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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-06-01

LOOKING Our FOR SLIGHTs.-There are
some people-yes, many people-always look
ing out for Sights. They cannot pay a visit,
they cannot receive friend, they cannot carry
on their daily intercourse of the family without
suspecting sonre offence is designed. They are
as touchy as hair triggers. II they meet an ac-
quaintance on the street who happens to be
preoccupied with business, they attribute his
abstraction to motives personal to themselves,
and take umbrage accordingly. They lay on
others the fault of their own irritability. A
fit Of indigestion makes them see impertinence
in everybody they come in contact with. limo
cent persons who never dreamed of giving Of
fense, are astonished to fine some unfortunate,
or some momentary taciturllity, mistaken for
an insult
To say the least, the habit is unfortunate.
1t is far wiser to take the more charitable view
of our fellow beings and not suppose slight
intended unless the neglect is open and direct.
After all, too, life has its hue, in o degree,
from the color of our own mind. If we are
frank and generous, the world treats us kindly.
If, on the contrary we are suspicious, men learn
to be cold and cautious to us. Let aperson get
the reputation of being touchy, and everybody
is under more or less restraint and in this way
the chances of an imaginary offense are vastly
increased.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-06-01
RADICAL M1snuLE.-The New York Tri-

RADICAL MISRULE--lne NEW tork 1Ts-
bune says:
"Our correspondents have now been so long
in the disturbed districts of the South, that we
can form from their letters distinct idea of
the state of society in that unfortunate part of
the Union. 1t is a melancholy picture that
thew draw for us. The most Intelligent, the
influential, the educated, the really useful men
of the South, deprived of all political power,
have come to look upon themselves rs the out
ragged subjects of despotic conquerer.. Taxed
and swindled by horde of rascally foreign adj
venturers, and by the ignorant class, which only
Yesterday hoed the fields and served in the
kitchen, they care nothing for politics except
to throw off the oppressive yoke; they have no
interest in national affairs; they would call
themselves of either party, provided their rulers
were only of the other. The refuse of North
ern cities, who went Southwark after the war,
out-at-elbows and destitute of character and
education, now roll in splendid carriages, drink
rare wines, glitter with diamonds rs big as
Fisks, and steal taxes as fast as New York
Street Commission. 1t is no wonder that the
impoverished planter, growing poorer every
day, the ex-Confederate officer, who fought so
bravely for cause in which he honestly be.
their lives to hold office and lead the public
sentiment of their communities look on such
things with rancorous hearts. They might
submit to be ruled by soldiers who had beaten
them in battle; but here they arc plundered by
suffers and camp-followers.
"Ths is miserable state of things indeed
for republican govcrnment-a burlesque upon
tho suffrage, when the only restriction upon
voting is that the votes shall not be cast for the
most intelligent and yirtuous citizens. We
have told them, and we tell them again, that
there is only one way to restore the Union
universal amnesty and impartial suffrage. We
places Southern people are doing their best to
defeat it,"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-06-01

REMEpY FOR CANcER.-A Washington cor
respondent of the Baltimore Gazette says
Some months ago Colonel Capron, Commission.
er of Agriculture, received from Ecuador a
package of roots and bark shrub of tree,
called "cundcrango," which is found growing
in abundance in Ecuador, and, it is believed, in
other South American States. Cunderango was
represented as specific for that heretofore sup
posed to be incuraable and deadly disease, can
Ger. The Commissioner distributed this plant
among our leading medical professors and ply
sicians. One of these has been applying cum
derango with extraordinary and UNLOCKED for
success, and in twenty days has almost entirely
cured the mother of Vice President Colfax and
other patients who are afflicted with cancer.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-06-01
The New Principle-The Cumulative System
of Voting Viewed iii Another Aspect

