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> * -4? tr BY E. B. MURKAY & CO._ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 17, 1884." VOLUME XIX.-NO. 27. FIELO, FORT AM) FLEET, Tin- .Mission of I UM Artillery. "Bring up thc guns !" Let thc older be heard by a regiment of infantry crowding to thc rear in a panic and it will hall the men in their tracks and make fighters of them again. There is something in the companionship of a field battery that makes a foot soldier braver tiian when his regiment lights alone. Thc guns may be wasting ammu nition as they roar and crash, but it seems to tho regiment on Hank or in rear that every dischargo is driving great gaps through the enemy's lines. So long as the battery remains tiie supports will re- ; main. Even when thc order is given to j double-shot tho guns and the infantry can sec that half the liorsis have been shot down lie still carril s thc feeling that grape rind canister will win tho victory. Tho lo-s of horses, wagons and small rums is. lightly mentioned in officiai re ports and tho losers feel no degradation, but let a brigade lose a single gun from I one of its batteries, and every soldier i .eels the shanie. It is next to losiug the flag presented to a regiment BS it marched i from home. AT MK? HASlCSVU I.E. When McClellan, in his change of base, took position utMechunicsville, his left rested near Ellison's mill. For three hundred yards in front the ground was open, a part of it being a plowed field. Two hundred feet in frout of the Federal lines ran the mill race, which then had perpendicular banks and contained four feel of water. Thirty feet back from the race the Fed?rala had made an abattis of rails, tree-tops, limbs ami sharpened stakes. Then came more than thirty lield-piecea in line, and behind them on the slopes were infantry sipport.-; three lines deep. Pendera brigade, of 1). H. lilli's com mand, advanced alone to assault ibis po sition, intending it as a ihn): movement to turn the Federal left. [They had no sooner moved out into tie open field than the artillery had aVulI sweep at them. Grape, canister aid short-fused shell were hurled at thcm?i)most by the ton, and in five miuutes the lour regi ments which had left covj-r in beautiful order were little better.than a mob. However, iustead of retrealng in a panic, thc men dropped to thegrtund, and be gan a sharp musketry fire. This was an swered by volleys from beytnd the mill race, which literally plowed ihe ground. Fender bung until the afcauit became a butchery, thea thc order was given to retire. Fender's brigade lumbered less than .'{,000 men, and yet i\ twenty five minutes its loss was onefixth of its strength. It was an excepion to lind a man who could not showlbullot holes through his clothing, nndjsome of the wounded were hit three uni four times. Those who buried thc demi said that of the 200 or more killed by tb artillery fire at least 175 wero so torn an< [mutilated as to bu little better th au a bl?jdv muss. As Pender was driven lick he met Ripley's bri)'".do, of the same com mand coming to his support Lee knew the position but he must carp' it to turn the Federal left. This scimi brigade had less than two thousand men, and, nuited with Pender, the while strength was not over five thousand. {Four times that number would not bar made au impression upon that positif*. When Pender had rallied ns men, the two brigades advanced in jolumris of assault, breaking cover with k cheer and on the double quick. The l\lernl guns were worked with terrible emj?y, but un der cover of the smoke, and ly crawling upon hands and knees, the (Infederate.s reached thc mill-race. IndVd several hundre?! of them crossed it.i Then, for forty minutes, there was a teri hie strug gle. So fierce was the Federi infantry fire over and through the ab?tis that it was gradually whittled away.lLimbs ns large as a man's arm were hark?], chipped and splintered ns if lightning ad played over them, .ind the surface oftthe mill race was covered with splinlrs, twigs and leaves. Pender und Ripley could miadvance beyond the canal in force. TBy could not maintain their lines w here tty were. Thc fire from the Federals searcid every foot of ground, and every milite their lines were melting away. Wim the order was given to fall back, theVtiilery raked them again ns they crol-d he open ground, and when the niesinally reached cover, the loss of each rumen had become amazing. For instan, tin Fourty-fourtb Georgia, which nuiiered only about 700 men, lost 838 ollie? and men. Every field officer was killel and of the ten captains and twenty listen ants, only tweive remained. It wi the same with the Third North Carolinkind other regiments. \ AT FUAZIEU'S FARM. 1 At Frazier's Farm during this sVe eventful week, Randall's battery oi'Lx pieces was on McClellan's right, \l supported by the Fourth Pennsylvar The front was an old field devoid shelter, and the battery was playing iii the woods half a mile beyond. This ba1 tery so annoyed the Confederates that brigade was ordered to charge it. Th Eleventh Alabama had the lead, and wa: to be closely supported by the other Ihre regiments. Through Borne blunder th Alabamians, numbering about seven hundred ana fifty, were permitted to ad vauce alone. They were seen as soou as they broke covor, and more than one hundred of them were killed by the artillery as they ad vanced across the field. The men were thrown into disorder one moment to be rallied the next, and finally, with muskets at a trail and caps swinging in the air, they nindo a rush straight upon the guns. As they came near the Pensylvanians rose up and delivered two or three volleys right tuto thom. Theso were returned, and then the final rush was made. In a minute a wild mob was swirling 'round and 'round the guns-bayonets driuking blood-clubbed muskets felling men thc wounded staggering up to clutch an enemy and pull bim down. The guns were won. The Fourth was pushed slowly back, but as the cheers of the Alabamians drowned the noise of the battle of the right and left, the Seventh Pennsylvania came to the support of the Fourth. The fight which now took placo was witnessed by nt least two generals and haifa dozeu colonels, outside of thc hundreds in tho ranks. It was two regi ments to one, but thc Alabamiana had won tho guns nud were determined ta hold them. Not n single company formed in lino-not an officer had a command. Two thousand mad and infuriated men rushed ateach other with murder in their hearts No ono asked for quarter-uo ono gave it. . At the ead of twenty minutes thc Pennsylvanians gave way, not over powered by numbers but pressed back by such dare-devil fighting as nobody had ever witnessed before. The guns had been taken but there were no horses tc diaw them away. The captors wert' making arrangements to draw them away when there was a rally on the part of thc Federals. The