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IN THE L i^la I8! I Lshlasrj A ACCOMPANIED BY MRS. SLOAN, HAVING just returned from tbo East? ern Markets, where they spent a Jong while in search of? BARE BARGAINS, Now take pleasure in stating that we never bought a Stock of Goods more to i our own satisfaction than we did this time. In our opinion, we cau show not only? The Largest, Handsomest, And most Varied 'SP?JNG STOCK Ever offered on this market, but taking QUALITY of material iuto considera? tion? By Far to Ctatf! DRESS GOODS, Of every Style, Color and Texture, Including Challies, Henriettas, Brillian tines, Mohairs, Silks, Satins, Velvets, Sateens and White Goods, world without end. In fact, all the NEW GOODS, in every imaginable shade that the markets afford. Our Stock of? TRIMMINGS i Is 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, as well as Guimps and Garnitures of every descripiion, BUTTOITS! Never before ha3 it been our good fortune to run upon such a handsome, tasty and elegant lot of Buttons as we have now waiting your inspection. Don't foryev that as we were the first to introduce tho?se soft-finish, elegant DRESS LININGS, we stfil give this line o?r personal attention, MISS MALLALIEU Continues her DRESS MAKING - In our Establishment; and U better pre? pared thau ever before to fill, in a thor? ough and stylish mannor, all orders entrusted to has. A full and carefully selected? STOGK OF HOSIERY. I I Hankerchlefs, Gloves ?cd lVrasols. In Lsces and Mui! Embroidcrie? we defy competition. Af usual we take the? LEAD IN MILLINERY Of every description. We have bad exceptional advkatagfs in buying this ? year. We hsgin with our loader?a nice ! shade Hal, in black and white, at 200. Staying late enough to attend ail the ; retuii openings; we are i-t-i only iadeti with the nvjtl L>cautifu! and stylish | Goods K\er shown hen*, but have a thor ough knowledge of how to in .uipulate them. So tliat with stylish Shapes, beautiful Flowers, airy I,ur-> and en? trancing Ribbon*; the laU>t Kreuch and New York fashions, arid above ail THE i LOWEST PRICIiS ever offered, we are I bound to bring joy to the li' ?rt- of our many customer*, old ?od new. Very respectfully, | Rm Sr HILL? 5 & LANGSTON. T^A?H^'GOLUMN, -:??. All Communications intended for this Column should bo addressed to D, II. RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander? son, S. C. We went to Lebanon on the 110th ult. to witness the Centennial exercises of Prof. Hu)u< id's school. The pupils went through with it greatly to their own credit and that of the teacher who got up the programin-? for the day. Exercises of this kind are valuable in a school, for they tend to kindle afrcfih the fire3 of pa? 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 giyc them a fifteen minutes talk after dinner. The Teachers-' Association ou 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 teachers 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 arid 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 persona 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 Bton 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 spelling book, and he eent word back that he was too poor, but the next week that same father was here in town and spent a dollar and a half for wJmhey and got most gloriously drunk, and he a deacon in the Church, too. j That's what's the matter in many case3. If the money that is spent foolishly upon whiskey and 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 educatiou within the reach of ' every boy and girl in the County. Wo 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 any grade iu the recent County 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, lor I never saw a Board disposed to give more time. Well; what was the cause? Only this, iu my opiu ion, our teachers have failed to keep pace with times, and lor that reasou call what otherwise would be an easy exami? nation hard. 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, iu those long past days, have given a teacher a first grade, will hardly give him third now. The trouble with us is we arc in too great hurry fur posi? tion, aud don't give enough mention to preparation, but rush iu prepared ur unprepared. The place is v '.a', ?vi? want, and all other things a-u c .......?_>. Prepare, my friends, and the position will seek you. Spend more time in ftchooi. Take the one example laid down in the Bible of preparation for life's work. Moses was put through au Egyp? tian school fur 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 sind thront;!) the fields he roamed for forty years longer, thus spending two think of io.- l::e in preparation for the .vi>:i- of the other third. So should we yes! ourselves wiih mort! 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 our people should ri.se iu one unbroken phalanx, | and say blessed to ib?