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The Horse Shoe at Spottsylvania. M \<JN I1 h i ;\ r lien ri\< OK f.US. MuUOWiN'8 IS UK* I UK. Caraphlo Sim) of the Valor mid 'I, i.ii .hi Of ?.?null < .ir.-Inn.mi-, ul tlit; r. I in ul.\ Anglo -Seventeen li. Under Coiiattttit Fire. Tho followin : narrative of tie >p'< u dld ii?: iii in;; of McGowun's hrigudu tit tho "Horsi Shoo" iu the battle ol SpoMsylvnnia on the J?*11 of .May, 18H4, Is from tho pen of Col. I. K. hunt, of Greenville, and 1? copied from tho Charleston Sunday News : Gkkknvim.i:, S. C, Duo. in, I8!H. Col. J. N. Brown, Anderson, S. C ? Dour Colonel-: I hardly know how to reply to your favor of reoulit dale; thirty yearn in a lout/ While to rcmein bor occurrences accurately, Tho few army papers that I Slivrd from tbo surrender at Appomu't.>x I loaned to Lieut. ,1. R J. UauLvcll, und they wore misplaced, therefore 1 will have to rely eiuneiy on memory. HOVVOVOr, the inOot important oVcntb of the bTittte to which you aliud iu'O bo indelibly Impressed up. u my uilnJ that I can give them so that you or anyone who was in tho battle will ro cogni/.o them as fuels, not luncy. This battle is not the Ural instauce where the frills of nur lighting lluVe been lukeu to decurufc other t'oui? mauds, but bard facts und truth tvld uoeord to us all the or edit wo iu'c entitled to-v-duty well p rformed. As you kno . the tuigude, with Gen. Mi,?uwun In command, was taken f< >v the I Idee near Sn ?ttsy Iv mi v Cnuil I toubf ubout {.urn ibu on the mv i l. ci lue 1-ui of May, moved about two miles to the loft, placed In lino of buttle und ordered to charge. After charging about u fourth of u mile tho brigade halted, Gen. McCowun being WOUUfdod. At thut time the position of the 13th regiment was in un open fluid, und about lifty yards in roar of a lino ol works occupied by Conlederute troops, u position whore wo could do no good, while subjected to u terrilio lire from the enemy, somewhere on our right. I saw Gen. Cordon passing, und obtained permission to move the regiment to Hie right, flo ordered mo to tuke it to the point whore lighting was the b?rdest. In moving to the right uud in rear of tho brigade I fuiled to see any of my suniors. Upon Inquiry 1 was t??Ui that all hud boon killed or wounded, you included. 1 found the right of the brigade in u lino of works, u snort reserve liuo, which did not extend to the left. The smoke of the buttle, udded to tho heavy atmosphere prevailing that morning, prevented nie from seeing tho position of the enemy. 1 went to the 1st regiment, and with Lieut. Col. Shooter Stood on top of the works, where we ooutd sco above the smoke, -uud located their position, which looked to bo u fort, from which tho enemy wus pouring a deadly lire into tho brlgado. I did not know to whom to apply for orders. It wus evident thut we OOUtd not remain where wo wore. Wo must either retreat or Oharge. We determined upon tho l?tter, und ordered tho oharge, Lieut. Col. Shooter accompanying me until he was killed. The brigade drove tho onomy out of what proved to bo a suiiont instead of a fort und oaptured a few prisoners, who informed us thut they bud that morning surprised and Oftp.tured one of our divisions. In order to explain what the brigade accomplished it is necessary to give u description of the sulient, which is known by those who fought in it as "tho Horse Shoe" or "Bloody Bond." The salient wus situated on tho erest of a hill, und ulniost iu the shape of a horse shoo with the heels widened with traverse protection und artillery. In tho rear Of tho right heel our urtil lory hud crescent shaped works to protect their oaissous?the buse of the salient from heul to heel wus ubout 1?0 yards und about the sumo distunce to the rear, tne reserve line of works, where the brig" le liest hulted, und I kajfimcd command. ? ikiw come to tho important ijuory. Ho charged, recaptured und held for ^Kr on teen hours "Bloody Bond?" Bl do not hesitate to say, und do not HtVl'.''pal'? serious contradiction, thut |B ,s McGowan's brigade, unassisted oven u squad of organized troops Brom any other coiniimt <.,. W After recapturing tho salient and Raking in tho situation, 1 found tho ?left of the brigade connected with, land possibly hipping other troops, tho Fright unprotected, and as fur down the I lino of works us I could see they wore } unoccupied?the enemy holding tho opposite side?found tho guns of our iirtill?ry hud been run back und turned aguinst us. Very soon tho enemy begun to cross the works on our right and threaten our rear. I detached a force, und pluced them in the crescent caisson works, und checked their movement to our rear In thut posi tion we fought without any material change. l-.very man present realized tho situtiou was desperate ami help badly needed. Consulting with ofllccrs in reference to sending for reinforce ments, svo decided thut we could hold OUr position for a while, thut Gen. Loo wus near the battle, knew, our situation, und us long as he could hear our guns would know we still held tho position, and send relief if possible. The rapid IIring began to toll on our ammunition, which would peon bo exhausted. I hesitated to make a doiiiil, its it Was uimost certain deuth to attempt to leuvo tho salient, and callei'. for volunteers. Privates Wiu. Kol Icy and Chance Kvuns, of the 1st regiment, promptly responded und nobly performed their porilous duty, bringing ammunition fiom tho rear in boxes and tentllics to supply us during tho entire ongagoment. Wo cannot Slvo thorn too much pralso for their urlng bravory. N jur 1 p. m. the onomy, about ton puces to tho right, ruisod the white Hag. I ordered liring to cease, and met a geuoral who peromntorlly de manded a surro'dor. I replied : "Wo tu o hero for a vor/ different purpose." He tbon demanded to confur with tho commanding officer, I told him I was in commune, uud culled his nttontion to t'.io movement of his troops. After some discussion us to our relative force he insisted that it was folly for ua to hold out longor. I ordered him back to his Uno? as his troops con iim.i d to mass on his front lino, which was not more than thirty foot from our. Works. Tho situation was a novel ouo to ino *, Irom excitement or some other euu40, wo oxchangod vory few elvilitles. During tho ' ahort eon fort nco the enemy in front of our con tro und loft was so conlidcnt wo would surrender thut they told mir mon wo nan nurrendered. When flriug was roMimcl tho front line of tho enemy wus nut ovor twenty foot from our work*, wlih other lines mat nod on It. The tiring then was tornllo, tho right hurd pressed and losjog heavily. 