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BY E. B. MURKAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 7. 1882 VHT mrT? vir -T4. T y-v -v MAJOLICA, MAJOLICA, MAJOLICA. MAJOLICA ! "Where in the Devil are you Going ?' 101HG TO ORR & SLOAN S TO GET MAJOLICA! Benson House Corner MAJOLICA, I French Vases, Gift Cups, MAJOLICA, Christmas, Toilet Setts, Celluloid Setts, French Mirrors, MAJOLICA, at at at at at at at at at at Orr & Orr & Orr & Orr & Orr & Orr & Orr & Orr & Orr & Orr & Sloan's. Sloan's. Sloan's, Sloan's. Sloan's. Sloan's. Sloan's. Sloan's. Sloan's. Sloan's. 21 ttir COME AT ONCE and get first choice. Don't let everybody get II head nf you, and then blame us for not giving y?\x due and time ly notice. pOr B'roNcripMoun a Spe f dally nt ORR & SLOAN'S, :i)EUSON, s. c. ONT SPEND YOUR MONEY FOR FALL AND WINTER GOODS Until You Examine My Stock. KiAVE an Elegant selection to show, and will make a special effort to please hy giv ing the BEST GOODS at the LOWEST PRICKS. My Stuck is now second to none iis market, and I um fully prepared for a 1?, OU si I IN Ci TRADE, iron from old and new customers will be duly appreciated. Dun'l fcrgtt to tell r neighbors thut 1 want their trude. Mv aim i? to make customers and keep them by FAIR AN? HONEST DEALINfJ. hare just returned from New York with the best and largest assortment f LESS GOODS, FANCY GOODS, NOTIONS, Etc. Etc. Sf I mnkc a Specialtv of T.ESGI.KIt UKO*. FINK SHOK?. Also. HIP noted |T STATU SHOE. " Ipt 7.18S2 W. A. CHAPMAN, No. 3 Benson Street, Anderson, S. C. ,_*__ ly TIUVCIES CZEI-A-IfcsrGKE AND MEN CHANCE WITH THEM, IND that is the reason we have just laid in A LARGE STOCK OF NEW GOO HS. L for we know that all our customers desire something that is new and at the same iscrviceable. Our Stock comprises a fine assortment of Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, Hats, NOTIONS^ _HARD WA RE, UKOCER?ES, PKUV?5?ONS, t ? w., ?[<&*e will scH at the Lowest Prices. While other things .?.re changing, wc would "? weare too young to change our pian of offering good und substantial Rargair ? ?bo favor us with a trial. WES A.RE IN THE COTTON MARKET, will Rive the highest prices. We hav r" 0et otlr Prices before closing a trade. --- vvm&a JViNj .^n-flT.?.*5-,l,IS,,?t Prices. We huvo n large lot of RAGGING and TIES on N 21. iaS2 BROWN 10 BEOS. [? SULLIVAN W. A. YANDI VER SOOTS ariel SHOES J. P. SULLIVAN & CO., 1? GRANITE ROW, ANDERSON, S. O. - ?pin call attontion of thc people of Anderson Countv. and all others interest Lr^Tv ?4r-??nn??na? stock of BOOTH aaa ?!I??S?. Men's Hoots. Boys' T? i '"'bs' Boots. Also, any style of Shoe for Ladies', Misses and Children. 1M ? -u ?roft11" i? the best in the market. We are bound to suit you. ' r . we "?? only say, are as low as you will lind iu the 8tste of South Carolina. hin Younis' Boots. " Taped Sole Brognn is the best in the market. Wre are bound to suit you. Our ?. we will only say, are aa low as you will lind iu the 8tate of Soutn Carolina. A Larger stock of JEANS than any other House in the City. Udies' Dress Goods. Shawls and Cloaks, Gents' Ready-Made Shirts, laundered and unlaundered. Our Stock of Groceries is Complete. j* The BEST COFFEE we intend always to keep. E**l. 1882 P. SULLIVAN & CO. ?o y A BEAUTIFUL PARLOR OR HANDSOME ROO AN .nodeLrrfr t?*1111 lhe *id of FINE FURNITURE, but either may bs: will fi 5 e b* tu0 oull"y of . little money in good Furniture. ,Co,t*17 00 Any 8l>lp' from lhe ?"t!it *,'?0000 S"'1" down to fuites that You ??ll find EVERYTIIUIxVO usually ' j ?nn i nwr-ciisj FiMi?OBE marni, I the ^"?me Goods can be bought CHEAPER of me thau any other bouse ir. t? 8EEING IS BELIEVING, ''Priceaf 18 1,181 y?u call? .? T7 immense Stock of Furniture and ??. isaa GK JET. TOLLY. mw? 1 Lc0X. GIBBS & CO'SMANIPULATED GUANO. WILCOX, GIBBS ? C?/S SUPERPHOSPHATE, ^owi^ed by everybody to be the Basr FERTIL.ZEBS In n*. ? re sold low for COM,, nnd on reanonnblo terras on Credit, with O^PP^'?ra WILCOX, GIRDS Ac CO., Charleston, S. C., and P*W>nab; Ge., ^Agfcouja,w?^|^kthaOimnlry. *~* 1883. harper's Bazar. ILLUSTRATED. Tht. popular journal I, . rare combioallou of !><. 'Mure, art, and fashion. Il? Morie., noemi, and way. are by the bett ?riler.of t:llro,,e ?nd Amer ica; lt? engn ?lng? poss, ss ihe highett anl.tic ex .cllence; aud In M ..utter,, quinine t" UMoa Ubuitlftnally acknowledged to be the leadlos authority In the lacd. The new volume Will roo lain many brilliant novelties. HARPER'S PERIODICALS. Per Year: IIARPEK'8 BAZA it. ?. HARPER'S MAGAZINE \ M KARPI RS WEEKLY 4 00 The THREE above publications. . ...io 00 Any TWO BIXITC Damed.... 7 no HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLEi JO HARPER'S MAGAZINE I HARPER'S YOUNO PEOPLE|. 5 ?0 Il A RPER-8 FR A N K MN BQU A RE LIBRARY Oue 1 ear (6'.' 