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lewis m. grist, proprietor, j ^n Jniteptittrcnt Jamilj ftetospper: Jfnr % ^ronrotira af t|e |)oIitical, J&ntial, Agricultural anil Commercial Interests of t(ie jscntji. |terms--$2.50 a year, in advance. VOL. 28. YORKVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1882. 3^Q- 3Q. felerted fuetrg. THE MONEYLESS MAN, la there no place on the face of the earth Where charity dwelleth; where virtue has birth? Wbhre bosoms in kindness and mercy will heave, And the poor and the wretched may ask and receive? Is there no place on earth where a knock from the poor Will bring a kind angel to open the door? Ah! search the wide world wherever you can, There is no open door for the moneyless man. Go look in the hall where the chandelier light Drives off with its splendor the darkness of night; Where the rich hanging velvet in shadowy fold, Sweeps gracefully down with its trimming of gold, And mirrors of silver take up and renew In long lightei vistas the wildering view ; Go there in yonr patches, and find, if you can, One welcoming smile for the moneyless man. Go look in your church of the cloud-reaching spire, Which gives back to the sun his same look of fire, Where oolumns and arches are gorgeous within, And the walls seem as pure as a sou! withoutsin, Go down the long aisle, see the rich and the great In the pomp and theprideof their worldly estate; Walk crown in your churches, and find, if you can, Who opens a pew for the moneyless man. Go look to your Judge in dark flowing gown, With the scales wherein law weigheth quietly down; Where he frowns on the weak, and he smiles on thft strong, And he punishes right while he justifies wrong; vvaero jurors meir upson mr oiuia nave mm To render a verdict they've already made ; Go there in the court-room, and find, if you can, Any law for the case of a moneyless man. Go look in the bank, where Mammon has toled His hundreds and thousands of silver and gold : Where, safe from the hands of the starving and poor, Lies pile upon pile of the glittering ore; Walk up to the counter?ah ! there you may stay Till your limbs have grown old, and your hair turns grav, And you'll find at the bank not one of the clan With money to lend to a moneyless man. Then home to your hovel?no raven has fed The wife who has suffered so long for her bread; Kneel down by her pallet, and kiss the deathfrost From the lips of the angel your poverty lostThen turn in your agony upward to God, And bless, while it smites you, the chastening rod; And you'll find at the end of your life's little span There's a welcome above for*the moneyless man. She Sellee. HOUSE-CLEANING. "Saidee 1 Saidee ! Where are you. Why don't you answer me when I call ?" "Va nnt. Leah?i am coming in a min ute." "In a minute," sarcastically repeated the old lady. "Its always in a minute with you, Saidee ! But I suppose, because I am old and helpless, my comfort is a matter of up consequence whatever." "Dear Aunt Leah, you must never think that !" answered a blight cheery voice ; and Saidee Lynn came into the room, with a little tray, where was arranged, on a snowy napkin, some tea-biscuits, half a dozen pink radishes, a few thin-cut shavings of smoked beef, and a little pot of tea, with a cup and saucer of old blue china which would have been invaluable to a collector. "You see I had you in my mind all the time, Aunt Leah," she said, merrily. "I gathered the radishes from our own garden. Don't they look nice ?" Aunt Leah, a withered, little, old lady, a dress of black worn silk, and sharp eyes, jieering through gold bound spectacles, tasted of the tea and shook her head. "It's too-weak," said she. "It isn't fit to drink 1" "I put in all the tea there was in the canister, Aunt Leah," said Saidee, with a distressed countenance. Aunt Leah pushed away the cup, with an expression of distaste. "It is as I might have expected," said she. "My nieces have too little thought for my comfort to study my poor and few necessities. Never mind the tea ; I can drink cold water, I dare say !" Saidee wrung her hands in despair. How could she tell this weak, feeble old lady, above whose declining years hung the threatening Tiomn/>ioQ awm-H nf hpjirt. disease. of their nar rowing circumstances, of empty exchequer, the clamoring creditors, the pitiful straits to which they were reduced ? "What shall I do ?" she asked herself, as she went slowly back to the little kitchen of the ruiuous Gothic cottage which they had obtained for a ridiculously low rent because it was ruinous. "I've borrowed of the rector's wife twice, and I'm ashamed to go there again, and I've sold everything I can lay my hands on. But," glancing up at a picture which hung in the hall beyond, "there's the Velasquez still. A Velasquez is always worth money. Belle will scold about parting with it, and Aunt Leah will mourn, ?but we can't live on air and dew, like the fairies. I'll take it down to Mr. Bruner, the artist, this afternoon, and ask him to get us a purchaser. Poor people, such as we are, can't afford toretain old families." And so, when Aunt Leah was indulging in her afternoon nap, and Belle, the beauty of the family, was ironing out the flounces of her white muslin dress for the morrow's picnic, valiant Saidee climbed on a chair, took the unframed picture down (it was the head of some old Spanish grandee, with a stiff pointed ruff, and an evil leer in the eyes,) wrapped it up in a newspaper and crept across the meadows with it to the village. Mr. Bruner was in his studio?a grizzleheaded, blunt old gentleman, in a belted linen blouse and a faded velvet cap. lie nodded kindly at Saidee, who had once taken a few lessons from him ; but when she displayed the canvas he shook his head. "IIow much do you think it is worth V" asked Saidee wistfully. "Nothing 1" said Mr. Bruner. "But," cried the girl, "it is a Velasquez !" "That a Velasquez ?" said Mr. Bruner, contemptuously. "My dear, there isn't a picture dealer in the country who would give fifty cents for it. It's a mendacious imitation, and a wretched one at that !" :so saiaee tiea up tne i>oor picture, anu went home again, shedding a few teal's as she walked under the whispering trees. "My last hope gone !" she thought. "But I'll not tell Aunt Leah or Belle that it is an imposture. They have always taken such innocent pride in the Velasquez." As she came past the old brick house at the foot of the Locust Lane a load of furniture was being carried in, for it was the second week in May. Wicker chairs, twined with blue ribbon, a cottage piano, cases of books, engravings, bird cages, plants?all sorts ol pretty things. Saidee paused and looked at them, not without interest. "I wonder who our new neighbors are tc l>e !" she thought. lust then, out trotted a stout cherry-cheeked old lady, with her cap all on one side, and a worsted shawl tied over her shoulders. "Oh !" said she ; "are you the young wo man who disappointed us yesterday aboul cleaning ?" "No," said Saidee, crimsoning to her tern pies. "Oh, dear ! oh, dear !" said the old lady "what is to become of us ? All the furnitun coming in and my daughter lame from falling off a step-ladder, and the girl gone, and?But,' with an eager look, )>erhaps you can recom mend some one to help us