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ESAB3k1LISHED 1I==== NEWVBERRY9, S.C., TUESDAY., DEC EMBER 7 87 IEAWE,$.0AYA We have too many G year, though with cottor to this time, has far s.ur for which we feelo very public, and on THURSDAY, Dec We Will i CUT PRI This will not be a ca people to come to our st Shoes! Shoes!! Lilly Brackett's Fine Shoes, for Gentlemen, out from - - - - $5.00 to $3.68 W. L. Douglas $3.00 Shoes at - - $2.38 Men's Lace and Congress Gaiters, from - -------- $1.65 to $1.25 Men's Lace and Congress Gaiters, from - -8-------- - 1.15 to .90 Men's Best High Brogans, from - $1.65 to $1.35 Men's 3rogans worth--- - - $1.25 at .75 Men's High Brogans worth - - $1.15 at .90 Ziegler Bros.' Fine 9hoos for Ladies cut from $-------- -3.50 to $2.38 Ladies' Kid Button Shoes worth - $1.65 at $1.35 " " "t -$1.15 at .90 . W of Women's Lace and Button $1.15 to $1.25 at - .78c TlE PRESIDEtra ON FURNISF A LUNGTIY 1)OoUMENT TOrints Ginghamc ALI, uRCAT QUESTIONS OF19 --- d Cassimeres C lie is Not a FrielnId to Cuba-Thihl ourreicy Question First in limpo ance ieroro This Congrets. Washington, Dec. 0.-At no6 . day the first regular session post you f rom 5 55th congress was launche AnvwhE the unknown seas of legi Simultaneously at .hot I 0) capitol, Speaker Rd , U OFTEN! and Vice-President. - tenate, dropped the' Respectfully, called to order the0 , over which tho%i. G These Prices are Oash on Delivery. No Goods Sent Out on Approbation * ~ FOR GOOD RtOADS. Artice 3. Mce Constllution of the Associati.on Atioptedl. iEen of the Stai The Ofmcora Elected-Col. Jlohn P. who is intoreste Trhomaos Madeo irt.sideont. provomoint of 1l1 * ~ [The State,' 3d.] nmay become a Last evening the executive comn- civioy presiden o mittee of the Good Roads Association vc )eieto of South Carolina, appointed at the Article 4. 001 recent convention, metl iin this city the association si for the purpose of electing oflicers vice president, under the resolution adopted at the president from convention and for the purpose of ad- secretary andl tr opting a constitution and by-laws. Article 5. G There was a good attendance of the 1: The managon members. the association s Thue following ofXcers of the asso- general board,< ciation we hse:. core. *They slht Prosi .W Col. Jno. 1Thna the conduct of Richl , asseis&tion as th< tVice Prosident--W. S. Kcing, Any vacancies. Darlington. mnay be filled by Secretary and rTreasurer-C. C. members shall< Wilson, Columbia. Soc. 2. There The following constitution was committee comi adopted: dent, first vice Arti'eo 1. Name--The name of secretary and I this organization shall be the South control the afTa Carolina Good Roads Associatoni. when the gen Article 2.0Objects-Tho objects of semn the organization are to awaken a Sec. 3: Trho I general interest in road improvement an[nual meoeting. throughout the State, suggest moth.. ing comiittees 0(1s of building and maintaining members; on Ih them, secure the logislation. State bors. The coim and national, that may be necessary suelh duties tisin for their establishmient or sup)port, by3 thit e'xoeut ivt and to conduct or foster such publi- Article 7. Am, e ations as may serve these purposes. stitution mayI oods for this season of the i at Sc., our fall trade, up :assed our expectations; grateful to a generous embe 2nd1897, iaugurate a CE SALE 1 tch-penny ad. to induce ore, but a bona. fide sale! Clothing! Clothing!! We have cut the prico of our rioir, lime of Cloth ing. except Black Worsteds. Men's $3.25 Suits cut to- ------ $2.25 Men's Six Dollar Suit-- cut to .- - - $4.50 Men's Eight Dollar and a Half Suits cut to $0.75 Men's Eleven Dollar and a Half Suits cut to $8.75 Men's $14.50 Suits cut to - ----..-$1 1.75 Men's $16.50 SI,s c to - ---- 13.50 -0 Overcoats, Boys' and Children's Suits cut in proportion! IING GOODS, .HATS, ETC ! , Outings, Bleach and Brown Home t Actual Wholesale cost ! AN 20 CENTS to 10 cents per yard more wre Else! WE WILL SAVE YOU MONEY! JIAM ILSON, The Leader of Low Prices. mbership-Any cit-reua cinoftesoitonb .o of South',Carolinaavoeoamjriy ftemmbr in tho general im.