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VOL. III MANNING, CL A RENDON COUNTY, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JULY t, NO8. 29 \\ILKES BOO THI " )I' T:m1- ASASSINATION OF M' a s ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Andrew .Johnsen and 3Mrs. Surra1tt--!10w a Regard for Ieligiorn 3Iight Have M:2.'ed Lincoln. (Annistou. Ala.. lot Blast.) As the day approaches that marLs the yearly record of Lincoln's death, I fim myself dwelling upon it with more t1u usual sadness, because i 1appen t. be amid the surro'ndigs that frame I in the startling report when it ranc . %& It is strange that tis free -OviA of ours, tne crime, which of nll othl r is the outgrowth of despotism, should fi 1id development. Do extremes meet in th way, or may we take this strange ap pearance of assassination as a sym-ptom of a deep seated diseease that escap or dinary seeing? Are we, after all, i fted above the ills of tyranny in our form of government, or have we only shitted the evils of oppression by one, or a iev, to that of the many? is not the des.:sm of a majority as intolerable as tuir of one man or of a class? Our governrnent has developed into one of parties, and, while our constitution was framed to protect the minority, the unwritten con stitution of experience running through a century, really proclaims the fact that a minority has no rights which the party in power is bound to respect. It is a little singular, however, that our two instances of assassination, which startled the civilized world, were outside the ordinary run of politics. Bcth struck for the South, then in armed re volt, and Guiteau killed the President his party had elected. But these uraw no line and only illustrate the fact that heated partisanship, uttered in worCs, is sure to find active expression from the insane. Booth's bullet had back cf it Jeff Davis's utterances, while Gaiteau's pistol, fired at Washington, was loa;ded at Utica. Of course Jeff Davis. nor Roscoe Conkling, ever dreamed of such intents, and were undoubtedly shocked und pained at the results. 'The fact rema.s, however, and should be a lesson to the leaders to teach them to be more gne.d ed in their utterances. The wild ex aggerations as to the vital importance of each political campaign, which we Iear from the stump and read in the press, :are dangerous, for while the m take +ho&m at their true value, cranks are stirred into devilish activity. We must remember, too, that for -sWo thousand years, poets, orators and pa -triots have been singing the praisc of the assains-of all popular saints Brutus and Charlotte Corday have bcen and are the most glorified. 'The trati is that neither was animated by any lofty impulse or patriotic motive, the fact be ing that one was .a low sort of a woman iad the other a mean man. Booth .nd Guiteau were quite as good as the classic pair. Next to setting up a sham ;.s a popular idol, the greatest difliculty i. to pull down again and escape the conse quences of our own folly. Good may .come out of violence done by matses when they rise half starved against op pression, but there is no good in assassi nation. There is a difference between murder and war. These thoughts, however, are not ger mane to what I sat down to write. I only seek to record some facts connected with the awful murder of the great and good President. When the news of President Lincoln's inisssnation startled the people I ws at .my home, on the Mac-o-chiee, Ohio. While walking along the pike near to ward the village, some two miles dis tant, going for my daily mail, I met a man on horseback, whose sad face struck me. American farmers have the saddest faces of alihunmanily, but this wore a gloom of unusual depth. Stopping whien near me, he asked if I haa heard the news, and getting a response in the negative, he continued: "They do say at Liberty that Lincoln is dead."' "Dead?" I repeated. "Yes; shot dead by a play-actor, or circus chap, or some sort of fellow of that kind." I hurried on. ,I was struck by the silence of the town. Life in the four yearsof, bloody disasters on our part, which were quite as bloody in our year of victory as they were in our defeats, had been terribly cheapened in public' estirnation. The reports of thousands left dead upon the field, or dying in hospitals, were received with noisy com ment, it is true, but yet with a certain indifference. Here, however, was a death that commanded grave attention, and seemed to change the day itself irom one of noisy life to a Sabbath-like still ness. The shops were open but desert ed, and around the corners the tpeople were collected gazing at each other in silence. Towards noon the country peo ple began to gather in. 