* man who vetoed the whole concern and said a teacher should he prepared, or can't, teach in this C< unty. I say "Amen/' This says ?,se are In have better teachers, better schools, and speaks well for the future of the penpl<5 win re they teach only on merit. I i.vouId say to tny fellow-teach? ers, bestir yourselves; come in line and do :i work worthy of you. f think the teachers of this County should arrange it so :is t li'ivt! a meeting sometime dor i11tr the summer, where they can give and receive ideas.ou the subject. A Tr.A' HKK. BILL AUF. A Mother's I.ovo tlio Tlest Protection f.ir Her Olrsprlufr. AlbiHta Contlilution. PJato 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 himsolf that no ordinary misfortuur would affect his temper or his serenil \ His house might burn up or his mill oe washed away or his cattle all die, and it would bring no 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 set before him. but the mother dident. It was Racbael who mourned for her children, and rcfus cd 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 starving child. It was the mother of Moses who hid him iu tho bullrushes and watched him for months to save his life. This is all right. It is not only the law of nature, but is 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 course 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 rod beautiful boy. I did not know how much I loved him un? til he was gone?gone from tho house and buried. I would have compromised with death if I could have kept the child at home, though dead?dead and undecayed ?so that I could see him aud touch him and kiss Iiis marble forehead. How crushing was the thought th?t he was away off alone in the dark night with a weight of earth upou him ! How utterly helpless I felt 1 How the world did shrink, and how paltry everything arouud me that I had been living for! But old Father Time is 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 she 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, and heard the sobbings of the children, while the good old grandmother walked to and fro in her household duties, and groaned with brokeu spirit, and every little while came near and kissed the boy and dropped a tear on his brow aud 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 haveenough of their owu," she says, "and I'll not trouble them with miue." When she came for a last look and kuelt down beaide 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 said?"please don't put him iu the coflin yet, please don't?maybe he is in a trance for he died bo sudden. Maybe the good Lord will spare hiin to us," and she fell 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 bill that overlooks tho rivers of Rome?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 ressurreclion morn. My parents arc tl ero, too, and a brother aud his children. Four genera? tions, all uestie-d together :uid waiting. Numerous kindreds are scattered around, I kindreds who share the blood of the same I grand sire. How like a patriarch will my aged father rise among them aud call the flock and marshall them away to judg? ment. "What becomes of these children after death ?" said a lather to me. "IVhero is that little boy's spirit now ?" The Lord only knoweth, and He has not seen fit to tell us. Revelation stops right there. There is enough revealed to guide us in all our conduct; enough to make us *l'ivr 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 ail that i? in the casket. I belivo 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, and 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 lcaru how a beautiful fragrant flower can come /roin a little seed in unfragrant soil, and what arc the boundaries of universe and all the myste? ries of life and evolution. ft is gor;<l for a man or a woman to visit the city c>!' 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 throng who have gone before. It is good to read the names ami epitaphs upon the marble?the names of friends almost for? gotten, friends of mir youth. I recalled their busy lifo, their hopes and their sud? den deaths, and I remembered tho grief of those to whom they were dear. J saw some women clad iu mourning and tlioy were placing fresli Mowers upon the grnves of those thej loved, but i nevtr saw a mau showing the fe'amu devotion. A ANDERSON, 8. G, - " j river separaten these two cities?tho city of life aud the city of death, ns our Chief Justice Bleck ley so aptly expresses it in his beautiful poems. Kvery 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 liurwell 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 side by side and head to feet under tho brow of the hill. Tho graves of three noble twirls are there?lovely girls?teachers 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 hearts of all 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 suffered the same aflliction. But there is no money in grief or fu uerals, and so the broken ranks must clo3e. If a soldier falls in battle the column does not stop a moment. "Close up ; close up ; men !" the captain cries, and on they go to victory or death. A man is not of much consequence in 1 this world?not near as much as he thinks he is. If Governor Brown and Governor Colquittand 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 iu the papers. Everything is business now, and tho procession muat proceed. An intelligent citizen asked me yesterday whether it was Arthur or Hayes who was dead. Bill A nr. A (?reat 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 iu this State arc of enormous discharge, aud among the more important may be mentioned the follow? ing : The Silver Spring, which supplies a very considerable portion of the How of the St. John's I liver, and the Homosassa River on the west coast, which Hows 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 fivo 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 oue opposite St. Augustine, which perceptibly alfect3 the surface of the oceaa iu a circle over half a mile iu diameter, and forms a Hat cone with an apex slightly elevated above the general surface. Another of these great ocean springs bursts out at Key "West, and smaller one3 show them? selves at many points along the coast of Florida. As 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 wonderod 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. F.agler fur Iiis great hotels at St. Augustine. The Artesian well at Ponce de Leon was commenced in November, 1SS6, with a diameter of twelve inches, and by Feb? ruary, 1*87, it had reached a depth of 1,309 feet below the surface, with a yield of 10,000,000 gallons ol water in twenty four hours, and a pressure of discharge sufficient to force the jet forty-two feet above the moulh 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 bis superintendent, Mr. Fla glcr had consented to sink tho 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-fobt point was being reached, aud 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 suiliciently high temperature to be utilized in supplying heat in the hotels, and possibly power. With the temperature at 82s Fahrenheit actually secured 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 S'S Fahren? heit, as 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 i heating the climate demands. While che volume of water discharged is greater limn that of any Artesian well in this country of which we have any knowledge, ttie pressure at the point of discharge is also over four times that of tho Artesian well at Charleston, S. O., 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 fur a smaller purpose. I'wj'hh ? rbiy jYc'g. Nothing hui love to ' !od mn rronqiier the love of the world. THURSDAY MORN] THE L?ST CAUSE. Tin- Kcv. IJr. 1.11 (forty's Bon Lack of T.m k OJumhiu Jlcfiiste^ May 1. The audience which assembled, at the Opera House labt night on the occasion of ihe'second lecture in Columbia! of the Rev. John J. Lafl'erty'/both, in number ami quality was a fine one and exceed? ingly complimentary to the lecturer.^? Dr. Laflerty, 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 j and entertaining manner. The lecturer was introduced in a happy manner by the Rov. Marion Dargan, and his subject was "The Lack of Luck.with Lee." ? Dr. Dafferty opened his address;.by saying that the annals of human affairs prove that no nation, no individual.no cause^has ever succeeded without a sc? ries of lucky events. In the career of every great man would be found some? where a fortuitous [circumstance which had turned his course toward greatness. Iu 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 Toint 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 so 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 the captaius he became Colonel, and being the senior among the Colonels he became a Brigadier General. He did not achieve special prominence, and as a matter of fact was about to be removed to a subordinate command under General Banks, just beforo 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 campaign 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 his mem? oirs. Grant was about to sign a contract with the Century Company to give them che 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 $000,000. 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 courago 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. Laflerty 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 Xapoleou 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 auythiug he would set the sayings of Solomon, who was himself an example of luck, for ho was married 3UU 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, ft is better to be born lucky than rich, for iustauce, alao, "a fool for luck,"' and the utigallant Oerman had one. to the effect that "Fortune and women favored fools." There can he 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. Ho was a synonym for courage, but he lacked luck. The giay jacket covered grit, but not luck. Orit is heroism cryslalized. 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 j end. - The speaker here illustrated his idea ! of grit by some 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 tho surrender at Appomatox. Ah the messenger of peace under the white ling passed down the line, the banner:-, were furled, and the .soldiers in their frenzy broke their muskets and j shed tears. One Federal battery alone ] spitefully continued its fire. A hand of Confederate* swoope d down upon it, '? drove the gunners away, and when a Mule later the messenger of peace roiieli ed them, surrendered the weapons still! hot with the enemy's powder. ENG, MAY 0, 1889. Washington won but I.ec lost. Ft was luck and lack of luck that caused the difference. Sometimes the Continentals fought the British five to one and got whipped. Guilford Court House the lecturer styledjfl quarter race. He s.dd 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 iiad a quarter of a million killed. A skirmish in the ShenandOah Valley fur? nished more "graves than the whole Revolutionary war. No wonder the Continentals gained the victory with such luck: 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's blunders aud the death of Clive the devolution 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 Contiuentals 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 bad passed the Dan. He drew a somewhat ridiculous picture of the condition of affairs in Virginia when Coruwallis reached there, and claimed had he remain? ed at Portsmouth lie 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 iuto Chesapeake Bay, aud ".hat the same storm which drove him there drove away the British fleet