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TRIMMINGS "'la replete with all this season's Novel? ties, including Persian Band Embroide? ries, Braids of all kinds?Silver, Gold and Hercules, in different shades: Also, those new and beautiful Felt and Braid Trimmings combined, an well as Guitnps and Garnitures of every description, Never before has it been our good fortune to ran upon such a handsome, tasty and elegant lot of Buttons as we - have now waiting your inspection. Don't forget that as we were the first I to introduce those soft-finish, elegant DRESS LININGS, we stfll give this line our personal attention, MISS MALLALIE? Continues her * DRESS MAKING In our Establishment, and is better pre? pared than ever before to fill, in a thor? ough and stylish manner, all orders entrusted to hex. A full and carefully selected? STOGK OF HOSIERY, Han kerchiefs, Gloves aod Parawls. In Laces and Mull Embroideries we defy competition. As nsual we take the? LEAD IN MILLINERY Of every description. We have had exceptional advantages in buyiog this year. We begin with oar leader?a nice shade Hat, in black and white, at 20c. Staying late enough to attend all the retail openings, we are not only laden with the moat beautiful und stylish Gcoda ever shown here, but have a thor ough knowledge of how to manipulate them. So that with stylish Shapes, beautiful Flowers, airy Lse~> and en? trancing Bibbnns, the :ii test French and New York fashions, and above all THE LOWES! PRICES ever offered, we are bound to bring joy to the hearts of our many customer*, old and new. Very respectfully, R. S. HILL. 3 & LANGSTON. TU??ffl^?oi^UMN, -is^ All Communications intended for this Column should be addressed to D. H. RUSSELL, Scbool Commissioner, Ander son, S. C._ We went to Lebanon on the 80th ult. to witness the Centennial exercises of Prof. Holland's school. The pupils went through with it greatly to their own credit and that of the teacher who got up the programme for the day. ExerciseB of this kind are valuable in a school, for they tend to kindle afresh the fires of pa I triotism, and make the pupils proud of their country. Dr. Marshall held the attention of the audience for a half hour in a very happy strain, and then the Lebanon folks set out a tempting dinner. We did not expect to say a word, but "our boys and girls" put in a plea, and we had' to give them a fifteen minutes talk after dinner. The Teachers' Association on the 27th ult. was a decided success?made so by the heartiness with which the teachers present entered into the spirit of the work. There was an enrollment of thirty-five of the white teachers of the County, and every topic on the pro? gramme was discussed with earnestness. We are aware of the fact that many of the teachess whose sympathies are enlisted in this work could not be pres? ent for the want of facilities for getting here, and we greatly regret it, for they miss a great deal that would help them. Several of the talks on Saturday were by earnest, thoughtful men and women who are professional teachers, and have valu? able ideas and suggestions to present. We sometimes hear people say that they wish the public school was abol? ished?that it is a hindrance to the edu? cation of the children, but where is the proof of it? The truth of it is these same persons are not interested them? selves in the education of their children, the proof of which is found in the fact that they do not send their children reg? ularly to school during the public term, and they almost invariably stop them as soon as the public funds are exhausted. Neither will they buy text-books for them., and how can a pupil or the teacher do good effective work without tools to work with, any more than field-hand can do good work without good tools. If they will not pay a little and supplement the public fund how can they be expected to pay it all. It is all sheer pretense and nonsense. The public fund is a great help, but it does not propose to do it all ?only to give the people a lift. Re? cently a teacher sent word to a parent to buy his boy a spoiling book, and he sent word back that he was too poor, but the . next week that same father was here in town and spent & dollar and a ha{f for whiiley and got most gloriously drunk, j and he a deacon in the Church, too. ? That's what's the matter in many cases. , If the money that is spent foolishly upon , whiskey a.nd tobacco could be diverted to { the cause of education, we would be able to run every school in the land six , months in the year, and place a common ,' school education within the reach of ] every boy and girl in the County. We hope the colored teachers of the ' County will read and heed the following communication from one of their num? ber : "The world moves and we move with - it. This undoubtedly accounts for the , the fact, that all my .colored brother teachers failed to make tiny grade in the recent Co inly examination for teachers. The world with its masses still moves and teachers have stood still. What else ' can be the cause? Can it be that the questions were more than ordinarily hard ? I think not. I have seen harder ones. Can it be that the Board of Ex? aminers were disposed to deal unjustly with our colored brethren ? I hope not. I believe the Board too honest for that, unless I am grossly deceived in the man ?the School Commissioner is far beyond that. Is it that time was insufficient? No, not that, for I never saw a Board . disposed to give more time. Well, what was the cause? Only this, in my opin? ion, oar teachers have failed to keep pace with times, and for that reason call what otherwise would be an easy exami? nation bard. They forget what would have been interesting to children a cen? tury ago, is only folly to them now. Teaching must be of a higher grade since the scholars are of higher grade. What would, in those long past days, have givfin a teacher a first grade, will hardly give him third now. The trouble with us is we are in too great hurry for posi? tion, and don't give enough attention to preparation, but rush in prepared or unprepared. The place if what we