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FEARLESSLY THE RIGHT DEFEND IMPARTIALLY THE WRONG CONDEMN. : TV VOL. Ill, POLKTON, ANSON CO., N. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1876. NO. 10. TllE'BMJE AS1) THE CttAY. : !f BT.VVILUAM WAlD. ' Eb thin band resting on a grare ITcr !ip3 apart Iny ray or, A mother knelt and loft bcr tcara Uju tUe,vkJeHi there ; ( . 0' r man j a rood of valo ana Un, Of hill ami foreat gloon, Tlc reaper. Death bad roTelcd in lit j fearful. 'ham-8t hoiac," Tlio last unquiul sumuier shone " Upon a fruitless frar ; . Trom yonder forest cfiargod the Blue, Down yonder slope tbo Gray. llio bash of death was on tbo scene, And aunact o'er the dead, In that oppresriive Bileutnesa, A pall of glory uprvad : 1 know not, dare not question now 1 mot the gh6tly glaro Of each cptarned aud btiilw, Luw, That shrank and whitened there. I knew my noble boys and stood Through ail the withering day I kaew that Willie wore the Elue, That Harry wore tho Ora, I thoagrjt of Willie's clear bhiJ o job, Ilia wavy bair of gold. That clustered on a fearless brow . Of purebt Saxou mould ; Of Uarry. with -bin raven locks And eagle glance of pride ; Of bow they clasped cach-ot hcr's hand, , And left their mother's wloj fit' A toblo heart beneath the Bine, ! i) Another licatu tho uray. The ilcad, with wbito and folded hands, That bushed our Tillage homes, . lvo ccn Uid Tahulypleiidcrly, . Witbiu their darkened rooms ; But hero I distorted limbs, . ' AndTnany ail eye aclar, In the o ft purple twilight of The thundcr-tmitt6a air ; loipg the slope nd on tho sward, In ghastly ranks they by. . , , , . Aud thtra wad blood upon the Blue, And blood upon the Gray. '!"''! ' ' 1 " ' I looked and saw bra Llood and bis A bvvift and kvivi.l dream ,Of blended year dabbed o'er me ; then Like some cold shadow, came A bliudoess of the eye and brain; . The same that eeizca one When men are smitten,, suddenly, - Who owistaro the sun. And while ,buxicd .with the eudden rftroki That 8tf my Hptrl Llav-; "i r- .Vi Thy buried Willie in bis Blue I jAncllianj; io hi Gray. ; 'The Shadows' fall npon their graves, , They f&ll npAn 'txif hcarf, ' ', ; AihI though tho twilight of my sou), Like dew. tho tears will start ; 1h tarlight coiie bo eilenify, And linger where they rcstT . . lf.-jH-'a revealing staiitght falls And HinL.8 Within vay breast Yhey will not Mk in yonder Heaven. Wht-ru smiles ctcaual day. Wliy Willie wore the loyal Blue, Why Harry wore tho Uray. T!ic 13d N. C. Rcslmciil Dnr?:; the War. 7Hfi3 frcn lly Old Camp ripe. V ji : : . i On ti c morning of tho 9th of Oct.. the hentl of -our conlmn was mcvod in tho direction of tho m 'Untains, ami thoa who had enrmiscil that a dcmbn&tralion waa to be -made against Muade, who wis rc. tin in comparative quiot on tiio Railroad, arouud Culpeper- C. II.a - now wero B&ti-fied, that finch was tho intention of Gen. Lea. The fine bracing air of this mountain region ouabled tho troops, to hold np. remarkably well on the steady march. But it was agrceed by all that it added nothing -to tho pleasure -of ti uecp wade' .tnronh" thoso cold clear s roams, which rushed down frjui tho slopos of the nioan'aitip. It waa a sight not to bo forgotten when one standing at a Ford of thoso rivirs could look back, aud as fir as he could 6te, tho whole line had preparod for the plunge, by appear ing in partial dishabille. Crossing the 'Rapidan at an old milt, wo passed on over the Robertson river, aud bivoucked for the night 8 miles from Madison 0. II. Passing Madison and wading II a zle river, we now como to tho inevi table and nnmistakablo foot-priut rof the enomy, as seen in tho general devastation that every wLcrogiootod the eye. r . . . ; Nesr thilInjgo o JcffersOD, our advanced cavalry strr.ck the Lenjy's cavalry, . nnd a heavy ruuuing sklrtn. ish OMSbod, which onded after night f ail bejrond -the celebrated Warren ton Springs on Iledgeman river. At Jefferson, tho enemy had constructed a lariicudo across the principa1 street, of labei, bodsteadp, bnreaqp, chair, vragoiis, &c , which wero of ixa much strtice as tho ono roved to be that tho Pennsylvania Mi ilia con btructed near Chambuisburg, by boi'diuga xail fence acrosa the road. We passed the rains of the f p eu did Luildii gs at ihi Splines, just