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Announcement? of marriage* and deaths, aud notices of a religious character, are rropectfullY solicited, and will be Inserted gratis HORE ABOUT BALD MOUNTAIN. Tlie Crack la Found-Not a Volcanic Knit*, .ion, but o!s?v s ? ?!?d Hilde. Flinn (he Charleston Newt and Oourie-. SPARTANBDRO, 8. C., Slay 20. A week ago the people of the United States-from Maine to California-w<:rc startled by the appear;-nos of the follow ing piece of information, which was dis tributed broadcast over the land through this medium of the Associated Press dis patches : .'ASHEVILLE, N. C.. May 20.-Two years ago residents of this section of the fatuous Bald Mountain were thrown into great consternation by continual rumb lings and. inexplicable noises heard in the bowels of the immense mountain. The phenomena attracted tho, attention of scientific' menin all parts of the country. The rumblings lasted for about two weeks and then ceased. They had the effect of rendering the real estate in tlie neighborhood, that bad been valua ble, almost worthless, and the inhabitants bnsteuod to move fiom the neighborhood of th?' mysterious mountain. Last Fri day night the noises began again; the mountain shook na in the throes of nu | ?-?rthquakc, srr?isS?TO 'treen uu? rocks. ? were nurlcd down the mountain side, and Bounds like intermittent thunder were heard during the night. This morning those who ventured uear saw. that the mountain bad: been literally split in twaiu, leaving a chasm of three hundred feet in length and from eight io ten feet in width. 80 far as bas been ascertained the chasm is a bottomless abyss. As yet no smoke or lava bas been thrown.irom the crater, but early in tho morning there'was a strong smell of sul phur about the place!" The strange tidings were received by some with alarm, by others with curiosity, and by others yet with positive incredu lity. The latter class, being perhaps by far the largest, felt strong enough to in sinuate openly that tho strongest Bmell about the whole matter bore a suspicious resemblance to the allegorical odor of a rat. and a very large rat at that. The O)iurabia;corr?^phrident ?f ihe News and Courier road tho foregoing item Wednes day morning at 10 o'clock, feeling but languid interest, at most, ic a matter which so little concerned him. A few minutes later,',however,' a telegram was bunded him bearing tbe peremptory command : "Go and interview Bala Mountain for the News and Courier \" and by ll o'clock be was miles away from Columbia on the Greenville Rail- I road, en route to the presence of bis latest, largest and most distinguished victim. Sneaking in the first person, I arrived ut Spart?' ?burg Wednesdoy night, on my way to the mountains; with no better, idea of its' whereabouts than that it was a spur of the Blue Ridge, and lay within the limits of North, Carolina. Diligent inquiry in Spartanburg. however, soon discovered the facts that it was fifty miles tu tho - northward ; that it was ut terly inaccessible f oin any point of the unfinished railroad beyond the town, and that there was no way to reach it except to travel across the country by private For my further encouragement I was re liably informed that the whole story of I district, who confirmed the assertion by declaring that he had "left tho mounting only s day or two before, and ho hadn't never he?rn tell of no crack anywheres in it." This Bccmcd enough; .but I had started for the purpose of seeing "the crack,'' or the place where it was not, and'I had no alternative but to go; so I must. Mr. R. L. Taylor, of Spartanburg, kindly consented to accompany me for the purpose of showing the road with which ho was familiar. Mr. Carrier furnished a double buggy with two handsome bays tc draw it. Mr. Byrd supplied us. with creature comforts in approved form to sustain us oh the route, aud Col. Farrow and other friends gave UH a benediction and a God-speed as we drove off, By 9 o'clock Thursday morn-j ing Spartanburg was a league behind ua, and we were fairly on our way to con front the awful unknown dangers of tho newly^ discovered original and only vol cano in all the United States and Terri tories. Of ^hq.day's rhle it is not necessary, to speak i t length. It was a mountain road, and though I am not a profane man, there are chords which a mountain road is well calcul?ted to jar, which were jarred quite frequently, and which I can now ano rd to let rest for a year cr two to come. The sky was overcast, the air waa pleasantly cool, the old fields were cov ered as by a mantle of clotb-of-gold, with myriads of little wild flowers of a most brilliant yellow hue ; hundreds of birds sang lu tho wooul??ds; ut intervals the landscape was varied by a succession of green wheat fields, hundreds qi acres- in extent, aud through itali the rough road ran URO the path of duty through the Garden of Paradise, and along this road wc" passed, stumbling incessantly, in our poor human - fashion, .until night came, and fell upon the scene, and ended our troublous, .palting journey. Ihlr?na^??i?.nEy we caught occasional and tr?nsi??t glimpses of the mountains in the far distant, but the atmosphere was so baxy that the view was more tan talizing than otherwt a, and for tho most part it was next to impossible to distin guish the lino which separated the gray millner L'H** fri*"* tbs gril^ !""H*nr' 0?**"/?a nbovethem. .How soft and pillowy the great mounds seemed-to be when viewed afaroffi Verily upon them tho tired Titans might have stretched their gigan tic limbs niter that futile skirminh with the 'powers that were and have Blept (?5en?ir.gM KS though ^ouched upon hills of eider-down ! And yet-I have it from the Hps of a mountaineer who: dwells aroong-tjieth and who must there fore have known whereof hs spoke-and yet from those fair and'false heights at times the most terrific,storms tush down u?oa tbq peaceful valloys below Hike a ?ii^?guii of pecker-woodsr" Isn;i it awful to think of a storm coming down like that 1 "Whirligull," I may remark, is a noun of multitude, and is restricted in ita application to the "pecker-wood" variety of birds, just as one would say a "drove" of turkeys, a "covey," of par tridges, a "flocL'' of geese, a "gang*' of rice-birds, a "troop" of cranes, Sec., &c. ' Fortunately for me, though the day was cloudy and threatening and prom ised rni/j throughout, it neither rained nor stormed Chet day, and no whirligull esme down upon roe. Indeed, the only xcr'ous shock my nervous system received was on tho occasion of crossing the first ford of Broad river. Arriving on the brink of this stream, which though only fifty yard* wide ?ppeared to. my distorted vialon to bo about, one thousand. Mr. Taylor, "win? know the way," whipped up our two bays, "News," and :'Couricr," and in we plunged boldly, no matter how .coldly tin? rough river ran, with feelings on my part, however, vetry much akin to . thone which, might visit a Clmrlwtoniun ,V> ho should