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--j- -C - A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c Vol. X. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 11, 1874. No. 10. THE HERALD IS PUBLISHED EVXRY WEDN~ESDAY HMNING, At Newberry 0. 11-s RY T~HMe F* GIORKHRt Editor and Proprietor. TerMs,$U 5pe nwn Invariably in Advance. 47?be~er isstoppe at the expiration of hiis Pai. 27 The >4 mark denotes expiration of sub TIGHT! BY TITUS A. BRICK. I dre=m'd tbatlIsat on acomet, My legs dangling over in space. AWl dariing ulong like a bomb, it Join'd the bright worlds in their race. On, on, through the limitless ether, With countless fair planets in view, The-moon and the dull earth beneath ber S6un faded away in the blue. We,rnsbed by so close to bright Venus, ftbrew'ber I kiss from my lips: Theit .w~a scarcely a stone's throw be . .t IWenlus, But she, too, soon suffer'd eclipse. .'We wbred past the terrNbe Saturn, Just grazing his lunuous rings; I bcorntOiy thought of that slattern The Zartb,with her pale moon and things! *We possle twery bright constellation, Regard* * of risks-which were run, And I felt it my gieatest Texation That none bad a share in the fun. But, horror! I fel a str3nge action! - I know that m3r wild race is done! W*ebire got in the grasp Of aturaction, iid_iush, 4ike the light, to the sun. Ciasb%irakel What a terrible dizziness! MiyMod 1 1 fst m the-comet did; I f batb~st.aekmeant.businuss, S *Wowedcr qakckly, and-was very u el,indeed! Without light to relieve the gloom of the night, we wearily sank upon the ground, and to dream of our dear ones at home we coveted sleep. That night a sound sleep refresh ed the troops, and the next morn ing when the whispered orders came to rouse up the men and fall into line, they sprang to their rifles with strong arms and ready hearts But few seemed to realize the mo mentous fate that hovered over our army; none were dismayed by the contemplation of the coming con fliet. It was a beautiful Sabbath morning. The air was balmy and fresh, and the sun arose bright and glorious-the most magnificent sun rise I ever beheld. I remember point ing it out to Col. Blythe, who was sitting on his horse near by, and: saying to him: "Col. Blythe, be hold the sun of Austerlitz." The gallant Colonel's heart caught the sentiment, and with a smiLe he an swered: "Yes, we will indeed make it another Austerlitz." Glorious hero, it was the last sunrise that he was to ever behold,, for before that sun had attained its noon, his spirit had mounted on the wings of the battle, and- passed away forever. And all peacefully, and all lovely 4s that sun arose, it was to set upon a day of carnage and blood. But we had but little to indulge the sentimental heroic, for already had the enemy's pickets been developed, and the sharp ring of the riffes told that our skirmish ers were engaged. Our forces that morning consist ed of Gen. Polk's, first army corps, numbering 9,136; Gen. Gragg's, second army corps, numbering 13, 589; Gen. Hardee's,. third army corps, numbering 6,789, and Gen. Breckenridge's reserve corps of 6, 436, making a total infantry force of 35,953, to which was added the cav alry division of G'en. Gardner, num bering 4,382, making our iotal ef fective force 40,335. Gen. Johnston's plan of battle was admirably conceived. It con sisted of three lines. Gen. Har dee's corps, strengthened by .Glad den's brigade, of Bragg's corps, onstituted the first line, extending from Oil Creek, on the left, to Lick Creek, on the 4ii. .This lixne fell perje idiceilar to and across the Co nth road, and extended a distance of three miless The second line was, drawn out parallel with the first, and five hundred yards to the rear. It consisted of the remain der of Bragg's corps, and was to onform its movements to those of the first. The third line consisted' of Gen. Polk's corps, pasiallel with the second, and was to follow its movements at the distance of five hundred yards. Gen. Brecken ridge massed his corps in the rear of the center -of the third line, and was to m o ve forward in column, ready to be deployed when and wherever his support would be needed. The woods in front of the enemy's postion, anrd through which we had to advance, alternated with thick swamp briars and post oak -fats, covered-with low, scrubby black gum nderwood, which made it exceedingly difficult to penetrate. Now and then a small patch of cleared ground relieved the toil some scramble through the tangled brush wood. A few momnents after the glorious sun-bust that rose so grandly upon us, we were ordered to move for ward. We had not proceeded far before the roll of musketry in front told that the work of death