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Gussxville Times. CATXT2DAT. ATTQ. 4, IS77. Z'Jl C7ELCC3 IT mTSECS. A Ci2irt Stay. .a bcott'b rntDicTiosr. L. ;barg, July .-"My troop tJm thai tbt train pass," said mit T bo out A. Scott when Ce 1st tad td Ecginient from niiiiJpM embarfcsd oa can for ; C2m city; "wait till they reach Pittsburg tad you w ill hear of the csi ot the strike, and that tLe tt!at art pasting through to txl fro a nana." Ills troop did crriTt bert oa yesterday. Ttey wart a tot of fine-looking yonn f."ows, who had left their olflces aad )u fail of life aid gajety, tsi elated with the prospect of rotary daty and destruction. Tier were HAG SIPICKMT JY ARMED A5D KQVirPKD. j aid belonging tothegrst families f the dty, tLey were with en tin teal array of servants. One ootid hardly realise that twenty four hoars could make tuch a clangs w the appearance of tbce cats collectively and inliridutXy. Thcae regiments, cow a mere hand ful of men, arato-nigbt eutrcuch i tome liz miles from the city, kaesry, fool-eore, many without eras, aad one and all heartily tick, asi abundantly tatisfiedwiih TEsia aaiKF day' bkbyick. Vzij of the regiment who start el oat in the full enjoyment of rJaCtdeadin tome undertaker's establishment, while others, dread filly wounded, are in the hospital tithe United States arsenal. Many inserted from the ranks, leaving tls main body while the crowd was fretting It, diving down allays tzi byways, where they begged ta txchaEgt their uaiforms for the CtrrzsaUof the most humble citi tzj. From the most trustworthy tsxrcee there appears to bare no oocauos roa riBtxa tr tls crowd, and the terrible Tcrace that hat followed might tart ktea arolded. Those in com r. itl of the troops have never had tl courage, since giving their ixUwloallng orders, to make an clearance where they might be other thaa by the soldiery. Csatt, Vice President of the l.riylvaula Railroad, has not tcca seen since last night. Xeitb er baa the army of railroad mag nates nor any of the high military ttta. It they had been capture! this morning by TI'B IXFCRIATED ktOB. God only knows what tV!r fate wosld have been. It Is salt to tar tilt tka most erue) braulUias of trrre would have beea 3d pSLhment ia comparison. A tOLDIBB STOBT. "I served ia the war of tLe re tsa." said eae soldier, "and lire seen wlkl fighting tad heard Chelae the taelKchoIly tratk cf cllag ballets, bat a eist cf Urror sach as Urti sever expe rienced, tad I hope to God I rr vU tain. It was this war," laid he: "ffi came to Pitifburg, I Dartcoafesa, ZZXT OX HA r A UTTLC HCHT, tX there was any going oa. We U4 a L'VJe to eat at Altoosa aeae taadwiches end a t'n tap cf cc-20 tad at noon yesterday we Lil toast tort of nouritirfreai !it oat tons at the Uaioa de ft. When we arrived at 13.1 taigwewere all ia pooitfir!;! Etrertkeieu, arid responded ith alacrity to the eommafid in VLort oat to Twenty-Eight street, where nc 8TBTKCI.S vm vxnmcs i roEcx. XTitem wt armed there Cea. trit lon, cosamtadlng, Jorsoed t front ; aad rear on tLe c: t:de cf the art work of tracks at this j oint, aid stationed the Keyrtote battery, with its Catling guns, a a little I'sXna oa the hillside, aa eleva tion perhaps tea fett above the fevdof the track. At this tnc tnent theerowd brgan to fatter, tctla retreat, hot apparently to rule room for the military. As Vt rested on our anas the silence f the great crowd was broteo axl a tterm of BIB8K8, YELLS AVD JEERS prcstod us. Then a platoon of oar regiment was ordered to clear tit crowd from the head of iVen tr;ut street, where the strikers were blockading the tracks of the lOroad. The 8heriff and his de- I-mingled with the trooirs. sri or;3d the crowd to fall back tzl re to their home. They . tzzl cot make themselves heard -2 to Use confusion and tho c ' j tzl ycs of the people. Tho I -:3 cf tellers then pushed in t;C l c;d, soring them lack ; lor-cr to halt was given. - :e tie hillside was ' IiiY COVBKBD WITM MRK. i t-i cLIidren; isottlv spec- taton, I ja le, who were ia a nx&- y-. I ico erowa grew toaacr