North Carolina Newspapers

y 1TETT BLE1TE JOUEITAL. MEW-BERilE Ju'J. :i BATES OF AIVFI!T1MN. ! !? - otte wools - in nm.mm ccrsrtf bljC '-V ftaTBH . aCBfiCBieWO!:. ' " ; J.. ... lhrN monlh.'... 4nrlrcoIiimh one u eeir.. I JbtW eolmuH our ,wrk..i,v...... v v ; " ; , t on nwibM. jr. H W, II IH PER, Proprietors. INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS. Termi 0X3. OO PorTToar. " ; nnrNlnino tm -k.. OBcnoaib. On X.i ' . , , , one year Six Mota Contract for aterliiiif for an v i"n or lira may l made at ilia nifW r Hie ' VOL. V. NEW BERNE, N. C, MAY 25, 18K2. NO. 7. , Banna JotnAU, in llii HrlcU Hi.x k, Ci-. ,'1 Street, New Heme. Korth Carolina. 1tetrta Stank .lwy Ml h4",S 'Hew Journal. --"-.;,i r.ir. a- -a..'- ciiMSTjUjar. v V Uk l.....lIf . , : -f i t ' ' , - K . - Opposite Oaaton Boose N eW Bernei NVV . wunnn: in the rtats ato ml Coarts an4 irpiUrlr Mtond aJl ae- "Coons tn iouowibi Funlioo, Co; i t - : .. 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The Old j JiortU Statw Forever: Tbe trutli. b that North Carolina was Besignf by . Nature to become the dat of a ereat and' self-sustain- inl xJation, corarriainsc among - its i j people cjery branch or industry, un like toe Agncuiiurai oiaies. oi lows and J Ohio, br. the i mannfactnrtng States,' of . Massachusetts and Jfew York, :-;wev have ! a combination of both, together with all the adjunct ive and conjunctive - attributes . of both.'.-.:- ' .-v .', "'ii;-; To comprehend this, it ia -necessa- ryjor onti(erpr.ea;re:Iherh7thff -bood in hls mnacj member two things; 1st. 1 hat Northj transformed into untiring force. Carolinais an: immense'parairelo gram. COO miles u length," stretch ing East to West, and rising! stepbjr step; in billowy terraces, f om the rich flat arlTaeetf fjRtoanaka Island, where the first "European;" foot . trod American soil', to . the storm . swept pIa4ean''.t6CroM'&afioti;'he still higher,; pk . of . 3IitclielL , the highest land east of the Rockj.Mouri tains. . 2d,' That North Carol ina is mid way between the Iakcs - and '. the Golf, the Hot States, and -lhe. Cold, the cotton eon ntry and the corn ! - " - -: So to properly 'classi fy the State you roust divide it . into . a North, a Sontli, an East, and a west, Carolina; four slices each of them 3 larger than Massachusetts or Connecticut. These four Grand -Districts ijnusti- next be nub-divided into Eight Districts. :i ). In the i.M?gti CmF&iUlyft9, trict are the- bulk of the. fisher ies, the largest Inland Fisheries in America-? Sweet potatoes? and . tim ber i; are i siex 4 in I ihi portance ; truck farming next! fMT I rThe Second, Congressional District has probably the best cotton lands of the State? with the bulk of the pea nuts, and the trucking, though con fined to a few localities,' ; CAIsd some fisheries and . Na val stores. ; ' . .; ' '.-The Third (gremdtpistrict emhraeesfwith ihe'ebutteof Robe son : and jRichmond; added J-hearly the entke Tary PitcH and Turpentine traffic of the Statel Also the rice; and a1 sharej bf?"fhei3ahutsif.Ium ber'Btc.I'jy ; The Fourth Congressional Ifist'ricf comprises the great :bqlk of the to bacco crop, .and. ; its manufacture. Theite?are.i special Iocalities1which ra ise, and man ufactnre; but .the area is small comparatively. i :"r She Fifth Congressional District comprises the duJk o! the ! manufac tories; there being some 20 or more cotton factories in the two counties of AUamance: and, Randolph; and per- haps half as many at other points. :.; The -Sixth Congressional JHstrict is a long, strip : of counties ' on the Southern border nearly all differing; but all Very productive. The - upper end of the District; includes the man ufacturing cou n ties of Mecklenburg, Gaston, and Catawba (a dozen ; facto ries) and the; mineral counties of ; Uu ion, Cabarrus,' Stanly, Montgomery, and Lincoln. - ; - ' ,.The Seventh District takes 'iu. the vast , area ofr highlands, embracing timber, stock raising, grain -and fruit, minerals, i and a - larger " number of small distilleries -.than any . simi la r area; .'.- I'. ; - The Eighth District $s -called thet .Mountain District, but -.'.