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si sitemsfe !."T ," -1 " -???-=??? ?_ TWO DOLLARS PER ANNTJM ] "ijita Paioa oap libeutt IS UTHI [PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. BY. DAVIS & CREWS. . '^ ABBEVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY MORNIN ~ ^ VOL. XIvIZ.NO. 17. THE FIRST SHADOW. BV T. S. AKTIIlTlt. Ida was a bride. Onward through a vholo year of patient waiting, hud she moved toward this blessed estate, all her thoughts golden over, all her fancies radiant with love and beauty. And row she was a bride?a happy bride, lie who had won her, was worthy to wear her as a crown. Kind, honorable am 1 gifted?1 lis praise was 011 the lips of all men. Yes, Ida was a happy bride. It was the blooming, fragrant spring-time. Singing ..11 4........ i/iivio Htiv ?n an cuv; n iiiu.nvtii ?iiit'io gliding through tlio peaceful landscape; au<l a cloudless sky bonding over all. The blessedness of this new lilo was greater than she had even imagined, in all (lie warmth of her maiden fancies. A moon had waxed and waned since llie lover became tlio husband ; a moon, dropping the sweets of Mount llylila. It was evening, and Ida stood by the window, looking out through the dusky air, waiting and wishing for the return of her husband, who was later than usual from his home.? At last, her glad eyes cauglit a glimpse of his well-known form, and starting back from the window, she went with springing steps to meet him at the door ; opening it ere his hand could ling llie bull. 41 Dear Edward!" "What a gushing love was in her voice ! She raised her lips for a kiss, and a kiss was given. But somehow, its warmth did not go down to her heart. "Arc you not well, dear?" she asked, very tenderly, as tliey entered their pleasn.if Kill* imrln.-. ..,.,1 tl... I 1.? 1 : ? i > !' '" liis face and tried to read its expression.? Hut the twilight was too deep. "Quito as well as usual, love." The voice of Iter husband was low and gentle ; but it had a new and changed sound for the young wife's ears?a sound that made her heart tremble. And yet, bis arm was around her, and be held one of her hands, lightly compressing it withir bis own. It grew dark in the room before the gas was "lighted. When the s'rong rays fell suddenly upon the faco of her husband, Ida saw a cliango there also. It was clouded. Not heavily clouded?but still in shadow. Steadily and earnestly she looked at him, until ho turned bis face partly away, to es cape the searching scrutiny. " You are not well, Edward." Ida looked serious?almost concerned. "Don't trouble yourself. I'm verv well." He smiled, and pattvd her cheek, playfully?or rather, with an attempt at playfulness. Ida was not deceived. A change had passed over licr husband. Something was wrong, llo was not as he bad been. In due time tea was announced, and the r. :i? i- -r <? ?. t 1 i iiiuu uuuiiy [?;nty ui uvu jjiuneieu ctrouiKl the tabic in the neal breakfast room. " Burnt toast ami dish-water tea. as usual !'! These were tbo first words spoken by the young husband, after sitting down to the-.i?tbie; and the manner iu which they were filtered, left Ida in 110 doubt as to his 0 * state of feeling. How suddenly was the fine gold dimmed. A few hours earlier the young husband had called in to see his mother, an orderly, industrious woman, and a notable housekeeper. As usual, he was full of the praise ^of his beautiful young wife, 111 whom he liad seen nothing to blame?nothing below ' perfection. But his mother had looked on her with different eyes. Living iu the world jva9,'with her, -no holiday affair, and mar* . - ; riago no honeymooj'i. She was loo seiious - inall,hor views.and feelings to have niueli patience -with what'she esteemed mere play " . ; ""day life. A little jealous of her son'ij affee ~ ."Hiontabe was, withal; and iu going fortli * - i4 >to another^,witji an order so -different from / 6 ^,2 <vhat .it had ever, gone forth to herself' * *".' vrnado^licr fcel'-ppTd^toward the dear little US ,/<rife of lEdward^ 'who was its favored ob? . . " ; % / .v"It?i? time," she said; with a distance of * *f - [manner ?tbat ^ifrprised her son, " for you 'i, ^^tfiWa-tb hova little sei;iou?. The Uoney **V^ifoon,'i8 oVer, antl thfc, quicker you coine v ''V^fdowt^. 