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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.