Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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} Dented to aturt, PohffaftM the fhem-nt Neic$ of the Day. . ^ VOL. XXIII. - NEW SERIES. UNION 0. FEBRl' ARV l'.i, t8i)2. . jyjMBEK 8 - r||| w-'uum wutr, ok vrasDiogtoo, la proper* jjw V - -jr. Al^flrtrtdng ofllclal who kuows jibout ^^@P?eJppg-cars, their coat and profit, ro*^gr ***na?kott rocenlly td tho Indianapolis : <Ind.) Journal: 4,Slcepiug-cars pay big knoney, and when ono. knows tho cost of ^operating them it is uo wonder. A new *' Car costs, good, strong and modern, auyWay from *8000 to $10,000, a'though Em hear of them worth twice that sum. owevcr, these costly cars don't get outside the shops. The railroad companies M pay thrge^ppnts u mile for the privilogo tof hauling thorn, nud the cur will average 800 miles iu twenty-four hours tho ^ year round, or $0 a day earnings. Say W it earns $3000 a year, a lo .v estimate, it will pay for itself in three years. Now a tea-section car has twenty berths, selling local at $2 a berth, making the earning capacity par night $40, not countiug tho day earnings. Of course, sleepers don't carry full loads every night, but if they did not average teu passengers a day wo would haul them on our road. Now, wo pay for icc, water and fuel and insure tiw cars; that is, we repair thciu when igf- wreckod or in jural. Tho slceping-caf company pays n porter $25 a mouth at tho most, a conductor $90. and has to furnish lioeu and soup. It is uot difficult to bco how tho sleeping-cur ooin* panics pay dividends." To illustrate the strength of tho prej udico against corn in Great Britain, mention may be made of an instance in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, where it was proposed by a Member of tho Poor House Board to substitute maise for costlier food in that institution. Tho mere suggestion brought a storm about his oars, because of his inhumanity in thrusting upon defenseless paupers a food which was only fit for pigs. American canned goods of all kinds aro largely sold in Europe, but canuod corn is almost never seen there. If a demand for it could be created it' would mean hundreds Us suuuoauvio \>i iit/tiaia jruat ijf to tho proprietors and workers of our canneries. Agents of tho Department of Agriculture have been exhibiting tho cereal in this form also abroad with the hope of teaching the people to liko it. Wherever corn dishes of various sorts havfr been prepared and distributed by them they have been receive! so favorably as to give good grounds for confident expectation in this regard. Tho ase of tho pflVto, the tomato and the tobacco plaut, all of American origin, has spread through Europe and added to the comfort and happiness of millions. There seems to be rnoro hope for corn now than there was for any of those commodities at the beginning. M. do Varigny gives in the Paris Revue des deux Mondos a clear, succiuct socount of the events of the Chilean war, which the conflicting reports of newspaper correspondents have left vague in moat minds. While he blames the conduct of Balmacedn, he regards muc'i of what has happened as the almost in^ evitablo outcomo of the opposition of English and American ideas and influence, which, working as they have worked together in the evolution of tbo Chilean Republic,had created a condition wof things under which it was impossible (for a people so naturally vigorous to colV tlnue. Chilean parliamentary institutions are impregnated, according to 31. de Varigny, with the monarchic si spirit of England, from which country thoy were copied. But this mouarchic.il system has for its own crown an autocratic President, whose powers were gi anted to him under American induenco, an 1 whose position in tho Constitution was copied from that of the President of tho United States. Tho two iostitutons cannot work together. Balmaceda only followed in his unconstitutional practices the "deplorable deviations'* of all his predecessors, and one of the results of the war to likely to be a revision of machinery of Government which may bring the powers of the President end the Parliament into a more logical relation to each other. The Chilean war, In fact, has been, in M. Varigny's reading of it, a war between the force wh ich made for oloaer union with the United Btateo and tboee which mado for the mpremaoy of English influence; tho English forces have won, and with their victory the dreams of the threo Americas united against the world loses all ohauco Jot realisation. The indignation of . Chile, he oontinues, has been stlrro l gainst the United States,and too deeply 'or *ke breach to be easily healed, and the ambition of the Repuhlio will for the future be to maintain its independenoe until it takes, la the southern contleent, the position of supremacy whiob the United SUtei holdf in the north. 91 BP^M^p^Bgrot^ and Di?