The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, January 13, 1887, Image 1

Newspaper Page TextVO. XV >U CKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1887. A LETTER FROM CA'T. TII.I.Y. AN. Ho (;ive is View s on Certiuh Thingw U,ne by the Leglsluture at the eecent Nes+aon. To the Editor of the News and Couri er: Your editorial in the ''h e News ald Courier of December 24, headed '"The camo Old ''rouble," is in the nain just and appropriate, but at the sme time it is misleading. For instance, speaking of the bills omanating from the l"aruers' Convention, and which have been either postponed, amended out of al shape or slaughtered outright in the Senate, you say: "Who is responsible we need not say. The Senators will be prepared, of course, to explain their action to their conl stituonts when the proper time cones, and they will doubtless be giveu the op portunity. But whatever their reason, good or bad, the fact remains that the quarrol of the farmers, if the have any, is with their own representativcs. the non-agricultural members of the (eneral Assembly have been willing and ready, as thoy have abundantly shown, to grant every request and adopt every plan which the farmers should agree upont for the advancement of their peculiar inter est, and to give to them the control of their peculiar atfirs. Thet failure is chargeable to the men whom they have selected and ch cted to carry out their plans, and the settlement mtnst be had with thoso who are resqponsiblu for the failure." You may rest assured that they will be ''given the opportunity to explain" and that "settlement will be had" with some of them when again the farmers get a chance. if the "farmur s' move ment," which has created such a stir among the people, is really a derlmand of the masses for reform and the correc tion of abuses, and an expresyion of a desire to see our rights as farmers re spected, it will continue to grow and spread, rather thau dwindlo and die, and will have much to do with shainng the future policy and politics of this State. But let that he as it may. I only set out to show you that, while correct as to the house, your etitorialis calculated to mislead when you say the farnrs in the Senate are alone to blame. .'d in order to make this ekar L will show the complexiun of our pri'sentt Sen ate as regards occupation. It is cOml posed as follows: Lawyers ................. .. . . 15 Farmers ........ ......... .....12 Doctors ................. . .....3 Preachers................... . lEditors and printers. ......... Merclants.. . 1 Total.......... .... .3. - -of whom 21) are new Senator.: and 15 are old ones, two of the new Ces serv ing unexpiredl terms. Now, the bill of all otiers iii which thc farniers were most deeply iterested, and which they desired to have lissel most was that enlarging the board( of agriculture andi reorganizing t b. agricul tural department. 'Tihi:s the m :ate inst ponedi, by a vote of 21 to I i, on the tlimsy pretext, as voiceI by Senator Youmians, that they "wanted li.re tine to investigate this important matter." The April Convention had teit..aded it. 'The November Convention lui demand ed it. ''hc matter has leien th ruugluly discussed for a year or lmer' in tie press, anal charges of extrivi gnee a id of incopll)etenct, or neglect l diity on the part of the boant, prove. .iut these Senatorial laVmakers almw0 needed ''more timie to inv estigate.' Vell, we hope they wilt improve the t no years eleven of them have got 1 fore the next election to st.udy the miat ter miul lie pre pared to give good reasons for their votes when asked. .if, ind .ed, your re po~r*er' he correct ini saving the ''Agri cultural Senlato'rs were intliineed 1by a determination niot to submiit to T.Iilhnani dlictation," it will bue a pitiful excnse for having refusedh to comply with the wishes of the farmers of the Slate; and an acknowledgment of haLving allowed personal motives to go vera thir~ act ion rather than a desire to legislate for the public good. No member of the (lenl oral Assembldy, either Senjator' or Riepre sentative, can truthfully say that I was either obtrusive or dictatorial ini pre senting to them the mecasures asedd by the two F'arnmers' Conventions, and it will lbe left to the tarmers all iver thle State to resenit in a proper way the immptation that TIillmian alonec conlstitutes the " FaLrmers9' movement." Butt if thle agricultural Senators re sented "TIillmani ditationi,'" wlm;t influn enced the other Senators? I will now p)roceed to show that the farmers in the Senate arie not alone to blamet for de ferring this bill. \ly Old friends, the lawyers, took advantage ofi thle fuss kicked up by Messrs. 'Tonnmus amid Wolford to planiiit a sly daiger iln 'Till man's side aind slap their agricuilturial conistituents wh'lo lhave joi ned thle farm ers' imoveiment in the fact. This is shown by the vote, as follows: Messrs. Dell ...'rir Black .Iotr Byrd lotr Erwvin ....... 'ro HLemph)lill .wyr Kennedy. aer McMasiter.. .1awyr Moorelt .. ..uer Patterson . iwyr Rihamo.......fave Reynolds......ayi Smiith..........