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(Y E. 13. MURRAY <fc CO. ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 17. 1881. VOLUME XVII.-NO. 19. WHOLESALE nnd RETAIL FURNITURE WAREROOMS. C3-- 33\ TOLLY, ays the Leader of Low Prices in Furaiture in this State, W announces to thc public that ho bas greatly enlarged his Wnwrnn,,,. ? enabled to carry the LARGEST STOCK Ol? F?WT?RE TH? ?h???5 |LESTON. I bave on hand, and an, still t^J^^S?S?SPJSSLZ else a de8c^lpUons, wh,ch 1 K???rantee to sell cheaper timu ?vc in stock GOO Bedsteads of different kinds, and good bedsteads csu be t from nie, with Slats and Castors complete, ut $a.7f> apiece, and uywaids OOO ,M and Keeking Clmlr*. Tho celebrated Rattan SeaFcffi "nfc^nainted I bought from me at 70c. apiece. Fine Cane Heut Chairslat ?I 75 KW rWZi ?nd Cane Back Rocking Chairs at *1.50 apiece. U?ff?S3??% styles* UH, wah arch standard, large frame and gloss, at &7.?O and upwards. y Rcs of all styles and descriptions, from a Suite consisting of French Bedstead Bu ?Vito arch standard and ?lass plate, lour Cane Seat Chairs, one Cane ?cat ar d Rocking Chair, one Towelend Washstand with Drawer ami one Table ut 111 SO K^l?&SHSff?ff *o%h l).roi,:,rti??- ,Tln SaieH> two ?nd drawer, . Centre Sable, 2 feet six inches diameter, at gl.SO aoieee U'a?h. ds, with drawer and towelend at #1.20. Wardrobes. Sideboards Slattreuses Pnr. lites, CHEAPER THAN ANYBODY ELSE. ??hdJSS^tS^SSt\S? \ S'?^ G& ?asttV&,0t ?f iinf S?? Jt/OSLW *%. DEPOT 8THEET. Come and see me and be convinced * areruoms Ch 10. 1KH0_ 35 -40 flf EMBODIED IN THE NEW REMINGTON SEWING MACHINE. Its tensions are perfect, and do not vary with different rates of opecd. |It does work ut a higher rate of speed than any other Shuttle Machine, lit has no springs in its tensions. |Its tensions do not vary when using uneven thread. Hts neodle is self-setting and securely held in place by u grooved clamp, pt will not skip stitches. It will never break a needle with ordinary care. It has an accurate gauge by which to set a needle. It has tho only perfect thread controller, making the "perfect lock stitch." It never "loops" stitches on tho work. It sews over heavy seams with tho greatest ease. It will sow and feed work at the extreme edge in commencing. Its stitch moy be lengthened or shortened while running at its highest speed. It has a most convenient spooler. lits shuttle is self-threading and carries a very large quantity of thread. |Jta shuttle is carried in an adjustable race, ensuring accuracy without friction. Its driving belt can be tightened instantly without cutting. It sews all grades ot material with least change. It never bas "tits" and cannot get "out of order." Its motions being positive, it cannot get "out of time." (It is most Rccurale?v adjusted in construction. Its parts are interchangeable, and can he duplicated at a trifling cost. Its wearing parts are made of hardened steel. It has but few bearings, consequently but little friction. It runs more lightly than any other Sewing Machine. It runs more quietly than any other Shuttle Machine. It hos no "cog gear wheels" to run hard and noisy. It bas no "roller cams" to run slow and heavy. It has no "lever arms" to increase friction and wear. It is more conveniently arranged for oiling and cleaning. It requires but little oil, and will not gum up and run hard. Its table is lower, giving more perfect control over the work. Its treadle motion heing evenly balanced, will not fatigue the ?perator. Its feed can be more easily raised and lowered. It is more symmetrical in all its proportions. Its attachments are more easily adjusted. It has a stop-motion for winding bobbin without removing the work. It has fewer parts than any other Machine, lits parts are so adjusted that all wear may be taken up. Sit has superior woodwork to any other Machine. ALL MACHINES WARRANTED IN EVERY RESPECT. McOUIiLY & TAYLOR, Agents for the New Remington Sewing Machines, Attachments, Needles, ?fee, ANDERSON, S. C. -o WE are also in tho market with a largo and well-selected stock of GENERAL, &CHAND1ZE, comprising all the Goods needed by thc average consumer of our Itry. Thcce Goods have been selected at the principal markets of the United States, it as low as the lowest, and we are fully prepared to compete with any house in the miry. We are LARGE CASH BUYERS OF COTTON, and are paying full for all grades of the staple. Parties indebted to us for SUPPLIES, GUANO, MACHINERY, or otherwise, inded to call and settle their obligations, as it is our intention to bring all out claims to a settlement. McCULLY & TAYLOR. 1881 13 JJICK SALES AND SMALL PROFITS. E DESIRE to call thc attention of our friends and customers TO OUR LARGE STOCK OF GOODS, consisting, in part, of a FULL LINE OF DRY GOODS, leashed and Brown Shirtings and Sheetings, Prints, Worsted Dress Goods, Jeans, Virginia Cassimcres, Flannels, A SPLENDID lot of BLANKETS, LADIES' CLOAKS, The best Shirts and best fitting. Call and see them. A FULL LINE OE HARDWARE, Cnrpots, Mata und X&ug?s, ATS, GAPS, SADDLES AND BRIDLES. Shoes and Boots. call particular attention to our "Bay State" Boots and Shoes, and T. Milts ?fe Sons and Shoes. Wo warrant every pair. Give them a trial. CROCKERY, CHINA AND GLASSWARE. GROCERIES. i A r, Coffee, Molasses, Bacon, Lard. Thc finest Tea in the market. Mackerel. A. e of Fancy Groceries. Oat Meal. Try our Roasted Coffee. We keep the BEST R that is in.