1 went down into tho left traverses to movo men up to tako the place of the killed and wounded on the right; when 1 reached tho 14th regiment, which was on tho extreme /i^ft. to my surprise and gratification, I found you Safe and in command of your regiment. 1 wus much relieved to be able to turn the command ovor to a aenlor, especially to one I bad the utmost con fidence in. and rospeet for. I ex plained how I came to assume com mand. With your uaual modesty you took command, with a demand that I should assist >you. During thu re mainder of the fight I noted under your orders. You know their pur port. I did not see a general or a stall" olilcor after wo recaptured the salient. When ordered by you to Und Gon. Harris or some general who could give us reliof in somo way, I had great difficulty to obey your order. The uight was intensely dark. Finally I fuund Bratton's Brigado in our rear, told Gon. Bratton our situation and uskod for help. Holiko the commands on our loft had orders to hold his posi tion. I had no trouble In finding tho brigade on my return. Tho heavy tiring concentrated on ono point in dicated our position. 1 roported to you my fuiluro to got assistance, also thut 1 bad tailed to find Gen. Harris. You loft mo in command and went in person to procure rollof; whon you returned you informod mo you bud orders to movo out at daybreak. When 1 found Bratton's Brigade in line of buttle in our rear I wus satisl'md that we wore lighting for time, in onler to udjust now Hues in our rear. I cannot close without commenting on several things that occurrod during tho light und somewhat on the reports of the battlo. It is strungu that your report should bo missing from tho records, especial ly as you were in command of a brigado tbut did some lighting in thut buttle ?I mudo only u verbal report to you. Probably it is not so strango, when wo considor thut wo wore taken from our division and corps, loft to do our own lightiiitf, in our own wuy; thut very little montion is made of us in gouurul reports. (Jon. Ewell'a report says: "Gon. ItamsGU*.' rotook tho works on Duvis's right," and further ho says, " spito of the terrible Hank lire to which thoy were yet exposed, tho bravo troops of these brigades, liamsour's, Harris's und McGowaus's, held their ground." No doubt Gen. Ewell named tho brigades us they were in position, Humsctir, Harris aud MeGowun. There wore no connecting troops on our right, and there is where too terrible liana lire Gon. Swell speaks of cumo from across the sulient defended by MeGotVun's brigade. The reports spouk of the buttlo of Spottsylvuulu Court Houso, so they do of tho buttlo of Fredricksburg. Tho urmy wus there, but ull of us did not defeud Maryo's Heights; Ker Bbaw'o brigudo did. At Chancellors ville ull of .Juckson a corps wus in tho buttle, but ull were not in tho charge that captured tho redans iu front of the Chuncellorsvillo House. Tho 13th und I Ii Ii. with three companies of tho 1st regiment, under Cupt. Win. Has kcll, mude the chai go und cupture. At Gettysburg ull of Leo's army wus there, hut ull wero not in the cliarge thut cupturcd the town ; McGownn's brigudo was. So with the battle of Spottsy Ivania Court House. The army wus there, but ull did not charge, retuke und hold the salient known us Bloody Bond : McGowun's brigado did. Had either of the brigades men tioned, or any other Confederate brigade, beeu pluced in our position thoy would have done just us wo did? light. When I took churgo of tho brigudo i did not know who 1 wus lighting under or with, ull I know wus thut the enemy wus in our front und we wore expected to light and whip them if we could, in fuct what, occurred in my front und with my commund is uil 1 ever know about any battle. Ac cident pluced mo in commund?uooi dent guvo the brigudo the position in frontet the sulient, und it sustuined its reputation'by charging, re-tuking and holding it for sevoutoen hours. No one can describe what we endured during thut struggle. Tho trunk of thut ouk tree now on exhibition in Washington tolls hotter thuu words tho heioic enduruuee of the Con federate soldier und gives a fuint idou of the storm of mlnnie bulls hurled at. us. When wo took tho works the bark on It wus intact, it stood near the right centre of the sulient. A little to the left und in front of it stood n hickory tree about e:ght inches in diamoter, of which 1 have never scon uny mention. Tho hickory was thot down before night and fell aoross the works, its body und branches wero chipped into splinters by minnie bulls. No oi.o could imagine tbut thut mass of splinters wus u growing trco only u few hours before. All of our men did their duty. No one deserves speciul mention [or bruvery. I suw some very reckless uets done by Individuals, for instance, Private W. W. Davenport of the 13th and a boy of tho 12th whose nume I cunnot recall, mounted um II,unit inn boxes, not over ten foot from tho hickory, und fired over tho salient while three or four men loaded guns for them until tho minnio bulls almost strippod tho clothing from their per sons. t/urlng the afternoon the ouomy's front Hue would seek protection under cover of our works and ilro by pluclng tho muzzled of their guns below tho top logs of tho works, while their second line would Ilro over their heads; frequently our men would soi/o their muzzles aud direct tholr Uro to the . ear. Sovoral times (luring tho day 1 at tempted to estimate tiio strongtn of tho onomy. Conditions not being favorable my observations wero too briof to bo acouruto. When tho oak fell its branches caught several of our men. I assisted in extricating Private Wm. Barr, of tho 13th. Aftor tho tree fell nnd we did not givo up tho onomy ovidontly became discouraged, as thoir tiro gradually grow weaker until it had almost ceased by daybreak. When you ordered the brigade to move oat the nearest lino of tho enemy I could soe was at tho odgo of tho wood some distanco from tho works. They had abandoned the open ground in front of our centro and right, which the day boforo was a mass of troops. I estimate their loss in our front at two thousand, ours pro portionately largo I .very Confederate who was in hoar l-?g of that battle can testify to the continuous firing, which lasted nearly all night, concentrated on one point. Time and distance uro estimated. We wore too busy ontortaining tho people in our front to note tho time or measure the distance accurately. One of the prisoners told mo he thought it was Gen. Barlow who demanded a sur render. Tho o ik troo chipped down by rninnio balls is a unite witness to the splendid fortltr.de and endurance of' tho Con fedorate soldier as exemplified by Me* Cowan's brigade, who charged, recap tured and held Bloody Bond at the battle of Spottaylvania Court Honae on tho day and night of the 12th of May, 18(14. Very ti uly, your old comrade, ^ \ ^ I. f. Hunt. I ?Ollloial statistics deoinre that Brazil raises noarly 500,0000 tons of cofloe a year. ABE WE A NATION OF LIARS ? UILfi AR1* is WOIMUKI) OVER THK >i.