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Cftromtte anti Sentinel. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1877. LINES TO MY PEARL." BT “ANEANTISBKMKNT.” I. Tna on one d*rkoome d.smsi dy. When Autumn'* miet* were oold And grsj,\ The wind* hed chilled the roeee to death, Killed them with their pitiless bresth. When mv pesrl floated downwards unto mo Asa cherub from Heaven would flee.l And nestled close to my desolate heart. a. I held her long in my love! embrace, Caressing and kissing her beautiful faoe; Such a winsome, tender, fragile thing ! As sweet as the song .the seraphs sing ; How strange that I this blessing should see, Mv daisy from Heaven to come to me. To love and to cheer my desolate heart. m. With Heaven’s light in her beautiful eyes. As blue as the radiant starry skies ; Soft cheeks tinged with the sweetest bloom . O ’ dear little face, that knew no gloom. Hands like the lily, so white and so fair, With a smile on her face, she floated here To bless and to brighten my desolate life. [for the Chromate and Constitutionaiist.] THE LEtiEND OF TIIK CYPBEM TINE. BT ETHEh HATTON. L Tes, He was dying upon the cross, His lips were parched and dry, Twas Christ wlio groaned in agony ; Twas God who W - to die. EL And the scourged and bleeding Saviour, Asked, his burning Ups to lave— With but one cod drop of water; And vinegar they gave. 111. At the cross there grew a cypres* vine, That reared its star blooms white: Kach filled up with sweet pure dew drops, Caught in the passing night. IT. And they must have heard the Saviour’s voice Ask for water in His pain ; They stretched their dainty arms to reach The poor lips. Lot in vam. T. Keached until they were crushed and broken, Still they held the dew drops sweet, Until wearv and despairing. They lav them on His feet. n. And time these flowers, red with the hloed That trickled upon them there, Were made the emblems hors on earth, Of sorrow and despair. VII. And thus are these tiny drops of blood, Now forever stretching up — As if to give the Saviour drink, From ont their ruby cnp. ■ W.ii - - —- THE MORNINO STREET. Alone 1 walk the morning street, Fill’d with the silence vague and sweet ; All seems as strange, as still, as dead As if unnumbor'd years had fled, Letting the noisy Babel lie Breathless and dumb against the sky ; The light wind wsiks with me alone Where the hot day flame-like was flown, Where the wheels roar’d, the dust was beat ; The dew is in the morning street. Where are the restless throngs that pour Along this mighty corridor While the noon shines ?—the hurrying orowd Whose footsteps make the city loud— The myriad faces—hearts that beat No more in the deserted street ? Those footsteps in their dreaming maze Cross thresholds of forgotten days ; Those faces brighten from the years In rising suns long set in tears; Those hearts—far in the past they beat, Unheard within the morning street. A city of the world’s gray prims, Lost in some desert far from Time, Where noiseless ages, gliding through, Have only sifted sand and dew— Yet a mysterious hand of man Lying on all the haunted plan, The passions of the human heart Quickening the marble breast of Art— Were not more strange to one who first Upon its ghostly Bilence burst Than this vast quiet, where the tide Of life, upheav'd on either side, Hangs trembling, ready soon to beat With human waves the morning street. Ay, soon the glowing morning flood Breaks through the charmed solitude ; This silent stone, to mnsic won, Hhall murmur to tho rising sun ; The busy place, in dust and heat, Hhall rush with wheels and swarm with feet; The Arachue-threads of purpose stream Unseen wit'in the morning gleam ; The life shall move, the death be plain, The bridal throng, tho funeral train, Together, face to face, shall meet And pass within the morning street. [John James Piatt. TWO. High on the hills Lord Heron he dwells; Rosalind sings on the moors below, Watching the bees in the heather-bells Merrily swinging to and fro. Young Lord Heron lias left his state. Donned a doublet of hodden gray, Htolen out of the nostern gate, A silly shepherd, to wander away ! Rosalind keeps the iieart of a child; Gentle and tender and pure is she, John, the shepherd, iseomely and mild, Tending his flock by valley or laa. Never a avim has whispered before What sho hears at the close of day; “Kose of roses, I love thee more— More than the sweetost words can say. “Though I seem but a shepherd tail, Down from a stately race I came; In silks and jewels I’ll li&ve thee clad. And Lady of Heron shall ho thy name.” Rosalind blushed a rosy red, Turned as white as the hawthorn’s blow; Folded her kirtle over her head, And sped away like a startled doe. “Rose of roses, come back to me, Leave m# never !” Lord Heron cried; “Never !” echoed from hill and lea ; “Never I" the lonely cliffs replied. Loud he mourned a year and a day; But Lady Alice was fair to see. The bright sun blesses their bridal day, And the castlo hells ring merrily. Over the moors, like a rolling knell, Kaaaihul hears them slowly peal; Low she mourns: “I loved him well, Better I loved his mortal weal." '‘Rest, Lord Heros. in Alice's arms; Mho is a lady of high degree; Rosalind hath bat her peasant charms; Ye had rued the day ye wedded me.” Lord Herou he dwells in his castle high; Rosalind sleeps on the moor below; He loved to live, Bhe loved to die; Which loved truest the angels know. —Hose Terry Cooke. WINTER. I This poem is the la"t d*® series entitled “The Years of Sorrow." A n ‘l written during the Irish famine in 18-19. No poet bad ever a theme more grandly tragic : a nation buried in a single night under the double pall o. snow and famine ; and grandly is the theme em ployed.] “Fall, snow, and ceaso not! Flake by dak6 The decent winding-sheet compose : Thy task is just and pions; make Ail end of blasphemies and woes. “Fall flake by flaks ! by thee alone. Last friend, the sleeping draught is given ; Kind muse, by tlieo the conch is strewn. The couch whose covering is from Heaven. “Descend and clasp the mountain’s crest; Inherit plain and valley deep; This night on thy maternal breast A vanquished nation dies in sleep. “Lo! from the starry Temple Gates Death rides and bears the flag of peace; ’ The combatants he separatee; He bids the wrath of ages cease. ’ ‘Descend, benignant Bower! But O, Ye torrents, snake no more the vale ; Dark streams in silence seaward flow ; Thou rising storm, remit thy wail. "Shake not, to-night, the cliffs of Moher, Nor Brando ’s base, rough sea! Thou Isle, Tho Bite proceeds' From shore to shore Hold in thy gathered breath the while. “Fall. snow, in stillness fall, like dew. On church'e roof and cedar’s fan. And mold thyself on pine and yew ; • And on the awfnl face of Man. “Without a sound, without a stir. In streets and wolds, on rock and mound, O. omnipresent Comforter, By thee, this night, the loet are found! “On qnaking moor and mountain moss. With eyes npetaring at the sky And arms extended like a cross. The long-expectant sufferers lie. • ‘Bend o'er them, white-robed Acolyte! Pat forth thine hand from clond and midt, Aud minister the last sad rite Where altar there is none, nor priest. ****** “This night the Absolver issues forth; This mght the Eternal Victim bleeds ; O winds and woods. O Heaven and earth ! Be still this night. The Bite proceeds.” [Aubrey ite Vere. THK "BONK AND SINEW” Of our country Lava often—especially about election time—been made the sub ject of laudation; but when those useful parts of the human structure become too visible in consequence of leanness, they can scarcely be called graceful. The eye delights not to dwell upon an gles and ridges in either man or woman. Moreover, extreme emaciation ia a sign of imperfect digestion and consequent poverty of the blood. Both these evils are remedied by Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters,ywhich render digestion and as similation certainties, in oonseqneoce of which the blood acquires richness and the body substance. Thus are the hol low places filled up and the angles rounded off. Through the instrumen