'They came direct'~ from home in their ordinary work ciothes, and as returned soldiers, stimulated .y liquor, grew noisy and the threatening feeling spread, and durmng the day and night, I expected to hear of certain obnoxious Democrats, known 'i' Copperheads. being mobbed and m treated. But we escaped all violence, and in twenty-four hours the excitement of that sort subsided. Had political organizations been more evenly divided at that time the coiise quences would have been deplorable. But the Riepublican p~arty meant theni the American people at the North, and popular fury was expended im denuncia tion of JeX Davis and the rebels, as they were called. It was generally believed that the >win were agents of the Confederates, who, failing in the IelA.,I had resorted to murder to avenge thnj lost cause. A year afterwards I visited a niece, then residing in Maryland, on the route taken by Booth in his zlighit from thme capital." The terror excited by the wrath& of the community ytmt prevailed, and the Marylanders, my relatives incluaed, spoke cautiously and in -an under-tone oi' the event, and such parts of it as came under their immediate observation. The fury of officials deprived the gov ernment of much valuable evidence that would have thrown considerable light on the dark transaction, and while serving a maais the guilty would have in a a'd. tuerefore, wVu arus1 ii mma rju -.was aided A;n- hi insane furv by Andrew -ohnon, wiho 1-J reasons of his own for i..r aive stor Wich prevenedC( too c aose seruiny hps ai tu a.L" nd con etc. The 1e0-, in afamous class known as detectives, Jeveloped by the war, and cultivatie'd I th.e . ercLiry of war and the se tar o state, of where kings and subordinat oice wer-e executors un der t'eir own law, and instad of en courag ~an' openig of tcsimony, they peC':' a w wre Supose to know aruing co:I ee wi1th the mtur er of Lincol nhe atempednmurder ut SewarL. Ins wa a poor stge Carpsr , h inoenl .e0 v-1_oLd.1 !S ole on the i-ght of t2 ins iOn was sent to a living death, and poor Dr. Vua', who treated the broken ankle oi Booti, never dreaming of what caused the accident, was glad to escape the gal lows in sharing the carpenter's punish ment. Mrs. Surratt, who was found guilty of keeping a boarding house at Washington, was hanged-to our national shame through all time to come. It was eath to any one known to have seen, let alone associated with Booth, and in this way mouths were closed in fear, and consequently a revelation of the facts suppressed. This aifords a key to the reasons 'or Andrew Johnson's strange, contradicto ry and wild conduct on the occasion. He out-Heroded Herod, which means Stanton., in his angry denunciation of men whom he afterwards, when in the afety of a subsided excitement, strange ly favored. And in this we can find the :mly reasonable solution of his passing Erom one extreme to tha other. On one lav he was furious in his demands to have treason made odious tv hanging the traitors, from Jeff Davis down. Not long after le shifted to the other extreme :hat favored general amnesty, and was emarkable for an equally heated de a:nciation of the RladcalIs at the North ,-ho would recognize Lincoln's mild re onstruction policy, based on forgive :ess and kind treatment. President Johnson felt that he wa- the aIlv man in all the world who was bene ited by the death of his predecessor, md haunting him was a fact that strange y escaped attention at the time. He ad not onlV been the boon C )mpanion md conridential friend of Booth in times ast, but the assassin's card was found n the wrong box at Johnson's hotel, amiliarly addressed to the Vice-Presi ent, asking for an interview on the ery day of the night on which the as assination occurred. Less evidence than this hanged others, md Stanton's blind rage and Johnson's imuated fury saved Andrew Johnson rom a iunishmcrt awarded alike to the nrocent and guilty. Much time and ink have been wasted >ver that recommendation to executive demency awarded Mrs. Surratt by the -ourt-martial that condemned her, and m effort made to have us believe that it vas ke-.Pt from the Prcsident. The records show that this recommen lation made a part of the proceedings ipon which the President had to pass. Lf this were not . the President was uilty of an illegal act. The fact is that he recommendation to mercy was be re the man who not only dared not ompiy with +he plea, but, in his fear, ictually hurried up the execution. And is great advocate of the constitution, urthermore, refused to recognize tbe nterference of a civil tribunal that sought to review the proceedings of a ourt-martial, as it had the right to do, ader a writ of habeas corpus. Is it possible that Booth had the meet ng with the Vice-President for which he sked, and if so did he tell the Vice President of the awful work he had in Landy If so, it may be that Andrew Johnson took this to be the vaporings of drunkard actor-and it is very likely that his strange conduct came rather rom fear than from the workings of a guilty conscience. As'Judge Advocate of the Extraordi ary Court of Inquiry that sought to in estigate the military conduct of General Buell, I was brought in close association with Andrew Johnson, and what I learn-' ad of him on that occasion gives me a better opportunity for forming judgment than falus to the lot of the many sh ascribe all his actions to high patriotic impulses. it may be that the future historian, ieighing these facts in an impartial aind, will come to the same conclusion that I have in regard to President John son. But this is doubtful. A thought Eul mind has told us that history is the politics of the past and the present, and politics mean thie prejudices and current beliefs of the