\ rnOH Tin- Southern Confederacy, Sandwich I .lamis and Cuba uro Unsettled 8uestlons?Silver Coinage uud the loyole Craze. It takes a long time for big things to settle down so that wo may get the truth and the facts. I was ruminating about this in ccphoction with the great battle of Mantissas that was fought thirty-four years ago lust Sunday. This is ono timo thut the duy of the weok and tho day of the month corres pond with tho unniversary of thut but tle. Thirty-four yoars have passed and this generation is just beginning to understand whut the war wus about. Northorn histories have been so par* tial and ono-sided thut the young folks have been surprised und astonished thut our people fought SO hard and so long with so little to light for. Iiut the truth Is gradually dawning upon tho nation. Southern histories have been written and Introduced into Southern schools and, our children are becoming our defenders. I see that Mrs. Susuu Hondloton Lee, tho gifted duughtur of General Fendleton, bus writton n history of the United States, and has without reserve told the story of the lute civil wur, und the United Confcderuto Vetcruus, in their grout meeting at Houston, have us fearlessly indorsed it. In a few years more the South will bo vindicated, hut it takes u long time. Kighty yeurs have passed since Nupolcou figured in Europe and oven now historiuns differ Widely about events und motives concerning him. Marshal Ney wus shot in l8lo or ho died in North Carolina in 1815, nobody knows which. For several yours we have boon wait* leg for the truth about tho Hawaiian isiamis, but it bus not yet been written from a non-partisan standpoint. Con servative people den t know what to boliovo. The missionaries used it) tell us thut the Sandwich Islanders wore cannibuls lifty yettrs ago, but hud ull become Christiuns und hud schools und churches like we have. Later accounts buy thut political schemers and un principled scoundrels from our country have plundered thut unhappy hind and reduced t'ooso natives to beggars und subjection. Ami now we read that an other sot uro arming vessels to drive tho lirst set out under pretense of help ing the nutive. I wonder what uro the fucts in the cuso ? And what about Cuba ? Who knows? Tho prevailing idea is that Spain is a tyrunt und bus got those Cubans by tho throat and they wunt to govern themselves and sot up u republican form of government like ours, lint u knowing man, who bus beon there, told mo thut those Cubans were mostly r.ogrocs of tho most degraded kind and wero not lit to govern themselves and ull this rumpus wus being raised by u fow lilihustering Americans, who want to cupturo the island and divide out tho omees and get rich oil' the sugar plantations thut tho Spaniards uo cul tivating. There was a big1 fuss raised und lots of sympathy extended about an editor whom the Spaniards had oonftned in' Moro castle, but Homer Heed says ho found out the other day that the editor was a coal-black coon who hud boon very scandalous in his paper. And so the question jomes up, "Is Cuba worth helning V David wrote, i t'ui in mine haste ull men are liars," and the old Scotob preacher took that Cor his text and re marked: "Ah, David, David, If yo had lived till now yo might, have said it at your leisure, me mon." Are we u nation of liars V Uond the papers and suy ! Who knows what to believe? While I was in Florida the other day 1 road from The New York Recorder an awful account, about Ta vures being uttucked by rattlesnakes und tlio people hud to turn out with guns und rooks und thrush-poles and they killed over lUO in tho streets one Sunday morning and in two days had killed over u thousand ami the people wero terror-stricken. The article went into many details an .' told about, a woman who put her infant child in a tub while she was washing iu another tub, and a big rattler got his bead over tho edge of tho tub and she had to kill him with u buttling stick. I asked a Tavares man man about it and he was amazed. " Why," said he, " it is a lio ?a lio without any foundation. Some lying reporter inude it up lor a sensa tion.'' And not long after I rcud thut thoro wus yellow fever in Tampa and tho peoplo were Hying from the city. I svns in Tampa thut very day und know it wus u lio. Of course tin pa per took it ull buck the next day and said it wus a mistake, but there is no telling tho damage that such mistakes do. If a reporter who is running around for news gets up a lio for a sen sation he should be turned oll instan ter. And here Is the silver question that has. been the subject of more exagger ation than will ever ba forgiven In the day of judgment--more crimination uud slnnuor und suppression of the, truth. And nothing is yet buttled about it. Who knows what is best V When wo see such statesmen :-.s Mot - gun und Vest and Harris and Danlol and George und Blackburn and ? Yi-p und Black und McLaut'ln and a host of others on one side and as many nota ble men on the ot or side, what right bus u common man to jump up and swear that he knows uli about it nod that those who don't think with him arc fools. Mut I reckon the uext Olco tion-will settle it, ami I wish IfWas over, for the people are getting mighty tired of ti e ? hole buslru *s. And there is another question that conn s up periodically and has recootly come up again. Does education lessen crime? Somo philanthropist*arc get ting concerned about this, and well thoy may, for the statistics of every State in the union establish the fact that education of tho kind tho pupils arc getting increases crime not a lit tle, but Immensely, and yet we go on and on with it and the clamor comes for more and more. Just look over the daily papers and soo how the record of crime is Increasing?not misdemeanors, but the most awful crimen not only away off In Ohio, but right here in G-fcorgla. Mut I forbear. I wrote this all up two yours ago and have the li^r uros from tho approved reports of the poniter?',ary and the prisons and tho jails auj the workhouses from Massa chusetts to Texa*, and they were all aliko, so far as increase was Concerned. Had'nt we hotter stop and think about this and take a lesson from Prussia a* to tho kind ol education that will di mlnlsh crimo? Who shall the good und virtuous girls marry nowadays? Whoro aro tho young men who are worthy of thoin ? There are at loast I forty young marriageable girls in this j town of creed families who would make I good wives, hut where are the young men to whom tho fathers would entrust thorn? Thort aro not ton-uro there flvo ? Viarriago is ut u discount-not becunso these eirls uro f?