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BY E. B. MURRAY & CO. L..".,v- in ^nfiannnn-? I Wim., ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY ^i???l^KWa?TIis? \rnT TTT\T17 V TTT TT Efpui lyiuaiiiuiuup. EEBSHAW?S BAGGED TROOPS. ,. nn'111/? ll', r. Shumate, Second Iteai /,; 1 "??i/, S. V. V., C. S. A. The disastrous battle of Gettysburg v.cine been decided against the Collied S?MOUthe4tb of July, 1863, by the ??uUe of Pickett's Division, and the Ululation of Vicksburg the same day loder the command of Pemberton, had depressing and demoralizing efl'ect on ?he morale of Lee's army. Most of UH believed that the cause we loved HO well, nd for which we had endured hinunter a!|ehardships und HO often risked our ljveS, wai almost hopeless, mid that the Confederacy would HOOH collapse. The (B0le world seemed arrayed against us on account of our peculiar institutions, a'ecrossed the Potomac at Williamsport Mj Fulling Waters. As KOOH as we .[iiiiied on tho soil of Old Virginia we fill like getting homo after a long and dangerous journey, and many of us vowed ,e would never recross the river with boftile intent. Our march up the lower Valley over a fine turnpike road, through ihecities of Martinsburg and Winches ter, tbence across the Blue Ridge to Cul ptper,was leisurely made, and marked sith DO incident worthy of note save a dight demonstration of the Federals while we were crossing Ashby's Gap. They were soon driven off by ourcavalry, when we continued our march without molestation or detention. We went into camp ou a wooded eminence near Ste ven-burg, where we remained for several days recruiting our wasted strength and nursing our SORE AKI> BLISTERED FEET. Our next move was in the direction of I llanover Junction. We encamped du ring the month of August on the banks of a small creek about midway between Fredericksburg and llanover Junction, passing the time in trying lo skakc off I the demoralization and despondency which had followed us from Gettysburg. About the 1st of September orders were issued to send our heavy baggage to Richmond. Tho idea of a private soldier haring heavy baggage, or light either ns to that matter except what lillie he might bave upon his back ! it would hare made the sourest Quaker that ever lived laugh, could he have heard thc order and then had a peep st tho ward robe of some of our boys at th?B time. We were convinced from this order (though it provoked a smile at the tbougbi of our heavy baggage and caused a good deal of merriment among our ragged soldiers) that we would soon be ?Dgaged in stirring scenes, and when Longstreet's Corps embarked in cattle and box cars at Hanover Junction we (elt that our destination was Georgia, lid thal we were going to the assistance of the Western army" which was hard prtsied by Gen. Rosecrans at Chatta nooga. At Petersburg we met up with Jtnkin's Brigade, which had been de tached from Longstreet's command early in the spring, thereby missing the battles ol Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. They bad been on service in the neigh borhood of Suffolk, and, from the looks of their new uniforms, bright buttons, Hud shirts and clean faces, had the ap pearance ef holiday soldiers-quite a contrast to i iii. KAUO ED AND DIRTY TROOPS of Kerahaw's Brigade, many of whom .ported a dim and bard looking flag of | trace from the rear. Our route lay th'ough Weldon, Wilmington, Florence, Charleston, Macon and other cities. We did not ride in Pullman palace cars or in injurious passenger coaches, but were huddled like so many sheep in box cars, without scats, which bad been used lo ti nsport cattle to the array. Some of tu,becoming disgusted at the accommo dation, climbed on top, where we re mained night and day, catching what sleep we could. Some members of my regiment, who bad not seen their families io nearly three yeara, passed within s none's throw of their humes without stop ping. Be it said to the credit of the second South Carolina Regiment that not a single desertion took "place while tn route. Our soldiers had a reputation to iwiain, and though they believed we wold never obtain our independence by force of arms, and that it was merely a question of time aa to when we would hue to succumb to mi pei ?or resources ?nd numbers, yet they were still patriot ic, and could die, if need be, for their wuntry and her cause. Op arriving at Charleston we were iin mediately marched over the bridge across Ashley Uiver and halted for the night m i beautiful grove of live oaks. A de vaient of Home Guards or State "oops wag stationed on the east end of wt bridge, with instructions to arrest tT?y soldier from the Second Regiment WO should attempt to visit tho city itoout a pass. Orders were issued by W; commauding officer (Lieut.-Col. UwUid was then, I believe, io cord ?wo] permitting eight privates from "'regiment, or eight from each compa SM forget which) ip company with an IfHto visit the dear old city. Wo ?J* ap to this time implicitly obeyed all JMcrs emanating from headquarters, but rota long ?ervice, great hardships and ?? multiplicity of harsh, arbitrnry-yes, TOVraetimes unnecessary-orders, bad ?W somewhat rebellious. We went a '0 s body, leaving a few officers and PW judgment by making no opposition of th cJ^]a^ We visited tho quarters ] man i e trooP9i atnnng whom we had ! 22 ,rLe,at?ves and acquaintances, and ^ hem located In comfortable boild T?j sleeping upon straw beda covered tesT,lt8fro!n home, and indulging itt , "nea to whicb we had been strangers T nwiy months. Poor fellows 1 it waa r^'ig to old soldiers to see their long Eil i.ear tbem teM of their hard' th.T 1,. 16 dangers which surrounded Awhile listening to E?AR OF THE FEDERAL ODNS 55J2*wfty at Fort 8umter. Not ono tWT' Perchance, had ever listened to ^ "blading of a minnie bullet. After I ttifi.l e.la5ned wllh lavish hospitality, ind I i ^knee left our kind friends,, ?nan v Rbout midnight to tho Cbr?. ? 1 *P bade farewell to ?fottni ?,2'*nd Con?hia?d our clrcdlt Vr L Con,'ederacy in search of ^ro.wnern we expected to meet by ^?