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I, i ity E. B. MUKRAY & CO. AisrriT?i?s?ivr s n TIT?TI?ST?A V MOWNrTNfi. .TTTNF. 20. 1885. VOTJIME XVII.-NO. 50. I A Cl??pt*r 1,1 tho ulttory ?R KCMJIUW'S H Hrlga?>- Tho Flair Furled. B Wai V' Kerrison, Jr., in Charleston Weekly H *' News. A span of years, almost a generation. H l?01 tlien, and now 1882. Taking p re 1 tro'Dectivc view of the deeds and acts of H Kertbaw'a Brigade and the Second South ? Carolina Regiment of infantry, the mom Bj orv ol" it? survivors freshens, and inci I lieut? almost buried by tho lapso of time I rise aa ? panorama "before tho mind's H eye " from the brigade's fina action at S tho' bombardment, and taking of Fort H Sumter, though nt that time not as a I bripaJo proper, to its patriotic and im H mediate volunteering for Virginia after I tho fall o? Sumter. In the many fields B of battle, Bull Bun, Mnnasaaa, yea to B thc end, her flag never tarnished, and I like many of ber f'ster brigadee, from her own and other States of the Confed B eracy her record is clear. Hero and B there nero incidents in the brigade's I career out of the general run of the ar 9 OIS" figlitiug or battles-deeda by aiugle I regiments, acts by singlo companies, M ffuick circumstances required and which I circumstances were needed to be aecom j plished by a portion of the organization. ? THE SECOND SOUTH CAROLINA REGI MENT I organized in tho latter part of Novem ber or thc carly days of December, 18(10, electing J. B. Kershaw, of Camden, colonel; J. D. Blanding, of Sumter, lieutenant-colonel, aud Dix H. Barnes, of Lancaster, major. Afc that early period of the great event scarcely any realized the momentous political resulta to be developed in tho future. Party feeling as we all know ran high, but still very few of the actual participants in the bloody drama which followed dreamed what was to come of it. War, Ialmost famine, and death to many s gallant fellow. Tho initiatory step was taken in tho life of tho Second Regiment in 18G0, and on tho Gth day of April the nucleus of the future regiment ar rived at Charleston. A few weeks aftei tho fall of Sumter, the call of Virginia (the dear old Commonwealth) stirred tho warm blood of the Carolina heart, and the eloquent appeals of Gen. Bon ham and Col. Kershaw induced foul companies of Col. Kerahaw's Regimcnl to respond, viz: Capt. Kennedy's com paDV, of Kershaw ; Capt. Richardson's of Sumter; Capt. Capers's, of Columbia and Capt. Wallace's, of Columbia. Tin other comnanies remained under Lieut Col. Blanding and Maj. Barnes, and af terwards were organized into the NintL Regiment. Tho four companies undei Col. Kershaw, or the eve of their do parture for Virginia, were presenter with a beautiful stand of colors by Gov ernor Bickens. Shortly after their ar rival at Richmond they were joiued b} six additional companies, tho PalmetU Guard, Capt. Cuthbert; tho Butle: Guard, Capt. Hoke ; Brooks Guard Capt. Rhett ; Secession Guard, Capt Perryman ; Capt. McManus's company from Lancaster and Capt. Hail's compa" ny from Kershaw. The necessary complement of the regi tnent was had and the vacancies in tin feld officers filled by the election of E T. Jones lieutenant colonel and A. D Goodwyn major. A few weeks drillinj and enjoying the hospitable kindness o Richmond, found the regiment on it way to Manassas Junction, Gregg's gal lant First Regiment preceding it by i few days. The regiments were commun detl by Gen. Bonham. His brigade wa shortly iucreased by the arrival of th Third Regiment, Col. Williams, th Seventh, Col. Bacon, and tho Eightb Col. Cash. Tho brigade went into cam along Hull Run, and for weeks wai en gaged in throwing up earthworks fror Hull Run to Fairfax Courthouse, ther remaining end fortifying till theadvanc of tho Federals. Falling back to Bul Run tho realities of a soldier's life bc gan. Tho poetry to a certain and ver great extent was a matter of the past the stern reality had usurped ila plac? ON MARYLAND HEIGHTS. Following tho battle of Bull Run o the 18th of June, 18(51, came the batt! of ManasBas on tho 21st. Tho march t the Peninsular and tho fight at W? iamsburg, tho Seven Days' fight aroun Richmond, including Savage Station an concluding tho seventh day at Malvor Hill. Previous to the Seven Days' ba ties, the term of service having cxpirei tho regiment volunteered for the wa Col. Kershaw being promoted lo brigi dier-genera!, Capt. Kennedy was electe colonel, A. D. Goodwyn lieutenant-coh nel and Frank Gaillard major. Reninii ing for a while in the vicinity of Ma vern Hill, tho brigade marchvd nort under Maj. Goo. McLaws, rejoining tb main army, crossing the Potomac ner Leesburg, marching to Frederick Cit through a gap in the mountains, entere Pleasant Valley. Climbing up Man land Height and driving a body of ca' airy who were reconnoitering, the brigac at length reached the strongly fortifie crest of the mountain, driving tho eneni away. Upon tho rout of tho enemy o Maryland Hoights, wbat a cjrand seor lay before us-green-covered hills an valleys, tho silvery Shenandoah mcetin tho Potomac, Harpor'8 Ferry nestle below. There was tho enemy a lino < battle with ita bellowing artillery, tl brave Jackson, with his gallant commie earnest in the attack, and our artiller; drawn by hand from the base of Mar; land Heights, pouring its destructive fii upon the enemy below. The surrendi of the enemy followed. Harper's Ferr, with its immense Htores, fell into tl Confederate haue-., suffering severely f< rations, the command recoiving none fi two days, while on Maryland Height Disappointed the morning after the su render of Harper's Ferry in not recoi "ig rations; foot Boro and starvin marching through tho town on tho wi to Sharpsburg, pausing during the pr ceding night for only four hourb' rc anti then tho march renewed, possit through Sbepherdstown, crossing tl bridge and reaching the vicinity of tl bistoric field near daylight. 6HARP8BUIK1. A few minutes* rest. The monde at first chilly and misty, cleared i bright and cheery for tho approachii storm of battle, Kershaw's Erigade w soon in line, tho old Second in ber ne? flanked on each side by ber bravo cop triota. Tho chargo mado-Sumno Corps sent reeling back-thc brave Gee giana and tho "unparalleled Missiasip brigade of our Division, (Gen. McLaws woll and fully up to their work, t fight ended. The dying nnd the dei the oft repeated anguish of tho livir brothers, monda, yes, in eoine imtan< the father and BOO, dead on one coram field. Just hore, one episode, so striki >'? ?ts singularity and curious ramin econce. The first sergeant of the P .netto Guard w?# missing, with others the fearful list ; after careful search the field, a few boura beforo tho chan of. position, "Tils remains were fodi with a srailo on his countenance. 