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THE ANDERSON APPEAL.
Devoted to Polite Literature, the Arts and Sciences, Political News and General Information, &c. &c.
VOLUME 1. ANDERSON COURT HOUSE, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 22, 1866. NUMBER 21.
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The Philadelphia Convention.
PHILADELPHIA, August 12.-The great wig-wam for the National Convention will be completed by Tuesday. It is the largest structure ever built for a political gathering. A large number of delegates arrived among them Reverdy Johnson, Montgomery Blair, Stocton, of N. J., Fernando Wood, Cowan, of Pa., and many other distinguished persons. The executive committee have rooms in the Continental Hotel.
There was quite a stir to-day over the report in the New York Herald that Gov. Curtin, of Pa., had secretly called for 20,000 militia for service during the time the Convention sat, and that trouble will probably ensue. This is no reason to suppose the convention will be disturbed. Gen. Dix or George Ashburne of Mass, will preside.
Aug. 13.-Upwards of six hundred delegates to the Convention have arrived. Among the most noticeable persons are Thurlow Weed, Dean Richmond, Secretaries Randall and Browning, Gen. Steedman, Cornelius Wendell, Fernando Wood, Vallandighan, Governors Orr, Sharkey and Perry, and A. O. B. Nicholson, and Senator Guthrie. There is considerable excitement about the admission of Vallandigham, Wood and other peace Democrats. There is no reason, however, to doubt that all will be adjusted to-night. Fernamdo Wood will decline to go into the Convention if necessary to the harmony of it. The programme is yet unknown, but no third party will be formed. The Convention will probably adopt a series of resolutions, endorsing the policy of the President and denouncing Congress. An address will be issued to the country which will embody the principles set forth in the call of the Convention. R. C. Winthrop, of Mass., or Gen. Dix will preside.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug.14.-The trains last night and this morning were heavily loaded with delegates and visitors to the great Convention, and the ho-
been stripped of their property, their banks are gone and their credit gone, and in many localities the great standpoint of civil law has been lost. Thus the people of the South have far more need of a stable Government than you have, and it is mad folly to charge that they will not fulfil their oaths to support this Government. We claim this is our Government as well as yours; but that we may be equal, we must have representation in Congress. It is not just to tax us and exclude us from representation.
Montgomery Blair and others spoke,
LATEST.--The Convention will organize in the Wigwam.
PHILIDELPHIA, August 14--The Convention assembled in the wigwam at 12.30 P. M.
Mr. Randall opened the Convention saying: "Gentlemen--I have to announce that delegates from South Carolina and Massachusetts will now come arm in arm into this Convention." This announcement was greeted with great applause, the entire audience rising. At this moment Major General Couch, of Massachusetts, and Governor Orr, of South Carolina, at the head of the delegation, marched in arm in arm, banners flying and music playing. Shout spontaneous and general rent the air, and tears filled the eyes of the delegates and electors.--Gen. John A. Dix was nominated as temporary chairman. In accepting he said:
I regard this as a Convention of no ordinary character, not only on account of the high social and political standing of the gentlemen who compose this Convention, but because it is a Convention of the people of all the States of the Union. [Applause], and because we cannot doubt if its proceedings are conducted with harmony and good judgment that it will lead to important results. It may be truly said that no body of men have met on the continent under such circumstances so momentous and so important since the year 1787 [Applause] the year when our ancestors assembled in this city to form a better Government for the States which composed the Confederation--a Government which has been confirmed and made more enduring, we trust, by the fearful trials which it has encountered and overcome. [Applause], ten have yet no representation in the Legislature of this country and it is this wrong we have come to protest against and as much in our power to redress--
When the President of the United States declared the war had ceased, all the States had the right of representation. The exciting of new conditions is subversive to our national
Removal of Treasure from Hanover.
A Hamburg letter to the London Daily News says, under date of the 21st: Just before the flight of the King of Hanover from his capital, the Minister of Finances, who appears to have been the only one that had his wits about him knew his duty, packed up the money in the Treasury, to the amount of a million and two hundred thousand dollars and sent it off in charge of Herr von Kieneke, one of the functionaries of the finance departments, to Bremerhaven by railway, for shipment by the North German Lloyd's steamer, which landed it safely at Southampton, whence it was conveyed by railway to London and deposited for securiety in the cellars of the Bank of England.
Prussia now claims that property as money belonging to the States, and demands its delivery to the Prussian Legation in London as part of the spoils of war taken from Hanover, already so seriously crippled as to be nearly ruined in a financial point of view. A correspondence on the subject has been carried on between the Prussian Civil Commissioner in Hanover, Privy Councilor von Hardenberg, and King George, who is still residing at the country seat of his father-in-law, Duke Joseph of Saxed Altenburg, at Rummethaim, near Altenburg, in which the former demands the Bank receipt for the 85 chests of treasure, threatening, in case of non-compliance, to make the King personally responsible, and to seize and retain possession of the royal domains and other private property of the crown till the money in question is given to Prussia.
