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V * r JP^oot^d to gijriculluri!, gorlitulturi), J)omi|s>fit tfkonomg, polite Jfilqrature, folitica, and the (tturrent Ifetos of the Dag. VOL. XVII.?New Series. UNION C. II., SOUTH CAROLINA,. MA.Y, 14, 1886. NUMBER 19. ICKMIBUBNOBS or TUB MACBETH LIGHT ARTILLERY. BT ONK OF THEM. No. 3. After the spirited assault on our works at Secessionville, the Federal soldiors ou James Island were more like lambs and less like lions. They were neither as demonstrative along the picket line nor so musical in camp. Their bands no longer discoursed Yankee doodle to tease, or Dixie to please us. Indeed, they were so passive that our government concluded to withdraw some of our troops from the Island. It was, especially, decided that this could now be safely done, since it was quite apparent that the fight at Seoessionville had been made more for the purposo of screening some plan of Gen. McClellan than with any solid hope of carrying our works. So Qen. Evans' brigade to whioh the Macbeth had been attaohed, was ordered to VI..!.:. ? T ' > AVfvrAV wv uiutiaiuuu| I ugiUtO< UOUi JUOO UAU already anticipated the move of den. McClellan, "took the initiative and struck the first blow." And it waa well known to the troops on the Island that Gen. McClellan's army had boon badly cut to pieces, hurled back on the James River and was now cowering under tho protection of their gun-boats. The wise men of the camp began to guess at Gen. Lee's pur* pose ia ro-cnforoing his victorious army, before the prostrate form his of antagonist showed any sign of recuperative strength. We reached Richland only to be hurried cn to : join Gen. Lee's army, then in camp near Malvern's llill. Confederate soldiers had great fears of gun-boats, and we were a little apprehensive, less Gen. Lee designed thriving Gen. Clellan's army further South, in spile of his gun-boats. The oartel for exohauge of prisoners had been effected, and in a day or two after we went into our first Virginia camp and the Federal and the Confederate prisoners began to pass by, returning to renew their allegiances to their respective governments. I looked into the faces of our many thousand returning prisoners and did not see one whom 1 recognized. One of them said, in passing, "boys if you had our experience you would never surrender." They looked dirty, and hagard, and bore other marks of a hard prison life. Late one evening, just after the last ^exchanged prisoner had passed by, Gen. Lee's army was drawn up in line of battle, and as we, with the long column Of soldiers to the right and loft of our position in lb* road, moved forward towards tho cno- , mic'B stropg-hold, I tm impressed with the j a?*>?^ to t? fought < that would deoide for all tlmt tho foto of tho ' ] United SUUes and the Confederaoy. Qen. Lee ] had harried troops from the South and made * j demonstration towards. the Federal line, to < throw Qen. MoOlellan and* his government off i their guard, llow'fcell he suooeeded, was at- i tested by the events that immediately followed \ eaoh other in rapid suooession. Qen. Leo had < thoroughly analysed Gen. MoClellen's charao- i tor, and seeing how well developed his bump of t caution was, conoluded that the Washington | Government would havo to nurse him a long \ time before he would be sufficiently eonvales- j oent to take the offensive again. Gen. Lee i oould not sit down and wait for Ueu. MoClellan to becomo beligerent, while his own army was , wasting away before tho insidious attack of the ] malarious fever. Necessity with him, was the i mother of a grand concoption. The plan he \ adopted to relieve Richmond from the attack of i a strong menacing amy and at the same time i protect his men against the malaria of the Chioahominy swamps, was eclipsed in boldness only i by the daring of its execution. It was, perhaps, the next morning after Gen. Lee had threatened i Gen. MoClellan's position, that we moved i toward Richmond, and in the afternoon of the ! same day found ourselves north of Richmond, marching towards Washington and in the di rection that Jackson had gone the previous week. We were moving on as ignorantly of Lee's objective point us the heathen is of the i attributes of his God. But what of that. His i men idolized him and were willing to follow blindly where he led. Lee left one or more divisions below Riohmond ho scare off the timid McCleltan while be was making u bold dash towards Washington. 