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(Ktapim. ' % ~~ YORKVILLE, S. C.:~ THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 28, 1879. THE FEVER PLAGUE. The total number of cases reported in Memphis for the week ending last Saturday, is 148, of whom 69 were whites and 79 colored. There were 31 deaths during the week, and from the outbreak of the disease, a total of 177. A special dispatch of Friday from Memphis, says that the developments of Thursday iudicate an increase in crime, and also a tendency to more boldnes^ than ever known before. The dispatch says: Depredations have become so numerous and daring as to awaken considerable alarm. Many anonymous letters have been sent to the newspaper offices, but not published, containing threats against citizens, and especially against the city government officers, if certain conditions are not complied with. One of these letters, sent to the Appeal last night, was signed "Many Colored Citizens." The alarming aspect of affairs has caused general preparations to meet the worst. Vigilance committees are talked of. Minute men are receiving daily accessions to their number, and the police force is being strengthened by the addition of amounted force for all night duty. This branch of police had lively work with a gang of six men who committed a robbery on Trigg avenue Thursday night, finally succeeding in capturing five of the number. A white military company was organized yesterday. The general sentiment is there will be no occasion for their services, but should there be, the law-abiding citizens are determined to make examples not soon to be forgotten. Meu who have proved themselves mo?t effective in combatting these plague visitations, will prove themselves equally so in time of unprovoked trouble like that threatening now. A Memphis dispatch of Monday says that thirty-four cases in all were reported on that day?twenty whites and fourteen colored. Eight deaths occurred on that day. The dispatch also asserts that the fever has apparently taken a fresh start, especially in the northern portions of the city. Nine new cases?five white and four colored?were reported by the board of health Tuesday morning. There were also six deaths Monday night. Two new cases have appeared at St. Louis, and a few in New Orleans. In the latter city, Gen. Hood's wife died on Monday, of yellow fever, the disease developing only a short time before her death. THE PISTOL*IN MISSISSIPPI. On Monday of last week, a tragedy occurred in Yazoo City, Miss., in which Henry M. Dixon was the victim, at the hands of James H. Barksdale. Dixon was an independent Democratic candidate for sheriff of YazotF county, and Barksdale is the regularly nominated Democratic candidate for chancery clerk of the same county. The difficulty originated, it is alleged, not on account of the independency of Dixon, but because as a political disturber and agitator he was obnox. ^ ious to the Democratic party, having brought, especially in the campaign of 1875, ffuch odium upon the party as the principal leader and actor in what is known as the "shot __K?? T. ~i?:?A gllll policy. 11 JS timiucu UJT UUI nouitib s friend?, that the property holders ever denounced this policy, so called, as being inimical to their interests, and in a speech a few days previous to the occurrence, Barksdale denounced Dixon as an agitator, opposed to law and order, and who, though a leader of the bull dozers in 1875, was in this campaign seeking to organize the negroes and array them against the whites. This led to the difficulty culminating in the death of Dixon. Dixon was a reckless, fearless man, and Barksdale well knew, when making the charges, that they would be resented. The time soon arrived, when the men met, and according to Mississippi style., a rencountre was inevitable. While the occurrence is deplorable and to be regretted, in any view that can be taken of it, we cannot see that sectional feeling can by any possibility be correctly charged as the origin of the trouble. It was neither native versus carpet-bagger, nor Democrat versus Republican ; but simply a crime growing out of political local excitement, such as is likely to occur during a heated campaign in any State of the Union, North or South. It will, of course, be daDgled before Northern voters in the pending fall elections, as another instance of Southern Democratic terrorism, and may be the means of securing States to the Republicans, which otherwise might have voted Democratic. Barksdale has been admitted to bail in the sum of $15,000. He has heretofore borne an excellent reputation, and prior to the present campaign the two were on friendly terms. Barksdale is a nephew of Hon. E. Barksdale, a prominent Democratic candidate for the United States Senate, editor of the Jackson Clarion nod chairman of the Democratic State Executive Committee. He was also a nephew of General William Barksdale, a distinguished Mississippian, who was killed whilst commandiug a Confederate brigade during the late war. Dixon is spoken of as having been a boy of 14 when the war broke out, and was a student at Georgetown college. He was induced to run away and join the Southern army, but was captured after four months' absence, and remained neutral during the remainder of the war. He married, at the age of 17, the daughter of very wealthy Mississippi planter, who died not long after this event, leaving his large plantations in the Yazoo country to j Mrs. Dixon. Young Dixon went there to j live, and has been a resident of Mississippi for j thirteen years. He kept aloof from politics until 1872, when he organized a rifle club,! and was made captain of the bull-dozers. I His experience seems to have disgusted him ( finally, and in 1874 he left the club. The ' deceased was a son of the late Major Henry 1 Dixon, who was shot and killed in Alexan- \ drin nhnnt. the elnse of the war. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Some of the forward farmers in Abbeville county have commenced picking cotton. ? Caterpillars are doing great damage to cotton in Beaufort county. ? The Pickens Sentinel is authority for the statement that Governor Simpson will decline % to be a candidate for re-election. ? Jackson Wardlaw, colored, whose age the Medium puts at one hundred and fourteen 1 years, died in Abbeville county last week. ? There are thirteen active working Divisions of the Sods of Temperance iu Anderson County. ? Board has been reduced to ten dollars a month in Due West. A student can go through Erskine College at a total yearly i cost of $140, or for as little as $130 on the mess plan. ? Mr. G. G. Newton, a well-known sign- ^ painter of Columbia, died in that city on \ Thursday last, aged sixty-ffine years. | ? Dr. David Lauderdale, an old citizen of Winnsboro, died in that place on Thursday ^ last, in the seventy-fourth year of his age. ? An Orangeburg farmer has twelve acres ( of cotton which, it is thought, will yield twenty bales. ? The Court of General Sessions for Lan- v caster county, will commence on the third ( Monday of September. Judge Wallace is t expected to preside. ? It is understood that the South Carolina Railroad proposes changing its line, so as to v effect a saving of twenty-nine miles on the two main connections from Charleston to Col- t urabia and Augusta. , s ? The following changes have taken place t in the legislature elected in 1878. Senator Maurice, of