. The time ia net
far distant when the death of O. man leaving his
family unprovided for BY a Policy Of Life Insl-
rance, will leave tae st,a Of neglected duty upon
his character. 1t is aduty which every man owes
to his own dependent, and to the community:
He who neglccts ii is not 5 good husband, father
or citizen He has no right, even, to risk the
chance Of throwing the future support Of his
family, in case of mis- death, the community at
large, or on relatives and friends when u iss lip
his power so edsay.and srrety TO provide againss
such contingencies -Ne,c FORK Express.
"a prudent man foresecth the evil"-4Pro+erbs
2s:3. 400 .s.<,.,'1.
While in health, coll oil the subscriber and ss.
cure Life Policy. You do not know what s.dss
may bring forth. ..a.:a g.. i,iz@
A. B. TOWERS, gi...s.
Life InsuranceyAgent .75l,
No 4 Granite Row, Anderson, s. c.:
Dec %, 1868. % ae. 4c Sm aa1g
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Industrious Young Men the Hope OF the
Soutd

The glory, the honor and prosperity Of
the South are not in the hands Of old poll
ticians; they are in the keeping of the
young men who, as they prove industrious
or indolent, great shall be their reward or
terrible their punishment. What the
South most urgently requires at this su-
preme hour of destiny is a splendid array
of hard working, sober, stalwart and en-
terprising youths.
The young men who work now are
bound to be the lords of the future and the
rulers of the land. No matter how lowly,
industry will ennoble them and their prog
eny will own the seats of domination. In
the same ratio, the idle and timid will sink
lower aud lower as the years progress, and
the traditions of their aristocratic lineage
will not save them from decrepitude and
final extinction. The better a man Is born
the more, is he called upon to give proof
that he is superior to the bones of his an
cestors and worthy of his gentle blood.
There is no excuse for him if he fails to
outstrip those who have to battle against
adverse fate and social ostracism. lie
ought to blush if the race is to be won by
the tortoise, while he is 80 swift and nim-
bic hare.
Georgia has this day, at work in the
fields, many yeungster whom she will in
the future delight to honor with her choic-
est gifts. We have heard of several whose
example is worthy Of public commenda-
tion.. The latest illustrations brought to
our knowledge are these:
Amos Norris, of Warren Co., with one
plow and horse; cultivated, this season,
eleven acres of land in'cotton and eighteen
| acres in corn. The land was of the poor
est, and yet he made Jfue bales of cotton
and one hundred bushels of corn: Not only
| did he cultivate this crop without assis.
| tance, but, unaided and alone, packed the
cotton and harvested the corn.
Adam Todd, of the same county, with
but trifing assistance, made five bales Of
! cotton on nine acres of land, and tuo hun
dred bushels of corn on eighteen acres. His
tiand was little better than that of Nor
| ris.
Well done both of you! Instead of be-
ing ashamed of your labor, let there be,
henceforth, glow of manly pride on your
brows. Let the success of this one expe.
| riment move you to greater e1ertions in
the time to come If to this spirit of III.
dustry you ally sobriety of life, you need
not fear for your ehilaren's or your own
destiny. When the Norrisses and Todds
shall be multiplied thousand fold, Geor.
gia will look down on New England and
start on path of empire which the most
fervid fancy can can but inadequately por-
tray.-AuguSta Constitutionalist.
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"A wit being requested "to say q good
thing" laconieally responded, "Oysters." ="
= Mrs. Partington considers it absurd
to call this free country when you 50
frequently hear tell of even peoples mem
ories being taxed.
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@ A r D.
CHARLES KERRIsoN,

FORMERLY of the firm of c. E. L. kERRl-
SON, would inform his friends and the public that
he has purchased from Mr.. JAMES B. BETS, all
his ST0GE IN TRADE, &c., at the Store
NO. o52 KING STREET,
And will thero continue the DRY GOODS BUS!-
NESS, Wholesale and Retail. FOR CASH, on his
own individual account and responsibility He
will proceed, without delay, to replenish and re-
new the Stock, and continue so doing until the
assortment shall be made complete and attractive
AS the terms will be strictly cash, or approved
city acceptance for short credit. it necessarily fol-
lows that the prices must be kept at least as low
as 10 be found at any other respectable establish
ment.
AIR. A. B. MCDOWELL. both experienced mer-
chants in this line, will be found at his store, aid
ing in the conducr and management of the husi-
ness and it is hoped that his and their efforts to
win the confidence and patronage Of the pubic;
will be as successful as in past days was the old
firm at corner of King and Market streets.
Feb IS, 1858 "a ON
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-04-03
Chr albany Reoister.
SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1869.
An Old Friend.

