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BY W. A. LEE AM) HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C~ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1874. YOLUME XXI--NO. 39. 1873. FALL i WE tako pleasure in announcing now receiving our Stock of TJRADE. and are confident of our a a call, both in price and quality. I STAPLE AND F Hosiery, Gloves, Gorscts, R: ?" ' morals, Shirts, Slii .and many other articles too numeroi W*> wouid direct special atteiiiior .y lOootss sl: "We make this lino of Trade a spcci that thoso who favor us with a call complete Stock of - READY-MA" j/jl jBOTtl CHEi In addition to tho above, we kecj GROCERIESJJ Aud have at al! tir 'iWteiR, COFFEE SOAP, CHE] hi < - ' i c' K : : $ire as as a call,- and wc will ccrl 187^2-tf^ ^ r:-v IN GIJ V-' 9S % s. WHO will always ho fouwl 1 WELL-SELECTED STOOK ^ATS and BOXNI vV ' 2, Hair Goods and Rift Flora, Plras, tei in ever}* var+ety ... 3. T. R LATE Oct. 8,1873, 26-tf . | COTTON I ' What ws want is a t >" XVTE would give notice to planter ? ?mi /\rt' currency wo wi.i |>:i\ TRADE. Wo arc receiving one of of.jGoods evar brought to this town, than tliC)* have boon at any time sim mollis to large buyers and arc pre pa *'!" V BOOTS A: H. > ' ^arJstoatc, 0vo -nxj ' ' CROCK E 'Wo would urge upon those indebl mentsyaml :is an inducement to our cottolii-'we promise them the very hi WHITE Oct. l; 1873; '25-ff I !j _ nnffiTrw Rffiiii WWW WW IB u B3IIWIII Barnwel Ii-' ? h i*?'t <>. ; ' J ili. . .in . arc now opemm n'rjM; 1 DRY 60093, GROSE! Which owing to the scarcity of rm friends in EXCHANGE FOR C ; /. T : Oct. 1,1873, 25-tf FULLMA BAR M ' . I3XT mMMMm ? Who have the large FALL AND Wl V i'' thev have ever broiis J ' i * '* y GENTLEMEN'S F C ' ' COM i <HATS, HAND-SEWED BOOTS Gloves, Cotton and 1 f TT7 . T *"' an wooi We are constantly receiving fashioi Ladies. Also GROCERIES A OF T11E 13 QUARLE3 Sept. 30, 1873, 25-tf to our friends and the public fc'nsit we are 11 G-JtODS for the FALL and WINTER bility to please all who will favor us with 11 our Stock may be found full lines of ANCY BEY GOODS, ; ibbons, Edgings, Insertings, Bal-,(( rt Fronts, Collars, Cuffs, us to mention. < i to our Stock of s n.d ^12.0 @?3alty, and can and will offer inducements can not fail to buy. Also, a full and DE CLOTHING, LP AND GOOD. > on hand full linos of m PROVISIONS, ; nes a good asportmeut of i BACON, FLOUR, TOBACCO, 2SE, Etc. tain ly please you. ^ i msw&s. . fi ...... (I ;arge of i? Ramey,. eady to* exhibit a HANDSOME AND OF TKIM MED AND UNTIIIMMED ITS of tho latest Styles. , II Head Trimmings, ;i its, Bsstlss, notions, Fancy Goofl^ kept in this department. |\ MILLER & ROBERTSON. 1 ik :S:"MONEY ! ~1 ji o-:-o \/ : I. Medium of Ezclianga ! !:? __ " s. that (Turing the present "look-up" of'; rsi ')K FIGURES FOR COTTOX IN the most extensive si ml sit tractive Stocks y , ami the prices of our <jv?o:l.s ore lower J1 to the war. We will offer special induce-;] * ' % * ?i i 1 /? I 1 rod to furnish tncm will) an kiiius ox ij GOODS, : IJD SHOES, I i wrics, Provisions, 1RY &c&c. i | a ,ed to ns the necessity of prompt pay- f) customers for bringing forward their ? gest prices that can possibly be paid. BROTHERS. . .. e .. " ^ ~, ? m. for wim ' TJj 'i Ml OO.? I { \b 5 their now Stock of- ii Ellis, PROVISIONS, &cj Dnoy, they are offering to pell to tlicirl OXTON lor which the}* will allow the'* !0 RKET PRICE. 1! GAMS r 3^?3HIKT<3r i " \ A T st and best assortment of NTER CLOTHING! I. jht to this market. Also, OODS, PEISINGr ' km SHOES, SHIRTS, HOSIERY, all Wool Drawers, and UUU.