1 What a grand opportunity that was for MoClellan ! Had he seized and pursued it with vigor, he might have speedily crushed the rebellion, immortalized himself, kept Gen. Grant out of history and died himself an ex-l'resident of the United States of Ainerioa. A Lee or a Stjnewall would have ooveted no better obanco to have marched, into the Federal Capital. But Lee's bold stratagem and the celerity of his moves put the Federal geuorals at sea, all was in eonfusion. Our march was oontinued north wora until wc readied Uordonsville; where we blvouaoed for a few days, taking breath and making preparations for that memorable campaign that terminated at the second Manassas in Pope's defeat and humiliation. Qen. Jackson had already fought the battle of Cedar llun, worsted his enemy and, as adeee;,as well as to present overwhelming numbers from being oonoentrated on his flanks, fell book to Qordansrille to await the arrival and eo-operaMon of Oen. Longstreet. Our soldiers now began to hear, for the first time, of one tien. Pope and his braggadocio speeches. It begat such an antipathy for him, that even private soldiers were anxious for an ' ooeasfon when they might give expression to their feelings in battle. Oen. Lee's plan was to press forwerif rapidly, get Pops in a ooil and crash him bsfors McCletlan ooull re-lnforee him from the Psninsula. The sueoets depended ?n quick and rapid moves. 80 impressed was Oen. Leo with this fact that ho loft Oordaasville with an imperfect oessmioeariat if the j , eg tMii Msonot or mtene oooeumed by Ui Mm* beth durtag the ton deye that followed to m any criterion by wbioh U oould be judged. Geo. coon Pord and Jackson higher up. The two commands came together at the confluonoe of the two roads they were traveling, on the top of the hill just beyond the Raccoon Ford. Thero the road diverged a little north of parallel to the Rapidan and ran towards the Rappahannock River. Jackson and Longstroet's men marched along this route in parralled columns. When the Macbeth reached the junotion of the roads on lop of the hill, the scene was grand and imposing beyond de Oription. The country was open and comparatively level for somo distance, and as far as tho eyes could reach was a mighty river of moving men. Longstreet in the road and Jackson in the field to the left; the two commands hurrying on in tho spirit of rivalry to overtake Oen. Fope before he could escape to the north sido of the Rappahannock At the forks of tho road some miles south of the river, Jackson n'.cd up tho left road leading to Beverly Ford and Longstreet down the right to Kelly's Ford. The impression that we were ncaring tho enemy was now quite general among the soldiers, and stimulated with the A* I 4*1- il * - i*tvot>cvb vi uumc, me/ movcu lorward with quickening steps. It was, therefore, a matter of some surprise when wo were suddenly halted long before dark and ordercl into camp for the night. The next morning, as wo were marching out of camp, a man in a full suit of Confederate gray was arrested just across the road from us, in Col. Qadberry's regiment, as a spy. Not knowing the, particulars that led to his arrest, it was easy enough to imagined that lie might have fared better had ho couin into Longstrcot's camp strictly in the uniform of Longstrect's men. At that time a soldier in rags might hare passed through Leo's army easy enough while one in good apparel would bo the "observed of all bserrcrs" and a target for witijism, criticism and suspicion. Aught I know his good olothes may have led to his arrest, lie was marched up to head-quarters at a house in the bend of the road, tried by a drum-head sourt-marshal, condemned, and sentenced to be hung. The executioner, a Confederate soldier, was not long in adjusting one end of a rope iround his neck and the other over the limb of i tree in front of the house. Just as he was ibout to be executed the lady of the house begged not to hang him at her gate, and her rcnonstranco added five or ten minutes more >f time to his life. I looked him well in the 'ace, as he was carried back just in rear of >ur battery and executed. He seemed to reilize that his mission was at au end, and I noiced him shut his eyes and shudder, lie was t splendid looking specimen of humanity and ke exhibited at least one noble trait of characpr, *9,4 i,t was fa lad?y ef some refinement: Rather than his family should anfferTTecau se of lis ignominious death, he rafused to give his lame. He had gone out like Andre the British ipy of revolutionary fame, on a perriloue misilon for his country, and like Andre when the neritable overtook him met his fate heroioally, sent down with his colors flying, bat unlike Anire in thet hie name will never appear in history The exeoutioner proposed an exchange of rainent,*and taking the aitence