ana i fiercer, sxd the ruii;try nivi pre- j parades to foraa a holiow sqaare on the tracks as ecir Twenty-1 Eighth street as possIMe, wita tw9 Gatiiag gjns in the centre. The PitWbarg troop, the ltlU Eegimeot,I bu'ieve, were drawn op ia line, bat remained pastlve. Af.ersome manxavring, rendered diSIcu'.t by the joul3g crowd, three sides of a iqaaie were forir. cd by oar two reg-itnenU, the lit and 2d, nambejiug from four to five hundred men. One side cf the square faced the hi!!, oac iaced to the east, aad the troops of tLe ether tide stood with their backs to Twenty-Eig'jlh street, and a!o faced the hllL tu cuowd was slow in clearing a space for the east side of the square, and the soldiers began to force the men back. This occasioned some scuf fling, several of the nten taking held of the tnotket end uylng, "Yoa wouldn't shoot a working ... 1 ! man, would you V whi'.e those oa the outskirts continued to Loot and yelL About this momcut the Grays were ordered to charge oa the crowd which tth Impeding them. This they did, amid the most lntcne confusion and excite n.cut, hut the troops pashed Uack tha throuj and relirel Tho 1st Ilcciitent, when tho crowd began again to press, -were ordered to charge, which they did with fixed bayonets, and. in this charge one of the strikers is reported to have been WOVNDED BY A BAYOU XT THRl'ST. Theerowd now began pelting ns with stones, and some of our men were hurt more or less. This was the match that fired the train, for goaded to frenty cither through (car of violence from the crowd or slung to desperation by being hit with the missiles, the order was given to fire, and fire we did. Some say there was no order glv en to fire, but oue of the guns In the hands .of a member of 'the of thj eompauy wcut off, and others mistaking this for an order, level ed their pieces tad discharged them. Be this at it may, I heard distinctly the order to Are, and did not discharge my piece until such order was given. TBS riRIXO WAS 8CDDES and unexpected, and seemed to come upon the vast crowd like a stroke of lightning, aad it was scarceiy realized nntll here and there a man was seen to fall. Aloug tho brow of the hl'.l ran a deep ditch, l.ito Mch those who had enough presence of mind ' east theuuclres. After the first shot the troops shot in every direction. The Cnt volley swept over the hiiifide, aud was delivered by tboe trofpt aeamt the UiL The fcosd tide of the sqcsre aimed along tLe track eatt, aad the oth ers, so far u cocld be ascertained, abeejedacd fired dowa Twenty E1V KrotL Before dark, when THE IEAX AXD WOOTEt had bea carried off, aad the crowd got OTcr tlxir fright aad corsmen d to gtALrr again ia great num bers, we were ordered into tie ronncLttfctr, a a&r-iiag ct shel ter for Ctt alght axd UUt-r pro- tecli( a from the tUry thou beard trcry cow aad Ilea. With the spjrch c-f c!gtfa3 the treofi werehengry aad tired, but con soled thcmc: ves ia a neafareby the astsraace tlai spper had been ordered txl wooli arrive ia a br'riCxt. At dal, jtri?f oit of tie wiiidowt of the rotedhosie vt mv i!e wajxnt carrylsj car rttivs ajt8rti by tie crowd, cui tL ius and coutc&U horlcd Izio iut street, while LLe crowd cheered like domons. As the crowd In tc streets augmented w ith the lught thoughts cfs'eep were j,lvea over, aad guard irere fLiiiwi at the windows cf the rcandhoaw and &Uo pieced a! ewl: of tie gates leading into the yards.- TLcy were out of reach cf tLs crowd, ajid had instractlot:s to fire npoa any person who attempt ed to Utter. at srtoHT the crowd outside, as we coald ob serve from the window, had grown into thousand, and shots were fired at us from out of the yards of the company ia dose prox imity4o the roundhouse. We re Cited to them, but with what ef fect we were unable to ascertain. Whea the fire was started in the box cars we became seriously al armed, and some few of our men, I have heard, made their way out of their quarters In dtisens' doth es and escaped from their periloas position. We could see long lines of cars one after another burring, but did not