^h-""' - - HiTiin" Ve ?f?ssed Ttbe Savannah ihirl,"iHrlbe "Forest City," and took ?tyTtiiif Macoa. Aa wo reached that ??rin-i in.a bolel ne" tbe car-shed *nd if"8 for breakfast. We were or iinJrJ^aln on the train, but, being ' ^Et?ft11,1 rebellious, - nineteen of .??da f u.uarda disregarded orders and ?Wine ?1 .th? breakfasv-t?ble. While :Poru"*tr*,n "wwj off and left us. wSSr^ houra wo atrolledover .?Hd fn*!r bailed aa patiently as we ?d oodl next traio. which we board wtrti?r Pretest from tbe conductor, All?ot? \oUr ^n?mand before reaching Nlrw '*? expected a reprimand ?lbrhLSS.W 48 they looked cross, ^.SflW, wr Q9? tnor 8ald nothing, ^rebellion followed. ir-,i,' "f'L- "v TTacwa K'DggoId on the , ?f Septfmber we couhl hear the hunden o? HrBpK'H Ku"3?ri the direction of Alexander's Bridge over the Chicka manga, tRiver of B?ood) and, from the rc(,ue,.t detonat.ons, came to the con ?or? " A,at M? tr"",',s W('re havl"6 warm work At night we drew talions of un bolted corn meal and poor beef which ?e were in the net of cooking when or derscan,o to fall i". After | tiresome march of fourteen miles over a dusty the battle held, and snatched a few min utes sleep before tho work of death be gan. Hand*? Texans formed line of bat tlo in a wood some little distance in nl vuiice of Kershaw, and gallantly moved lorward, as tney always did in battle with their familiar Texas yell ringing clear above the roar and din of conflict, striking the right of the Federals, fore-' lng then, from their temporary fortifica tions and doubling them up like a scroll on their right-centre. Hood's advance was LIKU A WHIRLWIND, sweeping everything before him, captur ing a number of prisoners and several pieces of artillery, with horses and driv ers, which were immediately sent under escort to the rear. Thc Butler Guards, while advancing, opened ranks right and left to permit tbe captured pieces with their blue coated drivers to pass through our line. The drivers made grout liaste, and had the appearance of being de moralized and very badly frightened. Morrow wits depicted upon their ghastly faces, ami their eyes looked as if they were starting from their sockets as they frantically urged their jaded horses to greater speed to escape Hie cannon-hulls which came shrieking through the trees. The sight encouraged Kershaw's boys, and they gave vent to their excited feel ings in loud and prolonged cheers. Hood was badly wounded early in the engagement, and was attended by Dr. NV. L. West, a private of the Butler Guards, who wan the first surgeon to see bim after he fell. On emerging from I he woods and entering n large cleared field the Federals were seen in line about hnlf a mile to our right. Kershaw's clear blue eyes taking in the situation at a glance, and being equal to tho emerg ency, immediately, in stentorian tones, gave the command, "Change front, for ward on -company of the-regi ment !" (company and* regiment not now recollected.) Then commenced n move ment of the brigade drill not often seen and seldom heard of in battle, particu larly while the enemy was in striking distance. The evolution was performed with precision-no mistakes, no excite ment-scattering minnie balla ricochet ing ulong the dusty ground, while the change of frout was being executed, occasionally disubling some of our men. After the new line had been formed the brigade advanced, driving the blue coats pell-mell, helter skelter, from the ridge they occupied in the field, across the road and up a sU.ep and rugged hill until we almost reached the top, where we were met by a terrific TEMPEST OF SHOT AND SHELL and leaden bullets. A halt was ordered, from what cause a private soldier was hardly expected to know, in fact, Lis opinions were never asked, his wishes consulted or his suggestions entertained ; he was simply part of a huge machine and his business was to obey orders and not ask the whys and wherefores. Suf fice it to say we did "ct reach the top of the hill, whether from the waut of prop er support or whether we had struck the Federal main line and found it too strong to pierce with our brigade, or from some other cause, is not for me to tell. Aller fighting at this point for a short time and apparently making no impres sion on the enemy, we sullenly returned to the road al the base of the hill and were ordered to lie down quiet. A num ber of our men were killed or wounded while lying flat upon the ground. Pri vate Bob Bryce, of Columbia, than whom a more gallant soldier and a brave man never lived, was killed by my side. More than nineteen years have passed siuce that eventful day, yet I seem to hear the death-rattle iu his throat now as I heard it then, while he was struggling for life. The murderous fire continued witb i i much fury that Lieut. Cagle, of tho But ler Guards, went tu Gen. Kershaw and asked permission for his men to protect themselves behind the trees and stumps standing near. His request was granted, but it seemed the enemy used crooked guns, for many were wouuded while closely hugging the trees. Young Hawkins, of ray company, and I were behind a large stump when he was shot in the head. I did not examine to see whether the ball passed through the stump or was fired from a crooked gun. We returned the fireaud charged up the bill forcing the Federals to their original position. We again halted, but soon re turned to the road, the enemy slowly following. Again and again we "march ed up the hillaod marched down again; ' it was "advance" and "retreat," first the Confederates had the advantage, then tho Federals would rally and force us to retire. There was nothing to boast of from either side at our point of the line except some bard, stubborn fighting. While standing behind a tree near the road so often mentioned, Private Peter Suddutb, of my company, was slightly wounded in the foot. His brother-in law seeing he was hurt hastened to him with offers of assistance and attempted to carry him to the rear, but Peter being demoralized, badly frightened, and the prospect of a furlough in the near fu ture, made THE FASTEST TIME ON RECORD of any man shot in the foot with the ex ception of my adjutant at Gettysburg. Peter left bis comrade behind, but had not gone far before he came to some horses hitched io a caisson, which we had captured in the early part of the day. Borrowing one while the owner was absent, he mounted and rode in triumph from the field; never to return. The much coveted furlough wu obtained without difficulty. When b? ..'rived at bone he had a big, unsightly shoe Lde' for his crippled foot which he wore until the 1st of May, 1865, when he discarded it for one of usual site. _ Il the war had continued till now Peter would, in all probability, still bo wearing that h g shoe. Staff officer and couriers or, hogback dashed ?long our line with reckless bravery. The infantry fought as only Confederates could. As bet?re .tu,*rl our causa was on tho wane and we hat! little hope of ultimate success, yet evty man fought ?Uli desperation and as though the fate of the Oonfeder ?cy depended upon his individual fight lng. Just as tho sun had d?snp^wd be hind Lookout Mountain and iwiHght Kegsn to fall, I was slimly the* shoulder while> *' close range near tho lop of the hill. My^cap tain seeioir I was hurt advised me to re Uro ftSS Sit fleW. J i" "0\ Stf second invitation, tut ????