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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 24, 1895. VOLUME XXX.?NO. 4. HOT! AIN'T IT ? YOU can get lots of comfort out of a light Coat these days. The fine Black Mohairs and Al? pacas will be a boon. They're too cheap to think about?$1.00, $1.50 up to $5.00, and lots of other prices as well as fabrics. Drop in out of the sun and be fitted. Should yon need a STRAW HAT or a COLORED SHIRT we have something to please you. Nice, swell Goods for the money. Have you seen our 25c. Coats ? B. O. EVANS & CO., Clothiers and Furnishers. Chattanooga Cane Mills, Chattanooga Galvanized Steel Evaporators, With the Patent Cups. Chattanooga Portahle Furnaces. Coofc's Galvanized Steel and Copper Evaporators. Cook's Portahle Furnaces. We invite your attention to the above, on which we can. save yon money. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. To the People who Enow Us, To the People who don't Enow Us, TO EVERYBODY, ON K AND ALL. WE ARE SELLING GOODS CHEAP FOR THE CASH. 33 P. SJLO^IsT & CO OLD BACHELORS QaNKOT fully appreciate tbe elegant assortment of Fancy and Fami? ly Groceries, Canned Goods, Confectioneries, Tobacco, Ci? gars, other Goods, that we are displaying on our shelves and counters, but vre? WANT WIVES, And Housekeepers, especially, to come and see the nice things we can furnish them for their tables. We have the goods, guarantee them to be pure and fresh, and the prices very; low. Give as a call. G. F. BIGBY. FURNITURE I FURNITURE I! LARGEST STOCK, LOWEST PRICES, BEST GOODS! 9Sr COFFINS and CASKETS furnished Day or Night. WE have on hand the LARG12ST and BEST-SE? LECTED Stock of FURNITURE in South Carolina! bought this Summer when everything struck bottom, and while there was a big cut in freights. We have determined to give the People the advantage of our BARGAINS 1 We will Sell yon Furniture at Prices below anything ever heard of in this Conn try before ! And prioes it is impossible for any one else to buy the same quality of Goods for. When you need anything in the Furniture line give us a call, and? WE WILL SAVE YOU MONEY. Prices Lower than Cotton at 5c. Youfs for business, GL F. TOLLY & SON, The Leaders of Low Prices. J. P. SULLIVAN * CO., ?-Will sell you the ? Best Coffee, Th Cheapest Flour, Crockery, DecoratedN\d Plain, Dinner and Te^ Sets, AU for less Money thm you have been paying. J. P.8ULLIVAN & CO SARGE PLUNKETT. Hunting For a Position on the Work of the Exposition. Atlanta Constitution. "Are you going to the exposition?" is the question that will soon be heard in the land. Of course, everybody in Georgia is going, if they have to walk and hang themselves up on a peg to sleep while there. Thousands will come from a distance; some to make money, some to be instructed, some to see the South, and some will come just to be in the fashion. There is no estimating the amount of advertising this section will receive through this great show, nor can its influence for good or evil be approxi? mated. A thousand years from now the people then living can study the conditions in the South before this I exposition was held, and maybe they can say what of good or what of evil grew out of it. It is most sure to I mark a period, just as "before the revolution" marked a period with the colonies and as "before the war" marks a period with us, but I doubt if any generation will be wise enough to size up the consequences of any of these periods entirely correctly under a thousand or two thousand years from now. Anyhow the exposition is on the line of progress, and whether progress means going up the hill to the pinna? cle or down the hill on the other side, Brown nor I saith not, but we join hands with the majority and throw up our hats for the event, and shall try to do our part to instruct and enter? tain, and we have decided to derive as many benefits from the show as we possibly can to be honest. It would sound mighty patriotic to say that we want no gain from this exposition, but we cannot. If there is a man, woman or child in ten miles of Atlanta who has not made some sort of calculation or had some sort of hope of making something out of this event, they are duller folks than us. Brown swears that we are "goners" if we lose this opportunity?it is the last chance of our lives, is what he thinks, and we are acting accordingly. Just what "soft" place we should "accept" has been a question with us for some time, with a considerable emphasis on the word "accept." Our wives advised us to aim high? "Shoot at the moon," say they, "if you only hit a lightning bug." We remained at home expecting every day to be pressed to accept some position, till the thing began to look squally, and so we sauntered forth two weeks ago and have been saunteriDg ever since to find a place suited to our ideas, and it ie well to state that our ideas have been as varied as there is number of days in the two weeks that we have been on the hunt. The first day our steps were quick and our hopes were high; we felt cer? tain that we had only to apply to be pressed. We