~ T ^pktdtpse Frttm-tfie PotomabTo the Gulf. * '" '> ?* /*_* ' ' v* VIBGINIA. ' ?' - Roanoke is io have a mutch factory. Tho Danville Fire Insuruuco Company v has been organized. Another uationat-bank is being organized at Harrisonburg. Norfolk has a new bank called the City National, with $200,000 capital stock. The Book-SJiers' Association met at Richmond last week. More attention is now being paid to stock raising in Louisa. Twenty-seven marriage licenses were ssued during January in Bedford county. Senator Daniel delivered a lecture in Charlottesville for the benefit of the ConfndnrAtn vi'tnrnnc nf il?nt oil v v.. ...... ...VJ. The Burig Iron Works of Ruena Vista made nn assignment Thursday, with liabilities of f80,000. The Young Men's Christian Associa tion convention convened at Richmond Thursday with 145 delegates present. Eighty years ago there were less than 1,000 lambs raised yearly in Pulaski county for tlio northern markets; uow it will average about 10,000. Then the lambs averaged not over GO pounds; now from 75 to 80 pounds. The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Co. has givcu a contract to the Richmond Locomotivo and Machine Works for 25 locomotives, which makes 40 ordered by that road of this company. It was only a few years ago when Southern railron Is wero compelled to buy all their cngiues in the North. Farmers' Bulletin No. G, in press at the Department of Agriculture, Washington, I). C , treats of the cultivation and curing of tobacco. It is written by Johu M. Estcs, a practical tobacco raiser, who has recently made a careful study of the subject in the tobacco-raising States Any one can procure the pamphlet by writing for it. NOBTH CAROLINA. Tho bank of North Wilkcsboro will opeu up March 1st. Salary of the mayor of Winston has been increased to $1,000. The new Atlantic Coast Line machine shops are to be built at Rocky Mt. Salisbury is about making an organized movement again-t the saloons. The State Sunday School Association meets in New Berne March 29th. Average ucath rate iu eleven lownr ot Not th Carolina is 10.0 for the whites per 1,000, and 17.4 for the blacks. Juo. T. Patrick has been notified by tho Commissioners of Agriculture to "move his plunder" from the Agricultural building at Rulcigb. Governor Holt is at Haw River, where his aged mother is quite sick. J. D. Bridges, dry goods merchant of Shelby, has assigned. Liabilities about $10,000; assets $5,000. Tho First and Second regiments of the State Guard arc to encamp in July at Wrightsville, tho Third and Fourth regiments at Ashcville. Dr. Albert B. Hart, professor of American History at Harvard University, is delivering a series of lectures at Chapel Hill beforo the faculty and students of the Stato University. Governor Holt offered a reward of $200 for R. L. Askew, a white man who in Bertie county murdered Charles Hardy, also white. It is believed Askew fled to Virginia. In Lewis Fork township, Wilkes couuty, Amos and Matt Hamby got drunk and had a row. The latter received ten kuife wounds and will die. Rev W. S. Plumer Bryan, pastor of the Presbyterian church of Asheville, has received a call to Cincinnati with a sal ury of 95,000. lie lias it under advisement. Sheriff J. D. Smith, of Cumberland, completed his settlement of State taxes, paying to the State Treasurer 90,080.05. He is the fifty tirst sheriff tj settle iu full. Jauuty Crank field, of Wilkes county, dropped dead the other day, aged 80 years. He mado a request sometime before his death that his body be buried in a "Republican graveyard." Qeo. A. Shuford, of Asheville, the newly appointed Judge of the 12th dis tiict, vice Judge Merrimon, resigned, was born in Henderson county, nnd is about forty years of ago. Ho studied law at Dick and Dilliard's law school at Greensboro, aud after obtaiuing license, located in Wnynesviilc, Haywood county, moving to Asheville in 1882. Castor Popo, of Ratt'eboro, went to New York to buy "green foods" and got scooped for 500. The scoopers generously gave him 18 nnd ho got home on it. He is pros trated with grief. The sale of hickory timber at Rockwell, Rowan county, has amounted to ! nearly nine thousand dollar* this winter. mis inuusiry dm Drought a lot* of money to Rowan. The timber is shipped to rations points in the State, ana is used in making spokes, handles, etc. SOUTH OAR'UNA. The year book of the City of Charleston for 1890 has just been issued. Gorernor Tillman offered a reward of $50 for the capture of the person who burned the barn of J. P. Cook, in Newberry county. A stage line is to be established between Orangeburg and the nearest station on the Bouth Bound railroad. There is a morement on foot to form a new county out of portions of Orangeburg and Berkeley county with Holly Hill as the county seat. There was a "scrap" on Washington square, Charleston, .between Probate Judge Magrath and Mr. Bissell, a plumber, the difficulty arising out of busi neaa trouble* No ? 