* * -* -- - - - , - A - - - E TRI-WEEKLY UHERALD Sprs for 3 M ths61 Devoted to the Dissemiatol of General Information [ VOLUME . NEWBERRY, S. C.. SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1865. NUMBER 1. THE T.J.WEEKLY HE=ALD IS PUBLISHED AT NEWBERRY C. -H. - ry. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 3 'Thos . & . H. Greneker Term--$15 for three months, in'advance. Ad vertisements inserted at the rate of $5 for first itwertionof twelve lines or less, and $4 for sub 4.equentinsertion. The Capture 'of Riebmond. Yankee Accounts! We have been 'kindly placed in possession of the Cincinnati Enquirer, of the 6th of April, from which we .qll the following tele graphic snmmaiy of e*fts in Virginia TiE !-45LE FIGHT.'' Nkw Yonx,g'April -The Herald's corres pondence has the fdllowing account of opera tions~on Sunday At midnight of Saturday, General Wilc.ox had orders to demonstrate on the right of his Irie, so as to draw ',the rebels from the left preparatory to operations intbat quarter. The -next morning,'Admiral Porter and all the ar tillety in. the works o,n the right were also set to work. Wilcox's skirwish. -lines were ad vanced, the'-rbels were ar'oused, and soon sharp volleys of musketry were heard, iudi cating that they were at work. Amid the noise and smoke the Akirmishers pushed 'on until reaching the outskirts of Petersburg, when they met a heavy.. body of rebels ad vaneiug upon them. A brisk engagement followed, but- onr num &,ers were so small that we were'compelled to withdraw. Wilcox then got orders to a..ack F4rt.Ma!one4otthe-1eft. He massed a column for the prpose.. While this was being done, sitwilar dipsitions were making further. on the f, and a system df cannon signals bad keen agreed upon ti fix the moment of stit ing, thait Alt might as.s-ut simDultaneidK. ngto a mist which. hug pr the._fxefd the preparntiuns had been conces'od from -the -enemy. - At 4 o'clock the signal was given. Tie men adanced quickly and-in perfect or der, with f-d- bayorOts. .That'they w'ent to stAy ws indica ted by beiug accompanied by a ttnchment of'beavy.artillery, prepared to turn,and work,the enemy's guns. Presently. musketry was heard; and the rtAel pieket lin)e -was reached,. row a hearty, .cher, followed by the roar of nusketry. The dheering and.musketry firing is taken up and rung alotg.to the left; until it is lost in the - -distance. 'instantly the artillery on both sTdes a at work, and two hundred big gun oech f rth-their thunder. But the work isquickly, d-ine. Harriman, of t6e 30ith Wi,,consin, Act Ing Brigadier General, gave-tmiorder to charge' Ui, and away-the noble fellows went, over the breastworksg, riffe-pits, -abattis,: Chevaux 4e-frise, the pipet of tiae fort, into the main 'ocks, adtedeed was accompli-Shed. For one moment Lhe thunderstruck rebels 16Qked;.nd-tben took:to fight;. but our fI lowr'were too quick for all of themn, and cap af thquiely trained, were set at work annoy i the%- be I a tt . T hisp ith th _ e fs -t~aneus operationsfurerto telft, to tehke psthons ad a lageout ofvluabe e'otarul ig up 2gainst terrific discharges of grape and eagnstejr, and withering volleys of musketry, but inwas to no purpose. Four times during tihe day-did they attempt to 'retake this im *portant position, but were each time sent' reel ~ng back in disorder, losing hea'y eacli time. It was in one of these as'saults that the rebel - eneral A. P. Hill lost his life, se?eking in per son to lead his men up to the' works. Mlean time the. Sixth and Twenty-fourth Cor-ps, ha" ing broken through thes rebel lines in 'their * front, were swung around to the rear,f and coming down both upon their rear and flank, it was evident that Petersburg was lost to the rebellion. The movement.s ot the Sixth Corps wrere so rapid that Gen. Lee himself -narrowly escaped capture. As it was, his -headquarters fell into our -hands. The Tribune's'correspondent recounts the operationis on our left. At 4.30 Sunday morn ing the Sixth Corps left its lines to attack the enemy's left centre. It moved in echelonl, so -as to enable the Corps to .throw forward its left, and flank the works of the- enemy, one * after another. Soon a battery of four guns - opened upon the FiPst Division, but, by 'a rapid change of the T welfth Brigade, it was immediately captured.