found the "headquar? ters" without much trouble, and were carried up on the elevator. There was not much of a stir when we step? ped into the room of "headquarters" ?in fact, there was no stir at all. Nobody said take a seat, or howdy, and how are your folks??they said nothing, not a thing, except that a negro asked us to stand to one side that he might sweep. In moving out of the way of the broom we happened to get where we could lean on a win? dow sill, and there we leaned and leaned, and I think we could have leaned on there till now, and never a word would have been spoken to us. We saw that we had to approach if there was any approaching to be done, and so I Bet Brown on a one-arm man that impressed us as being "some pankins" and as an old Confederate veteran besides. "How are you and how are your folks?" said Brown as he stood beside this one-armed man's desk. "Blodget. come here!" This is what the one-armed man ut? tered without raising his head, an iron-gray, heavy-set fellow step over from another desk and the two went to looking over a map. "How do you both do," said Brown, "and how are your folks?" I saw that Brown's mouth was get? ting so full of tobacco juice that he could hardly speak, but only '"Blodget" gave him a side glance from under his heavy eyebrows. I soon saw that Brown must either spit or bust and I trembled for the fine carpet upon the floor, but all is well that ends well. Brown had the good sense to walk back to where I was and unload his mouth out the window. The gentle? man of the empty sleeve walked over to a cooler close by us and took some ice water about this time, and Brown and I took it as sorter providential as giving us a chance to speak and be heard. "Pretty hot weather," said I, and the gentleman turned and bowed to us and was altogether so pleasant that our feelings changed at once toward the "headquarters," and we felt cer? tain of a job in a few minutes. "Lost your arm in the war?" saidl, pointing to his empty sleeve. "Yes," was all he said. "They crippled a good many of our boys," said Brown, "but we give the rascals as much as they wanted." "Yes," smiled the gentleman. "They got enough," said Brown, and the gentleman of the empty sleeve smiled so pleasantly that I thought it well enough for me to let him know that I was here "during" and that I was a "reb" to the core. I had about told of all the rascality I knew against the yankees aod had fixed my mouth to ask fora positiou, when Brown said to the one-armed man: "What regiment was yours?" Before the gentleman had time to answer and before I quit foaming for being disturbed, just as I was ready to ask for the position, this same "Blodget" called the gentleman back to his desk. Our expectations fell about 99 de? grees in a second, as we saw the one armed man depart, but we revived in a minute, for "Blodget" himself step? ped over to the cooler. It struck me and Brown both that "Blodget" was no warrior?the war racket wouldn't stir him, but whether to size him up as a "go.'dbug" or "silveritc" puzzled us sorely. His step was slow and proud as if he might be a "golilbug," but his hair was silvery and his mus? tache looked as if he had been pinch? ing it off while trying to solve some ploblctn; so we thought it best to avoid both gold and silver and take the safe ground of abusing necrocs and republicans?we gave them hail Columbia. " Hang the republicans," said Brown, and "Hang the republicans," said I. "Yes," said Blodget. "Hang the nigger," said Brown, and "Hang the nigger," said I. Blodget smiled. His smile was so encouraging that Brown and I let in and told all we knew about the rascality of the recon? struction period, and Brown winked at Blodget and as good as admitted that he had been a red-hot kuklux in his time. "Yes," said Blodget, slowly, as he pinched his mustache, "you look like two good democrats." "You bet," said Brown, and "You bet," said i. ''But," said Blodget, "I am a republican and the one-armed man is General Lewis, of the Federal army." We didn't wait for no elevator to take us out of their "headquarters," but since then we have found that the two gentlemen hold nothing against us and that they mix and mingle with co-workers in the exposition, men who are veterans of the Confederacy and demoorats of democracy, and that none of these things come into their busi? ness transactions. Since the first day we have been chasing up "recommendations" and toning down our aspirations. You can do nothing without "recommen? dations," and we are still in search of "recommender8." If any'man, wo? man or child of influence should read this and feel willing to recommend us, they will please drop us a line where to find them and stay till we get there. Our shoes are gone, worn so running over the rocks of Atlanta after one fellow and another, to find when we arrived at their place that they had just left for some other place and. upon flying there, found that they hau "jus.tgone." Our shoes are tied up with little pieces of wire from this racing. Brown's big toe, on his right foot, is peeping out