settle ?" "I am sorry to say that I cannot," answeret Saidee, and she vanished beyond the lilac hedge, rather amused at the mistake the oh lady had made. Belle was full of news that evening. "Oh, .Saidee," she cried, "such a nice fami ly is moving into the Locust House 1" "Yes," said Saidee; "I saw the furnitur carts at the door as I came back from the vil lage this afternoon." "Oh, the village!" cried Belle, tossing he blonde head. "Its strange, Saidee, how mucl time you get to rut. about and enjoy yonrsell while I am drudging at home. But there's young gentleman there?the handsomest mar Alice Aiken says, that she ever saw?and Mi Pyle knows him, and lie is to be at the picni j to-morrow, to get acquainted with the young I people of the neighborhood. Won't it be delightful ?" "Very," said Saidee, indifferently. But while Belle was talking, she had made up her mind what to do on the day of the May picnic. Early in the morning, while the. flush of sunrise was still crimsoning the sky, and blonde Belle lay asleep with her yellow hair in crimping pins, Saidee arose, dressed herself quietly, and slipped out of the back door like a little jrrav shadow. At eight o'clock. Aunt Leah rapped with her cane on the ceiling of her room, which was directly beneath the one occupied by her nieces. Belle made her appearance presently, in a faded calico wrapper, rubbing her eyes after a drowsy fashion. "Where's breakfast ?" said Aunt Leah. "Where's Saidee V" counter-questioned Belle. "Oh, I know the- selfish thing ! She has got up early, and gone down into the woods to get some pink azalias for her hair before the other girls think of it. She wants to astonish us all at the picnic. But I think she might have told me!" "I am afraid Saidee thinks more of herself than she does of us," said Aunt Leah, sourly. And Belle, in a very ill humor, began to prepare the breakfast?a task generally assumed by her elder sister?while Saidee, hurrying down the path by the swamp, took the shortcut across the clover-meadow, and was presently knocking at the door of the brick house where the load of furniture had stood the day before. The old lady with the crooked cap and the cherry cheeks came to the door. "Have you not engaged any one to help you get settled ?" said Saidee, blushing very prettily. "We can't hear of a soul 1" said the old lady. "Every one is engaged just now, and?" "If you thought I could be of use," faintly began Saidee. "Bless me, child !" said the old lady, "you are too slight and small. Besides," looking closer at her, "you are a lady." "Tlnf. T l-nnu- lmw t.n elean a house, for all that," said Saidee, valiantly. "I've done it every year at home. We are ladies, but we are people of no means. And I think you will be suited with my work. It is necessary that I should earn a little money, and?" "Come in, .my dear!" said the old lady? "come in, and have a cup of coffee with us. I am Mrs. Hartwick?and this is my daughter Kate.". "Saidee Lynn!" exclaimed the soft voice of a pretty young girl, lying with a sprained ankle on the sofa. To her amazement, our heroine recognized one of her schoolmates, Katharine Ilartwick, who had graduated in the same class with her, at boarding-school, two years before. "But you surely never have come here towork ?" said Kate, in amazement. "Yes I have," said brave Saidee. "Why, is it any less creditable to clean paint and whitewash windows, than to play croquet or do Kensington stitches ? And my aunt Leah has lost all her little property, and we are very poor ! So now you know all about it. And when I have eaten my breakfast, if Mrs. Ilartwick will give me a cleaning cloth, and plenty of soft soap, I'll show her what I can do!" So that Miss Lynn was mounted on a stepladder, polishing off an antique mirror, when Kate's soft voice was heard, saying : "Oh ! Harry; is that you V We supposed, of course, you were at the picnic. Miss Lynn, this is my brother Ilarry. Harry, let me present you to Saidee Lynn, my dear old schoolmate, who has come here to help us clean house.'-' Miss Lynn made as graceful a bow as she could, under the circumstances. Mr. Harry licit l\\ iuiv luuuiitru ma Li%=i\\x. "At the picnic, indeed, he retorted, merrily. "Not at all. I've been hunting high and low, forsomeoneto help you, and for lack of any success, I have returned to do a little whitewashing myself." "Oh, have you?" said Saidee. "I know such a nice recipe for kalsomine?as white as alabaster, and it won't rub off at all." "Let's make it," said Ilarry, promptly. No picnic could ever have beer, more delightful than this day among dust, white-wash, scouring sand and brooms. Kate, on her sofa, hemmed curtain; Mr. Hartwick bustled to an fro ; Saidee with her curly hair tied up in a hankerchief, scoured paint, and Harry whitened ceilings; and at twilight had three rooms in perfect order. "We have achieved wonders," said Kate, looking around at the neatly-tacked carpets? the soft, garner plush hangings?the pictures on the walls, the crystal brightness of the windows?while Mrs. Hartwick took Saidee mysteriously to one side. "My dear," said she, "I do not know how to thank you sutliciently. But I am ashamed to offer you a dollar and a half although?" "But I shall not be ashamed to take it," said Saidee, smiling. "Why should I? That is if you really think I have earned it." "My dear you have more than earned it," said the old lady; "and if you could possibly I come to-morrow?" j "Of course I will come," said Saidee. Weary as she was, Saidee went around the j village to buy some Young Hyson tea for the j old lady before she returned to the Gothic j cottage. "Well," she cried, bright, to her sister, i "what sort of a day did you have at the picj nic V" "Awfully stupid !" yawned Belle. I "And the handsome young gentleman from ! Locust Lane didn't come at all." ! cowl Qu;,1ua J.S1U11 I 11*7 . CH?IU >.'?1UV\ "And where have you been" demanded Bell, in an injured tone. "Oh spending the day with a neighbor!" i said Saidee, with a laugh. They finished the house-cleaning that week. I Mr. Hartwick found it necessary, we may ! add, to walk home with Saidee the next evenj ing, and he developed a remarkable talent ; in the amateur painting and kalsomining line 1 before they got through. ! "Isn't she pretty!" said Harry enthusiasJ tically, "and she is brave, and she isn't afraid | ol' honest work; and altogether she is my ; ideal of a girl." "Mamma," whispered Kate, laughing, after | her brother had gone out, "1 believe our Harry i is in love with Saidee Lynn." j "I'm sure 1 don't blame him," said Mrs. Hartwick. "She is a litttle jewel." j Aunt Leah never knew where the Young !! Hyson tea came from, nor the sponge-cake, 1 j nor the white grapes, nor all the little luxuries j which had cheered her of late; nor did she i susjiect anything until one day Harry Hartwick came to her, and formally asked her for her niece's hand in marriage. | "Well, I never!" said Aunt Leah. ' j "But how did you ever become so well ac! quainted with him, Saidee ?" questioned Belie, ' j half pleased, half jealous. "Because I cleaned house for his mother," "! said Sadee, laughing. 