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# Volume^ oamden, south-carolina, feb ruaey 11 1869; 3STijmbeh ax. MISCELLANY. A CONFEDERATE REMINISENCE. irhis Washington correspondence of the New York Times had given the public some revelations concerning the fettempt to remove Gen. Grant from the fcuaitaahd of the federal army during the Mississippi cabipaign, and of a curious Correspondence between Generals Ilalleck and Banks pertaining to that point. It appears, according to the Times' narrative, that IlalleCk had become displeased with Grant after the battle ot Shiloh, and had sought his removal, offering the position to a Quartermaster by the name of Robert Allen, but had failed. In the Fall of 1802, the attempt was renewed bj influences brought to bear on Lincoln in favor of Geth McClernand, who had been bold enough to declare that "he Was tired of furnishing brains for the Army of Ten>? t> il:. nessee. jl>ui in is tuuiguc vmj i?Umed in assigning McClcmard to an independent command. After the fail, urc of the second assault on Vicksburg, a positive order was sent to General Banks, then investing Port Hudson, to displace Grant and assume the commaud of the army and operations at. Vicksbarg. This drew forth an expostulation from Banks sgainst the policy of abandoning his position as the key oi the lower Mississippi. This expostulation drew forth a renewal of the command accompanied by a sharp reprimand for previous disobedience of orders. The correspondence and in trigues were closed by the fall of Vicks burg. This correspondence, it is promised, will be published to the world ? Grant has come to the knowledge of it, ? 1 n i j ' it ii" i ?' *" *?TrotTTa" has announced his determination to retire from public life. These revelations recall an incident related to the writer by the late Contederate General Y\\ II. T. Walker.? About the time of the 6ccond assault o i Vicksbu g, a scout, & tached, we bell 'vc, to Wirt Adams'command, having duly reported, paid an evening visit to some army acquaintances. Seated in a small circle of subalterns around a camp fire of course, he was the centre of attraction. Many incidents of adven tures were told, and Itetns concerning the news from the United States, and of operations of the "Yanks" were related. Among other things he stated that a plan had been proposed for creating a negro insurrection, with a simultaneous c ?perative movement of the Federal army, bjt tl a General Grant had refused to join in carrying it out, savin,' that he would march his army back ' until the negro fighting was over; that, that was not his mode of warfare: that this refusal had occasioned great ill feeling toward the Federal commander; that his removal was looked forj thai General McClernand had come from Washington with an order in his pock et from [Lincoln to assuue coniu and. wl.ich he fad presented to G nera' Grant; but that Grant hr.d thrown the order into the fire, and told the General (hut his Division would move next mot< nin<j at three o'clock, and advised liim to go with it. It Would be strange if subse<iueni * * - - 1 J I A- _l 1.1 Disioncui aeTeiopnieuiB buuuiu piuv* the exactness and faithfulness of i Confederate scout. The four colored militiamen connect ed with the force stationed at Marion l Crittenden County, Arkansas, who per petrated a fiendish crime upon scvera r Women living in the vicinity of the camp were arranged before a courtmartiul 01 the 18th ult., and were convicted of thi alleged charges, and shot by order o the court on the following day. Thi . vote of the court in deciding the cas of all the parties was unanimous fo conviction. Upon the close of the tria the criminals were confined to the guard house and were allowed the company o the colored chaplains connected wit! . the force, who administered religiou consolation to their troubled minds til the time arrived for their execution which was formerlly announced to th prisoners a half hour previous tothei death. The intervening moments between the announcement and the time they were shot were of dreadful agony and wailing, mingled with cries to the officers to abhte their punishment, and ' prayers to the Giver of their lives for pardon and mercy. Their piteous and loud cries rent the air, and were heard throughout the" neighborhood, sending a chill of horror to all The men and officers of the garrison were, however, unanimous in# their condemnation of the outrage, and not a word of remonstrance, or an iutimation of resistance to execution of the sentence of the court, was heard. On the contrary, it was feared by the