The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-07-22

A member from Charleston offered the
following:
Resolued, That the Secretary be insruc-
Ted to publish for the information of the
public, the communication submitted tc
this Committee by her British Majesty's
Goasul, Mr.. II. Pinckney Walker, and
that the Cemmitteerespectfully commend
the subject of the "Workmen's Interna-
tional Exhibition" therein referred to, to
the consideration of the State.
Resolued, That the details of the local.
organization, which the projectors of the
exhibition invite, be referred to. the So
eiety at its meeting in November next,
The communication is as follows:
BRITISH CONSULATE,
CHARLESTON, July IL, 1869.
VIM. N. Lawton, Vice President South
Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical
Society.
S1R: Hearing that you are about to at
tend a meeting Of the South Carolina
SSate Agricultural and Mechanical Socie-
ty, to be held in Columbia, on the 18th
instant, hasten to place in. your hands q
copy of the programme, which has been
issued by the Honary Secretaries to tho
."Workmen's International Exhibition y
to be held at London in 1870. Ihave the
honor, also, to enclose a copy Of a letter
addressed by the Secretaries to the Earl
of Clarendon, where in the views of the
Committee having the matter in charge
are more fully set forth. 1t is desired,
you will perceive, that local committees
should be formed in cities and places in
other countries to call attention to tho
subject in view, and to make arrangement
for the transmission of such articles of
skill and ingenuity as may be deemed
worthy of exhibition. I indulge the hope
that you will do me the favor OF presen-
ting. these papers to your Society, in or
derthat the objects of the Committee Of
the "Werkmen's International Exhibi-
tion," of 1870, may, aided and encouraged
by the South Carolina State Agricultural
and Mechanical Society and by its local
committees already existing throughout
the State, obtain general publicity,
It will, on the other hand, be my pleas-
ure and duty to toward to the Committee
carrying out the programme of the
GWorkmen's international Exhibition"
of 1870, such communication, connected
with the objects they have in view as may
be placed in my hands for that purpose.
And also to receive suggestions as to the
names of parties in this State who may
be ready to give assistance in furtherance
Of the design. I Lave the honor to be,
sir, your most obedient and humble SER
want.
II. PINcKNEY WALKER.
II. M. Consul.
The following resolution was adopted ::
Resolved, That as the question of Chi
nese labor has been occupying the atteI-
tion of Southern planters since the ad.
journment Of the State Agricultural an6
Mechanical Convention, that this Execu.
tiVa Committee through its Chairman, az
point three citizens as committee to COL
Iect all the necessary information and cost
of introducing that description of labor
into South Carolina, and to report to the
next regular meeting of the Society.
Accompanying this synopsis is the re-
port of the committee appointed at tho
May meeting of the State Agricultural
and Mechanical Society to examine the
Sorghum Syrup and Sugar Works at
Greenyille G. e., which was received and
ordered to be published:
General Johnson Hagood, President South
Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical
Society:
The Committee appointed to visit and
report upon the Sorghum Works of DR..
W. P. Passmore, located at Greenville, s.
c., beg leave to submit the following re-.
port:
Four of your committee visited the
works soon after their appointment, and
witnessed the process of refining syrup.
For the purpose of testing the merits of
the process, which is known as the
aSontheyn. process" Colonel Aiken, one
Of the committee, furnished barrel of
sorghum syrup of his own manufacture,
Of ordinary quality, which was refined by
this process, and the quality of the syrup
very greatly improved
We. found in the sugar,house of DIR. Z.
aquantity of mush sugar, which he in
formed us, had been made by a gentleman
of Louisville, KY, by this process, from
the juice Of the black imphee. A small
quantity of this mush sugar was conver-
ted, in q few minutes, into % beautiful
light sugar, by the use Of centrifugal
MILL In order to satisfy ourselves as to
the history of this mush sugar, we wrote
to. Colonel S. F. Jolly, of Mason County,
KY, from whom the same was said to
have. been obtained. His reply to. our
better is herewith submitted as o part OF
anr report
For the purpose Of refining sorghum
syrups, your committee are satisfied thas
ths Southern process IS the best of which