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y r\ r) ( \j I iI ] V r11\| r^i!] il!11 v1 L) J JjiiX 1/ J 12-,?, -l-j J .y U J j"-L, .n. lewis m. ?rist, proprietor. J Jnitejieniicnt flctosjiapcr: ?ot the ^promotion of the political, Social, Agricultural anil Coat&craal Interests of the South. jTERJls??2.r,o a year, in advance. VOL. 28. YOEKVJ.LLE. S. C? THTJESDAY, A-TIGIJST 17, 1882. XO. :L">. She j?torj> icllev. THE INVALID CLERK. It was the twilight of a crisp, cold winter lay. Outside, the rawing of a tlockof belated crows made sorrowful music, as their wings . were outlined against the deepening orange of the sunset, while in the cozy farm kitchen tin? lamp was already lighted, and Mrs. Flint was, bustling about preparing the evening meal, while Marah, Iter niece, sat and sowed with dying fingers on the household linen. ' "I should like it so much, aunt,'"'said the girl, lifting her eyes wistfully to the old lady's face. uHut, Marah," said Mrs. Flint, setting the , earthenware teapot where its fragrant leaves j could steep slowly on the back of the stove, i j "1 don't see how I can spare you, my dear, i, There is so much to do, now that grandma is j feeble, and your uncle has to hire two men for . the wood cutting, and they've got to be board- J ed here, and your cousin Louisa is coining ( i....... ...;o, i.ui. ..niniruii unt il snriiur." < uric nan iki . f n. Marah sighed softly. \V:ts it always to bo j ' her lot to be sacrificed for the general good of , others V "I never earned any money for myself, aunt." ,, she said. "And this is such an excellent op- ! portunity to get a place in Mr. Marchlaud's !' store. Sue Nellis has written to me that there ( will k1 a vacancy in the fancy department very ( soon, and ?'" ".lohn Marchland is a sort of distant rela- j lion of ours, too," said Mrs. Flint. "Though j I've never seen him. 1 knew his mother well. !. And I dare say he would give you a good place !' and be kind to you, if you entered his store. ) It would be an excellent chance for you to see i the world, too. For 1 know it's a dull life ! here, my dear, but I don't sec any help for it ! i ' Perhaps in a year or two we can spare you bet-:, ter." j. So Marah Flint was compelled to give up the , ] little plan over which she had dreamed so j ( many pleasant dreams. For Marah was only j, eighteen, and she hjul always lived in the backwoods, and won: her aunt's old dresses made j over, and waited meekly on grandma and uncle !, Aimer. j J Mr. Marchland himself was. perhaps, a little j disappointed, when Miss Nellis, the forewo-1 man, whose father owned the next farm to ! Abner Flint's, asked him if she should pro- . mote one of the packing girls to the vacant j] place in the fancy department. I . "Put I thought you were going to write to ; J that little unknown cousin of mine V" said he. ! . "So I did." said Miss Nellis; "but they j can't spare her from home, it seems. It's a clear case of (,'inderilla among the ashes. ' She is the sweetest, most unselfish girl I ever j saw ; but. all the same it's a shame that she ! should be buried alive in that sort of way." "Very well." said Mr. Marchland, "I suppose she understands her own business best, j Put Julia Finch in the place." The next day, I'nclc Aimer Flint, to his in-! finite amazement, received a brief note from ! Marchland A: Co.. asking if it would be con-1 venient for him to receive as a boarder for. a j few weeks, a young man from the store, whose health required change ami rest. "I will be responsible for his board," wrote j < Mr. Marchland. "He has only his own exer- j tions to depend on. and I am sure I may so far !: presume on our distant relationship as to trust j that you will receive him kindly." ? "Marah." said Mrs. Flint, in some perplex- ( ity. "what are we to do ?" "Whv. take the poor fellow, of course." j said Marali. **liut it will make more work." said Mrs. < ~ Flint. I< "Xever mind the work." said cheery Marali. j "I dare say wo can manage it between us." i 1 "Marali always did look on tin* sunny side ;1 of things." saiil I"ncrlu Abuer, who serenely ; left the domestic administration to iiis women-1 kind. u\\*e don't wan't n<? boarders here," said Cousin Louisa, a low-spirited young matron i who talked through her nose, and cried and : sniffed a good deal over her troubles. "There's i only just room for the dear children, and me now. that the wood-cutters have the north j liedroom." "There's the little room with the sloping : ? roof close to the chimney." suggested Marali. J '"where we keep the chests of linen, and herbs, i and seed corn. We might lit that up nicely.- j I could put down a breadth of new rag-carpet beside the bed, and make curtains out of the j worn-out sheets; and. 1 dare say the young; man won't be particular." "Hut he's a mere clerk?a porter for all we I know." whined Cousin Louisa, whose deecas- j ed husband had been a bar-tender in a railway j saloon. "1 guess it won't hurt us to associate with j him." said Cncle Abner, drvly;"and I tell; you what, mother, if our Marali has all the j extra work and care, she shall have the board j money, eh?" "Oh course she shall," said Mrs. Flint. And Cousin Louisa sighed deeply, and re- < marked "that some folks always had all the. luck, and she never got no chance to earn money !" The young man from the store arrived?a mild, unassuming person, who was very quiet ami made very little trouble. He walked in j < wi. i :.i .....l the pine woous? ror ins iieaim, in- >aiu?mm helped the stalwart wood-eutters now and then. He sat hy the lire and read, lie answered I'nele Aimer's questions about the J house of Marehland A Co.. with great frankness. Ves. he liked the business, lie hoped in time to work his way up in it. Mr. March-1 land was very kind to him. He did not consider Mr. Marehland a haughty miser ithis in reply to Cousin Louisa, i Mr. Marehland proh-; ably had his faults, but it was not his place! to criticise his employer. "l'onr fellow," said Cousin Louisa, when he had gone out with Cncle Abner to ride with the ox team into the woods. "I don't s'pose he gets six dollars a week, to judge by his talk. I thought p'r'aps 1 might be induced to change ! my widowed condition, if he was a lik'dy I'd- j low, with a good income. But 1 guess I shan't waste none of my attent ions on him !" ' He seems very quiet and pleasant." said Marnh. "And lie steps about awful spry for a sick j man," remarked grandma, who sat knittingin the chimney-corner. Oh," said Mrs. Flint, "lie isn't real sick. He's only a little down with malaria and oyer-work. He'll be all right by spring : you just see if he won't !" At the end of the lirst week, when he offered to pay his board, Mrs. Flint gave it back to him. "Von needn't mention it to your employer, Mr. .lohnson," said she i.Iohu Johnson was the name on the boarder's valisei. "But we was thiukin*. me and Marah. that p'r'aps you wasn't very well off. and so we'd make you a nf t lie board." I" * "x - You are very kind." said 1 In* voting man. with a slightly llushed fan*, "but ** "It's Marah's present. not iiiim'.