want, and all other things are sftw.i?.r). Prepare, my friends, and the position will seek you. Spend more time in school. Take the one example laid down in the Bible of preparation for life's work. Moses was put through an Egyp? tian school for forty years. Thinking himself fully prepared for the great work before him, went forth to the field, and seeing the Egyptian and Hebrew striving together, slew the Egyptian, and sud? denly found out that he was wanted in Midian, where he went and finished his education for the business, which was not in any University, but on the hills and through the fields he roamed for forty yean longer, thus spending two thirds of bis Hie in preparation for the work of the other third. So should we rest ourselves with more than the schools afford us. It is an imposition upon our people?and, in part, accounts for their ignorance?that men unprepared should be allowed to teach them, and onr people should rise in one unbroken phalanx, and say blessed to the man who vetoed the whole concern and said a teacher should be prepared, or can't teach in this County. I say "Amen." This says we are to have better teachers, better sehools, and speaks well for the future of the people where they teach only on merit. I would say to my fellow-teach? ers, bestir yourselves; come in line and dr> a work worthy of you. I think the teacher? of this County should arrange it so as to have a meeting sometime dur? ing the summer, where they can give and receive ideas on the subject. A Teacher. BILL ABF. A Mother's Love the Best Protection for Her Offspring. Atlanta Constitution. Plato and Socrates and Seneca preach? ed philosophy, but philosophy won't heal a broken heart. I believe that it is possible for a man to so .school himself that no ordinary misfortune would affect his temper or his serenity. His house might burn up or his mill 'be washed away or his cattle all die, and it would bring no j depression. But philosophy has no con? trol over the affections. Just tear a ! child away from its mother, and what can philosophy do there. David arose and washed and had food net before him, but the mother dident. It was Rachael who mourned for her children, and refus? ed to be comforted because they were not. It was a mother who was last at the cross, and earliest at the grave. It was Hagar and not Abraham who wept over her Btarving child. It was the mother of Moses who hid him in the bullrusbes and watched him for months to save his life. This is all right. It is not only the law of nature, but iB the will of God, and a proof of His Providence. A mother's love is the best protection for her off? spring. The tigress with her young is more terrible than the tiger. Of coarse the father loves his children. He thinks that no love can be stronger than his, but he is mistaken. About thirty-five years ago we lost a bright and beautiful boy. I did not know bow much I loved him un? til he was gone?gone from the house and buried. I would have compromised with death if I could have kept the child at home, though dead?dead and undecayed ?ao that I could see him and touch him and kiss his marble forehead. How crushing was the thought that he was away off alone in the dark night with a weight of earth upon him! How utterly helpless I felt I How the world did shrink, and how paltry everything around me that I had been living for I But old Father Time iB a good doctor, and by measurable degrees my grief wore away until I could pass whole days, yet even weeks, without thinking of that child. Not so with the mother. Her love never grows cold. Many a time and often does she open the old family trunk and look over the little treasures that she has kept ?the little tangable mementoes that ehe can see and touch, and it does her good to let the unbidden tears come. I feel ashamed that I cannot weep, for some? times I want to and cannot The foun? tain seems to be drying up. The other day I saw a beautiful child lying dead in the crib where it slept. It was the first grandchild that we have lost?the prize baby that I wrote about last fall?the child that gave its mother a queenly dig? nity, a conscious pride, and filled the house with joy?a little sunbeam?a light without a shadow?and there it lay smiling and beautiful in death. I saw the mother's anguish, the father's grief, aud heard the sobbings of the children, while'the good old grandmother walked to and fro in her household duties, and groaned with broken spirit, and every little while came near and kissed the boy and dropped a tear on his brow and then resumed her work. That 'good old grandmother has had her own cup of sorrow, but she never rests nor broods over her trouble nor tells her grief to others?"They have enough of their own," she says, "and I'll not trouble them with mine." When she came for a last look and knelt down beside the boy and took his little hand in hers, there came a sud? den hope that he was not dead. "His flesh is not cold enough for death," she '. 3aid~"please don't put him in the coffin yet, please don't?maybe be is in a trance for he died bo sudden. Maybe the good Lord will spare him to us," and she felt his flesh and looked into his eyes and sighed while seeking some sign of life to hang a hope upon. Lonely and sad I wandered to the city of the dead-the beautiful cemetery hill that overlooks the rivers of Borne?our own little boy was buried there and now the sexton was digging another grave close by. Child and grandchild were to sleep together until the reesurrection morn. My parents are there, too, and a brother and his children. Four genera? tions, all nestled together and waiting. Numerous kindreds are scattered around, kindreds who share the blood of the same grand sire. How like a patriarch will my aged father rise among them and call the flock and marshall them away to judg? ment. "What becomes of these children after death ?" said a father to me. " Where is that little boy's spirit now ?" The Lord only knoweth, and He has not seen fit to tall us. Bevelation stops right there. There is enough revealed to guide us in all our conduct; enough to make us