1 j And then under solemn seal of secrecy, she i 1-iollck oil ??r?rl TCmIIo dpphirnfl tluif. it \V;iS ! IM1U 4/C1IU tin ? uu\? x?vv.?t.vv. .. "! too romantic for anything, never pausing to " j think that real life is as full of romance as a _ i summer meadow with butter-cups, jyul tlTat fortune comes to those only who go bravely ^! out. to seek fortune. wmtmmmKmmmmmmtmmM r Ciieerfvlnkss ix cuilduex.?a very ' small matter will arouse a child's mirth, llow - still the house is when she little ones are fast asleep, and their pattering feet are silent ! 1 How easily the fun of a child bubbles forth ! - Take even those poor, prematurely aged little 1 ones, bred in the gutter, cramped in unhealthy i homes, and ill used, it may be, by drunken j parents, and you will find that the child's na ture is not all crushed out of them. They are gleeful children still, albeit they look so e very haggard and weary. Try to excite theii - inirthfulness, and before long a laugh rings out as wild and free as if there were no such r tiling as sorrow in the world. Let the deal h ' little ones laugh then ; too soon, alas ! they ', | will have cause to weep. Do not try to check a ! or silence them, but let their gleefuluess ring i, j out a gladsome peal, reminding us of the day.4 . j when we, too, could laugh without a sigh, am c sing without tears. UtisccUancous Reading. REMINISCENSES OF THE WAR. A NIGIIT ATTACK ON MOKRIS ISLAND, JULY 14, 1863. ICol. James H. Rion in Charleston Weekly News.] This is not intended as a dignified historical sketch, but rather as a cosy "old soldier's talk" with my former companions-in-arms, to whom minute details and even egotistic garrulity, will have a peculiar interest. The Union forces had effected a landing at Oyster Point, south end of Morris Island, at daylight of the 10th of July, 1803. On the morning of the 11th they made their first disastrous assault on Battery Wagner. They then continued landing troops and building earthworks. In Battery Wagner were some of the First Regular Artillery, Capt. Boag's company, Capt. Chichester's company, liePass's Battery, the Fifty-first Xorth Carolina, the Twelfth and Eighteenth Georgia Battalions, the Twentieth South Carolina and the Seventh South Carolina Battalion. Gen. Taliaferro was in command, and Col. Yates chief of artillery. On the morning of the 14th we found our bomb-proof nearly skinned by THE FIRE OF THE IRONCLADS and gunboats. I had been placed in charge of working details to strengthen the bomb-proof, and I supposed my labors were ended for that day at least. When I heard in the afternoon that a detachment of volunteers was to make an attack on the enemy's first line that night I did not reo-ard mvself as in anyway individu ally interested; and when told that I was to lead the party very confidently pronounced the report to be a mistake. Late in the evening volunteers were called for from the different commands, each one being limited, and the whole to amount to oue hundred and fifty. The party assembled, consisting of sixty rank and file from the 51st North Carolina, under Capt. E. Southerland and two lieutenants, one each from Companies E and I whose names I cannot recall; thirty from the 7th Battalion under Capt. Dore Seegurs and Lieut. Louis L. Clyburn : twenty-five from the 12th Georgia Battalion under Lieut. Tutt; twenty from the 20th South Carolina under Capt. Cowan ; eighteen from the 18th Georgia Battalion, Lieut. . In all one hundred and fifty-one rank and fde, and eight commissioned officers. After being inspected by Major Twiggs, (now Judge Twiggs, of Augusta, Georgia,) of Gen. Taliaferro's staff, they were dismissed to their quarters to await orders. A 4- T m.iQ -f/\?% l\ir TulinfAlTB .11.1/ Uitllk X >VftO DCIID JLV/l UJ uvm XI^4I?VV?.?X'I lie then informed me that Gen. Beauregard had ordered a reconnoisance that night by a party of volunteers to be commanded by me, for the purpose of ascertaining the position and strength of the enemy's first line, and to endeavor to capture one or more prisoners from whom information might be obtained as to what troops had by that time been landed on the Island. He stated that after my work during the day he would take the responsibility of substituting another field otlicer, but he could find none sufficiently acquainted I with the island. I then thought I would secure the substitution by informing him that my knowledge of the island at night was confined to the half mile I had fought over in the morning of the assault of the 11th. But, after a consultation in an undertone with the officers present, he informed me that Capt. Chichester stated that he had a man who was perfectly acquainted with the island at night, and he (Gen. Taliaferro) would have to ask me to go, while I was at liberty to decline. 80,1 was in for THE NIGHT ATTACK. At 0 o'clock the attacking party was assembled, and after putting my sash and a musket ball in my pocket, and leaving my watch, sword-belt and scabbard with Col. P. Nelson, I joined the party, accompanied by Major Twiggs and Captain Chichester's man Coffee. We went out followed by a strong night picket. Gen. Taliaferro told me that Major Twiggs would further inform me of what it was desired for us to do. When about a quarter of a mile from the batterv we were halted and the picket set to work throwing up breastworks, and I was directed to advance about 200 yards and keep on the alert while the work was being done. Some half hour after we had taken our position Major Twiggs came to us and further explained the order of Gen. Beauregard, and told me he would return about midnight if the works were then completed, and that we would then start. I then requested him to give personally such warning as should secure us from being fired into by the picket, no matter in what order we fell back, or by the battery, if, as might happen, both the picket and ourselves fell back on the battery, and to impress the importance of the caution, told him of the experience of the battalion on the morning of the 11th when our principal loss | hpnn from t.lie fire nf t.lie battery. After sending out scouts to the front, and ! ascertaining that for some distance there were j 110 enemy's videttes, I commenced forming the acquaintance of my command, and drilling them in the tactics I intended to use that night. I placed ten men deployed across the island with unloaded guns, under Lieut. Tutt. The command was then divided into two wings, the first being fifteen paces behind Lieut. Tutt's line, the right wing commanded by Capt. Seegers directed to follow Lieut. Tutt's right man, and to halt whenever he stopped; the second wing, commanded by Capt. Southerlaiul, fifty paces in rear of the ! right wing in echelon, its right directed to ; keep a little to the left of the left of the right j wing and to halt whenever the advanced wing halted. A sergeant was detached to keep a j ! position half way between the extremes of the i | two wings nearest each other, so that the rear | | wing by keeping connected with him might I ] not be thrown out of position 011 account of i 1 the darkness. The skirmish line was to halt! upon seeing an enemy and immediately to : I unmask the command. Neither wing was to j j fire without my order to that wing: the firing ; 1 to be delivered standing, but the loading | done kneeling. I then exercised the command j | in advancing, joining wings; and especially in i retreating, by