This system has been generally looked upon
more especially as giving proportional repre-
sentation to the political divisions or parties
that may exist in voting community. 1t does
this fairly and admirably, but it does more
Under its operation, INTERESTS as we'll as mere
NUMBERS may be secured in a proper represen-
tation. For instance, if the mercantile, the
mechanical, or the agricultural interest in any
community should deem it important to place
in position special advocate, it could generally
be accomplished by the system of cumulating
votes upon certain candidate. For instance,
the merchants of Columbia desire to send O.
merchant to the Legislature to represent their
specific interests. They arrange to cumulate
upon certain man, and the result would be
his election. In the same way it is possible for
the mechanical clement, or the farming ele-
ment, or any other considerable clement TO Sc
cure representation at one and the same time.
Thus, in Richland, it would be possible for this
County to be represented in the Legislature by
merchant, mechanic, a farmer and pro-
fessional man, all at the same time. Let, now,
such system as this prevail all over this coun-
try. We mean such a system rs will give due
representation to NUMBERS and also to INTER
EsTs. And who can fail to see what a change
would be produced in the tone and character of
our Legislature by the delegations in our rep
resentative bodies being the genuine and intel
ligent exponents of oil The elements that make
up the body polite.
In our judgment, the cumulative system of
voting is destined, sooner or later, to work
revolution in our public affairs. 1t is yet in its
infancy. The system is not very generally un-
derstood. 1t may be, and no doubt is, suscep-
tible of modification, or improvement, or
amendment. 1t must first be adopted and
tested before its merits or short comings can be
fully exhibited. But of one thing we may be
assured: THE PRINCIPLE IS TRUE. Nor do we
hesitate to say that it comes to us at critical
period in our experiment of self-government,
under the auspices of unlimited suffrage. Of
course, we do not mean to affirm that any sys-
tenn of voting can prevent the decline of q peo-
pie, or the destruction of a government when
CORRUPTION has laid hold of the vitals of
country-when the MORAL FORCES of the peo-
pie fail to keep life in the body polite. A
condition like this no governmental principle,
however wise or just, can remedy. But assum-
ing that the public intelligence are exerting
their just share of influence, and are strong
enough to prevent an organic disease from fas-
tening itself on the political body, conserving
element, like that involved in proportional
representation, both.of numbers and interests,
must play most important part in the solution
of the yet untried problem of self-government.
-ColumbiG Ph1nir.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-06-01

Gold garters, surmounted with solitaire
diamond, are the latest throe of fashion. ,es.,
= Some ladies use paint as fiddlers do rosin,
to aid them in drawing beau.
"A farmer gathers what he sows, while a
seamstress sews what she gathers.
Whether old age is to be respected depends
very much whether it applies to men and wo-.
men or to poultry. zss5r.
The ladies say that all the hustle that is
made about the Grecian bend is newspaper
stuff. That's so. 3;4
1t is said that the Rev. Thomas Z. Beech
er has discovered that all men who are hanged
Fin line.
1t is said that there is no friendship be-
tween women so strong that one good-looking
man is not able to break up. -
"A sarcastic young lady says she never was
so much in love with man that two rainy days
together in a country house would not efectu-'
ally cure her:
A Boston paper is Gin favor of women vo-,
ting if they want to-" A Western paper:
"would like to see the man who could make
them vote if they didn't want to"
A current maxim in Arabian literature
says that Paradise is as much for him who has
rightly used the pen, as for him who has fallen
by the sword" =
= The law in China is chat if woman dis.
pute her husband in the slightest degree she
may be murdered by him with impunity. If
that law were in force in this country the NOR
tality amongs wives would be very great.
"A gentleman saw an advertisement that a
recipe for the cure of dyspepsia might be had
by sending postage-stamp to the advertiser.
He sent his stamp, and the answer was "Dig
in your garden and let whiskey alone"
A IrrcI ,0tS
on the road to New York, and thinking to
would YOU be now, Paddy if the devil had his
due?" "Faith," replied Paddy, "Pd be walk
ing by myself to New York. sS.f
= 1T was very Hard-shell Baptist of Tenn.
who suggested when he heard of the reformarr,
tion of an ungodly neighbor, that no ordinary
baptism would do for chat man; the only sure
way would be to tie grindstone to his feet
and "anchor him over nightin the middle ofthes
river"
= Ten minutes sleep before dinner is worth
more than an hour after. 1t rests and refresheS,
and prepares the system for vigorous digestion.
If sleep is taken after dinner it should be in
sitting posture, as the horizontal position is un
favorable to healthful digestion.
= Let young men remember that their chief
happiness in life depends upon their faith in
women. No worldly wisdom, no misanthropic
philosophy, no generalization can coveror wea-
ken this fundamental truth. 1t stands like the
record of God himself-for it is nothing less
than this-and should put an everlasting seal
upon its lips that are wont to speak slightingly
of women.
- An old negro made application at one of
the public buildings in Washington, short
time since for something to eat, and claimed
that he had a right to come there for vituals.
The head of the department was called in, who
asked the darkey upon what right he based his
claims. "Why," said the sable representative
of the fifteenth amendment, 81 understandin'
dar's provisions in de Constitution for de colort
ed folks, and 1 havn't had the first crumb."
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-06-01