Williamsburg, Representatives : Hartszog, of Barnwell, and Jones, of Edge- e [ field, have died, and Representative Green, of I York, has resigned. ? Dr. Thomas E. Powe, father-in-law of t Judge Mclver, and one of Cheraw's leadi<|g * citizens, died on the 14th. Dr. Powe, previous to the war, was one of the largest planters along the Pee Dee, and was well known ( throughout the entire State. " . ? The friends of Dr. E. J. Meynardie will r rejoice to learn that he is improving as rap- i idly as the painful nature of his wounds will > allow. On Monday he was well enough to be 1 removed from the Wheeler house to his own residence. ? The names of several members of the Col- t urabia bar have been mentioned in legal cir- * cles in connection with filling the vacancy in the office of Reporter of the Supreme Court ] Reports, occasioned by the death of Mr. Rich- ^ ardson?among others, Mr. L. E. LeConte, Col. McMaster and Trial Justice Fickling. ? The colored Baptists of this State have ( raised money enough to send a missionary to Africa. The Rev. H. N. Bouey left this ] country in April last, and is now laboring as I a missionary in Monrovia. He writes very i cheering accounts of the success of his labors ' there. ' ? A number of the leading citizens of Lau- ' rens county, are agitating the question of extending the Greenwood and Augusta Railroad to Spartanburg. The plan is to run it 1 by way of Laurens to Spartanburg, at which point it will connect with the Asheville road. The people of Spartanburg and North Caro- j lina have determined to finish the Asheville < road, and this will insure an unbroken con- i nection with the great Northwest. i ? The Spartan, of Wednesday of last week, * mentions that the Spartanburg County Bpp ( tist Association met at Cedar Shoals Church j on the previous Friday. There was a good attendance of delegates, every church being represented. The business was all transacted - ? ^ " J A TTAHmAltn ^ .Attn i lrt/1 fUwAll/vkmif ^ lli lYVU UDjfg, xxanuuiij pctnucu kill uu^iiuui ^ the meeting. The churches were generally ^ represented as in a prosperous condition. The collection for church purposes exceed those of i last year to the amount of $3,000. ' ? The committee of the Monumental Asso ? ciation of Newberry county, have awarded the contract to build a monument to the * Confederate dead of the county, to Messrs. ! Leavell & Speers, of Newberry. It is to be | seventeen feet high, resting on a base of na- ( tive granite, upon which will be erected the ., marble base, then the column. Upon the sides of the sub-die the names of the commissioned officers will be carved. On the die, s those of the privates, flags, South Carolina's coat of arms, cannons, cannon balls and oth- 1 er emblems of war will be carved. Around ' the whole will be an iron fence four feet in height. MERE-MENTION. ] It is given out that ex-President Grant is J on his homeward way, and that he will reach J San Francisco about the 12th of September. A late invention is a boot made of J paper. It will last as long as the leather arti- j cle, and is said to be equally effective in raising a crop of corns and bunions. A black snake, four feet long, was recently killed at Oakington, near Havre de Grace, Maryland, s with a head on each end. The snake could j travel in either direction with equal facility. Col. W. L. Goldsmith, Comptroller i General of the State of Georgia, is to be tried i for misdemeanor in office by a court of im- < peachinent. The drought still prevails in 1 Cuba, and the yellow fever in Havana. The ^ national debt is $2,296,564,204?an increase of $6,086,354 during July. The past 1 six years are regarded as years of general de- ( pression, yet within that period about 7,000,- > 000 souls have been added to the population of this country, and there have been constructed 11,563 miles of railroad. 'Cheering j reports come from all parts of Tennessee in >' regard to the corn crop. The stock law 1 has become so popular in Mecklenburg coun- c ty, N. C., that it would require a revolution 1 to re-establish the old fence law. The 1 _ V last Congress made considerable headway upon a bill to grant annual pensions to the l veterans of the Mexican war. This bill did ;1 not become a law. It will, however, without !> a doubt, be passed at the next session of Congress The Baltimore Gazette figures 1 up thus: "The Republican party of Mary- ^ land consists of 50,000 negro voters, who vote j the ticket on principle, and 20,000 white men t who confine themselves exclusively to the task of obtaining and holding the Federal offices in t|je State. The Illinois State Board of Agriculture places the wheat crop { of that State at 42,041,262 bushels, valued at r nearly $38,000,000. The Indiana wheat crop r\ is placed still higher, being estimated at r 55,000,000 bushels. Ex-Govl Hubbard, t of Texas, estimates that the population of that ' State, under the new census, will reacli three (1 millions, and entitles the State, under the * present ratio of representation, to twenty-two * members of Congress, which exceeds that of j any State at present, except Pennsylvania and \ New York. San Antonio, Texas, is af- i flicted with small pox. Three of the d mob, who murdered Standing, the Mormon, c in Georgia, a short time ago, have been cap- c tured and lodged in Whitfield (Ga.) jail. The Postal Guide, just issued, shows that 1 the number of post-offices in the United States *' has doubled since 1852, now numbering 41,000. A new cotton, called worm proof, j is reported in Texas, for which the discoverer is negotiating with the agricultural depart- ] raeut of the government at Washington for his right, which, if effected, will then be made t public. The Custer battle field is to be made a national cemetery. The cotton ^ crops of the lower Arkansas river this season, are said to be the finest that have been known in that country for years. Senator M. j C. Butler is at Newport, R. I. There are 982 convicts in the Kentucky penitentia- v ry. Twenty-two thousand persons attended services at the Methodist camp meeting at p Ocean Grove, N. J., on Sunday last. Old Castle Thunder, a building in Richmond, a used as a prison house during the war, was destroyed by fire last Tuesday morning. I n LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 'rivate Boarding. lerndon Brothers?Der Drummer, i. F. Adickes & Sons?Dissolution. ^atimer & Hemphill?Our Mr. W. C. LatimerSalem Jeans?Ladies' Hose?Wanted?Just Arrived. iunter <fc Oates?The Firm of Hunter & Oates? Specialties?New Arrivals, ?ftc. Hark Brothers?Confidential to Everybody. RECENT DEATHS. Mr. Govan Hopper, who lived about 2$ miles vest of town, died of typhoid fever on Saturlay last. . On Sunday, Mr. William Thomas died of lie same disease near Clover. CAROLINA FAIR ASSOCIATION. A meeting of the Carolina Fair Association vas held in Charlotte, bust Monday, for the uirnose of electincr a board of directors. From he Observer we learn that a full board, conisting of thirty-three, was elected?among hem Samuel E. White, of York county. 