st-ive for heaven and shun despair; enough to prove our immortality. Beyond that is speculation and faith. But I be* lieve that child is in heaven and is still a child without the flesh?the flesh is all that is in the casket. I belive that angels ministering spirits received its spirit, and with tender love will train it and expand and give it heavenly employments, and it will grow and increase in knowledge as time rolls on, just as children do here. I believe there are grades or degrees in the spirit world, a seventh heaven and a heaven of heavens, aud the spirits of the good are always approaching but never reaching the infinite. I believe there are occupations, intellectual, refining and progressive for all; architecture, music, painting, botany, astronomy and other sciences, and we will learn how a beautiful fragrant flower can come .from a little seed in unfragrant soil, and what are the boundaries of universe and all the myste? ries of life and evolution. It is good for a man or a woman to visit the city of the dead and meditate upon life and upon death. It is good to become acquainted with the place where we must soon rest with the innumerable thirong who have gone before. It is good to read the names and epitaphs upon the 'marble?the names of friends almost for? gotten, friends of our youth. I recalled their busy life, their hopes and their sud? den deaths, and I remembered the grief of those to whom they were dear. I saw some women clad in mourning and they were placing fresh flowers upon the graves of those they loved, but I never saw a man showing the same devotion. A ANDEKSON, S. C river separates these two cities?the city of life and the city of death, as\our Chief Justice Bleckley bo aptly expresses it in his beautiful poems. Every one who dies must cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees. If they could only breathe a whisper to those in the city of life what would that whisper be? What would Colonel Shorter say? and what would Burweil and Maguire and Tom Perry and Colonel Cothran and Judge Underwood say ? What message would old Mother Hemphill, who lived one hundred years, send to us? What would the scores of patriot soldiers say ? the soldiers who are sleeping Bide by side and head to feet under the brow of the hill. The graves of three noble girls are there?lovely girls?tiachers whom everybody loved. It is sweetly sad to think of them and wonder why they were taken in their young womanhood and others were left. Marion Blanes, Nellie Ayer and Lizzie Gwaltney will live in the heart8ofall who knew them?sweet girls, who honored their parents and honored their chosen calling. Hearts were almost broken when they died, and all that friends could do was to be silent for they saw that their grief was very great. No wonder that mourners go to funerals. The bereaved know to sympa? thize with others who have Buffered the same affliction. But there is no money in grief or fu? nerals, and so the broken ranks must close. If a soldier falls in battle the column does not stop a moment. "Close up; close up; men I" the captain cries, and on they go to victory or death. A man is not of much consequence in this world?not near as much as he thinks he is. If Governor Brown and Governor Colquitt and Governor Gordon were to die to-morrow the ranks would close up and their places be filled within a week, and in a month they would cease to be men? tioned in the papers. Everything is business now, and the procession must proceed. An intelligent citizen asked me yesterday whether it was Arthur or Hayes who was dead. Bill Arp. i. Great Artesian Well. Florida abounds in lakes, rivers, and great springs of great volume of dis? charge, fed mainly by subterranean reservoirs of unknown extent in the rot? ten limestone formation which underlies a considerable part of the peninsula. Some of the springs in this State are of | enormous discharge, and among the more important may be mentioned the follow? ing: The Silver SpriDg, which supplies a very considerable portion of the flow of j the St. John's Eiver, and the Homosassa River on the west coast, which flows from a rocky basin about eighty feet in diameter, and forms a river over fifteen miles long, flowing with a current of five miles per hour towards the gulf. About five miles from Tallahasse is a great spring said to be one thousand and five hundred feet deep, with an outflow that forms a broad lake of ice cold water, But perhaps the most interesting of these outbursts of subterranean waters are found along the coast line, five or more miles from shore, like the one opposite St. Augustine, which perceptibly affects the surface of the ocean in a circle over half a mile in diameter, and forms a flat cone with an apex slightly elevated above the general Burface. Another of these great ocean springs bunts out at Key West, and smaller ones show them? selves at many points along the coast of Florida. Ab underground water is so abundant in this region, and is very generally under sufficient pressure to force it to and above the ground surface, it is little to be wondered at that Artesian wells are there (popular, and to a considerable extent relied upon for water supply. But the most powerful well yet developed in that country is the one put down by Mr. H. M. Flagler for his great hotels at St. Augustine. The Artesian well at Ponce de Leon was commenced in November, 1886, with a diameter of twelve inches, and by Feb? ruary, 1887, it had reached a depth of | 1,399 feet below the aurface, with a yield of 10,000,000 gallons of water in twenty four hours, and a pressure of discharge sufficient to force the jet forty-two feet above the mouth of the well. Though this great volume of water was struck at a point only 1,100 feet below the surface, and the quantity was more than ample even to meet the demands of the mammoth hotels which it was proposed to supply, at the earnest request of his superintendent, Mr. Fla? gler had consented to sink the well still deeper in an attempt to pierce, if possi? ble, the fossiliferous limestone formation, and practically test the question of