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hELD IN STO F Ul' Dr. Talmage Draws a Lesson From Eleazars's Tenacity. CLOSER HOLD ON GOSPEL. The Noted Preacher Se-ys He Will Not Cease to P:zc.ch Be cause He Resigned His Pastorage. In the fi:st notice co!cernilg Dr. Talmnaie that P'a--tr ('arh $ l1 Stur geon of London wrot Ith 1 rt E: h minirster said be wm 'i to 1ibd a preacher that blie e.:'u''t hin T L" I diseour-e of' Dr. Ta g i, l~ that Vein and urrsz elte..'e to e old go-pt: t t,. 1l Sa''- ' ' X1i 1 "Atnd his han14 eAwI !". ':'n W hat a - ri<.us thi:_ t" pre .- - gospel! Souse '] 1-ine tha.hJ! e have resigned a ned - pa n-t- I cease to preah. No N eM to preach more thau I ev. r i the Lord w:11. four :t I though in mifn it e not dare to hat to deehare tiru.h thrugh io :ar zo audienicesadtotee hahte printing ir. And re I e have, a stirrin' the' pu I 1'ber us by tte prophet. A great eeral oF Kin i was Eleazar. t il e hero o the tet. The and his trops etreated. The er fledl.Elarndtbeofisc ra went into tle ZIN'e and :e for four men sith Gd oz ,h,:- s&d are. strotger than a -hle r:t W,!;b God against the . Itl aI shouted the com.su.r 1 t 'h li tine army. The er' r he "Fall back!" Elcazar, having sxcot the field, throws imiise-lf ou the rom.a to rest but the mu-cles ad .ine ws of his hand had been so lonz bent around tie hilt of his sword that the hilt w-s - bedded in the fvsh, and the .id wire of the hilt ha3 brokten thr-uah the 1kin of the palm of the haind. and he eou!d not drop this sword which he had so gal lantly wielded "UTlis hand clave uto the sword " That is what I call tusnai ficent fihting for :e Loid God of I rael. And we want more of it. I nrepose to sNow y .()u V osE'e r took hold of t he .wd a nd t ie sword took hold of - ar I *. Eleazar's h-md. and I c.-e t, the c clusion that he t k e,.word xiwiha very tight grip. The c vr-. i , d had no trouid-e in deoi: . swords. As they fly over the rocks I hear their swords clanirg in: cvery direction. It is ea-y cenuli for them to drop their swords. But Eleazar's hand clave unto the sword. In this Christian conflict we want a tighter grip of the gospel weapons, a tighter grasp of the two edged sword of the truth. It makes me sick to see these Christian people who hold only a part of the truth and let the r-st of the truth go. so that the Philistines. sccitg the loosed gra-p, wr. ch the whole swArd away from them. The only safe thing for us to do is to put our thumb on the book of Genesis and sweep our band around the book until the New Testament comnes into the palm and keep on swveeping our hand around the booik until the tips of the fingers clutch at the words. "In the beginning~ God created the heavens and the earth." I like an infidel a great deal better than I do otne of there namby pamby Christians who hold a part of the truth and let the rest go. By miracle. God pren served this Bible just as it is, and it is a Damascus blade. Tie severest test to which a sword can be put in a sword factory is to wind the blade around a gun barriel like a ribbon, and then, when the sword is let loose, it flies back to its own shape. So the sword of God's truth has been fully tested, and it is bent this way and that way and wound this way arid that way. but it always conmes back to its own shape. Think of it! A book written near 19 centuries ago and some of it thousands of years ago, and yet in our time the average sale of this book is more than twenty thousand copies every week and more than a million conies a year. I say now that a b tok which is divinely inspired and divincly kept and divinely seattered is a weapon worth holding a tight grip of. Bishop Cob :iso will come along and try to wrenen o'ut of your hand the five books <.f 'Mes, and Strass will come along at.d. : ry to wrench out of your hand the miraL les, and Renan will corre alotng and try to wrench out of your hand the entire life of the Lord Jesus Christ. and your as sociates in the office or the factory or the banking ho.use will try to wrench out of your hand the entire Bible, but in the strength of the L~rd God of Is rael.antd with Eleazar's erip hold on to it. You gi'-e up the Bible. y ou give up any part of it. and you give up pardon and peace and life and heaven. Do 'ot be ashamied. Soum man. to have uL3 woric 'now t hat yu are a friend of the Bible. Tis bok i- the friend of all that .sce.2.1ii h sworn enemy of al tat is ba. A eloquent writ'.r rae~lyci- saQini dent tof a very bad :'an who "too i: a cell of a weste'rr pi ion. Thiscr~. had gone througeh a! tlsfri. and he was there wrait fori'te::al lows. The conviet standing the'~re at the window' of the er !L. thi, writer"0 "looked out and declared. 't amL ani in" del.' He aid that to all the nct and women and chiidren who haippenedu t be gathered the're, 'I aun an ifdl and the eloquent wi uter say .Enry. man and wonan~ ther b.9ieveda him2. And the w;riter ge's oin to say. ''if lhe had stood there sa' ing, -1 a'n a Ci ris tian,'every tuan and' woman would h~ave' said, 'He is a liar V This Bible iis the swG:n cnen.v of :all that is wrong, and it is the fri:dri that is good. Oh. hold oni it. D'o at~o take part of it and th'ow tie z~t 'wa. Hold on t' all of it. There are a. many peoie now who do not know. You ask them if the sOUl is innuerial and they say: "I guess it is: I don't know. Perhiaps it is: perhaps Itit , t. Is the Bible true? "Wtll. pterhaps it is, and perhaps it isn't. Perhaps it may be, figuratively, and perhap's it may be partly, and perhaps it nay not be at all." They despise what they call t he apostolic creed, but if their own creed: were written out it would. read like this: "I believe in nothing the :ak'r tfl heaven and earth. and in nothuin whtich it hath sent, which no:bine wras btorn if nothing arid which nzthing was da and buried andsended into in"tiin" and arose from notim:n anid use'e ctoI nothing and nov sitteth at the right hand of nothing, from whichI it w il come to judge nothing. I be'lieve in the holy agnotstie church anud in the communion of nithirigarians and in the forgiveness of nothuinir, and the re ur rection of niothitig and in the life thm'at never shallI be. Amen" That is thbe creed of tens of thousands oif pertple in this day. If you have a wind to adomit such a eo-r I m wil not M> bli n ePa :,'r A '-ry N r of -~ ~ ~ rl am ;nh s s.u hI-t An u."O, 'hen I : EL e/ar tkin ,- a "tout grip Of the sedin ht-bre a-inet :,InI an1d for riaht o.:ss, I O tite conltvu ionl tid tut w u to Ii take it souter ip oif (. t1rna t rutlh-the sword of WIt ae We snIffrred in Co'upiri -.n \''! l,'-'' w,%ho expirei with ilf *auior wee.1 bued or were ciol 1ed t., .i a or t he truth 's sckv? We a 1* 1 of t ;h p r-,Outi of nld( ties There i' ju:-t axs' Uc .1eI lltr.Leeunn I'" ing oii ini various wivs. In 1S4, i) M1adzieascaitr. is tuen were put to death fobir Chri,t's i'ake. They were to U.