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WAR S'l ?Capt. McDavid Tell? noeu The following interesting letter, . viated September 5, han just been re ceived by Mrs. I*. A. McDavid from Capt. McDavid, who is now with the > /irst South Carolina Infantry at the Mauassas manoeuvcrs: After forty-three years I am tent ing again on the old camp ground. Wc reached our camp last night and j had to pitch tents after dark, so we j wore all very tired, but got a good night's rest. This morning Captain Heatly Smith "?rom Clover, York County, who was in the Sharp Shooters, Jenkins' bri gade, and myself hired a hack and ? took in the points whore we fought forty-two and forty-threo years ago. We first went to the Henry House, .whore tho hardest fighting was dono vduring the first battle. All thc different points aro marked -where Wade Hampton was wound ed, right at this house, and where S3ee and Barlow fell, and where Gen eral Bee, just before he foll, gave .Jackson tho immortal name of "Stone ?MJJ." 'From there we drove to tho Stone ihouse, thence to see Mrs. Dogan, who ?lives near Georgetown. She gave us ?a great deal of information about the ?position of the different commands in -?Action. We did this in order to locate .the lines of the second battle. After trying in vain to locate our position, v.Jenkins' brigade,) we drove to Stone 'Bridge, where the Fourth South Caro lina received its first taste of real war. I saw tho spot where the first man in thc battle was killed, A. D. Brown of -our company, and whero Wilton Earle .was mortally wounded, also where Adjutant Wilkes waB killed. Capt. Smith was not interested in -?iho position of the first battle, so I 'yielded to him, and we drove back to - the field of the second battle, where ?-.ve dismissed the haok and took it afoot. After wandering for hours we "Jound at last just what I wanted, the i^plaoe whero Hood's brigade fought the Fifth New York Zouaves, which I -.witnessed from my position. From .that point we went to the very spot where Jenkins' brigade made a grand - ohargo and the Second Rifles sustain ed the greatest loss. I carried the -joioro through it all and aro p,;vo to view the plaoe where so mau y brave .men fell. I found this printed on a a argo board to mark the spot: "Here the Fifth New York Zouaves Zoat 136 killed, 208 wounded and miss ing and never aooounted for. Total, 351 out of 462 taken into aotion. This doss was inflicted iuside of seven min alton in radiating Hood's brigade, ^Longstreet's oharge. Largest loss on areoord. August 30, 1862." . Captain Smith waB in the Palmetto ^Sharn Shooters snd knew the spot ?where the five brave men were killed -ind of that number the three sons of Methodist preachers. I out two stick a .clooo to the spot. I hope I will not ?JOGO them, for I know they are from .the very spot, or within a few feet of it. ??Ye have been out all day. Carried -?orne hard tack for lunch, and now I ?tm writing this by the light of a can dle, and you can imagine how hard it ris on my eyes. We have orders ^,0 leave herc at 4.30 in tie morning Co march to Thoroughfare Oap, 15 miles away, to attaok the Brown army. X thought I would get out of that tramp, but I have orders to go with them to assist in taking care of the "wounded." Being under military -discipline, I suppose I must go. JO was very siok all day Sunday and ?afhea we reaohed oamp, I waa in bad .shape, hut the boys fixed me to bed .on a nice cot, and tuoked the cover ?around me like I was a child. I slept weH, and waa able ' to take to-day's Aramp of ten miles or more. 1 have just reoeived a oopy of The ?'Greenville News in whioh young Jen v"iina -gives me a grand send off. I was . never an officer in the Palmetto Rifle vmen, however, I was a private io that \30um&ny-, nor was that oompany in Col. bowen's regiment. Company L, 2nd Rifles, Colonel Bowen, is the cor rection. /Sverything looks natural around c' irrere. Camps are in every direction, ?and 'it iooks like war in earnest. "Everything is oarried on in grand r- style. Even the water in the springs and wells has been analysed and mark ' ?d either good or bad, and neither maoNSor Vi o aa t is allowed to use tba v.-ijtsvdemned. 