smallness of the Confed' crate force suddenly became plain as thc smoke lifted, and before a gun could br moved hot dro wns opened from a whole brigade, followed by a charge. The Ala bamians were picked up and hurled back in a broken m&ss, ami tho last of them had not reached the woods before tho guns were again playing upon them. The loss of tiie Confederate regiment was over 100 men, 100 of whom, including eight company commanders, died around the battery. THE ItKl'lTLSR AT KENNESAW. The day after the repulse of the Fif teenth Corps ht Kennesaw mountain thc Fortieth and Fifty-seventh Indiada, Ninety-seventh and Twenty-sixth Ohio, Twenty eighth Kentucky, und One hundredth Illinois regiments, each num ber i ut; about 800 men, were selected to make an assault on a ridge 30U yards in their front. The lines were formed in regimental divisions, and while the front was only the width of two companies the depth was thirty lines of men in open order. Ii was in fact a giant wedgo of (lesli and blood and steel which was to drive itself through the Confederate lines. As tho men stood in lino their oflicers explained to them in low and earnest tones what was planned and what was hoped for. Il was a forlorn hope indeed. Every mau must have realized that there would be a terrible loss of life even he fore the salient was reached, but each one .seemed to nerve himself for what was to come. During the twenty minutes' interval between forming nnd the order to advance there was almost dead silence in the ranks. The men leaned upon their muskets and peered through the forest in their front which bid the Cou federate position, and thc supports on the ranks moved up and into position as if fearing that their footsteps would disturb the dead of thc day before. It was not positively known to thc federals that the salient was defended by cannou. The hope that it was not gave the men more spirit, aa the luy of the ground-forest, thicket and ridge furnished fair shelter from musketry fire. Soon ufler 8 o'clock a siugle low spoken order brought every man tos? front face. Tiie moment had come. As tho column had formed under cover it was hoped to take the defenders of the salient by sur prise. The lines were dressed, and in a moment more were moving through the woods. From the valleys at tho base of the Keuuesaw, Lost or Fine mountains to their crests there is scarcely a level spot. Tiie sides are covered with forests and thicket, and thc ground is almost A suece.-sion of rocky terraces. Over this difficult ground the great blue wedge forced its way at a rapid pace, but no L'hecr was heard-no shouts were given. "Crack ! crack ! crack !" It is the alarm from the Confederate ikitmibhers, who have crept down al most tr the base of the mountain. They ire posted behind great rocks and hiddeu behind ledges. They cannot retreat; they must surrender or fight it out. They choose the latter course. Niue out of ?very ten hold their positions until tho point of ihe blue wedge reaches them and tirings a savage death with it. All along the sides of the grim moun tain the skirmishers bur the way, seeking Lo detain the wedge and alarm the defend ers of the salient. Herc and there a Federal throws up II?H hands and falls back, but thc column makes no halt. Up up?up, and now au officer in front waves bis sword as the slopes of the parapet jonie into sight. Here the cover sud denly ends.- From the bushes to the ia lient, a distance of 200 feet, the ground bas been swept bare of tree and bush, ind rocks have been rolled aside. At thc fool of the parapet is a palisade -outside of that abattis. Behind the works aro a thousand muskets-a thou sand Confederates with fingers on trig rors. At regular interval* e.long this ine-250 feet front-are six field pieces, ?ach one loaded with grape and canister. The men within are waiting. Not an )rder is given nor a head appears in tight until thc first line of b'uo is out of lover. Now, os if ono finger had pressed the housaud triggers, a great sheet of Hame caps forth and scorches and blisters and ib ri vela the advance. Tho second line ;rowds up over thc dead and dying, the third una fourth cheer as they come. N'ow, with a crash ns if a volcauo was breaking through the crest of the moun tain, tho six guns belch their contents into that mass of men sixty deep. The effort was horrible. What were nen a moment ago are now bloody shreds olown against the rocks and scattered far jver the ground. Some of the gory frag ments fall upon tLe lines yet half way up the slope. Tiie advance halts in confusion-the rear li tue crowd up. There is another bloody feast ready as soon as the cannon 3iin be charged. Then comes the order Lo br< ak lines and divide to the right and left to get out of range of the artillery. The men rush forward to the abattis som i lio flat down-others take cover be hind rocks. For fifteen, minutes heroic carnage holds them before the salient. The Con federates have them at their mercy. Men take deliberate aim atm send a builei. through the heads of the living targets. When the burial party comes to do ita work it will find that seven out of every ten Federals lying before that abattis has been killed stone dead by a single bullet. ? The fire of musketry might have Shocked the assault, but aided by artil lery the assault became a butchery, ?rape and cannister searched out spots lc ure from bullets, and men in tho very .ir ranks, who did not even catch Bight . the abattis were struck down by the ?si missiles. No assault could have naught out more nerve and heroism, but ?las thc wave dashing against a rocky \ hen the men had fallen back to their orinal positions the roll of dead and wi&ded was a shock to those who had esoled. Noone had blundered. John stol lineB were there, and they must be car?l by assault. Sherman was look ioglf a weak spot to drive a wedge into. Tbolsalient was one of the strongest poit&n the Confederate line. \ M. QUAD. ft Dead .Subscribers, It isjd at all times to have to chroni cle thdfcath nf friends, but it is espe cially Atmid scenes of gayety and fes tivity. Y is with feelings ol this nature, duringChristmas holidays, that we bring o?vi ves to tho discharge of the painful ty of mentioning the decease of severkYof our subscribers who have recently lpne to "that undiscovered country In whoso bourne no traveler returns"-*, least we are left to infer that such ft heen their fate for they prom ised faithBy, if their lives were spared, to settle ?fr indebtedness by Christ mas, andV we have not heard from them, andSjarded them as honest and truthful mt w0 can reach no other con clusion th?jjat they have gone over to the great i Ari ty. How sad 1 - "I'm Ag to plant my foot down," said the Infi of the house in wrathful tones. "Vfit 'yer going to raise, corns?" intlogated the man of the Lousia from hind his paper. DILL ARI?. Ul? ?ood Breakfast-Helping