- hurh a over the rocks. and beftr: iiey we rc hml (ver the rocks, in or .er t ke thi r d--thi tht Inur;o read ui in acnt iiat:O, t hey were put in &..y1' and twro to anld ro o'er the lit Cce'c that they iniht see how :an' hcutired te.t ih-y would have to I- ,. ' ,e <-n. a nd wh ile the we-re ,eI in~ the, -bkts overth i... mj . t: t1" l.h co ti -c v l \\ l i e O:Ilows ne-ar Ine roII, w I le.1 !Ih;. te:"pI t :,ti1l is hi:.h. 1. they wrdad,- tO ea: h. ('. h; mucli othvrs have en ,ur. i for Christ, :-d how little we enf ur f1r iti s. We want to ride to h en i - a Pal:aa sleeping car, ur ! t sof pl1, the bvd 4,w1de ulp .-arly. - a we c. s.eep all the v-ay, the la por''r tf deh to 0w'ke uS ip onl i titeto cu.r '.he v.d-u, !.,ty We n':.t al 1 e ; "::os otix our handu, L.." them bri ou all the et a: ; .li1 Qe ' an al the A -.' r or hdis hurt. w hle Elea -0 d-snt know% his han.d is; hurt. - li .aiud elave unto the sword. A aE hand I come to th., cone2 an that he has done a -.at da l vi hard hitting. am not urpri-dl when I see that these four ePie-Elt-az:ir and his thiee cempanions drov, back the army of Philistines tIat ELazar's sword elave to his hand. for everY tini be struc'k an enetmy with out. end of tile sword the other end of ;h, sword wounded him. When he to!'k h.ld of the sword. the sword took Oi. we have found an enemy who cannit be coniuered by rosewater and sft spci'hces. It must be sharp stroke m sr;ia: thrust. There i. irten ern1e. anid there i4 fraud, and there r': . ind bat !ajim s of iniq'!ity. ar -cdI i s:te iniquity. How' are th v ob capturecd a4, d overdirown? "o' 'eme i ior-co ea"es laid dfon f a.n e'pi"te audivace Uot do it. You have got to call by their rig'ht name. The wbole tendency is to refine on Critian work. We keep on refining on it until we send apologetic words to iniquity we are abo.ut to capture it. And we must go with sword, silver chased and presented by the ladies and we must ride ou white palfrey under eaibroidered housing. putting the spurs in only just enough to make the charger dance gracefull,. and then we must neud a misive, delicate as a wedding card, to ask the Ald block giant of sin it' he will not sne e':der. Woman saved by the grace of God and on glornous umission sent, detained from Sabbath classes be.auise their new hat is not done. Churches that shook our cities with great revivals setnding around to ask some demonstrativp worshiper if he will not please to say "amen" and "halleluiah" a little softer. It seems as if in our churches we wanted a hap ti~um of cologne atid balm of a thousand flowers whe'n we actually need a hap tismc of nlre from the Lord God of Pen tecost. But we are so afraid somebody will criticise our serwous or criticise our pray ers or criticise our rehigious work that our anxiety for the world's redempltion is lost in the fear we will get our hand hurt, while Eleazar went into the conflict. "and his hand elave unto the sword.' But I se e in the next place what a hard thirg it was for Eleazar to get his hand and his sword parted. The mus les and the sinews had been so long rashed around the sword he could not drop it when he proposed to drop it, and his three comrades. I suppose. came up and tried to help him, and they bathed ihe back part of' the hand, hoping the sine ws aud muscles would relax. But no. 'His hand clare unto the sword." Then they tried to pull open the fin gers and to p'uil back the thumb, but no .ooner were they pulled back than they closed again. "and his hand elave unto the sword." But after awhile they were suces-tul, and then they noticed that the curve in the palm of the hand coresponded exactly with the curve of the hilt. "His hand ('lave unto the sword." I had in my parish in Philadelphia a very aced man1 who in his early life had been the coipaniion and adviser of the erly presidc'm~s. 3Madison and 3Ionroe He hiad a il d vast influence, but I oly' knew( him as a very aged man. '1 he miost re mark able thing about him was bi, ar.ict fo'r Christ. When he cal: na s'tad up in the meetires w.ithcout proppb'la, he would throw his arnl. a'-Ound'. a pi!!ar" of the church, and. t jor hi ind was partially tone, hi, lor-- fr hris was so reat that all wre in deep respect and~ profound ad cirationu andi we're moved when he sicke. I was called to see him die. I entered the ronm. and he said. "M1r. Lalmaae. I cannot speak to you now. He wtas in a ;erv p'leasant delirium, as he iamaeined lhe had an audience before hinm, lie said. "I must tell these peo ple to ccome to Christ and prepare for heaven('I." And then in this pleasant d'.irium, both arms l:i'te d, thisa oc to emrIala preached Christ "nd told of :ne Ci 'eo the worhi to come. There ly ~eon isdy ing pillo-.v. his dying hand1 eTlae to his swori. 0(. 'f there ever was any' one who hada i '1nt to retire from iue confliet, t wa o.ld J-.shua. Adiers comec bck from i at de rave the namces of 'the bat tie~ on iheir flags, showing w-here they distigu~ihedi themcselves, and it is a very a:.propriate inscriptiion. Look at that flag cf old: Genera! .Joshua. On it Jeiehto, Giibcon. liazar, city of Ai, and instead of the stars sprinkled on the flair the sun and the nmomn which stood still. There he is 110 years old. Ile is lying flat on his baLck, but he is reaching. His dyin" words are a bat tie charae agairat idolatry and a rally tug ery for the Lord of Hosts as he -:s, "BehldL tis da~s I go the way of1 al tile .arth, and God hath not failed toi fufitll hii promiue couve'rning Isra el." HiL dying nand clave unto the sword. There is the headless body of Paul ~n tlihe roadI to Ostea. His great brain and his great heart have been severed, Te chawoud rods had stung him fear ruly W\hen the corn ship broke up. ie nxat ashore, coining up drenched with the brine. Every day since that jay whe.n the horse reared under him in the suburbcs ctf Datuascus. as the su pernatural licht fe~ll, down to this day, when lie is CS years of age and ill from hae:be! outra ousl treated u l he is waiting to die. low does h1e spend his la't !ours? Telling the world how b'div he feels' and dl.