officers, from the excited a._i:?,ua nnvntiifl. fnai tieularl v of Il'ClILl?a ui iuv v those in the same tfompany of the criminals,) that previous to the courtmartial, they would break through the guard and deal ont vengeance themselves to the prisoners who had so cruelly dis graced them. A few minutes^previous to the execution, the prisoners were led out from the barricade a short distance, where their coffins were laid side by side, a few feet apart, and each tied to I a stake driven in tne grounu at iuc Cuu . of the coffins, with their backs to the same. Fuity men, all colored, and selected from every company, under the command of Lieutenant Gregory, colored, were detailed to shoot the criminals They were drawn up iu two ranks. At the command of the officer the front rank levelled their guns at the n en aud fired, the fatal shots killing each of them instantly. A squad of men was then detuiled to place the bodies in their coffins and bury them. Tire affair was witnessed by the entire military force, with the exception of several scouting parties. ' Tue Supply of Me.it?Timely Warning to tueSoutu.?A St. Lou-1 is pork packer issues the following circular, which concerns the people of the South : Evidence daily accumulates, going to show that the present year the South will demand and consume double the I quantity of provisions she did last year. In view of this fact, what is the condition of the trade in the hop product of ihe West at tide time? The South is consuming meat of the m w crop, while the old stock was consumed long before the new cure could be g"t forwatd. This is lousujI for the season, and is of great importance. In the face of this fact, we have the evidence that thero is at least an even chance for a small crop of hogs to give us the meat for the coming wants. Could we come up to the last year's crop, we should then be deficient, I l'? r that only met the necessities, which j were cramped by the lack of means to pay. Now, with increased facilities for payment, and a consumption so far of the uew crop, astonishing and unsual and yet legitimate, as we have before this remarked, the "hog product" is to be short this year iu any event that can now occur. Souie writers ate descant1 ing ilpou the fact that the higher prices 1 arc checking the exportutions. To our uiind this is of little Concern, for, from i present appeurances, the West will have ! no provisions to send out of the country. The home consumption will be as much J as we can meet, and we may not be able 1 to do even that, if the hogs do not come forward in a larger supply than they have done thus far, and that a ma jority predict they will. Relative to , high prices, we state, without fear of - contradiction, that he who buys hogs at 9} cents gross, and sells the product at , the present rates, loses money ou every i hog so slaughteied. One thing is pale pable, either hogs must come down in f t price, or the product must go higher e ihan at any price we have yet seen. It e is estimated that at the present time the r stock of hogs is only about half and 1 that of pork only about one-quarter of - the stock of last year at Chicago, and f other points also short. b s At Malaga, Spain, during the insur 1 recfcion, women poured burning oil from i, the upper windows upon the soldiers, e and the soldiers murdered every helpr less human being within reach. THE MACHINERY NEEDED FDR p< A COTTON FACTORY AND d* ITS COST. th A Northern machinist gives the fol- ac lowing estimate of the prime cost of the fih machinery needed for a cotton factory m of one thousand spindles with the ne- at cessary preparation and moving macbinery to run by gleam : W Machinery? -A One Mason's whipper, 8 75 " One picker and lapper 350 sc Four double doffing cards 1000 w One drawing frame, 3 heads 225 One slubber, thirty six spindles 700 ?.? | CC une ny irarne, ei^uiv tuui bl?u- . dies 800 ti One thousand ring spindles, at la ?i each 4000 w Two reels, $35 each 70 One bundling press 50 One bailing press 76 Futures? re Four sets card clothing, at 800 $ 240 S, Oaus and bobbins 200 jfl Shafts, pulleys and belts 700 Turning lathe 50 0 Ooe ten-horse power angine 1200 ^ Extra charges for fitting up 150 ot Total cost of machinery aud fixtures $9885 si The above is a detail of the cost of u; one thousand spindles and preparation, 0, in.,ma Without coiner into .T detail, 810 per spindle is a safe calculation. One hundred spiodles is the conimoD estimate per tiorse power. Twelve lootos, with accompabying machinery, consume one horse-power '> forty looms should be allowed t" one ^ thousand spindles for spinning medium cc numbers, say tweuties to thirties.? Looms cost 865 each. The cost of one thousand spindles m with prepartions and weaving machine- P( ry would be as follows : " Whole cost of one thousand spindles nnd nwnnmtinn?