The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-01-09
A recruiting Office for the United

! A recruiting Office for the United
States army has been opened N Fa.
gan's new building, Main street. No
distinction asfeSards color is made.
White men are consigned to white
regiments and cniored men to color oJ;;
regiments. = Union. Herald.
How is this2 No distinction made
as regards color, and yet the colored
man condemned to 60 into colored
regiments by himself? It is not accord
ing to the improved edition of the
Civil Rights Bill which requires plea
ninnies to sit in school alongside the
fair.complexioned and light-haired
laddies and lass, es, aud allows Cuffee
and Sambo to make themselves sha-
dows and companions of the white
guests of hotels in both the diuing and
sleeping apartments, and further i'm
peratively enjoins that white and black
thus united in life be not separated il
death. They must lie together in
cemeteries in alternating rows, sand
wiched for eternity. Tell US. then,
that the man and brother, Gods image
in ebony, must fight or run away all
alone to himself? The thing is mon-
strous. No mixture in war, no socia-
bility in plunderl As Mrs. Malaprop
says. sit is tolerable md not to be en-
dured." Where is "Niger Migrorum2"
Let him come forward. Let Massa-
ohuaetts. which originated the slave
trade, bought and sold slaves, and
when they wers no longer profitable,
sold them away to the South, but
which then repented and took up abo-
lition as profession-let the old Bay
State epeak in this crisis. through her
son Of thunder! What say you, imp
of darkness, to white men being con-
signed to white regiments and colored
men ruthlessiy to oolored regiments2
Plough Deep While Sluggartls Sleep.
All observant farmers know that the
best way to encounter the periodical
droughts which frequently dcsolate
our agriculture is to loosen and deepen
the soil. In recsnt number of
Moore's Rural Ne,o Yorher q CORES
pondent lucidly e1plaina the philoso-
ply of this fact. Compact earth, he
says, is q better conductor of heat
than loose earth, which imprisons
about its PARTICLES a quantity of air
that, being a non-conductor, impedes
its rapid transmission. It is for this
reason that sandy 8 ,ils are warmer
than clay soils. While compact earth
is very good conductor of heat, it is
q very imperfect absorbent of moisture
two facts which render it both more
susceptible to sudden atmospheric
changes than loose earth and less
capable Of resisting droughts. Capil-
larry attraction bears certain relation
to gravity that cohesion bears to mole
cular repulsion. AS cohesion unop-
posed by repulsion would solidify the
earth, so would capillary attraction
unopposed by gravity rob it of all its
moisture. On the other hand, if
gravity were not modified by capillary
attraction, all arabic lands near the
surface would become so porched i'm
mediately after rains as TO render
vegetable growth impossible. Honce
that condition of the soil which is
most favorable to both gravity md
capillary attraction is that most fu-
vorable to the collection aud retention
of moisture. This view The writer
illustrated by an experiment which he
describes as follows:
''Three five.iuch flower pots were
evenly tilled-the first with ordinary
garden soil. pressed through very
fine sieve and made as dense as possi-
BILE by the pressure of the hand; the
second with the same soil sprinkled in
without any pressure; the third with
clean, red sand. The three pots were
then placed in pan of water, 80 that
they were nearly half immersed. In
thirty nine minutes the surface Of the
first Compact soiD was wet. Tue
second uo0se soiD in seventeen mi.
nutes. The last (sand) was not wet ut
all; in three hours the moisture hai
reu0h al hut opa iDok ohovo thn r,,to.