&J. VC&LO, I aable find substantial goods to suit the' ND PROVISIONS! I EST QUALITY. & PEKRIN. ROWLAND . MANl'FACTI CARRIAGES, WAGOI Gkt? enw c H"7~ KEP constantly on hand the best nia MmL perieneed workmen and are manut i varied assortment of vehicles of every theaper than the cheapest?which for boa compare favorably with work from the bes All work warranted to be fully up to rep "...i..ir l,, l'tiey mamuaciiutj ;i uiicaim ?... mil small fanners for ONE 1IUNDHEI) j >al favor wherever used. Tiny nianufaeturoat low prices Harness itock ou exhibition LTNDERT They are manufacturing COFFINS Ob' issortment on hand, and will attend funci R.0WLAJ3 Nov. 10, 1S73, 81-ly Doctors Tag'g'ai DEUGGI! GREENWOi A IiE now offering to their friends and r iSL DRUGS, MEDJCnVJCS, CHE} PA1XT8,; OIL,S', OLj TOILET A J nd everything else usually kept in a li ramint to give satisfaction both in price ai nest in the-up-country and they solicit a < com it necessary to call attention to (heir rhich is well known and popular enough t age of the publie is respect fully solicited. Nov. 10. 1S73, 31-tf READ1 READ C3rJT&^t ]Ois MADE J 5ure White Lead, Linseed Oil an Vill last throe times as long as the liest lei IL WA YS READY FOR USE. One Gallon Covers Twenty Tjik Plains, F. Mk. C. P. Knight?Sik Thu Paint c ' 1 ' i-...... 1 1.? Legs, live gallons eacu, aim um?u uui-mjw, did thejob myself. Two weeks, (not eoi oats. The la?t coat I applied thick,and it uicl-like hardness, and Imdy, and harmon I) in the place. 1 saved sixty-tlve dollar? ust now with Southern people. It should Lny lad canapply it. I have never d nt'r feel so forcibly the great adaptability f our people, in excellency of material, ii eing "already mixed," that I give you fn l? make wiiat use you think proper of thin \ cry respectfully and tru Mk. P. Knight, Esq.?Dn.vn Frit: on that the Bradley Patent Enamel I'ainl uy and beauty, and I have every reason t welve mouths .since, 1 painted the roof of II ... I)..(n,il li'llilliwil ( ' lint 111(1 | \\ ;m "J )muivy i iuvm iiiiuiitui * .w..., _ ..? .. mint the outside or the Hold, and am nios ^faction. In conclusion I will say, if this: o you, you are at liberty to use it. Yours Mansion House Hotel, N. \V. Cor. Fay To tiik PunMC.?It affords me much pi Street Theatre was painted inside and out or which C. 1'. Knight, No. (W West Loml ts superiority over any and all other paint ng can paint possibly be/subjected to the v ablishinent, where, during our daily eleai " J *" I'a IIu mn n il m It/1 lllt'u iu 11, illlu jtl 11 biija.bio tf; ...... lumerous advantages it possesses ovcrotlic nixed and ready for use in quantities to st ierties, which saves much time in the exe nd its verj' perceptible tenacity^ which ii bjects on which it is used. As sucli I mo hunts and tradesmen of our city, believinj lian they can possibly anticipate. Baltimore, April 2-3, 1872, Ci Mr. C. P. Knight?Dear Sir: The p; pplied to several of oiirown buildings and ntire satisfaction in covering q qualities,: i> ? ? ?.?,i ?,n.,|,acl.r?ll<y i.. II KUriUUt: lUUltM KM, tiuw nunncuui^, . v ousumers who lia.ve.to depend upon unki urnish materials, where we have found tli Yours, truly, Maryland Link, Baltimorj) ( C. P. Knioht, Esq.?Agent for Bradl )kak Siu: The paint which I purchased o much bo that all my neighbors intend 1 ,nd have their houses painted. It is not letter after it is put on than any paint I e\ s delighted with it. I-fe'fcays that he can inie do abetter job, with the enamel pain) an therefore without hesitation reconiniei >est articles of paint ever introduced. Vo Bur. Mr. C. P. Tv.\*i(iirT?Dear Sru: T liavi ^atcnt Enamel Paint, and am happy to sa ver I have used it, and to parties to whon o use. Mr. John J. Street, who lives neai lished the Bradley Paint last fall, is mucli o use his name in recommending so good grees with me a3 to the durability of you vho have painting to to do will look to I 'atent Enamel Paint, which is the most (i ;loss longer than any other paint that 1 h Yours, truly, E. C. (iA C. P, KnKjiit? Bkak Sir: .T have usee louse last Spring, and am much pleased v irst painted, and consider it a good Paint. Cress Well P. 0., Hartford Co., Md., Feb, C. P E N< SPECIMENS AXD PPJCE Llf Oct. S, 1873, 2U-3m To Our Customersc A S t he year is drawing rapid I v to A its close wo would earnestly t beg that our friends who yet owe us accounts would make i?. convenient to settle thein at the earliest day possible. We desire to commence the year 1874 with a clear record, and trust that our customers will assist us in doinjj so. Respectfully, PARKER & PERRIX. Dec. 10, 187-1, 35-tt' FINAL DISCHARGE. NOTICE