^tSk tr? field ."tile against a crooked post oak tree, (thine I could find that mStiSSf. fr ede ral ?oldies, the adjutant, nt Oettvs ?urg, and Peter, at Chickamauga, not excepted. Next day I wa, at Itinggnld nnd discussed the war with several Fed There seemed to bea rivalry bo tween the troon* of the two armies. Jenkins's splendid Brigade did not ar rive on the field in time to take part in the engagement. Soon after night had cast a pall over the dead hemes scattered beneath the branches of the forest trees thu Federal Anny became panic stricken I and fled with precipitation and in great confusion, leaving their dead and dving lo the tender mercies of the Confeder ates. Just here I will say that the gallant and kind hearted Kershaw was on foot m the thickest of the fray. It seemed that he bore a charmed life, and was not bo II to bo killed in battle. He was always on foot in all the engagements in which his brigado participated, and I believe was never wounded. His kind ness was proverbial, he sympathized with hi:i soldiers in their hardships and dangers, and had a gentle and pleasant word for all. The writer wili never for? 1 ?et, when broken down and barefooted. 1 m a long march in the Valley of Vir- i ninia, how Kershaw rode up and said in Ilia genial way, "It is a very hard march ; I Jo the best you can ; try and keep ns near the command as possible." The route was complete. Officers without commands, ano men without iffieers straggled in heterogeneous and Jisorganized mass into the Cly of Chat tanooga. Even the commanding goner d was demoralized and stated that his trmy was badly beaten and could not he rallied. Had Bragg pressed the advan tage he ohlained in this fight instead of remaining inactive on the battlefield for i day or two and permitting the Federals to reorganize and get over their de moralization, he could in all probability baye driven them from Tennessee into their own territory. Why he did not do io is not for a private individual at this lato day to say. 1 presume he had good and BUtHcient reasons for not following up the stricken and routed foe. When I rejoined my command a few weeks after the battle, I found the two armies confronting each other at Chattanooga. Tho Wicked Little ?Irl. "Ma's up stairs changing her dress," mid the freckle-faced little girl, tying uer doll s Lonnet-string and casting her :ye about for a tidy large enough to ?erve as a shaw1 for that double jointed young person. "Oh, your mother needn't dress up for ne," replied the female agent of the Missionary Society, taking a self-satisfied new ot herself in the mirror. "Hun up md tell her to come down just as she is in her every day clothes, and not to stand on ceremony." "Oh, but she hasn't got on her every Jay clothes. Ma was all dressed up in ber new brown silk 'cause she expected Miss Dimond to day. Miss Dimond al ways comes over here to show off her nice things, and ma don't mean to get ieft. When ma saw you coming she said, The Dickens 1' aud 1 guess she was mud ibout something. Ma said if you saw ?C? nsw dfesa alie'd have io bear ail ibout the poor heathen, who dou't havo ii 1 bc. and you'd ask her for money to buy tymn books to send 'em. Say, do the dgger Indies use hymn booklcaves to do heir hair up on and make it frizzy? Ma says she guesses that's all the good he books do 'em, if they ever get any look*. I wish my doll was a heathen." "Why you wicked little girl ; what clo rou want of a heathen doll?" inquired he missionary lady, taking a mental uventory of the new things in the par or to get material for a homily on vorldly extravagance. "So folks would send her lots of nice hings to wear and feel sorry tc have her ;oing about nuked. Theo nhe'd have lair to friz; and I want a doll with truly mir and eyes that roll up like Deacou Sliderback'a when hu says amen on Sun lay. I ain't a wicked girl either, 'cause Uncle Dick-you know Uncle Dick, he's been out West, and swears awful and .mokes in the house-he says I'm a holy terror and he hopes I'll be au angel pret ty soon. Ma'll be down in a minute, so you needn't take your cloak off. She mid she'd box my ears if I asked you to. Ma's putting on that old dress she had ant year, 'cause she said she didn't want rou to think she was able to give much his time, and abe needed a new raufT vorse than the Queen of the Cannon Hall Island needed religion. Uncle Dick says you oughter go to the Island, cause you'd be ?afo there, and that latifs'd be sorry they was such sinners inybody would send you to 'em. He mys he never seen a heathen hungry mougb to eat you, 'less 'twas a blind me, an' you'd set a blind pagan's teeth m edge, so he'd never hanker after any nore missionary. Uncle Dick's awful unny, and makes pa and ma die tangli ng sometimes." "Your Uncle Richard isabad.deprav ?d wretch, and ought to have remained nut West, where bis style'is appreciated. Ele set* a horrid example for little girls ike you." "Oh, I think he's nice. He Bhowed ne how to slide down the bannisters, and le's teaching meto whistle when ma ain't ?ound. That'B a pretty cloak you've got, lin't it? Do you buy all your good dothea with missionary money? Ma mys you do." Just then the freckle-faced little girl's na came into the parlor and kissed the nisflionarv lady on the cheek and ?aid ihe was delighted to see ber, and they proceeded to have a real sociable chat. The little girl's ma can't understand why i person arno professes td beso charitable ts the missionary agent does, should go j right over to Miss Dimond'Bandsay such ?if natured things as she did, and she thinks the missionary is a double-faced -otaip.-Botton Giobe. - A member of Congress from a West- j ern State was recently invited to a din- , Der in Washington. He says : "There wasn't anything on the table when I got there but some forks and spoons and j britkybrac. Presently they brought in ; mme soup. As I didn't see nothin' else, j I thought I'd eat all the soup I could, though soup i? a mighty poor dinner to | invite a fellow to. oo I was helped four | .tm-- ?n.