people. I have been struck in this connection by the remarkable similarity of conduct on the part of Johnson and that of Macbeth. When the murderer of that greatest and most perfect tragedy is brought face to face with his awful rime, he fairly roars in his simulated wrath. The grand imagination of the kingly asssassin that has given us some of the purest expressions of philosophi cal poetry give place to the miserable rant of a vuigar mind, Macbeth, how ever, was carrying the~xnurdered D~uncan on his conscience, while Johnson was probably driven to desperation by the knowledge of an indiscretion that had the same dreadful consequences loom ing into imme~diate existhnee. I weiud rather have been the associate of Booth and possessed of his dreadful secret, if the awful choice were foreed: upon me, and have been hanged for it,~ tan to have lived through years to my grave haunted by the tnought of that poor womian wringing her motherly hands in abject terror upon the scafold .Johns>n authorized, or seeing night and day that handle o. woman's clothes swingig in the hot sun of siumner, as tey covered at thec end of a rope the agonies of death. Wieon a visit to my relatives, above referred to, I heard of a negro who had acted as L:.othi's guide on the night of the dight., a:nd hunted up the man. I found iim a stupid fdllow of about is or 20, and I got very little out of him. This ittle, however, was to me very signiti ant, and to ray mind threw a light on Booth's designs I had never seen sug gested. The hovel in which the bo' Lived had been aroused after midnight and a goodly sum in gold offered for a guide. The youth, with the consent of his parents, dressed himself, if putting n a coat and pair of shoes could be diguified with the name. Momuiug a mule he joined the two and untertook the duty demanded of him. It was hard work for me to drag information from the stolid fellow; but I learned that while one of the night riders talked non sense all the time the other said little, and that little was given to cursing his broken leg and somebody for not put ting out the lights. The light business took hold oi my mind with a fascinating tenacity that 2 could not shake off. As I worked it out it seemed to me a key to the mystery thA enveloped all the work of the assas sin on that terrible night, but I could not manage the testimony. What light was that which should have bcen extin guished and was not? The actor may uave been hauted wit;! Othello's schlo- i quy, where he says be ore Desdemona's death, "put out tlie light and then put out the light." But it gave no satisfac tory solution to the surmises. Years after, while telling the late Richard Merrick of this mystery, the eyes of that eloquent and able advocate brightened. When I ended he said, "Your negro gave you the key." The true story of that awful crime came to me in my capacity as a lawyer. Booth, the assassin, who put an end to the life not onlv of an able, kind-hearted man, but of all the hopes which the South lhad of an honorable and peaceful settlem(nt in the way of reconstruction, had ar ranged with an accomplice to turn off the gas from the theatre when he (he accomplice) heard the report of the pistol. This would have plunged the theatre into midnight darkness, and in the terrible fright and confusion the assassin would have escaped detection. The fellow relied on, smitten with con trition at the enormity of the crime or by fear, failed his chief and fled. In stead of quietly gaining his horse, and as quietly riding away undetected and unsuspected, he had to face the audience in the full glare of the footlights and ride desperately, well knowing that the foot of justice was on his path. The lights were not extinguished. The desperate murderer, in his hasty tlight from the box, caught his spur in the flag of our Union that draped the box, fell, broke his ankle and rode down to death. The plot was clearly planned and one can imagine the tumultuous flight of that crowd, in the darkness that was to have followed the crime. And one can realize the desperation and agony of Booth as he rode off into the midnight, well knowing that he was re cognized, and that there was no spot on earth in which he could find hviding and safety, even had not his broken leg de prived him of every advantage. The fatal mark of Cain had been imprinted on him in the full glare of his familiar footlights, and that retribution which dogs the steps of crime was but a ques tion of time. The murder occurred on the night of Good Friday, and had our good and greatest of Presidents paused to remem ber for a moment the belief of a great majority of Christian humanity, he would not have been exposed to the cruelty of the assassin. But "God reigns ad the government still lives." Dox PIArr. Mac-o-chee, Ohio, March 27, 1887. John Sheran Talks Again. Senator Sherman has had himself in terviewed again, He was interviewed less than two weeks ago by the Cincin nati Enquirer, which wanted him to ex plain the difference between his Nash ville conciliation speech and his Spring field bloody shirt speech, and now he as been interviewed by the Cincinnati ommercial Gazetke in order to explain he explanation. He still refuses to see any inconsistency