is hereby (riven tlmt Mir.. Elizabeth A. Miller, Administratrix of the Estate of FRANKLIN MILLEIt, deceased, has applied to Charles \V.,(*ufllnf Judge of Probate, iu and for the County of Abbeville, for a final diffhargeas Administratrix. Itis Ordered, that the sixteenth day (lay ot January, a. jhd, ne nxe.i for hearing of Petition, and a final settlement of said Estate. ,T. V. WOSMANSKY, Clerk Court Probate, Abbeville County. Dec. 17,1S73, 30-tf * & PATTON, JRERS OF *3S, BUGGIES. &G., sod? C., terial and have employed tiie most exactujiug, and have constantly on hand kind, at the most reasonable prices? uty of finish and elegance of style will :it shops of the .State. resentation. >rse wagon, with tongue and shafts to i?/\t ? a i>< wiiir.ii iinw mot with univer UKJ IJ J j of every description, and keep a good 'AICING. EVEItY VARIETY, and litive a large als with their line new Hearse. rD & PATTON. rt & Maswell, STS A.T 3D, S. C., >atrons, a large and select Stock of pure I WALK, JAW, FANCY AND iTlCLEiS. SKh'A US', TOBACCO, &c., rst-elass DltUC* STORE, which they iid quality. Their stock is one of the L'iil 1 from "their friends. They scarcely celebrated WHITE HUT BITTERS, Lo sell without advertising. The patroM. 0. TAGGART, ? " Tier a WlWTIT T J. U. lUiiAWEilili, I T RE AD T! T gcovery 2 T PS IP AMEL .1111 ill I FROM d Zinc, Chemically Combined. id and oil mixed in the ordinary way. SOLD BY THE GALLON.] Square Yards Two Coats. \uqtikr County, Va.; Feb. r>, 1873. amc' safely to. hand as ordered?two I onegallon each. As practice was slack I istant work,) completed the house two J .is now generally conceded that for cn-l y of colors, there is not a handsomer1 i* by the operation, which is an item I lie generally adopted in this Stite.! abided in such stock as Testimonials,: of your "Enamel l'aint" to the wants) i beauty of color, and in the fact of its . :e permission, (if it is desirable to you,) . letter. ly, - S. McGILL, M. D. Ualtimoiik, December 10, 1S72. It affords mo much pleasure to say to. t far exceeds my expectation in eeono-j 0 believe, in durability. More than my (Hotel Mansion House) with the! 10 well pleased with it, I determined to; <t liap|?y to say it gives me perfect wit-' 1 testimonial will be of any advantage; , truly, ISAAC ALBERTSON, etle and St. Paul Streets, .Baltimore. ensure to state that in July, 1871, Front i with "Bradley's Patent Enamel Paint,; >ard Street, is agent, and to testify to j . Tn nfi lirivtilii fliv/'ll-. 13 iUL Olliilltii Uov.n, j it ?\s 4 , ? w ^ .? v. . , cry severe test it undergoes at this cs-! ling, fcoup and soda are constantly ap-! fresih as when first put on. Of the ;r paints, I will only mention its being lit purchasers its quickly drying procution of work where paint is needed, mparts beauty and durability to the st earnestly recommond it to the meri it will give them greater satisfaction WM, E. SINN, Front Street Theatre. fAMCKitsnuna, December 10th, 1872. nints we received from you have been [ to those of our friends, and have given in gloss, and in adaptability to all kinds .'commend it, especially to that class of iowii parties, or painters, to mix and e most deception. JACOB STOUFFER & SON. " JomfTY, Mi)., September 24th, 1872. cy's Patent Enamel Paint, Baltimore? from you has given entire satisfaction, oljowing my .example, and have my rmlv durable and cheap, but it looks! or saw. The painter 1 "have employed j paint twice as fast, and at the same that any other paint he ever used. I! ud it to the public as one of the very' urs, very truly, JAMES HALL. * j . Air, Maryland, Match 4th, 1872. ! 2 been using since last spring, Bradley's; y that it gives entire satisfaction where-j l I have furnished it for other painters! r Clermont Mills, to whom 1 have fur- i i ]>leased with it, and gives permission a paint. S. H. Montague, painter r most excellent paint. I hope parties heir advantage and apply Bradley's titrable paint now ill use. It hold * f uve ever used. RRETSON; House and Sign Painter. 1 Bradley's Patent Enamel Paint on mj* villi it, and it looks as well now as when Yours, truly, . Oth, 1K73. A. H. STRASJ3AUCH. [NIGHT, Sole Agent, ?. fi.