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TR1WEEK,Y EDITION. WINNSBORO. S. C. SAT UR DAY. MARCi 15, 1879 iTOL 3, NO; 9 A COXRJiD REIATE STORY. Iow a Letter from Hone Caused a Brave Soldier to Desert--A Toucbhng Incident of the War. At a recent political gathering in Tuseumbia, Ala., Gen. Cullen A. Battle related the following story in the course of his speech During the wintor'of 1863-4 it was my fortune to be president of one of the courts-martial, of the .Armiy of Northern Virginia. One black December morning, while the snow covered the ground and the wind howled around our camp, I left my bivouac Jire to attend the session of .. the court, Winding along for miles, through uncertain paths, 1 at length arrived at the court at Round O %k Church. Day by day it had been our duty to try the gallant soldiers of that army, charged with violations of Military law ; but never had I on any previous occasion been greeted by such arxious spectators as on that morning awaited the opening of the court. Case after case wa disposed of, and at length the catc of "The Confederate States vs, Ed ward Cooper" was called-charge, desertion. A low murmur arost .sponcaneously from the battlo scarred spectators as a young artil leryman rose from the prisonor% bench, and in response to the question, "Guilty-'or ndt guilty r .nuswerod "Not guilty." The Judge Advocate was proceed ing to opc-n the prosecution, wher the court, observing the prisonei was unattended by counsel, intor 1)ose.i and inquired of the accused A.1Who is your counsdl?' ?He replied "1 have no cotns3l." Suppn sing that it was his purpose to represenl himself befoir the court, the Judg< Advocate was instructed to )ro.ed Every charge and specificatiot against the prisoner w:as sustained Tue prisQner was then told t( introduce his witnesses. He r, plied : "I have no witnesso-s. Astonished at the calmness witt which he seemed t: be submitting t< what he regarded an inevitable f,ate I said to him. "Have you no defence Is it possible that you abandono( your conrales and deserted you colors without any reason ?" HI replied : "There is a reason., but i 'will avail tme nothing in a militar; .court." I said : "Perhaps you ar, )uistaken ; you are charged with th< highest crime known to militar; la-w, an.d it is your dutty to nal known the catuses that influancec your actions." For the first tim his manly form trembled, and hi: blue eyes swain in tears. Approach ing the president of of the court h< presented a letter, saying as ho die -so, "There, General, is what did it. I opened the letter and in a monen any eyes tille:i with. te.ws. It w.a passed from one to the other of .th< court.t'ntil at last all had seen it and those stern warriors who ha6 passed with Stonewall Jacksor through a hundred battles wept likt ahildreu. Soon as I sufmcientl3 recovered my self-possession, I rea 'the letter as the defence of th< prisoner. It was in~ these words . "My Dear Edwarda :-I han always been proud of you, and since your connection with the Con federa-te airmy I have been prouder .of you than erer before. I would not have you do anything wvrong for the 'world a but before God, Edwai'd, unless you come home we must die I Last night I was aroused by little Eddie crying, I call'od and said : 'What's tlo matter, Eddie?i ;and he said :'Oh, mamma, I'm sc hungry, And Lucy, Edwvard your darling Lucy-she never comn plains, but she is grow.ing thinner ~and thianer-every day. And before God, Edward, uafess you comue hiome we must die. YouR MAR." Turning to the prisoner I asked : -"What did you do when you received this 1" HIe replied :"I made ap pli-. ,cation for a furlought and it wa :rojected ; again I r.nade application -,and it was. reject6d.; a third time I maude application and it was rejet ,ed, and that night as I wandered :back and forward thinking of my home, ,with the mild eyes: of Lucy :looking up to me, and the burning nyords of nary .sinking in my braiid, .I was mo longer the