*"ail<h*?l Mrs. Flint, bluntly. "We toM her she should haw the money for the board. lint she thinks you need it liiore'n she does." "I do not know how* I shall ever thank her.''said the boarder, fervently, lint lie did not argue the point am further. Ami Mrs. Flint eonfidentially iuformed her niece that "she believed the board money was quite an object to Mr. Johnson, poor fellow." While ('ousin Louisa elevated her liomau nose and remarked that "she didn't take murh stock in paupers. If folks couldn't support themselves decently." she thought, "they'd ought to go to the poor-houses." Marah. however, had all her sympathies thoroughly enlisted in behalf of the silent \oung guest. She mended his stockings on tlie sly?she saw* that his linen was put in good order?she made little dainties to tempt his rat her feeble appet ite from t iiue to t hue. "You are very good to me." he said, one day. as he saw her swift needle gliding in and out of a pocket-handkerchief of his. which had got torn among the bushes from which he had been gathering scarlet wild-berries. She ? smiled. "We are both solitary and alone in the world." she said. "Only that you are friendless. and 1 ha\e my good uncle and aunt to rely on." "I am not so friendless as I was a tew weeks ago,*' said In*. "Fori venture now to count you among the list of my friends. '! have even dared to hope " "What ?" she asked, without looking up. while the color deepened on her cheek, and her eyes were intently fixed on the gleaming progress of her needle. "That if I can provide a humble home in New York on my return you will not disdain to share it with me. Tell me. Marah, do you think you could care for me?" The tears sparkled in MaralFs eyes. "Have I allowed you to discover how dearly I love you V" "And 1 loved you. Marah," he said, gravely, "when first I looked upon your face." So Marah Flint promised to be the wife of, the young man from the store. Mrs. Flint sighed and shook her head, and said she didn't know how ever she should manage without Marah. (iraudina expressed herself to the effect that Marah would make the best little wife in the world. Facie A1?-, ner said "he s'posed gals would get married, md they couldn't expect to keep her forever." ; L'ousin Louisa said "she thoiiglit the gal was t razv, to marrv a poor clerking fellow like' that'!" The young man smiled as he sat beside i Marah, in the light of the evening hearth. "1 don't call myself a second Kothschild,'* 1 said he, "and lam certainly conversant with ill the duties pertaining to a clerk's office. But. after all, perhaps 1 am u?u qiiiu: a canuilate for the almshouse. For 1 have not claimed all the names in this house to which 1 am entitled. 1 am John Johnson, it is true, lint 1 am also John Johnson Marehlaml, the lieatl of the lirm of Marchlaud A: Co. And I tm Marah's third-cousin into the bargain." "Je?rusalein !'' exclaimed honest old Fncle Abner. "And what brought you here "Well," said Mr. Marchland, "1 had heard Miss Xt*llis speak of my cousin Marah, and 1 felt a sort of curiosity to see her just as she : was. I had been suiliciently disgusted by the , lirs and graces of city young ladies to wish for a genuine wild-wood blossom, so 1 (tame to the old Connecticut farm, and here 1 have sin ceded in finding my ideal." "Bless me!" cried Mr. Flint. "So our little 1 Marah will be a rich lady after all, and wear j i silk frock everyday, and keep a hired girl j to do the kitchen work !" "Shedeserves it all." said grandma. "Laws-a-massy !" said Cousin Louisa. "While silent Marah was perhaps the most Astonished of all. She felt like the heroine j ;>f fairy tales, whose sober, brown coated peasant-lover is turned suddenly in the beau titul young prince, all sparkling with diamonds. But she was very happy. And it was as grandma said : she deserved it. " ! g}t5rclUn(0tt!S Reading, j THE PENNSYLVANIA CAMPAIGN. .mNjowax's isuioadk at okttysuiko. I l.t. C* ]. Jo-. M. Ilrowti. ill til** <'li.irl'*>tini WVrkly Wws. I'im11*t the Act of Congress approved June P, j lssu. entitled "An Act tocomplete the survey i?f the Cettysburg battle-liehl, und to provide for the compilation and preservation of data, showing t he various posit ions and movements of troops at that battle, illustrated by diagrams." 1 was requested by Col. I>. Wyatt Aiken. M. t'.. to meet Col. John 15. I?atchelder, the histo- j rian and a landscape painter, to whom the j work was committed under said Act, and to point out the positions and movements of Me-! Cowan's Brigade, in order to preserve our | Confederate success on that hard-fought battle-lield. Col. Baehehler also wrote me to meet j liiui and the Union ollieers commanding the opposing forces on the lirst day of the battle, j and fixed June 14th for the day of the meeting. | We met. as requested, and spent two days in j (lie work, one of which was taken up. chieily, . with the battle of the lirst day. There was not the least difficulty in establishing every position and movement of the brigade, in all of which the Union ollieers concurred with me. We had stakes driven into the ground at all proper points, and Col. Batchelder assured me that he would take pleasure in giving us a cor- | reet showing in his illustration of the battle. The Union ollieers very frankly admit their defeat, and the retreat through thetowu, qualifying it with their weary condition from long forced marches. As heavy as were our losses, i theirs were much greater. JosKi'ii N. lliaiwx. i Til K K\; A<I KM 1*1 NT. (Jen. McCowan and Capt. A. C. Haskell. A. A. <;.. were both severely wounded at Chani? :ii. > 1 ddd I 'ill \ 1 umr Pi.p. ceuorsviiie, 100.1. <in<i ..... ........ ... rin. of the Fourteenth South Carolina, commanded the Hrigade on tin' Pennsylvania campaign. with Liml. -I. <>. liainwt-11. of tin; First as his A. A. (J. Tin* lield olliccrs of the several regiments were : Major C. \V. McCrcary. First: Major \\. M. llathlon. < Mt's Hillcs; Col. .1. L. Miller. hieiit.-Col. II. ('. Davis, anil Major K. F. Uookter. Twelfth: Col. 15. T. IJroikinan and Lieut.-Col. I. F. Hunt. Thirteenth : Lieut.-Col. .Joseph X. Urown and Major Kdward Croft, Fourteenth, and Capt. W. T. Haskell, of the First, commanded the I5attalion of Sharpshooters. < >n the doth day of dime. isiid. the armies of (Jens. Lee and Meade were in Pennsylvania. The long inarch from the Ilappahannoek had relieved hoth armies of all their weak and faint-hearted, and none hut hrave and strong men had marched there to battle. They went there prepared in their minds for hard lighting, ami lIn* make-up of the mind has much to do in making the light of the soldier. The t 'nion soldier had now heen recalled from Virginia to defend his own soil. On the morning of the doth day of .Inne. A. 1'. Hill's corps moved from the Cunihcrlaml Valley and crossing the mountains to the eastern side, encamped near their hase. i'ender's light division of this corps comprised the four brigades of (Jen. K. L. Thomas, of Hem-gin. Hen. .lames 11. Lane, of North Carolina, (ten. A. M. Scales, of North Carolina, and < Jen. Samuel MeHowan. of South ( 'arolina. till-: i.ink (?l r.at i i.k. On the morning of the lirst day of .July an early comlict appeared imminent. McHowan's brigade was called to arms. Artillery and infantry were passing towards Hettyslmrg. six miles distant. Artillery liring opened in front. Maj. lladdon. with Orr's regiment, was detached from the brigade for guard duty. The remainder of the brigade, with the lield and stall' olliccrs already mentioned, moved towards the town. A line of battle was formed, with Hen. Lane's brigade on the right. McHowan's in the centre, and Hen. Scales on the left. The left rested on the Chambersburg turnpike, (ten. Thomas's brigade was not inline. (Jen. Perrin gave orders to the lield and stall, and then communicated to the rank and tile, that they were to move forward without tiring. That they were not to stop under au\ circumstances, hut to close in. press the enemy close and rout it from its position. The liring of artillery increased and that of small arms began. This continued for several hours, during which time the 1 1 1 In. nl':n-t iuie iji m;uu-ii|>|>M>ium M 11\ kivi i... r?