But line in a daily paper
Thousands of eyes would see,
And careless pass the record by
Taat gives such pain to me.
Yet cur lives had drifted wide apart
Mine At my ingle side;
And hers. who read in the Pos: to-day.
"on the 4th Of October died"
And ours was quiet liking,
A simpas, friendly bond;
Ii was pleasant to meet, and light to part.
Aud never a thought beyond.
Yet a. 1 read those words to-day
Through a sudden mist of tears.
The fair, frank face and bright blue eyes,
Cleaned out through the cloud Of years.
All. well . it had passed away from mine,
The life that is closed al noon;
And I who forgot to watch its course,
viii forget its setting soon.
The world goes up and the world goes down,
And the young succeed the old;
And the April sunshine gilds the buds
That spring from the church-yard mold.
And eyes that of old have answered mine
Will sadden as mine have done, Tread
As they glance some day down the list and
That my earthly race Is run.
Well. scarce can frame a kindlier wish
Than that every lip will say,
"God rest her SOUL" as earnestly
As breathe it for her to-day.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-04-03

A ROMANCE OF THE CUBAN REBEL
LIoN.-An American citizen who was in,
the Theater Of Villanueva on the even
ing of the 22d ult., and witnessed the
riot and Massacre In the streets of Ha-
vana that evening, says that the origin
of the outburst was the shooting of a
young woman. He says: "a very beau
tiful girl, the daughter of Albania, one
all the1 Cubans, wore upon her left
breast the American flag, with the in
scription, "Long live the Republic of
Cuba" upon it. When the stirring song
was being sung, the whole audience rose
and cheered this young woman, and as
she rose to acknowledge the salute-all
eyes were now bent upon her-a low,
mean, cowardly Spaniard shot her with
revolver, killing her instantly. Two
American gentlemen occupied the box
adjoining Senorita Albania, whose names
do not know, but one of whom, seeing
the pistol pointed at the young iady's
breast, drew his revolver, and a second
after the Spaniard had fred, blew the
top off the head of the cowardly assassin.
Instantly the whole theater was the
scene of the greatest confusion, and the
Spanish troops rushed in and began firing
upon the masses of the huddled, unarm-
ed, innocent men and women"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-04-03

The SUFFRAGE AMENpMENr.-The
following is the amendment to the Con-
stitution as passed by both Houses:
RESOLVED, By the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America, in Congress assembled, two
thirds Of both Houses concurring, that
the following Article be proposed to the
Legislatures of the several States as an
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States, which, ratified by three
fourths of said Legislatures, shall be valid
as part Of the Constitution, namely:
Article XV.-Section /. The right
of citizens of the United States to vote
shall not be denied or abridged by the
United States, or by any State, ON account
of race, or color, or previous condition of
servitude.
Sec. 2. The Congress shall have
power to enfhrce this Article by appro-
pirate Legislation.
Nevada is the second State to endorse
the amendment.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-04-03

THE MODERN YANKEE.-A Yankee
is commonly equal to anything going
at least he is apt to think SO, and as he
thinks he acts. He can break colt,
shingle Westinghouse, keep a school,
try law cases, edit a newspaper-he
thinks that is fun-go to Congress,
preach, swap horses, jackknives, friends
and wives-if somebody must trade-at-
tend to his neighbors' private affairs, set
tie clashes" between them, build rail-
rosds, lay out institutions, (some are
known to lay great while kiss all the
girls in the district, and fair quantity
out of it, sink wells, raise old Neds, whit
tie, smoke, chew, swear, court, love, hate,
sing, dance, fiddle, play the harp-par-
.icularly the harp of thousand strings
run mission, Sunday School, a
Bible class, ship with warming pans
and flannel shirts for the naked heathen
at the equator, temperance society,
farm, mine, do tailoring, blacksmithing.
watch-cleaning, and other sundries Of
more or less account and ca]ibre. The
live Yankee is at home on host things
in general and several things in parti.u-
lar. Give him his jackknife and shirt
collar, aud he is fully armed to tdo" the
world.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-04-03

