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o111nn. -e\Ve lad ridden bit a short dis ance, when 1ieutenatit Colonel G. M. S-, Asst. Adjgt. General of the first army co rpm, joined uts. lie had accompanied the flanking party, winaing the hearts of Mahone's brigade by exhibition of. chivalrouls gal. lantry, akin to that which they have shoivu on many a bloedy field ; and ie 4now brought us the most encouraging accounts of the position ofaffairs. Gen. Jenkins, a noble son of South C'arolina, tan admirable oflicer and c6urteous gen tieman, was also with us, his face lit up with joy and confidence as lhe congrati lated the "old chief." It was now pro posed to givd thiee cheers for General Lonagstreet, and Jeikinp, fearng lest his men should appear to be behind I tine, called out, "-W iy don't you cheer, men ! why dona't yeu cheer !" The .air fairly rang with lusty shouts ; again the men clcered, till voices were -cracked anld tears of exhaustion ran down many a dusty cheek. Every heart was confi dont and gay-and so Nvo mnived forwar. Suddenly the snapping of a cap was heard inl the- wools on our right, and thon the rc port of a musket, soanding strangely sharp and clear. Itnstametive lV we turned, and there in the woods, within a. few yards of us, was a long line of uniforned men, There was no time for though another rifle shot was heard, and anotMr, and anot'her, wvith. out tan instant's pause ; the red fire flashed along the entire line, and a dead ly volley was' poured.into us. It was tunexpectt'd as tife crack of doom Could it be the enemy, or was it oti own men. None 1tets could tell ! Tl trooaps were for a moment thrown int< eonfusjon, but they rallied immediately under tle exhortalions of their.officers I see it as planaly nowI as it if %vls yes terday. Ge'neral Longstreet, curbiig his fi re, w Iich phmged with exciteaament, c.al4 anad inflexible as a statue of bronze., hais head turned lefiantly toward the firi': like' sonme old lion whonr 'lie hunata'-a .-d b rouaght.to bay; and J enkin ts, way 'g his haands to hais.'mn, ".Kile ini iout clear tones he cried, - ',eadv mei ! m God'i stake, steady !' Poor felbw ! 1!h words were scarcel' tittered, the In tai of his God was still upon01 his lips, whaer a aillet pireel his . head, atd'.v ii rII aeenvialsi vely ini hits stirria pe, hae fell tI .the groluand mirt'ally wounded. Nont hb:mystreet reeled in his.saddle ; Ie wa: also woamided, al it was teared Ltally The tiring had ceased as siiud nlya il h~adl l.eguna. It,.was our own ameaa whn had done this harm. al Jenkir,3t,.galhaint fellow, was bevotn all earthly as.sistance, and it ri-annitht' for us Ut to grieve for his loss. Lont street, was lyiing by a tree at the sale the rtoad, tle bflood flowiing awit h ten ble iapiditY from his neck. G1eii-: a Jield, the senior divisio)n comn ia ,der now assmuma coinmiaditl,'aid k -lvufiL by otir beloved Geniral, received1 a fee words of instruction. The Geiiera grew rip dly weaker, but as conscious laess rapidly left him, lie could suinor up energy enouigh'to -say, in deep am earnest tones, "Press them *on, -Geaer. Field, press tlhem onl, Sir !" A littei was obtainied ; and General Longstreet was carried slowlyto lhe rebr ; his