between the two speeches, althoughi he admits that the Springield speecn was impolitic. Every word in it, he says, is literally true ex-1 ept, perhaps, the statement that "there is r ot an intelligent man in this broad hnd of either party who does not know hat Mr. Cleveland is now President of he United States by virtue of crimes :gainst the elective franchise." lie ad its that this may be too broad, but pon a careful analysis he does not see how he coutd modify it if fair force is given to the word "intelligent." Hie :oncludes the interview by saying: "I :annot see any reason why the Confed rate cause, which was 'eternally wrong, but bravely and honestly fought out, should be loaded down with the infamy of crimes which required no courage, committed long since the war, by poli ticians alone, for political power and for the benefit of the Democratic party. I can find some excuse for these atrocitics in the strong prejudice of caste and race in the South, growing out of centuries of slavery, but I1 can find no excuse for any man of any party in the North who is willing to submit to have his political power controlled and overthrown by such means." The conversation as re ported gives the impression that Mr. Sherman wrote the questions as well as the answers. The Cotton Movement. From the New York Financial Chron icle's cotton article the following figurcs are gathered relative to the movement of the staple during the past week: The total receipts reached 2,:364 bales, against :3,540 bales last week, 4,032 bales the previous week, and 7, 599 bales three weeks since; muking the total receipts since the 1st September, 188i;, 5,187,152 bales, against 5,247,193 bales for the same period of 1l35-G, showing a decrease since Septemaber 1, 1580, of 60,011 bales. The exports for the week reach a total of 10,072 bales, of which :,8 were to Great lritain, 1,300 to France, and 5,187 to the rest of the continent. The imports into continental port during the week were 50,000 bales. These 11gures indicate a decrease in the cotton in sight of 75,7 5 bales as com-j pared with the same date of 1550, and1 a derease of 59,937 bales as compared with the corresponding date of ss5. The receipts from the plantations, beina the actual maovement, not includ ig 'the overland receipts nor Southern coulpifonl, of cotton that reached the market through the cutports for the, week were only 1,52:3 bales. The total receipts since the ist of September are 5,11,1 bales. If you have catarrh, use the surest remec dy-Dr. Sage's. 'The surest way for sweet girl graduate to et into print is to wear calice dresses nommencement day.. A GIZZLE'L SLfRANi(ER. 1 Ad iil: TELLS HoW H1E 31ADE A 311LE A 31NUTE ON HOILSERACK. e b HI I' lce Oer the l)evil's Track--Wy He h Felt I~incined to Make Such Good Tim:1. ] 'Kmm the New York Sun.) o "I've made a mile a minute on horse- 0 back, in the saddle." n As a grizzled stranger with a quartzite ie pin made this remark, a silence fell upon h the little grcup of turfiaen who sat in the corridor of the Wi idser Hotel, at o Denver, tli- other evening. The nan d who had ju.At told of driving an unre- b corded mile in 2:11 arose deliberately, brushedl the ashes off his cigar, buttoned a his overcoat, and walked away. "I am St a liar, myself," somebody began. a "Hold on," said the stranger, "this ta isn't a lie. It's cold, clammy truth, and w I'll back it with money." 6 -'Have you the papers for it?" "No, nor the judge's afidavits. In st fact, nobody saw it except myself, but if t iou will permit me to tell you the cir aumstances, I'll leave it to yourself it whether it isn't a fact." 11 "Blaze away." b( The group drew closer. Even the man who had walked off suspended his Con- tr versation with the hotel clerk and I:-- I) Lened on the quiet. The grizzled stran- tu r removed a section of tobacco from his mouth and began: to "This happened five years ago last all. I was living in Leadville at the ime, but had mining interests that took m ne frequently into the outlyiug districts or a radius of perhaps a dozen miles. in rhese trips I nearly always made on orseback, on a tough little broncho, it ard mouthed, trained to mountain b oads, and capable of keeping up a jog- W( rot at a pinch for twenty hours on a tretch. On the occasion in question I u tarted very early one clear, cold morn- br ng for a claim I owned on the other de of the divide, on the slope of what s called Gold Mountain-you can find it to y looking on any map. To reach it I m ad to first cross Tennessee park and a: hen wind over a very crooked, tortuous th rail that gradually ascended to a pass he omewhere above~Timber Pine. It was f iot more than two miles as the crow fo: lies, but nine by the road, owing to the of requent zigzagging or tacking made an iccessary by the steepness of the range. y "I took things easy, and it was about ioon when I reached the claim. I had L couple of men at work there, ate din li ier at their cabin, and then went over br o look at the shait. One has no idea of iow rapidly time passes underground, ca here everything is dark, and when I same up I was surprised to find that it a vas nearly 4 o'clock, and the shadows of y >mons a hundred yards off had crawled ip to the windlass. I was annoyed, too, ril or there was a suggestion of snow in the ir, and the ride across Tennessee park of) n a storm-well, the less said about it he better. So I lost no time in getting ca to the saddle, and pushed rapidly fxi Lhead toward the pass. I had to go Fi uite a little distance before I reachea br t, and all the time the sky grew graver, ha Lnd presently a few flakes began to fall. le [ urged the broncho, and finally began he descent. 