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HY E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING. JUNE 5, 1884. VOLUME XIX.-NO. 47 I[ vrUflicn in inc WM. HESTON DUBING TUE SIEGE, IA rn IC STOBT OF UFE IN THE V 1I? THE SEA IN WAK TIMES. Wise Dufort, of Charleston, 8. C., in Chm lesion Weekly News. ff that years have passed since the ! clouds of fratricidal war Lave ?i back and tho azure sky of peace m& droops liken liquid canopy over Blom h or ii, sunny land, it well becomes Hjitriotic women of the South to era H in song nnd story the heroism of H BOX during that terrible struggle, as ?as to narrate the appalling incidents Hi were of almost daily occurrence Bu' thc latter part of tho struggle for Kern rights. Our family, like many BK, ?o Charleston, were compelled to Hom thc city just before the memora Hfottle of Secessiouville, which took H June 13, 18(53, and take refuge in Hcapital of tho State. The family Hated of my mother, two married Bs and myself. My husband, having I previously assigned to duty in Heston, could not accompany us to Huibia, and, not being able to recon H myself to the separation, with his B"t I returned to the city for a short ? witta my children, but never left it Beards. One of my eist.rs also re? Hd to Grahamville-ber husband's ?nany being stationed near that place Hd later my mother returned to my H in Charleston. My other sister, Hg DO children, remained in Colum Hwith her husband uulil after the Hing and sacking by Sherman's troops Be horrors of which they have never Hr homo in Charlerton being situated Hie extreme northern section of the H an j consequently out of reach of ? shells, it became a refuge for many. ?pnr'or WM giycD UP t0 aD ??d gentle ? afflicted with paralysis, and to his H. At the same time a Indy and ber Khter were occupying roy brother's K. He, like all other patriotic Hiern men, was iu the service of bis ?try- Those occupying apartments Hy house had been driven from their Hes by the shells, and were remaining Hmo until they could find more com ?bte shelter. They remained several Hb?, and shortly after they left an old H with her uiece and an afflicted son H lo ?e? permission to remain in my H for the night. She did not ask for Bp, but a shell had struck the house He she resided, and the danger was Brcat to return. I at once assigned Ko my brother's room and gave ber H use of a lumber-room, suitable for ?storing away of household articles, Her furniture, which was CDstly and Htiful. The three remained with me Heveral montbB before being able to Better quarters. Hese facts are mentioned to show the Mitton of the people in 'the central ?on of tho city. Whenever more ?ruff ordinance was brought to bear Hst the city, the shelba would be SUD higher up and in this way hun Wa of persons were continually com Hd to move from one place to another ?throw themselves upon the mercy of He whose homes were out of range. ? entire lower portion of the city was Srted, ?ave by a few who were too poor (id shelter elsewhere, or who, "like arowler Themardier among tbe dead aierloo, remained to pillage ibo un pied houses. A SCENE AT CHURCH. ne Sunday while attending Divine ?co at St. Joseph's Church-I was i organist, and that day we bad n iber of Louisianians assisting in the r-a scene occurred that almost beg description. During the sermon, ch was delivered by a chaplain on High from his regiment, the alarming i of shells and the bursting of the liles in close proximity struck terror our hearts, but we remained at our s. Suddenly there came a tremen 3 crash, shaking the church to its er, nnd a young lady of the choir, zied through fright, shrieked out, "A 1 ! a shelli" A great commotion fl almost a panic followed, but the '.'ve ciiapinin, an cntm aad composed ns Ipriest before the altar at Saragossa, a he traced the air with the symbol orgiveness and uttered the "Et Sane ?/)in7u?"ere he closed hi? eyes forever, tested all to keep quiet for the danger over. The calm, however, did not long, for within a few minutes' time ther shell struck the Elliott Mansion, aediately in tho rear of the church, tho stampede became general. With assistance of my husband I gathered ither my music, and ns we hurriedly with the retreating congregation I ld distinctly hear the priest endeavor to calm the fears of those within. A brave ones remained with the pastor il the services were concluded. Ten s after thia a shell struck the east uer of the church' tearing the organ .ieces. It was only after this that the tor, ?bo good ?nd brave Fsth?r F;\ , could bo persuaded to leave bis ie adjoining the church. He remain frith us for a short time, until he could ? a home in our locality. . ?burch service was sometimes conduc under great difficulties during this od. Many are familiar with the ?ants of the midnight masses in the intaios of Ireland, with sentinels on lookout to keep off the blood -hounds be law, and during the siege of Char an there were some queer, quaint and Ima impromptu places for Divine 'bip. The dissecting room at the iBhouse was the best place the good nw could get for Divino service, chwas arranged every Saturday by 9 K. and myself. A small melodcon been kindly loaned by Mrs. D. Mrs. *lth ber silvery ton?! voice, my hus? a and myself formed tho choir. The ?ter and matron of the AlnjBhouso, ?nd Mrs. J, W.f gavo all possible aa ?n?e and tho good Father was very nkful for ali that was done. ANOTHER SCARE AT CHURCH. Jfo city was now deserted from tin tery to Calhoun etrcet. Grasa and ?were growing upon tbe crumblihf .lan.a *" tnak Wfla required to inte? " "j6 horror of the desolation was tb? of tho vorsclous hyena. Save th< Mlonal whix and crash of a abell ?i: w*fMlo?Dl't?*w?kthe monotonj we alienee drear, and the mute enge: t aenUnei over til. Lbe husband of the lady who had ec wy loaned us the melodeon, died, sat! ?as to be buried in St. Mary's church ^lij."^1 *h6 TTJ 06,11,6 0 district." , I waa requested by th. cared widow to plsjr the Requiem a church, and though anxious t< Seher, I hesitated when I thought o danger. She pleaded and assnrcc nt> bann wculdcoroe, for God, wh< *ff l00^' would hear her prayer ?Mety. Yielding to ber entfea .* warted, In company with my hus WSJMJ my iiuisboy of sever, summers wo church. While walting for th* \V? & ?e??35d ?