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We buy or sell laud, or give inv information in reference to land that nav be desired. Pora nia having Real Ka ate' to sell, will lind it to their interest to sonsult us. as we will ?til fur them, ? de lirtd We will alto purchase Real . -state or anv person wiahing to purchase at five ?er cent, commission-large transactions lUhject tn social agreement. All business, nf whatever kind, instrust ?d to our aire will receive uur sjteeinl alten MOORE * WARDLAW. Nov 30. mi 30 a M. JOSES. A. C. 8YBICKLA5D. DENTISTRY. WE have removed oar office to tho Centennial Bollding, over J. B. Clark <t Co.'s Store, where we are prepared to execute all work in our llneatibort notice. We are prepared to Extract Teeth without Pain. All chartes reasonable. Parties indibted to us. or *it,?er *>f,u,!? Dentistry will "lease bear in nilud that the time hu coma for a settlement. We need m.!inc" and hope ?hose who owe a? will w without further UooM* ^ JONES A STRICKLAND. Nov 30.1882 ? 0 ACROSS THE BOUNDARY. A Cb ri Ht mas Story. cu A rr EH i. Do not run from our story on account : nf the date of ita tint incidents. True, thirty yearn ?go was a period many of us did uot live in ; but our parents were as sociated with its current events, sud in ' whatever the dear old father, whose chair in the corner is vacant forevermore-in : whatever they felt an interest, wc should be interested alan. j in 1850, and for years before, there . lived on Te!fair street, Augusta, two blocks or more east of tho Medical Col? ; lege, a family named (.for the purpose of j tins Btory) I.aimer, consisting of a widowed lady and an only child, a boy, who was twenty years (?ld in the year j named. Bereit of a father'? guardian ship at the age of ten, he had been sub jected, except when under surveilauce of j instructors, during school terms, to only i such restrictions ns a doting mother im posed. Up lo his seventeenth year, in- j deed, his conduct required no "reproof. He was studious aud admirably behaved i ill school, obedient to his mother's every ! witdi and fond of his home. Remarkably j bande?me, well-formed, intelligent, anil i id* prepossessing manners, he bade fair I to grow lo manhood an honor lo b's j mother's training and nn ornament to | tociety. j His alTec'.ionate attentions to his moth- | er was a subject of admiring comment, j No persuasion from friends could induce I him lo remain fi om home at evening when abe was there alone. Many a look i if admiration greeted there entrance in church, every Sabbath -the gentle moth ?r leaning upon thc arm of her manly ?m. And if her lovo assumed a species )f idolatry-if her eyes at limes involun tarily turned from the figure in the pul pito the graceful one opposite ber, as .he voice of the former spoke of heaven ly blessings-who thal knows the depth if a mother's devotion could condemn the 'motion ? Hut as Frank Lalimer crossed the im Dcrceptible boundary which lies between he estates ol childhood and manhood, vitli the forming of new association, he vas introduced to pleasures which were non occupying his evenings at the ex ?ciise of his mother's being alone. Be ieving him lo be iu innocent companion hip, she was happy even in her isolation, II the contemplation of his enjoyment vith his young friends. AH, however, the mundary was left further behind him, 1er tender devotion in his dependent cars of childhood grew dim in his mern irv. and her Christian precepts weie un iceded when intemperance beckoned him o join its ranks and participate in its eve'ries. And now when the anxious nether, on his return home past mid light, [daces her arms about his neck, ml pleadingly remonstrate'* with him igainst his thus forsaking her, his breath s hot and his tongue thick from drink ng, and he answers with harsh words, leuianding to be "let alone"-walks rom her with unsteady steps lo his room, u sink into drunken sleep. U that mundary line ! how dill'crcnt this from he affectionate good-nights Haid in all he innocent years before he crosst-d it ! ? hile the mother with streaming eyes inks upon the floor in lamentations over 1er disfigured and dethroned idol. We hasten to Ibo conclusion of this laiuful pari of our story. It is reached u Christmas Eve of 1850, after a year of mblushing dissipation on the part of the on, during which he had squandered erv nearly tho last dollar ot the now iroken hearted mother. In a wild de iauch, late in the night, Frank Latimer's ianda were dy? d in the blood of one of lis compauious in the orgies, and on 'hriatmaa morning news wua carried to he mother that iu company with a disso ute character he had fled the Slate. Upon her recovery from a prolonged Unes*, which followed upon the terrible iowa, the mother disposed of the little fleets remaining lo ber, and, without oiling any one her intended destination, efl the scenes of her great Borrow, never u revisit them. She evidently ?uttered cen mortification, for she would receive IA f?ul I AU ra nat A a* A ra ?rw.n/!.. au li f\rv\ aVia% lad been intimate with for years. Only ncc did she leave home, which waa to .tiend church thc Sabbath before she tent away. She sat where she was ac