his Wiro to , Clean r>>. &JUthern Citl'icator and Dixie Farmer. Mr?. Arp ad an uncommon good breakfast ibis morning. There wa? a dish of baked eggs at my plato, which she knows I nm fond of. While tho house was being cleaned up I noticed that 1 the oeds were not touched, and so I told lier I would help but she said no sho wanted them taken out on tho piazro to sun, and so 1 took 'em out, and then sho i asked me to lake out tho bedsteads and ! the bureau and the chairs aud the sewing machine and all, as she wanted to clean ! up a little. Cleaning up a little is tho old, old story at my house. Wheu I got through I sat down on the front pinzzo with my pipe to ruminate a little and rest from my arduous labors. Pretty soon she brought me a broom and a rake and a twine string, and asked mo to tie tho brooni-haudle onto tho rake for sho ' wanted lo sweep down tho cob-webs from 1 tlie walls. I understood all that, and so I 'icu it on and swept 'em all down my- 1 sj:/ and retired to tho pinzzo as usual. About the time I had my feet stuck on ' the banisters, she brought out a hammer 1 and a paper of carpet tacks aud laid 'em 1 down on the table beside me and smiled. These movement? reminded me of tho 1 carpet that abo had lieou threatening to put down in thc big family room for a 1 month, und ii there is any household ' work that I do despise to do it is putting 1 down a carpet. I can't double up aud ( Iwist around like I used to. I gave an 1 involuntary groun and a grunt or two 1 and went to work. Ali?*'- darkey had 1 ul ready brought up a pass.. "* hay from 1 tho barn, aud so we picked it all over 1 and got out all ibo little woeds and ' coarser pieces nod spread it nicely upon 1 thc floor, ?'ni thto I unrolled the carpet < from the middle each way and went to 1 work on ono side uailiug it. It had to 1 be stretched and fitted all around and ' tho edge on the hearth was the hardest. 1 of all, ior Mrs. Arp watched every tack 1 und if it was a fraction of an inch out of I linc she saw it and I had to keep pulling ' and turning under the edges, nod when I f was on it I couldn't pull it and I couldn't * get oft' it for the wail, and so it was get 1 up and get down, and work sideways and I crossways,, and all sorts of ways, and I < mashed my fingers and cramped my ' knees aud twisted off my suspender hut- ' tons, but finally the work was done to 1 lier satisfaction sorter, and I managed to 8 get up and stand up and he thankful to tho Lord for his mercies. By the timo . we got all the furniture set back again ^ and the beds made up the day WOB half i gone und the children came home from ( school und forgot to wipe their feet at a the door and the dogs followed them into I the house und they all began to track 1 around with their muddy feet, but they C didn't truck long. They are iu the cautious state right now and so am I-I I think I will get some old hagging and 1 put it down over the carpet so as to save * consequences. I wish that we men were 11 as neat and careful as thc women-no I 1 don't either, for then we wouldn't be r much account out of doors and would [ degenerate into dudes as they cull 'em, . but I wish we had mora regard for neat- t ness than we have. Mrs. Arp says she v don't believe that I would wash the win- 8 dow glass until I couldu't see out for tho v du?t and fly specks, and the dogs would j sleep under the beds and the spiders and I lizzards would live in tbo closet. But * she don't mean that I kn:w, and is just 3 talking after the manner ul nice respsc- 8 table women. Put I don't see any use I in cleaning up so nindi-why it takes au t hour every morning to clean up the furn- 1 i!y room for she wi il luke everythiug off 1 of the mantel-piece and the books off of ( the shelves, and wipe off all tho little I clean dust that has settled around, and v the ashes must be taken up every morn- I ing and the hearth has to have a fresh ' coat of Spanish brown about twice a 1 week and the water buckets must be c scoured, and every few days I have to f take down the pictures so that she can 1 wipe off the frames, and the leaves have 8 to be swept out of the yards as fast as c they fall. She had her little flower gar- I den all raked and swept mighty nice yesterday,and I come running in to her 1 room excited and told her another leaf 1 had blown down, and I just did have ) time to dodge the scissors she, throwd'd at 1 me. I told her one day that the Scrip- } tures said man was made out of dirt, arid j ehe said that she reckoned he waB but { that woman wasn't. I wish I was rich- I I wish I was rich for her sake. I would 8 build hera marble palace and fence ont ' every bug and spider and fly, and- have < tho walks laid with marble and the ( ground ali covered with grasa and flowers ' and evergreens. She would get tired of 8 it I know in a month, and then I would 1 sdi out and come back to the good old ' dirty home. Folks were not made to en- ' joy fine things all the time-our best 1 pleasures come from contrast. We ' wouldn't enjoy new things if they didn't I get old and faded. { There is a power of comfort in having J some new thing occasionally-new cur- ' tains, a new carpet, a new lamp, new 1 clothes, new chairs, a new sewing tua- < chine, or a new stove to cook on-it < won't do for things to last too long. We < get '"-ed of seeing the furniture in the 1 same pinces in a room and it is a relief ' to move the bureau to the other side. ' Even the land we cultivate wanta a ' change of crops and the stock wanta a < change of diet. The birds and the beasts < change their haunts, churches' change < their preachers and people change their ] rulers, and some folks would change their wives if they could. I don't believe in living in a house too fine for comfort, or 1 having furniture so fine the children are I afraid to touch it. The Scriptares Bay that even the Sabbath "?as mean for mau , and not man for the Sabbath, and so a \ house ought tb be made for man, too, and , not man for tbo house. But a woman deserves a nicer house and nicer things than a man, for she has more refined tastes and she has to live and stay in the house more, and can't get away from it . -it is her abiding place and ought not to be her prison-it ought to be made as pleasant and inviting to her aa possible. Beautiful pictures ought to adorn the walls and handsome curtains th6 win dows, and the clock ought to strike with a silver tone, for she has to hear it all the day long. The front yard ought to have a welcome shade and plenty of flowers and evergreens, and the piazzo ought to be adorned with jessamines and a good husband will provide all these if he can-that is my creed and my ambi tion, and Mrs. Arp says she reckhis I do the best I can considering. BILI. ARP, - Very few men are so stingy that they will not share a kiss with a pretty girl. - Canada has the largest national debt of any country in proportion to