*{ \V. Lombard Street, Baltimore. 3TS FURNISHED GRATIS. Medical Card. Surgery aM Diseases of Fe^ ales, Diseases, defects and accidents requiring surgical procccdure attended to. Advance in the treatment of Diseases of Females lias been rapid and substantial. Iclaim to he abreast with this advance. BENJAMIN RHETT, M. D., formerly Sunorco.v to Mauixe Hospital, CilAltLliSTOX. ? - - ~ - Tt I Office at Citizens savings jduuk up Stairs, Abbeville, S. C. Oct. 15, 1S73, 27-tf CONVEYANCES TO HIRE. TIIE subscriber would beg leave to inform the public that he is prepared at all times' to furnish CONVEYANCES EOR HIRE at reasonable prices. Apply to him at his store. J. 3. ROGERS. Dee, 8, 1S73 33-tf I Waut to be a Granger. I want to be a Granger, And with the Grangers stand? A horny-fluted farmer, With a haystack in my hand. Beneath the tall tomato tree I'll'swing the glittering hoe? I'll .slay the wiid potato hug, As he skips o'er the snow. I've bought myself a Durham ram, And a gray alpaca cow, A lock-stitch Osage orange hedge, And a patent leather plow. My boots are built of cowhide, And my pants of corduroy ; ? :c r l?nf tTAimtf nc/!iin .AIHIJI X wciv uuc I'd be a farmer's boy. Like all the honest farmers, Who with the Grangers stand; I'm down on all monopolies, That dcsolute the land. 1 To every hardy Granger's hearth, Much greenbacks I would bring, And this old tune I'll practice, As long as I can sing. i i i Kitty's Ruse. '<1 can't stand this any longer, Kitty: this suspense is wearing out rnyi life. I mean to have a talk with vour father this very nifflit, and know the worst, whatever it is." Brown-eyed, brown-haired Kitty Clihe looked up in dismay at her lover's clouded a'iid resolute face. "Oh, Robert, pray be patient a little while longer! You know just how contrary and set in his way father is. If j-ou do as you say, the upshot will be that he will forbid you coming to the house at all. You leave it to me. I have a plan in tny head. Be to Cousin Jane's to-morrow evening, and I will tell yon how it works. As Robert Dunn left the house, which he did with a lighter heart than when he entered it, he met Mr. Clinc at the gate, who glared wuathfully at him in return for his pleasant greeting. . lie was a short, thick-set man, with a red, uncomfortable looking face, as though his collar was too tight for him. Stumping into the house with consrderablo more noise than was necessary, he turned to the window where Kitty was sitting, humming a tune, a careless, unconcerned look upon her face, which belied the j frightened feeling at her heart. "What's that young fellow com-, ing here so much for, Kitty?" Kitty tossed her head with an air 5 of disdain. "For what lie won't get, smart as! he thinks himself. lie wanted that! 1 should lut hini speak to yon, but' 1 told him that it wouldn't be the | least particle of use." The old man glared at his daugh-! ter with an airof mingled astonish-j mcnt and indignation that was lu-< i- 1 UICT0U6 10 WlllltJSS. "You did, hey ?" "Yes," replied Kitty, composed-! ly, threading her jveedle. "Hej seems to have got tlie idea in his head, some way, that you would favor his suit, but I told him that' it wouldn't make any difference if; he did." llere Mr. Cline fairly choked with rage, being unable to give utterance to his feelings only by an! inarticulate sound. "And that, furthermore, hej needn't take the trouble to call here: again," continued Kitty, placidly,! apparently entirely unconscious of the storm that was gathering. "And have you the assurance to j tell me, miss," burst forth the indignant old gentleman, "that myi favofing his suit will make no difference ?" "'Well, papa, of course I'd be x ^ 4 bOi'iy IU l'Ull UUUlllCl > UUi vvioii^ci J> . "I rather think you would be," interrupted her father; "it's an op-j eration that you wouldn't care to! repeat ? not while I'm above, ground. Mr. Duncan is an intelli-j gent and worthy young man, of' whose preference any lady with the; least particle of sense would be; proud. I shall invite him to continue