had began. Then came the sharp ringing report of a twelve pound parrot, and soon another and another, each one greet ed with a yell of defiance. Eagerly we pressed f or wa rd through the thicket, whose tangled brush made it impossible to main tain a correct alignment. Ascend ing a little slope we encountered Gen. Beauregard and his staff. The General had a magnificent coach and four-a la Napoleon, driven out on the hillside. Our color company, called the "Yellow Jackets," com manded by Captain Dewberry-a brave company and a gallant cap tan-encountered t h e General's coa4h and how to pass the obstruc tion troubled the brave old Cap tain, who was good at fighting, but had a contempt for evolutions-far more than the task and the danger of charging a battery would . have been. Broadside the coach and team, stretched across the "Yellow Jackets," they marched squarely against it before they appeared to notice it, and then they halted and looked 'around in confusion. The regiment was aligning upon the colors, and the halt of Company C confused the entire line. "Move forward, Captain Dew berry," conipmandled Colonel Blythe, who\vas fluslied with mortification at eeng his line thus confused un der the very eye of Gen. Beaure gard. But how was Captain Dew berry to move forward with that formidable obstruction staring his company in the face. At length, wrought up to an agony of perplex ity, he turned to one of Gen. Beau regard's staff, and roared out: "Take that infernal old stage out of my way, or I'll smash it to pices."-. Luckily, however, the "Yellow Jackets" had by this time began to move of their own accord, and pass ed the obstruction by the right and left flank, the Captain not one time thinking how the movement was to be .executed. The untoward ob struction. being passed, we quickly aligned the regiment and moved forward again. -f the meantime the battle in front had become general. All along that fearful line, stretching for three miles, the rattle of mus ketry and the roar of artillery was deafening the air. Soon we began to meet the straggling balls, and now and then- a furious shell came shrieking over our heads. Soon, too, the wounded, borne on bloody litters, came groaning by, and di rectly we were met by straggling soldiers, who brought harrowing tales of the bloody work that was goi4g on in front. One noble-little herb, a mere child, belongin to CoMpany D, 16th Mississippi, came up and reported his regiment cut up and scattered and requested-per mission to-fall in with us; he was assigned a-. place ina- thazranks, and throughout that bloody, day he fought like a man. W had now reached a point to the left of the enemy's Iowa camps, and were ordered to jaarch by the right flank io close up a gap made by an oblique movement made da ring our advance. This movement brought us-directly in front of the enei s.iglit c~nter an4.posthe ground occupied by him, at . the ipening.ofz the battle. From. this point he had been-driyen, and form ed his line at the foot of the second hill beyond, impa44tely in front of his encampment-c Beforggygg igodimpene trable thdeiMM gn ra -to pa); i'- iNI~ of battle would beimpssible, anto pene trate it.om; eginiigt was ordered to move by& the lift'fank,'which it did promptly. At a double quick we cleared the jungle and dashed through the little field beyond. Rising the crest of a sharp hill, we were brought face to face wvith the battle. Never. while I live will I forget the grandeur of that sight. The enemy's camp lay spread before us, the clean white tents dotting the field to the right and to the left as far as my eye can reach. McClern ard's division was in our front.- The dark masses, of men clothed, in blue uniforms, moving in soldierly procession before us, some wheel ing into line, others recumbent up of~ the ground, awaiting our ap proach to spring up and hurl death in our faces. The heavy cloud of sulphurous smoke that hung. over the field 'almost. shutting- out the beams of that April sun; the deaf ening roar of the cannon, the un earthly shriek of the shell, the rattle of musketry, and the yells of men all conspired to make it a scene the grandest ever mortal eye beheld. We were marching by the flank, left in front. One moment we paused, as if to gasp for breath, while we gazed upon the work be fore us. Then came the order, thrilling every heart, 'By the left of companies, for ward into line; double quick, march." No order on a review was ever more handsomely executed than was that order, in the face of the enemy. With a rousing cheer, the men sprung forward, and as each company filed into line, it advanced as deliberately as if that long line of blue, that lay scarce