43o>far as the government employes ara concerned, telephones, ./telegraph signal corps, rocket?, oto., rplsoejatt pointa in instant communi cation. It is perfect in that raspeo I . ?andvahe mazseeuvers thia weak will be v, grand. < Capt Smith and myself reooive a Tgrsat deal of attention from the North ern troops, especially the Fourteenth Ne?? York. Soma of the o&oers of 3 ?that regiment wera in the twp battles, ORIES. ol' tho Mantissas Ma rers. and when wc go near them each com pany turns out and gives three cheers for tho oid Confederate Veterans. The Fourteenth New Yurie is io our brigade and afine body of men. Tho ladies, too, are good to us. They ask us to come aud dine with them and want UM to tell them all about the war and what we killed each other for, etc. I enjoy it all in a sad way, for I re member that on this famous field I saw the last of some of my truest and bravest friends. Our wing of the army will make tho first attack at Thoroughfare <iap, will bo there two days, return and the other wing will attack us. All will wind up Saturday with a grand re view. The Daughters of the Cuiifederaoy have erected a beautiful monument near Groveton which was unveiled last week, and General Corbin was one of the apeakors, a New York band furnished the music, and a ! chaplain of a New York regiment offered the prayer. The ladies of ] this chapter tell me it was a perfect love feast. All those army officers paid such glowing tributes to the Confederate dead. They all rebuke me because I am not wearing my Cross of Honor. I never thought of it, and regret that I should have for gotten. I suppose wo will reach homo on Monday unless wo go to Washington, and I don't think there is much chance of that. I am enjoying camp life so far and feel like I can march as far as any of the young soldiers.-Greenville News._ HOME FROM MANASSAS. Florence, September 12.-The boys from South Carolina are now all baok in their own homes. They have had a good timo and have enjoyed the trip, but it has been a hard week on them, and they have surprised themselves at the amount of work they had to do. Some very pleasant acquaintances have been made with men in all sec tions of the country, and one realizes that after all the world is not so big as it seema and people in the United States are very much alike in many ways, whether they oome from Maine, Texas or South Carolina. The militia have acquitted them selves with oredit. They showed that they were quite able to endure the hardships that the regulars sometimes have to undergo. It is not often that the regulars have such marching as fell to the lot of *he troops at Ma?an ?os, and regula ? well as militia Tell out on that maVoh. Many of the men who fell out of line were muoh more able to4 keep up with the procession than some who stayed in, but they found it more pleasant to sit in the shade by the roadside or visit some attraotive farm home, where milk and butter and eggs and good thimgs, mainly pies, were plentiful. The fact that the troops from Thoroughfare did not oare to maroh fourteen miles to go in a parade that was largely for the benefit of the so ciety folk, whan their suits were grimy and dust stained, does not mean that they were incapacitated. They went to Washington that same day as merry as oriokets. There was no "kiok" on the fare furnished the men, as has been indi* oated. There wai good light bread to throw away day after day, all the fresh beef that was needed, oanned jam was issued onoe and was very much enjoyed. Rice and beans were also io the menu and potatoes in plen ty. If any company Buffered for laek of rations it was through its own care lessness. The whole Brown division suffered for laok of water, the Government having been disappointed in the yield of one of the wells, and when the men oame back from their long and tire some marches they were confronted by the condition of short water, fre i quently not a drop to be had until it could be doled out to ono regiment at a time. The chief "kiok" cornea in on the lack of equipment of the regiment, fe . which the United Stales Govern ment was not responsible. As to the camp itself, it was a dis grace to the 8tatet beoauae there was not tenta enough for half the com panies. Two of the largest in the regiment bad two little tents, each for forty men, an til the shelter tents were issued, whioh are a very poor substitute. Axes and spades had to bo borrowed from the regulars, who were kind enough to help aa, and we are deeply grateful to the officers and r n of the 8th infantry, who helped aa materially in making ap ?he woof al deficiencies of oar regiment. Tho lat South Carolina seamed to have pretty good equipment, but we suffered and wera ashamed. The boys behaved themselves very well an a rule. South Car dina ha^ 'y\>t a- good wea and some just a* bad as are in thc militia of any .Stale in the Inion. The encampment has