coming to join Cornwallis. Then, again, that only the occurrence of another s,torm prevented Cornwallis's army from escaping'.aoross York river in boats, and that the surrender which ended the war was eotirely the result of a chapter of accidents or luck. Calling the attention of his hearers to the Confederacy, the lecturer related that Montgomery Blair, l'ostmaster Goneral under Lincoln, had told him a remarka? ble fact about the battle of Shiloh or Fitbburg Landing. Describing the positions of the opposing forces, Mr. Blair had said that over one half the Federal troops 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 louger, 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! Take the fall of Stonewall Jackson. He h id just matured a plau to get be? tween Hooker and the Rappahaunock. As he was between the lines one eveuiug 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 had reached that river it would have been over a causeway of the corpses of every nan in Stonewall Jackson's command. General Lee on one occasion had been wailing 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 au expe? dition and when he learned that Grant had actually moved a portion of his troops Lee had the steamers made ready to go down and destroy the bridge, thufl cutting communication between the two parts of the Federal army, and lie 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 gato of egress and ruining the proposed expedi? tion. What a piece of luck ! Lee would certainly have crushed Grant's army but for it. In that campaign; in which Lcc was willing to go down to the centuries and to be judged by the military critics of all time, from SpolUylvaniato Cold Harbor, Lee knocked down more men in the Federal army than he had in his wlu>le 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 Lo arrange an armistice, and summoned to him Swintou, the historian; lie showed to him the dispatch and took him iu his private car to Albany, where there editorials were written by Swintou for the New York Tone* lo prepare the public mind for the proposed peace pro? ceeding. The manuscripts with Seward's inter?neatio) s are still in existence and >vill be published at Swinton's death. Just before they were put iu type the Army of the South at Atlanta gave way, and the new-; caused tile publication to be a! iindoned. But for that retrograde movement the war would have been ended in twenty lour hours. If the movement hail been delayed but that time, what gn at re.-ults would have followed 1 Again, .Mr. IJigelow, acting Minister to France iu Jxll-.', bays that but lor the treachery of a single Frenchman, j who was trusted by his patron and em? ployer, tin' whole blockade ol the South? ern ports would have been opened. The Secretary of the Navy of France ! had entered into an agreement for eer- 1 tain considerations to have the best builder <?f naval vessels in (he world to constiiii'l '.here:iiumei:.-' wars-hip's, 4tn;h a- ihen wero mil known, bin now are recognized being able to take any city on our coa.it. These vessels were to 4 & proceed to America atid raise the block? ade, Obligo New York and other cities to give!up enormous ransoms 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 stolen 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 ;ves sels*to~bc stopped. Still again, when McCIellan"had.becn crushed on the .Tames and Lee marched toward Washington, with only in his way Geucral Pope, whose headquarters were '?in the saddle,'' and whose hindquarter wcre'soon whirling through Washington, only an accident prevented Confederate SUCC0S3. Lee moved on to .Maryland. Washing? ton was in danger. McClellan, 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. 101, in which he described his plans for the next ten days and gave each of his corp. commanders their full directions. He divided his army into sections, separated by sometimes forty or fifty miles, and moved on. A Maryiander of Southern sympathies, who visited McClellan in his camp, found him sick in body and mind. He said he did not know where Lee was. Stuart had cut off all sources of information. He dare not go forward, for if defeated he would be disgraced and deposed. He dared not retreat, for his soldiers would mutiny. 5?ju3t then a courier entered the tent and handed him an envelope. McClellan opened it aud 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 wa3 looking iuto Lee's hand as he played the game of war. The Maryiander sent warning to Lee, and the scattered sections of the army were summoned to unite by swift couri? ers. But the men came iu exhausted by forced marches, and then the battle on Antietam Creek followed. There were 30,000 men against 80,000, but the army of Lea 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. To turu away from gloomy things to brighter facts, the Confederate army made for itself a name for courage unequalled in the history of the world. On one occassiou at a banquet in Toronto, Gen? eral Garnet Wolsley asked General I'restou, of the staff of General Albert tiidney Johnston, if the South could not have held out longer. Gen. Preston replied that as a matter of physical endurance the South could, but that in four years the Confederacy lost more men than GroatBritiau in all her wars from the time of William, the Conqueror, to Gen. Wolsley. The south in four years lost 2:22,000 men out of a population of five millions, aud Chickamauga was the bloodiest battle of all ages. Dr. Laflerty closed with an eloquent peroration in which he pictured the wonderful progress of the South since the war, and said that iu future time auother Homer might arise and sing to listeuing and lamenting hearers the Illiad of the South; that noblo cause that fell without a single coward, and which from the ashes of its destruction had reared a new Illium. (?od Is Not a Merchant. "For by grace are ye saved 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, aud no flowers' were in the garden, and no leaves upon the trees. But iu the hot house a splen? did bunch of grapes hung from the glass ceiling, breaking in tho bright Winter sun, and the poor woman gazed at them until the water came into her mouth, aud she sighed : ' O, 1 wish I could take it to my sick darling!" 