-ribing the rhwu matiim I that he got in prison, the rh'u matisurt ileig Ii limbs. or the it u ralcia pi re; ig hi teim-les, or the thir-t that t'ever- his tongue'? Oh, iol Iis lat words are the battle hout for Chri:,tendou: I am noW read to b, offered, and tile tile ofI my depart ure is at hand. I have fougit the good tight." And so his diiug hand clave unto the sword. intend this sermon as a tonie. I w lat you to hold The truth ith inerad ieable grip. aid I want you to strike s - iard for God that it will react, and while 3 ou take the sword the sword will take you. You notice that the officers of the northern army every year asemw ble. and you intice that the ofliCers cOf the southern armts every . ear asaemnble. Soldiers coming together are vet v apt to I.count their experienc '; aud to shbow their -cars. IHere is a soldier who pull. up his sleeve and sa' s. "Trere. I was wounlded in that arm." and ,hows the -ear. And another od ier i uti dlowui his collar and says. "fbere. I wNa woulded in the neck.' And a .her siJ;er says, "1 have had no use of iat limbl 'e the guashit fracture." ( mv riends w hen thibaltle of life is vCr, and the resurrection h; com. ail our bieis rise from E! the dJead-1. wIl we have on uS anv sea:W 1aog our rayery fur G;d? Chri:,t will he there ali covered witl scars. Scars on the brow. scars on tue hawd. cars ol the feet. eurs all over the heart, won in i.t battle of redemption. And all 1ea ven will sob aloud with emotion as they k t those sears. Inatius will be thei, and he wll point out the plixee %-ihere thie tooth and paw of the lion -eized hial in the Coliseum, and John IUSS wili be thlere. a!;d he will show where the coal first sctrched thc foot ou that day when his spirit took wing of flime from Constance. MDillan and Campbell and Freeman, American missionaries in Itdia, will 61 thene-the men who with their wives and children went down in the awul massacre at Cawnpur, and they will sbox where the daggers of thc sepoys struck them. The Waldenses will be there and they will show where their bones were broken on that day when the Pledmontese soldiery pitched them over the rocks. And there will be those there who took care of the sick and who looked after the poor, and they will have evidences of earthly exi. tion. An-d Christ, with his st hand waving over the scarred mu.: ;nill say, -You suffered with u. earth: now b gloritied -.ith me i ll ven. And, then the great organ of I ternity will take up the chant, a; .JohN wiI play. "These are they h o caine out cf great tribu:ation and; had Itheir robes washei a;;d made whi: in the blood of the Lamb." But what will your cbagrin and -.i c be if it shall be told that day o:; the I streets of heaven that on earthu we shrank back fioin all toil and sai ilice and hardship No scars to show the heavenLV soldiery. Not so much as one ridge on the palm of the hand to show that just once in all this battle for God and the truth we grasped the sword so tirily and stru,-k so hat d that the sword and the hand stuck together and the hand clave to the sword. Oh, my Lord Je:-us, rouse us to thy service. Thy saints in all this glorious war Shall conquer, though they die. They see the triutmph from afar And seizn it with the eye. When that illustrious day shall rise And all thy armies shine in robes of victory through the skies, The glory shall be thine. A Bad Mess. "'Political pressure,"saidi Gen. Er an. (the offteial pet (If President .\e Kinley and Secretary of W\ar Alaer, and w'ho was at the head of the coum missarv department during the war with Spainj) to 'the law) er of the Texas cat le raisers who wanted to sell the gov erbment beef on the hoof. "is what gets contracts," and when Eagan said hat he was not lying in his throat, nior any other part of his body either. say s the Nashville American. A packing house expert, Lees by name, testitied that "one-third of the animals used for anning would be condemned in an g lish market." And so it goes. But the evidence is so accuuUlauve aid there is such ati amount of it to tne cf feet that the beef was putrid and "Ut terly unfit for humatn food," as Gov. Rooseveit sad o.f it, that the case agai at the paciars and somebody, in the War Department is <--implete. \X'ho that somebody or somebodies arc will probably never be proved' altnouizh they are pcretty' well knOo n-. I he strange part of it is that the President, who knows now if he never did before that rotten beef was furnished, shows not the slightest resentment that his ad' ministration has been imposed upon fl such a shameless manner or that it has been harboring rascals inu hih ptues. Oa the contrary lie seexn~ o e .a te meddling into the private atlairs / t government, in s; ite of the~ mtt inirag evidcn'e, no man conntecod with the damuable poiwo:;1in of l diers has been ptunished. hE.can hI been retired, but that was becaise h spoke unbecomingly of Mi1'1. and 1i wounds were immnedliately balmed by the President by giving himi a furloughn n full pay, at the same time apoio gizing for this much puniishment with the statement that the circunmsta'lces were miti'ating. C'nless thme adminis tration takes action of its own motion o punish the depraved beast. for they were without thle attributts of hiumian eings, who knowingly compounded and sent to the sol':iers diseased food. the nly conclusion that can b~e drawn s that the administra' in endor"ses such broceeines. Sent:. Ilanna3 eference to M1ajior Le, whoe on' r cous work in bringin toliht 1h il smellinn scandals deserve the hiurhest raise, show's where hi's sypathiea are. Where are thme Presidenrt 'sym this? -ician of the souhth side. of Vir iniia. died at Danville on April b. WhXile erforing an op~eration.t 31rtcht'.(. i' a htle girl for appendicitis Dr.' Nelson unctured the dkin ot the index finger' of his right hand. Th putncture . xceedingly minute. ''I s his armi becamie swtollen. and Iromiti time on therie was a flat ;do: i e ion in ix veins. ~)r. Nelson ani his brother. Judge F';.1nk Nelrn. or+ mpbell Cou'iy, were thme origmin a! ilie antd Franak, time heroes in Tmtne Nelson Page's book, "The Two Little onfeder'ai es." AT a school exhioni,.n in Orange, . J., the children were allowed to enter intol a public di-eussion as to whether Adam or Eve was the bigger sinner. Isnt this a rather unbecom ing sort of intellectual skvlarkingi? 'lo millions of peop!e the old story of Adam and Eve, if not a revealed truth, is a serious allegorical and ethical story, touching the de'stiny of man and of grave import, and should not be uacd n a f..niobu manner. BU'LEB.S BRIGADE1 An Account of its Services in Vira ginia. IT WAS A GALLANT COMMAND The Battle of Hawe's Shop and Cold Harbor, in Which the Brigade Bore a Part. The follo.wivg letter is clipped from the Charle.ton Courier of Sept. 21, 1864: Army Northern Virginia, September 5, 181.I The caipaign "f 18S64 has been with oit c ion ,he moi 't active of all the jr. ecdinag ;cars ince tie iuauguration f t.e war. a will be aIu,it ed. Leice the am olint of work doune by the army is wit.Out par.'l't1 in the past three 'tars. Te ue of cavalry in a couitry lke ,urs li- been in-ispiln-able, and f gra- .ilitv. Th at branch of the I ci t, rdreour defence effect s.imu *i to t.: a-no'aice of the foe. they are with tle rmost Sc vI c and dagrous weaponics, have ren great service, and proved the cav :ilry to be indispensable in time of war. hi mode. io tihting cavalry in these moder;tms dif.