Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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RV F "R MTT1*T?AY& CO. a ATTvi7T3C!rYvr c n nnTJTTT?QTi A V MnPATTNfr. JTTNT? 18. 1885. TfriT TTH/TL7 W ___"IVTr* ACk ARCTIC SODA WATER, BETTER THAN EVER ! Timm^we Tickets m i 1JI it dr* SI.O?. When you come to the City, and wish a good* cooling, refreshing glass of Soda, Vichy or Congress Water, go to WILHITE * WILHITE And call for Soda Water with1 "Red Orange SyTup." Beats the world. Strawberry; Raspberry! Pine Apple, Banana, Sarsaparilla, Vanilla, Orgeat. True to name, and of best quality. 25 TICKETS F6it $1.00 Good for either Soda, 'Vichy or Congress Water. Congress Water relieves Headache and Dyspepsia, and is one of the J^^nfera^^t?rs soldv, ?$R?f]Vj THE CELEBRATED NEW ORLEANS MEAD SYRUP, The best Syrup in the City. Call for it at WILHITE & WILHITE. May 14, 1885 44 . fl Go Tell all the People for Miles Around!" t riM i i1 nig _ THAT ? 71 ?. JOHN M.HUBBARD * BRO. ARE PREPARED TO SELL MORE JEWELRY, MORE WATCHES, MORE SII/VERWARE, MORE CLOCKS, &C AIT PRICES MORE TO YOCR NOTION. THAN EVER BEFORE. ??r* EVERYTHING in the shape of a Watch, Clock c r Jewelry thoroughly repaired. JT?b 5,1885 _30 ?? ? _____ WE BOW To our Friends and Customers who have so liberally patronized us in the pa?t. We desire to return thanks, and offer our usual Spring and Summer Greeting! WE ARE PREPARED TO OFFER BARGAINS IN ALL KINDS GENERAL MERCHANDISE, PLANTATION SUPPLIES -AND ? FARMING IMPLEMENTS. WE ARE AGENTS FOR Daniel Pratt Gin Co.'a Gins, Feeders and Condensers. Barbour Machine Co.'s Cotton Seed and Grain Crusher. Empire Tbyerter^EqginesAnd Saw Mills* v. Champion" Reapers, Mowejrs and Binders?the world-renowned Harvesting Ma? chines, which hare been sold and used in Anderson _nd adjoining Counties for the past ten years, and for durability and economy there is none to compare with the Champion. we would also mention the Count's Home-made 7-Fingered Grain Cradle?a South Carolins production?of which we sold during the soason ot 1884 several dozen by way of introduction, and have made arrangements to furnish them this season again to all who may desire a good home-made Cradle. Onr "White Hickory" one and two-horse Wagons are well known throughout this country, and speak their own praise. The Thomas Smoothing Harrow and Perfected Pulverizer is an implement that should be on every farm. They can be used for cultivating crops of Corn and Cotton, as well as in the preparation of the laud for planting and sowing. Call and see them. The "Wixon" Patent Heel Sweep is growing in favor every day. Invented and manufactured in Georgia. Used and recommended by the late J. C. Furman, the great intensive farmer of Georgia. The blades being adjustable and easily changed, make it a cheap and desirable Sweep. We are talcing orders for future delivery, and would ask you to call and examine it We also sell the Mishawaka Sulky and Walking Turn Plows in all Bizes, ' The best Chewing Tobacco in tlie market, made by S. W- Venable, of Petersburg, Va., ombracing the celebrated brands of "Blue Jeans," "Rapidan," "True Blue" and "Florimel." A trial asked?a good chew guaranteed. Other makes and grades alKo on hand. McCULLY, CATHCART &, CO. Anderson, S. C, April 30, 1885 FISHING TACKLE, H^eiKS; and LINES OF ALL KINDS AX SIMPSON, REID & CO.'S DRUG STORE, V&tilrly House Corner, Anderson, S. C. HOftEY IN SMALL INDUSTRIES, A Lesson that the South Learns nil too Slowly. Correspondence News and Courier. Greenville, June 1.?The establish ment ofa.* new "bent-wood ?furniture" factory in Columbia recently has given several prominent^Northern journals a text for sermons upon the existing ne? cessity for the manufacture of "small foods, notions and knicknacks" by the outhern people for: home consumption. The discussion of this subject is, I am pleased to see, extending in this direc? tion, and it is to be hoped practical re? sults will ensue. Nowhere are condi? tions more favorable for the cheap pro? duction of the hundreds of articles that are now imported here from New York. Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston, and from the great manufacturing cities of the West. The editor of a prominent North Carolina paper says : "We sleep on Northern beds and on woven wire springs from Connecticut, our eyes open in the morning upon Yankee bureaus, Yankee carpets, Yan? kee wall paper and Yankee paint. We eat from Yankee plates (using Connecti? cut made knives and forks) and our food is cooked"uppn<Cincitipatratove9. Many of us burn PVnipsylvanik-coal. We die between Northern made sheets, are placed in Northern or Western coffins and are deposited in a grave dug with a Yankee spade or shovel. We make for sale?alas!?only cotton, with which we must pay for the one thousand and one things we buy from the North. Instead of having our own meat and bread stuff we buy it at high prices from the North and give in exchange the cotton for which we get a low price. To day we see in our stores Northern, apples; to-day we buy .from our' provision -men Baltimore cabbages; we use oleomargarine and Goshen (New York) butter for which we pay exorbitant prices, although we have fine lands adapted to cattle raising. We build railroads and send North for rails and engines, and although we have thousands of marble quarries (undevel? oped) nearly all our tombstones come from Vermont. In short, we furnish the money hard-earned by the raising of cotton, and the shrewd Yankee manufac? turers are constantly making a profit." The writer of this graphic