its peopb. " - Cain waa the original friend, of the newspaper man,, for it was he who first raised a "club." - Fate ia the friend of the good, the ?;uido of the wise, the tyrant of the fool* sh, the envy of tho bad. PIKE COUNTY FOLKS. A Singular Character who Lives In th? 1'cnuBylvaula Mountain?. A Pike County, Pa., correspondent of tho New York Time* gives thc following incident/, ?u tue life of Jerry Greening, one of I ho family charged with shooting a uinv. in Dingmau Township. Ho say* : Tho Greenings live by huntiug, fish ing, acting us guides to visiting sports meu, and by thc sale of railroad ties, hoop-polcs, cord-wood, tun bark, ?bin* knr-es, and other products of the woods, which they have ransacked and stripped for miles around, irrespective of owner ship or title, Some member cf tito family-and frequently two or three of them at once-has been defendant in a criminal suit of some kind, generally assault aud battery, at nearly every term of the Pike County courts for 25 years. They aro vindictive and unforgiving, aud any neighbor of theirs, or any other rcsi Jeut of tho coumy, who has given them cither real or imaginary cause for a "grudge" against him, knows that Booner or later he will be made to feel their vengeance in ono way or t Bother. Old Jerry, although as hale, hearty, tough and active at 7o as he wa? ai 40, has been jomparatively quiet and non-aggressive for l? years past. Previous to that his ?ppearanco in Milford, or any other village, waa sufficient to excite general uneasiness, for it was well understood that before he started for home there had lo be a fight, and that it would have but ano.'result-the unmerciful licking of tonio uufortunate townsman at old Jer ry's hands. It was his boost that bc had never yet niel a man that was "enough" for him. One day in 1867 he entered thc Piks County House in Milford, and ivas looking for a fight. He was uoisy ind abusive as usual, and terrorized al! who were present. The landlord was a itroug young man, br* peaceable and ion-combatant. Ho endeavored to piiet old Jerry and induce him to start Tor home. Jerry then turned bin atten Jon to the landlord, and declared that io would whip him. He proceeded to :arry out his intention, but the landlord rot in one blow between Jerry's eyes hat felled him like an ox. The aid of i physician had to be called in to restore lim to consciousness. When he recov ired he walked out of tho hotel without i word, got into his wagon, and went mme. From that day he quit drinking, ind bas never been knot*n to seek a fight ince. In old Jerry Greening's younger days ie was the terror of the whole region. There was one man iu the township, lowever, that he was afraid to "tackle." )ae Fall, a backwoods preacher, known a the "Mountain Hanger," opened a ?rotracted meeting in the Bchool-house, bree or miles from Greening's. )ne Sunday, as Greening was hunting leer in the woods, he met a neighbor vho was also a noted fighter. Thin leighbor told Greening that if be wanted o see some fun to come along with him, is he was going over to the Behool muse to "bust up" the meeting, because lis wife had got religion and spent too nuch time at the school house. Green ng went along to see the fun. When hey reached the meeting the services rere at their height. The two men talked in. Tho aggrieved neighbor valked straight up to tho preacher, who vas a tall, wiry, big-fisted man, and loldly announced that he had come there o "lam" him and "bust up" the meeting. L'he preacher paused in hia sermon, and, topping up to the intruder, caught him >y the collar and Sung him bodily out of he window. He did not come back. Che preacher knew that the man was i?ld ia almost .vi much tenor in the iommunity aa Jerry Greening, and that i irobably no one else iu thc township i vcuid dare to fight him, and BO tho < ireacher thought to make a strong point ' villi his congregation, and, walking back I o iii? post behind bis desk, solemnly de- < :lared that it was entirely owing to the j >ower of religion that ho had been able ! 0 so quickly vanquish his assailant, and l iBserted that any one in the audience I lould have done the same thing if they < lad faith in religion. i The effect on Jerry Greening of the i reacher's summary disposition of tho j loughty disturber of the meeting was i vouderAil. If religion could do such < vonders aa that, he thought-as he says ; Himself in relating the story-it was I ust what be wanted to help him out in i 1 fight with the one man in the township .hat be was afraid to "tackle." So that ame night he "went forward" and joined 'the mourners." The news that Jerry dening was getting religion spread all iver the country, and added greatly to he success of the revival. Jerry the lecond night after he went forward an- , lounced that the next 8unday he would ;el! his "experience." One of Jerry's Hinting companions was on his way to be woods that day after deer, but when ie board that Jerry was to tell hia ex >erience be stopped in at the school- i muse to hear him, notting his pun down >y the door. While Jerry waa giving m experience the baying of a Hound , ivas heard off on the ridge. Jerry kept in talking, but began to prick up his ears < ind crane his neck around to look out >f the window in the direction from .vhich the hound's cry came. He knew the dog waa bringing a deer straight .oward the school-house and that it would trop the creek at a well-known run-way )nly a few yards distant. The hound aune nearer and nearer, and presently Jerry saw through the window a big five-pronged buck tearing down the hill. This was more than be could stand. "There's a grest big five-prong bucle," bo shouted, "and my gun ain't within four milo o' here 1" He rushed from the school-house, and seeing tho gun the hunter had left at the door he grabbed it and made for the creek. Before he reached the run-way be heard a shot and knew that some one bad shot the deer. It was bis dog that bad driven the deer in, and he made up his mind to go and claim at least part of the deer. When he got to the spot there the deer lay dead, and standing over it was the one man in the township whom be was afraid ho could not "lick." He laid claim to the deer thongh, and the man said that if he got that deer be wonld have to whip him first. Jerry then thought of the "power," and saying to himself; "I kin lick him, for I've got religion," pitched in. In less than three minutes Jerry was the worst whipped man that over lived in Pike county. He went home and told his wife that "if thete wa'n't no more good in religion than that they sight go to thunder with it." He never went to meeting afterward. - An Indianapolis man muzzled bia wife with a baso- bal 1 mask. She couldn't bite, but her tongue could, aa.be soon found out to bia sorrow. -- A New York paper aska : "Who are the fools ?" and ft baa received notes from over 1,000 married men asking if *.t moana to insult them. - "Don't trouble yourself to stretch your month any wider." aaid a dentist to bis patient. "I i-J tend to stand outside when I draw your tooth." THE EVERGLADES OF FLORIDA, Au Irreclaimable Kegton, I'sclons for uuy Purpose? NEW ORLEANS, January 0.