his calls here, and remember; that it is my wish that you treat liini with the respect and consider-' ation that he deserves." Having thus delivered himself,; Mr. Cline left the room with an air j ornnt satisfaction: liittv makinjr r* t>* ? * * w no response, save by a subdued sniffle behind the handkerchief, in; which she had buried her face. Having first made sure that her father had taken himself off down j the street, she dried her laughing; eyes, and as soon as it began to. I grow dusk, she went over to her! j cousin's, where she knew Robert; would be waiting for her, to tell him of her success, and to instruct; jhiin into his part in the little com-! jedy that was being enacted. I At Mr. Clinc's express invitation! (lie continued his calls with more i frequency than before, being treated j by Kitty, when her father was present with a coolness which the young man took with very commendable philosophy and resignation. ' Perhaps the warmth and cordialjityof his liost had something to (do with this, or he might have been isustained by various private inter! viev s with Kitty, and which seemed I to be very pleasant and satisfactory 1. to all concerned. ;i Emboldened by the marked encouragement given him by the old jgentleman, liobert finally asked | him for.the hand of his daughter, receiving Lis unqualified consent. Robert expressed his gratitude in warm terms, taking care to hint "that he had not received much encouragement from Miss Kitty." "Never you mind Kitty," returned the old man with an air *of grim satisfaction ; "girls don't know what they want, nor what is for their best good. I'll manage her." Accordingly, that very evening, Mr. Cline commuuicated to his daughter what he was pleased to term "her undeserved good fortune." No sooner had Kitty been given the name of the husband destined for her, than she vehemently asserted that she would die sooner than marry him. Her father just as stoutly insisted that she should; and the controversy ended by his ordering her to her chamber, declaring that she should stay there until she came to a proper sense of the duty slie owed liim as a daughter. In the morning he visited Kitty, finding her, if possible, more contumacious than before. Indeed, so provoking was her language, that lie assured her of his determination to keep her on bread and water until she submitted. -"r-o _i ; L ^ Willi tins pleasing pruspuui uclore her, Kitty remained "in durance vile" all .day. She did not seem at all cast down; on the contrary, she bore every appearance of being in an exceedingly comfortable and contented frame of mind. She spent the greater part of the day in answering sundry notes, and which were slipped under her door by her cousin, who was in the plot, the contents of which seemed to afford her great satisfaction. "When the old gentleman visited Kitty in the evening, he found her considerably subdued, which he ascribed, in no small degree, to the regimen of bread and water to which he had condemned her, being in blissful ignorance of the more appetizing fare that had been: surreptitiously smuggled in to her. "\Vrnen her tather intimated that she could leove her room as soon as she signified her willingness to take the husband he had selected for her, she yielded a sullen assent. Kitty was careful to express her determination to defer her marriage as Jong as possible, ana, as a uatu-j ral consequence, her father was prompt in asserting his determina-j tion that the ceremony should be performed at once. Kitty contrived to retain the sul-i len, resentful look she had assumed I until the hour appointed for'the; wedding. Then her face became1 radiant with emiles and blushes,' and which created 3uch a marked transformation in her countenance; as to attract her/father's attention.' "ITa! she is making the best of j it, as I knew she would," was his inward comment. Kitty's married life was a very1 happy one. "I have the best husband in the. world," she said, one day, iu the' hearing of her father.' "And you may.thank me for it," ; he chuckled. "You never would j have married Robert if I hadn't; insisted 