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July 1, 1856 1 3m NOTICE. -o THE Southern Express Company will sell to the highest bidder for cash, at Norris' Store room, Anderson, S.C., August 3, 189G, about seven hundred Packages, unclaimed, and which have been on band six months and longer. All matter will be sold without reserve, O. M. SADLER, R. L. KEYS. Sup't. Agent. July 22,1S9G 4 2 A HERO OF THE CRATER. Thirty-six Men Burled Alive and Only Five Rescued. News and Courier. EDGEFIELD, S. C., July H.-On Friday of last week, the day after the grand reunion of the Confederate Veterans at Richmond, the writer of this article boarded the early morning train for Petersburg. After an hour's run we reached the historic old town. My friend, Capt. J. G. Guignard, and myself succeeded in convincing the conductor of a two-horse team that we were too poor to be for free silver coinage at 16 to 1, and procured, at a price we thought we could stand, a ride to the Crater. After a ride of less than two miles from the Imperial Hotel we stopped at the place we left thirty-two years ago, lacking only twenty-seven days. It was a bright, hot day-everything quiet except the singing of the birds and the cheerful voices of the few old soldiers who, like ourselves, were vis iting the Crater for the first time in the life of a generation. Among those we found there were Col. F. W. McMaster, who so gallant ly handled Steve Elliott's brigade af ter he (Elliott) was wounded in the terrible Crater fight; Dr. J. T. La Motte and Capt. D. H. Sally. The two first named were in the same bri gade with myself in the fight of the 30th July, 1864. There were others present who were also in thc fight, but belonged to other commands. All were quiet for some minutes af ter halting. It was a melancholy pleasure to be here again. The Cra ter proper looked abou t as we expect ed to see it. The breastworks to the right and left have been ploughed over a quarter of a century, but you can trace the line by the old musket caps still left where an almost contin uous battle had been fought for eight months. Yes, the Crater is as natu ral as possible after the storms of thirty years. The two lines of the enemy's works can still be seen in the front, but, alas, they are likca spectre-the glory has departed forever. The double lines of elegantly equipped Federal soldiers to our front, the decimated ranks of half-clad and half-starved Confederates, the Enfied rifles, the hundreds of cannon, the mortars, like the soldiers ia the cemetery hard by, are to be heard on those hills never more. For only a second there was a yearning to see all we had seen and hear all we heard on those hills, not withstanding hell itself can scarce be worse. Col. McMaster, Dr. LaMotte, my self and others present related our re collections cf the Crater fight, and in the main we agreed. As to some of the details there was difference enough to show we had been there, each oue giving the story as he had seen it. I will give here some'recollections of the battle of the Crater-one of the hardest fought of the war, and where men on both sides were killed with bayonets and the butts of muskets; where blood stood in pools, and where at one time the air was literally filled with flying missiles of death, shreds of clothing and fragments of human bodies. Major Gen. B. R. Johnson's divis ion were the troops in and around the battery when the terrible battle begun. I quote from his official report, written three weeks after the battle: "Headquarters Johnson's Division, "August 20, 1864. "For a proper understanding of the condition of my command on the occa sion of the action of Saturday, the 30th of July, 1864, it is necessary to state that on the night of the 28th of July every man in reserve in this di vision was placed in the trenches. Colquitt's brigade of Hoke's division was temporarily transferred to my command, in exchange for Gracie's brigade, and placed on my right. For the purpose of relieving Field's divis ion from the trenches my line was ex tended to an attenuation that was deemed barely Becure against an ordi nary assault. From the left to the right the brigades were stationed in the trenches in the following order, viz: Ransom's, Elliott's, "Wise's and Colquitt's brigade. "About 4.55 o'clock on the morning of the 30th of July the enemy sprung a large mine under that portion of my line about 200 yards north of the Baxter Road, known as Pegram's sa lient. In'this salient there were four guns of Capt. Pegram's battery, and the 18th and 22d South Carolina regi ments of Elliott's brigade occupied the parapets in the battery and adja cent to it. The 22d South Carolina regiment extended from a point some seventy yards to the right of thc right gun to a point beyond, but near to the left gun of the battery. The 18th was posted on the left of the 22d South Carolina Regiment. "The regiments of Elliott's brigade were distributed along the parapet from left to right as follows, viz: The 26th, 17th, 18th 22d and 23d, South Carolina regiments. To strengthen Pegram's salient a second line or trench cavalier had been thrown up in its rear, commanding our froDt line and the enemy'? work3 at a distance of from one hundred and fifty to two hundred yards. Owing to the exten sion of our line, already explained, our troops occupied only the frontline of works." * * * In the last sentence Gen. Johnson makes an error. The evening before the mine was sprung, or possibly two evenings before, Col. Dave Fleming, in command of the 22d South Caroli na regiment-I do not know whether by command ot Gen. Stephen Elliott or not-ordered me to move my com pany, "Co. Bj" 