-The batteries of the enemy, Aow opened from every point. but on erent our mlant braves~. The left soon reachad. some works in their front, and orne by one they fell into our' ban'ds At 10.30 a grand picture of war presented itself. The line of corps, with its left in advance, was sweeping on toward two heavy forts. The rebels plied their, guns vigor6bsiy, and shells burst thickly over our lines. On pushed the left division until it struck the- Southside Railroad. Against the two forts swept the Second Division, our artillery playing upon theiforts from commanding positions inces; santly, until our men were close up to them. Then a dash was made upon the works, but it was repulsed. Again it was tried, and this time it met with success; but so resolute were the rebels inside, that some of them used the bayQonet for a short time, as these works fell into our hands. A loud cheer rent the air, and the eremy were seen hastily retiring to theirsecond. line, which opered sharply in an effort to stay our advance. About this time Sheridan appeared on the field, and was received with loud cheers by the Sixth Corps, who look up to bim with great respect. At this moment, too,. our en tire line was changing its -long front to the right. and slowly before it the broken line of the enemy. was falling back upon their rear defences. Against the line to which they fell ba'ck, a heavy force was now pitted, composed of parts of the Twenty-fourtb, Sixth and Twenty-fifth Corps, and nearly all fresh troops. A lull took place, and when. the force was repdy to move it was plAin that a' distinct action was to be fought. Dusk stole over the scene, andi the attack was deferred for the neit day. While the above fighting was taking place, the Sixth Corps and cavairy, under Sh&idan, turned tIe.right wing.of the rebel army, tak ing from 4,000 to 5,000 prisoners. .The Second Corps, connecting with ,the Fifth, was also victorious,' notwithstanding they had, perhaps, "the roughest ground tp fight over, and a brave, determined foe. in the rthel Third Corps. The line of defense's in front of the Ninth] -Cos ps was stronger than those at any' other point. It delivered many assaults during the day, aild suffered severely. At night it found. itself close -up to the main line of the defenses, but unable to gofurther. The First.Division of the Tenth Ciirps aided the Ninth greatly. WASHINGTo, April 5.-The War Depart ment has just received the following order: The, Examining Board, of which Major-Gen eral Caseey is President, will immediately ad journ t% Richmond, Vv...at which place he will resume its present duties. ; Major-peneral Case3, will, in addition take general superintendence of recruiting and Mus tering colored troops in Richtutrd, Va., 'and the adjacent country.* WAsa3VGToN, April 5.-Hon. G. W. McLel len Second Assistant Postmaster General, to day received the following dispatch: . iCHMOND, April 4.-' have taken posses sion of the Richmond Postoffic' in the name of the Postoffice Department ofI the United States. I found a large' quantity of United States property ;. pouches, locks. qafes,' &e. Mails that should hive left the city 'to-day' are all here pouched and filled. I have not yet'had an opportunity of conferring with the military authority, but the Provost Marshal has kindly placed a guard over the buildings and effects. p. B. Pann, Special Agent. Ga1s-r SwELLING WoRDs.-"That was a masterly performance," said Mr. Balloon to his friend, Mr. Jones, as they emerged from te church where the Rev. Gassman bad been discoursing on the Relation of the Infinite to the Impossible. "Yes.-n.," 'replied Mr. Jones, "I ,suppose it was very fine, but it,. was out of my depth. I confess to being one .of the sheep who 'loked up and were not fed'" . "'That's because you hbavn'~t a metaphysical miid," said Mr. Balloon, regarding his friend' with 'pity ; "yeu've got a eer tain faculty of mind, but I .suspect' you haven't the logical grasp necessary for the comprehension of such a sermon as 'that ", "I am affaid I haven't," said Mr. Jones. "I tell you what it is," contin'ued Mr. Bal-. loo, "Mr. Gassman has got a head. 