-Ex-Gov. Henry a. Wise has published a
long and eloquent tribute to the memory of the
late Ex-senator James M. Mason, of Virginia,
in which he says: "It was not in the course of
nature, or in the reason of things, that he could
remain with US longer. The disasters to the
Confederacy and the South, the wounds of his
pride, the aching agony of seeing all his hopes
of liberty and self-government and State rights
blasted, and the desecration of sacred things,
and the devastation and Generalization he wit
messed on coming home, where too much ten
sion on the nerves Of an aged man of delicate
sensibilities and proud sense of honor. after
toiling for settlement near his fathers old
home at Claremount, near Alexandra, and fix
ing for quiet retirement. his system collapsed,
and he fell under paralysis. His last moments
were without pain, and he died as he lived,
composed and frm.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-06-01

SMALL FARMs--Smail farms make near
neighbors; they make good roads; they make
plenty of good schools and churches; there is
more money made in proportion to the labor,
less labor is wanted everything is kept neat
less wages have to be paid for help; less time is
wasted more is raised to the acre, because tits
titled better; there is no watching of hired
men the mind is not kept in worry, astew, d.
fret all the time. There is not so much fear of
a drought, of wet weather, of frost, of small
prices. There is not so much money to be paid
out for agricultural implements. Our wives
and children have time to read, to improve
their minds. A small horse is soon curried-;
and the work on a small farm is always pushed
forward in season. Give US small farms for
comfort; aye, and give us small farms for profit.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-06-01

EMpuAr1c.-W. II. McCardle, editor of the
Vicksburg Herald, discussing the action of
Congress on expunging q quotation from his
paper. wherein Adelbert Ames is soothingly
called "a coward, liar, poltroon and a pup
arf Ben Buffers son-in-law would like to
have the offensive paragraph 'expunged' from
the columns of the Vicksburg Herald, he has
only to make the application in proper form to
the editor, who is always ready to respond
We can promise little shoulder straps one thing.
If he will make an application to have the
Herald editorial in reference to himself ex-
plunged, retractcd, withdrawn or apologized for.
we stand pledged to accede to his demand, or,
in default thereof, to comply with another sort
of demand-a demand which gentlemen and
real soldiers always understand. Could Adel-
bert be induced to call 2"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-06-01

AGED CITIZENS DEAD.-A Pickens cores
pondent of the Keoccc Courier furnishes the
Two of our oldest citizens died last week
lanes Keith, aged near 100, and William Oil
YER aged near 80. Mr.. Keith was remarkably
ouiet man, and never went from home except on
especial business. lie and the late WIN. ousl-
erfand lived together when they, were young
men. Keith married Sutheriands sister anu
Sutherland married Keith,s sister ana p1tn ,.t
families lived together, owned properly lo,nsly'
nV nVu They Kept the Pumpkintown Hotel togethl-
ey and first opened house near Table Rock
G., G., I tho accommodation of visitors. Mr.. Oliver
,was ~. soldier in the war of 1872, and served In
Capt. Jack Benson's company. LIE was ma
tive of Greenville.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-06-01
VOLUME e---No. 4e.

