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EMPSON MILUS. ?Htcr Hipp Lo YOL. ?. LAI KENS C. LIM S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1886. big job of Clothing _Baltimore Fir?. IV1A>VW V DJ. r. u tr*, i E TJtF. / P WILKES BOOTH'S DKKD. THE ASSASSINATION OF I'lt ESI DENT AlUtAHAM LINCOLN. Andrew .lolmsoii natl Mr?. Surratt- Hun ? Iteganl Tor ltellgloti Might Have Saved Lincoln. (Annl8ton, Ma., liol Wast.) As thc day approaches that murkn ?he yearly record of Lincoln's dooth, 1 iind myself dwolling upon it with more than usual Badness, because I happon to bo amid tho surroundings that framed in tho startling report when it reached me. It is strange that this free govormm nt of our?, tho crime, winch of all others is tho outgrowth of despotism, should lind development. Do extremes meet in this way, or may wo toko this strange ap pearance of assassination UM a symptom of a doop scated disease that escnpeaor dinary seeing? Aro wo, after all, ! ft il above the ills of tyranny in our form of government, or havo wo ouly shitted tho evils of oppression by one, or a few, to that of tho ninny? ls not tho despot ?sro ot a majority as intolerable as thal of one man or of a class? Our govern i tent has dovoloped into ono of parties, and, while our constitution was frame 1 to protect tho minority, the unwritten Con stitution of experience running through a century, really proclaims tho fuel that a minority has no rights which the i arty In power is I lound to respect. It is a little singular, however, that our two instances of assassination, winch startled tho civilized world, were outside tho ordinary run of politics, li ?otb Struck for tho South, t! on it) armed re volt, and Guiteau lulled tho President his party had oleotcd. bul these draw no line and only illustrate tho fnot tim) heat< d partisanship, uttered in wor ., is sure to find activo expression from tlie insano. Booth's bullet had bach i . il Jeff Davis's utterances, whilo GuiUau's pistol, lired at Washington, was loaded at I "tica. Of course Jeff Davis, nor lc eoe Con kling, over dreamed ol' such iuti nts, and wore i ndoubtedly uhookod ano Imi ned at tho results, Tho fact romains, lowovor, ami should bc a lesson lo tito leaders to teach them to bo more gi lid ed in their utterances. Tho wild ex aggerations as to tin; s iud importan* i of each political campaign, winch wo i ir from tho stump and rend in tho press, aro dangerous, for while tho massed take them at their true value, cranks aro stirred into devilish activity, We must remember, too, that for two thousand years, pooh), orators and pa triots have 1 ?eon singing tho ''raises of tho assassins-of all popular saints Brutus and Charlotte Corduy have boon and are the most gloriilod. The tnt ;i is that neither was animated by any lofty impulse or patriotic motive, thc tact ho ing that one was n low sort of a Woman and the other ii mean mun. Booth and Guiteau were quite OS gooil u>, tho ol . ic pair. Next to setting up ii sham . H n popular idol, the greatest dillioultj ? i to pull down again und escapo Hie c i quonecsof our own folly, Good may .como out of violence done by m. gos when they rise half starved against op pression, but there is no good in assassi nation, There is a difference between murder and wur. These tin ughts, however, ure not ,per mano to what 1 sat down to write. I only seek to record sonic facts erinn etcd with tho awful murder of thu great and ?good President. When the news of President Lincoln's assassination startled tl..' people i was at my home, on the Mac-ocbeo, Ohio. Whilo walking alon,.: the piko near to ward the vi::..; .-, some two milos dil tant, going for my daily mail, I met n mau OU horseback, whose MUI lace st ruck mo. American farmers have tho saddest faces of all humanity, but this wore a gloom of unusual depth. Stooping when near me, he asked if I had heard tho news, and getting a responso in thc negative, he continued: ..Tliey do say at Liberty that Lincoln is dead. ' ..Dead?" i repeated. "Yes; phot dead by a play-actor, or ?iren? chop, or some sort ot (eiiow of that kind." 1 hurried on. 1 was struck by the silence of tito town. Lifo in tho four years of bloody disasters mr our part, which wore quit?: u bloody in our year of victory a.'. they wire in our defeats, had been terribly cheapened in public estimation. The reports of thorn-amis lett dead upon thc held, or dying in hospitals, were received with noisy com ment, it is true, but yet with a certain indifferonoo. Hore, however was a death that commanded grave .tention, and seemed to chungo thc day itself Irom one of noisy life to a Habbathdiko still* noss. Tho shopH were o|>cu but desert ed, and around tho corners the people were collected gazing at each other in silence. Towards noon tho country peo ple began to gather in. They came directly from homo in their ordinary work clothes, and ac returned soldiers, .ti miilatcd by liquor, grew noisy and th? .threatening feeling spread, and daring tho day and night, 1 expected to hear ol <30rtaiu obnoxious Democrats, known at Copperhead;:, luiiig mobbed ami mal treated. But we escaped all violence, and iii twenty-four hours tho excitement of that ?ort subsided, .Had political organizations been mon oven.'