4oj^ojjgaHties the better. There . * ' u ^ne thing abbr.t Ida that father dhfcip' ' * * ^i'wlp?rd w?fe too rritich- siirprjsfed at* this tinexpeftted-Annunciation to speak. Ilis v - ' >pcf|Ji6r went on, -w ; .' . "-She's no housekeeper " ' ' < * ' ? young; mother. Sho'll 4e.trn," ty* he*aid interrupting lier. *' . * ** Sfi6 had no rfglit to marry until she " * k*V*w Jrbw. to make a" clip .of tea!" "The old lady &pe]&a -with considerable' asperity. ' Wlmt Flfcean.- Not a single * cafvaf.fba bave'I yet tasted in your house, * thai watf Qt> to drink ! I don't know how yotican pot up with such stuff. You jroufdu't have done it at my table, I'm very sure." .< ** Please, mother, don't talk so hny moro about Ida! I can't bear to hear it." ** Yon can't bear to hoar the truth, Edward. I"speak for Ida's goo<! and your owii, too. She> a wife, now ; not a mere 8weet}iifKrtt Aqd she's your housekeeper IumuIm ?ilh antnailiinrr diam Ia iIa o.wl in vwiuw| y"r,v^* "o " ?v MW uuu iv tb*t) dress, music, party going and -I must say, an I said a little that I am disappointed in her. What i^e girls thinking about now-adays, | when thoy get married ? Surely, not of ihcir huibaud's household comfurt?4" " If you pleas?, mother, wo willobnngo the subject,'" said the young man, wlio was exceedingly pained by the strong language he bail beard, llo spoke so firmly that tho matter was dropped, and not again alluded to at the time. "We have, now, an explanation of the change in tho young husband's state of mind. There were some truths in what his mother had said, and this mado it so much tho bar| dor to bear. The first shadow had fallen, j that dimmed the brightness of bis new and happy lifo. ' i Still tlio defects in Ida?very small t<> i his eyes, even after they wore pointed out i l>y his mother?were things of no moment. : Ho had nut intended her fur a household ; drudge. Was she not loving hearted, ac. complishod and hoautiful ? What more could lie ask? True, lie had iutended her I for the presiding gonitis of his home; and there wore sober, matter-of-fact things to be done in all homes. J3ut her devotion to these would come in good time. J low Edward came to speak as lie did about the lea and toast, was, almost on the j instant he had given utterance to his words, ; a mystery to himself. lie started with the i start he gave his young wife, and trembled j fur the cfloet of his unkindly uttered words, j Ho would have <<jven much could he have j recalled thcin. lJut they were said beyond I any power of unsaying. | The reference of his mother to the indifI fercnt tea with which she had been served J at his table, had not only mortified him, i but made some things distinct in his mem i orv, which before, were only seen dimly, , and as matters of indifference. Where all 1 was so bright, why should he turn his eyes upon a few fragments of clouds skirling : the fair horizon 1 lie would not have dune so if left to himself. Tho clouds might have spread until very much larger than a , man's hand, before their murky aspect would have drawn his happy vision from the all-pervading brightness. Ida's hand, which was laising a cup to her lips, fell almost as suddenly as if palj sied; a paleness overspread her counte| nance; her lip?; had a motion between a i quiver iiiui a spasm. I'roin licreyes, winch j seemed bound, as l?y a spell, to her hus! band a face, tears rolled out aud fell in large drops over her cheeks. Never bofore, since Edward had looked upon that dear, young face, had he seen its brightness so veiled. Never before, had a word of his been answered by anything but smiles and love responses. "Fin sorry, Edward." How the sac], tremulous voice of Ida rebuked the young husband's unkinducss. " It shall not be so again." And she kept her word. Suddenly he ( had awakened her from a bright, dreamy illusion. Shu had been in a kind of fairy land. The hard, every day working world, with its common working day wants, by an unlooked-for shilling of scenery, had struck with an unlovely aspect upon her startled vision; tho jagged edges of the real woui.ding painfully her soft ideal. But once awakened, she never slept again. It was the first shadow that foil dimly and coldly upon her mariied heart,?tho first, aud to the life-experienced, we need not say the last. Burnt toast and bad tea ! To think that common tilings like these should have power to shadow a young heart basking in the sunlight of love ! Ida had thought of her husband as almost indifferent to the . vulgar wants his words made manifest.? She saw clearer now. lie was but llesh and bloojJ like the ri st. Very?very tenderly spoken Were all tho words oftdwarjl to his young wife, during tho shadowed evening that followed this , first dimming of their liQine-light. And Ida, who felt the kindness of his heart, tried to .smile and' to seem as of old. But, somehow, she could not force into existence-the smiles she '''islted to.sond but as. tftkefts of forgiveness. Thoughts of thebad ton tipd'' burnt toast, tho" usual"^? nbJ'vlhcro*la)?