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WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL5,1876 NO.42 fF E I LE L LD q b F.KI.Y BY &A DA AS. ) i published Week i + clip bor-o, at $3t:.00 ndvertiteente to be YVt " c and 'Tribcaige $1.00 Ol toh Oot:on the Shroveport 'T'iml'N. viito tho gravo attention of 1 ting friends to the following 'hich iii tendorod them by a 3 1ound prLacticail sens0(, Ud 0 Ilno personal interest in the ? t We are well awarn how 1 ble :ard i8 paid by plantors to Lh motins4 and ospcially if f mo from editors, but it oid em that this year's experi tdo i j tld force upon tho A radi n to ' in their mode of farming. b as Fold theu seasun as l'' ats h1a t half c(ents, andt thisi is , ulit of 't-1 C%44- trop il two ways. r.} E 11tt pl1aent, the market is t and, in the second place, Q'j l'. could not gather it before htaple had been alost ruined Iyt fash and dirt. Neither result ' uld have )ccurred if a smallor It had bee11(1n planted in cotton 'is a self evident proposition. grantge coulld aeccomlplifsh much d it tis direcctianl, and also mulch >d 1~ a sysltei regulating the .O ut labor, It o'rlES to us that o two poins 8 are of more vital ortialo to tho intorosts of plant thain anything beidElos to which ( (ir energIies cai be devot ed. tn rtu'natcel y, howvor, if the plan Uo8ed were10 agred to. ai largo rtion of the plantors muight u that as everybody else was hoy would incOraso their rop t and thus it might ro is at IL larger crop would be than if nothing had been olti it, 'Tdifor 'imes: Allow mo, if you a+{e, a space in your widely eircu od paper tO adde(.ss a short letter the planitors of t lie cotton States. ping an invalid, I have visited the uth in October. returnod north l tact in May for the last five ms, and have been ia close obsorv t of the various interests of the tonth in the dif'oreont.Statos. I hope ilt 11.; not be nll illrsioln if I ofl'r a un dclcided in my opinion that the American cotton beolt of country 3 uneqlualledl by any part of the globe. [I climate, forests. water, ruit mid variety of productions place it in) ia Uoilmanling position to aipidly rLeicoer the late mfisortunes )f war. But 1 have discovered thle irror i:to which the planters have allen. ro). one (1n1d of the country the other they seem to think that be soil wi3 1 prodico niothinlg but otten, 1hl Ie wheat, oats, peas, otatoc'. peany its, fruits, vecget'hbles, Iij)(xW. and) vLie V ic rops are.IL n et.. l4, as though they coubhl not be isdit thi>: belt.. Conisequenmtly )ey14ave swlYled~ the c'otton) proE rictionI V) 4,00)0,000) of ba~les, therebyh) d3(uring thei pr1ico, un~Otil it is pro> tucing a faful panic am~ioing.st 'hetu. They see the wrong, bni1 .stilI puseit. If they would r111Iednee(' th< c~ottoni erJop ani)d pro' 1bwe 2,000o.000O ,1dos, it wouIld bring~ 21 to. '25 eenIts pc'r pounditl 1an-1 thereb~y furnish aii much~l mIone(y asi 4.00).00 bal h~ es does now. Beides, this wonl allow 4,000),00( (of a1cres' more to go int< priiion c.r'op, whmih wold Ill every barn17 and1 sm~okehouIse! with uppl)11 ies, and( the m1oney', at $10( .1)or I tile, would( be kep.t atL hlome rail I than sent aibroad Iat heay) .cos? nd high prices foir prVoviJionIs You talk of inanigration. You wit nota succee~d until you haIve hom<11 rupplies to invite inunlligrnlfts there to ; a1 counftry so) desititulte of pro vIiis ils looked on with suspic'ior andt dloubit. A chaingo, radical change, mlust take plaIce ill Southerr1 planting before she recovers,, and len~'1tiful all over theL landi, immigra tionl will fhlw in to it ; yourI lands wvil enlhance(' inl vaie(, andit your fortune