usloraed to iu the happier time, beyond he bouudary between his boyhood and 1er afflictions, and ever and anon she was baerved to turo hereyes wistfully to the i nocen pi ed seut which formerly waa his, rheo a low moan would escape her. Two years later it was euri colly report d in Augusta, on what authority is not :uowu, thal Mrs. Latimer wan dead and o two letters to her address five years titer were unclaimed, and to one of io [Uiry concerning her, from some unknown larty writing from a Western town to ouo if her former neighbors, answer was nade that Bbe was dead- murdered by he couduct of ber own soo. Tho mau 'rank Latimer bad almost cut to pieces, ned, and iu timo recovered. CUAPTBB II. The river citiesof Memphis, Vicksburg, {atelier., and others on the lower Missis ippl, were in their earlier history resorts of abandoned classe.) of gamblers, hievea and cut throats, who plied their lefariouB ventures with an impunity t'hicb, uoder the more rigid surveilauce if law of this day, would be impossible. Niue years subsequent to that which uriiished the incidents of the preceding napier, there was in the 6rst named city , professional gambler, who, though atilt oung, was a uotnble character on the iver. He waa knowu iu all the towns or hundreds of miles up and down, and in the boats, and even among the worst lenperadoes, who were not uufrequenlly tis associates, there was not one but held timi: a degree of respectful fear. When 'et younger he had led a reckless lifo on he river, carrying his life in his hands he wildest roisterer in the mad revel, the lot-spur io any embroilment-everready dike for frolic or fight. His devil-may are courage had proven superior to auch esta as had gained for him a reputo for liter contempt of danger which no one vin? had heard of him would have, will ogly, undertaken to impeach. But atter i lew years ot thia career, in the apace of i night, bis life underwent a marked rannformation, changing the reveler into ? i misanthrope. The caine of the j ihange no one knew, and his taciturnity I orbade any inquiry of him. From that ' light forward, during four years, he bad lever been seen to smile. While be ?till continued gambling, it waa now leemiirgly pursued in the spirit of a Nemesis rather than for pleasure or gain. Outside of his gambling rooms bo seldom poke to any one, but wrapped himself n a cloak of Intractability. On Summer ' lights he waa accustomed to walk soi; arily some distance into the country on a road running eastward from the city, J pon the aide of which he would some ;imea sit in hatless reverie for ao hour, when be would retrace his steps. On his return from one of these walks MI a Sabbath evening, in the Summer ;.f 1859, be aat himself upon a rustic aeat ander a abade tree at tho edge of a Hide ?ra Ik of a residence street. Immedially appollo bis reetirg place was a cottage, not ten feet removed from the low picket fence enclosing its front ysrd. In the front room, visible to him "through the open window, a lady in the weeds of widowhood wits gently rocking near a table at which a youth'of sixteen or sev enteen was reading aloud from a book which lay open on tho table. Thc lamp shone upon the faces of both the reader and thc tr.m.?nil listener, whose eyes were resting with an expression of per fect happiness on ber son. Was it the sudden rushing of memory across the boundary lying between his present life, sud auolher like that pictur ed through the window there, thalbriuga the gambler to his feel and thc pained expret-sion to hts face? His eyes are in tently fixed on the picture as" he toftly takes the lew steps which bring him to the fence, within hearing and a better view of the two within the room. He leans over thc pickets, looking and listen* ing - looking as tho' he eau barely resist a yearning lo get yet near to them-lis tening as the boy turning tho pages reads 1>a?suges that are marked in the book-a muk he too had read from a thousand times, when he was a figure in a living picture, thc exact counterpart of this one : "For I wa? my father's son. tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. ? . . . "Hear, 0! my son, and receive my sayings; and tho years of my life shall be many. . *>**? "I have taught theo in the way of wis dom ; I havo led thee in the right paths. ? s . * "Enter not in the path of the wicked and go not tn the paths of evil men. * * _ "Cease, my son, to hear the instruc tions that cauneth to err from the words of wisdom. ? ? . . "Train up a child in thc way he should go, and when he ia old, he wili not de part from it." The Good Hook was al length closed, when the mother arose and, going to the boy, put her arms around his neck and kissed him. "Remember, my son, thc good counsel you have just read- remember and be guided by it all through life," she snid affectionately. "I thank you, mother," answered the boy, "for marking my Bible for me ; I think I can never forget your counsel. Hut even if I were to do so for a lime, mother, do you