*heu *U in front o Cliston HrieVbni J?d no* ex > .. - -. nuni yi a relier for it waa a rare thing to have two sheila strike in the same place on the same dav ?io^.u P,parent that the artillerymen SS S r ?UD9 a.HU,e etfery ?me they i ^ j . . funeral services were con cluded without any further annoyance, but just ns my husband was closing the organ another whiz was heard, then a Hash was seen, followed by a tremendous explosion. A shell had burst iu the rear of tho graveyard. We were glad to hurry away, and a week later St. Marv's organ was smsahed by a shell. A WALK IN "8IIEL?, DISTRICT." Occasionally the enemy would grant us a period of rest, and sometimes for days no shells would be thrown into the Clt.y\. TVa? dur?D? one of '"ese inter vals that I, m company with a lady, my two little boys and their nurse, undertook to make a tour of the doomed portion of the city It would be impossible to ful ly describe the harrowing feelings which came over us as wo viewed tho dea.ruc tion caused by the improved ordinance of civilized warfare. Large stores, with brick, stoop, and iron fronts, were torn and shattered into shapeless wrecks Window panes of the greatest thickness were shivered to millions of pieces, while bricks and broken plaster were scattered in promiscuous confusion. The moat active business portions of the city were the most battered ; grass and rauk weeds were growing along the streets, while ?n the collara, rabbits and vermin founa shelter gmorrr the cunous crvotcrnmic plants and fungus growth thatabounded My mother own*? tue '.arge bakery on bast Bay below Broad street, and as that section was in a better condition thon other portions of "Shell distrief we turned our steps in that direction. On reaching the place we found the bakers at work, and learned that the baking was done in the day time, as the danger was 'ess-the shelling being heavier at nighL Sixteen shells had already struck the building, but no one had been hurt and the oven was still fit for UBe. One of the shells, like Truth, lies hiddeu in the bot tom of the well. The master of the establishment made us quite welcome, and as a token of his appreciation pre sented us with a hot loaf of bread, all he had to offer. On our return we eat down on the steps of the Bank, at the corner of East Bay and Broad streets, and ate our dry bread with a gusto more easily imagined than described. How strange I bow unlike those ante-bellum times, when our care was to guard against a surfeit of foreign and domestic luxuries.- I could not refrain from remarking to my com panion : "When in after years we tell our children that we Bat on these stone steps eating dry bread, for the want of something better, they will hardly believe us." A DAY NEVER TO DE FORGOTTEN. On the night previous to the evacua tion of the city by the Confederate forces, the fiery glare of the gunboat, which was being destroyed by fire, at the head )f Columbus street (Hampstead) and that of the burning bridge of the Savan nah Railroad, reddened the skies and lit jp the whole of the upper portion of the jity. The wierd, restless light, together with the pervading silence, struck even the bravest hearts with awe. For some time previous to this memorable night mr homes were guarded only by women. My husband was compelled to leave the ;ity, and my only brother was in the muy elsewhere. My sister's husband waa'with the regiment which bsd retreat sd from Grahamville, while she with tome other ladies were compelled to live in box cars on a turnout in the road, their cooking being done in open air. Fortunately in those days there was not uuch to cook. Only a short time prior to the evacuation she returned to my tiome and was, on the night above men tioned, sick in bed with a dying infant if only five days. My mother was suf fering agony with an affection of the ?yes, which finally terminated in total blindness. Who but those that have ivitnesBed such scenes can imagine our feelings ? As tho dawn of day came we 'el t relieved, for we had spent an anxious light with a fearful gloom and awe lunging like a pall over us. At 7 o'clock in the morning the last ol mr brave, tried troops, hitherto station id at James Island, were leaving the :ity, and as they passed our home, with irm and gallant tread, we bid them fare veil, ana turned away to hide the tears vhich gushed frota the fountains of oui learts. THE CITY SHAKEN BY AN EXPLOSION, As our provisions were exhausted and ive were informed that the commissary itores were being given for Confederad iioney, I collecteawhat amount we bac n the house and with my servant startec br the quartermaster's department at th< bead of Columbus street. Before reach ag there a tremendous explosion srhicl ibook the city to its very foundatioi brought us to a halt. Crowds of fright med women and children, white ant jlack, came running towards us, some o hem saying "Don't go there," "you'll bi blown to pieces," ?Vc. Scarcely knowing what to do or how b tct, we took our stand in front of th* railroad workshops on Meeting streel and others joined us. We bad not wei here long before some ono hurrying b; aid : "Ladies, how can you stand her ?hen those workshops are to be blowi ip ?" One of the ladies who had airead leon frightened on hearing this ran u he street in wild alarm and we were n ess terrified. I reached home and for vhile was almost frantic. All of thos iround me were panic stricken and heit es?, and the good Father F- was i ho next house in a dying condition. I appealed io Uozxca for aid ?nd i ince commenced preparations to have m lick sister removed. There was no ti rs to be lost, for we were very near tl railroad shops, and should they be blow jp we would certainly be destroyed, sent to an acquaintance who lived aboi Line street, asking permission to remm my family until after the danger. H< auswer carno that the Bhops on Lit street were also to be blown np and thi she was preparing to fly. At this jun? tore, while standing at the street door, saw the dignified Mother T--, tl Mother Superioress of the Sisters or Gi Lady of Mercy, running by in wild has end greatly excited, and fearing th Father Fillion had just died, I:iuquin the canse of her excitement. She quio ly answered, "I am going for a cart something to remove the poor BUffen for be cannot be ?eft there tobe bloi lib !'