three hun dred yards in front, was a line of friends instead of mortal foes. Company A, Capt. Sharp, hade scarcely attained its position before the enemy opened his fire ; like a Simoon's breath, it hissed through our ranks;, sweeping at once some of our bravest and best. Without a gaiver, our line moyd for ward until within a hundred paces of that line of blue, when the order came: "Fire by file; commence fir ing," and then we were lost in the blaze and. excitement .of battle. And fearfully did it rage, and glo. riously, ah, gloriously, for battle, when fought as we fought that day, for our convictions of truth, for .Heaven-oni liberty,- for home and for country, is the grandest, most glorious of all human exploits, and though at every step a dear com rade fell; upon every blast of that suphurous breath, belched in our faces, a brother's soul rose from~ --ah Yet as we saw that lineQof blue reeling before us, saw its guns dropping from pulseless hands, its banners trailing in the dust, line af ter line giving way, and gun after gun captured and turned against it, our hero souls were enthused with the spirit of battle, and we felt that it was indeed a glorious privilege to be there. No prouder page can adorn the annals of history than that upon which the battle of Shiloh is writ: ten. The entire day was one of re peated, but hard earned triumph. After the first fierce shock of the morning, the Federal lines were on ly formed to be broken and hurled back again. By 12 x. we had driv-: en McClernard from his tents, and by 3 . m. the entire Federal force was broken. Their troops, heart sick and weary with their hard days' fight, were cowering under the puny protection of their gunboats, and it needed only the demand for that proud army to have surrendered. Why that demand was not made, or why our victorious troops were not hurled like an avalanche upon those spirit broken men, God alone in his wisdom knows. When I think of the signal victo ry gained that morning; how cota pletely masters of that bloody field our forces were; the camps, thirty regimental colors, three thousand prisoners, half of his artillery, all ours, and then of the terrible sac rifice of noble lives that had been offered up to secure that victory, and at last the cruel, the tantal izing misfortune that turned oar peans of victory into wails of de feat and of sorrow, I am almost per suaded to doubt the virtue of hu man efforts. Oh it was a Woful hour to the South that struck our noble com mander, Gen.'Albert Sidney John ston, down. How disastrous to the caas6 of American liberty, how un fortunate for the fame -of General Beauregard, and yet how glorious for Gen. Grant. Had his invalu able life only been spared until sun down, the war would have been ended; Grant's army would have been crushed and Southern inde pendence established. But it was not to be so. A ball, altogether at 'random, struck and pierced his left leg. Undisturbed by what he supposed to be only a flesh wound, he continued to give some directions to his staff. Soon, however, the profuse hemorrhage 'attracted the atten ion of his dev'o ted friends, and it was discovered, alas, too late, that an artery had been eut. Gov. Harris was stand ing, by, -and to him-the- Gqperal re marked~ "I fear that I am mortally wound ed." Gov. Harris reached up his arms and assisted the wounded chieftain to dismount, and he was tenderly placed upon the ground .and surgical aid was called, but too late, too late-his pure soul was called-his fate was s'ealed, and our cause was lost. Every order up to this moment had been forward, and forward ev ery line was pressing, Gen. Bragg was in his glory ; the enemy had been huddled within a compass of less than one mile in width, and the arm was raised to strike the crushing blow, when the insane or der came to halt the troops, to re tire beyond range of the gunboats, and to cease the action. It is difficult to comment, with anything like justice, upon this ex traordinary order of Gen. Beaure gard. -His motives doubtless were commendable, but the mnost zealou's defender of his fame can but ad mit that it was the one great and damning error of his military life, crushing alike to his reputation, and fatal to the service of his coun try. But glorious as was that Sunday, the 6th day of April, to us, its hon ors were pu.rchased with a fearful price. Company I carried thirty men in the fight ; out of these six were killed and seventeen wounded. The regiment suffered in proportion. Our gallant Colonel, A. K. Blythe, swas killed ; our Lieut. Col. Heri-on was mortally wounded, and died the next day ; Capt. Humphreys, Capt. D)ewberry, Lient. McEacheon, Lieut. Allen and eighty