1 hoad resting upon his left arm, as if ? cen. He waa dead, wounded by ??ell, as W5 found, in the feet-the sn! broken by a grapeshot. We buried li rlipq ? f"". . b \ Ul '"ipromptu tor rtrosJd < ?T -tCS be^rc the command recrosMd tho river. The burial of Sir John Moore Hashed across our minds ?SM?? fav?rite school-day poem in carly boyhood. The PotomacirecroSed tue?.mmand nsted from its a[Si Sn'nSf BrU\e?r BrT? Town BonS ten miles fr0m V/iucbester. FREDEHICK8BURO. After recuperating for a time th? So'ff? i??o rCSl,,Ued, ?0r FredeSsbu g' Uoing mto camp, there was plenty o fa igue and picket duty, and cold bitter co Iecnt^o3'-theVh? **ht- ?n rt collect the sigualgun, startling and clear i The roiumand in position ; brave Barks! , lineo? batt,'9 ??^' ^JS^ ! nue ot battle, niter ita giguntic wort- in yesterday's advance ff the enemy Kf? Brigade, with othew? in i f ?nf ofK hW1* Sto?ewal?-in 1 he ?\lL TeAenck8bj^> the Second in ber place dargo after charge by thc enemy- he old story bas b,e? told be" foro. Why dwell on it? The efforts of the federals were of no avail, their cal ant persistence broken, as attested by tbo brave dead of MeagLer'a Irish Brigade ; their dead in many i:.sta"ce" lying within a few yards of the CoufeJ? erato Ha?. Winter quarters, with pick eting along the bauks of the river-blue coats and grey jackets in sight of each other on either bank. Tho winter pas", es and m May came the baltic of Chancellorsville. CHANCELLORSVILLE. The odds against the Confeden ces were great but the genius of Lee and the great Jackson were equal to the emergency. The enemy is attacked in Ule rear by Jackson, and thou i'orced back in front. In front of tho brigade and near the line of the Second Regi ment a battery of Napoleon guns vvns rushed in advance of the infantry, by order of Gen. Stuart, who assumed command of the corps after the wound ing of Jackson. The clear, tinkliug vibration of the guns is distinctly audible to the infantry. A few minutes and the enemy is routed and Hooker is driven back in dismay. Changing di rection to meet Sedgwick, tho battle of Salem Church is fought near night, and then tho next day Sedgwick ?3 driven across the river to his old quarters. Re turning to Fredericksburg, and resting some weeks, then came the march to Gettysburg. The army in splendid con dition ; every soldier confident. In course of time the scene of that memor able field was reached, arriving about dusk and meeting with many of Ewell's command enthusiastic over the prelimi nary fight, which was to be followed the nest day by the grand effort of the entire army. Resting on the eve, every heart beating with hope and determina tion, the regiment and brigade were ready. Marching and counter marching in the vicinity of the Black Horso Tav ern, we at last get into position. Tho Confederate artillery opening along the entire line-the boys all ready, hopeful, yea, joyous over tho prospect of success. THE CHARGE AT GETTYSBURG. As the order to forward is issued to the linc, the artillery ceases, a calm comes, onK' to be banished by tho car nage to io :\ With rifles at the "right shoulder shift," the march common time, the infantry advances in steady column. The storm breaks. Shrieking, crushing, tearing, comes the artillery fire. Grape, cannister, shell and minnies from tho Federals heap their destruction upon the devoted Confederates. Yet steady, onward, without firing a gun till the charge. Many a brave fellow bit the dust long before tho regiment opened. The bravery and courage exhibited were almost superhuman. Color-bearers where shot down ono after another. In one instance, which may have been the case of many others, the color-bearer, a gallant youthful looking boy, when the order was given to rally on tho colors, in anticipation of his death, pushed bis staff in tho ground, and when struck by thc death dealing miuuie, his colors were there ou which his battalion rallied and dressed. Charge after charge, but im possible. Two captrrcd guns were rolled off by two members of tho Second, but of no avail,, for the devastating fire soon leaves them intact. The very dust around thc feet, from tho grape aud can nister, rises ns if from a Sirocco. Pictures of battlefields mny be vivid, but what is the reality ? Many a gallant command swept forward only to destruc tion. When the pall of night came to close the bloody scene tho array, though unsuccessful, was not defeated. Tho he roic spirit, the confidence was still un impaired. One company of tbe Second South Carolina entered the fight with twenty-three men, at night but five TO mained ; and that is the history of many. After Gettysburg aud the recrossing of the Potomac, the command fell back to Culpeper, remaining nearly all summer. In the fall, under its corps commander, was ordered to join Bragg's army, par ticipating in tho battle of Chickamauga. after which, with tho detached command of Gen. Longstreet in the fight nt Knox ville and Beans' Station ; after thia going into winter quarters till tho movements of Gen. Leo co-.nmaijd our return to the mother Army of Northern Virgiuia. THE FIFTH OF MAY, 18G4, found us poshing rapidly forward to join the main afmy. Tho battle of the Wil de JOSS was to come. At sunrise on the 6tli we could hear the distant thunder ing of artillery. With quick step we pushed forward and just in time. Aa the head of our column struck the Plankroad, so'oftcn spoken of by others, wo met Gen. Lee and staff. No time to bo lost. Tho euemv had surprised a po sition of the line. Wilcox's Division was driven back in less time than it takes to tell it. Tho Second Regiment gets into position by eompauies and begins the hot work by companies as soon as they get to tho front. What a sight Tho solid blue line of tho enemy flushed with success; a battery of guns of the Confederates keeping them at bay, with no infantry support. Ibo namo of that battery should bo historic. As tho smoke of their guns would clear away the colors of the near-approaching col umn of the enemy were soep. But tbe scene changes. Tbe old Second.get? to work Tho entire brigade opens, and short work is made. Tbe enemy break. Tho fight continues. Tho Second is dc taehed^or a time to fill a gap in a por tion of tho line, some distance from tho brigade. With a steady firo the Feder ate are broken and thc genera rout be gins After tho battle, we take up tho march to Spottaylvania Courtaou.