Confederato .soldier, buit I was the father of Lucy ,and the husband of Mary, .apd I -would have passed those linge' if .every gun in the battery had $r:ed .at me. I went to my home. M(ary ran out to meet me, her angel arms emibraced me, an~d she whispered : 'Oh I Edwa.rd, I am so happy I I ~an so glad you got your fur loudh;~I' She must have felt me ghaudder, for abe turned pale as death, and catch JngIher..breath at every word, she said :'.Have you come homse with-' are.oback . go back ALot me Kt -~ ~ and my children go down together I to the grave, but oh, for heaven's sake, save the honor of your name.' Ard here I am, goutlcamon, not brought hero by military power but in obedienco to the command of Mary, to abide the sentence of your court." Every officer of that court-martial felt f the force of the prisoner's words. Before them stood, in a beatific vision, the eloquent pleader for a husband's and a father's wrongs ; but they had boon trained by their groat loader, Robert E. Leo, to tread the path of duty, though the lightning-fash scorched tho ground boijoal,h their foot, and each in turn pronounced the verdict Guilty. Fortunately for humanity, fortunately for the Confederacy, tho proceedings of the court wero reviewed by the Comnianding Gen eral, and 'upon the record was written ; "HEADQUARTE$S A. N. V. The finding of the court is ap proved. Tho prisoner is pardoned and will report to his company, Rt. E. LEE, Gen, During the second battle of Cold Harbor, when shot and shell were were falling "like torrents from the mountain cloud," my attention was directed to the fact that one of our batteries was being silenced by the concentrated fire of the enemy. When I reached the battery every gun but one had boon dismantled, and by it stood a solitary Confeder ate soldier, with blood streaming from his side. As he recognized me he elevated his voico above the roar of the battle ond said, '3 e'ier.i1, I have one shell left. Tell me, have I saved the honor of Mary and Lucy ?" I raised my hut, Once more a Confederate shell went crai hing through the ranks of the enemy, and the hero sank by his gun, to rise no more. SERiOUs ACCIDENT.-On Wednes,. day afternoon last accident occur, red at Fairview which camo near resulting in the death of a little daughter of J. W. Stowart, Esq., Mr.s. Stewart also m"cking a narrow escape. A hawk having .mado a dart at the chickens in the yard, SMrs. Stewart took u1'.) a gun to shoot the hawk, admloniehinlg the girl who was standing bchiud a chicken coap, to be still. As the hawk flow within shooting distance Mrs. Stewart rai.ed the gun to fire, and the gun going off accidentally, two large bucksiot struck the little girl; one passing under the skin on the right side of, the head and another lodging in the right shoulder. ''he gun being heavily loaded burst when it fire:d, and Mrs. Stewart, though the escape \vas narrow, received only a severe shock. The child fell senseless to th'e ground, when the gun fired, and for several days it was thought she would not recover, but by the skillful attention of Dr.D R. Anderson, is now considered out of dauger. The ball entering the shoulder of thA little girl has never been extracted--Grenvilla .News. ANswLRs 'TO ClouRE5PoNDENTs.-, Desperate Wif.-(1) My husband trea.ts me very unkindly. He knocks me dowvn with a chair, or something, every few hours, and. last week locked me up in 'the cellar while lie wont hunting, When he! returned after five days' absence, he released rae with tbe remark : "Groat Scott, ain't you dead yet ?" Yesterday X detected .hinm putting arsenic in my tea. What shaill I do ahout it i (2) Ar.e underskirts cut gored with rufflos this winter or not ?.---(1) You must win your hus band by kindness. Hiding behind the door or uder the bed will only make him worse. Plait your hai~r like a trunk landle so that he can drag you .around the door more! easily ; and work him a satin..quilted club-holder to haug on the bedpost. The gr'eat thing is the consoiousnoes' ofthaving performed your duty. D)o this and all will be wvell in ton or fifteenyers (2) We'll find ou t thi evnig.