-.de. Skins, Sole Leather and Lining Skins, Woodenware ?Criwilcfc'- ?und "Valises. e keep GOOD GOODS, and we desire to show them. We think we can satisfy rices and Quality. Please give us a call before buying. A. B. TOWERS & CO., No. 4 Granite Row. IMPORTANT ! It is important that persons owing us for GUANO and other SUPPLIES should in their Cotton and settle promptly. This is important, as it will enable us to pay . owe. Blake H note of this, and rcmem*?rB*f.f0WKRS & co. 29, 1881 12_ !y B. CLARK & SONS MERCHANT TAILORS, 9 AND DEALERS IN L KINDS OF GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS. desire to call tho attention of tho public to thc fact that we have the largest stock of Gentlemans' Goods we over baa AND ARE SELLING THEM AT HARD TIME PRICES, have a beautiful line of English Diagonals ami Worsted Ooods. Also, J road In great variety. Our Bne of Foreign and Domesuo Suitings and I ants Goods be equalled this side of New York. . ~_ ^ , ., are fully propared to CUT AND MAKE UP CLOTHING in the very latest No?lON AND UNDERWEAR DEPAItTy.F.VT, such as Suspenders Col uffs, Neck Ties and Scarfs, Fine Dress Shirts, both laundricd and unlaundncd, els, ?fee, is complote. ... , . , TS-V/c have a large and very pretty stock of Hats, of tho very latest stylos. - READY MADE CLOTHING. would rvh au in soarch of a 8uit all ready made to be sure to call and seo ont in this line before buying. You can buy a Suit nt any prie* you want. 0\ fcK Arante* MtisfJtion in every instance, and will sell a? low as tho lowest. Wi WHAT WE SAY. IN THE CENTENNIAL BUILDING. 6, ISSI IS SIXTEEN YEARS AFTER. Tim Haiti? of Sharpiburg. Detroit Free I\e*$. Shurpsburg! I ride up thu long street through the quaiut old town to the west of tho ridge on which now stsv.ds z rational cemetery, and from this point the eye can seo where every brigade and division fought on that memorable 17th day of September, 18G2. Pope had been crushed at Mauassus ' and Lee had invaded Maryland. (Jen. ] McClellan, retired in disgrace to Alex- j andria, had been summoned to his old i command, and if he could not reorganize ! I Pope's shattered and disheartened forcea, j I overtake Lee aud win a victory, the j Uuion waa doomed. All felt it and knew it. McClellan was the only bullwurk between Lee and a Northern invadion. In a week Lee was brough to bay ou tho j hills of Sharpsburg. But for the dis graceful surrender of Miles at Harper's Ferry his arjiy would have been replaced before the surrender by one who would . have held the stronghold. Here, then, on the ltJth of .September ' Lee had his back to the Potomac aud his ? face to thc mountains c Maryland, with j his head quarters in thc very building in ! which I write. McClellan had his back to the mountains, and all was ready for the awful carnage of the morrow. THE DATTLE-FIELDS. It is the most beautiful lardscape the eve ever rested on, and it looks to day almost exactly as it did when the sun rose ou that beautiful autumn morning lo be lost eight of in clouds of smoke and death. You look down on wheat fields, pastures, orchards, farm houses hay-ricks and highways. There aro hills and valleys and groves and patches of forest, and the Antietam Creek winds in and out aud rushes and gurgles just as it did that morning when Gens. Lee and Jack son stood on the hill behind mo aud scanned thc fields with their glasses. It was the grandest battlefield of the war. Even Gettysburg did not aflbrd such po sitions for artillery, and the plains of Mannassas did not aflbrd such chances for the movement of infantry. HOOKEIt BEGAN THE FIGHT On tho right almost before it was light enough for the men to see to dress their baltic lines. He had Stonewall Jack-son in front of him with not over 0,000men. Jackson's left rested on tho Potomac to cover n ford. Hooker was to drive him down on Lee's center, and tho grapple took placo iu the woods along the Hagers towu road. Hooker carried into action at least 13,000 men, aud Mansfield was right behind him with a full corps. AFTER NINETEEM YEA Ile*. I rode over the ground to day with men who fought on either side in those grim woods that day. There are fence raiU along the Hageratown road in which one may count from ten to thirty bullets. Scarcely a tree is missing in the forest, and scacely a tree can be found which does not hear the scars of the awful grapple. Limbs are lying whern they fell that morning as solid shot tore them away. Trees are riven by shells and stand there as dead sentinels appealing io tho past. Shot and shell and grape shot searched for men in blue ana gray and finding tht?i not spent their fury on the forest and left wounds which nineteen lung years have failed to efface. A FIGHT OF DEVILS. If Jackson was forced dun n in the cen ter Lee was gone. Every man under him realized this, and every confederate strung his nerves for desperate fighting Jackson had the advantage of being at tacked, but Hooker had three men to his one, and was determined to crush him before reinforcements could arrive from the center. For two hours the woods echoed screams and shrieks and shouts and groans, and Hooker had nol driven Jackson a rod. Then Mansfield arrived and threw his whole corps inti the struggle, and the Coufederale? were pressed back for more than a mile to a point of wood within a quarter of a mile of Jackson's headquarters, which wero ir tho DUNKER CHURCH 1 mile or so above the village. Sbo and Bhell rained down around tnis build ing until fields seemed te have beet {il o wed, and as I sat on the grass ant oohed up to count thc scars on the walls my Land touched a fragment of shel thrown there from Hooker's ba. .eries. "HERE V/E DIE!" "We will die here !" wc=, the quie order of Jacksou as bis forces wer pushed to the edge of the woods. Ti retreat furthur was to be without cover Right there in that bit of forest waa J hell on earth for the next half hout Every stump and rail and tree am 6tone prove it to-day. After the annie had loft, farmers collected shot and shel by the wagon load and hauled then down to a sink or morass near the churcl and dumped them in to have them out o the way. Not two or three wagons loadi but fifteen or twenty, and every yea the piew turns up grape and canister b the bushel. Bravery in r.n enemy can bG admittc and admired without detracting from th bravery of our friends. Stonewall Jack son, with a mile and a half of woodville with dead and wounded from his 0,00 men, hero turned at bay and held th full 13,000 ?nen under Hooker and Man: field. History admits it, and Gen. Sun ncr proved it before th-.