[mrnr Smythe .LLV r WVingard ..Faiir Wrc iford . ......Laml WVilliams......Irahm. .Iotal1 21, 'of whiomi'ee ~elwes six are farmers, twoicittt,jOl 5I pi'eichir an on .l amer'hnt A9(1 'ihs hok-~tmuc ker. gareay o l~yt ~, 'octWo. Iha sj)oiei sootii ereoor.i i? I h il{ viylii el I ~tItFarm I-er. e tt I anil11(10 Iic .leSawe ati evets mie ~ i li .Latwy ier.u ui ~u ot am Iieiiio alars.' f liwe.x am tw cuai iM 'ii i .Lvital enr. ii the f ~ ~ ~ . armer . hts\it~serteeil to he emie hav ayerlh.iOuet;i they have any manhood and a proper sense of resentment; if they are not the dogs they are taken for, they will, when the time comes, see to it that the men 'ho thus contemptuously put this in dignity upon them are properly reward ed. if we cannot reorganize the agri eutltural department, we can re organize thlu Senate. The farmers of the State are fast sinking to the level of serfs hewers of wood and drawers of water for others. An etlicient and representative board of agriculture, together with an agricultural college to act. as a pioneer in mapping out the new system of farming we are comlpelled to pursut err we can expect any change for the better, could do much to aid and assi.;t them to re cover their lost prosp erit v. hit these six agricultural Solons ald their lhiteen professional associates say to them in el'ect: "You don't know what you want. We will continue to tax you to :support a department of agriculture which you do not feel is beneficial to your interests as 110W conducted, because we like it. We will vote your money to support the South Carolina College and O tadel be rautKC we think those schools r:"e a'l we t,eed; but your Agricultural College is a humbug. We know it. 'Wisdom will dio with US.' So we will not even spend your own money to investigate the mat ter and let a commis8ion report, so we oen act intelligently." It may be said the farmers in the Sen ate were divided, as they were six for and six against the bill. Then if the professional men in the Senate had needed light as to the wishe l of the farmers of the State, if the actions of two farmers' convention had no weight, the almost unanimous ;ote by which the bill passed the House, composed largely of farmers, should have made then hesi tate to postpone it. But ] have my own opiion as to how this thing was brought about. I. visited Columbia three times dining the recent seS:sion of the Legislatute. I kept my eyes and ears open. I learned a great deal that would be of value to the peo ple if I had time to tell it., and I will, wvhcn occasion otlers, let out sonic of the ''true inwardness" of what I saw and learned. . could tell why and how the hlopces of the people as regards reforms and reduction of expenditures, &c., re sulted only in the cutting oil of a beg garly thousand dollars-the Lieutenant (Governor's salary. I could show that once an abuse is planted and takes root in South Carolina it is harder than nut grass to get rid of. hut just now I will only give my belief as to why the Senate postponed the 1hill to reorganize the ugricultural department. Of course some of the Senators voted against it because of their resentment. against "Tillnan dictation," for Mr. Gonzales says so; some voted-two at least--be cause they never vote against one of the Selnators from Charleston, so I im told; others vote(d against it because I am credited with having had much to do with the slaughher of the Cclbunhia Canal and the ling wanted revenge, though. to tell the truth, I am; totally inlnocent in that matter. Som te votel ugain..t it because farmers and iarners' movemients" stink in their nostrils. Bat the real cause, though ninny Senators do not know it perhaps, is that the pho.;phate interests of thie State are con trolled by the departnmeint of agriculture, and the Coosaw Mining ('ompny is too ielt satislied with tie present lmanage mecnt of that ilt,erest to allow a change if it couldi prevent it.! Why a board of agriculture should have anything to do with collecting mining royalty, farmers of ordinary in telligence caiiot undlterstand. We do not see the connection between the two, but perhaps some of those who started this thing, andu somle of those who keep it upl, can giv-e us light. This board of agriculltulre, which is liked so well, has spent 1l70,000) sin1ce its creation in 1.880, and( weV would like mome onet to tell us wvhat benefit it has been to us farmvers, who pay for it alonue. Will some Senator, 'agriculturalist.'' or otherwise., an swer? Or will somec mnember of tie board tell us5? I. R. Tfu2.AN. R'per's, S. C!., .January- 1, 18tr:7. 