* rset oe roads of the Stateo tsetulysbitd member of thne asso- M .DNLSN application to '.ioe,CamnCm ite his cou'uty. Tels fscn iepeiet ers---The oflicers offo romicuie poiddorn all be a presidemt ath coitttonwl end u.an and one second viceo ie h )'5 ody regrular-- meeioningoI toasoitinb aouoedo h o volo oFeymjrt f h br .11 ix uchruls res ent. ' Respecteelyisubmiper. ChimanheCoemral.toor thTrh~mt ie Clist oFevernt thecosttutonwil t mdeupan given thetpress to-day rmurer vm lnil Ntig n te~ol smr lent of the affocaion hof t hnamn ofadr ball boar ves t n IJmctytheioierasdtopwr -omposodsofmthemofg. ,1 ix'sd'l shal t tles for(11111 osa h 10yuth aint the foerllboard sontituo fav quom, ~itit, .dho red vt h amiosed ini of 1w.h o ni esi - --B wr pr odn aLlcnd the (m- a' leou she;i reasmturer, twho shall al aml ichu; u irsdof the ---i a ss o ift oo lv,Ihyc. ( s t t e mnddatamyICh ndtill aCttn. KERtSIHAW AT FREDERICKSHURtG. A Chapter From tm Upuiuheflad History by Copt. 1). A. Dickert. Lee had also largely recruited his army, since his first engagements, by the Conscript Act and tho return of the wounded from the battlos in Vir ginia and Maryland, and it would not be too much to say that the Con federate army was in every way equally as well equipped, as well or ganized and in as good fighting trim as ever before or afterwards. By the Conscript Act, enlisting all botween eighteen and thirty-fivo years of age, the army might well be said to con tain the "flower and chivalry of the South." Lee's army was far from being veterans, in regard to the term of service and advantages of discip line, but what was wanting in those particulars were more than balanced by their lofty spirits, indomitable will coupled with patriotism, pride and devotion to their country as well as the prestige of successive victories. On the morning of Do comber the 1 Ith, 1802, Leo stood confronting Burnside in the vicinity of Fredericksburg, each occupying the heights, soparated by the memor able Rappahannock. -* * * On the morning of the 1 Ith, soine time before day-light, the onemy opened upon the deserted city, a most terrific fire, from his batteries of siege guns, on Stafford Heights, numbering ioar one hundred and fifty pieces, preparatory to throwing over his pontoon bridges. Barksdale's Mississippi Brigade was doing picket duty in the city and had a heavy line of skirmishers at the water's edge, with no protec tion but shallow riflo pits, the collars and walls of the buildings. Tho signal gun rang out on the stillness of the night and the sloepin)g troops, "like a lire bell at night," that was to arouse and put in motion 200,000 men. Druns beat tho long roll, couriers flow hither and thither, troops marshaled, marching and counter- marching, taking up position along the ridges that ranged around the city in a knd of semi-circle, and over looking the plain that extended to the river. All was movement and bustle, but no confusion, for the troops were given to understand there was to be no advance -nor no retreat, that on their strong arms and invincible spirits alone, rested the fate of the Confederacy, that they alone stood between the euemy and the gates of the Capitol. During tle morning the most de structive and continuous fire ever witnessed was poured into the city, tile houses being perfectly riddled with shot and shell. The whlole3 of tile batteries beyond the river were concentrated upon the p)icket line on the water front, and tile doomed city in tihe rear. Thle shot anmd sh1011 played in the air- like a me1 3ric shower, shlrieking, curving and plunging ~through space, or tile houses belowv. to burst or richochot to the heighlts ab,ove. .By daylight Longstreet, who comn manded the left wing of the arruy, was fairly in position: Kershaw's Brigade on the right of tihe public roadl, loading into tihe city, wvith the Third South Carolmna Regiment on the left, resting on the road, with - Ransom's Brigade of North Carolin ians, on thle extreme wing, resting on the river. Cobb's Georgians were posted behind the ever memorable stone fence. rulnnxing paraillel to the p)ublic road, and in a semi-circle, be whichl the Mississippians hotld theO river at thIeir