'Kidding Deputy Ensor of' the foreuuo I - acrvice returned to (^rcQptillo from n raid iit Oconee fttnl Pickens couiitios.' lie destroyed four illic'.t distilleries and five lfirudred gallons of beer and mash. A scheme is on foot at Greenville nnd will be carried out to build n magnificent new opera house by organizing a branch of a northern building aud loan association. A meeting of the prominent citizens of Pickens was held and a company organized to build a railroad from Pickens to Easlcy, where a connection will be made with the Richmond nnd Danville road. The East Shore Terrainnl Co. Las decided to iucrca^c its bonded indebtedness by an issue of ootids to the amount of $300,000, also to increase the cnpitul stock of the company $300,000. The Wolfe & Tiger Mining Co., incor pointed bf the last legislature, is devel oping,gold mines in Greenville and Spar t-in burg counties, and is having surveys made for a canal to bo constructed four miles in length. Another fatal accident occurred in the Northeastern railroad yard, Charleston, by which C. A. O'Brian, acting yardmaster, was crushed to death while coupling cats. The deceased was 23 years old. He will be sent to Sinenth, on the South Carolina railway for burial. OTHER STATES. Greenville, Miss., special sajs: "Duo duo Ferguson, son of Geu. S. W. Fcrgu i-uii, sunt aim killed .tames Uoodmnu, merchant ami lurg : planter. Goodman's brother was also wounded. The affray 0 curred at Leosburg, Miss., twenty miles from hero." Among the spenkcrs at the meeting of 1 lie Southern Educational Association at Atlanta, July 5-8, will be Prcsidcut Winston, of the State University; Prcsidcut James Diuwiddie, of Peace Institute, Itulcigli, and President C. D. MeIvor, of the Normal uud Industrial School f..r White Girls,, at Gtccusboro. These gcntlemau will well represent North Carolina. Fish Planting in North Carolina Streams. Newton, N. C.?Dr. JosepliusTurner, of Shcrrill's Ford, takes much iuterest iu fish and has been corresponding with Congressman Henderson with regard to slocking the Catawba liver. The following reply of the Commissioner of Fish aud Fisheries to one of Mr. Henderson's communications, which is furnished us by Dr. Turner, will be of interest to many readers, especially those along the Catawba and Yadkin rivers: Hon. John 3. Henderson, IIoiuo of Representatives, Dear Sir: ?Replying to yours of January 19th, I beg to say that in June, 188(1, 305,000 shad fry were deposited iu the Catawba river, icar Morgan ton, N. C. In December, 1883, 500 red-eye perch were planted in tlie Yadkin river near Balcm; aud during the same month 2,455 carp were put in the sa.no stream near Salisbury; also, in January, 018 yearling rainbow trout were deposited therein. I have directed these streams be placed on our list for deposit of sliad in the distribution of ihe species next spring. Should you desire that notice in reference to the planting be given to any of your constituents, please foiwnid name aud address to tbis otlicc. Very respectfully, M. McDonald, Commissioner. Atlantic Coast Line Violates the Law. * Washington, D. C., [Special.]?The Inter-State Commerce Commission has made a decision in favor of the complainant, in the case of Charles R. Perry against the Florida Central and Peninsular Company and other roads forming the Atlantic Coust Liue. The conditions affecting rates on strawberries from Florida points to New York are compared with those connected wi h the transpor tation of oranges and other freight carried in the saino trains, and the Commission rules that the rates for forwarding strawberries from Florida to New York city should not exceed 3.33 per hundred pounds from Callahan, Fla , to New York, and from Lawtry, Hammock Ridge, aud other stitions more distant from New York than Callahan; and through rates should not be in excess of tho charge froin Callahan, and should be filed with the Commission and published according to law. The Commission also reatlirms its power to determine what rates are reasonable, and it^rcgard to damages it holds that the measure of reparation is the difference between the rato charged and the reasonable rate which should have been charged. The defendants are ordered to bring their freight from F.awtrv and all nainl? tn Callahan in conformity with the long and short haul provision of the law, and fault is found with the practice of charging a tbr nigh rate and adding a local rate to or from a local point upon a through shipment intended to be continuous. Killed in Trying to Save Her Sister. Wiikrlinu, W. Va., [Special.] ?A terrible accident occurred at Cameron, near this city, in which two beautiful young girls, daughters of William Criswell, lost their lives, one of them while heroically attempting to save the other. Essie and nenrn'mnn P"""."