22d South Carolina, into the rear line, immediately in rear of Pegram's four guns. I had in my company one officer, Lieut. W. J. Lake, of Newberry, S. C., and thirty four enlisted men. This rear linc was so constructed that I could fire over Pegram's men upon thc attacking ene my. Thc enemy in our front had two lines of works. Ile had uore men in his linc nearest our works than wc had in his front. From his nearest line to us he tunnelled to and uuder Pegram's salient and deposited in a magazine prepared for it not less than four tons of powder, some of their of ficers say it was ?ix tons. We knew the enemy was mining, and we sunk a shaft on each side of the four-gun battery, ten feet or more deep, and then extended thc tunnel some dis tance to our front. "We were on a high hill, however, and the enemy 510 feet in our front, where they began their work, consequently their mine was far under the shaft we sunk. At night, when everything was still, we could hear the enemy's miners at work. While war means kill, the idea of being blown into eternity without a warning was anything but pleasant. On that terrible Saturday morning, July ? \ 1864, before day had yet dawned, after the enemy had massed a large number of troops in front of our guns, thc fuse which was to ignite the mine was fired. The enemy wait ed fully an hour, but there was no explosion. There was but one expla nation, the fuse had gone out. A brave Federal officer, whose name I do not know, volunteered to enter the tunnel and fire it again, which he did. A minute later there was a report, which was heard for miles, and the earth trembled for miles around. A crater, one hundred and thirty-five feet long, ninety-seven feet in breadth, and thirty feet deep, was blown out. Of the bravo artillery company 22 of ficers and men were killed and wound ed, most of them killed. Hundreds of tons of earth was thrown back on the rear line, in which my command was. Herc was the greatest loss suffered by any command on either side in the war. Myself, my only lieutenant, W. Y. Lake, and thirty-four enlisted men were all buried, and of that little band thirty-one were killed. Lieut. Lake, myself and three enlisted men were taken out of the ground two hours after the explosion by some brave New Yorkers. Thesemen worked like beavers-a great portion of the time under a heavy fire. Col. Dave Fleming and his adjutant Dick Quattlebaum, were also in the rear line only a few feet from my left, and wer6 buried thirty feet deep, their bodies are there still. I do not know how many Federal troops stormed the works, but I do know that the Con feJeratrs captured from them nineteen flags. The attacking columns were composed of white men and negroes; sober men and men who were drunk, brave men and cowards. One of the latter was an officer high in command. I have lost his name, if I ever knew it. He asked me how many lines of works we had between the Crater and Petersburg, when I re plied, "Three." He asked me if they were all manned. I said, "Yes." He then said, "Don't you know , that I know you are- telling ? d-n 'lie." I said to him, "Don't you know I am not going to give you information that will be of service to you?" He then threatened to have me shot, and I be lieve but for the interference of a brave Federal officer he would have done so. . I had just seen several of our officers and men killed with bayonets after they had surrendered, when the ene my, who had gone through the Crater, towards Petersburg, had been repulsed and fell back to the Crater for protec tion. There was not room in the Cra ter for another man. It was death to go forward or death to retreat to their own lines. It is said there were three thousand Yankees in and around the Crater, besides those in portions of our works adjacent thereto. Then the Coehorn mortars of the brave Major Haskell and other com manders of batteries turned loose their shells on the Crater. The firing was rapid and accurate. Some of these mortars were brought upas near as fif ty yards to the Crater. Such a scene has never been nor ever will be wit nessed again. The Yankees at the same time were using one hundred and forty pieces of cannon against our works occupied by Confederate troops. Elliott's brigade in the day's fight lost 278 officers and men. Major Gen. B. R. Johnson's division, Elliott's bri gade included, lost in the day 922 of ficers and men. This was the most of the Confederate loss. While the enemy acknowledged a loss of from five thousand to six thou sand men-and that I am sure is far below their real loss-I make another quotation from Major Gen. B. R. Johnson's official report: "It is believed for each buried com panion they have taken a tenfold vej geance on the enemy, and have taught them a lesson that will be remember ed as long as the history of our wrongs and this great revolution endures." Virginians, Georgians, North Caro linians, South Carolinians, and others who may have fought at the Crater, none of you have the right to claim deeds of more conspicuous daring over your Confederate brethren engaged that day. Every man acted well his part. What about the four cannon blown up? you ask. One piece fell about half way between the lines of the op posing armies, another fell in frout of our lines, not so near, however, to the enemy, a third was thrown from the carriage, and was standing on end, half buried in the ground inside the Crater, the fourth was still attached to the carriage, but turned bottom ?ide up, with the wheels in the air, and turned against our own men when the enemy captured-it. That day, howev er, they all fell into the hands of the Confederates