>1 tho smart!?evening entertainment she had ' provided; rir, rather, suffered to bo provided by unskilful hands?woro her own any;' nioro skilful? for her returning hfl^band' hauutcd her all tho while. , .. ,* " "Itshall not be so again !" ^Not id)y 'uttered were tlicso words.' All the evening sho kopl repeatiKg^jiem to herself, with' a steadily -increasing .purpose "ayd a-clearer - vision.r 41 Kdward* sbalk ntver have anoth cr occasion for rebuke." Several times during tUe evening, tho young husband was tempted to refer to the conversation held willi Lis mother, in explanation of his own conduct, but ho wisely kept his o>vn counaelr Of. all things ho dreaded aft estrangement between his wife and mother. ? * On the next morning, Edward .noticed that his young wife left their chamber ear* lier than usual, and went down stairs. Not, however, lo fill their homo with music, as she had often dono. IUr matinee was tho singing tea kettle, not tho stringed piano. She had a heightened color, when she look her plaoe at tho breakfast tablo, and poured for Iter husband the fragrant coffoo, made by her own hands, because she had discovered that her indifferent cook was ignorant of Iter art. How did she know Lho art? It was almost accidental; the recollection of some good housewife's talk had served her in the right time. The warm prime bestow ed by 'Edward ou tho cofl'eo wub ample roward. Ida bought a cook book during tho day. That sounds unromnnlic. But it was even so; and hIio studied it for hours. During tho afterqoon her mother-in-law camo in; and Ida urged her to slay to lea. The old lady accepted the invitation; not, wo nre sorry to say, in tho very best spirit. She had opened tho war on Edward's " butterfly" young wife, and she meant to follow it up. When Edward came home and found that his mother was there his spirits fell.? m saw, by llic cornersrof her mouth, that she had not forgotten their interview of the preceding day; and that her state of mind was not a whit more charitable. Ida's face was a little shadowed ; but she was cheerful, and very attentive to his mother?and, happily, ignorant of lier true feelings. She came and went from the breakfast ro m to the parlor, frequently, evidently with household cares upon her mind. Tea was at length announced. Edward's heart trembled, llis mother arose, and with rather a cold air, accompanied her children .to the room where tho evening meal awaited them. Tho table had an attractive look, new to the eyes of both Edward and his mother. It was plain that another hand busides tlie servant's had been there. Ida poured tho tea, and lid ward served the hot biscuit and cream toast. The eyes of the latter were on his mother, as she lilted, with an air which he understood to say, " Poor stuff !*' the cup of tea to Iter, lips. She tasted the fragrant beverage? set the cup down?lifted and tasted again. The ipfusion was faultless! Yes, even to her critk:d. taste. Next the biscuit, and next the toast w^re tried. Mrs. Uoodfellow herself could' not have surpassed them. " Have you changed your cook?" Tho old lady looked across the table, curiously at Ida. " No, mother," answered tho young wife, smiling. "Only the cook has found a unstress." " Is all this your work, Ida ?" The old lady spoke in a half incredulous tone. " Yes, it is all my work. Don't you think, if 1 try hard, I'll make a housekeeper in time?" This was so unexpected, that the husband's mother was delighted. Ida had gone right home to her matter-of-fact, every-day heart. " Why, yes, you precious little darling !" she answered, with an enthusiasm almost foreign to her character. "I couldn't have done better myself." The shadow passed from the lioart of Ida, as her eyes rested on the pleased countenance of her husband. It was the first shadow that had fallen sinco their happy wedding day, and moved on quickly; but its memory was left behind. It was like the drawing of a veil, w hich partly conceals, yet beautifies a countenance, revealing the cnchantod expression. Ida's husband was a man, like the rest, with man's common wants and weaknesses; nnrl lint* m ori-inil **?