show? us several things that arc badly ccei'. ed to bring the militia up to tho stand ard that it should attain. The manoeuvres have not be without good results in many way The oflioers of the volunteer arc learning and the militia are be, ning to see that military duty "r the Diok bill is not at all p will make of the volunteer for.?6 citizen soldier, as effective a stace. ? army as any country in tho world would need, and the more effeotivo the army is the less danger there is of its being needed. The Southern Road handled the immense crowds remarkably well, but there wero many vexatious delays. The militia piled on the trains going and coming from tue nose of thc pilot to the bumper on tho re?r car, over and under, anywhere, to get in. Fre quetly no attempt was made to collect fares. Tho delay in getting the trains out of Thoroughfare was the most vexa tious that we had to endure. In this instance we wero marohed down to take the train at 7.45, and after spend ing five hours . in the sun, managed to get on our oars, which were moved ?orne time later. The trip home was without incident. It was made very pleasant by tho cor diality of tho people along the route, where the train stopped. In fact, the people of Virginia have been unusual ly kind to the boys, and were liberal and hospitable to a most surprising degree, Not a man who spent the past week in those hills but should feel warmly to the good people of the i country ho visited. I The Government had all of the j liquor shops in reach of the oamp shut up and the boyo could get nothing but soft drinks unlonn they otruok a moon shine still or went to Washington. The stills made nothing but apple brandy, for that country is an apple orchard from one ond to the other. The bornes are beautiful and the most striking feature to us is the lack of tenantry on a farm. Two or three wage hands afford all the labor on the big plantation, but tho people say that they have just as muoh trouble with those few as we have with the many that we have here. In the manoeuvres it was freely said among the military men that Gen. Grant had been so sharply criticised for lack of military judgment and skill, that he had boen so badly out-gener ailed that he wanted to give up the fight as planned, and have a set pro gramme, a regular bluff, but Gen. Bell, whose successes had been so marked, refused to do it, and the manoeuvres were about to come to an end. The tone of the presB dispatohes seem to show that the powers that be have been trying to soften Gen. Grant's fall, beoausehe is his father's son, but that, if matters are pressed io that direction, there will be another Sampson and Sohley controversy. Gen. Bell is very popular with his men. He Beems to be very genial and pleas _. TT_ _- ?J_iL. _:_V4 il.a Suv. :io ciuijjjtu uu tfuv usgub iua? we had marohed so far and so well in froot of the South Carolina regiment just as they were bivouacing on the hill and. spoke to the boys very pleas antly. All that "rot" about men having to salute officers of the negro regiment was talk, nothing else. Men saluted whom they pleased and left off the sa lute generally. They did not even have to salute white officers, and did not do it, but the negro company gave rise to lots of exoiting talk at home as well as in camp.-H. M. Ayer in the NewB and Courier. ? Smart Dog. A butcher narrated ihe other day a story illustrative df the intelligence of dogs. "A patron of mino," he said, "had a collie that oame to me one morning with a slip of paper in his mouth. " 'Hello, doggie,' said I, and the eollie wagged his tail and dropped the paper on tho floor at my feet. I open ed it. It was a signed order from his master for a pieoe of sausage. I gave him the sausage. He ate it and went home. "Timo after time the collie oame with these orders to me, and finally I Btopned reading them. Bach, I pre sumed, was for a sausage, and bach procured a sausage. I suppose, all told, the dog got as many as twenty pounds of sausage from me in two months. "But the master, when I presented my bill, kicked. He said he had only given the dog about a dosen orders, whereas I must have honored nearly a hundred. "Well, the upshot was thai th? two of us got together'and did a little detective work. Wo watched the dog. And do yea know what we found ? Why, we found that this cunning dog, whenever a sausage hunger seised him. ?enid grab up a piece of white paper-tiny pieoe he could find-and bring it to mo*. VI had been careless, von iee', never looking at the paper, and through my carelessness