!! ?J ? O - v.xnvu, gnu If spc tfully fourteen and sixteen, were walking along the Baltimore and Ohio track, and while attempting to cross in frout of a westbound train Essie fell when the engine was almost upon her. Georgians, seeing her sister's danger and ignoriug the fact that the attempt was almost certain death, rushed to her rescue. She, too. stumbled, and was killed. Esaio was cut in two by the wheels. _ Lynching at Roanoke. Roamokb, Va.?Enrly Friday morning a mob of 150 persons took Wm. Lavender, the negro who was confined in the police station here for an attempt assault on Alice Perry, a whit > girl, and hanged him to a tree. Lavender confessed before be was hanged, Capt. Alexander HKs a Bill Which ^ He Thinks Will Regulate the I ^ Cotton Acreage. . \ \ F Washington, D. C.?"Impossible to * control it; useless spcculntion to consider > it," emphatically and tersely yeplied 4 Sydenham 11. Alexaudcr, of the sixth 1 district of North Carolina, when asked if T concerted reduction in acreage was the remedy for the prevailing depression in cotton. "Wc cau't mako cotton in my part of j North Carolina under 9c.," Mr. Alexander said. "What is your remedy for the present condition?" lio was asked. 11 "This," he replied. Mr. Alexaudcr produced^a ltill which t is before the committer o? 'ways and j means. Tho proposition is A* concise as s the author's speech. Tho most important ii provides "that all vessels built within it the United States by citizens thereof, and b wholly owned aud manned by citizctiB of tho United States, engaging in foreign commerce, siiall be allowed to culer and discharge their returning cargoes at any port of tho United States, free of all custom duties; provided, that suid vessels shall have cariicd full outgoing cargoes from tho United States, three-fourths at least of which cargoes consisted of agricultural products of tho United States." The other sections simply provide regu lutions to carry out this idea. The nine third party Alliance members of Congress?Simpson. Otis, linker, Davis and Clover, of Kansas, Kerr and McKcighuu of Nebraska, Ilnllowell of Minnesota, and Watson of Georgia?held a conference, and a declaration was drawn up to l>e issued as a manifesto to their constituents and the country. It declares that these gentlemen propose to flock by themselves hereafter aud denounces the Livingston faction for going into the old party Hues. The S inpson-Watson faction want it undcrs'ood that from this time on they arc third party men, and uot to he reckoned as sum to support the party measures of either party. Congressman Clover of Kansas bus in preparation a bill, to be introduced iu n day or so, which be says will warm the cockles of the Allinucu heart. It is a bill providing that evewy State shall own nil railroads in its borders aud opcrntc the sameA full programme for the conduct of these new State enterprises will be set forth. Four jicr cent, of all proflts arc to he laid asiuc as a repair nnd maintenance fund, nnd the residue is to fatten the public trensury, nnd in that way to lower taxes. Mr. Clover claims tbat his scheme will make travel cheaper; thai railroad tickets will bo sold for. 20 per cent, of the present tariff, and that, as a direct result, mnny more people will travel and more freight will be shipped, aud the aggregate of receipts will be larger T thau ever. t ****** F t! RESOLUTIONS OF MECKLENBURG ALLIANCE. s Resolved, That we adopt tho Caroliua Watchmau as the organ of the Meckleuburg Couuly Alliance. 2. That we endorse the principles laid down tho in Ocala platform in to to, and i the sub Treasury especially. 3. That we endorse our National President and worthy North Curolinian, L. L. Polk. 4. That we endorse our national editor, Dr. C. W. Macuue, and recommend the takiug, and urge the readirg of national organ, the National Economist, so ably conducted by hint, by all Allinncemen and liberty-loving citizens. 5. That we are in hearty sympathy with our Western Alliance brethren and will be found solid, side by side with them lit lllR linllot Imv II?*1 "NT?.? V.? ?"? MVAU XV WTVUIl/CI^ voting for reform and pure government. C. That we recognize co-operation in business essential to success, and, as our | State Alliance has successfully inaugura- , ted n business system, and each Alliance business agent do his trading through ' our State agency ns fur as practical. Fruternally, L. M. McAllister, Sect'y. * * * * * * I a wise move in georgia. ' One of the best moves that has been made . in the South to secure n good class of ira- ' migrant fanners lias just been insugura ted in Putnam county, Ga., by some en- ' tcrprising citizens, who have organized ' the Middle Georgia Land Co. with a 1 capital stock of $50,000. Subscriptions * to the capital stock are to be in laud and 1 money The company will purchase 1 good farming property and divide it into 100-acre farms. On each farm a comfortable residence will be built and such improvements made ns will enable a ten- I ant or purchaser to begin active farm- s ing operations as soon ns he takes poses- < dinn Tl?