bo wlildmly and similarly whirled off the IWrv bout into the bay, - anywhere between thc l?ti^rw and The fication we came out of the river as dry as we went ic, barring the effect? of a copious cold perspiration on nay part. More miles of rough road, fanged with murderous stones ana varied with treach erous looking fords, finally brought us to oui-destination for the n?rjht, the resi dence of Mr. R. Whiteside., where we received a cordial welcome and hot sup per, and were most pleasantly enter tained. Darkness came down upon us almost at one stride ?00? ?fier ??e reached his jrate. A few minutes later we were sitting in the front porch looking out into the night, and I, for one, feeling deeply impressed with the novelty md beauty of the brief twilight in the mo in tains, when suddenly a ghostly vo^.o darted out of a thicket almoit at our feet and went culling down the dark val ley, as rapidly ns the words could be uttered, ''Whip-poor-will 1 whip-poor will I wbip-poor-willl" Immediately it seemed as if a thousand throats, which bad been awaiting the signal, had caught up the cry, and -a: thousand voices were clamoring in concert for the punishment of that hapless offender agoinet bird laws. If Wili was not thrashed within an inch of his life that night it was certainly be inalla.* tia .w.ntil I - ?-~ -*-* 1 Ci?ss :." scuta ..^t, ivuirui atm uuv uv caus? of any lack of unanimity of senti ment against him on the part of the other and numerous members of bis com munity. Not being oblo, apparently, to ! fay claws on Will, hjowever, several voices next proposed very earnestly lo Chuck Will's widow, but thu proposition was ] voted down and drowned out of hand-;\ proceeding I readily understood when it was explained to methat while the whip .-r ...h: :._.."?_:_ u_i_i_ pvn..-rf*A? ?at ca IMVUUMIIU vifUj ' viltiya* will'8-w?dow is known aa tho lowlander," by which name he is commonly called. After an early breakfast next morning we commenced our second d ay 'a journey, and had proceeded but a few miles when we turned sharply into a valley, looking up which we were greeted with our first view ot' the Blue Ridge, only twelve miles away. A half hour later, at 7:20 a. m. Friday morning, and just as we ? turned the summit ot one of the lesser I L?IIB, my companion ,-iiddenly pointed upward over thc tree tops and startled me from a reverie with the single suffi cient exclamation, YONDER IS BALD MOUNTAIN ! Only its crown was .visible, however, and as the road descended the hillside it quickly disappeared and was not again visible until an hour later, when with c4tiP! suddenness it came into view again from the top of a little knoll, whence its hard, sharp outlines, in the possession of I which it differs from all other peaks in | sight, were readily traced from the river bed at its foot up to the bare rocky sum mit, whence it hes derived its distinctive name. We were vow but five miles from its base, and from our point of view the cum mit appeared to be divided into three ?romineut peaks, known respectively as Larris' View, the Pinnacle, and Round Top, but I may as well mention here that the term Bald Mounttin is given to a range which comprises ninny such peaks, and which extends perhaps twenty milc3 to the north of the entrance to Hlckory Nut-Gap. A little before noou we reached tbs hotel &t its bg?c, and h?viag obtained dinner and an hour of needed rest prepared to go in search of the vol cano. We hnd made repeated inquiries alone the route as to tin fact of the report?e rupture and its whereabouts, if it j cully existed. Aa tho first question was almost invariably answered is the nsgative, however, we did not find frequent occa sion for propounding the second. With in sight of the mountain itself we had met and questioned a man who lived within five miles of it, and were, in formed by him that "there' waa some talk about j such a crack, but he had never Been it; didn't believe that it was there, and, moreover, though he had been living > near it for years, he had never heard any rumblings or felt any shockn." This answer waa repeated in substance by revend other persons along tho road, and but for the representations of one or two countrymen who seemed to be better in formed, or who had heard at least that I some. one else had seen "the crack," I should L_ve he^h tempted' very, strongly to give up the race in sight of the goal ! There, was no approach to certainty, and scarcely to possibility of successful search until we alighted at tito hotel door, when the courteous young land lord j Mr. Flack., informed'm?' that there, was no doubt auout the existence of a recently formed chasm, and that it had been f cou and marked by a Mr. Alford, a fara er who lived upon tho top of one I of the peaks in sight, and whose services j could ba secured for our guidance. ?8 already stated, the mountain was really a range of several mountains, and from the door of the hotel we were confronted with four formidable peaks at the outset, with the prospect of a dozen more to in vestigate after we had explored these in j such manner as we could. Any one of them would havo required two or threo I days for even a cursory ramble among thin forests and jagged glens. It was out of tho question to attempt it. We had no resource but to go and find Alford nt once, and learn what he had seen. Alford had come down from his height, yoBterday, Mr. Flaoktsaid, and hat. pointed out to him where tho crack was to be found. It was just beyond tho edge of a precipice in sight, which, ris ing from 'So forest half way up the I times as high aa Bt, Michael's steep] "Wrt Itwlno. /n.aoliir? ?y'-'?'l C?^b lt. TL, path lay" to tho right of thh .cliff, and j would bring 110 by a' roundabout way io ! its brow. Alford lived up there all among the little stars ; hr must be seen, and our., host at last consented to show the way to his celestial abode. Our pre torations for tho ascent com.isled in di vesting ourselves of every superfluous article Of clothing, and were soon made -coats, vesta ahorcollara* were laid by and. your correspondent having girded up our loins as it were, we started for tho base of the .mountain, Oa. tha fray we I wort joined uy-1 tuerorthrw^o^r^merjj who lived as ii.- very base of inc clin, and were familiar with every foot of the mountain, but'who had never seen tho crack. They accompanied us from mo tives of curiosity slightly enhanced by the ft. ct that they lived under tho face of the rock. Following these guides, we commenced tho ascent, and for two mortal hours con tinued our upward way until all the party multar of^fa?t, we owl^fqiuuUa^^>p from sheer weakness and thorough pros tration, both of,mind,and .body. Tim path extoled-Ink' in nar/ie. The face of the rock was heated by the rays of tho sun until it glowed like an oven. No air could peucln?to the densa undergrowth through which wc so painfully forced our upward way. Tho ground under foot was cufcred with dead leaves and dry pine straw upon which tho foot alippcd backward and downward at every step. The soles of oor shoe? became so polished inion this treacherous surface, that it be nzine necisaary at -every few yards to break the surface of the ground and rn? thom hito thc rofl mold to dampen the 11 ,j a"n Klr> ,in? *?