the eollie had , fooled me for two months.7' . A l'oOl ? ofliuti. Mrs. Annie M. Walker, of Phila delphia, ia now one of the wealthiest women in thf? <vorld. She ia worth $50,000,000. Through the death of her father, William Weightman, who laid the foundation of his fortuno by Belling '?nine to the government during the .1 war, she inherits an immense ufacturing establishment besides Gildings io real estate, .or woman I Do not regard the expression as ironical or even facetious. It is not so intended. Any woman who is bound to the task of looking after $50,000,000, as this woman proposes, is to be pitied. If she gives herself wholly to tho conservation of the largo estate seek iog to add other millions, her soul will shrivel as the dollars increase. If she decides to give largely to bene volence and charity nho will be bad gered the balanoe of her days and will disoover, at last, that much of her giving has been beatowed upon an no worthy or ungrateful people or cause. In either event she will have no leis ure in which to live her life. Every aot will be blazoned. In this land of predatory reporters she will on joy soant privacy. The newspapers will tell what she eats and wears, wheo she gets up and when, if not how, she goes to bed-every item in the routine of her existence will be public proper ty. The camera fiend wilt lie ia wait at every corner. Already the unfortunate woman has bad a taste of undesirable publicity. The next day after the newspapers announced her inheritance policemen had to olear the streets of the curi osity seekers before she could enter her oarriage. I "Blessed be nothing," said the j yokel in his hut, turning over one freezing morning to enjoy another nap, while the low of his neighbor's oattle, demanding to be fed, filled his ears. His view io the limit on the other extreme. Most of us who have sized up the pros and cons of property pos sessions will be inclined to pray the little prayer of Hagar "Give me neither poverty or riohes I" Raising Red Cotton. An interesting specimen of red cot ton raised by Mr. Belcher on the farm of T)r. Jesse Cleveland was on exhibi tion at Jno..B. Cleveland's office this morning. The red cotton is an ex periment in this country, and Mr. Belcher has cultivated a small patch this season whioh has so far proven suooess. The red ootton stalk is considera ble larger than the ordinary ootton grown in this seotion and the fibre is said to be very fine and well adapted to manufacturing purposes. The ?talk whioh Mr. Belcher brought to the city thia morning oontainod more than. 100 well developed bolls, esd the specimen attraoted a great deal of at tention. Mr. Beloher also brought in several heavily fruited stalks of or dinary ?oiio?, >.usj o? these bearing 75 bolls. This is the first instance, aB far as known, where an attempt has been made to cultivate the red ootton in this section, and whether the experi ment will result in the planting of large Golds in this variety of ootton cannot be predio te d yet.-Spartanburg Journal. HEALTi The great remedy for nervous enron* of either sex. such as t> Impotency, Nightly ^missions of Tobacco or Opium, which lo inTft HQItlfi es order wo guarantee to euro ArUnUdlHOa ? Doses for ?5.0?). DJB. HOI FOB MLE BY BY D. S. VANDIVER. G-eneral L COME TC On annhing in our line and we will nu ESTING. We have a limited amount Sound, Cheap Flo At 93.50! D. 8. VANDIVER. J.-J.M VANDIVER BRI BUGGIES, Wehavoa splendid line ?f BUG want to sell you. '. , ? ^ We have some good WAGONS oh --AI. \A FEW FINE At?pecii ' ir COME TO. gEE TO.. ]^?? Traill Waited for Lirge l'art j. A New York public tuan, large ia boiy us well as in brain, during tbe session of the legislature last winter had io nieet a committee in Centrai New York, but found in starting that he had only one minute in Utica to change from one railway station to an other, one hundred yards away, re lates the Philadelphia Ledger. Fearing that his weight would pre vent him getting to the second station on time, ho telegraped to the railway officials : "Please hold No. 6 five minutes for large party on the Southwestern Lim ited." The conductor and train hands were all utanding ready to assist the "large party" on board, when the one solita ry individual came smilingly up the platform. "Where ie the rest of your party?" said the conductor, looking expectant ly down the platform. "I am all here, captain-240 pounds without my overcoat. Weighed last night. Much obliged." What the World Wants. Men who cannot be bought. Men whose word is their bond. Men