/s ;*? ? ? ? *" 4 ing 6omc details of the plans of opera- < tions of the company, says: ] "The intention is to sell these farms to < desirable settlers on long time und easy I payments, thereby securing industrious I and thrifty immigrants but home pco- I pic will not bo shutout frun the bene- I fits of this scheme. Fanners who havo i hereto! re rented land may, in a r< nson- i able length of time, own u farm of their i own, paying for it an annual sum not I exceeding the amount of their rent notes. : Thus renters who have boin living from ] baud to mouth nnd moving about in the i hope of bettering their condition will be i enabled to secure homes of their own and | pocket the protlts of their labor. < "The operations of the company will ' not be contjncd to one county, but will embrace several counties. The result of the movement will add largely to the number of small farms, and give to the section interested a large increase of the white population. Incidentally it will , be the means of settling the labor question. In securing emigrant* the new company will have the active aid of W. L. Ulossner, who has scored considerable success in this direction. He has already brought a large number of home8ce\em to Georgia from ft* Jfortbweit ailed on experiment. . Its purpose is so lear, nnd its plan so simple and raion*', that it can hardly fail of success. Ye trust that other sections df the State vill follow the 8tate will follow this' exmplo." *4*. The hope which tho Constitution extresses that other counties in Georgia vill follow this example is applicable to he whole b'outlr. The organizers of this :ompany have presented a good plau, vhich every part of the South may adopt rith great profit. THE SOUTH'S DEVELOPMENT. V Good Showing For Tho Past Week. The Manufactuiers' Record, of Baltimore, in its issue of February 13. says: "While there is no marked increase in be organization of new industrial enter irises throughout the Bouth, there is n toady, solid advance, ami also a growag confidence with the leading capitalsts of tho country that the Bouth is the >est field in America for investment, lany plans of great magnitude are being vorked out, and with a return of acliviy iu investment nud business interests in he eouutry at largo the South will again iconic tho center of development, and ulure operations will probably be on a irger scale aud by heavier capitalists bau anything which the Bouth has seeii ct. Among the more important under 1?1 .1..-:? " - * untu^a I V|JIM VIUI 1U^ llll" WCl'K lll*C 1 he very extensive iron and steel making < nd town-building operations to bo com- 1 iicnced by Alex. A. Arthur, the founder ' f Middlcsborough, iu connection with 1 onto of the foremost iron -tnakcrs and I srgest capitalists of the North Tiiis nterprise, or rather these combined en- * erprtscs, will probably draw not less I hau $10,000,000 into that section within ' he next 13 or 18 months. At Tuscaloosa, ' Lla., $250,000 coal and coke company has ' ecu organized, in connection with con- 1 ractspreviously made,to secure a railroad ' o navigable water on the Wnrrior river, ' hus opening a water route from Alabama < oul fields to the Gulf; a $00,000 coal 1 :orupany has been organized in Shelby ounty, Ala.; a knitting mill will be renoved from tlieNorth to Bridgeport, Ala ; 1 ,t Oca'a, Fla , it is reported that a syudi 1 ate with a capital stock of $1,000,000 vill establish 8 large tobacco factories; a ompany is being organized to establish bleachery in Georgia; a $1,000,000 com>any has been incorporated in Louisville, iy.. to deal iu timber lands, and a $1,100,000 company in Kentucky to pur:hnse and develop oil and mineral lands; u Frankfort, Ivy., a $300,000 distillery :onipany has been incorporated ;Mai ietta, da., is to have a large furniiure factory; $250,000 kaolin company hns been or piuized in I ukc county, Fla ; a $15,000 uruiiure faeiory company in Greenville, h C.; a $60,000 ice factory in Shrcvuport, La.; a $000,000 company is being rgauized to purchase aud develop 50, nn a.