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The Negro in South Carolina.

The history of the colored race in South Car
olina commences with the year 167l-l99 years
ago. In April of that year, Sir John Yeamans
(the third of the proprietary Governors OF thls
State) brought with him a number OF a. Africans
to till his large farm on Ashley river. Inls was
twenty-five years before the introduction OF nee
into the State, and many more before COTTON was
first planted. Cereals and animal products
were then the objects of the planters attentlon.
The number of the coiored race ai increased very
ranidlv: so much so that in thirty-seven years
In 170s. that is-the census returns show a
oreater number of them than of whites. There
We're 100 of them, while the number of the
whites was 4OS0. There were, at the same
time. 1,4OO Indians held by the colonists as
slaves.
In 1857, South Carolina closed the slave
trade by legislation, making it a penal offence
to bring slaves into the State. This, it will be
remembered, was twenty years sooner than
either the United States or Great Britain took
direct measures against the slave trade.
In 1890, three years after this legislation
against slavery by South Carolina, the whites
were in a majority, the entire population OF the
State being about 100000. After that time, the
cclored race increased more rapidly than the
white. until the war. In 1860, the two races
stood colored 41232O; white POI, 1888. At tine
close of the war-we mean, OF course, IN 1ooS
the races had both decreased-the colored
being 3S6, 6,139; and the white 274,962. 1t Is
more than probable that the decrease OF the
colored race in these nine years (26,1S2) has
been almost entirely since the war; whereas
the decrease of the white race l6, ,427l occurred
during the war. The only authoritative regis
try of deaths that we have in the State is in
Charleston; and by reference to the mortuarry
reports published weekly, it will be seen that in
that city the disparity Of deaths still continues
The rate of deaths is about five colored to three
and half white
These points in the history of the colored
race in South Carolina may convey some useful
suggestions to the political thinker whe seeks to
solve the now knotty question of political, race
and party issues.
The colored citizen will see IN important con-
sideration for his afiliation with his natural
friends his co-workers of the common soil OF
our common country-C0lumbia Guardian.
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- There are two things that always pay even
in this not over remunerative existence. They
are working and waiting. Either is useless
without the other Both united are invincible,
and inevitably triumphant. He who waits
without working is simply man yielding to
sloth and despair. He who works without
waiting is fitful in his srivings, and misses re-
suits by impatience. He who works steadily
and waits patiently may have long journey
before him, but at its close he will find its re-
ward.
Two little girls were heard one morning
engaged in dispute as to what their "mothers
could do" The dispute was ended by the
youngest saying: "Well, there's one thing my
mother can do that yours can't-my mother
can take every one of her teeth out at once"
An Indiana girl got rid of singing at an
evening party by responding to the Invitation
"You must excuse me, for never attempt to
sing, except to warble few wild notes for pa at
eventide."
-'Lcnny, you're pig" said father to a
little five-year-old boy. "Now do you know
what pig is, Lenny?" "Yes, sir; a pigs a
hogs littlc boy"
Q Girls sometimes put their lips out pout-
ingly because they are angry, and sometimes
because they are disposed to meet you half
waV
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IMM1GRAT1oN.--Referrin to DR.. Turnip-
seeds views Oh this subject the Charleston Ne'os
says:
''This plan deserves consideration, especially
by the State Institute and the State Agricultu--
raj and Mechanical Society. 1t isplain and
apparently practicable. We confess that the
scheme of the Ph@nir correspondent is not
complete in every respect. There are matters
connected with the accommodation Of immi-
grant and-buyers which are not discussed. 1t
IS, however, something to begin with; some
thing towards mature and practical scheme
for the encouragement of European immigra-
ton. From the State Government we expect
no assistance. The work must be done by the
farmers and merchants Of the State. Upon
them the whole burden will fall, and they will
reap reap the benefit. After the redemption of the
State from corrupt and proaigate rule, the ,
that lies before us, and the sooner we begin it,
the better for South Carolina and the whole
Southern people,"
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TO THE WORKING CLASS.-we are now
prepared to furnish all classes with constant en-
ploymcnt at home, the whole of the time or for
the spare moments. Business new, light and pro-
tnble. Persons of either sex easily earn from SOC.
to SIS per evening, and proportional sum by de-
voting their whole time to the business. Boys and
girls earn nearly as much men. That all who see
this notice may send their address, and test the bus
mess, we make this unparalleled offer: To such u.s.
ore not well satisfied, We will send ST pay for the
trouble of writing. Full particulars, o valuable
sample, which will do to commence work on, and a
COPY of The Peoples Literary Companion-one of The
largest and best family newspapers published-all
sent free by mail Reader, if you want permanent,
~ ,ro,o Maine. 32-3m
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CARRYING A JOKE Too FAR.-Some young
ladies and gentlemen who were taking advan-
tage of the fine sleighing not long since, in at
tending donation, surprise or wedding party,
or something of the kind, were obliged to sit
three on seat One of the seats containedt two
gentlemen and one lady. The gentlemen, of
course, would not allow the lady to take an ex-
posed seat she, therefore, sat in the middle.
As the night was extremely cold, gentleman
number one quietly passed his hand IA remark
ably small hand, by the way,) into the ladys
muff As the muf was nat very capacious, the
lady quietly removed one of her hands from
the same. In few moments she felt move
mcnt on the other side, and found gentleman
number two attempting to pass his hand into into
the muff on the other side. She then quietly
drew her hand from the mufF and allowed him
to do so. What took place in the muff after
ward she is unable to say. But each OF the
gentlemen privately reported to a small circle
of friends how warmly the lady had returned
the pressure of his hand in the muf while the
lady as privately reported to her friends the
magnificent sale she had made of both gentle
men.-aSaginaw Enterprise.
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GEORGE w. CARPENTERS
Compound Fluid Extract of Sarsa-
parilla.
GEORGE wv. CARPENTERS
Compound Fluid Extract of fBuchH