tality of this peerless aid to digestion nd promoter of physical well being, the body rapidly gains in vigor, color re turns to the hollow cheek, the appetite improves, nervous symptome vanish, ana a healthy impetas is given to every jital function, nou6-tuthaa&w GETTYSBURG. THE DECISIVE BATTLE OF THF WAR BETWEEN THE STATES. The tccaut at Ike Battle Writiea It Cea. Lttna*treet—Hls View, af the Heverae twell’s Inaetleo— Gallantry e! Geerrfa Treapa—Leaastreet’s Protest Acalaat Plek eti’s Charge—Am Alleged Chaaga at Plana, Etc. Hie Philadelphia Weekly Times pub lishes an extensive paper by Gen. James L jcgstreet, giving a narrative of Gen. Lee’s advance into Pennsylvania, from the inception of the movement to its disastrous close, including an aoconnt of the battle of Gettyabnrg, with a re view of the campaign. General Long street tells some things that have never been tcld before, and reviews the opera tions of 1863 from a point of view that is in many respects more advantageous than is possible to any other man now living, since no man now living was so prominently concerned in them. The point upon which General Long street main'y insists is that the cam paign into Pennsylvania, while offensive in strategy, was intended to be purely defensive in tactics, the purpose being to choose a position in the enemy’s rear and compel him to attack. It was the abandonment of this policy that, in his opinion, led to the fatal resnlt at Gettys burg, and this mistake he believes to have been not a matter of deliberate judgment, bat “the impulse of a great mud disturbed by unparalleled con ditions.” In the absence of his cavalry Lee moved into Pennsylvania as one walking into the dark, and it was the rep irt of a acont that gave him the tirst intimation of Meade’s whereabouts and turned him aside from his march on Harrisburg. The encounter on the Ist of July General Longstreet shows to have been wholly accidental, and it was then that he believes Lee committed an error in not either vigorously prosecut ing the temporary success, or else ma neuvering so as to compel Meade to make the attack. When the assault was made on the 2d it was by Longstreet’s corps alone, whereas, it Hill and Ewell had simultaneously advanced, Meade might have been dislodged. Bat that attack sufficiently showed that the Fed eral poattion was then impregnable, and Pickett’s charge on the third day was a hrlurn hope that ought never to have been made. These are only some of the main points bronght forward in Gen. Longskeet’s paper, a large portion of which is occupied with defense of htm s“lf against the accusation ut tardiness. After the battle General Lee said to his officer*; "It is all my fault,” an acknowl edtfmeDfc of the man, and which his eiibordihlM have so far re spected as to Uy the responsibility any where but on him. Lee seems to have been carried away bv over-confidence in the prowess of his troops, and to have believed that they could do anything. “The enemy is there," he said, in reply to a remoo.Wftflce against the assault on Gem. tery Ridge, ‘‘tull to strike him.” * On the morning of the Ist Genera* Lee and myself left his headquarters to get her, ami h&4 ridden three or four miles when we heat'd firing along Hill’s front. The firing bspaup* HO heavy that General Lee left me and hurried forward to see what it meant. Alter at tending to some details of taf march I followed. The firing proceeded from the engagement between our advance and Reynolds’ corps, iu which the Fed erals were repulsed. This recontre was totally unexpected on both sides. When I overtook General Lee at 6 o’clock that afternoon he said, to my surprise, that he thought of attacking General Mead upon the heights the next day General Lee was impressed with the idea that by attacking t|ie ffedprals lie could whip them in detail. I re minded him that if the Federate were there in the morning it would be proof that they had their forces well iu ujmd, aud that with Pickett in Chambersburg, and Stuart out of reach, we should be somewhat in detail. He, however, did not seem to abandon the idea of attaok on the next day. He seemed under a subdued excitement which ooea&iottftlly took possession of him when “the bunt was up,” and threatened hi* superb equipoise. The sharp battle fought by Hill and Etvell on that day had given him a taste of vigicry. The Plan ol Attack, When I left Gen. Lee on the night of the Ist I believed that be had made up bis mind to attack, but was confident that he had not yet determined as to when the attack should be made. The assertion first made by Gen. Pendleton, aud echoed by his confederates, that I was ordered to open the attaok at sun rise, is totally false. Gen. Lea never in his life gave me orders to open an attaok at a speoiflc hour. He was perfectly sat isfied that when I had my troops iu po sition atnl was ordered to attack, no time was over lost. On the night of the Ist I left him without any orders at all. On the morning of the 2d I went to Gen. Lee’s hoadquarters at daylight and re newed my views against making an at tack. He seemed resolved, however, and wo discussed the probable results. We observed the position of the Fede rate and got a general idea of the nature of the ground. About sunrise Gen. Lee sent Col. Venable, of his staff, to Gen. Ewell’s headquarters, ordering him to make a reoounoissance of the ground in his front, with a view of making the main attack on his left. A short time afterward he followed Col. Vena ble in person. He returned at about 9 o’olock and informed me that it would not do to have Ewell open the attack. He finally determined that l should make the main attack on the extreme right. It was full 11 o’cleck when Geo. Lee arrived at this conclu sion and ordered the movement. In the meantime, by Gen. Lee’s authority, Laws’ brigade, which hod been put upon picket duty, was ordered to rejoin my command, and upon my suggestion that it would be better to await its ar rival Gen. Lao assented. We waited about forty miuutes for these troops and then moved forward. A delay of seyeral hours occurred in the march of the troops. The oanse of this delay was that we had been ordered by General Lee to proceed cautiously upon the for ward movement, so as to avoid being seen by the enemy. Gen. Lee ordered Colonel Johnson, of his engineer corps, to lead conduct the head of the oolumn. My troops therefore moved forward under the guidance of a speoial officer of Gen. Lee, and with instructions to fol low his directions, f. left Gen. f#ce only after the line had stretched ont on the march and toje slung with Hood’s divi sion, which was in the fonr. The march wan necessarily glow, the conductor fre quently eneonnterieg poiuts that expos ed the troops to the view of the signal station on Round Top. At length the polumn halted. After waiting sometime, SrWWfling that it would soon move for ward, I gout {p the front to inquire the cause of the that the column was awaifipf the move ments of Colonel JohnstoZ, "who leas trying to lead it by some route by which it could pursue its rnaroh without failing under view of the Federal signal station. Looking up toward Round Top I saw that the signal station was in fall view, and, as we could pjaiulv see this station, it was apparent that ,oa* kegvy columns were seen from their position that further effort# to conceal oflrseives would be a waste of time. The Delay oa the .Warufc, I became very impatient at this delay, and determined to take upon myself the responsibility of linrrying the troops forward. I did not order General Mc- Laws forward because, as the head of the column, he had direct orders from General Lee to folio* t&a conduct of Colonel Johnston. Therefore i aonj or ders to Hood, who was in the rear and | not encumbered by these instructions, to push his division forward by the most direct route so as to take position on my right. He did so, u 4 thus broke np the delay. The troops were rapidly thrown Into podition and preparations, were made for the attack. It may be proper jnst here to consider the relative strength and position of the two armies. Onr army was 