(.th'fl lint iny nriCQ of reels and bundling press, whicTTare no' as needed for Weaving) is 89,765 be Forty looms, at 865 each 2,600 . One dresser 450 1 Ono warper 100 m One spooler 80 as Extra charge for steam engine, say 3t>0 is j Extra charge for shafts and belts 250 0f Total 813,595 co From this detail it appears that the W.' cost per spindle with looms is 813 60, but a safer calculation would be 814 per sp'nlie. m sh For one liundrid spindles without ' looms, I would leeouimend a one-story V building one hundred foct long and fifty feet wide. If luoms rrc added, one Ct^ i > J r j-^_, i l til nunureu ana lorry leei long una uuy i feet wide. For two or three thousand spindles, let the building be two or ta three stories high, each story the same in capacity as above recommended. As the cost of labor and materials in rc different localities Varies, I refrain from rc giving any estimate of the cost of building a mill to contain the above machinery. Any one can do this with the capacity and cost of materials given.? tc I would remark, however, that a b:.ild- ec ing at the South, with the same eost of labor and material, could he erected much cheaper thau one adapted to our Northern climate. Tl>? rn! urn frnm onf.tnn in Wi'll man- ^ aged mills is eighty-five per cent, al- 8f though many return scvetity-five per 11 cent. A loom in fair operation will al produce thirty-two yards per day, run- ^ ning at otic hundred and ten picks per a' minute, and making cloth sixty-four w picks or threuds of weft per inch. The Mutteawan Company have sent ei machinery to the South for a large num- & bcr of mills, and cotild probably furnish ^ it as cheap and at as short notice as any P machiue makers in the country; al- ? though the best means for a Southern I company to start a mill well, and the shortest possible time, would be to en- 1 gage a good practical manufacturer, and 11 let him put the mill in operation an i w furnish a competent superintendent for 1 a specified sutu. This plan has been P adopted, and I believe with success.? a Kcspctablc persons can be found to take ll charge of new factories if the locations " nre agreeable. v s Singular Circumstance.?A New York pnper tells a curious story of a man named Homer E. Sawyer, who came to that city from Huston on tho c 8th of January, 18G4, on the way to j c New Orleans, with ?1,350 in bills in bis t I K?kct. This sutii he lost during the ty, which was rainy and muddy, and e loss having been advertised, and no count had of the money, it was asiraed that it had been trampled in the tid and carried off by the scavengers nong the street sweepings. Mr. Sawproceeded to New Orleans, and died ro years thereafter?viz., in 1866.? fettut the beginning of last December, le finder of the money, no boubt coniiencc-atrickeo, wrote to a gentleman ith whom the advertisement stated it ight be left if found, and inquired mcerning the looser. This informal on the writer had, as also the particurs of his death, the destitution of his idow and family, all other particulars dculated to convince the fludcr that lould the money be returoed it would :ach the hauds of the lawful owners, oon after the last-mentioned date a dy, closely veiled called the on agent : the loser's widow and paid not only le sum lost in 1864, but the interest i it from the day of its loss to the day 'its restoration, and expenses of adverng?altogether, 82,160. On the 19th Itimo this money Was given to the widit and her fatherless children in St. ohnsbury, Vt. COTTON AND RESUMPTION. The col ton crop the last year (says le New York Esprcsx) will yield from 500)000 to 2,700,000 bales, which, at le prices received, will exceed the in ime from the 5,000,000 bales produced ;fore the war. Cotton, at 24 and 25 mts a pound, in 1SG0, is a good deal ore king than cotton at 10 cents a rnnd before the war, and especially hen in 1SG8, the South produced in od about all that the Southern people -Amoiii-uii iuILuu alaO MoW, before the war, os a whole, is the ,'st cotton produced in the world. Its :mand is uuubated wherever cotton is anufactured, and will be just as long it is produced. The income from it as certain as the demand. On a belt ' 600 miles of land there are no such itton lands in the world. All that is intcd is capital and labor, and it is n sgrace to the country, and especially its mock philanthropy, that twice as uch