-rs vastly from that in ycars last in any of the foreign wars. In the prese:nt war they map e right1ly termed as nothing else but I oWd ifantry. Inl innumerable in aces theC er:airy has been dismount a:.i thrown against the enemy with In thc grcat urama of this year's camnpaini, as far as it has advanced, {: -'a L utler's South Carolina Caval rv IBrigadte has had a prominent part in it :tnd done its share of work. With these fIT introductory remarks upon the utility of the cavalry service, mode and style of fihting cavalry in a country like ours, I will give a summary in this my second. as I proilied in my first, and show what our South Carolina Bri gade has been doicg. The Fourth Reci mtent. commn anded by Col. B. I. Rut iedze, was. it will be remembered, one f tie iine:t regiments the State of mti Carolina has ever sent to the tields of Virgivia, numbering nine hun dred 'ad cighty--even men. well mount ed and e jiipped for service. and one of -he regitents comprising Butler's Bri a is r(giment had encamped at Atiee's .--ation, near the Central Rail llead, aber a march of twenty miles c-c'uc the Soluth Anna river. (O'a the fnliowring rnoring, being 28th May, the Fifth Regiment, under com nia'id of the able and esteemed com mauder. Col. John Dunovant, was met by the Fourth Regiment at "Hawe's Sop. waiting and ready to act in colijunction against the enemy at that place. The Fourth Regiment was or dered by Gen. lapton to dismount aUd nmove f. rward. Ileut. Col. Stokes c-mn ucamldi'ng. (Col. Rutledge in com mvaud <.f tc bri-dce ) On arriving at the fromnt the reiment was ordered to t-ake positiocn on the right line, moving un'mir tcre some four hundred yardo. Just as the~y had formed licne of battle a mnd ecmnenced moving into position, the orU de wa., received to remove it back to the left agin, during which time the bullets were flyinug thick and fast; but noting danusted they heeded themn not, and a ic h uucs'rved mtcps they were press ing to that point to which they were or dered. TLheys had just reached the cen tre of the line when they were ordered to halt arnd await orders, and in the muidst of a most terrific tire from the eueccy'sfocrces. They were kept in this position for upcwards of an hour, dur ine~ which time several fell kilied and wocunded. The figaht continued with gre-at fierceness and nuabating in its violece b-~t ween the forces then engag ed. Arc imur acnd a half had elapsed, when thc Fourth lRegiment was ordered inito action. nmovinig up with cheers and yells, evimieing a epirit anxious and de sirous to engage the enemy. The en emy at tnis tirue were pressing back, by their greatly sup -rior force, our focrces. The Focurth Regin ent. led by their gallant Lieutenant Colonel. Stokes moved a little more to the left of the line and deployed across anm open field to the support of' our wavering line, at the doub'e qucick, with Capt. Pinckney aecig Lieuteccaut Colonel, and Capt. B crbenr as Mcjor; priessinig (-nward under a ecmpleLe shower of bul ets, until within abocut fift yards of the enemy's licie, wh~en theyV were ordered to com mene'e iring, which was domie, giving themii voiley after volley, wvhichi was so terriie that thce enemy wavered and gitve back. Reiinforeemnents of infantry c Loi to their aid an~d support. Still tie gallauct Fourth held their ground like veterans, nobly and unwaveringly, pouring in the contents of their Entields withi a complete and steady fire into their colu-:ns. This contiuued for vlt:'.gurters of an hour, the battle .attshighest pitchi conecivabie, - h2mi~sion or cessation, but o'-em otinuai r-;ar of musket:-y, it seems imp-o-ssib" that a man could escape. Attis jucture c-i affairs the noble Ilih u ider conmuand of the gallant Col. Dunmcoaut, ci ue in, j Jining in the bloody contest. ad at the time when tie banxle was at its sever-st pitch "mk ng a bold dash in a charge upon the. e.my' lines, though under great disadvautages, through a bog and up a ill. doing gr'eat execution and injury to the enemay. dris ing them a few hun dred yards b, ek. -Durinz this period of the battle Col. .John Duncovant re eel v-d a pl-a fui wvou rd in the hand, the battl still ragiinr with unremitting seeny whec .t was perceived that the lef t win 1c theO line was fast giving surrounded . e were te ree to etie frin. ;h c hy had to do for- three huiudred yards. aeross an op i ha.At this time of affairs ( cpta'Ui * Piekney was captured. and the -kiL re.:iuneit sutained a loss of twenty tive out of about four huncdred earriecd into mletli , au'd thie .h re.:1 ;nit:. a lose of thirtv. Noc ho 6: --f .m c~e behaved with m..-.c utII mor stuchm a fearful and - rd:ie an bigte first general engazencenct that amajority of them had ever been into, it was generally acknowuedzcdc by th'ee who saw the 4th regien g-c ccinto action that they never saw un-c go c in bc'ttecr or hbehave more aliantly. Oui an'ther occaion,. after this enta.-emecnt, the focurth and fifth were ini c"hnunc. etc rocute, and passing a bc-dy Af troeps drawn up on the right of the rond It was asked if these were n-t South Carolina boys. They were tcchl vr-. th'-y were. "'Ah." said sev eral, ''these are men thact don't know hcow to rutn. but are like the trees." Woculd that I could here award to each one of the muen arnd oflicer-, individually who were enc-g -d itn this fight, a trib ute cf jraise cmfmnsurae with the valocr display ed; actu-meed as he is by the highest degtee and feelings of patri oism which entitle him eclnusvely to the right of the highest eticmium and :verlasting remembrance in the heart of his country. The forces fell back across an open field, expo-ed to a heavy and severe lire from the enemy's line while retreat Ang. They were ordered to recover their horses and re-wount and remain on the ground. which was done, expecting the enemy to advance. It became evident, however, that we had injured them somewhat, and probably to a greater ex tent than we had sustained, as they were not anxious to resume the fight. The numerical forces of the enemy in this tight must certainly have been five to one, if there was one man in it. and having in