-The Times'Democrat nr i nts n detailed account of its Florida everglades expedition. The report is written by Major A. 1'. Williams, who commanded the expedi tion. lt tills ten columns. The explor ing party consisted of twelve persons six white and six colored. They look with them six Racine canoes. They | went by steamer, on October 17 last, from Cedar Keys to Punta Kassa, Fla., where they took lo their canoes and pro ceeded up to the Caloosahatchie Kivcr to Lake Okeechobee, a distance of about ninety miles, arriving there on the 1st of November. ?Skirting the Western and Southern shores of the Okeechobee, they discovered eight large streams (lowing into tho dense saw grass swamp that hor dern on thc Everglades. Entering otu; of these streams, which was named tho "Times-Democrat," thc expedition pro ceeded to its head, somo threo miles, on the 10th of November, and began tho tedious work of cutting its way through the swamp to the ?aw grass. Tho dense ness of this swami? ,,la>' he imagined from the fact that the party traveled on an average only about one quarter ol a milo a day. Myriads of huge alligators, snukes, leeches and poisonous bugs were encountered. Thc leeches were especi ally troublesome, covering thc legs of the men, and demanding special atten tion. Emerging from the swamp, they entered tho saw grass, which grows from ten to twelve feet high, and which is very dense, with sharp edges that cut one way and saw the other. This grass the party fired and pushed forward over thu Htuble. The stubles grew in water about threa inches deep, thu mud beneath being seemingly without bottom. The labor of pushing the canoes over this character of tho country was inconceiva- 1 bly great. Atter traveling duo South some ten miles the party struck an innumerable number o? ..mall lakes or ponds, most of 1 which were twenty feet deep, filled with 1 alligators and tho finest tish. About thirty miles from Okeechobee the party 1 entered the grass waters of the everglade's 1 aud encamped on an island-the first dry land encountered after leaving thc lake. 1 The only trees on this island were tho 1 custard, apple and wild fig. Tho pro- 1 gress ot tho expedition from that time ' was moro rapid. They paved through 1 thornlands of small islands, some of which ' were slightly submerged, and all of which 1 were covered with large trees and luxu- 1 riant foliage. They camped on thc night 1 of December 1 on Cabbage Island. In ' the Southern glades there was an abund ance of wild fowl, deer and fish. No ? Indians were encountered by the party, 1 although smoke from their fires was 1 seen, and they seemed to hover about in 1 the distance. Near the head of Shark's River, in the extreme Southern glades, * tho progress of the expedition was great- 1 ly retard? ' by limestone boulders, which * cropped out everywhere above the surface I of the water, and over which it waa I necessary to carry the canoes. The head I af Shark's Ki ver was reached on Dcccm- ? ber 5, and the expedition, sailing down, debouched into Whitewater Kay, on the 1 ?rulf coast, about thirty miles from ('ape < Sable. The distance traveled from Lake 1 Okeechobee to thc gulf was about 140 ' miles. The wholo distance traveled in ' canoes was nearly .'WO miles. There is 1 no special current in the waters of the * ?verglades, but nn almost imperceptible 1 [low of water toward the South. But 1 few Howers were discovered, and these < were of simple? varieties, such as water 1 lilies and other flowers found in the marshes ail over Florida. The only * snakes seen were moccasins. The mos- t ?uitoes were only troublesome at night. I The expedition has established tim fact that the everglades, from Okeechobee to / Cape Sable, aro worthless io. any pur- j pose of cultivation; that they romain no 1 large tracts of land abovo water ; that they cannot be succossfuily drained, and that the establishment and maintenance sf a telegraph line along the route traversed would be impossible. The ev arglades, and especially the Northern glades, are a vast swamp, irreclaimable and useless for any purpose. The only cultivatable portions of the Southern peninsula lie on the Atlantic and gulf coasts, with this vast morass between them. Consistency. Oonsistcncy ie a jewel, thc world over ; and like all other jewels it hus its coun terfeits and imitations. Here as else where, the imitation is so nice that wo often take the counterfeit for the original virtue. The man who formerly pursued a par ticular line of acton, or advocated a cer tain policy which he has now abandoned, in not necessarily inconsistent. John C. Calhoun exposed himself to the charge of inconsistency-a very gravo charge T?Lor. biought humo io a statesmun-by changing his well-known views on ques tions of public moment. He turned s complete somersault on the tariff ques tion. Once a protectionist, he became a fr"o-trader of the straitest of the sect of Nullifiers. But ho was not on this ac count necessarily inconsistent. At the recent session of tho ?eneral Assembly certain members who had ad vocated the establishment of the railroad commission, advocated the bill which sought to deprive tho commission of thc power to fix rates, thereby, in great measure, emasculating it. Those mem be ra were promptly charged with incon sistency. Ono of them has met the charge with the declaration that he changed his line of action because it was right to do so, and ho "would rather be right than consistent" in the mistaken sense. He is right. Important questions often demand leg islation in our country, which are so hard to understand in all their relations, that ? what one is disposed to call his convic tion is not undisturbed by doubt. And the man who has advocated any measure or policy should not adhere to it after he is convinced that it is wrong, merely to escape the charge of inconsistency. Those who study legislation as statesmen aro bound to do, are likely to change their views on certain questions-and they should not be too timid to act ac cording to tho chango when the public good demands it. And tho false pride, or stubbornness, or wantonness which teaches otherwise should be condemned. A well known libing philosopher say?, "The man who can't change his mind is a fool ; but the man who won't change his mind is a much greater fool." This sentiment is correct; no ono will con vince the public that he is endowed with all the cardinal virtues, by doggedly ad hering to his expressed convictions. The man who votes for protection while he believes free-trade to be right, is in c?ssistent. The man who applauds vir tue but practices