>t Or extravu gant or rkdo a blc.yclo, iuit becuuso tho young men uro gen<?rul'y no aOOOUOt, or dissipated or can't t )port u wifo. Bomo of them will spree all night long and go to a dunce, tue next night with a rcHpectablo girl. How nnu.y young married women Luve been separated from their hus bands or been divorced or abandoned V About that bloyole oraze, as It is called. I confess that I cannot see anything* wrong or immodest about it when tho drees is modest. It all de ponds upon that. 1 saw two young girls in/Tampa ride up the street and alight at the poatoffleo and get their mull and mount ugain and ride away und nobody thought it anything wrong or immodest. I am sure It never oc curred to mo, and I was obliged, to ad mire them and the grace of their evo lutions. I don't think that married women who are settled, us thoy say, nor very largo 200-pounders, should ride them. There aro maby things thut young girls may do that their mothers should not. As to the dress we are ull the creatures of prejudice, and tho costumo of tho eountry wo live in has much to do with our prejudice In Italy and Switzerland and Andalu sia the grown up maidens all drosd in short skirts that show the ankle and a pretty cross luced hose above it, and it is all right ovor there. I've seen the pictures of these pretty maidens und like their coitume, but it would be shocking over hero. I will mako an other confession. I can soo no good reason?save custom ?why ladies should not rldo a horse like a man if thoy ride at all. it is certainly tho safer wuy. 1 can't seo any good rea son why n woman should not pructico medicine among her own sox. In fact, I think they should have the prefer ence und if some outer prising womun should establish a female medical col lege it would bo liberally patronized. Thu time is near ut hand when tho women will have to run tho machine or it will not bo done. Tho time is past for contining women to the liresldo when there is no support for them there. Paul spuke for his own timo und its eustoms?not for ours? vvhou he suid that long hair wus the glory of woman. It was worn long, hut now it is Jone up and seourod with hairpins. Who over saw u painting of lOvu or of Mary Magdalono or uny Jew ish woman of that day with her hair done up in u wad on tho baek of her head. How could Mury have wiped the Savior's feot with hor hair if it had beOn a switch or was dono up with pins. Paul no doubt wus fuscinated with woman's tresses as 'wo all are. Kven somo of our notablo men admired long hair so much thut they wore their their hair down upon their shoulders. Joseph Henry Lumpkln and L. Q. (J. Laraar woro theirs very long and so docs Dr. Hawthorne and Hoger A. Pryor. und I don't suppose there is any harm in it, even though they were not Nu/.arenes. A grout man can afford to to do it, for it doos give him a '?Jupi ter tonans" appcurunco. "Heshukes his ambrosial locks und gives the nod." As to women tulking iu church, I hope they will not muke u business of it and we could suy tho sumo of some men wo kuow. But if she talks well und mukes the world bettor, lot her talk. She touches our children in tho pubdc schools and Sabbath schools und why not in tho church y The fuet is, if woman wus allowed to bo our luw makur for tine session she would wuko up the na t ion on the whiskey business, wouldn't she ? Thou let her muke progress In every good work. We know very well that It is her nuturul desire to marry und bo a mother, bat if there is no prospect of thut what must she do? (Jo to tho missionary so oloty or visit tho sick, you may say. Thut won't buy breud nor clothing. I heard u preaeher suy, " Would you make ama/.ons of our women ?" There were no Amazons und Amazonia bus been stricken from the modern mups, for neither the country nor tho women could be found, Humboldt says be searched diligently and found un old man over there who said his grandfa ther told him he saw four one timo? four worn *n astride of horses und arm* ed with spears?but he suys from his best Information those wero a fow dusky slave women who escaped from their captors uud lied fur into the in terior und built a fort to protoet them selves, and there, in course of time, thoy ull died. This amu/on story is ull u myth, but if it was not, it does not follow that our men will over got so low i?s to let tho women do the light ing. And uow tuere is a big contro versy ubout tho old woman who killed bei husband. No, I wouldn't hung her. It was un awful crime for u woman to do. but 1 wouldn't hung any wuuitin. But look how many men have killed their wives or sweethearts iu tho last six months. It is getting as common as suicides. What is the muttter with the country and who will protect the girls when we aro gone? Bn.L. A HP. THfi WBATHER AND CHOPS. Cotton and Corn Hull'eriiig from Ilm Drought?Tlio Cro|i Conditions Not so ?OOtl. The following is tho report of the weather bureau for tiio week ending 30th of July. While in tho main tho crop pros pects continue promising, Lhoy have become greatly diversified tnroughout the State, and in a few eouutios uro in a critical stage owing to tho droughty conditions that prevail. During the week just past there wore no severo damaging conditions other than want of iain, except thut in Orangob. "g County, nail thence eastward there \\<. u high wind accompanying the thun derstorm o( tho 2">th (Thursday) thut! blew down corn und shook much unripe fruit from tho trees ; there was another windstorm over tho same section on the 2Hth (Sunday), but in both in stances the injury dono wus compara tively light. The temperature for the entire week was seasonable and satisfactory, being somewhat higher than usuul during the first part, and atritlobolow during the latter part. Tho rungo of tempor ature wus groater than during the week previous, owing inuinly to coolor nights. The maximum over the entire State ranged between 8-1 and OS, the highest temperature, as usuul, oc curred in the interior; tho minima ranged between 58 and 78, having boon coolest at night in tho interior. The highest temperature reported wus 1)8 on tho 24th at Choraw and Mo Collj tho lowest 58 on tho 28th at Bates* burg. The moan temperature of the week for tho State wan about 81, and the normal for tho same period was approximately 81. The controlling factor on crop condi tions wuh rain or tho lack of it. Tlioro wcro showers on tho 