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THE CARROLL COUNTY TIMES. VOL. XIV. FIELD, FORT AND FLEET, The Singular Combat at Sabino Pass in 1863. One of the most singular com bats of the civil war was the as fair at Sabine Pass. In September fs63, the government deter mined to possess ’’tseif of Sabine City, situated on the river of that name, about fifty miles from Gal veston. It was considered a strat egetic point of great importance to the Union forces, and so carefully were all the plans ‘laid and ma tured that Gen. Franklin’s Nine teenth Corps, accompanied by four gunboats, left New Orleans with out half a dozen persons having the least suspicion of their desti nation. fuformati m h id been received by the government that the Confede rate defenses were of little account, find it was confidently expected to fake them by surprise and come in to possession without much of a n 'ht, The defenses consisted of dirt foit, mounting six guns, with rille T dts on the fi.au ku, The garrison had st tinw num- bered over sixty men, aim when the advance of the Federate was first sighted there were only fortys four men, including officers, in the works. The oflicers numbered but two, and both were lieutenants. Cunboats and transports reached Sabine Pass in good shape, and ai> ter several shells had been fired into the fort without provoking an answer arrangements were en to red into for disembarking the troops. It was decided that while ibis was occurring the four gun boats should move up and pound away at the fort. If it was garri soned the garrison would be driven out. If it had been abandoned, as sqinc of the officers seemed to be lieve, the heavy missiles of the gunboats would knock it to pieces. At 4 o’clock in the afternoon the C7;fton, Sachem and Arizona steamed tl'iward to engage the fort at short idnge, and they had only fired one shot each when the Confederates returned an answer. The Sachem hud the lead, and as she steamed on she used every gun which could be brought to bear, and her protected sharpshooters kept up a constant fire at the em brasures of the fort. The fourth shot fired at the Sa chem struck her amidships with terrible force, tearing off her pla ting and crashing her timbers into splinters. Iler steam pipe was cut or broken, and in ten seconds her crew were fighting an enemy more cruel than shot or shell. The capi.ng steam blistered, burned, killed. Inside of two minutes her Hag was hauled down and the Sachem lay a wreck on the water. The Arizona drew too much wa ter to run in close, but as soon as it was seen that the Sachem had been disabled the Clifton steamed •in to take her place, It was be lieved that so long as she kept mo ving any shot which struck her would be an accident, but she had scarcely reached close range posi tion when she grounded on the bar and swung into such aposition that the Confederates could br«g four out of the six guns so bear on her. For ten minutes it was give and ttakc. .Realizing that he was on the bar hprd ami strong, the cap tain of the Clifton turned all Ins attention to the fort, changing his shell for grape ami umuister when ever Confederate sharpshooters showed their heads above the par apet. The gunboat was frequent ly struck, but had sustained no great damage up io the instant the great calamity hefcl her. A pon derous iron bold struck her almost where the Sachem was hi*, crashed through her side in the same mans ner, and again it was the hot steam from the boilers which fin ished the work of wreck and sur render. The Clifton hauled down her flag, and the transports, which had been following her in to dis embark the troops, lost no time in getting out of range. The gallant action of the cap tain of the Clifton in steaming up within such close range, tnd of giving battle white hard and fast aground, was tarni-hed by his la ter conduct. After a white tb-g had been run up and the Confede rates had ceased firing, he ordered all,the guns spiked, an 1 wth his own hands fired a soli 1 shot through the center of the craft, rendering her machinery entirely useless. Nearly the entire crews, together with over 100 sharpshoot ers, were made prisoners by the Confederates, and most of the guns were soon made a/ailable. Either crew ontnuml eied the men in the fort, but upon tin? return of the expedition the flowcry correspon dents wrote of “3,000 rebels be hind the works,’’ and added that “the loss of the enemy was without precedent in war." As a point of fact that can be proved to-day, not one single man in the fort was ev en wounded. For more than an hour and a half the forty-two men were under a fiic which never entirely ceased, and were given solid shot, mon ster shells ami liberal doses of grape and cannister. ani yet not so much as a drop of blood was drawn. At no time could all the guns be worked, and the crew at