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* .r * ' tai ?ai?!s,iia spasms. BY F. M. TRIMMIER. Devoted to Education, Agricultural, Manufacturing and Mechanical Arte. $2.00 IN ADVANCE VOL XXIII. SPARTANBURG, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 18G6. NO. 12 T H K IS PUBLISHED KVEBV THURSDAY MOKNING, A T Two Dollars (Specie) in Advance. HATES OF ADVERTISING. One Square, First Insertion, If 1 ; Subsequen Insertions, 75 cents. Tlie IIIood> Field of t'orlntli. TIIE FEDERAL AND CONFEDERATE DEAD. From a correspondent of the Memphis Argus, written froin Corinth, Mississippi, we make the following interesting extract: The first point usually visited by those who stop here to examine the battle field, is a strong earthwork known as l'ort Itob inett, immediately north of the Memphis and Charleston road, oil the hill, just above the first "cut," on that road, about a quar ter of mile west of the town. Here occurred, on the morning of the 4th of October, that desperate conflict, so well known to immortal fame, in which Col. Wm. 1* Rogers, of the 2d Texas regiment, commanded on that and the previous day a brigade of Texas and Arkausaa sharpshooters. Col. Rogers fell, fighting, within the fort, nnd is buried just without the ditch Of all tho Confederate dead on this field. Col. Rogers is, L am told, the only one who was properly buried; that is to say, the only one who was buried deep enough to prevent the rains from washing the dirt away a id exposing his bones He, it is said, was buried under the immediate su per vision of Gen. Roaecrans, who bad a substantial paling placed around the grave, and a headboard, with this inscription: "Col. Ceo. Rogers, 2i> Texas Regiment, KiLLEOflDcr. 4th, 1802." As will be seen from this (which is an exact copy), General Rosccrans made a piistake in the first or Christian name of Col. Rogers. It should read: "Col. William P. Rogers, 2d Texas," &c. It will bo remembered by many of your readers that General Rose crans, in some otficial correspou Icncc with Generals Van Horn and Price, soon after the battle, spoke in most glowing terms of the gallantry of Col. Rogers, naming him, I believe, "the bravest of the brave." lie also complimented the entire division to which the knightly and peerless hero belonged?Maury's?and said that "the bruv-' dead of so gallant a division should never want for fitting burial at his hands"?or words to that eft'oet. No doubt the General fully intended to carry out this prom ise, and probably issued orders accordingly; but those orders were certainly never fitting ly carried out, as will appear to any one who rides over the field?as lias appeared to hundreds and thousands who have ridden over it since the close of the war. In the northwestern angle formed by the crossing o! the rail:onds, from Corinth out to auil beyond the outer line ol works, three and a half miles distant, the whole of this great bat tic tie Id is dotted, here and , there?in some places thick as meadow | molehills?with the graves ol federal, and the exposed remains of Conlederate dead. The Confederate dead, it clearly appears, I were merely covered up on the ground where they tell. The Federal dead were ; all neatly ^interred, in the usual way, with head and foot boar Is in every instance, and in most cases, I believe, wero enclosed with wooden palings. 1 saw but one Federal , frave where the hones were at all exposed. saw but one Confederate tumulus where the bones?generally the skulls?were not more or less exposed or scattered around in all directions. / t the outer line of entrenchments, where a portion ot Maury's l>iviuion made the assault, I saw two human skull bones, one pelvis, and two jawbones, lying on a stump, with no trace of a grave or tumulus nearer than fifty or a hundred yards. In front of the outer breastworks, not fur from the same spot, I saw two tumuli, where some six or eight ' Confederate dead had been covered up on the side of a hill. Here several ot the skulls and the feet of most of the bodies had been uncovered by the action of the elements, and were lying around upon the ground, already bleached perfectly white, j and of courte rapidly crumbling to decay. mi ? ... - i ne coiuiiti jii o! tliesc tumuli, 1 am told by gentleman residing in tlie vicinity who have examined every part of the field, is a luir specimen of all the rest. In one place (oh 1 was infoimed l.y ('apt. Mask, of this town, who, with Col. I'olk, rode over the field with me) the bodies of two or three Confederates were placed by the aide of a log, (to save labor, 1 suppose,) and a little dirt thrown upon them ; the dirt had all wushed away, and there the skeletons lie, wholly exposed and uncarcd for, u like the beasts that perish !" A description of the condition of the remains of the Confederate dead on the Gold of Corinth will, I presume, answer for that of most of thoso who fell in the desperate and sanguinary battle of Shiloli ; and it is earnestly to be hoped that the public journals of the South will, at an early day, call attention to the subject, aud ur<?c the people to move in the matter ini mediately, to the end that remedial measures may be udopted, and the demands of common humanity satisfied. All over these fields of carnage the hones of brave men from every Southern State lie exposed to the notion of the elements above ground, and are rapidly hastening to decay. Especially interested in this subject, and in seeing that justice be done in the premises, are West Tennessee and North Mississippi, and Memphis and New Orleans, whoso gallant sons perished here by the hundred and by the thousand, in a cause which, though now forever last, they honestly believed involved the salvation of a great prrnciple and the defence nl their native lund from unwarranted invasion, shall the memory of these brave and earnest men he thus dishonored ? Shall that memory be held so cheap by us, the survivors, that we may deny to them the poor tribute of decent burial, and a compendious monument, here at Corinth, to perpetuate, at least, their daring and their devotion to principle'/ Forbid it. Heaven ! The cause lor which they struggled has gone down beneath the stern decrees of fate ; but they were none the less good men and true. Tho great and still open question of ultimate State sovereignty, for which they had died, has been decided adversely by the supremcst ol all earthly courts, but they were none the less honest litigants, and are entitled to the respect of all honest men everywhere, however much differing with them in opinion. The rc nowti <j1 their courage and devotion, rivaling that of the bravest and truest knights of old, or that of the men of King Lconi das ai the 44 I'ass," has gone throughout all lands, " Where o'er beneath the sky of llcaveu, The birds of lame have tluwn." Everywhere, except among those unappeascable cowards of our own land who commenced fighting after the War was over, these noble dead have been recognized as gallant gentlemen who laid down their lives like the true Anglo-Huxons of every ago, for a principle. Without deciding whether their cause was, ou the whole, right or erring, the intelligent, the good and the truthful oi all civilized countries have hailed them as heroes, and held up their noble qualities to the admiration to all mankind. Shall we be loss respectful to our own brethren? Shall we neglect them? Shall wo permit their bones to bleach and rot above ground on all those battlefields? Again 1 say, forbid it, Heaven ! Forbid it, every noble, every honorable impulse ol our common humanity ! Tlic (.real Tclencope. We copy lroin the Cambridge (Mass.) Chronicle the following interesting laots in relation to the grand telescope intended for the observatory in Chicago : ''Understanding that the great refracting telescope, constructed by Alvau Clark, was to be taken to its destination in a few days, 1 embraced an opportunity of visiting bis place to examine the-instrument, which has already become so lainous. Mr. Clark invited me to look at the different portions of tho telescope, which occupied various parts of the shop. The mahogony tube is twenty-three feet focal length, and 1 inquired of Mr. Clark how he was intending to pack it for transportation; lie remarked that it would be quite easy, as an aperture was to be cut in the end ol the baggage ear, when it could be readily loaded. In one end of the upper rooms of the house, we saw the object trlass. or irr.-m " o "" h"" "v eye, of the telescope; it is over one foot and a hall in diameter, ami consequently nearly five leet in circumference; it is said to be the largest refracting telescope in the world now in working order, and is probably equal in power to the great llosse and J Icrschcl reflectors. One of the lady visitors at Mr. Clark's expressed much regret that this telescope was to be taken one thousand miles West, and inquired with great earnestness why it was not retained in Massachusetts. "The first cost of the object glass, which consists of two disks, was one thousand dollars each, in Jfirmingham, Knglaiul, and its present worth (now completed) is eleven thousand one hundred and eightyseven dollars, and it is insured for eleven thousand dollars. "The expense of the equipment is seven thousand dollars, making a total for the finished telescope of cightccu thousand one hundred and eighty seven dollars. "Mr. Clark ami his assistants (two sons) intend to start tor Chicago with the great telescope by the middle of March, it will then be permanently attached to the tower already prepared lor it at the Pcarhorn ()bservatory. The best wishes of the friends of science will attend them on this journey." gut Lovcngood'N llu?l<ly Acting j Uorae. "Hold that ore horsedown to the yerth." ! "He's spreading his tail to fly." These and like expressions were address ed to a queer looking, long-legged, short