wyill be a1s in formier years. acres are cultivalted to got 4.000,00( a1cres would give you the 2,000,00t bales and Ilave you 4,00)0,000 acres is alrealdy in1 use~ for yourI pr~ovision puirposes. With the aiddition (o the 4,000),000) acres,' one( croph alIom coe* to be ind~ui.trioulsly seekinig t< *heap, aii'o still they fail to striki the key-n( o of success, They ma; get 'cotton trnsl(por'ted, stored( an< tsold free of co(st, and1( grow p)ooro~ *overy year, while they toil inl cottoi fields only, and1( neglect their pro: orn farming will be gratifying to thi merfci(lhat1Is wh o are anullyfI~ ~ preso< to at11ord supplhlos for people1 wi could1( easily produ(hce them. It ma; be0 said( that it, affords a profit t. me ebnts. Not so. Producei cost, owing to liietutan in priece s ~till the mierc'hant groans .underi .93 smabithhbllyht h. su f'er mor le or lesi Would it not please ia cotton fac tor to handle one bale of cotton worth $100 rather than two bales $ )0 each 1 His profit or coin mission would be the same on the one bale as on the two, with half the labor. Again, would it not give cheerfulness to the mnanufacturers who would have their large stock of goods Sioloeted In a word, this change of Southern planting would relieve the money panic as soon as it was certainly knowti that the policy wis adopted. Sir, this can be effected only through the grangers. They have societios in every neighborhood in the United States. Lot each socio ty appoint a committee to confer with his neighbor who is not a granger, and got his consent and approval of the policy to plant only one-half the usual crop. They can handle the one half crop better, pro dueing a good quality, and place American cottons where they of right belong--the boat in the world. Now, sir, pt the ball in motion, koop it before the peoplo and lot all the papers throughout the United States write, publish and cry aloud to redeem the land. Let State granges with all their subordinate granges como forward in the cause. Let the merchantts and the politi cians exhort the people to save themselves from further ruin.- I hlope you may induce your contempo raries to keep the subject bo fore the people until the object is accon 1lished. LAnosr SNAKE IN AMRIuCA.--In the zoological gallery of Dr. uin niinghamn, Carthage, Missouri, may be seen the greatest nativo American wonder extant-a snako twenty Seven feet, eight inches in length and seventont inches inl circumnfer once, resembling in many particu. lars the Tiger Python of Africa, coiled in tremendous folds, with head orot., mouth open and mamn moth forked tongue protruding as if about to gulp down at one spring everything in reach. This snake, which 'Dr. Cuiningham has namod the Load Python of the Southwost, is, without doubt, the largest American roptile over captured. he history of its capture is about as follows : w'w miners in Hickory county were returning home from a prospect inl thou woods in the latter part of July. accompanied by a large dog. While passing a thicket on the banks of a stream they were attracted by a hissing or gushing noise followed immediatoly by a lond yell from the dog and a crash among they bushesi. On approaching the spot i hey leheld tihe terrible monster in the at of swallowing the dog. They find. but soon returned and succeeded in claturing the reptile wihilo gorged. 'ho weight of the snake when lirst takon waslalbout30() po undsmL.t. Lmcaru. T/imes't. D IOrrrimo.