10 "The road beyond the pass led down long, straight incline for about a quar er of a mile. This took it to the fringes >f timber pine, and then it made a de our of nearly two miles to get around a S pur of the range. At that point I auscd. The idea occurred to me that I (W iould make a short cut by going directly ver the spur and striking the trail on rol he other side. The range was not par- th icularly steep at this place, but rather to: succession of rough eminences, and the ern mdertaking did not seem to be accom- es ~anied by danger. A sudden raw wind ov lecided me. 1 turned the broncho off dc he road and started. . ar> "The plan appeared the more feasi- va >e as I advanced. What looked like fiv ~tcp ascents at a distance proved to be th ~entle ones, and I was soon pretty near- to y across. The spur was well wooded bl w'ith old pine trees, some of which had ati otted as they lay, and on the far side eva he declivity extended down at an even re: ope clear to the valley, where big rocks th ad boulders looked like grains of blast- 01 ng owder, and the road like a tiny ke ~treak. I remember yet how, between ke he tree tops, I caught a glimpse of the no >ak with the Arkansas river winding th hrough it, and the whole thing looking di ike some map in my old geography. as. 'hat was the last thing that impressed it, tself on my mind before my horse stag- fo: ;erd, stumbled, plunged a little, and str :hen came down with a crash, first on . is fore legs and then flat on his belly, ste 2s head down hill. I can't readily de- ou cribe it, but he fell in such a way that the ny right leg, without being crushed or st~ aven much bruised, was twisted in the lat tirrup strap andl caught fast. Cr< "Right here let me stop to explain a stz ircustance that will enable you to un- of lerstand the situation. Down in the m< valley, at the base of Gold Mlountain, 'as a sawmill owned by George Lacy, th > Leadville, and extending up from its sa; gard, almost to timber line, was what is ni ~aled a log shoot. This is simply a mi V-shaped trougL, large enough to hold da t good-siz'ed pine trunk, and built solid- be Ly against the face of the mountain. Of ni; uourse it has to be straight, or nearly so th to p~ermit the logs to slide down without be rbstruetion, and use soon makes the or inside as smooth as glass. Such a con- th rivace saves a great deal of hauling, cy or as the trees are cut, they are dragged hc aver and dumped into the trough, and go down to the yard lik'e a streak of sts ighting. .In the course of time, the ha ressure will drive the trough in pretty de nearlv level to the earth. TJhis was the an sase ith the Lacy shoot. 3Moreover, it ke had not been used for about a year, and 'st pine needles, dead boughs, and other pc rubbish had in places aimost hidden it a from iht. 1 was well enough acquaint- oc d with the mountains to know, the in- Sc stant my broncho fell, that he had Sc walked into the old log shoot. I was not aware of it at the time, but I think er iow that that headlong ttunble broke se: Ls back then and there, and he never nc tnew what hurt him. d "It takes a moment for the coolest "i head to clear itself in times of unlooked- wl for peril, and long before that moment re ad elapsed the broncho and T were on ad ur way to the valey, going faster at very breath, nothing to stop us, death bead, and the devil's own railroad un erneath. I was sitting almost erect in ie saddle. The leather flaps had twist I around and kept my legs from tub ing against the side of the trough, but eld me like bands of iron. Even had iey not, jumping off would have been at of the question. I have never been a a toboggan, but I think that people ho have will understand why I bent all y energies to holding on. I did not: .int and did not get dizzy; there was a deous rouring in my ears, a furwus ind seemed to all of a sudden to tear p the mountain and suck the breath: it of my mouth, but everything was adly clear and distinct. I could s, ack specks grow suddenly into big .nes and then shoot past me. I conid en see the snow caught in their needles i they came whizzing up. Every in ant, through some clearing, I could see te valley, in a flash, and over it all was sickening feeling as though the moun in was sinking away from me, and I -is plunging oilt into immeasurable >ace. So strong was this that even )w, standing on the solid marble floor, can recall the qualm and nausea as all pport seemed to give away, the earth ? up and let me fall, fall, fall-it felt as forever. A mass of rock as large as is hotel was beneath roe. As I looked', seemed to leap into the air like a bal on. There was a black line of forpst low. I shot through it as through a unel; and out into the light again. I led to shut my eyes. It was impossi e I