bodied, white haired, hog eyed, funny sort of genius, fresh from bouio second-hand clothing store, and mounted on "Tarpole," ! a nic-tailed, long, poor horse, enveloped all ' over in a perfect network of bridle reins, cruppers, martingales, straps, sirsingles and red terreting, who had rained up in front of Pat Nick's grocery among a crowd of wild mountaineers full of fight and bad wins icy. "I say, you darned asli oats, jlist deep your shirts on, will you? You never seed a rual horse till I rid up. Tarpole is next to the best horse that ever . nelled nubbins, and he's dead as a still worm ; poor old Thickcy Tail." "What killed hiin,Sut?" said an anxious enquirer. "Why, nothiu' you tarnation fool ; he jis' died, standing up at that. Warn't that good pluek ? Froze stiff; no, nut udzactly, but starved l'ust and then frozed afterward; so stiff" that when dad and uie pushed him over he jist stuek out so, (spreading his arms and legs) like a carpenter's bench, and we waited seventeen days lor him to thaw afore we could skin him. Well, thai was dad and me (counting his lingers) dad and me, ISal and Jake?tool .lake, we used to call him for short?-and I'hineas, and I Simeon, and Jonas, and Charlotean, and Tallinn, and Cashua Ilenry flay, an' Noah Pan Webster, and Catharine second, and Cleopatra Antony, and Jane J.indy, and Tom lfullioti, and the baby, and the pros pcct, and inarm herself, all left without any horse to crop with. That was a nice mess lor a 'spcctablc family to be slushed in, warn't it? I declare if 1 uid'nt feel l like stealin' a horse sometimes. Well, we I waited and rested, and waited well on to strawberry time, hoping some stray horse might come along; but dog my cats of euy sicli luck us that ever come whar dad is, he's so dratted mean, and lazy, and savage, and ugly, and tryin. Well, one nite, dad he lay awake all | nite, a snorrin' and a rolin' and a whisper in' at marm, and next moruin' says he: "?Sut, I'll tell yoo what we'll do ; I'll be boss myself, and pull tne plow while you drive me, and we'll break up corn ground, and then the old quilt (that's inarm) and the brats can plant or let it alone, jist as they please." ".So out he goes to the pawpaw thicket and peeled a right smart chance oi burk, and inarm and me made gears lor dad, and tney become liiiu mightly; then he would have a bridle, so I gits an old umbrella what 1 found?its a iittle piece of iron, sorter like uuto a pitchfork, ye know?an we bent and twisted it sort r into bridle bit, snail shape, (dad wanted it kerbed, as I he hadn't worked for some time he was ulcered he might feel his outs and go to I onl/nrf :n 1 -- ? 1 n I was the tighcst race I ever did e; down I thru the grass they all went, the hornets ' I II vti, nuvu ML- g-'l utc nriuie ' all lixcd on dad, he chomped his bit jist I iike a raal horse, (he always was a most | complicated duracil old fool anyhow, and inarm always said so when ho waru't about,) then I put on the gears and out dad and I goes into the field, I a leadm J .id by the bridle and totiu the gopher I i plow on my back. | "When 1 come to the lenco, 1 let down i a gap; that made dad mail, lie wanted to jump the fence on all hairs, ho-s fa.shun. 1 hitched him to tho gopher and away he j I went, lcatiin forward to his pullin' right! j peart, and we made sharp plow in', dad go i in right over the hushes and sprouts saunas a raal hoss?tho only difference is he went ??n two legs, rrcscntly we come toa sassafras patch, and dad, to act up his character as a hoss, bulged squar inter it, and tore down a hornet's nest as big as a h j head, and all the trihe kivcred him lite, j strati-'. lie rarcd and kicked once or twice ' ami fotchcd a squeal wuss nor ury boss in lilt- district, and hut into runnin' away jist ! as natural as you ever seed. ' 1 let the plow go and hollered, woa, dad, woa, but ye mout as We!l said woa to , a locomotive, dcwhilikius, how ho run. | \\ hen he cum to a hush, he'd clear it . gofiller and all ; he thot there tnuut be an- 1 I other Huttlcuu lit of bald hornets in it ; and ' that it was saler to go over than thro, and quicker done. Kvcry now and then, lie'd paw one side of his head with fust one tore log and then tothcr; then ho'd gin hiui.seIt an open handed slap, that sounded like a wagon whip, and rum,in' all the time and a carry in' that gopher iistahoutus last and high from the ycarlh as ever a gopher was carried, 1 swat W hen ho cum to the fence, he busted right thru it, tarcli nigh into seven panels, seatUriu' and brcakin' j the rails mightily ; and hero he left the gopher, gears, swingletrcc and klcvis, and mixed up, not wurtli a dent; most of his shirt stuek to the broken cud ol a splintered rail, and nigh onto a pint o' hornets I staid with the shirt, a stingin' all over? the balance on 'cm, about a gallon and a half, kept on with dad lie seemed to run ndzactly as last a> a hornet could fly, for it sorter matin' it look like smoke all