again, except the one thrown so near the enemy's works, and in time we regained that also. Before the fighting was over the Yankee officer who could curse a pris oner so gallantly ordered two soldiers to take charge of and carry me to their lines, no doubt believing that thc Con federates would Bucceed in recapturing the Crater. We had to cross a plain 510 feet wide that was being raked with rifle balls, cannon shot and shell, grape and canister. It was not a very inviting place to go, but still not a great deal worse than Haskell's mortar shells, that were raining in the Crater. In two seconds after leaving the Cra ter I had the pleasure of seeing one of my guards die. The other conducted me safely to Gen. Patrick's headquar ters. Patrick was thc Yankee provost marshal. When I was placed under guard near his quarters he sent a staff of ficer to the front to learn thc result of the battle. After a short absence he galloped up to Gen. Patrick and yelled out: "We have whipped them." Patrick said: "Iwantnofoolishness, sir." The staff officer then strtd: "General, if you want the truth, they have whip ped us like hell. GEO. B. LAKE. - Twenty years ago a Chinese belle could be bought for $25. Thc irice has gradually risen to $600, and the custom of murdering girl babies haa diminished correspondingly in public practice. There is more Cat?-rh in this rcction of the country tban all other I'jcases put together, and iuntl thc .ast few years waa supposed to he Incur ?blo. For a ?reat roany years doctors pronounced lt n local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by CODBtantly fa'llni; to cure with local treat ment, pronounced lt Incurable. Self nc has pro? ?n caiarrh to be a constitutional diseise, and .'her-fore requires constitutional treatment Hail's '"atarrh <"ure, manufactured by F J Clumpy A Co. Toledo,Ohio, [< the only constitutional cut? on .'he market. It ls taken internally In doses from ; 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts "dir.ctiy on tbs 1 blood and mucous surfaces of ibo system. They oir'-r one hundri d do'lars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonial. A.d- I dresrj F. J. CHENEY A" CC, Toledo1, 0. S3,5old Wy Drugglafs, 75c. I JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH. Rev. J. L. McLeo8, of Orangeburg, Preach* ed an Admirable Sermon. News and Courier, July 20. At the First Presbyterian Church yesterday the pulpit was filled by the Rev. J. L. McLees, of Orangeburg. Mr. McLees preached an excellent ser mon, taking as his text a portion of Gallatians, 2d chapter, 16th -erse : "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ," etc. The "Word of God, said the minister, is constitution, the law to direct us in all matters pertaining to salvation and right living. "Whatever it says is truly the law and the Gospel, a constitution is unalterable, except by the framers of the said constitution. Now as the Framer of this constitution in God, it must be unchangeable. Now, all statutes however small, must be ac cording to the constitution or they are not valid and cannot be executed. Therefore, we have in our govern ment a body to make laws, and a force to execute them, but all laws, all statutes, however plausible, or how ever overwhelming they may be, their passage and endorsement is worthless if they are not according to the con stitution. The constitution must de cide the question of its validity. Now, as in temporal matters, so in di vine, the constitution must determine and settle all questions that pertain to our relation to God, and our hope of heaven. Holiness is not what I want it to be or may desire it to be, but what the constitution declares it to be, and so with the whole line of Chris tian graces. Salvation is not what I may want or may wish, but what the constitution says. Now, in the first place, this morn ing I want to say that salvation by works (matters not what man maj say and legislate in regard to it) is uncon stitutional. First, from the fact that we are saved not by inherent righteousness, b it by imputed righteous-ess. Adam W-is made our federal head. "We sin in him and fell with him. It was the purpose of God to save the world by imputed righteousness, and Abraham believed and it was counted to himfor righteousness. Paul argues that as in Adam we all died, so in Christ we are all made alive. j If Adam had kept pure and holy then the race would have been saver! (according to the constitution) through and by his righteousness, and would have been confirmed in holiness. His righteousness would have been imputed, but he sinned and all the world became guilty b' "jreGod. Now, by the atonement of Christ we are again placed in a condition whereby we can be saved. For as by the one man's disobedience many are made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Second. Salvation by works is un constutional from the fact that a vio lation of a law cannot be made perfect under that law. If a man violates any law on our statute books he is guilty, and can never find any protection un der the law. Let me illustrate. I in volve myself in debt far beyond my ability to pay. The law is no re specter of persons and by the law I am thrust into prison. Now, while there in prison I may be sorry for my wrong. I may weep tears of sorrow. My heart may bo full of regret. I may promise never again to commit the wrong, but tho law is cold, and heeds not my good resolutions and my deep penitence. The law says pay and then you shall be free. The money is what the law wants. It is there that you have violated it and"it is there that you must make amends. The creditor wants the money and the law says