'The village of Rteddinig, C onn. , is greatly excited over the elopemueint of Miss Emalice l11ll, daughteri of the most prominent and wealthy citizen of the place, with her father'sconeh.maim, Fred erick I icks. H icks is twenity-seveni years old anld is sauid to b)e a ' cry dis agreeable looking - youog fello w. It appeairs thiat flicks had been ini the em ploy of Mr. IHill for about ten months durimg which time Miss IHill fell desper ately.inl love with hlim. Theli young lady, wIho is alcomplishIed in every way, of faultless form and very beautiful, was niot only the belle of the village. butt of all the neighb orintg towns. Shte taught a ehass in Sunday school in her father's church and bad many admirers. Some monthis ago( the condhutt of M'diss Hill aind thei coachman caused much viilhgse gossip iand it fIally reatched the father's enars. IHe was highly indlignlant and( treatenied to, kick his coachiman ft'om his premises. But Miss Euniice btegged htn not to, as it would create a seunsa tioii, anid she: finally succeeded ill havuing tIe servantIt rtie. Recently H~iicks's ((onducl(t tiiward Miss 11ill was so oh)jee' tiomnab le that. the gi rl's father said lie :nuist. go. The coachAli secuiredi a situat,ion in a livery it atble, bust kept uip a comnmuniica tion with Ii lissi liill La st w eek lie came to 7tir. I hill' 1 (sidence'i andi b)eggedl that ;$ienlman to take himit bacek itto fis ser vicei. This AIr 1 ill ref used to dlo. While the twio Jmen wteire ini conversation lis lKunic Elanetly 'tole out of the bonse and got iintoi hr loveK a carr-iage, AM lo r. arlogeit. Thie couleli dlrove at once4 to liwsh' .tialligilboinig viI i lii lihere i\ wer Aliitrrieil witllouit delay. The lather (t the g:irl is greatlhy Alilot.luer''' "niIl il ei Ve i t'F) ol ed iis time in Mlissouri. Th'le first. axplorai tiont was only a lparHal tone, buit took ini several thnambersm anad was prosecuted for at dlistance of a qutarter of a mil-, .and still othier chlambders andl labyirinit his of 1 ase~ ;es lay be(yonld ini seveiril Idirec tionts. 'he s-ceniry is reported to lbe inidesrih ab ly beautiful, the abundant stalactitesi and staghamnites assumtintg aill sorts of fan - tatstic shapes. "Thec Los-t. (Ci'hord"- The wood i,d INI)LS'I:Y OF' ru iE sO1: it. The Maurcellou., I'ro:rsi'lib of thu Yor I $8(;--It Siurli,. "; ay Y uur, Lon ui the l.ttrt W'untdet-fto De;mte. In its annual review of the industrial progress of the South, the Baltimore Manufaeturers' Record says that 1886 wats the most reinerkable year in many respects in the history of the Southern States, and more accomplished for the prosperity and progress of tie whole South tihan cvcr 1'efore in a :y year. This is shown in the enorious invest Ients of capital in industrial enterprises and in the growth of confidence among Northern and luropean investors in the stability of the South's iron and other manufacturing interests. The amount of capital, including the capital stock of incorporated companies, represc Ited b,y new manufacturing and mining enttcrprites organized or char. tered at the South during I,88,, includ ing the enlargemtent of old phnts and the rebuilding of mills, aggregates 8129, 22G,00, $GG,S12,000 iii 188.t, divided among States, as follows: St ates. 18f*t1;. 18, Alabama . $.. ; :!,8i8, :. 7,841,000 Arkansas. . 1,524,00 1,220,00 Florida....... 1,659,001) -.,01,,0t)O Georgia. .. ,5i),000 2,000,(tlu Kentucky . 2S,4I,)I 18.0:1,200 Iouisiana . !,211,000 2,l 18,50 Maryland..... 8,7(5,(It I;,(;l:l,8)U Mississippi . 774,1f))5 7t1,5( N. Carolina. . :it;7,001) :2:3,0)5) S. Carolina. 1,2!)t,0(ift) ,511,) Te nnessee. 21, 21, 00Il0 2,(;2,10) Texas....... . ,i ,0I l ;;2:32,)ss) Virginia.. . ,)1 ) :;,:;11 ot)t W. Virgir ia. 8,3oa5,00o 1 2,(;,(01) Toetal. ... $121i,2261,000 :i ;,812,000 The development of iron manufactures employs the bulk of this new capital. Other interests as well as iron, however, are being rapidly developed. included in the list of new enterprises orgatized in the South during 188U were: 28 iron furnaces, 50 ice factories, (; foundric s and machine shops, many of thet of h.rge size; 1 Bessemer steel rail mtill, 21 miscellaneous iron worls, including iron pipe works, bridge and bolt works, etc.; 8 stove foundries, 21 gas works, :.1 elec tric light companies, II agricultural in plement factories, 171 mining and gtuar rying enterprises, lt; carriage and watgon factories, 9 cotton mills, 2:3 turnitutre factories, 12 water-works, 58 tobacco factories, 92 flour nills, -118 luther mills, (not counting small portable saw mills,) including saw and ldaning mills, sash and door factories, stave, ftandh., shingle, hub and spoke, shuttl'-lock factories, etc.; in addition to v .hicl there was a large number of miseelhmtteotus en terprises. One of the most gratitying features of the Soutl's industrial progress, says the Manufctutrers' le cord, is a wide diversity of new indus tries that are developing all tlrotugh that section. .\ lii:'' 11a . P }Ii t5Ir : . < Front. 'u Nrn tu (.,;;e; It is exceelingly gratifying, of comtr:,, to read the statement made by the Balt i more Manufacturers' I ecord in evidence of the wonderful developntent of mant facturing inl the South during the past year. The, total increase of investments in all kinds of enterprises in the South ern States during 1886 is shown to be nearly S6 i,000,0t)0, and it is claimed with truth, upon the lasi.k of these figtres, that the year which is im closimg hats leCn the most reniarkab: in many resp2ects iii the history of the South. It Will not escape attenteie, h:o.evler, that the development of iron mnusttae tures is credited with the enploynteuut. of the builk of the n:ew capital, albout $36,tI00,000) of the total increased invest mnent being di vided1 ainon g thea three States of Virginia, Tennessee a:d Ala