know 1 believe your many prayers would follow me wherever I might go, aud would al last bc answered, and by some means I would bo returned to the paths in which you have raised mc to walk." O, happy t'ays beyond the boundary, consecrated hy our mother's prayers ; do they not como back tous all at limes, as somo animated picture, reminding of Heenes in our childhood, is encountered in our walks through the darkness of cares aud misfortune ! The boy closing the shutters did not see the ngur? kneeling at the fence, nor hear the lowly, tremulous utterances of prayer, nor dream of the change of heart and life he had been instrumental in ef fecting in a man notorious in wickedness. Early the followiug day the gambler with his own hands destroyed the furni ture of his gambling rooms and turned over the keys to the owner of the prop erty, and on the following Sabbath one of the eily churches received an applica tion for membership from the exrivei reprobate, Frank Lattimer. CHAPTER III. Measured by its unselfishness and pu rity, the etfeclion of a Christian inotnei ia the parugon of all human loves. It it the first extended to the nursling child it is the tenderest he knows through life and if he precedes ber from life her teart are the most bitter shed over his grave The must beautiful picture ever drawn ot earth's canvas is that of a mother enfold iug fondly iu her arma and gazing ado ringly iu the face of her sleeping infant What vistas no bright aa those which iii before ber vision of that child grown ou of long clothes and prattling at bei knees-grown a little larger and stroll ing by ber side, bis face "so much lik< his father's"-grown taller now, and a they walk together her arm is drawl through bi?, and she ls proud nf tho no ble feilow, so graceful and strong-am now he is a full grown man and she on, of an assemblage, bot flushes of deligh crimsoning her cheeks as shouts of ap plauso greet the eloquent utterances o the gifted speaker-her son-her darllttj boy still, tier eyes dilate with ecatac at the enchanting vista, and she impui sively presses asuft kiss upon the cberu bic lips of the sleeping child. How many of un have disappoint* our mothers' dream? of honored and use ful lives? and yet who of ua for our in gratitude have known the loss of a moth er's love, or will, even down to the hou when the uow faded eyea that were s bright over the vina beyond the bounds ry, will be closed to look upon ua in al fection never more? But to return to our atory 1 It i Christmas day, and a Sabbath day, fe the 'if) i h or December, 1870, aa all wi remember fell on a Sunday. The plac ia an Alabama village, noted for its edi cational institutions, and into one of i residences we take the reader, juHt bi fore tbe hour wheo tho villagers will a tend at church the services announce for the day. In tbe group before the si ting room fire is a woman of sixty yea or more, whose bair ia of even a snowii age, and there ia clearly "trouble's trace, In tho linea that mar the dear old face She ia a favorite with all in the grot -is the grey haired, patiently apokt little aunt-but her mind ia on some au ject a long way off, and so every oi about her evidently knows, and is in considerate way seeking to cheer b spirits. As her head now and then ein upon her breast and a fixed expression pain settles over her face, the young pe plc exchange g lc- ices, and then some o speaks to her, wheo she raises ber bei and endeavors to assume an appcaran and tone of cheerfulness as she anaw< the speaker. At length the bell nounds, and wh all have made ready, they proceed to t church, which ia close by, the aunt au ported by the arm of a nephew. In t pulpit with the village clergyman ii stranger, a handsome man of forty over, with dark beard. The members the congregation whiaper to each ott inquiries as to who the strange minis is; no one knows bis name, but some c says be is from the Pacific coast, and oi arrived that morning, on a business vi to Dr. H-, President Of tbe M College. Now the little choir raises i coronation hymn, in the singing of wh the congregation joina with emphasis, if stirred by a sense of its appropria neu on thia the natal day of toe Son God ; and now the stranger rise* I reade a Bible leeson. H o rich volet sad in intonation, both in rending am! the fervont prayer that follows. He announces no text but proposes addreaa more especially for the li number of young men before bim. ] a rarely captivating introduction, h ii lineation of the early manhood of Oh which he holde up for their adora and imitation. A. striking contras that which bf> now draws beUawut tho character of their pleasures, their standing among men, their inner con sciousness and the tendency of their pallia. Hut nov; lin utterance, which lias been rapid, fervid and happy, sinks almost to a whisper and is measured ami sad as he paints thc wretchedness in thc borne of the prod?gate young man. Willi Raphaelite acuteness of outline be pit tures the despair in the