at the passers-by and the small boys and the girls giggle as they squint at it. Brown blames a "myth" called President.Collier with his shoeless condition. His shoes were new when we came to town and he took the job of finding President Collier while I hustled for recommendations. Brown give up finding the president, and swore there was no such man?he's a myth. I abused Brown for want of energy and went with him. Since I joined Brown in the hunt for Presi? dent Collier we have never been a minute and a half behind him, but we have walked 750 miles over the rocks and yet?and yet. Our first idea was to "accept" a position with the bureau of printing, as we had figured a little on that line, and as Mr. W. G. Cooper and Mr. J. K. Ohl are prominent in that depart? ment, and had heard of our efficiency. We hunted up Mr. Cooper and he re? turned us to Mr. Ohl with a sealed note. I cannot say what was in the note, but after Mr. Ohl had broke the seal and read, his eyes wandered over the person of us two, especially at Brown's big toe. After so long a time he cleared up his throat and informed us that he would try us, but advised us that we "spruce" up a little and get the hayseed out of our hair. It was easy enough for us to do the "sprucing" with a good position star? ing us in the face, and us with a dol? lar and a half yet in our pockets. We rushed and got a shave, then to the store and Brown got a new shirt, then to the wagon yard and dressed and back with a rush for fear Mr. Ohl would be " just gone " when we ar? rived. We had no trouble. Mr. Ohl was at his desk, where we left him, and was jabbing his pencil up through the pretty roach on his head in thoughtful mood when we entered. As we stood before him his pencil hand twitched and twirled the pencil as he scanned us. It did not take Mr. Ohl's eagle eye long to discover that there was something wrong in Brown's toilet. The fool had put on his shirt wrong side front. Brown had never had a shirt'that opened behind him before and he was not so much to blame in putting the open side in front. Everybody laugh? ed and the more they laughed the more right they had to laugh, for Brown grew more and more a picture of complete dejection. He changed from one foot to the other, wiped the perspiration from his brow, first with his right hand and then with his left ?he was lost, crushed with the dry grins, for he knew that something about his person was causing the mer? riment. We left, and were glad when we got away and we resolved, as I helped Brown to skin off the new shirt and turn it around, that we would not "accept" a position on the bureau of printing just yet awhile? not yet. Strangers were already arriving in anticipation of the exposition. Yes? terday Brown and I met a man all the way from the great city of London, and he asked us many questions about the old days of slavery in the South. He wanted to know about the "brands" we used to punish the negroes with, and when we told him there had never been any burning of negroes in Geor? gia as a means of punishment he said that he had learned that such was practiced from reading Dickens. Brown did not know any more who Dickens was than I did, but he at once raised himself to his full height and pronounced Mr. Dickens a liar. "I was an overseer," said Brown, "and what I don't know about niggers is not worth knowing. 'There were some bad niggers and there were some mean masters, but there was never any 'branding' in Georgia, and never any wearing of 'collars' that I ever knew." We satisfied the English gentleman that Mr. Dickens had written wrongly, and thousands of others will be satis? fied before the exposition is ended. Brown and I are just as strong aboli? tionists now as any of them, but we are glad to feel that all the world will yet understand that such books as "Uncle Tom's Cabin," "Dickon's Am? erican Notes," and others, were over? drawn and misrepresented Georgia and the South. "Truth crushed to earth will rise again," etc. SaIICIE PlXNKETT. ? Last summer one of our grand children was sick with a severe bowel trouble. Our doctor's remedies had failed, then we tried Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which gave very speedy relief. We regard it as the best medicine ever put on the market for bowel com? plaints.?Mrs. E. G. Gregory, Frcd erickstown, Mo. This certainly is the best medicine ever put on the market for dysentery, summer complaint, colic and cholera infantum. It never fails to give prompt relief when used in reasonable time and the plain printed directions are followed. Many mothers have expressed their sincere gratitude for the cures it has effected. For sale by Hill Broe. BILL ARP'S LETTER. Bill Arp Meets Two Prisoners on a Train Coming to Atlanta. Atlanta Constitution. "Here ! Come in here ! Come right along," said the deputy marshal, and four prisoners followed him into the smoker and sat down where he point? ed. Two of them were white and two colored. There were three officers in charge and the party was bound for Atlanta. The younger white prisoner sat just behind me