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We have not made any personal inquiries upon the success of the negro emigration scheme in Columbia, but we hear that the movement is likely to result in the emigration of considerable numbers of them. We have heard it stated that up to the present time a thousand names have been registered to go. Liberia is the destination of some, we hear, and some are going to Florida. It is rumored that Gen. Ely (some time ago of the Freedmen's Bureau in this city) is engaging hands to till lands for him in Florida. That is a better latitude for them than this. We would encourage their going.
[Yorkville Enquirer]
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Piarco Butler, Esq., of Philadelphia, is personally testing the difference between slave and freed labor on his rice plantations in Georgia. Of more than
Finding the stolen Jewelery
A New York correspondent of the Baltimore Episcopal Methodist writes to that paper:
A Southern lady on a visit to this city, went to worship in one of the uptown churches. Soon after an elegantly attired New York lady, of high social standing, entered the same row and remained during the service; after which the Southern lady called her aside into the vestry room, and in the presence of the rector, with whom she was well acquainted, thus addressed her madam, I do not wish to offend you, but the shawl you are wearing belongs to me. (The shawl was a superb one.) The New Yorker protested and declared that there must be some mistake. "If," says the Southern lady, "you will examine a certain corner, you will see my intials worked in it, and the rector knows my name very well." The corner was found as well as the initials. The Southern lady then remarked, "That ring you have on your finger is also mine, and if you will take the trouble to examine the interior, you will see the same initials engraved in the ring."
Similar movements as above described took place, and with similar results - Turning to her again the Southern lady said: "Madam that bracelet you have on is mine also, and by pressing a spring on the inside, it will unclasp and show you my portrait." The New Yorker lady did as requested, and there was the lady's portrait. She promptly returned the ring and bracelet as she convinced beyond the power to controvert it, that they were property of this Southern lady, and she remarked as she did,"They are yours and you are welcome to them; but as I wore the shawl to church, I must beg the privilege of wearing it home again." The Southern lady acceded, of course, and they exchanged cards. The shawl came back in due time, but the New York lady had probably obtained the articles in such a manner as to render it too unpleasant to divulge. No more was said about it.
MORAL - If Southern ladies want to know where their articles of jewelry and wardrobe furniture are are, let them attend some fashionable "up-town" New York Church; and if the men want to know what has become of their fine horses shipped North by any officers and "bummers" let them spend an evening in Central Park.
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A GERMAN ESTIMATE YOF ANKEE SWAGGER - A is a German paper published in this country thus speaks:
The interest taken by the Americans in the present German War is greater than it has been in former warlike events of the old world, and we do not regret this is so The Americans yet see before them all the details of their own civil war.
Military Departments.
WASHINGTON, August 9.-The following general order has been issued: |WAR DEPT, ADJT. GENL'S OFFICE, WASHINGTON, AUGUST 9, 1866|. General order No. 59.- By direction of the President, the present arrangement of the military divisions and departments is herby discounted and the following divisions and commands substituted:
First Department of the East, headquarters Phildelphia, PA, Major General Geo. G. Meade to command, will embrace the New England States, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Second Department of the Lakes, headquarters Detroit, Michigan, Brigdier and Breve Major General Joseph Hooker to command, will embrace the States of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin.
Third Department of the Potoniac, headquarters, Richmond, Va. Brevet Major General John M. Schotield to command, will embrace the States of Virgina and West Virginia.
Fourth Department of the South, headquarters Charleston, SC, Major General Daniel E. Sickles to command, will embrace the States of North Carolina and South Carolina.
Fifth Department of Tennessee, headquarters Nashville, Tenn, Major Gen. Geo H Thomas to command, will embrace the States of Kentucy, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi.
Sixth Department of the Gulf, headquarters New Orleans, La, Major Gen. Philip H. Sheridan to command will embrace the States of Florida, Louisiana and Texas.
Seventh Department of the Arkansas, headquarters Little Rock, Arkansas, Brigadier and Brevet Major General O.C. Ord to command, will embrace the State of Arkansas and the Indian Territory west.
Eight Department of Missouri, headquarters. Leavenworth, Kansas, Major General W.S. Hancock to command, with the same boundaries as now constituted, except such as may be detached to form a new Department.