the left wing firing while the 1 i right wing retreated fifty paces to its rear, ! j when the right wing was to keep up firing until the left wing retreated fifty paces to its I rear, both wings keeping all the time in eche11011. Of course there was no actual firing, ev; erything being done as noiselessly as possible. : About midnight Major Twiggs returned, rej peated the instructions and told us to go. WHAT HAPPENED TO I S. We moved quietly forward, Coffee and myself 011 a line with the right wing and opposite j to the centre of the left wing?a safe position j from our own fire, if preceding orders were obeyed. We had reached a point about threeI quarters of a mile from the Battery, where the I island narrows between the ocean on the left, j and the marsh 011 our right, and going down a j slight slant, when 1 observed a halt of the skirmishers. This was followed by four or five I scattering shots and then immediately l?y a line of fire about *200 yards in width, some 40 yards to our front. I gave the order, Jiiylit wing, lire!'1 This was immediately followed . by a splendid volley from both wings. Coffee 1 fell ! Feeling for him with my foot, 1 found ; his body gone. 1 rapidly placed myself on the i left of the right wing, out of range of the fire j of the left wing. Our men kept up a well-diI rected lire at the line of Hashes, while THE lH'LLKTS OF THE ENEMY ; whistled mostly over our heads. I then, turning toward the rear, in a loud, clear voice, (I ! will here astonish most ]>ersons who know my physique by stating that Gen. Bratton has re11 peatediy understood commands given by me at a mile distant,) commanded as follows: "uease i! firing !" "Gen. Taliaferro advance your l)i vision /" (In a less loud voice :) "General, now ' charge with your Brigade!" "Battalion, fix i bayonets?charge !" And on went our imagi nary brigade, supported by the imaginary di, vision. My commands, thus given, were uei companied by a slacking off of the enemy's fire, and it had ceased by the time we reached r the earthworks. We went over these, the oc: cupants giving way in confusion before us. j We caught five ; among them John L. Wilgus i and James A. Nesbit, (both privates of the I 48th, New York), the latter of whom had endeavored to treat me to a bayonet through my body, which, thanks to an uncouscious parry of my sword, only stuck the back of my hand. As we had got over the works we were almost blinded by the nearly simultaneous fire of four 12-pounder howitzers, only thirty paces in front of a rising ground. This brought us to a halt. I then reformed the command in line, immediately in front of the breastworks, carrying back our two prisoners. The shells of the howitzers passed beautifully over our heads, and all became silent in our front. Coffee informed me that our then locality was near what he called the "Boat House." Before I had concluded arranging my party and determined what move to make next, to my astonishment a terrific fire of musketry and 12-pounder guns opened about two hundred or three hundred yards in our front. We all quietly sat down and enjoyed the fireworks, all the balls and shell passing over our heads. This firing soon ceased. Cautioning rny command to keep in their places and not fire on me, I went forward with Coffee. We found about thirty bodies of dead or badly wounded behind the works; and Lieut. of the artillery near the howitzers, all four of which had been thrown out of their carriages. While, studying the question of howl could our command the glory of carrying these "guns back with us through the heavy sand, a third pyrotecnic display was gotten up for our benefit. A tremendous fire of big guns and little guns and rifles poured forth from the main works of the enemy on a hill one and a half or two miles distant from Battery Wagner. Shell exploded generally a good distance- in our front, while some solid shot whizzed through the air over our beads. I went back to the command and waited for this new entertaiment to cease. The heavy firing kept up for about fifteen minutes, when it was followed by a slackening and desultory fire, (except from the heavy guns,) and ceased in a hour altogether. We then started back with our prisoners and looking (or rather feeling) carefully on the ground as we went along, picked up our own wounded. On approaching our picket line we halted and the officers and men were IP nutT urnrfl vniQcnurr ' lCljUCntcu tu aouci cam il auj hl-iv ujiouiiig* The North Carolinians reported none; the Georgians live, and South Carolinians one. 1 then took Lieut. Tutt and the 7th Battalion detachment and went back and carefully explored the ground. We only found private Anderson Stuckey, of Company G, of the Battalion. I have omitted to state that Lieut. (who was shot through the ankle,) together with two of our men who were supporting him, fell into a shallow dry well or pit. Our men got out and I yielded to the supplication of the lieutenant and left him in the well. He was living in 1872. After the recovery of Stuckey, by my directions we all commenced talking and singing and safely entered our picket liiiCj and subsequently the Battery, without being tired on. Result: Two prisoners net taken, (three others had got away from us.) 20th South Carolina?One wounded, who afterwards died, 51st North Carolina?Three wounded, one, F. M. Garner, Company C, losing a leg. 18th Georgia?One wounded. 12th Georgia?Five wounded and five missing. These latter had formed the right half of the skirmish line, and in uncovering our front had passed into the marsh. From there two made their way to the Battery, arriving soon after we did, all covered with phosphorescence. The three finally missing no doubt got lost in the marsh. Total loss?Two killed, nine wounded and three missing. WHAT APPEARED TO THOSE AT BATTERY WAGNER TO HAPPEN. This was related to me by Judge Twiggs at Aiken, last February : After Maj: Twiggs had 1. i. ?.l 4... f|,A li.?ffrtt.tr siarieu ii.i uu, lie iciuiiiru lu me jjiuuit, Gen. Taliaferro, Col. Yates, Col. Nelson, Maj. Twiggs and other officers took position on the ramparts, to hear and see the firing. In due time they observed the firing at the breastworks attacked by us. Gen. Taliaferro remarked, "They are having a hot time, I hope they will get through all right !" Next the heavier fire from the second line broke out. Then Gen. Taliaferro became excited and exclaimed, "What does the little fool mean ? lie had no business going that far 1" Col. Nelson intimated that he was mistaken?that Major Rion was no fool. The General responded : "Well, he certainly is not the prudent man he was represented to be." He then turned to Maj. Twiggs and asked him if he had not given me wrong directions. The Major replied he had given me the instructions verbatim as he had been directed. The General remarked, "There has certainly been a great mistake somewhere." Subsequently when the main works of the enemy let loose, the General lost all patience and commenced abusing Maj. Twiggs and myself alternately ; the one for not making himself understood, and the other for foolhardy rashness. The Major warmly vindicated himself as best he could ; but my case was beyond justification. After the firing had ceased and quiet reigned over the island, and the attacking party been long given up as lost, we were heard approaching, and in due time made our entry into the Battery with our killed and wounded and prisoners. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENEMY. This was related to me by Capt. George IX Ramsey, of the United States engineers, while in charce of the Arsenal in Charleston. 1K7*2 : Capt. Ramsey was on the island at the time of our attack. Upon the attack on the first line, after a gallant defence, the 48th New York Regiment and the battery of artillery fell back upon the second line. This line, held by two regiments and two batteries, was in turn assaulted (?) when, after delivering some volleys, it gave way and fell back in comparative good order towards the main works. In the meanwhile some men from the first line, not stopping at the second line, hud fled to the main works and reported that all the troops in front had been gobbled up, and that an immense force of Confederates were advancing to retake the island. Upon this information the pickets were called in and everything made ready for the assault. When the forces which had occupied the two front lines were approaching the works they were greeted with the fire of the whole front, and quickly taking advantage of depressions in the sand and sand ridges to screen themselves, there remained until daylight. Near two hundred were killed and wounded by this fire before they could put themselves under cover. It must be remembered the Union troops had been on the island only five days, during which time they had met obstinate resistance ! at every point and had been roughly handled at battery Wagner. Hence their supposition that we had been heavily reinforced and were i attempting, with night as a cover from the iron clads and other war vessels, to recover j the island was very natural and supported by : appearances in their front. : Xolr.?l would be much obliged to any one | who would write nie at Winnsboro' and enaj ble nie to fill blanks left in the foregoing ! sketch, or correct any matter of detail or j name. Women's Shoes.?Take the most recent fashion of shoes. The heels of the human be! ing project outward or rather backward, j and give steadiness to "the sure and certain step of man." But fashion has decided that the heel of the boot or shoe shall get as near j the center of the instep as possible. Insead of the weight of the body resting upon an arch, i in the modern line lady it rest upon pegs with ! the toes in front which have to prevent the j body from toppling forward. Then the heel is so high that the foot rests upon the peg and the toes: and the gait is about as elegant as if | the lady were practicing walking upon stilts. | In order to poise on these two points a bend forward is necessitated, which is regarded as I the correct attitude of the "form divine." It is needless to say that there are few ankles which can stand this strain without yielding; i and it is quite common to see young ladies ! walking along with their ankles twisting all ; ways, or perhaps with the sole of their shoe or boot escaping from under the foot and the side of the heel in contact with the ground, j With such modern improvements on sandals j (which allow the feet perfect freedom and | playjthe present Mademoiselle, when she ati tempts to run, is a spectacle at which the ! gods?well not quite that, but at which her mother might well weep.?Cinnd Works. AGRICULTURE IN THE SOUTH. BY Til. POLLARD, EX-COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE OF VIRGINIA. IMPROVEMENT IN OUR LANDS. The modes of improvement of our lands are numerous and it seems strange that farmers know or practice so few of them, but the down hill road is easier to travel than an ascent (descensus Averni lacilis?the down hill road to ruin is easy) and how many farms in Virginia have been devastated, stripped of their fertility, their hillsides exposed to washing rains, the soil swept into the streams and red galls left to greet the desponding eye. "These things ought not to be," and this very red soil on our hills proves in most cases the natural goodness of our lands and their capabilities of production?not in all, for sometimes this red land, particularly in our Southern border, has too much sand in it. Improvements of our lands must come mainly from increase of stock; from green manuring, clover, peas, etc., from proper rotation of crops and proper cultivation of land, so as to give the land rest and nature an opportunity to restore to the soil some of the abstracted elements of fertility, from lime and commercial fertilizers. We should prefer to commence with LIME AS TIIE BASIS OF IMPROVEMENT. This not only furnishes one the neeessary constituents of many plants, but acts as a sol vein or mineral aim vegeiauio iu;nuu lwunu in the soil anil renders much of it available. In procuring a stand of clover lime is important, for once this stand obtained and the land will continue to improve if it is properly managed?that is not grazed. Let it stand two years, turn under the last crop, and putting it back to clover after not more than two crops. The quantity of lime must depend on the quality of the land and the amount of vegetable matter contained in it. Fifty bushels is considered a good dressing to begin with ; if the laud is thin and light a less quantity should be used, though if there is any excess the effects may be remedied by thrashing the land with straw or pine tags. Gas lime is a good form to use and near the cities may be gotten for two or three cents a bushel. If used strictly from the gas-house it contains some sulphuret calcium which fires crops, but by a few weeks' exposure this becomes converted into sulphite of lime, which is an advantage 1o many soils. I have tried gas lime with oats seeded in the spring with clover, all being dragged together, and with the production of .in excellent crop of oats with unsurpassed first crop of clover. In Tide-water, Va., marl has been successfully used in getting a stand of clover 011 lands which otnerwi.se wouiu not pronuce it. ? inwriter, by clearing up old field pines, first cutting them down and permitting them to decay on the land for six to twelve months, then plowing and then marling, produced good stands of clover. The marl used was 75 per cent, carbonate of lime, and from 250 to 300 bushels were applied to the acre. This quantity is generally required, as the lime is in quite an insoluble state and has slowly to be disintegrated by weathering and stirring the land. Mr. Edward Ratlin, the author of a work on "Calcareous Manures," which went through several editions, was the pioneer in the use of marl in Virginia. He was very enthusiastic on the subject and there is no doubt but what he much improved his two farms, one in Prince George's and the other in Hanover, by the use of marl, clover and peas. Later in farming life he lias used green sand marl, which in Virginia is an admixture of carbonate of lime and green sand, the active principle of which is potash. The marl (Eocene) underlies the carbonate of lime (Tertiary) and extends from the head of the tide to iibout 25 or .'0 miles below Richmond, and 1 is found on the James and Pamunkey principally. Prof. W. B. Rodgers, in his geological survey of Virginia, gives