> holli his foot where he placed it. The perspiration streamed down from every pore, and the few garments we had 'retained were wet through and through before the half-way point was reached, aud still high as ever, seemingly, the grim cliff to the left tow ered above us, the tiny and feeble ants creeping up its side. By this time, too, we had become tormented with intolera ble thirst, our faces were flushed and sun-burned, the tongue clave to the roof of the mouth, tlefying ali attempts at ar ticulation, and die heart beat so rapidly and fiercely that it seemed as if the blood would be forced from the throat and ears and from the blood-shot eyes : and still upward we toiled aud groaned., whilcras ii to add to our misery the two young children of the mist skipped from rock to rock and from bush to briar singing like 150 pound larks on their way to the sun. We reached the top after a while, and found the Me???. Excelsior stretched at eaee ou the mossy banks of a little stream whose waters-oh 1 so greedily drunk flowed as sweetly for UB in that hour as did thone wbich gushed forth for tlie children of Israel from that other cleft rock five thousand years ago. A ri iv cd at thu top, we learned thai Alford lived on a mountain half a mile away, so concluded to try tbe search first without bim. A rugged walk of a few hundred yards accordingly brought us to the edge of the precipice, which we found to be so rounding that we scarcely know when wo had turned downward, and only appreciated this fact when, peering through the laurel bushes on ita verge, we looked out through space to . 1... mnnniatna -- .1- - ll- -1 ?UV IUVUUUUUO UIO IAI1?T, tl-UU down, down, doxen upon fields aud. farms far bolow, and almost under fool! 1 turned back with a sickening shudde' and felt impelled to cling to tho trunkf of the trees about me in order to resisl the nower.of those strong invisible handf of thc spirits of the air, which Be?mec to bo drawing mo.irresistibly over thi verge and .down to a bloody and crue death on the rocks below. I was sick t< the coal, and overcome with a sensatioi akin to intense nausea, as long as I re meincd where I could look over tba brink of destruction. After nearly an. hour spent in a search for the crevice in the localit; where we expected to find it. we at las came to the unwilling conclusion that w had been duped, and were on the poin of giving up tho quest, when one of th guides, who had strayed off to some dh tance alone, suddenly hailed us with th cry II EKE rr isl A scramble across a little ravine cr sued ; no man taking any heed to lr way or to.hiB personal safety, ?cd withi one hundred yards of where' we bad bee sitting in consultation as to what shonl be done to Alford when we caught hin we found Foster, the guide, lyiBg flat c his face and looking down into an ugl hole in the mountain side I The ho Eroved to be the crack I had come t? undred miles to find, and it extendc as fi '. As could bo seen, some distance c either sile, but was covered for the mo ?>art by a treacherous carpet of des twiss ftixt? fetsosB, th s accum?ilath of years, and wbich formed a dangero trap for the unwary foot passing over Looking into the hole you saw that tl crevice extended downward in a slantii direction for a few yards and ended in vertical one, which, of course, was n accessible, save to one who mhrht ere down the slant to its edge. Nc-ce cf crept down tho slant. ~ A number stones were rolled into the crack at d feront points, and these disappeared ov the edge in question and fell with a tin upon the bottom or some ledge far out sight below, but at what varying dept we could not determine. Tue crack this place was about four feet wide, ai this was its greatest width so far as1 could ascertain by uncovering it at inti vals. Its length was about one hund? yards. Its position was perhaps forty fifty yards from the edge of the cliff, wi the line of which it nearly correspond in direction, and it was terminated either end by little ravines running bu from the precipice at right angles to bc precipice and crack. The surface of the grouud for hundn of yards from the bottom of the cliU coverAi with immense boulders, rang! in size from that of an ordinary dwell! house down to that of a barrel, ] opinion, and all appearances justify in giving it without hesitation, ist! the weight of this portion of the ? has caused it to fall away from the moi tain, and the gap will probably wi? gradually as the supporting earth bene the detached portion gives way. ui sonso day the whole mass will fall from its place and descend with fore; the fields bolow, leaving a broad, d gap where it now otanaa. The rod the cliff, and of all the mountain, indc is of a nature which cracks very eas and the face of tho cliff, indeed, iafissu in every direction by thousands of oj scams. By stamping the foot heavily the rock below the crack the whole fi ment is jarred, and the concussion car felt at the distance of many yards placing the hand upon the trunk ( tree growing upon it. Tho error of supposing that the cr extends into the mountain was a nab ono, it is true, but very little though experience was necessary to detect true state of affairs, and every one p ant readily assented to the views al given. It is only necessary to repeat what Raid in nw tel PJ? ram yesterday, that crevice has been formed, recently, nearly a year since the last shock felt under the mountain, and it ma; added that the catastrophe wbich is anticipated to take place on Bald Mt tain at any time is of frequent occurn on every mountain in the country. We came down from the height toi nightfall, by.a more dangerous path I that wo had climbed, and I. for one, c not but recall on the way the fabio ol mountain in labor. OV-I fe] - In ono ofJEdgar Poe's stone shows how twa Sunaaya can come in week. Capt. Bootwell thus explain If you establish the city af New Yoi as your prime meridian, and dear two shins around the world, ono bj route or of Capo of Good l?op? nm other /.by .Cafs- Hom,, they will,. \ they mcot on tho other side of the g difiera day?in their' time:; lt ma Saturday on board of one ship and day on board of the other. This is o to the fact that the planet on whir, dwell revolves to the eastward,.an sun appearing first-in the east, it ia 1 or twelve o'clock, on board of the wc bound ship. The ship sailing east tin4* every day,; wbue the ship si nu * loses time, and when they me? difference* of time will amount to i He adds that at Samoa he fouu< Protestant and Catholic misslonaric eb ra ting different days and both right because they nailed by dif routes from Eoropc. - New York city has 400,000 p?op?e, 200,000 Germans, 40,000 Fi ' I2,0W Italians, .10,000 Spaniards ! Portugese, and leaser numbers of j 20 more nationaliti?