'rHE BEEF*MARKET. The attention of our town readers is directd to the advertisement of J. N. Roberts, proirietor of the beef market in the Sadler buildng. Mr. Roberts will furnish fresh meats on liree days in each week, and will regularly [ive notice in his advertisement of what he vill furnish each day. LARGE SNAKE. Mr. P. 11. McAfee exhibited at our office the ither day, the skin of a black snake, which was bed by the serpent about the 12th of the nonth. The skin measures 6 feet 2 inches in ength. Mr. McAfee captured the snake, vhicli frequented about his barn, and he now las it alive. YORK BAPTIST ASSOCIATION. The next meeting of York Baptist Associa;ion will be held with Berea Church, at Black's station, commencing on Thursday next, the 1th day of September. Elder B. G. Covington ,vas chosen at the last meeting to preach the ntroductory sermon, and Elder J. II. Edwards die benevolent sermon. FINE FLOOR. Mr. S. W. Alexander, tbe miller at Cerro jfordo Mills, on Allison Creek, north-east of iTorkville, and about two miles west of Clay Hill, has presented us with a liberal sample of lour?the product of the mills of which he is in charge. The sample furnished us is of fine luality, and this mill, under the management rf Mr. Alexander, has the reputation of making a line turnout per bushel of grain. JENKINS RIFLES. The Jenkins Rifles were on parade last Thursday afternoon, under command of Capt. R. II. Grlenn, which was his first public appearance with the company since he was chosen Captain. In many eyes Captain Grlenn presents a familiar appearance at the head of a company in jray, having occupied that position in times when military reviews and parades were not indulged merely for diversion; and in justice .0 him we must say that his step has lost none )f its martial tread since the campaigns in which his old Regiment?the Eighteenth South Carolina?participated. REVIVAL AT FORT MILL. "We are informed by Elder B. G. Covington, :hat an interesting revival in the Baptist Dhurch at Fort Mill, including a part of last week and the week before, resulted in the adlition of eight persons to the church, who were mptized on the evening of the 19th instant, rhere is a great work of grace going on also it Flint Hill Church, in Fort Mill township, rhirty-three persons have been received for japtism and more accessions to the church ire expected. The meetings closed last Sunlay, when the converts were baptized. Elder Jovington is now attending Union Baptist Church, three miles north of Yorkville, where i protracted meeting is being conducted. CHURCHES NEXT SUNDAY. Services will be held in the churches next Sunday as follows: \fptlinrlisf-. Enisnnml?Rev. T. E. Gilbert. ^astor.. Services at i0? A. M., and 8? P. M. Sunday-school Missionary Society meets at 4j ?. M. Prayer meeting, Wednesday evening it 8 o'clock. Associate Reformed?Rev. Robert Lathan Pastor. There will be no services at this ihurch next Sunday, in consequence of the ihsence .of the pastor, who will attend the neeting of Presbytery at Amity Church, near Statesville, N. C. Church of the Good Shepherd.?Rev. R. P. fohnson, Rector. The Rector will visit Ches;er next Sunday, and consequently there will )e no services in this church 011 that day. THE* JAIL. On Saturday, two colored women were comnitted to jail by Trial Justice Nunnery, of smith's Turnout, charged with disturbing a eligious meeting. Anderson Watson, colored, was also comnitted by trial Justice Lewis 011 the charge of >etit larceny. On -Tuesday, the same Justice committed Wesley Thomas, colored, charged vitli petit larceny; and the same day, Joseph Deal and John Simril, colored, were commited by Trial J ustice Camp of Black's Station, diarged with burglary and larceny. Besides the above, there are two other prismers in jail, who have been there several veeks. JOURNALISTIC. The first number of the Hampton Guardian, mblished at Hampton C. II., by M. B. Mc>weeney, is on our table. Mr. McSweeney mblishes a neat paper, which is edited with sure and labor, and is well worthy the sup>ort of the people of Hampton county. The lkwnn is the title of an evening paper, ecently commenced in Charleston by Julian V. Selby & Son. The senior Mr. Selby was for nany years publisher of the Columbia Pha>nix, md is well known to the rgading public of the itate. TMir* V/>/\vn/ni ic fllQ fiflo nf Oil OVfih, ns paper just commenced in Columbia, by C. J. McJin.kin, editor. The Yeoman is an enertaining sheet, well gotten up, and besides he current news of the day, devotes full atention to the local affairs of the city. TI1E ELECTION NEXT TUESDAY. Let the voters of York county bear in mind hat the election to till the vacancy in the louse of Representatives, occasioned by the esignation of Mr. Green, will take place next Tuesday. True, there is 110 opposition to the egular nominee of the Democratic party, and he election has created very little excitement 11 any respect, yet it is nevertheless the duty if. the voters to exercise their right and priviege at the ballot-box 011 that day. None hould fail to attend the polls, 011 the suppoition that their votes will not be needed. The lomination could not have been ntbre worthily >estowed than upon Mr. Deal, who proved limself true to the best interests of his immeliate constituents and the State in the hour if their greatest peril, when menaced with a lontinuation of bayonet rule; and it is due to he nominating convention that their unaniiious choice should receive a substantial vote it the hands of his fellow-citizens. PERSONAL MENTION. Miss "Willie Ilare is visiting her relatives in Sbenezer. Miss Robbie Glenn is visiting friends in the lethel neighborhood. J. F. Wallace, Esq., and family, have reamed from Glenn's Springs. Miss Hattie West is visiting the family of Jr. John Nichols in the country. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Dobson have returned ii . 1UI11 lllfir Visit tu .Ol Willi V/UlUlIihU Miss Luella Smith left last Monthly for New Snglaml, where she will remain for sometime. S. 1\ Hamilton, Esq., of Chester, is here this reek, engaged professionally. Mrs. Griffith, of Greenville, is visiting her arents here. Dr. J. II. Foster, of Lancaster, is registered t the Kawlinson House. Mr. Joseph Ilerndon returned Tuesday lorning from a visit to his brother in Cleve land county, N. C., who has been afflicted for some time with paralysis of the throat. Miss Lee Allison is visiting J. W. Dobson's family. Mrs. T. M. Graham, of Chester, is visiting Yorkville. We regret to announce that Mrs. Beatty, wife of the venerabl^ Col. W. C. Beatty, is quite ill. f Rev. A. A. James, of Jonesville, Union county, was in Yorkville last week, on a visit to his relatives. Daniel A. James and J. E. Carroll are attending the U. S. Circuit Court at Greenville as witnesses. W. C. Latimer, of the firm of Latimer & Ilemphill, has gone North to make fall purchases of croofls. Miss Maggie Herndon, after a visit of several weeks to friends and relatives in Virginia, returned home last Friday. Mrs. It. Frank Clark and little daughter Mary, and Mrs. Frank E. Smith, are visiting relatives in Gaston county, N. C. We learn that Prof. Denck, the celebrated pianist, of Columbia, will visit Yorkville soon, for' the purpose of giving a series of concerts. Mr. J. Alf. Carroll has been confined to his bed for several days with severe indisposition ; though we are pleased to learn that his condition is improving. We were pleased to receive a visit last Meek from Mr.. Dewey F. Schorb, a printer in the Columbia Presbyterian office. In 1809 and 70 Dewey was a bright lad, employed in the Enquirer office, and this was his first visit to Yorkville, since his removal to Columbia in the latter year. Col. W. H. Metts, who has l>een confined to his room since the middle of last May, from the effects of a