their command a large num ber that they could bring up at any time. It speaks well for our men, and shows the material of Southern blood and valor. If there is any better men in the world for fighting it is yet to be known, and I regret that they are wast <d on such a horde as the North brings against them Having given you a de scription of the Hawe's Shop bttle I will uow annex the Mattadaguin Creek fight, (comwonly called Cold Harbor.) On the morning of the 30th May, Gen. Butler, I ursuant to orders, moved from .lechaniesville in the direction of Old Church, (being in Hanover county,) with the object of finding out what the enemy were abont. and to ascertain their strength; Col. Gary, with his em-imand woulid co-operate with him. The march was somewhat lengthy, but i; was not long before we arrived at :tttadagin Creek. It is here the fight took place, so incorrectly located at Cold Harbor. Cold Harbor is some two miles below. It is a mistake, therefore; the correct name should be the Mattadguin Creek battle. The forces fell back to Cold Harbor and made a stand. Gen. Butler, with the 4th and 5th regiments, in conjunction with Gen. Gary's cavalry, encountered the enemy about 3 o'clock on the above day, con tending against superior odds of the enemy, disputing gallantly the ground, with a desperate and firm spirit, under a heavy fire of musketry and artillery. The forces were sent forward into ac tion by sqadrons from each regiment at such times as was thought necessary by our able commander, Gen. Butler, who was to be seen moving up and down the midst of the fight attending to his duty. Among the officers whom I saw upon the field Lieutenant Colonel Stokes bore a prominent part and is a most gallant and efficient officer, daring and fearless in the din of battle. The sec ond squadron was the last to be sent in: this squadron is formed of Company B. Captain Barber, and Company K, Cap tain Colcock: both captains being una voidably absent, Lieutenant Osborn, commanded company B. and Licuten aut Lionel Nowell, company K, well kniown to the readers as the Charles ton Light Dragoons. General Butler addressed the squadron and said: "Men I have stood it long enough. I wish the enemy driven from that house in the field," which was about a quarter of a mile off. The squadron dismount ed, formed into line and went forward at the double quick. making the welkin ring with the old charge shout and yell. Never did men appear so enthusiastic and intent upon an object as they did. They arrived in the lane or road as it may be called, fenced on each side, company K, taking the lane as their po sition, and company B, the right, in an open wheat field. They opened upon the house a blazing fire, when the Yan kees began to leave, many being killed and wounded in the attempt to escape. and some were captured. While this was going on another portion of the forces were involved more to the left in a portion of woods. The battle waged until about six o'clock, hot and sharply contested. The wounded were seen in every direction. Lieutenant Colonel Jeffords, comn maading 1st regiment, received a very wound in the thigh in this battle. The house was taken and burnt, as it was used as a shelter to the enemy. The enemy was not idle, but pouring it in on the left sharply and brought up rein forcemients, and thus outnumbering us by a large majority, and were fast flank ing us. The order was then given to fall back, and in a very favorable time, as the ammunition had given out. The retreat was made, but with some little confusi n, the enemy pressing us close ly. The day was very warm and the re treat was exhausting; many gave out and could not go further, and stopped breathless, and were captured. It was during this period that the ballant Lieu tenant Nowell was captured and many killed, wounded and missing from that old time honored corps, known in the city as the Charleston Light Dragoons, and many more unheard from. Information gathered from p isoners taken in this fight state that i-e were engaged with the left wing of Grant's army, an overwhelming force. Butler's bri&gade has been well worked and done its full share in this campaign. No body of troopers is more deserving of redit for gallantry and bravery on the field of battle than General Butler's South Carolina Cavalry Brigade. Night came on and the forces retired to their encampment near by, leaving a detachment on picket. On the fol lowing morning they were brought for ward again, expecting an attack from the enemy, and formed into line of bat tIe; when about twelve o'clock the bri gade was relieved by fresh troops. Th 1st Regiment in this fight met with a loss of fifty-two killed, wounded and missing. The 5th Regiment sustained a loss of sixteen killed, wounded and missing. Orlando. Pressley's Parlors. Mr. D. A. Pressley, of Columbia, who represents the Ludden & Bates Southern Music House, has just fitted up his exhibition parlors. Here may e found specimens of the standard in struments which he handles-Mathu hek pianos, Mason & Hamlin and Sterling Organs. These are first-class istruments of established reputation. Mr. Pressley invites lovers of music nd admirers of high grade instruments o give him a call, lie stands ready, lso, to give prompt attention to all nyiries adidressed to him by mail. Le adrertisement in another column. Ax interesting point has been raised n Columbia. A negro woman was in icted for stealing a ring from Mrs. Philip Epstin. Mr. P. H. Nelson aised the point that the indictment was defective in that the charge should ave been that the ring was stolen from rs. Charlotte Epstin and not from rs. Philip Epstin. Jidge Watts sus ained the objection and the negro wo an rejoices that there is, after all, oething in a name. It was stated hat the point was entirely new, and hat there is no record of the question aving been raised, but that in law a oman goes by her given nanme and not hat of her husband. Both night be sed for identific-ation, so to speak. The other day a hugging bee was iven out in Arizona, and it was fifteen ents a hug. A man, while blindfolded, ugged his own wife for several minutes. hen he found out who she was, he ot made and demanded his 15 cents WEATHER AND OROP R.-PORTS. Weekly Balletins Now 'dei= Issudi b Director J. W Bauer. 31r. J. W. DaVier. vezather :.jr(ctor. has begin the oubicaiin rf weekl. bulletias of the cond] ition of the weath cr and erop-. The b:uiet in co. t::Lis a geunral un iary for tihe State. :11A :ontains an ( pitotnized ,tatemeni fr:l , ah County inallar to the followin-r frot Aiken: Aike.