* Imagine, cool and gentle reader, t anguish wo helpless wemen experieno daring that trying ordeal. I never ? forget III After a while the conioll Information came to us that the order blow up the buildings had been counh m anded, and taonie sure of tbs tn of tho report iWfc? over to Henerc Foundry to InqaWfrom those station there. They assured me that I badI bc correctly informed. Oh, merciful Hei ona I what a relief 1 A SCENE OF "WILD OOKF08105. Bat our trials were not yet ended, lhere came another terrible eaplosiot loader than any yet- ^.moto?! "bl darkened the son as ita hideous fo curled skyward. It waa the N<>rthee?U Railroad depot that bad been blown up, and with it a number of persons who had gathered there in search of provisions. Borne wore killed outright and their mangled bodies and limbs were scattered and buried under the burning ruins. Many wore wounded, burnt and disfigur f? for,life- Tbe flames spread rapidly to the adjoining houses and Boon a fearful conflagration was in progress. Confusion i became worse confounded every moment, ! and the wings of the dark angel seemed to have been outspread over every dwell ing. The Re?. Dr. M- had been called to tho wounded and we were waiting on him to baptize our little babe who was breathing lifo fast away. Fi nally he came in great baste, and seizing a cup near by filled it with water and performed the ceremony. He left im mediately to attend Father Pillion next door, and the child died that night. The city was now a ecene of wild dis order, and we were to bo still more hu miliated-it waH to he given up to Feder al authority. Quiet was at last restored. We had surrendered 1 Old Charleston, hitherto invincible by land or naval forces, while her gallant sons could remain to defend her, was given up ; hut it was a ruined people and a shattered city, and the sight softened and touched the heart of the enemy. The following day, Sunday, was quiet, and our little babe in its collin waa car ried to St. Lawrence Cemetery by three gentlemen, relieving each other on the roiite. It -was impoaeible ?n obtain a vehicle nf any kind, as avery horse had been pressed ir. servies bv the Oo 3ro ment.* Two days aft or ward J Father F., that true and tried soldier of the cross, died, and we buried bim on the 22d of February, at midday, amid the booming of guns from all the batteries. TUE FAMILY DEATH-BOLL. Besides the afflictions and ttoubles at home, the condition of those of our fam ily who were in the field increased our fears and anxieties, and Bevernl of them who started out with hope and promise now lie "under the nod and dew awaiting the Judgment day." My brother-in-law, John L. D., while in service in Virginia, was stricken with fever, and while in the hospital a shell carno very near striking bis bed, but unfortunately did not ex plode. The hospital was pronounced unsafe, and my brother-in-law, being no longer fit for duty, was sent home. Having no moana of transportation, he walked his way home, and when arrived his condition was such from exposure that, notwithstanding the most careful nursing, he died in a few months. My nephew, Virgil D., a young lieutenant of only 19 years, and beloved by his regimental commander, Col. Simonton, who bad nicknamed him tho "Virgiu of tho regiment," wa: wounded in a fight along the Weldon road in August, 18o4, and taken prisoner to Fort Monroe. His Bufferings were so great that he was com manded against hie desire to return home on parole. On bis return home, his youngest brother took Bick with the smallpox of which he died, and the noble young officer, whose system had already been exhausted from his wound, contracted the disease and was buried ave days after. My cousin, John M., a bright boy and tho hope and comfort of bin widowed mother, entered the service at the age of sixteen aa a corporal io the Charleston Riflemen. He was taken prisoner and confined in Elmira and from the hardships of prison life soon became prostrated. Like a caged bird, be pined for liberty, for ho was anxiuua to serve bia country in the field. With bim, hi 'ar as this world is concerned, the iarkeat hour of his life was just after lawn, for when about to be exchanged ,vi?i the prisonors at Foint Lookout his strength was so much exhausted that he ?vas sinking rapidly. A cup of tea was banded him by a companion who also ?vas to be exchanged ; he drank it with great pleasure, the last spark of life was waiting upon the water, and in a few ninutes afterwards the youthful soldier ireathed bis last, and now Biceps in an jnknown grave on the Federal Bide. CLOSING SCENES'. After the close of the war, in the jeautiful month of May, when the troops ?vere returning home, 1 awaited anxious y to welcome tiro survivors, an only irotber, F. ?>.. and another cousin, L. B. they had both served the Confederacy o the end. What anxiety, what eager ness, to behold the brave ieiiows-our lear ones--who had suffered and endured io much I The glad tidings attest reach id me that my brother was coming on borseback and the gates were opened ai if ide as our hearts to receive him. Bul lias I What a change 1 That grand :olossal frame, which at one time seemed :onatituted to bear tho weight of a hun Ired years, was bent and worn, from thc bardBhips and" exposure of camp life His age*1 mother, who had become blinc luring his absence, saw him again befon ber "mind's eye" only like the sturdj young oak that he was when he firs buckled on his armor and departed witt ber blessing on his head. To us, wh< ?vere blessed with sight to look on, tin meeting was sad and touching in tin sxtreme. After such an embrace as onh \ mother and son can give after years o separation, he exclaimed : "My poor, dear mother, you cannu see me 1 "Never mind, my son," she replied "I can feel yen, and have you with me ii the future." But, alas I this hope and comfort wa shortly to be crushed. On the 6th o September of the same year, notwitb standing the most careful nursing, h died ana was added to the silent majori' of our heroes. The voung cousin, too. L. B., of th Wellington Light Infantry, whose syt tem was entirely shattered before h reached home, was kindly, lovingl nursed, hut he drooped and drooped da by day. He died in August of Ute sam fear, aged twenty years. His name : nscribed on the monument at magnoli Cemetery.__ She had the Last Word. Old Mr. Squaggs was sontowbat irriu ble when he came down to breakfast, ac when bis wife reproved him for not ty i u op the dog before going to bed the prov ons night, he answered ber rather ena] pisbly. Then they hid some words, at shoaaid: "Wall, I'm sure I don't know how yt expect we'll agreointhe next world wa can't agree io this one." "Ob, we'll agree well enough In ti next world," said Mr. Squaggs, nrexM\ cally ; "we won't see much of each oth there. The Bible says there's a gre gulf fixed between the two placea." Having said this the old gentiemi caressed nis bald bead and snickered himself. ? , . ,, Mrs. Squaggs was thoughtful for a no meet, then with a twinkle in her eye, s said : "This is the first I knowed of yo bavin' given up all hopes of going heaven." The conversation dropped.