.v divided at that tims tho couso ?UCMVAI would have been deplorable, lut the Bopublioan party incant then tho Amorioaxi people at tho North, and popular fury wiw expended in denuncia tion of Joli' Davis ooo the rebels, as tko) woro called, lt was generally boliovotl that tho assussius wcro ai;o:itn of tin Confederates, who, failing III tho bold, had resorted to mordor to avengo theil lost cause. A year afterwards I v??tod n niooo, tuon residing in Maryland, on tho rout? taken by Booth in Iiis Hight from tin capital. Tho terror excited by tho wratl of tho community yot prevailed, and tlx Marylanders, my relatives included .poke cautiously and in an undertone o tho ovoid, and such parts ot it aa cami under their immediate observation. Tho fury of olllcials doprivod tlie gov eminent of much valuable evidence tba wonld have thrown oonsidorablo light oi tho dark transaction, and while seivinj to punish the guilty would have in r>tva?^T^^ixvTTiinr? T TTI~- rm nv i r - i-r - nr TIT-TIWI measnro proteoted tko innocent. Booro? tory Btauton, a mau of violent passions atui, thoro?oro, wh< n aroused, of blind prejudice, was aided in his iusano fury i>y Andrew Johnson, who had reasons of Iiis own for keeping ftlivo a ?torin wiiici) prevonted too oloso a scrutiny into Ids own pust associations and con duet. Tho men of infamous class known as detectives, developed hy tho war, and cultivated by tho score tary of war and the secretary of state, where kings and subordinate officers, were executors un der their owu law, und instead of en couraging au opening of testimony, Uley persecuted all who wore supposed to know anything COUUOOtcd with tho mur der of Lincoln and tho attempted murder of Seward. In this way a poor Btoge carpenter, who innocently held (tooth's hm e on fhn night of tho assassination was sent to a living death, and poor Dr. Mudd, w ho treated tho broken anklo of booth, never dreaming' of what caused tho accident, was glad to escapo tho gal lows in sharing tho carpenter's punish ment. Mrs. Surratt, who was found guilty of keeping a boarding house at Washington, was hanged-to our national shame I brough all time to como. it was death to ?'.ny one known to have seen, let alone associated with Booth, and in this way mouths were elosed in fear, and consequently a revelation of th?! facts t oppressed. This affords a key to tho reasons for Andrew Johnson's strnngo, contradi to ry and wild conduct on tho occasion. Bo OUt-Horodod Herod, which means Stanton, in his angry denunciation of men whom ho afterwards, when in the safety of a subsided excitement, strange ly favorec?. And in thin we can lind the only reasonable solution of his passing from ono extreme to tho other. On one day he was furious in ins demands to have treason made odious by hanging tho traitors, from Jeff Davis down. Not long arter ho shifted to tho other ox tremo that favored general amnesty, and was romarkablo for au equally ?anted do nuuoiatiou of thc Radicals at tho North who would recognize Lincoln's mild re construction polio}*, based ou forgive ness and kin ! treatment. fu sident Johnson fott that ho was tho only man in .11 the world who was b ne llted by tho death of his predecessor, and haunting him wasa fact that strange ly escaped attention at tho time. Be had not only been thc boon c impailioU ami confidential friond of Booth in times past, bul tim assassin's card was found in thu uiong box ni Johnson's hotel, familiarly addressed to the Vice 1'icsi dent, asking for an interview on tho VOry day of tho night on which tho as sassination occurred. Le s evidence than this hanged others, and Stanton's blind rorjo and .Johnson's simulated fury saved Andrew Johnson from a punishment awiu lcd alike to tho ini oeent and guilty. Much Rino and ink havo been waded over that recommendation tu executive olomonoy awnrdod Mis. Surratt by tho court-martial that condemned her, and an effort made to have US believe that it was kept from tho President, Tho records show that this recommen dation made a part of tho proceedings upon which tho Bresident had to poss, if this wcro not so thc President was guilty of au illegal act. Tho fact is that the recommendation to mercy w as be fore tho man who not only dared not comply with the plea, but, in Ids bar, actually bullied ap the execution. And this great advoeato of tho constitution, furthermore, refused to recognize the interference of a civil tribunal that I sought to review the proceedings of a ' court martial, as it had tho right to do, under a writ of habeas corpus. ts it possible that Booth had tho meet ing with the Viced'resident for which ho asked, and if so did he tell the Vice President ol the awful work he had in hand? If SO, it may be that Andrew Johnson took this to bo tho vaporings of a drunkard actor-and it is very h kory that his strange conduct caine rather from fear titan from the workiugs of a guilty conscience. As Judgo Advocate of tho Extraordi nary Court of Inquiry that sought to in vestigate the military conduct of (iouoral linell, I was brought in close association with Andrew Johnson, and what I learn ed of hun on that occasion gives me a both ropportunity for forming judgment than tails to the lot of the many wh > ascribe all his actions to high patriotic impulses, lt may bo that the future historian, weighing these facts in an impartial mind, will como to tho same conclusion that I have in regard to Bresident John son, But this i.s doubtful. A thought ful miud has told us that history is the polities of tho past and the present, and politics mean the prejudices and current boliofs of the people. 