- Committee o the Conduct of the war. Gen. Mansfiel was fatally wounded, Hooker wouudet scores of minor officers killed, and th b'rriba of the trees barely ouluumbere the dead and dying. I tore up sods i that hell yesterday and found bullets an grape shot imbedded in the roots, counted fifty different scars on a tree ti larger than my body. I pushed throug the undergrowth and my boots cruahe skulls ana bones and struck against soli shot which time had buried almost oat < sight. In one open glade, hardly half l acre in extent, fell 322 Federals and ll Confederates. A Union soldier wi helped bury them made the count. Th fierce grapplo so broke Hooker's cor? that Sumner could not find 500 men any organized body. "NOW PUSH THEM." Reinforcements came to Jackson ju in time to prevent his utter annihilate As soon as they wheeled into line tl whole force walked over the disorganiz Federals and stopped not until they rest once more on the battle-line of tho mor ing. That ended tho fight on Lei left. M.OODY LANE. Wo retraced our steps toward t Dunker Church and turned into wi: Eoople here call Bloody Lane. In soi istories it is spoken of as tho Sunk Road. It is a highway cut through hi for the distance of a milo or so, a troops passing over it would not ev ' ?how their heads to an enemy forty rr away. In this sunken road two bngai i of Confederates were massed to proh 1 Lee's center. They were there wh Burnside, who had been ordei to crois tho Antietam at 8 o'olr. and attacked longstreet, finally moi at noou. Hi? advance! compelled the withdrawal of scveinl batteries on Lee's center, aud a hali-right-abou' face of a portion of the troops there, and McClel lan now pushed forward some of his bat teries until they had tho range of this sunken road, tirapo and canister went screaming and shrieking through tho massed Confederates, and not one-half of them escaped from the trap. Citizens here who looked down into thal sunken road tho next day after the tight, and before a corpse of all those thousands on that Moody field had been buried, tell me that it was the most awful sight men had ever looked upon. IT WAS A 6LAUOHTER PEN And worse yet. Heads, arms, legs, feet, j hand*-, and bloody trunks of mangled hu- | inanity filled the road from bank to bank, i and old soldiers looked -down from tho banka and turned away sick at heart. BURNSIDE'S URI DO H. They call it by that name to this day. It is|a stone bridge overt he Antietam, and in crossing it from McClellan's battle line to Lee's position there is a deep cut in the hills ns the road rises lo surmount the range. McClellan's right aud center had moved forward and fought. At noon Hooker had pushed Jackson a mile and a half and tho center had advanced n mile, forcing Leo to change his headquar ters to a brick house half a mile back of thc town. Had Burnside advanced at 8 o'clock iu tho morning Leo would have been driven at every point. His right was terribly weak, as Longstreet's men strung o it all tho way from tho bridge to Harpe?.-'? Ferry. The order waa to carry the bridge, but there is no point for a quarter of a mile up or dowu that a soldier could not ford aud keep his cartridge box dry. A skirmish lino was sent forward, a lew shots were fired and that was Burnside's efibrt to carry out orders. At 9 Hooker had lost 2,000 men, and Burnside hud hardly fired a gun. At 10 the center had lost 2,000 men. and Burnside had not killed a Confederate. At ll he was where day light found him. Al noun Federals lay dead, and Burnside, had not lost a mau. He is dead now, but he lived to have historians ask him if he was not cowardly seeking a new downfall for McClellan by thus cowardly refusing to obey orders. At 1 o'clock Col. Kay was ordered by McClellan to force thc bridge with Burnside's troops if Burnside would not lead them himself,and then tho side whiskered General moved. What was in front? The answer is that two single Federal regiments carried the bridge in ten minutes ns soon as let loose. Lee bad beeu sendiug tropa to aid Jackson, aud his contempt for Burnside was shown in placing le3s 'ban 800 men to guard this approach to his right. HOI,DINO HACK. Buruside had the bridge, but Lee held the boights above. One rush would have captured his guns or driven them through,tbe town, but Burnsiie advanced, baited, advanced, fought faintly and finally sent back for reinforcements when he-had five men to Longstreet's one. It is a bitter pill to swallow, but history has written the prescription. Some of the guns on the height had no support what ever. Ono rush from a brigade would have cleared half a mile of the ridge. AROUND THE ?RIDGE. I can count fifty bullet marks on the bridge, although a part of the present structure is new. From the creek below a dozen muskets were fiished out only ten days ago. Bull?is eau be dug out of the clay banks beyond, and as I climb the road and turn Into the pasturo lands I find the scare of war on every tree and rock. But it was a mere skirmish here. WHERE THE WHEAT GROWS HIGHEST. Over between where the Suukeu Road debouches into the pike and the road skirting the woods where Hooker foughl is where the wheat grows highest. Herc the Confederate brigades of Walker ant] McLaws hurried into the light as Jackson had lost all hope. There was a cornfield here then. lu the morning the stalks anti went leaves were green. Before the aur down stalk and leaf and husk where rec with the spattered blood, and corpso out ^umbered the corn hills. Battle lines dh i .mt give way and retreat. They stood auc fought until they wore absorbed. Whet Burnside had lost fifty men on thc righi more than 4,000 of Hooker and Mnusfielc lay dead in this field, which now grow wheat so tall that I can hardly reach tin riped