-bomera Journal. ". _ . _ - If a falseness paralyzed the toogl what a death like silence would pcm society. BILL ARP. Dill Ai-i> Talk? of the Comfort of llelug lttch. Atlanta Constitution. Morey is a right good thing and no sensibla man will turn up his nose at it. Mono/ brings comfort and leisure and SolorLon says in leisure there is wisdom. A man who bas to be digging away every jay for a living don't have much time to read and reflect aud ruminate. It don't matter whether he is a merchant or mechanic or a farmer or a professional man, if ho works hard all day he wants to res L at night. Money promotes domestic tranquility and that is tho best and biggest thing I know of. Hut money ought to be bard to get, so that its real value may bo ap preciated-money has to be earned to be prized. If it is inherited or drawn iu a lottery or won at games of chance or found in tho road or obtained by lucky jpeculations in stocks or bonds or cotton futures, it goes at a discount. It is un dervalued and don't stick tc a msn lour. A fortune gained in a year rarely stick's to anybody. Luck is a right good thing iv h eh it follows nloDg with labor and honesty, but luck by itself is a deceiver. "Trust to luck" is the devil's maxim. I leuow a bard working man who was so anxious to get ahead that be stinted his family and invested part of his earnings in the Louisiana lottery for five years ? ind never drew but ten dollars. Ho told j mo be bad ?oat uve hundred dollars that ?my, and every time he saw the list pub [shad nf th? I lirtrv n li m Ko m and road I i About the lucky men who drew the i prises it fired bim up and ho tried it , lgsin. Sometimes I wish Uncle Jubal ? ind General Beauregard would tote fair 1 ind publish a list ot them follows who i lidu'L draw anything. But I reckon that i vould be BO loDg and occupy so mauy i ?olumnB in the newspapers they couldu't i ifford it. I It is just human I know to want more 1 noney than we have got, especially if 1 ve are bard run and living on a strain. [ want moro myself, and if I was to find : i hundred dollars in the road I couldn't | ?elp hoping that the owner would never i niss it, and never call for it. Just like a toy who finds a pocket knife and feels \ ike it is hi", but that sort of money is 1 lot aa solid and satisfactory as money we J rork for. I know an old preacher who i tad ten dollars and bis son bad ten \ lollara and the young man went i town to Atlanta and took all the money 1 o buy somo things and be came across t . wheel of fortune aud saw a fellow win i en dollars just as easy, and so he was 1 lersuaded to try his luck, and Bhoro t nought ho won ten dollars, and it hope 1 lim up mightily and ho tried it again \ nd won some more, aod be kept on un- < il he had fifty dollars and become a fool, t or right then bis luck changed and he < oat it all and his ten dollars and his dad- r, y's ten besides, and be bad to borrow a i ollar and a half to get homo on, and c ike to have perished to death in the bar- ? ain. Well, he belonged to tho church ? nd they bad bim up and tried him and e made a clean breast and told bow ho t ros overtaken and tempted and how he ( rent on and on until he had made fifty i ollare clean. "And right there," said e be old man, "is wbar Julio's sin begun, i f be had stopped right there it would \ ave been all right but liko a fool be 1 rent on and on to destruction." Well, c ohn wasn't such a dreadful siuner after 1 ll for he wanted the money to buy some hing to phase the old fo-ks. But money 1 on't come that easy very often. I know t man who bas been kept on a strain for i ?ve years working out of his losses on i otton futures, sometimes luck runs 1 long with a man for ten years and more \ nd that makes bim vain and he thinks i its judgment is infallible and suddenly I e collapses liUe Seney and Eno Keene. Io money is safe except that made by 1 onest men. < The rewards of labor are mighty good 1 nd sure. Here 1 set in my piazza and < ?ok over my farm and see the wheat and be oats all in a strut and waving so beau- I ifni in the breeze and I feel proud and < erene for I sowed that wheat myself i nd helped to prepare the land and it is 1 ay wheat and my oats and come honestly nd wasn't made out of somebody else, ] nd it docs me good to cut a few choice j ends and bunch 'om and take 'em to J awn and show the folks what I can dc. ; t beats money made by luck all to pieces, ; nd so does walking in my garden and i ligging the potatoes I planted and work- ' Dg them ever so nice and bringing them j a the house to show to my wife f jd hear ? 1er say, "they aro very fine." She never ' ays much on that line, she don't, but a ] ittle goes a great way with me. She 1 lever indulges in rapture, she never uses ; eject i ves to any excess, such os lovely, i squisite, uplendid and the like, but I i :now what she thinks about anything < ust as well as if oho did. I'm going to i et ber a mesa of raspberries to day, tbe i irst of the season, and I'll surprise ber 1 nth 'em at dinner time. She likes that. < Vomen like these little thoughtful atten- t ions. They are like oil on the axletree, ] ind makes the machinery run smooth, J Jut then there ought to be a little money o mix up with such things. Money is a 1 ?oed domestic lubricator itself. A man i eels more like a gentleman with some l ihange in his pocket, and he ought to . ilv/ava have a dollar or so just to feel of. i t stiffens him up and keeps him from ealing like a vagabond. And women ! vants some too. When a pedlar comes ] ilong with tin ware or a wagon load of i uge or tho Gypsies come along with lace | ir the book agent comes along with pic- , nres, and besides it is such a dignified aufott to have a little hid aray for the ihildren when they are just obliged to lave something to wear and don't want o ask papa for the money, for he is so lard run and talks so poor all the time. This is the kind of money that goes for ill it is worth. Money that comes bard, noney that ls earned. Even woman does tot prize money when she hos oodles of t and has every want supplied. Folks nust be cramped to be nappy. They oust have something to stimulate them. Something to provoke economy and in lustre, and I'm thankful we've always lad these stimulante at my bouse. BILL A BP. The Tact of Arkansas Women? "Who ia that horrid whiskey bloat?" laked a lady of an acquaintance, while .hey stood viewing the gu cate at a fash* onable reception. "Which one ?" "That one with the red mustache and iwful nose. Doa't yon seo?" . "He is my husband." "Oh," laughed the lady, "I see that ron are not neosi ti ve," although she saw rengeance In the eyes of tho Insulted lady. "Several nights ago a friend made ? similar r?mark about my husband, and [ became very angry. I declared it would anger any woman, but my friend laid that yon. having the best husband In tho world, would not-care, and I wagered a pair of gloves that you would, bnt you see that I have lost, I hear that your husband is spoken of as an available candidate for Governor. How ?lever he must bo."