011 it. Girls never know what is good for 'em ; it's well that; you had some one to choose for you." Kitty made 110 reply, save by a roguish smile, and which was quickly communicated to the countenances of those present, who were acquainted with the secret, as well as the good result of "Kitty's Ruse." 4 GEN. .STEPHEN D. LEE AT CHICKASAW BLUFF. "The following account of the; brilliant victory won by our distill-j guished fellow-citizen, Gen. S. J). Lee, in the defence of Vicksburg, j we take from Gen. D. II. -Maury's; acc'ounf of "Grant's Campaign in Xorth Mississippi, in 18C2 In December, while Grant was so leisurely moving down the Ccn-j tral Railroad and bearing our little, army back towards Grenada, JSlier- i man was sent with a force, esti-; mated at twenty thousand men, to; seize Vicksburg. lie would then: move to Jackson, and thus Van! Dorn would be placed with his little army of just 16,000 men be-, tween the armies of Grant ai.d Sherman, and would have been1 forced to evacuate Mississippi.! Sherman disembarked his army on the Yazoo river, above Vicksburg,; about December 20th. The place, was then defended by an insuffi-j cient force, and must have fallen j an easy prey to an energetic attack! by such an army as General Slier-' |man now brought against it. But! ISherman delayed bis attack several 'days, thus losing precious time and) j opportunity, and it was not until! i December 27th that he moved in j battle array to light the battle of 'Chickasaw Bluff, which, so far as | we know, is the only battle General Sherman ever did tight. I ^ l -.-n .. | Ul) tUilt Uiiy VIUlllTiU is. Lee commanded five regiments of infantry and two light batteries, twenty-five hundred men and twelve |guns, which confronted Sherman's army on the Chickasaw and Willow bayous. Lee arrayed his little force along the road which leads under 'the Chickasaw bluff. Ilis centre .fronted the opening between the bayous through which Sherman would debouch to the attack. An 'open cotton field six hundred yards across between the hostile lines. The centre of Lee's line, Louisiana troops, lay in the road, with the bluff at their backs. There was fi no ditch or embankment, or cover o of any sort along this part of Lee?s line; nor was there any obstacle to S the approach of the Federal forces,- 2 except the steady rifles of the brave a men who that day achieved the p most signal victory of the war. J The troops of Lee's wings were c much better posted than his cen- t tre; they were 011 more elevated C oTound. Their front was in pren.t, a part securely covered by deep and a impassable fissures orgulHcs, which c the enemy could not discover until r within pointblank range, and their fire could sweep the whole front of t attack. About four o'clock P. M. a the enemy in a heavy column e marched out of the timber beyond t the bayou, crossed the narrow neck c between the bayous, and marched s straight against Lee's centre. The r column of attack was commanded f by General Frank Blair, and moved \ up in fine ahd formidable array; f but so deadly wras the fire of Lee's r line, and so steady were his men, r that before the foremost enemy \ could come within one hundred c yards, their lines were broken, the s attack was repulsed, the Federals v were retreating in disorder to the 1 /-vm f 1 . a %if aa/lii 1 nn t?i r? a V ULM ci ui IUC nvuuo, i^nviu^ uiic * thousand dead, wounded and prisoners on the field, and Geueral Sherman was defeated, and from that moment abandoned alt further efforts at an attacd, and turned all his energies and attention to effect a safe retreat, In no battle of the war was the disparity of numbers greater, or was the disparity in losses so great. Lee captured on the ground two hundred and fifty prisoners, officers and men, who in their fright had fallen down; our men thought them dead, until examination proved them to be entirely unhurt. Sev eral hundred wounded were removed by Lee to his own hospitals, and more than one huudred were killed upon the field. ' Captaiu ( Hamilton, of Lee's staff, killed by i the explosion of a caiston, was the t only Confederate