1 have been struck in this connection by tho remarkable .similarity of conduct on thc part of Johnson and that of Maclicth. When tho murderer of that greatest and most perfect tragedy is brought face to face with his awful crime, he fairly roars in his simulated wrath. Tho grand imagination of the kingly usaaossiu that has given us some of the purest expressions of philosophi cal pOOtry give placo to the miserable runt of a vulgar mind, Macbeth, how ever, w is carrying the. murdered Duncan on his conscience, while Johnson was probably driven to desperation by the Knowledge of an indiscretion that had tho sumo dreadful consequences loom ing into ilium diale existliuce. 1 would rather havo been tho associate of Booth and possessed of his dreadful , secret, if the awful ohoico wero forced upon mc, and havo been hanged for it, than to have lived through years to my ! grave haunted by the thought of that I poor woman wringing her motherly hands in abject terror upon the sentidlo Johnson authori/.ed, or seeing night and ; day that hundi? of woman's clothes . swinging in tho hot sun of summer, os they covered at thu end of a ropo the ? agonies of death. While on a visit to my relatives, above , referred to, I heard of a uogro who had ; acted os Booth's guido on thc night of thc (light, and bunted up tho mun. 1 found . him a stupid fell ?\v of about 1H or 20, . aud 1 got very littlo out of him. Tin , little, howevor, was to mo very signifl I cant, ami to my mimi threw o light on 1 Booth's desigus 1 liad never seen sug gested. The hovel in wliich tho lx>y lived hod been aroused after midnight t and a goodly sum in gold offorod for n "i guido, Tho youth, with tho consent ol % his parents, dresse 1 himself, if patting a on a coot and pair of shoos could tx <wmm.rumr*.-tr*.rm*rt.KTi.'?tiiMM JWUBO (liguiflecl with tho ?amo. Mounting n nullo ho joined tho two und undertook tim duty domandod of him. Jt was hard work for mo to drug information from tho stolid follow; I mt 1 learned that w hile ono of tho night riders talked non sense ull tho time tho other said little, und that little WUK given to onraing his broken leg und somebody for not put ting out tho light?. Tho light business took hold of my mind with a fascinating tenacity that J could not shako off. As I worked it out it seemed to me a key to the mystery that enveloped all tho work of the assas sin on that terrible night, but, ] could not UinnngO thu testimony. What, light wau that which should have been extin guished and was not? The itotor may have been haunted w il li Othello's solilo quy, where ho says before Desdemona's death, "put out the light and then put out tho light." But it gave no satisfac tory solution to tho surmises. Years niter, whilo tolling thc late Richard Merrick of this mystery, tho eyes of that eloquent and able advocate brightened. When I ended lu; said, "Your negro gave you the key." The true story of tiiat awful crime came to mo in my capacity as a lawyer. Booth, the assassin, who put an end to tho life not only of an able, kind-hearted man, but of all the hopes which the South had of au honorable and peaceful sottlomi nt in the way of reconstruction, had ar ranged with un accomplice to turn ol? tho gas from tho theatre w hen he (the accomplice) heard the report of the pistol. This would have plunged tho theatre into midnight darkness, and in tho terrible fright and confusion the assassin would have escaped detection. The fellow relied on, smitten with con trition at tlie enormity of the crime or by fear, failed his chief and lied. In stead of quietly gaining his horse, and as quietly riding away undetected aud unsuspected, he had to face, the audience ill the full glare of the footlights and ride desperately, well knowing that tho foot of justice was on his path. Tho lights were not extinguished. The desperate murderer, in his hasty llight from the box, caught his spur in the Hag of our I nion that draped tho box, fell, broke his ankle and rode dow n to death. The plot was clearly planned and ono cnn imagine the tumultuous llight of that crowd, in the darkness thal was t?< have followed the crime. And one can realize the desperation and agony of Booth as he rode off into tho midnight, well knowing that he was re cognized, and that there was no spot on earth in which he could (ind hiding and safety, even had not his broken leg de prived him of overy advantage Tim fatal mark ?d' Cain had bei u imprinted on him in the full glare of his familiar footlights, and that retribution which dog's the stops of crime was but a ques tion of time. The murder occurred on thc night of Qood friday, and had our good ami greatest of Presidents paused to remem ber for a moment tho belief of a great majority of Christian humanity, he would not have been exposed to the cruelty of the assassin. Hut "Cod reigns and the government still lives.'' DON PtA'i i'? Mao-0-Ohco, Ohio, Murch '27, bssT. duli ti Sherman Ta I kn Ai.-aln. 