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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-04-01
SSf}1(istetlaueuns S}1(i Artifles,

SINGULAR ADvENTURE.-Once upon a
time 8 traveller stepped into a stage
coach: He was s young. man starting in
hfe- He found six passengers about him,
all grayhsaaed, and extremely aged men.
The youngest appeared to. have. seen at
least eighty winters. Our young Traveller,
struck with the sTngularly mild and hap,
py aspect which distinguished all his tel,
low passengers, determined to ascertain
the secret of long life and the art OF
making old age comfortable.
He addressed the one apparently the
eldest. who told him he had always led a
regular ambstemious life, eating vegetables
and drinking water. The young man was
rather daunted at this, jnasmueh as he
liked the good things of this life. He ad-
dressed the second, who astonished him
By saying he had always eaten roast beef
and gone to bed regularly fuddled for the
last seventy years, adding, all depended
on regularity. The third had prolonged
his days by never seek or accepting office;
the fourth by resolutely abstaining from
all political and religious controversies ;
and the fifth by going to bed at sunset
and rising at dawn. The sixth was ap-
parently much, younger than Che other
ive-his hair Vas less gray and there was
more of it-a placid smile, denoting per-
fectly easy conscience, mantled his face,
and his voice was jocund and strong.
They were all surprised to learn that
he was by ten years the oldest man in the
coach.
How is it that you have preserved the
freshness of life 2 exclaimed our young
traveller.
The gentleman Immediately answered
the young traveller by saying:
4 have drank, water and wine i have
eaten meat and vegetables have dab
bled in politics and written religious
pamphlets have sometimes gone to bed
at midnight, and got up at sunrise and at
noon ); he then fixed his eyes intensely up
on the young man, and concluded with
this remark, 'but always pay promptly
for my newspapers
Then the other old men chimed in
with,
'Of course, we always pay promptly,
and in advance, for our newspapers. No
man deserves long life who does not do
this
Then the young man resolved that he
would render himself deserving Of long
life and Immediately subscribed for five
newspapers, paying for them in advance.
He'is still living.
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EQUALITY, s. c., October, 1868.

EQUALITY, 8. C., Ucteber, IoOo.
j. ". Robson Esq:
DEAR SIR-Below find replies to your enquiries
ms to the kind of manure used by me, and how
much, and to what crop applied, Sc. used o
mixture of Soluble Pacific and Phosphate on
rather sandy so on cotton, applying it at the rate
of about zoo lbs. to the acre, about the lst Of
April, putting it in the drill and bedding or it as
we do with barn yard manure We had the early
part of the season wet, and afterwards drought
of about FIVE weeks, commencing about 18th July.
Its application has doubled the crop, and believe
that had applied double the quantity, it wonld
have paid in proportion. Yours, &C.,
W. T. FORD.
P.S.-Mr. Ford is good planter, and has paid
more attention to the results than was in my power
to do. THOMAS H. MGCANN.
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"A crazy man, having go. into the gal
lery of the Senate of the United States
during rambling debate, was taken out,
the Sergeant at arms telling him that he
was "out of place in that gallery"
"That's SO, said the lunatic; 81 ought to
be on the floor with the Senators !"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-04-01

A Coop MovE.-Senater Pool, of North
Carolina, has introduced bill which well
illustrates the poor working of the test
oath down South. 1t happens to be desl,
rable, for reasons not given-but probably
because 10 other men can be found compe-
tent to fill the positlons-that ex,rebels
should be appointed postmasters in nu-
merous Southern villages. To remove the
disabilities from these persons by solemn
act of Congress would be an interminable
Job at the usual rate of procedure of that
business. Nor is it probable that the ex-
rebels whom the Postoffice Department
would like to appoint would care to rnn
the scathing gauntlet of partisan abuse to
which so many of the same class were
subjected in the fortieth Congress-. with
out getting a pardon after all. In this
dilemma Senator Pool-doubtless with
the knowledge and approval of the Post
Office Department-ofFers bill to dis
pense with the ironcad oath of July Q,
ls62, for the benefit of postmasters of the
fourth class and their assistants, author
izing them to take instead the oath of
July H.. 1868, which simply requires
them to support and defend the Constitu-
ton, &c, and faithfully discharge their
official duties. In other words, the substitu-
tion of the latter oath for the former is
exactly equal to removal ofall disabili-
ties resulting from participation in the
rebellion. The act of clemency' contem-
plated here would be purer and more
beautiful If it were more disinterested on
the part of the United States. Had the
necessities of the Postofice not required
the cooperation of the men now under
the legal ban at the South, would this bill
ever have made its appearance Pur-
haps not-N. Y journal Of Commerce.
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IF those who grow poor crops would
blame the weather and the seasons less
would drain more, plow deeper, and en-
rich the soil by grasses and maEufe-they
would find that the weather and the
seasons are not 40 much TO be blamed for
the failure after ALL
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-04-01

= Gen. LOngstreet's cause was de-
feated in the war; He accepted the situ-
alton. He has been offered the New Or.
leans Surveyorship. Again he accepts
the situation.
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= There is burden of care in riches;
fear in keeping them; temptation in using
them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in
losing them; and burden of account at
last to be given up concerning them.
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EouA11rr P. O., s. c., Oct. 25, 1868.