heart and faro of thc dissolute wretch, ami traces on and ou upon the canvass until at the end ho shows a grave which their grief and disappointment have preinatuiely made. Before tho minister had concluded the touching appcnl to tho hearts of the young men, which formed his conclusion, thc gray haired woman, laboring under intense agitation, left thc church on the atm of thc nephew who hud supported her there. When the services were end ed the visiting minister, in walking homo with l>r. H., referred to thc old woman's leaving the church. "The house wc art now passing is where abe lives," answered the Doctor, "with relations who but recently moved here from Mississippi. Your aermou, I knew, must have been a sad one to her, for she had a very painful experience, it is said, with a son, an only child, which cast a gloom over ber life." "And, by the way," the Doctor digressed, "her name is the same as yours." "Latimer !" The preacher had ab ruptly atopp-rd and i.ucd ?bc Doctor. "Latimer." was answered. "Where did she reside at the- ?" "Augusta, Georgia." The arms of the Doctor caught the sinking man. For a full minuto thc wordH ho was trying to utter stuck in hin throat, but finally they burst their bond?, and with the exclamation : "My moth er, thank God ! my mother !" the preach er was strong on his feet again, the doc tor standing petrified with amazement. "Quick I doctor, tako mc to ber," and taking him by the arm he hurried him to the door of the house. Hut lhere the doctor stopped him. "Tako care ihol you do not kill her by the sudden shock -she thinks you long aince dead," he laid. . . . . ? . Seated in her own room, with a faded picture of her son before her- her son as he apppared in the happy time long ago -she did not hear thc thrice repeated knock upon tho door, nor Hee ber niece, who now entered the room. Poor heart! ?vcr her deep sorrow alteration of mind had kindly drawn a vail ami lifted her beyond the boundary, into tile blissful Jays of his innocent boyhood, and shn mt miking to him and answering his imagined questions, now and then pal ling the cheeks her wild fancy formed before her. She had never been parted from bim-be wa? her "darling buy"and "so much like your father, Frank," ?ho -aid in tones of touching fondues?. The girl ran from tho room to the par lor, where her mother was with the two mon, and communicated the terrible news. The Doctor anti tho minister were with the uniter when she opened the Joor to the poor woman's room, when til involuntarily paused. She wasseated at the table still, talking to the picture und holding his Bible in her baud. 'You are so much like your father, Frank," she said again. "Am I like him? and do you know me by the likeness mother?" Ile had dropped upon his kness at her tide and thrown his arms about ber neck. 3he slowly turned her gaze from the pic ture tn his face, which was near her own passed a hand in a dazed way to her f o ro ncad as she beni her eyes mora closely to Iiis own and looked with a pained wan dering expression into them. Ho took Iiis old Bible from ber hands and said : "I shall stay at home to-night, mother; what shall we read?" At that question she gave a glad cry of recognition and fell into his arms. And now, in her feeble old age, the Christian mother often asks Frank to read to ber it evening, and never a day passes that the doea not repeat : "Train up a child in the war he should go and when he is >ld he will not depart from it." A Chinese Funeral. WHKEMNM, W. VS., December 12 Hu Him, a young Chinaman employed in foe Lee's laundry here, died Saturday tnd was buried to-day with rites peculiar io the Celestial kingdom. The body was placed in a neat pine coffin, and the face nrashed and clothes sprinkled with a pe culiar Chinese liquor, resembling whisky, jsed as a safeguard agaiust illness in the icrcufter. No religious exercises were icld, the friends explaining that the near .-st Joss mun was sick at Chicago. All Chinamen In town and several from Pitts burg, with several prominent white ch? teos, attended. Tea, rice and cigars were passed around at the bouse. Joss dicks and candlca were burned about the body. A lot of coin and a fan were placed in the collin. The drive to the rrave was mr.de as rapidly aa posaible by request of the Celestials, money being icattered freely along the way. All the lead mao's clothes were burned. Rice waa scattered over the grave, and the party cheerfully returned to the city, Joe Lee remarking: "Rielly large fl tends ; topside turnout." Tho Keely Motor. PHILADELPHIA, December 13.