and after a glance at him and seeing his hand bound up in rags I ventured to ask him what was the matter with it. He said that a piece of timber fell on it and mashed it. He was a young man with barely any beard and had a pleasant face. He seemed grateful that I had inquir? ed about his hand. "What have you all been doing ?" said I. "Moonshining, they say," he said, with a weak smile. The officer sitting next to him then informed me that this gang was captured in Polk County yesterday, not far from Taylovsville, and they had the biggest still that had ever been found in the woods. It was so big that it would not go in at the car door and had to be hauled on a flat. "Where in the world did you get it ?" said I to the young man. "I didn't get it," said he, "but they say it come from Rome." "He don't admit anything," said the officer, smiling, and you musent press him too hard. He has just been bound over to the Federal Court, and if he can't give a bond he will have to lie in jail till October." "You are not married?" I asked. "No," said he. "That's good," said I. "How about that other man ?" "He has a wife and one child," said he. The other white man looked about thirty, and was well dressed. He was the designer and promoter, the capital? ist, and dident seem to be much con? cerned. He bought some candles from the newsboy and handed them to the young man and the officer and the two negroes, and was quite chatty. The negroes seemed unconcerned and en? joyed the ride. One said : "Dis de fust free ride I have in a long time. Hit beats a scurshion." After awhile one of them dropped to sleep. But the young white man was evidently suffering both physi? cally and mentally. His face had a sad and dreamy expression. "Is this your first experience in this line ?" I inquired. "Yes, sir," said he, "and it will be my last. I never thought about it much until I was into it." "How long has that still been run? ning there," said I. "About three months," he said. "Where do your folks live ?" "Up in Union," he said, and I could almost see his thoughts going back to the old homefolks, where a few years ago he was happy and free. After awhile he was called on the other side, and I discoursed with the deputy more freely about their moon? shine business. He said it was in? creasing in his territory?that fifteen or twenty seizures had been made in Polk County within the last twelve months?that generally the business fell off in the summer months, but this was a great fruit year^ and very fair spirits could be made with a little meal and either apples or peaches or blackberries mixed with it. And be? sides, said he, the times are awful hard on poor folks and a young man like this one is easily drawn in. Some moonshiners are bad men and desper? ate, but these are not. But all of them get fooled sooner or later. For ten dollars some fellow will tell on them. I reckon there were twenty or more men who knew about this still and the meanest one in the lot is gen? erally the one to give the officers a hint. We don't know where to hunt for stills and we never would find out if somebody didn't give us a cue." "Where do they get the stills and how do they get them to their hiding places," I asked. "They buy them in Atlanta or Rome or Chattanooga and haul them away in the night and keep off the public roads. Some buy the sheet-copper and rivets and make their own stills. More than half we find have wooden bottoms that set fiat on the ground and the fire is built around the still instead of underneath it. Sometimes they use a big washpot or caldron. Their hiding places are very peculiar. They used to have them under the floor of the house where the smoke could go up the chimney, but that has played out. They can hide them from the officers easy enough on these mountains, but they can't keep the secret long from hunters and tramps. Of course they have to buy these fel? lows with whiskey, but that costs too much, for one fly will draw another and it they are not caught they have to move. It is an all night business, moonshine or no moonshine, and if the poor devils would work half as hard at. something else they could make a good living. The most pitiful part of the business is the suffering and trouble it brings on the women and children when the husband or the father is serving a term in prison." "Well, is there no remedy?no stop? ping the business ?" "No," said he. "There are some people in every community who had rather dodge the law than obey it. They like the risk and the peril of moonshining. Regular honest work is too tame for them and, besides, they have a spite against the govern? ment that allows a rich man to run a big distillery and says to a poor man you shan't run a little one. The only remedy that I see is to stop them all, big and little, or turn everybody loose to make it. But the government is obliged to have that two hundred mil? lions of revenue and of course the present system must go on." "What had these negroes to do with this case ?" said I. "Oh they always have one or two black lieutenants to help around and