-mo ?? . i >w < < iu ui lYLUiuunj lull in I. US, CIC. rhc Norfolk & Western rnihond lias jxtsi lecured $2 000,000 in New Yolk for ' nishing the work on its Ohio extension nore rapidly. These are signs which 1 how how the outlook is improving." EX-GOVERNOR SCALES DEAD. Se Passes Away at His Home in Oreensboro, GitKRNsuono, N. C.?Ex-Governor Alfred Moore Scales died at his homo at D 05 Tuesday night. He was born November 20th, 1827, in Rockingham county. lie served in Congress one term before the war and for five consecutive terms after the war. He entered the Confederate army as a private, was in many of the most important battles of that conflict, was twice wounded and before the close of the contest was created brigadier-general. In 1884 lie was elected Governor of North Carolina by a majority of 20,000. After his term expired he retired to private life, and lias since been interested in financial enterprises, being at the time of his death president 1 iif the Bank of Greensboro. IIo has been very ill for many months, and his death < was not unexpected. ' The funeral took place at 11 o'clock Thursday from West Market Street Presbyterian church, the pastor, Rev. I)r. J. Henry Smith, conducting the exercises I At 10.30 o'clock all bells of the city bc{an to toll and so continued for half an i Aftlir Tl.O nnll Laapara wapa T - ?W I/VHIVIO nuu ifl t'381-1, (J. 1 ^ Michaux, It M. Douglas, It. It. King, ( Dr. B. F. Dixon, D. Schenck, Jr., W. [*. Bvnuna, Jr., 8 L. Irogdon, J. T. Morciiead, J. A. Bitningcr, J. N. Wil- | ion, I)r. I). It. Schenck Robert Vaughan. Jov. T. M. Holt ami stall were present it the funeral. "" i Free Faas Excitement. Richmond. Va.?A bill introduced ? ew days ago making John E. Masmy, iipcriutcndcut of public instruction, txrfticio member of the board of visitors ol .he deaf and dumb institutions and also >f tho university, came up. Senator Flood, of Appomattox, opposed the bill >n two grounds, the first cf wh:ch was that Massey was the officer to which the hoards made their reports which unfitted trim to serve; the second and main objection was that, though paid $500 per mourn for expens s by the State, Massey regularly traveled on free railroad passes, ind boarded with the professors of edutional institutions while he charged the ?tate for railroad fare and hotel Lills. Flood read some of th i itemi/cd bills making these charges against the State ind also a letter asking for $70 from Trom Prof. Lomax to defray his (Masscy's) r. k a i-i ?* ? |>oii?v> un > iiuui niiumnn, wnero IlC bud ju%tbeen married. A committee was Appointed to investigate the report. Albert Fink to Be President. New York.?There is a good authority for the statement' that when the leorgaoization of the Richmond Tciminal property is completed, Albert Fiek, the former trunk line commissioner, will be offered the presidency of the new corporation. Tho Olcott committee has completed its work, and the plau of reorganization prepared by it will probably be made publio io a day or two. . ?jjgET*. : [ IFF OILJMMgllJyJ/Uag^W &. Sweat, IniplringStoi^rxW ered and Beloved Confederate Bender. Tbo "Life anil Letter* of Gen. Tbof. F. Jackson by his wife, Mary Anna JacIt' ion," has been issued from (ho press o! Harper & Bros., with an introduction ho Ucv. I)r. Henry Field. Writing from the other side Dr. Fielli says, 4 "The timo has como wl|cn wo cui io justice to those who ^ete onco U mm against us." 4'It ia?. ohly a for months since Gon. Shernikn was borcft through our streets, and among thow who followed at his bier was his greq idversary, Gen. Johnston, who, by a sin ljulir coincidence, survived him but 'i few weeks. Thus the warriors who ono< 'to battle rode' at the head of hostih irmics, now fall iuto liuc in the grciv processiou to that realm of silence it which all enmities are buried." Iu this benring of our great soldicri towards each other, they who were "firs iu war" were also "first in peace," ani it were well that they should remain "firs in the hearts of their countrymen," a the leaders whom wc are to follow in tin work of reunion Why, then, recall tin oitter memories of a war that is ended 'Let.the dead past bury its dead." But oul >f the dead past comes I lie living present "It is a poor reconciliation which is oh Laincd by only agreeing never to speak o the past." "Men who arc honest am brave have nothing to he ashamed of ?ud uotliiog to conceal." Lessons o heroism, of patriotism, of patient en lur rauce may be learn* d from illustriou examples on both sides, the blessed fru:t of which are to broaden character, to en large sympathy, nnd to teach respect fo t foe who honestly aud courageously dii fers from us. Already "Stonewall" Jaeksoi' has be come a national hero, and the Nortl [without the teudir love t?od hero-wor -hip for him that inspires every Southeri lienrt,) proudly claims him as the higlics type of an American soldier. Dr. Fieli my8: "He was the most picturcsqu* figure of the war. None of the otlie leaders had a personality so unique. li Jackson, there were two men in one tha seemed absolutely incompatible? tlr highest military genius, with a religion fervor that bordered on fuuatncism, i union of soldier and saint for which w< must go back to the time of Cromwell His character is one of the most fascinu ting studies of Amerieau history." The world has heard so much of Jack son through two previous Biographies that it will hardly be prepared for til revelation that awaits it in the charmiuj book before us. Its purpose i3 not to m iterate what has already been said b able and loyal pens, nor to portray i fresh columus