-comprises-" 01 counties, some of which, are -. mineral, like Cleveland, Rutherford, Burke, McDowell, Mitchell, ' Macon, et al; some are chiefly adapted to grazing; some ' have, splendid . tobacco, " corn , asd wheat lands; and all. are noted fojf tb?; finest; ef lumber : and fruit Indeed the prevalence of timber: and of fruit (whereeuUi ;mine1aiwliere-spu ; manufacturing facilities, 'water pow der, etci forbids the claiming of a Mr nopoly by any one district. - But it will be seen that each of ; the Eight Congressional Districts in to which the ' G counties of North Carolina are divided has its special i Lieainrf irom wnicii tne intelligent; reaner may get a lair idea et tne ni Tersity in ; climate, soil, and indus tries of the so called "Tar. Pitch, and Turpentine" State! Scnppernong. The Tokay Vineyard heal- Payettt -ville planted about twenty-five years ago by the late Henry L. My rover, more for a "pastime -.than for profit has been extended every year, until, under the proprietorship of Col. Wharton J. Green, ii haj asRiimed huge proportions, as one of the groat industries of the State. Col. Green, a gentleman not only of fine culture and AttAinmento. hut of mileh hnainesa i.lJt,4 ' a...! Anarrrv liAa nu? o uina trade which ven his great wire cel lars Van scarcely supply. His Con cord wine is pronounced by connois enrs to be equal to the Claret; his scuppernong, Delaware and other wines command a ready sale at home and abroad, while be manufactures, "champazue" that is as good as the large proportion cf what is bought in this countrv as "JJry Koderer or "Green Seal." Before the Scupper nong matures, the early grapes come Jon; and Col. Green ships thousands of - boxes of Dela wares, Concords, : Ionas, &c., &c., to New York, Phila-1 delnhia and Baltimore. The table j varieties are not grown as the scup- K . . . ' pernong, on arbors, but are trellised, pt pruned down year after year. When the Bcuperii:)ng is ripe all the women, boys and girls white and black through the surrounding country, who are in need of work, are employed to gather the harvest, and they go over the ground with great cloths which are spread on the ground, and the fruit is earefnlly picked or beaten off, and conveyed by hundreds of bushels to the vats and presses. One scuppernong vine, alone, at Tokay bears every year, it is estimated, 100 bushels, and there aie many which produce from 25 ; to 40 bushels. Farmer' and Mechanic. ryspepsiH at tlio South. TliroTkfirkata ia mir nnfinunt nlivain. and k logical ailment, im o class ot persons ' We pele tnat.tne Midland is - now is exempt from it. -tl, man should be I making cohsidefable headway in ad able to eat freely," and . to enjoy the j ding repairs and pushing; their wor'c. eating of all sorts of wholesome food, j Steel, rai Is are beingjdistributed ; near It should' give him only a sense of ? this city, acd very soon it is expected new vigor. He should have no more to have five miles of road of entire thought of the digestive; process that ;new steel rails, while the old iron is to follows, :thah the woodman, as he ! be used in repairing . other, parts of swings his axe, has. of the. process j the road. It is also thought that by es is Man was made to eat and to enjoy hiB eatingas truly as were" Bis fellof--f creatures that roam , wild in the pure air and the free sunshine; v t . Civilization "alone ls-ftot the cause of dyspepsia: neither is our nerve stimulating eliinate.: Poor food, bad-1 ly cooked, has much to do with it. Our fashionable ''staff of life' pure white bread-is a very weak staff to. leaia'-p&i-.-. ' -.-..-fc.W--.' . If exemption from, dyspepsia is to le found anvwhere. one would sup- pose it crald;bf found among the:rw- rai jMij)iuaiu)ii vi lue sunny ooutu. But Dr. Barnch, in the last annual report of the; South " Carolina Board of Health, says that the ailment is of great frequency among them, though wrongly called "li ver complain t" a disease which is comparatively rare at the .South. ., The symptoms point solely to dyspepsia , and they arc of a verv-marKed: cuarae'er. , Dr. Baruch finds the cause mainly in the food and cooking. The former is chiefly salted pork and corn meal. The combination is nn unfortunate one, inasmuch as the meal alone con- ..ii.-rr .i: j- r'- a l t ' laH.att iiuj iat (xtniuoniy. neeueu hi the Sou tli. ; ' But the saltinff of the pork -reduces it8:.ndarisritig value.'' orie-halfaiit t't the same lime makes ; it harder of digestion. Hence, the work of the j "a glawoe at thf. situation. stomach is increased two or three-fold j . In order that, the Farmer & Me Moreover, tlie matter is made still cAflnc readefs may Lave a deaf idea worse by the general custom of frying almost everything capable of being cookedjj3;lh.at,way,5 r - - ; ; The Medical Recorder calls the fry fog-pah- the: bete noir of the hy- Narrow Eseape. 7 finaiijpnce;c6mpkined list's charge of one dollar for extract ing a tooth in a minute. 'Why, said he,' 'our old doctor would have . been twenty minuts, and have- pulled me all about the room, and he;, wouldn't have .charged but a quaterl' , Tne Burlington Haxckeye has " discovered a near relation of this' fellow's, and thus reports him: ' " - ; . A native of Flint River township went limping and groaning into the office of the new doctor with the blue and gold sign, and .the Latin diploma, and th4 new buggy, and r the ; chest nut horse with a blaze facei:" . 