The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-11-14

| tereSt In the Society, taKeu Wy nionioSio'
greatly increased. A pomological ana noral
Exhibition might be added to this summer
meeting. and the place of holding it each year
he some different point in the State.
Since we were last assembled, our Society
Iras sustained the loss of another active and
efficient member, and many OF US that, OF
valued friend, in the death of the late Edward
Mcintosh. This event occurred in Maryland,
{; ot the residence of q brother of the deceased
4 Mr. Mcintosh graduated at the South Carolina
College, a. year or two before the war, and I'M
mediately devoted himself to planting. Upon
the breaking out of hostilities, he enlisted as
private in South Carolina regiment, and sub
sequently rose by promotion through the grade
of lieutenant 10 the rank Of captain. Ills ser
vice was chiefly in the army OF Northern Ylr-
giuia. At the close of the war, ne returned 70
! his plantation, and up to his death, remained
l Identified with agricultural pursuits, to the ad-
4 vancement, of which he gave the best efforts
. of an active and: :;adicious mind. He was one
of the founders Of the Pathological and Farm
| ers' Club of Society Hill was member OF the
Executive Committee of this Society, in which
position he had served from the beginning, and
was President of the Darlington County Agrl-. :.
cultural and Mechanical Society at the time OF
his death. Successfully discharging these pub
lio trusts. and in his private relations coming
up to the full measure of duty, he has per1shsd
! ere reaching the meridian OF manhood. LIS
last illness was brief, and his death calm and
self-possessed. With message OF love TO his
friends and an undisturbed trust IN God, ne
fttingly closed a pure and; brave and useful
| life
The fourth term for which have served as
vour chief executive officer is about to expire.
Profoundly grateful for the kind partiality
which elevated me to the position, and for the
cordial support with which my efforts IN the
discharge of its duties have been met, feel
that propriety and the best interests of our
| Association require that should now return
to its ranks. The Office may well be an object
of honorable ambition, and to make the direc-
ton of your affairs close corporation, cannot
redound to their advancement While remain
inc substantially the same, the Executive Com
mittee has been, from time to time, reinvigora-
ted by the admission of new members; and the
\ untasked energies, fresh hopes and new int1u-
ences of another President will, l am persua-
ded, carry forward with accelerated progress
the objects of our Society. In thus closing an
official connection dating from our organlza-
ton, it may be permitted me to congratulate
YOU upon the results your efforts have already
accomplished, and to express confidence in
| future for the Society of continued usefulness.
Dissstrous as was the late civil war to the &C
cumulated wealth of South Carolina, still more
unhappy was the paralysis of hope and pa
tr;otism which its results inflicted upon those
who. up to that time, had controlled the for
tunes of the State. 1t is scarcely an exagger-
alton to say, that at first the necessities of ex-
istence alone drove them to grapple with the
difficulties of an untried labor and devastated
fields. and laws administered from military
garrisons, or that there we're many who, OF
their own free choice, remained IN the State
which they had once loved so we'll, and whose
| degradation they would have died to avert
With such feelings, our agriculture was for
while conducted in the spirit of the casual ten
ant: and the effort of the planter, in most
cases. was merely to realize what he could of
present profit in precariOus venture. Now,
our labor has chrystalized in Its new relati9ns
to capital; its efficiency is known and may be
taken at its true value in all agricultural esti-
| mates Time and industry have largely re-ac-
cumulated our wasted capital, and healthier
feeling pervades the public mind and inspires
its energies The good, then, undoubtedly is
in some aspects of the change our industrial
relations have undergone is perceived; and
time is hopefully looked to to remove or mitl-
gate the political evils that accompanied 1t.
Above all, the results of the conflict are accep-
ted, and there is feeling without which there
can be no healthy advance in agricultuTe-that
we have yet home to adorn and country'to
live for. For how much of this improved con-
dition of things are we indebted to the infu-
ences of this Society, it would be difficult to
saw, and perhaps be deemed arrogant for me to
assert. Butthe assemblage of the convention
in April, 1863, which gave it existence, was the
first expression of hope that found utterance
after the war for the industrial interests Of
South Carolina and of the whole of this hap.
pY progress the Society has been part: l
confident believe it will continue to exert no
mean influence in whatever of development of
the States, abounding resources the future may
have in store, and that in laboring to advance
that object, we are best discharging the duty
of the hour. - -
A New SOUTHERN PRoDUcr.-There is
plant growing very abundantly in our piney
South, known as the "Deer Tongue" 1t pre-
sents buch or tuft of light green, tongue
shaped leaves, springing Immediately from the
ground, the leaves measuring from six to eight
inches in length, and about one inch in breadth.
From the centre of this bunch of leaves starts