--- (en treville Grange of Colleton Counity, of which Mr. I. S. 3edonm is Mater, has declaired that great destitution is likely to I prevail in that portion of the State during the present year. A conmnit. tee reports that the farmers were crip~pled by tihe dlisastr-ous results of I he war. and by the sudden fall in tihe price of long sitale cotton andi thet tranlspositionl to the cultivation of short staple cotton -and that the total failure of all crops, both of cot toni and~ of provisions last year, minakes the prospet for thme cominig iuma'mer alamrming. The11 besIt farm. era 5 d id not mai~ke prIovisions eniouigh to las-t thm until tile first of Febrl-ury. In1 thir e*xtemity they huave enilled upon01 thme Mafster of thii Staite Grainge fori counel declarirng that, however distasteful it imay he. thley will lbe complelled1, inll pr1obaifliity, to ask for aid from ter brethren. Wmsur . >iiiim.-TIheO Police Judges of New York City ray in the'ir report: "The offence which most engross. Os the aitte-nition and most frequently calls for action on thme part of the magistrate is intoxication. Upon this charge, including cuas.es whore the ~o~ence wals accomnpaniied by disi ordlerly conduct, thore Were ar ii raigned 36,09)1, oif whomi 25,786 were - males and 11,305 were females. 01 l this mimbe(r thiere wVerei coonvicted ,~l~ andlnod 22,617 or about 68 per cent., of whom 15,818 were malocs and 3,669) were femalmes. Almost onie I half of the total nmnber ofenases eon. I siderod were cases of inltoxication, ) and it is -stiilma~ited thiat thes-e and other cases which arc diretly and indiirectly due 1to thi us~e of intoxi ea tilng li(pior conlstitulte from 75 tc 90 perlC cent. of all the business of the piolice couirts." A judge ini M~omniiorth county New Jersey, on(o caultioniOd an old negro who had beenCi acquitteid, nol1 to lbe found ill hadu company again. "Much 'hlige to yo. Marsa," lie rO plied1, "I ahis 'spect yon aidwise buIt (de fact am1, Marsai, dat gooL .comp~lany and~ had company look s< .nmnch alike dat ois nigga cant toll di rj difference until lhe git right in 'em 5' A young American lady who has enijoyed the raire privilege of taking~ > a stroll with the poet Trennyson, in a ciderntally mentioned in a letter to t friend that "it seriously affected thi 1. romane of the situation when ho t paulse3d duriing the walk t~o scratcl hi a nk againist aigl 0ntennut. Some Reminiscences of Stonewall Jackson as a Professor. From the Richmond Dispatch. Stonewall Jackson as a lieutenant' during the Mexican war, and as a "3ollonia bridegroom" in Con feder ate times, is reasonably well known to the world. The "Life" of Dr. Dabney is in many respects worthy of the illustrious subject and of tho able and accomplished author. But this "Life" and all the other "Lives," are m;inly devoted to the task of " depicting the Christian warrior, and as this )F the character in which Jackson lig nred most conspicuously, aind in which he was most fully hitmiself, it was natural and proper that the biographel~rs especially with this manifestation of I the mn. ' Still, as a matter of fact, it is known that Jackson spentit a con sidorab.le p~ortion of his lifo in the iposition of "Professor of Natural Philosophy and Artillery," in the Virginia Military Instituto at Lexington ; and it must be manifest to the observant. reader that this portion of his life has been but scantily treated by his biographers. This, however, is not due to any neglect on the part of those writ ers, for they well know that all to intelligent readers would dlesiro to know how Professor Jacksioni lived : how he taught his classes ; wh1at was his method of instruction what hle said and did in the lcecture room ; indeed, almost everything which would throw any light uponI the c(hlaracter and conduct of the man who said so little