-Tbo annual meeting of the stockholders of the Keeley Motor company was held to day, at which the report of the direc tors and William Bockel, who wfls chos en by the stockholders and Keely as cus todian of his secret, were presented. A report from Keely, also, was presented. Keely says bis engine will soon be com Steted, and in full operation and will ring the matter to the attention of the Pennsylvania railroad company, with a view of having the engine applied on the mad between Philadelphia and New York. Rockel, in bia report, apeaks of the natural forces which be says Keely has been assiduously atudying until in vention "investigations" and experiments hsve carried him far beyond the labra tory experiments of such men aa Tyndall and other scientific investigators, and he has succeeded in deciphering, harvesting and utilizing the subtle force which, to them, has been only a subject of wonder. He then goes on to show what Keely claims to have discovered is a fact that tho water in its normal state is capable of being vibratory in its action, disente grated so that its molculsr structure is broken up, and there is elicited there from a permanent exhaustive gas or ether. He concludes that Keely hasdis covered all that he bas claimed and that the stockholders ahould abide the soc cess of the enteaprise. - Mr. J. J. H. Gregory saya that an aero of land may contain six tona of worms. Bo it may ; bot if Mr. Gregory ever tried to dig a box of bait on ten minutes' notice of an invitation to go nabing in a dry time he knows it don't. A medicine of real merit, prescribed by many leading physician, and univer sally lecommended by those who have uaed it, as a true tooic, is Brown'? Iron Kttertt y V/IJU1UJ X STORY Ol' SLAt'CHTEH, j Tin? Itutlcr Guard ni t'red?rlck?burga I \ liy i+imte IP. T. Srumatr, 2.1 S. V, I'., in J <Ar Clan lesion Weekly S'eu't. j After tlie battle of Shsrpsburg and tho ' i Maryland campaign had ended, the Con- j federate forcea recrossed the Potomac, i \ and encamped ill the beautiful and fer- j i tile Valley of Virginia, between M.\r- . j lias?urg and Winchester, where they in- ? ' joyed a much needed rest of several j < weeks and luxuriated on the fut of that ' ? high y favored country, j Hoing supplied with army shoes and j I winter clothing, the men were ready to j move in any direction Cien. Lee might command, in the latter part of Novcm- j ber, 1862, we look up the lino of march j ami passed through tho ancient City of : Winchester, which we left to the tender j mercies of (len. Milroy and his a?idiera, i Crossing the mountains al Chester's Oap, ! we passed through Culncper in the di- | rectiou of Fredericksburg, where we ar- i rivett in a cold, drizzling rain ahnut tho I 1st of December, to lind ourselves con- I fronted on the opposite side of the Hap- j paliHiinnck by (Jen. l?urnsido ^titi bia army. We were ordered into camp on tho i lif'ghta near the Telegraph rtu'.u, over- | Kmking the city, the possession of which I WHS soon to cost the lives ol many gal- I Innt men. For some days mid niglits we tYcre engaged in PICKETING THE BI V Kit Bl UK and watching the movements ol the Fed eral army. Our company (diker* noti fied us that whenever Burnside attempt ed to cross the river two guns would be fired in quick succession from our side, as a signal to prepare for his reception. Gen. Harksdalc's Mississippi Brig ade was quartered in tho town and did picket duty at tho point where it was expected that pon toon bridges would he thrown across thc river. We anxiously awaited Burnside's advance. On the morning of the 12th of Decem ber our slumbers were broken by the. roar of the signnl guns, mid soon all was bustle and confusion in camp, getting ready to move to the front. We reached our position al thc foot of Lee's Hill about sunrise, and immediately began cut ting a ditch with our hnynnct* und pock- 1 cl-kuives to protect ourselves from the shol and shell of the enemy which fell uncomfortably near. Gen. Leo mid staff, ' Gist). Longstreet nnd his staff, were on thu lop of thc hill, just to our rear; a lovel plain ol a milo, extending to thc < river, was in our front. Du .Stafford | Heights, on the opposite side tit thc river, the Federals had a number of guns, which they turned ti non tho defenceless i town occupied by old men. women and i children, am! rained a perfect. DBi.uttK or Hitor AND SUKI.i. into the buildings. Soon bluck columns of smoke ascended heavenward, angry 1 Humes roared and crackled, und it was evident thul the old city was ono firo in 1 many places. Though it had every ap- ' iiearauce of being doomed, strange to say 1 but few building were consumed, bev* 1 eral attempts were mude by the enemy to throw pontoons across the river, but they were foiled by the unerring aim of 1 thc Mississippi lilies. Tho contest was kept up at irregular J intervals until lato in thc alteruoon, when a company or regiment of pioneers * crossed the river in the upper part of the ' town, and succeeded in turning the left ' flunk of Barksdulc's Brigade. Tho brave 1 Mississippians stubbornly contested every inch of ground, and fought from street to street until dark put un end to i thc unequal conflict, when they were withdrawn and ordered to join their di vision. The sun roso on the morning of 1 the 13th of December clear and bright; the weather was cold and crisp. It was generally believed that a great hattie would be fought before