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DEVOTED TO POLITICS, MORALITY, EDUCATION. AND rO TILE GENERAL INTEREST OF THE COUN'hni VObL Vi. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29,_18Th. O 2 THE SENTINEL BY D. F. BRADLEY & CO. Terms of Stbscription. Alp-, One Year . . .. .. . . . .....$1 50 six Mont'hs... . 75 Advertising Rates. Advertisements inserted at the rate of $1 00 per square, of (9) nine lines, OR LESS, for the inrt insertion, and 60 cents for each subse quent insertion. Contracts made for THREE, siX or TWELVE months, on favorable terms. Advertisements not having the 'number of insertions merked on them, will be published until forbid and charged Accordingly. These terms are so simple any child may understand them. Nine lines is a square one inch. In every instance we charge by the space occupied, as eight or ten lines can be made to occupy four or five squares, as the advertiser~may wish, and is charged by the space. W Advertisers will please atate the num ber of squares they wish their advertisements to make. & Business men who advertise to be benefitted, will bear in mind that the SENTINEL has a large and increasing cir culation, and is taken by the very class of persons whose trade they desire. Longstreet on Gettysburg. A narrative of the Pennsylvania campaigp from the beginning to the close, written by Gen James Long btreet, is published in the Philadel phia Times Gen. Longstreet tells some things that have never been told, and reviews the operations of 1863 from a point of view that is in many respects more advantageous t than is possible to any other man t now living, since no man now living I was so prominently c.mcerned in them. THE FIGHT 1N JULY 1ST. The enconiter on the 1st of July I Geni. Longstreet shows to have been t wholly accil!ental, and it was then that ie beio ei Lee committed an < error in not eit her vigorously proew, < citing the temporary success, or elee C mai.envring so as to compel Meade I to make the attack. Gen. Longstreet continues is folluws: When I over- i took Gen. Lee at 5 o'clock that af- a ternoon he said, to my surprise, that t ho thought of attacking Gen. Meade o upon t"ie heights next day. ,Gen. j Lee was impressed with tbe idea that ( by attackmng the Federals he could < wvhip themu in detail. I reminded I him that if the Federals were there. in the morning, it would be proof a that they had their forces well in t hand, and that with Pickett in < Chambersburg, and Stuart out of ] reach, we should be somewhat in de tail, lie, however, did not seem to i abandon the idea of attack on the next day. He seemed under a sub- I duied excitement, which occasionallyi took possession of him when "the < hunt was up," and threatened his su. parb equipoise. The sharp battle4 fought by Hill and Ewell on that day had given him a taste of victory. THE PLAN OF ATTAOK. When 1 left Gen. Lee on the 1st I believe that lie had made up his mind to attack, but was confident that he had not yet determined as to when the attack should be ma:le. The assertion first made by Gen. Pendleton, and echoed by his con., federates, that I was ordered to open the attack at sunriEe is totally false. Gen. Lee never in his life gave me orders to open an attack at a specific hour. He was perfectly satisfied that when I got my troops in position and was ordered to attack, no time was ever lost. On the night of the 1st I left him without any orders at all. On the morning of the 2d I went to Gen. Lee's headquarters at daylight and renewed my views against making an attack. iIe seem ed resolvied, however, and we discus sed the probable results. We ob served the position of the Federals and got a general idea of the nature of the ground. A bout sunrise Gen. Lee sent Col. Venable, of his staff, to Gen. Ewell's headquarters, ordering him to make a reconnoisance of thme gronbd in -his front, withithe view of enaking th,n main attacke nn hiG left A short time afterwards he followed Col. Venable in person. Ile return ed about 9 o'clock and informed me that it would not do to have Ewell on the attack. He finally determin ed that I should make the main ate tack on the extreme right. It was fully 11 o'clock when Gen. Lee ar rived at this conclusion, and ordered the movement. Our army was stretched in an el,. liptical curve, reaching froin the