several analyses of this marl, particularly of the deposits found 1 on the Pamunkey. Green sand marl has decided advantages over the other as the potash it contains makes it very favorable to the production of clover. We have all heard of the wonderful effects of it on the land of New Jersey, and Prof. H. 1). Rogers, brother to ! Prof. W. B. Rogers, in his Geological survey of New Jersey, speaks of the great effects pro- ! duced by it on the sandy, thin lands of that State, some of them he says, not being much more than sand banks. Before the war when our farmers had plenty of hands and much more capital than they have now, marling was quite extensively resorted to. Now they are neglecting it a great deal too much. Though they cannot now generally marl large areas 1 most of them could go over a small quantity 1 each year, put that in clover and be gradually \ extending the area and improving their fields, j Recently ground limestone has been brought forward as a better improver of lands than ' buried lime, though it seems to have been used for a considerable period and recently revived. We have had frequent inquiries on : this subject and have replied that we could : see no reason in its chemical or mechanical ' condition why it should act better or even as 11 1 :^..l IS^rv K..* xt I well <l? UUUCU illlJC, Ulll tllUb L11C1C luifcliu UK. some reason for its action not explicable by chemical science?probably on the principle that some mineral waters liaye decided action on the human economy, where chemical analysis shows scarcely anything in sufficient quantity to be medicinal. The principle reason we have seen adduced for the agricultural action of ground limestone is that it contains much carbonic acid, which is a promoter of plant growth, but then the atmosphere and the rain waters percolating the earth have plenty of this ingredient for the use of plants. Another argument I have seen for its use is that vegetation along a certain McAdemized road was much better than a little farther off, supposed to be produced by the particles of lime raised by traveling and settling on the grass near the road; but this may be fallacious. For some reason vegetation is always better on either side of a trodden path than farther olf and generally on roadsides. We have recently seen an experiment reported by a correspon dent or me <;ounir>/ nenucman pv in. n.etru, of Pennsylvania) where Sou puumls ground limestone at a cost of ?1.20 produced 55.7 bushels of wheat to the acre ; salt, 1 barrel at a cost of 81, produced 20.0 bushels' to the acre; while guano, 408 pounds, cost 84.50, produced 20.il bushels to the acre ; phosphate, 810 pounds, cost ?7.28, produced 517.5 bushels to the acre; bone dust, 500 pounds, cost ?5.10, produced .'17.7 bushels per acre ; and fertilizer yielded 14il bushels per acre. Mr. Reed professes to have conducted the experiment with much care and the yields were by the thrasher's measure. These results, if true, are astonishing as regards the ground limestone and salt. The ground limestone beat them all when reference is made to cost. Well the farmers must try ground limestone and compare the results. Salt has been frequently tried on wheat, and it is singular ! with what varying opinions of its effects. The ! experience of English farmers has however generally been in its favor, if we may trust : some recent reports. We can scarcely credit ' that one barrel of salt (0 bushels) should have ! more than doubled the crop of wheat. I An evidence we did not mention of the genj eral eflicacy of lime is that limestone soils are I almost universally good?we mean where found I naturally??uul that they yield certain crops of j j wheat, grass, clover, and usually produce well j the other crops, lint for the limestone lands i I i/iwrl.m/l elm I'liiinti'v never have at- ! \JL .Ull?.?...vt *..v, v,v- .r - tained its present degree of fertility ; siiul the limestone hinds in Virginia are the most valuable and most productive. We have spoken in a former number of TIIE VALUE OF STOCK IN' THE JMl'UOVKMKN'T OF LAN'US. This point is not sulliciently appreciated. One kind of stock alone, sheep, could be made to effect a wonderful improvement in our lands. There are large areas of land in Virginia and the Southern States now unproducdactive, dead, tax-paying capital, besides the loss of interest on the capital, which would feed millions of sheep, that would yield a large per centage in wool, lambs and mutton, besides improving the lands greatly. If farmers would increase their native ewes, and use only improved rams their sheep would increase in value, producing the best wool, the best lambs and mutton. No stock will improve land like sheep, living as they do on coarse grasses and shrubs, clearing up the lands, and by their droppings all the time adding to the fertility of the soil. Farmers cannot have manure in any quantity without increasing their stock. Green manuring will add greatly to the improvement of our lands ; clover, peas, rye and vetch, or partridge pea, where it is not intended to raise wheat, which now in Virginia is an unprofitable crop generally, are the principal green crops to be turned under. Where the land will not produce clover, then I would lime it, sow in peas, turn them under and follow with winter oats, wheat or perhaps rye lor soiling. If rye is seeded in August it may be grazed until early in spring, then cut in April for soiling, and a seoond crop, more or less in quantity, in proportion to the quality of the land, and earliness of seeding, taking care not to graze it too much. After the use of peas and rye, if the land will not produce clover, then we would go over the same process, except the lime. Courting on Sunday.?The Heading (ua.) IHmes says: An opinion was filed a few days ago in the Supreme Court, in the case of Charles Markley, a bachelor of 53 years, against whom. Eliza Kessering, a maiden of 38, obtained a verdict of $998.75, in the Lancaster County Court, for breach of promise of marriage. The parties of this love affair lived in May town, Lancaster county. An engagement of marriage took place on Sunday, the 10th day of August, 1879. The courtship had been very short, and was minus the warmth of heart usually displayed in such preliminaries. Indeed, the engagement was spoken of as a most extraordinary affair. Markley purchased his lady love a number of presents, and seemingly prepared for the wedding day. What fire was in his heart, however, suddenly cooled, and one evening lie told Miss Kessering, who was a seamstress, that he guessed he was too old and lame to get married. lie gave as a reason that his father was lying at the point of death, and it would not be proper to marry under such circumstances. His sweetheart never spoke to him again, but straightway instituted proceedings to recover a balm for the affliction of her heart. The jury before whom the case was tried was a business-like one, and, by their verdict, they calculated to the very cent the injury Miss Kessering had sustained. Markley's appeal to the Supreme Court was based upon several reasons, the m~st important of which was that the alleged contract of marriage had taken place on Sunday, and was. therefore, invalid, the same as any other contract, business-like