banma, .while a diecidled falling off is shown mi the States of 'West Vrginiia and Florida. Arkansas, Louisiana, Mis sissipipi and North Carolina b arely hold their own. There is nuch grounid for gratification in view of the dlevelopmnt of tile iroin induist.ry in thle States whei-e it has taken such a hold, butt it woub I be far, far bmetter- for tile South if the devel opment were more guenral and moil re equally distributed. The imnpet us given to the iront buisinie-s, it is conceded, conies frotm without. and tile profits from that business wvill largely go out of the South . While a good del of nmoney hals dloubtless been nmade by Alab amnians and Tennesseeanis, for inistance, in dhi8 posinig oif their hands, the( bul k of the profits hiis gone to splatod rs w~hio boutght up the lands iin large blocks and at ntomiinal prices. Thie control of the lands, moreover, hIas passed1 forever out of the hiand(s (of the pecolet whol live on them, and( thie eniterprniset whiich have heeln founded byv small honie capitalists ill thle mineral districts are rapidly pass inig into the poissessioni ot outsiders, as has beena rep ortedl ini severaleconspicuous instances. Another anid certain result of the great rapidity withi which thie pir<thiection, of iron in the South is incereasinzg is that lie productioni of thie siame mietal in the North mu1(st he chea pened eniormouisly, or else the Soulh will 1eveiitually monop olize the iron inuist ry. R11 is too much to expect that the iroin maufitacturers of Peniinsylvaiiia, fur inustanuie, will conisent to have their-buisiiness ecrippled in either waty. It is prnobabiile, ther-iefor-e, that these will soon conic forward and ask for lower diuties on coal to tnlet thema to compete successfully with thue South ern dlistr-icts; and, whien thle demantid is ma fe, the1( Iandallitets aind other Pro tect ionists will hesitate no longer about striking any sort oif blow at the Alabama iand Teninesseo (oail and iron nmines andt iron mtiiufactiures thain thuey would hiesit(.ie now to destroy the sugar in dust:y of Louisinaiu, if th( votes of the L1 oi innia lRepr&entatives wer- not coturt.d by the-ir selfish al lit's. THit very prlosperity of the- iron ini dustrty at the Hothi, in short, is fatal to its conuiitiuance. unless it palsses5 ito( the hanLids o)f N orthterni owniers, and1( thet nuew. ciri ironi-prod(utcing States will fuitd ini tuheuiid that they have sol ot the tirut iterest of the Htuith and of the cttuntriy or a pize t hat will criiumlhe ini t hir hasnds, or pass inito tim hil(nd 0f no0l1 rt idtints as s(on its it biec-omes worl- hi the tiaking. Mliihael I)avitt has traveled ovetr tn ~ nud mniles, delivered forty -eight sp eches, and been married, ab in *a peiodi of len~ th an teii wee k Uenorul Aloxaundor'w Artile on ti.t: Hatt le of (ottysburg in Januury (entury. In the January number of th iCentury are articles on the third day's light at Gettysburg, by General 11. J. IB unt and E. P. Alexander. From the hlt.er's ac count of Pickett's charge we quote as 'ollows: "At exactly one o'cloak by my watch the two signal guus were heard in quick succession. In anotlher minute every gun was at. work. The uemy was not slow in coming back at us, atd the grand roar of nc,trly the whole artillery of both armies burst in on th ' silence ilmost as suddenly as the fult. totes of an organ could fi11 a church. 'lhe artillery of Ew1'ell's corps, how ever, took only a small part, T 1licve, in tms, as they were too far awarnaround the town. Some of them migitt have loit good service fromt positi )s be tween I liii and IE\well, enlilading the b attt(rit':.si;;htihug uis. te oi portuimity to do that wva the siugle advantage in our having tht exterior lino to compett sate for its disadvantages. But our line Was 5(o far extended that all of it was not well studied, and the oflicers of oech corps had no opportunity to examine each otiher' ground for cltncos of co operative work. "'h. enemty's position seened to have b rokeni out w1ith guns evcr)'tere, and front I mid Top to Cemetery H ill was bla,ig lihe a volcano. The air seemed full of iiussiles fron 'very directioin. The smr \ity' of the fire nay bie illitstrated by the casualties ii my own latalliott utter 'hijor luger. "It e tle cannt nade opened I had nadc' ; maty niind to give Pickett the erder to ad%atntce within fifteen or twenty mttinutes after it began. But e hen 1 looked at the full development of the enemty's batteries, and knew that his in fantry was generadly protected from our lire by stone walls and swells of the grotuntd. L could not Iring myself to givo the w rd. it seemed madness to latuch inflantry into tlit tiie, with neatly three tliuarters of a mile to go in the midday Stily sun. .1 let the fifteen mintt es pass, and tweity, t:al twenty-live, hoping vainily for somc thing to turn up. Then 1 wrote to I'ickett: 'It you are coming at all yott nust coniC at ouce, or" 1 cal n10 giyt ou. l ropier support.; bit the cieney's lire hits not slackened at all; at least eighteen guns are still tiring from the eenietery itself.'' Five minutes after sending that message, the 'tenmy's fire suddenly began to slacken, and