reeiime might, very truthfully, have added that just so long as the people of Dixie sit down and wait, like Micawber, for something to turn up, just so long will the condition of affairs described con? tinue. It is in the little things that the Yankees excel. For instance, the crop of dried apples in Pennsylvania in 1S84 was valued at over ?330,000; the dried blackberry and raspberry crop of New York State exceeded in value half a million dollars. This is but one small item, and yet who would think, here in South Carolina, of drying berries or fruit for the market? "No," the farm? ers say, "it ain't worth while; th' crops '11 be good this year, I reckon," and so it goes. The total valuation, estimated by H. K. & F. B. Thurber," of New York, of dried fruits in New England and the Middle States last year was a littlo over ?6^00,000. About one third of this fruit was shipped South. fruit in thk piedmont belt. All through the Piedmont belt the country is especially adapted to the growing of fruit, and practical demon? strations of what can be done in this line were given at the Agricultural Fair held in this city last year. Peaches, pears, apricots, cherries and luscious fruit of all kinds, nearly all of perfect growth, were exhibited, and yet not a single person has attempted to can this fruit and put it on the market for home consumption in competition with the Pennsylvaniaf'New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and California canning com panies, all uf whom are making money. Over 20,000,000 cans of vegetables and fruit were consumed in the South At? lantic States during the last twelve months. AtTryon City, on the Asbe ville and Sparenburg Railroad, at Gaff ney's, Spartanburg and Seneca, aud at Greenwood, canning factories would un? doubtedly pay. The machinery is not very expensive and the work can all be done by women and girls, with a few male inspectors, what can be done. In Bordentown, N. J., one firm clears $20,000 a year canning nothing but to? matoes ; the work only lasts a few months and the profits are about twelve and a half per cent, on the capital in? vested. The Beck Fruit Canning Com? pany of.California, with a specialty of peaches and pears, pays a dividend of sixteen per cent, a year on a capital of $300,000 invested. Several factories in Baltimore earn ten per cent., aud none in the country fall under eight and a half. If four or five men with $5,000 each to invest would get together and erect a canning- factory in every large city in the Carolinas where there is a good, constant supply of fruit and vege? tables, the industry would pay handsome? ly, since labor here is so cheap. Aspar? agus can be canned first; then come peas and beans, cherries and plums, tomatoes, corn, peaches and other fruits and vegetables, so that from May first to October first tho machinery could bo kept going constantly. Farmers would be induced to give more attention to fruit growing and to '"truck gardening," and the South would begin to become more self sustaining. patent evaporators. Since the invention of patent evapo rotors, whereby fruit can be thoroughly dried in a few hours, there is no reason why apples, berries and the liko cannot be dried for the market at a profit to the farmer. A company has been formed in Greenville for the manufacture of evap? orators, and this may be some aid toward preventing the great waste of fruit which occurs in the Piedmont Belt every year. There is always a market for every pound of dried fruit the farmer can make. a model farm. Here are some figures made by a man in Sullivan County, N. Y. He writes: "I have ten acres of apple trees, all bearing. I can make each year, by means of patent fruit dryers, about S0,000 pounds of dried apples from the ten acres. We use machines to pare, core and slice the fruit. My wife, daughters and I do this work at night. I get four cents a pound cash for my dried fruit, iu all about $3,250 from ten acres or $325 an acre. Then I have the land planted in turnips for my cattle and iu timothy and clover, so that I get some nice hay and a good deal of good fodder for the cows, in additiou to my $325 per acre. On peaches I do better. I have now 200 odd bearing trees and about 600 young ones just set out. From these I get about 700 bushols of peaches. These we dry and they make about 1,200 pounds of fruit, for which I get ten cents a pound at the village store. The trees need but little care, especially the ap? ples. I prune them and trim them up twice a year and keep an eye out for borers and insects. We keep twenty four cows, have a barn 132 by 80 fcet.Jall tight and nice, and clear about $1,000 a year from our butter." In another portion of ih'u stine letter "We have about half an acre enclosed, with a very high fence, and in this we keep our chickens?from 2,000 to 3,000 in all. Wo hatch them all with incuba? tors, and do not allow the hens to set. * * * My farm consists of about forty-eight acres, all told; nearly all is iu pasture land, with a few acres of corn. We live quite expensively, but I lay by about $800 to $1,000 a year, clear money ?but we all work." WHAT IT ALL MEANS. I have been led to quote very fully from this letter, because it contains a point that is worthy the consideration of all wide-awake farmers, viz: that the best results can be reached when- but lit? tle land is Cultivated and the work done thoroughly. If every farmer in upper South Carolina to-day would grow fruit more extensively it would be found to pay well. Take, if you please, the following table, prepared at my request by a well-known fruit-grower in Orange County, N. Y. : 1,000 peach trees.