52,000 infantry. Meade's was 95,000; these ore our highest figures and the enemy's lowest. We bad learned on the night of the lat ; from soff 1 ® prisoners captured near Seminary Ridge, that the first, eleventh and third oorps had arrived by the Emmittsburg road and had taken position on the heights in front of us, and that rein forcements had been seen ooming by the Baltimore road jnst after the fight of the Ist. From an intercepted dispatch we learned that another corps was in oamp about four miles from the field. We had every reason, therefore, to be lieve that the* Pederals were prepared to renew the battle. Oar army was stretch ed in an elliptical curve, reaching from the front of Bound Top around Semi nary Ridge, and enveloping Cemetery Heights on the left; thus coverings space of four or five miles. The enemy occupied the high ground in front of ns, being massed within a curve of abont two miles, nearly concentric with the curve described by onr forces. His line was abont I,*oo yards from onr. Any one will see that the proposition for this inferior force to assalt and drive oat the masses of troops upon the heights was a very problematical one. My orders from General Lee were “to envelop the ene my's left and begin the attack there, fol lowing up as near as possible the direc tion of the Emmittabnrg road. 1 ' Tbs Battle Darned- My oorps occupied our right, with Hood on the extreme right and McLaws next. Hill’s oorps was next to mine, in front of the Federal oentre, and Ewell was on our extreme left. My corps, with Pickett’s divisiou absent, number ed hardly 13,000 men. I realized that the fight was to be a fearful one, but being assured that my flank would be protected by the brigades of Wiloox, Perry, Wright, Posey and Mahone mov ing en echelon, and that Ewell was to co-operste by a direct attaok on the ene my’s right, and Hillsto threaten his cen tre and attack, if opportunity offered, and thus prevent reinforcements from being lannohed either against myself or Ewell, it seemed that we might possi bly dislodge the great army in front of ns. At half-past three o’clock the order was given Gen. Hood to advance upon the enemy, and, hurrying to the head of McLaws’ division, I moved with his line. Then was fairly commenced what I do not hesitate to pronounce the best three hoars’ fighting ever done by any troops on any battle field. Directly in front of us, occupying the peach orch ard, on a piece of elevated ground, that Gen. Lee desired me to take and hold for his artillery, was the third corps of the Federate, command ed by General Sickles. My men charged with great spirit and dislodged the Federate from the peach orchard with but little delay, though they fought stubbornly. We were then on the crest of Seminary Ridge. The artillery was bronght forward and put into position at the peach orchard. The infantry swept down the slope and soon reached the marshy ground that lay between Seminary and Cemetery Ridges; fighting their way over every foot of gronnd and against overwhelming odds. At every step we fonnd that reinforcements were pouring into the Federate from every side. Nothing could stop my men, how ever, and they commenced their heroic charge np the side of Cemetery Ridge. Oar attack was to progress in the gener al direction of the Emmittaburg road, bat the Federal troops, as they were forced from point to point, availing themselves of the stone fences and boul ders near the mountains as rallying points, so annoyed our right flank that General Hood's division was obliged to make a partial change of front so as to relieve itself of this galling flank fire. This drew General McLaws a little far ther to the right than General Lee had anticipated, so that the defensive advan tages of the ground enabled the Fede rate to delay onr purposes until they could occupy Little Round Top, which they just then discovered was the key to their position. The force thrown upon this point was so strong as to seize our right, as it were, in a vise. The Charge Up Cemetery Ridge. Still the battle on our main line con tinued to progress. The situation was a critical one. My porps had been fight ing over an hour, having encountered and driven back line after line of the enemy. Jn front of them was a high aud rugged ridge, on its crest the bulk of the Army of the Potomac, numbering six to one, and securely resting behind strong positions. My brave fellows never hesitated, however. Their duty was in front of them and they met it. They charged up the hill in splendid styis, Sheening everything before them, dislodging'the in the face of a whithering fire. x When they had fairly started up the second ridge I discovered that they were suffering terribly from a firs that swept over their right and left fianks. 1 found that my left flank was not protected tty ttip brigades that were to mpve erf echelon with it. Mc- Lawa' line was consequently spread out to the left to protest its flank, and Hood’s line was extended to tli® right to protect its flank from the sweeping fire of the large bodies of troops that were posted on Round Top.* These two movements of extension so drew my forces that I found myself attacking Cemetery Hill with a single line of bat tle against not less than 50,000 troops. atyo divisions at that time were own ft eignf fft pjge thousand men, four thousand having qeej) jqifflf,. or wounded. We felt at eyejy step ipe heavy stroke of fresh troops—the sturdy regular plow Grift fells a soldier instantly that he has encountered, p.espryes or re inforcements. We received no siipport at all, and there was no evidence of co operation on any side. To urge my men forward under these circumstances would Uaye hnSft R}3dn eßß > aQ d I with drew them in gopd order ft the peach orchard that we bad taken from the Federate early in the afternoon. It may be mentioned here as illustrative of the dauntless spirit of these men that when Gen. Humphreys, of Mississippi, was evdppd t 0 withdraw his troops from the ohoi’ftii he ihnusrht there was some mis take, and ft g g antured battery near the swale between .top fjwn where he halted, and when ordereq 16 retire to the new lino a second time he did so under protest.! Ourmenliadno thought of retreat. They broke every li 48 tb ey encountered. When the order to withdraw W4* giveu a courier was sent to Gen. Lee informing flf® of the resnlt of the day’s work. A Marvelous Assault, Before pursuing this narrative further, I shall say a word or two concerning this assault. lam satisfied that my force, numbering hardly 13,000 men, encoun tered during that three and a half hours of bloody worp jiffit Ifsaa than 65,000 of the Federate, and yfii .pba> : Sp W a . B not cheeked nor their line broken until we ordered them to withdraw. I found that night that 4,529 of my men, more than one-third of their total number, had been left on the field. History re cords no parallel to the fight made by these two divisons on the 2d of July at Gettysburg. Ewell’s Inaction. It may be imagined that I was aston ished at the faot that se received no support after we had driven the Fed erate from the peach orchard and one thousand yards beyond. If General Ewell had engaged the army in his lront at that time (say 4 o'clock) he would have prevented their massing their whole army in my front, and while he i.nd I kept their two wings engaged Hill would have found their centre weak an 1 should have threatened it while I broke through their left and dislodged them. Having failed to move at 4 o-clopk, yhilo the enemy waß in his front.it w aa still more surprising that he did not adyanee at 5 o’oloek with vigor and promptness, when the trenches in front of him were vacated, or rather held by eno single brigade (as General Meade’s testimony before the committee on the conduct of the war states). Had he taken these trenches and scattered the brigade that held them he would have found himself in the Federate’ flank and rear. His attack in the rear mqat tiaxs the Federate, as it haye been totaiiy unexpeotef—it being believed that fie was jn front with ma. ill charging upon the eentre at th# same tifpe