front of Round Top around Seminary Ridge, and enveloping Ceinetery [eightB on the left; thus covering a space of four or five miles. The on etny occupied.the high ground in front of us, being mased within a curve of about two miles nearly con, centric with the curve described by Dur forces His line was about 1400 yards from ours. Any one will see that the proposition for this inferior Force to assault and drive out the masses of troops upon the heights, ivas a very problematical one. My )rders from Gen. Lee were "to en relop the enemy's left and begin the dttack there, following up as near as )ossible the direction of the Em nettsburg road." THE BAITLE OPENED. My corps occupied our right, with Ur. Hood on the extreme righi and UcLaws next. Hill's corps was next o mine, in front of the Federal cen re, and Ewell was on our extreme e-ft. My corps, with Pickett's divis on absent, numbered hardly 1 3,000 nen. I realized that the fibt was o be a fearful one, but being assured hat iny flank would be protected by lie brigades of Wilcox, Perry, right, Posey and Mahone moving n echelon, and that Ewell was to ,()-operat3 by a direct attick on the nemy 's right, and Hill to threaten iis centre and attuck it opportunity ffered, and thus prevent reinforce nents from being launched either gainst myself or Ewell, it seemed hat we might possible ditilt-dge the Preat army in front of us. At hIafi >ast 5 o'clock the order was given senieral Hood to adv~auce upon the nemy, and hurrying to the head of doLaw's division, I moved with his ine. Then was fairly commenced vhat I do not hesitate to pronounice ho best three hours fighting ever lone by any tr'oops on any battlefield. )irectly in front of us3, occupying the >each orchard, on a p)iece of elevated ;round that General Lee desired me o take and hold for his artillery, was he thir'd corp~s of the Federals, com., nanded by Geni. Sickles. My men ~har'ged with great spirit and dislodg ~d the Federals from the peach or, ~har'd with but lhttle delay, though hey fought stubbornly. We were hen on the crest of Sem inarny Ridge. L'ho artillery wvas brought iorwar'd L.d put into position at the peach or >rchard. The infantr'y swept downi hte slope and sooni reached the marshy ground that lay between Beminary and Cemetery Ridges, fighting their way over every foot of ground and against overwhelning odds. At every step we found that reinforcements were pouring into the Federals from every side. Nothing could stop my mien, however, and they comnmenced tneir h eroic charge upon the side of Cemetery Ridge. Our attack was to progress in the gener'al direction of the E'umettsburg road, but the Federal troops, as they were forced from point to point availing themselves of' the stone fen, ces and boulders near tl-e mountains as rally ing points, co annoyed our right flank that Gen. flood's division was obliged to make a partial change of front so as to relieve itself of this galling flank fire. 'This drew Gen. McLaw's a little further to the right thanm Gen. Lee haid anticipated, so that the defensivo advantages of the ground enabled the Federals to doe, lay onr p)urpose until they could oc cnny Little Round Top. which the just then discovered was the key to their position. The force thrown up on the point was so strong as to seize our rig%t, as it were, in a vise. TUHE CHAUGE UP CEMETERY RIDGE, Still the battles on our main line continued to progress. The situa tion was a critical one. My corps had been fighting over an hour, hav ing encountered and driven back line after line of the enemy. In front of them was a high and rugged ridge, on its crest the bulk of the army of the Potomac, numbering six to one, and securely resting behind strong posit ions. My bravo fellows never besitated, however. Their duty was in front of them, and they met it. They charged up the hill in splendid style, sweeping eyerything before them; dislodging the enemy in the face (f a withering fire. When they had fairly started up the second ridge I discovered that they were suffering terribly from a fire that swept over their right rnd left flanks. I also round that my left flank was not pro lected by the brigades that were to move en echelon with it. McLaw's line was consequently spread out to the left to protect,.its flank from the 3weeping fire of the large*bodies of