and did so mutch. But the truth is, that there was . precious little to tell about this J period of General Jackson's life. A biography of a great literary man is apt to he little iuore than a rie ;iew of his wo)rks ; the buigraphy of thinker a must often le simply an account of his thinking and its results ; and the biography oif a" teacher, though he he a prince in his profession, will not often prosen t much that is very new or very striking , to the non professional reader. But Jackson's life as a teacher 3 was singularly and oxceptionally m ionlotonous.---He had his text books, and hi prescribed the le sons, and at the appointed time he "hoard" them ;and this was about all of it. Discussions in the class ' room were almost miknown. and even "explanations" were very uinfrequent. The text was the one great thing which lhe came to "hcar,"' and we camne to "say"'-if to could-and most of us commU1on- s ly couldn't, when the said text was Bartlett's C<.urse of Natural Philosophy. Poor Allen. He wias my room mate the first year, and with Wil liams and Patton and Slaughter :mid myself miade lip "Room No. 13." Whero are they now ' Allen, Patton and Williams all fell at I Gettysburg-all young lawyers, all ' colonels of Virginia regiments, all l of the same .celass (1,55 )-and t Slaughter had been ..isab.ledl for life before the sad (lay on which our r'oomi mates fell. -. WhnIwas in the "third class"* I I used to sece All1en tugging over "Old Jack's'' terible lessonsfl in< Bartlett's Optics ;and1 one dlay 1 opened the book, anid on the flyleaf found the following stanzat, which I suspect was Allen's owni ""fi, said lhati Opjtie's t r't of !ight, lBut oh I bl~t)ieve~ it not. myi lark ;' l've studiead it with all my mzight, Amti still it ' left mae in the' dark .' Major Jackson seemod to he perl factly iat htomei in long anid in tri catto equaltions and1( otLher imathemiati cal formulae whui makek' up~ so large a portion of Bartlett's Mechanies, Optics,. and1 Acoustics, and Spherical Astronomy ; and mnany of his pupils often wondered if there was in the th lree vohuies an equation the formulhe of which "Old Jack" could not rep~eat by heart. Arnd yet, with all his accurate and minute knowledge of the course, there was very little teaching done in that department, unmless teaching be made to mean the p)rescribingj and~ hearing of lessons. The truth is, that teaching, in the modgrn sense of the termn, wVas not Jackson's fo;rte. lie was aL man of marvelous ly few words ;had no turn for' ex planiation ;seemed to have no talent for putting things inl various points of v'i(ew, so as to adapt themi to the various mental conditions of his p~upils. Tlhotuigh I dr1ilhled under1m himi for' sonme three years, and r'ecited to him daily for a year and a half, I never saw him laugh outright. A Ier qu(Iiet, subdued sor't of smile I was the nearest thing to laughterI that I ever saw him indulge in ; an (1 these smiles wore ver'y un frequmuit,. and( ocen rrod when uncomonloity, luidicrious~ things took pilace in his If Fulkerton put on a collar made to order out of about three quatrters iof a yard (of linen, and then con nulsed the class with laughlter at the grave but outrageously ladicrons way in which lie wYore that collar in the1 class room, Major Jackson would smile, knowing as he did that tihe1 collar was the single visible article1 of wecaring apparel of wiyc~h the regulations did not rigidly prescribe the "form and substance." If Davidson Pennt put (In an u ')mnmonly serious face and ask< iapparontly inl gqod faith), "Maje !an a cannon be so bont as to matl t,. shoot around a corner ?" tl )rofIsor