men were killdd, and one hundred and twen ty wounded out of an effective force of three hundred and thirty. lMy own experience was sad; my. brother-so good, so true, so dear to me, was left mortally wounded on the field, while a ball through my right knee tripped me up just as the ememy's line had ~begun to break. A. captured caisson served as' an -excellent ambulance, and I rode out of that terribe fight as proudly as ever a conquerer rode upon a triumphal car. That night our army lay upon the field. So complete did the men consider the victory that but little thought was given to the morrow, n who were not tired enough to sleep, spent the night in plundering the rich spoils of the en emy's camps; and richly were those camps furnished; such an abun dance of good things had never be fore been spread before their unre strained hands. Sutler stores of rich variety and tempting profusion, commissary stores, quartermaster stores, medical stores, and above all, the richly furnished. quarters of the officers all spread out in tempting abundance, offered an opportunity for plunder that a better disciplined army than ours could not have sue cessfully resisted. As for myself, a night of intolerable anguish and painful anxiety was my portion. The field hospital was but poorly arranged, and still more poorly pro vided. Hundreds of maimed and dying had been huddled together in such confusion that the surgeon really did not know when or upon whom to attend. The little home that served as a hospital was crowd ed,and the yard was soon equally as full. Not a tent was stretched to shelter those in the -yard. I was placed upon the floor of the little piazza that stood in front of the cot tage. I shared my blanket with a wounded Federal Captain, and to gether we groaned: through that night My Lieutenant, James R. Allen, lay near me, mourning from a mortal wound in the abdomen. My poor brother was dead on the field, and the woe that oppressed me was almost too heavy to bear. To add to the horrors of that long night, a fearful thunder storm arose, about midnight, and the poor shelterless, helpless wounded on the ground were almost drowned in the flood of rain that deluged the yard. Chilled by the 'pitiless rain, and cold from the loss of blood, many of them fainted and cied. But at'leigth the imoining came -not as the moming before had come, with a glorious burst of sun, but dark and gloomy and chill. The sun of Austerlitz had set;- the sun of Waterloo washidden beyond the clouds; the clouds:hung heavi ly-dark with threatening rain; the very air seemed full of gloomy fore boding, and. as the :wind sighed through the tops of the oaks, its melancholy diapasok .was re-echoed in my soul. Gloomily the morning hours dragged their weary moments away. No sound from the front told us that the battle had to be fought again. Eight o'clock came and all was still. It was nearly nine o'clock before the roll of mus ketry and the roar of artillery told the tale. I 'am aware thai other, and indeed all published accounts of this battle, opened the fight on the 7th of April at a much earlier hour. Gen. Beauregard, in his of fcial report, says: "At about 6 o'clock the enemy began to fire." But of this one thinglIam certain, that it was 9 o'clock before the first sound of ba.ttle reached our field hospital, distance only one and a half ,miles from the ground. And when it did come, it had not that animated ring which character ized the earnest struggle of the day before. A desultory firing all day long-sometimes almost entire ly hushed, and Phen again bursting out in a fitful passion, like the maudlin ravings of a drunken man. No glory was won by either side upon that day. The-arrival of Gen. Buel the night before saved the ene my from destruction, but that was all. Our lines, all broken as they were by the night's demoralization, repulsed every single advance of the enemy, and never a single time retired under the fire. All that weary day I lay upon my back, unable to move a single mus cle without a painful effort, a lis tened to that sham of a battle. At length, about 3 o'clock in the after noon the firing ceased. Then a courier .came and ordered the pro vost guard to move off with the prisoners. Soon another came or dering all the wounded who could possibly travel to leave, as the army was about to retreat to Corinth. Retreat! after that glorious day of Shiloh; retreat and leave our wound ed and our dead in the hands of the enemy ; that enemy to whom, the evening' before, we could have dic tated a conqueror's terms. Re treat! the thought was too much, and in the bitterness of my soul, I cried like a child, and not only I, but hundreds of others braver and stronger than L.