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 differoneo botweon his Nash ville conciliation speech and his Spring field bloody shirt speech, and now lil lias been interviewed by tho Cincinnati Commercial tlazette in oro. r to explain the explanation. Ho still refuses to see any inconsistency la tween the two Speeches, although he admits that thc Springdell) speech was impolitic, (ivory word in it, bo says, is literally true ex cept, perhaps, the statement that "there is i ot an intelligent mau in this broad lund of either party who does not know that .Mr. Cleveland is now President ol the United States by virtue of clinics nguinst the electivo franchise.'' Hi; ad mits that this may bo too broad, but up-m a careful analysis lie does not see how ho coubl modify it if fair force is given to tho word "intelligent." Ho concludes tho interview by saying: "I cannot nee any reason w hy the Confed erate cause, w hich 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 tho bonolit of the Democratic party. I can lind some excuse for these atrocities in the strong prejudice of caste and race in the South, growing out of centuries of slavery, but I can Hud no excuso for any man of any party in tho North whet is willing to submit to bnvu his political power controlled und overthrown by such menus." Tho convorsution us ro po rtcd givens tho impression that Mr. Sherman w rote tho questions os well as tho answers. The Cotton Movement? From thc New York Fiuanoial Chron icle's cotton article the following ligures uro gathered relative tei tho movement ol the staple during the past week: Tho total receipts rouclmd 2.80-1 huies, against 8,640 bub s last week, 4,032 huh s tho previous week, und 7,609 huies three weeks since'; milking tho total receipts since Um 1st September, lHMIi, 5,lN7,l)s'2 bales, against 6,247,108 bubs for tho same pei md ol 1880 .'?, show inga, decrease since September 1, lHHb, of 00,01] haley. The export* for tho wook reach a tobo of 10,072 bales, of which 8,880 were to < iront Britain, 1,500 to Franco, und .">, 1 H", te) the rest of tho continent. Tho imp?o ts into continental port during tho week wero 50,000 bides These ligures indicate a decrease in the Cotton in hight of 76,780 halos us com pared with tho samo elate of 18NI?, und a decrease ol 59,037 bale., os oouiparoei with tlie corresponding dato of 1880. Tho receipts from tho plantations, i hoing tho actual movement, not inoltid ing tho ovorlauel receipts nor Southern consumption, of cotton that roachod th?. i market through tho outports for the week wore only 1,528 bales. Tho tot?! receipts since tho 1st of September arti 5,184,874 bales. ; If you have catarrh, usc the surest reine i dy-Dr. Snge's. Tho surest tfuy for sweet girl graduate?, 1 to get Into print ls to wear calico dresses > on commencement dap. A GRIZZLED STRANGER. MK TKI.L8 HOW UK HAUE A MILK A MIN UTK ON UOHSKltACK. Ills KIM O Over Ht? Devil'sTrack-Wlljf Ho Veil I ucl I ned to Slake Suoli Good Tinto. (Prom tho Now YorU Sun.) "I've mudo ii milo ii miuuto ou horse back, in tho saddle." As a grizzled .stranger with a quartzite pin made thia remark, u silence fell upon tho little group of turfiuon who Bat in tho corridor O? tho Windsor Hotel, at Denver, tho other evening. Tho man who had just told of driving an unre corded mile in 2:11 arose deliberately, brushed tho ashes off his cigar, buttoned his overcoat, and walked away. "I nm a liar, myself," somebody beguu. "Hold on," said tho stranger, ".eis isn't a lie. lt's cold, clammy truth, and I'll back it with money." .'Have you the papers for it?" "No, nor the judge's affidavits. in fact, nobody BOW it except myself, but if vi u v, ill permit meto tell you the cir? cumstances, I ii loavo it to your; elf whether it isn't a fact." "Blaze away." Tho group drew closer. Even the man who hud walked oft' suspended his con versation with tho hotel clerk and lis tened on tin: quiet. Tito grizzled strait er remov? d u.section of tobacco from ins mouth and began : "This happened live years ago last fall. 1 was living in Leadville ut tho time, bul hud milling ii terests thal took me freq tu utly info the outlying districts for a ratlins ol' perhaps a dozen miles. These trips J nearly always made on horseback, tm a tough little broncho, hanl mouthed, trained to mountain roads, and capable td keeping up a jog trot at a pinch for twenty hours on a stretch. On tho occasion in question I starb d very carly tute (dear, colt! morn* iug for a claim 1 owned on the other sitie of the divide, ou tin- slope ut' what is called Gold Mountain-you can Und it by 1.inking on any map. l'o nach it I luul to lirst cress Tennessee park n-al Hu u wind over a very crooked, tortuous trail that gradually OSCOndod to a pass somewhere above Timber Bino, lt was not inoio than two miles as tho crow Hies, but nine by the road, owing to the. frequent zigzagging or tacking mr.de 000 SOry by tin: steepness ol' the range. "I totd; tilings cosy, anti il was about noon when I reached the claim. 