he must have it. The law has but two courses, either to secure the debt or imprison the debtor. Now, suppose some friend comes forward and pays the debt. The majesty of the law is vindicated. There is nothing now against the prisoner. He is a free man. The law coula not retain him if it BO desired. He is as innocent in the sight of the law as if he had paid the debt himself. So with the sinner, he has violated the law of God and is a debtor to the law and must pay or suffer. But he can't pay, for the law requireth per fect obedience and will be satisfied with nothing less. The majesty of the law must be vindicated. The full amount must be paid. Not one cent less will meet the requirements, and this he cannot do. So if he is ever saved it must be by another. Now Christ comes, ascends Calvary and pays the debt, pays it in full. The law is satisfied, and the person is free if he will only accept the payment of the debt. The moment the sinner says to the law, "I accept Christ's payment of the debt," the law says, "then you are free," and from that hour he is taken from under law and put under grace. Third. Salvation by works is uncon stitutional from the fact that man is saved, not by holiness, but by right eousness-obedience to law. Abra ham was saved by obedience, not holi ness, as waa Noah. He that bcliev eth is saved and he that believeth not is condemned. Adam was to save the world, not by holiness, but by obedi ence. And so the second Adam came into the world not to save the sinner by His holiness, for then He would have no need to have suffered and died, but He came to obey the law, and he was obedient unto death. Fourth. Salvation by work is un constitutional from the fact that man is no longer on trial. Adam is the only creature God has ever put on trial. He that believeth on Him is not condemned, but he that believeth not is condemned already. The man who has been arraigned before a jury of his peers for a crime that is capital by the law and the Court has passed sentence of death upon him, fixed the day of his execution and thrust him into prison to wait that day. That man is not on trial. Is not this the condition of the sinner? They arc all guilty before God, and the sentence has long since been passed. Fifth. Salvation by work is uncon stitutional from the fact that thc con stitution says that by thc deed of thc law there shall bc no flesh to be justi fied iu His sight. Ivation by faith is constitutional, b_ ,ause it has ever been tho Divine plan to save the world by righteous ness imputed. For instance look at thc lives of Adam and Christ. The two federal heads stand as representa tives of the race. As I have said, wc would have been saved by Adam if he had remained obedient, but he fell, and Christ be came thc second Adam, and complied with thc law, kept it and satisfied it, and so now stands ready to save the world. Imputed righteousness saved Noah and saved Lot, and on account of it the world, Binful as it ?a, is pre served. God can't destroy righteous ness or the family of the righteous. Justice has no power by which it can touch the righteous, obedient man. Now the very moment the {.inner be lieves he becomes righteous, Christ's righteousness is appropriated and lie saved from all of his sins; but not be cause he is holy, because he is not. Noah was saved, but not because of his holiness. So with Lot and Abra ham, and so with the list of worthies found in thc 11th chapter of Hebrews. They were all sinners, but with this difference, that their status towards God's was changed. They wore taken from under law and put under grace. Thc homicide was safe the moment he entered the city of refuge, (no matter how close and fierce the avenger was) but he was no less a man slayer-get ting into the city did not make bira innocent-but it changed his relation to law. Salvation by faith is constitutional because faith is the only means by which we can appropriate the right eousness of another. The blood on the doorpost in Egypt saved the Is raelite because he believed. So the righteousness of Christ saves the be liever and not the unbeliever. By faith, says the Apostle, ye are saved. Faith is not the power, but the instru ment by which we are saved. It is the rope let down from heaven. So all things are possible to him that be lievcth. We are not saved because we are sinlesH, but because we believe in the righteousness of Christ. Salvation by faith is constitutional because whatsoever is not of faith is Bin. The ploughing of the wicked is sin. No matter how great your work without faith it is sin. A fearful con dition, yet the true condition of every unbeliever. In conclusion some one may ask, why the law? If the law is not to keep, why give it? Paul says it is the ??in master to bring us to Christ. Paul says the commandment came, sin revived and I died. The law opens the eyes, gives the knowledge of sin. We keep the law not to be saved, but because we are saved. Heroism of a Woman's LOTO. The keen stroke of the surgeon's blade along the slender nerves, shoot ing currents of agony to every fibre and torturing every muscle, causes the physically bravest of us to quail, even when it is vitally necessary to undergo the pain, and something like Spartan courage is needed when one voluntarily goes through with the experience solely for another's sake. Dr. Jarnigan tells a story, in the At lanta Constitution, and it is out of his own professional experience, than has for its heroine a woman who did this bravely unselfish thing. Her husband's arm had been crushed in the machinery. The hard folds of muscle had been flattened and the bone had been crushed. The arm, bruised