-CommonwealthA. "Some years ago," said Old Hmk, "I took a bed bug to an iron foundry, and dropped it in the ladle where the melted iron was, and had it run into the skil let. Well, my old woman used tat skillet pretty steady for the last six years, and here the other day she broke it all to smash, and what do* you think, gentlemen, that ere insect just walked out of his hole where he'd been lying like a frog in a rock, and made tracks for his roost up stairs I But by George, gentlemen, be looked mihypae anyh tv nala (" ~isellaneons. TAX-PAYERS' ADDRESS. Fn.ow-Crrz=s: The representa tives of the tax-payers to whom has been entrusted the high and solemn duty of recommending measures of protection against the corruption and rapacity that rule the organ ized band of wicked and unscrupu lous adventurers who, under the guise of government and in the name of party, have persistently despoiled you of your property and outraged your most sacred- rights, deem it becoming and proper to lay before you in this form certain considerations in connection with their action and deliberations, which they suppose worthy of your earnest and thoughtful attention. It would be unnecessary and painful to recite your wrongs; the sense of these is not the least poig nant of the sufferings you have been called to endure during these five years of unparalleled outrage upon a refined and Christian people. We would have our words speak of courage, of hope, of patience, of I faith, of work and of duty. He who has rightfully pondered the dealings of an all-wise and benefi- 1 cent Providence with the affairs of men, cannot fail to have discovered an unvarying and inevitable social law, that all great wrongs tend to their own correction, and work out in the end a sure compensation for the ills they inflict. Thus the ebb and flow of human ideas, obeying the divinely implanted principle of perpetual gravitation towards the right, always return from the wid est deviation, and recoil most vio lently and with accelerated velocity from, the. greatest. errors. This truth has impressed itself upon the thoughts of the world with the force of an axiom upon which "may be based the soundest propositions of the statesman. It has been aptly styled "the fanaticism of justice, which the stars, in their courses, sustain, and against which no at tribute of the Almighty takes part." It is vainto suppose that the n lightened American people are ;ex empt from,the application g..this universal social law. We feel justi fied in stating our conviction, that, breaking through al4 the "barriers of prejudice, political strife and the resentments of internecine war, the refiux of the great tide of opinion and sympathy is already moving with overwhelming force, bearing with it the promise of a restored nationality, based upon the broad and enduring principles of liberty, justice and truth. We would not be understood as encouraging the thought that what has been swept away in the past can ever be re stored. This great country has; taken a new departure ; has en grafted upon her system of govern-r ment new principles, and deals with new elements.. The retburning sense of justice will find its task in the adjustment of these new factors of power into harmonious accord with the true principles of repubhicanism, and in providing ample protection for the rights and liberties of the people. It will probably deal not with organic laws, but with faith less, corrupt and oppressive admin istrations. .Wh.ile we present these cheerful anticipations, which we feel justi fied in doing by many and great hanges in sentiment and opinion,1 manifested among even the most extreme of the great political lead ers and high officials of the country, and still more in recent popular movements, it is intended to invite to earnest and hopeful effort and action, rather than to lull into a false security. No help can ever reach .a people who suffer them selves to fall into apathy or despair. The energies of men seeking relief from wrong and oppression must be vitalized, organized and united. Every accessible position of power must be seized, held and utilized, and the fight carefully, vigilantly and faithfully fought from place to place, until the citadel be won and the right restored. The convention looks to your action .as the most prominent and essential element of the success to be achieved. In order to procure a restoration of an honest administration of affairs, the reins of government must pass into the bands of honest men.. Hither to, political issues have controlled all elections, and the great interests of the State have been subordinated to the schemes of corrupt and evil