THESE celebrated preparations, originally in
troduced by George w. Carpenter, under the pat
ronage of the medical faculty, have been SO long
extensively used by Physicians and others, that
they are generally known for their intrinsic value,
and can be relied on as being most valuable REM
edes in oil cases where Sarsaparila or Buchu are
applicable, and cannot be too highly recomresd-
ed They are prepared in highly ceneentrated
form, so as TO render the dose small and conven-
ient Orders by mail or otherwise will receive
prompt attention.
GEORGE W. CARPENTER, HENsZEY & CO.,
Wholesale Chemical Warehouse,
No. 737 Market street, Philadelphis.
For sale by Walters & Baker and w. II. Nardin
s Co., Anderson, S. G. Dowie & Noise, Whole
sale Agents, Charleston, S. c.
Oct q, 1859 II
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How TO FEED FowLs.-Fowls are not fed
for the mere sake of keeping them alive and
healthy on the least possible amount of food.
We wish to convert the food into flesh, or into
eggs. In feeding for quick fattening it is un-
derstood that poultry should be made to eat as
much as possible. Our rule for feeding is to
throw out the feed twice day as long as the
fowls will run after it and no longer. We are
told, and it is our experience also, that fowls
thus fed will eat considerably more than if they
can 90 to feeding box and help themselves at
all times We want the fowls to eat; the more
they eat, within reasonable bounds, the more
eggs they will lay, the longer they will lay, and
the better condition they will be in. Laying
fowls should take exercise. If they can so to
a trough and eat at.any time they wish, they
will take next to none. If they are fed but
twice day, they will hunt insects and wander
much more. If fed soft feed such as wheat
bran mixed with corn meal or ground oats, they
will be hungry again in two hours after feeding,
and be off after insects, etc. Give feed, then,
only to adult fowls while they will run after it
soft feed morning, whole grain at evening.
Keep them supplied with gravel, lime (plaster-
ing, Or better oyster shells), ashes to dust in,
and fresh pure water, some meat in winter, and
they will be healthy and prolific
Agriculurist.
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An UNT1MELY SNEEzE.-The manager of a
Berlin theatre got up drama in which hu-
man head was to be offered to tyrant In or
der to produce as much effect as possible, he re-
solved to use human head On the stage was
placed table covered with CLOTH On the
table was basin, and an actor concealed under
the cloth poked up his head through hole in
the table, so as to seem to be placed in the ba-
sin. The effect was prodigious. The audience
applauded and trembled. Unluckily wag,
who had been strolling about the stage, had
sprinkled spoonful Of snuff ON the basin, and
Just as the tyrant finished his address to the
severed head of his enemy, the head replied by
a hearty fit of sneezing, and changed the au-
dience from "graye to gay' with remarkable
expedition.
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Call and See !!
NOW IN STORE AND TO ARRIVE
NEW GOODS.