-anFranisc6 Post. T.edlpidated brick wall, in old Pot'sield, Columbia, ' within whs nlosure repuose the 'rernriins of Henry Ilana Ward, ISs., his wife and other m' oe of the famijy, is to. be retuo',ed and Itbe duet of the dead Wards, with the well pre, .served tomb- stones eurmounting them, are to be transferred to Elm woo'd Cewetry. 16h a ' fii years, all vestige .of this old place of sepulture will have disappeared. .i h~e ParisiansLrfsve introduced squa.re .umbellas. 'Capyl beo just. as bad as. the other kind,-never 'round 'when it rains. IWe are kiways looking into the Ifurn. bnt wo una orily .the npat.1 THE APPORTIONMENT IN 1880. Probable Losses and Qains in the Dif forent Btates. Some of the most intelligont of the Washington corrospondents have been figuring out how the next census will probably affect the rop resontation in Congress. Should the basis not be changed there would be an increase of sixty-six members of the House, but it is reasonably certain that the basis will be changed. That, however, would make no difference in the relative increased strength of the States in the House, and so the fig' uring is done on the present basis. Eleven States-Colorado, Connecti cut, Delaware, Florida, Louisiana, Maine, Nevada,- New Hampshire, Rhode Island, South. Carolina and Vermont--.- et no increase. The largest relative increase appears in Kansas, whose delegation will be increased to seven, it being three ; Califorl)ia increases from four to seven, and Texas adds four to the six already given her. Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mas sachusetts, Mississippi, Now Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia gain one each ; Ar. kansas and Nebraska gain two each, Indiana and Minnesota will havc each three additional ; Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Peunsyl. vania and Wisconsin got an increase of four each, while New York's dele gation is augmented by five. By geographical divisions, the New England States gain one member, the Middle States ten, the Westorn thirty-two, the Southern nineteer and the Pacific States four, or an aggregate of forty-seven to the North and nineteen to the South. CARPET-BAQGEns GOING WEST.--I is not generally known that thi thriving and hitherto happy young Commonwealth of Colorado has.be, come the Mecca of tho Southern carpet-bag ers, who are swarming thither from the desolate pastureE of the South, where for the pasl ten years they have been feathering their nests at the expense of a war worn people. About a year iand a half since, Judge R. B. Carpenter a South Carolina judge undea Chanbc.rlain's administration and i notorious faro dealer, went tc Denver City, where he opened c faro bank and a law office, and wa, soon followed by ez Congressnman L. Cass Carpenter and about n dozen of the lessor lights of South Carolina Radicalism. Quite a nutu ber of carpet-baggers have also gone to Denver City from Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi, an the good people of Colorado will soon find themselves at the nercy of a most graceless set of l$n:ves. Dakota is to be burdened with ex Senator Spencer. who has been laying pipe for a warm reception by inflating t! i D.ako"ta items on th( river and harbor bill about' 200 per cent. He was supposed to repre. sent Alabanm'i to a sn ill extent, but he bent all his logislative energios in the direction of building up his prposed new base of operations.,. WashingtoLtterj. FrATt, ArriAYv IN ATt,ANTA.