increase of temperature in the water. But, unfortunately, the boring tools were lost just as the 1,400-foot point was being reached, and the experiment was, for the time at least, abandoned. It may be proper to state here that the purpose of sinking deeper was to obtain water of a sufficiently high temperature to be utilized in supplying heat in the hotels, and possibly power. With the temperature at 82? Fahrenheit actually Becured after the water had been piped, this hope has been realized to the extent of supplying a huge bathing pool in the Alcazar Hotel with water at 82? Fahren? heit, ?s above described, and in render? ing all radiators and artificial heat in the hotels unnecessary. This water, con? veyed in a system of pipes, does all the heating the climate demands. While che volume of water discharged is greater than that of any Artesian well in this country of which we have any knowledge, the pressure at the point of j discharge is also over four times that of the Artesian well at Charleston, S. 0., which is the nearest boring on the level of the Atlantic coast. This pressure is utilized at St. Augustine by a turbine wheel, and the power obtained runs over 150 electric lights used about the hotels and grounds, and other machinery. Electricians note that this power is the most uniform of any yet employed by them for a smaller purpose.?Engineering News. ?Nothing but love to God can conquer the love of the world. THTJKSDAY MOEN THEIOST CAUSE. Tlio Rev. Dr7 Laflerty's |on Lack of Luck Columbia Register, May 1. The audience which assembled, at the Opera House last night on the occasion of the'second lecture in Columbia! of the Rev. John J. Lafferty'lbothj in numbers and quality was a fine one and exceed? ingly complimentary to the lecturer.^*^ Dr. Lafierty, who is the editor of the Richmond Advocate, is a gentleman of fine presence, fluent and graceful deliv? ery and evidences by his platform utter? ances the possession of a wonderful store of knowledge and a peculiar, aptness in imparting it to others in a most pleasant and entertaining manner. The lectnrer was introduced in a happy manner by the Rev. Marion Dargan, and hiB subject was "The Lack of Luckjwith Lee." ^ Dr. Dafferty opened his address ^by saying that the annals of human affairs prove that no nation, no individual, no cause'haB ever succeeded without a se? ries of lucky events. In the c?reer of every great man would be found some? where a fortuitous 'circumstance which I had turned his course toward greatness. In illustration the lecturer related in a peculiarly happy manner anecdotes of Murat and Lincoln, and at some length reviewed the life of General Grant as a series of lucky accidents. Grant, he said, had never heard of West Point until a neighbor's son, who had been recommended for an appoint? ment there, was rejected on account of having six toes, and Grant's father se? cured the appointment for young Ulysses, who had the proper complement of pedal dignits and no more. At the beginning of the war Grant sought an appointment of General McClellan's staff, but missed finding him at his headquarters in Cin? cinnati on three separate visits. Had he found him he would certainly have been appointed, and the lecturer believed would never have been heard from. Enlisting as a Captain; being the senior among tho captains he became Colonel, and being the senior among the Colonels he became a Brigadier General. He did not achieve special prominence, and aB a matter of fact was about to be removed to a subordinate command under General Banks, just before he undertook the Vicksburg campaign. Banks was not very brilliant in war, but was mighty on a foot race, especially in Virginia. To get out of reach of the expected order Grant cut off from bis connections and the order which was actually sent, did not arrive until twenty-four hours after he had gone. Before he received it he had won victories which made him a man too big to think it necessary to obey it. The Vicksburg campaigu gave him the chance of Chattanooga, and as a matter of fact the battle of Missionary Ridge was an accident. Grant sent three separate messengers after the fight started to stop it, and Sheridan it was who claims to have brought it on. A lucky fog settled down on the heights, enab? ling the Federals to come up and remove the Confederate guns and a victory was won that made Grant famous. Again the receipt of a telegram by his wife prevented Grant from attending the theatre where Lincoln was killed, and where he had intended to be. Take the contract for the publishing of hiB mem? oirs. Grant was about to sign a contract with the Century Company to give them the MSS. for $10,000, when Mr. Webster, of the publishing firm that finally print? ed them, called. Before he left a con? tract was arranged that has already netted Mrs. Grant $600,000. But not only had Grant luck, but im? mense courage, to take advantage of it. He, the lecturer, knew of no geater il? lustration of courage than that displayed by Grant in his struggle against grim death while engaged in the compilation of his last literary work, undertaken to preserve a roof and a competency for his family. As further illustrations of the power? ful influence of luck, Dr. Lafierty related the circumstances attending the discovery of the "Silver King," the richest silver mine in Arizona, by a prospector throw? ing a piece of rock at a mule. The rock was broken and showed signs of silver. The lecturer thought this the first in? stance of luck out of a lazy mule. Continuing he showed how Napoleon really lost the battle of Waterloo by eat? ing lamb and onions, which gave him indigestion, causing a sick headache which necessitated a fatal delay until he recovered. Against the arguments of modern logi? cians against the theory that luck amount? ed to anything he would set the sayings of Solomon, who was himself an example of luck, for he was married 300 times. Man believes in luck, and was a natural gambler. The belief in luck is morticed into human nature. There are proverbs illustrating this among all na? tions. It is better to be born