Of every variety, including Ladies' Dress Goods,
Notions, Bleached and Unbleached Shirtings'
Flannels, etc., etc., etc. Boots and Shoes, Hard
ware, Cutlery Crockeryware and Groceries.
We have on hand Spices, of all kinds; Cur
rants, Citron, Cinnamon Bark, etc. Also, COM
plete assortment Of Flavoring Extracts, Toilet
Soaps aud Perfumery.
The ladies are particularly invited TO call and
see our stock of JEWELRY, which is composed OF
the latest styles worn.
In exchange for goods we take barter Of nearly
every description.
Highest market prices given for cotton, and
liberal advances made on cotton shipped through
US for sale in New York.
CATER s MARTIN,
No. 10 Granite Row, Anderson, S. G.
Nov IL, 1869 20
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EXPERIENCE WITH AN INQU1s1r1vE TEAy

EXPERIENCE WITH AN INoU1sITIvE TRAY
ELER.-We had gone past one or two stations,
when tall, broad-shouldered, farmer looking
fellow, got into the Car, and without "By
your leave" or "Is this seat engaged" down he
sat by me- gave him severe look that ought
to have annihilated him, and the car moved on.
By and by my attention was attracted by gen.
tie touch. pheasant day" gave him to un-
derstand, in curt way, that didn't care if it
was After while he reached his long neck
out by ME and said, yawningly, Looks as CT
we should hev some rain SOON" l let the re,
mark pass withoutreply, determined he should
not draw me out. After some miles he again
spoke. "Kilcd hog last night" "Well,
what's that to mc?" I said sharply. "Guess
what it weighed?" 20, don't bother me-six
hundred pounds" "Guess ag'in?" after a
pause. "Well, say one hundred pounds" The
challenge to guess had trife of interest in it,
but in a moment, ashamed of having shown any
at all, thrust my head out of the window,
awaiting my sturdy associates further advance.
He made none, and after riding ten or fifteen
minutes looked around. He was staring out
of the window, apparently lost irf reflection
"How much did your cussed hog weigh any
how?" Iasked as surly as could. His face
didn't change muscle, though l thought his
eve looked a trife mischevous, as he replied,
"Don't know, we didn't weigh him." Fortu-
nately for my peace of mind he got out at the
next station.
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Beautiful Tribute to the South.