woqld have increased their disorder and we should have won the field, But Ewell did not advance until l had withdrawn my troops, and the first; corps, after winning position after position, was forced to withdraw from tfle field with two corps of their comrades within sight and resting upon tflyir jqtua. Ewell did not move until about dusk faqqojnjing to P wa re port). He then oecugipd' tfiq Hughes that the enemy had vacated (see General Meade’s report). The real cause of Ewell’s non-complianoe with General Lee’s orders was that he had broken his line of battle by sending two brigades off on some duty up the York road. Gen. la*ly says that my failnre to at tack at anprisy *>*x the cause of Ewell’s line being broken the tijae I did at tack. This is not only absurd, but ijn-. possible. After sunrise that morning; Colonel Venable and General Lpo were at Ewell's headquarters disoussing the i attack with Ewell’s corps. They left ] Ewell with this definite order : That i he was to hold himself in readiness to support my attack when it was made. ft js silly to say that he was ready at suimsw, Atieq kp not ready at four i o'clock when the atiack w* rqallf made. His orders were to hold himself In read iness to 00-operate with my attack when it was made. In breaking his line of battle bp rendered himself unable to support me when he would Lave been potential. Touching the failure of the supporting brigades of Anderson’s di vision to cover McLaws’ flank by echelon movements, as directed, there is little to be said. Those brigades act ed gallantly, but went astray early in She fight. General Anderson in his re port says . “A stiung fire woo poured upon our right flank, which had become detached from McLaws' left." General Lee, alluding to the action of these two brigades, says : “But having become separated from McLaws, Wilcox’s and Wright’s brigades advanced with great gallantry, breaking successive lines of the enemy’s infantry and compelling him to abandon much of his artillery. Wiloox reached the foot and Wright gained the crest of the ridge itself, driv ing the enemy down the opposite side, ♦The importance of Bound Top as a poinf ifapptti waa not appreciated until after my at tack. General Movie seems to have alluded to it as a point to be oceapied “if practicable," bat in each slighting manner as to show that he did not deem it of great importance. So it waa occupied by an inadequate force. As our battle progressed, pushing the Federais back from point to point, subordinate officers and soldiers seeking shelter, aa birds fly to cover in a tempest, found behind the large boulders of its rock bound sides not only protection but rallying points. These reinforcements to the troop* already there checked our advance on the right, and some superior officer arriving Just then divined from effect the canso, and threw a force into Bound Top that transformed it. aa if by magic, into a Gibraltar. f The troops engaged with me in the light of the 2d were meetly Georgians, aa follows: The tear Georgia brigade* of Generals Ban ning, Anderson, Wofford and rcmuioe, Gener al Kershaw's South Carolina brigade, General Law’s 4thma brigade, General Barksdale’s (afterwards General Humphrey*) Hfeeissim* brigade and General Boberteoa’s Texas lvi gads. bat having become separated from McLaws, and gone beyond the other two brigades of the division, they were attacked in front and on both flanks, and compelled to retire, being unable to bring off any of the captured artillery. McLaws’ left also fell back, and it being now nearly dark, General Longstreet determined to await the arrival of Pick ett.” So much for the action of the first day. Gen. Lee’s Determination. I did not see General Lee that night. On the next morning he came to see me, and fearing that he was still in his dis position to attack, I tried to anticipate him by saying: “General, I have had my scouts out all night, and I find that you still have an excellent opportunity to move around to the right of Meade’s army and maneuvre him into attacking us.” He replied, pointing with his fist at Cemetery Hill: “The enemy is there, and lam going to strike him.” I felt then that it was my duty to express my conviction; I said: “General, I have been a soldier all my life. .1 have been with soldiers engaged in fights by eonples, by squads, companies, regi ments, divisions and armies, and should know as well as any one what soldiers can do. It is my opinion that no 15,000 men ever arrayed for battle can take that position,” pointing to Cemetery Hill. General Lee in reply to this or dered me to prepare Pickett’s division for the attack. I should not have been so urgent had I not foreseen the hope lessness of the proposed assault. I felt that I must say % word against the sacri fice of my men; and then I felt that my record was such that General Lee would or could not misconstrue my motives. I said no more, however, but turned away. The most of the morning was consumed in waiting for Pickett’s men and getting into position. The plan of assault was as follows: Our artillery was to be massed in a wood from which Pickett was to charge, and it was to pour a con tinuous fire upon the cemetery. Vnder cover of this fire and supported by it Pickett was to charge. Our artillery was in charge of General E. P. Alexander, a brave and gifted of ficer. Colonel Walton was my Chief of Artillery, but Alexander being at the head of the oolumn, and being first in position, aud being besides an officer of unusual promptness, sagacity and intel ligence, was given charge of the artil lery. The arrangements were completed about one o’olock. General Alexander had arranged that a battery of seven 11- pound howitzers, with fresh horses and full caissons, were to charge with Piok ett, at the head of his line, but General Pendleton, from whom the guns had been borrowed, recalled them just be fore the charge was made, and thus de ranged this wise plan. Never was Iso depressed as upon that day. I felt that my men were to be sacrificed, and that I should have to order them to make a ! hopeless charge. I had instructed Gen eral Alexander, being unwilling to trust myself with the entire responsibility, to carefully observe the effect of the fire upon the enemy, and when it began to tell to notify Pickett to begin the as sault. I was so much impressed with the hopelessness of the charge that I | wrote the following note to Gen. Alex ander : “If the artillery fire does not have the effect to drive off the enemy or greatly demoralize him, so as to make our efforts pretty certain, I would prefer that you should not advise General : Pickett to make the oharge. I shall rely a great deal qn yqnr judgment to deter mine the matter, and shall expect you to let Pickett know when the moment offers," Fidkett’s Charge. To my note the General replied as follows: “I will only be able to judge the effect of our fire upon the enemy by his return fire, for his infantry is but little exposed to view, and the smoko will obscure the whole field. If, as I infer from your note, there is an alter native to this attack, it should be care fully considered l)efora opening our fire, for it wilf take alj the artillery ammuni tion we have left to test this one thor oughly, and if the result is unfavorable we will have none left for another effort, and esep if this i% entirely snocessful it can only be so at a very filpody cost.” I still desired to save my men, and felt that if the artillery did not produce the desired effect 1 would be justified in kojdiug off. I wrote this note to Colonel Walton at exactly I;3Q, p. m.: “Let the batteries open. Order great precision in firing. If the batteries at the peaoh orchard cannot be used against the point we intend attacking let them open on the enemy at Rocky Hill.” The cannonading which opened along both lines was grand. In a few Is courier brought a note to General }fics&f t wflo Sending near me, from Alexander, which, after read ing, he handed to me. It was as fol lows: “If you are coming at all you must come at once, or I cannot give you proper support; but tho enemy’s fire has