tie guns in the ccinetry hinbered up and vacated the ie,sitiont. ''We Confetlrat_es efteii dii such tin ugs as iimt to ave our amnie uit on for use again t infani ;y, bitt I lot never it fore een the "ed.'aIs withdra ., their ens s piltttly to save thent upl) tot the iifatry li;:-ht. he . said, 'Ii i: does not run lrei1h hatteries lin theen i ive mlinuite'-, this is our' light.' I looked ni xiont y \witha my gia's, tit tie five liuiteihs lis-sitl withoutt a sign ui tile on the det;artet t,sition, still swept b y out' tie, antd lit terd \ it Ii dad inn and horst and fraient(eis of disabledI catrri tii. tiwu1 wro t 'ickett, air iently: 'For GOId'; Sa1t, comlie 4u ic. Ihe eightten guns ate goet: cotne tuick, or my atittuitilon wonit't let tile tlport yout prloperly.' "I af'terw.ardl< s ard fromu other w;\hat tooik 1ltce vitIi iy lirst note to !'ickett. ''.l'IchttI Io;k it to L.ogl"streett. I,ong streti read it, tnil said niotlintg. 'iekett lsai, 'Uner:al shtalll .I nil vance. Long street, ki:wing it I had to Ib', but tnwill mng to give tw wonit, turned his fact away. Picke tt litt I and said, '1 an going to Imotve 1orwari, sir,' galloped all' to his divi,ilt :tttt iintilediately lnit it in imotioi. "Longstret,t leav~ing is I2 .StaWl, camne tout atlne to wher Ii .wats. .It was then tiona, feeling~ then mlore hopjefuil, hut aifraidI tur artillery amminunition miight ntot hioltd out for all we would wuant. I LongstreetI said, 'S)top) licke'tt, in:uitedi ately, and( rcte'iiish your amnaltliitionE.' I explainedti flal it would talke ttoo lonlg, and the enemiy woul recotvter frt om thle etheet ouir fire wais ftin haivin, itind we luud, illoreotver, vet'' little t o repltenishi with. ILoiigstreet said, 'I dlon't wauit to maiike this atitack. I w'ouild stopl it. no(w liect it toa gel on. 1 don'1t -see how it can sueed.' wordI. The battle wvas lost if we stoppeed. Amulnitbon was far ttoo low 'to try any .1hng etlse, for' wit hadl biein lightinig thr ee elh ys. Therec was a chaliCe, and1( it was5 not Iny pat to initerfere'. Wh'Iile ILonigst reet was still spoeikmiig, JPicket t's divisittn swepIt oult o fthie woodlt and1 showed thle fuill length Iiof its gi'raym ak aid shininig bayot3'(ts, as grandl a sight as5 eier at mant lookhed oIn. .loininlg it 011 the left, P1~t tigr'ew strtetchied farthter- thani I conihl tete. G eiierail Dick Gaitrnett, juist out. of the sitk Iihlanlieo, and1( buittonedn up~ ill ani old blue oIvecIoatI, ridinig at the head of his brligaide, passed us andi( sa luted Lonmgstreet. Gar-noti was at warm peCrsona11 fiendtu, 1and( we had ntot meIt lbe ftore for mothsitl. Wo had setrveil oni the lhains together before the wair. I rode w ithi hint a shor't distance, andt thlen we wished each other luck and( a good-bye wthichi was (our1 111st "T'lhen I rode dowin thle Iiin' of guns, selectoilg sueh as i.ad( entough an1anu1n1 i ft iin to follow I 'i-ellt's iadviiince, anid star'tiing them Its fast as poissibile. I got, II think, fifteen or t'igteeni in a lhttle whil-, anid went on with them. Mleani while, the inifanitry had( ilo sootner de bouchied one i p 111laini tIhan atll the Centmy'i line, whiichi lad b een near-ly Sikeint, broke outit agatin with all its bat teri's. Tlhte eighteen guns were b ack in the ctemtetety, iandt ai S.orm (If shells bI gant butrstinug over andl iamong our' ini tantry3. All of our guns, silt-it its the imfantrty passed b etweeni themi, r'eopenied whVenl fte linies hald got ai couiple Ill hun-11 dlred yards away', butt I lw etnmy'i art il lery let its aloine and firedi onily t the Sfattry. No onett(' iol I ailve lookedi tt lhat mi ta-c 'w ith ot feeling pr-oud (of it. "I iit Is our511el rupportig gunIls atdanled wel-agedtmanaly ai poor miaagleid victimnu h.'fti m ius tiuiile-d wake'. A terrilie ill' fantry firt wats niow openIied tilti p;ig. ett,'t:imf a m'onsiderab(lle forc-i otf tha <uemliy ino(vedl (lit toi attack the right thank of his line. We halted, uinlimbher ed, anld topetned fire uponlR it. P ickett's men(1 nOeve'r halted, but1 opienied f'ire at ('lo se ranlge-, bwarmiedl oerC the' fecs anid amonog the enemhiy's gtuns, were wal lowed til in1 snmoke- -andi that was the l-at uof thern. Tlhe coniflict hardly seemed t" ast fion mlimttte before th-y. c melted away, and only disorganizcd stragglers were coming back pursued by a moderate fire. Just then Wilcox's brigade passed by us, moving to Picketts support. There was no longer anything to support, and with the keenest 1ity at the useless waste of life 1 saw Ihem atl vance. The men, as they passetl is, looked bewildered, as if they wondered what they were expected to do, or "lhy they were there. They were soon, how ever, halted and moved back." trt y of a ;eorgia Tot n. Tr-itt bti Te iii bii,. I was recently in a small Southern vil lage; the county was Anti-l'rohihition, and of the four stores two were bar rooms, or whiakty shojis. it. was no common sight to sec staggering men anl crowds going and coining from these shops. On court days, for the county court house was there, many men insteat of eating good whiolesomte food for din ner, would go to the IhI- and dirink their dlinnr. .I.t tlhink, a dinrt rf this vile burning ptusitn ; were they lit iel to judge their fi L?w ienl? a thousands tines no. Ihit u hile I sojourned at this place, I knew three Ibright promising lit tie boys. aged fo ur, .ive and six. 