'I've got the rhematiz, doc,' groan ed the patient; 'my whole back is jest gone. with ;$ it I'm one-. broad ache from thehack of my ne-k clean dowu to the hip, i I'm a sufferif:' . the tor ments of f of '' t''Let;iite see your longne,' said the new doctor. 'Ah, ve?: I 'see 1 ee, That Will do. Tke this preSCrip tions get the medicine and use as di- rected-.MxThree dollars." 'Thunder!' exclaimed the afflicted man. as lie hobbled away. Ef I aint the luckiest man on I(Jint niver Three dollars for lookin' at my tongue! i An I was jest upon the bare potiit of askin' him to look at my whole Lack ' "And he breathed hard as he thought by what a narrow escape he had saved his whole farm from bein taken by the doctor. Afpx.' If. Stephens for Governor. s Atlanta - Ga . .May ',16: Nine lejoiing independent Democrats met hefe to-day and issue t an address to the people of Georgia, indefinitely postponing tne mass meeting canea for June 1, and urging the party to support the Hm. Alexander H. Stephens for Governor. The address was signed by V. H. I'Vlton, .lames S. Hook, James li Park, F. M. Berner, If. V. M Milton. Allien Howet, P. F. l.awshc, W. M. Bray, and M. Van Este.s. LNeasant Itcpoit Ahoul I'rlncoss Itcatrioo. I Ik London, May 10. A despatch from Berlin to the St. James' Gazette 8a'S it is Stated that a marriage lias been arranged between Princess Beatrice, Queen Victoria s youngest daughter, and Pi inc Krcdorick Wil liam, eldest son of the Landgrave of 1 1 esse. 'ii;ifor Hill's Condition. Little Rock, Mav 15. The latest advices from Eureka Springs that Senator Ben Hill, though patently slowly improving, is i condition to excite doubts f his mate recovery. say a ulti- Tbe man whoso wife has not yet finished he r spring cleaning must still : be on the list 01 those to be pitied. , The Midland Railway. The recent action of the Directors of the A. & N, C. Railroad at their meeting in Raleigh portends a con flict with the Midland road. They adopted a resolution reciting the fact that the Midland, in its lease of the Atlantic road,; had covenanted .not to sub let, mortgage, or in any other way consign .the said leaser and that the said Midland had contracted to build a railroad 1 from Goldsboro to Salisbury in three years, and to pros ecute ilhej work: with ; vigor, and as this was uofc being done a forfeiture was rendered' liable But the direc - itors very wiselv decided " to take no ! immediate action, but postpone it for I : two weeks, so that the lessees miehti i LovAnnnrliiiiitv tri ovnlainr I the middle of June the rails will be laid to Smithfield. ' ' ' i , We think, with Uiis, showing that the Midland can1 claim that they1 are riushinEr'-their work" .'with-' reasonable diligence, althoughIt iar very proba ble that the action of the directors of the Atlantic has helped to spur on the work. But what .will be tlone i about the I mortgage; given by the Midland, is the next question.; . y hi le the Midland j road has no r right, according to the terms of the lease; to mortgage the (Atlantic road, yet the fact of its having so acted . will not j ustify the directors at this time in commencing a suit to declare a forfeiture. We pass ho judgment as to whether or not the suit would be successful, but tako the ground that the stockhol ders would not wish the lease forfeit- ed unless some tangible danger was to be apprehended. , So long as he Midland complies witlr the , contract aa to keepirurtlie . Atlantic. -road in goodr repair, and' in pushing the con struction of the road fronf Goldsboro to Salisbury it will' be satisfactory to the people'at large, and, the' directors r would not be jnstifledin entering into i : i :... i. ia long, expensive ihwsuii- lur Hiere technicalities. - ' ; We add below a statement of the i Fattier, & h Mechanic' as to : Best's workings: ' Mr of the situation., we state that iivlSSl, after . W- J. Best had completed-his little' scheme with the Westetn N. O; R. It., he arranged with Capt Apple ton Oaksmith and others to come to Raleigh,, and get a charter for a new scheme "The Midland N. C. R. R." eo-called- to run from sunrise to sunset via New Berne, Goldsboro, Salisbury, and Ashpiville, embracing the existingr"New Berne-' R. R., and "Western N. C.--RR., under leases, or such other combination as might be possible. After getting his Charter, Best or ganized an outside "Construction company," to build the link between Goldsboro aBd Salisbury. This com pany has thus far laid 4 miles of track, and graded 14 additional miles to Smithfield Best's official statement of his operations up to the first of January is as follows: KEOKIPTs. Total amount received from stockholders Interest Total I DISBURSEMENTS Expense For organizing com pany to'diwe....... C.'onstrnctioir.