lucky, than rich, for instance, also, "a fool for luck," and the ungallant German had one to the effect that "Fortune and women favored fools." There can be but very little doubt, said the lecturer, that the leverage of luck has often lifted individuals above their merit. The Confederate put on a lustre to all bravery, but he lacked luck. He was a synonym for courage, but he lacked luck. The giay jacket covered grit, but net luck. Grit is heroism crystalized. Spunk don't express it. Spunk is courage at effervescence. Grit is courage with the bayonet on, and the Confederate was real, genuine grit from beginning to end. The speaker hero illustrated hia idea of grit by Boine amusing reminiscences of an old billy-goat near his home in Richmond, and as illustrating the same quality in man the lecturer related a fiery episodejust prior to the surrender at Appomatos. As the messenger of peace under the white flag passed down the line, the banners were furled, and the soldiers in their frenzy broke their muskets and shed tears. One Federal battery alone spitefully continued its fire. A band of Confederates swooped down upon it, drove the gunners away, and when a little later tho messenger of peace reach? ed them, surrendered the weapons still hot with the enemy's powder. [NG, MAY 9, 1889. I Washington won but Lee lost. It was luck and lack of luck that caused the difference. Sometimes the Continentals fought the British five to one and got whipped. Ouilford Court House the I lecturer styledja quarterrace. He said when you came to think of it there was mighty little killing. With, three mil? lions of population the Continentals never had an army of 20,000 men. With five millions of whites the Confederacy had a quarter of a million killed. A skirmish in the Shenandoah Valley fur? nished more ^graves than the whole Eevolutionary war. No wonder the Continentals gained the victory with uuch luck I The Continentals had three great na? tions, France, Spain and Holland, assist-, ing them. The Confederacy had the whole world frowning upon it. The lecturer then proceeded at consid? erable length to attempt to show that it was only by luck that the Continentals were victorious?that but for Burgoyne'a blunders and tho death of Clive the Revolution would have been put down. If Clive had lived, he said, the Revolu? tion would have been crushed within sixty days. He ridiculed the Continentals during their flight in North Carolina and Vir? ginia, saying that the Continentals would have been,overtaken and routed after crossing the Catawba, but that the river rose during the night; that the same thing saved them after they had crossed the Yadin, and again after they had passed the Dan. He drew a somewhat ridiculous picture of the condition of affairs in Virginia when Cornwallis reached there, and claimed had he remain? ed at Portsmouth he could; never have been taken ; also, that it was an accident that he stopped at Yorktown. Further, the lecturer claimed that it was only by reason of a storm that Count de Grasse's French fleet was driven into Chesapeake Bay, E nd that the same storm which drove him there drove away the British fleet coming to join Cornwallis. Then, again, that only the occurrence of another storm prevented Cornwallis's army from escaping^across York river in boats, and that the surrender which ended the war was entirely the result of a chapter of accidents or luck. Calling the attention of his bearers to the Confederacy, the lecturer related that Montgomery Blair, Postmaster General under Lincoln, had told him a remarka? ble fact about the battle of Shiloh or Pittsburg Landing. Describing the positions of the opposing forces, Mr. Blair had said that over one-half the Federal troopB had been driven back to the river completely demoralized, and that he was satisfied that if Gen, Albert Sidney Johnston had lived thirty min? utes longer, the Federal army would have surrendered. Gen. Blair, his own brother, had said so. It was a spent ball which killed the champion of the South. What luck or ill luck came from an ounce of lead 1 Take the fall of Stonewall Jackson. He had just matured a plan to get be? tween Hooker and the Rappahannock. As he was between the lines one evening a bullet struck down the great warrior, from whose gun, or from which side never has been known. ? If Jackson had put his army between Hooker and the river one army or the other would have had to surrender. If Hooker bad reached that river it would have been over a causeway of the corpses of every man in Stonewall Jackson's command. General Lee on one occasion had been waiting a certain move of Grant in the movements around Richmond?that was the division of his forces and the putting of a part of his army the other side of Petersburg. The Federal troops were to go across a pontoon bridge,|and in the obstructions of piles, etc., above an opening had been left by the Confeder? ates. Iron-plated steamers had been kept in readiness for just such an expe? dition and when he learned that Grant had actually moved a portion of bis troops Lee had the steamers made ready to go down and destroy the bridge, thu? cutting communication between the two parts of the Federal army, and he intend? ed to attack Grant on the Richmond side. The pilot of the first steamer, whether a traitor, or through accident, intead of steering straight through the opening in the piles, ran his boat upon them, thus closing up the only gate of egress and ruining the proposed expedi? tion. What a piece of luck 1 Lee would certainly have crushed Grant's army but for it. In that campaign, in which Lee was willing to go down to the centuries and to be judged by the military critics of all time, from Spottsylvaniato Cold Harbor, Lee knocked down more men in the Federal army than he bad in his whole army when he started. At Cold Harbor the slaughter of the Federals was such the soldiers refused to charge again. A dispatch was sent to Seward. "The fight is out of the army of the Potomac," Seward then begun to get ready to arrange an armistice, and summoned to him 3 win ton, the historian. He showed