EauAurr P. O., s. c., Oct. 25, 1868.
J. N. Robson, Charleston, s. c.:
We used a combination of Soluble Pacific Gu
ano, 20O lbs per acre. Its use has doubled the
crop, and believe, had we used double the guam
'tity per acre, the increase Of yield would have
been in proportion.
THOS. H. McCANN,
W. II. FORD.
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= Why don't certain merchants adver
tise? Because they sell nothing. Why
do they sell nothing? Because they
.don't advertise.
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sFatatet's department.
nP Contributions on practical farming are So
Ecitcd from ourfrisnds throughout the country.
a Word of Caution.

We have been pleased to see, says the
Baskegse NelGs, that farmers have pur:
chased large quantities of fertilizers, and
vet we feel concerned for the result, and
why? We fear haste and carelessness
in their application. But few farmers in
this section have any experience in the
application of commercial fertilizers, and
it is to be feared that they will not have
the patience and take the. time required
to follow the directions given by those
who have used them successfully. Farm
ers have been used to haste in planting,
and that will not do in the use of these
fertilizers, nor, indeed with any manures.
1t takes time and patience to go into all
the details of planting in the use of these,
If they are made to7pay. And where is
tho economy in expending large sums OF
money in the purchase of fertilizers if the
hyned! !topgain is lost by lhasty and care
less planting.
The season has been very anfavorable
for preparation for planting, and that
will tempt the farmer TO haste and hurry,
and If he does not rigidly- watch himself
he will throw away his dearly purchased
manures. And let him remember that
his. freedmen laborers do not like to 60
into the slow and laborous details Of ap-
plying such .planures. 1t is new thing
with. them, and7they are opposed to such
innovations, especially where hard work
Is involved. You must be firm, and re-
main wisk them while you are engaged
in planting, and see that your fertilizers
ares properly applied. Remember that
Your Your success in the use of these manures
is mainly in planting, and it must be done
well, ,or9you viii fail of meeting your ex
pectations. Then fertilizers will be de-
nounced as humbugs. If they fail, let it
not be your .fault.
It must not be forgotten, that the
Southernfar has much to unlearn as
well as, much, to learn, in adjusting him
self to the system of farming which he
is compelled to adopt. His hasty and
careless way Of preparing hisground and
planting he must ;unlearn, II he under
takes to, use fertilizers, and expects to
make them o success, he must conquer
his aversion to the little, troublesome de-
tails of business he must diligently see
TO- the little things, to reasonably expect
big things.
There is money in fertilizers, as good
farmers have clearly demonstrated, and
wo should regret to see q failure in their
use insthis crop, fora fatal reaction would
follow, and theii, use. for time, would
Ba-abandoned. .sand q serious injury to the
farming interests Of the country would
beathe result. Will the farmer reflect
upon these suggestions VIII he see to
it, that this great Investment Of money
shall not be lost?
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Dissolution of CopartnershfD.

THE copartnership of. HoYr & WALrsns is this
day dissolved.by mutual consent w.. E. Walters
having disposed of his interest in the 0fce.of the
Anderson Intellgeneer to J. F. Clinkscales. 4 :;
The books of accounts due Hoyt Walters for
subscription, advertisements and job work, may be-
foond for the present in the anderson Iatellgeneer
Office, end all persons in any way indebted 10 the
Office will save cost by calling and making pay.
ment Immediately.
ALI persons having demands against Hoyt &
Walters arc requested to present them for pay
DeDs. JAMES A. HOYT, =
". E. WALTERS.
March /, 1869 se
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THE PHILOSOPHY OF LovE.-Elitors