hai toncealed hi feaatires, arnd . the imir anxiouasly asked wh'was wounded ? It was known ioe sdon, and to lanai or the ail asisey thought, for ther last n gave a lonig antd wi thuts The ,General theta , .bo deaf' ta~ v-oic a .touchaing he slo raised Lis ha ing for it, that -weI *face anow . ly anmd palo. (i" m. cident pa lstrgek me. Whean thae Generial wv a private s'oldier toolt his haorse ; ( iounted him, and faa?. ly eraaipped wity. rifle, blanket anal cana teen, was ntow riding behind the litter. One of the cobriers told him to dis. mount, and his reply was characteristic: .No, sir-reo I Look hmyar, mani ! Gen. ,eral -Longstreet -gave mie this hyar haorne to mind, amid all liel can't get him from mec without hisi say so." Nor shall I1 ever forget the sad ex liression of General'Lee's face whinn he too heard of our disaster ; nor his gentle, sympathizing voice, as he said :"1 hope, General, that you are not serious ly hurt." At the time thaat General Longstryect was disamled, a combined movt~mentl hiad been cornmmonced which thme Fede, falS couldh not then have weolt withstood but neot plans and d'oiberationms beeanme ijocessary, atkd from tena nflnutes. .pasi ly,~d~ e, tholwr of thae accident, noth. lg of imptco was done--no ad vas. tag ne nf~ eral Wa'shinmgtona, breathmed out h Iis irt in the last hour,. ort the last daiy' the week, in thme last rponth of the year, anad ini the last y'car of the last ea'-mntuarv. le dlied at& 12 oclc. Decenm. WINNSORO. - Saturday Morning, Janunary 27, IS66. New Advertisements. 1) Read notice or Prize Drawing at El- 1 liott and Co., on Monday ntext. Garden Seed, by Ketchin,.McMaster & Co. , # Sale of Cottoi Seed, by A. B.' Springs. Attention is nlso directel tb notifiea tions of State T'reasurer and Compt roller Gen'l. Wle have received a now andl large supply of paper siitable to job printing of all descriptions. - . --. --.4 Exhibition. ', Our toivn is to Ie enlivened by a I series of entertainments musical and c scenic-by the young ladies and gentle Imeni of the town.--t he first to begin oni Tullesday night. Mlount Zion Society. This ancient and respected Institu tion, held - their annual meeting ( it Thursday last,' and transacted such bi siness. as was thought essential, to wards the progress of the Institution, u.der their guardian care.. The usual re ports wero submitted for the consislera tion of the members ; their finances have materially d"iminished~ ,in cono <uence of the war, and tiir property more or less injitredl and destroyed by the ruthllesq hand of the invader. Not withstanding a loss exceeding, ten Ithundt3rkn d ll'ars in been suistained Ly tinfortu -Inte investments, vt..*t:ere is a balaice. sn liient to sustainl tle Ilstitut lion by prident and' ecouomical nii agemnt, inl futur. A commitee %as appoiltvel to solicit stibscriputMius to put th iti uhi l iniedi;e repair, an11d to keep thetj fruim decay, that old Montt. Zion may.anaiki ari'se, like a Plhotnix fr-in its a-hes. to its ancient renown and literary repitatioi. This is onte of the first literarv Insti tutions chiatered by the State oI (4)h111 C:rohina, it, wais incorporated about the | year 17FO, receivin'g a -very liberal do. nation of tenl thousand dlOlars