to him the dispatch and took him in his private car to Albany, where there editorials were written by Swinton for the New York Times to prepare the public mind for the proposed peace pro? ceeding. The manuscripts with Soward's interlineations are still in existence and will be published at Swinton's death. Just before they were put in type the Army of the South at Atlanta gave way, and the news caused the publication to be abandoned. But for that retrograde movement the war would have been ended in twenty four hours. If the movement had been delayed but that time, what great results would have followed! Again, Mr. Bigelow, acting Minister to France in 18G4-5, says that but for the treachery of a single Frenchman, who was trusted by bis patron and em? ployer, the whole blockade of the South? ern ports would have been opened. The Secretary of the Navy of Franco had entered into an agreement for cer? tain considerations to have the st builder of naval vessels in the world to construct there immense warships, such as then were not known, but now are recognized as being able to take any city on our coast. These vessels were to proceed to America and raise the block? ade, obligo New York and other citieB to give'up enormous ransomB to escape destruction, and this money would have equipped a navy and furnished the South with all it needed to carry on the war. An employee of the builder stole a private note of the Naval Secretary and for an immense bribe turned it over to Mr. Bigelow, who showed it to the Em? peror and obliged the work on the 7ves seIs|tolbe stopped. Still again, when McClellan^had^been crushed on the James and Lee marched toward Washington, with only in his way General Pope, whose headquarters were ?,in the saddle," and whose hindquarters were^soon whirling through Washington, only an accident prevented Confederate success. Lee moved on to Maryland. Washing? ton was in danger. McClella?, deposed in disgrace, was again summoned to com? mand as a desperate resort. Lee captur? ed at Harper's Ferry 11,000 men, and then wrote his.famous order No. 191, in which he described his plans for the nr.xt ten days and gave each of his corps commanders their full directions. He divided his army into sections, separated by somttimes forty or fifty miles, and moved on. A Marylander of Son them sympathies, I who visited McClellan in his camp, found him sick in body and mind. He said he did not know where Lee was. Stuart bad cut off all sources of information. He dare not go ibrward, for if defeated he would be disgraced and deposed. He dared not retreat, for bis soldiers would mutiny. Si Just then a courier entered the tent and handed him an envelope. McClellan opened it and read the contents. Jump? ing to his feet with appearances of exul? tation he exclaimed, "Now, I know exact? ly what to do." He had in his posses? sion a copy of Order 191. By a blunder, or bad luck some one had got possession of it, and McClellan was looking into Lee's hand as he played the game of war. The Marylander senl warning to Lee, and the scattered sections of the army were summoned to unite by swiff couri? ers. But the men came in exhausted by forced marches, and then the battle on Antietam Creek followed. There were 30,000 men agdnst 80,000, but the army of Lee made such a fight as to keep McClellan back, and dispute the honors of this famous fight. ( Lee always believed that the result of . Antietam doomed the Confederacy. i . To turn away from gloomy things to I brighter facts, the Confederate army made j for itself a name for courage unequalled j in the history of the world. On one ] occassion at a banquet in Toronto, Gen? eral Garnet WoLsley asked General Preston, of the staff of General Albert Sidney Johnston, if the South could not j have held out longer. < Gen. Preston replied that as a matter j of physical endurance the South could, j but that in four years the Confederacy . lost more men than GreatBritian ih all . her wars from the time of William, the < Conqueror, to Gen. Wolsley. The south in four years lost 222,000 j men out of a population of five millions, ] and Chickamauga was the bloodiest battle of all ages. ! Dr. Lafferty closed with an eloquent | peroration in which he pictured the . wonderful progress of the South since the war, and said that in future time ; another Homer might arise and sing to 1 istening and lamenting hearers the Illiad j of the South; that noble cause that fell , without a single coward, and which from the ashes of its destruction bad reared a new Illium. God Is Not a Merchant. "For by grace are ye Bayed through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is ; the gift of God." Once there was a poor woman standing , before the window of a royal conserva? tory which looked into the public street.- , It was the dead of Winter, and no flowers" were in the garden, and no leaves upon the trees. But in the hot-hcuse a splen? did bunch of grapes hung from the glass ceiling, breaking in the bright Winter j sun, and the poor woman gazed at them until the water came into her mouth, and she sighed: "0,1 wish I could take it to my sick darling I" She went home and sat down to her spinning wheel, and wrought until she had earned half a crown. She then went to the King's gardener, and offered that sum for a bunch of grapes; but the gardener re? ceived her unkindly and told her not to come again. She returned home, and looked around her little cottage to see whether there was anything she could dispense with. It was a severe Winter, yet she thought she could do without a blanket for a week or two; soBhe pawned it for half a crown, and went to the King's gardener, and now offered him ten shillings. But the gardener scolded her and took her by the arm rather roughly and thrust her out. It just happened, however, that the King's daughter was near at hand; and when she heard the angry woods of tho gardener, and the crying of the woman, she camo up and inquired into the matter. When the poor woman had told her story, the noble Princess said, with a kind smilo: "My dear woman, you are mistaken; my father is not a