of the spy for oon1-/? I-1 " - ' ,Vu? i?iu >us |imo nuiinuK mo ueau man s soots before bo was cold la his grave, rcjoioing in the luck that made him tho fecipient of a seeded article of personal comfort. A man quickly arrested, tried, condemned and executed is an episode iu war that excites more interest and impresses more soldiers than the dead and wounded on a thousand battlefields. It was common talk that morning that a bogus dispatch, brought by him from Jackion to Longstreet, occasioned the sudden halt of the previous ovening. We had now reachod the river and found Pope in a strong position on the north side. The original plan of foroing a crossing at Kelley's Ford was abandoned as impracticable, and we marched towards Brandy Station, along a road running almost parallel with the Rappahanock. We passed through Stevensburg alter night and crossed a stream on what seem to be a bridge under water. It was very dark and impossible to take in our surroundings. I was impressed with the idea that tho slightest deflection to the right or left would carry me into water of a great depth. I felt more comfortable when wo moved out of that stream and went into camp on top of the hill just beyond. The enemy tired an occasional shell at us during the day, but they exploded short of their mark and did us no more harm than excite our nervos a littlo. Tho next morning we oontinued our march up the river. We passed through Braudy Station and marched down near to Beverly Ford, where an artillery combat was already in pro groas. j,earing me roaa to our tell, we passed up through a yard and halted to the right or a residence, some three hundred yards in rear of a battery of the Washington Light Artillery, then engaged in a spirited artillery duel with a Federal battery across the river. Many of the shot fired by the enemy passed over the battery they were fighting and went richocheling by us. We had been watching this interesting duel but a few minutes, when we were ordered to take a position on the crost of a commanding hill, some quarter of a mile or more to our right, and engage a Federal battery that was annoyir our infantry stretched along the hill-side in expored position. The charge of the -Mar through that open field and up to our p on top of the hill, no doubt excited ' 0,'t miration of some and the pity of othnr 'll? Just before reaching the poeitior we had been ordered, a line of 1 t0 breastworks confronted us. Thf somi-oirci words the setting of the sun an ' curT0 WM tion from which wo were apy d in the di dirt was fresh end had ovld .roaching it. grownup by the enemy I eut1y been reee: attack from (leu. Lee. n anticipation of from the crest of U>e ' At an equal diet* towards the rising o' uill, on the opposite dine with its ourve f the sun, was a tin reotlon of the eat toward* the river in (he up by the tr ?J- It may have been (hi * " ??*y, fc*l fbr what pnrpo< could not disern; for it was constructed in an- i ticipation of an attack from towards Washington. It could not have been thrown up In anticipation of Jacksou's move to the rear of the enemy. That would be to accredit Gen. l*ope with more prophetic ken than ho ever possessed, as Jackson said, demonstrated in more ways than one. Pope would not have thrown it up for the protection of Confederate soldiers It did protect our infantry that hugged the ground while wo were there as closely as if they had grown there. Perhaps it was thrown up by Gen. Joe Johnson's troops, when ho retreated from Manassas and went to tho Pcnensula below Richmond. This is the only reasonable explanation that suggests itself to my mind. The works on the west side of tho hill as wo approached it, was on higher ground than that which our guns would have oocupicd had we halted there. And the cncmios position was on still lower ground. It would have bccu necessary to have fired our guns at an elevation of forty-five degrees in order to have cleared the summit of the hill, and any depression sufficient to have trained them on the enemy, would have been obstructed by tho breastworks. Capt. Boyce, who was a little in advance of tho company, took in tho situation at a glance. He saw that the battery must occupy the space between the two lines in order to engngo the enemy. Leaping the brestworks ho ordered the pieces to pass in through an opening towards the north. The first section, under Lieut. B. A. Jeter passed in and took position on tho right, tho second crowded in on the first, and then came < the third under Lieut. S. W. Porter, and there ' was acomplcto jam. Here were six guns and as < I >U UVtll|7 11 SjlUCB IIUl ' more than sufficient for