-t {hAn COni* O" the nn?t dinner I "ever seen, and there I set," gre ned be, "chock full of soup !" - An intimate friend of the family of Charlie Ross, in Germantown, Philadel phia, says that the father of the long-lost Loy has nearly if not quite given up ever seeing his child again, and that the mother despaired long ago of his ever being returned to her. He speaks of the interesting collection of photographs over one hundred-which the family has, these having been sent them frem every quarter by people who thought they bad found or seen the missing child. From very many sources supposed clues are coming even to this day, although nearlv ten year* have elapsed aioce tho boy was sbductod. THK PIGMY AM) THE GIANT. Governor 8teph*n?' Torrll.lu Iteneoutre ' Milli Cuno hi mis. J I louring Mr. Stephens' Congressional j service, and pending (he cauipaigu of 1848, lie returned frohi Washington to 1 Georgia, ile was fresh Ir.nii the great debates on the Acquisition of California ami New Mexico an I cited Stales Terri- J ' torie?, and for having taken, against the wishes ol a majority bf the Southern member*, a most prominent part inoptto- ! sitimi to ruell acquisition, he was 'met ! with much adverse ciiticism. Judge, Cone, who was ?a the time one of the 1 J leading politician-? of (?eorgia was par- J cularly severe in his comments upon : Mr. Stephen?' action, and was reported as j having publicly denounced him as a ' 1 traitor tu the South. Hardly had Mr Stephens reached his i ! home when these ami similar reports ! were conveyed to bim. At first he did . nut credit them, but as one kind friend after another informed him that Cone had called him a traitor and advised, in the true Southern spirit, thal he owed it to himself to demand what is called j i "satisfaction," the lires of pugnacity in ? his nature, which are always smouldering, j |J biased up, end be declared thai it Judge ? V Cone would admit having called him a traitor to tho South he would "slap his j ? Caco." Not long after this he met the fudge at a numerously attended Whig > lathering, and going up to him quietly 1 ?aid : "Judge Cone, I have been told that!!' you, for reasons of your own, have de- ? iiouuced me as a traitor to the South, and .-' 1 take this opportunity of asking you if J -uch reports are true." "Ko, air," was Couo's reply, "they are .' not true." " "I am very glad to hear you say so, . *aid Mr. Stephens, cordially ; and iii the ,i mme friendly tone continued : "Of [i :oursc, I do not desire to be in any way a >(Tensive to you, Judge Cone, but in or- j, 1er that we may have no further misun- |( lerstanding through tho misrepresenta- _ ion of others, I think it right lo tell you ^ hal 1 have said 1 would slap your face *, f you admitted having used the language ,i iltributed tu you." Upon this the Judge again disowned _ laving spoken disrespectfully of Mr. Ste- ' ibens, and so for the lime the ufi'air end- j. id. Il was the subject of discussion all c .ver the State, however, and the general .erdict was that Judge Cone, a very pow- . irful man by the way, had shown the ,', visite feather to "Little Aleck Stephens." ? .0 such a community no public man rest- ^ ng under such a charge could hope ,. ither for political preferment or popular j, espect. COUP, of course, knew this, and, _ erv much heated and annoyed by the ^ omuients which were being made upon u lim, wrote to Mr. Stephens demanding ,n immediate and public retraction of n he threat. In reply Mr. Stephens wrote w hat the threat of slapping the Judge's (j ace had been made contingent upon the _ ruth id' reports regarding which he (Mr. tj Vine) had pronounced to be untrue, und c hat such being the case there could be 0 io cause for oflensc or angry feeling on C1 ither side. Unfortunately this letter C( ras never received by Judge Coue. ?? .'bree or lour days after it was written, tj lowever, he met Mr. Stephens on tho D dazza of a hotel in Allanta, and, disro- ai arding that gentleman's frieudly greet- a, ng, saul in a very offensive tone : "Mr. Stephens, I demand that you n iake an immediate retraction of your hreals regarding me." Sick and weak though be was, Alexan- Q 1er H. Stephens could allow no one to j peak to him in the fashion described, udgc Cone was a very giant in size and *J macular deyelopmeul, yet the frail man .hom he addressed, with aggravating po- - { Heness and without hesitating a moment, w eplicd : "Pardon me, sir, I have already ..ritte,n you ou that subject. I must de- tj" liue to discuss it further." JJ "Am I to take this for your answer?" ?t sked Cone, excitedly. "It is the only answer ? b.Hve to give lt] ou," was the calm reply. ej "Then I denounce you aa ? miserable ?Ula traitor," cried Cone, made with ex- ^ dement. The last words had hardly ^ til his lips when a light cane, wielded by ej be quick hand of the man be hud insult- u d, lett its red ?cur across his cheek. Wild with pain and panton, without Hering a word, he drew n keen pointed irk knife and made one furious thrust nt S is weak lillie advei.<-ary's heart, in- , tautly as he did BO, however, Stephens, ming a stout umbrella which he had in j is left hand, interposed il HS a defenco ^ nd was able for a moment to hold him V. l arm's length. The knife fell short of 0 is mark. Once more it was thrust at tephens, cutting a deep gash in his arm, A ut reaching no vital point; eighteen _ lines it cut deep into his breast, arms nd body, but still ho did not fall. Then ^ e could hold out no longer. No courage, io spirit, however firm and unyielding, {{ ould long withstand such an attack. f( ?one was determined to finish bis work. h ie threw all his great weight against the imbrella which held him away from the ,? ian he intended to kill. It broke. at Itepbens, half fainting, fell upon his >ack. The giant Cone was nt bis throat . n a moment ; his head, by a grip of iron ..as held against the cruel floor ; the jt* eeo and blood-dripping knife was held ' loft bet?re bim, ready for the last fatal Jj hrusl ; but still the poor pale face of he little hero was set and defiant-his Q| ilack eyes still flashed undauntedly. ^ "Retract, or I'll cut your cussed j e( hroat !" hissed Cone. rj "Cut ! I'll never retract !" gasped tho ? ci lmost lifeless Stephens. j tl Like a flash thc knife came down, j c< Villi an almost superhuman cflbrt the 01 .rostrate man caught it io bis right ll land. Clean through the muscles, ten- Jr lons and bones of the hand it cut, then 111 tuck fast and reached no vital part, j ?l Vith desperate strength, Cone tried to ; n rrench it free. With a grasp almost of ! 8' leath the horribly mangled and mulila- ; ?' ed baud ?till held it fast. In the ?trug-1 J* ?le Stephcua was once more dragged to ? 14 lia feet. The blood was rushing in ?? a' treams from his many wounds. His ? nl mid upon the knife which soucht his : u ?rave heart began to relax. Ile was | al lying. But even when he believed the j a lext moment would be his last strong ! ft' neo came to his relief. The madman j 11 Jone was secured and held fast. Then j ?J quickly the wounds which Mr. Stephens j " md received were examined. It was bund that one of them had penetrated ! o within a sixteenth of an inch of his 1 a ?eart. Au intercostal artery had been ! 