not jjlaekened at all; at feast eighteen guns are” still from the coipetery itself.” After I had read the note Pickett said to me: “General, shall I advance ?” My feelings had so overcome me that I would not speak for fear of betraying my want of confidence to him. I bowed affirmation and turned to mount my horse. Pickett immediately said, “I shall Jesi,d my division forward, sir.” I spurred hiy hoj'se to flip wood jvhera Alexander wijs stationed W'ftl artillery. When I reached him he tpld TO 6 off disappearance of tho seven guns which were to have led tho oharge with Pick ett,, and that his ammunition was so low that he could not properly support the charge. lat once ordered him to stop Pickett until the ammunition had been replenished. He informed me that he had qo with which to re plenish. i then saw that there was pp help for if, khd'that pickeff ' pinSf ad vance under his orders. He swept past our artillery in splendid style, and the men marched eteaf}i}y ffi'd compactly down the slope. As tney uiarted tip the ridge over one hnudred cannon from the breastworks of the Federate hurled a rain of cannister, grape and shell dpwn ■ upon them• still ti*“j presseu on until half way up the slope, when the crest of the hill was lit with a solid sheet of Same as the masses of infantry rqsp and red. When the smoke cleared away Pickett’s division was gone. Nearly two-thirds of his men lay dead on the field, and the survivors were sullenly retreating down the hill. Mortal man could not have stood that fire. In half an honr the contested field was cleared and the battle of Gettysburg was over. When this charge failed it was expect ed the enemy would throw his whole force on the shattered Confederate ranks to crush them, but the army was soon iu compact shape and faced once more to wards Virginia. Qeneral Longstreet gives an extensive review or the cam paign, and furnißheo interesting docu mentary proof in support of his posi tions, forming altogether a most inte resting and fascinating page of history. In this connection he says: “I may mention here that it has been absurdly said that General Lae ordered me to put Hood’s and McLaws’ divis ions in support of Pickett’s assault. Qeneral Lee never ordered any such thing. [This is diwtly ftt issue with Colonel Walter H. Taylor, who was General Lee’s Adjutant General, and whose paper on the battle of Gettysburg has been published heretofore.] After our troops were all arranged for assault General Lee rode with me twice over the lines to see that everything was ar ranged according to his wishes. He was told that we bad been more particular in giving the ordgrs than ever before; that the commanders had been sent for and the point of attack had been care fully designated, and that the command ers had been directed to communicate t their subordinates, and through them to every soldier in the command, the work that was before them, so that they should nerve themselves for tho attack and fully understand it. V After leaving me he again rode ever the field once, if not twice, so that there was really no room for misconstruction or misunderstanding of his wishes, He gould not hsppe thought of giving- any suoti an order. Hood and McLaws were confronted by a largely superior force of the enemy on the right of Pickett’s at tack. To have moved them to Pickett’s support would have disengaged treble their number of Federate, who would have swooped down from thej? rooky fastnesses against the flank of cur at tacking column and swept our army fronj the field. A reference to any of the maps of Gettysburg will show from the posi tion of the troops that this would have been the inevitable result. Gen. Lee and myself never had any deliberate conversation about Gettysburg. The subject was never broached by either of us to the other. On one occasion it came np casually and be said to me (al luding to the charge of Pickett on the 3d), ‘General, why didn’t you stop all that thing that day i’ I replied that I conld not, under the oir-enmstanoes, as sume suoh a responsibility, as no dis cretion had been left me.” PIO NONO. Hi* Condition Net So Alarming as Repre sented. London, November IS.— A Renter telegram from Rome says there is no foundation for the alatming rumors cur rent at Paris yesterday abont the Pope, who still suffers from weakness, but whose condition has not recently become worse. ■ Rome, November 13.—The Pope is Letter to-day. He gave audience to several persons. The Sanders villa Courier announces jfctißt farmers are sowing more small grain this Fall than ever before. FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. PASSAGE OF THE ABUT BILL AT LAST. The Heuse Peaceably Passes the Army Bill— Infantry en the Texan Frostier—Charges Against High Meen in That State, Washington, November 12. — The House passed the army bill to-day with out a division. The amendment allow ing four cavalry regiments to be recruit ed to 100 men for each company and to be stationed in Texas was agreed to. An amendment limiting staff offioen to the rank and pay of their regular army grades was rejected. Iu the course of the discussion Hewitt, of Now York, charged the Secretary of War, General Sherman and the Adjutant-General with want of frankness and concealment of facts regarding the enlistment. Mem bers on the Republican side replied to the charges and defended the high re putation of those officers. Afterwards a large number of bills were introduced and referred. Washington, November 12.—The speeches of Goode and Ellis on General Hooker’s amendment have pruduoed quite a sensation. The President sent for Congressman Eilis Saturday eve ning. They had quite a long confer ence, which, it is said, resulted in a modificatio-', if not a fracture of the Louisiana slate. The Senate—Conklins Explains tho Herald Interview—Voorbee* Sworn la. Washington, November 12.—Mr. Conkling, of New York, ar®Be to a per sonal explanation and referred to a pub lication Friday last in the New York Herald, purporting in some general sense, to come from him. It did not profess to be a report literally of any thing said by him, but professed to be a narrative of a private conversation and it disclaimed accuracy. As generally read it seemed to have been accepted as something which had become to be known as an interview. He desired to state that for some months he had not held an interview for publication with any one save in one instance and then in regard to the usefulness and services here of the dead Senator from Indiana. In all other instances he bad declined to bo interviewed. The Herald's state ment contained some remarks which he had made in a casnal conversation at times. It contained other remarks which he never made at any time. It ascribed to him forms of expressions quite indefinite to say the least. Words like these in the presence of the grati fying and great achievement of the Re publicans of New York, he was in no mood to utter. Hon. D. W. Yoorhees was sworn in as Senator from Indiana, to fill the va cancy occasioned by the death of Hots. O. P. Morton. Mr. Booth, of California, was appoint ed Chairman of the Committee on Pat ents in place of Wadleigh, of New Hamp shire, recently appointed Chairman of Committee on Privileges and Elections. Mr. Davis, of Illinois, was excused from further service on the Committee on Pensions, and Mr. Saunders, of Ne braska, excused from further service on the Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard. A number of bills introduced were re ferred to appropriate committees, among them the following ; By Mr. Windom, of Minnesota : To establish a Department of Commerce. By Mr. Matthews, of Ohio : For the enforcement of judgments aud decrees in States other than those where ren dered or made. Mr. Maxey, of Texas, submitted a resolution instructing the Committee on Military Affairs to inquire into the expe diency of constructing defensive works on the Rio Grande frontier. Laid over for the present. Senator McCreery expresses himself in the lobby of the Senate favorably to the confirmation of Harlan to the Su preme Bench. The President’s private