*-** !,1 ai?a ? % ".l.t-.U ....x. ..vi iumiiivu irvnu vng in vrillCLi UiillUO must take bold of common duties. But she soon learned that, in the real world, were real delights, substantial and abiding. Bravely she did walk ia tho new path that lay at her feet. She had her reward. Tea and toast but expressed her household duties, none of which were rightly performed during that delicious honeymoon. But she failed.in nothing afterward; and soon learned that the ground in which true bap?, pin ess takes deepest root, and from which^ it springs up wilh strongest branches is the ground of common, homely duties. A Ckunce thut People May Get Cheated. '?The Boston-./Traveler notices the introduction of a new metalj called " Oroide," formed bv the combination of saveral irfiS. taljc substanccs, and strikingly resembling gokh^-It was first produced in Prance, and is brdVjjht here under patent. A company iu GSnueoticut aro now manufacturing waro frt>m this material. It resembles gold very closely, and much of that which has re<;entJy been sold for gold chased plate, is nothing but .orcide. The cost of this metal is about eighty cents per pound, and yet its appearance is such that it. would readily bo laiicn for gold by most casual observers.? It is.not a pure metal, but a compound of several "metals, refined to such a dogrco that it doQS not easily oxidizo or tarnish. These qualities make it a valuable acauisition to . - 1 tho tnelalic ifrts. When tested with nitric acjd, cbulition takes place, but no spots remain. This quality, though valuable for utensils, makos it' a dangerous metal for dishonest men. It can be used in counterfeiting gold so rapidly, that it will be exceedingly difficult to dctect counterfeit from true coin. When placed ^ide by side with goldf?U roquires close scrutiny to decide which is gold and which, oroide. In France a law has already be&l passed to prevent frauds by compelling, under severe penalties for neglect, all manufacturers of,"oroide" to stamp the word unon the Article# produced. It is estimated that if all the brick, stone, and masonry of Grtafi&ifoin were" gatjjif| ered together, they would not furuish ma vhvw||m k/uuvi %uv muD vi ypini nod that all tUe buildings of Londoaj^fct together, would not furnish material Efficient for the towers nndfifriota that Jitforr, it. v i ^ A RICH AFFAIR. Young gcntlemnn had courted a f; damsel belonging to New York, and it w supposed that the two in time would " I come one." Some little quarrel of a triv nature, ns lovers' quarrels general!/ aro, < cur red. Neither would confess the wrong to boon their side?presents and correspondence were mutually sent back and the match was broken off. The young gentleman immediately started oft" to New Orleans, to enter into commercial business, thinking that distance would lessen the attachment ho really felt for the young may. When a woman is injured, or thinks she is injured, by the one she loves, sho is more apt than the male sex " to bite off* her own nose," as the saying is, to inflict pain, and be revenged on the offending object. A gentlemen that the young lady had once rejected, renewed his proposals and was accepted within a week after her old lover had embarked for the South. On reaching Now Orleans he found that distance, instead of weakening his attachment, only made the lady dearer, and ho became melancholy and low spirited. The iirst letter ho received from New York, from a friend of his, announced that his old llame was to bo shortly married to another. His course was quickly taken?the next morning saw him on board a packet-ship bound for Gotham. * The passage unfortunately was long, and the poor fellow chafed and frfitteil mm-.li-? The instant the vessel touched tho wharf he darted for the office of his friend, the lawyer. The latter was much surprised to see his friend, imagining him a couplti of thousand miles away. After the usual salutations, he exclaimed :? "My dear fellow, you are in time to see the wedding. Miss ."your old sweetheart, is to be married this morning, at eleven o'clock. To tell you the truth, I don't believe there is much love about it, and the girl really thinks more of one hair of your head than the fortunate bridegroom's whole body." " Whero is she to be married ?in church ?" " No?at her father's house." " My