-Wind-or: Smue rain. plt) ty of ice and lieavy firost; grotnd vr; wet: Son.e cotton p1lanted; c 0111 orii up; wheat doing nicely: oars zood; grtlins backward: cool e adher and nigh winds were unfavorable f.-r o!! ewop .-13. i. liightmwer. Followirg is the genrc:al Stumary: Colunii. S C.. Apil 11. IS0. The week ending Apo 1ith averaged nearly 10 d-:rces per dav colder than usual, with fvquent htavy to ki!Ling fr'sts fhat injured cora. frui: (epec ially peache:-) ani vegetables. lee wa obs-rved on two mornings. There was fron 1 to of inhes of ain over the whole state, further delaying farmbina operations. whii were a[reaiy from two or three weeks later than usual. Over the wvpetern portlors of the State plowiig has been ibn'pct iea ble the entire spring. owing to the wet condition -4 the ground. :tn.I. of course. little or no ilantiri has been doUe ex cept in patches. Over the central and eastern portions of the State the weath er conditions previous to last week were more favorable, and in places corn planting is being tinished. with the ear liest planted up. Germiuation has Deen slow, and some seed rotted in the ground, owing to the cool weather. Lands for cotton have been prepared in this section, and some seaisland ajd a little upland cotton has been planted. Preparing and planting rice lands has made favorable progrcss, but some rice fields have been recently inundated. Some cane has also been planted. Tobacco plants in beds are available to set out as soon as the weather be comes warm enough: u littl_ has already been transplanted. It appears from correspomdents' re ports that peaches are about all killed, but that apple, pear and cherry trees are blooming profusely. Gardens are late, and not growing wNel. Truck has received another set-back by frost. The season as a whole has been un favorable, except that wbcat and oat, generaly look promising. There has been but liale spring oats sown. SOM..E ARABIAN ETIQUETTE. To Inquire About a Wife's Welfare Is a Gross Impertinence. Social etiquette among the Arabs is a factor in life to be considered ser ously, if you wish to live among them without friction. Its obligations are not to be compietely mastered in a few months. Sometimes when I have had companions with me presumably thoroughly au fait with all things Mohammedan, the harmony of the oc casion has been seriously endangered by some thoughtlessness or ignorance on their part, which to the Moslem could appear only as a contemptuous want of consideration. No greater Insult could be offered to an Arab than a friendly inquiry as to the welfare of his wife-to us a nat ural civility, but te him a gross im pertinence bitterly resented. On one occasion I nearly made a similar blunder. I was invited by a neighbor ing sheik to go to see him, and was on the point of riding up to his tent door and dismounting there. Fortunately, however. I recollected in time that eti quette demanded that I should haltilfty yards off, and cail in a loud voice: "Have I your permission to approach?" T his gives time to bundle off any of their womenkind who may be about, preparatory to the admission of ai stranger. It is curious also to notice that, in spite of the real effection existing be tween father ainu son, the sense of respect dominates all other feelings, and the sons will never sit at meat with their father in the presence of a guest, but will wait upon both until the father, rising, allows them te op portunity of breaking bread with their visitor. Work That the IHcart Does. The work of the heart is the circu lation of the life-giving blood through out the body. With e'ach stroke or beat of the heart it projects something like six ounces of blood into the bodily conduits, throwing it for a distance o)f nine feet. This it de10s (00 times each minute. 4,140 tinwrs cach hour. 90.3i0 times in a day-. :t;.2;t;.400 times in at year, and 2.540.:;:87,120 times in a life time of seventy years I including leap ears.) The blood is ltrope'lhal by the leart ninie feet eaich heat, 2u17 yards each minute. seven in iles in an i hour, 200J miles in a day. r1.S17 mii-s n a year and 4.::I.ii:: miles in t he 7.) years. The total l-orc'. exerted by the heart every 21 hours has b)eenleu lated to be equal to 124 foot tons-that is, if the whole foree e'xpended by the heart in 24 hours w~ere gathered into one huge stroke, such a power would lift 124 tons one foot off the ground. Speakin~ Clocks. In Switzerland they have conunenec ed making phonographic clocks and' watches which. it :"ppears, le'avg any thing heretofore aecomplishmed ar mi the shade. Bly merely pressiag the nut ton of the new timepiece, It p)ronoumnces the hour distinctly. The alarms call to the sleeper, "It's six o'clock; get upi" There are some which even add the words. "Now, don't go to sleep again.' The form can be changed to sutit the buyer and make the warning more or less emphatic. This application of the phonographic principle is due to a French watchmaker settled at Geneva. He introduces into clocks and watches little slabs of vulcanized rubber, on which the cesired words are traced ia grooves correspondling to tho hours and fractions of hours. Tite Diving spider. There is notingi~ new in the diving bell. Long before man thought he in vented it, the water spider knew all about it. The water spider shius down a reed, dragging hIs diig bell with him. and nchors it tunder water on a level keel, so that the air it contains keeps the water out. When this air becomes foul, thi spider swims to the top, captures a. bubble with a flirt of its tail and cae ries it down to the bell for future rc& erence. There the spider lives in snug com fort and no storm disturbe~s his loody World's Eigest Crop. The average man if ashed what is th' most important crop of the wcorld would1 unhesitatingly say. -'whear." 