the matchless Coufederat hero, but to disclose to the public, fc the first time, another phase of his char acter, not less attractive because so dil fereut from the "iron inau of war," a mauy have only regarded him. Anotlio beautiful illustration of the Hues that, "The bravest arc the teuderest, The loving uro the daring." Ilis "inner life known but to few, dis closed fully only to her who was unitcc lo him in the closest of human relation ships, is by her beautifully aud delicate ly unveiled for the wouder and ndmira tion of thousands who never knew him aud of many who met him in the clasl of arms and on tields of carnage." Mrs Jackson, in her preface, gracefully am touehingly gives her reasons for the null lication of thcso memoirs and letters The work was undertaken at the earues solicitation of her now sainted daughter the lovely Airs. Julia Jackson Christian who, especially after she became a moth er, felt such a desire that her childrei might know more of th domestic life of their illustriou grandsire than they couhl ever learn otli erwise than through this book. She,too had kuovvn the father only at sccom hand ; her historian had been the loya mother, from whose lips she daily lis tcucd to some sweet reminiscence am rcali/.ed, as years passed on, a closer nc (juaiutuuee with, aud apptcciat'on of, th the matchless futher, wtiom God "caller up higher" before she had learned to lis] Ins uaino. She "with goutle footsteps followed him. even r.s he follower Christ, into the Upper Sanctuary befort the work was completed. With heart ol lead, and hands that seemed t> have los their cunning, Airs. Jackson rosumec her sad but sacred tusk,inspired by her la mented daughter's wish,and the prnyerfu ho|)e that the motherless lambs might b spared to read, to admire, and emulati his graud example. Alost worthily am even touchingly lias she completed he "labor of love." Iler style is chaste am vivacious, and is peculiarly adapted ti biography?a spot ies of composition tha is so often heavy, even in the hands o more experienced or pretentious writers Gen. Jackson's life was of couise full o adventure, and of incidents All thi is most attiactively a id pleasantly inter woven by the enthusiastic author, am forms an unusually attractive hook Two points of character strongly impicsi the reader One is the deep tenderncs and affection of his nature?a romanti love for his wife that never fails or varic: ? combined with complete unscltishncs ?in fact, entire self-abnegation to iovi or to duty; the other is, his itilcusa re ligious character. It was not a profes sion? it wan a life permeating his being and entering into every detail of hisduil; life. It was often remarked, during tin war, that it was hard for a man to be i Christiau in the a:inv, where Ids tempta tious were so great and so multiform, bu here is a marvellous example of the Chris tian soldier?never too tired or too hur ricd to pi ay?who, in the heat of action amid storm of shot nnd shell, so ottei ra sed his eves in devout sonnlieatinn o the God of b:itt'os This latter characteristic is strikingl testified to by his colored servant, Jim who said he could always tell when thor was going to be a battle Stid lie: *'Tli General is n great man for-praying, morr ing and night?all times. But when sec him get up several times in the nigl: besides, and go of! and pray, then know there, in going to t* something to pa; and I go straight and pack his haversack because I know he will call for it in tli morning " No wonder that sueeci crowned the efforts of one who felt tht "in the Lord iron hie etrength.'''' "If tli Lord bo for us, who can bo against usi she enjoyed it, and that sb?. could not ' ' ?cc how any one qould read t and not | wish t > l>? a Christian. ' Mrs Jackson has. happily, given no ' minute accounts of battles, and tbey are only introduced as forming apart of Gen* Jackson's life, from which they could 1 not be dissevered. The first chapters of 1 the memoir are devoted to a brief history ' of tl.c Jackson ancestors?people of old i English and Scotch Irish stock, a delino* ation of whose sturdy, vigorous natures clearly reveal whcnco the great military leader inherited his indomitable will, bis .euergy aud tranquil courage. "The boy 3 was father of the man." In childhood, 3 he exhibits wonderful determination in surmounting obstacles and accomplishing 1 whatever he undertakes. This is very ' interestingly narrated in his trying cx3 pcrience when attempting to enter West * Point, his subsequent trials, anfl fiual V 1 "over coining" of them all by the cud of his four years' career as a cadet. 