surgical operation, was out for the first time yesterday. We were plejised to receive a call from him 011 his first walk up the street, and are glad to record the fact that he is in a fair way of recovery. The following persons left here last Monday afternoon to join the merchants' excursion from Charlotte to Norfolk, via the Seaboard Air-Line route : Dr. W. M. Walker, Jobn J. Smith, W. II. Herndon, II. C. Strauss, James Ilempnill, Frank E. Smith, T. B. McClain, It. A. Parish, II. II. Beard, T. II. Glenn, J. G. Wardlaw, John M. Hope, W. M. Allison. CHANGE "OF FIRM. By reference to their notice, published in another column, it will be seen that the firm of II. F. Adickes & Sons has been dissolved, Mr. II. F. Adickes, Sen., retiring and being succeeded l?y his sons?H. F. Adickes, Jr., in the dry goods department, and Withers Adickes assuming control of the grocery store. These young gentlemen have been raised to the business, and are merchants by intuition as well as training. As the successors of an old established house, they come before the public not as strangers, but as men well known in the community for their strict business principles. The retiring member of the late firm, is the oldest merchant in Yorkville. He entered upon business here as a clerk in the store of Robert Latta, in the year 1831, and four years subsequently commenced business for himself, in which he has been continuously engaged ever since?a period of 44 years. In his retirement from active business pursuits, he carries with him the best wishes of a large number of friends. COUNTY OF YORK vs. JOHN L. WATSON. James Hemphill, Esq., of Chester, to whom was referred the above case, has made his report as referee. The case was filed by the plaintiff against the defendant, who was formerly county treasurer of "York county, for an account of his transactions in his office, alleging that he had collected a large sum of money on behalf of the plaintiff, which he had failed to pay over. The defendant made a general denial of this charge, and also by way of additional defence, alleged that part of the money collected by him had been lost by the failure of the Citizens' Savings Bank, in which he had deposited it. In relation to the latter ground of defence, the plaintiff replied that the defendant is entitled to no benefit from it 011 two grounds?first, that the defendant was liable for the funds, and could not be discharged by dei>ositing them in the bank; and second, that even admitting that he was entitled to shelter himself under this plea, he could not do so in this case, as he brought 011 the failure of the bank and the loss of the money by his own improper and corrupt action. Aftef reciting the above facts, the referee says: Before proceeding further, I think it well to dispose of this portion of the case. The plaintiff's counsel contended witn iorce, ana the production of high authorities, that the defendant was absolutely responsible for the funds collected by him, and could not be excused by entrusting them to any person or institution, however responsible at the time. I considered, however, that the case of Twitty vs. Houser, 7 Rich. N. S., 164, decides the principle. The contest there was in regard to the liability of an administrator who had deposited the funds of the estate in the same bank in which this defendant placed the funds of the plaintiff. The court held that the administrator was not liable for the money lost by the insolvency of the bank. 1, therefore, hold that the. loss of the deposit in the bank should not fall on the defendant. On the other question as to the alleged corrupt and improper conduct of the defendant having caused the bankruptcy of the bank, and thereby occasioned the loss of the county's money, I do not see sufficient grounds to sustain the charge. There are some circumstances detailed by the witnesses, on the part of the plaintiff, which seem apparently suspicious, but which were denied or explained by the defendant and his witnesses. I hold that there is not sufficient proof to make the defendant i responsible for the loss sustained by the failure of the Savings Bank. In making up the account of the defendant for the funds of the plaintiff, I have mainly followed the statement furnished by the plaintiff 's counsel, which I have verified by the papers. I have also taken the credits contained in said statement, except that I have given the defendant credit tor several items not allowed by plaintiff's counsel. These items are the sum of #971.80, which was allowed to the treasurer as over charge by the auditor and county commissioners, and which appears in the report of the county commissioners of November 1,1874. Also, the sum of $1,955.15, county funds lost in the Citizens' Savings Banks. Amount of deposit, $4,680.33; less dividends received, $2,725.18, leaving balance of $1,955.15, as above. Also, treasurer's commissions. $3,553.88. leaving $731.08 more than allowed by plaintiff's counsel. Also, the sum of SI,814.78 in defendant's report of November 1, 1875, which was omitted. The first item is allowed on the commissioners' report of 1874, upon the evidence of Col. W. B. Allison, formerly county commissioner and clerk of the board, and of the defendant. These two witnesses both swear positively that the accounts were carefully and thoroughly examined by the former county auditor, Mr. Enloe, who is now dead, and by Col. Allison, j and that upon this investigation they ascertained that the defendant was justly entitled to this credit. As to the allowance of the second item of the lost deposit in the Citizens' Savings Bank, I have already expressed my opinion on that point. On the item of commissions, I allowed the defendant four per cent, on all his collections. The auditor, in his final settlement, only allowed him $'2,824.80. I could not see the grounds for this amount. On questions of fact, I find? 1. That the defendant, as treasurer of York county, the plaintiff, collected the sum of j $88,8<J7..!W. 2. That the interest account on money of j said county, dei>osited by the defendant in the Citizens' Savings Bank, was $1,058.02. 3. That he was overcharged the sum of SU71.HU, as stated in tlie commissioners report of 1874. 4. That of the funds of said plaintiff, he deposited in the Citizens' Savings Bank, the sum of $4,680.33, on which he received a dividend ! of $2,725.18, after the failure of the bank, I leaving a balance of $1,955.15 uncollected and. uncollectable. 5. That the defendant's term of office ex-1 pired March 1,1877. On questions of law, I find? 1. That the defendant is not liable for the loss of the county funds deposited by him in the Citizens' Savings Bank. 2. That he was not bound to make good the , loss on account of any improper or corrupt, conduct in instituting legal proceedings against said bank. 3. That he is entitled to four per cent, commissions on all the sums charged against him. 4. That he is bound for the iuterest account in said bank of $1,058.92. 5. That he is responsible for the interest on the balance in bis hands, from the expiration of his term of office, March 1,1877. I file herewith, as Exhibit A, a statement of defendant's accounts, and find that there is due from him to the plaintiff the sum of two thousand nine hundred and twenty-four dollars and thirty-three cents, with interest thereon from the 1st day of March, 1877, for which I recommend that judgment be entered up against him. Respectfully submitted, James Hemphill, Referee. August 15, 1879. The report will come up for a hearing upon rAuepwuils at uic iical trim ul tur uitun court for tins county, which commences on the fourth Monday of October next. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Warren county levied no tax last veaa nor this, and has in her treasury, $7,376.13. ? Five criminals, confined in the jail at Hillsboro, made their escape one night last week. ? The recent rains have been very destructive in Cabarrus county. Several mill dams were washed away, aind considerable damage was done. ? The loss from the recent storm at Beaufort is estimated at fully $150,000. The hotel that was destroyed is to be rebuilt on the same site before the next season opens. ? Senator Vance arrived at his home in Charlotte last Saturday, aud will doubtless remain for some time in the city, as he appears in spvpral suite to he tried in the nemlin" .... ^ ~ ? t, o terra of Mecklenburg Superior Court. ? At the fall terra of Superior Court of Mecklenburg county, last Monday, Logan Hoover, colored, charged with the murder of a negro woman named Margaret Reid, was convicted of manslaughter. ? The Greensboro Patriot says that Dr. R. K.Gregory, of that town?who has already taken out seventeen patents on useful inventions?is now at work on a water wheel, by which the same water is used over and ovei again, and which, if it succeeds as he thinks it will, will work a revolution in that line, All the operator will then need is a cistern to draw water from. .? A citizen of Gaston informs the Charlotte Observer that distilling in that county has revived, and that corn is now selling al 86 cents per bushel. It will be seen that the business has reached very considerable proportions when it is stated that a careful estimate of the amount of corn used in the county daily by the distilleries, places it at 180 bushels, Gaston county has long been known for the quality of corn whiskey produced there; it is becoming famous for the quantity made within its borders. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM CHESTER. Chester, S. C., August 26, 1879. This section has been visited lately with heavy rains, and the farmers are becoming somewhat alarmed in regard to the prospect of saving fodder. Last Tuesday morning, before daylight, there was a considerable storm here, accompanied with heavy thunder and vivid lightning. The family of H. C. Bra\fley, Esq., of Carmel Hill, while seated at the fknf m/trninrv folf a KflflOV UrCU&lUOt lauiC) iiuav uiuiumg) awtv ?* uwm ?j shock of electricity, stunning a daughter, and for some time paralyzing a little boy in the teg. . A. G. Brice, Esq., visited Zion Church (Presbyterian) near Lowrysville, on the 21st instant, and addressed a Sunday-school anniversary meeting. There was a picnic on the occasion, and a most pleasant time was enjoyed -by all tvho were present. R. 0. Sams, District Deputy Grand Dictator, organized a lodge of Knights of Honoi at this place, with thirty charter members, on Thursday evening last. The following officers were elected: W. H. Witherow, P. D.: E. T. Atkinson, D.; W. T. D. Cousar, V. D.; R. M. Cross, A. D.; R. D. Alexander, R.; John Mclver, T.; John F. Douglass, F, R. ; J. W. Parker, G.; Rev. R. W. Sanders, C.; George W. Culp, G.; J. 8mith Hardin, 8.; Dr. John A. Watson, Medical Examiner, Trustees, W. H. Witherow, W. H. McConnellj Jesse H. Hardin. Mr. Norri3 B. Alexander, white driving a staple in the window sill of his office, had the heavy sash to fall on his left hand, severing the end of a finger. Several months ago, he was unfortunate in losing the ends of two fingers of the same hand with a cutting knife. The Good Samaritans, a colored organization of Columbia, passed through here on the 19th instant on an excursion to Charlotte. President James H. Carlisle, of WofFord College, and President J. L. Jones, of Columbia Female College, passed through this place on the 21st instant, en route to the meeting of the District Conference at Salem Camp Ground, in Lancaster county. It is mentioned that President Carlisle will favor us with a temperauce lecture on his return. Capt. Miles H. Hunter returned last week from a trip to the springs and mountains of North Carolina. I regret to state that the health of Mrs. J. Harvey Smith, who is at King's Mountain, I nnt imnrnrii Mrs R. \f flrnss left here UUM """ ? ? on Monday to attend the invalid. The street hands are filling up mud-holes near the depot, and otherwise improving that street. Bennett & MofTatt have recently invented a water-elevator*at their shops. By means of a steam pipe, introduced into the well, water is forced up into a tank above the ground. The widow of James S. McLure, lately deceased, has received the sura of $8,000, the amount of insurance upon his life. Mr. J. H. Colvin returned on the 24th from a trip to the northern cities. The colored brass bands of this place having been reported a nuisance, the town council have adopted au ordinance prohibiting brass bands from practicing on the streets after 10 o'clock, P. M. Mrs. Mary M. Davis, wife of John B. Davis, eight miles north-west of Chester, died on yesterday morning, of inflammation of the bowels. She was 74 years of age, and was, for many years, a consistent member of the M. E. Church. Rev. J. D. McCullough, of Spartanburg, officiated and administered the sacrament of the Lord's Supper in the Protestant Episcopal Church here last Sunday. Rev. R. P. Johnson, Rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Yorkville, will officiate here next Sunday. Rev. Bishop W. B. Howe will make his annual visit to St. Mark's congregation at this place on the 10th and 11th of September. He will be assisted by Rev. Mr. Judd, of Columbia. A number of our citizens left here yesterday on a complimentary excursion to Norfolk, Va., tendered by the merchants of that city. Some will go on to Baltimore. Bull Run Grange has passed resolutions favoring the appointment of a public weigher at this place, and appointed a committee to confer with the town council on the sub J8CC. The Democratic Club at McAliley's Mill, gave a barbecue last week near Mr. John Simpson's, fifteen miles south-west of Chester, for the colored Democrats who stood so nobly by the Reform party in the last campaign. The train on the Cheraw and Chester Railroad passed over the new bridge across Fishing creek, yesterday. After this week trains will make regular trips to Fort Lawn. Mr. W. S. Westbrook sold the first bale of cotton of this year's growth, to-day. It was classed as. middling, and brought 12} cents per pound. Mr. Westbrook has sold the first bale in this market every season for the past six years. He is a thorough and practical farmer. Chester. From tlie Winnaboro Newi and Herald. THE TWELFTH REGIMENT. REUNION OF THE SURVIVORS OF THIRTY BA.TTLK8. Wednesday, the 20th of August, was the eighteenth anniversary of the organization of the 12th Regiment. When the coll was made for volunteers for the war, a prompt response was given by South Carolina. Several Regiments were formed at Lightwood Knot Springs. Of these the Twelfth was the first to complete its organization. Its history is well told in the address of Col. Jones. neconiiy tue v airrieiu survivors urgamzeu a county association, and invited the associations of other counties to meet with them in a Regimental organization. It was in furtherance of this end that the meeting on Wednesday was held. The survivors from other counties came in on Tuesday night and Wedtiosday morning. The weather was inclement, and several hard rains fell the evening before, and on Wednesday. The processions, however, took place "between showers." At the familiar tap of the drum in the hands of Mr. D. J. Carter, of Lancaster, the lino was formed on Congress street, at Beaty's corner, in the following order : Field and staff, Col. Cad. Jones and the Rev. C. B. Butts, chaplain ; Company C, Capt. J. R. Thomas; Company F, Corporal James Gelston; Companies A and B, Sergt. R. G. Whitesides; Company If, Corporal Wm. Brown ; Company I, Sergt. W. B. Twitty. Companies E, G, and K?the first from Lancaster and the two others from Pickens?were not represented in the procession. Between Companies C and A came the battle flag, borne by Ensign W. J. Kimbrell, the color-guard being Capt. J. A. Hinnant, Lient. J. R. Boyles, Privafes G. S. Hinnant, W. J. Boyd, John A. Robertson, J. R. Harvey ami J. 