LETTER FROM WHITE PINE-The
following is from the Portland CONNER
cial: William o. Bruen, Esq, has laid
US under obligations for the following
letter from White Pine, written by Alex.
Campbell, an old citizen of this city:
SILVER SPRINGS, March 8, 1869.
DEAR SIR:-I am here in White
Pine with all my goods. | have tent,
and it makes good bar room, with all
my traps and pictures. l am doing we'll
1 bought lot for $1,000 and can now
sell it for $4,000. George Clayton is
here and in business, selling whisky.
H. C. Coulson is in Treasure City, selling
whisky and dry goods. Mat Keith is
in Hamilton. Charley Powell came here
to-day from Boise City. Johnny Kelley
is here and at work in the Bank Ex-
change in Treasure City. There are not
many persons here from Oregon. It is
one of the widest and best countries that
1 have seen in my life. Bob Britton is
at work for me. All you hear about
White Pine is not true. It is not SO
very cold, and there is plenty of every
thing if you have only the .'tin" to get
it. There is good many "tender feet"
coming here that suffer as they are short
of greenbacks, and the beds are not as
good as they are in Yarmouth. The
mines are very rich here and lots of them,
and people are coming very fast from all
parts of the world, and am glad that
came. It is hard to tell where the
town or city will be, but am satisfied
with my town. Wood is plenty here,
and water is treasure. It is fifty cents
bucket and wood is $50 cord. Wells
& Fargo's Office is in saloon and gamb-
ling house, and chop house in one cor
ner, or anything else you want. have
very bad cold and feel very unwell
to-day. My hand is not very steady.
My regards to all. Write soon.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-04-03

NEW YORK AS THE COMMERCIAL
EMPoRIUM.-It is thought by many re-
fecting men that New York cannot long
retain her commercial supremacy It is
said that of 1.750,000 barrels of -four
sent out of Buffalo last year, but 5000
went to New York by the canals, which
are supposed to have great advantage
in carrying heavy and slow freight. It
is also stated as another fact unfayorable
to the commercial future of New York,
that grain can be sent from Chicago to
Liverpool, by the way of Baltimore, after
the close of canal navigation, more cheap
ly than it can be sent from Chicago to
New York. Commerce has recently
found new route, by way of the Missis-
sippi river and New Orleans, by which,
with the facilities now perfected, grain
eau be and has been shipped from the
Northwest to Liverpool and New York at
rates lower than the more direct routes
of transportation. In view of these I'M
portant facts, one of the Philadelphia
papers thinks that New York had better
look we'll to her laurels as the commercial
metropolis of America. Philadelphia
would be glad to seize the prize, and
Baltimore is sanguine of her own future.
Possibly, however, the real rival of New
York may prove to be Norfolk, Virginia,
which has one of the most splendid har-
bors in the wcrld, and is one hundred
and nine miles nearer to Cincinnati.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-04-03
Pacific slope Brevities.

The snow sheds erected over the track
of the Central Pacific railroad are %
miles in length by 16 feet high. 40,-
000, 900 feet of lumber was used In its
construction, aud it covers an area of
nearly 43 acres.
The Humboldt Indians are said to be
on the war-path. The Humboldt T'mss
says that a party of Indians, consisting
Of ten bucks and one squaw, had lately
been seen In the vicinity where Emory
was killed. and that number of cattle
have been wantonly slaughtered by them.
The Times says they are evidently on
the war path, and calls on the authorities
at Fort CASTOR to take immediate action
for the protection of families from them.
The Truckee Tribune says: With the
opening of Spring, Truckee will become
one of the llveliest towns on the coast.
Every saw mill in the district will run
to its fullest capacity night and day and
the railroad company has vast amount
of labor to be performed between here
and the Summit. which can be done to
advantage only in summer. We do not
think, from what We can learn, that less
than five thousand men will be employed
on the road and about the mills within
this district
Robertson district says the Nevada
Enterprise, of march Sd, is new mining
district, some 80 miles from White Pine,
and is said to contain some very large
and valuable leads. A party of gentle
men interested in the district leave this
city to-day to look after locations made
for them. The assays for the principal
leads discovered run from $50 to S275
There is said to be plenty of wood and
water in the district, and the country
rock is similar to that at Whice Pine,
being limestone and granite.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-04-03