-o, where the enemy was again confronted. Tho Second was in reserve, but thc ene nw extending his flanks, required all be infantry lo be put in lino, under tho im mediate evo of that gallant cavalier, Gen Stuart. Tho Second was placed in position not a minute too soon. Charge Ker charge of the enemy was repulsed, and here occurred a scene worthy of note. A NOTEWORTHY WENK. Tho enemy succeeded in rushing over a portion of tho line protected by James a Biffin of thc brigade, but they were ?rc?ly in when the bayonet was brought to olav and they were hurled back, tho taUalfoS a, usual meriting ita reputation as ono of the best commands in the brigade. Gea. Stuart"watched tlio battle, expressing bia admiration of tho action. , A few days afterward tho bravo Stuart died for tbe causo. Tho battle continued fov Beveral days, when Grant, finding it 1 impossible to break our lines, moved to- 1 ward the Pamunkey, making a feint at llanover Junction at North Anna Bridge, where four companies of the Second held the bridge successfully. Graut continued moving by his left flank till reaching Cold Harbor. Thc brigado wide: the gallant Keilt, ivas sent out t- i'eel the euemy, striking bim at Beulah Church, i strongly entrenched. Here tho brave Keitt received his mortal wound. 1- ind- I ?jig thc enemy in force and entrenched, tho blain army was rejoiued and sharp shooting and skirmishing commenced. AX UNWRITTEN BI'oRY. * Ono story unwritten in the history ol the Second South Carolina Regiment : A very uuiet afternoon at Cold Harbor, tho year i804, tbe month and day June Cth. Two regiments in reserve, the Second aud Seventh. The Third, Eighth, Fi.teenlb, Twentieth and James's gallant little battalion on tho line. Not a sign of intention that th? enemy would attack. We, tho regiments in reserve, had scarce got through our scant Confederate din ner, before the roll of infantry fire greeted the ear. A second nfter, a courier from Gen. Kershaw reported with order?. Forward the two regiments in reserve, (tho Second nnd Seventh) with the order to double-quick and form in rear of a portion of the division works which had just been surprised and captured by thc enemy. With his usual Scotch instinct (ho will pardon tho ex pression) and that ecol grit which a series of days of close relationship during the war impressed on the writer, Col. Willtum Wallace of thc Second, the senior colonel in tho command of the two regiments in reserve, ordered bis men forward. Tho second fell into ranks, being the first to receive orders, with instructions to the Seventh to fol low at once. The Second, at quick time, reached the place of attack. To explain the position of tho ground it is necessary to Htate that the division in line of the works described a right angle, so as to reach the necessary point ; the reserve had to file left on reaching thc apex ol the angle and double-quick in rear and near the line of Confederate works. So rapid was the move of the Second that th? Seventh, (as gallant a regiment ns ever fought,) bad not time to reach and form with us. It was a momentous period, requiring judgment, decision and dash. Tho Second formed on an eleva tion, about two hundred ynrds from the captured work?, held by two regiments of the enemy, Forty-eighth aud One Hundred and Twelfth New York. Pausing only l'or a moment to get the regiment to front and into line, the order from the colonel came : "Fix bayonets, charge !" With the familinr Confeder ate yell, forward dashed the regiment, (without underrating numbers,) only one hundred and twenty rifles strone, driviug the enemy pell-mell out of the works and re-establishing the line, capturing tho colors of the Forty-eighth New York. A RIXUULAR SPECTACLE. This is an episode in the past of the brigade, a matter of a few minutes. Be tween tho capturo made by the enemy and the retaking of tho work'j occupied scarce fifteen minutes. A Oelay of ai many minutes more would have given thc euemy timo to reinforce, and then thf result to Lee's army might have beor doubtful. Before the Second arrived ot the field a singular spectacle was pre Bcnted. The enemy were in the works flanked right and left by the Confederad troops, both standing firm awaiting re suits, neither daring to move, both pas sive, boping for reinforcements. Ir afterthought this daring act of pluck anc necessity was plain-at all hazards t< make thc charge was necessary. Fron report of the enemy, the intention waa t( make an effort to capture a portion o our linc and if successful to reinforce The question was simply time with botl sides. The same was appreciated, aut hence the charge of the "Forlorn Hope.' When the disparity of numbers, on small Confederate regiment against twi full Union regiments, is considered surely thc affair has a place on record Tho action may not bo unparalled, bu for dash, gallantry and successful rcsul will challenge tho admiration. ? To write - counected story of nny bri gade requi'. i leisure a id memory. His tory must do that. But in thc littl moments of life and ofttimes in the nigh a recollection of past scenes and com rades, who now sleep the sleep of th brave, makes the pulse mount high an tho pen quicken. The Secona was participant in all thc shifting scenes t Cold Harbor, followed by Petersburg and thon, after a time, oenttotbo Valle; operating under Early, participating i the victories and defeats of his arm; including tho brigade fight at Charle! town, Virginia, while on picket, and th brigade fight a few days previous to ll Cedar Run fight, when tho gallant Gei Connor was disabled lor life, also Berrj villo and numbers of other minor affair In January, 18G5, tho brigade was o dered to South Carolina to resist tl advance of Sherman, taking part in tl various skirmishes lill tho evacuation Charleston ; then into North Caroliui present at tho fight at Avorysboro', ai cloaing its record at the field of Bentoi ville. At Smithville tho Twentieth Re imcnt consolidated with tho Second, tl Second retaining its namo and eoloi Its officers were William Wallace, col ncl; J. D.Graham, lieutenant-coloni and G. Lcapheart, major. CONCLUSION. It bas been tho endeavor to conden as much as possib'o in this article, lea ing to other and abler pens to go me into detail, for each company in the coi mand had an interesting and darii experience. The names of tho wound and dead are omitted, for it is impossil to remember many who fell, and to on one would be unintentional injustb Their deeds can only be recited by comrade from their immediate compat Also the roany gallant personal acts tho commanders of thc Second, G< Kershaw, Gen. Kennedy and Col. W lace ; the death of Lieut.-Col. Fra Gaillard, al thc Wilderness, while che ing on his men ; and thc unselfish a gallad dovotion of thc brigade Adjutn General, C. R. Holmes, (t>n officer ori nally appointed from the Second Sot Carolina,) and the acts of tho Palme Guard. Fulus et au<!a.r. Tho finale 1: come. Johnston had surrendered, a around tho cami .Ire were seated u who possibly met.' tho last time. 1 conversation was dreary and disconnec homo thoughts mingled with tho past hard futura was before us. Tho news the assassination of Lincoln added other weight to tho oppressed feeling. In a day or two tho good-bye was s -the flag furled-and tho Second Ri mont passed away. The local editor of thc Springf (Mass.) Republican, Mr. J. H. Mabl pays: "We have used St. Jacobs Oi our family for rheumatism, aud fount lodjc a firsl-clasi thing."