the successful manning I of two guns. And in addition to our battery, a large number of infantry lying on the ground, < and very mnch in our way. They seemed to ' prefer being trampled to death by our excited I horses and crushed by the wheels of our pieces, I rather than expose themselves for a moment to ' the deadly /ire of the enemy. The men of the ; first section unlirabered, but were not able to 1 man their guns for the want of room. i The enemy saw the trap into which our.reck- 1 lessncss and inexperience were impelling us and reserved their tire, in joyful anticipation of ' our destruction. They opened on us from two, i some said four-, batteries a rapid and murderous 1 fire, and with remarkable accuracy of practice. 1 Two minutes would cover every moment we were there. And in that breath of time, Lieut. William Munro was severely wounded, being shot through both hands and both thics, five of the mcu slightly, and three mortally wounded,. ["JUT*?. Wiled righttenjor JifiueaI slightly, our guns and ealsson C vrh-jOa carrlou from the hill numerous evidences of the severity of the enemy's fire. Seeing thai we were under a murderous fire and in no oondilion to return it, Capt. Boyce ordered the battery to retire; and leaping the breast works ho went out as lie had gone in. I Am nnitn bum iKn* \laaKa<U - quite as good time in getting away from gravo- ; yard bill?for such was its name?as thoy did in going there. The only deficiency in the enemy's practice resulted from the cutting of their fuse; an error they would have corrected 1 if we had given them time. Had their fuse 1 been one-half of a second shorter, the damage, great as it was to the battery, would have been much more disastrous. Owing to the small J area we had to occupy, my section was thrown on the left and next to the battery that did the execution. I sat on my horse to the left of my left gun and there was not as much as a bush to obstruct the view?tho bullets and the dazzling rays of the sun as it was reflected fron their burnished guns. The shells passod over my head and exploded just to my right abovo. but so close to the heads of the men that x noticed them cringe at each explosion, as jf they were affected by the concussion. AJ kUv of the balls from the spherical case ' jhellr, passed into the ground beyond tho * jtrer.ie right of tho battery. Had the fuse ' t>een cut one half of a second shorter, the she ,jj3 ... .. 1 <1 , ... on bail from them would have been poured i-V thft uiW<t of R crowded mass of horses ar id mcn WilUam MeNeace was the lead driT , in -_L , /er of my left gun. When the enemy opened h'" . ,, r ' 1 ,s terrible fire on us, MoNeace sprang to the i , , . . f . ' ground, and burying himself as belt ho could i ? ? litt? ??h lh, ground,looked up end ?c,?clli saiJ ,,Li?? tenant, jump down or . . .? ,, . J . , you will be killed.' It was so quick over . , . . , . 1 that 1 had no time to re alue the impending , , ., , , , r danger, and therefore real used no emotions </ .. , ... t , . , . t fear until I was safe be yond the euemy'r . ... . . , * j guns. 1 did not hear th order to retire. , . . , . .. x. . * and do not know how MoNeac and James Jot . . . . . iiison managed to get out of sue! olose quarter ? , . . . , M i so well, so quick and in perfec i j horse was always a foci about tli ^ of an engine and the booming c cannonr . ... , . . . , but on that occasion hejwus quiet, n horse? usually faro under fire; but when th ... kA.nn (a mAvo ha tiara mo nntnnnntrai Ible *rjr UOfe"" *" ? e>^ . I dismounted and led him across an ope eld for half n mile, before 1 passed out of it range of tbe Federal guns. I passed Lieut. Munro's horse at the botto 8 of the bill. He followed the botterj aero an the little branch und fell as he started up t] second bill. A little further on I passed Jam i?B Jolly's saddle horse. Tho noble animal nidi ad- |Q getting the gun almost out of danger befo be fell. Here 1 mounted my horse, and pa dob sing over the hill into a piece of woods foui tier the battery. The men were nil seated on t to- ground looking serious, discouraged and d rco- moralized. I now began to realize tbe unne The essary danger to whioh we had been expoi ntly and shared with the men the bitterness of c ' an baptismal experience of the actual meaning race war. We imagined thatjust what that fight v side all others would be. liar Had Capt. Boyoe given the placo a persoi dl- inspection before attempting to execute tho own der, the hazardous experiment would ne e I kava been made, lives would Wvl been sat and tho mornlc of the company better for the next fight. But he ?as inexperienced, ambitious