buy corn, or steal it, and to sell the whiskey by the jugful to other negroes. They are the best sort of trusties and will keep a secret better than a white man. Those negroes will swear that they 'just happened dar' and had nothing to do with the still." "Will cither of these men be able to give bond and keep out of jail until Court?" said I. "I wouldn't be surprised," said he. "They have some substantial friends in their neighborhood. The bonds are $300 each and they will be sent back to-morrow to get security. It is astonishing how many people in a community sympathize with the moon? shiner ar.u are down on the informer when they find him out. That's a eecret that we officers have to keep inviolate or we would never catch another still." A few years ago, when I -was get? ting the right of way for the East Ten? nessee railroad, I was belated one moonlight night in Paulding County, and had to ride several miles to the house of an acquaintance who was with me. Down in an ugly ravine our road crossed a little branch, and near it was a covered wagon and yoke of steers and two rough-looking men sitting by a campfirc. "Moon? shiners," said my friend. "There is a still up the branch about a mile, and these fellows have started to market with some whiskey. I know them, and they know that I know them and their business. We must stop a min? ute and be friendly, or they may sus? pect that you are a revenue officer." We stopped and chatted awhile, and my friend told who I was and what I was doing. They were easily satisfied, but I didn't like the looks of the two guns that were leaning against a tree. Not long afterwards I was driving to my country home near Cartersvillc and overtook a tired man who had a little black valise in his hand. I asked him if he wouldn't like to ride, and he thanked me and got in. "How far are you going this way ?" I asked. "To Fannin County," he said. "Did you come on the train this evening ?" I asked. "No, sir," said he; "I have walked from Atlanta. Been staying there for three months." "Moonshiner?" said I. "That's it," said he. "They took you down on the cars and sent you back on foot?" said I. "That's it," said he. "Well, my friend, I reckon this will make you quit the business, won't it?" "Well, I don't know about that. We rather like it up in the mountains, and it's about the only way we can sell our corn. One bushel will make three gallons of whiskey that we can sell for $2, but we can't haul the corn sixty miles to market." "But it is against the law," said I. : "Yes, I know it is, but there is no sin in dodging a law that was made for rich men to get richer and keeps a poor man down. There is no justice in these revenue laws." And so it goes on and will continue to go on. It is very much like the smugglers on the coast. The very hazard of it is fascination to those who pursue it. There are smugglers now on the Florida coast whose fath? ers and grandfathers smuggled before them, and the business will continue down for generations to come. Bill Arp. Morris' Find. Huntsville, Ala., July 12.?About two months ago William Morris, an ante-bellum negro, moved into the vicinity of Newmarket, 20 miles above here. Like all new comers, he heard that a cave near that village contained a buried treasure left by a fugitive from justice, who was captured and shot while trying to make his escape. Upon learning the location of the cave, Morris set about finding the treasure. In an old kettle he found $2,600 in silver and gold. Some of the coins were strange to him and he sent for his brother, who is a professor in the State normal and industrial school here, to help him count the money. They decided that his broth? er take the money to Gadsden and ex? change it for greenbacks, which was done, Morris giving his brother $500 for his services. The remainder, ex? cept $200, was carried back to the cave and buried. Like the balance of his race, Morris found his secret haid to keep and last Sunday morning told Nat Powers about his fortune and showed him the $200. Sunday night Powers and two ne? groes went to Morris' cabin and in? vited him to a near-by schoolhouse to drink some whisky. There they pre? sented pistols and told Morris unless he went to the cave and gave them the money he would be shot. After climbing the mountain side for some time, Morris told Powers that they had almost reached the spot and that the two negroes should be left behind while they secured the money. A short distance away they came to large flat rock, under which Morri3 said the money was buried. Powers began feeling around the edge of the rock and Morris ran for his life, but Powers shot him down. The old negro fainted and Powers, thinking he was dead, ordered a trench prepared and fagots gathered to burn the body. Morris then showed signs of life and was dragged back to the stone and threatened with death unless he showed where the money was buried. Morris promised that if carried home until he recovered, he would get the money and give it to Powers. Powers said he would send a physician to dress his wounds and