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^|fflE FIQHT IST; HOBILE BiTi Confederate ^Efforts to " Equip a Naval: : J. A Eaglesion xn^?harle^Urn Weekly News. ' Min tf mentions wieTd a. power oat of! all .proportion to their population and geographical limits as compared with non-maritime States. Holland, with the seS;cfen to;her*eets, triumphed, afteol Wearpffortyyew? over- tr^;;?j^t !xmli-' tary jpower of ^pain*. .Napoleon, with Cont atntal Europe enlisted under bis 2 bann r, succumbed at last to the power | of thi Mtetress>oftaeSeas. Against the unaio^d military power of the ^STorth we have triumphed in the late war, iinst her maritime power the/jon bur part- was hopeless from the ing. . ife^?^;W^mprbvbe<i,: but navies Je slow mtowth-of rime. National! enthusiasm or the ^enforcement of con scrip naviel and tl for thi _ tie held lu>re . may: Unng. the former 8nd denlri iatc. ea^tence, put no edict of a GoTepmi^t*v<^;x?t once convert into the raw> zoatcrial of the forests | e minesv^e^tuat was the. task, non-perfogncnce of which-Secre >?n#jf^jgreist ?^wnT>eople. .To ttW^Ja?plish it I of our cause,' bat none -Maf lory- and his subordi -frvurit prtdse for what they did dbl ?* thau^ cemroitev for ? what' they did tfitfJQfititeti*&;: ntSerMua men-of ; war. ? ?*;.'.::jHpW-;Tm5T :^Ep'I^PPLOYED. ^<^b-v?>;fpi^?i^regained in par j po6?e83iOBL there: w^ttttTejjp* nothing for. >; tr^lvesselato^ look-' '..'? oht for ashing boa^ 'and-.other small. :-^^^^Ukig^tQ^c^m?aiMcate'. -.with the : blockading fleet, or to carry on gling trade with:: New Orleans, y. that was not the sort of service iitaat the officers of those vessels would : .haio preferred, but it was such as they -were called upon.: to 'perform, and they :; did it cheerfully. Tiie time came, how? ever^ wheu work of a very different sort presented itself, and that was when Far ra^ut^fleet ran^to) Mobile Bay past - the guns of Fort "Morgan. ?:? t- The;eoristruction -cj? fjgur ironclads was irtnfegpa on th>> *?atain? Eiver in the :-.< year 1862- and 18611, an?.when partly %'lltti&hed^e^^r^toi^iidrjtlobile,- to .'?\ be complete^?there-:, 'Thrfe ?f, the ves ?i' seJs were pr?^irere,ybuil? somewhaton ?the model of the Merriinac, ^but,.so far *^^^^'8hields,' were; concerned,, with a I mfflffcatiuh that was ah improvement XmM- Edition of :% ? ^The|qu?tiod of with: us waa to me*t the^jnijmy on the sea as well as A ' "^^ Ihe- blockade thit i afbahd ot iron., At all J ?ble pointg in bor control e Btrehdonx efforts to accomplish --?.Hl:^l<^^;WA?iioK.- ?? Wien Admiral Bncbanan took com r- mand at Mobile the so-called naval force there consisted of lour vessels, viz: The side-wheel sleamert^aines'??!'' Morgan; moifettnjr'^C;;8^pounders;1 the . Sclma, a formerHay' hont,-mounting five ? gnna of the same calibre, and the Baltic: X* rtondeecript co?5em/wfth a shield covered with railroad iron forward of ?er-wneiilbeMees))- mountinjr four guns. " *f?$pe?lringy they y<zb a collec JLthat was meant to protect th^^v^l.against the assault, of another. ? ram; ^e;^eotion of * hall ready to re-. ce4v0:an ironclad shield with a>'knuckle". ' woidd lesemble lhe section-of a common . meat dish^A,:pencil, placed with one l^n?b?n-the edge of the dish snd held at an angle of 45Q. woula-represent a sec ; tionvof the shield. In the \completed ironclad thq line of junction ofc,tbe shield with the hall was some two feet below |' thvw^r^inei.aodrpreseoM ,;ironr edg&^UJ.roandvthe vessel, nkkinglh< . essentially a defensive, -if not an offen? sive, ram at every points'. i , 'The Tnscaloosa 'and the Hi ntsville^ {: HB^ir-^80' the "smaller propel ere were' narb?d?would have been verj fqrmida r bfe 3it?e vy.ef^ela if they had Tiad :shffi cieptt|dbliye'-fppw^i fot th^-. shields .. -W^'MpableuOf resisting a h^avy bom "V bardment,' and the guns they mounted - were formidable for-that? period, being Brooke rifles ?f6lnch and1? infch diame ter^Jof bore^-eacb^ vessel| nmbhting a .' 7 iii^jin^rorward ahd a inch on each ^ ? )brbadstde;;,-'lf 'either the: Merrimac or j Monitor, in the famous \encounter in Hampt?n' Ep?ds^ had been Armed. with 7 !hcn ?t^eat ?pp^nentlwo.bfd'have ,*eMffi)rm'" t?.^i^ender. 'I But the vital ;??M^^''th^>e^Is/aod" one which we ; eoold not overcome^'.was^ t?eir want ^qf. ..iinbi^yAjpow.V^^?^ na i^bine ?^ahops in^t&ejpc'nfederate 8tatea. capable ? <?f tdriung pu|,^^^ [ the. yesaels. taat.we.b.uiU were forced.j to patch up such engines as w^ra already ;? :v^?BCt.^mntcjr. ?.:-Those in the Huntsyille i j, and Tuscialoosa had been used.in ^?aw mills, and the utmost speed of those ves? sels was not over?vo knots an hour. , Their accommodations t were so con . structe^.and badly ventilated that the .v .i?ifews were*\ttartered .in cotton' ware houses near the wharves to which the vessels. were moored.' For that!reason tb^Hirere-not stationed in tboiojver bay;! to-fceiready to'aid in renstinr the possir j >-.' ' ble'entrance of the enemy's fleet. ? Ttffi: ,MTEH2TESSEK"oj was a vessel of; far '^greater fpretension than those just mentioned, but not near ' - so formidable as Federal" accents might j lead one to suppose., At theriame time ,ahe was,'save in the.very important, mat? ter {pf motive pp'werr. the superior gf the - ' Minriraac^ for she was clad 'with' two lay ers^of two^inch iron plates, instead of with one only, as in the case of the last' named vessel, and while Bhe carried onlv.eight guns to the Merrimac's ten, herS.J.w!ere:. nfiesi-withi a pine&ating power greatly in excesii of the smooth? bore Dahlgreo guns that, were used by botb>ide8. in .. .the. Hampton Roada bat tlea. .,_ ... 1 Of the eight guns of theTeniiessoe two were 7:inchjriflea gointilng. ovei bow and stern ? respectivery;' and; the: otters were 6 inch rifles mounted od the bloadsides. Another ituprovement over tie ilerri ma? .^aa tha>,tbe. iron port-lils of the, Tennessee could be closed while the -uns were run in to be loaded. In the middle of the lid: was a hole through. which the end of the rammer could be passed. When the Merrimac returned, to Nor? folk after the Monitor had escaped out of ] reach of her guns, one of the first things .' v done - was to change the . lead; of the :^>tadder?.chaios..'. They were' taken under ^pfe deck of the fan tail, instead of being left on top of it exposed to the enemy's , , flro, Tnis" ( obvioosiy common' sense I : cbfloge was" , made at the suggestion of . vLieut. Wood. . .. .. .? ??? ' ? ? . But the.chief constroctor of the Ton . neasee, who had been employed in a subordinate capscitj. in the conversion 'ofJhe Merrimac inwrrirohcladi yzrpet* :'^^HH*^-'-fi>it^^-Settel tbei ^r^^^^/'Thei of'the ;J^errimacj 'Je,: that ?was loot, Hie |"camels" under water The draft of the Tennessee did not admit of her passage over Dog River Bar, sis miles below the City of Mobile, con? sequently it was necessary to devise; some method of lifting her over. As she approached completion the construc? tion of "camels" was begun. These were water-tight boxes, so shaped as 'to fit under the side of the vessel. They were four in number, and they were three weeks in building. They were intended to be sunk under the'ship's bottom by letting water into them. Once in posi? tion tue water was to be pumped out, when the "camels" would.rise and lift the vessel. /??