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Hogs-The Black Essex Preferred,

1 commenced experimenting
with hogs in the year 1S49, and
have purchased largely of the vari-
ous breeds celebrated in England
and in the Northert1 and Western
States, including Chester Whites,
Snffolks, Yorkshires, Duchess
County, Lincolnshire Whites, Wo-
burns, Chinese, or Guinea, Nea.
politan, Black Essex, old.fashion.
ed Berkshires, and the improved
Berkshires, known as the Prince
Albert or Windsor stock of Berk
shires. My experience has taugh,
me that a black hog suits our eli
mate, and our mode of treatment,
much better than the white, the
latter being more subject to cutan
cons and other disease,.
The Black Essex may be classed
with smaller breeds Of swine, bu,
when fully grown and very fat,
can be made to weigh up to 40C
pounds net. They are exempt
form diseases Of the skin. are very
thrifty, and can be fattened at any
age.
The Prince Albert, or Windsor
Berkshires, are becoming yer,
popular in England. Canada, anc
Some Of the Northern States.-
They have been improved at tn,
Royal Farm at Windsor Castle
England, by selections, and b,
judicious crossing with the Nea
poiitan, the original basis of tn,
Black Essex breed. They hav,
but little white on them, hav
more length than the Essex, an,
average much heavier weight
when fattehed, are very activ
and thrifty, and we'll adap'ed {
those who desire hams and baco
for family use.--Rschard Peter
IN Rural Cdro1iniaa.
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-
cret Of our success,n p said the Pres
ident, dis to be found in the eco.
nomieal manners and habits of the
people. The country improves
without having 70 drag along with
it q asystem Of extrsvagAnce, which,
as it rnins individnals, 90 does It
injure the progress, OF the nstion.
The expense Of governmental ma
chinery need not increase in pro-
portion to the national growth
A good locomotive on good rail-
road will move along with an ad.
ditional car load at every depot
any more hot water might burst
the boiler" said the President
" Why is it." isnid Thecla, "that
generally, the expenses of q Repub-
lie al Q 90 great2" "Ihe root OF the
evil is at the top of the tree" said
the colored citizen. (Here Thecla
laughed aloud in her dream, and
said, II wonder if his Excellency
is descended from that party in
Africa who live mp a treer0 How
is that ." asked Thecla. "If you
make the salary OF the Chief Mag.
istrate OF a Republic twenty thou.
sand dollars per annum, you must
expect to eco every one in office
with a proportionate sum; but II
you make it ten thousand q year,
you may be sure Of greater econo.
my all through tho different
branches Of the Government and
less taxation," said the President
ais diamond hunting profitable in
Brazil now, Mr.. President!" said
Thecla. "Yes. All the mineral
resources Of South America have
increased since the free introduc.
tion of the black race as nation on
this continent" said the President.
" Are You manufacturing clari.
fed sugar for the market Z" asked
Thecla. "Yes, and we will man.
ntacture cotton. The water power
along the eastern slope of these
mountains is enormous" said the
President. "Mr. President" said
the lady Of the house, "yonr al
lusion in your inaugural address
10 a snip canal over the Andes in
Latitude 15o south, appears to me
startling" "Not more 80 than
passing word under the ocean,
The difficulty in making O ship
canal from ocean to ocean is at
once solved, when there is water
in superabundance at the greatest
elevation over which the ship must
pass. Lake Titicaca is an up.lifled
basin from which the canal may
be filled between the locks, where
the descent commences on both
sides. After that, the locks may
be filed from rivers or streams all
the way down the sides of the
mountains to the sea. When you
want to cross mountains in ships,
you must have q basin of water
on the top Of the mountain TO float
in" said President Mtesa Kamrsi
of the Amazonian Republic.
Thecla passed by railroad from
the city of Pitete to Cartagena in
the Gulf of Darien.
Very truly yours.
LARD\ER GIBBON.
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Ho!mesburg, Philadelphia, Penn.
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Death Of WIN. Gilmore simms.