-Arlansaw Traveller, WILLOW THEE FARM. Something that Heats a Cotton and Corn Crop. ?lacon Telegraph, Mr. I. C. Plaut, the well-kuown bank er, haa solved tbe problem of utilizing the swamp lamia below Macon. Many bave tried tbe experiment of raising corn, cotton, oats, etc., and found it very uncer tain. Tbe overflow from tbe river often ruined tbe crops and lost tbo planters many a dollar. The land is rich aud grows everything ; but unless levees aro built-and these ure expensive-no cal culation can be made as to the result. But Mr. Plant is now indifferent as to freshets. His swamp farm, about two miles from town, is surrounded and pro tected by a strong levee, and is in every respect a model farm ; but if Ibis levee should break and the wntcr remain on the land for months, ho will now havo better resulta for the willow trees he has planted than if tho levee remained in tact and ho gathered a full crop of cotton and corn. Ho has now a willow farm, tho only one in the South. Think of twenty eight acres planted in willow trees! And yet these willows bring him $200 to the acre tho Bccond year, $300 tho third year, $-100 the fourth year and so on. Aud this too without putting a plow or hoc to tho ground. About two years ago Mr. Plant was in Hartford, Conn., and aav a lot of willows growing around tho dykes of tho Co'vu j pistol factory. They were imported by I ?Jol. Colt from (switzerland about the time several 8wiss families came over to anttla li. Dl.nt ..-,.!- ?..:<- - r. ?_ "~ . v ? * . i. 11 u twn ijuiltl cs tauVjr evy the willows aud seeing how well they grew on land subject to overflows, knew tit onco that they would thrive ..eil on bin swamp lands near Macon. He secured 15,000 cuttings from Col. Colt, and they were brought out and plantea about IS months ago. The plants grew rapidly and soon convinced Mr. Plnnt lhat he was right in bis conjectures aa to the willow ?oiog well on the swamp land. About a year ago he planted 15,000 more cutting*, from which he took and planted 80.000 cuttings about five weeks ?go on about eleven acres of land. During tho last freshet, about two ?veeks ago, Mr. Piant heard of a ship load of willows arriving in New York. Fie telegraphed al onco for a large lot ind they arrived just about tho time tho ?vater subsided and left the ground in a middy condition. Employing n large oreo cf negro womeu and boys he had beso twigs assorted out and proceeced to yal them in the ground. With n largo oreo of negro boys ho laid out seventeen teres of ground in rows five feet apart. With a slick, boles twelvo inches deep vere made and the boys dropped in the ?uttings at a lively rate, wading through he mud and water. Thc ground was in scellent condition, and out of 28,000 mttings^ only a few failed to tako root md begin to grow at once. Thus he has i total of 310,000 willow trees on his 28 \ teres, and with corn and the castor beana ' limited between the rows. A visit to this novel farm yesterday ifternoon showed the trees to be growing ; inely. Those set out eighteen months , igo are from five to eight feet high ; those | et out twelve mont?n ?go are three, to bur feet high, and those set out A few , veeks ago are growing rapidly and will 1 ie ready to cut in two years. The firBt , :ut of this crop will ha made next Octo >er. Now aa to what the willows will bring. , These cuttings will produce a ton to the icre for tbe second year, and thia will be ncreased yest after year. Each cutting >roduces six or e?"ht upright switches ike grass from r ven to nine feet high, without any twigd cr branches, doubling . n quantity and increasing in height , from year to year without replanting. When properly stripped and prepared \ "or market, these willow branches readily :ommand from $180 to $200 per ton, or , from 9 to 10 cents por pound at the North , >r West. It will bs Been by tho figuring that at be end of two years Mr. Plant's twenty right acres will bring him in $5,600, with io expense save tho stripping and baling, [n four years this amount is doubled. The stripping is a very simple process. For some time it waa a puzzle to Mr. Plant, but while on one of his trips to New York, he went into cae of the larg' xi willowware establishments to look iround, and while there a shipment of willow branches came in from the Weat. Tbe willows were white as snow and alto gether a fine lot. He asked where they , vere grown, and was told in the West. To find out bow the willows were cleaned, Mr. Plant very quietly made a trip of four hundred miles. He went to the grower ot willows and found him using , \ very alow contrivance. After looking it it awhile Mr. Plant soon aaw that he jould improve upon the method, and cak ing permission of tbe willow tree farmer, pulled off bia coat and in a abort while bad a machine that took the bark off at ance. The farmer was delighted, and after Mr. Plant returned home the farmer Eatented the machine and sent one to , Lr. Plant. The willows are pulled through thin little machine and thc bark and leaven " are B'.rinped off clean. The willows are then plunged into a vat or trough of irater and taken up immediately by a boy or girl wearing heavy woolen gloves. The willow switch ia pulled through the hand, laid aside, and 1B then ready for baling. The ends are altered and pressed in compact bundlea, and are then ready for market. The cost of shipping and preparidg does not exceed five dollars per ton. On one of his trips to New York, Mr. Plant mentioned bis willow farm to a leading willowware manufacturer, and waa made an offer in writing for all be could grow in ten ye?rs at ?180 per ton. Recently a drummer for a willow ware bouse happened to see some of the willow switches grown on Mr. Plant's place. He wrote to bia house concerning them, and in four days Mr. Plant received an offer for hie entire crop at $200 a too. Now while thia land is made so valu able by a tree that requires no cultivation whatever, making aaurecrop every year, there is atilt ample room on the same land for a crop of corn which ia planted between the rowe. But Mr. Plant growa something still more valuable than corn. He is planting the castor bean, from which ussier oil is made. He planta the dwarf variety, which haa the same yield aa the taller species. For the beans he Kta from three to four dollars per bushel Macon. The willow farm ia something new in the South. Ita introduction by Mr. Plant only proves that we can grow anything and that diversified farming is the kimi of farming that paya. Those who prefer cotton and corn eau continue with them and run the chances of floods and droughts ; and those who depart rrom the old ways and find that this good land of ours is productive of other and more valuable crops, will be sure of a rich re ward if they sturt right. .Starting right is the secret of tu cocas. Mr. Flint set out bia first 16,000 willow cuttings and was content to walt until they reached a size to draw from. In the meantime he ( waa busy with other crops. His oats, and j barley, and vf beat tunde tho