or social, made on that day. The opinion of the Supreme Court in Jiiufiiiiinrf tlia vnrfii/'t. nf t.llP illl'V SUV'S tllilt there was nothing in any of the assignments of error to warrant a reversal. The case was properly submitted to the jury, and the fact that the contract of marriage was entered into on Sunday could not avail, in view of the evidence which was overwhelming to the effect that the engagement had been subsequently recognized by Markley. A Cherokee Belle.?There are some remarkable types of beauty among the native Cherokee women, which will account for the fascination which they have exercised over white adventurers from the earliest contact of the two races, and which has caused the large intermixture of white blood so noticeable in the present condition of the nation. One of these wasconspicuousamongtho.se in attendance upon this gathering. "When I saw her she sat with a companion upon the trunk of a fallen tree engaged in the familiar occupation of Pleasant lliderhood in twisting her shining black hair, which had fallen down. She was dressed with great neatness in a white jacket and clean print gown, with a chip hat and a red ribbon around her throat. When her black locks were arranged they lay "Crisped like a war steed's eucolure" over a low brow, which they swept with a natural wave. The features were of barbaric beauty, and of a tropic mould of contour, which the full lips and the high cheekbones emphasized, but did not dsfigure. The small, rather black eyes, glowed with a steady fire, and the whole aspect of the face might be described as radiant and grave, yet full of animal life and power of passion. Iler complexion was of a rich walnut color, with the rich blood giving a red stain to the cheeks, and showing so clearly as to suggest a realization of the graphic Irish expression that "the point of a rush would bring blood to her cheeks." This was Miss Eagle Brown, the daughter of Hunter Brown, a full-blood Cherokee, and one of the finest and most characteristic types of her race.?Providence JournaL Artillery Firing.?It has always been the aim of artillerists so to propotion the size of the powder chamber in the gun, the amount of powder, and the size of the projectile, that the full power of the explosion shall be brought upon the projectile without any esoai>e of gases, or unburnt material. The cartridge, which would seem to the uninitiated to explode all at once, does not in reality do so. It burns through from end to eiul, and as it does so, the expanding force of the gasses evolved acts with increasing power on the projectile as it moves along the bore of the gun. Now, it has been proved by experience that if slowburning powder be exploded in a vessel sufficiently strong to withstand the j shock, it can be ignited?turned into gas? and held, as it were, in subjection for any required time. This fact has been taken ad- j vantage of by a British artillerist, Captain Maitlaml. By means of a metal ring fixed round the base of the shot, he retains it in the breech of the gun until the powder is sufficiently fired to produce a pressure of about two tons to the square inch. By this means an altogether unprecedented velocity is obtained. It will be understood that the meth- i od is only applicable to the breech-loading ! ordnance, and that the retention ring is somewhat larger than the bore through which it! has ultimately to be forced by the pent-up j gases. A Lion Tamer's Methods.?The London j Saturday Review publishes the following story of the manner in which Henri Martin, the < (-..n.n/1 .. tmo,. . !?) ! Cl'ICIJL'ilLl'U HUH lillllUl, IIlot iiimtu <* i/igti uim i ii hyena. In the case of the tiger he began by I taking the brute's attention off the door of ! the cage, and then, armed with a dagger, went j rapidly into the cage and stood looking at the tiger, which for some minutes lay motionless, staring at -liim. Then, feeling afraid, and knowing that, if the tiger noticed it, it would be all over with him, he went swiftly out. At j the end of a fortnight he went again into the ! cage, and this time staid there half an hour. A third time lie paid the tiger a visit of threequarters of an hour. No information is given as to what kind of hyena it was that Martin first encountered; but to judge from the account of the animal's ferocity, it is likely to have been the hyena croenla, the tiger-wolf of the Cape of (food Hope colonies, than the more easily tamed and less fierce striped hyena. Martin wrapjied his legs and arms round with ! cords and protected his head with handker- ] clriefs, and then walking into the cage, went straight to the hyena and offered it his forearm. The hyena bit it, and the tamer, looking steadily in its eyes, stood motionless. The I next day he repeated the e.\|>eriment. substi- i tuting a leg for an arm. Why Rest is Essential.?Nature, says j the Lomlou Teleyrayh, while she specially built the human form to stand habitually erect, has specially decreed that men and women should occasionally rest themselves by asanniitinr :i SPilentiirV UOSitioll. AllUOSt every medical authority on deformities of the human I body has drawn attention to the fact that | standing too long operates in a vicious direc-! tion, which, by elongating certain muscles,! weakens them ; that from the necessity of J changing position in order to rest the muscles j it occurs that when people are standing they I alternately balance themselves first on one leg and then on the other, but most frequently on the left ; and that a girl with a weak spine, after standing upright for a time, generally does I not keep her feet in the same line, but places one above the other. Curvature of the spine, albeit temporary is the result, the habit of standing upon one leg?a habit almost unavoidable in standing too long?induces the shoulders to lose their horizontal level. The one opposite to the projecting hip becomes higher than the other and the spine becomes deformed laterally at this part. To deny seats to female shop assistants is downright cruelty. A MAIL ROBBER'S STORY. THE CONFESSION OK A LATTER DAY FOOTPAD. With heavy gyves clanking in dull, motalie ring at each movement, Henry W. Burton, confessed murderer and mail robber, sat wearily on the bench in a cell in the Central Station, where he was brought from the prison in Detroit last evening by United States Marshal Matthews, of Michigan. Burton never smoked a cigar or pipe, or used tobacco in any other form, nor has he ever taken a drink of intoxicating liquor. lie never swears, and he said last evening that the sound of an oath cuts him like a knife. He was born in Texas. "My father was a ranchman," said he, "his name was White, and my right name is Samuel White. When I was thirteen years of age my father was shot by James liown in a quarrel. It was when I was twenty-one years of age that I met Rown for the first time. It was in a camp in Rockdale county, Texas. I was told who he was. Stepping in front 'of him I exclaimed, "You are my father's mur- . derer,"and before he had time to draw a pisA-l T ~1- -4- US 4.1 u lwT n.nn .... lui, 1 SUUL 111 III LIUUUgll Lin* uu<u u. X nno airested afterward for the offense, and served a short time of imprisonment. After my discharge 1 began my career as a mail robber, or