0 :ut. The doctors declared that be would > p iurely die. Happily their predictions ; ?. ?.ere not verified. His life was saved by ' jt ,he unremitting care of a surgeon, his JJ le voted friend, who as good fortune1 bi would have it, happened to be in Atlan-. n a at the time. When he recovered, irith a magnanimity of which few men ire capable even of understanding, he si -efused to prosecute Cone, and that per- ' a mn, instead of getting his deserts in the a lark Cell of a State prison, was fined g rl.OOO, and, with his "honor vindicated," | g ?vas allowed to go (ree. To the day of li bis death Mr. Stephens spoke of bim in ri terms of consideration ?nd forgiveness, s No?, long ago, referring to the terrible s struggle, I have attempted to describe, J and showing mo (he great hole in his mangled hand, he said, with a quiet and far away look in his deep, dark eyes: "Poor Cone ! I'm sure he'd be sorry if he knew what trouble 1 have to write with these HI i fl* lingers of mine.'' THE SPINDLE IS THE SOUTH. \ Stn?? Murnini; Hie Woy Hie Wliul Illowa. From the Sew Voil: Times. Tho appeal ot the. New langland cotton Manufacturers to the trunk line railroads o help '.hem by reductions in freight ?barges tb meet tho increasing compcti iou of the Southern mills is natural and haracteristic. A b?n?ficient and pater - ml government protects them by a high ?ustoins taritl" front foreign rivalry; they low ask the railroads to be equally be leticeut and paternal, shielding them rom domestic competition by giving hem low rules on goods shipped to the Yest. They want a high tarilf on ono ide and a low tariff on the other. Luck* ly, the Constitution forbids the levying ?1 duties by States without the cousent of Congress. Were it otherwise, lliey might lesiege the Iycgislalures of the Western .nd northwestern States lo shut out the troducta of the Georgia and South Caro ma mills by u prohibitory duty. Hie piritof helplessness engendered by ha litual reliance upon a protective tariff aturully and inevitably inclines these Jew Kngland manufacturers to seek out ide aid the moment their cumfortable lonopoly is threatened from any quar ter ; ?nd the growing hut dangerous cus nm among great commercial interests of inning offensive and defensive alliances iib the railroads suggested to them the jurce from which the most effective help .an to be exspeeled. A manful contest dib the Southern mills for the possess m of ibo Western held is about the last liing they would think of. Tho enerva ?ug o-S per cent, duty on their gouds un is them for such exercions. Mr John Loach would have our ships built at onie though they cost twice as much as u the Tyue, and the manufacturers of ?ew England and their representatives i this city would cheerfully beggar all lie railroads in the country before ibo atural advantages of the South as u utton manufacturing region should be Mowed lo turn tho productive energy of all Uiver and Pawtucket iuto other hannels. The special favor asked of the railroads ) a chanco in the classification of domes le dry goods and a reduction of charges, 'hese "domestics" are now shipped as rsi-class freight on tho railroads of the ruuk line pool. At tho present rates the /astern merchants und manufacturers moplain that they caunot compete in ?nciunatti, Louisville, St. Louis and thor distributing centres in the West '?th the Southern manufacturers, who ave not only ihe advantage of working ri lb their raw material at their very uors, but ure able also lo effect a con-id ruble further saving in commissions, aa leir sales are made to Western mor liants by their own agents. The margin f difference is already wide enough lo tuse genuine alarm for the future of the alon manufactures of tho New England tates. What thia margin will he when ie Southern manufacturer has learned y experience to r ake fuller use of bis dvantages the Eastern mill-owners have * yet scarcely dared to inquire. Yet this is a point which neither the tilroad managers nor the manufacturers in afford to overlook. It was made ltliciently clear at the conferreuce in ummissiouer Fink's office on Wedueu ny, the proceedings of which wero re urtedia the Times, that the relief afford 1 by lower freight rutea from New nglund to the West must be temporary i character. The Soulhern railroads ill make corresponding reductions, and, * their rates aro high, they caa go fur ?cr in such a war than the trunk lines ut the rapid extension of manufactur ig in the South and the iutroduclion of nproved methods, added to the advan iges already mentioned, must within a lort time leave the New Eugland mills ul of the race 1er those- coarser and eavier grades of cotton goods in which ie value of tho material employed, rath r than the lab' r expended upon it, de nni nes the selling price of the finished rticle. The competition of the South rn mills is not as yet formidable in the mount of product. The Northern lates had, in the census year, 691 cot in Mills, running 10,004,820 spindles nd 214,902 looms, and consuming ,381,598 bales of colton ; while the ouihern States had lilO mills, running $3,fi90 spindles, and consuming 188,744 ules of cotton. The rute of yearly in* reuse in consumption, as shown by Mr. tkinson's supplementary inquiry, and by lore recent unofficial reports, is ennsid ?ably greater al the Souih than in the orthern States. So long as the New England manufac irer must pay from $2 50 to $4 a bale ir freight OD his raw material, making is yearly freight bill on the same mount of cotton from seven to ten mes that of bis Southern rival ; so long i he must pay also a considerably high r rate of wages, and, ou the average, a igber price fur the power that drives bin lindie.'! and looms, he cannot reasonably upe to compete, on similar grades of sods, with the milln of Georgia and the arolioas. The advantages at present ?joyed by the Southern manufacturers re, moreover, certain to be increased, lany of the Southern mills are now puipped with old aud wornout machine r, and few of them have well-trained or unpetent operatives. Hut even under tese imperfect conditions the profits of )lton manufacturing there are far great r than in New England, as is shown by ie high dividends of some of the lead ig Southern mills. But the New Eog ind manufacturer:; bave a field of their an in which they may defy Southern valry. On the finer yarns and plain ?>uds, on prints and fancy woven fabrics, tey will have little difficulty in main lining their supremacy for a long time > come. It would be wiser for them to ?knowledge defeat on the coarser grades r goods in which the Southern manufac irer finds his chief profit, instead of .tempting by scarcely legitimste means hopeless resistance, and to turn their Mention to brt.oches of manufacture i which climate, a moro skilful class of poratives, and s far readier market give tem an unquestioned superiority. ar Tl he su th II ar nn th Tl ar he vc wi pt th ttl cr< te pa ari st? ps th th ur he tu isl lo it. Al ou ca tb sn nt .an de to a hi Iii be an m th sh fo an wi th hi sn tOj fo wi fri ly th WI bc av ID te in th - "Stole any chickens dis week, Brud- j f* cr Jenes? inquired z CIMO imucr i - f a member ot suspiciously thieving roclivities. "No, san-tank de Lor' Yuu'se done well," said the leader, pass* ig on, while Brudder Jones turns to rudder Brown and whispers, "Lucky he lid chickens ; if he'd said ducks he'd ad me suab !" HCMBCOOED AOAI*.'