of artillery would not aho the slightest sign of merrimont or 11patiolneo, but would, after a n neut of apparently sober rele ion, reply, "Mr. Penn, I reckon 1ardly." We could never decide whoth is gravity On such an occasion wi 'eal1 or assiiued. I have often wvo lere.1 if Jackson managed to pr ;orvo his gravity when he read sertain "excuse" handed in by Han )rick. We had been at artillery drill, an Iaibrick, along with the root of r hird class men and "'lobos,"' ha o Ierform the rather troulo)oi lutty of pulling the Ctnlol. Jaci on had given the connand (i fl -orito one with him,) "Limbor an ai"s'ms, pas your pieces, troi narch 1" Hambrick failed to trot a he command, and was reported lib rackson. Tho next nornin ho following oxouso awn mnded in : "Report-Cadet Han >rick, not trotting at artillery drill xcuso : I amLi a natural pacer." dIajor Jackson .did laugh who 1o read this, none of uts over foun< t out, for the document was probI >ly road privatoly A New Oapitalist. He didn't look as if hil pockei told fifty conts. but a rich man has ight to dress ats h0 chooses. H toked u1) Griswold street unti e saw the right kind of a face, an hal he askel : "C-in you show me t bank ?" "Yes, -ir : threo doors below, o iist ne1ross the street, or right baC here. "Thainks. I'd like to put som oney in some b)ank, hut I'm a littl fraid of banks. I always did pref. , ot, of hand to ia bank." The citizen pricked up his ear nd asked: "You Ihai v so1m0 mnoei' to lent :avo y"ou ?'" "A trille," was tho answer. "D on know of anybody who'd like t, k. some and give me a not, for ear at seven per cout ? I think 0 oing to Mexico for a while." "Let's Meo ?" mu)1sed the citizen, on't know but .d take some m olf. "LRemnme gel a drlk. and the: ro'll talk," said the stranger. "Yes, certainly ; como on," reple hie citizen, and the two wont into a asement. Drinks wore ordered 1 he citizen, said on aifter anothem .ntil his shinplansters felt lonely. H iid hie could make good use of cn' thonsand dollars for a year, am11 o0me of his friends might also take few thousand more. The strange nt d..wn gin, whiskey, lager am irandy initil his legs gave out. ''hl itizen laid him on a bench and trio< o sober him, but. the follow wen end asleep while they were tryinm s) force vinegar down his throat 'he barkeeper said he was an ol infer, and i policeIman was sent fo o take him to the station. Whoi hey got him down t.hre an earched him, they found four centsh b rass-bawcd comb and au door ke n his p)ockets, and the citizen w~h< 'anltJd to borrow a few thmousan lollar's, wenit to see if the mail ha<L 0omo ji.-hI)Vt r 1itFre .1Pre.s. A Win:'s .t:NeJ.:4.-A very die ingnished lawyer of Richumond, whl Lrs passed" the mamridian of life, an 11ns wo]) reno(wn as an orator and1( isti~, siays thle Peutor'sburg Inde'. vas addr'es:ing thme 'ourt reecutly .nd1 was inm ite idst of au brilliani e'gument whien heO saw his wif'e-th 101) of his heart-enter the r'oon U) ait once' bcame1fl confused0(, on onelnhmded1 with some1( abruptusa. I vas thme first time his wife~ had1 hmear, liim speaIk. Feazrfuil thaut lhe woul mot maiuko ai decidedly favorable im >hanutly faced judges, juries, logie ative asse3 miblages, mass11 mlOtingR >olitical conventions, anid tihe las >f;. thme literat,' suiccumbed, he oro one who in her love for hin vouild hamve sooni onily tihe gems c mis speech, and whose critic:ar iould havo beeon fullest praise. Thei1 lonigest night inI Norway lisf hree montis, land, wh'Ien a 0o1n1 nanll goes to) 0n hins gui, hOr miothei >eforo r'etir'ing, tells her niot to i: mr11 ihalith by sitting up miore tma A 'jutstice of the peaneni