-st iiiir at intt-rvals in the shaded woods. Rumors of disaster and success alternately passed .iIt?ntf tin- lines, derived from tin* wounded and prisoners. <?cn. Reynolds, eoniinaiuliiiy 1 lie I iiion Army, had been killed, (o-ncral Arelier. of our army, had been wounded, and lie, with Inost of his brigade of (?eii. Iletli*.I >i \isio|i. had been raptured. I hit Upon tlx whole the advantage wa> on our side, ami by i o'clock I'. .M. the I'tiiou A riny had fallen hack to a line of hastily constructed breast' works ?if earth, rails and the like on the slope front iun'and west of the Lutheran seminary, one-fourth of II mile west 111 the town. 'I'lli? line was continued by a stroiiif stone fenei betiinninyr some two hundred yards south o| the Seminary near a brick house, and runiiim. southwardly aloni; the crest of Seminary Ridu'e. and a little further hack, or east. thai the breastworks. (>n the t uriipike, and neai the Seminary, the Lnion artillery was strong ly posted, heine on our left. As thus present ci| (on. Scales on our left had on his left dank all this artillery and in his front tin rail and earthworks above described full ol L'nioti soldiers pressed back, lint not defeated and replenished with fresh troops from the ; rear. IN* FltOXT OF M'OOWAN'S lilCIOADK wore the breastworks defended by the same line continuing southward. In front of (ion. 1 Lane was the strong stone fence, behind which ' was posted a strong line of dismounted cavalry with repeating rilles, which ontllanked him. The ground from these works and the stone fence presented a gradually declining slope to the valley westward : then on a level of about two hundred yards, then a like gradual ascent up to the crest of the ridge, making perhaps half a mile from crest to crest, and presenting the fairest field and finest front for destine- I tion on an advancing foe that could well be conceived. Til K ASSAI I.T. If. in this position of affairs the brigades of ?' (Jens. Scales and Lane should fail to keep pace with MctJowan's in the assault to be , made, it would be no disparagement of their I gallant officers and men. It was an impos- ( sibiiity. 1 lie centre must ue nroKen. The order to advance was now given. The order to hold lire until ordered, press forward ; and close in on the enemy was repeated. The i Thirteenth Hegiment was 011 the right, next I, the Fourteenth, next Twelfth, and next j, First. Fussing a burning house on our right ; and crossing a small run, the brigade mount- j ed the hill beyond and passed over the crippled lines of (Jen. Fettigrcw's Brigade, which, i ( after hours of gallant lighting, had been with- j1 drawn and were resting from their toils. In front and in view amid the grove of trees was the Seminary now changed from the halls of learning to scenes of bloodshed and carnage. Beyond was a beautiful town partly concealed ' from view by the shade trees surrounding the ' seminary, its bun inhabitants were a thrif- i ty. industrious and moral people. Crests of i ridges in successive ranges stretched south- l wardlv with the richest valleys between. Be- | yond and to the south of the town rising still I higher was Cemetery Heights, so soon to become historic ground. It was hut the glance I of the eye for a moment and then its grand-j i cur was lost in the tumult of battle. I i STOI5.M stIOT AND SIIF.I.I.. The advancing columns now moved on and i encountered the storm of shot and shell from j' the batteries on the turnpike fronting (Jen. j'" Scales, and pressed on as ordered, without lir-1 ing until the line of breast works in front be-1 came a sheet of lire and smoke, sending its j 1 1 l. tl... nf imhi i 1 J < a?l 111 * 11 llliTVillivi m uumi in i?.? .... .. who had often, lint never so terribly, met it j 1 before. The impenetrable masses of artillery ! ' and infantry in front and on the flank of (Jen. ' Scales impeded his progress, enfilading and ( sweeping his whole front, lie was wounded j . and every Held ollieer of his brigade, save one. : 1 had fallen. In like manner, on our right. 1 (Jen. Lane was held in cheek by the stone wall |' in his front, and the cavalry on his flunk, |' threatening certain destruction if his advance ' continued. The valley had nearly been reach- ' ed. The want of sup|xn t on the right and left i exposed the brigade to a raking enfilade lire ! from both right and left without abatement m | ' front. j i STII.I. l-'OI! WAIll). h To stop was destruction. To retreat was ! J disaster. To go forward was 'orders." Then (Jen. renin on horseback dashing through the j' lines of the brigade, and with his Hashing |' wened in l he cveniinr sunshine and his voice', above the din of bat lie, directed ;i ml led tin* j ! charge. Three hundred yards yet intervened between the advancing column and the breast- , work, in front, and t in* assailing forces with; quickened pace pushed forward amid the mill- j ! nic balls sweeping the earth in front and think. ; The dead, the wounded and the dying were j] falling at every step. < >ur tiring had begun in : earnest, and was pouring in on the enemy I , t hick and fast. 'riik cijkst or t11k kidoi:. The enemy in front of the Seminary were ' closely massed, and strongly supported at the , building as well as from the rear and on its j lluuks. The lines from this point curved ;, slightly back on either side near to the crest j' of the llidge, and this made the seminary the i salient or point of attack, and to break the line and take the breastworks here the brigade j threw itself against it with all its fury. Here the opposing forces giapplcd with each other. ; one determined to hold its position, and the j other determined to take it. The close qnar-1 tors at which they were now engaged made the losses on both sides heavy. J>y this time the! Brigade had attained a point which exposed it to a raking lire from the cavalry with repeating rilles behind the stone fence on our right. . Its greatest force was spent on the Thirteenth | and Fourteenth with deadly effect, lbil they j maintained their unbroken front, closing in. ! ami replying in an directions wunn-c me nu.