-.., Kquipment Two new mih- senRer care ...a Investments tl.(Ki in the new congoli diited 10 pr cent. 1 t . i' . V. .. t . .. . .. c ,..300,(K)0 00 ... S,7C7.67 ,.$a3i),7fi7.87 $2,072,16 K--i.l.-i 7.M74 Wl i North Carolina, coKt 4,:.-,,77.. (Hi ,1:; Riiroa.i stock n, no j Xlri?& ixihi.. ..if fi fllil.Ta. ; 2i,473 1;2 Toial 3.'i.7-;7.(J7 , Thr. pomniny also owns n7,&HO of ilu M.tlOO j i sharen of the par -value of 1100 each, in tlie- mpi tal slock of ilie Midlnnd North Carolina Kailway i I'ompauy, the sne UeiQr helil in trn"! by lhe i treasnrerof the Midland Iinrnv mi ni anil Con- j struction compan(y,-jrtii:i i) i iome of its di-1 rtM-iors, J line ,s, HS,. ; It is perhaps proper to .add that' 2o0,.000 of this sum was deposited in 'he Boston "Busted1' Pacific, though 'it is said the "Atlantic's" money is safe. .Mr. lieBt also gives the .data of the earnings of Berne R. R. I Goldsboro following the New to More- head, Do milaj for succe'edii'fr his lease the six months which, we be lieve, began July 1st, loJSI, and was to run 30 years at $40,000 a year, rental. Earnings to December .'1, 1SS1, 72,862.10, being an increase of IS per cent. or23,720 over same months of the previous 3 ear. The operating expenses, including rent, amounted to $63,365.02: net earnings, $9,496.18. He adds that $11,232 02 had been spent in repairs and improvements. There is no doubt that Mr. Best has greatly improved the road, and enlarged its usefulness, a-nd benefit ted the region through which it passes. This we think is clear, from a comparison with the condition of the road one 3-ear asjo. There is also, no doubt, that Mr. Best's schemes for short line "Feeders" branching oil in to the adjacent regions will do more for Eastern Cart linn, we mean the Neuse River, region than the much mouthed '"North Carolina System" would have done; so that we, if a Di rector of the Midland R. !., should promptly vote to give him every fa cility for carrying out his plans, pronaea lie went aneaa ana .sitotced h,i nriiinl irnrl: that lie mpant htisi. 1 -a . 1 -1 -1 -, ness I Unfortunateh, for public faith, bis "Railroad talk" for two years pans' out only four miles of track . From The Detroit Free. Press. THE OHIO TO THE SEA. FROM The Battle of Chickamauga, "What Rragg Could Hare Bone hut Didn't Do. "And t lie Left Stood Firm And LeftFonghton." the Never was a general more surprised at anything in war than was Rose crans at the action of Bragg after the latter had evacuated Chattanooga. He seemed to be in full retreat, and vet just as Roseprans had disposed of 1 H's frce8 80 as to fall upon the Con- reuerate rout, ne iouna ijragg "ovt face and even ready g,n lhe fighting. at an to be- OS THK LEFT. Crittenden's corps struck the Chickamauga at Gordon's .Mills, where the Lafayette pike crosses, and Tight there he struck Bragg' s" battle liues. That point was the extreme Federal left, and the first hot skir mish took place in the woods on a farm belonging to a Mrs. Perry. When the heavy fighting , occurred nearly all the fruit trees on her place were destroyed by shot and shell, and the house itself-was" struck seven times. After Crittenden had felt the ene my sufficient to discover that he was in force, he was ordered to hold his position while the other corps were hastened up. A LOST OPPORTUNITY. ' ----'."-- Bragg's spies penetiated the Fed eral lines and discovered that Crit tehdon's corps was alone opposed to the whole Confederate arm v. Bragg, then, had only to seize and hold Ste vens' gap to prevent reinforcements, and fall upon Crittenden and anni hilate him. Bragg laid the blame on Polk, and Polk on -Hindraan, and Hindman on some one else that this was ! hot carried out, A division of the r Confederates marched through the woods and struck the Chattanoo ga highway a mile and a half in rear of Crittenden, and not a Federal could have escaped . by that route. 