vice, ia inconsistent. The man who approves the right, bot follows the wrong, is inconsistent. But the man who finds that he has been fol lowing the wrong, and at once changes for the right, Is honest and manly. Ncioberry Herald. Jtlsfii From thc Dead. Just twenty years SRO to de.y the Thirty-seventh Virginia Regiment, under Col. Hob. Claiborne, now Prosecuting Attorney of tho St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction, sallied forth from Moorhead, Va., to meet that holy terror of all Confederates, the celebrated "Sloncninn Brigade." Ccu. tStoueman was on his famous raid, tho object of J which waa to assail Leo's army in tho ? roar, while thc army of the Potomac it- j tacked him in front. Ho had already , met and whipped half-a-dozen hands of rebels, and Cul. Claiborne's regiment wi-.s tlio most formidable antagonist ho had yet ecountered. Tho- engagement was not nn important one, and Purvis* "Hccord of tho Rebellion" is tho only history of the war which mentions it. Out it was remarkable for the daring bravery of two men, who proved them Helves tho only true soldiers out of a whole company. In the early purt of the day Col. Claiborne's regiment was, with the exception of one company, bearing tho whola brunt of Stouemau's terrille onslaughts. Hy !l o'clock in tho afternoon tilt? linc body of tuen which that morning formed tho Thirty-sevouth regiment had been reduced to a mere handful. They hud been decimated again and again. Ono moro attack and not a soul would havo beeu left. With thu best of their men either killed or Wounded, and thc balance ready to suc cumb with fatigue and wounds, there seemed no possibility of escapo for any ono. Hut suddenly thc missing compa ny appeared on the field, and though even with the re-enforcements, tho light wan hopeless, a shout of relief went up from rho wearied and bleeding survivors. There wa>< only one ebonee for them, and their commander was quick to seo it. In a Hash lie had leaped from his horeo, und, calling on tho now arrivals, he dioutod : "Every man dismount and follow mo 1" But at that moment tho hluo coats of Stonetnan's bridado appeared over the crest of the hill in front, and tho cheers of tho Union soldiers were ringing in tho earn of tho Confederates, lu vain did their Colonel try to rally them and urge them on. Tho solid line of steel in front was too appalling, and altnoBt to a man they broke and fled. A second later ind Col. Claiborne found himself desert ed by all his men but ono. That man was a rough back-woodsman from North Carolina, whom ho had, but a short time before, taken from the ranks and promo ted to a Captaincy for brave and daring conduct on tho battle held. His name ivas Hoberta, and an bc pressed close he tide bin commanding officer he Bhoutcd : Til stay by you, Colonel, if I lose every hop of blood in my body." The wordB (vere hardly out of hi? mouth before be fell full length on tho ground with a -?flo ball through hischcHt. The next moment Col. Claiborne was lurrounded by tho boys in bluo and cap tured. Ho afterward reported to the 'onfedcrato Government the death of Uapt. Roberta, and from that day until resterday, exactly twenty years, he has leard nothing of the mau who aided tim in his charge ou Stonetnan's brigade. Yesterday morning Col. Claiborne, vhilc looking over his lotter?, carno to v.;e with tho postmark "Raleigh, N. C.," uldrcsscd in lead pencil to Maj. Q. R. Claiborne, St. Louis. Un opening it tho irst thing he saw was tho name Capt. T. II. Roberts. Jumping to his feet he ex ?laiiiied to a bystander: "My Cod, I lave, got a letter from the death I saw his mau shot and killed with my own .yes at the battle of Morehead, Dec, 31, j>litt, and hore ho is writing to nie." Tiic letter, however, explained how 'apt. Huber's escaped, and ns all the ?ireumstnneca are so remarkable, it is traduced herc verbatim : RAI.EIQA, N. C., Dee. 26.-Mai. Clai tourne : I have been trying to find out ,'our address ever since the war ; have isked hundreds of people about it, and lave only just ?uecceded. I believe I vould rather see you and talk to you han any other man on dod Almighty's :nrth. Do yul remember when you rode ip to me a* ? made mea Captain at tho jottle of Orange Court-house? I waa >nly a tarheel soldier before that, but when you done what you did I ?rould lave died for you. Then do you remem ber tho fight at Morehead, when you and [ started alone to charge Stoneraan's l?rigude? I tell you that fellow Stono nan was tho worst CUBS in tho whole i'ankco army for us fellovs to tackle [lut that d- company of mine. Wan't. thc meanest, most cowardly jf- you ever saw? i toll you they were thc worst Cod Almighty ever had a sand in making. No decent man would liavo run oil' and left yon in the lurch ;he way they did. if they bad felt like ne they would have died, or?ry d-n mother's son of them, first. You thought I wan dehd, didn't you? Well, Pm the healthiest de?-d man in North Carolina. I got an ugly wound in that scrimmage at Morehead, and never did know hov/ it all turned ont, but long after you had all gone I carno to and found a boss there and managed Co Bret on to him and ride until I found tome friends who took caro of mo and brought me out O. K. Now, Major, 1 want you to write ms a long lotter, and tell meal! about yourself ] und what you aro doing. Your true friend, CAPT. T. B. ROBEBTS. Overseer at the Stato Prison, Raleigh, N. C. Capt. Roberts ?peaksof Col. Claiborne as Major, because he first knew him be fore he was made a Colonel. The latter said to a O lobe-Democrat reporter yester day that he should Bpeao most of bis time to day writing to his old comrade. Poor John Carlisle. Much might be written of Carlisle. Only forty-eight years old, he is a self made mau in a double sense, for be bas remade himself within tho last twelve years. At thal time it seemed as if his lifo had been lived out and that the coils of drink would never be loosened from about him until he rested with Menifee and Marshall, and tho host of other bright Kentuckians who have graves in tho island where the Circe lives. Frank fort is about as demoralizing to young fellows as the Sonora Mountains to the Arizona Indian, and he had already serv ed two terms in the Legislature and was then, at thirty-six, Lieutenant-Qovernor. There were few who did not think that this would be the end of it. There was no Cassandra to hear the whisperings of | thc gods about him. It was "Poor John Carlisle." . ' Suddenly he shattered his cops and I placed a seal upon desire and became, as ever since he has remained, a devout churchman and an exemplar of the strictest temperance. There waa surprise in the town when more and ' more ft carno to be seen that the change was not tho freak of a headache, but gravely made and meant to last a lifetime. Bat so it waa. He shrank from all fanaticism and wai as bl I tho as ever, but the club rooms missed his epigrams and his books1 grew thumbed with use. The comrade bad become a aluden t.