ihehoyganm, ichiol., rmarried a (01 lie, aind for pay look ani or'der onthi >r'idetgroomr nieighbior' for a "bam >f straiw,"amnd as h~e took too 1irg I load( tho groom hasi Ilnlod him t nako him rm-funud. an of Now' Hampshire, in annwo 'cently to an inquiry as5 to thm anuse of the graniid ane(cess5I rotoni1 y, relietd thast it wvas duem to th 1hap)o given to the~ con1test by thm p1)00ches of Mr'. Blaine anid of th .leooerats whio) repljied to him Economy is the parent of iniegri y, of liberty and of ease ; an't thi 4iitor of temipor'ance, of chorful amess, and health, Prmofusonoes 01 Shie contrary, is a cr'uel and1( traft; lemon, that gr'aduually involvot he rol lowers ini dependence and <bbt Elhmt$ is fnettea them with im-ny tihn Wlholesonme LtL~Vs. We 1)tlI)1is13 to-day sovoratl acts of the logislatt ire, pased a~t 1.1e 1,r(4sett 84255i011, WS'h1(Il are of g4Ide'IlI ilitor 014t to t110i coilnLtmity. 1. Thuj Act pun isiiutg PQRO1~ai c01) teliig Itloy iuder fi'audlonf, p)r( teiice iH4 said to bet it ('O}y of tll(, not, ilo ('olup1lte'i' 11 folloWingt (luc!Od in~to the klegisllt tro so'VOp"td 4E(8Hio1I11i ago. it will Ipl')b1L1hly N~ v thr pur1pose0 of prating into tratdosxulnn \v110 1, 'fore ifs i JhLsstig. (could litvc laughbed athl 1f~tdt 2. The11 Act~ io an~endo thle Geneoral Jfleorporatiou A~t see~ks to r'em~edy wh~at has 'Lean held to he' 11 very gravo 01missio0n ill the "l4ltat.e. Jiia Constitultion of the' Stalt( 1re, quires thait alhl general iJle()1pora." tion laws shouild contain at pl.oisiol fixing the li&.lilit~y of Stoekhloldcrs. * T'he "Act to provide for the( grunit. ing of certain ciha~rters," pal~sed at thle Sessuion of 1873---'74, c'ontins no such1 provision. The presentf, aii wiid. moat makes the liaility IFinlihla to) that of S~tockhoders of Medhizuiieal, Miining 'and Mann fIctn1'iing (ioipa. flios formed under Chapter 'LXIV. of the ntevi weld Statutes. 3. T.1he Act. re1lt.in1r to) rtes by exector1as i :$11lp1v it very C''' -'l.Odinlary omiionH~ Inrl:1 ini th ( (Gun" ei1:tl' or" *Bl evi1:e' 1 Si(itu.'. i)'" the. C.)nnis 98111 to eoxti fy the lw.I Cane 1111\" eW~C'it4'' s'IOUl1 l'(fllso to (llii3 1ullj'I2 it l eC~th~ihf il Ita pI)O'ei' of :;:te, 1b the _1(' 'o 21e1rVI .off ' lliisfitt, tillIr, \\"h,) cull 2(1 if IjILI v e:'a' :thlo\\"'t t") *'x('(1ltij i"15 \\'V('w . i'll' 'a't olf not1'V i ilijS(.1l l the (;, u~l tiiV(!14 11;1 ii l .2 * d iuf c ( i i it al IV IllISCI)l WIIet It i it i; 'UN; I"I' 't4~l 11111'il'; 1ni e i' t(::' I J 4)'YI4, (C" (!I-imocd1 bya, ill l+' : iilt )V I' "-e(t1 Co- x(euf or haul ren:u v,1~t. '11i4 J)Iasiult Act ('tn 1()' s (he 1,''r 11814)1 of thuAto 1e1yado u Y1 s to easles WVhcre th1p )MN l:" ii givl. not.ol JP)I pvyaelt of debts1,, but "'for ally, nutrnue Whait. Te At(t poi.iiaiaie of1 passin3g clohin~s ztgaiut the StaLet( by the G.,I eral Assezub~ly" is cor' thinly it step in the righlt dirction. At pl'01401t a1 clim~i against tihe State1, is estab1lishied wheni it 111ts been voted upion 01)40 in the ]-I ou-e ald 011(11 ill Lilo Seniate, W1athIott thes G3overnor's iapprov~tl. "I\" tils .'(t" ILO 81 U11 i ('42 ( i ofI '.11 t t.'' Juhlist. thIeni Till I h 114 ' l Iel: 'II It \'(t"') IUC ; ':l' i )S Ii . 1 1 1''r i I l l '1'.\ are meadvcl fur ill)erti1)13 into0 1111 approra~iation1)hi1 l.-- _l;7 u". (((lr Cour/ier, 'rie Coiteninal :;hour. 'L (i4 ' N e w Yo rk( .Jb /a , 8;tV \. o f tl i l a 1 . i t .; x S t ue Onily t fifty ,'(Il nt.o %%1( ill be re ecfived1 for ILflI)Ii'.MjfI. 1. r.