land pay while waiting. It would be well for our young farmers I to look more after diversified farming, but they should start right if they decide to make a break from tue old crops. ? Had Case. ? Intense excitement reigns throughout Kentucky on account ot the suicide of Judge Richard Reid, of the Superior Court, who was cowhided at Mt. Sterling, on April 15, by John Jay Corneilson. a prominent lawyer, who charged him with hypocrisy and influencing bis fellow judges to decide a case against Corneil son. Tho suicide occurred at Mt. Sterl ing on the 15tb of May, at ll o'clock, in tho oilice of Judgo Brock. Reid entered tho office at half-past '.), complained of a severa ?.???ache, and asked permission to lio down in Brock's bedroom overhead. Ho went upstairs and Judgo Brock lt ft his oilice, returning nu hour Inter. Go ing into his room to wash his hands, Judgo llrock found Reid lying on the bed dend. Tho bed WHS soaked with blood, nnd tho suicide's right band grasped a Smith & Wesson revolver. Tho ball had entered bolow and back of tho right ear and emerged on tho left side of tho head. Tho theory is that Reid was so humili ated by his position and the certainty that bo would be overwhelmingly defeat ed for appellate judge and IUD future ruined, that ho ioor hts life ss thc easi est solution of hts troubles ; the spirit of his Viife, lt was predicted, ifould leave) him no peace. Ilia friends are claiming that it was caused by mentai abbnraiiou, but iii o general opinion is that be pretended headache in order to encourage the idea that bis brain was affected, an accusation apparently carried out by the following note, written on tho back of a business card and found by bis side : "Mail, mad! borgive me, dear wife, and love to the boy 1" This was not signed, but is in the band* writing of the suicide. It is a singular fact that no ouo heard tho report of tho pistol. The weapon used was ono Judge Reid kept at bis house but never carried, and appeared to have just beeu loaded. Commenting upon this affair and the occurrence that led to tho Buicide, tho Louisville Courier-Journal says : Tho announcement of tho death of Judgo Reid by hiu own band may well chuck a people somewhat used to trage dies. It bas features so peculiar, so lull of sorrow and aflliction ; it is so shocking in all its aspects, and from a public stnndpoiut, it is nt this time so calamitous that to the people of Kentucky, it must have much more than a passing intercut. Judge Reid is tho victim of the cow ardly assault of one man, and the vitia ted public sentiment of tho State. His murderer is John Jay Corneilson, but in a community where law was enforced, where crime was swiftly, surely punished, where life was protected, where prevailed an intelligent appreciation of tho obli gations of all the citizens to obey and uphold the laws, Judgo Reid would not have died as he did. Assaulted without warning, stunned by a blow from behind, dazed and strick en and then beaten with a cowhide in the hands of an attorney dissatisfied with his course as a Judge, Mr. Reid did not succeed in defending himself at all. This is a matter gre:>"y to be regretted, and the regret to-day is intensified many times. Failing f** this, it seems to be the duty of every an, according to the code which must, prevails in Kentucky, that he pursue his assailant and slay him wherever found. The situation in which Judge Reid found bimself was. indeed, a trying ono, full of difficulties, leading by any path to undying remorse. It wns not death he feared, as we see ; it was dis grace iu any form. His own convictions of duty were not enough ; be Blood in a public place, a candidate for a public office, and bo was necessarily keenly BenRitive to every change and shade of public opinion. The path be bad chosen was steep and rugged; the burden which be had assumed was too heavy. The sense of shame and indignity which, bad been a coarser man, more of a bully and blackguard, ho would not hove felt, preyed on bim, driving bim to madness. His actions were mis represented ; his motives were questioned; in a state of brave men, few men were brave enough to stand with or for him. He believed the best judgment of the people was with bim, as it is, but he could ?ot wait for passion or indignation to subside. Much of that sympathy which went out to him he felt as a rebuke; be was acutely alive to any blame or mis understanding, and life lost its charm. Ambition died within him ; the support sud kindness of bis friends could not heal bis wounds. Even the love of those nearest to him, thoughtful and consider ateas be was, could not sustain bim, and be dies wounded not only by Corneilson, but by all who mnke public sentiment ic this Stats. How frequent are these sickening ca lamities ; how fast they follow one an other ; how impotent are our laws: hon false our verdicts; how warped oui * ' ?[J i .i\? . *- ? ?- "VO a#wOOa*in i?" Sm OOu scientious, upright, honorable man driv en to death by the miserablo attacks o one who uses only the weapons of i blackguard and bully. Corneilson ha friends and they have been quick in hi defense. His case, resting on bis owi testimony and his own pleadings, ha been decided agsinst him. The imprea sion bas grown strong that his attacl was a political conspiracy, designed t defeat Judge Reid in bis pending canvas! Whatever tbe motive, malice was ther< premeditated malice, and the death c Judge]Reid is the consequence. No mai in Kentucky would attack a man with cowhide unless he was prepared to ki! bim if it was necessary. Assailing bl victim from behind, laying his plans a as to take bim unawares, it was nc necessary to kill bim. Now borne dow with humiliation, feeling inexpressibl the shame and indignity, Dearing a grit which be must bear alone, Judge Rei finds relief ia suicide* Again we say, as so often we have sai io these columns, that from the sin i blood.guiltiness no citizen of the Con mon weal th is free. We do not deal wit crime as we ought. Wo tolerate murdi nnd pardon vice and honor criminals they are bravo. Physical prowess Is ti only virtue that appeals to us. We at Cssionate, unreasonable, ubrestraine wies*. . Society protects no man eith by ila recognized rules of law nor by tb public sentiment which Rivas Btreogt and force and vitality io all written la? Until we change all this : until murd Is puninhed, until wo educate men look to the law for protection aad vinci cation ; until the law does what it pi tends to do, what lt le instituted for, i should cease our boastings and no long content ourselves with t raits and ach?es meets which equally distinguish the ba barous and half civilized communltii - Modern invention has piodaced mechanical doll that can cry like a bat But it can't smile and crow