and discolored, was bad enough to look upon, but it gave no indication of the pxcruciating torture of pain the man had to undergo. It was thought at first by the doctor that his arm would have to come off-the good right arm that supported the good brave wife who stood by his side, and the serious, anxious-faced children who stood looking on. He begged them to save his arm, his wife begged them and fortunately the condition of the case permitted them to. But the arm did not heal. The skin sloughed away from the wounded sur face and left it raw and sore. The doctors saw that it was necessary to graft portions of skin to the surface to bring about a cure. They told the sick man of it and they bared his side to cut off the strips of skin to put over the raw arm. Thc blade flashed into the man's side, thc blood spurted out and with a moan the man fell over in a faint sick ened by the pain. His wife had been watching, her sympathetic heart touch ed to its depths by the sight of her husband's suffering. "Doctor, don't do that again," she begged. "Don't cut any more. He is too weak and has suffered too much. Cut it off me. Won't that do?" The doctor told her that it would. She coolly bared her arm and told them she was ready. The razor edged blade sunk into the flesh and wentrip ping down, followed by a tiny fountain of blood. She did not wince. Dex terously, expertly the doctors slit out a piece of skin and grafted it over the man's arm. Another and another piece was cut out. until more thar, a dozen had been removed, and all the while the Spartan woman remained standing watching the swift flash of the knife, the springing of the warm blood and thc sickening spectacle with out shrieking onc>3. The husband's arm grafted over with skin taken from his wife's arm is now well, and thc arm of the brave woman is fast healing up, leaving many long scars that will ever boar evidence to the heroism of her love. A Yankee Captain Outwitted. Captain Farrow,, of Islesboro, tells a good story on himself which occurred a few years ago. while he was trading at Key West. It was a case where a Yankee was outwitted by a Southern er. The captain was trading in a small vessel, and had been up the coast to Tampa Bay, where he purchased 20 dozen chickens, paying $4 a dozen. The chickens ran all the way in size from a f w days old to full grown ones. At Key West a hotel landlord came along and asked the captain how ?ie sold bis chickens. The captain re plied : "If you pick them out I shall charge $6 per dozen ; if you let me pick them out, you can have them at $3 per dozen." "All right," said the hotel man, "you pick them out." The captain selected several dozen of the smallest, when thc man said : "Go ahead, I want more." Thc captain was now among his largest fowls, and wished the man would stop, but he still said, "go on." The captaiu saw the point at last. The man kept him selecting until he purchased the entire lot at a loss of $20 to the owner. Af ter this the captain sold his chickens on a different plan. Mrs. Rhodie Noah, of thisplace, was taken in the night with cramping pains and the next day diarrhoea set in. She took half a bottle of blackberry cordial but got no relief. She tbon sent to mc to see if I had anything that would help her. I sent her a bottle of Cham berlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea : Remedy and the first dose relieved her. Another of our neighbors had been i sick for about a week and had tried i different remedies for diarrhoea but, kept getting worse. I sent him this : same remedy. Only four doses of it i were required to cure him. He 3ays < he owes his recovery to this wonderful | remedy.-Mrs. Mary Sibley, Sidney, : Mich. For sale by Hill Bros. I ' BILL ARP'S LETTER. Sage of Barlow Predicts Democratic Success In November. Atlanta Constitution. Never in our recollection has na tional politics been in such a tangle as it is now. Never such bitterness and irreconcilable differences in the press concerning a platform anda candidate. Some of their utterances are shameful, intolerant, disgusting, They speak of the Chicago platform as born of anarchy and repudiation and use all the odious adjectives they can find in the dic tionary. The New York World is especially bitter against both platform and candidate and because it cannot find a blemish in Mr. Bryan's life or record tries to belittle him as the boy orator. When Job's three aged friends charged, him with self conceit and rebellion against his Maker a young man listened and at last ventured to speak. He apologized for his youth but added. "Great men are not always wise nor does old age always under stand judgment." The Lord wan wroth against Job's three aged friends, but had no word of condemnation for Elihu. I don't know how old these belligerent editors are who denounce Mr. Bryan For his youth, but they seem to have Forgotton that Jefferson was only thirty-three years old when he wrote the declaration of independence, Mad ison was only forty when he and Hamilton wrote and published the Federalist, which is still said to be the greatest treatise on political science that bas ever appeared in the world. John Marshall was only thirty-nine when appointed attorney general by Washington, Patrick Henry was but twenty-nine when he made the speech that first made him famous, and was thirty-nine when George Mason said of him, "He is by far the most power ful speaker I ever heard. Your pas sions are no longer your own when he addresses them. He is the first man upon this continent as well in abilities as public virtues." James Monroe was sent to congress when he was but twenty-eight years old, and