merchant, but a King; his business i3 not to sell, but to give;" whereupon she plucked the bunch from the vine, and nently dropped it into the old woman's apron. So the woman obtained as a free gift that which the labor of many days and nights had been unable to procure. The salvation of the soul is the great eat thing you can desire. But you can? not buy it with all the riches of the world, with all the prayers you can pray, with all the alms you can give, with all the useful works you could perform dur? ing a life as long as that of Methuselah. The fact is, your soul's salvation is in the hands of a King, and not a merchant. If you receive it at all, it must be as a gift; for you never can buy it. ? J. Anthony Froude, the English hiaiorian, has written a letter to Philip Bruce, author of "The Plantation Ne? gro," in which be aays that "the worst enemies of the blacks are those who per? sist in pressing upon them an equality which Nature has denied them." VOLUM] A, "Nigger in the Cliiinney." I s "Deputy Sheriff Jeff. D?Giireatb;and Policeman Steele returned to the city yesterday [morning from an expedition intoJAuderson*County, .'in f.he.|course of which an exceedingly ludicrous incident occurred. The officers set out Monday afternoon^to arrest one Calvin Williams, a'negro living on James Silton's place in the Brushy Creek section, about eight miles from the city. Williams was wanted for breaking into and robbing the house of Virgil Harrison, in this County, last Christmas. He had previously been. sent up to court by Trial Justice Moon on the charge of assault and battery and carrying concealed weapons, but had escaped from custody. Recently the Sheriff got information of Williams' whereabouts in Anderson County and sent for him. Monday night arriving at the cabin where Williams was known to be, officers Gilreath and Steele "surrounded" the house and knocking on the door, called upon the inmates in the name of the law, to open the door and surrender. They heard a shuffling around inside, the noise of some one walking across the floor, and presently a female voiced called out that Williams was "not in." Thereupon Deputy Gilreath kicked open the door, at the same time dislodging from its resting place an axe that Williams was said to keep standing there to defy the officers of the law, and the two officers entered. Careful search of the apart? ment gave no signs of the wanted man. At last, Mr. Gilreath, going to the broads old-fashioned fireplace, peeped up the chimney'and saw in the^semi-darkness, a pair of shoes suspended in the hollow funnel. Above the shoes was the person of Williams, whose head was ensconced in the soot and blackness of the upper chimney. A word from the officer told the coon that he was treed, and he came down, looking with his soot smeared and begrimed countenance and clothes for all the world like an imp from the lower world. He submitted calmly then to the handcuffs, and was brought peaceably back to the city and put in a cell at the County jail.? Greenville News, May 1. Suicide in Columbia. Columbia, April 30.?The half holi? days has proved too much for at least one Columbian. Hugh Mclntrye, a native of Ireland, attempted to kill himself to? day by cutting his throat with a razor. He was suffering with delirium tremens und was under the delusion that he was bo be hung. A friend gave him a narcot? ic and put him to bed. Thinking that he bad gone to sleep his friend left him; but was notified in a few minutes that Mclntyre had cut his own throat. Such was found to be the case. Dr. W. B. Lester was summoned and hastened to the dying man. Dr. Lester ivas Boon joined by Dr. Taylor. They found Mclntyre almost pulseless, lying in a pool of blood. When the physicians arrived the blood had ceased to flow. By vigorious measures he has recovered somewhat and possibly may live. When his friend returned to the room in which he had left Mclntyre he found him lying on the floor, face downwards, with a razor by his side. The wonnd was I about two and one-half inches long across the front of the throat, the larynx being 1 grazed. . 1 Mclntyre has been in this country for 1 about ten years. He has spent most of that time in Union, but is at present in ! the employ of Mr. D. C. Flynn in this i city. Mclntyre died to-night at 10 o'clock I from loss of blood, the heart refusing to < act.?Special lo News and Courier. 1 Unexpected. A ministerial note-book could scarce- 1 [y fail to be amusing. The man who meets all sorts of people, in their moods of extreme joy and sorrow, has every oppor? tunity for getting at whatever kernal 1 there may be in the human grain. Amusiug occurrences are constantly to be met with in connection with the marriage ceremony. The following, related by a clergyman, is a fair sample of such oddities: A young man, a plain, good-hearted Irishman, was about to get married, and he came to arrange all the difficulties he thought connected with the ceremony. I assured him there would be no diffi? culty ; that I would Bee him through all right. "But," said he, "what about the ring?" I explained; and then, with a blush, he asked, "When must I kiss the bride ?': I answered that at the close of the ceromony I would offer a prayer, and just as soon as I should Bay "Amen" he was to kiss the bride. The ceremony went through all right; I said "Amen" and looked at him in a knowing way. He suddenly remember? ed his duty, made a little jump, like a timid trout at a fly, and kissed?not the bride, but me. It was the heartiest kiss I remember ever to have experienced. He had a short- cropped black mustache, and I can still feel the warm prickling of it on my lips. The Lord's Prayer. On one occasion, traveling in the Bar bary States with a companion who pos? sessed some knowledge of medicine, we had arrived at a door near which we were about to pitch our tents, when a crowd of Arabs surrounded us, cursing and swearing at the "rebellers against God." My friend, who spoke a little Arabic, turning round to an elderly per? son, whose garb bespoke him a priest, said: "Who taught you that we are dis? believers ? Hear my daily prayer, and judge for yourselves." He then repeated the Lord's Prayer. All stood amazed and silent, till -the priest exclaimed: "May God curse me if I ever curse again those who hold such belief! Nay, more: that prayer shall be my prayer till my hour be come. I pray the, 0 Nazwene, repeat the prayer, that it may be remem? bered and written among us in letters of gold.' "?Hay's " Western Barbary." ? Samuel Amstutz, a Wayne county, Pennsylvania, pioneer, is dying at the age of ninety-four, and his hair, which has been silver gray for years, is turning black, E XXIV.