heads. DORTERS RESERVES. From the Dunker Church I can aei across the valley to where the right o Porter's 15,000 reserves lay all that daj behind the dark pines without firing ? shot. McClellan was blamed for no using them. Ho did use them. The; were a menanco to Lee. But fo them he would have pushed over Burn side bridge and struck Burnside in flau] and crushed him back in tho centci But for them men whom Jackson sen down the. Sunken Hoad would haw struck McClellan's center in flank an rear. Only for them Lee would hav held his lines and invited attack nea day. Sharpsburg was a drawn bntth Burnside could have made it a rout fo Lee. BAGGING LEE'S ARMY. What a ?torin the North raised ht cause McClellan did uot bag Lee's army Hookor, Mansfield and Sumner drive back to their battle line of the meroin -Burnside, plotting, hesitating-the coi ter having enough to hold ita own, and was McClellan who would have bee bagged but for the menance of the reserve lying nlong thc Bed Hill. There was great flaunt made of Lee's army bein demoralized. Demoralized armies d not go into camp as he did that nigl within cannon shot of his battle hr i and coolly wait for a river to fall nn uncover a ford. Ho waited and showe his teeth. When he retreated he fastene his teeth into the flesh of those that fo lowed. When our advance guard pusl ed on after that "demoralized" army tl Potoniac*ran red with thcblood of Porter men. I pull off my boots and wade tl ford. The rocks were rent and riven t thc shot and shell sent into the Feder advance, and here and there, lodged b tween the stone or half buried in ? gravel, are rusty bayonets, buckles i belt*, halves of canteens and other reli of the awful slaughter which took pla in the Com Exchango and other rog ment* AT S IT Nfl ET. And so as the sun goes down and t! shadows begin to fall over mountain ai valley, I sit my horso beneath a batl scarred tree for ono more look across tl historic field. McClellan had begg Ibo Secretary of War to let him go to t relief of Pope, even to bear a musket thc ranks. No answer to that appt from the political bigot under the shu ow of the Capitol. He had his fi on tho neck of n popular commandi and ho kept it there until Washing! nnd the North were threatened. Th bc lifted it and begged McClellan to sa the country. Victory at South MounU filled the North with rejoicing. Victc ut Sbarpsburg would again place MeClel at tbe bead. Wbo sought for an excuse as soon as Leo was beaten back and the North bad recovered from its cbill of ter ror to nguiu degrade tbe man who bad turned buck tbe invasion? Lincoln dead-Stanton dead-Burn side dead-Helleck-but history will never die. Tbe sun goes down ns on that day. To-night there is the lowering of kine, the faraway voices of men, the soft rustle of wind over field of corn and wheal and clover. On that night more than 15,011o corpses lay on those field before me, with white faces and bloody hands uplifted in pitiful appeal to tho young harvest moon. Meadow aud cornfield and thicket shiv ered under the stain of blood, and the swift moving waters of the creek ceased their How as they found the channel filled with dams made of human corpses. All this here, and yet it was not enough, lu thc dark woods beyond the shot riven church in which each .Sabbath day was raised a prayer to Clod for peace, were limb and trunk and corpse until wounded horses turned hack and sought another way. It ia dark as I ride slowly over tho hill wet with blood that dav, and now and then 1 look back and almo-', believe that I nm followed by a troop of spectres, who wave their skele ton arms in the faint moonlight as if driving mc from that direful field. A Remarkable Exhibit. Every display at tho exposition is worthy of study, but tho exhibit made by thc Richmond and Danville railroad and ?Ls combinations is ot unusual sig nificance, and demands special attention. The collection of woods and miuerals in this exhibit is without doubt thc finest and tho most suggestive over made in the world. It shows almost nt a glance tho immense material resourcesof the South, and studied in connection with thc other southern exhibits, demonstrates beyond all question that the field of profitable investment in this section is practically boundless. In tho display made by the Richmond and Danville combination there are, from North Carolina alone, copper ores, masses of great size and richness ; refined copper, iu ingots and plates; lead and silver ores; iron ores from many mines ; corundum, marbles, soapstones, mica, in clear sheets a foot square; sandstones, flexible aud other; chrome iron; kaolin ; jewels, amethyst, carringom, green aud rose, berlys, true sapphires, zirenns, etc., including fine specimens of tho newly-found gem, Hid dendite, which rivals the diamond. Those enumerated are all from North Carolina, and contained in the exhibit of the Richmond and Danville railroad company, which, besides samples of the wealth of that State, embraces products, too many to enumerate of other States traversed by its system of railways. In that company's exhibit may be seen some $7,000 worth of cold ueggets, besides bars of retorted gold of weights from .'18 to 58 ounces, and a single mass of gold of the value of $3,300 iu the quartz that forms its matrix. The display of woods in tho rough aud worked, in the same exhibit, is very large and fino. lu this exhibit there are also rare ;?nd desirable quulticsof iron. It is also demonstrated that in the re gion covered by tho Richmond and Dan ville and its connections that thc crops ftraduced in ono year by moro of the and will sell for moro than the land itself will bring. Thc exhibit is also re markable for the display of "bright" tobaccos from North Carolina, from which the Durham brands aro manufactured. The value of this tobacco is moro than $1,000 a ton. A Yew York industrial week!