'B. Aflams. Capt. Hinnant and Lieut. Bovies had each lost a leg, Privates Hinnant and Bovd each an armt Private Robertson a foot, and Private Harvey was disabled in the leg. The Chief Marshal wan Col. H. C. Davis, while Private S. W. Ruff acted as adjutant. The procession inarched up Congress street and halted in front of the courtbouse. The two ranks faced each other. The colors were borne between the ranks, the men, as the color-guard passed, raising their bats and cheering. The procession thon entered the court house, marching to music from the Winnsboro Cornet Band. The building was soon filled with ?bn bupvI vnr?. thnir invited truest* and the citizens generally. The meeting was called to order by Col. H. C. Davis, the president of the Fairfield association, ' and the proceedings were opened with prayer by the Rev. C. B. Betts, the former chaplain of the Regiment. ' Col. Davis then spoke as follows : col. davis' 8peech. Fellow Members of the Fairfield Survivors1 Association : We have much, very much, cause for self-gratulation on this occasion, for the material evidence here to-day gives us assurance of the fulfillment of a hope we have so fondly cherished, and the accomplishment of an object we have so earnestly desired and worked for. This attendance of our'regimental brothers from the other , counties proclaims, Id notes unmistakable, and makes assurance doubly sure, that we will this I day perfect an organization which will certainly secure annual reunion meetings hereafter of the Survivors of the Twelfth Regiment, McGowan's i Brigade. Now, my Fairfield associates, let me kindly and respectfully suggest, as far as the mellowing influences of time will aid, and as far . as the truest affections of our nature will admit, that you permit all griefs and sorrows, sacrea memories of the past, to slumber in your hearts ; for a brie# time, and yield to the cheerfulness ol this happy meeting. Fellow-Survivors of the ! Old Twelfth frotn the counties of York, of Lan. caster, of Richland, I stand here the spokesman of your brothers from Fairfield. In their behalf ' and in their name I give you and say to you a - hearty welcome. Col. Davis then reviewed the history of the ' Regiment at its organization; the selection of R. G. M. Dun no van t as colonel, Dixon H. Barnes as , lieutenant-colonel, and Cad. Jones as mqjor. He ' drew an amusing picture of the scene at Light 1 wood Knot. Then he detailed the metamorphosis of up-countrymen into shrimp and oyster eaters and alligator fishers. He spoke as follows of the engagement at Hilton Head and Bay Point, in the November following : We all remember that calm and serene November morning. The sun, sublime in his auroral glory, rose effulgent upon the liquid horizon, . tingeing the sky above with lovely and inimitat ble colorings. Afar off on the peaceful bosom of the mighty deep could be seen the majestic ships at their moorings, resting upon the undulating swell, with "banners bathed in the purity of the morning dew, and streamers listlessly floating in the gentleness of the matutinal zephyr. All nature seemed hushed in the loveliness of the , scene. Only the heart of man was attuned in, harmonious to the symphonies of that peaceful morning, for the fierce passions of war were rife i over the land. i Later in the day we say a puff of smoke encircling upwards from one of the vessels. The report of the signal gun came booming o'er the i waters. Seven men of war, moving in the pow; erof their strength, with their decks cleared foraction, port holes open, and ten, twelve and fifteen inch Columbiads frowning therefrom, came ) steaming toward our earthbanks. After they bad made three oblong, circling reconnoissances, deliberately returning the rapid and well aimed but harmless fire from the light, ' ineffectual pieces in the forts, they discovered that the sea rear of Hilton Head was undefended, with not a gun to command that side. In silent and in almost contemptuous manner, five of the ' vessels, with the commodore's broad pennant ; flying at the foretop, sailed off to their former mooring. The two smaller gunboats of the fleet ' anchored on the rear, and deliberately poured i shot after shot into the fort, dismounting the , guns and raking the interior. No gun replied From that side,-for none could be brought to bear ' upon the vessels. The fort became a slaughter ! pen. The infantry could do nothing. Every point-of the island was under the command of the enemy's guns and subject to a raking fire ' from the twelve and fifteen-inch Columbiad shells. Captain (afterward General) Elliott, who be, came so distinguished for the noble, gallant and , never-to be-overcome defence of Fort Sumter, was in command at the Bay Point Fort. One of ' his guns burst, one was disabled, and the eighti inch Columbiad dismounted from its own recoil. , The opposite fort had been abandoned. He gave a last discharge at the two gunboats, and, his cheeks bathed in tears, he ordered his men to leave. After reciting the incidents of the retreat in the mud and water. Col. Davis said that he would leave the record of the command to be told by the regular orator. He then said: Comrades, it is usual, and custom has made it obligatory upon a presiding officer, to introduce 1 to the audience the respective speakers of the day. ' But here it would be a work of supererogation , on my part to introduce our orator to the survivors of the Twelfth Regiment Although it is true the old grinding mill of years has more plentifully settled the coloring grist of age upon nis hair, and inevitable time has more deeply furrowed the wrinkles upon his brow, yet the . characteristics which marked the man?the kindling eye, the erect figure, the open candor, the earnest manner, tho ringing voice and the gallant bearing?with which we were once so familiar, are so forcibly visible and present here to-day, as to obliterate, in memory's eye, all-foot-prints of gliding time, and make in him a comrade of most easy recognition. I would as soon think it necessary to introduce those old battle-scarred veterans, who have left their legs and arms upon the battle-field, and those whose blood enricnes the soil of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia. I would as soon deem it incumbent upon me to introduce them to that battle-flag which bears the marks of bo many different conflicts upon it, and which they haveso often