->.sili's of (Instruction came. The ever-solid j Twelfth with unbroken front pressed on and was dealing deadly blows in its front, carrying terror before it. The First on our left, out-1 flunked and enfiladed, pressed on in the tine-j ipial contest, drawing closer to the breastworks. approached linnly and steadilv along at equal pace with its comrades, though con-j fronting such fearful odds against it. both in, front and on the (lank. tiik rii:i.i> wov. The desired point was at last reached. The brigade carried the works, and the centre was thus broken and the field was ours. The whole line then gave way. and the t'nion soldiers. IVnnsylvanianstliey were, alter making such heroic resistance were pressed back, closely followed, with fearful loss. While the contending forces were thus grappling at close quarters at the breastworks, the artillery limbered up and was making for the rear, j This timely prudence alone saved it. The stone wall on our right was carried, and the whole field was ours. The Thirteenth audi Fourteenth had suffered the most from those j repeating titles. The t'nion columns were broken, pressed back, at lirst rapidly and disorderly, with our men close on them, still pouring into their ranks a deadly lire. As they ucared the town they became more massed. and moved more slowly and stubbornly, with lines still broken. As they were entering the town they looked backwards, as if half minded to turn on the pursuing foe and renew the conflict, lint doubtless their movements were obstructed by the crowded streets in their front. (Jen. Abner Doubleday, who ! commanded the 1'iiiou forces, in his official report of the battle says: '* s * * "1 re 11I;IIi11-<i ;n iiit* ^I'IIIIII.IIrtu|>i-i niu iiuiiip 11.? Ii11;11 movement until tlitnisaiitls of In?slih* bayonets inatk- their appearance aroiuul tin* sides of the building. I then rotle back and rejoined my eoinmand, nearly all of whom were lililia: through the town. As we passed through the streets our frightened people gave us food and drink." (IN TO Till-: TOWN. The I'nion forces had been pressed out of their breastworks, and our weary soldiers had entered them, and pressed on to the town. The Fourteenth passed on both sides of the S-niiiiary. Col. ( roll, with a pmtion, passing to the right, and pushing forward for the possession of a disabled piece of artillery. < it hers were pushing lor t lie same point. ('ol. Croft probably reached it lirst, as lie with an eye for the immediately useful secured the only uninjured horse, which he mounted with the harness still on, presented a captured sword to his lieutenant colonel, and Soon afterwards loaned the horse to the gallant ('apt. ; ' I'. Alston, of the First to ride into town in command of the skirmishers. The brigade had now reached the town. ; which <ifn* 1'eri in ordered the First and Fourteenth to enter. This they did simultaneously with 11 ays unfurled. I lie First 1 ?y the i ('liuiiihorshury turnpike, and the Fourteenth passing to tiie left, or rather directly alony anil I mlween North Ihuindary street and the , old railroad embankment or hed. mil il it ivarh( ed the main street runniny soul It t hrouyh t lie town, and inarehiuy up that street was passed f li\ (ien. Fender, at the shade trees on the ; riyht. who extended a compliment in passiny. A few paces further on Major MeCroery with i the First had reached the same street I?\ the r ('haiuhcrsliiiry turnpike where ( 'en. Fender - complimented the reyiuieiit |'nr its yallaut - eomiuet. Ill like manner lie eompliliielited I each reyiinenl throiiyh its commander for its yjorioiis day's work. The Fourteenth haviny I" the shortest cut reached the Main street lirst. . i Inn Major McCreary reached it further mi and lirst lit-M the more central or advanced position, whore the Fourteenth airain joined it The streets and fencing look now as they did then. Only a hedge has been allowed to grow up ami spread onto the north side of Konn- i ilary street by which the Fourteenth passed into town. (Jen. Nodes' Division of (Jen. Kwell's Corps now coming tip. the First and Fourteenth were ordered back and joined the Twelfth and < Thirteenth between the town and Seminary, where we rested. UK*. I.KK AND Til K CAROLINIAN'S. (Jen. Fender was at the liidge where we lirst entered the battle and saw the close lightintc throughout. lie saw the I'rigade as it appeared from his point to almost mingle with the Fnion Soldiers, and passing the Seminary ; and the ltidgc almost together, he supposed that the Nrigadc was captured. Hiding forward. however, he met l.ient. Simmons, of the Twelfth, who was wounded, and of whom lie made the inquiry if the Nrigadc was cap-, lured, to which the Lieutenant answered, ; "No. it is over the hill yonder." (The large j body of the euenn known to be there just ilied his fears.) The (ieneral then rode forward, with speed, and ordered the Twelfth and Thirteenth ba'*k to a point between the town j . and Seminary to protect the rivflil tlauk, and ( then into the town where lie overtook the Fourteenth and First, as above slated, (ten. .. ii...,. I.ee t lien came up, ami an ihuioi- was men ( given to "tin* South Carolina brigade that j, captured (Jettysburg." 'I'llK I.OSSKS. The points of tlio greatest ilantiftrr were held by tho regiments on the ritfht ami left, limp Thirteenth on the right and First on tin* left. i The 'riiirtccntli was nearest the cavalry with > repeating lilies at the stone fence, and hist j more in killed than any other. Col. liroek-1 man, although too sick for duty, was at his j post, hut the movements for that reason were' largely conducted by Lieut.-Col. I. F. Hunt. j. It added to the regiment's already high repu- j: Latioii acquired under its former gallant Com-j mamlcr. Col. <). Kd wards. who fell commanding the brigade after the wounding of Hen. j ' Met iowaii at ('haneellorsville. The Firsl, being on the left bad to cnooun- ' Lent long line of infantry overlapping its left, j uid was nearest to the artillery. The centre, comprising the Twelfth and Fourteenth, was swept by the same enfilading that enfiladed our Hanking regiments, and the losses in men were nearly equal to all the j < regiments in proportion to the number en- j I raged. The Twelfth sustained heavy loss j Ironi the artillery lire directed towards the 11 .-eiitre. It would seem impossible for any of the regiments to have sustained more than it had to | meet or to have borne more than it had to , ; .'iieounter. There would have been enough ; ( glory in any one of them to have carried its ; wn front. All of them had more than this j. Lo do. SO KSCAI'K Koli Till-: wot NI?KI>. 'CI- I i 'Plw. 1-\,nrl,.|.ntli ! ' L nr ii \uiv iiiiiim u,? , ..... . v.. which was I hi- largest regiment, lost over JUi) j : In killed and wounded out of 47o carried into ' tetioii. The Thirteenth had sixty-four killed >r to die of 1 heir wounds. All the regiments lost over on third. There was no loss of prisniers. They were all killed or wounded. Over! ux hundred had fallen in front of those breast-j works. The thousands of hostile bayonets |; 1 hat appeared and passed around the sales of j the Seminary building rmuprincd what re- j inained of lift ecu hundred carried into action, j' The nature of the ground was such and the ; ontest so brief that tlie w.Minded could not 1 he moved, and were wounded twice, thrice j Hid as many as four times after first being j dricken down. Large numbers died of their j wounds. A few who with shattered legs or wounded bodies ran back in safety to the j surgeons, have not ceased to admire their legs ! for the good service rendered. 