when he was but twenty-three Bancroft says he was the most conspicuous representative upon the floor of the house. Henry Clay was sent to the United States Senate when he was twenty nine. John Randolph was leader of the house in 1800 when he was only twenty-eight years old One thing is certain. Bryan is old enough to capture and lead the old ind the young who are eo fortunate as to hear him ; and Alfred Lewis, of the New York Journal, who has heard all his speeches, says he has never made a failure or a mistake ; that he is a student of all history and burns the midnight oil. Every newspaper jorrespondent at Chicago accords to bira extraordinary abilities and have dared to 3ay so even to the disgust of the old stags who stayed at home. As to the platform I cannot see anything in it that should arouse such denunciation. One platform is for poid and the other for silver and gold. Great and good men differ honestly about that and they have a right to differ. The best editorial I have seen Prom a gold standard paper was in the Richmond Dispatch under the caption of "Don't Exaggerate"-the spirit of which was "Don't try to alarm the people with predictions of ruin and panic and national distress should silver be restored to its former con dition. While we are for a single gold standard yet we cannot predict any such evils. The transition will come gradually if it c?rnea at all and our bankers and commercial men are smart .enough to prepare for it and let it-come by degrees. Don't exaggerate the situation." That is the way to talk and to write. Let everybody do like my friend Larramore, who has all the time been a goldbug but says he shall support Bryan and the platform. 1 tried, said he, to keep them from putting that silver plank in the platform, but they would du it, and now I am going to stand on it until it breaks down, and then I can tell the boys, "I told you so." And then he whispered to me, "and besides bei"1 . democrat from away back., my mother was a Bryan and her father was from Culpepper county, in old Virginia, don't you see." "Of course, of course," said I, "you are right; you are always right." There are bigger thin- v->n the currency and the country had . ~rvived them. I havent seen ten dollars in gold in five years and have survived that. It surely has ceased to be the common currency of the country. In two years more my wife and I are to have a golden wedding, if we live, and I'm afraid there won't be enough gold in the country to make the event respectable. The bankers keep it all locked up and out of sight, except when they have to ship it to England to pay our gold coupons. History tells of the time in this country when coonskins and deerskins and tobacco was the currency, and the people got along-and there is still some remains of the continental money that circu lated during the revolutionary war and kept on getting worse and worse just like our confederate money did. But we got along finely with confede rate money as long as there was any thing to trade on. The higher the price of things the more money there was to buy with and a man felt sorter rich with a big roll of it in his pocket, even if it did take $200 to buy a pair of cotton cards. In times of trouble the people have to get used to things, you know, and coffee made of parched rye or goobers was better than no coffee. It is all in getting used to things. The war was so much worse than the currency that we dident complain about the kind of money. Town councils and corporations aud railroads and even individuals issued their own shinplasters, and everybody took them. I have a dozen different kinds now and look at them once in a while. We old veterans can't be scared to death about currency, and all we want is enough of it, whether it be silver or gold or greenbacks. But we do want something done to revive our industries and put the wheels in motiou aud increase the values of our land and our products. We want our boys io have something to do at home and not have to go away in search of employment. We have six boys and they are scattered From New York to Mexico. There is iinother lamentable consequence to tho present distress. The marriage of young men and maidens have almost ceased to be. A young man who is working for $30 or $40 a month can't afford to get married. Parents will strain themselves to give their boys a collegiate education and when they get their diplomas there is nothing for them to do. The girls who graduate come home refined and cultured and would marry if they could select a a mate, but tbey can't, and so they just live along in a state of innocuous desuetude. There are at least twenty five of either sex in this town who ought to mate and marry, but they will not. When I was a young man there was no trouble about marrying. Everybody got married. I could have married three or four girls and my wife had choice of half a dozen clever young men. There was something for everybody to do. Now we don't expect Mr. Bryan to reform all the evils that have befallen the country, but we do expect him to veto all the extravagance of congress. The reform must begin right there. This last congress spent at least $200,000,000more than was necessary, and it was spent on the log-rolling principle of you vote for my bill and I'll vote for yours. Considering the hardness of the times these appropri ations were outrageous. We want Mr. Bryan there to watch them and curb them like Andrew Jackson did. That he will be triumphantly elected we have no doubt. It is in the air. We feel it and breathe it. My great regret is that I was not in Chicago to hear him and feel good all over and bave a little