and reckless, and thought soldiers were machines nnd orders were given to be obeyed. It was afterwards said that one of the batteries of Washington Light Artillery was ordorcd there, but had too much cxpcricnoo to attempt to occupy a position that was not tenable. In our inexperience we attempted to obey the orders. Whether Capt. Boyce or Gen. Evans was to blame for the blunder I do not know. Immediately folloving this was an indiscretion for which Capt. Bojrce was inexcusable: Five horses out of six to one caisson had been killed and tho other left mortally wounded. Sergeants C. T. Scaife and Jvmes Bunch, with four or live men, were ordered back to bring the horse away and roll the caisson down the hill by hand, thus subjecting them and the infantry to another severe Safe Whilo we were drilling nt the race course, two of our horses made more use of their heels than was safe for tho men, and Lieut. Jeter expressed the wish that both might be killed in the first battle. That was the first, and both were killed. At tho same time they were killed, John Crow, I believe it was, had the horrible experience of seeing his horse shot from under him. The Bhell passed through his saddle horse and exploded inside of liia off wheel linr.sa. Fortunately for the morale of the Macbeth ere were ordered to join two batteries that wore passing by, to take positions in a piece of woods to the right of Graveyard Ilill and open du the same batteries. .Shot and shell in the rery midst of them were the first notice'that they had of our hostilo intentions. We sueseeded in moving tbcm just abovit as quick as lliey moved us from Graveyard Ilill. Gen. Longstreet says, iu reference to this last action, ihat the enemy were worsted, and out of spite set fire to some farm houses. I was of the impression that the houses referred to were fired by our shells, and that impression still remains. It was now dusk and the eocmy beyond the range of our guns, so we return id to the house whore we left the road in the morn.;Qg >...1 A M19 A 1 ?... C. It. _ l_A U'? r.wl ??>* pui&uu uui j^uua lur iiiu uigui* ?i v icu our hungry horses thai night freely nml extravagantly on hay ^pd wheat that hud been cut ?ud left in thf 5 jr/^^ULS. The .next raoraing, as we mov<?<J^^^Ramp I saw some South Harolina sol&.vA^^^Mhlanket around one of their comrade;,| "l? previous day's Cght, and lay bfc- P in his rude resting place on the banj^"^^ little brook. Ifo was tho first Confcdi tidier killed in buttle, that I saw durir pr. That day the ivod oral and ConfcroJ/^kldiers marched up tlx llappshannocl^ ou? ou y?Lying in .Point o* Vibvt.~ Au address 5Jgjwsas Bar A ate eiatiuii on lib the following noa summary of tyiog I)e Quincy, ^/XlBHn^p<^j^iqao sac mcmorablo easavg, of tnurdoi as a fine art. I jjowe5brilliant essayist oi to-day can Gad in equal field for his genial it> tho woaderf J\ eohiermeuU of the scootn plislied liar.. ^ It must bo rauioiubered tborc i/t a di v< vsUy in falsehood ; thai on< lio d'ifferof ,h fvcm another Ho in skill,'it well as it j dishonor and injury. Therq i tho coa'.se, nal edjapokoo, untruth of tha on e?' .ucat ,cd man , |b J knows not tha oapaoit; \angu.nge. Tin .4 ia tho ifldireot Ha ; the un trutlj convoy-4 by bin who so a sea Una gu^ge, and so aids U by expression a& gesture, that ?;gile saok separate clause, an even the senfcfce as a whole, may nodi some aspects m considered true, yet th hearer roceivas only a falsehood. An then there is yio lis pf silence; keepin still when obl jntion requires speech. A Sam Jones epiaramtnatioally expresses" i ''keeping still ( a horse trade is the met) est kind of l}?ug." General {Kennedy Ovv for CniN - ?General D. Kcnnody took hia d parture lnrr|>f "?*?" """ Unit lie was acco'^HfDifd by his wifo and Iiti _ daughter, awl Alford, hia only son, ai ? Mr. C. WilsbiV Miller. Quite a number e relatives and: iriends were at tho depot h bid them goM-bye. As General Kcnue :t stepped into tho car, whioh was th 'f crowded, aod began to bid good-byo nil. thero ?n 'lot a dry eye to be seen! is ' e was one of ~t the ir.ost touching bcci i- which wo h^yo ever witnessed. We i n not attew?to portray further tho dep ' of sorrow w'hibited by all in giviug up < distingaisttjl and noblc-hoarted friend. M is gone, all wo trust that his voyage \ 1# bo a safewye nud his future will pr en happy ao? /prosperous to him.? Cam id Ltno|SSt> in Kbrsiiaw. ? Cam he May B.