the setting ot the 1 sun which hud risen in such glorious splendor. After tne withdrawal of the ! Mississippians there was no opposition to Uurnside n advance. He ero..ed the river on four pontoon bridges amidst the 1 c heer* of his soldiers and strains of mar tial music; his infantry, with waving banners, accompanied by magnificent artillery and superb cavalry, as they do- 1 boorin .I into the open plain, made an imposing panoramic, display of the glo rious pride and pomp nf war. Excite- 1 mcnt was AT FEVER HEAT. The nuHpenr-u became absolutely painful j as thousands nf the enemy were massed ( in easy range. Not a gun of wolenme ( had been fired from our batteries, which j crowned the heights in their immediate front. A member of my company, who i was loitering near tho top of Lee's Hill, ( told me thal Gcu. Longstreet wau lying 1 upon the ground in a sound sleep, but, , upon being awakened by one of his staff , officers, immediately ordered the batter- . les to open on the advancing foe. It waa said thal the first discharge- from our ? guns mortally wounded the gallant aud chivalric Gen. George D. Bayard, of the . calvary, who was the pride and idol of the Federal army. He was to have been married on the following Wednesday. But thc enemy, not to bc undone in cour- 1 tesy, immediately unlimbered their guns and returned the compliment. A FIERCE ARTILLERY DUEL 1 was kept up for some time, while Mr. Meade's corps was deploying aod form- , lng in line of battle to attack Stonewall , Jackson near Hamilton's Crossing, on our extreme right. Kershaw's veteran? , were inactive spectators of the brilliant scene; they were momentarily expecting to be moved to tome other purl of the field. My company (Butler Guard) being on the extreme right of the brigade, had been thrown out on picket a ahort dis tance in front, and did not know that brigado waa ordered to the left to the support of Gen. Tom Cobb, who was hard pressed by overwhelming numbers at the lout of Marye's Hill, until Gen. Kershaw rode up and said, in bia genial tone: "Butlers, follow me!" We mado tho distance in quick time to Cobb's posi tion, midst screaming and bursting shelis. My company waa deployed along tho street supporting Phillipa's Georgia Legion, which, having been en gaged some hours, wns almost out of am munition. Our position was at the foot ol Marye'a Hill ; the atreetor road bad been graded about four feet deep, a atone wall built ou either aide to prevent the dirt from falling in. Tho surface of the land in our immediate front WAS level with the top of the atone fence, behind : which we were partly concealed and well protected. The enemy, while ad vancing, could not see that we had any ? protection, and I have often thought that ' i they believed themselves to be charging only our troops on the crest of the hill, a?adid not know that we had forces at the foot until WITHIN CLOSE RANGE. The Third South Carolina Regiment) occupied the ridge in our rear, and pour- ? ed a destructive fire into the advancing ; enemy. The Washington Artillery from \ New Orleans was stationed on the ? heights to our right, and, as tito enemy ? marched out of the towu in vast columns, obnffdect of v?ctbrv'i tho artillery rapidly VJ AV 111. -JNU, threw shell nod shot into tlieir rank? with fearful accuiacy, killing and wound. inp great numbers an tbe shells exploded in their midst, ami thc solid shot, as they went camming through the streets, true fearful gaps, which were constantly closed up at I he command, 'Guide cen tre." The gallant fellows, with tho pre cision of a brigade drill, marched on io destruction. Upou the. enemy arriving within rnnge of our rifles the artillery ceased TO DALLY WITH DEATH, and left tho final annihilation of tho charging columns to the cool and delib erate aim ol* the infantry. Again and again they endeavored to force our posi tion, and were met with tons of shrieking shell and solid shot-a perfect blizzard of shot, shell and fire and whistling bul* lects-Until their ranks were fearfully decimated. Their colors often kissed thc ground, but were quickly snatched from dead bauds and held alofi by oilier gal lant men, who, in their turn, soon bit the ?lust. Tho few survivors were hurled, bleeding, smoke-begrimed and demoralized, into the town. TUE LABT CIIARUK was made just ns night had thrown ber sable curtain o'er the bloodly field by Mengher'? celebrated Irish Hrignde, which wan almost destroyed. The gal lant fellows deserved a better fate. A copy ol Harper's Illustrated Weekly was handed me, a few days after the bat tle, by a Federal soldier who had crossed * the river under a flag of truce. Tho pa ner stuted that Mengher's Brigade went into the light 1,200 strong, nnd but 200 survived. Il was never reorganized. A Federal battery, with reckless daring, moved up lo within l/iO yards of our lines during the hottest of the engage ment, unlimbered and fired several shots, which passed harmlessly over our heads. Officers on horseback tuging