The PHILOSOPHY OF LopE.-EJitors
seldom ever fall in love-not becausethey
are not susceptible to the charms of the
fair, but because they haven't got the time
or the money, and it takes deal of both;
but we have found one who tried 1T on
anyhow. Just hear how the poor fellow
philosophers over his melancholy expert
ence with swamp angel:
A man loves q girl-be she lovely as
Helen or hideous as squirting sallie, with
out intelligence enough to set rat trap
simply because he can't helpit. lie can
no more control his feelings in that re-
spect than he can roast on sunbeam.
We know it-we've been there. We were
smitten with u queenly creature once, and
have since fostered disgust for her;
but it's like preaching the gospelto sail
or-tutile.
Oft swore to love her never.
Yet love her more than ever.
Such girl as she was, toe none of
your short, dumpy, yelsowish kind, q foot
and half between the eyes, and built
like seattle -bWtt--nary. Her form was
the incarnation of symmetry, and every
movement was sylphlike and graceful
but nature didn't break the dies she was
nodded in, as there we've nine more in the
family her complexion was that OF daz-
zline fairness, which all women sigh for,
like a snowy-white-rose blushing beside a
poppv. her eyes of heavenly enchanting
cerulean, such as arc seen but once IN a
creation, into which fellow could gaze
enraptured, and fancy he had discovered
the only avenue by which his soul might
enter-and then melt into grease spot !;
but when she "got her vinegar up" or a
bunion hurt her foot little, those pretty
eyes of blue would snap like. q patent
gopher-catcher, and flash like flint lock:
and then her mouth-oh the mouth Of
her um-m-m !the sweetest; plumpest pair
of ravisbing ruby lips ever mortal slipped
loves nectar from, to which our own have
clung in the helplessness of ecstacy, while
all the angels seemed conspiring to stupe-
fy MS with bliss, but we were not "stuck
AFTER her because she was ofsuch queenly
figure and so bewitching; it was her in
fernal stubbornness that coralled our SYM
pathy. She was possessed of a most
wonderfully developed spirit of contrariety
contrary as toe-corn, and would goa
mile to participate in a dispute she would
stop eternity's timc.piece for opportunity
She's gone now, and the hoLey-food OF
those sweet lips is gobbled up by another
She "fungcd" us.
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WANDO FERTILIZER

THE Wando Mining and Manufacturing Com.
pany offers to the Planters and Farmers Of the
South their Fertilizer, known as the
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-02-17
C55t5en5 Notices Of the Press.

HARPER's BAzAR contains, besides pictures,
patterns ETC., a variety of matter of special use
and interest to the family: articles on health,
dress, add housekeeping in all its branches; it's
ed iorial matter is especially adapted to the cir
Gle it is intended to interest and instruct; and it
has besides, good stories and literary matter of
merit. 1t is not surpTi sing that t he Journal,
with such features, sas achieved in a short time
immense success; for something of its kind was
desired in thousands of families, and it's pub
fishers have iled the demand.-Nel0 York
EUen5ag Post.
Whether we consider its claims based upon
the elegance and superiority of the paper it's
typogra phical appearance, the taste and Judge
ment displayed in the engravings, or the liter
airy contributions contained in ts pages. we I'M
hesitatingly pronounce it TO be superior in each
aud every particular to any other similar pub
ication here or abroad--Phaa Legal LsteIb6-
geDeer.
We know of no other English or American
Journal of fashion that pretend TO approach
it in completeness and variety.-Tea0 YeTk
Times.
It has the MERIT of being sensible, of con-
veying instruction, of giving excellent patterns
i every department, and of being well stocked
with good reading matter Watcb170a and Re
.fiec50r.
To dress according to HARPERs Bazaar viii
be the aim and ambition of the women of
Anlerica.--B08t0n Transcript.
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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-02-17

NAPOLEON NOT a GREAT MAN
NJ. Pierart, Frenchman, has Just pub
lshed book, the object of which is to
show that Napoleon was not very great
man after all. at is tme," he says 'to
give this man his proper rank" Pierart's
book is particularly about the Waterloo
campaign, and he declares that Napoleon
slept through the most precious hours Of
the campaign, even great quantities Of
strong black coffee falling to keep him
awake. He left Ney and Grouchy with
out orders for hours when movement was
essential. After Ligny, when at midnight
Grouchy desired to consult him, he had
to wait until halfpast eight in the morn
ing, and then the Emperor rode over the
battlefield in a carriage with SouIt, giving
Butcher eight inestimable hours The
Nation says Of the talk about the impos-
sibiiity Of keeping Napoleon awake and up
to bis work with strong black coffee:
"Ihis is alone worth heaps Of the
O'AIeara 'table-talk' about GrouchY and
British gold. It Suggests what seems to
be the truth Of the matter, that, in the
Waterloo campaign, not then at all the
Napoleon Of old days, he was fgh ting
better soldiers than he had fought before
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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-02-17
ARTLL,
In relation to the Rights Of Women.