$ 600 1,000 apple trees. 500 Labor in planting. 50 Manure, work, &c, until the trees yield, aay..m?.u..mm?...?>...?... 200 Three patent evaporators for drying fruit. 300 Six machines for paring, coring and slicing. 180 One extra man for 60 days. 60 Total.$1,890 The result will be about as follows : 10,000 pounds dried peaches.......i$ JS00 20,000 pounds dried apples. 800 Total.$1,600 tn other words an investment of less than $2,000 will, in the course of three to six years, yield a regular revenue of about $1,500 per annum. In estimating the amount of dried fruit produced about one-half the usual yield of young trees is taken.as a basis of calculation. The land can he used to good advantage, as the, trees should be planted at least forty feet apart. , THE. CULTIVATION OF ONIONS. Another point for the consideration of farmers in onion growing. The soil of South Carolina is well adapted to this Eurpose, but as yet Hone of the farmers ave seen fit to experiment on a large scale. At Chester, N. Y., are several farms where nothing but ohiobB ale grown, while in New Jersey Mr. Joseph Van Auk en has gained the sobriquet "Onion Joe," from the fact that he raises-about 60,000 bushels of onions for market each year. lie gets about $2.50 a barrel for them in New York City, pays seventy-five cents freight, and clears about $12,000 every year. He grows nothing but the yellow onions. From the village of Chester last year there were shipped via the New York, Lake Erie and Western Kail road to New York, 137,226 barrels of onions. From this State, the railroad men tell me, onious could be put into New York at about one dollar a barrel?which would leave?taking the market price at $2.50 and $3.25, a good profit for the farmer? about 20 per cent, better than cotton where the yield does not exceed one bale to the acre. OTHER VEGETABLES. And still another point?the cultiva? tion of horse radish. This will at first blush-seem absurd, but there are used in this couotry nearly 1,000,000 bottles of horse radish every year, and no less than six firms in New York City are buying the root, which they grind and put into bottles for table use. One bar? ren hill side planted in horse radish, which needs no cultivation, pays the Connecticut.farmer about $300 per acre every year. The cultivation of horse radish is most extensive in Connecticut and Pennsylvania. These "little things" are mentioned I just to show the secret of Yankee success. A great many people here speculate upon how the Yankees manage to get rich ; it is because they "save at the spiggot" and do not wa?te anything. A CHANCE TO GET RICH. It has been demonstrated very con? clusively in the last few years that peo? ple in this country cannot get rich from cotton-planting. It is a hard and unprofitable business except in certain favored communities where the yield of cotton is large. A little travel, consid? erable observation and the exercise of a moderate amount of common sense will soon show the farmers that there are hundreds of methods for winning bread outside the old rut of cotton planting, where all the profits are gobbled up by the factors and fertilizer dealers, ana the farmer grubs and grubs from year's end to year's end while those who "handle" his cotton succeed in laying by comfor? table competencies. Fruit Eaters Need no Doctors. We were struck recently by the re? marks of a doctor friend of ours, who said no one thing will do so much to make people independent of the medical profession as the daily free use of fruit. He had noticed that those farmers in whose families fruit was regularly and largely consumed seldom needed his ser? vices. We thought what a pity that every farmer in the land could not be convinced of these truths. It is a deplo? rable fact that farmers' families do not enjoy that robust health that country air and out-door life, with plenty of exercise, should give. It is also a fact that living on farms, whose rich acres are aching to produce abundant crops of the varied fruits, but very few have plenty, and many never have any fruit, except it may bean occasional apple. The stand? ard food in a majority of farmers' houses consist largely of bread, butter and meal (mostly pork) fried in grease, and where pastry or cake is used, it has lard in proportions in its composition ; aud this food is eaten at least twico, and, in many families, three times a day, year in and year out. Is it any wonder that they are not more healthy, and that their prevail? ing diseases are such as indicate an over consumption of greasy food ? If fruits were expensive or difficult to raise, there would be some excuse; but there is no part of the country without plenty of varieties adapted to its soil and climate, and just such as are fitted by nature to both nourish and cleanse the body, and no more skill is required to grow them than to grow corn or wheat. Why is it that so few farmers make any attempt to provide an adequate sup? ply of what would add much to their pleasure aud save mauy times its cost in doctors' bills, to suy nothing of the su Uferings aud loss of their dear ones? .We entreat you, decide just now not to let the Spring pass without planting a fruit yard. Surely it is better to grow fruit than to be continually dosing with medicine. ? The rain falls not alike on the just and unjust, for the simple reason that the unjust usually has the umbrella belong? ing to the just. ? A man in Upson County, Georgia, twenty-two years ago buried three thou? sand