ftom CuL I VatAl.erborht of Charh-stont, and a deed uf o:.e hiudred acres of land Iroit 11aj. General Winn of the Revoittion. it, flomi-hed and was very situcessiul for several years, evein bfore the present Souith Carolinia Colk-gno was, estabilishvi; the origiinals huilling were Iu rit (lown sonetimo during hIe comn1nt'ncnett of .tihe presen ce'ntury and were not re built until about the year 1810. Di. plomas ,were granted diring iVs exis. tence, anud many dist iingnished nien wero graduated at Mount Zion Coll-ge, the last survivor (who took first honor) was living in the yeat- I859, a respected and learned ,Presbyterian Divine of North 'Carol'ma. The former Presid':ts fthe Mount Ziou Society, from the ear 1783 to 1825, have b.een Major eueral Richard Winn. Charles Pinck. ney, Thos. Lehree, G~en. WVm. Strother andl perhuaps otne or two ot~bers ; the Sd ciety dauring this poriod of tinie consistedl of nearly five hundred members, miost of whom resided in Charleston. 1From some cause it-was temnoved to.-Winns horo', where the Institution tinder their gua.rdianship was located. The Prest. dents sjnce t.he year 1825, have been - ilon. D. Rl. Evans, Dr. William Brat. ton, Ge~n. (no. Buchanan, Col. Wim. McCrbight. S. G. Barkley, Esq. and Jas. R. Aikon, riames all connected with the first settlers />f the town of ,Winnsboro', and whose descendant oven unto the third and fourth g tion: may still be round amongst us. It has been very successftully ducted for the git -half c by the ablet teachors, among we record th names of (of Yale .College,) Fitz. (of. bridge,) Spragne (of D~artsmnoth, . d. munds of Duiblin Universityv, 'Hudson, i so well known to many, of outr CitizeJ)s, for ntonrly thirty years the President of . t'ie. Inistit~ntion, 'and int later ay Alston, Rivers, Lelafid, McCaudiss and ( lst not least, one of its Iost ellicient A popular Pr'ipils 'T. J. Wells of outh Carolina, whoo death in. he idst of his Iseftiliies, we have all d lored. The louint Zion Cllegitate nstitute isi now uinder the nai geni.mlt i f'Adolphus G. Woodward, 14q., ite f Alabama with an able corps of ss+ nts. and the Trostees are resolved to so every efl'ort to ustaiini this senlintry f learning, and as in foimr days to rovide for tle instruction of tho ymitb f our own State, whose -parcnts or 'nardians may-feel disposed to Patlro lp it.. Long may it live, survive 'al onrish. .At the meeting held on tie 25ti in- I tant. several new members were balioted Dr and elected.; an extra mceting will c ltwid ol Wednesday. 31st of Jan.. at 1, A. M., to hear the lReport of Spe ial Conunittee, am1) at 'which time we ope several additions may be mad. to he mio emiesiip or the Mount Zion So intv from tle young Men of our Dis riet ; ianiy of whom are the descetd nts of tIhe firstfounders of this venera lie Institution. The folowing gentlemen w-re elected ficers for Ilie. ensingyer, viz 1'resident..-Jas. 11. Aihen. Wardens.-G. II. MeMaste'r, Thos. rorda I. Secretary.-J. S. Stewart. Trustees.