men, whose insatiate avarice and rapacity have brought us more ruin and desolation, of wrongs and sufferings, than the fiercest ravages of war. The coming ideas will sweep away party lines and destr~oy the trade of hungry political adven turers. Government will be made once more4hhaagent of the people, not thermate,and the gean lustrial interests of the country, ,ommerce and agriculture, become le prime objects of its protection, -ather than its prey. To participate n these benefits, we must be. placed * a condition to receive them. here must be an organiztion up n a basis wholly independent of )olitical parties and issues, based ipon the fundamental principle, hat the rights and interests of the >eople require an honest, faithful md economical ad1ministration of iublic affairs. Nothing but . pre aeditated villainy, blind ignorance ir total depravity, can prevent this elf-evident truth from controlling he government. Our work is to ceet and overcome every infnence hat would bar its recognition. -Pub ic opinion is created by agitation, .nd no community can long resist he pressure of a great truth, con tantly, earnestly and hoestly irged. To do this, association is ssential. The individual is as *werless as a single twig in the aggot, but nothing can resist the p-eat power of combination. Let he honest and well-meaning citi ens, one by one, be broughtintothe ax-Payers' Union, and made to vork for the cause of good govern fent, until the State is redeemed. Che eclat that atends the clab of rms is wanting to such a struggle, )ut no cause can be more worthy of he earnest,.fAithful and patient Ia >or of one who love his people and iis State. A triumph like this is iot to be won by a single decisive )attle, nor, it may be, by many toil ;ome campaigns, I%ut patient, en luring and honest work, soon er ater, will bring victory -to your tandards. No laurel wreaths may rown the victor's brow,, but a ran iomed: and redeemed Carolina, a ree, prosperous and happy people, Will attest to future gener*kWus, hat worthy of your ancestry and rue as- they to dty - and honor, ron have taken up the fight. in ,he darkest hour of adversity, and 'ithfully and saceessfflly -fought I - out to, . Victory. -. We- conjifre 7ou, then at oReWto.orgnze, com aet andri ap-.bem Tax-payers' Union,. antil you anchor the State lafe inthe barber ofisedepeace LMprosperity.. -:-S - -: In connection witAr tis great1 novement, it is desired to ap peal to our feHo-itizens1 who, lespairing of .relief, are con. .emplating the thought of- aban loning the homes of their child hood and the graves of their -athers, to seek -in other lands and amiong strangersr a more -hopeful -ture. Stand by the - old State. )esert not your people in their ex remity. Leave not the field while be battle rages. Take new cour ~ge .and try again. *We believe his to bo the very turning-. point n the fortunes of.the State. Stay ~ith us and share the coming good. Ihe same energy, labor and means hat would suffice to establish the miigrant in a new home would, -ehabilitate the old in abundant >lessings. It appears to us that duty and )atriotism alike demand that the ~itizen remain at his post, unless ,alled away by more important md exceptional considerations.-' Whenever it can be done,-we tit-ge ipon the people,. to offer such aid and assistance to any citizen whose necessities may impel him to leave the State as may induce aim to remain among us. To re ain our old citizens is of more ralue.than to introduce new.. Ev ary effort should be made to this and. Those who have .left the state in these latter 'years. of ad rersity and trial have not general y prospered. Many have return ad to their old homes, poorer than hey went out, and many, disap pointed and ruined, look back in ain regret upon a fatal mistake. [let us remain at home.and be bur led in the Lomb of our ancestors. A. fertile soil, salubrious climate, valuable staples, mines and water powers, a kind and hospitable peo pie, commercial facilities, railroads and telegraphs, and vast areas of inutilized and most valuable lands, :leared and ready for the plow, at prices greatly less*than the cost >f clearing the primitive forests, present here the most inviting aied ever offered to the im migrant. Dur people yearn for the coming stranger of every land -and- nation; We ilil introduce him on his ar rival into the midst of an advanced Christian civilization, with..an. as lred return for -industry- and thrift. This convention has instituted certain modes by which your ear nest desire to attrlkhither'the people of America and Burope may most' readily be 'gratified. -Fom these and other agencies to ees tablished, the happiest remnittay be