*. A CHAPTER OF HISTORY. Interesting Interview wltl> General O null -Tn? Bel-Uve Power wi the Kort*, astt Kontra A correspondent of the New York JItrald recently had au interview with General Grant in Paris on the conduct of the war betweeu tho States, and called attention to a publication in tbe&miA American Review from tho pen of General Richard Taylor, In effect that General Grant fought tho campaign in Virginia against his own judgment, and in doing so had thrown away the lives of a hun* dred thousand men. The correspondent abo called Grant's attention to an article in the Atlantic Monthly written by the late Gideon Welles, in which Grant is arraigned, upon the authority of General Taylor, for having insulted Lincoln's memory by attempting to throw tho blame for the Wildernesr. aud other cam? . i?i'?i>n un/vn T .5 s-vrvrvl r\ %**\\in\\ it catts-t? sr? s ss Um* Kuli U Lt%ft\M -s - . ? M vv>? ? . - tr? M.Vit aw rs ? ?**<.? own fault. The result of this interview was an interesting convocation' with General Grant, from which we make the following extracts : MK. WELLES AND OENEBAL TAYLOR. "co far aa Mr. Weites IB concerned,"' said the General, "he is dead, and *>ny resentment ono might feel at his extraor dinary misstatements would now be out of place. It ls unfortunate for Mr. Welles' fame that he should have spent his last years in striving to belittllo the very administration in which he held a prominent place. But the real reason is that Mr. Welles never was a Republican. Ho blundered into Lincoln's Cabinet. He remained ?? quiet ?a a mouse so lung as ho held a high office under tho Re publicans and drew a large salary. As soon as Mr. Johnson made his advances towards the Democrats ho became a loud and earnest supporter of bis administra tion. From that time to the end of his life. Mr. Welles was in perfect sympathy with the men who ied to break down the government, anu it ls only natural that ho should belittle and defamo those who did their best to save the govern*, mont, men who, whether they did much or little, did all in their power. Mr. Welles was never so sincere in anything is his life as in his Democracy, and nothing that he has written against my self or others for what we tried to do in the war would cause me the least sur prise or vexation. My only sorrow is that a gentleman who bad been Secre tary of the Navy during the rebellion should devote his powers to defame mon who did all they could to suppress the rebellion. I cannot conceive a more painful and humiliating position. As to General Taylor's assault on Mr. Lincoln, I am not surprised. General Taylor fought on the other side, drew pay on tho other side and writes on the other side. Taylor, unlike Welles, is loyd to his cause, ann. *f he can destroy the repu* tatton of M. . Lincoln, and those who served Mr. Lincoln, why, of courte, he has a right to do so. Th afr. whatthe Southern Confederacy tried lo do for many years. So far as Taylor and I are concernid, we are friends, and have maintained the best relations. I am quite sure he would not do me any t:n kindncsa, as I would not do him. "Tay* lor is one of the most agreeable of men, : who talks well and talks a great deal, I and, like men of that kind, often gets his facts blended with fiction. I mean by that that if Taylor said about me a poai- j tivo untruth aa he does is thu article, it would be a misfortune on hir part or ?in inadvertence-aol uuy wilful ??TO?. H? : would speak in all seriousness without knowing any better." TAYLOR'S NARRATIVE A PURE FICTION. "Then," said your cyrrcaondent, "this! article is not al together, true?" "I have no doubt," said the General "there aro some true things in the arti cle ; but the part which refers to me ia wholly false, utterly false, without a, shadow of foundation. General Taylor says that in ? conference between Presi dent Lincoln, Secretary Stanton and my eels, in 1864, the approaching campaign, in Virginia was discussed. No such con ference was ever held, and no such cam paign was ever discussed. Gen. Taylor, says that I insisted upon advancing my whole army against Richmond by the James River. I never said a word to the. President or Secretary of War, or any' one else in authority, as to how I wpuld advance. General Taylor reports Mr. Lincoln aa saying that the government; required the interposition of an army be tween Leo and Washington. Mr. Lin coln never said a word, resembling this,; or anything at all on tho subject. Gen. Taylor reports me as saying that any change of route from my own by- tho James to another would cost 100,000 men. This is a pure fiction, aa, indeed, the whole story is a . pure fiction. Gen. Taylor says that the story comes to him well authenticated, and no has no doubt of his correctness. There arc only three persons who could authenticate such a story-Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Stanton and myself, Lincoln and Stanton are dead,' and I say the whole story is a fabrica tion, and whoever vouched for it to Gen. Taylor vouched for a fiction. I feel it duo to the memory of these great men,' apart from any sentiment of self-vindica tion, to make this denial as emphatic) and clear as possible." GRANT'S INTERVIEW* WITH LINCOLN AND STANTON. This denial of General Grant , led to an interesting resume on his part. "I re member, he said, "very well my first In terview with Stanton. You know I did not come to Washington until I came in relation to aa order to assume command of the armies. J had once been there aa a young man, but otherwise it was my first trip. I lound Stanton cordial and willing to do anything, so we suppressed the rebellion. Nothing could have been moro earnest and hearty, than his treat* ment of me. 'Now,' saya he.. 'General. I do not want to. know your, plans. Tell me what you need to corry them ont. That ls all I care to. know. - And when yoti go to see Mr. Lincoln, you will do well to observe the fame discretion. Mr. of your plans than I do, but I can under stand how you might naturally seek tho confidence of tho President. Now Mr. Lincoln is of a gentle and tender nature, apt to confido ii many people, and what iou tell bim about military movement? e may tedi to the next Senator with whom he has aa intimate conversation.' I saw Lincoln. He was ss cordial and hearty as Stanton, if possible moro BO, because he was a man of more affable ? and gracious manners. When Lincoln ?nd ? were alone the President began the con vernation by repeating a story from an article by Orpheaus C. Kerr-a comic article satirizing the conduct of the war. It was, as i remember, a rio ry about Cap tain Bob Shorty and UM Mackerel Bri* gade, and the anaconda policy, some-, thing about generals in tho field being hampered by a flood of ordere. When he had finished Lincoln said very much What Stanton had ?aid-that he did not care to know what I was to do, only to know what I wanted ; that I should nave all I required. Ho. wished ms to beat I.