11 was the only j battle field in which all avenues of escape for nur wounded were closed. There was noth- ! i11g that the ambulance corps could do. The ground was swept at every point by the dead- ! ly luinnie balls. The artillery lire is terrible. | Imt the almost silent whirl of the miiinic ball | is the death-dealing missile in battle. Not a I foot of ground presented a place of safely. ; The I'nion troops tired low. and their balls! swept close to the ground in the dish-like field ; in their front. The terrible strife was over in a few minutes- fifteen, say twenty utmost. ' Men never fell faster in this brigade, and per-1 haps never equaled, except in Orr's regiment ; at < i a i i ics's Mill. (>n our side the tiling was: not slack nor wild. The trees in the Seminary ; grounds where the Union lines ran arc still, thickly covered with scars, from the ground i to the height of a mail, made with the bullets ! of our unerring rifles. They are well marked en their western sides. And the ground strewn with their dead :ind wounded well at-i tested t lie aceurae) of the deadly aim. 'line ISAM.ANT KNKMY. It was no ordinary soldier that we had met. ' The prisoners rapt nrcil were more intelligent than on other lields. They were mostly I'eiin- | sylvanians i'llfhtiiilt for everythiiilt they held' dear. The celebrated Iron Ilrigade was in our : front. The 1*21st. I'eiinsylvatiia, Id .'hi l'einisyl-i vania, lTKth l'ennsylvaiiia, In 1st l'criiisylvania. and others not remembered. Maine troops were there, who stated that they eame in not more than lil'tcen mimites liefore the action be- i gun. Then the artillery on our right, cavalry ; behind the stone wall, all holding to the death, t lint there were no crossing of swords and bayonets. for this is seldom done except on paper. It was no time lor a thousand hair-breadth escapes with nobody hurt. It was not the clipping off id' clothing. Iml the bodies of men that were struck. While the losses in line of ollieers and men were great, it was remarkable that not a single lield ollicer was disabled for duty, though they did not escape uustruck. I\( II'KNTs (if I'KKMtN A I. HAKIM!. The llev. W. 15. ('arson, chaplain of the Fourteenth Regiment, remained with the wounded, of whom ninety of liisown regiment were too badly wounded to be removed in ambulances soul h of the 1'otoliiac. lie Weill into the heavily shelled woods for blankets for his wounded men and remained to administer to their wants until death freed many from their sufferings. Dr. I.oiiis V. 11 not. the eminent surgeon of the Fourteenth, performed many skillful operations, drawing praise from Fnioii surgeons, lie returned with us on the liual retreat. A soldier boy of the Fourteenth eapt ured the i-.i-.i-.. ii*ur ,,r fl... l.tilth I'ennsvlvaiiia in the works, whereall itsjjuanl wen-slain. A1 n>t11er ca]itiin'(l a smaller our. and folding it in his bosom, tell two days afterward advancing in the picket line in front of Cemetery Heights. 1 It. ()weiis, color hearer, son of ( apt. U. S. Owens. of tlie Fourteenth, who had fallen at K razor's farm, was shot dead while earrvin.u the llau of hisreuiment, and all his color guard hut one was slain. In the Twelfth Ilejjiniciit one color-hearer alter another was shot down until four were 1 killed and two wounded. And a scarcely |e>s ; fatality attended the colors id' the other t'egiineiits. The land of the Shamrock, a* in other lields. eolilrihuted its ipiota oil the stl'oimh contested ground. imeon r \m i: or tiik km; \<;i:mi-:n r. The importance and magnitude of thissangiiinnrv engagement and glorious v ictory was lost sight of by the public eve ill the maud movement which culminated in the great events iniiiH iliatelv succeeding. Ihit it was not h>>i sight of nor forgotten hy the it real I.ee. He promoted Col. renin to Ihigadier Ceiieral. who. on the 1 tit 11 of May, Isiil, while leading his Alabama Ihigade to the charge at Spottsylvania. as lie did MeCowan's Ihigadeat <?'etlysburg. fell in the front of battle ami his ureal spirit ceased from war. We rested oil the field of battle and the next lay liclil Seminary Wiit#r aton# me si one nine wliirll covered ( ell. Lane's fl*? >111 I In' IiI >1 ilaV. We suppi irl ?{ I In- ait illery. and t In* only in# l?y the brigade. except 1 ?y tin' Sharpshoot 'is, was done l?y ( apt. T. K. ('lyburn (al'trrwards ('olonel. i \vln? with two companies of tIn- Twelftli. drove hark a liii?* i?l* hattlc and restored (Mir pickets, win? had hern driven from their posts. ( hir line passed by a l';irinIiouse siirii>11inli iI hy a lincnrcliartl. and owned ; hy a ncnt h'lnan named McMillan, who canned i his I'm it. and who abandoned all on the inornI in# of the 1st. Abandoned property is lawful i pri/e in war. and our wean soldiers ciijo\ctl these fruits, mi tin' volunteer system in tin.* intervals of i|iiict. The old U'elltlcniil11 Uliil his I wife still live. ami. although nineteen years ' have j>ass"il. he still laments the loss of his ; earthly store. Kvery l>uildin? and tlee looks i now as it did then, and the same well of water inntin (|iieuehed tlie wayfarer's t hirst. Durinix i the ni^lit of the -Jml the hriujade was moved | forward to Hie dirt road, on the slope fronting Cemetery Itid^e. and was joined hy Orr's Hejj- i inieiit. Ir.it was not eni>a^ed inthe^reat battle ] of t he old. t The pii kets were driven in at one lime, and i I ln> t'ourl I'i'iit h ordered forward to restore the , line, which Wiis quickly done. I'.nt it drew a heavy lire from the heights in front, indicting i smile loss, in wliicli lioth the livid ollieelS Were | wounded. The \v? in lit Is of Major ("rot I were I | severe, ami his valuable services lost to his j | regiment for more than a year. Then return- i | inir with an unhealed wound in the side and his arm in a sling. he continued at his post j until the close of the war. ; Ktl.t.Kt) IN* Action. ii i As before staled, our losses were immense. ! Hut the greatest individual loss to the brigade I . was that of Capt. William T. Haskell, of thej| First Regiment, commanding the Rattalion of | Sharpshooters. lie was killed in front of ('em- j i.'tery Ridge on the second day, and the gravi- j ty of his loss can scarcely be estimated. It was only known to those who knew him best, lien. Tender also fell mortally wounded on the second day while reconnoitering. and our army lost in liitn another of our great generals. | I And then the long list of line mliccrs who i | fell, leaving whole companies without a com- . missioned ollicer. Among tlieiu the First t Regiment. besides('apt. Haskell, killed. I.ieut. A. W. I'ogue. wounded. I apt. .1. S. Mc-Malnm, Fields. .1. Cox, .lames Armstrong, M. M. ' .Murray. .1. F. .1. < 'aidwell. : Twelfth Regiment ? Killed, ('apt. .1. Hun- < iiicii 11. Wounded, ('apt. I. M. .Moodv. I.ieuts. I. A. Watson. M. T. Sharpe, A. W. lilack. W. | S. Stover. .1. M. .Jenkins. R. F. Simmons. I Thirteenth Regiment?Killed, ('apt. Cromer. Fields. Mc.\ inch and Fcitsey. Wounded. ' Capt. Fewberry. Fields. Fcitsey. Hill, A. M. ; Mowers, John Ibiluiey,.). F. Ranks. Fourteenth Regiment--Killed, Fields. Sid- i ney Carter and N. Austin. Wounded, Adju- . taut W. J. Ready :('apis. II. T. Critlith, W. j i.....i.... .....i t: \v < 'iil1ii.flin I.ii'iits. ' .>1 . I M I 111 II itll'l <>, ? , , . in.-..,.., 1 J?tlicrt 15. Watson. John M. I5.1K II.,1. Hoaeli. ' W illiam II. Hriinson, .1. F. .1 >r?lan. A. F Jor- 1 ilau. W. 1!. White. J. II. Williams, S. Cog- t burn, .lames I'. Sloan ami Jesse *;win. , Ami the linmlreils o|' brave men. most of | them young. mid on the threshold of life. J whose names were not recorded in the oilieial reports of the battle. I!nt they still live in 1 memories of the loved ones at home, and years 1 iiftenvards their bodies were removed to South- : i*ru cemeteries by patriotie ami loving hands. ; Here let them rest until the morning of the , general resurrect ion. In the afternoon of the ,'iil the groat worldrenowned assaults were made on the iron- ' crested and rock-bound heights in front, re- t suiting in disaster, and then the star of the t Southern Confederacy began lirst to wane. I ( (' the regimental commanders in this cam- paign, Col. .1. I,. Miller of the Twelfth. was killed at the Wilderness. May 1 sr. 1 ; Co|. 