> . They were nearly ready to be launched when one night they were-set on fire, doubtless by Union sympathizers, and reduced to ashes. Nothing remained but to begin the building of new ones, and this was done at once, with a cordon of Bentries around the spot. Indue course of time the new "camels" were completed, and by means of them the Tennessee was lifted over Dog River Bar and proceeded to the lower bay, whence she was destined never to return. The' sidewheef "steamer alluded to above was named the Nashville. She was.constructed with.a.substantial iron? clad shield.forward of the wheelh uu3es, and aa a ram she might have done some damage to Farragut's fleet had she been ready in time. She-was taking oh board her armament of rifled cannon the very morning that the enemy's, vessel* passed Fort Morgan. a necs8saby CH a NGE ? OF PROG RA MM E. ill:had .been Buchanan's i01ention.to go out in the Tennessee and endeavor to raise the blockade of Mobile. About the 1st of August he bad determined to make the attempt on tho following morning, and the little squadron Was ordered'to be in readiness for the under? taking. But when at dawn we looked out seaward we saw that the blockading fleet ha&lbeen; heavily .reinforced .during the night, and the plan of attacking them was abandoned as no longer feasible. This ^reinforcement, of the enemy was preparatory to Farragut's much vaunted exploit: of running past the guns of Fort Morgan. a few .words (?NCEBinNG far ag bt may not be out of place here. The qual? ities that go to make up a brilliant naval comtnander of.Farragut's calibre?rand, I | may add, of Buchannan'a, for they were products of the same school and closely resembled one another?are much the -same that are needed in a calvary officer?tbe^qualities of a.R.upert, a Mu*. rat, a Jeb Stuart Farr?gut possessed these qualities in a jn*eVniinent degree, but^he claim put forth by our Northern friends, that his exploits mark him as the greatest uavai commander that ever lived is preposter? ous. In saying so I am governed.wholly by what he did, not by wbat he might have done.; for, although I had on more than one occasion .before the war listened to his conversation, I do not'pretend to a special knowledge of the latent possi? bilities that were in him. He bad at his command a new factor in' naval Warfare ?steam power; and, While be made good use of it in running past land batteries, that was no more than dozens of others, Federals and Confederates, did during the war, and he was not the pioneer in such'undertakings. ? steamers runhing past land bat? teries. D?ringThe" aiege'o'f Sebastopol aRus-" sian dispatch steamer was in the habit of'making almost daily trips past the Allied batteries. fX. v. . The Confederate States ..steamers Pat-' rick Henry, Jamestown and Tesze'r ran by ,.tho Federal batteries at Newport Newa, and, although one'of them receiv? ed ? a shot through her steam dome, She managed Still to keep on. Federal gunboats never hesitated 'to run by our batteries on the Mississippi, and its , tributaries?even ' transports laden with troops passing With impunity such fortifications as were at Vicksburg. ;] Similar exploits we^': performed , almost daily by' blockade-runners enter? ing or leaving our ports. : : Perhaps the most noted of these was that^by Ciipt. John N. ?affittr in the Confederate States, .steamer. Florida. Half of his crew being strick?^ down at sea with yellow fever, he determined to.' get within reach of medical aid, and steered straight for Mobile,.the nearest Confederate port, in broad daylight the Florida was sighted by the blockading fleet steering directly for the entrance to Mobile-Bay. Maffitt had sent below all. of ?EU crew except the few that were needed to handle the ship: In vain the Federal vessels emptied their broadsides in the effort to atop the daring Confeder? ate. Several projectiles 3 struck {bee, among them an. 11 inch; shell, which fortunately 'did 'hoi-explode, but she kept straight 00, and anchored in due time under the guns of Fort Morgan. To plump with a cannon ball a ship passing rapidly, and perhaps a mile away, is like shooting a bird on the wing with a pistol. The bird, too, if apt to fall if hit once, but the ship migbt.be struck a hundred times over and still k<ep on. Tt \ It cannot, therefore, be conceded -that a naval commander whose reputation rests wholly cn his success in running .past shore batteries, whether in a single steamer or attended by many, has any claim to a place by the side of Nelson. -The latter won his victories by combina? tions like those made by Napoleon on land. He beat the enemy in detail? doubling on one end of his line and -leaving the other either to look idly on ,or run. And he always knew when and how to make such combinations, e.-. Doubtless history will right all such matters in the-course of time. a "mock monitor" with a moral. r Apropos of this subject is an account, in a late number of the Philadelphia .Times, of incidents at. the siege of Vicky - burg, in which the writer tells of a prac? tical joko perpetrated by Admiral Por? ter. He ordered a "mock monitor" to bo constructed out of "an old coal barge decked over, with a Jot of empty pork barrels set up to simulate ti'-.Tets and smokestacks', mud .furnaces to generate black smoke, aud some old canoes for quarter boats." Well, the "mock moni? tor" having been let loose in the stream, actually drifted past the Confederate j .batteries without the,- loss of a single pork barrel I Not that no efforts were made to destroy her, for the Writer in' the Times declares that she drew a fire tb?tf in his own works, exceeded all,; "our experience in Vicksburg cannon-1 ading." The moral to Admiral Porter's joke may possibly be found in the answer to this question: If a "mock monitor" could drift, unscathed past batteries as powerful as any then in the world and manned by as skillful gunners, what becomes of the claim to the first place among naval commanders that rests wholly in performances like that of the "scow^in question, and with steam power, [.instead of the current, to hurry the vob 'sek chtof reach of the enemy's guns ? j farbag ut pas3h8 fort morgan. ' . Every nival officer at Mobile aadjnany who were not naval officers knew perfect? ly well that Farragut's fleet would run past Fort Morgan whenever the officer commanding it saw proper to do so. What we were