Perhaps there was not q single
heart in our city. yesterday, which
did not realize with what an appo.
site beauty, with what graceful
come'iness, and low deservedly
rendered, was the Offering, as from
the turrets Of old st. Michael's.
the plaintive chimes pealed forth
their requiem for the gifted
Simms ! 90
For who had been more filiaIly
true to the ancient beir-looms, DER
which. in sacred gnsrd, their sonor
ous chant, has kept watch and
wards Who, with the loving ten.
derness of son for mother, had
with more pious zeal, more unre-
hitting devotedncss, delved in the
rich archives of that mothers hon.
ored past, and made to glow with
the burnish of his pen, the wealth
and glories of her storied long
ago9 .-.- ....>-.-
Mr. Simms' whole life has been
one of public contribution Un.
aided, with nothing but bis own
great endowments, his own high
prompting, self educated and self
reliant, he has wrought onta name
for himself, in History, Poetry,
Imaginative Literature, Criticism,
and tho broad realm of letters
which, while it rears for him a
monument enviable and enduring,
reflects its lustre upon the city
and State, of whose treasured re-.
cords he was at once the expound.
er and adorner. Without any of
those important aids which spring
from wealth, family-counexion,
and those auxiliaries which,
adventitious, are yet 30 potent,
Mr.. Simms qualified himself thor,
oughly for his work, and with
his own right arm, unsealed the
oracles, conserved with more than
Delphine bedge-proving and
earning his title in the great tenn
pie of intellect, as Prophet, and
Priest and Master.
At five o'clock on Saturday af.
ternoon, 11th instant, Mr.. Simrns
closed his earthly existence. He
had just reached his Gath year.
Our departed friends relations
with the Courier, cause his death
to come to us, with all the sensi
bility OF a personal affection
Over a period reaching through 9
long vista Of years, this journal
has been vehicle through which
almost unintermittedly, he has
held converse high. with our read.
ers, and the people whom he
loved.
In the fulness and freshness OF
onr grief, we feel how inadequate
must be any tribute we can render
to our departed friend! We de-
sire only to commingle our sorrows
and to share in the sympathies
which every where throughout the
State, we feel, will outpour them
selves, as the sad tidings are an
nounced, that one, who has done &C
much, 80 honorably, and 80 usefully
for the common good, and in promo
tion of the laudable pride of our peo
pie, is gone from rs, FOREVER
[CharIesto1a Courier.
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Original Cnnlmuniratiaus.
FOR THE GREESvILLE ENTERPRISE.
Thecla's Dream-No. 4.
HACIENDA. SALUpA,

Nv Dear ******.-Lay a ruler
on the map OF our half of the world,
so that the edge will touch st. Louis,
in Missouri, and Rio de Janerio,
in Brazil, and where the line eros.
ses the River Purus, in the valley
of the Amazon, is the location of
the traditional city OF Pitete. The
country around about is in full
view of the gigantic Andes.-
Such grandeur and landscape
beauty is seldom found in any
country. Here is "the fruit tree
yielding fruit after his kind !"
"herb yielding seed after bis
kind )" "lights in the armament
of the heaven to divide the day
from the night :" "the waters bring
forth abundantly the moving crea-
lures that hath life, and fowl that
may fly above the earth )" cattle
and creeping things" )" "there went
up mist from the earth and wa
tered the whole face of the ground" :"
Seven miles OF the road from
the city of Pitete-which road
was hedged by the cactus which
blooms once in seven years and
seven days after Thecla's dream
came mp from the coast, she rested
under fig tree sin the midst of
the garden and continued dream
ing. @..e '.g -. ,-
Is there a serpent" here2 81
have not seen one" said the black
woman. What is your name 2"
"Eve," said the woman. "Is it
possible you have not seen o ser
pent in the valley of the Amazon r.
