The news and herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1876-1881, 1881-05-11

thing. Good cultivation, fertilization,
anu where nature has given it, Il
water supply, would make an acre
not worth $40, but $500 to $500.
This country Of ours, as regards
climate, health and natural fertility, is
one OF tho most favored Oh the face of
tho earth. 1t has been dreadfullv
abused and much worn. Even now it
is easier to 20 to work and improve It
and enrich it than it is to emigratc in
quest of the rich virgin and sickly soils
Of the Southwest with their precarious
crops. 1t is true our farming has been
haphaZard. but we arc over, WC hope,
with the chaotic period Of experiment,
reconstruction and rcadjustment. The
mass OF our people must subsist by
agriculture. And more, all improve
! mcnts must be made by the white race :;
and tho white man, who cultivates his
own lands with his own hands aided
by his children, had best contract his
operations, improve his lands, use his
brains and convert his small farm into
Il productive paradise: leaving the
negro, with his little bull or old mule,
to browse on the broom scdge ridges,
the skinner and the curse as he is to
any country.
SUPERVISION By THE STATE IMMIGRA-
TON COMMISSIONER.
In conclusion, we have an Agricul-
tural Bureau, and should have under
it Il State engineer, whose peculiar
province should be to supervise, under
suitable statutes, enacted for the Dur-
pose. the development of streams into
water powers, and see that such de-
vclopmcnt is not perpetual barrier to
the passage of fish in all cases, and
! that it does not bar improved naviga-
| ton. Indeed all the powers on the
large streams should, by statute, be so
| developed that tho canals or water
ways constructed to convey water to
propel machinery, should at the same
time admit the passage of boats around
the rapids-of course, such boats pay
ing suitable tolls. And it is to be
hoped that under the present impul-
sive idea Of rushing into tho manu-
tacturing business, the Legislature
will not rccklcssly grant charters to
such interpretations unless it be under
| some restrictions looking to the future
development of such streams us public
water ways. SUCH engineer should
also have charge, in general way, or
all minor streams, so as to protect the
general interest of n community in
these water ways, and such will espc-
cially bc the case should these minor
streams become valuable for the pur-
poses of irrigation.
Wafer and water ways will in flu
turc be valuable:
LIST. For purposes Of navigation.
2nd. TO propcl machinery.
3rd. And the most important OF all,
for purposes of irrigation, and if the
sovereign, the State, has not already
granted to individuals and lost con-
troll Of the same, some general statutes
should be enacted defining the cquita-
bic rights of all citizens, and LAYING
down general rules for the use Of the
same.
We quit by asking, Why could not
the State Agricultural Society offer Il
premium OF
One hundred dollars for greatest
number of acres irrigated and planted
in grain of any kind, other than rice,
| in 1882.
Fifty dollars for the best acre of
corn produced by means Of irrigation
in 1882.
Twenty-Five dollars for the best acre
Of oats produced in the same way in
1882.
Contestants for prizes to submit
diagrams from actual survey Of tho
lands irrigated, with the method of
| supplying wafer, &c.
Respectfully,
HORACE GREELEY.
BRowN's GEoRGICs.-Thc innings
to-day were decidedly on the side of
Mr.: Brown. The debate is getting to
| be known as "Brown's Gcorgics," for
the politics Of EiS State and the
| limitation of Massachusetts politics are
the chief topics Of his frequent speech
es. lie certainly had tho best of the
debate to-day. and worried the Rcpub-
licans by causing to be read for their
benefit sharp criticisms made by Re-
publican papers on the present contest.
General Hawlcy did clever thing
from his point Of view in reading and
commenting on Mr.. Browns speech at
the Chicago Convention of 1868, but
tho Georgia Senator responded in the
| best effort he has vel made. lie show
! ed that he parted company with the
Democratic party Of his State because
up to 1872 it had virtually refused to
accept the results ofthe war. lie re-
turned to it when it had done so in
good faith. lie defined himself as u
"natural Democrat" and not az a
Bourbon" such as Toombs could
be considered. The Democracy he
represented accepted tho new condi-
tons and moved with them. 1t would
resist, however, all attempts to again
fput Southern ignorance on top. SEN
atOr Brown made his own pt 81 ion
both clear and consistent, and he cs-
tablishcd himself still more as T.
liamcntary lcader.-BoSton Globe Corr
Tespon0encc, IprU 80.
y DRuMMEns FIRST TRIp.-A
Cleveland merchant determined TO send
his son for trip on the road in the in
tcrcst of the house. The Young man
was rather avcrse to going. ut his
fathers persuasions were all-powcrful
and he went. He was out somo ten
days, and on his return his father anx-
iously inquired, "Well, my boy, did
you got many ordcrs?' eyes, father"
answered the new-fedgcd drummer;
i got quito NUMBER "Good!" OK
claimed the delighted fathor, "I knew
you would succeed" The Young man
grinned and answered.: "Wclf, tho