dear fellow?I?I?yes?no?yes, I will have her. Ilnvo you any cuso com f I ing on in cither of the courts at eleven o'clock?" " Yes." " Then fill up a subpoena with the bridegroom's name. Don't stop to ask any questions. It matters not whether he knows anything about tbo parties in the suit. I will yet marry Julia." Ilia friend saw b's object at once, find promised to carry on the matter. The sul>poena was made out and placed in the hands of a clerk to servo on the unsuspecting bridegroom the instant he should leave his residence, and was despatched in a cab to watch the house. About ten minutes before eleven as the soon-to-be happy man was about entering a coach before the door of his residence, he was served with a subpcena. Ho refused at first to go. "Can't help it," said the clerk, in reply (A liicj H *- 1 ...v ^wtivuiutmjj iiwui ~ hoi Knowing tlio parlies; going to be married," ?fec.? "Wo shan't reach the Hall now before eleven?imprisonment for contempt," ?fcc. The bridegoom, who was rather of a timid nature, finally consented, particularly as tho clerk promised to send a friend of his who sat in tho cab, wrapped up in a .large cloak, explaining tho reasons of his absence. The reader can imagino who this person was. Eleveu o'clock came, but still no biidegroom. The guests wore staring at each other?tho priest began to grow impatient ?and tho bride that was to be, looked pale and agitated, when tho carriage drove up and tho boll rung. " There lie is ! There he is !" murmured many voices. A gentleman did enter, whose appearanco created much astonishment. The lady fainted?private explanations eu^ued between the parents and tho lover, and the result was that, in ten minutes after, two roal lovers woro joined in tho sacred bond of matrimony, much to the satisfaction of all. Tho bridegroom that was-to-lmve-been, afterwards made hia appearance, puffing and blowing. What ho said and what he did, on beholding hia rival, and being made acquainted with the condition of affairs, was really laughable. The story of the subpoena shortly afterwards leaked out, and has created so much amusement, that the poor fellow declares he will sue tb^ lawyer for ten thousand dollars damages in subpoenaing him a? a witness in a case of ^vhich be knew nothing, and $y which lie lost a wife. It willTje ii* \ novel suit indeed, if ho should do so. Pepper Punishment in Africa.?One of ) the most common and lerr|[>le kinds of pun- < rsirmentft iniuctettupon disobedient bc^rs is lo rub red pepper into their eyes. Tbeir ftcrertms nn<l ycHa under (lie operation are w?vage beyond alt de*criptij>n, and U-,^H | per. **'' " cious. A thread of it, of any given diameter, is twice as strong as a thread of hemp of the same thickness, and tlirco times us strong as a similar one of flax. The threads, as spun by the worm, curious to s:iy, are al' twins, owing to tho twin orifice in the nose of tho inscct throuerh which tliov nrn O " J projected ; tliey arc l;iid purallcd to each other and glued together, mid enveloped l>y a glossy varnish, constituting about twentyJive per cent, of their weight. Each pair of threads in fine silks has a diameter of about a thousandth part of an inch. Theso pairs arc too delicnto to use, however, as they come from the cocoon. In raw silk, as it is called, several of theso pairs arc slightly twisted aud agglutinated to form a single thread; and several of these arc united to make such a thread as is employed in weaving. Thousands of worms labor for a whole season to furnish the material for an ordinary silk dress. The butteitly beauty who sails along a public promenade littlo thinks how many real butterflies have had to do with her flounced and fringed foulard. The silk-worm, in fact, has four metamorphoses. There is first the egg, then the caterpillar, next the cocoon, and finally the moth. The t_aternillar state continues about four weeks. The cocoon !'s formed in three or four days, but the insect, passing into tlie chrysalis stale, lies muddled for some twenty days longer, when it emerges a butterfly. In this hist state it remains but a short period, its whole existence rarely exceeding two months. When the worm is to be used for its silk, the cocoon is put in a hot oven, or enveloped in steam, or exposed 10 the sunshine, in order to kill the insect; for if tho animal should live to cat its way out, the threads at one end of the cocoon will bo cut, and the cocoon become worthless. An ounco of eggs yields about _!