IN relation to the Rights Of Women.
The people of the State Of Wisconsin,
represented IN Senate. and assembly. 90
enact as to7Joogs:
Section l. That after this act shall
have taken effect, all political, civil, and
soclai power in this state, shall be. and is
berzby vested, irrevocably, in She female
portion Of the population, above the age Of
fourteen years,
Sec. 2. 1t shall be the exclusive right
and prerogatiye Of the women to call on.
visit and WOO the ether sex, escort them
to balls, festivals, evening parties. church
and lectures, and to protect them from
barking d g5, Kissing geese, believing
COWS, vicious sheep and grunting hogs, on
moonlight evenings; to spropose and be
accepted !; and it shall be esteemed a hioh
misdemcanor for any male person, between
the ages Of eighteen and eighty wears, TO
beg to be excused and to become the
head Of the family.
Sec. 3, Upon the marriage of any
male person, all his property, real and
personal, shall vest absolutely in his wife,
and shall be subject to her exclusive dis
position and control, and marriage settle
ments, whereby any estate is or may be
secured to such male person, are hereby
prohibited under penalty of death.
Sec. f. 1t shall be unlawful for any
male person. over the age of twelve years
to be seen or the street of any city or in
corporated town, of this state, at seven
o'clocS in the evening. unless under escort
of female qualified to tie under the
provisions of this act, and the women
shall have the sole and exclusive right of
keeping late hours, attending horse races,
seven-up parties, Masonic and Odd Eel
lows lodges and Scientific lectures.
Sec. 5. After this bill becomes a law,
and male persons convicted of preaching.
offering to vote or votiLg at any election,
except for officers Of sewing circles, mis-
sonary societies and temperance
organizations, making a stump speech,
running for Congress, drinking lager beer,
or refusing to cook, Or nurse the baby,
shall be punished by confinement.
Sec. 6. Nothing in this act contained
shall be so construed as to authorize any
male person to put on the Grecian Bend,
or wear trails more than seven feet long,
and any one violating this section, shall,
on conviction, be summariIy bani8hed.
Sec. 7. Alter this bill becomes a law,
female persons shall have the sole and
exclusive right to enter into the military
service Of this state, or the United States,
and any male person Offering to enter or
entering in such service shall be summa-
rily punished, in the honse of refuge.
Sec s. This act shall take effect and
be enforced from and after the millennium.
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gateFtolrn @sepubliealg.
CAPITAL PJNISRM EMIT.

re pobhsh elsewhere accounts Of three
deliberate, ailfal and atroai0us murders
committed in this aud 0eighboging State
since our last Issue. These cases simply
strengthen the general conviction that the
crime Of murder Is becoming fearfully pre-
valent throughout the whole country. The
police reports abound in cases of violence
and assault upon the lines of our fellow
creatures. No section IS exempt, but
every where the assassin is doing his
bloody work. Many reasons may be Civ
en- to account for this Unusual prevalence
OF 6loodshed, but we believe one Of the
most weighty is the inadequate character
Of the punishment inflicted upon the
murderer By abolishing capital punish,
ment we have in q measure Iessened that
feeling of horror which the people had
Of the crime for which it was inflicted
By diminishing the penalty we have in
effect belittled the crime. A man steals
IA horse and is sent to Prison for term
Of years; he kills the horses owner in cold
blood and receives identically the same
punishment, except that it is greater in
duration. The quality Of the punish
ment is the same, and the extent in the
latter case can at the most be but in
small proportion greater than n the other.
The character of the present mode of
punishment is considered by the GRIMM
al as favorable to himself. Before he
commits the crime he counts his chances
Of escaping its penalty. Tn the first
place he hopes to elude detection Sc
condly, if caught and sentenced for life
he hope to escape from prison, OF thirdly
~ some means, in time, to secure a par
don W Lere capital punishment exists,
the first chance mentioned is Of course
still open, but the last two are reduced to
SO small a fraction that they are not
worthy of account He feels certain that
if he commits tue act and is caught, that
his life will be sacrificed, and the fact can
not fail to influence the course Of the
most hardened criminal.
Capital punishment is wholly appro
pirate for the crime of Wilful murder.
The sacred scriptures sanction and enjoin
it and the common sense Of the people
acknowledges its fitness a man who
deliberately takes the life Of his fellow
man shows himself wholly unfit to live.
and the greatest good Of the greatest
number requires that his life should be
taken in turn. Not only shout d this be
done to prevent has doing more injury
but by his example to deter others Of like
disposition from committing the same
crime. It was squeamish philosophy and
mistaken kindness which abolished the
death penalty in our State, and now that
a bill is before the Legislature to restore
it, We hope it may pass, and that the
bold assassins who deliberately shed the
blood Of their fellow men may take warn
ing that they can no longer do 50 with
comparative impunity.