The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-04-30
The Agricultural Convention.
SECOND Days pRoCEEDINGs

,i,... The Agricultural Convention.
tS SECOND DAYS PROCEEDINGS.
The convention was called to order by the
President. at o'clock, yesterday morning
w. M. Lawton, Esq, Chairman of the
Committee on Manufactures, submitted the
following, which was adopted:
The Committee on Manufactures, to
whom was referred the valuable and in
structive paper which was read yesterday by
Its author, Col. j. B. Palmer, before and by
invitation of this convention, setting forth
the Importance of more general system of
manufacturing in the cotton States, as we'll
as the profits to be derived from investments
IN cotton mills especially, have been fully
impressed with its clear and concise illus
trations, and recommend its publication,
and that it be recorded on the minutes of
this association.
Your committee cannot but fatter them
selves, from the spirit manifested in this
assembly of the practical intelligence of the
State, that the views and facts set forth by
Colonel Palmer will attract the earnest at
tention of the people of South Carolina and
lead them to regard the establishment of
manufactures in every section of the South
as vitally associated with agriculture, and
to rebound to their welfare and future pros
perity.
70 grow our own cotton. the best in
staple and quality produced, and to convert
the same into yarns and fabrics for export.
certainly appears to be the policy and the
hope of the South, if lessons of wisdom be
taken from the past
Col. j. p. Thomas offered the following
resolution, which was adopted:
Resolced, That Colonel Palmer be re-
quested to lay his valuable paper on manu-
featuring before the convention to be held
in Memphis, and to which he is delegate
A. A. Gilbert, Esq, offered the following.
which was adopted:
consist OF five members, shall be appointed
by the President, whose duty it shall be to
open and keep up correspondence with in
huentiat persons in Germany, France, Eng
land and other countries of Europe, on the
subject of immigration.
Committee on Immigration and Labor.-
T.. s. Boinest, J. p. Reed, It. Is. Clarkson,
w. G. Hinson, j. H Brooks.
The following resolutions were introduced
and adopted:
BY Col. John s. Richardson, of Sumter:
That it be referred to the Committee on
immigration and Labor to devise and re-
port plan whereby the various sections of
the State may avail themselves of the ad-
vantages and benefits of the Newberry
Immigration Society,". H.
That all applications for membership in
this society should he Addressed to Col. D.
Wyatt Aiken, Secretary of the South Caro-
lima Agricultural and Mechanical Society,
Cokesbury, S. c., who shall report all such
applications to the Executive Committee:
and all funds for membership should be
sent to Col. r. j. Gnge, Treasurer, Union,
SC.
BY j. M. Baxter, Esq. That Committee
of Five be appointed to investigate the
practicability of making sugar and refined
syrup from the sorgho cane.
That Committee of Five be appointed
to Investigate the practicability of making
sugar and refined syrup from the sorgho
cane, as represented by the process of the
southern Sorgho Company, of Louisville
Kentucky, or from any other material grown
WITHIN our State, and that said committee
go 10 Greenvllle, S. c., and examine the
WORKS OF w. 2. Passmore, Actng general
agent for South Carolina, anu report the
result OF the Investigation through the Co
lumbla and Charleston papers. and to this
society.
COMMITTEE to be appointed by the chair.
by A. Is. Woodruff, ESQ: That the va
rions County agricultural societies Of the
State be requested to appoint committees to
canvass their respective Counties in tbe in.
terest of the State Agricultural and Ne
chanics Society, and procure members to
the same.
BY Col: J. P. Thomas: That all voting be
done by Counties according to their renre.
sentation in the popular branch of the Lee
gislature.
That the Presidents of regular agricultural
societies be invited to take seats on the
floor.
That the subject of scientific and practical
Agricultural education is among .he most