said Thecla. mot one," said the
woman. !" Where did you come
from Z" said Thecla. II was born
lower down the valley" said the
woman. ] mean," said Thecla,
from whence came your ances
tors g. From North America"
said the woman. "Can you tell
m. the names of all these trees and
plan around US Q" said Thecla.---
Yes" said the woman, "this ia
the bread ffuit tree, this is the
grape vine, that is the palm tree,
there is the ssh." ,"Stop!. eaid
Thecla-"what day of the week
is this ." "This is Wednesday, :"
= said the woman! "Well," said
Thecla, "those largo trees are said
to have been brought here by the
Jesuites-they are tanerine trees. y
"Will you walk through the gar
den, l will show yon what we
have" said the woman. Thecla
took out her note book and wrote
as they moved along" APPLE
We have planted it in Our botan
zeal garden 10 prove, that while
other trees bear an abundance oi
fruit, how positively the apple il
forbidden in this climate" !" sad tho
woman. Thecla wrote, /" orange
lemon, lime. piantains, banana
pineapple, brazilnut tree" Pass
ing numerous flowers and shrnbs
they reached the kitchen vegstabl,
division--"yams, yuca, potatoes
green peas, onions, garlic. eschalo,
cucumbers." Away as far as tn
eye could reach, Thecla saw field
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JOHN C. Il EDWARD BAILEY. PRGRs.
G. f. TONNES, EDITOR.
j. G. BAILEY, ASSOCIATE

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Advertisements.
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TIE first suit under the social
equality law of Louisiana, brought
against the proprietor of an ice
cream establishment who refused
to receive colored applicants for
refreshments, has resulted in a die.
agreement of the jury. 1t is said
that a variety of races we're rep.
resented among the jurymen, and
that q colored juror was promi
nent In opposing the intentions OF
the Trainers of the law, alleging
that he himself did not want white
white men as visitors at colored
peoples balls, to come there and
take my colored ladies away
After long and heated discussion,
the other jurors agreed to take the
opinion OF q grave and silent Ger.
man. He decided that, as it had
been evident that the lawyers in
the case were at variance upon the
law. the justice and the evidences
adduced, it could not be expected
that a jury whicr knew far less
about such matters, should agree,
and THE sagacious opinion was
adopted as the finding Of the jury
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ThE British crown has seven.
treen grandchildren q provide for,
and it is hoped by pt5 ~, matri.
mohial alliances, 70 1--we then
half q crown apiece. - = yya
THs difference between sealing
wax and women-one burns TO
keep a secret, the other to tell it.
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CALuoRNzA Strawberries are 90
big they plug them 10 see If
tnoy are ripe, EE" srr~
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DrAsoRA FREsoosALDr, an Ital.
ian lazy of the sixteenth century,
was the mother of ffty-two chill.
dren. The inscription on her fa.
nous portrait, by Bronzino, in the
San Conato collection, says that she
never had less than three children
at birth, and there Is q tradition
in the Frescobaldi family, that she
once had six! Brand, in bis
Z" History Of Newcastle" men.
tions, as we'll atlestsd fact, that q
weaver In Scotland had by one
wife sixty two children, eli OF
whom lived to be baptized !; and in
Aberconway Church may still be
seen q monument to the memory
OF Nicholas Hooker, who was
himself o forty-first child, and the
father OF twenty seven children by
ono wife. ., ~ =, -
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CoSsEoyIcur had ono divorce TO
every nine marriages last year. o.
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.vio,ence and In,,midalion., J,

The message sets out with a aagrant
perversion of truth, which cannot be too
promptly or too sternly rebnked-"It is
to be regretted that free exercise of the
elective franchise has, by violence and
intimidation, been denied to citizens in
exceptional cases in several of the States
lately in rebellion, and the verdict of the
people has thereby been reversed AT
ter having scattered troops broadcast
over the South, corrupfly distributed the
public patronage. AMI employed the
whole machinery Of the Government to
carry these elections, the President has
the hardihood to charge upon an out
ragged people the very crimes which he
and his Administration bave committed
and are responsible for.