seen envelopea in the smoke of battle, and so often illumined with the flashing fire of the death-dealing Springfield? then tbe insignia or nope ana victory, now me emblem of a memory?then so dear, now so sacred. Yes, old battle-scarred veterans, living monument of the fierce grappling of battle, I would as soon think of introducing von to it, as to introduce to the Survivors of tbe Twelfth their old commander, for we all- know. Col. Cad. Jones. Col. Jones was greeted with loud cheering. When the applause had ceased, he spoke as follows : COL. JONES' ADDRESS. Comrades of the Twelfth, and Fellow-Citizens : I wish I had the power to express what I feel on this occasion. I have it in. my heart?I wish I had it on my tongue. My friend has done me too much honor. I am fearful that I shall fall short of his-flattering expectations. It is good to be here. After a separation of fourteen years, you meet to enjoy the fellowship of old soldiers. As "boys in gray" you met at Lightwood Knot, full of patriotic ardor and buoyant with hope. As "boys in gray" you were comrades in arms; and now, as veterans of thirty battle-fields, you meet and are comrades still. Let us rejoice that we behold this day?that we meet to renew old acquaintance and give and receive a soldier's salute. How many recollections crowd upon us! Each face brings some new memory of marches, of the bivouac, and the rude winterquarters ; mighty battles rise up before us?fields strewn with the dead and dying?the impetnous charge, the Rebel shout of victory! We will not discuss here the causes that produced the war. Carolina called to arms. That was our warrant, and no son of hers will stop to ask the cause when her honor and safety are imperiled. [Applause.] 1 The career of this Regiment might be recorded with this single sentence?you were in the Army of Northern Virginia; with it at the beginning,, with it at the end. When our great captain determined that further resistance was hopeless, you were present for duty. In the four years of war, you were engaged in thirty battles, lost in wounded 5(30 men, and left upon the battle-field 160 dead. Here I might close. It was right to fight, and you fought to the end. The occasion does not require of me any detailed narrative of battles; yet we must have our say?soldiers will fight their battles over again. And as it's a prefrty safe operation, I'll fight one or two over again j? rr ...mIwa. i I LU'Utty* [Linu^uiui.j To begin wit^ In the fall of '61, we were orj dered to Hilton Head and Bay Point, to support ! the fort. If the fort could have been cut into convenient slices, the fleet might have taken it j on board?guns, tneu and all?and dropped it in ' mid-ocean. [Laughter.] But for all that, the : fort made a most gallant defence, and was abandoned only when defence was no longer possible. | It was crushed like an egg shell. We won no I laurels there, unless it may be considered a distinction to escape without capture. [Laughter.] ! Matters now assumed a serious character. MoI Cleilan was marshalling his forces to move on j Richmond. After a few months on tne coast and I a brush with the enemy at Port Royal, we turned oar faces to uhe Mother of States. "They that see the ship leave the harbor, know little of the sea she is to sail through." On the 27th of June, you are up by times. With the rising sun Gregg is in the saddle, and the brigade formed in line -of battle near Mechanicsville. There is heavy work before you. McCiellan, 60,000 strong, was intrenched at Cold Harbor, in three lines, supported by massed batteries. Heavy lines of skirmishers had been thrown out on Powhite and Beaver Dam; these dispute our advance; they are driven back with slaughter. You now ap- ^ , proach the battle-held; artillery is playing from I every hilltop; Hhells are bursting before yon and j behind yon and in mid-heaven. You move into foaitiori at the double quick. Crenshaw and Mciitosh hold their Are as you pass. The order to advance is made, and the struggle begins. Forty thousand men oppose fifty thousand, and strike them on their chosen ground. Who shall describe that great conflict of American arms? For five hours the battle rages; for five hours tbe battle wavers. It is a wild scene! Shot ana shell and ball explode and whistle. Volley after volley tbin their rankn and our ranks. At last, amid a verv tempest of tire, the Rebel shout goes up?tbe held is ours?the capital is safe! [Applause.] What a name you have contributed to make for your country on that single battlefield ! The fights at Frazier's Farm and Malvern Hill were undoubtedly important battles, and have added to the renown of Southern arms; but it was the victory of Cold Harbor that broke the advancing columns of tbe enemy and hnrled them back to their boats. Here fell Delaney, with seventeen privates. These were the first of the lioys in gray who gave their lives for their country. We lost one hundred and twenty-one ? wounded. Here Vallandigham, captain of Company I, lost a leg, and Capt. Bookter, Capt. Miller and Ce.pt. McMeekin were wounded. The Brigade suffered heavily. Twenty-five hnndred were carried into action. It lost eight hundred and fifty-four, killed and wounded. The battle of Second Manassas was scarcely less important than Cold Harbor. The Federal forces on the J'araes River were rapidly transferred to the line of the Rappahannock, Pope in command. He was 120,000 strong, with reinforcements coming up. Hill's Division was turned over to Jackson, and we were, therefore, a part of tbe great flanker's command, and were soon made acquainted with his manner of doing business. It was important that Pope should be struck atoncer before reinforcements arrived. Jackson undertook to ilauk, while Longstreet engaged him in front. On the 25th of August we started, and made thirty-five miles that day. The next night, or -r rather in the small hoars of the morning, the column reached Manassas. Pope was flanked and his supplies cut off. He must fight or starve. Jackson's situation was no Decter. vvunzufuuu men be was in Pope's rear; bnt Pope, with 120,000, was in his rear. Jackson, it is true, bad Pope's supplies ; but could he hold them? At the earliest it would be two days before Longstreet con Id come up. Meanwhile, Pope could crash him at a blow. The situation was perilous. Nevertheless, there was no trepidation. To manoeuvre is sometimes better than to fight. Pope was outgeneraled. He was bewildered. Late in the evening of the second day, he attacked Early, who lost a leg, but held his ground. The morning of the 29tn dawned, and the unequal contest was renewed. , Gregg wits placed on the extreme left, with instructions to hold it at all hazards. Six times the , enemy assaulted his position; six times the ene, my was repulsed. At the third orfonrth assault, I think about one o'clock, when the enemy was , pressing the Brigade at all points, and had forced 1 back Thomas on our right, it was the fortune of , the Twelfth to be the first to break his lines and hurl back the advancing foe. Tou drove him i with greatslaughter; you pursued him Serosa the road, and out of sight. Clyburn, then captain, proposed that charge across the road, and led it. This is not history, but it is truth. It was about this time, that Hill sent to inqnire of Gregg if he needed assistance. "Tell him," said the old hero, "my ammunition is exhausted, but I will hold my position with the bayonet" The renown of. that day made the Ihme of the Brigade. Every regiment and every man did all that men ana regiments could do. There were eleven field offl- , cers in action ; seven of them were wounded, and two?Col. Marshall and Lieutenant-Colonel Leadbetter?were killed. The officers wounded were ' -% Col. Barnes, Col. Edwards, Col. McGowan, Lieut. Col. Farrow, Major Brockman, Major McCorkle and Major McCrady, acting as Colonel of the 1st Regiment. Lieut.