^wfwley Williams, a uogro 0_ about ofag&r cn years of age, was found ied day ena^Mhd to the limb of a tree, al ,ur five milii ielow Camden. It is repo ?f that httXm summarily dealt with on rM count of Jrkatteoiptcd assault on an i il 'a(^ vicinity. Tbo coroner's roturdHftpfdict that ?! ? deceased < ver ^>Piby haegins bj the hands of A Remedy for IIard Times.?I noticed an article published in the March number of the Cultivator, under tbo head ' of '*A Common Sense View,-' it strikes i near tbo right koy?what is the cause of | tho hard times that we hear spoken of l every day ? For fear that this important I i oubject may be droppod just here, I will 1 give tho wheel another turn. This subject | is generally brought up by tho very ones who have caused such a decline in our country by idling away their timo. ^God i has said that wo shall labor six days, and rest on the seventh. How can they rest when they havo not worked any ? Consequently few of them keep the Sabbath. I was raised by a good old farmer, wbo learned me to work as he did his own children ; and when I say work, I mean just what I say. I did not loiter around country stores, or other places of resort, as I see boys and even grown men doing now, some playing ball, cards, or indulging in other vices that are not known to the American people. This is one great cause of jails, chaingangs and penitentiaries being ( crowded to-day, and it greatly helps to : make harder, and harder the times. Let 1 II f - I- I - * us an go 10 wors wun renewed energy, ana also teach our children to work, which will 1 bo a blessing to them as well as to us, which ' will protect them as they grow up from the greatest evils of the day. The poople just 1 after the late war worked tolerably woll a ( few years, but since that time a large portion have almost quit it. I hear people say, "I have nothing to do,"' but I have never seen such a time as that iu my life, neither has any man who has au honest inclination to work. If farmers have nothing more important to do, they can employ themselves in ditching and terracing their rolling lands ; also by getting up manures of all kinds, such as loamy soils which are collected around the back yards, barn-yards and every other place that is producing weeds which arc a nuisance generally. , The farmers of our country are lotting their good lands be covered up by the clay from thoir upland*, which will soon causo a solid poor country. I think I have given J you a very poor method for preventing ? suob, but it takes work to do4it. r * Go to work totiukenpaXTlkoja wUere they are now poor, and create bleseinga out of things that appear to be ouraos; quit "buying so muoh guano and costly fertilisers and use more that you mako at home, which will improve permanently your soil. Bear 1 iu mind that the farmers are trying to cul: tivato too much land. Prepare your lauds I better, cultivate fetter, make more on less r acreage. Divide your largo farms into ? smaller ones and cultivate well. Let us all. * Sake a creator interest in lands and imnrovo ' I than by degrees, and t think we will not ' hear to artjusb of Jb*rd times in future. I 8 am *"Mif jjlabsecibor to. The Cultivatort yet 8 it is a welcome visiter ^ to iny home. It 8 gives the eapecimonts of good farmers, that * | would not get pthorwiao, and all progrosf *ve fcrmers s^ouTd rtfad-y t and profit.by -- each other's opinions, as it is the eheapest f* way of obtaining usefnl agricultural intori matftb "w. Lindsay, in. Soutltern d Cultivator. ' * ? - * m "Compliments or Moses."?It has d been ttfmored in different portions of the g State, and baa been alloged by several of ls our exchange*, that the present farmers' t, movement U simply a tidal ware originated a- bt Mr&&&+***>> whisb, "Agrlnihiiiff When we e^w^8|lwWMlHW^K^ftil e b?<? -rrjjrAflBR^S-^K^WeSI ,a- ernor, together iHtli ?ofn\ other circuml'e stances. the rumor seems to lid founded on Dd fact. We were shown sonio days ago a Cont0 gressiooal document from the Hon. G-. D, dy Tillman , soot to ono of the delegates elecen ted from this county to the State Convent0 lion, which on tho back contained Lht ^ followng words: "Comp. of iMoaos." aes This, standing by itself, sioms a little thing, but when you oonneot it with othoi facts, which poiut to tho samo conclusion oar it amounts to a great deal towards confirm He fag the rumor that the movement was gol sill ten up in the interest of some ono fc ore Governor of tbe State, and that tho ma dm is the Hon,Georgo D. Tillman. Wh "frank" it with "Comp. of Moses ' unlci it means something ? We oan only awn (|on the result of limo to eeo whether it is , 'significant fact or not. We predict thi the ruuior is true and will bo proved 1 *?