secretary was in the Senate tßis morning, but brought no nominations- The Senate Caucus—Opposition to the Ad ministration Kellogg Not Very Solid Southern Democratic Nominee**. A special to the Baltimore Gazette re garding Saturday’s Republican caucus makes Senator CoDkling utter strong denunciations of the Administration, and adds: He was seconded by Senator Edmunds. Much to the surprise of those present, Dawes, Hoar, Christianoy and Booth were flatly in support of the President, but were met with violent op opposition from Hamlin, Bnrnside, Oglesby, Howe and others. Hamlin wa3 especially outspoken as a “stalwart.” Tho only resolution, acoording to this report, adopted, was; Resolved,, That in all eqses where ap pointments of Democrats have been made in the Sopth on the recommenda tion of Democrats, the same be not sus tained by the members of this body where any objection exists pp t][e part of SoufUeru Republieana. Hamlin introduced a resolution that this body caucus agree to vote for seat ing Kellogg, when Christianoy jumped up and left the caucus. Hamlin, find ing that the resolution would oause a split in the caucus, withdrew it. It is authoritatively denied that the Louisiana Senatorial contest was con sidered in the Republican caupqs Sat urday f Yoorheos’ desk was covered with flow ers. General Lagrange, Superintendent San Francisco mint, has resigned. Maj. Ray P. Easton succeeds Judge Spence, deceased, in the Post Office Depart ment, as Speoial Examiner of the Star and Steamboat mail rontes. (ontirimiiions. jjjefreea, t’qblig printer; Marble, Ad sistapt Attorney-General Stevens, of Maine, Minister to Sweden and NofWl Brayton, Collector of Reyenpe in South Carolina] Iffenneiu Raynor, Solicitor of the Treasury; Morphia, Marshal of **•' Northern District of Missi*- p . Hu “° Southern of Mississippi; Crit .enden, for Kentucky; Patterson, Dis trict-Attorney of Southern Florida; Badger, Eastern District of North Car olina; Wardgr .fiddle District of Ten nessee; Hooper, Postmaster at Opelika, Alabama. Senator Booth was appointed Chair man of the Committee on Patents. Jones, of Florida, introduced a bill to revive and extend the provisions of an act approved June Bth, 1872, granting the right of way through the public lands to the Pensaeola and Louisville Railroad Company of Alabama. Re ferred to the Committee on Public Lands. By Mr. Conover: To provide for a survey of an inland water route and canal from the Mississippi river to the Atlantic ocean. Referred to the Com mittee on Transportation Rontes to the Seaboard. Senator Gordon introduced in the Senate to-day a resolution that a chime of bells intended for St. Miohaefs Church in Charleston, S. C., be admit ted duty free. This chime of bells was presented to the old colony of South Carolina by the English crown. During the revolutionary war they were cap tured and sent to England, where they have remained ever since. An English merchant, whose name is not given, now proposes to send the bells back to South Carolina. Department of Commerce. The bill introduced by Senator Win dom to-day to establish a Department of Commerce is the measure for the enact ment or which the National Board of Trade have recently memorialized Con gress, thereby repeating their recom mendation of last year It provides for the creation of anew Executive Depart ment, with a Secretary and Assistant Secretary, to be appointed by the Presi dent and oonfirmed by the Senate, the said Department ta fee charged with the supervision and care of the commercial, agricultural, manufacturing and mining interests of the United States, in so far as the same are confined to the Na tional Government by the Constitution. The bill provides, among other details, that this new department be charged with the execution of all the Jaws of the United States relating to trade and commerce, both foreign and domestic, to customs, duties ana internal revenue taxes; to navigation, light houses, rivers and harbors, eto., and that it col lect and tabulate statistics,relating to the agricnlture, commerce, manufactures and mining of the United States, and its Secretary shall report to the Presi dent, for the information of Congress, the information collected with such re commendations as he shall deem of im portance to the public interest. With the Committees—Centennial Xweer ns a Restaurant*?. The House Committee on Foreign Af faira are preparing a bill for distribu tion of the statement of the amount paid by Mexico on awards. The Committee on Pnblic Buildings and Grounds elected Edward Mercer, of Atlanta, Ga., and Mr. McKeogh, of Memphis, Tenn., restaurantears of the Honse of Representatives. Col. Mercer had charge of the Southern restaurant at the Centennial. There were eleven ballots. The neglect of the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections to take ac tion in theSonth Carolina ease is the sub ject of much unfavorable comment here. The contestants, Bntler and Corbin, have agreed on the scope of enquiry, and upon all the facts, so there is noth ing further for the committee to de termine. The contestants are both anxious for the matter to be acted upon or recommitted to the Senate for action. i Privileges ud Elections Committee. Washington, November 12. The Committee on Privileges and Elections > appointed a Committee of two to wait on contestants and see bow the contes tants wonld agree regarding the range of testimony. ▲ PROUD DAT FOR GEORGIA IN CONGRESS. Bell and Feltea om the Kemaiptien Act Re peal—Excellent Efforts of Oar Representa tives on the Floor—What Mr. Stephens Sara of His Colleaaneo—The Empire State Honored by Her Sons. [Special to the Chronicle and Constitutionalist.] Washington, November 14. —This has been a field day in the House on the Currency question. Georgia took all the honors. Hon. Hiram Bell, of the 9th, led off in a masterly argument that surprised his friends for its ability in favor of repeal of the Resumption Act. He yielded a part of his time to Hon. Wm. Felton, of the 7tb, who made the greatest display of the session. He was fiequently interrupted with ap plause, and at the conclusion such a spontaneous burst came from both the floor and galleries that the Speaker conld not suppress it. Wfant Mr. Stephens Says. Mr. Stephens says: “This was a proud day for Georgia.” He pronounces the speeches of Representatives Felton and Bell on the Resumption repeal as the beet of the session. The speech of Mr. Steele, of North Carolina, was also highly upplauded. Felton Wrecks a Wrecker. There was quite a scene when Felton described the financial condition of the oonntry as a storm and hurricane at sea, in which ships were going down by the hundreds and precious lives were being engulfed by thousands, while the wreckers, headed by the gentleman from New York (Chittenden), were standing on the shore waiting to gather up the spoils, and asserting that things wonld right themselves. Chittenden (who is somewhat deaf) came over to the Democratic side to hear more dis tinctly, and made several fruitless at tempts to get a hearing, but was laugh ed and shouted down and was told by Douglas, of Virginia, when he asked for a minute of time, that the wrecker could not get half a minute. He subse quently got five minutes of Harden berg’s time and replied to Felton, de nouncing the sttempt to repeal the Re sumption act as involving the honor and reputation of the Government, and det rimental to the best interests of the whole country. Touching Congressman Small*. A resolution whether the privileges of Congressman Smalls, of South Carolina, are abridged, was referred to the Com mittee on Judiciary. The Texas Delegation Caucussiug—•Redis tricting the Judicial Circuits—Fitting Up the Texas Pacific Kallroad Bill. The Texas delegation, it is under stood, have had a full conference upon matters pertaining to the interests of their State, and agreed upon the general outlines of a bill to make a judicial dis trict and reorganize the Federal districts of that State. The matter of the Texas and Pacific Railroad was discussed. There seemed to be almost entire una nimity on the point that Government encouragement should be extended on one main line west from Fort Worth di rectly to S'-in Diego without any connec tion with the Southern Paoific of Cali fornia; also encouragement on one di rect line from some point on the already completed road on the eastern boundary of Texas to the Mississippi river, at Memphis, Vicksburg or New Orleans, as might be deemed best by interests east of the Mississippi to be effeoted by it. It is understood that such a proposition, with strong guarantees for the protec tion of connecting lines as to equal freights and strong features to protect the Government against loss, will gain for the measure many advocates who have heretofore been opposed or luke warm. Adjourn went Not Vet in Order. A resolution for final adjournment of this session on the 22d of November was reported from the Committee of Ways and Means, but it was not deemed advisable to take action. Tlio Hanker* of Boston Oppose Bland’s Sil ver Bill—Reasons for Their Actlou. Boston, November 14.