and kick i a pair of pink heels and say ' pa, ai there's whore the truly baby has the a vantage of it. Short Talks With the Boy?. BY M. QUAD. "Hurry up-quick !" Now, my boy, you want to stop dead ?till 1 They call this a fast age, and we iro termed a fast nation, but in spite of ;bat we have plenty of time. Take time o eat. Take time to dross. Take time o do whatever task you aro engaged in o your complete satisfaction. I always eel like kicking a lazy man, and if I set mt on a journey I can't go fast enough, mt this impatience has lost mo days of imo nud a good many dollars. If I want 0 make a shelf or bench I rush for tho irst hundy board, saw it off hnp-hazzard, mund in any i oi l of nails in any sort of vay, and when tho job ?B complete I iavo a shelf which won't fit by a jug 'nil, or a bench which rests on three egs and holds up the other ono as if it lad a sore foot. I have taken tho wrong treet car, lugged oil' other men's hats, eft my chango on store couuters, bought ugar wheu I was told to buy butter, poiled any number of boots, offended lozens of good mon, and all because I muted to save time. Dou't rush. The older I grow the less believe in tho man who leaves a cloud if dust behind him. He will bo wrong lalf the time. Ho will botch bis work, ipset tho best calculation, and lose a lollar for every seventy-five cents he oakes. A petulant, impatient boy makes 1 man who cab'c koop afrtriiu. He will o obstiuate, unreasonable, unforgiving ad iho:ougLly dcepucd. Don't argue hat it ?B boru in you and can't holp it. L boy can help anything if be bas any and in his nature. He can exercise atience or give way to fits of anger - Inch ought to bo boot-jacked out of his aturo to eave him from the gallowB. Hut you hate to be bossed, eh ? Well. iy boy, if we could all do mi we pleased ais would be a fino country to live in. ?ur workingmen would cot to their labor t 10 o'clock in the morning and quit iu imo for 5 o'clock supper. Our stores light open in the morning or wait until fternoon. Our mills and factories would 0 run to suit tho convenience of team tera and engineers instead of owners, hir trains and boats would leave to suit aptmns and conductors, and some dayo ou would get one meal and other daya tiree. Wo must have bosses and stand ossing. Don't start out with the idea aat you eau bo independent. Don't link you cnn sit with folded arms aud ring men to you with fat offers. Don't nagino that you are doing anybody a rent favor by calling upon them and inting around that you could be coaxed ) take a situation. Do as your employ? r directs. If he doesn't know his bus less that's none of your affairs. Make p your mind that tho boy who sets out > carn only three dollars per week will ever get four. If he is determined to e worth four he will Boon be receiving ve. I sat down with a half dozen of you io other day. and the opinion of the lajority was that employers didn't make uy distinction between a smart, energot 1 boy and n drone. Don't be foolish. 17 lad. Nine employers out of ten had luch rather advanco a boy than to dis barge him. A boy may not bo watched i closely os a mau, because wo make llowauces for his inexperience and foi es and trifling nature, but don't you for et that he is soon sized up. if ho it ispectful and truthful and honest thc mployer who doesn't, realize it and re ard him is no man to work for. Now let's talk a little further about ie flash literature I referred to a few eeks ago. I went the other day aud ought a stock of tho Btu ti' in order to sec i.?t what it was. When one comes tc 36 tho wretched Btufi' writtoo and pub shed in order to catch tho attention 0: ie boys of America ho muBt wonder i e have any fathers among our lawraa ere. Thcro is a fellow iu New Yor) ublishing a weekly sheet called tbi roung Men of America. He must thinl lera a set of rascaU or idiots. In om /oty he bas a hunter who catches in hi and the bullets fired at him by a dozei nemiea, and it is no work at all for hin > put fifty enemies to flight. Wo wan ich a man on the Detroit police fore? ut the Superintendent will nave a lon unt to find bim. In another he has oy whip seven or eight mountain oui tws. The boy has probably died lon nee. if this stuff was held out to yo s pure fiction you would be complete! isgusted. These flash publishers knot iis, and so they have these storie maded upon well known facts and evenl hick are mattera of history. In tho paper I bave mentioned ?B .ory of the revolutionary war. It pm orts to be the adventures of Genen larion and his scouts. The injury bei DOB?BU in historic lying. You are askc ) accept everything as z fact, when ni ne single fact is stated. AB a epecime f what one of the scouts did when 1 rasn't trying bis best I will mention tim eiug pursued by two British dragoon e let them fire four bullets into him 1 lose range, before it occurred to hi sat it was a cold day. He then dre is sword and cut a right arm from tl ody of each. He then rode away Darch o? ?out beer or something ciao ool bis tongue, but hadn't cooled ov alf of it Defore six other dragoo itched into him. The first move I lade WM to draw that same terril jad-stiokor and cut off two heads. Ti tber four fired at him, but his bri urned the bullets aside, and he lopp ff the head of the third. Tho remsi og three thereupon lashed into t rooda. and the scout waa kind enoui ot to pursue. Having out off tbi ead* and two arms inside of half our be felt tired. Think of such DOB! Ve all like a brave mao, but even a b f seven isn't green enough to believe a ch statements. In a detective story, io wit I ch a nine lound woman Is the detective, she lade to capture robbers whom threo m ared not tackle, and to chango 1 oleo twenty-four times per day and I isguises almost as often. She alwi ntered robbers' dens by a sewer with eing bitten by rats or getting her f ret, and if any one fired a revolver wi a a foot of her head the weapon: al wi lissed fire and she calmly knocked sllow down and neut on chewing 1 uid of gum ss if nothing had happen toys who beg and steal and sleep un be wharves ?re made heroes, and bu tis rmd outlaws are held np as shin samples of a brave nation. . Drop 'cm, my lad I There's rn loral poison in one such story then ; rill get st the circos ot theatre in : ears. Belter be unable to read st ban to Imbibe such staff* You hst oj who lies to you. Then why ; bese mea in money and time to dec* nd poison you ? ff you were told t boy of fifteen had captured sis or ei >etroit borrtlsrs you wouldn't believe $eu why believe in these wretched ggerations? Shut right down ..on I lass of men and their publicatioas, 11 three yean they'll have to earn tl ol I UM in aa honest, manner, or. yo esr of 'ein behind the bars. - Co n ?cet with the world either br? r hardens tho heart. Uoggnn Cash's Second Victim .'MIC combs al Last* CHERAW, Juno 3.