~ future developments.? WYnns&oro Nei ,oat and Herald. rted . . ...... ac- Convicted ov Murder.?Augusta, G aged May 9.?Preaton Valentine colored, w jury to?day found guilty Of murder in the ii )am? degree. He waa indicted for killing W 'par- liam Vales. The prisoner was ably def< dad. A Biiead and Meat Convention.? To the Editor of The Ncxcs and Courier ' The Convention of Farmers which will m' Ot it Columbia on Thursday next will havo a r^reat many questions to consider iu connection with the material coudition of the State. It is not likoly that much good will be accomplished, and in order to prevent a great deal of unnecessary discussion wo rospcctlully submit the following paper, with the suggestion that it be adopted as soon as the Convention is organized, aud that tho Convention thereupon immediately adjourn sine die : Whereas, it is admitted that the farmers of this State for several venrs lncf nnt' _____ ? J , r???, have failed to raise enough supplies lor themselves and also for those not engaged in agriculture ; And whereas the latter classes, at great iuconvcnienco to themselves, have been forced to obtain their supplies from other States ; And whereas, this failure has not resulted from any deficiency in the (juaulity of land cultivated, not from a want of the fertility of the soil, but from improper culture and management : And, whereas, it is very important that a State should be self-sustaining in this respect ; And whereas, it is believed that sufficient oxcreised towards the farmers in this bchah. Now it is suggested that a convention of the non-agricultural classcs)bo called to meet at the Capital of the Stato on the 4th day of July next, for the purponc of taking steps, cither by tho appointment of a receiver, or otherwise, to turn out all those now engaged in farming, 'from tho mountains to the seaboard with the view of obtaining a new set of farmers, who will pledge themselves to raise cuough producfor us all?agriculturists and von. agriculturists as well. This convention shall not be considered political in any respect, but purely a bread and meat convention. Farmers. Orangeburg, S. C., April 2G, 18S0. Tiif. Fate oe Cluvkrius Seai.ed.? Richmond, Va., May 0.?The Supreme Cgjjrt otj Appeals of Virginia to-day rendered n decision in the case ot T.<r J. .duverius, convicted in the Hustings Court of this city of the murder, on March 13, 1885, of Fannio Lilian Madison. Too ease is notoriously known as the reservoir mnrder mystery. The judgment of the lower Court is fully sustained. Eight bills of exoeption were 61ed by the prisoner's counsel, being elaborately discussed and sucoes sively overruled. The opinion was delivered by Judgo Fauntcllry, tie Court staudiug 1 to 1 in favor of eustaioing tlio judgment of the lower Court. Judge Rinton dissented, b?ing in favor of a new trial. * Cluvcrius will surely hang, unless Executive clemency interposes.- The time'first fixed for his execution has long passed by. * > Ho will have to be brought before the Hus* tings Court for resentence. A LyNCUINO in Viroinia.?Richmond, ,Va., May 6.?JTcster<|ay a young negro named Diok Walker with tko daughter of a respectable Charlotte County farmerk 10 the road near Keysvillc and attempted to assault her. lie dre'w a kujfe and told her if she made any noiso he would kilt h'er. She soreamed and ao old negro man : ratf to her asssistance. Watkcr, baffled in ; purpose, ran off. The old negro then hastened to tho nearest telegraph station and gave a full description of Walker, - hHJfnd tho old negro aud was committed , 1 to jail. T/aiTnTgrnrih^ i-anmr. muvuu- ^* dod the jail and demanded the keys from tho jailer. The latter refused, but was overpowered, and Walker was taken out and hanged to a tree. 5 German Millet.?I have two acres of > loamy clay bottom land, third year's culti, vation, sown in oats ; I want to plant iu r German millet after oats nro cut iu June. Which is bost, to sow broadcast or in drills h and how much scod to tho acre ? What will be best to manure it with ? Made fifty ir bushels of corn to aero last year without n any manure.?1*. 11. M., JIarlcm Ga. y Answer,?Germau millet will mako a 5"s largo coarse stalk if not crowded. On tho other hand, if sown too thick it does not do a wall. Grilling crowds the plants aufficientat ly to minify the-stalks and yet gives air and )V light enough to permit healthly growth. Cjt Half bushel of seed is enough for an acre. As it is very rapid-growing and maturing orop. it calls for a manure that is very quick a., ly available. A good ammoniated guano or ras a well-fermented compost would arswer. ret A mixture of eotton seod meal and acid il- phoephate, one-third meal and two-thirds in- phosphate, would give good results.? SoulUtrn Cultivator. f .?j'A