point, forced tiheronmy to lay3 their bridges lower dlowni, at D)oop Run. * ** T1he forces conmnanlded by Long stroot were the divisions of Ilanisomr, Mc Laws, Hood, P iekett uand Ander son, while the r-ighrt was held by ,Jackson, with theo dlivisions of t ho two Hills, A. P. anid D). H1., Ewol anid .Jackson, while thle cavalry was comn miianded by Stuart, tihe whole esti - malited at 51I,000) infantry and 5,000 cavalry,. Northern huis'or.ans give tile niumbe)r ulnd(er JBurns'ido at I130, 000. L onlgstree(t.'s forces Ox ten(ld from the river above the city to near Deep Run, while those of Jackson extendad from near the ri git atl Longstreet and in the direction c Hamilton's crossing on the railrom leading to Rtichnond. Stuart tguiate the flank of Jackson, with the gal lat young Polhaim its his chief u artillery, and no timo during the hot ly contested dity, was it that th thunder of his mountain howitzer -ould not be heard abovo the roar o the hundrods of siego guns, tha ined the banks of the river. The incline of the opposite hill was one fluild of blue. Infantry 'avalry and artillery moved in fron f the bridges, while ouo continua stream of soldiers, of all arm,;, lon trains of artillery, wagons, ambu lncos, moved 'Heross tho bridgeF iko somo "mionster serpont diraggini ts weary length along." The Sol liers marched with steady, am neasured step, their banner wavini n the breezes, bayonets glitterin; >ver head, their bright sabros lash ng the sides of their steeds, whil -hoi wholo surrounding country wa: -esoniant with martial music fruit >ands of both friend and foo. Al lay long did this grand array keel noving amid the booming of cannon he waving of flags, and deafoninq 1houts of the many thousaiud Sol liers. The Union bands would pla, Iirs suited to the sentiments of th gorth, then those of -tho Sout] vould striko up their own Southor tirs, to be almost deafened at it jose, by the yells and shouts of th, fnthusiastic soldiers. When late ii ,he day a Federal band struck ul "Dixie," the scene becamo itdescrib ible. Hats were thrown in the ait mten grappled with oach other ii their merry enthusiasm, hand Alapped, bantmrs dipped aii sway0 -o and fro, then the yell-McLaw itarted it. then down the river t< Jackson's men, to swell and recedo !gain it would he talkeni 11p a, reverberate along the river front an beights boyotd, then to die away il the direction of Hamilton's Crossinl. How like 'ho crossing of th Hellespontby Xerxes, with his Per iians to conquer the Greeks, mus this crossing of the Rappahiannov ippear to Burnsido and his army when they viewud the tiriumphi ,rossing, itnd the dostruction a[< lisaster that followed. What a con .rast of today with that of tomorrow kn army, the flower and prido of iation, crossing over the river, drun' with their feelings of superiority, to morrow, beaten, crestfallont, thei irmies swept from the field, thei jannors trailing in the dust., whil 30,000 of their numbers left dead wour.ded or missing, all to commirem >rate the hteroisma of the Sout heri ~roops, and a ghastly witness to thei >wn valor. Everything had mor ;he look and appearance of a gal lay on the 11tht and 12tht than th ye of the most bloody and sanguin iry battle of modlern times. On the mornmng of the 1th, a he ruddy couriers of the coming da; hot fotth from over the Easteri ikies, the blast or bugle and the rol >f drum, put these too might; irm ies in mtrotion. Hero happene)Qt >nlo of those peculiar incidlents tha it times occurs in a soldier's life. D< ye call it sup)erstition), prosontimon >r a token from the Spirit Lanid is my company was forming in line, iot iced my Cap)tain, a light- hearted lovial spirit, brave and reckless to 'ault, absent himnsolf antd repair ti tome shrubbery, whero 1 came upo): tim, kneeling in prayer. Th~lis wits nost u nusual circutmstance, espoeial y for one of his dispositionk an< -mporamont. I, sold ier like, jokot mtd twitted him with a lack of hi rormerV ardor and ap iis. R {isinrg hi sid, "'You mtay Ilaught andi j'.st a yot wvill. You tmay call it cowaird ier I)tt I will shiow I 111m noC (owair But today is my last. Somothbin; wit hin tolls met I