1 lind a couple of men at work there, ate din nor at their cabin, ami then went over to look at tht; shaft. One has no idea how rapidly time passes underground, where everything is dark, and when 1 came up 1 was surprised to lind that it was nearly I o'clock, and Hie .shaduws of pinions a hundred yards off had crawled up to tin; windlass. I wasannoyod, too, for there was a suggestion of snow m the air, ami the rah across Tennessee park in a storm well, tht; less saitl about it the better. So I lost no time in getting into the saddle, and pushed rapidly ahead toward tin; pass. I had to go quito a little distuneo before 1 roached it, and all the time the sky grew graver, and prosoiltly a ?OW Ila!.es began tu fall. 1 urged tho broncho, and finally began the descent. "The road beyond the pass led down a long, straight incline for about a quar ter of a mile. This took it to tin; fringes of timber pine, und then it made a de tour of nearly two miles to get around a spur ol' the range. At that point I paused. The idea occurred to lie Hint 1 could leak" a short cut by going directly ovor tho spur and striking the trail on the other side. Thc rangt! was nut par ticularly steep at this place, but rather a succession of rough eminences, and thc undertaking dui not seem to be accom panied by danger, A sudden raw wind decided mo. I turned tho broncho oil" the rood and started. "The plan appeared tho moro feasi ble as 1 advanced. What looked like steep ascents at a distance proved to be gentle om s, ami I was soon pretty near ly across. Tho spur was weil wooded with ohl pine trees, some ot' which had rottet! OS they lay, ami on the far side tho declivity extended down at an even .slope ch ar to tllC valley, where big rocks and boulders looked like grains of blast ing powder, ami tin; road like a tiny streak. I remomber yet how, betu ?on thc tu e top , I caught a glimpse of the park with tho Arkansas river winding through it, and tin; whole thing looking liko some map in my old geography, That was the last thing that impressed itself on my minti before my horso stag gered, stumbled, plunged a little, mid then cunio down with a crash, lirst on his fore legs and then Hut on his bolly, his hoad down hill. 1 can't readily de scribe il, but ho fell in such a way that my right leg, without being crushed or oven much bruised, was twisted in tho stirrup strap and caught fast. "Bight hero let mo stop to explain a circumstance that will enable you to iro derstand tho situation. Down in the valley, at tho bust! of Hold Mountain, was a sawmill owned by George, Lacy, of Leadville, and extending up from its yard, almost to timber linc, was what is called a log shoot. This is Hiniply u V-shuned trough, largo enough to hold a good-sized pine trunk, und inuit solid ly ag.nu.- ! tho face of tho mountain. Of OOUrSO d has to bo straight, or nearly so io permit tho logs to slide down without obstruction, und use soon makes the inside as smooth ns gloss. Bitch a con trivance wives u groat deal of hauling, for as the trees arc cut, thoy sro drugged ovor and dumped into the trough, anti go down to tue yard like a streak of lighting. In thu course of time, the in . ure will drive tin trotmh in pretty nearly lovel to the earth. Ibis wus the case with the Buoy shoot. Moreover, it bael not been used for about a year, und pine needles, dead boughs, and other rubbish hud in places almost biddon it from sight. 1 wus well enough acquaint ed with tho mountains to know, tho in stant my broncho fell, that ho hud walked into tim old log shoot. I was uot aware of it ut tho time, but I think now that that headlong tumble broke his back then and there, and he never knew what hurt him. "it tokos a moment for tho coolest hoad to olear itself in times of unlooked for peril, and long before that momont had elapsed tho broncho and I were on mmi !? M itjaiiiwii--II mimM-m-jrgnw?nfT ,? our way to tho valloy, going luster ut every breath, nothing to .stop us, death ahead, and tue devil's own railroad un derneath. .1 waa Hitting almost erect in tho Huddle. Tho leather Haps had twist ed around and kept my legs from rub bing against tho ?ide of the trough, but hold mo like bands of iron, liven bad thoy not, jumping off would ha e bo? a out of thc question. 1 have never boen on a toboggan, but 1 think that people who have will understand why I bent all my energies to holding on. 1 did not faint and did not got dizzy; there was a hideous roaruig in my ears, a furious wind seemed to all of a sudden to tear up the mountain ami suck the breath out of my mouth, but everything WUK deadly clear and distinct. 1 could seo black specks grow suddenly into big pines and thon shoot past mo. I e nid ovou seo the .snow eau dit in their m i Iles as thoy carno whizzing up. Every in stant, through nome clearing, 1 could see tho valloy, in a Hash, aud over it .di was a sickening feeling as though tho inonu tain was sinking away from mo, and I was plunging out into immeasurable space. Bo strong was this that even now, standing on the solid marble lloor, 1 can recall tho qualm and nausea us all support scorned to givo away, tho earth tip up ami lot mo fall, fall, fall ? foll os if forever. A mass of rock as large as this hotel was beneath me. As 1 looked it scorned to leap into the air liko a bal loon. There was a black line of forest below. 1 shot through it 08 through a tunnel, and out into tho light again. 1 tried to shut my oyes, lt was impossi ble' 1 tried to scream. Tho air had turned to stone. '.J have read thal w hen men are abeu* to die their lives reel out before them like a panorama. .Mine didn't. All I could think of was the crash, the bloody mass of man ami horse lying somowhore in tho valley, aud 1 remember I was glad in a wild, crazy kind of way that, it would bo ail over in au i US taut and that ii wouldn't hurt me. I knew we must be nearly there. The trees and rocks wem undistinguishable, when all of a sudden a black mass Hew uj> into my lace. 1 felt that I was being beaten, bruised and hurled over and over, and then everything was still. "When the moon was well up i came to myself. 