troops that were posted on Round rop. These two movements of ex tension so drowi my forces out that I Found myself attacking Cemetery Hill with a single line of battle against not hias than 50,000 troops. My two divisions at that time were cut down to eight or nine thousand men, fo"r thousand having been kill%d or wounded. We felt at every step the heavy stioke of fresh troops -the sturdy, regular blow that tells ia soldier instantly that he has en countered reserves or reinforceieurs We received no support at all, ad there was no evidoicu of co-opera tion on any side. To u-go my invi forward under these circumstances would have been inidiess, and I withdrew thei in good order to the peach orchard that we hand taken rromn the Federals early in the after noon.- It may be mentioned~ here Lts illustrative of the dauntless spirit At these men that when G3n. Ilum phreys, of Mississippi, was ordered to withdraw his troops from the ohar'ge hie thought there were some mistake, and retired to a captured battery near the swale between the two ridges, where he hilted, and when ordered to retire to the new line a second time he did so under protest. Our men had no thought of retreat. They broke ever'y line they encountered. When the order to withdraw was given a courier was sent to Gen. Lee informing him of the result of the day's work. A MARVELLOUs AssAULT. Before e pursning this narrative further, I shall say a wvord or t wo concerning this assault. I am eat is tied that my force, numbering hard ly 13,000 men, encountered duiring~ that three and a half hours of bloody wvork not less than 65,000 of the Federals, and yet their charges was not checked nor their line brokeni until we order ed them to withdraw. I found that might that 4,539 of my men, more than one third of' their total number had been left on the field. Ilistory recor'ds no parallel to the fight by these two divisions on the 2d of July at Gettysburg. EwELL's INACTION. It may be imagined that I was as ton)ishetd at the fact that we received no supp)ort after we had driven the Federals from the peach orchard and 1,000 yards beyond. It General Ewell had engaged the enemy in his front at that time (say 4 o'eIek) he would have prevented their massing their whole army in my front, anid while he and I kept their two wings engaged Hill would have found their contre weak, and should have threat. cned it while I broke through their loft and dislodged them. llaving failed to move at 4 o'clock, while the enemy was in his front, it was atill more surprising that lie did not ad vance at 5 o'cloqk with vigor and promptness when the trenches in front of him were vacated, or rather held by one single brigade, (as Gen. Meade's testimony before the con mittee on the conduct of the war states.) Had lie taken these trenches and scattered the brigade that held theni, lie would have f,und himself in tbo Federals flank and rear. His attack in the rear must have dis lodged the Federals, as it would have been totally unexpected-it being believed that he was in front with me. Hill charging upon the centre at the same time would have increased their disorder, and we should have won the field. GEN. LEE's DETERMINATIoN. I did not see Gen. Lee that night. On the next morning he came to see me, and fearing that be was still in his disposition to attack, I tried to anticipate him by saying: "General, I have had my scouts out all night, and I find that you still have an ex nellent opportunity to move around to the right of Meade's army and manmuvre him into attacking us." He replied, pointing with his finger at Cemetery Hill: "The enemy is there, and I am going to strike him." I felt then that it was my duty to express my conviction. I said: "Gen 3ral, I have been a soldier all my life. I have been with soldiers en gaged in fights by couples, by squads, culipanies, regiments, divisions and armies, and should know as well as any one what soldiers .can do. It is my opinion that no fifteen thousand men ever arrayed fur battle can take that position," pointing to Cemetery IIill. Gen. Leo, in reply to this, ordered me to prepare Picket's di vision for the attack. I should not have been as urgent had I not fore seen the hopelessness of the proposed a6ssault. I felt that I must say a word against the sacrifice of my meon; amid then I felt that my record