'He is an intelligent man. ~I hardly know whether he is greater as a subjective preacher, or in the luminous o6jectivity of, his arg'urnentum ad minerns. As an inductive reasoner, t.oo, he is perfectly great. With what synthetical power he refuted the Homolousian theory,! I ,tell you Homnolousianismi will be nowhere after this." "o tell tj"e truth," said Mr. Jones, "I went to sreep at that long word, and didn't wake up until -be was on theodicy.Y' "Ah, .yes!" said Mr. Balloon, "that was a splendid spiecimnen of ratiocinative word paint 'i. .1 wa onm'iae carried away when.mi his singular terse and narrowy style, he took an analogical vieWof the anthropological." But at this poift Mr. Balloon "soared aloft" so high that he left the more terrestrial Mr. Jones. Creamstantial Evidence. That circumstantial evidence cannot always be strictly relied on; is proved by the melan choly fact that innocent men and women have been legally murdered in Eggland; wit ness Eliza Fenning, Ambrose Gwynett, and many other cases. TH BRO-rHERs. Who has not heard of 'the story of the two brothers?' - Twenty different versions exist, many of them equaby incorrect. They traveled to a seaport town together ; an argument, vociferously conducted, ensued atter dinner; they slept in a double-bedded. room; one of the brothers rose at 3 o'clock, of a fine sUm mer mrorning, and wanderqd to a cliff, He wagseized by'smugglers, whom be detected in buying puncheons-of spirits. They ,were too amiable to murder him, and merely put him on board a vessel ihich was bound for the West Indies. Meanwhile his brother, who, after his port wine and alterction, had slept the calm sleep of innocence,, awoke in the morning to find his brother's pillow covered with blood, and his brother missing. It can be easily believed that when he rang the bell and summoned' the landlord, his pro testations' of innocence were fruitless, and be was soon in the hands of' the myrmidons of the law. Stains of blood were traced from the bed-room to the edge of a cliff, where .m2rks of a scuffle were found. * He was in dicted for m'urder, and defended by counsel. Every etffrt was made to save his life, and his. life was saved-but ndt in the way our readers may imagine. Tue interest of this tefrihle drama i8 e.n hanced by the fact that the unfortunate man was engaged to a beautiful young girl, who was present at his trial, believed to the 'last in bi innocence, and Ieft him,:after z. heart rendingkinterview, in the'Condemned cell. In those good old days, men were not hanged in front of country jails -but on' an adacent comnon considered suitable for the spectacle.- The'victim, in this instance, wag taken to the place of executiod and construc tively strangled. When the law's last vengeance had been wreaked, a shepherd, wandering near the spot, heard a low moan, and cut down. the pendant half-choked nan. He re-animated, . in his rude way, this creature whom Providence would - seem to have saved by means miraculous as ever such interp6sition could be. He a'ssisted his escape, and communicated with his now,still more frantic betrothed, whose relations supplied the necessary money for flight. He was placed on board a vessel in.- the channel bound for Barbadoes; and -the first man he met in Bridgetown was the broth6r for.whiose murder be had been'wbolly convicted and half-hanged. Their ifiterview may be imagined. Earnest hadleft Walter asleep; be had been seized with a 'violent fit of hleeding at the nose, which'would account for the blood upon the pillow, and for similar stains which,.as I have stated, were traced to the cliff How he fell into the hand .-of smugglers has already been narrated.* This, of course, well authenticated, but 'ather improbable story, proves the infallibility of the 'twelve intelligent men. It is human to err, and it-is human to err or the side of miercy. About forty y.ears ago, a gentleman was tried and convicted upon circumstantial evidence of the murder of his niede. She tras bea-d to exclaim, 'don't kill me, uncle; don'i kill me!' and that instant a pistol or'fowling niece w~as fired off. Upon these circumstances the gentleman was convicted and executed Near twelve months after, the niece, wh~o had efoped, arrived iin England; and hearing of the affair, elucidated -the whole transacnbon. I1 appeared that she had formed an attgehment for a person of whom her uncle disapproved When walking in the fields, he was earnestlj disreading her from the connection, when sb< replied, 'that she was resolved -to have him or it would.be her death; and' therefore said don't kill me, uncle don't kill me. At 'thi moment she uttered these words,' a fowl ing-piece was discharged brr a sportsman ii a ne{ighoring field.' The same night shb eloped'from her ,.ncle's hotuse; and the com bination of these snspicious circumstances, oc casioned his ignominidus death. The Sabbath is the green oasis, the littl grassy meadow in the wilderness, w'pen afte the week day's j,ourney, the pilgrim 'halts fo refreshment and-repose ; where he rests be neath the shade of the lofty paln trees, an< dips his vessel in the waters of the calmi, clea stream, and received.'is strength to go for-ti again upon his pilgrimuge in the desert wit] n e-4 igm- marichcr fulna -s IMPORTANT TO CHURet GOING PBOPL.