15. T. lirocknian. at Spottsylvania. May 1_'. lSiil; Majoi W. M. Ilai'doii. of Orr's llilles. ( ;it I Jeep iiottom. July JS. 1 si;l, and Col. C. . W. McCreary. of the First, at Cravelly Hun. ! March .'51. IStio. It w:ts distressingly sail that Col. McCreary after so long and brilliant service, should fall ill almost the last battle. ; even as the fabric of the-Confederate powet i was tottering and being broken to pieces and | the last blow being struck. The smile that | always lit up his pleasant face paled in death near the enemy. Of these and the long list who stood shoulder to shoulder with us at (o'ttysburg and who fell on these and olhci 1 battlefields, and those who have survived the i sad and closing scene at Appomattox?a brigade which the writer as senior colonel at ( times had the honor to command he would en u-iiti i'im-Inor alvin to Scotland's bard "Tin- bridegroom may fonret I lie bride Was mailc his wedded wilit yestreen ; Tlii' monarch may forget this erotri. That mi his head an hour has been; I Tin? mother may forget the ehihl ' That smiles sac sweetly at her knee, ; I hit I'll remember thee, < ileiieairn." I The prutiioti?ni of (Jen. I'errin ami his ileath i hits already lieeii staled, lie was a martinet in discipline and every inch a soldier. IIi> accomplished wife, a daughter of Col. I'. M. ' Ihitler of the Palmetto Pediment, preceded 1 hint it short time to the grave. and two eliil- ? dren survived them. He was the last colonel ; hut one of the Fourteenth Pediment. He , was captain of Company "D," from Ktlgdicld. j at the organization in lsiil. The former colonels were Held ollicers at the organization? Col. .lames Jones in the camp of instruction. 1 and Cols. Samuel McCowau and \V. 1). Simpson. who so often led it to battle. The First boasted of its Maxcy < Ircgg. a name so inseparable connected wit h it and the Prigadc. Orr's Pities had its Col. James I.. Orriu the camp of instruct ion and J. Foster .Marshall. 1). A. i: I.edlletter who had fallen in battle :tt Second ; Manassas. The Twelfth with Col. P. C. M. Ihniovaiit. of honorable service before, who was succeeiletl by the gallant ( ' >]. I )ixon Panics who distiiiLftiisheaI himself and regiment on many Ileitis ami so much at second Manassas, ami who fell at Shatpsbnrg regretted 1?\ all. Col. < >. K. Fdwards of the Thirteenth, so . brave, and so ellicieut in till departments of 1 lie service and espceialh in battle has alrcmh 1 1 'ci...^,. .ai'i.l,at uitb t licir i I Jl 'I 11 II It'll 11' Mini. J m r" mi.. ... ... . , regiments tin* impress c?l" their own irallant ! spirits, whieli w;is preserved unimpaired on I mail) liatllelields. and on one of whieli they ! submit was never excelled. UKTTYSHl Kt; IN lsv_>. An inspect ion of the iield at (Jet t\sburj; on the Nth and loth of dune. ISS'J, presented precisely the view it did nineteen years ago. It ' looked as if seen but yesterday. Time seemed to have made scarcely a champ*. The im- i pressions made on the mind had been so stroiitr that the hills, valleys, parcels ol' woods. Seminary. slopes, houses, streets, fencing, then thrown down, and loads, were all of them fresh in the memory. When it looked a little too far from .McMillan's house to the woods on the south, an inspection disclosed a small elearinii" from that side of it. The existence of the dill road was denied by Some, but a search at once located it. The Iield lacked I I he surging masses of men ami arms to com- I plete it. The portion of the stone fence near- i est our right, on the first day, had been re- ! moved. Oil the Other side the view frolu ('cliietPry I?idge. ('nip's Ilill. l.ittlc Hound Top ami other points held by the l llioli forces, disclosed positions which the "I'cbel soldier" would have regarded as havens of safety. No wonder lien. l'ickett failed in his charge. Ill peace, the lnen who had met there be- I fore in war now met again. On the Southern : side were < Jen. 'I'riinble. aeeoinpanied by his niece, Miss Trimble. The (ietieral. though hale and hearty, still carries witli him the evidence of the haI'd-fought battle. ( ? !!. A. ' M. Scales. M. ('.. of North Carolina. Col. < UllfS. * ..ll| ,\ I,III,nil.I. IMIII M,||. (apt. , of I Villain's A rt illcry, ami t lie lepresentative nl' Mr<tuwaii's Friiinde ami his si iiiin! daughter. who timk a lively interest in the incidents of battle as related hy Imlh Cniiin and < 'onfederate ollieets. and with, tlieln ilis|ieeted all the lielils. < >11 the Niirtherii side Were inaiiv ntlieelS asseiiililcil t*iir their reiininn. Several nl tliein ini|iliiei| specially fur that gallant nltieer nf j iiiirs wini rude thrnuirh the lines nl his bri-1 jjade and led the charge. They stated that it was the grandest siuht tiny ever saw in! battle. Anmiiir them were <icn. Iliehanl j ('nidler. nl I'eniisylvania. with his wit'eaml daughter: (Jen. lid ward I >ana. Cnl. of I l.'ld i I'eniisylvania \'nluiileers. <*iiiiiiiiaiitliuir secniid brigade at (ieliysbnr.it' : l.l.-( nl. (ien. F. Me-, 1'arlainl. l.*d.>t I'eniisylvania Vnlnnteers. ae-j <-<>i111ianii iI ii\ his amiable wife. We thought that ( nl. MeI' arlaml had been Killed b\ iis nineteen years In fore. We had shut him and his Imrse near the Seminary, wnnmliiii; him severely. Imm which lie hot a leif. but his cheerful disjinsiiinn well supplies the loss, i Major li. I'. Ilalstead. A. A. <i. of the First Corps: ( apt. M. I., lilair. of llild I'eiinsyl- 1 j vania ; ('apt. .1. M.CIapp, of l'Jlst I'eiiiisyl-j i vania : ("apt. I leaver. son of (ien. Heaver, of | I'ennsylvania. and others whose name ami rank are not reinenihereil. These ollieers were all in our front on the lirst of .Inly. tml gave a most hearty welcome to the Soiith rners. Ami the citizens were alike courteous. All points of tlie bat th-held are accessible ami. in two days all the important ami strategic points can easily betaken in by the tourist. With many thanks to ('ol. John B. IJatcli hler, the historian, for tin* aid rendered, to liis amiable wife for courtesies in the brief ime allowed, to the ollieers we had the pleasure to meet, and to the citizens of the town >f (Gettysburg, we bid an affectionate adieu. And now, as the senior oiliecr in rank of Mciowan's Brigade now living who participant in the battle, the duty requested of him lias been performed. The points on the battlefield, the positions of the several regiments, their movements and the movements of the Brigade, have been carefully and correctly, pointed out to Col. Baehehler, the historian, iml the Brigade will now have its place in the * picture. I, The record thus given of one battle will diow thai defeat did not everywhere confront 1 lie Confederate forces at (Gettysburg, ami at ' east one gem will be preserved from that ill- 1 fated field. i i . I 1 Coirc*ponticiici! of tin* Yorkvillc Knijuirer. j j NOTES OF TRAVEL. | ? I'ijkscorr, (>nt.