told Morris if he valued his life at all to say that he was shot stealing chickens. Powers then sent Morris home by the two ne? groes, and returning to Newmarket secured the services of Dr. Blanton to dress the wound. Powers' father is prominent man and not a word was said about the matter until the sheriff and his deputies made the arrest last night. Morris has gone with the sheriff to bring his money to this city. ? A physician in charge of a well known asylum for the care of the in? sane recently said: "There is one infallible test either for the approach or the presence of lunacy. If the person whose case is being examined is seen to make no use of his thumb, if he lets it stand out at right angles from the hand, and employs it neither in salutation, writing, nor any other manual exercise, you may set it down as a fact that that person's mental balance is gone. He or she may con? verse intelligibly, may in every re? spect be guarding the secret of a mind diseased with the utmost care and cunning, but the telltale thumb will infallibly betray the lurking madness which is concealed behind a plausible demeanor. ? Josh Billings says : "Most men will concede that it looks foolish to sec a boy draggin' a heavy sled up hill for the fleetin' pleasure of ridin' down again. But it appears to me that the boy is a sage by the side of a young man who works hard all the week, and drinks up his wages on Saturday night." There is moro Catarrh in this sccclon of the country Uian all other dlacvea put together, and until the last few years was supposed to he incur? able. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constant y falling to cure with local treat? ment, pronounced it incurable. Science lias proven Catarrh to bo a constitutional disease and the'eforc requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitu? tional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonftil. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the syttem. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it falls to cure. Seud for circulars and testi? monials. Address. F. J. CHENEY & CO , Toledo, O. *y-Sold by DmggiEt?,75c. EXPLOITS ON THE SEAS. Capt. Semmes's Record In the War be tween the States. From the Baltimore Sun, Washington, June 23, 1895. Preparation of the records of the Union and the Confederate navies in the late war is progressing as rapidly as the magnitude and importance of the work will permit, and within two weflfes the second volume of the series will be ready for distribution. Com? mander Rush, who has iu charge the publications, estimates that before all the records are compiled that at least twenty-four volumes of nearly one thousand pages each will have been printed, and with the pictures of the vessels taking part on both sides it is possible that there may be even a greater number of publications. A Government artist is now making sketches of every vessel in both na? vies of which the department has drawings, and these are to be repro? duced in the records. The famous ships, such as the Kearsarge and Ala? bama, the Sumter and others of like fame, will be accurately pictured, and many of the stirring blockadu escapes, as well as the fight in Hampton Roads, are all to receive attention in the vol? umes. The first volume, issued a few months ago, contained the entire cor? respondence relating to the Trent af? fair, and the wonderful escape of the Sumter from the Mississippi River, under command of Capt. Semmes,who was the first officer to hoist the Con? federate colors on the high seas from a war ship. The Trent affair is re? counted in the official reports made by the captain of the San Jacinto, and the officers boarding the Trent and seizing the Confederate commission? ers. Capt. Semmes's diary and re? ports to the Confederate Secretary of the Navy, Mallory, tell of the opera? tions of the Sumter until her final re? tirement from the service, just nine months after her escape from New Or? leans, during which time she was com? manded by Semmes, who was trans? ferred to the famous Alabama. The history of the operations of the cruiser Alabama begins with an order from S. R. Mallory, Secretary of the Confederate navy, directing Command? er Semmes to assume charge of the Sumter at New Orleans on April 20, and detailing a number of officers to serve with him. On taking charge of the ship Semmes at once set to work to prepare her to run the gauntlet of three United States war ships station? ed south of the city, and on June 23 he wrote that he had succeeded in making the Head of the Passes, where he found anchored the Brooklyn and Powhattan, and occasionally a third war vessel of smaller size was seen cruising near by. His report to Mal? lory here says that the two larger ves? sels lay almost constantly at their an? chorage within a few hundred yards of the bar which they were assiduously guarding. Semmes, it seems, was willing to take the chances of running the bar at night, but a pilot dissuaded him unless there be a moon, as all the buoys and marks to the channel had been removed, and