such as were being used were more or less targets for the sharp shooters aboard the gunboats. While the parapets were dug full of ho’es deep enough to bury a horse, not one of the guns was dismount ed. Aftei the ross of the two gun boats the others maintained a long range fire for half an hour or so and then drew off- The force of infantry aboard the. transports was large enough to have taken posses sion of the entire district and had come fully supplied for permanent occupation, but a council of war determined on the abandonment of the expod’fion and a return to New Orleans. It seemed rank cowar dice to retreat from a fort moun ting but six-old fashioned cannon and already knocked into a dirt heap, but that was the result. The Arizona outmatched the fort in the weight and range of her guns, and could have taken such position as would have kept the Confederates under file with no chance to re turn it. But no such movement was made. She could have pre vented the Confederates from pos sessing themselves of the two gun boats-, bijt the idea was to get back .to New (Means. She withdrew followed by the well armed Cyan ite State, and a Confederate steam er cainG down the river and took possession of the surrendered crafts. The) secured 150 prisom ers, sixteen fine cannon, a large quantity of stores and ammunition, and the Sachem was soon repaired and added to their strength. There were three prisoners to one guard, and had there been any one to lead a break for liberty most of them would have made their escape. Here were from 12.000 to 15,- 000 infantry, four gunboats and twenty or thirty transports driven off by less than fifty men An’cx pedition costing hundreds of thous ands of dollars and weeks of hard work was rendered a burlesque. A lodgement, at Sabine would have given the Union forces the key of half of two Confederate States. Taking in ail particulars, a strange engagement never occur red in war. The defenders of the fort were galled the Jeff Davis Guards, and their bravery was eventually re warded by a silver medal »w egc.h man, suitably inscribed, and many of the rank and tile were promoted fioni the ranks. The Art Amateur For June contains designs for a mirror frame (tulips), a dessert plaJe (myrtle), wood carving (swamp i.Qse), four doilies, and a fireplace facing of peygnleen tiles (nasturtiums), besides two groups of jolly little girls for the decora tion of a hanging little rack. The frontispiece is a line drawing of a remarkable Italian cab inet brouglit to this country by General Meade. Minister to Spain. A striking feature is the admirable charcoal drawing of “La Belle Poulard,” the famous hostess of the inn at Mont St. Michel, a cele brated haunt, of artists in France. The Prize Fund Exhibition is re viewed at length, with illustrations of the principal pictures. There are valuable practical articles on ama teur photography, scene painting, charcoal drawing, wall decoration and frame embroidery, an! t-'ie usual editorial, dramatic, literary and corespondence departments are ably sustained. Price 35 cents. Montague Marks, Publisher, 2o Unim S qua re, Ne w Fork. “Ab, dearest,” sighed the young nian. kneeling at the feet of his owiiest o vn, “do-t thou know what of all outward things is nearest to mv heartf' “R’ally, 1 can’t say,' she replied, “but if yon have any regard for your health in this chan geable weather, I should think it was afl imu I shirt.” She was too practical, and it broke the engage ment. It is a sham ' for a rich Chris tian man to belike a Christmas box that receives ail, an 1 nothing cun be got ot of it till it in pieces. We have some cases of the pride of learning, but a multitude of the pride of ignorance. Idle broad is tl e. most dangerous ’ of all th it is eaten. CARROLLTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 5. 1885. disease and dirt. D«ath in a Foul Dish-Cloth-Dan ger from filthy Soap-Timely Advice. Westminster Review. Judging from all past expei cnee, a visit from the cholera scourge is only a question of time. If through adverse storms a de -1!U occurs in an attack from an in vading army every hour should be ntdized by taking such measures as will aid in repulsing the ere my. Aided by favorable winds, we have gained an extension of time before the great plague makes its onslaught. In every kitchen there is one thing which should have at tention froin this time on. One source of disease which should at tract the attention of every physi cian, every nurse, and every man and woman who cares for these pre servation of health,is the dishcloth. A foul dish cloth has wrapped up in it the germs of more kinds of malignant diseases than all other things in a household. A foul dish cloth is a perfect hot-bed that breeds cholera, scarlet fever, ty phoid fever, diptheria, etc. A dish cloth which a housekeeper would be ashamed to