- I saw so much Eid about the merita of Hop Bitters, nd my wife who was always doctoring, nd never well, teased me so urgently to et ber some, I concluded to be humbug ed again ; and I am glad 1 did, for in ess than two months use of the Bitters, ny wife was cured, and she has remained o for eighteen months since. I like j fi uch humbugging.-H. T., 8t. Paul.-- o 'Soneex Trem. 1 tl A KENTUCKY WILD MAN. rite l.nv--?t Acquisition to tim Momi|;n lo Business. fruin Ike i'hifatleljtltM Pr?t?, Among tho passengers Ult night louml for New York from thc West on lie d?y express was a wild man, who ?ccu pied n seat in smoking esr 168. Ito ! isa accompanied hy James Harvey and j taymnnd lloyd, bis captors, both of ! rlmm belong in Paducnh County, Ken ucky. They had threo second ?class ickels to Now York, which privileges hem to three ?eats in the smoking car f any first class train. They vero on heir way to Bridgeport, Conn., to make r rangements with 1?. T. Barnum to xhibit their prize ill conjunction with is circus. When the day express arrived at the tread street station at 8 o'clock, Janies larvey ran down the platform, into thu Mtaurant and purchased a box of sar ine-, and sumo sandwiches for tho wild ian's supper. His companion remained i the smoker in charge of the wild man. He was dressed in citizen's dress and ore big cloth shoes. His hair reach.es carly to ilia waist and falls over his muldera, completely covering his back ; is beard is long and thick, wbilo his rebrows are much heavier than those f an ordinary human being. There is nibing imbecile in tho wild man's man ers or actions. Ho cannot talk and 'blom makes any sound whatever tcept n low howl like n leopard. His ?tiona are as much like those of tho yena in the Zoological (tarden ns it is tusiblo for anything in human form to 9. Raymond Boyd, who seemed to have prfect control over thc wild mnn, Haid is body was covered with coarse, brown sir as thick as tho hair on a horse's ?do. Tho palms of his hands looked ke the paws of a bear, and his finger ails, which were over an inch long, ??inn bled the claws of an eagle. TBE DISCOVERY AND CAPTURE. He wns first seen in Puducah County drteen years ago, and was known as Mum, the Hermit," because whenever ?y ono accosted bim all ho would say as, "Mum's tho word." Ho .ved in i old pino hut in the woods for about re years, and was seldom seen by auy ie. Finally he abandoned the hut and ick up his abodo in a cave under n doe of rocks known as "Lizard Kock.' little over six years ago two or three tizens of Paducah County, while out tinting, saw him running into a cave, ithout a stitch of clothing on him. He hs seen several times after that wearing } clothing. Three years ago it was scuvered that a thick coat of hair had own all over his body. lloyd and Harvey built a bi?. "i trap r bim over three weel a at"' ':iced big piece of freshly i it. hey watched the * JayB .fore he entered it. 1/. fraid 'any bird or beast of prey, u i ter Red nway from any human bi.ng who iproached him. It tonk two dnys to custom the man-beast to their pres ice. The tinkle of a small dinner bell ry used had a great influence over m. He watched the bell intently but mid not touch it. ITINO A LIVE CALF ANO TWO BHRRP. Some time ago a farmer missed a calf id two sheop, which had strayed off. iiey were tracked lo "Mum's cave;" >rc all trace of them was lost, and it is pposed he devoured them. In his cave, which he bad occupied for e last seven or eight years, Boyd and arvcy found the skeletons ol' small limais and thc skins of over fifty akes; some of the skins belonging ti e must venomous species of reptiles, lie floor of the cave was ali vo with red id green lizards, and hundreds of toads ipped about. The wild man ate the box of sardines iraciously, and the two sandwiches aich were handed him were greed:'.} tiled apart. Ho ate the barn and rew the bread away. Whenever e ?in passed on tho opposite track.hf ouched down in tho corner of the feat rror Blricken. After the train had issed be would put his band to bis ear id listen with a look of animal eu nu inf Miling out nf his restless eyes, like a | < intber about to pounce on ita prey. Every time tiie engineer blow his whit i the wild mao would grub the back of | e seat with both hands and hold on itil the whistle ceased blowing. Boyd had a little tin music box which i manipulated with a crank. The one ne of "Empty is the Cradle" was ound again and again to the great sat faction of the ex-hermit who sat and oked at it silently, but would not touch HAU) OF THE CONDUCTOtt'8 PUNCH. Wheu Conductor Harry Bmitb took it his glistening nickel-plated punch to neel the tickets the wild mau watched e punch intently until he heard it ap. Then be got down in the cor ?r of the seut, fairly shivered with foar, id set up a low howl supposing, efl ntly, that Conductor Smith was about wing bim. Boya and Harvey said that there was story to the effect that the wild man ld originally como from North Caro la, and that during the war he bad on a sharpshooter on Bald Mountain, id that shortly after the war he had urdered a whole family of settlers in e mountain and fled. Both Boyd and Harvey appear like I rewd fellows, and expect to make a I rtune out of their prize. Their great ixiety and fear is that the authorities ill interfere with them, and claim that I e man is simply a lunatic, and place m in some institution. They bau the ake skins in a box io tba bBggage car, pether with some other curiosities und in the eave. Boyd skid that the dd man will not touch anything but alt and meat, which be eats ravenous , and much the same as a wild beast, gar smoke bothered bim a good deal, ld hs kept driving it a v. ny ff Cr iii bim th bia clawy bands. When the train arrived in Jersey City i) mon took a carriage, and said they sra going to lake the New Haven night iat from the foot of Peck's Slip, and oid a daylight crowd in New York, i case they cannot make satisfactory rms with Barnum, or some otho; prom eut circus man, they intend exhibiting cir prize therotelvea as soon aa they | ji extensively advertise bim, beginning : NsTf York City ????o time in r'ny. In tbe meantime they are going to 1 >ep him in some secloded place on ong Island. - "Yes," said the Ash dealer, "trade is beeu very dull, but as soon , as the eather gets better we expect to sell irge siringa of trout, perch and picker I, evenings, to young men returning om fishing excursions." - A verdict, with $10,000 damages, 'as obtained at the Northumberland ..raizes by Mis* Pattisman, a yoong lady ged twenty-five, of Tweedmooth, gainst William Richardson, aged thirty, >r breach of contntct of marriage. One f the objeclions of the defendant was bat tbe lady waa left-banded. y v/J i \U XtU .THE SI N DO HOVE.? j Ker. .lohn Ja?