there was no guide other than the ripple of the breakers. "In the meantime," says Semmes, "opportunities will doubtless occur to enable me, with the exercise of pa? tience and vigilance, to gain the high seas, as changes will occur in the blockading ve3sels from time to time, and they will probably be tempued now and then upon sight of a sail to chase off." On the day after making this, report Semmes dropped still further down to? ward the Gulf and caused both the lights on the entrances of the Pass a 1'Outre and South Pass to be destroy? ed, so that the enemy would have no fa? cilities afforded him of promptly re? gaining his station in the event, of his having "chased off" or sought an "offing" for the safety of his vessel during bad weather. On June 30th Semmes wrote that he was still north of the Passes and was waiting for bad weather to set in so that the block? ading vessels would have nothing to "hold on to," and would be obliged to make an offing. "At present the! worse feature of the blockade," he says, "is that the Brooklyn has the speed of me, so that even should I run the bar I could not hope to escape her, unless I surprised her, which, with her close watch of the bar, at anchor near to, both night and day, it will be exceed? ingly difficult to do. I should be quite willing to try. speed with the Powhat? tan if I could hope to run the gaunt? let of her guns without being crippled, but, unfortunately, with all the buoys and other marks removed, this is a perfectly blind bar except by daylight. In the meantime I am drilling my crew to a proper use of the guns and small arms." The next heard of Capt. Semmes he had passed out the river, escaped the two United States vessels and had reached Cuba with seven prizes of war, all of this having been accomplished before July 6. The Brooklyn attempt? ed to chase him, but soon gave it up, and the Sumter sailed by without hav? ing fired a shot. During the summer he cruised around Cuba and northern part of South America, making seve? ral captures and destroying numbers of vessels. It was not until the fol? lowing November, however, that Semmes made his official report of his escape from the Mississippi River, which was one of the most thrilling incidents of the Sumter's career. Semmes learned late one evening that the Powhattan had sailed away, evidently in pursuit of two ships, and immediately began preparations for an attempt to clear the Passes before her return. His description of it is as follows : "On receipt of the intelli? gence I ordered steam to be go:; up, and half an hour afterward I was steaming down to the head of the Pass? es, where I anchored at 10.30. I then scut an officer ashore to find a pilot, hoping to run out during the night, but there was no pilot to be had. and I learned the next day that the Pow? hattan had returned to her station after an absence of only a few hours. On the next morning I could plainly reconnoitre the blockading vesseis at both Passes. To my astonishment I learne.l that the two lights had been burning. Of course, this could only be for the convenience of the enemy, and I therefore ordered them again extinguished, I remaining at my an? chorage at the Passes for nine days, occasionally shifting my anchorage, patiently watching the enemy and seeking an opportunity to escape. But this time was by no means lost, as I needed all of it for drilling the c::ew. The men were exercised at the guns day and night, and as the nights grew dark for the want of the moon I c.ius ed guard or scout boats to be sent out, one in each of the Passes, to prevent being surprised by the boats of the enemy. Finally, on Sunday morning, the 30th of June, it having been re? ported to me that the Brooklyn was absent from her station, I caused steam to be generated, and getting under headway ran down toward the Pass. As we approached the mouth of the river we discovered the Brooklyn with our glasses standing back under steam and sail to regain her station, and it was for some time a little doubtful whether we could pass the bar before she came up. To add to my perplexi? ty the pilot protested that he knew only the bar of the Southwest Pass, and could not undertake to run me out of the Pass a L'Outre. I continued on, however, hoisting a signal for a pilot at the fore. As luck would have it, a pilot happened to be present at the pilot's station, a little above the light house, and as we ran by it the gallant fellow pushed off in his boat and was soon on board, and in fifteen minutes we were outside the bar. The next few hours were, of course, very anxious ones for me, as the Brooklyn had the reputation of great speed and our relative powers were to be tested. Owing to the frothing of our boilers the enemy at one time gained on us, but this having subsided we soon be? gan to drop him gradually under the joint influence of steam and sail, and by 3.30 o'clock Capt. Poor gave up the chase. As he bore up I sent my men in the rigging, and we gave three hearty cheers for the flag of the Con? federate States, thus for the first time thrown to the