expected. Let your he.rbyand: iberal sutpport ef these scbemes be cnstantly accorded, and South Carolina will soon achieve a career of prosperity tterly Unprecedent ed in her history. This convention has not taken counsel from despair, nor heeded that voice of the past that would awaken0 6JTdbMsn&Prejudices engendered-amid the stormr of contending issues buried ow felds of blood, "which stand Ias amonu ments of American valor, devotion and faith. Whatever inar have been the range of its discussion, its iesults are before you,- evincing a spirit of self restrait, fo-betr ance and conservatism, to -the emulation of -whieb they would earndstly <dmniend you. They have left nothiUg undone that promised relief, or that any could say should have been done. While they have- memorialized Congress on the subject of your wrongs, in language bf simple but burning eloquence and emphasis, they have not- omitted a proper appeal to the State Government for necessary reform. In this they feel asisr'ed that they will stand justified by your approval and the enlightened opinion of the world. We shall not in detail at tempt to recapitulate the entire action of this body, but earnestly invoke your attention to all the measures proposed, and-a united: action in their support, from .the mountains to the sea. In conclusion, imioring Al-. mighty God to bestow. upon. all the people His best blessing, His wisdom to guide and Hisatrength to achieve, we commend you to this noble W2k -f du ,_ud-Va triotism. I B. Ku #w, Ch'n,Kershaw. - C. R MiLm, Charleston. nJoN BATON, Fairfld. .,JoHN S, ,%,cHAAD8OX,SumtOP F. A. CoNNE, Aheille, 1RDEu JoNEs, York. - A.B. Woou -Spartanburg, tHE FOCE OF BREVITY. -Be brief. Come to the poit. Begin very near wherd youinteind to leave off Brevity if thesoul of wisdom as *ell as wif.. With out it you dan seldom obtain hear ddEt:thingh do iiefiff'b Tain cendU.nlf th'e ea& of literature are treasured up and g.uoted, and gems are nogt reckojned How compact all that comes down to us from the oldedi times! In how few words we have the commandment and the history of creation-b ar d ly emibraing so many words as are now emnplyed to welcome an alderman, or to makse a complimentar-y present of a spoon. The efeiiency anid value of com parison can searcely be overrateil. The common air we beat aside with our breath, comipressed has the force of gunpowder, and will rend the solid roek; so it is with our language. EIoquence will nev er nourish~in a country where the public taste is . infantile enough to measure-the valuew;of a speech by the hours it occupies. A gentle stream of persussiveness may flow through the mind, and leave no sediment; let it come at a blow, as a cataracs, and it sweeps all before it. It is by this magni. fieent compression that Cicero. confounds Catiain.e, and Demos thenes, overwhelms AEschineos; by that Mark Anthony,. as Shak speare makes. him" speak,. carries the heart away.with a bad . cause. A.lergyman .onee being asked why he made his sermon so long, replied that he hadn't time to make it shorter. Do you say it~ costs labo~r to be brief? Of.course it does. Mere words are cheap and plenty, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking, come as gold from a quarry. Th~e lan guage of strong passion is aiiways terse and 'compressed.-- Genuine conviction uses few words. There is something of artifice in a long speech.-Advocate. DON'T BE INQUIsTvE.-"Here's yer nice roast chicken," cried an aged colored mnan as t,he cars.stop ped at a North Carolina. railway station. - 'Here's yor nice roast- chicic'n'n taters, all nice and hot ;" holding up his plate and walking the plat form. "Where did you get that chick en, uncle~," asked a passengbr. Uncle looks at th6' intruder sharply, and then turnedawy ere's - yer nice roast -chick'n. gntlemen, all hot ; needn't go in de house for dat." "Where did yo get that chick en," repeated th inquisitIis-gas. "Isyou a Mrie obd cukad "Bhei & ui? ir "whigoyoatehbE agnTse wat inuataikn l o. yer nic, roast ohick'zz, all hot." ADVEIITISIMC* RATESs Adverdsements insmUtd at the rat of $1. 00 Per 2quare-one inch-for fim insertion, ard ~ 73c. for eachbpnnAiaeSM Dguble, AdverIsev ltnf ber of inserfl 10 ~ I E b and specide - ~A church in a City nFoda'i6 coneerding e "OU*W,e chu6cb) sf1~s . . Ihe are I. 2d. Onwewmy-~be~bpk UP OseW~ledhf* for--"&skbj_, and one lbfoif~I poral intqat patq toward''-~ohth:A 5th. They b.4 sw? 6Lh.!i 6-most "Ru.iai~ 7th. -The nsoe't -membeis IditJ wnma.. a ner-ietn~ in th&.Week, AMt.! Th& _ *ddllnm plainly-4id~ pros1o IMS& The eamg~A 4__i~ tions by climbing~.p'&ttlb.iy's legs and pulling ki&ooIIe~, .wbileHtwiet ~ laying her head on Bottletrnr's shoulder