will be killed in t( lay's btattlI.'' Before the sun, wkni far betyond( the muerid in heo was nit bored withI the dead--a bulk Ithrough hiis brain . Wa1s thtis fata lit' was it a coincident, was it superst, tion, or was it some1 secret mtlttt ftotn the Si ri t land, thItat had whh i poeredi to him i in the silent wattch< of the night, the truth or his comint fato Y I Conch i ale r ti n x t t,entl I CsmeirnI iutler's I'lhti to V'i tho Pric of Cotton tot Fair atI I,eglliat- FigtreN. f To the Editor of Tho Stato: Beieving ats I do thut the coluntis of your valuablo paper are open to the discussion of any kind aid all f subjects of which is to relieve the farmers of our southlan(1d of the great finaicial strain under which they are s now passing, I Sold you 1 privato lotter from the Hon. IM. C. 13utier inl WhiCh ho 0Xpreses his views it Mome11 longth. I Would be glad if you would )lbliHII this letter as I amn 1110 it would b appreciated by many-of your suibscribers. W. T. BRADL :. Troy, S. C., Decomber 2. Kollogg Building, Washington, D. C., Nov. 26. My Dour Sir: I am in receipt of yours of the 23rd instant. It is very much to ho rogretted that at larger nuiuber of m11en1 throughout the soith (10 ntot pursuo sueli i collrSo 11 yul 110 aldopting anild contribute, if in vovr so small at degree, to th emnan cipiation of cotton raisers, froim the stato of thraldcn inl which they voluntary paico thIiemiselves. Ill veighing 11iist. "Wli stre. specu lators" ad reviling every Imanl who haindles cot ton after it. passes out of the hands of the prodiucer, will not Inend Iliatters. 'I'lloso who are the loudest il their donlixilcilitions of Speculators would Spvcu1 llato them.li solves if they had th opportnily. Tho otly wiay to boat, the specili tors, deilors in ftitilleK is to 1111ko oursilves absolitely indpt'ident of t heIII. 'his Clin 0111Y bM donie by be Coming self-fistaining oi lie form. Debt, is o formi of slavery, andI( ]iw 1111ian Can1 corntrol whatt, le virlis or produces so long as aniot her h;s ai claimli Oil it, but. let this slave of debt oico get, a sipply of food for him. self aind family, we thereby balik" the first link of hii cliin ain id vimin cipation is inl sight. Now I know how difficlilt. it is to got. monl engitged ill Ln farming to co operate about. riny. thing, Ilel accustoied to living to themsolves, thinking rind Icting for theiselves, ac(Iiro it liabit of inde. pendenco and self-relianwo not found in anlly Other calling", Ib-sides the live far illapart, its i rule, and it is ahvays difficult, to get, tlheIm to turn out and iieet for (ons1ultltioll. They Imiay for a while, but interest soonl fag r and finally not.hing short. of a tire, fainine or epidemic can get theml) to gether. We nil admit the truth of this; we all deploro it. WVe nil ser the necessity for unity and1 conicert of action, andi yet is it not one. r Th'le original ob ject and( lImrp)ose of the Alliance was to brin g uabout this very concert of actioi, but the politicians got hold of it andi mado( it the laddoer by wlihi they couIld climbil into ofl'ice. Mr. John TI. Itoddey, formerly of Itock llill, S. 0., no0w in the cotton oxchange of Now York, proposes5O to offect an organ izaitioni of cotter raisers, anid inrsists lie is goinrg to do it whet her we hlp hinm or not. I do0 not kriowv what hiis 1)1an is, but I do know lie cani have miy aissistarnce oin whatever line lie mayf adopt. Evr rust, in thle Uniiited Staites', the sugar trust, thle tob)acco t rust, the beef trust, each and every one of theii have the best 1busi ness tlen'rt in t ho world empi~loyed1 ini thleir or Wha w watrt is ainoraiton calli it whtyou wil, "tIrust,"' "Pant ers uiiioni," or what riot, of thle best busi51ness t alenit we c:ai get to( hanlle this cotton gnotstionr. Th'liy cant or gizo '. s)oetinrg that,t we can any Sport~ nn d playi~ onie class of bus81iness~ uierns agin rst the other''s. Th'le first step is to try anid limiit the acreage arnd production. Next. is to get con trol of a million and1( ai hllf 0or tw( imill ion bal's (of cot toin anrd ('ornse itemi withbout payinrg for tihenm. Th1is would riot be a t rust in thle legal