breeze on the high seas by a ship of war." Capt. Semmes's destruction of Uni? ted States merchant ships was chiefly in and around the West Indies, and late in the autumn of the year he pro? ceeded to France and thenc^ to Gi? braltar. Early in the winter irne Sum ter was surveyed, and in a report to the Confederate Secretary of the Na? vy, Semmes reported her unfit for fur? ther service and she was then Bold. Capt. Semmes's -private diary of his career during his commarrd of the ves? sel gives more actual facts of what transpired during that period than are contained in his official reports to the navy department. In the log of one of his early prizes he found the fol? lowing entry, which he quotes: "We have a tight, fast vessel, and so we don't care for Jeff. Davis." To this Semmes adds: "My unfortunate pris? oner hallooed before he got out of the woods." In speaking of another prize he captured, Semmes says: "I felt truly thankful to a kind Providence for this windfall, for we were running short of provisions, beef, bad and wormy bread, and here were more than we needed of the best pork, beef, hams, flour, bread, etc. This was truly a Yankee cargo. A busy day with boats passing to and fro, and men busy on both ships with boxes, barrels, etc. To get at the cargo we threw over? board the superincumbent articles and j strewed the sea with Connecticut woodenware and brooms." Two days later in October Kemmes overhauled the Danish brig Una, and after detaining her a few minutes per? mitted her to proceed on her course. "We showed her the United States colors," he says. That evening Semmes sent to one of the prize schooners near by for something in her cargo, and the master taking offence was placed in irons. The offensive remark made by him, which led to his arrest, was that he hoped Semmes would go to h?, and that if he wanted anything more from the vessel he could have it, from a shirt down. Novem? ber found Semmes anchored at St. Pierre, W. I., and a few days after the United States steamer Iroquois ar? rived. Semmes found himself block? aded'in the port by the enemy on No? vember 23, and then determined to make an attempt to get to sea before more ships arrived. At about eight o'clock that night the anchor chain was slipped and the Sumter stood out of the harbor, the enemy being on the starboard bow and apparently stand? ing toward the north point of the roadstead. Sc much on the lookout were the townspeople that he had hardly moved twenty yards when a shout rent the air, and there was a confused murmur of voices as though Babel had been let loose. As he neared the French steamer Acheron, lying in the harbor, signals were made to the enemy by means of blue lights from one of the Yankee schooners in port, perceiving which and knowing the signds were so ar? ranged as to designate his direction, "I doubled and came back," he says, "under coverof land, where I stopped once or twice to assure myself the en? emy was continuing his course in the opposite direction. As we approached the north end of the shore I gave-her all the steam possible and stood out. As we neared the end of the island the fates, which before had seemed unpropitious to us, began to smile, and a rain squall began to envelope us in its friendly fold, shutting in our dense smoke, which was really the worse tell-tale we had to dread." Capt. Semmes closes his diary with this on February 24, 18G2 : "A board I of survey to-day condemned the boil-1 ers, and so the poor old Sumter is to be laid up. Well, we have done the country some service, having cost the United States at least $1,000,000 in | one way or another." During the nine months' cruise of the Sumter she captured a total of eighteen United States ships, seven of which were burned. He Forgot the Word. A hotel clerk told this story : Three men from the country came into the hotel and registered for lodging, and a few minutes later two of them went out to see the town. "I will stay here," said the third, "and look at the things ;"" and he took a seat near the door. At 10 o'clock, a half hour later, the man who was left, went up to the clerk. "I want to remain," said he. "All right, sir," answered the clerk. The man stopped and looked at the clerk, and finally went back to his chair near the door. He sat still an? other hour, and returned to the desk. "If you please, I'll remain," said he. "That's all right, sir," was the re? sponse. "We hope you'll be with us some time." The man hesitated and went back to his chair. It was away after mid? night when he went up to the clerk for the third time. "I think I'll remain, sir," he said. "We have no objections," answered* the man behind the desk. The gucst\. did not go back to his chair, however, but stood still. Shortly afterward another guest came up and asked the clerk for his key, "and I'll retire-" "Retire ! Retire ! That's the word I've been trying to think of for three hours. For Heaven's sake let me re? tire," interrupted the man who had so desired to remain, and he wag at last happy. 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