puzzled about was in re? gard to the time that it would be done. We could see that the fleet outside had been heavily reinforced/ but we thought that possibly it was on account of the presence of the Tennessee in the lower bay. Still we were not surprised when on the morning of the 5th day of Au? gust, 1S64, we saw the Federal fleet mov? ing in double line straight for the chan? nel. It was a magnificent sight, but by no meanB a pleasant one to the Confed? erates stationed at the land batteries and on board the Tennessee and her frail wooden tenders. The advancing fleet numbered eighteen vessels in all, fourteen of which were wooden ships of war, not man traps like our own, and four monitors. Two of these monitors, the Tecumseh and the Manhattan, were far more pow? erful vessels than their predecessor of Hampton Roads'fame, for each carried two 15-inch guns instead of 11-inch guns [ like the old .Monitor. . The other two monitors were double turreted and mounted 11-inch guns, j The enemy's wooden / Essels were lashed together in pairs, s6 that if one i should happen to be sunk the creW might i be rescueu by her cod .sort. They came steadily on, answering with- their thun? dering broadsides the fire from our land batteries and vessels. If only they could be made to stop and fight it out, the old adage that "one gun ashore is worth ten afloat," would still be made to hold good. But that, very properly, is no part of Farragut's programme, and the Federal fleet moves rapidly on.. Suddenly shouts of triumph are heard from our waiter batteries. There are only three monitors where a moment ago there were four I One of them has suddenly disappeared beneath the waves. Sunk, perhaps, by a torpedo. The monitors were steaming in advance of the enemy's wooden vessels and near? er than the latter to the Confederate bat? teries. The sinking of the monitor was followed by a pause in the advancing fleet, the pair of vessels in the lead, which, we afterwards, learned, were the Brooklyn and the Octarora, stopping to signal. 'Then it was that Farragut displayed the impetuous bravery characteristic of him. His flag-ship, the Hartford, with the Metacomet, commanded by the' gal? lant Jouett, lashed to her side, was the second in the line, and they dashed on past the halting Brooklyn, and were soon out of reach of bur-fire. The TenneBsee made for the Hartford,, with'the hope of ramming her, but the latter had the heels of us. Want of motive power was the great defect in the Tennessee. The Hartford being safely in the bay, we gave our attention to the rest of the fleet that were now rapidly following the lead of their Admiral be? yond the reach of our shore batteries. Owing to their vastly superior speed, they eluded ail our efforts to ram them, and got safely in. our wooden gunboats; The Selma, Capt. Murphy, had gal? lantly taken position ahead of the Hart? ford and Metacomet, and kept up a rak? ing fire on them during their advance up the bay, but finally, she was compelled to trust to her heels for safety, and even then she trusted in vain. The Metacom? et soon overhauled her and forced her to surrender. The last shell fired at the Selma struck down Lieut. Comstock, the brave young officer who commanded her broadside guns. A fragment of the shell tore cway his breast. "Stand to your guns, men!" were the words that he barely bad time to utter ere be fell for? ward dead. Capt.' Bennett in. the Gaines had fought his ship until she was on the point of sinking: under his feet. Then he beached heir, set her on fire and es? caped .with his. crew in the ship's boats. The Morgan bad not received a scratch and there was talk of a court martial, .but:: probably' the crowding . of great events towards the close of the war pre? vented -it. . : "into the jaws op death." The enemy's fleet were now anchored perhaps a couple of miles np the Bay, while the Tennessee lay at anchor off Fort Morgan.1 " What was to be done with her ? ' As a regiment is to an army corps, so was the Tennessee to the fleet that had just entered Mobile Bay. Ninety-nine men out of a hundred wbuld; an Btfchanan's; place,- have de ci?ed that the ship should remain where she was and share the fate of Fort Mor? gan. Not so with him. All retreat had been cut off'for the Tennessee. She was like a man doomed to die, and the brave old Admiral determined to sell her life at the highest possible price. The Tennessee got under way and steamed directly towards the great hos? tile fleet.. Like the charge of the Light Brigade, "it was not war, but a specta? cle." There was speedy signalling from the enemy's flag ship, followed by the slipping of cables and the movement of the whole fleettowards us. Two of their heaviest vessels, Tunning "nearly'at full speed, one after the other struck us amidships with ;their iron prows. The "knuckle" saves us and we keep on our course, heading directly for the Hartford, and saluting her with our bow gun as we nearedher. She two was making straight for us?the two old Admirals were. com? ing to close quarters truly!?but just in time the Hartford very properly sheered clear of us. As the two vessels passed one another, close aboard, the Hartford delivered a broadside. We tried to re? turn the compliment, but two of our three guaa missed fire. By this time the whole fleet were tumbling in upon us, freely using tbeir prows aud their great guns. Against the former the knuckle still protected us, but the latter soon reduced the Tennessee to a helpless wreck. The rudder chains were gone, the armor had been crushed I in by the 15-inch shells of the enemy's monitor, and the gallant old Admiral lay wounded by the fragment of a shell. Nothing remained but to surrender, and that we might honorably have done to a force so vastly superior without firing a shot. A Strong "Girl.?"Uncle Abe," said a woman, addressing a colored gentleman of prominence, "I'se got some mighty I had news fer yer." "What is it chile ?" "I'ee jes' from yer house an' yer boy is dun gib up by de doctors." "Dat so? I'se glad ter hear it." "W'y Uncle Abe, yer oughter be 'shamed ob yourse'f." "Dat's whar yeris wrong. Ef dat doc? tor has been workin' on dat boy now fer two weeks, an' at las' has ter gin him up, it shows dat de boy is a mighty strong chile. Had ter gin him up, did he? ur haw, haw. Doctor fin's obsteckles in de way when he comes er foolin' 'roun' my family."' ? A paste of equal parts of sifted ashes, clay and salt ana a little water cements cracks in stoves and ovens. STATUE TO JOHN C. CALHOUN, Complete Description of this Work of Art. The European correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, writing from Rome, un? der date of December 1, says : To-day I spent an agreeable half hour in the studio of Mr. Albert E. Harnisch, of Philadelphia. I found him mounted up on high in a sculptor's