{ e, ll13 g Matnntactui'o of Pailslltn TrOYS. A tlyoAnp WhoE 11.18 everi wvalkced throllgh 0110 of the great toy-iti bortiiii.r bions('s il Paruis tit Iuolidavl f dul ?IIE(l)''J;1 perap od'rE'd at ut he I tl.Rtf' 1111(1 iligr litiy diSp~af. "e I b tho t"'uticlt wovamni ill devisilg; lutily of ti )14) 1 mos, bltltzflI jdavt 1.1i ngsC, WVo1ILd hairdlly i 1ItgiI1 (IIit 4)(141 OflCs 10)o 5011101m ifEs. aitfi hurgely Used ill tioll 'trisianl t V in hustry. .I"tlegatty dPE'41e41 (lolls;, tr'ie1~ed oubtI iii all Ihr lie'illtIItlllt f i1 thte latest f:lS i('II, (tlol wih i(1 et.'hit i'Oerllil)le IliOCeS ohl this ii1 of the Allan 1tie, ini t.1 he l 1('24, lirrlLXed for a 111010o Mu0g, or fromt the useless warr1olbes after" it lay hie. hand a loll" ruln. '1'lie eo\e~riflgs of old pilt 10F1 and P()o'ketl aolk i I hed muitt' of the( gutter' b)y tlhl'p-eyed rag piCtuL" furnish theo miater'ial for tim (loll boo ma hed~r. (1 hi FtliiiO Iboxesi andl ('ils vild fltei' plate to the~ man'fac'tur(,rt of ha rr(111 for toy gunslai '!'ho lithle W oo(illi or metal tire' Ol4ttljlie'1 froml th1( rofluqi of -ny jiduxtslry in w htieh artlels ItiL"iltg eir('illaLr oi)E'0 jugs areO ljl :Ltle. Wi~lle I ll ("111e1i ghI1154I stands, l of W \hl and' Isiii21)11 jowc II~) bttles, J roid uP ii iVElcs tif 1.1("1 &4it~tit is ll \(1 11 ) i ll.' til '' 0 1('1 1' 1 1( AIt21I 1' lde :tI''is kiii\v '- 111.1 c be t 1121.Cl d'o.l ot d r Ii.': Inll 6tt4 (1-olt. o)"' >C2iit6t-r, 81111 is(: C) "lte t to J Si:,i '.l ihi'5.l for l.l Id hot it1i'at) L'(11E:21' 1114's kPritie fl 'ii 1, i) etitt i 11,, ii'lt of reilti ofd frcll I,,-%". m u 'IlC~" hiJi jut 6) t'fn lti'1ll a 6tttlt(,t'Ll" p1 'duct''l . i)1 (, +'lia rl'v' .i c 4c I~a' it ;"i ig iyliiof i I)(. .d1 C'tLi ll dshoito a ef r:i:.--C::tjl's(1' l't ltiri: '1i tre;t nfill ilI. "'Iwo sa tdSt6)1 i ad lties hutif filled with winet or sp~irits are' balils. Vto at i 1 ifs te liu otttltied, andl Ite red hot nioiitli of t 1.11 , tl is aipplic.l to the into, zand held thleret until it is filled Withl bilood, Vwlefl thie Hslil)0 E'oiti'is 1 piinil('(l With1.)0h othit'1 Ilattle. A (lt IiC'ill o f 1lre, 1)! tvi'.1i wSill giveut' )ill' I11('11 hii, l' c:1u '?(, Iitalso tell ulays. '\\ 12011 hirdt; ";l~ti1 I'll warbleI, bitt. wh eni a tl Pl)ri.5 "'hiE2~.I ({(1(0,1 1. AllJ the etiuhly,Ecl's of the Concord( pl~(ld to sign I he t 4.mti1tt')ai ce ledlge. 'l'h i1. .'o s WI)vg- of alt~ 'ri horn~s 1.('14 )A )w("C ill l 4.('itI '" latst Veatr. inl WIti!(l 1.553 autIn tClh.re 'iahd tor 1(1 BEAUREGARW ON MANASSAS. Frorn the New Orleans Picautw". e Nilw ORLEANS, March, 7, 1876. w DEAR SIR--I avail myself of ti . first opportune mtomitenit to answei your ltter of the 17th uilt., inquir ing of me, 'lv ili commantl at tih time, Wly the pursuit of the Feder als immediately after their rout al r the battle of Manassas, July 21 ts 1861, was Suddenly checked alm( the Confederato troops recalhed towarid Manassasuiv ? toadbaasa I will fiest state that, thtough1 wit.1 - General Joseph E. Johuston's ett sent I exercised the commtld dur di'ng the battle, at its close, after . S t ordered all the troojp on tic d hold in. pursuit, I went pe1rNol1all3 e to the Lewis House and relingnish odIthat connand to him. 1 then started at a gallopsto take immedi ate charge of the pursuit on the Centreville turnpike, but was soon overtaken by a courier front y Manas'as, with a note addressed to mo by Colonel T. G. Rhett, of Gen oral Johnston's staff, who had been loft thorn in the morning to forward that General's troops as they might arrive by rail from Winchester. Colonel Ithett thereby informed me that a strong body of Federal troops had crossed the Bill Run at. Union Mills Ford, on our right, and was advancing on Msnassuas, our depot of snpplies, whicb had been neccssarily lft