1 was lying in a snow diu:, rubbing at my head and moaning. After a long time I crawled a little ways, and then fell down and cried for my vt ry helplessness. 1 must have been a little Mighty, and heaven knows hows hov, I found my way to Lacy'.; mill, a quarter of a mile beyond ; but I did, somehow, and they carried me in and sent for bolp. Von see thc old timber shoot had fall? ll into decay, and some distance abo\ yard wan a broken place that saved my life. When wo reached it the demi broncho jumped tho trough and the tw< of UH went sailing and turning and cavorting over a Hold of frosh snow nnti WO Stuck into a drift about 500 yard: away. The broncho had the worst o it, even there, for he kept on going un til ho struck solid earth, J broke ihre, nbs and this arm iu bo many differen places that tho doctor wanted to cut i oil'and be done with it. What puzzle* the mill mon most was that ?ny logs es caped, but tho saddle ilaps wore worn ti fringe and 1 suppose that explains it From tho point whore! started to tin break was over t Wu miles, and tho oli hands there said logs used to mike lt ii less than two minutes, 1 had no .stol watch, but I'll back myself against un? log thal ever made the trip." TIM ?SK MATT 1.1 :-1 LAOS. Some fae tn About Hie Oapturoil Hannen? Tlic History ,?f the Coiileilerate Klan. (Washington beter lo Hie Kow York Times When the captured Union Mags wer lound at itiohmond, thoro woroalso witl the ri bed archives sent np to Wu ton a collection of designs for a Collied crate dag. With tho devices woro lotter explaining their meaning. But in all 0V01 200, there were not above half dozen devices without the stars. Th arrangement of thc stars made infinit variety, but through all, the mullet o live pointed shir was retained, showin that, desirous UH tho Confodorates wei to get a Hag unlike the "yankee'' on hiern, tho old feeling could not shako o attachment to the Htars. And ic. almoi every letter with a device for thc tho roieronce ?H made to retaining the stan though somotimos ignoring tin strinei One Confederato wrote: "Let tho Val kees keep their ridiculous tune of 'Yal ki 0 I >oodlo,' but by all that is sacred d not lot them monopolize tho stars an tl .) Stripes. Von have fought well Ul der our glorious banner; could yon ligl as well under another'.' Never! Chang it, improve it, alter it 08 you will, bl for I leaven's .sake keep the ?tars an stripes!" Another said; "Do not give up til stars and stripes to the North, lt ours aa fully UH it ia thens. ' * Kee tho stripes, keep tho azure field, and shir for each sovereignty in the conste lation, and then distinguish it by a re cross (tho Southern cross) cutting tl stripes at right angles. ' ' The BOnf of a nation aud ita llag have a prodigiot moral iulluonce." Ono Confederate alone w rote again tho Kturs and in favor of tho stripes, I said: "1 don't like tho cross, it is si; ni?oant of Catholic rule and had U much to do with tho machinery of tl dark ages. Tho old stars must, i thin bo abandoned. They belong to tl night, and bosidos tho North will kei them, lt ?H nut lung with us. Let tho bo sevou stripes, ono for each of tl original States, as the thirteen wi ro I the original Statos of the old Oonfodei cy. Lot them bo vertical instead horizontal." Ono writing wholly in favor of tl stars, sont hts advice and said: "We st havo a 'star-spangled banner' which door to the people from old associ?t im and wo can aliud to let the Yunke keep tho stripes. We aro entitled to 'star-spangled baunor,' because tho bi pootry in honor of it was composed 1 a Mont bern man, and thc incident w hi .ieee inned il-, composition ooourrod i Southern soil ono rollected honor i Hunt I icm soldiers." Tho cnn 11 ai 11 ce of tho provisional go ernmont in their roport on a Hag a seal for adoption, confossod thoy we not SO much attached tu the old llag, o declared it would be inappropriate "retain the Hag of tho government fr? which wo have withdrawn." Tho dosi recommended by tho committee a adopted by tho provisional governmi ii'ij nr. uv HUI vn ?y >w* vv:v rrr.'? jw,iaxn?u??JU BBT* [was known ns tin? ".St?ir? ami Barn." Tho i I nion binn ill tho corner bud n oirolo of I seven whito .stars, to ropxoEont tho sevou original Bocoding States. Tho rest of I tho Hag showed three bars, rod, whito and blue. In 18G2 the Confederate gov ernment aa one ovidonco of absoluto Loveranee from the United States, de loided on n now (lag. This was tho j Sont horn oioss, tinnily adopted by tho 1 Confederate Congress in 1863, und fa vored l>y Clouerai Uonurognrd. lt was first, however. General Joseph E. John ston's hatti.