hysteria myself and feel the turkey bumps rise on my spinal column and shed a few tears of de lightful emotion as I drank in the thrilling eloquence of the boy orator as they call him. I wouldent exchange him to-day for all the old political hacks in the nation. I read all that Barrett and Adamson wrote to my family and all the extracts from the press, and it did us all good to realize that a good and great man had sud denly arisen and would redeem the nation from its distress and its cor ruption. Hurrah for Bryan of Ne braska. I've got a touch of hysteria right now. BILL ASP. A Trip About the World. Marcus H. Bogers, who returned in October from a tour around the world which consumed a year and ten days, writes to the Great Barrington (Mass.) Courier: "To sum up the general re sults of the trip, the distance traveled during the long journey was 27,500 miles? of which 10,000 were on land. And it gives some idea of the watery surface of the globe to say that the time consumed in the various ocean passages arnon M to sixty-one days. We lived OE 8tc?2*ers for two or three days more while stopping in port, but the actual sailing time was sixty-one days. And, barring the thirteen days in crossing the Pacific, not more than three or four days of the remaining forty-eight but what the ses, was as smooth as a mill pond, which we counted as a blessing to indifferent sail ors. "The nearest approach to the equa tor was at Singapore, which is within sixty miles of it, ana it is so near that the sun rises and sets within two minutes of 6 o'clock the year round. And at Singapore we were exactly half-way around the world, for when it was noon at Singapore it was Just midnight in New England. The cli mate at Singapore is also without change the year round. During the entire trip we experienced no cold weather and saw only two frosts-one at Agra and one at Darjeeling, in India. At the latter place we saw mountains of snow, but they were forty five miles away. "We passed through thirteen custom houses, besides a great number of 'douanes,' where 'octroi' duties are collected upon all articles of food in Europe, such collections being for the support of the city government. Of all the custom houses passed through we had most bother at those entering Japan, France and England. Closest examination was made at New York, with the largest exercise of common sense. "The most interesting country visit ed in the trip is Japan; the constant courtesy and natural desire to please others around them; the universal condition of cleanliness; kindness to children, old people and animals; their curious customs and their considera tion for strangers make them the most delightful people to travel among that I know of on the face of the earth. Beggars are not numerous, butin India there are more beggars than I have seen in any country I ever visited-and we have passed a winter in Spain. We stopped at sixty-one hotels during the trip, some of them, of course, for only a night. The largest stop at any one p^ - was thirty-nine days at Rome. "After all these wide wanderings, I am confident that in-no other country in the world do the common people have greater advantages or enjoy more of the comforts and privileges of life, where the opportunities of ad vancement and prosperity are so open to whoever will make use of them, or where the burdens of government are fio lightly felt as in these United States of America." Lynched for the Usual Crime. AIKEN, July 17.-Yesterday morn ing about 10 o'clock a negro named Stallings was lynched at Green's Bridge, on the Runs, Aiken County, about twenty-two miles from Aiken Court House, for an outrage on Mrs. L. W. Hill, of Aiken County. The brute acknowledged bis crime as soon as captured and was hung to the most convenient limb and his body riddled with bullets. He was about 19 years of age and lived near Mr. Hill' s house. The particulars of the crime as re ported are as follows: On Wednesday night, while Mr. Hill was absent from his house, and after Mrs. Hill had retired for. the night, Stallings got into the house, and the first intimation of daugerMrs. Hill had the brute graspqd her by the throat and atm and overpowered her. As soon as .he had left Mrs. Hill gave the alarm and a posse was or ganized for pursuit. When the fact became known a crowd of about two hundred citizens of Aiken and Barn well Counties setoutin pursuit, which resulted in the capture and lynching of the fiend yesterday morning. The body was still hanging to the tiree this morning. Mrs. Hill is a daughter of A. P. Dix, of Augusta, Ga.-Neics and Courier. - Chamberlain's Cough Itemedy cures colds, croup and whooping cough. It is pleasant, safe and reliable. For sale by Hill Bros. - A Georgia young man went to see his girl a few days ago, and the old gentleman put him to cleaning out his well. The old man bossed the job. - ''They even preach aboui? bicy cles at Bridget's church, mamma." "H'li}-, how do youknow?" '"I heard Bridget say the text was, 'Blessed are the pacemakers.' " All Sorts of Paragraphi. - The Prince of Wales has his lif< in&ured for a sum equal to $900,000. - ? Japanese farmer is reckoned to be a monopolist if he occupies more than 10 acres of land. - In round numbers there are ovei 900,000 persons drawing pensions as t result of the Civil war. - If a man will reduce his faults, he will find that at the same time he is also reducing his expenses. - There is no way of making a permanent success in this world with? out giving an honest equivalent for it. - There is something wrong with the child, depend upon, it who would not rather eat between meals than at meals. - Fruit tastes