-Louisville Letter in the San Francisco Chronicle. How a Station Agent Prevented a Dis astrous Collision, "A one armed man for emergencies every time," exclaimed an old railroad official, in the heat of an argument on the prevention of collisions and other accidents. I never knew ono to fail in limo of danger. Tho loss of an arm seems to increase their wits, and I can oamo several instances of their display of nerve and invention when other men wero of uo uso. Do you remember Ross Marchman? No? Well, I'll tell you the kind of fellow he was when he worked under mo on the Piedmont Air Line Road. Thcro is, not far from the South Carolina lino, a small town called Se wanee. It is several hours' ride from Atlanta, Ga., and contains about SOO people. The telegraph operator at the depot is station ageut, expresa agent, ticket agent, truckman and porter. In fact, he runs the wholo business, and his i:) a . responsible position. He often works all day and all night, and it is a terrible strain to keep up with tho work in the busy season. Ross Marchman was telegraph operator and so-forth at Se wanes. Ho was about twenty-two years old, and had lost his right arm. How in tho world he ever managed to perform his multiplicity of duties js a mystery, but was never found wanting in any ot tho qualifications necessary to a success ful accomplishment of every task. Wo all had confidence iu Marchman, One night in November, 1882, ho was sining half asleep over his key, worn out with; fatigue, when bo was aroused'by hearing himself caller' by the train dis patcher. He auswerei and the following order came over the ires: "Side-traes No. 12, North-bound. Sewanee, 1 a. m. Hold for extra No. 8, South-bound, 1,04 a. m." Thcro was notbiug unusual in the order. Marchman "O K'd" it and tnado the necessary preparations for flag ging down No. 12, which, being a .brough freight, did not stop at way stations un less signalled to do so. The night was lark and stormy, and the wind hiew in rusts, driving the rain into every crack ind crevice. The track from tho North past the station had a heavy down grado, ind it was the custom for engineers to )low a long bloat on tho whistlo when heir trains croaBed the summit, como ?alf a milo away. No. 12 was on time, md when Marchman heard the blast ho ook his lantern hud went out on the .rack. Tho headlight rose over the sum nit like a full moou climbing the hills, md flashed down tho milo. Tho rain :nmo down in torrents, the wind whistled >ast the corners of the Btntion with an >minous sound, the train came thunder ng on. Marchman raised Hu lantern ind swung it across tho track, but before he signal could be given a fitful gust of vind put out the light. The train was not ?00 yards off, and nad not slackened its peed. There was no time to get another ump. It was a moment of horror to the >oor operator. No. 3, with its freight of lassengers, was coming just beyond the own-tho two trains would meet-collis on-destruction-death-all passed bo oro his mind like a flash of lightning. Jo felt tho quivering of the ties beneath lis feet as he stood in the full glare of he light, now fearfully close. Suddenly >is band Bought his pocket ; tbero was a lash, a sharp report of a pistol, and a mild went crashing through the bead igbt. The lamp was extinguished, and is tho engine passed him, Marchman hrew the pistol into the cab window. Well, the train was Btopped, and the onductor, coming forward to see what vas wrong, reached Marchman just in imo to receive his orders, when the lat er, overcome from the terrible strain, fell 0 tho ground. The train was ruu into he siding, and No. 3 dashed by at about orly miles an hour. Not a passenger Ireamed of what had happened. Of ourso we remembered Marchman in a ubstantial way. That one arm, though, ms tho making of him.-New York Tri' >une. A Senator's Curious Faculty. "Talking about peculiarities of men's ninds, I heard United States Senator leek, of Kentucky, tell a queer story," aid a gentleman to some friends, the it^jer night. a "We were all discussing he same subject that is up now. when Senator Beck remarked that he thought 1 peculiarity of bin brain had done him i great deal of barm in his life. 'I first loticed it,' said the Senator, 'when I was i boy going to Behool in Scotland. I ind n strict old teacher for n tutor, and, /ii ?i a number of other boys, went to the mrsonago to be educated. One night I voa very sleepy, and still had a long Latin esson to get off. I tried bard to learn t; but ni m 031 before I was aware I &ould be dozing. At length I read the ixorcise through in e half-dreaming con* lition, and with the Latin all in a juna? jlo in my bead, I went to aleep. I iwoke tbo next morning with my brain I horougbly clear, and, strange to say, all ho ambiguities of my difficult lesson vere made plain, and I read the Latin without a balk. The same thing hap pened a second time, and I again found lint when I went to sleep with a confused idea of my leeson, learning it while half iori og, I uwoke with alt the knotted points unraveled. It became ray custom vfter that to read my task over just be fore going to bed, and I never failed to li ave them in the morning. My strict jld tutor saw that I never studied, and thought pne of the other boya was help ing roo. At length he gave me a page af Livy to translate, and told me if I did not have it for him the next morning be ivould flog me. Then be forbid any of the boys to come near mo and watched my actions. I read the linea as usual before going to sleep, and rare enough the next day I bad them pat as you please. He nsver troubled me after that. Well, the year passed by, and I began to put too much faith in it, and depended almost entirely upon my mysterious help er. Some time ago a phrenologist came to examine my family's heads, and they went wild over him. 1 paid no attention to their talk, though my wife urged me to give the man a trial. One day, how ever, be met me, and was BO persistent that at length 1 sat down to r.iin. He said that hs would examino my bead for $3 and i'lve me a char', for $6. I told him $3 cvas all I r/ould throw away, and be bojan to name my charac teristics. At length he said : "You have one faculty . thetis fully developed. It is spirituality. You ha?e that faculty developed to a marked degree. You would have made a fine medium. Your mind is capable of working sep?ralo from your body-that Is, it can perform men tal labor whilo tho body Is at rest and knows nothing of it. You sometime? solve difficult problems while you air? asleep, and wake .np ,in. the morning without knowing that you have been a! work." "Here Ir* five dollars," sald^Yj "a man who koowa aa much as you dc deserves it." "My strange faculty," con tinned Senator Beck, "whethor it i spirituality 'or' not, ts growing weaker ? can hardly explain tho action of mi mind during'theso abnormal spells; 1 see) the lines and words before my mind' eye, and, without knowing the process or indeed, being aware of any procesa, 1 work Ott the problem."