\i:io, Canada, August I. j ' issj.? l attempted. iii ;i hurried manner. a j initial account of what I saw (luring my brief j dav in Washington, ami of mv rapid jonruev .o Niagara Falls. Here it maybe necessary to | ;av that the beautiful gem of a citv located at j . I I he Falls?mi the American side?is not, as is i ' | generally supposed, incorporated by the name j ?f Niagara, but by the less euphonious, not to ! say the grotesque name of Susjn //* /?/?/?. [ Hut notwithstanding the name it bears, it is, } eyoiid question, one of the most beautiful j tnd lovely towns I lia'v ever visited. It boasts j i population id' something over live thousand. 1 ' I'lie streets are straight, level, and thickly set j .villi live, bushy-topped, broad-leaved, umbra- j( Icous sugar maples, such as I have never seen [ ' n any other locality. The side walks are well |' aid with white pine plank, as in every other iIy or town I have visited near to or within I lie Dominion of Canada. There are here sov-1 ral large and commodious hotels and other! utl.lic buildings, and line and costly private j esideiu'cs that are very beautiful, the attract- J veiiessof the buildings being greatly enhanced j ?v the large and beautifully adorned courts or iron I ids attached to them. 1 doubt whether. . ill things considered, a more enjoyable sum- > ner retreat can be found within the bounds ofj . 1 he I'nion. I would have been glad to have ' 1 ' I- ..1,....... Ml .,1. I : t-11 la 111t-ii nere ;t mumn. m ...... ... ractive diil I lind tlit* place. I regret that inie and span' prevent nic from describing j nrtlier tin; little bird's nest at the Falls of | \ iagara and called Susjn usimi I Sri4 '</<. t A coachman, pha-ton and two splendid gray | steeds that ! have engaged fur the day, to any nic to see all the notable curiosities and I i daces of resort, has just driven up to the In- j t ernalional Hotel, and .bdiu, with that air of 1 ondescension for which his profession at Xi- 1 igarahavea world-wide reputation, informs ) ne that iie is ready to convey me to any point : | hat I may desire. 1 take my seat and tell i , iiin to go where lie pleases, and in a moment j we go dashingnway in sullicientlyostentatious i ' tnd comfortable style to satisfy the taste of a : lord, lint theoutlil is not at all out of lcee))- ( ing with the price charged for it. The lirst place we visit is a few miles down : the river below the Falls. Niagara is the name given to the Falls and the short river of seven i miles, connecting lakes Krie and Ontario, and ' : in aboriginal vernacular means. I am told. TIihiiiIi riinj. Appropriate enough is the name, , too; for constantly, every moment, night h ind day. ceaseless as the sun in its diurnal i i revolutions, tin; mighty volume of water goes thundering on its way to the sea. Hut we have now arrived at the llapids, I , tnd must descend in a railroad car which runs t hi a track at an inclination of about thirtv- I iglit degrees, though our car moves slowly j! tnd at a uniform rate of speed. As our car j' goes down we meet another on an opposite | ( track ascending with half a dozen or more of j | passengers, and as the cars are running all i the time and laden with passengers, maiiv | i *" | are theipiarters laken at the gate. Hut soon j we land at the bottom and on the bank of the j ^ river and Narrows. The river is said to be, | | for some distance above the Falls, a mile and I i " ' 1 e ........ .i,.,.n. ..i'i?...?h. il nail wnii' aim <>i an myui i... feet : I>iit here it is compressed and llows with i1 great rapidity between two perpendicular. , simiotlily-cut rucks, forming walls or banks , mie hundred and seventy feet high. Km in the surface id" the water to the buttuin of the i channel the river is said to be four hundred feet deep, making the channel no less than live hundred and seventy feet deep at this point. Is this not also well named, when it is called the .\iiHere the mighty moving lloud of the river goes darling with arrow-like celerity. whirling, foaming, leaping, hissing and surging through its narrow, rocky channel, j' with such speed and force that the hundred millions of tons of water that scieiitists say ! pass over the Kails every hour, is often seen, where the river turns, heaving up in great billows mountain high, crested with snow- j white bubbles and dancing foam, which at a 1 certain hour on any clear, calm day. presents a faint shimmer of rainbow light of intense Mint iicamy, wiiii*' tin* n\"-i i.u i? i..?, vexed t<? madness. rushes in eddies, whirling round and thundering on its way. until it finally rests its tnrhid waters in Lake < hitario. j I was tohl that the largest substance that! had ever been known to eouie into these Ilap- ; ids had never heen seen to rise again. So j great are the weight and depth of the water j that nothing falling in it can rise to the sur- j laee. and if it ever again sees the light it must do so in fragments, as lashed to pieces by the mighty current, it is carried to the lake. Moving up the river a short distance I'rotn j the place where I lirst descended, and where it was said I could obtain a still better view of the Falls and llapids. I had scarcely come to a halt when I was met by an exceedingly polite and gabby little fellow who nersistently urged me to lake a seat on a chair lie had lixed on a high rock on the margin of the river, that lie might take a large sized photograph of myself taking a view of the river, llapids and Falls above. 1 le would do tlie work for only live dollars and send it to me by mail. It would j be worth ten times the amount alter I was dead and gone : and oh. say. sir. would it not be dearly prized as an heir loom by my wife ami children '* With t his and much ot her similar a r- i gin i lent lie plied inc. little dreaming that lie was talking to a festive bachelor so continued in a state of celibacy as to render wife and children. ilmr as t hose objects may be, possessions not contemplated in the near future. Hut his blandishments prevailed upon a number of the - 1 1 i i in: put I v to sii ior 11ii'ir [tiion'ui.i|'ii> mn im- < uincut ion of future generations. Tin- next point I visited wjis iii-;ir Ilit-spot limit- In nil ills by tin- exploit uf Sam l'iiti-li. j Ili-ii', on ;i i-li-v.itor. \vi- descended ;i ilurk pit oin- 11 m 1 ii I ri -i I iiinl si\ty feel doi-p ami landed iii-ar tlx' plari- where the redoubtalili- >ain. in tin- year lsif'.i. elected a senllold one hundred t'i-i-t above tIn-banks of tIn* river. From this great height In-leaped into the water below. The perilous lent Was siiccessfulh performed i Ill' Second I IIIIC. 1111 ' I" \\ 111 11 in- u .i> mum .vital reckless ami proclaim lift to tin- world !i;it "some things can In- done as well as other liinjts." lie inereaseil the height of his seafelil. and attain on a heavy wa^er took his hird and what proved to he his hist leap. < ?n KToimt of the (treat height of the point rom which this leap was made lie decided to mid a parachute in each hand. This was irohahly a fatal precaution, as the parachutes, vhicli were (irmly tied to his hands and hod\, vhile they prevented a too rapid descent, renlered him powerless to control his movements, tnd instead of striking the water with his ect. as he had calculated to do, his whole mily struck the water with such violence as o dash his body to pieces. And thus Sam I'atcli died as the fool dieth. in the si?