-Boston Her WHAT ELECTRICITY CAN DO. A Servaut That Will Outdo Even Htonin In Usefulness. Tho present electrical era, which really began with tbe introduction of dynamo machines aa a??ouree of electrical power in place of the costly and feeble zinc cells, seems destined to last until tho winds aud the tides shall furnish this ; power so cheaply that it trill drive ma- \ clanery, plough tho fields, haul woodend ; draw water, and so will really do man's ? hard work for him. Tho futuro value of j electricity is rated so high by clear-head- j od men of science that oven so good a ? servant as steam has been to mau sinks by comparison into insigniiicauce. An | article in Blackwood1? Magazine seta tho j matter before thc unscientific reader in so j interesting a shape that the following passages are worth quoting : "Electricity has fong been a subject which had little interest except for tho lovers of scientific research. A genera tion has not yet altogether passed away in which all industrial uso of electricity was unknown ; and tho only practical application of knowledge in regard toit was not one to apply it usefully, but only to check its power of destruction. Fifty years ago lightning-conductors wero tbe only electric works iu common uso ; and the proper construction of these themselves was so little understood that to this day such appliances arc constantly made and put up in the worst possible way for ef fecting their purpose. Now all this is changed. Tho thick network uf wires that disfigures all our great cities is a daily demonstration to all of electricity being put to most important practical uses, and our menus of communication are such ns the most imaginativo fairy tale that ever was written could not excel for wonders. Hut wonderful as baB been the development of the telegraph, it appears likely that ere long we shall look upon it as but one, and by no means tho most marvellous, of countless appllca? lions of electricity. Wc seem to have discovered a giant whoso powers aro il limitable, yet whoso strength can be ap plied to do the most delicate and subtle work-who is always ready for duty, and whose energies can be drawn out in a thousand ways-whose strength can bo generated at ono place, and carried to another for uso, without serious loss who can accumulate his vigor, so that, if it is not employed for a time, he can then do work much harder than he could do continuously-who will begin working, and stop working, at a touch-who will bore out hardest rocks, and cary our gen tlest whisper to a friend miles away who will be always docile, noiseless, un tiring, never capricious and ever on tho alert. "No doubt many tvill say, and many do say, that the electrical world has got excited, and is promising too much ; that insuperable difficulties will como in tho way ; that when tho temporary excitaient is over electricity will not be fouud to bo so much more advantageous than other forces after all; in short, lhere is plenty of pointing at cold water, and a good deal of throwing of it. It is not much more than sixty years since the most learned uieu of the day gave evidence on tho subject of gas which to us now seems al most comic. The Royal Society repor ted, in 1814, that no gasometer larger than 0,000 feet capacity should bo per mitted. Such men as Sir Humphroy Davy and Sir William Congreve gave evidence before a seleet committo that gasometers of 20,000 feet capacity were too large for safety ; that they could not understand the temerity' of tho Pari sians, who were then building ono of 300,000 feet capacity-Sir Humphry de claring that 12,000 was his limit, and that be would be uneasy if ho lived near one of 20,000. Great fear was also ex pressed that if a street lamp went out the wind would enter tho burner und cause an explosion. "When Ronalds, about tho year 1817, laid his plans for an electric telegraph before tho government, they would not even take thc trouble to investigate the matter. An undersecretary, in the usual official style, informed him that he was 'directed by bis Majesty's secretary of State, &c.,?!tc., to inform Mr. Ronals that a telegraph is of no use in time of peace, and that in time of war the" fcmaphcro then in uso was quite su?icient for the purpose.' In 1871) scientific men declar ed it would bo found impossible to adapt electric lighting to dwelling-houses or small-rooms. Rut perhaps there is no instance so remarkable of this want of foresight and practical grasp which is often displayed by tho most able and learned men, than what was said about gaslight when it was first introduced, particularly as what was then said of gas is almost word for word tho sanib kind of thing ns some are now Baying of electric lighting. In 1819 Desormer wrote of gas : "Tho light is of disagreeable color, en tirely different from the red and warra gleam of our oil-lamps, lt is of a daz zling brightness ; ?ts distribution will be impossible and irregular, t.nd it will bo much dearer than oil-lighting ; and even if it should bo improved, it will : lill re main much dearer than those light.-, w hich we already posses.' " "Substituting tho word 'gas' for 'oil,' and reading the passage as if electricity were being spoken of instead of gas, the kind of criticium which is now being I made on tho electric light is exactly re produced-'cold, dazzling, impossible to distributo it, irregular, dear.' "Till lately, the practical applications of electricity wero limited to those ap pliances which could be worked without very much power. No means had been discovered for producing electric energy in powerful form and in largo quantity with ease and cheapness. The modca in use were cumbrous and cxpeusivo wdicn applied ou a large scale-so much BO as to debar their use for work requiring great power. But iu those departments in winch a moderate quantity could bo made use of, enormous progress was made from tho time when the first great prac tical use of electricity waa begun in tho establishment of tho electric telegraph. It seems to us now almost incredible, with our tens of millions of telegrams yearly, that the importance of this great step in science was so little understood that, on the opening day of tho first electric telegraph company in the world, in London, on?y two messages wero hand ed in for transmission during tLa whole forenoon. But when the success of tho telegraph in securing the arrest of Tawell, the Quaker m?derer, drew public atten tion to its value, a great stimulus waa given to interest in electrical subjects, and rapid strides wero made in such in dustrial inventions as could be worked with thc moderate quantities of electric ity