-James Coward, who wan shot and fatally wounded by W. 13. Cash on February 23 last, died last evening at about 9 o'clock. From the moment his physicians examined the wound they had not the slightest hopes of his recovery, but be held out to tho last, though all tho while expressing his will ingness to Bitbmit to tho inevitable. He bas borne bis sufferings with remarkable fortitude, although conscious that bis short life, (lie was only 25) would soon bo at an end. He wan sadly missed from among the ranks of bis numerous friends, bv whom ho was justly regarded as a ge nial, clever companion. During bia il'.r.e??a Mr. Coward never uttered a word expressive of ill-feeling towards tho author of his untimely omi, and never mado a remark which would lead ono to think that ho ascribed tho shooting of himself by Cash to any malicious motive. From long confine ment to bis bed, owing to total paralysis of tho lower extremities, tho immediate effect of tho wouud, bis body has been in & terrible condition. For some time past tho flesh lins sloughed away from around tho left bip joint, thereby causing dislo cation of tho hip joint, and exposing to view the arteries and musolcs wbicb alone sonncctcd that member with the trunk of bis body. Tbo sympathies of the community have seen with Air. Coward ever since tho )ccurrenco of the sad affair, and particu srly because as I' 's known ha WES in a? .-.?uv counected iu tho diliiculty between Richards and Cash. So far os is known . 0 Vi u s ?U iiiSuUlj Ctriiib ?ii? v>&bil Suu ?vas not particularly intimate with Rich trds. His remains will bo interred in the 3omotery of New Hope Church, near his rome in Marlboro* County, and bis funeral will bo largely attended.-DU mich to thc News and Courier. Sore Dlmo Novel Dovlllry Brought to Light. SUMTER, S. C., June 1.-This com munty was startled and ebockod beyond ixpresslon yesterday by the unearthing >f a gang of youthful bandits, and the Iii co very of their wonderful success. The rang i? a regularly organized one, and hey called themselves tho "Dark Spirits." They have their captain, signs, pass* vords, &c. Exactly how long tbis band las been in existence or bow many be ong to it is not known, but BO far it is mown that somo eight or ten belong to t ranging in ago from aixteeu down. They nave accomplished a good many leeds of theft and did not confine them selves to any special thing but Beemed to ako anything which came in their way. L'hoir robberies consisted of watches, eui voa, cuff buttons, silk handkerchiefs, nonoy, &c. They seemed to take a pecial fancy for watches, several being aken from one firm. Hew or when they ibtained the articles is yet a mystery, iomo of the gang have made confessions md yesterday several watches were re lovered and moro will bo recovered to norrow. I cannot attempt to give details if what the gang have done but their ucccBS has boen truly remarkable. The natter bas not been fully devolnped yet ind tho extent of the operations of the ;ang will not be known until a full In 'estimation is made. It is expected that briber developmets will bo made to morrow, and a good many articles recov red. The gang is said to have ia their tosscssion somo* 'blood and thunder litera ure," such as "Ten Yean;. Detective," kc., &c. If this be true, it furnishes the :oy. note to the wbolo business, for this is lot the first instance in which "Dime fovel Literature" bas done its evil work n a direct way. Nothing else is talked f here now and it is a matter of deepest egret. Tbe boys belong to respectable amities of Sumter. For tbe reason that ho matter has not been fully developed nd for other reasons I withhold the mmes of tbo boys.-Special to the Columbia ?egUtcr. A Sham Attempt at Suicide. Rumor bas it that a certain man in own imbibed too freely of the "ardent" sst week, and while under its influence ie became so despondent that be thought ie w uld commit suicide and leave this ppsrently cold and cheerless world. He aiied for his wife to bring him his rarer, sserting that be intended io cat bis hroat with it. She, obliging wife that he was, brought it, but he changed bis (lind os to that mode of severing con icction with the world, and concluded to lepart hence by the drowning route. He iroceeded to the well and got inside the urb to bide himself, thinking that Borne .ne of tbe family would rush up and try . 0 rescue him. No euch attempt 'at escuft was made-, though. Unfortunate y for him, however, after getting inside ne curb, he happened to take bold of a ottcn piece of timber, wbich broke and et bim drop into tbe well. It was not ong before he was calling out lustily for 'some one to run there and let down a ope for him, so that he could get out of hod-d well; he didn't wont tobe Irowned-he was just trying to fool bes:.'' Tbs jope t?as ici cows te als ind he was drawn np to the top as wet as 1 drowned rat, with his "hankering" ifter suicide entirely vanished. Sinco hen he bas been as quiet os a mouse, and o mention suicido to him makes him eel so mean that he almost feels like ping out and hanging himself, anyhow; -Camden Journal, June 6. In Contrast With Grant. Gen. Lee, at the close of the war* re lived innumerable offers to engage in ommercial enterprises. Insurance com ?anles, railroads, and many large cornel ation a at tbe South were anxious to pay lim any salary he might demand solely br the use of his nome, without any abor on his part, or the incurring of any esponaibllity whatever. A com m? tico if Englishmen, with the Dake of South irlana and Mr. Beresford Hope at the lead, offered him in fee a splendid catate n one of the midland counties of .Eng end, coupled with a guarantee bf an in some of ?5,000 a year as long as he lived, rle gratefully declined all oftheee offers, ind accepted the Presidency of the Wash ngton and Leo University nt a salara ?f $3,000 a year. Here he earned his iving as the hardest worker in a bard vorkTng faculty in training the youth of he country np to the very hour of the wraletlo stroke which immediately pre? teeded bis death. . Gen. Lee left three sons. They too rc* :ci ved many offers of a similar kind, and ?kowiso declined them. Two of thee? ons are now prosperous plasters in Vir?. rinia. The third succeeded hia father in bo presidency of Washington and Leo Jniveralty, and bas filled tin) position 7ith credit for the last thirteen years. The true American spirit Bb lues in Den. Lee's example, the spirit which troaptetf Washington nnd Ida Gen?ralo rhea they retired from tho public serviee inriohed only with tho recollection of heir great achievements, abd ocornlr? t? aake merchandise of their fame.-XW/Vr y thc New York Sun. - Every ladder has a top round to it