}, whoso editor had been dazzled by the possibili ties which the exposition makes mani fest, writes thus of tho resources of the South : "It has always been seen that the South, making its cotton crop net-that is tc say, growing itu own food and manufac curing fabric:: equal iu value to thc clothing of its population-would thus demonstrate itself to bo tho riche ( coun try iu the world. It is claimed thal il has already reached that result-?rilli moreovor. its yield of cereals and moah and its manufacture of fabrics increasing yearly. Growing its own food, its outlay for clothing fabrics met by the returni from its own manufacture of textiles-i has, in round numbers, $300,000,000 ne $40 per head of population, $200 pe family, from cotton alone. To this adt thc product of 330 million pounds of to bacco raised in six States, 200 millioi bus'.ols of rico raised in as many States together with the revenue from nava stores, timber, carly fruits aud vegetables and other products of varied industry it the renovated South. "Since 1870 tho capacity of Southon mills has increased from eleven thou sand to moro than fifteen thousant looms, and from four thousand t seven hundred thottsund spindler Within the same period the cousumntiot of cotton has more than doubled. ? was forty-five million pounds in 187C and in 1880 it had increased to mor than one hundred million. Tho ceusu returns show thc past decade the Sout! has made moro rapid strides in cotto manufactures than either tho country a larre of New England, the great eenie of industry in America. "Magnificent water-power forspinnin and other purposes is supplied by th streamH which flow from tho East an Wed slopes of the Alleghany runge t the Atlantic and Mississippi, ami trot the Southern slono to the Gulf, Nort Carolina is estimated to have moro tba three million horse power in her stroan from the table lands to thc sea. Th exceeds that of all tho steam engines i tho United States or Great Britain cou bined. South Carolina has not far fro, the same amount of water power, froi streams llowiug to the At luntic ocean, an Georgia, from water flowing to tin ocean and to tho gulf, probably an eve greater amount, inasmuch as the diffc ence of elevation between the sourct among the mountuins and tho mouths < the rivers in that State emptying in the ocean ur guif, (tho Chattahooch Etowah, Savannr' Broad, Ocmulgc Flint, Ogeechee, Attamnha, etc.,) rang from ono thousand to three thousar feet, and the rivers flow in tho aggrega thousands of miles in that State. "Thc splendid lift of tho conti net which furnishes this vast reservoir Sower, has its crests (thc highest 'Orth Carolina, reaching near 7,01 feet), in an even chain, 250 io 280 m" from tho seabord. Its significance ni valuo to tho -egiou is far beyond tl water-power which it supplies, importa as that is. It insure? a mild, equal: climate, in a wide extent of count commencing as soon as n narrow strip alluvial plain along tho seashore is passe and stretching up thc gradual accent tho h?ldsides among fertile valleys a rich forests, till the summit is reach and turned with fertility and wealth natural production on the western slo] This climate is probably unequalled thc world." A large part of the region referred in the foregoing is traversed by t Richmond and Danville ro-?d and Southern brauche??. This combination embraces 2,000 miles in itt- kjstem, lias j only eight millions of capital, stock and bonds, on the 1?00 miles in its original uv, un. Inp. and thal is to say $40,00(1 per i mile against $100,000 per mile of stock j and bonds on the railways of the middle States, $80,000 per milo on tho Pacific \ railways and those of the Pncillie States, and $50,000 per milo on those of the j New Kugland States. With the Wes tern States no fair comparison is open, inasmuch as the facility for easy ccu struction of railways in that region (so many lines being unfinished, with con struction accounts still open), precludes ready adjustment of mileage to capital at any given period. In addition to these 2,000 miles, the Richmond and Danville system covers lines in process of construction in Wes tern North Carolina, Tennessee, (Seor pia, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas. This system starts in one direction from Alexandria, Va., opposite Washington city, ami in another from Baltimore utilizing a steamboat service which it controls-to West Point, Va., and en joying perfect advantages at both points of complete railway connections and per manently deep water. It traverses eight of the most populous and prosperous Southern States; includes among its sta tions the capital cities of four thereof; passes along or contiguous to the eastern slopes of the mountain ranges in the interior, ami shares largely in the pas seliger traille which comes of grain and tobacco, cotton, fruit and vegetable growing indusiries, as well ss a vast wealth of cattle raising, which has made famous the slope of thc Appalachian chain in that part. A statement of these facts seem neces sary in connection with any allusion to thc remarkable exhibit which the Rich mond and Danville has brought together. Our people have never fully realized tho importance of this great system of roads 1 or the work it has been doing in Georgia and in thc South. The credit lor Ibo present perfection of the system is due 1 in a great measure to Colonel G. J. Kore- I acre. When he was first placed in con trol of the A limita and Charlotte Air Line, he saw the necessity as well as the immenso value of this combination. He was persistent and energetic, and he suc ceeded not only in perfecting the road he controlled, but in putting the facts about Ibo country and the advantage's of the present system in such strong light that capitalists have been eager to invest in the securities of these roads. The display of the ll ich mond and Danville at the exposition is in charge of Colonel McPhail, a skilful mineralogist, who will take