'his is true in the United States, bt far f rom the case in the world as a whole. The first place must be giv 'n the pdtato. Of all the staple crops of the world the potato takes the iirst place the annual crop being more than 4,00000.00 bushelS, agai-nst 2.500, 000.0 bushels of wheat and 2,6O0, 000.000 bushels of corn. Of the total potatoe crop Europe producves fully seven-eiglt-s, - 'l one-half times as much as her' wiat, and all the cereals t-geth. a.re not n0er esit more. AB59ETELY ir Makes the food more delii ROYAL SAK1NG POWDER GREAT NAVAL FIGHT FARRAGUT'S PAS$ING OF THE BAT TERIES AT PORT HUDSON. The Adventures of 1is ship Hartford Under a Terrible Fire For Two Ifonr, -Alnost Aground Under Gau% of the Land B3atteries-A Thrinin;r Spectacle. Among the exploits which staud out lin strong effeer from the four years work of the federal navy in the Civil war. one of the most picturesque as well as one of the most valuable in its results, was the passing, of tle 4c.nfd orate batteries at Port Iudson. inl the Mississippi. by Admiral Farragut. and his sutbsequent patrol of tie river a bove that point. The admiral's own opinion of the n:ehievo'iemeit was x pressed in a letter which he .roe home soon after the event. IHe sai': "My last dash past Port Iutson was the best thing I ever did. except Taking New Orleans." Alhundant itstimon to the importanoe of the step was also given at the tie. 1)o ih by D::ion oeicers. whom it assisteil. and by the .onfederates. large numbers of whom it put on exceedingly short rations. In the late winter and early of 18.6 Farragut's fleet was : v Nw Orlen.' It was well understemi :hat ti- confederates on both banks of the mississippi and throughout that neih borhood g 'enerally received 1he hulk of their supplies from Texas anad through Mexican ports. and that most of th-se supplies were (onvered to the Mis sippi by the w:a y of the great Red river and other smaller greamts from the west. It was Itnally deterlined ihat Farragut should take several ves sels past the batteries of Port Ilndsor. which was manned by a large con federate force. and thereby cut off the supplies upon which the southern troops aepended. I-e himself would lead the expedition. on his flagship. the steam sloop-of-war 'Hartford. Wit him at this time. on a visit, was his son LoyA:ll. then only a bov. It is interest intr to hear a desc:prion of the action as it was seen and par:icipated in by the latter. Mr. Farragut. who was for mnerly in tue army. but resigned in 1872, now lives in New York City and said. the other day. when asked about the passing of the batteries: Iwas only a youngster at the time. you know, and in order that I miaLt visit my father I had been assigned to a regular rating on board the Hart ford in the summer of 1862. I was a kind of clerk and my duties were nor heavy. It was in March. 1W'. that we moved up with seven ships from .lw Orleans to Baton Rouge and then still further up to a point a little be low Port Hudson. Our vessels were the Hartford. the Riehmond. the Gen esee. the Monogahela. the Albatross. the Kineo and the Mississippi. All but the last were equipped with both sails .and steam-screw steamers-but the Mississippi was a big, old-Iashioned side-wheel steamboat. such as were used on the river. Before attempting the passage of the tatteries the officers .and men were busy making the usual preparations for a fight. These con sisted in clearing away all superfluous spars, placing splinter nettings, etc. 'The H-artford had its lower yards arth wartships, resting on the hammock -nettings, and chain cables were swung on each side front the extreme ends. Other chains were coiled vetically ::lonig the sides. especially in front of the boilers. This was done on all the ships. Every effect was always made to protect the boilers and engines, up on which so much depended. "It was a little after dark on the evening of March 23 when we got undler way from Profit's island, about seven miles ueiow Port Hudson. In my capacity as signaler I was allowedI to give the signal for the fleet to 'get under way and follow thle 11agship in echelon order.' It was done by dis plaiyinlg a red lantern over the stern of the Ihartford, which led. Answering lights soon showed that thje ships were Fready. They proceeded by twos, ac cording to a plan which had been found to work well elsewhere. Each of the three sloops, tne heavier vessels. had a gunboat lashed to its port side tihe side opposite thte enemey's bat teries at Port Hudson. The advantage of this order was that the stronger ships protected the weaker, and it was of great value also to have two sets of (engies to depend upon. Trhe Missis sippi. as the odd one of the seven, came after the three pairs. and behind it. at a considerable distance, were a number of mortar boats. guarded by the ironclad Essex. It was not in tended that these should pass Port Hudson. theirypurpose being to engage the shore batteries and divert the fire from us as much as possible while we were passing. "It was a warm damp night. with out a breath of air stirring. We moved up slowly against the strong current and the water in the river was so low that the ship's bottom -the Hartford *drew abouit seventeen feet-often act ually touched and scraped on the river bed. We were In danger of grounding at almost any time :and if it had not been for our pilot, old Carreli, who knew every inch of that part of the river thoroughly. we shouild very likcly have done so. The adnmirarl always placed great cortidence In Carrel and struck to him perssently when soeo the oitleers protested naainst hisbe setting fault off drunkenness. The nOd miral knew that as long as Ca rr-I was sober he had no superior, and probably no equal, among the Mississippi pilots. "As the ship steamed on my father walked up and down the poop, watch Ing for the tirst sign of the eneeny's guns. I remember his stopping once- o tell me the best way of stanuching a wound or using a tourniquet. if I should be hurt. The- men were at the guns, and every officer was on the alert at their post. At lanr fres bMZenf to gleam along the batnks anid rockets were sent up. Having iocated tisa well as they cou~ld, the contfederates began firing from a battery a little in front of us so that our broadside's -ould reply, the IHrtford's guns dii good work. She carr-ied Da jign a - inch guns, eleven on a side. The- fires of the batteries on shore were our ta;r gets and tile men blazed away at te vigorously. Far from needing to b~e ur-ged on, the gunners had to b' re strained, and many of the admiral's .rders at this were given to ;;top~ too rapid firing. -"It was a wild. meagnifleint s:In'. is the action grew hotter. The :i.mr mius bonmires on the .shore lighocd tap .brilliantly with bifle andl ye'i-llo tim,-. The shells throwi by the motr-hr:: :s in our rear were whizzin like' mem .rs. There was a :omtintual rer f the great numbets of guins constanti? in ruse. Many shots and shells struck the ship. bunt did very little damage. Ton were exceedlingly fortunate. - Then a new diticulty arose. The Smoke b-e-ame so thick and hung so low over the ship that the pilot could not see ahead, even from his post in* te mtizzentop. where he had gone for a better view, and from where he was commnunicating with the deck by meantls of a speaking tube. The firing was instantly stopped, and It wyas found, to otur horror, that the current had turned the ship's bow toward the - east hank until we were almost agroundtiunder the hatteries. The