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 ofl'ered 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 : so she pawned it iur half a crown, and went to the King's gardener, and now offered him ten shillings. Put the gardener scolded her and look her by the arm rather roughly and thrust her out. It just happened, however, that the King's daughter was near at baud ; and when she heard the angry woods of the gardener, and the crying of the womau, she came up aud inquired into the matter. When the puor woman had told her story, the noble Princess said, with a kind smile: "My dear woman, you are mistaken ; my father is not a merchant, hut a King; his business is not to sell, but to give ;" whereupon she plucked the bunch from the vine, and ncntly dropped it into the old woman's apron. So the woman obtained as r. free gift that which the labor of many day- ami nights hail been unable to procure. The salvation of the soul is the great? est 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 tho alms you can give, with all the useful work-" you could perform dur? ing a life as long as that of Methuselah. The fact is, your soul's salvation in in the hands of a King, ami not a merchant. It you receive it at all, i'. must be .".s a tri ft; for you never can buy it. ? .1. Anthony Fronde, the English historian, has written a letter to Philip IVrtiee, author of "The Plantation Nc" ?rro," in which lie says thai "the worst enemies oi the blacks are those who per sist in pressing Upon them an equality ' which Nature has denied them." volum: ?V\ "Msrjror in the Chimney." Deputy SherTlf .Teil'. D. Giireaih'ftnd Policeman Steele returned to the city yesterday [morning from an expedition iulo*A]iderson;County, in Ihe^course of , which an exceedingly ludicrous incident j occurred. The officers set out Monday I afternoon^to arrest one Calvin Williams, a negro living on .lames Si lion's place in tlie Brushy Creek section, about eight mile- from the city. Williams un? wanted for breaking into and robbing the house of Virgil Harrison, in this County, iasl Christmas. He had previously been sent up to court by Trial Justice Moot: I on the charge of assault and battery and carrying concealed weapons, but hail ! escaped from custody. Recently tin Sherilf got information of Williams' whereabouts in Anderson County and sent for him. Monday night arriving at the cabin where Williams was known tobe, officers Gilreath and Steele "surrounded" the house and knocking on the dour, called upon the inmates in the name of the law. to open the door and surrender. They heard a shuffiing 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 Gilrealh kicked open the door, at the same time dislodging from its resting place an axe that Williams was said to keep standing there lo 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, Air. Gilreath, going to the broad, old fashioned fireplace, peeped up the chimney'aud saw in the.'semt-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, aud 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, aud was brought peaceably back to the city and put in a cell at the County jail.?Greenville Xa?i, May 1. .Suicide in Columbia. Coj.UMiJiA, April 00.?The half holi? days has proved too much for at least one Columbian. Hugh Mclutrye, a native of Ireland, attempted to kill himself to day by cuttiug his throat with a razor. He was suffering with delirium tremens and was under the delusion that he was to be hung. A friend gave him a narcot? ic aud put him to bed. Thinking that he had gone to sleep bis friend left him hut was notified in a few minutes that Mclutyre had cut his own throat. Such was found to be the case. Dr. W. T>. Lester was summoned and hastened to the dying man. Dr. Lester was soon joined by Dr. Taylor. They found Mclutyre 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 iu which he had left Mclutyre he found him lying on the iloor, face downwards, with a razor by his side. The wound was about two aud one half inches long across the lront of the throat, the larynx being grazed. Mclutyre has been in this country for about teu years. He has spent most of that time in Union, but is at preseut in the employ of Air. D. C. Flyun in this city. Mclntyrc died to-night at 10 o'clock from loss of blood, the heart refusing to act.?Special to News and Courier. Unexpected. A ministerial note-book could scarce? ly fail to be amusing. The man who meets all sorts of people, in their moods of extreme joy aud sorrow, has every oppor? tunity for getting at whatever kernal there may be in the human grain. Amusing 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 Irishmau, 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 see 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 I answered that at the close of the ceromony I would