The following beautiful tribute to the South is
from the Baltimore Episcopal Methodist:
And vet, amidst all this desolation and ruin,
did the world ever see anything like the uncom-
planning dignity with which the South has
borne a hideous vivisection that left it at the
time but a ghastly semblance of life? We con-
fess that not all the magnificent valor that won
her thousand victories, not the fiery onset OF
Jackson's Scotch-Irish, nor the superb compo-
sure with which he directed the advancing tide OF
battle, or covered the slow and sullen retreat,
has ever so electrified and melted our whole
souls as the sublime fortitude with which the
South has borne the most unspeakable woes
The Niobe of nations there she stands,
Childless and crownless in her yoiceless Eoe
An empty urn within her withcred hands,
Whose holy dust was scattered long ago."
Nor is this ALL The Virginia thus treated,
the "Lone Mother of Dead Empires" is also
the mother of that Union from which she has
been kept out like a leper, and only admitted
now under the most tyrannical and exasperating
conditions.
The cornerstone of this grand constitutional
fabric was laid by the hand of the giant who
now stands at the threshold of the temple, his
hair shorn his eyes put out, and for the present,
making sport for the Philistines. 1t is Virgin
la, that proud old colony, which having no
quarrel of her own with the King of England,
vet took up, from generous sympathy, the cause
of Massachusetts, /; Virginia, but for whose
Washington, the revolutionary war would have
been disastrous failure; whose Jefferson wrote
the declaration of independence whose Patrick
Henry reused the nation to arms with his clo-
queice; whose Marshall was the glory of Amer
ican jurisprudence; whose Madison, Monroe,
Harrison and Taylor adorned the executive
chair; whose Winfield Scott and Rough and
Ready were the leading military figures of the
Mexican war; with troops of her valorous sons
in the war of 1872, whose statesmen have il
lustrated the councils as have her soldiers the
camps of the republic-this is the good old
commonwealth which for five long years has
been ground to the earth under the heal of ne
gro and military vassalage, and is now only per-
mittcd to enter the edifice which she made by
her own hands, and adorned the immortalized
by her genius and virtue, from its foundation
to its pinnacle, as captive and slave.
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). N. ROBSON,
Com sion MI orch q N t.
Nos. / s; 2 Atlantic Wharf,
CHARLESTON, 5. C.

HAVING ample means for advances, o business
experience of twenty years, and confning himself
strictly to Commission Business, without opera
ting on his own account, respectfully soicits con-
signmcnts of Cotton, Flour, Wheat, Corn, &C.
Shippers of Produceto him may, at their option,
have their consignmcnts sold either in Charleston
or New York thus having the advantage Of two
markets, without extra commission.
REFERENCES.
Bishop W NJ wfghtnan, S c; Col VIM john
ston, Charlotte, N c.; Rev T o Sommers, Tenn !;
Hon John King Augusta, Ga; Messrs George W
Williams Co, Charleston; Messrs Williams,
Taylor & Co, New York.
April 90 1869 A fy
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. "yYhat have you got that's good?" sal

-"What have you got that's good? ?" said a
hungry traveller, as he seated himself at din
ner table in Salt Lake City.
"Oh, we've got roast beef, corn beef, roast
mutton, boiled and fried ham and broiled cur
lew"
"What is curlew?" said the stranger.
"Curlew Why, curlew is a bird something
like a snipe."
"Could it fy?"
"Yes."
did it have wings?"
"Yes."
"Then I don't want any curlew in mine.
Anything that had wings and could fly, and
didn't leave this damned country, don't want
for dinner"
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could perpetuate itself His sympathies, how
ever were in favor of the freedmen in the en-
joyment of their rights.
The President was at the Capitol yesterday,
favoring the acquisition of San Domingo.
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The ruling passion was recently exhibited
in remarkable manner on the occasion of q
funeral. An old lady had lost her husband,
and on the day of the funeral her neighbors
were somewhat tardy in appearing at the solem-
mites. "Nabby," said she, hand me my knit
ting might as we'll be taking few stitches
while the gathering is taking place"
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-"Come hear, my DEAR" said young man
to little girl, to whose sister he was paying his
addresses, "you are the sweetest thing on earth. %
"No I'm not" she replied, artlessly, "sister says
you are the sweetest"
-'1f you beat me, I'll call out the soldiers" :"
ia what the drum said.
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IMPORTANCE OF Coop CORN CROP
The corn planting season is upon the farmers
of Georgia, and they would do we'll to notice
the following suggestions, which we find in the
Cuzt;vator:and Country Gentleman, on the i'm
portance of q more general cultivation OF corn.
1t SAYS, that. there are more reasons Tor growing
corn on a large scale, and in all parts OF the
country, than any other farm crop-even in
those localities that are especially adapted to
wheat. 1t says that in all wheat counties ro-
tation is necessary, and corn is found to be one
of the most essential crops in rotation. The
grain is needed for the team and stock and to
help in making pork, while the fodder is a
great help in wintering stock. 1t says that
while cotton may for years be the most profta-
BILE crop at the South, yet it is better policy IN
those States to grow home supplies, especially
of corn and the different meats required, than
to depend on selling cotton and buying those
products.
Now, we venture to say, that there is scarcely
planter or farmer in Georgia that will not adj
gestions, and yet, how few there are who will
practice the precepts contained therein-prac-
tice what most of them preach. One day last
week. wheat and corn commanded the same
price in this market, and we think it altogether
probable that corn will rule higher than wheat
here till the new crop comes in. At present,
the prospects of fine wheat crop are fatter-
ing, and if our farmers will only plant corn
plentifully, times will be better next fall and
winter in Georgia with them than it has been
for years. No doubt there will be plenty of
cotton cultivated. All that the most eloquent
could say would not bring about. a reform in
cotton culture, so far as its extent is concerned;
but we do hope it will not prevent the general
cultivation of corn from the mountains to the
seaboard of our State-Atlanta Iptelhgencer.
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Why are your nose and your handkerchief
like deadly enemies? Because they never meet
but they come to blows.
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Greenville & Columbia Railroad
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE,

GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE,
COLUMBIA, January Is, 1870.
ON and after WEDNESDAY, January 10, the
following Schedule will be run daily, Sunday e1-
cepted, connecting with Night Train on South
Carolina Road, up and down, and with Night
Train on Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Road
going North:
I've Columbia 100 a m 1--we Greenville 5. As q m
Alston 8.4Oam Anderson 625 m
Newb'ry 10. 10 m (" Abbeville 500 m
Arr. Abbcville 800 p. m Ncwb'ry 1885 p m
90 Anderson 4.20 p III +" Alston 2.lO m
Grnvie 500 nj Arr. Columbia 345 m
The Train will return from Bolton to Anderson
on Monday and Friday mornings.
JAMES o. MEREDITH, Gen. Supt
Jan 90, 1870 30
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HAVING the largest and most complete Facte-
ry in the Southern States and keeping always on
hand large and most complete stock of D0ORS,
SASHES, BLINDS, Sash Doors, Store Doors,
Shutters, Mouldiugs, &c., &c., am enabled TO
sell losF and at Manufacturers prices
N. B.-Strict attention paid to skipping IN goed
order.
July %, 1869 4 sm
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Miscellaneous Advertisements

NOTICE is hereby given to the public that we
do not propose to do credit business for the year
1870, but those to whom credit may be given, are
notified that all sales are considered due after
thirty days; and if not paid, interest will be
charged in every Observation-Disclosures on note or ac-
nat the rate of one per cent. month, un-
less by special contract otherwise
BLEcKLEy g. Ev1Ns, G. F. ToLLY,
NJ. Lesser, DoBBINs oKELToN'
A. B Towers, (Survivor,) GEO. w. FAINT,
J. 3. CLARK & Son, JULIUS PopPE,
CATER g. MARTIN, W. H. NARDIN & Co..
WM. S. SHARPE, F. C. V. BoRsTEL,
N K. & J. P. subway, R. W. HUME,
WALTERS s. BAKER, BENNETT & KEEsE,
:. L. DAWSON, BYnNg s. FoGARTY,
NJ. HELpMANN, NJ D. KENNEDY,
W. F. BARR g. Co., WATSON & Bro,
P. K. McCULLY, L. c. BRADY Co.,
]. R. SMITH s. SoS, A. P. HUBBARD,
C. 4. REED, JOHN McGRATH,
KEEsn & KING.
Jan /, 1870 % 3m
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Mutual Life Insurance Company
of New York.
The. Largest In tho World
ASSETS OVER THIRTY MILLIONS.
Policies Sef-sustaining in Thirteen Years.
All Profits Paid to Policy Holders
Dividends PAID ANN OH1L i.
GRECO, PALMER s CO.,
General Agents for South Carolina.
VIM. LEE.
Special Agent, anderson c. H., s. Z.
DIR. T. A. EvINS, Medical Examiner.
April l, 1869 ~ y