scaffold, care? fully working out the details of the co? lossal model statue of John C. Calhoun. This model is in "moulder's clay," and is fifteen feet high and on a studio dais of some twenty more feet high. Thus Mr. Harnisch, away up aloft, looked like the little cherub old Dibden used to sing about in naval vocalisms of old. I mention this fact of Mr. Harnisch's personal work on every detail, for in many cases the artist only imparts thoso inspired little touches which are myste? riously called "finishers," leaving the bulk of the work to the "studio ghost." This conscientiousness of the young Philadelphian in his art work is highly creditable alike to himself and his mas? terly productions. This statue model of the great Calhoun is, indeed, animated clay. I can remember seeing Calhoun when I was in the spring and he in the winter of life. Indeed, I sat opposite him at the dinner table for many a day, when the boarding house of Mis. Wash? ington, on F street, in the "city of mag? nificent distances," was the home of many "men of the time." In this colossal model I again see the great "nullifier." He is here, perhaps, made to appear rather in the mid-sum? mer than in the winter of life. The prime of age is the happy mean for the artist. There is none of that shaggy long hair thrown back fitfully; none of | that lion-like crouching that marked the declining days, of the hero of the Pal? metto forest. He now stands erect in that pose which gave him the greatest prominence in the United States Senate aud caused every, eye and every ear to be directed to the Southern orator. His head erect and well posed, on a lithe, nervous yet firm frame; his deep set, stern eyes, beneath a massive brow; his pulsating nostrils and his compressed, rigid lips, with the well-defined lines of J the cheek and chin of the oratorical type, are all before you in this model. The nervous right band and arm are half extended; ? the former being one of | those "great yet not large bands that speak," and which Sir Arthur Helps has so well described in his charming book of "Friends in Council." The left foot is advanced, and gives to the figure that "light livingness of senatorial grace," as Cicero would say. Indian like, John C. Calhoun inclined to walk somewhat with his toes inwards than outwards. Southern people all over the world do so, in contradistinction to Northern people. I assume the dolce far niento of Southern life superinduces this, and I remember Daniel Webster to have said, that "commercial men, me? chanics, tailors and dancing masters toed outwards." Our notions of physical de? portment do not comport with this idea nowadays. I think I have read of St. Paul being in-toed, and also that Cicero was like "one who had trod the Indians' path." This pose in the Calhoun model of Mr. Harnisch is agreeable to the eye, and adds to the motion of "speaking to the Senators," whioh is the idea conveyed by this art-work of the real and the beau ideal Senator. Standing in front of bis senatorial chair, o i which is flung the cloak he was wont to wear, you have be? fore you the great formulator of "State's sovereignty" in all his earnest, breathing, life-like character. This figure will be cast in bronze after the Roman style, which is much better than that of the Munich mode. It will then be placed on a granite rostra, which will be semi-circular with Palmetto trees of bronze, half inlaid, aud making the superficial compartments usually pro? duced by facade pillars. At the base of this rostra will be seat? ed life size figures representing "Truth" in the front, "Justice" by one side, "His-: tory" by the other, and in the rear the great argument of Calhoun, the "Consti? tution." Approaching this and the groud are four large granite steps that form an en? circling main base to the whole monu? ment This monument will make an im? pressive and imposing testimonial in Charleston, and will, altogether, be fully forty-five, feet high. As a work of art it will be unique, not only in its vitality of the chief figure and the repose of the secondary figures, but in the ornate and appropriate ensemble. Mr. Harnisch can afford to rest his re? putation on this work, and South Caroli? na can equally afford to be proud of the good taste in the selection of this artist for this work. It would be premature to say just now when South Carolina may expect to welcome this enduring tribute of bronze and granite to one who was, facile princeps, the true metal of manly statesmanship and the true rock of pure patriotism. Permit me to briefly speak of the im prcoion a work of art of this kind con? veys. Like a true literary composition of contemporary persons and manners, there is no free play of idealism or the forced whims of imagination in this work. It is simply true and truly simple. The spirit of Calhoun comes up before you as well as the outer man. You breathe "Southern rights," and you feel the cav? alier Carolinian; and you realize what Taine describes when he says a language, a legislation, a relation is never more than an abstract thing. The complete thing is the man who acts, the man, cor f)oral and visible, who eats, walks, fights, abors. Leave on one side the theory and the mechanism of constitution?, re? ligion and their systems, and try to see men in their senates, in their workshops, in their offices in their fields, with the sky and earth, their houses, their dress, cultivation, meals, as you do when, land? ing in England, or in Italy, you remark faces and motions, roads and inns, a cit? izen taking bis walk, a woman drinking. Our great care should be to supply, as much as possible, in memorial or tribute art of to-day, or contemporary individual literature, the want of the present, per? sonal, direct and sensible observation which we can no longer practice, for it is the only means of knowing the man. Let us make the past present. To do this in sculpture is more difficult than in painting, and more difficult in both than in literature. Mr. Harnisch has repro? duced the accessories of dress?the broad facings of the frock coat; the close-fit tingyet semi-neglige pantaloons strapped over the boots, that were marks of the corporal man. Behind and within these is the man himself; and in all these ex? ternals we see the avenues converging to a great centre. That centre is the soul ncss, if I may U60 the term, that marks the individuality, the one of a strong, original, true and courageous mau. Then it is we see life in the moulder's clay, the artist's color, the draughtman's lines and the author's paragraphs. Hu? man sentiment then springs up from the model. Moral dispositions then speaks to you from the easel. Then true art is accompanied by her true handmaids Faith, the inspirer, and Christianity, the conductor. Minus these appears me? chanism. ?!