--Col Blobert A. AIutou, a .native of South Carolina, but for years a 'esident of Georgia, and ai niember of the present Legislature, was killed in an affray in Atlanta on Tuosday by Cap.t. F. S. Cox. Alston fired three shots and Cox two. Aiston was shot in the right temple, the ball passing through his brain. ,Cox wvas shot m the moutli and through the left hand. Aiston is dead, but Co, is not seriously hurt. The difmculty arose from Alston's having a power of attorney from Senator Gordon to sell the latter's interest in the State conviet lease. Cox is a subs lessee under Gordon, and wvanted Alston io sell Gordon's interest to Walters, who land promnised to buy Cox out. Aiston sold to another person. - ox threatened Alston at noon that he would 1kill hite before snndown If the trade w~as not can.. celled and made with his mnan. Je hunted Alston down. Governor Cokpnitt and others having detained Aiston at the capitol, the quarrel was reneweod, andi both drew thoir pistols with the result above stated PREdAUTbON AoA1IAST Ta PLAG0E. --By an official notice published elsewhere It viill be esen that 'ys gels arriving~ at.this port from, apy port in Southern ussia,,or bring Ing ar.tiples from My such port will be guarantined, under instrue okNmWqahington- News and The. 4posed Ameer, -op-A f eanis tan,,10 dead. His! lon;'T pp K-a annacufn hiun. ST'ALIN( A 04QeT, Robert M. Martin, palo and hag-4 g(rd, and with head bowed low, yet every inch a gentlrnan, not only in attire, but in manor, was led to the bar of the special sessions yesterday, Mrs. Allen, a boarding house keeper of Macdougal street, having ac cused him of steal a cQat and a shirt from her house, "May it please the court," Mr. Leonard Jerome, Jr., said as the prisoner, covering his face with his hands, burst into tears, "May it I pleaie the court," Mr. Jerome re, poated, "it is only this mornibg that I loarned that r4y old friend was in trouble. Not ten years ago Robert M. Martin was worth nearly a milw lion dollars. He was an honorod member of the stock exchange ; and his career of twenty years in Wall street aq a broker was one of the most honorable. To day we hear, for the first time, of his distres3. I remember, your honors, when the gift of Robert M. M%rtin of $100, 000 to several churches in this city was quoted as a royal gift. He failed in 1872, and since then his family have been scattered, and he is left, I now understand, a pauper, your honors. I learned from Mr. Johnson, the clerk of the court, that my old friend's mind seem ed to you so much affected when he was first called up for trial that you ordered his case to be left over un til you could have him examined by, the physicians. I ask the mercy of the court for a man who once was not only honorable but abaritable." Justice 'Vaddell, aftar a long con sultation with his 'associates, said with much fooling ; "Robert U. Martin, you have had enough expe rience in this world4 to know the disgrace of comnitting a crime. UJr. Jerome, however, has told us of your great misfortune, and we are therefore inclined to deal with you mercifully. The sentence of the court is that yott be imprisoned in the city prison for the term of f.ve days." Mr. Martin, who seemed daged and utterly crushed, was lcd to his cell.-New York -Sun. THE KENTUIC -GIANT'S BABY.--A few weeks ago the wife of Capt. M. ". Bates, the famous Kentucky giant, who lives on a farm about a half mile east of this town, gave birth to a child, the second since her union of marriage with her present husband, and in both instances the child was still.born. It is to be greatly regretted by all that life should have been extinct from this child-body, whiel. is nothing Nss than a wonderfil prodigy of nature for its remnarkable , If the child should haye lived a)d grown up to maturity, we would have beheld a being beside which we would be nothing but mere dwarfs. To child, fully developed in every fea tur.e on the day of ite birth, meas. urnd thirty inches, a length which many children of normal growth have not attainod after two or three years of age. Tt weighed twventys two p)ounfds; its chest measure was sixteon inches, and its feet six inches long. To the sorrow of all and more particularly its parents, the child came into the wyorld dnead,, aand never sawv the light of day..