24th. 25th and 2iilh, and in u few placea on tho 28th. The rains wore generally light, oxcopt The showors of tho 25th (Thursday), which wore qulto heavy In place i. and vory bonellcial, and oxtondod from west to east over the central countlos from rickons to tho coast. Tho condi tions of tho crops uro directly propor tioned us tho rainfall of tho past week, and the two may beau in marl zed togeth er, as follows: In Chesterfield, Lan caster, York, Spartanburg, Groonvillo, Anderson, Oconee, Kdgefield, Aiken, Abbeville, ana portions of Barnwell, l. vuretis, Union and Kurshaw, tho rain ; fall was entirely insufficient, having 1 been generally loss than 0.50, and In those counties tho drought is becoming a serious menace to hitherto promising crops. This is particularly true of Lan caster and Chesterfield. In Florence, Fair?eld. Colleton, Horry,- Sumter, Darlington and Kicbland, the rainfall was well distributed and varied *rom one to two InoheB. in Beaufort, Uamp ton,Cbarle8ton, Willlarasburg, Orunge burg and portions of Colleton and Berkeley counties tho amount of rain fall was generally over two inches, aud in the two last named divisions the crops were much improved. Marlboro county is "spotted, being too dry in places, w bile sections notrten miles dis tant have too much rain. Eight places roported moro than a normal amount of ra'n during tho week, and twenty eight less. Tho greatest rainfall oc curred at Elloreo with ::...."> inches ; tho least "trace" at Chostorlleld. Tho average amount of thk'ty-six places was ?.U? inch, and the i ormal for tho aamo period is approximately 1.40. The percentage of possible sunshine ranged between 52 und U5, averaging about 72 for the State, which is about tho usual. Tho winds wore generally lightsouth easterly the entiro week, except that on two days they were variable. Cotton does not appear as promising as heretofore, duo to rust having ap poarod in places, and thoro aro many reports of shedding both loaves ana fruitage. It is not fruiting as well, and in places growing too much to wood. It has generally attained a seasonable sizo, but thero uro muny exceptions o er tho ontiro Stute. It needs ruin over tho entire 1'iedmont region. In the custom portions of tho Stato early corn is safe, and fodder pulling will soon begin. Whore droughty onditlons oxist, as shown by tho rain all data givon above, corn is firing badly and its condition bus deterior ated. Bottom land corn continues to look very promising. It is all laid by in tine condition, except some of very late plant in::. Tobaooo curing continues, und wber ovor tliis crop was cultivated it lj said to bo of superior quality. The condition of the rice crop contin ues very sutisfuctory, being reported botlor tbun for many years pust, except in Georgetown county, where it is pos sibly below un average, Sorghum cano is generally a fair crop, hut in plncos it is turning red and apparently dying. It was not stated whether this was dim to faulty cultivation or dry weather?likoly of both. Fruit continues plentiful, but the re ports indicate that it is not up to an avorago in quality : peaches, and moro particularly apples, are smull and gen erally Inferior. Grapes are ripening very fast, and the yield will be largo. The second crop of Ugs yielding well on tho coast: not yot ripe in the inte rior. Cousidorublo plowing being done for winter vegetables. Turnip sowing con tinues. Gardeh8 in the interior about burnt out. but are doing well along the coast. THE MAKERS OF ORGANIO LAW. LIST OF DELEGATES TO THE CON HilTUTION VIj CONVENTION. The Result of the Primaries in the Several Counties?A Heiter Conger* vatlve Representative Than Was Ex pected. Columbia Special to News and Courier. ? The lightness of the vote und the ap parent indifference to the result of the election huvo conspired to deluy the returns from the primary for delegates to tho constitutional convention In a great many counties the complete re turns have been tubulated und uro available, and in some the returns go far enough to Indicate what was the result will bo. It will be of grout Interest to know who will make up this all Important convention, und u roster us fur us can bo anticipated is mudo up of the avail able reports. In most instances the nominees of the primary are given us the most likely to si; in the convention, lu Sumter und Georgetown the conven tion nominees, who are, no doubt, cer tain of election, uro put down us pros pective dolegutes to tho convention. Of course there is no anticipating op position tickets in the generaleleotlon. The roster, us made up at this time from tlie most available sources, is us follows : Aboeville?Win C McGowan, L II McCalla, J C Klugh, It it Homphill, Prank B Gary, It F McCaslan, Aikcn?.lohn Gary Kvuns, I? I'Wood wurd, 11 L Gunter, D S Henderson. Anderson?J P Glenn, L D Harris, J J5 Breatseale, D II Russell, G K Prince' und J M Sullivan. Bamwell?Robert vldrioh, (! 1) Bel linger, C M Hiers, W C Smith, A II Fattersou, The sixth place is between Q II Bates, Conservative. aodSG May Hold. Beaufort?-No ticket yet named, Berkeley?J B Morrison, .1 It Wig gins, E J Dennis, Wm Henderson, a h Do-hay, II II Murray, W M Breeland, H C MoMakin. Charleston?Theo Q Darker, .1 1* K Bryan, J N Nathans, A S Farrow, Ju lian Miteholl, Sr, Geo F Von KoluiU, Jr, W M Fltoh, J L Oliver and W St J Jorvoy. Chester ?Geo W Gage and T J Cun ningham, Reformers, J Lylos Glenn and H < > Atkinson. Chesterfield?W P Pollock, E N Red team. F P Taylor, Clarendon?Jas M Sprott, Jos S Can toy. D J Dradhum and J \V Kennedy. Colleton?M P Howell, C W Garri-, W J Flsbburue or i> H Bohre, M it i Cooper and L E Parier. Darlington?II C Hum. .1 N ParrOtt, J O A Moore and A J Perritt. I Edgeiiold- B R Tillman, W J Tal? I bort, Geo D Tillman, W II Timmer I mun, J C Shoppard and It B Watson, probably. Fairfleld- It A Mears, W L R-wbor OUGrb, C W Ragsdulc and T W BficO. Florence?B B McWolte, R M Mo Cown, W F Harleston, W F Clayton and Z T Kershaw. Georgetown- J Harleston Bead, E F Matthews and Itobert S Anderson, col ored. Greenville?Eidformers, J W Gruy, .1 I Thomas Austin. Hugh Hurton und Hugh it Huist; Conservatives, H J Hayns worth and Capt G G W?lls. Hampton?W .1 Gooding and A .1 Harrison, Il'jformors; C .1 0 Hut.son, Conservative. Horry?J P Derhum and .) A MoDor tnott, Reformer?; Jeremiah Smith, i Conservative. Kershaw-C L Winklor, .1 W Floyd and .1 T Hay. Lancaster ?Ira H Jones, J N Bj? t' idgo, J W. Hamol. l/Mirons?Sonutor Irhy and Messrs. A J Smith, J H Wharton, R L llonry. Lexlngton?Q M E?rd, J I. Shuler, Rev K S I,ybrand. Marion?W .1 Montgomery, E H Iler ry, J E Ellerbe, J U Montgomery. Marl bor.) ? W D Evuns. T