—A petition op posing Bland’s silver bill has received the signatures of bank managers in Bos ton. The petitioners represent that such a law would be greatly prejudicial to business and banking institutions and to the welfare of the people of this country; that it would reduce the value of loan bonds of tho United S.tates. These bonds hel4 by hanking institutions tp, the extent of one-half, at least, of aU the issues of them now outstanding, a part being in de posit with the Government as collateral aeourity for national bank transactions, and a part being owned by savings banks as investments in trust for their numerous depositors; that it would oblige a reception in our savings insti tutions of a currency in deposits of less intrinsic value than the legal tender cir culating notes of the Government and that of the gold coin of our country. The petitioners earnestly call a deliber ate consideration to such details of this important nubject aa ats Within the static apd "bistihry departments of our own country and of the important Euro pean nations with whom we are inti mately associated. The Senate Cousiderlng Committee Reports and House Bills—“ Poor Lo” as a Citizen— Homesteading Southern Settlers Rio Crando Defenses. Washington, Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, from the Comffiitt.s onTfn'Tfap Affairs, reported with ttffiepd meuts, the Repute lull, tu enable the ii diapfbq became eHigens of th* HeY ,orida, introduced a bill grant additional homesteads to set tlers upon public lands in the States of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida; referred to the Committee on Public Lands, At the oonolusion of the morning hour, Maxey, of Texas, called up a res olution submitted by him a few days ago, instructing the Committee on Mili tary Affairs to inquire into the expedien cy of constructing a system of defensive works on the Rio Grande frontier of the United States, and spoke at length in regard to the raids from Mexico into Texas and the necessity for such defen sive works. Mr. Windham, of Minnesota, from the Committee on Appropriations, re ported, with amendments, a House bill, making appropriations for the support of the army; placed on the calendar. Continuation*. Smith, Postmaster at Baton Rouge, also, all army nominations and promo tions, except Adam Shaker, to be Sec ond Lieutenant. The Senate Committee on Appropria tions struck out the amendment reduc ing the army to 20,000 men, and main tains g four companies of cavalry, 100 men each, on the Texas frontier. Nomination*. Lawrence, Collector of Customs, New Orleans; Grovin, Consul to Leghorns; Thomas, Collector of Customs; Bart Campbell, Collector of Third Texas Dis trict; Filley, Postmaster of St. Louis; Brown, Key West, Fla.; Stewart, Talla hassee; Snow, Palatka; Stearnes, Reg ister of Land Office, Mobile. THE POEICY. What Gen. Longatreet Say*. General Longstreet writes the follow ing letter to the editor of the Allegan (Mich.) Journal : Gainesville, Ga., October 29, 1877. Hon,. D. C. Henderson, Allegan. Mich.: Deab Sir : * * * Your views of governmental patronage are certainly warranted by custom m cases, and by fair inferences for services rendered; yet there seems to be a loose screw somewhere, which gives a phase to this Administration, differing somewhat in its bearing to party alliances from those that preceded it. Democrats in some instances claim that the President is indebted to their party for his high office, inasmuch as that party held in its hands the power to prevent the electoral count, and thus to prevent the inauguration. Some claim that the count would not be al lowed but for certain guarantees that the policy of the new Administration would be in sympathy with their party, so far at least as submission to their claims to the Government. Guarantees not implied in the oath of office under the Constitution are unusual, but it seemed better to submit to the en forcement of their claim by the other party than to enforce the claims of the Republican party. The striking feature in the course of the new Administration is its conciliatory policy, and this seems most needful to the conntry just now. It is true that this higher plane from which to move to future progress, could have been more gracefully reached through judicious se lections from the Republican party, and as efficaciously; but since it has pleased the President to seek it through other ohannels let us submit his plan to a fair trial. The Senate is in a condition to check it whenever it is thought better to do so. President Grant after his first inau guration essayed a similar policy, but then neither party was ready for it, and he was forced back into party lines. Now both parties seem ready, and the ques tion is how beet to reach it. It is interesting to witness leaders and Democrats of the line seeking office of a Republican President, whoee election they claim was fraudulent, while they continue to denounce those of the South who accepted office from President Grant, whose election they never ques tioned. lam, sir, very respectfully truly yours, James Longstbeet. Death of Foster Blodgett. Foster Blodgett, Esq., died in Atlanta yesterday morning, at a quarter past 8 o’clock, of typhoid fever, after an illness of four {weeks. His funeral will take place in Atlanta this morning at ten o’olock. Mr. Blodgett was born in Angnsta on the 15th of January, 1826, and was in the 52d year of his age at. the time of his death. He was elected Bridge Keep er by the City Council January, 1850, and held that office for two years. In 1853 he was elected member of Conncil from the First Ward, and held that po sition, with the exception of 1854. until April, 1859, when he was elected Mayo-. He was re-elected in 1860, and was * candidate in 1861, bnt was defeated by the Hon. Robert H. May. He was Or dinary of Richmond county from Fib ruarv, 1856, to July, 1861. During the war between the States he was Captain of the Blodgett Artillery, from Augusta. After the war he joined the Republican party, and was an active member of that organization. In 1865, at the close of the war, he was appointed postmaster by President Johnson, bnt was removed in January, 1868, and General Summers placed in charge of the office as speoial agent of the Department. He was re instated by President Grant April sth, 1869. He remained postmaster until July Ist, 1869, when Captain J. E. Bry ant was appointed. He wae President at the Union Republican Club of this city in 1867. In May, 1867, he was appointed Mayor of Augusta by General Pope, Military Governor of Georgia, and retained that position un til December, 1868, when Hon. H. F. Russell was elected Mayor. In 1867 he was elected a delegate to the Constitu tional Convention. February 16, 1870, the Republicans in the State Legisla ture voted for him for United Senator from Georgia, and claimed that he was elected to that position. The Demo crats in the Legislature, who deolined to vote, protested against the election, which they declared was illegal and void, because the Legislature in 1868 elected two Senaters to serve one until March, 1873, and the other until March, 1871, and that it was the provinoe of the Legislature to be elected in Novem ber, JB7O, and which would sit in .lanu ary, 1871, to eleot their successors, and not the then Legislature. Hon. Joshua Hill, then Senator in Congress, from Georgia, opposed Mr. Blodgett’s ad mission, and the Senate did not admit him. 