offer a prayer, and just as soon as I should say "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 lip-. The Lord's Prayer. i hi one occasion, traveling in the Par bary States with a companion who pos? sessed some knowledge of medicine, we had arrived at a door near which we were abou'. to pitch our tents, when a crowd of Arabs surrounded us, cursing and swearing at the '? rebel lers against God." My friend, who spoke a little Arabic, turning roind to an elderly per? son, whose garb bespoke him a prie-t, said : "Who taught you thai we are dis? believers V Hear my daily prayer, and judge for yourselves." lie then repeated the Lord's I'rayer. All stood amazed and silent, till the priest exclaimed: "May (.Jod curse <nc if I over curse again those who hoid such belief! Nay. more : that prayer shall be my prayer till my hour be come. I pray the, 0 Nazarene, repeat the prayer, that it may be remem? bered and written among us in letters of gold.' ''?Hay's " Wi ttern Hart try:1 Samuel Vmstutz, a Wayne county, Pennsylvania, pit nccr is living at the age ol ninety-lour, and his hair, which has been silvcr grav for years, turning black. K XXIV.- -NO. 11. \hh sorts of i*ai:a*;i: whs. 1 he > i ung iran w ltd lorgt <i hin way (o the front N now in the ; enitentiii ry. ??Many men will work harder ior a day's pleasure than tliey will for a week's wages.! ?j? New Vork invested $200,000 iii'the 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 bis head. ? Peanuts are now ground into a kind of Hour, which is both palatable and nour? ishing. An excellent porridge is made of I it. ? .More than twenty million acres in land in Washington Territory, or nearly one-hall the whole area, remain un-ur veyed. ? Be pleasant and kind to those around you. The man who stirs his cup with an icicle spoils the tea and chills his own lingers. ? A Georgia cxchangc'says-lhat Hon. H.iW. J.jHam, Sam Veal arid Major? 11. A. Bacon met recently by accident in a store at Borne. ? 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 iower portion of the State claims that he has the longest cot tonjrow. It is spiral form and four and one half miles in length. ? The-increase of earnings of the Richmond it Danville railroad iu tho month of March, ISS9, over the same mouth last year is $35,307.55. ? Chewing gum is so much the fashion io 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 Johu Johnson wants it changed to Johu 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 Stale 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 92?Fnatnes on the list the last time he counted up. ? A small pox epidemic uow threatens Guthrie and other towns in the new territory of Oklahoma. The mass of people who have arrived are much ah.rmed 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 he no infection in the State this year. ? Upon one street in IC?zabeth, N. J., there are now living a grand-niece of Washington and threcrgrand nieces of Wilson Gary, father .'of the beautiful Mary Gary, 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. Way man, of Grillin, Ga.? raised from 5-S of an acre 26,000 quarts of strawberries which he sold at 10 cents a quart; the picking costs from 1 to 14 cents. This would leave a net profit of $2 jo off his patch, or the rate of $-110 acre. ? Miss 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 $000,000 in money each yes.r. In the 10 years of her experience she has but twice taken iu a counterfeit bill?in each case a $10 one. ? When the use of coal was fi/st discovered in England, it was made capital offenso to burn it in London be? cause of the smoke. AVomen were loud? est in their objections, declaring it ruined their complexions. < hie man was put to death for breaking the law agaic.-.t coal. ? The gold miue cn Douglass Island, Ore., recently bought by an English syn? dicate for two million dollars. I133 been diamoud drilled throughout, aud it is said there is gold enough shown to keep one thousand men busy every day for one hundred years taking out the gold bearing .juart/.. 1 ? Joe Wilson, an Alabama rivc-r fish? erman, colored, caught a huge catfish and started home w ith it. Somewhere on the way tiie fish hopped its tail against the hammer of Wilson's gun. The piece was discharged, seudiug a load ofduckshot through tho negro's thigh, iuflicting a very dangerous wound. ? A naillcss horseshoe has been in? vented in England. The shoe is so adapt? ed to the foot that a driver eat; put one 011 i:i t!tree minutes, it pinch* s the edge of the hoof a: certain point.-, and is held on^* in this way, no nails being driven into the hoof. Tiie invention saves time in shoeing aud avoids its perils, it is just as serviceable as the old-huhioned way. "Disembered photographs'' is tiie latest crsze among the women of the. West according to the Detroit Free Pre*.*. If one has a very pretty hand or arm she i'iis it photographed and mounted ;:: a trame with a velvet background. These pictures are net for the parlor but are kept in the chambers oi tiie ladies and sent to special friends. Ono woman had her fo< ?'. taken and another the back of iier heck. Now how would you like to see a number -ever, foot, ail knotted up with c>rns and bunions taken'.' Wouldn't it le a nice keep-sake'.' Hut it led to (lie Re<t. All arc entitled to the best that their mon v' will buy, so every family should lirtv? a! once, a bottle of the best family ren ei.y Syrup .'I Figs, '.'> cleanse Ihesvs torn when costive or billions. For sale in 50c. and $1.00 bottles by all leading druggists.