at 1ak, hut enough was seen to. justify tho popu!artety in days gono cf this npltndid ro3ort for tho fashionable and wo-ilthy. Tho next day we pass the town of Warrenlon, where tho admiration aud devotion of the uoblo and bert.io Virginia women, to car trusted leaders Loo and G to wart, was excxnplficd by the daughters and matrons of town crowding around and c inging to them. Reaching a piece, of wood, 4 miles 3. E. of the town, about 4 o'clock p. m., we were ordered into camp to cook rations. OurUiigado was already noted for its skill in capturing wild.gamo, but it j success, witbiu an hour from the time we halted excollod anything it had. yet accomplished, ever the cap tureof a rod for in an opon field, at Summorville Ford. -Without filing a gun, they very soon had a wild tur key, an opossum, eovcral mouhtain partridges and rabbits. When surrounded by a regiment of yelling rebels, they seeuied to bo attorly helpJosp. Moving out before day, pass Gen. But tie's Brigado and catch some of the eloquent appeals as he addressed hif men, thore in tho 'h izy mitts of tho early morn and vory ' soon, ti.e crack of tho Bharp-shootors rillos told us that his fctiuir g tsentences had a purpofco iu thorn. Tho di.y was consumed in a tunning fight, iu -which wo Lil cd, wounded and cap tured several of tho ei emy. By tir cu.tuus and obbcuro routes, often patsiug for milos through fields and and roads, cut out by cur pioneer corps, wo at last, on 'approaching Bristow Station t on tho Manasaet Gap liailroad, found by tho roar of mu8kutryaud artillery that wo wtro itvcloso proximity to the body of the enemy. Moving at a rnpid ruto for about throe- miles wo wero halted just after tho batt!o c'ojcd, ia which CQook's end Kirkland'a Brigadcs.hat been engaged and lost abeut fo hundred' men. $-V 0 (Tcrbc Continual ) f Mr. Tcduiiclc and Ills Cow. Mr. Ptdunclo rent out to milk the other day. Now, if there a one thing Mr. lVdunclo prided himself upon, it is his perfect command of a cow. With his bucket on tho ground he milks with both hand, and nings meanwhile, 6c casionly bestowing a word of warning upou,tho cow if she whisks her tail at him or tries to scratch hor back with her hind foot. On this occasion ho had nearly finished and was siDgiug cheerfully : 0 My 6oul (o now I) be on thy guard. '(What in tho Egyptian sandhills ails ibis cow?)' Tcu thousand (thunder and borax 1 stand still !) foes aiiso And 3 Mr. Peduncle raised him self up from the barn floor and wip d the milk oat of -his ears and nose, he saw up in the luft the wife of his bo- so m with a long switch in bcr hand, with which she had been tickling tho gcntlo animal's nose, and bhe said in an awful voice : 01ivcr Peduncle, I reckon you'll wrap your old tobacco box in my. hand kcrch:cf again, next Sunday, won't ye? and have me to take it to church and sling it out on tho floor hey?' ':Vfhcn ho milks now, Mr.. Peduncle sings very softly, indeed, and keeps ono oyo on tho loft. An Unsjmpalhlslng Voter, i They Bay that the politrcan who isn't enthusiastic in the cause of his pariy is nopoliticran at all, and this may be the motive mental power which force? sorao politicians to extremes. In a charter election held in a West ern town the other 'day, enthusiasm ran higlrf and both parties made u live'y effort to get out tho fuil party vJto. About an hour before the noils closcd it was di -covered .that the lead-1 a 1 1 ing candilate on one tickot was one voteah?ad, with no-prospect. that he could secure another vo'c. Theppo Pition polled its full strength, but sud denly remembered that a faithful mtniicr was on a bed of sickness. A carriage was driven to his house, - and tho sick man's wife met tho committee., at the door. - My husband is at the point of death,' she sadly roplied to their interrogato ries. . 'Cou'dn't we carry him on a lounge ?' queried one of the men. 'Ho may not live two hours,' she re plied. ' ' r 'Couldn't four of us take him on a bed?' continued I ho man. I think ho is"dying even now,' she anwerod 4Does ho know we are here ?' 'Ho is unconscious.' " Dear n.e !' sighod tho man, as ho turned away, '1 don't sco how ho can wilfully and deliberately lie there and die when his ono vote would scoop the opposition higher than a kite 1' A PITIFUL APPEAL. V Snffcrlng and Starving at Adam's Uuu, Colleton; S. C , , -To the Editor Jf the News and Cou rier: ! 