bring into hey parlor to show to visitors is not fit for use, and shonld be burned as soon as this article is read; I, for one, would not be willing to eat food prepared in utensils wiped with it or to eat from plates on which it had been used. It is customary for housekeepers to apologize for a dirty, foul-smelling dish-cloth by throwing the blame on their hired help. This is doing a great injus tice. When a girl starts to wash dish es she is supposed to have a clean dish rag, a clean dish pan, clean hands, clean water, a piece of soap and a lot of soiled dishes; if the soap does its work properly, then at the end of the operation; the dishes should be clean, and her hands, her dish pan and her dit-h rag .should be clean; the dirt should be in the water, just as when a woman is dme scrubbing a dirty floor, the dirt shonld be in the wa ter, and a clean house cloth and a clean scriibbii g brush should be the result, provided that the soap which she uses has been made from pure, sweet materials’ A girl cannot scrub properly with a miserable apology for a scrubbing-brush; neither can she keep her - dishcloth sweet . unless her mistress furnishes her with soap which will do this, fur it is an undoubted fact that when a dish rag guts offensive, or a sponge or a wash rag loses its sweet, clean appearance and smell, it is on ac count of the soap which is used.— It Is tin unfortunate delusion on the part of the general public that “any kind of fat will answer for making soap,” This is a decided error; it is just as important that the dishes from whjch weeatshould be washed with soap made from pure, sweet, clean materials as it is important that the butter which wu eat should be made from pure, sweet, clean cream. I housekeepers usually attempt io overcome this result of the soap they use making the dishrag filthy by scalding oi boiling the dishlag, but this is only a makeshift —use a soap which is made from pure material, and your dish-cloth will tlipn not need cither scalding or boiling, and once a week havfe the dish-rag brought in the parlor, and if not sweet, change the soap you are using, and keep this practice up until you come across a soap that, will kt ep the dish-rag clean Q,nd sweet. ALitte noy Drowned, Ilara’son Briser. Wo learn that one of Mr. B. O. Monroe’s little bo) s was drowned last Wednesday, in the Tallapoosa river, near Manioc’s mill. The lit tie boy, with two other small boys, was in a batteau and the little boy fell overboard and was drowned before assistance could ariivc. His body 'vas fished, out in about two hours afterwards with fishhooks. The water where the little boy fell in was eight or ten feet deep. The little boy was some six or seven years of age. He was buired at Bethlehem (church. The bereaved have our sympathies, ANOTHER CASE. Mr. George Smith was in town Thursday evening, and said just before he left home he heard that one of .Mr. F. M. B. Stripling's litte children was drowned in the river. Mr. Smith s od that he would not vouch for the truth of the state ment. Up to the hour of going to press we cannot accertain anything other than the above. The Egyptian bondholders are beginning to wish fur a litt’e more real profit, an 1 nut so much false prophet. CONDENSED. Small pox is spreading very rap idly in Canada. - Birmingham, Ala. now makes 400 tons of iron daily. There are now sixteen daily pers published in the city of Mexi co. Florida has 15 i cigar factories.— ( They turned out last year C0,000,- 000 cigars. Lousiana expects to realize 200,- 000 hogsheads of sugar from the present crop. Gladstone says, The difficulties between England and Russia are not settled yet. 250,000 young women are em ployed in various occupations in London. They earn their own liv" ing. The population of Washington city is 169,638, an increase in five years of a little over 14 per cent. The rail roads leading to New Orleans will pay SIOO,OOO to wards reopening the exposition next fall. There is a fellow in Kingston Ontario who has two hearts and two sets of ribs. He can move Im ribs up and down. In some of the finest wheat growing counties of Virginia it is said the present crop is in a wretch ed condition, a poor crop is expec ted. The 17,000 dentists of the Uni ted States use annually, a ton of . gold, and five times as much of oth er metals, and make artificial teeth. The College nt Oxford Miss., admitted young ladies several years since. Now the girls arc snaF-ly ing the honors constantly tlfe boys.. Hurrah for the girls. $131,000 have .’