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Her declining health waH a source of great anxiety to all of her friendH. A few bottles of the Veoetine re stored her health, strength and appetite. N. H. TILDEN, Insurance and Real Estate Agent, No. 49 Sears Building, Boston, Mass. Prepared by H. R. STEVENS, BOBTON, MASS. Vegetiuc is Sold by all Druggists. oct3-wlm ________ #lO, #5, or #3.50 Invested in the Drawing of the COMMONWEALTH Prize Distribution Company (Under Act of Legislature of Ky., forthebenefit of the City Schools of Frankfort), which takes place in the city of LOUISVILLE, KY., in Public Li brary Hail, on Dec. 31st, 1877, may secure in Cash >ll or a part of $50,000, $20,000, SIO,OOO, $5,000, $3,000, $2,000, or auy of the 6,084 Prizes, amounting to 8520,- 000. Farmers’ and Drovera’ Bank, Louisville, Ky., Depository. Drawing Positively Dec. 31, or MONEY REFUNDED, and under the same management that so ably and satisfactorily conducted the SECOND Drawing of the Kentucky . Cash Distribution Cos. Whole Tickets. $10; Ha ves, $5; Quarters, $2.50. For Tickets, address G. W. BARROW & CO., General Managers, Courier louraal Building, LOUISVILLE, KY. i?" SEND FOR A CIRCULAR. nov3-5.10,1‘,21,24,28w7,2t and dec4,811,15,18,22,w5,49 rPRECKDENTED ATTRACTION! Oyer Half aJßllion DistriMtefl. Louisiana State Lottery Company. This Institution was regularly incorporated by the Legislature of the State for Educational and Chari table purposes, in 1868, with a Capital of $1,060,000, to which it haa since added a reserved fund of $350,0C0. Its grand Single Number Drawings will take place monthly. It never scales or post pones. Look at the following Distribution: GRAND PROMENADE CONCERT, During which will take place the Extraordinary Semi-Annual Drawing, At New Orleanß, Tuesday, December 11th, Under the personal supervision and management of Geneiftl G. T. BEA.UBEGABD, of La., And Gen. JUEAL A. EARLY, of Va. CAPITAL PRIZE, 8100,000. E2U Notice—Tickets nre Ten Dollars only. Halves, 85; Qnarters, 82 50; Eighths, 81 25. LIST OF PRIZES. 1 CAPITAL PRIZE OF SIOO,OOO SIOO,OOO 1 GRAND PRIZE OF 50,000 50,000 1 GRAND PRIZE OF 20,000 20,< 00 2 LARGE PRIZV S OP 10,000 20,000 4 LARGE PRIZES OF 5,000 20,000 20 PRIZES OF 1,000 20,000 50 do. 500 60,000 100 do. tOO 30,000 200 do. 40,000 600 do. 100 60,000 20,0.0 do. 10 100,000 approximation prizes. 100 Approximation Prizes of S2OO $20,000 100 do. do. 100 10,000 li.O do. do. 75......... 7,500 11,279 Prizes, amounting to $622,500 Gen. G. T. BEAUREGARD, of La. 1 Commissioners. Gen. JUBAL A. EARLY, of Va. / Lommissioners. Write for circulars or Bend orders to M. A. DAUPHIN, P. O. Box 692, New Orleans, La. MONTHLY DRAWING, Tuesday, January Bth, 1878. Capital Prize, $30,000. Tickets, $2 each. Halves, sl. Nw Adrertlffementa. Wm. H. Tutt & Remsen, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN PURE DRUGS, MEDICINES, PERFUMERY, SOAPS, FANCY AND TOILET ARTICLES, ETC. PENTINF W RNTHRFq ° ILB \ READY MIXED PAINTS, COLORS, TUK . RI IBHES,BRUS H ES. French and Amerioan WINDOW GLASS, PUTTY, KEBOMNE OIL, eto., eto., whioh we offer to the trade at low prices. Sole agents of MOWRE’S PILULES--! SURE CUBE FOR CHILLS. CLOAKS! SILKS! AND— DRESS GOODS. SPKOIAL ATTENTION IS DIRECTED TO OUR STOCK IN THE ABOVE, WHICH FOR PRICES AND COMPLETENESS OF ASSORTMENT, Cannot be Matched in the Southern States. oo2Btf JAMES A. GRAY & CO. A BETTER DAY HAS COME ONE THOUSAND CASES BOOTS, SHOES AND HATS FOR THE PEOPLE AT Wm. Mulherin’s, 293 Broad Street. MERCHANTS who pay Cash will find prices &s low as the New York, Baltimore and Charleston Markets. PLANTERS will find a class of goods specially suited for Plantation services. MECHANICS can get, at low prices, BOOTS, SHOES and GAITERS’, that were made to order and are warranted to stand hard service. Allarge stock of LADIES’, MISSES and CHILDRENS’ fine SHOES on hand “Quick Sales and Small Profits” is the motto. Win. Mulherin, oc3B-guwe&frd&wlm 53&3 Broad Wtreet. MILLER & BUSSEY. Wholesale and Retail Grocers, No. 283 Broad Street, Corner Campbell (store formerly occupied hr M. O’Dowd), offer to dealers and the public at unusually low prices Par the CASH! 40,000 Pounds C. R. D.S. Sides. 50 Barrels Sugar Syrup*. 20,000 Pounds C. R. Sides. 300 Rolls Bagging.. ' 10,000 Pounds D. S. Shoulders. 500 Bundles Tie*. -j ( \ \ Boxes Tobacco all Q /'V / \ IVf W grades, O\J\J Barrels grades. A QA A Packages Mackerel, in half VI \J Bags Rio Coffee. O J barrels and kits, Yj pf Barrels refined Sugar— p' / \ It) all grades. Qv_ / Barrels Liquors—all kinds. lootr Reboiled Molas- Together with 'inlets, Candles, Soaps, Teas, &c., &c. All Goods and Weights gnarauteed. MILLER & BUSSEY. oc9 tf NEW PROCESS FLOUR. CRESCENT MILLS, AUGUSTA, GA. J. F. & L. J. MILLER, Proprietors. OUR FANCY FAMILY FLOUR MADE BY NEW PROCESS HAS NO EQUAL. mh4—d&wly SEEKNO FURTHER. Save Time and Money BY BUYING YOUR DRY GOODS AT THE Augusta Dry Goods Store, WHERE YOU WILL FIND An immense Stock, All Fresh and New, of the Most Choice Hoods OF THE SEASON, AT THE LOWEST PRICES. DRESS GOODS—a beautiful line unsurpassed, newest shades and designs, from 10c. to the finest: Colored Cashmeres, new Bhades, from 25c. and upwards; Black Cashmeres, the best make, from 60c. to $1 60; Black Alpacas, the finest lustre and best blaoks, from 260. and upwards- Black and Colored Silks, all prices. An immense stock of Kentucky Jeans, from 10c. and upwards; Cassimeros, Twoeds. Waterproofs. Flannels, Linseys, all prices. Ladios’, Gent's and Children’s Undervests and Drawers. A beautiful ltne Ladies new style Cloaks all prices. Blankets both white and colored, a large assortment, cheaper than ever known.’ Bedspreads, Quilts and Comforts, at prices unprecedented. A great variety of No tions, Fancy Goods, Ladies’ Neck Ties, Collars and Cuffs, Ribbons, Silk and Linen Haadker chiefs, Corsets. Gloves and Hosiery, all at bottom prices. Kid Gloves at 50. 75, 9160 to $2 a Dair A beautiful assortment of Caliooes. at 4,5, 6, to 80. Bleached Shirtings and Sheetings at the lowest prices. Domestic Goods at Factory prices by the piece. Goods of every descrip tion usually kept in a First-Class Dry Goods House, suited to the wants of the people, both in Pri °AT n WHOLESALE AND BETAlL.—Merchants will find it to their interest to examine this stock before purchasing. Orders filled with care and promptness. Samples sent on applicatiou. I will pay Express charges on all orders for Goods at retail amounting to TEN DOLLARS and over, the money accompanying the order, or Goods sent O. O. D. Try me. Respectfully submitted, u , _ __ _ L. RICHARDS, 209 BROAD STREET, AUGUsTA, GA., NEARLY OPPOSITE CENTRAL HOTEL. oct2B-d2aw<twly ————■ —. \V. S. lIOVAL HAS REMOVED TO THE COMMODIOFS STORE KNOWN AS THE AUGUSTA SHOE HOUSE, 353 BROAD STREET, Opposite Masonic Hall, AND NEARLY OPPOSITE CENTRAL AND GLOBE HOTELS. Genjs’ French Calf ILId Top Button Gaiters. Gents’ French Cnlfy Double Sole, Congress, Box-toe. Gents’ French Calf, Doable Sole, Congress, French Toe. Gents’ French Calf, Single Sole Box-toe. Boys’ and Tenths’ Bnckle Alex Ties, Sewed. Tenths* Calf Sewed, High Laced Boots. The above Goods are the inest and b)st ever brought to this city, and will be sold CHEAP FOB CASB. nov7dAw THE TROTH IS MIGHTY. WE WILL THIS WEEK MAKE 810 REDUCTIONS IN THE PRICES OF THE FOL LOWING LINES OF DRY GOODS: Blankets, Quilts, Comfortables, Flannels, Cloaks, Sfeawis, Wool Jackets, Boulivard Skirts, Hosiery and Cloves, Corsets, Nubias, Hamburg Edgings, Etc,, Etc. We invite the people to exaaiie our stock before purchasing their supplies. We will he glad to show the goods and give samples for comparison. We mean what we say In oar advertisements. AUSTIN MULLARKY & CO., 282 Broad St., Augusta, Ga.