-ling, behaving selected tho blue spangled s Itioi upon u red held as I his battle ensign, lt did not please the lticlnnond Examiner, ie which it was di scribed asa "red tield bcstraddlod with I a long-legged white cross." Probably tho confusion of tho llebol and Union j colors at the ti rut battle of ManOSSOS led j to giving up tho "stars und bars" by th'" j former. On looking over tho Hags iu the war building I hud most ol' tho Confodorato j (lags of tho Southern Cross device-red (lou! and blue cross having thirteen stars. Now and then one shows but I eleven stars, or eight. Ono has fifteen j stars. A printed catalogue of these Hags when Ihey wno OU exhibition in tho ordnance museum gives tho number ' placed there, id 510. Tho history of 510 ! in this cat dogm ia brief and ends thc list. "No. 5-10-ltobol battle Ung, ; brought from lliohinoud by .Muster Ta I Lincoln." President Lincoln's younge&t i son was ii lad of twelve years when ho went with his father on tho memorable visit to City Point, where (J ene ral tirant Iv l his headquarters. The ordinance museum remains in miser's building, Will tho Hags ba . returned tia ro, and placed whore tho public may see them again? ! am told I thai some time ago tho secretary of war, I thou (louerai IioTknap, wished to have j the Confederate llagS sent to West , l'oint and put in the museum there. Strong objection was madoon tho ground that this would h nd lo keep alive lin? plea..mt feelings between the cadets from tho two sections, in exultation on , tile om- sido and regret on tito other. Adjutant Ueuora 1 Townsoud contended that Hie proper place for ibo llags was here in thc war department building. To n tmn them to tho South would, In; declared, whoa that suggestion once came nj), bea direct recognition of tho rights of tiie robolliott organizations. bi'tinlorhil Sorrow*'. j Perhaps never before a iii. history of I the United States haw sb many t lilted .States Soutitors-?lccl hoon on thc noxious 1 bene!;. When im Senate meets next December lit will have a calendar; unusually full of i Tho scat Senator 'Purple, ol' Indiana, I is tO be e.el 'ni on Ile- glOUlld thal' thu : legislature which elected him was aol prop ? orly organised. I Senator llcarst, of California, will have to defend hi-, tiiii against a charge thal I money was n ed lo p?'Ot lire il Senator Faulkner, of nest Virginia has ! IK.II refused a ceri ?Ile e of election hy j Governor Wilson, who contends thai the legislature had no righi lo eleel .<. Senat or j at ils called ses? inn. Senator pasco, pf florida, may also lind a Maw in his title. Tin 1- rjaluttire which j eh ( ted him, ii ls claimed, '-.as hot organ : Izcd ns thc new State chnsiiltitlon pre scribed, ll this he true, al! Ila- proceed ings of I hid legislature, including thoclcc lion of Senator, will he vit tuted, Senator Pasco can alford 1" foci easy, for should ll new ele< lion he rcipiircd hy reason of a i technicality 'hen- is no doubl thal he would I bc chosen again. j In the West Virginia case, ii ls a qu'es I lion between two Democrats, Senator Lu Cns,Who was appointed hy nie Governor ? utter the long and frillllt ia 'dead lock in tho i legislature, and Senator Faulkner, who was elected at a special session bf tho legisla lute called t i attend t plhor busbies -. t In tho California and Indiana casci, thc question ol party v. iii come lu;.especially iii the sharp contest thal is io b? u... e ovt'r I Senator Turpio's election. Ii objectiun he I made to Ibo swearing in of the linee er lour Sen..lois WllOSC titles wi!! lie qilCS I tinned, tho Republicans will have control I ol' the Senate by a ch ar majority, what ever Senator Riudleberger '.ray do, foi all the Senators whose seals are disputed aro I >et.mi rats. Still lhere ?- . very probability that they I will nil lie scaled eventually. Thu Senate has never stood ns squarely on party hm s in contested elections ns the House gene rally docs, and Unie ?, vi ry little in the Indiana .uni California conicals, which are tho only ones involvhu; political piojtidicc. Tho Senate In rehire, abu.isl sure tu stain! <W Republicans lo ?TI Democrats, with Senator llldtlloborgcr as un unknown (pian illy, with n leaning towards tho Democrat Ile is hitler against tho Republican leaders and may wheel squarely Into linc w ith tho Democrats, thus nuking thc Senate a tie, willi no vice president lo cast a deciding vote.-Aff<iutil Constitution, Tue. .rv.;.KI: of desti net ive tires daring tho present month hus been unusually huge. Statistics covering a period of ten years show that December ia the worst month for tires, and thai March OomOS next. Juno ls tao safest month, having comparatively few tiros, with light losses. Tho proportion of lacon diarist.i in the South is 1J per cen'.. February always shows fowot criminal tires than January, but April shows more than March, and May more than April. Juno is an "ntl" month," and fires do not rage in July, but in August and Septem ber the incendiary ; i cms to wake up. In October and November he puts in some goo l work, and takes a little recreation Sn Dcceinbor. It seems to be settled that the hone of getting insurance mom y is not the ohiof motive of uctsof incendn arise.'.. Most of these acts are readily attributable to private grudge, basinet's rivalry, mischievous intent, jealousy, malice, religion'.; intolerance, labor trou bles, otc. Last year there wore Ifi/J.