pleasure in conducting visitors through the exhibit. Thc U. S, Army. WASHINGTON, November 7. General Sherman to-day submitted his animal report to thc Secretary of War, enclosing reports of the adjutant general and commanding generals of di visions and departments. Referring to tho proposed increase in the regular army recommended in the annual re ports of commanding generals of depart ments, General Sherman says: "All these annual reports, with justice, dwell on the fact that our companies are too small for efficient discipline and for eco nomical service. There are in the army 430 companies, which are necessarily widely scattered over our vast domain to guard property and to protect, as far as foresight can, complications and troubles of every variety and kind, at one time protecting settlers against Indians and again Indians against settlers. When these occur it is always sm'''. :n, und reinforcements have lo be hurried from great distances and always at heavy cost for transportation of men, horses, wag ons and supplies. This cost in tho ag gregate will, in my judgment, bc more than sufficient to supply un increase of twenty per cent, of private soldiers-all that I would ask for at this time, because I believe this increase will add little, if any, lo tho annual cost of thu army, and yet give great relief to ru- overtaxed soldiers." Oennal Sherman then urges tho in crease of the army proper to 20,000 en listed men. In this connection hu sub mits a statement of the actual strength of the army on October 15, which is shown to have been 10,815 combatants and 3,781 non combatants. He also re commends thc sale of many of tho useless forts along the Atlantic and Gulf coast?, aa well as a great number of in land military posts which have become obsolete. On thia subject he says : "In the early days of the Republic, nearly ever city and harbor on the Atlantic and Gulf coasta, as well as on the lakes, wanted a fort for protection ngainat pub lie enemies. These were built and still remain thc properly ol the United States, and the army ia charged in ono way of anolhcr with their care and preservation. Very many of them are now absolutely of no use, present or prospective, and should be disposed of. I will not men tion names because of local feeling. Every such city or town from Maine to Texas and from Duluth to Lake George has a local pride in its fort and garrison, and if in times past such fort was built by thc United Stales any attempt to withdraw the garrison or remove the flag ia met by local opposition often im possible to overcome. I recommend that you apply to Congress for authority to submit thc whole question of coast defence to a board of high officers, of all arms of thc service, *o consider the whole question, with instructions to re port what const forts ;diali be maintained, what sites shall be retained for future use and what may be absolutely sold, and further, that authority be granted to the President to sell the same subject to f any conditions which Congress may im pose. In like manner inland a great number of military posta and stations have cither been recovered from thc pub lic domain or have been recovered from the public domain or have been purchas ed, which by the progress of settlement have become obsolete, yet they need a military guard for protection. Theso aro worse than useless, because they absorb a large fraction of the small army, which ought to be free for action. For these I would recommend a similar but distinct board to make a thorough study of the whole problem of internal defense, with similar authority to sell and dispose of nil posts except such as aro deemed necessary for permanent occupation and futuro use." West Point, he says, baa beeu and must continuo to be the fountain source of military education in time, of peace, and, in bia judgment, the Military Acad emy thero can be safely trusted" to pro pare boya to become the soldiers of tho future. In conclusion, General Sherman says : "I beg lo assure you that the enlisted men aud officers of tho presen army of tho United States in physique, intelli gence, in patriotic devotion to the honor and Hag of thc country, will compato favorably with any similar establishment on earth and with our own army at any previous period of our history. - Tho Rochester Exprctt puts it that there is a skolcton in ?very corset. CURRENT TOPICS. A Mammoth Railroad Enterplse. GALVESTON, November 9.-Tho char ter of thc Galveston and Rio Grande Railroad Company was filed at Austin yesterday. It provides for a Hue from Calveston to Laredo, and ulso a branch from a point in Live Oak County to Rio tirando City. The capital stock is $12, 1 500,000. ;1 A Riot In Mississippi. j \ VlCKtsliuito, November X.-The Evening . i Commercial has tho following sp?cial : ' ' "Meridian, November H.-At thc election ! t at Marion, about five miles from this i place, a terrible rid occurred thin I ? morning, brought on by a number of l vicious negroes, who camcurined for tho purpose. Three white men are known to be killed and others wounded by negroes, who made their escape on hordes." A Pnrly Pr?sident Mr. Arthur, says tho Philadelphia Cftronivlc, (Democrat,) "is going to bea party President of tho strictest kind. In all his acts and in all his conversations he looks at everything from thc stand point of a Republican political! who is j determined to give his party the full i benefit of thc Presidential office. Ii ?ill be well for the leaders of the Democratic I party to recognize the fact that they will be obliged, dering thc next three years to deal with one of the keenest and shrewd I'st organizers and disciplinarians in na tional politics." A Melon-Patch War at n Western Col lege. DETHOIT, November (?.