E Dudley, Ii H Hodges. Newberry?T I Hogoro, .1 A Sligh, Jos Ij Keltt, Ceo S Mower, Goorgo Johnstonc. ?conoo?W J Strlbiing, J C Alexan der, O M Doyle. Orangobnru?J Win Stokes, I W Bowman, O R Lowman, L S Connor, E H Housor, A K Smoak, Reformers. PickenB?W T Field Bowen, Ueform er ; R F Smith, Conservative. Hlohland ? Conservatives, Joha V Sloan, M C Patton, J J McMabao; Re formers, Willio Jones, John B Dent. Spartanburg?All Reformer*, Stun varno Wilson, C A Barry, W T Bobo, W O HowlanU, A S Waters, T K John son a.ni W K Carver. Sumtor?Compromiso tiuket, gen erally approved technically out of the primary : Conservatives, R D Leo, J A Scarborough and T B Frasei; Re formers, Goo P McKagou, Shepherd Nash. Union?R P Stackhouse, G T Doug lass, W A Nioholson, G A l'eake and J C Otts. Williamsburg?Conservative, Thos M Gilland; Reformers, S W Gamble, W R Singletary and Goo J Graham. York?Reformers, A H White J S Brlce and J F Ashe ; Conservatives, W B Wilson and S F. White. As far as it goes tho roster is not a bad ono in mauy ways, it could huvo been mnoh worse. The compromiso plan has bbown what can be douo, and there is no hiding the fact. Just to show how peoplu now foel about tho matter this morning 1 met two prominent got.tlomen. One was from Lancaster, and he said t ha1 tho Conservatives could have gotten ono ot tho members of tho delegation for tho more asking, and that had it not been for the hot-headed Conservatives a strong ticket with ono Conservative could have easily been elected. Lie says that such may yet bo done with Mr. Jones on tho ticket. In Clarendon bad Mr. Rhumo run or tho Conservatives shown any inclina tion to go into tho primary one or more Consorvutlves, it is said, could have easily been elected. But there uro some who think it always host to light. TO COTTON GROWKKS. A \\ a in i n;; A;;uittsl KstllllUtCS Ol' a i.;ir.".c Crop?Planters Advised to Hold Had. I lie CottOII. Hou. Hector 1). Lane, of Montgomery, Ala., is tho president of the Americun Cotton Grower's Protective Associa tion, and upon bring asked recently as to the condition ol tlio cotton crop, the market, etc., Mr. Lane made the fol lowing reply : " I am very glad that you suggested this subject, it is ouo of intense in terest to the South, and in which t am exceedingly intercstod, especially so occupying the position that I d.? as president of the Cotton Growers' Protective Assooiaton. I have just road with a great deal of interest, not unmixed with some surprise, Mr. H. M. Neill's letter of July 2U, to The Times Demoorat. This has been locked for lor some days, as it is well known that Mr. Neil) periodically perpetrates just such annul, the opening of the Cotton making every year. Mr. Neill is a 'bear.' the pet bear of a coterie of speculative gumblers and English manufacturers ; and his gyrations are annually costing Impoverished South ern planters millions of dollars o' their hifd earnings. He is now paving tho way with all the astuteness ol tho professional to frighten farmers by using between 8,000,000 and 0,000.000 crop "bugaboo" into marketing their whole crop in tho early months, re ceiving then what they can get from the hands of their masters, but later when the practicul demonstration comes of the production, and the crop is safely in the hands of the specula tor and manufacturer, to see values rise a cent and one-half, or two cents. "Mr, Neill naively remarks in his letter In reference to decreased acre age, 'that there wus so much noiso made that speculators took hold of the market and rau it up, and thus in duced the planter to reconsider ami plant more." ['This coming from Mr. Neill should certainly be a warning to cotton grow ers of the cunning und the methods practiced by speculators. 1 called this turn on these gentlemen lust spring and addressed a letter to the eotton growers of the South, udvisiug them thut this wus u trick and u device to circumvent n decrease ol Mio ucreago, und us Mr. Neill now frankly admits that such was true, coming as it does fiom 'their friend the enemy,' 1 hope in future they w 11 heed sucl. warn ings. "Mr. Neill advises the world that Texas bus only decreased her acreage 6 per cent. The speculators wore just a little luto in their efforts to prevent u decrcuse us ft.r us relates to Texas, for they hud substantially planted their crop when vuiues commenced to rise, 1 huve spent live weeks in Texas since tho planting season commenced, and I slate without fear of honest con tradiction that the decrease in that State is not less titan 10 per coot. Mr. Neil accepts Texas as a criterion. In viow of this tuet, 1 shall make u trip to Texus in the next few duys, and ahull Investigate the conditions to my own personal satUtiaotlon. "To my mind to make an 8,000,000 crop superior weather to lust your's phenomenal conditions must prevail hero?lter. Killing frosts must be two weeks to ono month lute, und without bUOh conditions the crop may he easily under 7,600,000, if not 7,000,000. V Europe will take this past year 0,800,000 America's cotton, while North and South America, Canada and Mexico will take 3,100,000 hales, and with improving trade America will suro'y tHko 3,300,000 bales, which won hi leave only 4,700,1)00 liules for export even if 8,000,000 wus raised, which is practically impossible. It tf.o crop is only 7,250,000 then less than 4,000,000 would be available for export. " A scramble for cotton, would sot iu SUCh us bus not boon soon b1d.CC 1870, us Europe is entirely dopcudont on the South (or her supplies of raw cotton, us statistics show tiutt her importa tions Mils your from India, Egypt, Brazil, etc., is only equal to 1,(100,000 bales of Aiuericun cotton. "Tho manufacturers of Europoarol soiling thotr goods inoutns and months air-ad without protecting themselves by tho p?rohase of raw cotton, expect ing that tho necessities of tho pluntcr will force him co sell at any price that the mill owners and speculators chooso to pay. "Now, I advise and sincerely hope that cotton growers will move their crop on tho market just as slowly as they can possibly afford, and not allow themselves to ho terrorized into rush ing it all or. tho market during tho e.' "ly months, but to hold hack 20 to bl per cent, of what thoy usually mar ke., and thus hy a judicious distribu tion we will roalizo handsome returns." -A delegation of eltiz ens of Atlanta (ia., including Mayor King and ex-Gov. Kullock, has been in sosslon with i President Sponcor, of the Southern Railway Company, in Now York, on , doavoring tosecuro tho removal of tho headquarters of tho company from Washington to Atlanta. Prosident Sponccr informed the Atlanta delega tion that ho had never considered the question of tho romovai of tho head quarters from Washington, but ho would take the matter under advise ment. floods ix Tin: wisr. Cloudbursts 111 1?'K l?