-cc, how I did lt was my own duty. He tuild ho did not with to know my plans or to exercise any scrutiny over roy ...... ; 1 j ,M. . I , <'[ .'. . .' !' -* plans; BO long as I bent the rebel army he was satisfied. He spoke of a plan he bad long: thought over nnd took down a map. xte drew au Imaginary Imo be tween two of the Virginia,creeks er rivers, the names of e. bien have escaped me, aud said that I might move cn lint line and have the streams for supplies* I looked at the plan and saw In a mo ment that if i put my artsy on F-.V-U a lino ? would bo in much the same posi tion as the army of the James. ? would be powerless ; I could do no good to our side and no harm to tbe other. I would be locked up. I to'd Mr. Lincoln I would consider .the plan and that ras the iast of it. The route was an impossible route, and was never mentioned again by Mr. Lincoln. That is, as far as I re member, tho exact story of tho confer ence between Mr. Stanton and myself when I took command of the army. The question of ray plans and their wisdom and unwisdom was never afterward a subject of conversation or correspon dence. If Ibero were blunders in that campaign tho blunders were mine and not those of Lincoln or Stanton. They did everything in the. world to assure my I success. Upon nie, and upon me - alone, munt the rVuOl? rv^?ousiu'u?vy ndl." TUB RELATIVE PO WEB OF TUE NORTH ANO SOUTH. "There ?B another point," said the Gen eral, "that these historians omit. ?t is said that wa overpowered the South, in foreign journals and foreign assemblies it is put up this way, that we overran the South with the scum of tho world with hirelings sud Hessians. No one would do more honor to the foreigners who came into our ranks than myself. They were bravo men and earned our gratitude. But so far from- our armies being foreign, I question more than three Ser cent, wera aliena. Yet I have no oubt many weil informed authors will tell you that there wera only three per cent. Americans.. Thia io tho way public opinion was made.during tho war, ana thia is tba way history is made now. We never overwhelmed tbe South, and I -sa only sorry wo could not have done so and ended the war and its miseries. What we won from the South we won by hard fighting? , and the odds, when there were cads, were never deoioiye. We had to fight the Southern States. They were a unit and wo were divided? Every able* bodied male in tbe South from 14 to GO was tho anny, or was supposed to be there. We bad to depend upon volun teers and the conscription. Tba South bad 4,0.90,000 of negroes. These negroes kept the farms, protected the families, supported the armies, and wore really t reserve force, a most important reserve force in a fighting nation. These 4.000,00. of negroes did a work that white met would have been compelled todo. Yel they are never counted in any sum mary of the forces of the South. Thej are forgotten as if they never bad existed and yet, they kept the acres green ant tho harvest growing while tho white mei were- in the war. Men, women and children went into the fields. Th? South was really an organized army During the war in the South all progress all industry came to halt aud nothini ?sse .llnwu! *- !_ffl-r_?.._ '-M? Even now the South suffers from wa stagnation, from war paralysis. In tb North industry was never more brisk aii ?he arts of peace were cherished ; so eic ty moved on ; inventions were du .covered ; the genius of tho country wer aa keen aa ever. Wo supported ac arm; and s b?s??k?d?Dg fi??ii V/*. ??f? flagged in jour inausiry. We kept ou place as a manufacturing commercit gower. Cites like Chicago, New Ycrl an Francisco gre?' and . grew, wh.l Savannah, New Orleans ana Chat le3to languished. We not only sustained our part in th war, bat all that was required for pea? In epite of all the-drain upon the re sources of the North we were more pros perons, more powerful, more respecte ami feared by the nations than when th .war bioko out. Remember, as I bav said, that we bad by no means a unite North, while tno South was a unit. W had to send troops co suppress riots i New York : wo had enemies in our mids fn WnrntU*.*** fi.atA ttinra tv a a AU blViJ *..\..?..W.M ?tsvMWw ? ?. v. v* ...... strong party against the war ; always re joicing over disaster, always roting t paralyse .tn? forces; ready for any coi cession or surrender. This party Wi I strong in every State-strong enough I carry States like Indiana, Pcnnsylvani I and New York during the war. Nothin I but Morton's courage.saved it from mal lng Indiana a rebel State, like Konto ck; This was. the party that voted the wi was a failure at the time Sherman wi setting ont on his march to the sea, 1 tbe very time when the great Gencn and bia army wera about to cover 01 arms with imperishable renown. Ye can imagina thia effect such a resolutio must have had upon the enthusiasm < an army.for it ia a mistake to imagine th; such things dH not affect an army. Th. did affect fit as I know well. Daring 01 war there was scarcely a wind that can from the North, frc?i oar own home chat did not como laden with calnan and disparagement. The Southern Ge erais were models of chivalry and vat -our Generals wera - venal, incompctei coarse. lam speaking now of our pe {de, of writers and speakers who we oyal and to a certain extent Republics Everything that oar armies did w wrong, could have been done so mai better. Everything that oar o ponente did was perfect. Gen. Lee w a demigod, Jackson was a demise ors. So lt wan in Europe. With a'fe exceptions here and there tho publ opinion of tbe world waa against tl North, and our own friends et hoi would often grow nervous and fau finding with the army. You cann read a file bf journals in England of tb timo that did not contain some horrid calumny about men in the army, a copied from oar own journals.. If s won a battle like Shiloh, for instance ono of the most useful victories of t war, ono of the mewfc important in results-our own papers set to work Doiittie the victory and give the enei as much advantage as possible. Thi were essential elments in a war ll ours-1-tho war of a free people. I do 1 recite these things to complain especial I have nothing to complain about. 1 more foes we conquered the moro i portant was oar victory. Having ce quered it is not for as to say. any th) unkind or in disparagement of e enemies. That is not my purpose, merely mention these points in a gone way as points which our historii overlook and which show that tho No and &vuth were not as unequal in fe as alleged-that tho South had advt tagus which wo never po ?a eased-1 that, if wo bad a larger population tl tho South to draw from, there w probably aa many living under our j tectiou whose hearts were 'wiiii the hellion as there wera in tho Confexlon itself."