-Some timo ugo a melon pntch was raided near tho Agricultural College at Lansing. The matter was sottlcd by one of tho miders. The next night 100 of the students com pelled the owner of the melons to refund the amount paid. The faculty tried to get the students to return thc money, but they have refused. Ou Wednesday uight all thc students engaged in the raid wero suspended. A meeting of the students was then held and they voted 85 to 35 to rebel and leave in a body. The New York Soldiers and thc 'Possum. During the interchange of civilties be tween the Northern and Southern sol diers at Yorktown, a waggish member of tho Haleigh Light Infantry presented the members of a New York company with a live 'possum. They were delight ed with him and look him to cnuip. The wag told them, in response to num berless inquiries, that the way 'possums were ciuglit was singular-that at mid night they always sang, and of course the hunters found them out by tho mu sic. The joke took ns a fact, and that night a whole company of Now Yorkers sat up until past midnight eagerly lis tening to hear tho North Carolina 'pos sum smir. Raleigh Observer. Shot Read nt His Ofllco Poor. . OMAHA, Novembers.-Colonel Wat .on ll. Smith, clerk of the United States Cir cuit Court, was found dead at 2 o'clock this morning lying outside hisoflico door, whore he hnd been shot by au unknown assassin. There is great public excite ment, and a mass meeting ?B called to express horror of the crime and take steps toward tho arrest of the assassin. Colonel Smith wno a highly respected citizen, a soldier in tho late war, and loaves nu estimable family. Ho has been clerk of the C<jurt fourteen years, and the Chairman of tho Committee of Citizens lo enforce the Siocumb liquor law, aud ho has been very prominent in its aggressive work. A Tragedy at Fort Mill. CHARLOTTE, N. C., November 9. This afternoon at Fort Mill, S. C., about twelve miles from thia city, James Sutton, a young planter, shot mid killed Nat Gibson, a constable. Seven idiot? were tired by the two men, Gibson receiving two balls, one in tho breast and ono above the mouth, lie died almost im mediately. The difficulty originated in thc execu tion of an attachment by Gibson upon thc proprietor, a brother-in-law of Sut ton's, Sutton escaped, and it is not known whether be is wounded or not, although the shooting took place in tho postoflice in the presence of several wit n esses. A Boy's Crime. BALTIMORE, November 4.--White Mrs. Fanny Keefer was sitting in her kitchen Inst night, at '.' Burk street, talking with a man named William H. Garrisn, with whom she had been living for some time, a son of the latter, Wil linm H. Garrish, Jr., pushed a large musket through thc window and fired. Thc weapon was loaded to thc muzzle with birdshot, two or three hundred of which lodged in the woman's body and head. At first neither the perpetrator of tho crime nor the motive was known, and tho affair was enveloped in mystery until the police arrested the boy to-day on suspicion, wli?-? n he admitted having done thc shooting. He gave as his rea son that since bia mother died, several years ago, bis father had been leading a disreputable lifo and of late had taken up his abode in Mrs. Keefer's house. Thc boy, who before this had been living with his father, refused to accompany the latter to the house of the wounded woman nod went to ?ive with an aunt. Young Garrish admits that, being con vinced that his father was living a life of shame, he determined to kill the wo man. He added that he was sorry he bud not killed his father, too. The boy is held to await the result of Mrs. Keefer's injuries. The latter is dying. A Tenement Tumbles? NEW YORK, November 9.-9 A. M. At 6.-15 o'clock this morning the three story tenement house nt the Southeast corner of South Fifth avenue and Grand street fell in, burying tho occupants in thc ruins. The fire department were im mediately summoned, and up to this hour they, with the assistance ot citizens, had rescued five of the victims from the debris. Tho lives of two were extinct and tho others wero seriously injured. How many were in tho building at the time of the accident is not yet known. The work of removing the debris is being j pushed with speed. The ground floor of thu building wits I occupied by Holland & O'Brien as a liquor storo, and tho upper portion by j tenants. After the debris was cleared away Mary Bold, aged 20 years, aud John Rudolph, with his four children, were taken out of tho ruins. They were slighly injured, while Mary Cavill was seriously If not fatally injured. All of them wero sent to St. Vincent's Hospital. A half hour later thc firemen who were called out to search thc ruins found the dead bodies of Francis Knaup, aged 48 years, and son. Cat berilio Bader was also taken out so seriously injured that she is not expected to survive. The cause of the accident hes not been ascertained. The firemen nro busy nt ?_ work, and an extra force has just been called to explore the ruins. LATER.- Two houses fell, instead of ?ne, as first reported. This evening the li rein un rescued a woman, Mrs. Hill, from under the ruins. She was severely bruised and suffering was ii .>*;. the shock. Ibo list of dead bodies has been swelled Lo 7. Tho bodies of John Thompson, a negro and Frank and Chester, two chil dren of Mrs. Hill, have been added to those already found. It is believed that more dead will he brought to light ns the axcavation proceeds. Tho police have driven tho tenants out of the adjoining house, which has been injured and is very shaky. Thc building inspectors tay that the accident was duo to the fat ing of partitioi walls. The other tenants if the fallen houses weic Mrs. Boder and uer sons. The mother and ono son es? :aped with bruises, but the other son, Joseph, 34 years of age, was severely .rushed. Mrs. Kraub ?nd John Krau'j, icr son, were holli killed. Mrs. Hu lolph was killed ; her husband mid four -hildrcn escaped with slight bruises. Mr. and Ma Wollt escaped, but tho fato if their four children is not known. Mr. Sapphey and his wife escn .?d, but their child was killed. KISSES 0.