|ier Imloraetl - HU A len-? In Accordance Willi Hu- Ketella School of I l'IillciHupIiy. j UAI.TIMOUK, Mardi Iii.-Tho llev. I John Jasper ?f Richmond i* not wlihoui 1 good company in his opinion that thc i world i.* Hat, nm! that "the nun ?lo move." j l'his in the doctrine held hy tho Zetctic school of philosophy, which sonto years ?go made quite n stir i:: England * Thc narnu is terni cd fruin n Greek word inclining In seek or inquire. An active propagandist of Zetctic doctrine is Prof. nm, Carpenter, 71 Chew street, who bas been in this country about live years. He is a tuan of medium height, auburn hair ?nd benni, with bright, restless eyes, and BU ?mated manner, ile IIHH literary tastes, mid when thc reporter called he was turning off a clever little acrostic I mom, "Jasper is right about the matter," the Professor said, "although he lins not n complete understanding of it. There are plenty of men who agree wi til him, but there are few who arc willing to acknowl- | 1 edge the belief. It is unpopular and keeps a mau back in the world, bm I ettie untiling for that." Tho founder of the Zetel ic school, the Professor explained, was an English | t chemist named Itowbothnm, whoso views were formed ns far back as IM.'IS. In lSlil be lectured at Creen wich, Professor Carpenter's native town. The Professor, then a journeyman printer, laughed at the idea of a man going about lecturing that the earth was Hat, but went to hear him. "I listened m that lecture for nu hour and n hall," said tho Professor, "and since then I have never donoled that tho earth is Hat." In 18G(J he issued a work on the subject. He put his thoughts directly in tho type, and it | ( look him three years, working in Iiis leisure hours, to compose the work. Since I ( then ho has gotten out a number of pam | 1 phlets, and with pen and voice lins stoutly mniiitaiucd tho Zetelic doctrine. | i This doctrine is lliat tho caril) in a flat disk, with the North pole at ita centre. |ji Tho seas encompass the land and impen etrable ice surrounds the Heas, "and what | 1 is beyond," Hays thu Professor, "Hod only knows." Thu sun und other heavenly bodies nie lights in the firmament cir cling over the earth around the pole star as a center. "The key note of HI?H phi losophy is that water will seok its level. | d If the earth were aglobe, water would have to be curved, but since water is I d demonstrably always level the carib can- j y not bo round." ltowbotham's views were originally suggested by observations I 1 on the old Iledford Canal. For twenty | p miles in Cambridge County, England, it runs in n straight line. Itowbothnm spout some niuo months along tho canal in daily observations, um) in whoever I I way he looked ulong thu surface of its wa ter he always found it level. I a When Professor Carpenter's book was I p published it made a zealous convert ol | h Mr. John Hampden, win?, thu Professor says, is a descendant of thc Hampden of Cromwell's limo. Ile bought Carpen ter's copyright and challenged the seien ti He world lo provo tho convexity of any surface of water. Professor Alfred li Wallace accepted the challenge and wager of ?o?? a side was mudo. Th test was made in March, 1870. Professor Wallace's method was the placing ol three signal di?kB along the canal for six miles, all at the same elevation. His proposition was that, if there WOB im curvature of tho earth's surface, a telo -.copo placed ut the Hume elevation would bring all thc disks in line, but that, in fact, the central disk would ?how above tho terminal disk. Mr. Carpenter was Hampden'* refereo. Dr. M. W. II. Cout elier wan Wallace's referee. They dlsn greed as lo tht> result of the toHt, each claim'.ng victory fur Iiis side. J. H. Walsh, editor of the London Field, who j II wus the umpire, decided that Wallace | ti hod won mid paid over the money to him. Hampden denounced Vv'ulinco as j .*j a swindler, and wits eventually sent to j h ?ail for twelve mouths for libel. He *ued for his money, nod go' a verdict on the ground that the wager was illegal. The affair bankrupted Hampden, but did \> not shake his conviction. c Professor Carpenter engorly meeta h ?very objection advanced. The circum li navigation of the earth is simply describ n ing a circle on thu disk about the North Pole on the central point. He says thai it is the only astronomical theory thal accords with Holy Writ, which is what ;ommends it to the Kev. John Jasper. Professor Carpenter says thnt tho beliel is privately held hy great numbers ol persons who aro deterred from avowing it by it? unpopularity. He showed u letter received Inst week from Fort res* Monroe, in which the conversion of a non-commissioned oflicer to the Zetctic I o ctr i ne was reported. Growth of tho Earth. The millions of aerolites descending Lipon the earth on an everlasting shower ?ll over its surfneo prove that tho earth is growing ; the gradual rise of its oceans provo the fact, und the great truth is lino demonstrated by the bottoms of all those oceans, according to their various lepths, constantly getting filled up by primary formations. In short, the uni versal law of terrestial growth is denim . drated by every shell upon the shore, which, by its formation, is just that much permanently added to the bulk. Bui linking into tho bowels of the earth as ieep as mon cnn reach proves the growth if the earth far moro strongly than all the facts and words which are available m the momentous question ; for no matter how far down, every inch of the lescent was once the surface, however low it may now be out of sight by the ?ccumuiation of creative increase over it sine the time. Thus so far as we have been enabled to penetrate, and the rub holds good over every part of iU surface, we find the strata, however deep we may descend, all lying as to time, in the order sf their formation. They cannot be Dtherwiso, as no convulsions of nature :ou!d reverse the positions of one stratum by superimposing it upon another. Il we sink down through the strata to the iepth of, say, a thousand yards, we pass through the works of several geolog ical epochs, the first one that on which the drift of the deluge rests, the latest formation, thc next-if in the sinking there is no missing link-a step in time earlier, and so on in succession, until we reach the lowest stratum at the depth I mentioned, the oldest one in tho series. 1 There it is just where it was deposited, then on the surfsco of the earth, perhaps more than 1,000,000 years ago, while all the others have been in latter times su perimposed in their respective geological epochs, up to the surface. There is another such epochal formation going on and getting thicker under all oceans since tbe present continental features of the globe arose, which will yet be di y land, and will be the latest formation for the geologists of the remote future. Oolburn't Magazine. Nervousness peevishness, and fretting, so often connected with overworked females' liver is rapidly relieved by Brown's Iron Bitters. VJ J\ v 11 ?.