<iHl> ami !?? ?truottdn .trier u Dnm^in-Manv i'm iimi;; .iiul NllllMW l.se.i|H'M. A ??(>. <??;>> from Quoorro, New Mi >h<> says iiiat tUc Hood of W"? iia> suuy wit* tho greutent lu tliu history ol Novi Mexico. Sixteen persons aiv kuotvu to liavo loft ttioir lived iu thorajjiiig waters. Tho storm betrau wilu a downpour of rain at '2 oViook, p. Ul . and alter two hours ol lerrilie rainfall, a cloudburst blrucic ihu uiouul about livo miloa ubovo town, and iu loss than a half an hour niter u gigantic waves, bringing bricht*, mu and debris, tooi". their dovastiug ecu: sc through the ttreols. Tho bridges and at least a rai the grudc of the Magdalotnu brau - of tho Santa Fo railroad were wa away and some damage resulted to I maiu line south of the eity. Of sovoral housos which stood near the channel of tho Arroyos not a vestige is left. Many adobe houses in dltYorollt por tions of the eity have falion anil others are giving away. Water entered the Catliplk church and the Convotit of tho Sacred Heart is expected to fall. It is impossible to save tho adobe houses when once the water hasooaked through their foundations. None of tho business portion of the eity is injured, but not a dwelling ho,is? osutlp oil some damage. The excitement attendant upon tho Hood Is over. Tho llstofooad is eight, six of whom are. the Du ran family and the other two--children ?wert; rescued from tho Hood and died yesterday. Fifty buildings in the city have been washed away anil contents destroyed. About one hundred ouiidings tire more or less damaged, ami a largo portion of the contents damaged Ol' destroyed. To these losses must lu added the total destruction of gardens and vine yards, and these losses fall upon tho poorer classes of people. The Mag dalena branch of the Santa Fo railroad was washed away for about live miles, and their loss will run into the thousands. The water washed awav tho main track just bolow-tho depot yards and covered tho track In tho yards about four Inchoa doop. Tlio lower part of Mar.zanaros avenue: is a total wreck, bridges and side walks being washed a*ay. The water cov ered the whole valley from tho vicinity of Windsor hotel to the depot for several miles above and below the city. Tho arroya that did the damage comes into the eity at tin; southwest corner from the moutains on the road to Magdalena, .lust as it strikes the eity it divides into two obannels, one going down Spring street, to the river bottom and then westward, emptying into the north of the city and swinging around passes to the east of the city, mingling its waters with the one coming down Spring street. Tho Hood came in two big waves, one (Illing tho arroya over trio bank lull, and the other pouring out over every street in the cit y. Had the storm < m? j at night hundreds would have p ids! d. Oh Wednesday night, Ju > 31st, n terrlblj r-lond-burst (jo.Minvd neu (Jasper, Wyoming, lib the head o Garden ere k ou U i p r mountain. Tho croek Is nb >ut v >n mih - Ion : from mouth to -.lire ?. ami i-> lin< d with cauipei s. 'tir tho In ud of the or ? Is a hiiinmur roeort (< < q ivoti d hy h i plchlu parties and i- crvditud with being one of the or sf, bMiiltifiil so.t in central Wy . Too llivt thing the Hood I'euehe wa- the plutMiiv resort a? ti e bend of Gir.len ere k. At this point, all tho hit '?>'?<: - * r< crushedaud swept Itwuj .1 i th < orStfi nal si to of the Lot I at 1 l point i buried beneath d ?bris tv. ir.ty or in ir 1 feet deep. From here the water followed tin course of tho creek ami demolished everything in its pits. .1 Me Irom water marks a v i!n ;> ? ?? water foi l feet high and thirty r us wld ? mil t have passed a narrow delllo about two miles from the mountain proper. Without warning this great II > > of water In its rush down the si.:, the mountain found many camper* up and down tho creep, cit her sleeping or just about roady to ret ire for the night. S. Now by and his family had retired for tho night, when all at once they were surrounded with water and a race for life commenced. Nowby says that ho heard his wlfosoream for help. Ho grabbed for her but missed, and in tbo next<? icond he was being curried on by a g.*eat rush of water. That was the last he saw of his wife and baby. Nowby grabbed the limbs of a Heat ing tree, and after Heating itbout forty roils was thrown on a bank. Mrs. Newby was found tho next morning beneath a pile of d< u-is twenty foot high. The bnv has not boon found. Near the Newby camp was camped Samuel Harrison, lately of Alliance, Nel). Harrison's two children were caught In tho Hood and carried away by the mad waters. The bodies of the children were recovered. Swine idea of t he force of the torrent can ho formed from tho fact. that, in the first two miles of its course (Ivo ledges of rock aie to he found. These ledges are twenty-live foot high. In the first one are bowlders torn from the mountain side that will wi Igh fifty tons. Trees two feel in diameter were torn up and carried down the stream. The tents and wagons of all the campers up and down the creek were destroyed and at, least fifty poraons escaped with nothing but. their -let p ing garments. Food and clothing woro sent to the unfortunates by the citizens of Casper. A Wonderful Colm-xtjon ok! Coins.?The Philadelphia mint lias a wonderful collection of coins. Among other curiosities it Includes ahnt i.-. believed to bo the oldest piece of metal money ever made, which was minted in .Kgnia about 700 years \). c. Dates on coins were unknown opto 40U years ago. The very early coins bore designs only on one face. Of all coins that ever existed, tho smallest In value was the "mite," such us the widow In ' he Bible dropped through the s'otof tho poor-box. The most vuluablo coin in tho collection described, Is a Chinese piece worth $250. (v) ICOrcSt of nil i o'ns are those from Slam ?irregular roundish lumps of silver, from tho bigness 0j a walnut to I that of half a buckuhot. Modern coin!*, though the merolianl* Oal process for pro hieing them have boon sogroatiy Improved, are fjt?' Infe rior artistically to those of an dent times. The earliest form of money is still in use today in Southern Asiu, tie: islands of the Pacific ocean, anil parts of Africa, where COWVle shells are the favorite negotiable medium. They are usually quoted at about 100 for four cents. '?Thy smallpox ?oaro in Patrick County, Virginia, near the North Caro lina line, it* creating considerable excitement. Thoso cities have quar antlned against the affected district, and eight deaths and twenty-one OafiO-J aro reported. Several oltiz na are Haid to Imj leaving Mai tinsvlllo un I othor places nearoy on acoount of tho disease, SOU i.i CAROLIN ICONSTlTUriONS Si'Vfii CoustUutidtiH Meli! Since iho Colony J brew ?