siver half-dollars, and did not unearth them again until last week, when they were exhumed and put into DARING UNION OFFICERS. Entering a Confederate Camp to Witness Battery Firing. Last February while in Virginia, I met with a gentleman who was in the artillery service during almost the whole of the war, being at first in field service and then shut up in mortar batteries at different places. When Petersburg was invested, he, a sergeant, and his brother a lieutenant, were in a mortar battery situated near the old Blanford cemetery, his brother being in charge. Their principal duty was to fire at the Federal batteries and draw their fire; When the Confederates made a demon? stration they had bomb proofs to run into, of course, but at the same time, and, as might be supposed, they became more familiar with pyrotechnic displays than they cared for. There was one Union battery in particular that always gave them trouble whenever they fired at it. It was known as the "railroad-iron" bat? tery, and was very heavily armed. More? over, the gunners therein had the exact range of the Blanford battery, which was twice too large, and it rarely re ?uired more than ten minutes to run the /onfederates into their bombproof. It was in this Blanford battery that one of the most curious and, at the time, myste? rious events of the war occurred. "One night," says Sergeant Eggleston, "we were working there in the battery firing away in different directions, but taking care to keep our hands off the railroad iron battery, and watching the shells as they flew around, occasionally jumping into the bombproof when one would light in our place, when two fine looking men, whom we all took for gen? eral officers, suddenly walked into the works. We could not tell their exact rank, because they wore white waistcoats and coats, but they looked as though they were rank officers. They walked up to George, addressed him as Lieutenant, as though they knew him, and said that they had come out to see some mortar firing, and he hoped that he would ac? commodate them if it was not inconve? nient. George replied that he would be happy to show them anything in that line, and turning to me, said, 'Touch up the railroad iron battery, Joe.' "Well, I wished these chaps bad stayed in the tents, but t thought that it would not be very long before they would be glad to get into the bombproof, and that the rest of us could go in also. So I commenced to touch up that railroad iron place. In less than three minutes we had waked up the hornet's nest, and they were raining shells into us at a ter? rific rate. "Those fellows ovef there seemed to know that the occasion was an unusual one, and they were determined to give us all that we could ask for. The shells were dropped into our battery like hail? stones, bursting all around us, and roll? ing around like footballs, but there stood thote two officers and George, leaning up against a piece of timber ana talking as coolly as if they were leaning on a fence a thousand miles away from a piece of artillery. A shell came along and cut that piece of timber in two and scattered splinters all over the pi?ce j biit all that they did was to lean against a fresh place and go on talking. I don't believe that either one of the three even winked. I came to the conclusion that they liked that thing better than I did, and I told one of the gunners to shift his gun around and play on something else, and pretty soon I shifted another, and the fire gradually died down. I knew that George would stand there and be shot at till the crack of doom before he would suggest anything about bombproof., and the other chaps didn't want to say any? thing unless he did. Well, they talked on for ten or fifteen minutes after the fire had died down, and then said they would like to go on to the skirmish line, and see what was going on there, if he would show them the way. He told them to go out of the battery on a certain side and fol? low the path, they could not miss the skirmish line. They left, after express? ing their thanks for our kindness, but they did not say what their names were, and George was too polite to ask them. "Now the funny part of it comes in. The next day George tried to find out who they were, but none of our officers had been out there. The fact is, I don't believe that any of our officers had any white clothes to wear, and if George had thought a minute he might have known that none of them would be roaming about at night to see mortar firing. They could stay in camp and get enough of that. But he could not find out who those men were, though every effort was made, as the thing began to get mysterious. "About two years ago or longer George was on an Ohio river steamboat talking to a man in tho saloon when a gentleman came up and said, 'are you not the lieu? tenant who was in command of a mortar battery near Blanford cemetery at Peters? burg?' 'Yes,'he answered. 'And don't you remember two officers coming to your battery one night and saying that they had come out to see some mortar firing?' 'Yes, and I have been looking for them ever since.' 'Well, I am one of them, and my companion was General -, also of the Union army.' 'I am very glad to meet you,' said Lieutenant Eggleston, 'but if I had known who you were at that time you would not be talk? ing to me now.' 'So I knew then,' was the reply. 