1 When Crittenden realized his peril he threw up such defenses as he could,: ! kept up a brisk skirmishing all along j 1 hi3 front, and see.v.ed so full of fight that he. was not attacked, inese breastworks can be traced to-day to their farthest limit, and the scars of i shot and shell are yet visible on j every hand. , it was nearly a week before the advance of 1 nomas corps, filed through the gap and closed up ' cn Crittenden's right. Even then Bragg could have struck a great and j certain blow, but he dallied. McCook was still three days distant when ', Thomas arrived, and yet Bragg did ; not attack He could have aunihv; lated Crittenden, scattered Thomas,'; and then gone in search of McCook, taking all in detail; but it seemed as if he wanted a square fight, army to; army When McCook came up he formed on the right of Thomas, and j the Army of the Cumberland was ready for battle. MOVING BY THE FLANK. Bragg now began moving by the flank, to pass the Federal left, and this threw Thomas from the center to the left, with his left flank on the farm of James Kelley, and his center ! pushed on the second day's fight, and fu ... ; ur-ti n WnnrlnWlfiB 11,11 I I, n AAVltAM ... n the hill was occupied as a hospital. BRAGG'S ADVANCE. Bragg was ready by 9 o'clock on the morning of Saturday, the 19th, it being September, 1863. His whole army, having a front of nine or ten mues, out as croonea as a ram s norn, to conform to the -Federal line, ad vanced at the same moment. The Chickamauga was no obstruction and in less than half an hour three miles of living wall was advancing straight upon the Federal Wi. thk o.uorxn. Not twoulv acres of that hat lie- afield on the left have been cleared oi 1 trees since the tight. The ground is almost as the fierce fighters left it. It is a general wilderness of oak and pine and scrub, breaking away here and there into small farms, "and con siderably cut up by gullies and ridges. Every orchard haB its scars every house its marks, and men and worn en live there to-day, who saw it all and learned something of the horrors of wa r. T.f.ST AND KECOVEKKl). The attack on Thomas was ho sud den that two of his divisions were rolled hack inftide of ten minutes, and for a limn it seemed as if his whole corps would give way before the: storm. Then came the rebound. A min who has been knocked down must recover a little before ho is ready to punish his assailant. When Thomas found (hat tlie enemy were upon him, and that the battle had opened, then; was no further retreat. The Confederates surged 1 01 ward time after time, but tlie Federal wall could not be shaken. Then it was Thomas' turn. That whole corps was taken. in hand as one might grasp a bundle of sticks, mid at a signal every bluecoat advanced straight upon the enemy. The re bound had come. Back over the ground they had yielded over tlie tlead and wounded marching in solid columns and with sw inging step, and furious s the fighting was it did not check them. Walker was driven, Cheatham was driven. Stewart was driven, Cleburne was pushed into the swamp, and the troops of Hood were struck in flank and driven into the timber. Foot by foot, checked here and there for a moment, Thomas r,,.nlin,l frtHiTnv,l nr,l,l Usi fusucu 'n,fliu "c half ti mile of ground had gtined beyond Li- lines of the morning-. There 1 oth lines stood firm. IN THE CENTER, The fight, had been hot on the left for thirty minutes before Bragg'a center struck Crittenden. , VVhtuthe atorui came it burst suddenly, and with great fury. Advancing here iu three battle lines,, the Confeder ates pushed on over a half a mile of ground with hardly a..halt. The right was appealed to for' reinforce ments, and when Davis' rushed his di vision ii.tu the path of the victorious enemy there m-curred a hand to band fight it a front three-quaiters of u mile lull-;. Nineteen years have only partly hiddt-n the evidences of tliat bloody etrwiigl'!. There are oak trees showing tiuv marks of fifty ballets. Where Davis' left closed upon Crit tenden's right, apple trees as large as a man s arm were cut down by bul lets alone. In a small clearing be- yond what wa the Davis place, sev enty-eight Confederates lay dead . .branches flung; for rods around. '..The a quarter of an acre- and - along 'theodor ' -- -of I -death "'.is, there ., yet," fence at which they charged half a regiment were wiped out bj a single volley. But Davis was pushed back as well, and but for the arrival of 'Thomas with reinforcements, the 'Confederate advance would- have separated the center from -the right. , Where ,Ha zen massed twenty pieces of artillery on Indian knoll and poured in 'such showers of shell and grape that whole regiments dropped Sat:, to, escape tnem, m a iieid at growing cora.il Down where his missiles found vic tim?, the sweet potato vines -and, the blossoming clo ve r hi Je many an V iron messenger 'of death. Where Negley and. WoO 'came up just iu - time to save Bradley,7 and fell with awful ' fn rf upon the troops of "-, Cleburne and Hood, there was fighting as terrific as veterans ever saw. - Trees ate chip-' ped from root to points twenty .. feet high, and fence rails are Shotted with ha If-buried bullets. The dead on. this front lay so thick at sundown that the wounded could not crawl away. ' ' ; f OX THE EIQHT. : V There