tried to scream. The air had rned to stone. "I have read that when men are about I die their lives reel out before them I Le a panorama. Mine didn't. All I uld think of was the crash, the bloody ass of man and horse lying somewhere the valley, and I remember I was glad a wild, crazy kind of way that it )uld be all over in an instant and that wouldn't hurt me. I knew we must nearly there. The trees and rocks I re undistingnishable, when all of a dden a black mass flew up into my e. I felt that I was being beaten, uised and hurled over and over, and n everything was still. "When the moon was well up I came myself. I was lying in a snowdrift, I bbing at my head and moaning. After ong time I crawled a little ways, and en fell down and cried for my very lplessness. I must have been a little ghty, and heaven knows hows how I and my way to- Lacy's mill, a quarter i a mile beyond; but I did, somehow, d they carried me in and sent for help. iu see the old timber shoot had fallen i o decay, and some distance above the i rd was a broken place that saved my I e. When we reached it the dead oncho jumped the trough and the two us went sailing and turning and vorting over a field of fresh snow until stuck into a drift about 500 yards -ay. The broncho had the worst of I even there, for he kept on going un he struck solid earth. I broke three >s and this arm in so many different i tees that the doctor wanted to cut it ( -and be done with it. What puzzled i e mill men most was that my legs es ?ed, but the saddle flaps were worn to. nge and I suppose that explains it. om the point where I started to the 1 ,ak was over two miles, and the old ads there said logs used to make it In s than two minutes. I had no stop. tch, but I'll back myself against any f that ever made the trip." THOSE BATTLE-FLAGS. -e Facts About the Captured Banners-- I rhe History of the Confederate ag. C asington Letter to the~ New York Times.) When the captured Union flags were md at Richmond, there were also with Srebel archives sent up to Washing i a collection of designs for a Confed Lte flag. With the devices were lettersi paining their meaning. But in all, er 200, there were not above half ar zen devices without the stars. Thef -angement of the stars made infinite iety, but through all, the mullet or c e-pointed star was retained, showing i, desirous as the Confederates weret get a flag unlike the "yankee" em m, the old feeling could not shiake off; achment to the stars. And in almost 7 ary letter with a device for the flag, erence is made to retaining the stars, r ugh sometimes ignoring the stripes. te Confederate wrote: "Let the Yan- 'i es keep their ridiculous tune of 'Yan- -3 Doodle,' but by all that is sacred do t let them monopolize the stars and stripes. You have fought well un our glorious banner; could you fight, I well under another? Never! Change a improve it, alter it as you will, but 1 Heaven's sake keep the stars and ' ipes" another said: "Do not give up the rs and stripes to the North. It is rs as fully as it is theirs. * Keep t stripes, keep the azure field, and a I r for each sovereignty in the constel- t ion, and then distinguish it by a red 5 ss (the Southern cross) cutting the e ipes at right angles.** The songs y a nation and its flag have a prodigious j >ral influence." ne Confederate alone wrote against I stars and in favor of the stripes. He i d: "I don't like the cross. It is sig- t icant of Catholic rule and Lad too ich to do with the machinery of the ~r rk ages. The old stars must, I think,i abandoned. They belong to the t ht, and besides the North will keep em. It is nothing with us. Let therei seven stripes, one for each of the t ginal-States, as the thirteen were fori Soriginal States of the old Confediers-a Let them be vertical instead of rizontal." One writing wholly in fav'or of the e .rs, sent his advice and said: "WXe stilli e a 'star-spangled banner ' which iL a to the people from old associao, d we can afford to let the. Yankeess ep the stripes. We are entitled to a . ar-spangled banner,' because the bestt etry in honor of it was comp~osed iby outhern man, and the incident which casioned its; conr~position occurred on c uthern soil and reflected honor on uthern soldier-s." The committee of the provisional goy ament in their report on afflag and d for adoption, confessed they were *t so much attached to the old flag, and clared it would be inappropriate to etain the flag of the government from i iich we have withdrawn." The design commended by the committee and opted by the proisional government1 was imown as the "ars nam. i Unl"Ion t blue e corner had a circle of seven white star,;, to represent the seven original sec'ding States. The rest of the Ilag showed three bars, red, white and blue. In 1 N2 the Confederate gov ernment as one evidence of absolute severance from the United States, de o~i-, Cided on a new flag. This was the Sou~tern cro-s, iVnal lopted by the Coftterate Congre i" 1S3, and fa vored'l by Genewrai caiuregard. It was irst. howe've-r, (ener; JoSe1)1 E. John son's Lttia-i, he having aelected the le spngl. _ . Et nuu a red tield as hish battl eei..V IL Lid not Ilease the Iliond .:aminr, in which it was ,eser!ibed ais L ired *, l1l