'T.'hen thore were t wo fI hers, little oies, seven months and two years, each having a nurse, young colored girls. One day atl dumer we were at the hotel, the oldest boy said Mama, Mr. ltarber-shop manl, (the prourietor of the I arroon also cut hair) called uts and gave us all some cider. Liz took Clyde and the baby tt to, and he made every one dri ii even thitn little baby. ''ie Mama said, I will piuish you and your brother for going. I strictly for bade it. 'The little boy said Liz, Ithe oldest nurs it '.i1 cona oi, your ma won't care for sweet eieir, and M\Irs. Max lets Mr. Walter go. ,dr. anid Mrs. Mix were all present: and .'Il not forget Ihe look of horror these words broughit to Mr. Max's face. .1 le was a strict Presby. terian minister, Walter, thir ono little lamb; he turned to his wife and sail, Edna is this true; do you let Walter go to this drink shiop)? She repilied, lie; went there to get his hair cut, anil brot her R,alph said he was Ito young for any harm to conic of it. lie -aid, why don't y"out Set evel the bltaby iSr not tot yolutn;. 11he man knows his part well. lie I begins with the tender young blte, bringinig them up, cultivating a tasie for it, bait ing them for his own itim. I an horritied that in this fair village there is such vile, black crime, naml our beautiful bov, (h! I sliuddr; I t 5ihtl to say whn-ii lie be came ia man, Wt'alter has iover set foot in a dIraIn shop, atd now I cannot, little did 1 dream of this, zo ytiunt1g. Why, I'd let his hair grow lt:ng upon his slut - ders, and I'd punisl Limi sevt"rely if lIe knew it was a whisky shopt. l-tlat, I ont surprised at you, his moltdher, nearest, to him on earth; you who should Ist ver rtt wary and watchiful of this evil. I Lmn deeply stirred vithiu m. Walter, na-ver al't foot in this nutt's 51h1p atganu, anad ner taste or tal:e aiy thiing lw ire )ou. f I hear of yo u doing so, I slut II puniish yout severely. The it h ltr t wo Imothers showed a11111 di'trts, f-r their boys. 'I'h mother of t he htabe- especiall y, to think, as the good miniist:r said, lie was bringing up evein tw bathbes to love his irink. 1er father dhrank away r(asont and life, under this saute inirt's ialn'tiiee, and her oiily 1 rother on t itre fg utt manhood; o h! slt Irembls to thiniil what will b) his att. is lh is litful gaiety, this brigh1t balooma upon his ytttmg hacs, the tltmtti aini gaiety of yoiltI? Iremblets and prays (iod it tuay1 bei, :umd not the fatal poisoning Itlooti ini gaitI y of strong drink. Elniia, (latt wath-i aatl gutida' your fair boy,. Antd llhe w idaw,"d mother of the ollwtr twti, Ilit t wo ohltst, may she nevor e.ittriene t he tletp sur rofw oif steeing hier-litoys initempi1erte. I )h village-, Oh!I coimyi buiuiebl fromI you lad, romyour proph-lI, aisd y Iu baniiish th ese fearfu it imies t.iimt are litow racking y'ou wifth leep di-stires, thlen youi wVill see priogres,s a111 p rosp eri ty, wilie ness. Whisky is youra eurse; triemblle for- your chilren, trembilet for thiiri fiuturie. D o you a ceognizte thiis tui pie liure? Iti is as iti-rialhy occurreid' ;eorgia Tlemiiertice Adlvocate. Watste~ in tie ittchten is very oil eni gret fromt ap)parently trivial soures. Ini cooking meats, thle watiter is thrownl tiut u ithiout reintoving then greas-, or thle greaist from thei dippinig pan1 isL thriowni awayu. Scraps of me-at alte throt nV iany.I~ C old potatoes ar e left to sonur anad spih Dry-) fruits are niot lotte aiter alid bte come wormiy. Vinegar iand saiucte are loft stitamhi g ini it. Apphles are~( lift tto dtera v fior wan t of Theli tenL callister is It-it open.h Victuals are It-ft expo t -d i to bie eaten ity ice. htones of tmi eat andit the cargaiss of iur k(ty are thrtwni aiwaly, when:1 therv coubilt be used in making goodt soupo. Sugar, teat, cotlce alit rI - 11 yte ca1rIe lessly spilledi in the luiallinig. Soap is left tio d issotlve mal waste ini D)ish tow lsi aret used tor ilishi i-lthi Napkins are usedi for- lish tton -l 'Towels are ulsed foir holtler-s. M\or(e cial is burniedl thilit-nc sslary by not arranlginig dllaipers when-l nott 1uic 'Tini dishes arnt propltiI lyt tiliansedi ('oodh new birotims art uised iin sri bing thie kitchien flors. Silver spool areli ill ind ini t'raj k~ettles. Creami is left to mtoltd andi sptl. Mu1stairdh is left tt spttil in. thll 1511 etc. toit oir evaporation ot the voegar;ti. IPIortk spoils fotr wanit of salt, aund bte beicausje the b riine wats scatldinig. Iilihms blecomeu tiintetd ori tittllIw verini for waniit oif einr. Ch(etese mioldis iaitd is eateni by miici: it stolve. Woodentwmiare0 is 1i:iI usali-d andi left t, warp andI eiack. All appr Iehtntsjins t ouching tihe saf t v of stoes usinig go li - foit sr tile areVt set ii1(5res bgy the - improcveiients observablei I ('I'ION"; ON TEMPEILANCE. 14 Tl. v . I'u.'. e , (;. M. W'., of $1he Kii iyl(+ of Lubor. h110 growth of ofur order and the notice taken of it by the press of the land has awakin:tl an interist in the labor move ient atmionug me1n w have never given tlie question Ot org.tization a thought. 