was such that Gen. Lee would or could not misconstrue my motives I said no mnore, h owever, bum, turnied away. Thie most ot the mnornitg wams consumed in waiting for Pickett's men and get ting into position. The plant of assault was as follows: Our artillery was to be massed in a wood from which Pickett was to charge, and it was to pour a continuous fire upon the Cemetery. Under cover of this fire and sup)ported by it Pickett was to charge. Our artillery was in charge of Geni. E P. Alexander, a brave and gifted officer. I had instructed Gen. Alexander, being uinwilling to trust myself with the ent ire resp)onsibility, to carefully observe the effect of theo fire upon01 the enemy, and when it began to tell to notify Pickett to be gin the assault. PICKtiETI"s Ch ARG E. The cannouading wvhich opened along both lines was grand. Ini a few mnmnts a courier brought a niote to G~JAural i 1EKf, wvho was standing uiear me, which, ftr read-. ing, he handed to me. It wa~s as fol lows: "if you are coming at all you must come at once, or I cannot give you proper support; b)ut thme enemy's8 fire has not slackened at all; at least eighteen guns ate still firing from the Cemetery itselfI." A f er' I had read the note Pickett sai to me: "Ge neral, shall I ad. vance?" My felig had., so o ver come me that I would not speak for fear' of betraying my want of confidence to him. I bowed affirmation, and turned to mount my horse. Pickett immediately said: "I shall lead my division forward, sir." I spurred my horse to the wood where Alexan der was stationed with artillery.--.. When I reached him he told me of the disappearance of the seven guns which were to have kd the carge. with Pickett, and that his aminunis tion was so low that he could not properly support the charge. I at once ordered him to stop Pickett until the ammunition had been re plenished. Ile infomed me that he had no ammuniti<m with which to replenish. 1 then saw that there was no help for it, and that Pickelt must advarce under his orders. He swept past our artillery in splendid style, and the men marched steadily and compactly down the slope. As they started up the ridge over one hundred cannon from the breast works of the Federals hurled a rain Dfcannister, grape and shell down upon them; still they pressed on un til half way up the slope, when the rrest of the hill w'as lit with a solid sheet of flamo as the mnasees of the infantry rose and fired. When the smoke cleared away, Pickett's di vison was gone. Nearly two thirds if his men men lay dead on the field, and the survivors were sullenly re treating down the hill. Mortal n' i "ould not have stood the file. 0n balf an liour the contested field m as 3leared, and the battle of Gettysburg was over. VIRGINIA BATrLu FIELDs-The bat le fields around Richmond are quiet meadows, reclaimed by nature with few signs ot the days of "blood an-d iron." At Cold Harbor, Fair Oaks, Seven Pine3 and Malvern Hill one sees little to remind him of the ter rible scenes enacted there twelve or lifteen years ago. In the woods and on hillsides and river bluffs in the Peninsula, where no attempt has been made to cultivate the land, sloping earthworks are still to ba seen, but elsewhere the entrench nents havo been leveled. Below Petersburg there are few traces even of the formidable fortifications. The Crater and the fields around it are owned by Mr. Griffiths, who was born close by, and was in Peters burg whein the mine was fire.]. ie has built a house near' the Crater and has bis father's f.a'rm under ex cellent cub ivation. The Crater itself has been left almost untouiched, and a thick underbrmush& f l-each trees and sprouts has sprung up f'romn the pits thrown away by the soldiers during the siege. The ravine where the dead lay in great heaps on that terrible n'ming hats been brought under the p)low year after year, until no0W only a slight de pression in the field Can be pointed out. The visitor has to pay twenty cents for a glimpse of the Crater and the interior of a shted stocked with battle relics. Tm r EL1scTroN Yk 'rJIDaYn- Of course the election p)assed off quietly, there being no opposition to the two Democratic candidates for the Sen ate and House; the only i[nstan)ce worthy of note being the jocular offer of one of the most uncomlpromnising Democrats in the State-a regular' "de-ntewo, "pizeni" sort of a fellow-to vote for Nashi at the secon d u' ard poll. iIe wvas cou rte onsly informed by tihe mfanaiger thait he was not authorized fo receive votes for dead men; when the appli cant for th'e right of suffrage puIt his ballot in for Kinsler and [laskell and departed, to all appiearances happy. The vote may be summed up as fol lows: John L1. Kinsler, for' Benator, unaniariously elected. John C. IIas kell, for Representative, ditto.