bestraddled witL iong-leggad white cross." Probably the confhon of the llebei and Unir 'olors at the first battle of Manassas lcId o giving up the "stars and bars" by the ormer. On looking over the flags in the war >uilding I find most of the Confederate lags of the Southern Cross device-red leld and blue cross having thirteen tars. Now and then one shows but Aleven stars, or eight. One has fifteen ;tars. A printed catalogue of these flags hen they were on exhibition in the )rdnance "museum gives the nuinbr alaced there at 540. The history of 5-4) n this catalogue is brief and ends the ist. "No. 540-Rlebel battle flag, .rought from lihmond by Master Tad incoln." President Lincoln's youngest ;on was a lad of twelve years when he vent with his father on the memorable risit to City Point, where General Grant aad his headquarters. The ordinance museum remains in Windsor's building. Will the flags be -eturned there, and placed where the ublic may see them again? I am told hat some time ago the secretary of war, hen General Belknap, wished to have he Confederate flags sent to West ?oint and put in the museum there. Atrong objection was made on the ground hat this would tend to keep alive un >easant feelings between the cadets romt the two secions, in exultation on he one side and regret on the other. tdjutant General Touwnsend contended ht the proper place for the flags was ,ore in the war departrent building. o return them to the South would, he lectared, when that suggestion once ame up, be a direct recognition of the ights of the rebellious organizations. Perhaps nver I -fere in the history of he United St.: . have so :uanv ULnited Lates zeatr-ee -e: en*he .!Zou ench. When t ne n ies x December I w tv a c iu a full of. i to ecntt'u tn toe gr)und t!at the *itr v h"oa1u w ),t prop Niior il-t tf dliforaia, will have ) de;.t'r EAi' :Ia!e rg : een refuseal ccri.::.. electiou by overn 'r "Wilson, iwno co'endIs tnit the giiazure La no ight to (nieeL a Senator t iS c Isde ca Illl. Peao PasCo, of Florida :: 11d 1 nd ,iaw, inl his :it"e. The leg"islat-ure whi1ch eter. i. 1is ei dmed, was rot orga'n rib 1 t'is b true al the proceEd .5 o that eidature. IcMMui the el.eC n Of Senator, wil be vitiated. Senator ao can 'dord to feei easy, for shouhI a w el etion be reire"dU by rtsoi of hnica lity teeis' no'oubt' that~he would In the WeViiiac , tis a ques ona bw~ee' in 1 Democrats, tniat r Lu as, who wats appoiated by the Goveruor ter the lng ami fruh~les daid lick in the :g :isatuare, id deno 'ukner, who was eted at a speial sessionl of the legiska r called to :atn tuto~ other ::siness. In thle Califor ia an'd laiancoa cases, the uestion ofi party wiill cm ii, espei::ily 1the sharp c"ntest that is to b e ma-:e over entor Turpie's election. If objection be ade to the swearinig in of thc three or :ur Senaitors whose titles will be queics tonedl, the Repubians will have control f the S'enate by car malIjority, whait ver Senator R~iddlebergzer may do, for all 'e Senaitors whotse seats are dispu".ted are Stiil there e-: eeryi '.robability tha~t they Ii ll be seue eventually. Thie Seuaite is oever good as stquarely on partye lines coteterin elections as tue Ihouse gene illy does, and~ there is very little in tile adina "nClifo~lUrnia contests. wich art: i only ones ivolving~ po~lituicalejudl~ice. ue 'enate is, therifore, lmoitst sure to and . : tpulian to .V Detnoerats, wh enator itiddl '.;ere'er as an unknown quan ty wahl a e.intoward theI Democrats. le is bi 'r a: i. e lipublican leaders ndi n'ty wh'e .ga'~ in'to lia. withi the )enwea iit, thu ak I th benatte a tie. 'iih no vice pres .idet to cast a d~ecidius it".-Att).' Lu'C:ei t'in. a present month ha~s been unusually tree.U ttiste~ coerng6 a period of 'iie ars show tha De)?cembder is the *tos moth for !':-, an that MIarch oms necd. 'Juueit the1. sal alt month, a'ivn e' aparatfivel V ew fires. with ght 1i.*s. Thi proportion o ineen "i"nv ism i. the Lot -.s -.1 per cent. to'irar always s'how fewer crimin res than Janry~. , bu April shows more h an M:', and ' May nmo'e than April. un i a "oi montu," and tires do not .fi uly, but in A"uus and Septei-. e the incendiary'"Ss to wake up. In )etobr anda M em'caber heC p~uts in some ood 'worh, and takes a i:tie recreaon a Decem~ber. It seems to be. sette Lat the hope of gettinisu'rance money inot the chief maoti':e of acts of incern'i rism. Mos~t of these acts are readil ttributabli o pr)Livate grudge, busine'' ivary, mischievous intent, jeadousy. ialice, religious in7tolerancle, labor trou ls,'tc. Las; year there wee15V res in tate Guited State.s, causing thie 'srction of rorutyt, treul and per isanal, of the value of '1&i.:'1, '50. im nasu'al propo':i' of"'c stfflamr tires upi this point ai h "eaon suggests the pyrhnin : h oss of the tire i 1 iI' tr i'i.Lj bria ra te' i),c'vher cee: m *t(C.' Vi~ it e ef Doc't yo se X'. iie:: fron nuervoules illy the :-cn erce -Tav""ho itcreimion illo e erog t at watnefrm f o 41[l. UWJ il1 Ul' llE bUUli. A MOST ENCOURAGING EXHIBIT OF INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS. What Has BIeen Done in the Southern States in Three M1orths-Some Statistics That Show No Sign of Palsy. The Chattanooga Tradesman, at Chat tanooga, has