round (lad's head, and he with nothin' on hut the bridle, and nigh onto a yard o' plow line sailin' behind him. 1 seed he was uiinin' i for the swimmia' holo in the creek, whar i the bluff is over twenty lect perpeudicular i to the water, and it's nigh onto ten feet ] deep. To keep up his character as a horse when ho irnf ti? ?l?r> 1.1..IT I... 1 -11' ..v ?v vuu uiuu UU J191 It'll pt'U IUI, ] or ratlicr hojist kept ou runniu'. Now, right thar, boys, he over did the thing; < it that was what he was artor, for thar's nary boss ever foaled, darned tool enough i to leap over sich a place; a mule mout have done it, -ut dad warn't acting mule. I crept up to the edge ami looked over. Thar was old dad's bald head, lor all the world like a peeled ingun, a bobbin up and down, and the hornets a sailin' and circliu' round, turkeybuzzard fashion, and every ouco in a while, one, and sometimes ten, 'ud make a dip at dad's head. He kept up a peart dodgin' under, sometimes they'd hit him and sometimes they'd hit the water, and the water was kivered with < drowned hornets. 1 " 4 What ou yearth are you doin thar, i dad says I. i " ' l>on't (dip) you see these infernal i varmits (dip) onto ui??" 4,4 What !' sod I. 1 Them arc boss Hies < thar; ye aiut really afeared of them, are* 1 yc " 1 " ' I loss flic* !' scd dad ; ' they're real (dip) gcucwine bald hornets, you t^ip) 1 infernal cuss.' i 44 4 Wol', dad, you'll have to stay thar ! till nite, and artcr they go to roost, you ' come home and I'll feed you." I 44' Aiul know in' dad's unmodified natui, 1 1 broke from those parts, and sorter cum I to the copper mines. 1 staid hid till about < next arternoon, when 1 seed a fellow j travelling, an<.? scd 1, 4 What was goin on 4 at the cabin this side of the crock you pass I cd it?' i " 4 Why, notliin' much, only a man was i sittin' in the door with nary shirt on, and i n woman was greasin his hark and arms, i and his head was about as big a- a ten gal- ] 1 >ii keg. and he had'nt the tirst sign ol an I eye?all smooth.' I 44 4 That man's my dad, scd 1. t "4 Ueen much then in this neighbor- i i i .? ? i .i * iiuuj miviy . hmu inc traveler urj iy. "'Nunwuth spcakin' ol', personally or i particularly,' sed 1. 44 4 Now, boys, I haiut seen <lad since, i and would be afcarod to meet him in the < next ten years. Let's drink." The Hkvii. Kii.i.kd.?One night last j week a man in Caroline was aroused by an unusual noise in his yard, and went out ( and touad that some one had broker! open his meat house, and was making oft with ( his meat. lie hailed the supposed thief, ( but ibuud to his astouishment that he had waked up the most unearthly looking four legged customer he ever beheld. At first lie was tempted to leave the field to the intruder, but not likiug to lose his meat, he concluded to make at hiin. He was met 1 by a terocious growl, lie at oi.ee ran to ' the house, got his gun, and blazed away at the monster. The shot had about the same ' impression 011 it as would bo produced by shooting green peas against a brick wall. 1 The devil uttered a growl, shook his chains, spit sparks of lire from his mouth, and 1 tilled the air with the smell of brimstone, The unearthly manifestations of the demon luudc the hair stand 011 the man's head ; 1 hut he could not bear to los? his bacon.? lie then, nothing daunted, determined to have another lire at the devil and took the precaution to put a minuie bullet in his gun. The shot took eficet directly in the eye of the monster, and he rolled upon the ground a lifeless corpse. 1 poti examination it was found to be a negro man, wrapped in a mule skin, which he had padded and fixed up, to render it impcrvi* uuo 10 Midi, una me lire ami I rumtonc was I but :iii artifice intended t>> frighten away I intruders, while he committed t !>? robbery. I'tsfoit (M>/.) Sfitr How to Know 'km.? It is generally thought that the feminine dross has no par ticular significance ; but souie one skilled in the art of female attire makes the following statement in regard to long ribbons hanging round the neck : When the girls wear the ends hanging in front it means " the lady is marriedover the left shoulder, that" she has a fellow coming to ! see her, but isn't engaged," and down the hack it means, " Hoys come follow me." i If she doesn't wear any at all, it means she ' " is engaged," and don't wish to have any thing to do with " any other fellow." ? s ? yi ? A 11 km ah iv a i'.i.k DltKAM.? A frW days since a robber entered the house of Mrs.1 Powell, in Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, ' and carried oil ?500. Mrs. Powell saw ' the thief as lie made the exit, and was I able to identify him when arretted shortly after. No clue eouhl be obtained t6 the i stolen funds. Mrs. Powell, however dreamed that it was secreted in a batch of dough. She communicated dream to the police, and Captain Loich going to the room ot the robber the next day discovered the money hidden