expose ourselves to the guns of the mob. The fire slowly bat sorely crept down upon os, and about this time the crowd captured oa or tub oca belonging to the Hutchinson's Cat tery of Pittsburg and attempted to get it into positloa to fire upoa us. Uwu heavily loaded, wekxew, aad iff red ia s ri-v1! to t eiest aav aiy age. We fwi4 tl raj putting it la poiiea, awtvr. as we covered it w est, ai were u Quarters where we eeld pkk ft t'ien-.ca withoat math sa :rv ti oureive. A naraaer cf tSK freight cars were raa Wtweea aad the ms wLiv-h shl!di the strikers from car hH bet they fiaally cave the matter aad esuled Ce ran away. A2 ti-v'j.; raiSot with H ti;ce tie tUoatica Wi lwulaj ! tcxila."s a:u:id. more asd mare serious. J Pstetf tiw atldrt c-f alti- the rxaa was carEKxa iswx lrt.vT JaUiioa m npoa ns with a certainty of dri-'f iliaa we caa ckArfy. viug usoatsooaer or liter. ThTir cuiritlaeis a tr?aiat crowd, toi waa growing mcr? dense, aad bold tlrtits of violence should we come out were dUUaet- ly heard awty up the travi. It the yard where the cars were barn irg we could see men pillaging. 8tn!d2u!y down the grade can;e one cir after another, sj:u Udca t with oil, whiCd was ca fire aad burning fiercely. Thue cam were seat down in order that Uwy tciht iguitj the woodcu work of the renad house and U.e company's lumber yard. They were heavily ladca with combustible material, and when toe 1 BOX CARS TOOIC FIXE, they hurst and wittered their con tents In every direction, dealing cat disaster with lavish hand. The machine shops between 25th a.id iith streets then caught fire aaJ soon our building was sur rounded by a wall of fire.. The heat became so iutense that we were obliged to retire from the windows and gather in the ccuter of the building. Many .of ns would hare run out, but the dan ger from the outside from the vio lence of the crowd was as much to be feared as the fiery dement fast approaching us. At the dawa of day t consultation of officers was held, which was prolonged for some time. It was then decided that we must go out aad raCX THE AKUBY DXVTLB ' who made the streets la the neigh borhood black with their pretence. It was better to ruu the risk of being shot down thaa burned to death, and so we filed out formed iu a compact bodr, preceded by Uatling guns, with Major General Drenton and Brigadier General Matthews at tht heailt was a lively time, I tell yon. We toou retched the FJaited States arsenal, where we thought wt would be protected. When the regiment left the round house they were . rolXOWKD BY TOT MOB, aad many of them had their guas wrested from them by the strikers who In turn shot down the soldi' ery. The militia nude for the arsenal, but Major Bnfflngton, tbdr commander, refused to let them enter. Then the fear-strtck ca men commenced to scale the walls, and seek refuge behind great files of bombs in the gnn yard. The bravest of the lads re mained on the street, returning shot for shot with theerowd, while Major BofSngton pressed upon tho oGcers the necessity of forming the men solidly and resisting the attacks of the mob. They were too frihtcaed, however, and pre ferred to retreat, which they did past tbe arsenal and away up the river toward 8harpburg. Only twenty regulars were stationed at the arsenal, a force entirely too small to cope with any degree oi success with the rioters. Oa the hia-ride, facing the wse nal, were maz&xiaes filled with am inanition. If the crowd had trot into the arsenal after the Philadel phia troops, they would undoubt edly have fired the magazines, and the destruction wonld have been fearful to contemplate. The crowds tried ail manner of means la&t night to get Into the arsenal, but reasoning in this case iiad more e ject thaa forcible resistance, and the crowd, upon the solicitation of the commanding officer, returned to the city. It is related of Professor Jowett, the translator of Plato and Master of Baliol College, Oxford, Eag- gland, that a student having lately lost a parcel of bank not?, told the Master of his miifortone.Tro fessor Jowett