- Courter Journal Corsets and Age. Why have women persisted for genera tions, asks a correspondent, in wearing an instrument of torture (theoretically) condemned hy the wisdom of ages? To listen to male "? 1 female Bagcs one might suppose that some hundreds of years ago woman had suddenly been seized with a desire to emulate tho wasp in form, and had siuco more or less successfully been, hy the aid of ligatures, endeavoring to merely cut herself in two. With all due deference to tho rational und hygienic in dress, I would suggest that there is more method in tho madness }f thc tight-lacing women than this. If anybody will take tho trouble to examine the corset of a fashionable stay-maker, mob as are sold in first rate houses for the modest sum of $5, tho inquirer wili lind that, saving, perhaps, a somewhat exaggerated slender waist, this article of Jress follows pretty closely the beautifully rounded form of a young woman of from twenty to twenty-five. Now it very frequently happens that at he time when a fashionable girl is ex pected to make her debute in society na oro has for various reasons denied her ho various items necessary lo make up hat indispensable requisite for ball oon! success-a pretty figure. Tho fash onablo corsot is, therefore, had recourse o, and with this useful foundation to mild upon au artistic dressmaker can do vonder.j to supplement nature. Later on, when the delicate girl bas levcloped into the faded matron, with laccid muscles and a decided tendency o indistinctne.13 of outline, what so use* ul as tho well-made corset into which hs somewhat dilapidated figuro is run as nto amoul? Torture it may bc, but she ia* hei rev/ard. Do not her friends say if her. "how wonderfully Mre. Smith :eep8 her figure ?" It is useless to hope that tho present 'eneration of society women will tear off heir corsets and exhibit themselves to a rendering world: our hope lies in the ii turo. While Lady Harberton has been rying in the wilderness, the leading fe r?ale lawn-tennis players have devised heraselves a dress-pretty, feminine, rnceful and healthy. Those who have ratched the free and graceful movements f young English girls on the tennis round may hope that the time may come ..hen tho best of them will no longer, ike Meredith's delightful little Carola Irandison, sigh, "I'm afraid, I'm a girl, used to keep hopi Dg I wasn't ;" but will 0 content with their own happier lot in n age when boating, swimming and 9nms will have so beautified and devel ped their figures as to enable them to lugh at and discard the aid of Messrs, Vorth & Co. To quote once moro from leredith. "Tho subsequent immensn istinctiou between boys and girls is lesa ne of Bex than education. They aro rilled into being hypocrite." Brother Gardner's Observations. "Dar am seb'ral things dat doun' look ..nelly right to me," said Brother Gard or, as he rubbed bis bald bead with one aud and opened the meeting with the Iber. "It doun' look 'zactly right to see one ian wuth ten milly un dollars an' anoder nth only ten cents [applause by Sam el Shin ; J but vit if 1 wus de ten mill un-dollar man I wouldn't keer wbedder i looked right or not. [Sudden end to ie applause.] "It doan' look 'zactly right fur one man ) own a great foundry, while annoder ian am ablecged to work fur him fur $2 day ["Hoar, hear 1" from Judge Cada er;1 but If I wai do $2 & day mu ? I .ou?dn't frow myself out of a job to pite de owner or to please a demagog, rho Judge subsides.] "It doau' look 'zactly right to see one ian hold offis all de time, while anoder ian has to shove a jack-plane for a libin' great rustle in Fickle Smite's corner :] ut ho who shoves do jack-plane bas de sspeck of de community an keeps outer di. [Rustle dies away.] "It doon' look 'zacktly right to see >'ty lawyers.1 rush to defend a criminal rho bas stolon money in his pockets, hilo de offender who am moneyless am ift to dig his way frew a ten-foot wall ld an ola knife-blade [grins on a dozen ices;] but if I was a lawyer I should i rn my money any odder way except by twin' wood. De public doan' looa for ny panickier display of conscience on e part of lawyers, an' darforo suffer no isappointments. [Grins no longer ob ?rvabl?.l "It doan' look 'zactly right for one ian to have a big brick house an' anoder ian e rough bo'd shanty; but 'long jout tax time de roan in de shanty kin lt on de fenco an' chuckle over de fack at he baint rich. It doan'look 'zactly right to see one ian go pushtu* an' swellin' an' crowdin*' verybody else off de sidewalk to let de nhl ic know dat he am a king bee ; but ach men have to carry de anxiety of eing in debt to tho t&iior au' of dodgin' e grocer, an' of subscribi? $25 to build a hut ch widout a hope of bein' able to pay en conti) on de dollar. "In fack, my friends, dar am heaps an' leaps o' things dat doan' look 'zactly ight to na nt Tuet glance ; but when yo ome to figger it ap an' divide an1 sun ract, we've all got a heap to bo tbsnk til fur an' to encourage OB to git up airly a de mawnin'. A man kin brace his ega an' lay back like a mule, an' kick way at the hall world, an' hate every ody an' be bated in retara, or he can lick ap carlin crumbs o' consolashun, rowd inter a seat in de back eend of de /agio, an' take a heap o' comfort know a' dat somebody is wuss off dan himself, jet ns accnmilate to bizness'"--Detroit foi Preu. Leaving the County. We regret to learn that a number of ;ood families have already left or are Preparing to leave the county for Florida na Texas. We are sincerely sorry to co this disposition to leave the good old Hate ; but perhaps it will not ce so bad ifler all. There is an old and trite say ng, that "bought experience is the best esson." and macy have found, when too ate, that moving to the West hos proved o be the most expensive and nnsatiifac dry experience in their lives. The glow ng pictures drawn of the easy and expo iitious roads to fortuno in the West gen* ?rally hide many almost unsurmountable ?bstacles in the way, and seldom show he trials, privations and vexations vhich' have to be encountered before ivan the first step upward can be taken. Scarcely a week pastes that we do not ead of the retara of families from the (Vest, broken-hearted and disgusted with heir experience. They find more hope a "coming homo to commence anew,' than n "staying oat West*' in disappointment imoog strangers. We are not alone in believing frith industry, economy, perseverance ? rt out frill to succeed, South Carolina iffors os many, and for pleasanter,, roads .0 successes any,Stat0 in tho Union. Union Times. -1, .m -:-, ' - The. dork ages-a woman bot ween twenty-five and sixty.