PROFITS ON MANUFACTUREs.-Thep profits
on manufactures is no better shown than the
dividends which our factories give quarterly to
the stockholders: Northern and English man..
ufacturers now cGncede the manufacture 6f
heavy goods will have to be abandoned to the
South. The concession is reluctantly grounded
upon the facts of superior natural advantages.
The limit of the concession is to heavy goods,
and the reason for this reservation is the knowl-
edge of the fact that the South does not pos
sess the sKilful labor requisite for the man
ufacture of other and higher styles. of goods.
But this concession foreshadows much. There
has not been mill for the manufacture of
shirtings and sheetings erected in New England
during the last fifteen years, and we venture
the prediction that there will never be another
erected. But no single fact better illustrates
the profit of cotton manufacture than is showi
in the financial history of Great Britain last
year. England paid the United States last
year for cotton S1S4,OO0,OOO, and by making
this cotton up into fabrics she cleared $685.
100000 of net profit This statement of the
immense profit growing out of the manufac:
ture of the great Southern staple should slim
ulatc every community in the South, favorably
located, to turn its attention to manufactures;
as means of almost doubling the value of the
cotton crop.
Now, where has manufacturing cotton been
more successful or more profitable than in and
near the city of Augusta? The quarterly div
idends of the Augusta Factories furnish suf-
ficient answer as to profit. These factories de-
clare good dividends quarterly, when New
England factories, engaging in the same line,
either declare meagre dividends or pretermit
them. The deduction from this fact is direct
and clear. Put your surplus in that manufac:
turing which is giving you good quarterly
dividend on the money invested, and at the
same time provides home market for your
cotton, and keeps at home both the cost and
the profit of manufacturing among your own
people-Mronicze & Sentinel:
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-06-01
:. This is the time to whitc-wash your ou

This is the time to white-wash your out
houses, your fences and vine arbors: If yon
want something that will stick, dissolve two
quarts of unslacked lime in q bucket of hot
water, add a handful of fine salt and one of
brown sugar, stir well and your white-wash is
ready for use. An experienced friend tells us
that a white wash made after this receipt will
have better gloss and last longer than any
other lie has ever tried.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-06-01

"A little salt placed around cabbages and
other plants will protect them from cut worms.
Make ring around the plants, half an inch
deep and about an inch from the plants.-,
Sprinkle the salt in it and cover with earth.
China berries mashed and placed around the
plants are also protective.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-06-01

"A new garter is heraldcd: 1t & is a asayy, ne ".
round elastic chain, much the style Oh tne ,
heavy gold chains upon which ockeTs S are s0"a wTr
and has hook and eye upon IT; me hook Is
nardonable, but the eye Is reprchenSioie'
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-06-01

The st Louis Republican publishes the fol-
lowing letter, received in that city from John
Quincy Adams, late the Democratic candidate
for Governor of Massachusetts:
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-06-01

"A Cleveland girl broke off her engage
ment with young man for the reason that he
snorcs in his sleeep. The court wants to know
how she found it out
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-12-15
NEWS OF THE DAY.
$40 shoe the re,y age and body Of the Times.