-J tires ul the United States, cuiu.iug thc destruction of property, re:;l and per sonal, of the value ol' ftX0?,024,750? The unusual proportion of summer lires up to this point in the season suggests tho a]ipr?.bennion that tho losses Ol tho pre sent year will eonsiderablv oxcood knot 0 of 1880. _ _ "I LOT? Her llettrr l lian LUV." Well. then, w hy don't you do sonielhinu lo bring back thc roses to her checks anti thc light to her eyes? Don't you eec she ls suffering from nervous debility, the result of lenin lc weakness? A bottle of Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription" will brighten thoso paie checks and send new Ufo through thnt wasting form. If you . I lOVO her, take heed. . THE GROWTH OF Tiffi SOUTH. A MOST BNCOUHAOING EXHIBIT OF INDU8TUIAL PKOOBBSS. What lian Keen Dono in tho Southern States In Three I?Ionths--Somo Statistics That Show No SIKII of Palsy? Tho Chattanooga Tradesman, at Chat tanooga, has compiled by Htates a report of tho lending new industrio? and rail road companies organized and projoctod during the three months ending Juno 80. Tho miscellaneous industries re ported in each Stato consist partly of laud improvement and dovelopmont companies. AJ?ADAMA, Agricultural implement factories 3, brick works 31, breweries 2, oar works 5, cigar and tobacco factories 1, coniont works 2, cotton mills 10, compresses 4, eur wheel works 1, eugine works 8, oloc trio light works -r>, elevators 5, furuacoe 18, foundries and machine shops 17, Hour mills 8, fertilizer factory 1, grist mills 1, ici; factories (i, locomotivo works I, minos and quarries 19, natural gas, oil and asphalt ll, oil mills 1, pipo works 2, rolling mills 8, railroads 13, stool plants 2, street railways 10, shoo factories 1, water works (>, wood working establishments 17, miscellaneous 10. j no it I DA. lhick and tile works 1, cigar factories I, cotton factories 2, compresses 1, elec tric light works 1, fertilizer i'actorios 2, Hour mills 1, mines and quarries 1, rail roads l l, rice mills 1, .saw mills 17, street railways 2, water works 1, miscellane ous 7. OKORO IA, Agricultural implement works 6, brick works ll, bridge works 1, car shops 2, compresses ti, cotton and woollen mills 12, electric light works 1, foundries and machino shops 1, furnaces I, fortilizor works 6, Hour mills 1, gas works 5, grist mills J, icc factories 2, limo and cement works ?, mines and quarries 22, oil milly ?, railroads 9, rolling mills 1, atroet rail ways 15, water works 7, wood works 41, miscellaneous 82, 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 II, furnaces 7, llom mills 8, gas works . i, grist mills ?, icc factories 0, limo and comont works l, mines and quarries 38? natural gas and oil companies 17, oil mills 2, railroads ll, rolling mills 1, steel works 1, street railways 15, smelters 2? wire works I, water works'.!, woodworks 40, miscellaneous 35. MOUTH CAROLINA. Brick works 5, cotton factories d, cigar and tobacco factories 13, eleotrio light works 2, fertilizer works 2, Hour mills 5, grist mills 7, icc factories 4, mines 17, oil mills 3, railroads 4, street railways 3, water works l, wood works 20, miscollenoous (i. SOUTH CAROLINA. Brick works 3, cotton mills 13, olectno light works 1 fertilizer works 1, Hour mills l, gas ,?orks 1, mines 5% oil mills I, rici' mills 1, railroads 2, stamp mills 1, tobacco factories 1, water works 1, wood works 0, miscellaneous 5. VIROIN1A. Agricultural implement factories ?, brick works 1, brikge works I, cigar and tobacco factories 3, compresses J, cotton and woollen mills 4, distilleries 1, elec tric light works 5, nour mills (>, furnaces lt, foundries and machine works 1, gas works 1, mines ?uni quarries 36, natural gas and oil companies 2, potteries 1, railroads KJ, rolling mills 2, ^eel works street railways 7, water works 7, wood, working establishments 0, mi?ccllanoous 33. ARKANSAS. I Brick works 2, car shops 3, cotton factories 4, compresses 4, distilleries 1, foundries and machine shops 5, Hour mills 7, furnaces 2, gas works 1, grist mills 1, ice factories 3, lime and cement works l, minos and quarries 37, oil mills 3, railroads 20, rolling mills l, stamp mills and smelter 10, stroot railways 5, water works 1, wood working establish ments 23, miscellaneous 16. KBNTUOK V. Brick yards 2, car shops I, cigar and tobacco factories 4, distilleries 8, electric light works 1, Hour mills 8, foundries and machine shops 3, gas works 1, minos and quarries 12, natural gas and oil companies 21, oil mills 3, railroads 4, strei t railways 21, water works 1, wiro works 1, woollen and cotton mills 2, wooil working establishments 30, miscol lonoous 20. LOUISIANA. Cotton mills 1, compresses 4, distille ries 3, engine works 2, Hour and grist mills I, foundries und machine shops 2, furnaces 1, ico factories 2, minos and quarries (>, natural gas and petroloum 2? oil mills 3, rice mills 5, railroads 4, sugar mills I, street railways 1, wood working, establishments 10, miscol'Aucous 8. TEXAS. Cotton and woollen mills 10, oar whool works 1, compresses 1, car shops. 1, elec tric light works 14. engine works 1, loundries and machine shops 12, Hour mills IS, gas works 3, grist mills 1, ico factories 7, locomotivo works 1. mines and quarries 20, natural gas and oil companies 4, oil mills 5, railroads 15, street railways 6, smelters 2, wator works 11, wire works 1, wood working estab lishments 15, miscellaneous 28. WEST VIRGINIA, Brick works 1, car shops 1, cotton nm! woollen mills 1, distilleries 1, foundries and machino shops 3, Hom mills 2, mines and quarries 13, natural oil and gas companies 3, oil mill? 1, potteries 1, pipe workB 1, railroads 7, street rail road.-. 1, water works 2, wood working establishments 10, misoellaneous 6. ritilUt* it oil Orfciui*. All of the best makes. $25 oasli and balanco November 1, at spot cash prices on a Piano. $10 oash and balance No ; vern ber 1, at spot oash prices on an Organ. Delivered, freight free, at your nearest depot. Fifteen days test trial and freight both ways if not satisfactory, ' Write for circulars. N. W. ?RUMP, ? Columbia, 8. C.