their men forward were conspicuous murks for our rifles, and but few of them escaped. Not eveu Confederate veter ans could have displayed more courage. Thc company to which I belonged must have killed or wounded some three or four hundred. I fired 57 shots al short runge, mid my comrades equally an many, ll wits almost impossible to miss, as they came by thousands. Such de struction of human lifo I never witnessed on any other battlefield. One could have wulked huudreds of yards on the dead bodies without once stepping on the ground. THE I.ONU-WISHED FOB KIO HT ?ame nt last and put un end to the dread ful carnage, but brought little sleep, as we did not know how bndly tho enemy nero punished, mid thought perchance ihey might make a sudden rush, under cover ot dark ne**, and capture our line. The Huller Ginini was soon aller dark [dticed in n street leading from town nt right angles ID ihc one we hud occupied during the day. As wc had no protec tion, wo immediately fell to work with nur knives, bayonets und fingern, and by midnight bad cut a ditch across the it ree t and bud raised quite a formidable earthwork in front. How comfortable oue Teds behind a dirt pilo while engaged in battle ! At break ot day wc were in line, ni th our guns in hand, expecting an ad ?mico, but uone wau mude. Sunday and Monday passed oil* willi but lillie tiring. On Monday afternoon a dense fog envel oped the urmien, so it was impossible to ?ec a mau thirty paces distant, and, under cover of this friendly fog Burn dde m ItECKOSSEO TUE HIVES with his shattered and demoralized army, took up bis pontoon bridges and returned beyond the Stafford Heights, where he could in silence! and sadness deplore the gigantic failure of bis antici pated brilliant campaign, and make his arrangements to follow in tho footsteps of his defeated and unfortunate predeces sors. If Burnside's plan of attack had been approved by his subordinate olficers at a council of war held on Saturday night at his quartern, battle would have been re sumed at daylight next morning by plac ing eighteen picked regiments in col umns of regiments and hurling them against our line, which they would have undoubtedly broken, as it would havo been a physical impossibility for us lo load ana (ire fast enough to keep them back. Our sufferings from Saturday night to Tuesday morning, standing in the snow mid mud without fire or blankets, were Intense. Early Tuesday morning a citizen was seen approaching our lino from the direction of town with a white liandkerchiof tied to a stick. He in formed us that Bi'-uside and his army had gone. The Butler Guard, with Borne jthcr companies, were deployed as skir mishers, and, advancing through the Ureeti of the deserted town, we captured % few stragglers and established our picket line un the river bank. In their hasty departure thc enemy bad abandoned large quantities of stores, which were appropriated and highly ap preciated by our rugged soldiers PABTICL'LAKLY THE WHISKEY. We had become somewhat selfish as to the use of that beverage, and each man helped himself according to his capacity. I filled twocauteenc nnd carried them to camp, and occasionally, when I felt pa Iriotic, I drank to the success of the Con federate cause ; in fact I became patri otic so frequently that my canteens were noon emptied. During the fight a young Federal sol dier, about 80 yards from our line and immediately in our Iront, was severely wounded. When the firing was brisk be would lie flat on the ground, and when it ceased ho would sit up. Though twenty years have passed since the bloody and never-to-be-forgotten day, I seem to hear his piteous cry ringing in my ears : "If my friends cannot give, me water, will my enemies give me some?" After a time, when it appeared that hostilit?s would not be resumed, bis plaintive cry was beard by the great, big-hearted J. D. Kennedy, (then in command of the 2d South Carolina Regiment,) whose ears were always open to cries of distress, and he permitted a young soldier, from Cam den, I think, to tie a pocket handkerchief to a ramrod and go among THE DEAD AND WOUNDED near the enemy's line, gather up as many canteens as he could find, return and fill tbem from a well in our rear, and go back to the wounded, whose mangled drabs be placed in easy position, mois tening their parched lips with cold wa ter, and, putting the canteens in the banda of the very men who a few boura before were engaged with us in the dead* ly combat. The victory being won and tbe cam paign ended, we went into winter quar ters and whiled away the long boura of inactivity in story and song. One of our boya secured two or three skyrockets, which he fired off oh tbe night before Christmas. The Federal commander, supposing it to be a signal for attack, had his troops under arius all night be fore he discovered that Johnny Keb was merely celebrating Christmas. - Earth has nothing softer than a wo man's heart, unless, perhaps, it fate, a to mato in tao p'rim'o of itfc.