-CoL Simpson and myself were the only officers that escaped. I could almost wish that I had received a wnack or two [laughter] iust to be placed on that roll of honor. But then Simpson would have no company. [Laughter.] The casualties of the Division?six brigades?are reported at 1500. Of this number, Gregg lost 618. The Twelfth lost-24 killed and 125 wounded. With the rising sun on the morning after this battle, we were on the march, and at four o'clock were in the fight at Ox Hill. Here, Buchanan, adjutant ofthe Regiment, fell mortally wounded. We lost only ten men wonnded. The next day the campaign of Maryland commenced. It ended in the surrender of Harper's Ferry. From the cliffs of the Shenandoah, which yon had scaled for the purpose of charging the enemy's batteries, f*. you saw the white flag go up without the loss of a man. It was reward enough for all the marches you had made. This was on the 15th. We come ? l? ?V- ? .tpnnnl. nn lllA 17th it Sllfimfl IIUW lAf blic UIWUJ ovi Uf|(|iv VM ?? ?..., a burg. In this battle the Twelfth was conspicuous v for its gallantry. By a rapid dasto.lt outranked itself, and was in imminent danger of being surrounded. It was recalled, and in a second charge drove the enemy with great gallantry. Here let me pause to pay a tribute to the memory of one who was the first to lead you in battle, jutd who gave bis life that day in the brilliant charge to which I have just alluded. I need not name him. As second in command, I was intimately associated with him, and watched with pride his military career. For cool, decisive conduct in battle, for skillful handling of his command, and for gallantry, no colonel in the Army of Northern Virginia was the superior of Pixon Barnes. [Applause.] He bad, in an eminent degree, the confidence and affection of bis men. These were at once bis invaluable possessions * and bis eulogism. With the spirit of a hero un- ? der fire, when off duty be was as tender as a woman. There was one word he could never say to officer or private: that word was, no. I b'ave seen.him try it. He always failed. He fell as I have described, shot through both knees, and was taken to Charles town, where I saw him two days before his death. He was excited and impatient. When I saw him, I thought of the wounded eagle biting against the bars of hiscsge. In this engagement the Twelfth lost twenty killed and eighty-two wounded. Here fell Captain Erwin and Lieut. Black man. Capt. Miller, Capt. Davis and Lieut. Kerr were wounded. At the next battle, Fredericksburg, the Brigade sustained its great loss. The fall of Greggit was almost a sacrifice?sent a thrill throughhis entire command. As the intelligence passed along the lines, it was heard with sentiments of profound regret by the whole Division. Conde was Intrepid ; Marshall Nev was bravest of the brave; Desaix, expiring in the arms of his comrades, said, "I die with bnt one regret: I have done too little for country." Comrades, Maxcy Gregg, was as Intrepid, as brave, and as patriotic. He would have led, and was fit to lead, the charge of the six hundred at Balaklava. [Applause.] At this battle the Brigade was on the second line, and we lost only one killed and seven wounded. I have followed yon through only one campaign. Yon followed the Southern croae through four years. My connection with yon ceased after Fredericksburg; but I have not been indifferent to the fame of the "Old Twelfth." I recollect, with pride, yonr heroic bravery in the charge at Gettysburg, when four color-bearers?Kimbrell, Davis, Huey, Rains?went down in ten minutes, and a lieutenant, with syord in one hand and yonr flag in the other, bore it through the murderous fire and planted it on the heights above the city. The charge of the Brigade that day was not so renowned as Pickett's, bnt it was scarcely less gallant and intrepid. Who has not beard of your wild advance into the Wilderness, where, with impetuous conrage you pushed ahead nntil, losing connection with the Brigade and almost surrounded by the enemy, yon faced abont and fought back to the lines, with a. cap- * tared brigadier and two hundred prisoners as trophies of victory ! [Applause.] In a single address it is not possible to follow you through all yonr battles. Let me continue the record of the dead and wounded. For these details I am indebted to a very interesting his torv of the Brigade, by iuieui. uaiaweu 01 iuw 14tb Regiment. It is oar privilege and oar pride tojpcall here to-day the memory of oar dead comrades. I wish I had the name of every man. J would call the roil. At Gettysburg we lost twenty killed, and one hundred and five wounded. Here fell Lieut. Poag. Capt. Hinnant, Capt. Moody, Lieut. Boyles, Lieut. Watson, Lieut. Jenkins and Lieut. Black were wounded. At the Wilderness we lost sixteen killed, sixty-four wounded, twenty-two missing. Here fell another Colonel of the Twelfth, that prince of good fellows and bold, fearless officers, John L. Miller. Here also fell Lieut. McKnight and Lieut. Garvin. Lieutenant-Colonel Bookter, Lient. Watson and "Lieut. Beard were wounded. At the Bloody Angle, Spottaylvania,. we lost28 killed, 38wonnaed and 52 missing. Most of these latter were afterwards found to be either killed or wounded. At Jericho Ford the loss was twenty-two wounded. Our brave m^jor commanding, and Lieutenant Rives, were wounded. At the Weldon Railroad, Lieut. N. R. Bookter fell, with two killed and six wounded. At Fullers'f Mill and Deep Bottom, three were killed, twenty-eight wounded, thirteen missing. Here Lieut. Hinson, Lieut. Hill and Lieut. Douglass were wounded. At Jones' Farm, Lieut. Jones was wounded, with two others killed and eighteen wounded. 4 Here fell another Colonel of your RegimentEdward F. Bookter. He was the last officer of the Regiment who gave his life for the cause. In battle be was always among the first to advance. I have never known a beaver man, a truer friend, or a more dashing officer. When he fell, a noble and big heart ceased to beat. Richland may well be proud that he was a son of the Capitol county. The York companies have brought here to-day the flag of the Twelfth. It was displayed at Columbia in the procession of survivors?borne by Lieut. Kimbrell, ensign of the old Regiment, who had so often and so gallantly borne" U in the T. Vwif email tttflnt.iftn. iruiiv W1 Uai/biOl AW aMlOVVWU isvftv OIUHM and is not mentioned by the reporters of that day's proceedings. I know not wherefore. That flag is not begrimed with smoke. But few of the scars and badges of old war are upon it. Hereby hangs a legend of the past. It is a tale of honor, and should be history. It may be briefly stated. The old flag was so torn with shot and shell, at Gettysburg, at the Wilderness and at the Bloody Angle, that it was no longer fit for service?it was a mere rag of honor! It was sent to Richmond for safe keeping, and it rests in the ashes of the Soldiers' Home. A new flag was ?issued to the Regiment, and here it stands. It is