1 i am requested to forward to you tho enclosed preumblo ai d resolu tious with request to publish thoin. . 1 ou.y add that tho condi iuu vl the colored population Loro ia de piorablo. At au assembly, or over thirty mou of family on Salurdny, 1 asked each how much corn ho had, and one bushel was the in oat that uny oiio had. While I writo two old women sit u my stop tauug, ihKy say, tuo uiai od thoy. h.-tvo tasted tor tiiciitj-fuur yurs. Twenty bunhols ot corn r.nel one ui.dxcd aud tveuty pounds of nieat frecotyod through Mr, Wm. Hood fxom tho citizonsof Due West (some ol which I was permitted to use a discretion), Iras giveu.tumpoiary re lief to a few; bat aid niuht be eccui od. T. S. :Waiitj a, M D. THE PREAMBLE ASD RliSOLU TI0N8. At u meeting of tho hiborit.g jfar raers 1.1 tlio nt l-niborlioou, ueld at Annavicta this day, Mr. diaries Gar rott wus appointed chairman and Mr. Jonas Simmons secretary. The chairman explained thut the of the mt otiug was to mako a united appeal to the public for aid, and i ff.;rod the following resolutions, which wero unanimously adopted : Wnereas we, representatives of the farmers, have mado every effort t suslaiu ourselves yet fiud want, aud Oven starvation throatjning ns; and whereas, unless aid come fiom ome source it will be impossible to mako our bread for next vear and honeo nothiug bat want and continued quucrmg must tollow: tnereiore, be it Resolved, That we immediately re - quest the press genet a'ly, and the Charleston News and' Courier and Waltcrbora' News, specially, to make ourwauts known to assibt us in th.s, our time of soro Lied. Jiesolved, . That Dr. . T. S. Waring be rcques'od to continue aiding ns by extending his notice and receiv ing ouy contributions of money or pi o visions ihiit may bo sci.t for ns, distributing the same as they come promptly, as many jf our old citizens are already feeling the panys of hunger, and more icill rapidly be added to the number.' ' Thero being no further basincs9 the meeting tLoa adjourned. Br. Waring has consented to ac as rcquefte 1. His post office is A 1 am's Bun, St. Pau-V, S. C. Ili freight depot is 'Iteveuel S a ion, Savanah aud Charleston t'aiin ad. Jonas SiMiioNs, Secrcti.ry. A raw eg mixed with-a litt'o bu gar, taktm every morning leforc lru lvf;4ht- i At fl iVt d lo hn nn ii.fnl'i- j e cllrcrfor cb .c,0' ri i. How Grant's and BabcoekV 1 Friends Live In Jail. r St. IiOuis, May lO.-Unclo Billy McKec and Col." Con Mcgruo arc ma king iherrselvos free and easy In .jail. They occupied, respectively, cells 98 and 100 las t night, 99 being u ed as "a store room for the comforts with which they have provided themselves. They retired quite lato and were up vory early this morning. Not be:ng locked up like other criminals, th ;y came out on tho balcony, and tilting back in cano seated chairs, spent a fow hours in reading the morning papers, re ceiving callers, and discussing the situation. About noon they retired to thoir cells to rest or to meditate, and did not make their appearance for some time subsequently. -A contract has been made with a restaurant, un der which they aro supplied with regular meals, composed of all the delicacies of the market. A boy has been hiied to run errands for them,and a colored man has been employed to come every moruiog and make up their beds j and set their apartments to rights, j Slander The piblio muti who tries to aubwer evei y sian !er tet afloat against him wll bo kej t as buny as a thin-skinttcd fiherman on a salt moadow in mupquiio timef lie .nay kill a dozen iormentorp, but a hun- etrtd will come to thoir funeral. Ilappji is the man wlio can sit uu- moied in the presence of partisan malice, and feej ti.at htsjreco.d is all right j ai d that the coi.fi ience of the people in his ; intg ity cannot be shaken by tho idle breath of blunder. ZiVathinglon Republic, . V. - A Strike In South Carolina. A stiike, which bids fair to nd in bloodshed, was Jnancruratcd last Tuesday among tho negro laborers of tho rice fields akngj tho Cornbah'.e river in lower S-u'h Carolina. Tno id a with '.he disaffected laborers scon s to be not to work for the white man except on such terms as they (lho htborors) may fix. The strike at