'We did start out to see mor? tar firing, just as I told you; and we also intended to go on to the skirmish line. But we got into the wrong battery. You remember that our skirmish line ran up to what was a marsh when we first got to Petersburg, and that it really pointed behind your line. Well, we got to the end of our line at the marsh, but it had dried up, and after we had wandered round there for awhile, confused by the shells flying in different directions, we suddenly found ourselves at your battery. We sat there in the ditch for almost two hours, wondering what we could do. We could hear every word that your men said. Had we been in uniform we should have went right in and surrendered; but wo knew that our white clothes would be taken as disguises, and that we would have been arrested as spies.' 'Undoubt? edly,' said Lieutenant E. 'So we con? cluded to go in and pretend that we were all right, but without our names. After we got out of your battery we went back to our Hues easily enough. While we were standing there talking to you we were getting our bearings so as to get back.' "?New York Telegram. ? Miss Frances E. Willard says that "when the ideal woman comes no bus band will dare register as 'John Smith and wife.'" Whereupon the Nashville Union says: "We do not know what tho 'ideal woman' is expected to do, but we humbly trust that if she expects to be registered as 'John Smith and lady,' she will never come. The name of wife like that of home and mother, is too sacred to be sacrificed to any mistake ideal." We are satisfied that our con? temporary doesn't take in the situation. The new style will be apt to be: "Mrs Smith and John."? Christian Advocate. ? The empress of Austria has a pri vnfp niriMi? Mntiv A mpriruin ladies hav( A SINGULAR COMBAT. . A Singular Combat at Sabine Fnss in 1863 One of the most singular combats o the civil war was the affair at Sabine Pass. In September, 1863, the govern ment determined to possess itself 01 Sabine City, situated on the river of thai name, about fifty miles from Galveston It was considered a stragetic point ol great importance to the Union forces, and so carefully were all the plans laid and matured that Gen. Franklin's Nineteenth Corps, accompanied by four gunboats left New Orleans without half a dozed person!) having the least suspicion oi their destination. Information had been received by the government that the Confederate defense; were of little account, and it was confi' dently expected to take them by surprise and come into possession without much of a fight. The defenses consisted of s single dirt fort, mounting six guns, with rifle-pits on the flanks. The garrison had at do time numbered over sixty men, and when the advance of the Federals was first sighted there were only forty four men, including officers, in the works, The officers numbered but two, and both were lieutenants. Gunboats and transports reached Sabine Pass in good shape, and aftei several shells had been fired into the fort without provoking an answer arrange? ments were entered into for disembarking the troops. It was decided that while this was occurring the four gunboats should move up and.pound away at the fort. If it Was* garrisoned the garrison would be driven out. If it had been abandoned, as some of the officers seem? ed to believe, the heavy missiles of the gunboats would knock it to pieces. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon the Clifton, Sachem and Arizona steamed forward to engage the fort at short range, and they had only fired one shot each when the Confederates returned an answer. The Sachem had the lead, and as she steamed on she used every g?h which could be brought to bear, and her protected sharpshooters kept up a con? stant fire at the embrasures of the fort, The fourth shot fired at the Sachem struck her amid ships with terrible force, tearing off her planting and crashing her timbers into splinter*. Her steam pipe w?s tilit oi broken, und in ten seconds her erew were fighting an enemy' ihote Cruel than shot or shell. The escaping steam blistered, burned, killed. Inside of two minutes her flag was hauled down and the Sachem lay a wreck on the water. The Arizona drew' too much water to run in close, but as it was seen that the Sachem had been disabled the Clifton steamed in to take her place. It was believed that so long as she kept moving any shot which struck her would be an accident, but she had scarcely reached close-range position when she grounded on the bar and swuug into such a posi? tion that the Confederates could bring four out of the six guus to bear on her. For ten minutes it was give and take. Realizing that he was on the bar hard and strong, the captain of the Clifton turned ail his attention to the fort, changing his shell for grape and cannis* ter Whenever Confederate sharpshooters showed their heads above the parapet. The gunboat Was frequently struck, but had sustained no great damage up to the instant the great calamity befel her. A ponderous iron bolt struck her almost where the Sachem was hit, crashed through her side in the same manner, and again it was the hot steam from the boil? ers which furnished the work of wreck and surrender. The Clifton hauled down her flag, and the transports, which had been following her in to disembark the troops, lost no time in getting out of range. The gallant action of the captain of the Clifton in steaming up within such close range, and of giving battle while hard and fast aground, was tarnished by his later conduct. After a white flag had been run up and the Confederates bad ceased firing, he ordered all the guns spiked, and with his own hands fired a solid shot through the center of the craft, rendering her machinery entirely useless. Nearly