In South Carolina, Thy violence and
Intimidation ordered blythe President
the Negro ticket was elected, although i
liz believed that had 4 fair count been
rendered the Administration scalawags
would have been defeated. It required
fifteen days tamper.iag ssith the ballot
bores before retarning q Radical major
| ny
In Louisiana the same game wa:
played with the like result. But in Mis-
souri,, Arkansas, Florida Alahama, West
Virginia, Delaware, Maryland and New
York, notwithstanding the bayonet and
registration violence and intimidation
of the GRANT administration, ssIfe yer
dict Of the people was ., scornful ant
indignant reversal in faScr 'of rInERrl
as ainst tyranny,
The entire history Of the Radical par
~ from March 4, 1861, Is one of @vio
lence and intimidation OF the people
North and South. to retain power; 5u
the days of bayonets and intimidation
are well nigh over. are drawing to
close, and with them the life of the part,
that first brought them into use to subju
gate aud break the spirits ofsa free peo
pie. ff9 s.s
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EEThere is no reom fora new party
on the Democratic platform The plat
form is broad enough for all men o.
Democratic principles lbat il is too mar
row for single man who comes deman
ding price.
All Radicals, and they are legion, whc
are heartily disgusted with the presen
incompetent administration. are invited
to aid the Democracy in restoring peac'
and prosperity to the country, BY resto
ring oil the States to their rightful pla
ccs in the Union; abolishing bayone
rule; abolishlng the Monopolists' tariff
restoring onr commerce; driving tn,
thieves away from the Treasury, ant
thousands Of other reforms nscessat,
to protect the Government and the peo
Pile from the official robbers who pre-,
upon them.
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THE WAR.
French utterly Defeated at Or
leans.

. = rs
VERSAILLES, December 6.--via Low
DON, December 6, 8 p. M.-The Frenci
were utterly defeated at Orleans. Ter
Thousand were made prisoners, and sew
enty-seyen pieces of artillery, including
several mitrailleuscs, and four gunboatl
on the Loire, we're captured
THE ARMY OF THE LOIRE ADVANCING.
The Army of the Loire, 100000
strong, is marching up the left bank oi
the Loire, where they can meet the Ar,
my of the East, 10000 strong when the
combined army will move toward Fon-
tainebleau.
oBJEcr OBJ THE OCCUPATION OF RouEN.
The object Of General Mantentsl's
occupation of Rouen is to push forward
a column to Hapre, in. order to obtain
supplies by sea.
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n There is some trouble constantly
arising between Massachusetts fishermen
and. the Canadian authorities on the fish
ing grounds question. The former have
a habit Of poaching on these preserves,
and are not unfrequently captured BY
Canadian cruisers. There is no doub'
that these fishermen are intrnders, and
hence neither General Butler nor any
body else can get up an excitement over
this business.
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R Cox-McGarlaban. Grant, Grant
McGarrahan- Coz, McGafralan Cox
Grant. Cox Grant McGarrahan. Dent
Dent Cox Grant Cox Dent: Grant Nc
Garrahan. Grant Dent McGarraIlan
! Cox Dent -Cn. Com.
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EEThat was a blunder of back
woods editor, that since JEScKEs' defeat,
the Secretary Of the Navy had ordered
him to resume command af the horse
marines. But It was natural one.
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RIA Democratic o. 5. Senator from
Alabama! WAarER, pack 3our carpet
bag andtrayel after the 4th Of March
1871. Licking County, Ohio, don't
waHt WAkrEs, bat he is obliged to re-
turn 10 the home roost Alabama has
kicked him out.
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feEThe report that HORACE GREELEY
had been entering land in Kansas, origi :
mated In his having tumbled into a prai-
RE dogs hole while on his Western tour
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ETGoLpTHwAlrE, Democrat has beer
elected q. s. Senator from Alabama. -
The vote stood GoEDrHwArTE, Dem.
I65; WARxER, Rad. 80, and. HARALsoN
Rad. II.
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WA new burglar alarm 10 Gncinna-
ii rings the bell, Indicates the window
attacked and lights the gas. The only
thing left to DO is to shoot thesburglar,
- Exchange.
The New York improvement shoots
The burglar, and the only thing left to
do is to identity the corps,
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I k8The Canadian papers cay in reply
to the Message.