'Ihousai(d of inen are knocking for ad muittauce; they atre actuated by all sorts of iotives. Among the number who wouid like to becoie members, I find (juite a tew l tuor dealers, and I am writtein to every diiv to know ''if - cannot he :nilit ted; it is truc he is en gaged in the liquor trallie, or his wife sells liquor, or he is in soue way e in nectetl with the rum interests, but we kno1w hei would maiil[o a goodl miembler'" Thie dtecisions of the General Master \orkniat are now published in book orm. 'Turi to the pages of th &i, book and yOU will see decisiont after decision on the eligibility of those connected with the saloon business. one of my correspondontt 115kb why I reversed thm deision of my predeecsbor; the decision reads as follows: " 22. Men of good report, resp otable aid honnrablo kOpers of roadside inis, for the hona lide entertainment of trav elers and their animals, with bed and buard for the samne, counretc(d witi the real iit rests of the locality in\ which they live, do not come under the classi tititioi of sdlooii keeper and liquor deiler, antd lay be uhuittcd to mebnier ship urnier the ''law of the ballot.." it is true that liy derisions are in con Iliet wit Ii the above. but it was through ne( lhisrtespect to llrother Stephens that I mIIdte them. They are as follows: " ii. An agent for any liqtuor estab Iislent (he ilmt establishieit whttle sale or retail, or be he the agent, manuit faeture or d1('alcr) is not eligible to mem ber:ship." 1 "'5. No persoii cnii lie a mme ier of the Ortk-r whoso wife sells liquor. Ho ] iust t-ither get ai divorce from li.: wife 1 or fromii 1 his organization. The latter ('ilt lie granted iii the bhae)C of an hon- 1 orable withd,lrawu at curd.'' ''"%. litiimmllt'r'. t,N wrt beo admnitted 1 to ileil'rsluip, and ait iebilr engaged itn ilie losines of rimselling, directly to' iiiliretly, whether by latrel, gallon, tlupat, pint, or gill, w\ ho sells either by liuis("lf iii petrsoi or in proxy, iust ap lily for aiti he granted a witdali(twal ea id; :andl if lie negli'ets to uake appl,li eation thercio', at, once the Re',ordiiig :>t'or(tary of the ioeal Assembly shall ilotify h11m of his neglect., and at the next lmeet iig at witlhriawtl caid shll ie isuetd to It lbir(otliei'. ti'i during the interval Itween the" (h-tuii anid iltation of at candid(ate It ani ' in the lituor tratlie, either ittr li1, n it'i o rii' i anot.her, he is listittuali!ttil, and ealtiot lie covered with oilu 'lit I-I.' . IT i : iaauiifac.tiu't'tu of b e:' tthat (wi Vr I is it h tibiile to iieinIairship. 7'h ine1 t'iiloy(tI iii thl le birewerv are (tli,giblet to membeiirrhip. if' yout turn to pagcti IPrucedtiigs of (ioner:tl As sinblly of 1ISi yi wil get an ilea of wihy I uj,pose: the aldiission of th<o, en guget iii tlit liqluor tratlie. Our Order cainunot lit b,ei'liciil to the li< ior dtaler atl ih(' labor,'i' 1if tha i''hr wil 'xamilne Ne. eitre ii i - u ill ,' tlii t it allito'el to stitnd l.tt i \1 tlahlit l 'ii llit ' d lo i lt, 'very "" i r' itt' in th !e hIa Thl e 'Ilt ium: who I hi p',r a 5,la rlo , Iin ihttahlt,y\, Nt"w \'ork, i I liii "'I --I(r uf a roadside ii),' and u I e wllil (l tlu itei now has heard a lirtois 1Io Iti'ut I i luc m ti('huNli Iit'a' al ioor o fl;at ' iii th, li<ior Ibu in'a ati 'it ihat hie wats ut "r,pctal( and oithL iti' i ha1asl( tad "" ili I lisr .t c sr i.v ' lol wi iiiuirie t settl tlide fromi ii.\emishe am ihe es lo ily dtlseisio tInl h"ei alvsa- I t iiillretV niata tii'p ealishmenilto Ay ( 2rts11 f il xcseEI m an lrder t ptioin I (loos'il to the (nights. li of,brqiitinthe de:lt' rut inltpiit Ttr lie witd the fol loingit l o iiy dlokt: iitiy oi "Mri -tlt .:) liii u a ood-ntk aturei, tlira hnat l'lit vry favorable tl the <1' bl ll or iie I h elwile if hiso pihie:r I (lul l beri.iil utritervedl ofliii the hr I ofii the ()lh1er. A -iie has i e is (le lan>wledge-O11 ift any lirets.\' r or thei ia1 t1at iis t io iitltte idr. - y wiisonl Welt'lith <ilii d t v." 21VeC( poeti Tii ny isser5 toti hawt) rilquest w4 ill 'ver tnuiik a spewi n ht any I a e stod i a oo oufn hke towins! lilalrlnit toeu the rt.i In fr elluentng tis num's5 pl tlhings a iimtine teyhi wits, tfh. et ntlo the irder hies will eitt a belng tLoI Wht WCtlrak bh t hpa-r would to see a man who rinks perform an sob that other men oo d applud, unless he commits suicide. TUE CONFEDERATE VETERANS. What the State of South Carolina Nat Done for their Support. South Carolina furnished more soldiers to the armies of the late Confederacy, in proportion to her whito population, than any State in the Confederation of seced ing States, which is, however, only natural, considering the fact that sion had its birth in her borders. has also done loss toward relieving er maiaed and wounded soldiers than any Southorn State. This is, perhaps, owing to the fact that the Stato was longer u tier the control of the carpet-bag regime than other States and that she was prob ably the worst-p>lundered Stato in the South under that plundering regime. Soon after war, when the first