cotton was produced in a state of ivcry as in a state of freedom, though is We are sorry to say, is but a rcpe:iou of the practical freedom estubli>h1 in Jamaicia and St. Domingo, where i 1 i ?? A e cotton ana sugar plantations went ruin just as fast as the negroes ob iued their freedom. But we expect different results at the juth, and they would be at once appant if the Southern people were left to gulate their own business, labor and ditical relations, as the people of the orth and West are permitted to reguate theirs, and this with a much bctr condition of the moral, relig'ousand lucational status of the negro than we lull over behold through Northern inference. Nobody, of course, c vcr exicts to see Blavery established in the nitcd States, and now that the insti ition is clean gone, nobody eveu de" res it; but Congressional Itcconstrucon in The form of military governments : the South, the regulation of suffrage, le interference with State and personI rights and laws, the exclusion of bite men from office and the ballot, is positive bar to real freedom, indepeudnce and prosperity, and whenever Conrcss consents to loosen its oppressive old upon the South, and to leave the eople there as they do here, not only the outh, but the whole people, will feel he healthy influence of such freedom, f Congress will hut consent to let all lie States regulate their own internal ffairs, so fur as they, do not interfere rith the United States Constitution, he best results will eneue, and we now rcdict, if this is done, by the time two dditional crops of cotton are put upon he market, the Government will be able y'th even decent economy in the admin alration of public ajfairs, to iitsu.mt pecie payments. Awjunla Chronicle & Sentinel. A practical joker camo to grief recntly in Michigan. lie imitated an iwl, and a friend believing hiin really o bo one, shot him. JtJACON AND LiOUN.?JLLie iiewuurijr Herald says: Cotton is a royal article iD the World's commerce; at present, it commands a royal price We deem it proper to throw out a suggestion upon the next crop.? From all we can learn, more than ever, our planters have in vieW to plant cotton almost exclusively. It is a dangerous experiment. Every planter should, at least, have in view to raise his own breadstuffs. The scarcity of corn and bacon enhances the price of labor. La bor, for the last twelve months, has advanced at least twenty-five per centr in value. The negro is disappearing, nobody knows where, and white labor does not, as yet, take his place. Tho white man will pause before he comes, as a laborer, to a country not well supplied with beef and grain. Even at the present price of negro labor, the white laborer would not be willling to compete If labor is to continue Scarce* aQd the price of labor to advance steadily by the increase of the surface in cotton, it is doubtful if the planter will be remunerated sufficiently by the probable advance in the price of the great staple. In all probability, the price of the bulk of the presentcropisthe maximum that the staple will attain. The single article of bacon now exhausts, to a large extent, the wages of the colored laborer and the profits of the employer. These matters should be well considered in connection with pitching another crop. A failure of a cotton crop, with no corn and bacon would entail ruin and starvation upon the majority of the populution. Let us have bacon and coiu. Twice Marrijed.?There i* a carious bill now pending in the Legislature of Kentucky. It is to legalize the marriage of Dr. M. H. Thorp and Josephine Flarvy, although the lady has never been divorced. This tormer spouse was n confederate officer, and universally believed to have been killed in the battle of Stone River. Some ten months after that event, the lady was married anew to I)r. Thorp, and was living in felicity with him, when suddenly the deud husband reappeared upon the stage of life. Like a perfect gentleman, he made no disturbance, bu^ offered the lady the choice between himself and her second and new partner. She chose the latter, and Mr. Harvey gave his consent aud blessings. But this did not suffice to render the marriage legal, and for this purpose the parties have gone to the Legislature.? Whether the desired relief wi'l be given is rather doubtful, as the Kentucky lawmakers seem reluctant to pass the bill. Starved to Death by Laziness. ?An inquest was held ou Monday last, about ten miles from this city, on the body of a negro tvoman named Anna Huff, who was found dead in the woods. Two witnesses testified that they knew her (one a white man and