_.1 1- -r T* 1 cij^my-eigut pouuus 01 cucooiis. j^acn cocoon gives from seven hundred and fifty to eleven hundred and fifty feet of silk. A hundred pounds of cocoons is estimated to average eight pounds of reeled raw silkTho worms necessary to produce this weight of cocooii3 devour, when at their maximum appetite, about two hundred and fifty pounds of mulberry leaves daily. The more food they consume tho more silk they will yield. It would be a nice exercise in arithmetic for every fair dauio to calculate how many mulberry leaves went to the making of her best silk dress. "With tho ancient Romans silk was a costly luxury, for it could only bo had from India, whence it was brought overland by tedious caravans. It was uot till tho sixth century of thojCh ristian era that two monks brought some silk-worm eggs from China to Constantinople. The Emperor'Justinian encouraged this new brunch of industry, and silk factories soon sprung up at Athens, Thebes, nnd Corinth. Five hundred years elapsed, however, before tho silk culture spread to Italy. Tho Moors carried it into Spain, whero it become a flourishing branch of manufacture and commerce, at a period when most all Western Europe was still plunged in barbarism. It was not till A. D. 1504, or subsequent to tho discovery of America, that the silk culturo was established in France. Silk growing has often been attempted in England, but as tho climate is unfavorable, tho experiment has always failed. In tho United Shates the culture ofsilk is comparatively in its infancy, thonndi the daV will comn ivIipii if. will Kn 0~~ J "" vv nn important element of national wealth. Lombardy at present yields the largest quantity of silk of any country in Europe. India, tho original homo of tho silk worm, still exports annually immense quantities, not only of raw silk, but of tho manufactured articlo also. Tho ladies Bay that for summer wear the India silks are the cheapest and most durable.?Baltimore Sun. ^? ? The Snrinyfield Rcmihlican lolla n ??lr?rv I O * * J of n coal dealer and an insurance officer, who wero conversing, when the latter suggested cigars, and jocularly offered to pay if the coal dealer, Mr. P., would get them; "Agreed," was tho word, and Mr. P. received ten cents, went off and bought a couple of cigars. Mr. F., the insurance man, sat still in his chair, received his cigar, and nfter puffing, and squeezing and pulling, remarked that Mr. P. had better luck with the cigar ho was puffing freely away upon, than had fallen to his own lot. "1 Shouldn't wonder," replied T., " for I gave eight cents for mine, and only two for jtfjSpM( *<? ?'? New Orleans.?The ex* pons ami shipments from tyew Orleans of domestic products during*(fie last quarter were tweoty-three minion fire hundred anil REMINISCENCES OF THE PALMETTO REOI- 1 MENT. j The speech mndu by uur distinguished I epresentative, in Congress, the Hon. Law- J ence M. Keitt, at tlio banquet, recently / * 'iveu by the Citv Council of Columbia, to * . II) '.ho survivors of the Palmetto Itecmnent, 111/ . iu which lie related several incidents which' ^ occurred on the bloody field of Churubusco, unknown before, save to those who now n' survive, has created an interest, and caused a feeliiiLT ainoncr our citizens to hear and know more of the history of that Reg'- \ vi mcnt. | ^ The following sketch is,"as we believe, ft full and true account of the death of Col. 0 Pierce M. Duller, and what occurred there1- ?l after; .. ' jj Early in tho action, Col. Bullet's horse1, * was shot through the nostrils, the ball cutting the headstall of the bridle, causing the 'V bit to drop out of his horse's mouth. The Colonel immediately dismounted, when his 10 horse plunged most furiously, became wild from pain, and ran into the ranks of the n< enemy. Soon after this, Col. Duller received a severe wound in the knee, the ball passing under the joint, and through the P' flesh, causing him intense pain, and almost vv rendering it impossible for him lo walk, and w in a short time disabled him from keeninir el the command. He retired, turning tho com- c' maud over to Lieut. Col. Dickinson.' The fire of the enemy was now tcrrifie? c< the very air was thick with tho leaden rnes* mongers of death, and the continual order of " "close ranks'' told how truly they did their ^ duty. Gcnl. Shields then ordered the regiment 1S to retire behind a large hacienda, (wheat; ^ Col. Duller and tho other wounded of the ,r regiment wore lying) for the purpose of 11 'orming a new line. A new line was form- ' ed, and the regiment marched on under a S1 most murderous fire towards tlic enemy, i'1 which were strongly posted in the . road. Sl Col. Dickinson in command * and bearing ai the Palmetto Flag. 1 "eggs, the color bearer, 11 having previously been shot down. "When the regiment arrived in a lino ni parallel to the road, and facing the enemy, *-c which was several hundred yards from the cs hacienda, Col. Butler was seen advancing 1;| towards tho regiment, using his sword as a 1): means of support, to enable him to walk. A3 he moved up into ranks, Major Gladden 111 approached, and spoke to him. The Colo- w nel half faced to tho rear, and while ho and d< Maj. Gladden were in'conversation, the fatal hi ball struck him in roar of the left ear. lie sc lurried on his left heel and fell straight backwards in the arms of Maj. Gladden, h; who gently laid him on the field, and or- g' dered a detail of men from the ranks to h carr}' his body to the rear. c< During this time, the regiment had ad" ^ vanced several paces, and, as Major Gladden g: approached it, Col. Dickinson was scon to fall. MajorGladden went immediately to him when Col. Dickinson said to him, "Here, Major, take theso colors and this sword, c< and defend and maintain tho honor of South ~~ Carolina." The gallent Major took the Palmetto flag, handed it to Patrick Leonard, (a private in Company II., who bore it w safely through tho charge,) and, after ordering a file of men to take Col. Dickinson st to the rear, assumed command of the llegi- 111 inent. 1,1 General Shields then rode up, when Major Gladden asked his permission to charge. "That is what I wish you to do," rtl was tho reply. The chargo was then or dered, and soon tho bayonets of tho Pnlmottoes forced back the serried ranks of the foe, scattering them in all directions, in Thus ended tho battle of Churubusco. bj Time and space forbid me to speak of dc many other incidents which transpired on 1,1 that bloody field, but, perhaps we will re- '1( late them hereafter. lo Potato Mail.?At a meeting of the |i( Farmers'Club, of this city, on the 12th }u inst., M. U, South wick, of Canada West, |k exhibited a preparation?of potatoes dried by t|, heated air after being boiled, which simply f0 takes away all moisture from the pulp, cc leaving it in grains of the size of coarse ar gunpowdofy He says it can be prepared a, for a cost of twelve cents a bushel, and p, reduced in bulk four-fifths. This product can bo kept as easily as flour, and may bo prepared ready for eating in five minutes. process of cooking was exhibited to al (he Club over a spirit lamp, and the product jjj tasted much like ordinary mashed potatoes. ^ To prepare it for eating it is mixed with Cf three times its bulk of hot water, and stir- p reu until it is ot me consistency of mashod potatoes. It is then set into an 9V6I1 for a j few minutes, when it is ready for the table. Fifteei bushels of potatoes make 0110 bnrrel ^ oAtis flour, which is stated to keep for j years without injury in a dry place. This is something worthy the attention of our agriculturalists. There was a toler- Tc ablo good Cfop of potatoes Th many places at last year, and their price in the fall waB so moderate, but it soon rose to a .very high UI fimiU tuWVllVtIA *I?A 1 flr' .?? ???. wiiiiiienceu among b" them after being stored f*ny. Hundreds Al of tboaaandft <tf bushels, We believe, were4,0fl Ifcwloet. Here is a method of saving Irc potatoes from destruction by **, r and at the same time providing a most 80 $fciwing,,Healthful, and nourishing vegetaIjija food, which should not bo neglected by ou tlto&e' who cart, abd who bhoulJ, lakdHdvun- 60 tVge >f it,? Sc'cnfiftr. American. * ' THE CUNNINGHAM BABY. This is a queer world?.1 wickrd world, nl yet a funny world. It is not all trage; nor all farce, but tragedy and fttrco ingli'd. Wo have bad tragedy, murder ost foul, in tlie Burdell-Cunniugham ense; >w we have the after-piece, the furcc. A scd inspiring borror, causing tbo blood to in cold by tlio savagery marking its peroration, is followed, in the same hoiiso at > distant interval, by a scenc 60 grotesqueludicrous, that, though it revives most viuly the f.'colleeliou of the fearful crime, e whole community utters over it one ml, long uuproarious guflaw. No lan- ^ iage can uo justice