-IN VJ. 01. THE PRESIDENT AS A BANTERER. ilm!::i' P.ii In's Iinmurkuble ??ult Claim Deed. WASHINGTON, March 14.-A good ?tory ia told about tho courtship of David Davis which terminated in his marriage to day. The Judgo was extremely reti cent about his new matrimonial . venture, arid after it was positively knoirn that he w as engaged to Mis? Purr, he dodged and evaded every "feeler" that wa.? thrown nut by hi* numerous friend*. In fact, the repeated denials on the bridegroom's part ?md thc air of mystery thrown about the ?Hair attracted moro attention to the ro iiiance than would have followed a frank ivowal of the engagement. Tho Judge luis one consoling episode to remember. Last winter Mis* Burr and Miss Ureen, Lite daughter ol Representative elect Ureen, of North Carolina, at whose resi lehce tho wedding took place, visited Washington as the guests of Mrs. H?ge, ho Wife of the Representative from West Virginia. Hnth these ladies were anx iius to visit the White House and seo the President, but tho Judgo did not wish to ?cort M?HH l?urr. Hr waa perfectlywill ng to ?how Miss Green the. sights, and ie addressed a note to iho President say? tig that he wished to call with a lady at hu Executive Mansion. Tho President ippointed a time and the visit was paid, disa Green is a young and very hand omo person, und tho President itnroedi tcly jumped to the concludion that she ins Judge Davis's intended bride. He bowed her every attention, escorted the ouple through the house and theconser atory, plucked a bunch of flowers for he lady, and talked until! the judgo bo arno impatient to leave. When the ouple returned to the hotel tho old gen lemau observed to Miss Burr that Miss Irren had captivated tho President. A aw days later tho justices of the Supreme knut dined with tho President. Judge )avis was a guest. When the cigars /ere lighted ibo President, with mock ?nnality, tendered his congratulations o tho president of the Beuute. The udge protested that lhere was no reason ..hy he should bo congratulated. The 'resident persisted in his congratulations nd the justices demanded to know the nystery. Tho President told of tho vis L of Judgo Davis and Miss Green. The eteran jurist pooh pooed the idea of carrying tho lady, and he squirmed lin er tho pleasant congratulations that rere proffered on every side. "You may eny ns much as you please, judge, but ou would not dare to sign a quit claim i my favor," banteringly remarked tbe 'resident. The judge drew a piece of aper and pencil from his pocket, and in careful tegul form drew up and signed relinquishment of nil his right, title nd interest in M'?a Green, provided the 'resident proposed marriage to her with - ii the term ol one year. This he signed nd delivered to the President in the reseuco of the Court. Gen. Arthur has ecu remarkably reticent regarding the nair since tho engagement of Judge >avis to Miss Ilutr wus announced. Thc Rhode Island Campaign. Uhodo inland elects her Governor next ninth, mid ex-Governor Sprague bsa eeo nominated by the independents to > lill that ellice. There, exists in the tile State obnoxious property qualifica ou and registration laws which practi ally disfranchises a very large propor lon of her citizens, and an active fight i to be made for their repeal. If not iiccessful this year, the hope cherished y tho independents is that they will at .asl gain such vantage-ground ns will ?eure them better luck next year. Ex lovernor Sprague's war record, bis ervices in tho Senate of the United tates, his pluck and persistence ia .-ilhstaniliug the misfortunes heaped pon him by the panic of 1873, and nully his victory in the suit for the poa Bssion of Cnnonchet and his routing euator Conkling from his premises, are icts which give him a favorable prom i euee in the Rhode Island public eye. 'heefforts made by former admirers to rush him financially and ruin him olitically have won him sympathy, and reated a dispi sitian to aid him against ?6 more fortunate if not more ecrupu vus enemies. Hence hts name was jceived in tho convention at Providence iih enthusiasm. It lind been pre d. ct ed lat the convention would be poorly Mended, but. on the contrary, every ?at was taken. The delegates were liters, who exhibited a determination to icceed, and to further their purpose tore efliciently, contented themtelves ith nominating only the Governor, .needing to thc Democratic convention, hich meets next Tuesday, the nomina on of other State officers. The Repub cans assert, indeed, that the indepen enta are Democrats in disguise, but tbe ist mentioned party utters through its >aders an emphatic denial of that asser inn. They nay, however, that so far as iie repeal of disfranchising statutes is onccrned, their sentiments agree with bose of the independents, and there c?u e no good reason alleged why Demo rats should not co-operate with them in tie coming campaign. The people are ired of the rule of an oligarchy. While here is some doubt confessed as to tbe lection of 8prague in April, it is laimed that the boora in his favor has wept the State so well that Newport, 'awtucket, Woonsocket, Warwick and tber large towna are already secure. Answering to tho Title. Sc. eral weeks ago, by special enact tent of the Legislature, the Governor ?ercd a reward of $200 for an Arkansas ian who is not a Judge. Colonel, Major r Captain. The next day a plain, unass uming gentleman called on tbe Cover er and 'aid : "I have the honor, sir, to claim the re tard you offered for a mao who is neither Judge. Colonel, Major or Captain. I m neither of them." "I am glad to meet you, sir," said the io vernor. "Just sit down a moment un it I attend to a little matter of business." The man took a seat and the Govor or went into an adjoining room and af> ;r a moment called : "Colonel." "Yes, sir," said the gentleman, aria lg. . That's all right," remarked the Gov rnor. "I see you are a Colonel. Porter I:-"- sho? the Hilliary gentleman to be door and admit the next man." - Kansas is to have a Railroad Oom nissioo. The busluesa of the Oommis ion, as outlined by an Act which has uni passed the L?gislature, is mainly to eo that the laws affecting transportation ire enforced. Passenger faro ia limited 0 three cent? per mlle. ;. g - Mr. Stllson Hutchins, tho proprietor if the Washington Post, recently married 1 Miss Brady, who is said to bo an ac complished lady of 80, and ono of the -emarkablo features of the wedding waa be receipt of a kind letter from hts di* rorced wife wishing for him all the hap* firness he bad failed to enjoy In his first marriage. He and bia bride have gojo x> Europe.