-Re gister, 21st. The only safe w~ay to dress golden hair, and to prevent its turning dark. or, is to use no oils or p)atent mnix, tures of any kind; wash it frequently at least twice & w"eek; never use stap of anuy kind, use fresh eggs instead; rub them wvell in tile hair, whites and yolks, then rinse it out in warm was ter made soft with p)owdered borax; brushi it frequently to make it gloss. The Value of Printers' Ink It is not only, as the poet says, pleasant to see one's name in print, but it is withal profitable, as is at tested by the experience of all sys tematic advertisers. A striking illnstration of this fact has just come under our own observation in an a thentic c-mniunication from one of the largest, if not actually the largest advertiser, tlie country can boast. And since he has ever been such a faithful patron of priiters' ink, we don't begrndge him the publicity which 011r assertion of his communi cation can at'ord. Mr. 1olloway of pill notoriety- f )r it is to hiu we refer-wi ites: "The 15.,h October, 1837, was the first day that my ad vertisement. appeared in tiny paper. My pills and ointments for a consid orable time obtained litl lo or no favor. It was my rule from the commence. ment to spend judiciously the money I could spare in publicity, which went on increasing, ald in the year 1842 I (xpended X5,000 in adver tising. Thim rolled on, and froin the hitiherto uthought of yeatrly o()jjlay of ?5,000 I increased it to R10,000 in the year 1845. At the time of the Great Exhibition in London in 1851 my expenditure was ?20,000, in the year 1855 it had risen to 230,000; and in the present year (1877) it has reached ?40,000, in advertising Iny medicines in every availabl manner throughout the gl(be. Fur tLe prop. er application of their use I have had ample directions translated into near. ly eveiy known tongue-such as Chinese, Turkish, Armenian, Arabic, Sanskrit, and most of the vernacui lars of India, and all the languages spoken on the European continent." Any comient as to the value of syss tematic and uninterinitting advertis iung is rendered needless by these facts, which point their own moral. -Printing Times and Lithographer. JosIZ BiLLNSir ON PRAYER.- From tu many friends and from things at luco ends, good Lord deliver us. From a wifo who don't luv us, and from children that don't look like us, good Lord deliver us. From snaix in the grss and from snaix in boots, from torchlight -pros cessions, and1 all now rum, godLord deliver us. From Pack peddlers, young folks in luv, from old aunts without any money, from kolcramorbus, good Lord deliver us. From weoalth without chiari tee, from pridoe without sense, from pedligr'oo worn out, andl from all rich relations, good Lord deliver us. From virtue without fragranco, from butt er that smells, and from kcatFl that aro kourtiing, good Lord deliver us, From old folks sek rets, and fromi our own, from mediums and women1 committees, good Lord decliver' us. From polyticians who pra, andI saints who tipplo, from wry coili, redi horrins and all grass wviddeis, good Lord deliver us. From folks who won't laff, atj(i from tito butes, casy sirtue, ram mnut ton, good Lord deliver us. Thle following directions, carefully observed, will prevent those cutien,. lar and osseous abominations knowni as felons. As soon as the disease is felt, put directly over the spot a fly blister, about the size of your thlumb nail, and let it remain for six hours, at the expiration of which time, di rectly undler the surface of the blis ter may be seen the felon, which can~ instantly be taken out with the point of a needle or lancet. An Eastern doctor has discovered~ that biaa:bonate of soda sprin -j on a burn and wrapped with~ m~1oii rag is a sovereign cure aid ai( instamt destroyer of pain, Ie demnf4'st rated it by publicly scalding lais, acrmn anid applving the remedy. .