firt was mdorato iu cl araolor,' No depredations wore made at first on cithor persons or property. But as the movemont spread from p'nnlatiri to plfintation, from tho Combahe" t the Ashepoo, it grow in numbers, force and vio lence. Non-strikers were driven from thar work m tho fields; -some wore forced to derond their lives against the mob ; otbor were whipp ed for refusing, to join the rioters, and all' wotc terrified. - Tho strikers have cut many dams en the Anhcpoo and and flod.d the crops with watery and the wok of doslrurtion seems but bogun, as tho spirit of violence among them is growing every day. Armed with clubs, they go in bands of from fifty to a hundred from place to place . inciving othbr negroes against the n hi! e. The white people in that section are at the inercy almost of those bkek sav iges. In the locality whore the strike originated there are about fifloen hundred colored men to's'xty whites. Governor Charabcr'ain was appealed to for protection by the non-strikers and cHzns genoraily A Trial Ju.ico namjd B.rF. Colcoek was appointed at once to quell the disturbance. As soon as this was known a Radical politician of tho in cendiary class issued his orders and had Legro emisarics di patc?ed in all directions, patroKng the counfy, de fylng the Governor, and swearing venffcanoo against Colceck and his family if he dared to act. Heie the matter res' syacc-.rd ing to our hitcot advices. llal. News. To Di3Tuoy Issixjts. Di-solvo one pound of a!iim in two quarts of vra'er, and: pour it boiling hot into crack and crevice"? infested insects. Two Splendid Nominations. Tho best two nominations for the Stat Ticket we h tvo seen is Calvin H. Wiloy and Gen. D. II 11.11 for the office of SujVrint- nd:nt of public4n: sti ucl ion. They are both eminently practical and fit men for tho p!ac and wo sha 1 be heartily pleased to soc o'thor of thempnt on the ticket. Mr. Wi.'ey h- s contributed mre val uable 6c. vice to the Free School sys torn in the State than any oilier mau who has labored in that fluid, and has tLcitf to a proved fitners. Gon. pIitl's riualilJcafionH are undoubtod. and being a brother editor we shall be proud to see him honore d by a position the duties of which, if tic'-s coptod, we kn-.w will bo performed with conscientious fidelity, IFtffcA tiian. An Indian came to a cortain agent in the northern part of Iowa to pro curo Bomc whiskey for a young war rior who had been bit ton by a rattle Bnake. "Four quarts 1" ropliod the agent, with surprise ; as much as that??. "Yo-V roplied tho Indian, "four quaitj snake very big." Thirty Seconds Too Late Rov. Mr. Bell was alwas always pubctuah Wi oover might be late at meding, at tho funeral or anywhere else, thoy all knew that Mr. Bell would not. If called to attend a wod: ding, his foot was on the doorstep and bis hand on' the bell-handle when the clook was s'riking tho hoar. It was, at first, quite annoying to Lis flock to go according to their old habits to a funeral, and meot it on the way to the crave, or to a w elding, and to find it over before they th ugi t of gotting there. So old Mr. Slow waitod on tho minister to ark him why ho 'was always in such a Lurry, and so afraid of being too la'e.' . f 'We 1, my good friend," 1 will tel. you; ana n, niter lienii.g me, you do not think I am right in this thing I wiil try to alter.' 'That's sare ly fair,' Blowly mid Mr. Slow,-' as if afraid to commit himtelf. ' When 1 was a young man, au( had been preaching only a few months, 1 was iuvited to go to a dis taut town and preach to a destitute people; I w-nt for some weeks, and then returned home for a few days, promising to bo back, without fail, thj next Sunday. Well, I had pleas ant week among my kind relatives, and was so engaged that I hardly thought f my solumn dntios, till Saturday returnod, and then my sis ter and a beautiful friend , of bors porsradod me to go out a little while in the little boat Ciudrralla, on our beautiful lake. The day was fine, and Cinderella span and darted under mv oalra as if a tliincr of life. When we got a?h-m, t found it two o'clock and I knew the cars started in fifteen minntesl " 'I left tho ladies and ran home, and caught up my carpot bag, and ran for tho depot. I saw tho cars had arrived. 