-ThV gentleman at Church may'be known by the', following marks: 1. Comes in good season,so as to neither interrupt the pastor nor the congregation. by a late arrival. 2. Does not stop on the steps nor in the portico, either to gaze at the Isdies, sal'e friends, or display his colloquial powers 3. - Opens and shuts the door gently, and walks deliberately and lightly up the aisle or gallery stairs, and gets his seat as quietly, and by making as few people move as possible. 4. Take his place either in the backjpart of thetseat, or steps out in the aisle, when any one wishes to pass in, and neverthinks of su=4 a thing as making penple-crowd pass him whiffe keeping his place,on his seat. . ^ -5. Is always attentive to strangers and gives up his seat to such; seeking another for himself. 6. Never thinks of defiling the 'house of God with tobacco spittle, or annoying those who'sit near him by .chewing that nauseous weed in church. . Never unless in the case of illness, gets up or goes out during the time, of service. But if necessity- compels him to do so, goes so quietly that his very manner is an apology for the act. - 8. Does not engage in conversation before the commencement of service. 9'; Does not whisper, dr. laugh, or eat fruit in the house of God, or lunge in that holy place. 10.' Does not rush out of the church like a tramping horse, the moment. theenediction is pronounceol, bat retires slowly in a noiselsS quiet manner. 11. Does all,he can by precept and eiample to promote decorumr in others, .and .- eve ready to lend is aid to discountenance ill in decorum in the house of God. ExHAusrox or Co.mnS,Tr.-Count' Gonfa lonieri, in his accogL .of his long imprisonment., writes:, Fifteen years I' existed in- a dungor ten feet square!. buring six years I had* com panion; during nine, Iwas alone.. I never could righily- distinguish the.face-of him -who shared my. captivity in the eternal twilight -of our cell. The first year- we talked incessantly together-; we related our past lives, our joys forever gone, over and.oyer again. The next year we commnicated to each other our thoughts and idas on all sub I jects. The third year we had no ideas to coMr inunicate, we were beginning to lose the power of-reflection.. The fcourth, at the intervaI -of a month or so, te *oula open our lps to ask each other if it were possible that the world went on' as gay and bustling as when we formed a portion of mankind. The fifth we were silent. The sixth, I he was taken'away, I never knew,where, to exe cution or liberty. But I was glad when he was gone; even solitiide was better than his pale; vacant face. CRE FOR SMALL-PoX.-The- Germn Be formted iLeseger has received a Jetter from a friend. ia China; in which it is stated a great discovery is reported to have been recently made by surgeon of 'the English army i. China, in the way ofan effectual cure ofsnall pox. -The mode of treatment is as follows: When the preceding fever is at its height. Iand just before the eruption appears, the chest is rubbed with croton oil and' tartaric ointment.' This -causes the whole of the eruption to appear on that part.of the sbodye to the relief of the rest. It also secures a full and complete eruption, and'thus prevents the~ disease from attacking the internal er'gans. This is said to be now the established mode of treatment in the British army in Chint, by general tjrders,. and is regarded as a perfect cure. A friend has kindly sent us the following lef from a Scrap Book : "Kiss me and go," said the maid of my heart., As she proffered her lips as my pay to depart, "th'e morn is approaching ; my mother wil My dearest and kindest, oh ! kis me and go I" She gave me the blessing in such a sweet way, That the thrillof pleasure enticed me to stay ;' So we kis'sed till the morn came in with its glow, And she said every'momeEt, "Oh, kiss me andi .REcn'E FOR 'THE- I'rcH.--Dr. C. Dupre has originated a specific for the cure of itch, which, because of its vairpe in curing this- disease 1" take pleasure in furnishingyour readers~ tat ' those so affDicted may be benefited by its use. Three days' use is sufficient for'a radical cure. - B.-Calomel; sol gra. ' Pulv. Camphor, 20-grs. Sj Lard, 1ose.-Mix well. Directions.- ash the part affeeted .thor -oughly with str