-:- ?..v ? - ? ? ,- .m ARP'S EXCURSION. He Payt a Visit to the Palmetto State. Atlanta Constitution. A man can't keep down his memories, and I don't think he ought to. There is an old maxim which says "forgive and forget." Well,|it can't be did, that's all. A sanctified man or a good hearted mau can forgive, but a memory has nothing to do with our hearts or our wills. Memory is a sort of independent contrivance and has ways of its own. Memory speaks to us in spite of ourselves and says now stop and think and we stop. I was ru? minating about this on my trip to South Carolina. I looked at the pleasant homes and thriving villages along the line from Augusta to Columbia and memory took me away back to ievolutionary times when Marion and Sumter and Pickens and their compatriots were fighting for a principle and now they lived on potatoes, and went barefooted, and made every sacrifice to help out them fellers in Bos? ton who threw that tea overboard. I thought about the battles of the Cow-, pens, and King's mountain, and about old Coruwallis, and then those glorious names came up in xr.j mind, such as Pinckney and Hayne and Lowndes and Cbeeves and Calhoun and Butler and Huger, and a host of others who have illustrated, and whose descendants still illustrate, that noble State. And mem? ory came along down to later days, when the vandals came with fire and sword and desolated the land and put an iron heel upon her people, and how they en dured their humiliation and in silence began to repair their shattered .fortunes and rebuild their homes, and how those noble women did not forget their patriot ism amidst all this wreck, but gathered around the tombs of Washington as chil dren gather around a parent's grave, and went to work to repair it, and adorn it, and preserve it from those very vandals who had forgotten that there was a Mount Vernon upon the bank of the Potomac I thought of all this, and much more, .and I wondered if the north, the mighty north,.;.bad lost all respect for valor and devotion and the love of country, which Carolina had manifested ever since she was a State and had a people. I thought about the kuklux trials that were going on there in Columbia under the prejudiced power of an administra? tion that prefers our hate to our love and respect. A power that stocks the juries like a gambler stocks his cards and ex eludes every man whom they even sus pect of being a patriot, a democrat, or a gentleman. I have been raised to think that those who rule should try to court the love of their subjects and make them love the government, hut for twenty years these rulers have put on their most winning ways to make us hate them and hate the government we live under. The good ladies of Columbia wrote to me about Mt. Vernon, and wanted my help and so I went. Year after year they work and beg and continue to raise a fund for that purpose, and they succeed in spite of poverty or oppression. Th letter said, now Mr. Arp, your good old State has recently sent a man over here to abuse us, and we want her to send an? other to amuse us and keep us in good humor and make us all calm and serene and balance the account between Georgia and Carolina. I have a filial reverence for the old palmetto for my good mother was born upon her soil and I had rever ence for those noble women and noble men and I have thought that if our republican government should ever be come a monarchy and wanted material for knights and earls, and lords and barons it could be found in Carolina But if General Grant was the king I don't think he would have hunted for it much in that direction, nor any other hardly outside of his kindred. South Carolina is still under the ban but she don't care. Her people are proud and ask no favors. They have long since learned bow to suffer and be strong. They have seen the bottom of the cup and drank its dregs and now tbey are on rising ground. Columbia is built up again and abounds as in beautiful homes where live the true lords and ladies of the land?a sociable, dignified and hos? pitable people who scorn meanness and hypocricy-in all its forms. Talk about your, Vanderbilt balls, and suppers and twenty thousand dollars worth of flowers and a million dollars in diamonds and glittering gems, and when one of these fine costumes come along with a woman in it the old fellow points her .out and says, "ain't she a snorter." When I read that account I couldn't help but think about the gathering I witnessed and attended the other night in Colum? bia, where there were governors, and judg' and ministers, and senators, and representatives, and not in all the circle a worshiper of mammon or a man or woman who was not a patriot and a Christian. To mingle with such people in social intercourse elevates and refines a man, but what avails it to go to Van derbilt's ball?what moral lesson does it teach to the rising generation ! Columbia is fast recovering her former beauty as a city and her trade as a me? tropolis/ The legislature is in session ana the Supreme Court and the Federal Court, and notable men from all parts of the State are there. I did not attend the Federal Court for I dident want to see that prosecution and persecution going on. I thought of Ireland in the days of Philips, ana Curran, and Grattan and Emmi, when public informers were paid and bribed to betray and hireling prose? cutors were sent from abroad backed with bayonets to browbeat and convict. I saw that the'legislature had appropriated three quarters of a million for the current year and when I inquired what all that money was for they told me that half of it was to pay the interest on the public debt?a debt created mainly by radical rule and radical stealage. I saw spit? toons that cost two dollars and a half that are worth about GO cents and there were mirrors that cost $1,500 a piece and everything else paid for in proportion just to put oig money in sombody's pocket. I tell yon those radicals feathered their neHts while they had the power and they bad it a good while and left a load of debt and infamy behind them. But itia all changed now. The State is redeemed, regenerated and disenthralled and tho peopie seem happy. "Oh," they say, "we will work out; we will pay that debt; we will do anything to get rid of them fellers, and keep rid of them." They talked most kindly of our people for the aid and comfort and sympathy we gave them in 1876, and as for Gener? al Toombs and General Gordon their love and admiration knew no bounds. Inow I am home again and having a good time telling my wife and children all about my journey, and what a good time I had among those noble people, and how I met old school mates and old army friends and I feel better and young? er, and now I'm going to get Mrs. Arp olT to Florida where she can renow her youth like the eagle, and just as soon as I get rich I'm going