--NO. 44. -? ALL SORTS OF PARAGKAPHS. ? The young . man who forged bis way to the front is now in the penitentia? ry. ? Many men will work harder for a. day's pleasure than they will for a week's wages.! gfl? New York invested $200,000 intthe centennial celebration and made $2,000, 000 out of it. ? The Christian is like the ripening corn : the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head. ? Peanuts are now ground into a kind of flour, which is both palatable and nour? ishing. An excellent porridge is made of it. ? More than twenty million acres in land in Washington Territory, or nearly one-half the whole area, remain unsur veycd. ? Be pleasant and kind to those around you. The man who stirs his cup with an icicle spoils the tea and chills his own fingers. ? A Georgia exchangeisays^that Hon. H.jW. J.JHam, Sam Veal and Majori R. A. Bacon met reccutly by accident in a store at Rome. ? There are about 600,000 barrels of cotton seed oil manufactured annually, two-thirds of which is consumed in man? ufacturing lard. ? A farmer- in lower portion of the State claims that he has the longest cot ton [row. It is spiral form aud four and one half miles in length. ? The'ancrease of earnings of the Richmond & Danville railroad iin the month of March, 1883, over the same month last year is $85,367.55. ? Chewing gum is so much the fashion in Illinois that the young people have chewing parties, the prize being given to the one who chews the longest. ? An Arkansas man who bears the name of Jerusalem John Johnson wants it changed to John the Baptist Smith, in order to inherit ten acres of land. ? The population in New South Wales is so scattered that in some in? stances voters have to travel two hundred miles to the polls, or lose their votes. ? The Secretary of State has received an inquiry from the Swiss Minister at Washington in regard to the induce? ments offered by South Carolina to immi? grants. ? A Buffalo bachelor has a memoran? dum book in which he has the name of every girl he has ever kissed. He had 923^names on the list the last time he counted up. ? A small pox epidemic now threatens Guthrie and other towns in the new territory of ^Oklahoma. The mass of people who have arrived are much alarmed at the breaking out of this dis? ease. ? There was a case of yellow fever at Sanford, Florida, last week, but Surgeon General Hamilton, who has thoroughly investigated the situation, expresses the opinion that there will be no infection in ^ the State this year. ? Upon one street in Elizabeth, N. J.,;' there are now living a grand-niece of Washington and threejgrand nieces of Wilson Cary, father (of the beautiful Mary Cary, who is said to have been the great General's first love.. ? Some Washington ladies adopted an original method of making their pastor a donation on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his installation. They gave him a bouquet of twenty-five large lilies, and in each lily was a five-dollar gold piece. ? Mr. Wayman, of Griffin, Ga.^raiBed from 5-8' of an acre 26,000 quarts o?_^ strawberries which he sold at 10 cents a quart; the picking costs from 1 to \\ cents. This would leave a net profit of $260 off his patch, or the rate of $410 acre. ? Mis3 Susan M. Dunklee, of Newton,^.? Mass., the first woman to be bank treas? urer, in the United States, with the help of a clerk now handles about $500,000 in money each year. In the 15 years of her experience she has but twice taken in a counterfeit bill?in each case a $10 one. ? When the use of coal was fiN(t discovered in England, it was madejs.-**! capital offense to burn it in London be? cause of the smoke. Women were loud? est in their objections, declaring it ruined their complexions. One man was put to death for breaking the law against coal. ? The gold mine on Douglass Island, Ore., recently bought by an English syn? dicate for two million dollars, has been diamond drilled throughout, and it is said there is gold enough shown to keep one thousand men busy every day for one hundred years taking out the gold beari?g quartz. ? Joe Wilson, an Alabama river fish? erman, colored, caught a huge catfish and started home with it. Somewhere on the way the fish flopped its tail against the hammer of Wilson's gun. The piece - was discharged, sending a load of duckshot through the negro's thigh, inflicting a very dangerous wound. ? A nailless horseshoe has been in-' vented in England. The shoe is so adapt? ed to the foot that a driver can put one on in three minutes. It pinches the edge of the hoof at certain points, and is held oi in this way, no nails being driven in the hoof. The invention saves time it shoeing and avoids its perils. It is just as serviceable as the old fashione way. ? "Diserabered photographs"- is thj latest craze among the women of thit West according to the Detroit Free Press. " If one has a very pretty hand or arm she has it photographed and mounted in a frame with a velvet background. These pictures are not for the parlor but are kept in the chambers of the ladies and sent to special friends. One woman had her foot taken and another the back of her neck. Now how would you like to see a number seven foot, all knotted up with corns and bunions taken? Wouldn't it be a nice keep-sake? \ Entitled to-the Best. Al^ are entitled to the best that their mon- V will buy, so every family should havt at once, a bottle of the best family remedy Syrup of Figs, to cleanse the sys? tem when costive or billious. For sale in 50c. and $1.00 bottles by all leading druggists.