>ii i lie Hi it Yoke. N >??? : ul ill ? uoiuthg constitutional t'linv,miu i i ii n iit mmd, U\will be .<ii t:,v ? . int?reattu look oUvok-. ward a nml lake a gin not? at previous con.-. il'.itinui eimvi ntionS in SoUV'i Cui Una. uml particularly at Lno lu?t 1 1 ivhtcii ?: .. titled eu Jau i ry li ISOJ, l?d e.i i on Maroh 17 foliowii r. tee i i.ivo * i ut wbieb the [IV 6iMJ H ' >Ji i" : ?i WAS male, and wiilou was -t ?>?._ .\< phi sally ro poi t id by .i i6i pU i W ? id ult, :j veral q it'dlUm-. o I .* bivjii ilt-iou-isod lO.CCnt .\ BJ I 1 i ??? I'oo ::? oc r-ary lor the riiakti : ??; .x in a v .i i ?itut'.iui, as to v. |io . : . ...... I i ? lhi ?? fiiUuD tq or . ?:. .i .? Ut thrown ion . . ? ol the past, l'ne discus U pi .slion of ibo regulation tgo in tho last Convention Isiilso ..? greatest In to rest. The last convention uss.unblo.1 in Charloston, and lasted exactly two months. The provislou made by the Legislature in its appropriation to do fray the oxpousos of the coming Con vention w ill n it allow so long a session and pay for tno pi inline. The steno graphic roport of tho proceedings', us dually prlnlod, covi red nearly a i.hou saud pag< S, and lino typo was used. One ol the Urs I thin;:- that the con vention did was to adopt a resolution providing thai tho cohvonClori should bo stouogruphically reported. This will likeiy ho done tu the oaso of the coming couvoni on. Tho'dScouvoutlon wus culled to order by ?nie Of the dele gates, Hurley of Uorkoley, and on mo tion of .lame.- Uutluud of Fnlrllold. Mr. T. J. Robertson, of Columbia was made temporary ohal rmau. Ntnoty-t wo dele gates wer?' present. On tho second day Albert C. MilJkoy was eh otod per manent prosidont Of tho eon vein ion. President Mnckoy, In his preface toj the report of the proceedings of the convention, gives some interesting his torical facts about South Carolina's previous Coiistitutionul cduventlonsj I n this preface lie -ays : "Slrr< ? the rupture of old'dlotliul dopondouOO Op the mother country, seven conventions havo boon hold hi South Carolin?. Tho llrst of these, il that can be called u convention, which was simply a self const i tlltOd or;; .III/il ?Mi of tllO ColO Dial Congress into i'. Cioncral Assum bly, without ttJij special reference to the voice ol the people, was hold in March 1770, and it then framed a tem porary Constitution, which waa tacitly accepted as tho original law ol the col ony until a reconciliation could ho Hooted between lirltulu and its Ovolted provinces, ll consummation at hat lime both wished and uxp/VH'ttl by many. Tho constitution remained in force for two yours only. In 177^. the* Legislature of the Stuto, assum ing l?y its own will, the province nf a oonvontion, adopted a new Constitu tion, which, however Irregularly form ed, Booms evidently to have hol u tin improvement on tho proceeding i nsti u th-jiit since it dimlshud tho proroga tiV .- i . ' ? ruling powoi'd and extend ed the i ... >gcu of tho people. Yet u.Mth'.'!' . ? icao Constitutions was .;.?..- I in i regular and legitimate iir ? ? ic.! i . . ? ; i (le ?il a fundamental : ? . . ? . S lpromo Court of the btit-c: .? . . in.'mod, with great li-t.'tiein . ; Constitutions of > i . ; i. i vre nieroly ordi nale by tho Gen i ,?i Aslombly, ?? I' .i . . . ? ? ? institution of 17?*?:'?'. v. .. ? ? . .. to rulily ; r'.- t*At I'd COIlto to the i mi-1'. CO IV.-too Stale, whieii a rotiv i i.i I"'.) I b/ tho :. ' *ia . ucd ... . u l I story 1 :???.?? ? ? i loh was CUlltid o ? ! Of S<M'?>S Bloh, which'd .. tie w i !ou stltution, but. Biich modIII catloue in tin o ? ". . intlon an were nocossury, owing to tin changed rela tions of the State and Federal govern monts. Thou ho passed on to tho oonvontion of 180,), which, owing to tho abolition of slavery and tho assumption by ojie hnlfofthe popu status of freoiuou add ??? was called by the r'rosid.mt ol the United States on the grouud that tho Constitution of I7H0 \\;e- im lunger UDDlicillllo to the changed Kondition oi things. This convention framed :i Constitution: whicli Mv i; -ays was "in some rcspoots mi Improvement oh that of I7i)l), hut hi I siioli an iiisti'uiiieut us the progressiv. ' spirit of the ago ilo* mantled." This convention was m.dar ed by Congress to have horn illegally ouHcd, because the oxeoutivi had no power to direct the calling of such a convention, and ac< irdlng y, undoi'tho rccoiii irueiIon ion Congress, the lust convention ? .Stute assembled In .January IM58. Dr. due key, In his preface, muk?s a ion:- pr? *cnttibloii of facts going to i.i o legality of this convention ami I ?? - how tho C institu tion was suhinll ? (I null U) the peopio und "acceptedby them us tho organic luw of tho land by a majority of oVer 10,000." A Ill'.AI. I'Ja'L'ATK ST: '!{?.'. ?-All OilUl ha real esuiu story In Munsoy's Magazine, relates that u fnrmi r einno Inlu town, culled at an agent's 0I?0O, aria said that ho wanted to trudo Iiis furm for some olty lid-. "All right," the dealei replied : "got Into my bug gy, and I'll drive you 10 seO some of too finest roaidoucc siioa til the world water, sowers, puvod itrooU;, oomout sidewalks. clcctriO light* an I shado trees." Tie;. dl'OVO Mil lor several miles, gutting pretty fur out into the country. The agents horso wont fast, ami his tongue still fusl n', fts ho expa tiated upon the hoauty of tin; sur round'ugs, tho con . ' it ion 10 of th i lo cution, Its proximity to the city, the abundant moans ol cohttnunici?iou, the Irnprovomen'4" <.?)?' p"'>jootod, und tie: certainty of u rapid increase ill tiie Vil 110 ol I he lots. I to lltul reached tliu IlilddlC of Iii-oration when no Incidentally mko i hit < o npaulo'.i, " Whore oiii you say your faroi was at" Ob," tho Ol hot' answered, '?we. passed it coming out bore, it's about two mlies no iror town." ?. *. . ?Tin- Now N or;: Moroury'e voting con lost on tin question of the fi'co and unlimited coinage of nil vor demonstrat es boyond tlto highest hopes of tho frlonds of silver how warmly the masses fit Vor its restoration. Tho (Jguros In New York City und Brooklyn show 0,713 for ami 37(1 against it. whllo tho total vote from all StatJS Is32,052 for and 1,783 again it. ?The EVin-ju anil iV.ne ? .? of W.iU 8 have pilblio y UX pressed t iclr dlstas'lO of embalming tho doad and in favor of royalty Hhd all Other pCoptl Oeing burled, underground, si that allies may Indeed go speodily to ashes and dust to dust.