was hut little fighting on the Federal right. Lbhgstreet's men. were' not all up when the " advance began, and the Confederate1 left ad vanced very 8lowlyrand made no . de termined attack. ' ; v ,' ' When night fell victory ' stiU hov ered between the lfoesfTheyieder1; al'left )iad held itsgrouQd; .Vo-witK' the right. The centerT.liadt'been pushed back until the lines must' be shortened. ''Bragg was well o'ver" the river, Longslree't's men" we-e all up, 1 ana wuue ntiiner army nad lost nor won the battle, both bad lost aud gaiued in : ad van tages which might tell on the morrow. IN THE. DABXXESS. Under cover of ' the flight, ', not a camp fire lighted on the whole Fed eral front, and hardly a Federal .sol dier able to quench his .thirst or .ap pease his hunger, ' Rosecrans short ened his lines u mile and a quarter securing such u .strong position for his right flank that McCook closed up on. Thomas. - Thomas was given a reinforcement of about - 10,00l : men. and Crittenden was held in reserve. to reinforce any part .of the line.:;: i Under the, same friendly : mantle jsragg received about b.uuu reiatorce ments, shortened his lines and massed to the right to meet Thomas JTue order of battle, was to be the same. Jhe ,il,.t ,wae VII8wi? at the whole line followme: and it; Was intended to strike the .whole Foil oral line at once. Such an assault . is sel- I (Jm' checked, but Bragg did.'nob take j swamps, creeks, hills and Undergrowth into account. Neither had he allowed for delays in Urioging up the nmmu- j union trains Til K SABBATH MORN. Every Federal soldier was in line before the sun came up. In the darkness they had thrown up long lines of, breast works which can be traced over tin- meadows and through the wootls lo-.l.tv, and Thomas had faith that ho could repel any assault. It was ex peel t-d at sunrise, hut it did not. come. II was 'Jo clock before a sudden crash of miifketry told that ttragg's right was swinging. ,...., .r.,..Kf,v The Confederate skirmishers were not ten rods ahead of the first of three lines id" battle. The first mus ket shot was followed so closely by a thousand that its report was swal lowed in the crash. The Federals were wailing. Every gun opened with grape and canister every mus ket had a dead rest and a fair aim. Thomas' whole front was a sheet of Maine within five minutes after the first crash. The first Confederate line of battle dashed straight on, al most reached the edge of the flame at some points, and then disappeared. It did not fall hack on the second. It was shriveled up and withered. Out of companies numbering fifty-five uu it in that first line only two and three were left, alive, tine regiment in Cheatham's division numbering f7 1 men, lost -nearly 400 of its num ber. A SF.CoM LINK. Moved op to charge over tlie dead, and it reached the breastworks and fought over them before it was anni hilated. There w as a tlead Con fed erate lying before eveiy living Fed eral, and yet the smoke had not as cended tothe tops of the voung oaks and hickories when A THIKD LINE Came dashing foi ward, followed by heads of columns. Negley came down from the right and threw him self in front of Cleburne, buttheCon federates seemed turned to devils. Yelling and screaming and utterly reckless of life, they dashed al Thom i V w bole front. GRAPE AND CANISTER. 1 heard a , soldier sneer the other day at what he called 'the grape and canister taffy" of war. Stand here With me on rowder iiill IleTCt were massed twelve or fourteen guns,'. and for half an. hoar tbey used noth ing but grape and canister, - pouring their doses into Cleburne,! Cheatham and -Walker..' Follow ' me down to where the Confederates -were . -struck by this storm of -death.- Hera tU - a hollow into which three hillsides, dip; it is a spot comprising half an acre of ground." .In this basin that day lay the ,,blpody. fragments of .500 .Cou federates. Heads "and -.limbs : were torn off, bodies shattered, men- bored with holes through whichvone- could thrust an arm. To 'the jright were scattered more of the '. horrible - frag ments--to'lhe left winrows of dead. Thirty rods 6f.:a!'brush,ffence; was swept clean away. '1 YhoIe tops ; of Ecruo oaks t .were .. cut on , ana . me I l '- d'll'--e ' '' -il i - rri i and witnesses yet, live who Telt; the horror of that shower of death.) -f-1- At noon that gtimi 'delefmlned and reckless advance of line after line was beginning j to '' tell.:1 Brigades '.here and there were wavering.'as-if'forth er defense was ' useless,' and directly di visions began ' to Val 1 ) baclc; Hnd Thomas sought ; jto hold them there might have been .a panic." .Jri fair'or-' der they fell back, the right protect- ed by a