the entire crews, together with over 100 sharpshooters, were made pris? oners by the Confederates, and most of the guns were soon made available. Either crew outnumbered the men in the fort, but upon the return of the expedi? tion the flowery correspondents wrote of "3,000 rebels behind the works," and added that "the loss of the enemy was without precedent in war." As a point of fact that can be proved to day, not one single man in the fort was even wounded. For more than an hour and a half the forty-two men were under a fire which never entirely ceased, and were given solid shot, monster shells and liberal doses of grape and cannister, and yet not so much as a drop of blood was drawn, At no time could all the guns be worked, aad the crew at such as were being used were more or less targets for the sharp? shooters abroad the gunboats. While the parapet was dug full of holes deep enough to bury a horse, not one of the guus was dismounted. After the loss of the two gunboats the others maintained a long-range fire foi half an hour or so and then drew off The force of infantry aboard the tran? sports was large enough to have taken possession of the entire district, and bad come fully supplied for permanent occu? pation, but a council of war determined on the abandonment of the expedition and a return to New Orleans. It seemed rank cowardice to retreat from a fori mounting but six old-fashioned cannon and already knocked into a dirt-heap, bul that was the result. The Arizona out? matched the fort iu the weight and range of her guns, and could have taken such position as would have kept the Confed? erates under fire with no chance to return it. But no such movement was made. She could have prevented the Confeder? ates from possessing themselves of the two gunboats, but the idea was to gel back to New Orleans. She withdrew, followed by the well-armed Granite , State, and a couple of Confederate steam ers came down the river and took possess' ion of the surrendered crafts. They secured 150 prisoners, sixteen fine cannon a large quantity of stores and ammuni tion, and the Sachem was soon repaired and added to their strength. There were three prisoners to one guard, and had there been any one to lead a break foi i liberty most of them would have made their escape. Here were from 12,000 to 15,000 infan try, four gunboats and twenty or thirty transports driven off by less than fiftj ' men. An expedition costing hundred! of thousands of dollars and weeks o hard work was rendered a burlesque A lodgment at Sabiue would have giver the Union forces the key of half of twe 1 Confederate States. Taken in all particulars, a strange 1 engagement never occured in war. Th( ' defenders of the fort were called the Jefl 1 Davis Guards, and their bravery wa 1 eventually rewarded by a Bilvcr medal tt each man, suitably inscribed, and man; of the rank and file were promoted fron ? the ranks.?Detroit Free Press. ? A wealthy mau who obtains hi ) wealth honestly and uses it rightly is ; A Strange bat True Story, Many decades ago a vessel from Boston arrived at a dock in London. Among ' the hands on board was one named ! Tudor, a steady, well-looking young ' man, who acted as a sailor. Very early ? one morning a young, beautiful and ' decently dressed woman came tripping ' down io the vessel and inquired oi j Tudor for the captain. She was told he \ was not risen, but she insisted on seeing 1 him without delay. Tudor called him 1 up, aud she addressed him with: i "Good morning, captain 1 I have j, called to see if you will marry me I" "Marry you ?"?believing her to be a suspicious character?"leave my vessel 1 instantly, if you know what is for your 1 good 1" She next went to the mate and received a similar answer; she then went ' to where Tudor was, being engaged in handling ship-tacks, and put the same ? question to him. "With all my heart," answered Tudor, in a jocular manner. "Then," said she, "come along with > me." Tudor left his work and followed 1 her. By the time the principal shops were opened the lady entered a barber's shop followed by Tudor. She ordered a knight of the razor to clip his beard and hair, both of which he stood in need. She paid the bills and entered a hat store. She requested the best of beavers j in the store, and told Tudor to select one, 1 and he did so, the price being paid by i the lady. Tudor threw his old tarpaulin 1 aside. They next visited a shoe store and selected a pair of boots, the lady 1 also paying for them. Tudor by this time, was puzzled to devise the object the lady had in view. He solicited an explanation, but she told him to be 1 silent. She led the way into a clothing store. Here Tudor was told to get the best suit of clothes in the store. The man of tar bedaubed pants and check? ered shirt was in a few minutes meta? morphosed into as fine a gentleman as walks the streets, the bill, as before being paid by the la "y. Tudor's amazement was now complete. He again and again earnestly insisted on an explanation ; the only answer he received was: "Fol? low me and be not afraid; all will be explained to your satisfaction." He, therefore, resolved to ask no more ques? tions. Next she conducted him into a magistrate's office and politely requested the minister of the law to unite her and her companion in matrimony. This was rathef a damper to Tudor, but he yielded. The ceremony ovef/ the# couple were pronounced man and wife. Without uttering a word or exchanging a kiss, Tudor and his wife left the office, not however, until she had paid the magis? trate his fee. The