^lit of a ,'ast crowd of horrified spectators who had assembled to witness the foolhardy attempt to xemplify his epi^rammalical I toast. Here is also the place where iSlondiu crossed lie river on a cable suspended across it. which 'fill will lie readily recalled by newspaper eadcrs df twenty yt'itrs ago. lllondiu w;is nore successful than Sam 1'ntdi. Ilisattraeiuii drew a crowd of not less than lifty tlioniaml people. and the little French :u*r? loekeled ten thousand dollarsoti that occasion, ivhieh he still lives to enjoy. Thus capricioiisv does Fate ileal with men. How true is it liiil the wheel id' fortune is e\lrcineh uneeriiin in the w:iy it will tiirii. Next we proceed to the two wire bridges hat span the river, more than three hundred out l'min the bottom of the water. < hie of hese bridges is to accommodate thetrallicand ravel of the surrounding country. The other ivas const rueted for the use and aeconmiodaioiiofthe New York Central and Hudson Itailroad Company. Tin* colossal structure is is beaut fill as it is strong ami substantially niilt. While standing near it. I saw a large uigiue and tweiity-eiglit loaded freight cars >ass over it. and this combined weight only ieenicd to lend additional strength to the mass f iron which truly appears to be suspended in nid air. 1 observe that Niagara abounds in the same ,'iirieties of lish that we liud in our own rivers. CriM-oni). an adoih: norsi:. You would not like to live in a mud house, eader, would you V l>ut let me tell you about t. To begin with, it is nim h cheaper than vooil, and. to say nothing about looks, it s a great deal better. Comfortable houses ire made here by digging prairie sods, piling hem up. one on top of the other, enclosing a npiare the si/.o wanted aeioss which is laid idles, which are again covered with sods. A lace is left in one side for a door, and one or wo in the other side for windows. This is he common Mexican's house, and until one rets close to it. it can't be distinguished from i lump of any other dirt. Cnless a traveler ceeps up a tolerable lookout lie is liable to pa>s he mansion of some unpretending native ivilliont knowing it. If a Mexican wants to rive his donkey shelter, he can dig a few t ni l's. till- tlit'in live or six tret lugti uroiiuu a smaii *|>:iee, ami turn tin* animal in. if in- is particularly tender ofhis beast. lie will roof that >vcr also with straw or mud. lint the side shelter is generally considered siillieient lor .he purpose. A little regard for looks will sometimes induee a Mexirnit to dig Up some lirt. mix it with sand, and spread it on the mtside of the sods with a wooden trowel. I'll is gives the outside of the house a smooth surface, which adheres well. The adohe brick is prairie soil, water and sand, mixed together, moulded, and laid in the sun to dry. They are eight inches long, nine inches wide and four inches thick, and when lone are not as hard as burned brick, but sutli;iently hard for building walls and arc duraale. Men can be hired to tiirnish their own material and make them for ,-s a thousand. An Kasteru builder can compare these with the size of burned brick, ami easily calculate [he comparative cost of brick houses in the ast and New Mexico. Men charge sit) a .hoiisand for laying tlicni in the wall. Few louses are over one stor\ high, though occasionally an ambitious man will build two. and nice in a great while three stories high. The svalls are usually eighteen inches thick, but if the house is two stories, the lirst story wall is twenty-seven inches and the second eighteen inches. Partition walls are eighteen inches in the lirst story and nine in the second. Fart it ion joi.-ts'are sometimes set up. in which case the brick are on edge between the joists, making a four inch wall. The bricks are lackul to the joists with nails, and the partilion is tiuis made perfectly tirm. A kind of mortar is made of one-third mud and twothirds sand, which is spread on the partitions with trowels and is as tirm as lime mortar. The house is very warm in winter and cool in summer. Kavesdropping through the partition is out of the question, and in some Fastcm communities they might not be popular on that account. Many builders plaster the outside of the house with liiud and check it off into squares, to resemble hi ick or square stolieS. The best adobe houses are prepared and nicely finished inside with nutivc pine, which costs s::u a thousand. The regular house of the na live lias the lint roof, but Aiu?*ric;ius usually put nil till- pitch foot llllil sllillirle it. ( ?||e peculiarity of tin- houses lien*i> that most ?>!' the rnnins have an outside door. ami in corner mollis it is not uncommon to rim 11 woof them. It seems oihl to step out of one's sleeping mom directly into the open air. but tliat is the Style. If\oi| stop at one of the o|i| mini hotels ami are assigned mom No. 11. you take the key from the bar at niiiht ami pmiin mule up ami down the street till you reach that number, when you unlock ami take possession. The tirst time I was escorted to a mom I supposed the hotel was full and that the landlord had farmed me out to a neighbor. Hut when I inquired who was to furnish the breakfast, lie comprehended my perplexity, and explained the situation.? l'li> Hint's 1,'hii in ?\i#r Mix11tio r111: u < J \ t: i) m; t: (' > \ -1 : i: v \ r i v i-: Vikws.? It pays to be good. I>on't be too ifood, but be just jjood 'miff. Christopher Coluiubtts diskiverd America, but has he cher bin put iua ehromo? lie was too ?;oo?l. Captain Kidd.de pirate, never ebeti had his photograph on sale. Why ? Kase lie was too bad. .My advice to you is to hit de neutral jroitli* between Colutlil'lis and Kidd. < hie was too good to want to knock s unebody's head off inter stubbing his toe on a stone : de odder was too bad to subscribe fur a religious publication. As I tole you in a former leeklitre. be party good on de hull, an* a 1< etle bad on de a vera ire. 11 you tin* a lost wallet, don't give it up until you have counted the money in it an' have de lies' of proof dat somebody lost it. If you lose \our own wallet, doan't expect any better from de linder. Doan' be profane, an' yit doan hesitate to giv" de Knglisli language full sweep when you eoteli a boy liitdiu'your apple trees. Honor yet fader and your uiudder. but don't lend de old man an\ money on less you have good security. I 'oiiie dow n liberally to erect churches, but if you have un\ brick to sell ask dc contractor full price. Do ycr dooty by orphan as\linns, but doan" board anv orphans fur less dan three i|..ll;irs ;i week. I.nvcyer iiayhur ;is thyself, but sec (lilt lie returns \ef shovel ;|)i* S|i;uie :ih" rake iu aood order or make liiin pay de retail price, lie honest, but iloau* lei a grocer i ma a i tie i kit you buy a ipuii t-bo\ of >i ran * berries expect in to iM obera pint an a half. I >he\ lie law. bill (loan eleaii out Yef alle\ oilless tier liayblir lilies lie seen often il! ehlll'eh. but (loan* il l ay dill de preacher knows lie iliac of de world an" dc erea of heaven an> better dan has of odder folks. >upport de cause oi ediieashun. an" yit remember da! some of our biaaesl tools am people who have bin >1 tilled full of il. Will dese few illipe; \ ioll- tlejeckshitns to assilniilate de aeiteral iiieonaruii\ of astronomy, we will now endeavor to disparaae lie similitude of de ?\ 111 a \." * i'f