^ Docta:? aro to guard human lifo 1 bring relief to tho sick. So does . Bolt's Baby Syrup, it contains not h injurious and ia alway? reliable. To bad at all drug stores in our city. Pi SS o?nts. Tea Pirating, Otto? Mure. When tho Commissioner of Agricul* turo, several months ugo. issued bis re port on tea culture? and advised'that tea could be manufactured as cheaply In this country as in China, Japan or any por tion of the East Indies, his ideas ?ere tironounced tjtopiau, his erTorts were rid culed? and he was considered a crazy humbu*-. ' He Was not checked, however, in his a'cterminntloii vd make an effort to wards success, and looking, only to the possibility of saving that twenty millions of dollars that our people pay annually to the Mongolian Tor his teas, and to utilise some of the waste lands and labor of the South, Gen. Lo Due persevered in terrible earnest to accomplish bis pro posed end. True, he Bent an inspector, a sort of agricultural pleasme-soeker, down South to take notes, and learn something to publish on the question of tea culture, and true, also, this poi.tabulator pub lished a report that was well calculated to drivo every one away from the effort of growing' tea; but, nevertheless, the Commissioner continued to propagate bis Dlants. until ho has up to date sent near ly 70,000 plante to two or three Southern States, and at the samo time has grown tho plants in Washington at the Depart ment; and discarding every thought that we must adhere to tho old silly, tradi tional method of manufacturing tea adop ted by the Chinese, he latterly nos tested tho result of his experiments, and suc ceeded beyond his anticipations. The "great Now York dai.'ies," and other papers, who so ridiculed the Com missioner's efforts, will now, wo hone, manfully acknowledge his success, as has dono the Washington Post, from whose columns wo clip the following report. Let our South Carolina tea growers read, ponder and persevere. There will be money In growing tea in South Caro lina ten years from to-day : "The success that attended the experi ment in curing tea made at the Depart ment of Agriculture a few days ago, goes far to prove that thc profitable cultiva tion ot tho t-*a plant in this country may becomo an accomplished fact at no very distant day. At tho invitation of Gen. LeDuc, Menora. O. A. & M. G. Gill, o' the firm of Martin, Gillet & Co., of Balti more, came to this city to oxperiment with the leaves of tho young tea plant raised in the gardens of thc Department from seeda of old plants grown in South Carolina, from seeds sent there by the Department some twelve or fourtcon years ago. The Messrs. Gill, who are Sgrandsons of Mr. Martin Gillet, the ound?r of the firm they represent, and who went into business os an importer ol tea in 1911, have bsd a wide experience with the article in which tb oy deal. Om of them passed a number of ycau ic China and Japan, and while there made himself thoroughly acquainted with th< methods practiced by tue people of those countries in preparing tea for the market Their investigations and exp?rience proved to them that there waa but on< species of tea plant, from which all va rleties of teas are made. This is th< plant known In botany as tho Thea vlri dis, of -hich tbs ordinary cultivate shrub is from three to six feet high though the wild plant attains a far great er size, sometimes fifteen or twenty feel Becoming convinced that tho color?n; matter employed by tho Chine:o an Japanese in tho preparation of their tea was not only hurtful tb the health, bu w^s destructive to tba Savor &r?d qualit uf l?e tea, they determined, in 1876, t introdujo uncolored teas, such os th Chinamen drink themselves, into th United States. They were laughed at b the trade throughout the country at firs and in defence of their course wero le to scientifically investigate tho prep&n tion of tea, and to mako experiment with the green leaves raised in this cour try. They fo Uli 1, after devoting muc timo and labor to the subject, that, by very simple process, they could prepai as good sn article of uncolored tea as an brought from China and Japan. The niuo became convinced that the Orienta bad for many years purposely goc through with the elaborate processes ea piovsd by them solely with the view ' misleading other nations, and makin them believe that so much labor ac manipulation wero necessary. "In the experiment referred to, at tl Agricultural Department, the leavi wero gathered by a number of the lac clerks from the young plants in the ho house-mere needling* planted in Pel ruary last, and not more than five or si inches high. This was a disadvantage begin with, as tho Chinese never .mal tea from plants under three years ol The leaves gathered were the young tit two or three only being taken from tl ton of each plant. They were then cs ried to the laboratory and turned over the Messrs. Gill to be cured. They begi operations by placing a portion of the in a sieve and nolding it over a pan boiling water until the leaves were thc oughly wilted. They were then put a thick cloth and subjected to a Lea' pressure tc aspfess the juice or et which contai nu a large portion of tant acid. When taken from tho cloth th formed a solid mass, very glutinous, a somewhat difficult to,separate. In ti stage the leaves can 1? made to ossoi any shape desired, and it is when th aro in this condition that tho Chin? make them up into the different bram like gunpowder, imperials, Ac. Af having been thoroughly separated t leaves were next "fired/' This was dc hy placing them in a tin pan overa s fire^ taking caro not to permit the bott? to cet hot enough to burn, and gen stirring them with the hand until p fectly cured. When the process v complete, tho tea was of a deep grt color, and resembled very much a C nese Oolong or a Japan tea, such ai used by the natives of thoso cou ntri In appearance it compared very favo bly with a sample, shown by the Mea Gill, which cost $3 per pound in Jap The whole process did not take an h< from the time the loaves were' f plucked, and so soon as boiling wc i could bo procured tea was made and f sen ted to tho ladies and gentlemen v had witnessed tho experiment' lt i pronounced excellent, the experts pres saying that the flavor was between t of a nigh grado of Japan and the fir Moyuuo Gaina green teas. "Tho loss of weight during the pro? was as follows : Steaming, 11.83 ; ma expressed, 6.88; firing, 61.37; tc 79.58 ; amount left, 20.42. "The latitudes in which tea is succ fully cultivated in China, Assam Japan cornapond geographically i tho latitudes embraced in the State Oeba ware, Maryland, Virginia, V Virginia, North Carolina, South O lina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, ? tucky, Arkansas, Missouri, and a por of tho Pacific coast, and the conditio! temperature, Boil, Ac,, aro about same. Wilmington, in Delaware parallel with Peking, one of the fi tea-growing district* Tn China, And upper b?rtlons of South Carolina parallel with threo of the most abnn< of its tea-growing provinces. So \ the oihrr Sf, ?a mentioned. lu the dens of the t^partmoul its culturo been attended with complets sue ' ? . .'