iu a loaf ot bread. Tlie Scotch Coveuuntcm. One of the most sublime and affecting scenes in the religious history of Scotland is connected with the signing of the Covenant in 1638. By this Covenant, the people of Scotland encaged themselves to the Lord to maintain among themselves the pure doctrine and discipline of his church in nnnimitinn ?1' n 1 - ' " ' -ri u.i x upai ana episcopal errors aud innovations. A National fust hud been appointed lor the 28tb of February in the Grey Friars' church, in Edinburg. As many as sixty thousand, it was computed, from all parts of Scotland, filled the church and the large space around it, at an early hour of the day. At 2 o'clock the Covenant was brought in, ready for signature. After the meeting had been constituded with prayer by lleudcrson, "vcrrie powerfullio and pertincntlio," the Covenant was read a'oud by Johnston. The reading was followed by silence as still as death, till Kothcs called for any who had objections to present them. When the doubts of a few had been satisfactorily answered, the venerable Earl of Sutherland stopped forward, and put the first name to the document. After it had gone the round of tho whole church, it was taken out to bo signed by the crowd in tho churchyard. llerc it was read and subscribed by as many us could get near it. Many, in addition to signing their names, wrote ''fill death" und some opened a vein md subscribed it with their blood. The large sheet soon became so much crowded with names on both sides, aud wherever there was room, that there was not space ieit lor a single additional signature. Zeal tor Christ and the liberties of Scotland warmed ever}* breast. Some expressed their joy in shouts, but a much greater number wept bitterly for their past defection from the Lord. \Vheu called upon to testify their iiuccrity by the additional confirmation of in oath, they all, with groans, and tears streaming down their faces, liftod up their right hands at once. When this awful opDeal was made to the 1 ? _ ...V MVMt wuui VI liuurus ill the day oi judgment, so gTeat was the fear of breaking this solemn engagement, that thousands who had often laced the dangers of battle undaunted, now trembled in every joint. The solemnities o( the day wero closed by a powerful exhortation to the people to begin their personal reformation ; and about 9 o'clock in the evening the vast crowd retired. Copies of this Covenant were immediately sent to all parts of the kingdom, and before the end of April there were few parishes in Scotland where it had not been dgncd by nearly all of competent age and charaetor. Never, except, perhaps, among God's ancient people, the Jews, was a covenant so truly National. Ex-PoNtinnntcr Cien*l Reagan. The New Orleans Crescert of the 29th ult., publishes a private letter from lion. John 11. lleagan, Postmaster General of the late Confederate Stutes, written to a gentleman of that city. We publish an extract to show how the author adapts himsclt to the present condition of affairs, snd as an example of industry in a gentleman who has occupied high public station, that others would do well to imitate : ' Uii my return home I determined that it would comport most with my self respect, and with what was due to iny frieuds, for me to avoid ail participation in public affairs, and 1 chooso ot to en crane in tho practice of my pr.ies.sion, tor the present at least, and have quietly settled myself down to farming. 1 tound uiy farm in bad condition, though I am now getting it into a good state ol cultivation, and have improved it much since the first of .January. L have ouc white man and seven freed man at work; have planted some fruit trees and shrubbery, and most of my vegetable garden and Irish potatoes, and beaded out my sweet potatoes, aud planted thirty-five acres of corn and bavo as much more rcaJy to plant; have sowed down twelve or fifteen acres in small grain, and shall plant about thirty-five acres in cotton. I am orchardist and gardener myself, and when not engaged at this, or in the necessary superintendence of the frecdmen, I work on the farm constantly with my own hands, and can do as much work with apparently as little fatigue as any of them. I make fence, gtub, and pile and buin brush, plow, etc., and am as thoroughly bronzed as other laborers. "You can hardly imagine the sense of relief aud repose of mind I enjoy in tlio absence of the cares and perplexities of official and public life, or the great interest 1 take and the enjoyment I experience in my retired and quiet life. And if our country was again blessed with constitutional government and civil liberty, aud my beloved chief and a few other dear friends were n stored to their liberty and families, I should leel perfcetlv contents.l nmi * " " "* ??|'ry. A lady speaking of tho gathoring of lawyers to dedicate a new court-house, said she supposed they had gone 'to view tin* ground where they must shortly lie !* % w