wooden spur of Missionary Ridge :the left on- the 5 Kelly , farm. Had Thomas lbeen;. alohe ihere7 op posed by a fourth more than his imm ber, he co'uld have held the .Kne,;-;' . -.,' ' ' THE , FATAL BLOW'. .4 j ' ' ' " - : : - . " .f-, ' , ; iii But Longstreet was -; pounding away at McCook, in the same reck less manner, and' also '.pressing1 him buck,' and Sheridan was. fighting as he was never called ;npon'again. Just after noon, in' reinforcing- n threat ened point; a gap of a 'quarter of a mile was left in the center. "Polk's left and Longstreet's . right saw .the fatal error and rushed, into the gap with cheer? which were heard a .mile away,, above lhe' crash of battle. They . came in column -ot .assault, faced to the right and left, and closed in on either Federal flank with' such yitn sucu; -broke" in f a rush that whole divisions " 1 " ' " V,"" disorder. -' - . : THE BIGHT AXl ; CESTER XiOS&, Sheridan stood after the center had gone, but he had to - fall ' back i or be flanked. The cround over which he iriicoicu,. fciuujtiii(j .eici j - jiwv V" yielded,; shows that he made the ene- my pay for, what; lie . secured.; The j right of the felt wing .doubled back, on the left' instead of going Iivilh the rout, and the' eagle eye ofThotnas saw the ray of' hope.'' With the enemy pressing both frbnt and flanks he re - formed bis little 4 army, caught tip and - positioned - the two . brigades brought. up by .the gallant Granger without orders, and i from , o'clock uutil darkness fell "Thofiias was the rock and the Confederate . army the wave which burst upon 'him' time after time, but always to be shattered. 8NODGRA3S mix At 3 oock In ibe afternoon hill, which the men . of the North have named after Thomas, but which is still the habitation of the' old man Snodgrass and rcalled ' after M him ' throughout the section, was a mon ster hospital. There are about1' fire acres of clearing directly, around , the bouse, and tbis ground,, was , almost packed with the wounded from the Federal army. The fight v raged - to the right and 'eft, but the. yellow flags were respected." Confederate cavalry had psuhed dowh ;'toi,'the' Rossville Gap on' the right;, and down' the' Chattanooga, road to the left,' and Thomas -was : not only 1 flanked but three-quarters surround-ru ed. : Every man knew that the right: and center were gone, but never a line waver cd or a regiment gave ground under the terrific fighting of the afternoon. "FIX BAYONETS." ' ' , Hat the men in the center and on on i. did the right stood to their wolk art j those on the left, Bragg' linesof bat-: tie wonld have been repulsed'al every j "hYf! Wine for-' n 1 poini. iierc, wnu an exn numbering tnree to one driving lor : ward on center aDtl hah it. there was ! no fl inching. Men w ho bad fired their sixty rounds emptied thecar tridge boxes of the'dead and turned again to the foe. The sun bad gone down' when Bragg made his last dash.. It was not met by a line of flame this timP. but bv .h lilirof ImvonaU..! . i , i r . u,e l" up aut, sprang lor- ward. Noon found Thomas then ' night found him still holding "every foot of ground. He l: Ind "saved the army. I fere was a rear guard n bulwark over which Bragg could not break. It was n heroic, and yet a vain fight. Thorna; must fall back, and Hragg could justly claim the gen eral victor)". Till: KKKfl.TH. t)ne who rides over the roids siul the positions wJI gay that, h-d lragg pushed forward that night one col- ' unm down the Rossville and another by the Lafayette road he could have ' gone into Chattanooga. The right1 and cemer were badly demoralized, and Thomas could not have secured ammunition for much further fight-i ing. Indeed, a prompt movement '' would have blocked him up in the Rossville road . j The Federal loss in killed and j wounded has been given as low' as, G,000 and as high as 10,000. Con-j federate official reports show about the same scale of figures on losses. The Federals captured about 2,000 prisoners the Confederates ever 0,000. They captured over forty pieces of artillery, upwards ol 12,000 stauds of arms, a largo quantity of ammunition, stores, etc, and demoral ized and penned up a grand army. As to the relative strength, neither North or South will ever be satisfied I. Bragg' official report shows less 48,000 men in action in the la-t C. fight,' while he estimated the Ft ' ' force at about G5.000. Federal i : toriana claim' an even nnmU-r, place Bragg at full CO.UOO. j Rosecrans did nit Select tlie UwiV ground. : Circumstances - drew 1 tlvere,' but yet they weie circurn cesof his own inakio. ... Ilepirr : " Bragg to .Tnislead him. He j ! i Crittenden in a position of peril, i i with him the other two corps. 