DESCRIPTION OF VIENNA- A foreign correspondent writes: Although Vienna is already a vat city of nearly thirteen miles circumference, yet the amount of improvement and building that is going forward is very great. The old city of Stadt is about three miles in circumference, and was built chiefly in the middle ages, and was consequently, densely packed together within a wall that was erected for defense. It is a curious old honey comb, that old city. The streets run crowded about; they are generally only from twelve to twenty feet wide, often not more that eight; the houses tower many stories high and away down here.
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The Rice Crop. - A friend of large experience in the culture and preparation of rice for market, writes to the Charleston Courier as follows, from Georgetown, S C, under the 31st ultimo:
"An attempt was made to cultivate about one-fourth of the lands in this District of which I can sately say one-half failed, whilst the yield of the portion under culture will not be over two-thirds of a crop. I do not think the entire rice crop of Waccamaw, Pee Dee, Black and Sampit Rivers will exceed 5,000 tierces of which about 4,000 tierces will reach the regular channels. The balance will probably be absorbed in this vicinity, as indicated by the number of floating stores preparing for the ensuing fall.
"Again the crop will be greatly depreciated by the mixing of parcels, making it almost impossible to [[?]] and make a fair sample.
"The planting was late, consequently, the harvest must come altogether, making the work very heavy at that important time. I do not think labor can be controlled sufficiently to harvest what rice will be made ere it is overripe-another serious depreciation of a very short crop.
"In many instances, the seed was stolen when issued for planting, therefore, much of the land is left without a stand - except of volunteer rice, which will make its appearance in greater or less quantity.
"A planter who attempted to cultivate four hundred acres, offers to give his entire crop as it now stands to any person who will refund him the quantity of seed given out, together with the provisions issued to the laborers.
"Altogether, I think he prospects of a rice crop in this section fully as bad this year as last year."
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Cold Drinks in Hot Weather.
Many people come to sudden deaths by using cold drinks in hot weather. - An exchange says:
So long as they can take a cold drink, a majority of the people care very little what they drink; although physicians and sensible people are aware that many people are annually killed by too frequent or injudicious use of cooling beverages during the heated term. For the benefit of our readers, we recently applied to an eminent physician for an opinion on the subject, and a prescription that would most readily meet the requirements of thirsty people during the warm weather.
Ginger, said the doctor, I consider the very best article, most easily procured and least expensive for all persons to employ. By its proper use, they may have cold water in abundance, and at the same time, avoid most if not all the ill effects produced by the cooling abominations a great many people pour down their throats this hot weather. Tell your readers, continued the physician, to buy a
Fleeting Shows for Man's Illusion Given.
False calves, palpitating [[?]], plumpers, chignons, elevators and tilting hoops! Well, we don't know how fleeting they ay be, for some we wot of have lasted a long time and withstood much wear and tear; but certainly they are fleeting shows for man's illusion given. No one will dare gainsay that assertion, In fact the present style of female dress is so embarrassing (to men) that men do not know which way to look, aud are always in a flutter for fear they will see something they ought not to see.
But stop; we are not exactly candid; in short we are not telling the truth. Men are not embarrassed; on the con [[damaged area]] they are delighted, and always on [[damaged area]] i vive to see all they can.
But what are we writing about? We stand aghast at finding ourselves on such new and untried ground. All the events, we cannot go on. We flounder. The subject swallows us up. We beg pardon sor touching it. A naughty brother edifor put it into our head. Hear what he tays. For love of him, we suppress his name, and the name of his abode:
FALSE CALVES-BOSOMS AND PLUMPERS.- We stop the press to announce that these appendages of Fifth Aveneudledom have made their appearance in our staid old city, aud may be seen in all their naked attractions in an uptown show-window. Our local brother down the street has inspected them and declares that the bosoms swell like the genuine article, but he protests that he is incapable of judging of the fidelity of the calves to the original calf.
The "plumpers" are fastened to the teeth to make the cheeks look round and plump, like a mouth full of cold mush, and are well calculated to deceive the unsuspecting. We would advise our brother to beware of this last innovation. The false calves and bosoms may be tolerated, because they feel and swell very much like the genuiue article and may be accompanied by charms not to be sneezed at. But the idea of an ancient dame attempting to convert a dilapidated mouth into lips of ruby with such a beggarly device. Bah!
[Edgefield Advertiser.
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A WIFE'S PRAYER.-The following is beautiful: "Lord bless and preserve that dear person who Thou has chosen to be my husband; let his life be long and [[damaged area]] ossed, comfortable and holy; aud me also become a great blessing and comfort unto him, a sharer in all his joys, a refreshment in all his sorrows, a meet helper for him in all the accidents and chances of the world; make me amiable forever in his eyes and very dear to him. Unite his heart to me in the dearest union of love and holiness, and mine to him in all
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Spelling mistakes like Column-1 "Fernamdo" has been transcripted as Fernando, have been corrected.