"President Grant may try these meas
ures of coercion whenever helikes. He
viii not cause the people Of Canada to
abate their CLAMPS one jot or titsle.p
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rltory ot announcer power. Inns right
does not exclude the coequal right of the
sovereign possessing the territory
through which The river debonclies into
the seat make such regulations relative
to the policy Of the navigation as may
be reasonably necessary. but those reg
ulations should be framed in aliberal
spirit of comfy and should not impose
needless burdens upon the commerce
which has the right OF transit. 1t has
been found in practice more advanta:
gaous to arrange these regulations by
mutual agreement The United States
are ready to make Any reasonable ar
raneement as to the police of the St.
Lawrence which may be suggested by
Great Britain. If the claim by Mr.. Clay
was just when the population of the
States bordering on the shores of the
lakes was only 100000, it now derives
greater force and equity fromzthe in,
creased population, wealth, production
and tonnage of the States on the Cana
dian frontier lineS Mr., Clay advanced
his arguments in Sehalf Of our rights.
PREcEDENTs.
The principles for which he contended
has been frequently and by various ma
tons recognized by law or bv treaty and
has been extended to several other great
rivers. BY the treaty concluded at May
ence in 1921 the Rhine was declared free
from the point where it is first navigabie
unto the sea By the convention. between
Spain and Portugal it was concluded in
1885 that the navigation of the Douro
throughout its whole extent was made
free for the subjects of both the crowns.
In 1858 the Argentine Republic, by
treaty. threw open the free navigation OF
the Parana and Uruguay to the merchant
vessels of all nations.
In lS56 the Crimean war was closed
l.by a,trea.y which provided for the free
IpavigaGon OF the Danube. In 1856, ,Bo
| livia, by a treaty, declared that it regar-
lded the rivers Amazon and La Plata, in
accordance with the fixed principles OF
national law, as highways or channels
lopened by nature for the commerce OF
a -. a"',on9 s, -, "a ..aot 80 ia - naoo,,
,naue IHeo s, 'tee " ueass' anu ~ D.oe.nos.
iooo,.sss 1inpe,oI oi Dlsz,'' y lmi,e1la, m
aselse ne aecaIsa .ne aaon pa.;, ~ ~ oi,s. ~
- al uuo lloss, =, ..;,as - Tha roa. - us
' -. Ia.ns 1sts p.!s - a. .,.h"u;.,, - ~ ,ba s,h
iect white assertinc the ahstrat,t rioflt ot
/ the British claims, saws: 1t seems diff.
cult to DENY that Great Britain may
ground her refusal upon strict law. bui
! it is equally difficult. to deny, first, that
Lin so doing she exercises harshly an ex-
trene and hard law. Secondly, that hes
coniucs with respect to the navigation ol
1.-The Sc Lawrence IS glarins and discredil
ttably inconsistent wite her conduct with
respectAo the navigation of the Missis
lsippi. On tile eround that she possessed
a small domain in which the Mississippi
took its rise,she insisted on this right tc
navigate the entire volume Of its waters
ion the ground chat she possesses both
banks of the St. Lawrence where it dis
| charges into the sea. she denies to the
/ United States the right Of navigation
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EESouth Carolina has returned Ro-
BEnrsoN tt. the U. S. Senate. Hes q
poor stick. ';'ts -
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THE ALABAMA CLANS.

/ Iregret to say that no conclusion has
been reached for the adjustment of the
claims against Great Britain growing
out of the course adopted by that Gov
ernment during the rebellion. The Cab
met of London, SO far as its views have
been expressed, does not appear to be
willing to concede that Her Msjesty's
Government was guilty of negligence,
or did or permitted any net during the
war hv which the United States has just
cause of complaint. Ny firm and un-
aterable convictions are directly the
iexe, Sc, and 4 therefore recommend to
Congress 10 authorize the appointmen,
of commissioner to take the proof
and the amounts, and the ownership oi
these claims, on notice to the represen.
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EsTfNArRDf ExPENsEs.

The estimates forthe expenses of the
government for the fiscal year are $lS,.
244,346 Oh less than for the current one,
but exceed the appropriation fof the
present year, for the same items, 9S,972.-
|127 S. In this estimate. hoWever,is In
cludsd 8a2 39S,27S 80 for public works
heretofore begun under C0ngressional
provision, and Of which only SO much il
asked q Congress may choose 70 give