couple walked in silence, Tudor hardly knowing what he was doing or what he had done. Turn? ing the Corner, he saw a splendid house, toward which the wife directed her Bteps and into which they entered, passing into a room that was furnished in a mag? nificent style. She told him to sit down and make himself contented while she went into another room. The first one who addressed her was her uncle, who asked how she escaped from her room and where she had been. Her only answer was: "Thou fiend in human shape; I allow you just one hour to re? move your effects from this house. You have long deprived me of my property, and meant to through life; but you are frustrated. I am mistress of my own house. I am married, and my husband is here 1" We must leave the newly married couple for the purpose of giving the his? tory of Mrs. Tudor. She was the only child of a wealthy gentleman, Mr. A -, his daughter's name being Eliza. He had been at great expense in her education, she being the only object of his care,, his wife dying when she was Suite young. A short time before his eath he made a will by which his brother was to have all his property until bis daughter was married, when it was to be given up to her husband, but if she died without marrying, the property was to go to her uncle and his family. After the death of Mr. A., his brother removed into his house and Eliza board? ed in his family. She soon discovered that her uncle did not intend she should ever marry. He shut her up in one of the centre"rooms in the third story and refused her associates by telling them when they called that she had gone on a journey. The unfortunate girl was thus shut off from the world for three years. Her scanty breakfast happened to be carried to her one morning by her old servant, Juan. Seeing the face of her old friend and servant, Eliza burst into tears. Juan well understood the mean? ing. "Hush, Eliza! Some of your old servants have long been planning means for your escape." "What!" exclaimed Eliza, "if it pos? sible that I am to be delivered from this vile place ?" It is unnecessary to detail all the minutia of the escape. Suffice it to say that on the morning of the fourth day 1 after the interview she mt.de her escape. 1 This was about daylight. She immedi? ately bent ber steps to the wharf where the Boston vessel lay. The amazement of Tudor and trans? port of his wife at the sudden change of fortune may possibly be conceived but cannot be expressed. One pleasant morning some days after the marriage the crew of the Boston vessel's attention was drawn to a splendid carriage approaching the wharf. The driver let down the steps and a gentleman ' and lady elegantly dressed alighted. ; The gentleman asked the captain what ' port he was from, and many other ques? tions?all the time avoiding his scrutiny. 1 At last, turning to the captain and call? ing him by name, be said: "Captain, before leaving your vessel, permit me to 1 make you acquainted with Mrs. Tudor." The captain and those about him had not recognized him to be their old friend 1 and shipmate Tudor, whom they sup ' posed some fatal accident had befallen. ' You may judge of the congratulations ! that followed. The captain regretted the harsh judg? ment he had at first passed upon the young lady, but unlike the mate, being ! a married man he was spared the added I mortification of the latter that he had spurned even to consider so fortunate an offer of marriage. This remarkable marriage, the bride s being snatched from prison walls, as it were, and the groom called from the hard ? and humble lot of a common sailor both ' brought suddenly and unexpectedly tc r posittous of freedom and affluence?hat s hardly a parallel in all history. The f uuion thus formed proved to be a verj l happy one. The large fortune that ther i fell under the active management o! ) Frederick Tudor was wisely handled anc largely increased. In due time Mr. anc r Mrs. Tudor transferred their residence tc > Boston. With shrewd foresight Mr. Tudor eu 3 tercd largely in the ice business, beinj > the first person to make shipments of ic< f by sea. His venture was made in 1805 1 when be sailed himself with a cargo o 130 tons, in his own brig to Martioque West Indies. In 1815 Mr. Tudor ob s tained the monopoly of the Havana ic< % business, and important privileges fron troduced the business in Charleston, S. C, the next year in Savannah, and in 1820 into New Orleans. In May, 1833, he sent the first cargo of ice to the East Indies, which was delivered in the autumn of that year. Of the 180 tons, nearly one-half was wasted in the voyage and in going up the Ganges. The ice was sold immediately, at no more than half the cost of that prepared by the natives. In 1884 the first cargo of ice was shipped to Brazil by Mr. Tudor, and until 1836 he had a monopoly of the shipment of ice, but it finally became so large and profitable that others entered into the business from various ports. Mr. Tudor's foresight secured to Bos? ton the chief position of the Calcutta trade, and gave her ships cargoes for Southern ports, thus reducing the cost of freighting Southern products to the North. The extensive and valuable Tudor estates in Boston and vicinity, where representatives of the family still reside, are well known. The Tudors have always been noted for public spirit, intelligence and refinement. ? Boston Commonwealth. Indian Cotton?Effect of Abundant La* bor and Cheap Transportation. "The opening up of railways in India/7 says Consul Shaw, in his latest report to the State Department, "has