train-agent. I worked without any assistance whatever ; always alone. In April, 1877, I stopped a mail express in Rockdale county, Texas. There were fourteen passengers in the stage. You would hardly think it possible that one man could intimidate so many, but I erected dummies that in the dark looked like men surrounding the vehicle. Tiien I made the passengers step out of the coach, one by one, after first attending to the driver and the guard by crippling them with a shot a piece from my revolver. As the passengers alighted I threw black hoods over their eyes and fastened their hands behind their backs. I got $4,000 from this haul, but was arrested soon after and sentenced to an imprisonment for life. I was pardoned through the influence of friends within two years. "I went to Colorado. I cannot tell how it was, but after drifting about for a time I returned to my old pursuits. One dark night" about a year ago I learned that the stage on the road between Dreadnaught and Asamosa, in Colorado, was full of passengers and carried a rich mail. I erected several canvas tents and built dummies looking like men on both sides of the road. I barred the road with two poles, fastened forkwise. Shortly after midnight the vehicle came dashing along the road. The horses caught on the stakes and rolled to the ground. One by one I ordered the driver and the passengers to alight. There were fourteen passengers, any one of whom could have knocked me down, for I am a cripple, remember; but out they came as gentle as lambs, looked at my dummy men and trembled with fear. After my trial in the September term of the court, 1881, in Colorado, 1 was being taken from Chicago to Detroit when I disarmed the Sheriff and his two deputies who had me in custody. This was in the cars. 1 had the Sheriff's revolver pointed at his head. In an instant more I would have blown his brains out, but a passenger, Miss Alice Smith, a lady whom I had never seen before, and whom I have never met since, threw herself upon me, begging for the Sheriff's life. I think I am too tender-hearted. Escape was open for me, but Miss Smith called out, "Think of the man's wife and children." Without a word I handed the revolver back to the Sheriff and submitted without a sound of complaint to having shackles placed upon my hands and feet." Philadelphia Press. Mammoth Cave.?Bishop Warren gives this vivid description of the great cave: One's general idea of a cave is that of an open space under ground, or in a mountain side. Mammoth Cave is made up of passages, avenues, and tortuous crooks, rather than vast open spaces. You can take the short route (seven miles,) to be done in two hours, the long (sixteen miles,) to be done in four, the combined to be done in from five to twelve or more. We chose the combined. There are avenues down which one could drive a coach and four if fairly cleared upon the floor. There are places that are mere cracks, justly named "fat man's misery," "tall man's abasement," and "corkscrews.-" Ilere is the River Styx, Lake Lethe, Echo River, running under an arch so low that a little rise in the water renders passage impossible. Sometimes it rises unexpectedly and leaves parties in the dark beyond the arches unable to return until the water subsides. I saw the eyeless fish of these dark rivers ; their principal use in this world being to serve Dr. Bushnell for an illustration in his sermon on "extirpation of unused faculties." Ileie and there amid these long passages are open spaces called "domes," where the water-carved rock rise ninety, or a hundred, or a hundred and thirty feet from the floor. When these places are lighted up by the brilliant Bengal light they are both weird and grand. The variety of formations in the cave surpasses anything I have ever witnessed. In most caves the stalactite and stalagmite system are easily understood, but the lower ends are delicately grooved in various directions, by what process it is imiwssiMe to imagine. Intermingled with these ham like figures are variously sized guttie, as delicately cut as the figures cut by the Greeks upon the Parthenon. In some parts of the cave the gypsum has crystalized into snow-balls that glitter over the whole roof; in other places there are delicate flowers, some inches in diameter. The stalactite pillars are comparatively few, but exceeding curious. In one place half a dozen form a kind of bower in which four couples have been married. The first bride promised her mother not to be married while she lived on earth. A very foolish promise, and this was her way to keep it, and also get married. The Max in tiie Moon.?The man in the moon is one of the most popular, and perhaps one of the most ancient superstitions in the world. The name is given to the dark lines and spots upon the surface of the moon which are visible to the naked eye. Some say that these lines and spots are the figure of a man leaning on a fork 011 which he carries a bundle of thorns or brushwood, for taking which on Sunday he was confined in the moon. Some of those, versed in such lore, explain that this story undoubtedly had its origin in the incident recorded in the 15th chapter of the book of Numbers, ynd 32d verse. With the Italians, Cain appears to have been the offender. The Jews have some Talmudical Story that Jacob is in the moon, and they believe his face is visible. Bishop Wilkins wrote that "as the forme of these spots, some of the vulgar thinke they represent a man, and poets guess 'tis the boy Eudymion, whose company she loves so well that she carries him with her: others will have it to be only the face of a man, as the 1110011 is usually pictured ; but Alburtus thinkes rather that it represents a lyon, with his tail toward the east and his head toward the west ; and some others thought it to lie much like a fox ; and certainly it is as much like a lyon as that in the Zodiake, or as the lTrsa Minor is like a beare." TJ.5T-vr.rtrt,, VPVTIT ATT/AV T<? it liwpssflrv ijr.i/nuvji r ? --- ^ to state that the sickeningodors so perceptible attiie first of the morning in any ill-ventilated sleeping apartment arise from the fact that a considerable volume of carbonic acid, with the vapor of perspiration and other animal exhalations, are mingled with the atmosphere of the chamber? Science proves that all these products are deadly poisons. Nature expels them from the system because they poison the system. Vet we insist on enclosing thetn within four walls. We shut up doors, windows, and ever, chimney places, that not a particle may escape. Nay, we surround our beds with close drawn curtains, for the express purpose, it would seem, of preventing ventilation, for the express purpose of hugging close to the poisonous atmosphere of our own bodies, and so re-absorbing into our systems the very atoms which, by the laws of God, have been cast out because they are detrimental. That we do reabsorb these iwisons needs 110 proof. The same act of breathing which renders them percept ible to the sense of smell, causes them to visit every air cell, to permeate every blood vessel of the lungs, and come into positive contact with all the countless myriads of streams which are traversing the one hundred and sixty-six square yards of respiratory surface.? ?? Tlx (httlnok,