that could then be obtained. Still, all that could be done waa hut as the twitch ing of tho finger of tho sleeping giant, compared to what men who understood tho subject knew they might expect, if only means could bo discovered by which j electricity could bo developed on a large ; scale cheaply and easily. Thia difficulty I has at last been overcome, and machines i have been constructed which produce ' electricity in enormous quantity, no other I appliance being ucccessary to cause tho i machine to produce than rotary motion obtained from a steam or eau eugine, or a water wheel or whirlmill, or even from horse or hand labor. This has effected a perfect revolution in tho electric world ; it has brought electricity from tho field of scientific research and delicate applianco into the field of actual mechanical labor ; and this not only ns a substitute for other modes of doing mechanical work, but in another infinitely more valuable charac ter-that of a "vehicle by which such power can be carried at small expense, and practically without loss, from any place at which thoro is the mcpns of producing it to any other distant spot where it mny bo desired to apply it. A very simple illustration will mako thu plain. A windmill is the cheapest of all sources of powerful mechanical work, if wind is always available. Hut as there Is geueraliy most wind high up where there is ito shelter, while tho work has to bo dono on tho plain, windmills aro rapidly disappearing. Now, however, that elec tric power can be produced on a largo scnle, tho fact that it can bo transmitted along wires makes it possible to uso tho prevailing wiud on tho top of tho hill to produce electricity, and to uso its power at tho bottom of tho hill to do the useful work required. lu tho sama way there may be great water power at a spot where no mill can bo built, and where tho la bor and expenco of bringing material to bo worked in it would be too groat. But now tho water-power can bo used where it is found, ami its strength, converted into electricity, conveyed to a mill erec ted in any convenient place, to do thc work required. "Tako onco again tho illustration of ti waterwheel. In former days such r wheel could give power to griud our corn or weave our cloth, or make our paper, 01 crush our quartz, provided tho material could bo conveniently brought to thc water-power. Now, not only can sucl: water do tho same work miles from where it is running, by its power hoing used tc produce electricity ; not only can it worl our clocks, drive pater fumilias's lathe anc mater's sowing-machine, pump the wa ter, turn the spit, work tho dinucrhoist it private houses, and thresh, grind, spin weave and calender in our factories-ii can with case do much moro thru tin water-power could not do, oven if dos? nt baud and with the most complicata appliances. It can make the runnini water far away ring our bolls, regulati our clochs, rectify our alcohol, plate ou spoons, gild our ornnmonts, multiply ou eugraving-plates, make permanent om photographs and work our plouglm am our tram cars. 'I hese aro but illustra tions as what can bo done and is heim done even hero tho wonders to not stop for not only will power such as water when employed to produce electricity, b available at a distunco from thc plac where it exists, and for purposes whicl it could not of itself fulfil-strango as i may sound, the power of water will pro duco by ila new application heat am light. A water-wheel, by being em ployed to generate electricity, may ligli our rooms, cook our dinner and ripe our peaches. We can havo light from i by which we can work as casiiv at nigh as in the day-a light which will ncitne consume our fresh air, nor vitiate it witl foul gases, nor smoko our ceiling nc destroy our curtains ; which can set fir to nothing; the globe of which can b hooked to an invalid's bed-curtain will out risk, or attached to flexible wires an taken into tho most confined corner t give light to a workman without dangc of fire. It would fill a volume to state t length all thc practical advantages whit this development of electricity has opel ed up already, aud more than a volun to state all that ii may bc expected yt to accomplish. Let it also be uudcrstoc that while thc foregoing illustrations hai boen slated in relation to water-powe they aro equally true for any other pov cr, such as steam-engine, gns-cngin horse-power or human labor. Thc fixe engine on a farm can do tho ploughii hundreds of yards off. The gas-ongii th au pumps wator by day can light tl house at night. 'Hie horses that dn coal carts for many miles to work steam engine in Bouie outlying placo ci bo used at home instead to worn an ele trie machine, with no loss of time, at in many caaea with less wasto of labe The convicts on a treadmill can bc doii work by it at any part of, or even outsic tue prison. In a word, tho power f work can be generated Ly any ordina means, and at any place where t means exist, and can then be cc nomically conveyed to tho spot whore ia to bc usefully applied, without loss time, and practically in full strengt The tide jn tho shore can do work i laud ; tbe stream in thc mountain gor can do work on tho hill-top ; lite wie mill on thc eminence can do work in t valloy ; the horse in the ynrd, or t tho man in the outhouse, cnn do wc inside the dwelling. And with all power, and its universality of applit tion, this now servant whicli science 1 supplied us with is thc most docile menials. A touch of a lady's finger w bring into action a power which a th< sand men could not resist ; another tot will stop its action or reverse it in ac ment. "But even this is not all. This pow that can be thus used for a thousand < forent practical purposes, and with cou less varieties in tho mode of applicatic can not only be obtained freely, and a moment's notice, and at any place, i in illimitable quantities ? it can also 9tored up when needful .or futuro ti Within the laat few years the problem producing electricity, and storing it ready for immediate uso, han been pi tically solved; so thal Sir William Tin ?on could in Glasgow perform powei work by electricity which had been g t crated in Paris, and brought ready instant application from Paris toGlaag just as a clock wound up abroad cc bo brought to this country and set gc here. Of course it will bo undent that this is only a popular dcscriptioi the operation-the reader being pres ed to bo at present ottly interested know whntcan be done. A scientific planntion of the process would bo ou placo here. Tho fact it is desired impress upon the reader is, that not ly eau the force of electricity bo car far from the generating sourco for inri dinto UtO by being conducted along w but that it may be bottled up in mov vessels, which can carrie-1 like other goods to a distance, and nt i made available for any purpose for w tho electricity could have been use? tho ?pot at which it was first prodt Electricly can bo stored in square c which can bo conveyed by hand or i iago to any spot where it ia rcqu The doctor can take bia bottled electr to the sick room under his arm to form aft operation. Tho s jcturer bring it stored up lo tho lieturo t The aeronaut can carry it stored up i balloon. The owner of a boat w screw can convey electricity inn w barrow to tho water's edee, place th ses in which it is sto.