--7---r--rw . - There aro now thousands of flou ria., ?g young p?nula' ready for distribution throughout the country, and there are several growing in the grounds that have been reposed to the weather for two .yean. Mr, Saunders, ?tho superinten dent of the ground? ?4?axdons, ,w.hq is peniaps tho moat accomplished jmrdoncr in thia country, thinks there will be nc, dltlicultv in cultivating the tea l? ariy of the Sta. co moktioneoV Ho, tWoka it, might be grows, in tho, form or badger and tito young ieayea clipped off by a machine,. The. Messie. Gill are , of the opinion tbatr ifs sufficient Impetus should be given to tea culturo in thia country, ? machinery of a very simple character: could be constructed to do almost every-) thf. g necessary in the process of Curing. They themselves would bo willing to put i up a curing establishment io a auitaulo locality, provided 'plantations - large ! enough to warrant a sufficient supply of leavf** w.ere started. ""Jil COUv??r'?? ii r"'t\j liv pi?pS? t? 6?> Elain that the tea known as English reakfaat tea is made from the seme plant as the other. The leaves acquire their dark color from tho process of fer mentation to_ which _they are subjected," Jj;0 tryuii Aiken, in Jy?w? and Cwrirr. Sooth Carolina Divisions* . The recent correspondence of the Jic publican from South Carolina has. nttrr.T ted. general attention from tho press of that State, and provoked considerable discussion. The letter upon Gov. Hamp? ton and his work was reprinted by the Charleston News and Courier and Colum bia Ilegitler. tho two leading daily jour nals of the State, and copi cu from tnem, in whole or in part, into several of the weekly pp.pcro. Altogether, the ppopje of tho Palmetto State have enjoyed, a better opportunity than was ever before offered them to learn tho impression which an independent Northern observer derives from a personal inspection. It would have provoked doubt of tho latter's impartiality if its conclusion hf,d been generally accepted without qua? tion, mid, we sro therefore not surprised to observo Some sharp criticisms. The portion most complained of is tho analy? sis cf Democratic feeling toward Hamp: ton, and the distinction that was drawn between porsoual support Of tho man avid honest acceptance ot tho policy ho renre? sent?. The conclusion reached.was that the majority bad supported the mai) rather than the policy tho past year, thc division of opinion being' broadly sum marized as fellows : "Tho fact is that there.are two r.trong ly opposing clement.', in tho D?mocratie party, which divide a good deal on thc geographical 1. ne of tho 'up country' am! tho 'low country,' the latter including the counties along the coast, with Charleston as ibo great co?ter, and thc 'up country' the more remoto parts of thc State, including the mountain counties and such districts as Edgefield, when Gary, the leader of Hampton'* opponent* in tho Legislature, lives. Broadly speak' lng, the wealth and intelligence of thc State pre in tho 'low country* ; tho igco rance and poverty in the 'up country; .4 ? ? - "t*-*^^ Rri^ii*ririr>a J|ltrtraltan\ hoi its headquarters in the 'low country' bourbonism in the 'up country.' While therefore. Hampton may receive, os on i recent trip, thelieartlcst ovations in th latter region, it is there very much mor the tribute to the personal leader.thai tho recognition of rm accepted polio, which Charleston yield?." The "up country" papero loudly prc test against this generalization, whicl the Anderson INTELLIGENCER prc nounces "a vilo and groundless slande upon the people of tipper Carolina. But the paragraph simply summarize facts familiar to anybody at all coe versant with South Carolina politics, an nono of the d?niais at all break its for? Lise many other States, South Carolin has long been divided into two well rc cognized sections, which are often at odd with each other. That the larger shat of wealth and intelligence are ic tho "lo country," tho ignorance and poverty i the "up country," is. a truth which moment's glance at the census statlsth WOUld folly establish, and a list nf Mot? ble ?.^mesin the "up' country's" histoj does not affect the principle. That lil eralism baa its headquarters with weall 'and intelligence in South Carolina i elsewhere, oourbonisn. with ignorani and poverty, has bien conclusive ?rovecl by the resont, nlwory of the Stat b go back no farther, from Gov. Ham tonis accession to power till tho adj?ur ment of the last Legislature, his attehrj to redeem his own and his party's pladg met repeated resistance tro m Gary, Edgefield, and other members from t! "un country." Tho Opposition to t full payment of the State debt, which t Karty ??ad bound itself to accept, had : eaaquarters in this region,, The ? tempt to defeat the constitutional amen uiviil imposing an annual tux levy two mills for educational purposes, "whl tho Democrats had even moro uolcnu promised to ratify, came from the sai quarter. " But one does not need to cito past lustrations ; there are, unfortunate proofs euough every day that a good di of bourbonlsm stilt survives la the " country." Tho Democrats of Edgefii held their County Convention not lo since, and among the resolutions adc ! ted-nut without some Opposition, wei iglad to say-was tho,following: "Tl I wo regard the issues between the wh and colored pcoploof this State, and I the entire South,- ls an antagonism j race, not at?mcrencooi political partie The men who adopted that resolut; have considerable to learn before tl reach Gov. Hampton's platform. Ti Anderson IKTELWOKN?EB d&lar?s t! the support given tho Governor iii I upper counties is as genuine, strong t hearty as in any other quarter. \ while the "low country" con .entions indorsing bia course without qualin tion, the Democrats of Edgefield Cou admit that many of them have diffe with him, and content themselves vu "in thejnain'' indorsing^ his adminisi itou. Tiio lu?o Ol iu? iw"J proa? ?ii "up country" in cou.-uenting upon Hepublican't correspondence, as ill troted by tho sample elsewhere given itself conclusive proof of narrow-mind ness end bigotry. Between tho edito the Abbeville Medium and' Wads HM ton there is still a wide gulf.1 In short, there ls abundant o/ideno the fact that Wade Hampton; ha; sti Seat work to do in South Carolina.. rostering opposition of the Gary* i Other bourbons to tho policy of tho eral hun and progress might well b overcome a maa whose, personal po and following were leas imposing t Hampton's. The check they have ceived is one from which they caa hi ly recover, but it will need another years of the same executivo tu estsb. the new order of things .beyond dwp Gov; Hampton has a plain call to si oat the new term to which all the ] Ele, white and blank; < promise to e im with unprecedented unanimity, ho will make a trove mistake if hq al dons co influential a position tor tba' in tho Soaato chamber at Washing which is equally within bia i?0b. Governor of South Carolla*. ho cat . p, M? Mil OUUV? Xv?ryvj i?lll ?????JIJ ? *#" Wo^uo^uol re?p?ndble for t?o vlowi ?t? ?