better than medicine, and usually does quite as much good. Fruit and vegetables are the best half of a good living. - The maximum age assigned to the pine is said to be 700 years ; to the red beech 245 ; to the oak 410 ; and to the ash 145 years. - "Yes," she sighed, "we had to disband our debating society." "Whyj so ?" "Well, you see, the girls natu-j rally couldn't all sit still and listen to f one girl without talking back." I - Uncle Bob-"I hope, Tommyy you are a favorite with your teacher.ijj Tommy-"I think I must be. Shef can't seem to get enough of me. or j she wouldn't keep me in so much." \% -.Only about two minutes are re quired for the blood to course throng*, the heart, thence to the lungs, back to the heart, end then through the en tire body, and return to the heart. - Before a fire brigade in Berlin starts for a fire members ?re drawn up in line, and, military fashion, salute their captaih; then off they run. having lost more than a minute by this fool ery. - When a lie once gets into the world it is astonishing how hard it is to get it out. You may beat it about j the head until it seems to have given up the ghost, and then, the next day, meet it on the street as healthy as ever. - The min Liter-"When yon grow np. Johnny, what would you like to. be?" "A preacher."' "Ah, I am glad to hear yon say that my little man. Now teri me why you think you would like to be a preacher." "'Cause then the folks would always git out, the best thingn they had in the house ' to eat when they seen me cornie'.'' - "My dear," remonstrated the wife, peering ont from under the bed clothes, "I do wish you would use the word 'sheol.' It sounds better." "It may sound better at times," replied her husband, who was noisily nursing his heel, "but when a man steps on a tack he wants the old version." - A resident of England, who died at the age of 62, attracted considerable attention in the community, in which he lived on acconnt of a phenomenal growth of hair which appeared on his head just before his death. For over^ 12 years he had been bald, and then in some inexplicable way a heavy growth of hair suddenly appeared, like that of an infant. - In some of the gorgeous new so called family hotels a large room in the basement is set aside for the nightly* lodging of the dogs belonging to those who have apartments in the honan.; The duty of the caring for the pets is left generally to one porter, but dain ties sent to Fido, such as broiled chickens legs, often find a resting place in the maw of the man instead of under thc dog's shaggy jacket;-^? Mw York World. - An eccentric old bachelor, who died recently at Odessa, Russia; be queathed 4,000,000.roblen (about $2, 000,000) to his four neices on condi- ? tion that they first go into service as chambermaid,?, washerwomen or coal women for 15 months. The local po lice are charged with the duty of see ing that the condition of the will is strictly complied with. So far the heiresses ha'e received 863 offers of marriage. - Johnny had not been at school Monday afternoon, so when he came on Tuesday morning the 1 cacher sent I him home to get a written excuse from his mother, explaining" his ab sence. After about an hour here-?? turned with ink on his fingers and a somewhat soiled note, which read as follows: "Miss Brown, please excuse Johnny for not being to school yes terday. I could not come because I tore my pants, and oblige Mis. J. Smith." - "Fellow citizens," cried the can didate for the Legislature, "when the war cloud gloomed over this fair land and my opponent was sulking in his tent, where was I then?" "Tell it, , tell it!" cried a man in the crowd.. "Fellow citizens," continued the ora tor, "I will tell itl I was in my shirt sleeves, with bared brow, pulling fod- g der for the Confederacy; for, with the instinct of a patriot, I knew that those mules would be hungry when Lee sar-1 rendered!" - 'It's a great relief,", remarked Meandering Mike, "ter t'ink dat dere ain't DO call fur us to worry 'bout de~^. financial policy er dis country." _ "Still ye can't help kinder t'inkin'x 'bout 'em," replied Plodding Pete, "'specially when everybody else is givin' 'emselven np ter it. Right down in yer heart, Mike, what metal do yer honestly favor, gold or silver ?".;> "Neider," was the prompt response. "Ez long ez beer is five cents a glass, I don't see no use er havin, anyt'ing-. but nickel." - A lobster greatly dreads thunder and when the peals are very load and - heavy it "drops" its claws and makes I : for deep water in great fright. This ? claw-dropping operation is most pecufHS; liar, the creature actually amputating S its great claws so as not to be impeded f in its flight when it makes its head- 3 long rush to escape from the thunder . god. Any great fright will induce ' lobsters to drop their claws, but as new ones commence to grow almost im mediately their temporary loss does | not occasion much inconvenience* Last summer one of our grandchild- ^ en was sick with a severe bowel trou- ? ble. Our doctor's remedies had failed "/ when we tried Chamberlain's Colic, "? Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which gave very speedy relief. We regard it as the best medicine ever paton the . market for bowel complaints.-Mrs. E. G. Gregory, Frederickstown, Mo. t This certainly is the best medicine^ ever put on the market for dysenteryvi;| summer com plai nt, colic and cholera in fantum in children. It never fails to | give prompt relief when used in rea?ja sonable time and the plain printed di rections are followed. Many mothers f| have expressed the sincere gratitude^ for the cures it has effected. For sale :^ by Hill Bros,