"I'n bate II fx-I'll bate she'll be
raine," he said, as he got himself up in
/ good style, and went over to the wild
ow's.
| The widow and Henry retired in good
/ order at uine O'Clock, and Joel drew a
| long breath, and prepared for the conflict.
The widow and Henry had time to be in
the land of Nod before Joel commenced
his speech. They had ample time to be
there bat they were not there. 1t was
too Important am occasion for the widow
to give sleep to her eyes, aud Henry
couldn't rest until he had heard Jocl's
highfalutn speech.
For the benefit of ,hose who have never
proposed, [ will set down Joefs exact
words. He pumped down on both
knees and broke out after the following
fashion:
sally, l love you harder than hoss
can kick. My heart would bust and fly
into five hundred thousand fragmentary
bits it you wouldn't hev me. You are
my tallow-candle, and 1 gaze upon you.
as fellow would gaze upon b.azin' star
ridin' upon a rock ribbed thunder
cloud. | gaze upon you as a six-year
old would sit and gaze at the Snowman,
Swept his panacea by
s'I gaze upon you and my heart
plumpeth and jumpeth like the porpoise
which chased the antelope over the plain,
and bindeth the tiger with strong log
chain If you won't have me I'll hang
myself on the Alpine heights and Chin
borazo's thunder clouds shall cover me;
then I'll dive into the boisterous bowels
of oblivion, and drink deep draughts of
the liquid, liconic liquoratum that lies
bubblin' and boilin' there and when this
is all over and the lightning have flashed
their heaviest fash, I'll be gone Cos
lin, and you, Sally, Will be the cause. O.,
Sally. won't you have me? Won't you
be my wife and get with me upon the
creaking raft and paddle, and kerslooze
with me adown the salty stream of life !?
Won't you be my gallic galloping guild
ing-star-won't you be my North Pole
Polatus Polatum and guide me through
the whizzicky windings of the wilderness?
O., Sally, say, and say it quick, won't
you be my wife 2"
Joel ceased speaking, and Sally flung
her arms around him.
Il love you," she said; ssalways loved
you, and l always meant to marry you,
but L wanted to see you spread yourself.
You have excelled yourself, and | am
yours"
"Bravo." shouted Henry throwing his
boots down stairs .'Hurrah for Joe :"
''Hurrah for Joe" responded the
widow through the key-hole.
Joel went home happy man, and the
Smith family dreamed happy dreams that
night.
Joel and Sally are now one flesh, and
Joel still tills the twen.y-acre lot and
drives the two steers; but his wife drives
him.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-04-03

A funny story is told of the second
raising of "a meeting house in Connecticut,
when a young man was called upon to
deacon an appropriate hymn. He repeat
ed, in clear and solemn voice, the lines :
Except the Lord doth build the house
The workmen toll in vain
Which were sung by the people with
usual solennity, when the rogue gave out,
with equal seriousness
Except the Lord doth shingle in
Twill tumble down again.
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sBULLY FOR HIM"-The Auburn
Herald, February 9th, SAYS:

Stephen II. a lad about Is years of age,
son of c. P. Reno of Iowa Hill, while
going from Ford's Bar to Pickering's Bar
on the North Fork,a few days since, dis
covered large deer below. the trail,
standing behind bush, and partially
hidden from him. On the spur of the
moment he picked up rock and hurled
it at the unsuspecting animal, which took
effect on the head and brought it to the
ground. Then with the quickness of
thought he sprang upon his prey, and
with another rock beat it on the head
until life was extinct. The deer after
being dressed, weighed SO pounds. We
must say bully for him.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-04-03

The Boston Transcript says, "a cor
respondent wants to know if railroad
director was ever known to have been
hurt by smash-up"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-04-03

A sailor, in attempting to kiss pref
ty girl got violent box on the ear.
1'There," he exclaimed, "just my luck
always wrecked on the coral reefs"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-04-03

The hopping around Grecian bend in a
ballroom reminds one forcibly of a kanga-
roo trying to escape the rttacks of sand
Heas.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-04-03

SUcKERs.-A Chicago paper tells how
the men of Illinois came to be called
suckers" The praries were wide, the
tramps long, and at times water scarce.
The crawfish is a cold water animal under
all circumstances, and where he lives at
all, he bores for his favorite liquor if he
can get it on no easier terms. The habit
alton of the happy erawfsh is never out
of water, in which sits the crustacean
damp aud cheerful The early thirsty
prairie traveller coming to one of the
crawtish holes, even if the surface of the
low soil was baked and parched, knew
that here was water, and the adjacent
reeds-perhaps he carried one stuck in
his hat-band-furnished the ready means
of drawing on the stock of the crawfsh
So they came to be known as 'ssuckers"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-04-03

Virginia oysterman claim that it Is
death to eat raw oysters Immediately after
eating of sugar or molasses.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-04-03

! A Texas editor, on being asked how ha
got along with his paper, said he had
written one editorial and shot three men
in the previous IL months.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-04-03

Law is like q seive; you may see
through it, but you must be considerably
reduced before you can get through it.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-04-03

Why is lady whose dress touches the
floor like avagrant? Because she has 10
visible means Of support.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-04-03

Gilroy is still experiencing earthquake
shocks.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-04-03
The Two Fishermen.
No. 1.

His pole was made of the sturdy oak,
His line was q cable that never broke,
He baited~his hook with tigers tails
And sat upon q rock and bobbed for whales
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-04-03

San Jose is to have savings insurance
institution shortly.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-04-03
No. .

His pole was made of peacock's feather,
His line was thread of the finest t.ther,
He baited his hook with bits of cheese
And sat in bed and bohbed for fieas.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-04-03

Observation-Disclosures