*/W(^r?uBi^?5S?2^?<fe ?AdircMtcl to"*E?1 infinitely morsgopd for I?U? B|atc,aed the country tue next two m,wnr~8pr\ngfidd ' (Mau.) RepHlkan. ' ' -: . JEFF, PAYA IS LUCK. 1 Tho ViwfftW? Kx-Pretcldeat .* tU? Co?, federaejr Be correr* ? HantUOme KS?KU*. Wo hear with much satisfaction that \ the Court of Appeals of Mississippi bas, I within a f?W 'days past, rendurcd, on a rehearing, afioal judgment sn favor of our liDuored friend, Jefferson Davis, r? i storing to bin), tn full title and interest, his fine plaqtation of Brierfield. Warren County, M&p#>jp?. The history of th? litigation which min had this happy con clusion ia of un interesting and even rora?at?a ? character. " Brier?jQ?ld 5 add Hurricane plantations, now constituting th? whole island, produced by ?cut-otr of the Mississippi Hiver, ls a magoiiicon t domain, which was acquired more than fifty yearn ago bv Mr. Joseph E. Davis, the"older br?tborof Jefferson. Davin, And for a long time was cultivated with great profit. Mr. Joseph E. Davis was a gen? tleman of great sagacity, strong sense and enterprise, rad became one of the u/nolihlnah aiwj rn net ?riilmmf iii! r.lltuma of^t?ls?lppi. - - ; - . " Wheh'hlo brothor Jeff, married the tho daughter of Gen. Taylor Rad resigned his commiuion io the" army, Joseph E. Dayl?' invited bis brother to como to Mlte?Btipp? and enter upon the lifo of a cotton plan ter. ': Ml1; Jeff. Davis accepted tho Invitation,1 and' took ? possession of Brierfield, which he cultivated success fully for many years. D?spi's his long W! t? r<r fl Wal fr Am ' ihn oar c. nt tM? aal?ta Mr. Davis; with the aid of his energetic and intelligent present wife, managed to adrainisMir bis plantation so os to acquire a competence and reimburse his brother tho full; vallie of th? place: . Still the formal title ld the plantation remained in Mh Joseph r E; Davis.. When tho war bioko out, Mr. Joseph. Z>avSa held this property beyond the reach of tho Federal And when tho President of tho de featedConfederacy became a prisoner at Fortress Monroe, Mr. Joseph' Davis rando a .salo of his whole estate to his long chief manager, a colored man, fa amed Mon fgomery, for $300,000, pay a ble on long time, with interest at the rate of 0 per cent. Mr. Joseph: Davis then made a very complicated and ab etruso will. He was a very old man, dying' shortly after, at the agc of 84. His will recognised Mr. Jeff. Davh' chil dren as legatees for. the sum of $80,000, to hq collected by trustees, of whom Mr. Jeff. Davis was one, andi to be' paid to his children when they obtained majori ty. ' The balance of bis estate waa be queathed to: hl?:(M'n Joseph Ri Davis') natural children or grandchildren* As Mr. Jeff. Davis' youngest child is but 14, a long time wotfhl/elapso before anything could be realised from this be quest, and as Mr. Joseph E. Davis had left o vidente that his brother bad paid ih? full valu? of tho estate, Mr. Jeff. Davis finally, witb much reluctance bu account of his great lavo of ?nd respect for the memory of his brother, yielded to tho argent advice of bis relatives and friends, and instituted suit "to reclaim and re-eatablUh h|a title in the property, AU breeat and good men will rejoice that this patriotio and noble gentleman and votaran bas succeeded In his suit, ind that his declining years will thus bo soothed and defended from tho cares and hnmHatlon nf poverty and depend once.--A', ?siieayutie. " l? . A BUMs FIGHT IN CUBA. The 8p?rJ*h Paiitim? Stripped ol tu? Futas Colon. JPVoin the Augusta OanstUutionHitt. Tho following letter was written from Havana hy a former resident of this city, who ls now in Cuba, to Vs relatives in this city, and contains matters which doubtless may provo interesting to our readers:. "Mr. Springer called for me last Sun day afternoon at three o'clock in the Consul's carriage, and insisted that I should driv? with them to the la?T'* nsn nitheatro known, us "polar Qiua K?n?es," ,for billi fighting. I went, but I do as sur? you it ls my last time. At four o'clock a horseman, weil mounted, rode .into th? aiena, saluted th? governor, who. tossed him the keys to open tho gates, after which eight or ten "ieasers'rwith ired flags marched into tho, ring,followed by two " mon on horseback, with'long spears. It W?S not long before tho bull ! himself,. already greaUy Infuriated, ca [ voirted before us, dashing about from uido to aide, after tho fiery enslgnp,. and . I plunging at tile nearest horseman. Tho j story is ono long and sickening, so in summing up the affair 1 have only, to say that ene ?^? was killed.. I didn't caro a f?g'fbrth? man, nor his relatit-js abd Mends,; ibr such gladiators deserve no pity ; my Sympathies were with'tho horses and bolls. Two atoeds were kill ed by tbs first and third bull, and one so lacerated by the fifth animal that it had to bo driven from the ring, almost tom open. ' Then I was wrought op. I was mad with tho ^Governor, Spain, tho Spaniard?, and eveu Christopher Colum bus did not escape my ill wiahe?. Weak though I was. I wanted io fight about three Spaniards: though I was still weak from malarial fever.- Seven bulls-wore tortured to desperation and then butch ered. After the horsemen were through with worrying them, two angling Span? lards, on foot, with b?rh?d; reeds, gay ly '. decorated and brightly polished, weald dance around the enraged bull, stick him In the tender parta of the shoulders, inflicting horrible agony into the poor boast's exhstisted body. Bat the diabol ical sport did not end until another relay of. friends would dance around and thrust into tho quivering, dying animal sharp darts, loaded with a torpsdo at tbs ead, which would explode directly vndor tho skin, causing Ute roost excruciating agony. The poor bulls, now unable to defend thomselves against every form of attack which Ingenuity xould devise or r human wickedness erap?orv mr?iu w?T ih?swh*s wildly against the wall, en deavoring to wreck their miserablo ex istences; or, failing lu ?his, would rna around the rino:, looking piteously ii;to the faces of the multitude above thom, appealing in their inst? HU>orf to the tttoay-hcarted spectaieis- It was simply terrible. By the time tbs bloody' sport was over I was nearly dend myself, ami, although the day was very warm, drop of cold perspiration beaded upon.my brow and chilled my forehead. Men. Women and m?ulstera of wligloa wouiu first cheer the men arnvthea we o?''? and each unibrtunaio rider, ?j? he^was . dethroned by th? bull, would be folly hlwed by the apeetatonv I .we? ? Osten a beeftteak ?nee tay vi?t.?o inc Q>ttllflghL 9 * -,.]-. .....IA.1-. -.."I would Ilka ^..S? .{a^c?tV' island aarexed to thV, . " ^^<)frt theft, hiaiesd Ol ett*>l?7 ?r?n*fto??Ir>^ ' people it wimlc bs c?pame ot < iw?nty millbn inijab?t*.ct?*..,^ try ls magnificent, tte t?itcm^| if properly cu"^^> ^%,.(. ; haue a pJootv. ??.<