to buy her a winter home down there with orange groves, and pine apples, and bananas, and co coanuts, and lemons, and guava, and a summer home away up here among the mountains, and a railroad and palace cars between the two and a free pass over the line and plenty of money at both ends of it. I think she would like that, and with a half dozen or a dozen of her numerous and lovely posterity to travel with her I think she would be happy. It is good for a man or a woman to leave home oc? casionally and be petted and muched up abroad among kindred and friends, and it is good for them to come back again and rest and enjoy the quiet and peace of the family fireside and bask in the sun? shine and smiles of the loved ones at home. I like to go, but I love to return. God bless our homes and protect them from envy and discontent and from fire and'sword. Bill ahp, The Capabilities of Youth. by rev. robert h. williams. Great and good men have come up from the most adverse circumstances. Luther, whose name is ringing through the Protestant world to-day, came from an humble home. His father was a miner, and his mother was employed in hard, severe labor for the good of her family. If Blackstone, the -great expounder of the law, had followed his father's humble occupation, he would have remained in obscurity. William Wirt, one . of. Mary land's greatest lawyers, had .a very bumble, home, and was left without parents and money at a very early age. . Thurlow Weed began to work when he was only eight years old. Blowing bel? lows in a blacksmith shop, waiting in a tavern, acting as a cabin boy, cutting wood and making the fire in a printing office, were some of the employments that occupied his attention before he had. passed boyhood. These were men who came up out of the most unpromising circumstances, and took an honorable place among their fel? low-men. Then, home influences have done much for young men. The mother, who fol? lowed her boy with the inquiry when he was far away, "How do you spend the Sabbath?" "Do you read your Bible, Tom?" had it said of that boy, as Froude says of Carlyle; "The early impressions gotten at home can be traced through the whole of his writings." It is said of Sir Walter Scott that the stories told by bis grandfather and grand? mother made him the writer he became. President Nott, clad in the clothes which were the work of the hands of his mother from the time wool was' taken from the back of the sheep until it cov? ered the back of her son, was the pro? duct of a home where the best influences were found. When Dr. Archibald Alexander heard from the lips of his father that learning was to be his estate, it made a deep and lasting impression upon him. Sneaking of bis father's intentio- ?o send him to college, Daniel Webster said: "The very idea thrilled my whole frame. My father said that he lived but for his children, and if I would do all I could for myself, he would do all he could for me. I remember that I was quite overcome, and my head grew dizzy. The thing appeared bo. high, and the ex? pense and sacrifice it was to cost my father so great, I could only press his hand and shed tears. Excellent parent! I cannot think of him now without turning child again." It was under the influence of a Chris? tian home that Dr. Bushneil declared, even in boyhood, that he felt that he was a power in the world. The man frequently enlarges upon what pleases him in youth. Sixty years of Sir Isaac Newton's life were employed in developing and elaborating what had passed through his mind before he was twenty-five. Calvin's theological views bad taken shape in his mind before he wrote his "Institutes" at the age of twenty-seven, and the rest of his life was employed in developing and perfecting them. It has been said of Macaullay: "What he was as a scholar of Trinity College, he was substantially as a peer of the realm. The boy, W. E. Dodge, was interested in the work of missions, and more than. ? fifty years of prayer and princely giving did not bring weariness in this noble work. The Christian young man may.become many times, more useful than the young man of the world. Herlan Page} the carpenter, bad no money, and no social position to give him influence. But his simple, earnest piety is perpetual to this day in the life and work of Sabbath school teachers and ministers of the gos? pel. The youth, Nettleton, was an earnest Christian, and became one of the most useful ministers that ever graduated from Yale College. Now because there are these great ca? pabilities in the young, there is great encouragement to every one who is striv? ing to train them for usefulness. A trifle may strengthen the heart for endurance and earnestness in the most, adverse cir? cumstances. A word may-make home influence ef? fective, may perfect a good work begun in youth, and increase the influence from year to year through a long life.?Pres* byterian Journal. Oiling Wagon Wheels and Woodwork. ?Mr. Allen E. Smith reports to the Parmcrs' Review an experieuce in oiling wagon wheels and other woodwork: "I have a wagon of which, six years ago, the felloes shrunk so that the tires be? came loose. I gave it a good coat of hot oil, and every year since it has had a coat of oil or paint, sometimes, both. The tires are tight yet and they have not been set for eight or nine years. Many farmers think that as soon as a wagon felloes beging to shrink they must go at once to a blacksmith shop''and get the tire set. Instead of doing that which is often a damage to the wheols, causing them to dish, if they will get some lin? seed oil and beat it boiling hot and give the felloes all the oil they can take, it will fill them up to their usual size and tighten to keep them from shrinking, and also to keep out the water. If you do not wish to go to the trouble of mixing paint you can heat the oil and tie a rag to a stick and swab them over as long as they will take oil. A brush is more con? venient to use, but a swab will answer if you do not wish to buy a brush. It is quite a saving of time and money to look after the woodwork of farm machinery. Alternate wetting and drying injures and causes the best wood Boon to decay and lose its strength unless kept well painted. It pays to keep a little oil on hand to oil forkhandles, rakes, neck-yokes, whif fletrees, and any of tue small tools on the farm that are more or less exposed." Delevan, Wis., Sept. 24,1878. Gents?I have taken not quite one bottle of the Hop Bitters. I was a feeble old man of 78 when I got it. To-day I am as active and feel as well as I did at 30. I see a great many that need such a medicine. D. Boyce, ? Never give a promise that you do not intend to fulfill. A CHAT ON CORNS. Hen Have Handsomer Feet than Women, and Loss Trouble With Bunions. From the Nalional Republican. "Tell me something about