enabled growers of cotton as well as of wheat to cheaply transport their crop to the prin? cipal shipping ports, and the improved prices which have followed better means of transportation and of cultivation have led to a large increase in the production. Much attention has been given to this staple crop by the Indian authorities, and special legislation hats been passed to compel inspection of all cotton baled for export. This action, however, did not practically meet the approval ot those who were actively engaged in the cotton trade. It was found to be expen? sive, and that even when officially 'in? spected' the grade was uneven and the cotton inferior in quality. The rivalries of business houses engaged in the cotton trade in India have led to a system of doing the work of collecting the cotton from the interior in a fashion that secures perfect grading and careful assorting before it is finally baled at the ocean ports. The cheap and abundant labor of India enables those who raise cotton to produce it at very low cost. Not only does this apply to the inland points, where farm hands or laborers are employed, but in large seaboard towns also. Coolie labor? ers will work for from"" $3.89 to $4.38 a month and provide their own food and lodging. In remote agricultural districts good labor is obtainable as low as $2.50 per month, including food, or a little over 8 cents a day. One of the principal arti? cles of diet consists of rice, which is very cheap all over India. The following data will show the steady growth of the exports of Indian cotton since 1878, and it should be borne iu mind also that an increased native consumption has taken place during the same period: Number of cwt. 1888-'79. 2,966,000 1879- '80. 8,948,476 1880- '81. 4,541,539 1881- '82. 5,627,453 1882- *83. 0,168,278 The largest proportion of this Indian cotton is used on the European continent, where, owing to its cheapness, an increas? ing yearly consumption is taking place. When the cheap rate of wages in India is considered, and the further fact that there are still vast tracts of land suited to the cultivation of cotton to be devel? oped, the outlook is very promising for a greatly increased supply in the near future from this source. The ease with which the cotton crop is cultivated, and the abundance and low cost of labor for its manipulation, combine to render the crop profitable to the natives, although the yield per acre is often as low as 50 or 60 pounds. Indian cotton is in much favor on the continent, especially on account (1) of its cheapness, and (2) be? cause the thread spun from it will take on a high polish, thus enabling silk man? ufacturers to largely use it in imitation of pure silk. In fact, so closely can the thread spun from Indian cotton be made to resemble silk that it sometimes takes a good judge to tell the difference. The value of last year's exports of cot? ton from all Indian ports was, in round numbers, $78,102,591." Not What he Jfretends to Be. The Chicago Tribune says: I know a woman in Chicago of more than com? monly heroic stuff. Ia the late war she rode through shot and shell to succor the dying. She has all the graces that be? come a woman aud more of moral cour? age than many men. She has long been the associate of men high in the Nation's counsels, and recently accepted a position of public responsibility. "No," said she, "I do not believe any man was ever an atheist in the full sense of the word. I crossed the ocean with Bob Ingersoll once, and I asked him about it. 'No/ said he, 'I have been all over the ground. I have dreamed myself into every conceivable frame of mind have scaled the heights and looked beyond into the impenetrable mystery of infinity; I have passed down through the vale of despair and have wandered on the edge of the abyss, and I do not believe that conscientious and lasting atheism is a condition possible to the human mind.' 'In evidence of this let me tell you, con? tinued she, 'that I saw and heard Colo? nel Inger3oll myself once on the field of battle"?she named the battle, but I cannot recall it?"when he was gallantly rallying a regiment of broken and re? treating soldiers. He used no godless arguments, then, but, waving his sword aloft, swore with all the vigor of an excited man, and called upon the men with such eloquence and force in the name of their altars and sires and the God that watches above them to turu back again into the fight that with one accord they accepted his leadership and turned with a shout again to the charge." ? On the 2d instant Mrs. Jacob Dukes of Oraugeburg County and several negro women and their children were poisoued by eating honey impregnated with the yellow jessamine juices. Almost as soon as it was eaten two of the colored chil? dren began to complain of blindness and , dizziness and within an hour died. The i lives of the other two children were saved , by their vomiting. Mrs. Dukes and the . others were relieved by emetics. The i sudden death the week previous of Mrs. f Duke's eldest son, whose illness was [ accompanied by similar symptoms, is now [ accouuted for as he had eaten some of ( the honey. The honey of the low coun? try is said to contain poison, owing to the bees extracting from the wild flowers, \ and persons have frequently been made ; sick by eating honey, but these seem to ' be the first cases of death from the use of f * , ? The latest style of bustle is made of ? watch spriug steel wire, and may be 5 used for a colander, a rat trap, a portable \ liehtning conductor, or a baselball catch