the other a negro woman,) and the substance of their evidence was that she would not work for a living; declaring she was free and that she intended to stay so. She was a large, stout woman; abuudantly able to work, too. Columbus (Ga.) Sun. The smallpox is reported to be very severe in the Western cities. It is asserted that the number of deaths from this discaso has been uupreccdntedly great in Cincinatti. Smallpox is dec'arcd to be an epidemic in St. Louis; it is scourging Chicago, though notoing is said of it in the uewspapcrs, and in Milwaukie the public schools and the rin have been closed in consequence, and tho shutting up theatres, concert sa loons and other places where large numbers of persons assemble, has been discussed. General Robert E. Lee hag Leen elected President of the Bible Society of Kcckbridge County, Virginia, has issued a short address to the citizens of that County in behalf of the object of the society?which is to supply every family in tho County with a copy of the Bible. V I\ jlvjl JLv JL XI A Veteran Tiro.?The Najhviile (Tennesse) Union, of ihie 7th hU.,say8: "We had the pleasure of meeting in the city yesterday, W. L. Barryr Esq., the oldest printer in the United States. Tie is looking just as young as when we first knew him, over thirty yeartago.?= He is now in his eighty-ninth year, and if put to the test, could set up his ten thousand ems a day: ! 7 Messrs. Mason and Slidell will shortly return to this country in company with Jefferson Davis. George Peabody is intending ttt make the tour of the Southern States next fall. A Connecticut court has decided that - ? 'll hmI annnA^f Vll^ faHiilv <1 Luau V*UU IT 111 UUU DU|/^VIV uie ?? !> ?j is a pauper. Dr. McBride has been fodiid giiilty of dealing faro in Kentucky, and fined 8fi00. In default of payment, he wad sent to the work-hottso to work out the fine at fifty cents per day; A Berkshire (MasS;) girl walked l4 miles through the snow the other day to marry a yoting mad who cotdd not come to her house for fear of a Irix* shooter which the sterp parent carried; A man in St. Louis recently got mar ried on Tuesday, got the Chills OQ Wednesday, wrote his will od Thursday* went mad on Friday, and died on Sab u'day and was buried on Sunday. The 430 churches in.New Ydrk tfiii scat about 800.000 persons. The Kr'dtestant churches number 356. The 881 Sunday Schools are attended by 117,450 children. Large Sale of Sotjth Carolina Lands.?The New York Herald says i ''Thomas R. Agnew, of this oity, had recently purchased 8,700 acres of land in Edgefield Coun'y, South Carotin** near Aiken." Some Hoos.?The Marion Creuxei says Mr. Charles Haselden o^thatoodnty, last week killed two df hi* fcbgft* which when dressed and hong up* weighed ono thousand and twenty-fits " ' ? ? < . i l.J! L pounds, une 01 tnem weignea six nun* dred and one pounds/ Take a 8mail pietie bt raw beef, ste?f) it all night in vinegar, cut as much from it as will cover the wart, tie it on it; or if the excresence is on the forehead, fasten it on with strips of atiolcing plaster. It may be removed in the day and put on every night. In trad fortnight the wart will die and peel off. The same prescription will cure cornSi So says the Goldsboro Messenger. 'And you have been married, Pate rick, three times, haven't Joti V "Yes, indade, sir" "And what do you say of it ? Whioh wife did you like the best ?" "Well, Becky O'Brien, that I Carried the first time, was a good woman? too good for me; so she got sick iUld died, and the Lord took her. "Then I got mafried to Bridget Flannagan. She was a bad womanj and she got sick and died too, and the devil took her. "Then, fool that I was, I got mari-ied to Margret Haggertj. She was worse, very bad?so bad that neither the Lord nor the devil would have her, so I have to keep her myself " "Oh yes, Joe; my father's flu old mariner?a regular salt." "Why, I never kDcw that. What service was he in ? * "The whaliog service. He goes cruising around all night, and in the morning, when he comes home, he goes a wnaiing the whole family, from the old 'oman down, and boxes the compass about the hired girl's cars/' A young man at Contiefsville, Giles County, Tennessee, on Thursday evening, while standing on the floor in the act of being married, was shot down by the brother of his bride. Ue fell in the arma of tho devoted girl, who assisted by friends, conveyed him to a bed, when her request, the marriage ceremony was finished, she exclaiming that she would rather mourn a dead husband than a dead lover. In a few minutes the newly-made husband expired. The murderef escaped.