1 it. been Jackson instead of F.r; t the Federal army would luve 1 . ' attacked in detail while f:(rci and te corps isolated., It wns n : rect , order , from . Rosecrans opened, the fa Wl 'gap. , The t'-, ' : made a heroic light the left n Chattanooga. '. Rosecrans had s' center -nnder Lis eye,- and vt t it v (Touted with two divisions in mrrv The North won Id have iriven him an other 'chance,"; Teinrmberinir i ; i gallant ; fight ut" Stone River Grait, would not;, and If K- was toga whohnt the grim oi l 1 of the left. should carry the f'i -r lt: VI'. Cumberland. ' -' ''M. Qi: Chickflmauga Ga.: - ; Saved ly n Shadow. ' i. ..vy, .'-' ' The"; shadow" is a fin i!:. poets..;: 'Life is but a walking f ! says Shakespeare, and li ft peaks of our acts as 'our faul owi that walk by tis'fitill.' jeauing clergyman in" rrsn i - was a Confederate stout in I' ( ,Yar has goml reason for f; iS- a shadow in more joyous w r ing that by it ho was saved fi death. ' A writer in the I'liiln I j Times lell the story: " .The house ,wai surrounded. '! scout took in everything nt n tr;! and determined to try to cut hi through 'the Union soldier" an I i the chances. ! But tlie ladirs i . en ted to! him! that thin win'tc it death. They could conceal lm a Hi is assented. Tlie young 'ladles "aclcd pint ! 0e ran" to the' wtndcw. and : wh0 t,ere!f wtie another k.i,i., t. r.. i . the backdoor that in front heir,; , ready fastened. . . . Dr was tnen utirned nn t caybn-ti of llio ladies accomn l;mvit mm io enow Dim I is UhJin p . . f l,en W ; 4 ! OOOr WBS tnr-t HI m.l i troopers swarmed into ih 1. . . . , S-4 had "been conducted loapu bare of all furniture, but fom) '. ., lav voonahe sleeneis of tL r. ,;,. aad by lying down v,n thrte a i 'might conceal himself. He r. - 1 quietly afid stretched hlmcclf pt f length, and the young lady .return 1 to the lower, floor. From hi i 1 ( lhe scout then' beard nil that v aid in-the ball beneath. , , , ,'.Vh3reis the guerilla?' exc l.u'mr 1 the Federal officer. .r , ...' 'What guerilla?' asked one of ti c ladiesY- ". ).' ' The rascal S-." v . v - Vt ho has fcor,. wnni n untrue, me oc.-cr 1, and I am not Jo be trilled wi h. I shall search this house. But frK read the orders to the mcn.' he ldcd, turning to a' sergeant. . The sergeant obeyed, ul 8 J is tinctly overheard . the reading if ' Lin death warrant v The paper 'clironi cled his exploits,; denounced hira as a guerilla and bushwhacker, and dh rct ed that he should not bo taken alive ,Thii was not reassuring to the tcout concealed under , the. rafters above. It was probable that.be would discovered, in which case death would follow':1 "-'Hn. ,v ;., .j , ,. "Thero was but ons thing-li do--to sell his life dearly. '. After rnnackintf every room "on. the, first and jocund' floors, the troom ascended to the par reL . Tie Jadies .had. alWmpted to divert their attenlioii'.rroni Jt, Jnt me of thiem flsked, ; '. , k What room is that up tberef , 'The garret,' wNsthtt reply. - g... 'He-may -be there-Mkbow the -way.' 1 ott see- the war. returned- see- the war, returned-lh young lady. ''I do pot wish lo go up 'n ,hetVIBt it! would soil iioy dress. 'You go . "before,, then,, said the I trT l" Vl'61 ,".' n- mmie (.u rurry n- Jigoicti canon?, n,y night had come now.-i w ' , ... im. I l. j i : 1 tm 1 ; ' "'". Wrt8 noh?', VP- i , ".'V f "lJ VZr- 7 mci ti . uic ii iu ii r fir1' heard "the feet and , . ''"Th. ll.rl.i ( streamed into the garret, and be fnw j the , f arret fill wiiU troopers. , . I lis 1 discovery seemed ertaip . J I o a nbont to spring' dawn and C re, when th men growled,--' t U- i . i There s nothing- 'Here and went1 down lhe'fairt again. '-' ', ' The Mcrvaut gj'P.had sayet hliu 1y ; a inse. She hatl taken her aland di--rcctly iK-neaJh the broad plank, upon, ; which S wns extended, and 4 ho . deep shadow bud cftnCealett bioi.. To this vrise be Umtbtle'si (iwexl Ida life. ': - ' - . an.'- "Whipping, 1 ittle1 Dele ware clinga to Hie mem--oi ies of t he past with uimsnil lenaci. ty, She alone V)f Ii IHhfl Stales tiow ' resoi ta to die' latfr m n. putiiahinenl. ',' The ther day five' peraonS were , whippel at Wilmington iu lhat Stale by tbe aheriff. laoao Harden, white, a well-known thief,, received twenty , lashes, which mad a little Mood trickle down Ida back. r William Car- ti, white,' a Philadelphia 'thief' was giveu twenty laahes; which also drew ' bhod. Henry McGregor," whiteTTt-e- v ceived five lashes with perfect com posure. William Miller, colored,. re-., ceivrd twenty lashea, aod then turned t several aimcniHa.J- Nathan Demby, a simple negro,, laughed - heartify while hi five lashcst were beiug ad minitderetl." JV irrnl Observer, with, presumably- official i TV T