feet," said a Republican representative yesterday to a leading shoe manufacturer of the dis? trict. "Well, to begin * ,h, as charity hides a multitude of sins, so a well-made shoe covers very frequently a host of deformi? ties and uglinesses." i "How often?" "About two-thirds of the feet that walk over streets are more or less deformed and crippled with corns, bunions, sunken arches,, ingrowing nails, and other un? sightly, unnatural features. It is as rare to find a handsome foot as a perfect hand?even rarer?for the-foot has to bear the weight of the body, and the style of shoe generally worn is much more objectionable than that of the glove. Strange as it may appear at first glance, there are more men with well shaped, natural feet, than women." "What is the reason thereof ?" "I think if arises chiefly from the excessive, but nearly always ignorant, solicitude mothers show about the feet of their daughters when the latter are young. The custom of buying ready-made shoes, especially for .children, is a fatal one to the beauty and the health of the feet. The average man and woman are as in? capable...of picking out a . proper ready made shoe as they are of selecting a pair 1 of spectacles suitable to the requirements of their eyes without calling in the aid of the occulist. .For example,, the shoe should be two sizes longer .than the.foot A mother, bp7mg a pair of shoes for her. child, will b ve the child's foot incased in one of proper length, and'then, feel? ing around the toe, will say "O, this shoe is entirely too long.". Off goes the .shoe, and the little one's tender feet are pressed in a pair no longer than the foot. The feet of ? child grow rapidly, and any excessive pressure, even if the nerves do not complain, 'acta injuriously.. Then the ready-made shoe, being'built"on a' general measure'} can not be adapted to the requirements of each individual foot except at the expense of the foot. There is great difference in tbe size of the same {arson's feet, one or the other being onger, broader, with higher instep, lar? ger heel etc. The ready-made shoe is handy, is much cheaper than those made to order, but you can not fit your feet in them any more than you can get a per? fect fit in ready-made clothes?not so well, even, for all tbe prominent ready mt.de clothing houses have special tail? ors whose business it is to adapt the gar? ments to tbe peculiarities of the purchas? er.' But a shoe once made can not be tinkered until it is so far worn out as to need reconstruction." ''Which foot is the larger, generally ; right or left?" "Generally the right, in two out of three cases. But a third part of men and women have the left foot larger and longer. The difference between the same man's feet is sometimes very great. I have made shoes for persons whose left foot had a high instep, while the right was as flat as a Maryland ash cake. Then - again I have customers who wear a No. 7 in length on the right and an 8 on the left foot. These people could not get a fitting shoe ready-made. They could not wear them with? out pain and positive injury to the feet. But many people bo con? stituted do wear them, suffering mis? ery and spoiling their feet all the while." "What is the average size of the shoe worn by men 1" "From 7 to 8. Tens are not uncom? mon, and even larger. No. 5 for a mau of medium size, is small. The average Bize of woman's shoe is?well, 3's and 4'a. But a vast number of women wear shoes much larger than, those numbers. And I have fitted ladies whose feet rivaled Cinderella's for smallness and shape. Not long since I made a pair of buttoned gaiters for a young lady, a resident of this city, whose feet, though not the smallest, were the most perfect. I ever saw. The ablest sculptor that ever lived could not have chiseled out of marble a pair of more perfect feet." "What was the size V "Ones!" .'. "Ones 1" replied the reporter. Isn't that 3 Very small size V [ ."Very small, not more than one grown woman in.10,000 having: so small a foot. Btit. there are ladies whose feet are even smaller than that. I have never seen, however, so perfectly shaped a foot, and I have made shoes to order for twenty three years in this city." i. "Who was the lady ?" asked the repor? ter. ' "What is her name?" "Ah 1 that I can not tell. It would be a breach of confidence between merchant and customer. I don't mind telling you, however, that she is employed in the. bureau of engraving and printing."', "Perhaps she is a dwarf, hence the smallness of her feet," suggested the re? porter.. - -3 Ml "No, she is of medium size, slender, decidedly pretty, with hazel eyes and brown hair. She ia very unwise, howev? er, to wear buttoned gaiters. ? Nothing so Boon spoils the arch 01 the foot and beats dotfn tbe instep, making tbe foot flat as buttoned gaiters. You observe," continued the shoe dealer, "that the flesh around the instep in unusually tender, and has but little support. The bones of the.foot are not calculated to stand a continuous pressure such as a buttoned gaiter gives on top. Well, the effect of wearing them is to cause the flesh to spread out and flatten and the bones to yield, until finally a well-shaped, hand* some foot is made ugly. A gaiter that laces up to the front, is bad, very bad for the feet, but not so objectionable as the buttoned. A shoe that laces up the side is far better, and, as ladies generally will not wear boots, is the best shoe to pre? serve the health and beauty of the foot." "Why do you say 'boots?'" "Because boots are tbe only kind of foot covering that answers all require? ments of health, comfort and good looks. A boot, well made?and, of course, I mean properly made, in all cases?braces up tbe foot and ankle, and rests the ex? tremity instead of fatiguing. Such evils, as pointed toes and narrow soles, should never even be thought of, much less worn. But they are." "Yes, and will be. Men ought not to get drunk; or, in fact, lead lives other than of the highest purity, but they do, and will continue to "do so. And hence they are always sinning and always re? penting. Nature, however, has given one remedy for corns and bunions, and the same agent will go far to the restoring of deformed feet to their original shape." "Tell me that, by all means." "The use of hot water and soap. No matter how badly his pedal extremities have been abused, if a man will soak his feet every night in hot water for about fifteen minutes, and use soap on them freely, he will get cured of corns, etc.; a Bunken instep will be restored, and the parts of the feet will assume their normal proportions. He must continue the gractice, sometimes for many months, ut it is never failing. Of course, he must wear properly made ehoea all the while." ? He Wonts to Join the Band. There is a time in the life of every young man when he has an ambition to belong