-t-. It. Rnbertson, ,T. 1B. dcCant), Dr. W. E. Aiketi, Jna. 11. lion, Ge-o. 11. Mctaster. ' 'he l'igish i l'rns ol Geleril Gra:t's ' Rep)ort. General Grant's rei ort of his milita' peration is at tractinga large share V tItion a1, boal. The English J1urns mmeflitiit oil it. very fhvorably, .iul Imal. he . Li-it lie nt -Genleral tine siell' ct I nan1 high coipliIents. I'l, mil.m /Ames says "Wha t renders bis -rei i, c. or, the more 'reunikable, .is thalt it. I x. lains a Ielw, and as the event provId, LtCi'P5 fil 'systemu of tlctics d 'viL-d br t.he occasion." This svtein was hat of availing linself of his .groat m1perioriy of mtjmberg; a t.talug it va 'iety of1 p(1 toints at, onc4N; Sid pri enti).g ho concent ra tion'of the Sout her trop. ,iV ts t Timc N!am fot ian the So'tilern'rs wre est troops. pirtly poth: i na'oral It ituidiS, bit. mainly. no- doubl if, Ibe gr miiary abiity of their cim. i;,nider:. ( h a fair livbl, and in nv .14 b: hle, t I Federals coulid ot pr-. tid to reck'ii confidently e \ 1111w g, lim there wa nii thig oil wiub H ouh reckoni, iul thh wa'i on killn4 a iernlaii ii ner ofeoilfedlei ate. Ofe iir-. hIty imtist sill'lir eqal or oven grea4 -r U-Zes I wmselves, but that they coli sVII afllrd. If every battle cot l e iouti a cet Iain proportion of men, a giv. -n mn1itber of battles mu-t destrov ilt ,outherii powor, even if no battle was a leeisive vict-ory. ' So (hant d-termioa d I'o. 6n!V to fight, bilt to fight 10n, with. mtll, stiitt or stay, come wia might. lard knocks and incessant blows conli tited his strategy and tactic. If he vere fare as McClellan awl41 1fooker md fared, 'woul not do as MfcChl a-n mdt I looker tiad done. He opened the ibw campthignt resolved to go o; fight. ii' whether ho won or lost, i4d, as lie iteif sayst, "'to htammenr cot~ ntously tgaiist the arm~edl force of the enem'y no .hit resources/ until byv ter at trne. ion if no ot her ivy- thtere sh on-d- lie i'ihing left to-himi but submissioni." Th'ie it eral (executiotr of this poieCv is ex pes d in every I init of tie re'port. Wht ile -ecounng th'e events ei th, Virginia mm pign the General represents onte magagemein t as5 virtually .a iinore in hIe wvords: "[t was the oni Igenerai ttaek adeai from tihe R~pidan to the~ hianes wl~iebi cd iot inflict uipoin thte memnys loses to compenusate for our own 05ss. I gould not ahbe nnlderstoodl .as aying that ail previous attacks result-. .d in victories to our arms, or accomo. >ihed1 as imu'ch as I had hlopedl froma hem ; buit .ihey inlijcted upon the enmv overthrowvof the rphliion." }[ow thiese' t acties cost the Northi we not Ray. a far as plans can be just ified by', "ents. that justific. on belongs cert Ait'. y to Granit. . His *i om Wals succes. ill where every other atem had hoiled. -is campaign brought tihe war to) an tnd, wvhereas ever; forinfr camtpaigna had left lie contest pretty nearly asIt tood before'. Js gnost beg uindersto;d, oo, thant wherevie militpry scice ap. >earrmloy conuspigjoais thiatilrute fore, hant tsnorI isgQraiVe a180, ighe selfemmb fShiermnan's ampaig'1 wtediutated by rent, tas wer4qtIt s lea.pideortaiit anid 1e rirte. The 'griad prinui orl t.11 WhlOle,, - cyStCvau Was co-01irui-iU. 13iid the tw~o geat a rmieel or tUp Aste. don; AMee' Rrlii in mstli'- ci thmo~ irm p.:e te"'' a*l *liisl *ll L.1~ l y Ht. .1 iiti of (Ieiirzil ( n.ii Ifv i-4 not th1e firct colii or wiihio Ila, 11(1(11) c- 1.1o~ 101YV If tio Iw Ofa Ill.,~ol p] !i lied riie iea l,ei iii''n "c, ~~ he vit. whI ih testl. l iI P icule; and, ill-r' at tic 0 riil Il costI wa s,~ ao rit 1'Im e (fi rtq .m a ii( ik-;i il.i it - di ~ d iic ~iille iij'i 'ficcil i'r1w \.It;eiiei l not meii S t eiiid fe :e:ecne i ll 1itt 'rl The L-dory f ii Ciicgl P' I st"' uii f r al f(rit s tit'r tie s nIit; ti iiiiIt is infinr iitlie mtrcte m orm fiior in recnt leciiui wnr i Anwicai (WAi'iii aliqe lie andk~ Mapl:1irl-c nec (.