~i in the botto his boat as ballast, and turn his pro] with it. Tho lady eau havo it deli at her door as the milk? Ss, and wort sowing machino with it. 'The trie can put a caso under his seat, and ri it. Lamps can bo lighted, clock* be worked and regulated, cafes soi - -.'-1 ' " spoons plated, copper plato? mado by electricity stored up in casca. Indeed, any operation within tho power of elec tricity to accomplish otherwise, can now bo done by stored electricity. "Hut if our giant is thus a prodigy both of strength and of application and con centration of strength, let it not be sup posed that ho resembles other giants in an unfitness for work that is refined mid delicate. He is no lumbering, clumsy mass of power merely, too rough-handed for work that requires sensitivo touch, and too gros* in perception to ho nble i *o separate tho coarse from tho lino. I Power?ul as ho is from the merely ino I cha?non! point of view, his powers in ro gard to minutia? arc quite as marked, and, if possible, moro marvellous. The hand that is so weighty lins a touchas fine as the most delicate woman. It cnn catch up mid repeat along a lons; conductor tho most minuto vibrations c.iusod by thc human voice, reproducing then with most per fect accuracy. It can grasp and magnify tho vibrations of tho movements of tho tiniest insects, so that they becomo audi ble to tho human car. It can delect tho most infinitesimal speck of metal in any substance, and discloso its presouco un erringly. It can record permanently tho rhythm of tho feeblest pulse, lt can measure in degrees so closo that it is dif ficult lo put them down on a scale, the variations in tho beat of tho body. It can detect a trace of moisture to which a drop is as tho Pacific Ocean. It can act with such rapidity that by its aid a photograph can be taken in tho ii vc-thou sandth part of a second, so tbnt sew ral distinct pictures of a horso can bo taken in the successive stages of one bound. It can correct clocks long distances apart to the tenth part of n second. It can movu in motions HO minuto and rapid nt to resemble tho vibrations of an insect'* wing. Ii can tuko a cast of the most delicate moulding without losing a shade of its perfection. It can record tho va rlations of tho speed of a bullet from th? time it moves from tho breech till 1 leaves the muzzle of tho gun. There ii almost no limit to tho minuteness of ?ti action or tho refinement to which it cnt be brought. "If wuat has been already accomplish cd in this now rapidly expanding rcgioi of practical science is so wonderful, tin futuro prospect is still moro so. A len years may bring about a state of thing in which men will bo astonished that the; over could have thought the. appliances o 18G? practical mid convenient, and th wonders of the steam engine be to us a1 the loom of old days was to those ir who: e generation tho Jacquard was intro duced. That tho development will bc th more rapid and tho moro useful in prc portion to the general interest taken in i by tho public is sure ; and it is hopoi that what has been said may tend to prc mote such a feeling of interest in a sut ject which is daily proving itself to pof seas substantial benefits for all." SOUTH CAROLINA PROURKSS. In?rense In l.lve Stock un Coniniireu wit Other BttttOS. L\trre*))omlcnce Nvu>4 (ind Qmricr. WASHINGTON, Juno Ii). South Carolina seems to bo getting o very comfortably in an industrial wa; and although wc have been beating o? breasts and lamenting that we were Ul progressive, tho census reports begin I show that tho State bas mado more pr< Sress iu various respects during tho la coade than ber moro pretentious neigl burs. A bulletin just issued by the eel sus office illustrates this tact in conne tion with tho livo stock industry. Norl Carolina and Georgia have been wide believed to bo advancing in materi Sro3pcrity much moro rapidly than 01 tate, which lies between them. 8ou Carolina is just starting tn enrneslon tl road of progress which hor sister Coi monwcalths have been traveling f years, and yet tho figures show that thia division of fanning abo has nut be distanced. Hero arc tho figures of tl livo stock on farms on June 1, 1880 : Horse?-North Carolina, 183.G86, rn of increase betweou 1870 and 1880, per cent. South Carolina, (JO.GGO, i crease 38 per cent. Georgia, 98,520, i crease 20 per cent. Average increase United States, 45 per cent. Mules a; Asses-North Carolina, 81,871, incrci in decade 02 per cent. South Carolii 07,005, increase 02 per cent. Georg 132,078, increase 51 per cent. Av era increase in United States, 01 per cc Working Oxeu-North Carolina, 50,4! increase in decade ll percent. Soi ? Carolina, 24,507, increase 39 per ce ! Georgia, 50,020, decreasu 8 per cc Decrease in Uniau. 25 per cent. Mi! Cows-North Carolina, 232.133, incrci 18 per cent. South Carolina, 139,8 increase 42 per cent. Georgia? 815,0 increase 80 per cont. Increase in Uni 89 per cent. Other Cattle-North Ca lina, 375,105, increase 34 por cont. Soi Carolina, 199,321, increase 50 per c.( Georgia, 4,000, increase 32 percent, creaso in Union, GO per cont. Sheep, elusive of lambs-North Carolina, 4( 038 ; no noticeable increase or decrci South Carolina, 118,889, decrease 5 cent. Georgia, 527,880, increase 20 per cent. Many returns of 1870 eluded lambs, which accounts for m of apparent decrease. South Carol has, however, just fairly begun sh raising. Increase in United States per cent. Swine-North Carolina, 1,4 641, increase 35 per cent. South G linn, 028,198, increase 59 per c Georgia, 1,471,003, increase 49 per c Increase in Union, 90 per cont. The statistics of Indian corn and ( illation nre gi wu in tho bulletin for j poses of comparison, and the connec between the increase in food raising live stock is apparent, as also the mands of increased population for L Indian Corn-North Carolina, iucr 52 per cent. ; South Carolina, 55 cent. ; Georgia, 31 per cent. Popula North Carolina, increase 31 per ci South Carolina, 41 per cont. Geo 30 por cent. Thcso figures aro enc aging. If after only three years of p and progress in thc last decade S Carolina can show this improven while tho adjacent States had been aud prosperous for years before 1877 ! ought surely to du still better bet j 1880 and 1890. Let tho good wor j on. With rapidly augmenting , stock, with our provisions