who put character above wealth. Men who possess opinions and a will. Men who see the divine in the com mon. Men who would "rather be right than ho president." Men who will not lose their indi viduality in a crowd. Men who will not think anything profitable that is dishonest. Men who will be as honest in small things as in great things. Men who will make no compromise with questionable things. Men whose ambitions are nob con fined to their own selfish desires. Men who are willing to sacrifice pri vate interests for the public good. Men who are not afraid to take chances, who are not afraid of failure. Men of courage, who are not cow ards in any part of their nature. Men who are larger than their busi ness, who overtop their vocation. Men who will give thirty-six inoheB for a yard, and thirty-two quarts tor a bushel. Philanthropists who will, not let their right hand know what their left hand is doing. Men who will not have one brand of honesty for business purposes and an other for private life. Ills Wedding Present. Congressman Perkins was in the offices of a friend, a justice of the peace, when a couple came iu to be married, says the Christian Kegister. After the ceremony the justioe accept ed a modest fee and handed the bride j an umbrella as she went out. Mr. Perkins looked gravely and asked : j "Do you always do that, Charles ?" "Do what-marry them ? Oh, yes.' "No. I mean bestow a preoeat oa the bride." "A present ? Why, wasn't that her umbrella ?" gasped the justioe. "No, it was mine," replied the con gressman, sadly. - Wall Street-So your son is studying law. Do you expect that he will atiok to it ? Speculator-Oh, no, I just want him to know enough about it so that he will he able to evade it OUCOOQBfully. I AND VITALITY i '?TP! . 3aSO'XuX"8S ? . mfg H^yniiMH-wi-in jg?Trf iTiffB prostration and alt diseases or the generativa 1er voup.P?wstratlon. Falling or Los? Manhood, , iroutnnucamms, mental worry, ?xo?sa?v? Us? ad to Consumption and Insanity. With every or retond the money. Sold at *S.OOjper box, AH? PH?BM?fY. i .. Hi-' P. VANDIVER. ' 7R BROS., ?erchants. > SES UBI ike PRICES SPECIALLY INTER of-. ar for Hog Feed, ?er barrel. Tours for Trade, VANDIVER BROS. AJOR. E. P. VANDIVEB. 3S. & SHS ur S AND HARNESS. QIE3 and HARNESS cheap, and] RAKES, ? Price. Younitooly, HER BROS; & MAJOR. p^^-^^jlll ^ ?Tfl BI'S i MiMI I Ultu IU mn j; jj ?The Kind Yow Have ifiMBBBHl Always Bough! AVegetabiePfcpaf^UorirorA^- ; m t^i^e^^ |H Bears tue \ JaueS** - lJ ; j A ft I S?) ) ni ?^fs ' C':; p Aperfecl Remedy forConstipn- ' JJ vj * V%HI Wonns.Corrvulsions.Feverish- ? u j I j ^r-j (jj; nn ^ n ness and Loss OF SLEEP. 1111 UV Ul Fae Sin?ts Signature of ^ Thirty Years I EXACT COPY ayiwRAppSs H ?BEB BL? B BB BB BSA L___. ~-/*M V? ?W ? fi anna ? " *! TMS CINTMR OOMMNT. NEV TORS OW. Car Load Studobafc er Wagons just arrived. Car of Kentucky, Old Hickory and Tennessee Wagons ?ti | arrive. Also, three cars of Buggies, Carriages, Surreys and plea>| ure Vehicles generally. Call and see us. FRETWELL TT A IVTTrC CO ONE CAR OF HOG FEED. Have juBt received one Car Load of HOG FEED (Shorts) at vet y cloae prices. Come before they are ali gone. Now is the time for throwing LIME Around your premises to prevent a case of fever or some other disease, that will cost yon very much more than th? pric? of a barrel of Lime ($1.00.) We have a fresh shipment in stock, and will be glad to tend you some. If you contemplate building a barn or any other building, see us before buying your CEMENT and LIME, A_a mo aol i the very best qualities ox ly . O. D. ANDERSON. Come to us for your Seed. Fresh shipment just in-all varieties. Also, come td na for anything in the ORR, GRAY & CO., Prescription Braggatts. v t v.l. A? C. DENTIST. Office Over Farnen Md Mt . Bank. SPECIAL attention given fo thohigb li elaaaea of Dental work. Crowns, Brld# .1 and Porcelain Talaya, auch as ar? dona i the larger cl?iea. . '." V7 Ali of P'atea made. Gold FA Iago iii artificia], teeth any Urne aft B( PJatea are made. Oxygon Ga? md Local AaseriheU kl given for the?*!siege BatttwttonOf teel . Bleeding and iiiaeaaedgUma treated, to ??B- All calle i J the oonntry and noi m by Towna for tl.e Painleaa Extraction Teoth promptly attended to by a coraf ? tant assistant ? ^ * LONG LOOK ?HE?? A mau thinks it ls when the msuran^euggests itsslf^tt^^ Sread whea*wa?flo^,hhu^Sy , suddenly overtakes yon, and the only way sjirein a aohd Company lil The Bffutnai Benefit Ufe IDS. GO. Drop k\ and e*e us about it. : STATE Pwple?,Ba*k Boll ding, AND5B?0N, 8.0 lim