Legisla ture met under Governor Orr, and be fore the enfranchisement of the blacks, an Act was passed providing for the fur nishing of artiticial limbs for those of her soldiers who had lost a leg or an arm in the service. Under this Act dis abled soldiers received from $100 to $200 each, the necessary funds being appropriated annually. It is to the credit of the carpet-bag Government that this appropriation, about $10,000 annually, was never withheld. When the Government reverted to the whites by the revolution of 1876 an at tempt was made to provide pensions for the disabled Foldiers, but the State was too poor, and the one-armed and one [egged Confederate soldiers in the Leg. slature were always the most strenuous in opposing the measure. Every year tince 1876 half-dozen or more Acts have icon passed appropriating specific sums rangmg from $25 to $200 to maimed or lisabled Confederate soldiers, each Act eing, however, a specific appropriation or an individual named. No general >ension Act has ever been passed. At he recent session, which closed on De ;umber 24, an Act was passed enlarging he provisions of what is known as the trtificial Limb Act, and extending its nueits to persons who have resided in h State for ten years, whether they were natives or not. This is about all hat has ever b en done for the maimed soldiers of the State. Till: 1:AN1) OF GOi). lilasi.pltmer ('ur,,e, 1i1 Creator aui is Stricken wit i Parlysj,. 1)o(ILAS, GA., January 4.-"I hope that God may paralyze me" were the words spoken by William Burkett. At m iee his hands dropped to his side, his Legs refused to move and his eyes rolled wildly around. His prayer was answered as he stoodl parlyzed on the spot where but a few minutes before he was a mag nificent tyle of physical manhood. He tried to speak, but his tongue would not move. half a dozen men, who were l,resent, were rendered motionless by the evident visitation of the hand of (hod. Whtu they recovered self-pos session they tenderly moved the afllicted mian to his residence, a half mile dis tant. When Miss Rhody Burkett saw the plight in which her father was brought home she screamed and fainted, 11(d (lied a few (lays later. For years Mr. Burkett had boon the cerryman at the I lawkinsville road cross ng of the ()camulgee River. lie was of piant physique, with long gray looks, nd becamO esp1ecially noted because of he b race of revolvers which he kept tr1apped to his waist. lie was a great muuter, and the ferry being in the nitd1st of a swamap, he was convenient to in abulndance of game. Front thoso tho hived arouind hinm it is learned that t.o was fearfully profane. Whenever he ighted game and was called <.tIC from it >y an alarm from the ferry he would >ur out such a volley of oaths as woul uake the lesh of ordinary men crawl. t was while in one of these profano itolls that ho cursed his Creator, and rounid uip with the expression above tioted. 'The news sooni spread through the ountry, zitl scores of peopjlO called to cc the victin. ile was at first comn letely prostrated, but subsequently was nabled to take a few stops, when he iould fall. When spoken to he replies a an inarticulate mumble, and acts in he most idhiotic manner. The physicians an ascribe no natural cause for hia Ilhiotion, but admit that it is a visitation (leod. The p)reachers in the neigh Iorhiood( have usced the incident in thieir urmions with great effect. A leariul Rtailroadi Accidents A dreadful accident oco3arred near illn, Ohio, at four o'clock on Tuesday nirming. Thne fast train on the Balta aoro and Ohio Railroad, which lost' oev York about (I o'clock Monday for ,hiicago, with five coaches and four leepers, all wll Illed with passengers, (ollidled with an eastern boumd freight raim. T1he fast train was aibo ut fifty minutes tto and wats running at the rate of sixty iiles an hour. P'assing Republic, a mxall station, like a flash, it rushed along e a curve 01n0 mile west of that town, hen suddl(enly the engineer saw the reighit train under full headway within no hundred yards of him. l1e at once tPlied the brakes anid revers'd the on. ise, but it (lid no good, and the next tistant the crash came, telescoping the caches and piling them tup on echl thoer. T'o add consternat:son1 to the orrile scene fire brokot out in the nioking car and soon spread to the other ars. Many were killed outright, while ithers, wedged in among the broken ~ars, were slowly conlsumned by the lames. Tlhe ac('ident was duo to a miisunder dtamUng of train orders. Another state uent is that the enginteer of the freight crami was dirunk. The whole ntumber- of passengers was i5. Tlhe inmber of killedi was 2(0, with manty wvoun<ted. Thomas Stovens, who is making a tour >f the world On a bicycle, and who a few atys aigo was supptlosedl to be lost some vher, in China, has been heard from at. Iong Kong. lie reports sonmc pretty ough experiences, and expects soon to, 3e in San Francisco. On o<ftve hi'iest and bigetn ~xhibition in San Francisco. lb is as arge as an ordinary derby hat and4 weight thirty-five pounda troy It 'f ort1h $20) an onneCo and in a1it pur

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