--Uleve land Leader. The death of the young -Duke of Newcastle gaJ)a to mind the unhap, py life of his father, who visted America with the Prainee of WVales. He was a man of good character and ability, his im)comne was $350,000 a year, and (iluraber Park is consid: ered one of the fjnest estates in E~ngland1. B3ut his wife ran away from hinm ; his only danghtbr rear ried a drnard, who becarge a lunatiec; his younger sons, with one exception were disreputable, and the eldest., just dead, was a confirmed gambler. The old duke was much respeoted and loved by his tenant., and the old people in the neighbor hood of Olumber lark have a good word to say of hitm. Tbe landlord of the old inn at Mansfield is the proud possessor of a walking stick cut~ by the Duke at the tomb of WVash.tgton.______ IRenry B4rgh, Jr., a nephew of the pres)#46 of the Soeiety for tllo PreventAon of Ortelty.to Aninals, and .bimselfta special ' ont of th& society, was 'exagninilng 4 ileg of a lamed stage horse SM44. , when ,the agitmal kicked him (nt, te facey' from which he suffered~ 8ontuslon and a .cgmpouf 4roV,of the AA)ttle tellows ontto qhnrch the first- 'ini - ' pews' ~e vy'II ~ ek,on 4 he rep lfed,'weabt' noha uo o3 SEWIN MACHINE E VIR PRODUO1D, Whether for family use ormanufaoturipg, is the double-thread, look-stitch light-ruunipg Ti EW ]DA VIS! It will last a lifetime-'overy Machino warranted, r 1 IF, Vortical Feod' id the greatost ad. ... vance made in sowing modbanism since tho,invention.af s,uoing maohino. Wo invito a caroful examination of it, bolieving no one can fail to ro0ognize the fagt that it is the most perfect 8owing Machine made, oonbining simplicity strength, durability, And ooononiy. We do not hositato to claim for the DIPROVED DAVIS, in addition to its anperibr prinoi ples, }. more absolute perfootion of workmaz ship and more complete adjustability than portaits to any pompeting runohino now in the market. Anlong the various imu, provoments' is the Improved Shuttle, Millod Shank Neo4le, Adjustable Noodle Plato. Now Pategt Thread.Ooztrollor and Automatic Bobbin Winder. - jvory Ma chino is on good substantial rollers, for wlhich thore is no extra oharge. For tucking, dording,. braiding,quilting, rufiling, fringing,: -ozbroidoring, shoo fitting, tailoriig, dkegs-making, and fanitly tie, THIE DAVI HAS iAVQUAL Rofereneos to those whq htvo the Im,, proved Davis ?maohize in use i Fair? $ field county. Mrs. William :VcNall. Mrs. William D. Aiken, Mrs. 4. W. Ladd. Mrs. J. 0. Rowe. Mrs )r. T. T. 4Iobertso4, Mrs. Ur W. l. '?urper. Mrs. J. W, lluljok, Mrs. William Stovogspgi. Miss rIu"garet 411ci, Mrs. 4.1?. Miller. Mrs. Eliza Willi,}s Mrs.. ains Q. Davis, Mrs. tobert Craw'flrd. Miss J. I-lnryey, and othoYa, Just think of it-a niohin? selling for $60 a short time ago yov can ,ow pup coso for $30, from nr ff, 0. BOAG, 4gont for Firfleld Cnnty. Ajso agent for two other frst-olasg machines-'the Now .An erigan, and the Improved Wood. Call on J. O, J OAG. and get the bent Faily Sowing.Dil%ohipes mnade. DRY GOOIM . groat rodiotior in prices of Dyog Goods, Sboe$, Ifatc, (#othipg." &o. Always o full and oompleto line of Faniily Grocories, TQbacoo, 0igaas, Cone feotionaria, F;4 iW .&a., as ql i pes 'ho cheapest. Lumber tl Furlillte' foi' sale low for cash l,y .f..BOAG REMOVAL, ABOUT the 15th of Marrely 'wa pro-~ L.pose to irergove -otur .stock: of goods to, the store now ~ecupiedJ by J. M. Boea1y & Co.,. where we will be pleased to,see all our former friends arA. customers. Previote to that .eveut we will Bell at I$OTTOM PIGURES, to avoid gleeessay .broulel$ ii Just reesiye4 q, M# of idue un, canvassed( haws. Also, Plows f PlowsJ . J? Pows!I'I J, F. McMA4STJM p C0. JUST MEOEIVEp. .HAMSM.UnotwvassedSya-Cbred.. Canned Good-.--TomnatQo, EPeach, es, Salmon, Saufdines, 1Elekles, &o. Jlyson. J M. BEATY & 0, J3Y thot so,6f X.meap Ko di~e Got 4.ve .4 moe 4an oie1gs 6 afeo Whnon. immeIrs -loar~ to , urohaae hiaflsand ina , theI6'uV lis ors. callandget bMktelies n be i ne A Afl A i&G