advised him to aay nothing about it, took the numbers of the notes, and covered the walls of Oxford with poster proclaim ing the loss, but giving the wrong numbers. The thief fell into the snare, offered one of the notes at a bank, was promptly arrested aad all the notes recovered. Mr Jowett Lad given tht rlt num bers to the teller. It waa at a elana ttrawterry festival, and a vourg rzzn with aach shirt eoCar locked srpremeiy tad and melaacoty. Tha church pastor, noticleg the gloomy ap pearance of the yerlh, asked tiaa If he erjoyed rc!!oa, and tLt yonrg szua tdl t did uxtll he was carrsl a d!zr axl tlf fjr twciy-Crs eczis r:: li cf tZix t.-rrica tzl emn. Tlzt tt'.J it. liryef M fewUV-nrs!il ?ejsarv t 1 wtiar hr lrd Ts j. gAWs i lT ; .v- ejuV cti- tra,f vtrtt s4 vrccCe vut.- e JiK aad ;.ia ai x-y a r4L.ir Ksrrev-. o ataviiatrt llit viti we go tNw Jer k, lre a r.d edlt gA we xrtu iad lia ecvajji a than asd fraad with the oal? d aad aim to produce fcr nasi her fonr dollars per year, aI to pal the Warper yxUIcaUoii iioasa ol Horace Creey, wWse .hoes tier were aaworthy t eleaa, waj'baited tad Ursd ia juueil add dlgraotM EUft- aer by tie Harper's so eaed "jAurnil el Ciriiiiatloa.- aad now comes Marrieit Martiaeaa to the stand to testify to their gvod- nets, she says oa page S, Tolnast 1st, of her autobiography of tae firm of Harper & Brothers The redoubtable piratical publishing hase in New York. And of such damaged material . . . . ... . . j . a are saints maue la tae reaaa North. After this the Hindoo wor shipping a wooden Idol appears reatouable enough; that the wood Is initnib!e to tht suiotioas it ex cites. Is a disadvantage, but then on the other hand it can't steal any thing. We commend the subject of Piratical Publishing to Mr. "Easy Chair." Under the headiug " Daughters of Adversity," the New lork Herald publishes some very inter esting sketches of women who are clerks ia the Departments at Washington. Among those men tioned are Mrs. Mary E. Wilcox, adopted daughter of General An drew Jackson (and who is also a daughter of General Donclson, who rau with Fillmore for Vice President, and a god-daughter of Van Buren); Charlotte L. Living ston, whose husband was a grand son of tht distinguished Chancel lor; C. E. Morris, a grand daugh ter of Hubert Morris; Sophie Walker, a daughter of Robert J. Walker, Polk's Secretary of the Treasury , Miss Dade, a relative ot John Randolph, aud niece of Gen eral Winfleld Scott ; Helen McLean Kimball, widow of General Kim ball, killed in the Mexican war; Sallie Upton, daughter of Francis Upton, of Brooklyn, and Mrs. Granger, the widow of General Granger. A good illustration of the equal power of two votes Is gtven in a story, which seems to be common property, of Judge Story, which he was very fond of telling. One cold and stormy eloctlon day he felt his duty, as usual, to go to ths polls. He ordered his carriugo for this purpose, but Just as he was getting In t sudden thought struck hint. Turning to his colorod drlv- er,he said t Have you voted yet?" "No, Mam Story, 1 was waiting to drive you first" MWoll,M ro pliod the Judge, "add who do you Intend to vote for?" "I shall vote for A," answered the driver. "Well," continued the judge, laughing, ''I should vote for B to you may put tip the carriago again, and we will both stay at home and pair off our votes." The coachman was of equal lm portance at the ballot-box with tho learned Judge. " Oh, I'll have a blazing lime on the fourth I" yellod a boy from the city hall steps to anothor in the yard. " Going to shoot off your mouth sneered the other. "No, I alnt going to Bhe-oot off my mouth, but I've got a 11 io cracker as big as your leg, two hundred torpedos, six old muskets and t sky rocket. Mam sold the stove bilcr yesterday for lemons and sugar, dad is around trying to pick gooseberries for a pic, wo'vo got the dead thing on & yearling ehleken, aid If yon want to see the goddess of liberty turn hand springs over tho clothos line, yoa come around and look through the alley fcuce." Pin-I.BACK8. There was the land