killed; ten others t were wounded, and this was Lee's I whole loss. i * * * * t The conduct of Sherman during ? this, his first independent expedi- \ tion, is open to criticism. The f grandeur of his intentions and prep- J arations is in 'strong contrast with < the impotent conclusion. His de- \ lay and hesitation in making his c attack, the feebleness of that at- fc tack, and his unjustifiable readiness I to abandon tbe whole enterprise, .1 evinced incapacity for command, t His attempt to evade admitting that J the battle-field was Lee's in not ap- d plying at once for a truce to bury t his dead, and his petty assumption a of dignity in causing a subordinate 0 officer to sign the letter which he 0 finally sent requesting a truce, and a the gross neglect of his gallant dead I) consequent upon this u 11 soldier-Tike t course, were characteristic of the v man who has proclaimed that v "Wade Hampton's troops burned 1( Columbia, aud that his did not, and u who announces that "the honor of { military men is very different from t the honor of politicians*" , , ' r T., rvlnnnin ff nr\n + I?C1 of VITltll RllPr- 11 X II p I VUO 1 i 1 ^ W ti bt UUb II ?kM fVM v. man's conduct of this battle was a that of his antagonist, Brigadier- f General Stephen'D. Lee. twenty years younger than Sherman, he c was yet a soldier of tried experi- t cnce, and was fresh from the army c of Northern Virginia, that school ? of war commanded by the great f master of tlie art, and had borne a 1 conspicuous part in all of its great i battles. Like Sherman, Lee was < now commanding for the first time t on afield where all was committed I to the hazzard of battle. The cdds i against him were fearful?near ten s to one?and it was not possible to t perceive that the advantages of po- v - i -i.:~ c sition wo 1*3 so strongly m m? mvui p as to compensate for liis unequal >1 numbers. A commander of less|^ experience and nerve than Leejl might have posted the centre of t his army on the bluff instead of in 1 the road at its base. But Lee per- v ceived that if his line were on the < bluff there would be a dead angle.^ Avfnnf fliof i along its ironi 01 such wiuh ?.???, the enemy would be safe from fire a c long way off, and could carry his it position by escalade. Therefore lie j f resolved to receive the attack at t the baso of the bluff, and to depend j 1 on the marksmanship of his troops is and their tried courage, animated;? by his example, for his sole defence.!< While Sherman never during the'e battle showed himself in its front, t but remained with his reserves, c which he never brought up, Lee's;a presence was constantly seen and t felt along his whole line. Never c did commander show himself in U battle more freely to friend and foe, c and never was such exposure justi-'t tied by richer results. j* "Good-T>y, you old scolding1 red-!' i headed heathen," wrote a Dubuque : * man to his wife the last thing before j( suiciding. She says she'd like loi have got hold of him for about one j York minute. j1 "When the nogro down in Louisi- 1 ana was hauled up for stealing ha-|t con, he put in as a defense that he!f was told by his political teachers,it that now, when he had the right to e vote, lie must take "sides" some-!i where. !i T3E OPPRESSED SOUTH. We cut the following paragraph % *om, the commercial article in one f our leading exchanges: ^ "Daring the past eight years the |p louth has raised and sent to market' 5 3,000,000 bales of cotton. Averging the bales at 400 pounds, ai.d utting the price as low as 17c. a lound for middlings, the value in urrency, of this stupendous quantity of goods, amounts to $1,598,>00,000, which is more than twice is much as the entire le^al tud National Banknote circulation >t the Union and three-fourths as nuch as the whole National debt." m What a piquaut statement is conained in the paragraph we have ibove copied. Within,the sp ace of light years, comprehending the irne which has elapsed since the lose of the late uufortonate wrtr of , ections, the - South 'has sent to narket 23,500,000 bales of cotton,, or which the country has received