China now being undertaken at Southern Porcelain

SOUTHERN PORCELAIN MANUFACTURING

COMPANY.

It will be remembered that a company was char­tered about a year since under the above name, and immediately commenced operations at the famous porcelain clay bed near Bath, in Edgefield. Very complete works have been erected, machinery ob­tained, and extensive arrangements put in opera­tion to further the accomplishment of the desired object. By active and efficient exertions the com­pany have already attained a success beyond their most sanguine expectations.

Contented at first with a limited scope of opera­tions, and desirous of fully testing the experiment, step by step, from the lower to the higher grades of its execution and accomplishment, the company at first confined its efforts to the manufacture of earth­en, stone and Rockingham ware, but within the last few weeks China ware has been undertaken, speci­mens of which are now on exhibition and for sale, which are considered decidedly superior to the best English article, and will compare favorably with the French. An accent of one of the largest China houses in New York, who lately visited and exam­ined this manufactory and its products, expressed his astonishment at what he saw, and took away with him a sample, which he pronounced equal to anything of the kind he had ever seen.

The works are yet in an incomplete but progres­sive state, and in a short time they hope to be able to improve the quality of their work, and turn out a superior and highly finished article of gilded and ornamental ware, which can be sold twenty-five per cent, cheaper than the French China. The manufactory is located about five miles below Hamburg, and near the South Carolina Railroad, thus afford­ing every convenience for safe and speedy transportation. R. H. Gardner, Esq., is the President, and Messrs. Holman, Curtis & Co., are the Agents at Augusta. The establishment is in the hands, and under the control of men who possess the means, energy and enterprise to carry it to a successful termination, and the public should sustain and encour­age them in their praiseworthy efforts to give us a home manufactory of this important article of com­merce. — Charleston Evening News.