to a brass band, and he never rests contented until he has borrowed or owns a brass horn. A boy goes to a county fair and sees a band, hired from a neigh boring^town, and each member of the band is a hero in the eye of tho boy. He seesjthe blue coats, with gold lace, the epaulets, the cap, with its musical frontpiece, and the yellow stripe down the trousers, and he resolves to learn to play a jhorn. He sees the crowd collect around the band-stand as the band plays a tune, and notices the snare drummer cock his hat on one side of his head and look at all the girls, aud the young man is most inclined to learn to play the drum instead of the horn, as he argues that playing the drum gives one a better opportunity to look around ; but when he reflects that it requires brain and wind to play a horn, he decides on a horn. And when the band is marched off to the dining-hall at the fair, and given a place at the head of the table, uear the orator of the day, who has his oration in his pocket and is afraid he will lose it, ana sees the crowd collect - around the band, his mind is made up more firmly than ever to play a horn. Ho goes home and dreams of the band, and the next day he goes to work and sells a calf, or takes some of the money he earned harvesting, and buys a brass horn aud a book of notes that he does not know the name of. He has been to singing school, and can read singing notes but born notes are too rich for his blood. He does not tell his family what. he has done, but smuggles his horn into the barn and when he has got the milk* ing done, and fed the stock, he goes out to the barn and gets into the hay mow and feels of the keys. He finally mus? ters up courage to blow gently into the horn, aud he bears a noise that is cross between the squeal of a pig caught un? der a gate and the bellow of a cow that smells blood and paws the turf and looks sassy in the pasture. He blows gently until be has got so he can make a straight noise that does not split Up the back and go out of the instrument both ways, and the folks in the house begin to bear it. Then he concludes that he will see how much the instru? ment will stand, and be draws in his breath and blows for all that is out, and as the discordant "bla-a-t" goes ont ' upon the stifling air of the hay mow, and he feels a sensation at the butt of the ears that makes him think a mule has kicked him, and he hears the horses ! down stairs kicking in the stalls, and the cows are lowing as though they had. heard bad news, and the faithful dog that he has left out doors begins to howl as though there was going to be a death in the family. Then the beginner begins to realize that be is making a sensation, and he looks out of a crack in the barn towards the house and he sees his mother stand? ing on the porch with her apron over her head looking at the barn as though it was on fire, the hired man, who is pump? ing water, stops with the pump handle in the air, and he sees his father in his shirt sleevs pick up an ax handle and start for the barn, spitting on his hands and looking savage. He sees a neighbor who is driving by stop bis team at the house and ask if there is anybody sick, and be realizes that it is impossible to keep his secret longer, and be comes down out of the hay mow with his brass horn under his arm, sheepish, and con? fesses to his outraged family that he is learning to play a horn so he can join ? the band. His father tells him he is a blasted fool, but bis mother and his sister take his part, and argue that it will be a great honor to have him wear brigadier general's clothes in the band, and the matter is compromised by allowing him. to practice on his born out in the south lot, and for a week or two, at intervals, mournful sounds are heard from that di? rection, and then they suddenly cease, and when the father finally asks the boy how he is progressing as hornist, he tells his parent that he has traded off his horn for a fiddle or an accordeon, and explains by showing bis upper lip, which is swell? ed up to twice its natural size, that he is not cut out for playing a wind instru? ment. That horn will be traded all over the neighborhood, and will finally be found in a garret, jammed out of shape, and the brass band never will have passed away. Among the greatest failures of the world there are none that are sadder than the failure of a boy to learn to play a brass horn.?Milwaukee Sun. For the Boys, The writer has been a boy on a farm apd also has bad boys of his own on the farm. We know how to appreciate a kind, thoughtful and faithful boy. So much trouble and anxiety can be saved to the parents who devote their lives and energies for their children. So long as you live at home, no matter how young or how old, never start on a journey, even if it takes you from home but a few hours, without telling at least some one of the family of your' visit or absence. Never be absent. from your meals, if it . can possibly be avoided, unless the fami? ly are expecting you will not return to the meal in time. And especially never be away at night beyond the appointed hour, as your loving but weary mother may be sitting up through the weary hours of the night for your return. Lov? ing parents are always fearing something will happen you. By heedless absence, by late hours and by unsteady habits, which may not be immoral or sinful, you may be wearing out the life and spirits of a parent faster than any ordinary toil. As an old man who has passed through nearly all of the vicissitudes of life, we would kindly urge boys who are full of life and spirits, to think, of the little amenities of life, of courtesy, or confi? dence in your parents, and of strict fi? delity to your expected return to the household at suitable and seasonable hours. All of the trouble and anxiety of your parents for you are for your good, your prosperity, and for your successful march up to manhood and honor. It is easy by carelessness and neglect to make miserable and shorten the lives of those who love you most, and whom you can trust and confide in above all others. Then do not by inattention to your hab? its of punctuality in promptly returning to the household, and in advising them as far as possible, in going away, the probable hour of your return. Try to study what will make those kind parents happy. And above all establish in your? selves habits of promptness aud punctu? ality.?Iowa Slate Register. ? "Did you give Johnny tho medi? cine, Mrs. Brown?" asked tho doctor, "Oh, yes, doctor," replied tho loving mother; and then she added, innocently, "and it don't seem to have done him the least harm." ? "How is Johnnie doing at school?" asked a lady of Johnnie's mamma dur? ing a call. "Splendidly. He talks in two languages now." "Dear me. What are they; French or German ?" "Oh, no. English and profaue."