f1,598,000,000. If this immense >roduct of the South had not been aised and sent abroad and its avails ? eturned into theoountry, whatr vould have been the financial ooniition of the No'fth to-day ? Utterly md hopelessly bankrupt! The South and her inestimable staple,. lave saved our country from what, vithout such effective aid, would lave been our inevitable ruin. Without the ?1,598,000,1)00 which ler cotton crop has brought into he countrv the nation would have >ecn bankrupt, long ago. And yet, rom the time the Southed dowii ler arms under the promise that die ihould be immediately, restored to ler equal rights in the Union, .she rns been the victim of tjie most ;ruel and relentless persecution, by he dominant Republican party of ;he North, with its incompetent lead at Washington; She has been >verrun aud impoverished by a lorde of carpet - baggers, who, hroagh the instrumentality of the:, gnorant negro vote, Jhaye seized lpon the governments of the States \ >f the South, controlled their leg-^ slation, run them into debt bevond heir ability to pay, overwhelmed ^ hem with taxation, and stolen and a Mif <T?a nrrvnpfU rvf +hpir ininrntnna 'V . icts into their own pockcts. And lie administration has, by force of irms, sustained these governments vhich have been established by Vaud against the will of the people. .? we except the Poles, there is no jonqaered people1 in modem times ; vho bave been so oppressed by their lonqnerors as the people of the South have been by the Republican >arty. Parallels of such oppression ind outrage may be furnished by he civilization of two thousand -ears ago. Then conquest was inloed a terrible reality. Vae victis, he cry of tbe conqueror, was then . uote of awful warning in the ears if the conquered party. It meant oppression, robbery and outrage of 11 sorts. But it would -puzzie the listorian to point to an instance in he annals of Greece or Iiome fliere a whole conquered people re re subjected to a more remorseess despotism than has been Visited. ipon the South by the Republican tarty. It is no less than an attempt o subjugate the wTholesuperior and nore intellectual race to tbe .domilation of ignorant negroes, guided nd controlled by unprincipled ortune-seekers and plunderers. ' And yet, oppressed and ^erseuted as she has been, tbe bouth >y her abundant and valuable prolacts has saved the North?her ungrateful persecutor and oppressor? rom complete and overwhelming mukruptcy and ruin. And how nucli more could the South have lone if she had not been subjected o the control ot a horde of unirincipled white plunderers, and gnorant and misguided negroes, icting as the dupes and allies of heir white leaders. Iler products vould have been much greater in [uantity and value. She would lave given more relief to the North, iiid would have been prosperous at loine. The debts of the States of lie South would have beeu much ess in amount, and their Jbonds vould have had a high value instead )f being as they now are nearly vorthless. Is it not time for the North to ;ease this oppression and persecuiou of the South 'i Is it not time or the President to withdraw his roops from the South, and no onger use them to control electious, iiistain fraudulent governments, md protect the plunderers who rob tnd oppress that unfortunateregion is lie is now doing? "We should hink so. The late elections may rarry a warning to the stolid mind it the head of the Government of lie Union, which even he may unlerstand and heed* The country is jetting quite as sick of the reign of :a met-bakers m the South as of . lie* defalcations, embezzlements, dealings, and general corruption of he leaders of the Republican party 11 the North. The people dewiancl i change, and it is. coming.?The 1 'onconl (N. II.) People. Save your Doctor's Bill. ? tVheuDr. Wistar's Balsam of Wild Jherry will cure coughs, colds, deeding at the lungs, and arrest * lie felUlestroyer, Consumption, it loos more than most physicians can io. The use of a single bottlo, costing one dollar, will satisfy the ncredulous that they need look no .urtlier for the required aid. -'' j..