and i j mado nt home, we can in a few challenge comparison with any Stat governed by "Rourbons." "Hou ism" in South Carolina neoma to be ductive of considerable material pro, Mahoncism, I do not think, would ? us any moro livo stock or corn or . and there is nothing to "croak" abc ! tho above figures. i - A Western editor offbrod a pri i $50 and a year's subscription for tb - written proposal of marriage from a . Ho picked out a nice proposal f f beautiful and wealthy widow, ana r it, accepting tho proposal, and, wil 1 threat of a breach of promise sn r tually captured her. hxlitors ins t acquire wealth hy writing t wen tv / hours a day, hut when their genius i tho right shoot they procuro tho p I, mons. -._; , THE IOWA Ht UBICAN E. Urnjihlc I'lcturo of the Horrors of the Storm. DES MOINES, IOWA, Juno 20. An appeal for nid signed by J. S Clarkson, editor of tho Des Moines Reg ister, is furnished on behalf of the strick en communities in Iowa with tiie request that all newspapers publish it. Mr. Clarkson says: After two days and nights spent in traversing the track of tho tornado that swept over this State with snell fenrful havoc last Saturday night, and having reports from scores of reporters of tho Register and Asso ciated Press, sent to all parts of it, I find tho condition of tue strickon people so piteous and so needful of in- ? stantaueous and generous help that I send this appeal to the people of the ! I'nit ed Slates in their behalf. Tho tor- j nado mado a destructive sweep through a thickly settled portion of Iowa, somo 150 miles in length aud on an avcrngo half a milo wide, extending from points' south of Ames in Tory County in tho centre of the Stato and in the Bhapo of a cresent to tho south of English in Keo kuk County in the southeastern part of tho Stato. Wo have tho names of sixty- \ niuo dead and five hundred wounded, hali of tho latter grievously hurt, and proba bly a fifth of them fatally. Over two hundred families have had their homes totally destroyed arid thero aro now at i least fifteen hundred persons homeless I and in want. Tho loss in property will exceed $2,000,000 and may reach $3,000, 000. In tho Town of Qrinnell alone over $400,000 in property was destroyed, on nono of which was there a cent of insurance as in tho caso of fires. It will t?tke at least $30,000 to put tho people mero beyond need and distress. It will tako $100,000 nt once to put tho wounded people in condition to bo cared for. It will take $1,000,000 at tho lowest to keep Bufferers from want and t help them to put tho humblest of roofs o. er tucir heads. I Tho people of Des Moines and Iowa aro responding geuerou?ly. Tho citizens of thin city subscribed $8,000 this morning, and they aro also sending provisions and I clothing. It will tako tho help of every humane city and town in tho West and every liberal city nnd town in tho East I to put comfort and safely botween these strickcu peoplo and further Buffering nnd^ fatality. All that tho pooplcof Iowa can do will bo dono to alleviate their condi tion nnd repair in part the losses of the sufferer?, but it will take $100,000 to do it even iu half way comfortand recompense, and thc peoplo of tho State who have al ways horno theirsharo nnd done their part in all Natiunnl calamities may freely ask the people of other communities to help them in this hour of great calamity to many of the worthiest of ita puople, and to this end I ask my follows of tho press throughout the United States to place tho facts bef?te their readers and give their timely help to its beneficent purpose of providing aid nt the earliest moment possible. Every condition of woo oxists that most tenderly appeals to tho pity of the human heart. Wounds inflicted by tho debris that filled tho air Uko chaos, by electric halls of fire that seemed to tra verso every inch ot space, and that ex ploded with fearfully fatal effects, will, many of them, defy all skill and nursing, even with tho tenderest care. Tho fury of tho storm, which was clearly of olec trie origin, and which indeed may bo do scribed ns having been electricity itself, may bo understood from the statement that at various places it took up in its great spouts of funnels houses ono thou sand foot into tho air, and took up and carried lnrgo droves of cattle through tho air for thousands of feet nnd da'died them dead in heaps. Many thousands of cat tle, horses, hoes nnd other animals now Ho in tho track of tho tornado and aro i already rotting and adding to the horror tho foul odors of putrefaction. Tho hor rors of thc storm are unspeakable. The cruelties it inflicted and tho piti less woo of it coming in the night when tho dend were not known and tho woun ded could not bc found, the snd stato iu which it baa left hundrede of families beforo prosperous, may :?ot bo described in words, but onco known to generous hearts it must command the instaut sym ?athy of tho liberal for immediate help, lomiltancea may bo mado to tho Lion. J. IL tiri mud 1 atGriuneii, or to tho mayor of Griuncll. I write from the knowledge of two wbolo days aud nights spent at the scene of desolation and among tho dead and wounded, and tell the facts of the multitude of horrors simply as they are, feeling that they will themselves best ap peal to tho country and most effectually aid the sufferers. Col. E. B. C. Cash In a Fight nt Clicraw. COLUMBIA, June 20. The absorbing topic of conversation in Columbia to day has been the serious per sonal difficulty which is Baid to have ta kcu place in Cheraw on last Saturday be tween Col. E. B. C. Cash and Capt. The odore F. Malloy. Tho story as it is given here, for the truth of which, however, I do uot vouch, is as follows : On last Saturday Col. Cash went to Cheraw, and in company I with Mr. Wells nnd several other friends wont to tho store of Mr. Malloy. On renching the store Col. Cash went up to Capt. Malloy, who was present, and ask ed him if ho had said that Colonel Blair, of Kershaw, waB no better than White more. Capt. Malloy replied that he had ?aid so; whereupon Col. Cash called him "a dammed liar." Malloy nt onco struck Cash, and Cash falling over a plough that was standing in tho store Malloy sprung on top of him. Several blows were struck by each of the parties, but friends interfered and they wero sep arated. On Sunday, aa tho story goes, Mr. W. B. Cash, Col. Cash's son, went to Cheraw, carrying with him a challenge, to fight a duel from his father to Capt. Malloy. Capt. Malloy declined to receive tho challenge on the ground that the day was Sunday and not the proper timo for mak ing arrangements for K hostile meeting. On Monday (yesterday) Col. Cash and his non went to Cheraw, young Cash on horseback and Col. Cash on tho train. When the train reached Cheraw Col. Cash was arrested a., soon ns he got off the train, and was taken beforo a trial justice who required him to give a bond of one thousand dollars to keep the penco. Through tho influonco of his counsel, Gen. W. ls. T. Prince, the amount of bond was afterwards reduced to four hun dred dollars. This bond waa given by 1 Col. Cash in this amount, and ho return i ed homo at Cash's Depot in tho after 1 noon. Efforts wero made to arrest young Cash, but tho officers were eluded, and F up to tho time my informant left Che? .w \ ho had not been brought beforo the mag . istrate. i An effort was mado by the Rev. E. H, I Buist to settle the difficulty between Col, ) Cash and Capt. Malloy but, v.lihout sue . essa. t A great deal of excitement prevails in > Chcraw over tho difficulty, and unfortu j nate cons?quence? are expected to result - from it.