necxt' eip, tho Richmond. was5 dangerouisly near us, too. I don't know just how ne ar we came to running ashore: some "OWDER BE ious and wholesome CO.. SEW YORK. i KnU iWZ ,'M -znlyt . tan with thir 1trees anc, vines. loom cd up fearfully close' in front of us. It Wa< a er'itiO-l moment. Then we had rea son to be thankful for the gunboat Alhaitross :longIside us. Her engines backed vi.g. rously and finally succeed ed in turilnii-g us around with our head up the river again. This happened just where th( stream makes a sharp bend and the eurrent is especially strong. --A f*w Tiiuts after we were well saried a:inin it wais reported that iu-r' -;;s : 'ram on the port bow!' This an!:,emnt. usually without fornlat'hio .n. of rams bearing down up oI us. wa a Jontinlual bugbear while the ii: n as in the river. It used to ,.x in,- :miral greatly, because it diszturb the men unneces szrily. i pers of the rams, alleged tO ije of werrble power. were often rouzht by th' negroes who found their w:y I.) theriv banks. The ad Iirnl oft(n s.1d that -very one seemed to ha w, Ih . -rIm fever and he wished he (ould break it up. In this instance. however. ni) chaces could be taken. and the order was given to 'Call away the boardlerS:' My father intended to have a hland in this fight himself, If there was to be any. and he seized his own cutlasg and started forward. He was at that time nearly 62 years old. but wonderfully active and energetic. This rai rumor failed to materalize. however, like most of the others. and we went ahead without hindrance. We came to anchor above the bend i r. the ifver. out of ra nge of the batteries. It was remarkable. considering that we had been under fire over an hour, per haps nearly two hours, that we had only one man killed and two wounded. The spars and parts of the deck were pretty well splintered up from the shell which had struck them. "As we waited in our safer position. in great anxiety for the other ships. of whose fate we knc-. nothing. we saw a bright light in the sky. which we could tell must come from a ship burn Ing. We did not know then which one it was. but we learned later from mem bers of its crew. who made their way to land and up to our position, that it was the M3ississippi. It had run hard aground on tile shoal at the western bank of the bend and it was found im posible to aet her off. By that time the confederates had gOt the range much better and their well directed shots cut it up badly. Its commander ordered it to be set on fire and man aged to get most of his men ashore In boats. The other vessels had met with various accidents to their machinery or had run aground on the treacher ous shoals. and our two. the Hartford and the Albatross. were thus the only ones to pass the l-batteries. Of course two vessels could not do the same work for which the admiral bad des tined seven, but it is a matter of record that by hovering around the Red river district they kept the enemy pretty short of supplies in that neighborhood. "As for ine. I had to go home when we got up to Vieksburg. My father and some of tile officers held a sort of council of war over me and the de cision was that I had better go to some safer place. So that was my last naval battle. I went to West Point later and became a member of the other branch of the service." W1hen a Shell Strikes. An examination of the bottom of the Indiana in dry dock revealed an elon gated. trough-like dent, perhaps two inches deep, in the plates of the star board bow. about four feet below the water line, made by a heavy shell fall ing at the end of a curved trajectory that had struck, glanced and burst. This shows how marvelously our ships escaped injury. "When this shell struck it made us all flinch." remarked an officer who was there, dropping his shoulders and ocking his knees and shrinking into as small a space as his bulk alowed in illustration of what he meant. "Every body did it-instinctively, Irresistibly turned their heads away and lifted their right elbow as if to ward off a blow with a club-and there was a sec ond or tvwo of atwful waiting, while the roar and the scream seemed to still all the rest of the battia roar and come straht to the car'. Then 'followed an immeasurebile roar-a shocking, be numbing. blinding explosion-and a prodigious fountain of water burst up beside the bow and deluged the for ward deck, while the ponderous ship. tearing its way through the water with gigantic wveight and momentum. seem ed to stop suiddel'ty and was jarred from stem to ster'n as5 if she had run against a stone wall." The vessel was promptly examined. ut everything below w~as found tight and dry. P'iutt inrom Cement. Some time ap. writes ai voluteer. I spent a week withi a miarrisonl in a south coast fort. On the lazst day the sergeants s:tt down to an exceptionally fine dinncr. 1twi rovwning glory of hic-h was a large' plunm pudding. I had made the pudding tw'o days before. bad it boiled antd now. reheated, it mae' its appet aance amid the welcome slouts of my brother warriors; and I attrary feit a bit proud of it. for I utlt 1".cn a ship's. cook for nothing. "SemOs mighty hard." r'emarkted the sergeant mitjor, as ho vainly tried to ti.'k ha for'.t into it. "ilave you boll d us a1 c nnon~ bail. Brownery'" "Or the regimnt!t' feotball?" asked "Whe't dii you get the flour from?" 1iu'stioned Sergeant Smith. "Where from?" I retorted. -'From store Nc. 5. of course." "The daece you did? roared the quar trme~ter seirgeanit. "Then, hang you. vove madth I:' pudding with Port nl ceme." And so it prloved. That pudding is now prsrvr.ed in the battery museum. :napprciativeC Englan. American humor is seldom appre ciated in England. Perhaps that is why a couple of English cus:omn house in sectors who recently scized and con deaned as decaye'd two cases of hams consigned to a Lon~don firm from New Yo'k did not relisht the joke implied i th marking on the outside of the bxes: "Nosegay Brand." Not Genierally Known. Thirteen out of every 10,000 people in the United States are in prison.. Seventeen out of every 10,000 are in sane, the number being divided almost equally Letwecn the sexes. The ten dncy to insanity is greatest among te Irish. It is least among the Cana Ice in India. In India ev-ery town of any size has it own ice factory, some of them capa b of turning out from 500 to 1,000 tons off ice a day; and the same thing holds good in Egypt and the southern sta'.es of America. Fun for the Hoboes. The several Swiss cantons bordering o the Lake of Lucerne thave a way cf gting rid of tramps by giving them a tiket aross the lake to another can ton Th trmmps enioy the situation. -