Allen Pinkerton states that after a severe
fight two of the men who robbed the express
car on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad some two
months ago, were captured Oh Monday last in
Missouri, near Verona; by detectives During
the past two months the Southern Express
Company have had a number of detectives on
the truck Of these mcn. One of the robbers
is still at large.
la the South Carolina Ku-K!ux trials yes
tcrday, the court Was chiefly occupied hearing
Witnesses for the defence, who testified to the
alarm and excitement among all classes III DIRK
county, caused by the organization Of the color
ed militia The grand Jury found true bills
against several more pf the alleged consp orators
Of \ DIRK county.
The irrcprcssible Tenue Z. ClaAiu complain
ed to a New York justice, yesterday, chat her
father and mother were Il source Of great an
uoyauce to her and Mrs " OudhulI, aud re-
uuested that Il warrant might he issued for thel
arrest The justice complied with the request.
The lower House Of the Legislature of Wy
omiug yesterday repealed the law III reference
to woman suffrage, but the CO, ordinate branch
| failed to sustain the repeal tor want OF the re-
| QulSlte tWO-thlrdS vote.
The revolutiunists in Mexico are still in pos
session of Mazatlan and are buSIly engaged in
preparing for an attack by the Government
forces. 1t is said that the prospects of the
JuareZ Government are more favorable.
Subscription to the thirty-niue articles is no
longer prerequisite to receiving degree from
Oxford University. The English press seems
to welcume every indication OF religious tolcra-
| ton.
South Carolina bonds have risen slightly,
under the belief that the worst is now known
about the State finances. and that Reputation
will not take place but the taxpayers are still
| furious.
Panama pal ers state there is excitement on
the IsthmuS relative to raising cundurango, the
fabulous price Of $50 per loo lbs. being re-
allied there 1t sells in New York for SD
per pound.
The President has not received request
from Cen Schcnck asking permission to resign
his present position as Minister to England
all reports to the contrary Notwithstanding.
Germany, under her new military urganza-
ton, will be enabled, in case of war, to put in
| the iivil within five days nnarmy Of 500, OnO
men.
The cx- E,uprc>S Eugene has gone to Gibral-
tar, where she will take the steamer for Eng
| land.
The noted Communist Gen Dombrow>ki,
| landed in New York yesterday from Paris
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-12-15

The new apportionment bill which, ycster-
day, passed the House Of Representatives, gives
to Maryland six instead Of five members Of the
House of Representatives. In the new district
ing of the States each district must be composed
of contiguous territory, containing as nearly as
practicable an equal number of inhabitants, to
prevent what is called gcrrymaudcrlng by
the Legislatures. 1t also cnacts that the Tues
day next after the first Monday in November,
1876, the members of the Forty-fifth Congress
shall be elected iu all the States, and on the
same day every second year thereafter, so that
the Congressional clcctiousin all the States will
take place on the same day The number Of
members of the House is fixed at 2S$ Virginia
to have nine Representatives.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-12-15
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
The Richmond Wing has judicious invc
FRIDAY, DECEMBER Is.

The Richmond Wing has a judicious invoca-
ton for harmony of feeling and action on the
Legislature of Virginia. The first duty, says
the Wing for the Legislature, sis to devote all
its energies to the we-being Of the people Of
Virginia. Different members may entertain
different views in respect to the best means to
obtain that great end But they are all the
trusted representatives of their people, who
need every help which the wisdom, the patri
otism, the sympathy and the authority of the
representative can devise. IF possible, the
whole body should bring themselves to feel that
their individual interests are one and the same
with those of the people and the Common
wealth of Virginia. Too much stress cannot
he laid upon the importance Of this oneness Of
feeling between all the representatives and all
the constituents of the State.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-12-15

The Fredericksburg Herald in an article re-
lating to Virginia Lands says :-''Corn is sell
ing in Illinois and Iowa at twenty cents BUSH
ell and in Minnesota, Kansas, and Nebraska
at lower rates. Other cereals command no
better prices in proportion to their value, as
wheat sells at from fifty cents to dollar in the
States enumerated above. Wheat and corn
are the staples of the West and North West as
we'll as they are of Maryland and Virginia. and
yet they are worth not half as much in the
Western States in which they arc raised as there
are in this Strte and Maryland. Why then
shouldimmigranis go West and struggle against
low prices, when better markets are afforded
nearer the Atlantic coast, with lands equally
as fertile, and a climate far superior in every
rnnnaot -