aic -celptationi of the termi, it woutldl not lie ini rostrstrint of trado or commen(rce fand, thorefore, not obnoxious t.o th< rule which dernanneies whiatever' doe: g roest.rainr t rode or cormipetition. Suppose, for inrstanice, every mat who mntos four hnles or nliwnrd uagroes to witihold from market ovemy fouirth bale, and place it in the liids of a body of shrowd, faith f ul businv-ss men backed by sufficieit Ca))ital to 1)0 I1'd until romu"rativO pi ievs could be reihlizmed. This would secure two or throo million bales. Low could the bours deliver if they SoMd short? The visablo supply w0ul(l be inl our haindi and Mr. Bear would havo to pay for his cotton or go to the wiil. Ht would go to the wall and stop hammoritg down the nurk(it. Tho bears atre tho fol. lows that, 101)r08 (1ho Imlark(t when a full crop is made. They can stIll short fifty or a hundred bales and by having an und1ol1 stindiing with tho spiniiers, who want. to buy spot cot toil cival), keep the market down; Ole protdieer is the victim. But, if the producer, through an organization of his own creation, can hold hack tio visablo H11ppl, , tho Siner nIIId spocitlator must pay for ib I blievo such an organlization can ho ellected, IIIId wo may as well let. the world know we havo sence eiough and phick (noigh to do for cottoti what hIs been lono for al most. overy other commodity, I know that I have iot that kind of businese e'xperienleo Which elible me to mako such ani orgaiizatiotn, but I hiol)o Mr. toddey has, anld that lie will be ablo to associate with 11111 ot.hir business Now. there is Ito great. mystery or legerderm ai II aboit this so called "bmsiess." It requires 01110 train illg an11d expe.1rieiice, btf at last, liko every other calling, it also ro(tiure a1s its foundtationl principlo, good Conn111011 sense, honesty 111(1 fidelity, gomd (Xeciutivo ability, to know how to miangi imin a tako caro of i1101141 is whait. is wited. Tho first thinig wo wvill aill have to learn is to srrider somiethiig of our OWIL 0pi ion and11 pre( ' 'concei vedi judgmients and ext ract wisloiml fronm i m11utitido Of comisvIs and vxperivincem. Wo will liave to trst soImlebodly if wo0 (ixlpict to wini. All tho best of us (11 (1 iS to exerciso (o caution ouid Jiudgmien1t, inl selectiig mou. agents and thenl give tIeil frailhful nild cordilal sIpport. One tiltig is vory certain: wo ent't Ie ntc worsted what.over maliy 11mpplin, m11141nmy bo inmeonm,ly honoefit'ed. I Ipo something practical will b ievolved at thle Atlitita oveition onl tim sl, ovn1d T'I'lesdIy in DeceIbher, ail that wo ma1y beu bomtl ill a position to hav somillthiig to Sit about whiat price our cOtIon sliall brig. As it is, we~ hatveili noiore voice in that maiit t er fIian il) n I inhaitati of t he Congo F"ree St ate. I t rust you willI contino to inter est you rsel f in th1is all iminport ant oquestIin, atndt let u1s see by knmockinug ou r heads01 togetheroi if we cani' t openi the ootr Ito a miore satisfactory con dlilioni for fthose oif 11s who are en gageod in the cult ivaitiont of cotton. We~ certainly w~ill niot do so by sit - t inrg (downl sweain g at W- illI st.reet, sp(cullators atndt gaiblors in c'ottont ftfu ros. Ve'ry tru11ly you rs-, A pimfl-iM,itM. joyedl -- hhovee. ItECoilleet itin is thei ontly palradli- (I fromt wvhiich we cann rot hoe turnedl oiut. --Hltiter. TIhie less we0 parad our11011 isifor - ftunes I h.o inore sympi1ath 11'we comj maind. - --O0. Decwey. It. is miorn diIllicult anid (enl1s for htigh eri(energi (s oif ou11 fo li vte a r - lyr Itan to dIi( one0. --Horace Mann,. GIood mannt ters lire a part of good mtoratls, and' it is ats mutch our dutty ats our intere'. st to pract ice both. Hunilte(r. Hitha interi. (of aniy k indl cannot lontg lie conlceatled; it will be dis cooi-red( and1( nothini g cant deplreciatoe it but ai man11 txhibitmg if. himself. If. maiy rot. alwaysi hel reawardled as it onught, bunt it wvil a iiwaysblioknrownt. --Che-terfiehtl. hook back at. it long. Tatke thle roat SOin "f thme thIinrg inito your1 miindl and1 then'i look forward. Mistakes are le:ssons of wisdomi. The patst cannot bie chtanged. 'Tihei itre is yet inl