-./. C. II., in the Noes and Cbn> nrr. News and Gossip. - Tho dogs of Georgia cost more than her preachers. - Toxas has abouf 2,400 convicts in her Penitentiary. - Garfield's biography is soiling in England at thc rato of 2,000 a month. - Tennessee has 18,000 acres unim proved land, most of which is covered with fine timber. - President Arthur's mail averages 600 letters a day. and of theso not one in twenty ever reaches him. - A statement by the Kansas Board of Agriculture places tho winter rbeat acreage at ono million and a half acres. - The drinking places in New York, set in one street, would extend seventeen miles; those in London seventy-three mild. - Thirty-three out of tho thirty-eight States ask for appropriations for tho im provement of rivers aud harbors, real and imagiunry. - Mark Twain is of opiuion that any gifted person ought to learn English in ? 30 hours, French in 30 days, and Ger man in 30 years. - An exchange thinks no shares pnr BO well as plow-shares. This may bo ! correct, but most people who hold plow shares would bo willing to trr.de thom off for bank sharcB. - Orlando Jackson has brought suit against tho Louisiana Lottery Company for $178.000, alleging ho has spent T59, 000 within tho past four years in tho purchaso of tickets. ! - The lato Jame? Vick, Rochester seedsman, ga' "s away $10,000 a year. After tho grasshopper invasion in Kan sas, ho gave $25,000 worth of seeds to the Bufferers of that State. ? - An Iowa man has just paid $3,000 1 for kissing his servant girl, and she wasn't much of a servant girl either ; the wages of sin are a good deal higher than ministers' salaries tin's year. - One of South Georgia's most popu I lar society ladies, a resident of Lowndes county, has cleared this season on au aero and a half truck farm over $260. I She Buperiuteuds its cultivation in per son. - Mr. Braud has been Speaker of tho British House of Commons for niuo years, at a Balary of $26.000 a year and a pleasant residence within the precincts of Westminster, looking out upon tho river. - On tho outskirts of Little Rock, Ark., they have a genuine case of lep rosy. The victim is a negro. Hin skin is turning from black to murky-white, and his llesh is dropping off in spots from his body. - Cornelius Vanderbilt, a son of Wil liam H., ulooma in his youth as a hu manitarian theoretically and a benefactor practically. He has been giving bis pocket money to a summer sanitary so ciety near New York. - The Texas Supreme Court has given a decision in the long pending suit of the Grigsby heirs, to recover about three thousand acres of land in and near Dai las. Tho decision is in favor of the heirs, and gives them property vnlued at nearly $2,000,000. - "Is them such a thing ns luck?" asks a correspondent. Thora is. For instance, if you go homo at 2 o'clock in tho morning, after promising your wife to bo in carly, and find her asleep, and don't tumblo over any chairs, that's luck but it isn't to be depended on. - A Boston widow married au English clergyman, a few years ago, nnd gave him outright half her fortune of $600,' j 000. He at once retired from the min j istry, beenmo a drunken spendthrift ma 1 gamester, ano. abused his wife so m ucl that she has sued for a divorce. - An amendment bus been introducec in the Senate tc the bill providing for th settlement of claims for property de strayed by Confederate cruisers, wbicl provides that foreign claimants mus j prove that they wero never in the se rvie ! of or gave aid and comfort to the Con federate Government. - Gambetta is an old bachelor, am that fact detracts from his popularit; among the middlo and lower class ii France.- Exchhnge. Some people ar always finding fault. Now, there wa Brigham Young. Ho wasn't a hach?lo: and yet there woro people who wei always crying out ag dust him because L wasn't. - Tho Philadelphia Record says a rt mor is afloat that Mr. Dallas Saunders, well known Democrat, of that city, hi gone over to tbe Republican party. M saunders recently assista i in :bo prosee tion of tho South Carolina election of cers before Judge Bond, for ' whit service, it is said, ho received $7,50 although all the efforts to convict we unsuccessful. - Three respectable girls-Allie Mil aged fourteen years, Mary Oglio, aged 1 and Mary Jones, aged 12-committ suicide, iu Danville, III., on the mornii of tho 22nd of June, by taking arson: Allie Mills gave as her reason that h Bister lived with a shameless wornt Mary Oglie's reason was she was orphan, and Mary Tones took the dr because the others did. - A Bad young man, after taking meal at a New York coffee house, al much searching in his pockets, produi a $2 greenback from his watch fob, t with a sigh said : "Here she goes." Ai his departure tho note was cxamin and on iui back appeared, written it fine hand: "Save your salary; dc ?;amble ; uever play at a faro-bank. 1 sst of a fortuno of $10,000." - There has been an extraordit outburst of sun snots within tho last i days. Lost wees a huge spot, real hiing in its general appearance and position upon the disk the great spot I accompanied the magnetic storm of A] crept slowly around the eastern edg tho sun and advanced with tho revolui of tho orb, until on Monday it was i situated for observation. Between S day and Monday a swarm of small s] broke oui like an eruption upon tb - si faco in tho neighborhood of the li spot. Tuesday afternoon this swarm developed into several largo spots, pa surrounded by a broad penumbra! sb and close by in a place where the before thero was only a shadowy s| upon the white disk, a great round ; had suddenly formed, having a b penumbra and a black ? central ch thousands of miles across. All arc tho larger spots little specks were t< seen, showing how the whole surfai , the sun in that neighborhood was . tated. The area covered by thia outl ot spots is a triangular figura contaii in round numbers, a thousand millie \ squaro miles of tho solar surface. ? disturbed region is visible as a blacl ? without a telescope, when the ?tye is tected by a smoked or deeply to glass.