3 While in the military academy he cont3 piled for his own use a set of rules aud 3 maxims, relating to morals, manners, ^ dress, choice of friends and aims iu life. ^ Perhaps the most charnctciistic dC thes? was: "You may ho whatever you re" solve to be." Another was: "Through I life let your principal object be the dis' charge of duty. Disregard public opiu ion when it interferes with duty." ' Then there contes "M'iivts to Action. First, regard for one's owu happiness, 3 and for the family in which you live. 3 Second, stri' e to attain a very high elevation of enaractcr and a high staudard r of nation." With such lofty resolves he could do and dare. What an example for young men! 1 His career in the Mexican war 1846 to 1818, is pleasantly, but not lengthily 1 told ; his subsequent years of usefulness J and happiness as a professor in the Vir I | *41 ni:i Military Institute, liis two niarL> I rages are full of interest au?l fill liis life, r till the shadows of 1801 called him iu J the spring to the ttormy scenes of war, away from the peaceful nest in the inoune tains, to which he was destined never to s return. The interest never flags through " '.he three years, iu which we count his B life l?y <U<<!*, uot years, till the fatal night, when at the very cliinnx of his glory a shot from these who would havo died for him, palsied the strong arm and put an untimely cud to his grand career. l?r Field says: "Next to his thought c of clod and acknowledgement to ilim 8 were thoughts of the dear ones at home !* ?the young mother with his child in y her arms. All his heart was Centered iu II one spot. Many who read these pages c wiil he surp'iscd at the revelation of his r passionate love of home, to which he was ' eager to return, though he was never to cross its threshold again. While 8 world saw only the soldier wijth his' r of mail over his breast, those ' w *him best saw uniLi it a greaf .nan heart. Above all to her who lc ad up in his face with perfect trusts# .1 confi " dence, that face was open as the day. To hei this mail of iron was the gentlest and tcndcresl of all human lieiugs, whose " first thought was always for her; who would not "that even the winds of sum iner should visit her too roughly." Such 1 devotion cannot he forgotteu evoo after the lapse of a quarter of a eeutury The ' yearning heart turns to the DiSt?the faith " ful bosom carries with it a great memory autl u great affection. ' "As she sits by lset desolate fireside, tlie ' old days come again, and they are once more in the home that was always made bright by the suushiue of his presence. 11 Filled with such memories, it is but the e impulse of loyalty to the dead, that she s should wish others to know him as she did, that the world should know hiiu ' not only as the soldier, but as the man, i and should know all the gentleness and tenderness in that lion heart. This is re? " vealed nowhere so clearly as in his letters to her during the war. If any think they arc too personal, I have met the " womanly shyness and timidity l?y saying: "Yes, you can leave it all out, and supP ply every word of endcarmeut by u blunh, J hut every time yon do this you leave out ' a touch of Stouewall Jackson, for this : fond devotion, this exquisite tenderness arc as much a part of the man as was his * military genius." The volume commends itself also in * size, binding an i finish?not so vo'uini' nous or ponderous as to deter the mass of e readers, nor is it at all prolix The price u also ($2.00) is such as to make it within I the reach of many who cannot nITord the r more extended and expensive biogra1 pliies of other great Ividers in the lite o war. It is a simple and beautiful story t "writteu out of a woman's heart." f j TSx-Gov. McGratli Stricken With f Appoploxy. s Ciiaui.epton, S. C. ? Ex-Governor Mc Grath had an attack of nppoplexy and his recovery is doubtful. Guv. McGrnth was born in this city in 1HI;5, and gradu9 atcd at Harvard. He studied law under s the late Judge Story. At the breaking c out of the war of the rebellion, he was 3 United States district judge, and on the s passage of the ordinance of Secession, j made a dramatic secne in co irt by disrobing himself of the judicial ermine. He was during the last war Governor of South Carolina, and after the surrender, y- was imprisoned by the Federal govcrnB meat in Fort Pulaski for same. 1 ? Money Well Spent. t The citizens of Conwsy (Ark.) propose to further the enhance the nttmcttvcness of their town to the homc sceker by4 i making it an educational center, and t have made liberal contributions of cash > to attain to this end. The Methodist Kpiscopal Male College has been lately y completed at a cost, oi from $10,000 to i, $45,000, and work will commence soon on 'c building i to cost $30,000 for tbc State 0 Baptist Female College. In ell this eni. terprising town has during the past two 1 years raised $113,00) for the furtherance it of education. ' To Pension Soldiers of ths Florid* War. L) ie Wapiiinc.ton, I). C.?Mr. Houk, of ?s Tennessee, introduced n bill providing for it the amendment of the general pension io laws so as to iiu ludc soldiers who served in the Florida war. r