to the bsiby scene in o l'uidcll Cunningham drama. Nonov- ? ist or dramatist ever exceeded it as a pieco invention. Mrs. Cunningham acts out part in a real life which, if found in a work ' fiction, would stagger the credulity of tins ader. When caught in her wily plot, when iho :t woven round her is drawn closo upon ?r guilty person, she affects innocence.? lie maintains her sclf-posscse'ioii, goe3 on aying the part as she had prepared it, and ith the same theatrical display of affection hicli she made over the lifeless body, coved with gaping wounds, of the man she aimed as her husband, sho cries out, Don't lake my dear baby from me." Such misuuimate acting, such deep dyed villiny, as its motive suggests, is so rare even i tlio history of crime, that tho mind la iK:il with an amazement unutterable. There is a proverb to the effect that "it a long lane which has no turn." Mrs. 'uuningham seems to have reached a turn i her plots and scheming. There inay, ideed, still be some who will think her an l-uscd woman ; the victim of a cruel conliraoy ; tho deeply-wronired mother of nn iteresting little baby. They may compas* oualc her in her grief at thojrude severnco fiom her embrace of the Infant cherub, ie iieir of the name and fortuno of her . jar Harvey Burdell. They may heap laledictions 011 the heads of the hard-hear' d officers who turned- h^deaf ear to her irnesr, passionate solicitations, " Don't ike my dear baby from me." And symithizing editors may bo found who will elingly describe this much suffering wolan, rubbed, at the moment when her heart as filled with the joys of maternity, of the jar object of long desire. Our own. pep?? jgins to tremble, and we sigh to think of tho ^ >rrow of the family group for tho loss of icir dear little sister, to whom they would ;ive sung sweet lullabies, or rocked her iu antle sleep to tho accompaniment of tho mjo. Out upon the wicked officer who >uld so unscntimcntally 'Bay?' Get up, rrc! ?i J * wuuimu^iiiiiii, uuu ureas yourseil ; tllO imc is played out.*??New YffrkSun, A'FEROCIOUS BEAB. TI ie Detroit Press Las the following ac< >unt of a desperate encounter with a bear i -said to be the tame brute that killed a I jy in that vicinity, a few days previous : A party of men were engaged in the oods, on Thursday last, in constructing n lanty, when, it being found that a certain I iek of timbor was needed for use, a Ger- I an, named lluidam, took an axe and went I to lIic swamp to cut it. He was in search I ' an appropriate piece for the purpose in- I nded, when lie was startled by the sudden I >parition of a large black bear, standing a fl w feet from him, and eyeing hira intent-1 . " 1 ' A large dog, which accompanied hiirr, lmcdiatcly attacked the bear, seizing her ; the haunclies, and hanging on like criim :atli. lleidam, seeing tho bear occupied defending herself against the dog/tliopght ; had a sure thing of it, and approached strike her wUhtfie nxe. The bear, on citig this movement, raised herself upou :r haunches, and as lleidam struck at her >ad with the axe, caught tho blow with ;r foro paw, and sent the axo flying rough the air, entirely out of reach. Tho roe of the blow boing miscalculated* tho inscquence was that Ileidam lost his bailee, and the bear caught him in grasp, kY field him iu a deadly hug, that doived jjim of every power of motion. . Thor'tfog mean while worked manfully for s ma iter and kept the bear'ateetMn eon* ant action, in deluding herself from hi* tacks, thus probably saving his master's o. Fortunately, the party which Ilyidam ul just left was not far distant, Had bis ies for help, together with the loud growigs of the dog, attracted their attention, id one of the party, seizing the broadaxe, istencd in llie direction of the noise.? aming in sight of the boar, who still held eidam in a deadly grasp, he made a rush at sr with his broadaxe, . \ The animal, no^ liking, the looks of this inforcemcnt, let'go the man ami oftnde off full speed, followed by the dog, who on returned, badly wounded. Heidaoi, w >on being released, dropped npon' the ound eonseles?, frora the effects of the hug , id was taken up by bis companions and rried to a place Of Bafety, where he wa? nuscitated. He has .pot yet recorored jm the effects t!of the asperate struggle, a*4o be jd?je to do anything. accompanied by b*r three lbs, and baa been see* by dozens of pefna in the ?tmo neighborhood within the ?t two or tiuee weekn, ^