.l.ußcfy been subscribed to the Garfield monu ment to be erected at Cleveland Ohio. How much better to endow a Garfield College, than to erect a mere The prosecution in the case of T. J. Cluverius, for the murder of Miss Madison, closed their ease on the 18th day of the trial, after ex amining 83 witm sses. The de fense will introduce 25 or 30 more to examine. President McCosh of Princeton College S '.ys, “Since I came here we have had fully $3,000,000 in gifts by our friends to promote the inteie-'ts of the College in buil ding.', endowments of professors chairs, preparatory schools, books and apparatus. We have 41 pro cessors teaching all the branches of high learning. What S. S. S.Js Doing for Me. 1 sulterd a long time with eancor and skin eruption. The best physi- j cians tested their skill, but said they could do nothing more for me. I have taken less than a half dozen bottles of Swift’s Specfic, and to my surprise as well as to the wens der of all my friends, my face has pealed off, the skin is smooth and clear, my eye is almost well, and cancer on my neck is drying up. I have gained five pounds in flesh during the last month, and am now in better health than I have been ip eleven years. A terible load has been lifted off of me. Dunreith, Henry Co., Ind. D.A. Hudclson. Fre3 from Malaria. In the fall of 1884 1 was taken with a case of malarial fever which prostrated me both body and mind. 1 was drugged after the old fashion with mercury and other mineral mixtures, but with no good results. My health was shattered and my energy gone. My legs and feet would swell, and I had what every- i body though was dropsy. These symptoms alarmed me, and I was ready to grasp ar any remedy sug gested. A friend advised me to try Swift's Specific. 1 procured three j bottles and commenced its use. The j swelling sc on subsided. 1 have taken ( the three bottles, which have made . a perfect cure,and 1 feel like a new man to-day. There never was a j more muritorious medicine offered ■ to suffering humanity. It has wrought Wunders for me. Willis Junes. Leesburg, Lee County, Ga., March 11. 1885. Treatise on Blood and Skin Dis- i eases mailed free. The Swift Specific 80., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga. Haralson (.'•rrewpoudcnce WACO. Die last time I wrote yon wo were very dry and people were complaining about it. Now the thing has changed and we have rain every day, and often ail day, and now the people are complain ing again. Did I ever write you any poetry? I can write it and to prove it will give you these lines as samples. It rains and it rains, its very rainy weather, The farmer's got the blues and he don't know whether He will ever get out of the grass or not. I’his much rain reminds me of a circumstance that occured when I was a boy. It was during the war and there was nobody at home save a fewold men, boys and the women. A severe di ought was on us, and it was announced by the old Metho dist preacher that on a certain day there would be a meeting for spec ial prayer for rain. The day came and the meeting, if you will allow the expression in a religions cons nection, was very enthusiastic, and before adjournment thunder was heard and a cloud was seen and the people became alarmed and hurried home. The rain came and was what the boys call a “trash mover." Everything was badly washed and much . damage done, and an old lady living near us named Martin, in talking of it said she was “so vexed,” she thought her garden was ruined and said she: “it’s just like these old Methodist preachers, they always over do the thing.” Its. my opinion that the M l .' as decided that the people I ’ ' •■' hard to please about rain, and 1 (Al , it as os, and ... • .j- ie grass f; ? t will work a*while t i rc ' :,nd i ot aft and plenty of cider, 1 vegetables *and fried chicken, and then enjoy a regular “happy-land o’-caanan” time. I love to go to the country then and go to meeting with the people, go home with some of them and cat such a solid din ner as only a frugal and industrious farmer's wife can fix up, and then sit in the shade and argue script ure, cat melons, drink cider and talk of crops. Take a stroll over the farm and go to church at night and enjoy such a hallelujah time of a meeting as only the country peo ple know how tq boom up. I be lieve, and always did, that die country people have more and en joy more religion than the people in town. They don’t Vun after style and fashion so much, are not so selfish and “stuck up.” God ' Almighty made the country before he did the town, and he gave it ( {pore advantages and blessings and the people have been enjoying them ever since. There is not but one thing in connection with the conn try and country people that I don’t like and that is these all day Sun- , day singings. But lam not going i to say anything against them 1 ii; the papers. I notice one of I them wili break up every preacher’s ( appointment and every Sunday school in five miles of it. 1 ; am not going to write against them, ’ but there is one thing certain, no 1 boy of mine, or girl either, will * ever, with my consent, run off to j or.e of them, instead of going to . j Sabbath school