\" INTEREST. in Old MIIU'H CiirtKtii JLcrture lo tilt) Young ? .inly Kunu ii un ".SI*." Come here, sis, and sit down beside nie md let nie give you a little talking o. That is right. Sit clear at thc other ?nd of the sofa. Il makes more room for ny gouts and corns, besides being a good mbit fora young lady lo become addicted o. Always pander to this habit and you viii in time find yourself walking through ;recn meadows und beside the still waters >f self-respect. You may be walking ilone, to be sure, but will have fewer awn dresses to do up on Monday moro ng. I wish lo speak to you of your nother. It may bo you have noticed a .areworn look upon her face lately. Of :otirso it has not been brought there by my act of yours, still it is you duty to :hase it away. I don't mean for yon to un nt it and shake your skirt and tell it o "shoo,'' as you would a ben, nor do I expect you to get on the otherside of tho "enco and throw old oyster cans aud nieces of barrel staves at it, as you did at ho cow yesterday. But I want you to get ireakfast, and when your mother comos lown and begins to express her surpriso 50 right up to her and kiss her on tho noutli. You don't imagine how it will irighten her dear face. Besides, you ?we her u kiss or two. Away back, when rou were a little girl, she kissed you vhen no one elso was tempted by your ever-tainted breath and swolen face, i'ou were not as attractive then aa you ire now. And all along through these renrs of childish sunshine and shadows die was always ready to cure, by the nilgie of a mother's ki*Bs, tho little dirty, :hubby hands whenever they were in ured in thoso first skirmishes with this ough old world. And then the nidnight kisses with which she has outed BO niauy bad dreams, aa abo leaned ibove your rentiers pillow, have all been m interest these long, long yeat-j. Of tourso she is not so pretty and kissable is you are, but if you bad done your share >f the work during these last ten years he contrast would not be so marked, tier face has more wrinkles than yours, ar more, and yet if you were sick that ace would appear to you to bo far more beautiful than an angel's, as it hovered iver you, watching overv opportunity to minister to your comfort, and everyone jf these wrinkles would seem tobe bright wavelets of sunshine chasing each other iver the dear old face. Sho will leave von one of these days. Those burdens, if if not lined from her shoulders, will break her down. Those rough, hard liauds that have done so many unueces tary things for you will be crossed upon lier lifeless breast. Those neglected lips Lbat gave you your first baby kiss will be forever closed, and those sad, tired eyes will open in eternity, aud then you will appreciate your mother, but it will be loo late. There, there, don't cry ; she has not left you yet. She isdowu in the kitchen stringing beans for dinner, and if you feel so bailly you might go down und finish them, and let her chango her Ircss and rest an hour before dinner, you might do up the dishes while she lakes a little nap. Then you might take lown her hair and do it up for her. You need not wind i'. over you linger mid fuss to niako little spit curls as you used lo do with yours but give it a good brushiug and wind it up gently and ten derly, as if you enjoyed doing it for her The young man down in the parlor can wait until you have performed these duties. If he expresses any impatience, you may explain to him that you feel under more obligations to your mother than you do lo him. If this does not seem to satisfy him, ask him how many limes he has got up iu the middle of the night to warm peppermint for you when you were dying with tho colic, or how many hours he has carried you up and down the room just because you would not be quieted in any other'way? Ask him to repeat Mother Hubbard backwards, and if he is unable to do it, it will bc a proof positive that he is not tho one that has repeated it, and explain ed to you 1,700 timen. Cbatechisc him to find out if he is the one who gave yon the black silk dress, and sat up nt night to make it while you were off hav ing a good time. Corner him up and make him admit that he went without a new bonnet hist Winter that you might enjoy a $i2 one that you admired so much. Wring from him a confession that he ban a stich in his side, brought there by doing up your finery week after week. Then BIIOW him out the front door, put on a calico apron, and go out and help you mother pick currents for jelly, and I gunrantee you will think more of yourself, the world will think more of you, and you will be happier and better for having done so.-Feck's Sun. Fair Words-Aro ?hey False ? WASHINGTON, October 29.-The mein em of the Woman's National Christian Temperanco Union called on tho Presi dent to-day. Miss Willard, President of tho Union, made a fovv remarks and In troduced Mrs. Chap?n, of South Carolina, who said tho ladles tbcro brought him allegiance, though they could not bring him their support. In behalf of tho stricken South, ?ho prayed that her sec tion cf tho country would lind a friend In tho President. President Arthur said ho was in ontlre sympathy with tho South in ber recuperation, and waa detormlnod that no sccf'.on of the country should, during his administration, be favored, a? far ns it was In lils power to provent, over another. Mrs. Chap?n thanked him, and sahl that sho would carry his words back with her to tell the pooplo at homo. Tho President then thanked thom for their kind words and sympathy, and tho ladles, nftor shaking hands with him, withdrew., A Holyoke, Mass., exchange alludes to the cure of D. O. Judd, Esq., U. S. Supervisor of Postal Card Manufactory, who wai cured by St. Jacobs Oil of rheu matism and neuralgin.-Bridgeport (Conn.) Standard. - A Flroat Branchville on Wednesday morn in. r destroyed throe ?tores ond two ^welling*. Incendiary.