(I-I hIli, flvit'bhil. o( 1i11:111i . oihii' At cc ir .i illw rep i-ort ii' --e arv l (i IL nine ina al d trcl lev Mmuce r the lfori if ~~I campaig of eI SGe tnciei lookjiid iii;f) imacty. \\ ci *uh ii t,~~ cal tIle ct cce 1()~ c ia l. Ici~ il olh it l eiliu *1111 for acll bitre icpii alV i-li is lie'. an odicer tuicli fir - It,- 0 i aI'll iii-- piec, :m l hi. i i lie a clvfl colrihe 1!5 :: i; ieevil C 11: At. wit ii. emli i;C1 vo w-~i.c hivi iol~ wic ( a th ic-pe err i~i orc t'll andu 'I'li(! wn pin liad l.):ijl d flirc - e nr t t Ile u NV:', lP11'A wi (ii e,e1 c111rI- 1 :11 hi r %ic. slc i t-li' tlicw rh-i kirlil 1w.-i le c' s-n1:i11 v \\i-t. I iel ci c ft, -1 i t Iiii( ejcl I : I 1. :,l icl f i . i e chil- .ic Yii ',-Kntewcie * el *e-- i G ifiuanc !,V11 - fc-'C.; le v ili~i -'e'v le fo .!v- cci flii e-Il I icet. n Me sil i ajcen Ii A lie v-eicj'ly le-eice t! ('0114i1cillonh itr leniiMOii Wliwi html no W m-ifle iilsti n.;l;ie t cew I ec'. li d nt i ee O---ailo 4 i r I 8-I ," n t i t (d A.~et i g~t iv iif) i-ih (If' hi,;iia ~id-l i v.1e1o at ni'llu:ie p-A cipccl whuh c I-rlho ( ciil- Wce i Ii~itd- h~ne is vjiwccI,,II 11"i. . " Veli 4 Unt-1 ivi lain in refe h'ite VII in hi'lie l?" WiS 2iIi M ailc W.i tin fl iit heeial Buttl -i(tl i n ii al\.. -~ih u a~ s a e v- r ; i '' P 1ii. M --,. ,10111Nii C. Cela 'i I It' NATNAI TY re. %VA Sit tN(', Jani. :.-Y S:hta uVmm engpged to diby in (lioC' t<i hm bill to CItIl igo I]k o'twers of -] lt'' . F:ront fic h io Uriantde. :w ) :t:. N., .Jani. 23.-TLhoj lJ~a(' irod Illen. It' is . li*.d'.olld t."fti. Ueu*l Writ Zl C11- i uvhi o vet io'n oh our olic o.-- m~ tov l't'c.itiltty t of gad All Ilw liavy oni rtice hwo; been ordcruid ir':iii BI.zt to B4,l''vvj1I tI e ('ollfti!Iie both ItIt *J11iowwil1. and Thvl IPya/irr) :to vi i 11.1d jsed AqI A id""iilit Wt M le 1uiler~t :tlithlrity I :rniillios Or' icoloridl troops aro I.,ing ii'trvl,L out of.srio; orderg ~ b'iut''~iv~dito iitor ont. near. :, G. ( hlk! cotnmnd ott tho Io G rand. - Foutr comiiteof colored V00P*W* t0" Provost dlluti t Ba :dad.- . No) onec itilow~edl to lelav* ire, towi' w~ithout a~pst \\ .VItINGTON, Jan. 21~ SENA TF. -Sei'ti:i hill I) i trc ill(,- [)ONvers Of 1110 l'rceiiitit'~I h eit a kt-i' tip, the tIllutsion. 1t(lig oil !I(%i pr'ijool artieliid* lut it I-trier ii.; jntris IictiI1 to tho .h. Wti-toll p~eiii ojtpo:t tlil top tlc. %%:-.r p~ii\6r, :lwl I'( \v;ls' (1ilt )Sl to 81!411.; ilw .1.1a, -,It~ ,.:~i w tt'Lui should Il ienolmPI't1 -to) lit- limtits of tof tiilt't Itry.1,-. f-I tlt- lh 1i arv . . . tit, .o' ( tuswur pit'. prpw 1,th 1I pitttJ t o, . tmill wt.*I -Ilwr Iwo0 l; lI' iouied;t illn g'1il.tt('lq ,!to "AhtI %iili hoi'~tne .r.S'l-ven." e'oO oinin Oilmo or ~li'1iJwtl f'stl rte o cof f .t4di,- (jt Stht., h( e Mr. Rogers,jjj (i N~vJrsy,01