very Iweakl' guarded. I hurried back to th' Lowis House to communnicato this important despatch to Geicral Johnston, and both of no helieiviin' the information to be aut lentie', Y unlrtook to rep'til to the tilroatenO ,.d quarter with E'voll' samiii Hohnos' brigados, at that moment ne.ar1 tuite Lewis House, where they had just :Arrived. too late to tako part in the action. With thse troops I en I gaged to ai.tack the eneuly vigr ously before ho coubl eflfet. a l( lodgment onl oulr side of Unill Rutn but asked to be reinforced ts s;(oon its pr 1(tati ale by su1ch1 troops as might he spared from'the Centre Vlle pursuit. Having roaeoebd the n car vicinity of Union Mills Ford vithout meet , ing any enemy, I as''ertained, to my surprise, that the reported hostile passage was a false alarm growing out of soime Movements of our own troops (ia part of General D1). R. Jones' brigade,) who had been thrown across the run in the norning -piusuant to my ofrfensive plan of operation for the day, and upont their return now to the south baik of the run were ie aken through their similarify of uniifort for tie fedo'ale. I etiuru'ed to inte'rcept the, mat eh of tie two brig;adds who w'er fllo'twing me toward Uiion Mills, and as it wa; quite dark wheni I moet. them, and they were-grneatly jaded by their long mtIarih anld c)unorti' reitl, during that hotJaly day. I dire'cted them~t to halt and bivoitate where they were. Hearing that P:'resident. Davis and General ,Johnstemuv had orune to Manassas, I returned and found -thim bet.weAen half-part linlu and ten o'clock at my headqular T1his will explain t~o you wh y 1.1 ( partial "retriogatde moiv'emnt." to which you refer, was mvade,~ and whvy no1 sustined Vigorous I181 prut o~f Mcilowell'si army wa.s munde that evening. Any put suit of the Federals ntext day, towar'd their rallying poiant at and ar'ound Long Brvi. g, over' thae P~otomiac, conl have led to no pot4si blo mvilitaryi' vlvanitage, pro'tectedua as that position was by a system 'of tfield( wor'ks, Nt) mlovemtt tupjon Wasinugton by) that rotuto amizd hve~ been possible, 101' ovena if Lhere hatd bein 110 .sneh works thte Ibridge-a mile inl lengt.-as con lil m ndii~ed by F"edorali ships) of war:' anvod a fow pieces or arltillery, 0or thio -destruction of a smalvil par't of the -bridge could hlave n12do1 i plasvsage - impracticatble. Ou nly prot'por oeainwst tpass the Potomac abovo, into Mary land. at or about Edwar'ds' Ferr'y; and march upon Lihe roar of Wash fington With the hopo) of tmnder' 'taiking snch ai mtovemnettI hadit causetd a reconnoissane of the coutry and shor'o (south of the Potomnae) ini tht Iquarter to be mtade inl the muonthi of .Junie, bu t tihe nece('SSary transpsorta ', tionl, even for' tivthe ammunlitioni (essn ittal to such ai mtovtemettl, hadl not > been prlovided for my foreo.3, not wvithstaindig my1 a11pheatio n for' it dur'ing more~ thani a mtihh b efore. hand, 110r wias ther'te L tty-four hour1' food it, Manaivssas for at'thv 1tr'oops b roughit. together' for thait b~attlie. H)leN. .JNo, (' F.imuss. P'1lease, stu', whaivt's theo fare from D)ublin to (lasgowv !" inquj~irCd a.on1 of the Em4leraldi11 (lion daty (af thle clevrk of' a sipilpingf aoice. "Eightt. LIen shillings," re&plied the tthe'. "An' what d'yo chairgo for ai pig 01' a low ?" "Oh, 1s, (hd. for a pig, anrd as. for a cow," "Wellb" r'epliod Pat, 'abook( mev as ai pig." 'When a. man11 empities the pock1etH of his coat prepoaravtor'y to laying it vout for repairs, thlere's nothing that makes his consien~ico got uiponi hist hind logs quicker thlan tie sight of thmootr his wifo gaive hiim to mail t.v...on.....a.