compiled by States a report of the leading new industries and rail road companies organized and projected during the three months ending June 30. The miscellaneous industries re ported in each State consist partly of land improvement and development companies. AnABAML. Agricultural implement factories 3, brick works 31, breweries 2, car works 5, cigar and tobacco factories 4, cement works 2, cotton mills 10, compresses 4, car wheel works 1, engine works 3, elec tric light works 5, elevators 5, furnaces 15, fouildries and machine shops 17, flour mills 3, fertilizer factory 1, grist mills 1, ic factories 6, locomotive works 1, mines and quarries 19, natural ga4 oil and asphalt 11, oil mills 1, pipe works 2, rolling mills 8, railroads 13, steel plants 2, stre' railways 10, shoe factories 1, water works 6, wood working establishments 47, miscellaneous 40. FLORMA. Brick and tile works 1, cigar factories 1, cotton factories 2, compresses 1, elec tric light works 4, fertilizer factories 2, flour mills 1, mines and quarries 4, rail roads 14, rice mills 1, saw mills 17, street railways 2, water works 4, miscellane ous 1. GEORGIA. Agricultural implement works 6, brick works 11, bridge works 1, car shops 2, compresses 6, cotton and woollen mills 12, electric light works 4, foundries and machine shops 4, furnaces 4, fertilizer works 6, flour mills 1, gas works 5, grist mills 1, ice factories 2, lime and cement works 5, mines and quarries 22, oil mills 5, railroads 9, rolling mills 1, street rail ways 15, water works 7, wood works 41, miscellaneous 32. TENNESsEE. Agricultural implement works 2, brick works 12, cigar and tobacco factories 2, cotton and woollen mills 3, electric light works 5. foundries and machine shops 11, furnaces 7, flour mills 6, gas works 5, grist mills 2, ice factories 6, lime and cement works 1, mines and quarries 33, natural gas and oil companies 17, oil mills 2, railroads 14, rolling mills 1, steel works 1, street railways 15, smelters 2, wire works 4, water works 9, wood works 4), miscellaneous 35. NORTH CAEOLINA. Brick works 5, cotton factories 6, cigar and tobacco factories 13, electrie light works 2, fertilizer works 2, flour mills 5, grist mills 7, ice factories 4, mines 17, oil mills 3, railroads 4, street. railways 3, water works 1, wood works 29, miscellaneous 6. SOUTH CAROLINA. Brick works 3, cotton mills 13, electric light works 1, fertilizer works 1, flour mills 1, gas works 1, mines 5, oil mills 1, rice mills 1, railroads 2, stamp mills 1, tobacco factories 1, water works 4, wood works 9, miscellaneous 5. VIRGINIA. Agricultural implement factories 1, brick works 1, brikge works 1, cigar and tobacco factories 3, compresses 1, cotton and woollen mills 4, distilleries 1, elec tric light works 5, flour mills 6, furnaces 11, foundries and machine works 1, ga works 4, mines and quarries 36, natural gas and oil companies 2, potteries 1, railroads 16, rolling mills 2, steel works 2, street railways 7, water works 7, wood working establishments 9, miscellaneous 33. ArnEANsAs. Brick works 2, car shops 3, cotton factories 4, compresses 4, distilleries 1, foundries and machine shops 5, flour mills 7, furnaces 2, gas works 1, grist mills 1, ice factories 3, lime and cement. works 1, mines and quarries 37, oil mills 3, railroads 20, rolling mills 1, stamp mills and smelter 19, street railways 5, water works 1, wood working establish ments 23, miscellaneous 16. KF~rUC EY. Brick yards 2, car shops 1, cigar and tobacco factories 4, distilleries 3, electric light works 1. flour mills 8, foundries, and machine shops 3, gas works 1, min'es and quarries 12, natural gas and oil companies 21, oil miils 3, railroad~s 4, street railways 21, water works 1, wire works 1, woollen and cotton rtaills 2, wood working establishments 80, miscel laneous 20. LOUISIANA. Cotton mills 1, compresses 4, distlle ries 3, engine works 2, flour and grist mills~ 1, foundries and machine shops 2, furnaces 1, ice factories 2, mines and quarries 6, natural gas and petroleum 2, oil mills 3, rice mills 5, railroads 4, sugar mills 4, street railways 1, wood working establishmente 10, miscellaneous 8. TEXA.. Cotton and woollen mills 10, car wheel works 1, compresses 1, car shops 1, elec-. tric light works 14, engine works 1, foundries and machine shops 12, flour mills 18, gas works 3, grist mills 1, ice factories 7, locomotive works 1. mines and quarries 20, natural gas and oil companies 4, oil mills 5, railroads 15, street railways 6, smelters 2, water works 11, 'ire works 1, wood working estab lisinents 15, miscelinneous 283. WEST VIRGINIA. Brick works 1, car shops 1, cotton and woollen mills 1, distilleries 1, foundries and machine shops 3, flour mills 2, rines and quarries 13, natural oil and gas companies 3, oil mills 1, potteries 1, ipe works 1, railroads 7, street rail roads i, water works 2, wood working estabishments 10, miscellaneous 6. ianos and Oras All of the best makes. $25 cash and balance November 1, at spot cash prics on a Piano. $10 cash and balance No vremUe I, at spot cash prices on an rgai . Delivered, freight free, at your nearest depot. Fifteen days test trial and freight both ways if not satisfactory, Write for circulars. N. W. TRUMP, olumbhian R. C.