grab aud the salary grab, but the most universal grab since the day the children of Israel grabbed quails ia the wilderness, is the one made now-a-days by every man wife or sweetheart, at she drops her left shoulder, gracefully swings the upper half of her body around toward tht rear, grabs a handful of dirt, straightens up and moves oJwith a face full of holy and calm content, and an aureole of serene satisfaction illustrating her conutenance. The idea was prob ably criLbed from the devil by ob serving him pick us his tail, tuck It over his Ic't era tzi tasstar el ca a rrczt It tcoti the rtari s:: tzl krr:z:j.-C:3. zq. ;spnit:c su::::er GOODS. Wt are nw cpHin our stock V4 m mi baaiuUl - tat N GOOPS, walitiag of the latest styles of Pffflfc I S M W Lir.3r.s, Lawns, Ribbons, Hotions, utir saciv srt uvutu s i a- . HiVvnutt't I . I SHOES r wiJe exreslv to our crder, ef 'he b laaurial, aad gcaraa- teed to give sattsfactwa. GESTS" FCRSrSHISG GOODS A Ur sskx. NOTICE TO PLANTERS. We are aeau for the sale of the i Pluvnix Cotton Gijis -roR- HanUrs Cotton Ptess, Shearers Cotton Press, AXD Portable Engines, and take this method of notifying those of need of same that tney will find it to their interest to buy of us. Call or send for circulars. Is j JXO. II. NELSON k CO. Juno 23, 3m. L. CA5TAL, FASHIOIJADLB BOOT AND SHOEMAKER. 0- rl have employed three good excellent Journeymen, and 1 am rcpared to nit ait orders with lat ATCU. stof oa nit it.. CstMr isssst aul5,'76. Greenville, Miss. HcLEAIJ GHOS. DLACic::.m:3f Wagon-Makers AMU MACIIItllSTS, Xtanufacturtn and Stalen, GKI3KKVII.LB, MISS. Would l-ORIinntftillv tiifni-m tliu I public that our long experience n the above brnnnhoi nf nnr tumi. iu-hs aires us navaniages ror meet - 111! the wants nf thn IrnilA nrhlMi no other house in our line In this uv puR808ics. aii we asK is a lair aim lmDartiol trial. We keep constantly on hand and for sale a largo aud woll seleoted siocr ot Ins, Btssl. Vtgon Wood Vtrk, Plows til Flew Material. and everything in our line at re- uuceu raic. Machiho and Boiler work done on snort not ieo. PALACEJALOO.'I. A. SEXTON, PBOPR. Mulberry street, . Greenville Having Just opened the above owoon, i rcfmcctru v Inv t Vieuds and tho nuhiin my trial. Tho bar is supplied with the B88t Liquors, Wm, tzirl1 epeclcatlozi and nr. Aits A FINE TEN PIN ALLEY ins been fitted up for those who are tonii or tins healthy sport. Octobor 21, 1876. REFUGE SAL00H. HAVIKO Now fitted op ate mm Isbed my Saloon, In the Larg8vTwo Story Bulld OK MULBERKY ETliilKT, CKDXtt TBI ncu::3 Club C::r.3. I ROW HOLICIT tht PCSMC PATBSXAIi -f' 3 DOT TUB J BEST Boor 5! - ALWAYS LiqUOKS KEPT, dec2$ i ,1 OB y. iur:o, lws s(s cx j. l. z:::zt lissidtnt VcrMit. ORKSXYUXI Oflcs sv-ttstrs em a n rtswc,'s sum at, star.4tU7l. 9 CALEUDAH rot TUB J4NT ART 3 skuiltt'i TiTTI CO TEBKl'ABY Si 4 X7IAC: llti-'il'H Especially TOTE n i 11 lifU Mi! gSj.iI'r.a, Greenville AND TBI COUXTIX8 Of APRIL 1, SI S 41 S) 6! 3 itiolu i-.'u I... ...... r v tCommunlcatiors of I?r 1 1 tercst in these counties soudUl. CO MAY ..I.. II i 41 s SI 7 SIS Ml lib Ujl4 1MIS 17 1 II ALL MAXKSB OF mm Job WCJ CO tsse BstHy, CsestsaSlastSatt:,. TIIIEO, Jt'JOt i i t t IS II it ttnsj'JSjfll BUILDERS, UiNDERTAC DEALERS IN Sash, Doors, Blinds, "RESPECTFULLY solicit tha attention of tho Planters, r-:"' x Mochaiilcs and the nubile trenerallv to their ,rt rc l t l""' I A'lantQtion and Duildersa' IIapc!t7r.r. PAINT, OlJLO OUR LUDDGD V IS WELL STOCSSD WITU t At reasonable prices. We !ave added to cr . plamiko kills ;.., .:;.:::.. Iu the country, which enables us to GREAT ilEDUCTIOrj CJ P. Emlmatcs made on Building or Mechanical we: Our Uiulortakingf ' ucpanmenr is f. fiiniUhcd with J MrTAMCaiid V Wooiir. Cab or an sIms. A HOME INSTITUTICIT, With tnple OttSttl. irki-h ADJUSTS PAYS A. VAN ............ " ' 1 1 m J "; V ' CX - Dcvcicd cc C2 r CO I U (0 r r Paint, Oib end GI: AUD QZ1 Txrzixtlct- TfcaXTc;liC ) tistrs t ' ) ir'tr.Uacf TfctXTctliC tr..::3, t: Yt-y r ka t r r in 4 LOSSES PZ0:Z?Ll : "cowr; : .mole;. Co,cf : C v v A ::!::