1 hUnrd the bell ring. tWith all my strength I ran; i saw thorn start. I redoubled my efforts, and got within fifteen feet of tho cars ! Oh, for thirty sec mds morel Thirt) ecouds too lato'! No more 1 The next day was a fair, S'ill, aw et Sun day. My mountain people gaih r:ji. comii g down from the glens and fol fol'owiug the rf.lp, filled the bouso with wurship. Bat thero was xo minister; and tho hungry honp tad no shepherd to feed them 1 JIo was thirty secondsloo lac ! 'There was a poor b'ind man, who livecj four mi'es from the chnrrh, sel iom could Lc get to meoti og. Thay d; y be ate breakfast early, and his little grand lUghter led him all the way down the mountain to f ho church, flow wo-ry, cad and disappointed he wa -! Theror wai no minister to cpeak to him. He wa tliir y : econs tno 'ate 1 a nick chl-d op ov tl.o 'lo.8 of tl.Mnoiiiulain , i m -1 I a-itl rho had been inqt llllOll Ml th week lor her hiiu inter. She wjus ho aiii ua to ,-co him, ami have hiiin pray Vi;b hnr. 'I I l' ' '.!' t . a . . . ... now si;u umiiHi iuo uoy . wueu . Iiti would bo itivtv 1 liJt uo I b Wan uul 'Ti.crewai gnkt gatharing of childron to the StM.flay aohoxd.. Ami their .itt'e iivi e gli deneI, fur thlr miuisto.' p:omiBe I ip p eadi them 'a litilo sut mou' tu-daj ; eui he.Vts ut there. Hoj was thirty eccoudi too laic! M; -Thrt poor old lind man r.over came to the church agmn. Hn was too fo;bl.'f aud no v(r heart another sermon or prayer. jTLo tuiuister va thiity seconds too la o l' 'That litUejgirl was dead before 1 got back, and 1 could only the J tears over her corpse! uau ien mirvy seconds too late 1 'On my boudo knees I aked God's foiivnefS, aiid promiset Ilitn, that it possible, 1 W oald never agaiu be thirty eeconds too late I . 'And now Mr. Slow, am I right iu punctuality ; j 'Well, 1 it don't look quite so on aonablo as it miLh.!' Aud if it is not well to put off th rca things of lifo, is it finfo to put off pr paraliou furotcrni y? Lddctjd, Take Ui Paper. Btard what 'mi: . f aud pay up : lIomo3Bay8, pindor Why don't yu tak the papers ? the 'ro tho life of my dcj.ighl, oxcopt about elect io a iLue, and then I read for spi'.o. Subscrii er you can't lose & cent; why should you bo nf raid? for Casli thus sent is mLui y lout at interest, tour-fold paid. Go, thca, and takcj the pipers, and pay to-day, nor pay dotay, aud my wprd ii io iufurredj, you'll. lie ontd you ro gvttj. : vij u.u uuuui mine, .wuiie dyiu0'jota cough, douired to Leijr thcr Iu teat hows w-illo he was going ff. I took the paper and I roj-d of some neVv jpills' -iu f Vico ; ho. beiugt a box -an J ho in dead t uo hi.nri v n-i n hn.an il l hiinw two tilfilL ii i i " " ! . . as aiucn aiiKO a o er you aaw two "stumps; and no pLrouoligist could find a diilcroiiCy j u their bumps.- (ine takes the paper and his lilo is. happier thau ;a king's, his childro i can ull road and write, and - talk of lion and things. The other took no paper, aud, while stroljng throagh the wooel a, tree down and kiled him 4-'very good. Ujad he boon reading oil the news, at home like ibis niigU- bor Jim, I'll beta cent that accident would uot have happened . him, f r ho who takes the jnajHr, and p y his bill whou due, can live iu peace witn every man, and with the printer, too Relics of Aanliu! rY .Mr. i V I ! : I I" Fster wlio is hat ing a woll dug on Hunover, between Th.rd and Fourth btroels, informs n!a that at the depth of thirty-four fee t, .hrongti solid son t ho Tamo to a cyprrsj log. Iiwer down, or tlf1riyM ux fet Iwlow tho surfico, was foiin 1 a pine log. "The body of ! th j latlrr is comi-'r iflyr decayed, but1 1 he kno s, w hich lx ar tlio appearanco of having beoo eh '.p 1 .e l off, probabiy wilh i nl India! touialiawk, a.o erfoctIy solid fin 1. Hound.' How mjtnv c iiturre- bsg lasted since thM logs coinKed-n portion of the fi ifost of cynrDtra and piue whicij fl nirisln-d in h'U lx-ality, and nniler wh 'H i I ranches tho wil 1 nDoiirines i uunu 1 aud poxto I, is I! V hard to U -JL'-l HV. Star. Watts, says j Hampton; denervei not j bo ief, ! Ilafuptoii, fayn Wttti 's both 1'ar.ai.d, ; tbi-f; On inly no J poijit tliir agreement is Loi.rry Both own thiy belong lo tho Radical pirty lit ye ftity Made. When are t) j4Tnio wa'9 not eyv-? WLeu hem wat'jr. .ho wind makca
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