and preaching. I j don’t think the Sabbath was ever 1 , intended to be made a day for j courting and frolicking. Bn* 11 < don’t wan’t a hundred fa sol la and 1 do re mi men jumping on me at once and that is why I keep silent. But everybody ought not to keep j silent. The preachers ought to i preach against them, and Sunday- t ; school workers ought to work | iigainst them and praying people , ougli* to pray against them and ( parents of boys and girls ought to ’ talk against them. The trustees of the church ought to shut their . I 1 houses against them. If this was ’ done they could bo remedied. But j I am afraid to say anything against them in the papers. When a follow does, don’t they give him hail col- j umbia? We have a few young I men and ladies in Waco, who rath- , er stay at Sabbath school and ■ preaching than run off to one of them. I say this to their credit. We have tnmtnc l out the woods » around our mineral springs and k I opened a street to them, and now we have a beautiful drive and a delightful place of resort, and mure we are going to have a big barbecue there if we can get up sheep enough in July. Cottie up. Mack. ——a—• i.i— . m Time's Changes. “Washinnton, May 2l.—The President to-day appointed R. M. 1. Hunter to be Collector of Cus toms for the district of Tappahan nock. \ a., on Mr. Hunter's own application. Mr. Hunter is now seventy-six years old. He was much impoverished by the war, and the office to which he is appointed pays only $250 a year, with foes and commissions, amounting in all to less than SI,OOO. —[Special. The vicisitudes of life and for tune, of ambition honor imd fame, could not be more strikingly illus trated than thcj T are by the above announcement. Du ring twenty of the best years of the history of this country Mr. Hunter occupied a commanding place in its public life. He was just turned of thirty when elected Speaker of the Na tional House of Representatives, having enteied Congress at twenty eight. From 1837 to 1861 he served alternately in the House and Senate, declining the mission to England under one Administration and - the Secretaryship of the Treas ury under another. For ten years he was Chairman of the Finance committee of the Senate, and con fessedly one of the geatest finan ciers of an era which produced men like Walker and Guthrie. He stood in the direct line of the Presidential succession, and but for the war might have occupied the White House. Arman of great learning, bril liant talentsand conservative char acter, he is to-day the intellectual •peer of any living Yet in his vid age he is glad to take tlkc&icnro post as signed him, and the Administra t»°n honors itself in recognizing, even m so humble away, his claim of wmfii and genius and ser vice. -W® - John Tyler, after he went out of the Presidency, became a Road master and Justice of the Peace in : Virginia, and acquitted himself , handsomely in both positions, as Mr. Hunter will undoubtedly ac quit himself as Collector of Cus toms of Tappahannock. The truth is that in this country we do less than justice to our old men. Mr. Gladstone is o ] d and poor. But he is Prime Minister of England. I Palmerston was Premier at eighty. Indeed, in Europe, age is the ' rule rather than the exception, for the occupants of great places. Mr. Payne, of Ohio, is an eminent and able man, and was never more ca pable of useful public service than now. But, if he were not a rich man, would he be a Senator? Un- < fortunately, with us when a man is ' old and poor the disposition is to , set him aside. It is true that men’s * most brilliaqt performances arc ( done for the most part on the sun- 1 no side of fifty, but their most 1 useful often come after this. In saying this, apropos of the appviutment of Mr. Hunter to a Federal office, we do no* mean to commiserate. He is a man of too 1 sturdy a courage and too philoso phic a temper to need mere senti- 1 mental sympathy. The age has gone by him and has carried off . upon its turbid waters his material J fortunes, so that undoubtedly the post of duty to which the President assigns him will afford him a much needed, though small, income. For this he will return more than an equivalent, and with it, we may be sure, he will be better content than many a money-king with his ill got J millions.—Courier Journal. s r Short-Hand in Journalism. f (Murat Halstead.) When, as often happens, some enterprising young woman calls upon me, desiring to enter upon the i work of journalism, and expresses a willingness to take up its labors, I invariably ask, '‘Are you a steno- i grapher!” lam often asked, “If I I am a stenographer can I get a situ- J ation?" and I always reply, “If a f first-rate one yes.” The first-class ' stenographer has a profession, is as certain of a good living as the me chanic, and has vaster fields before either her or him, as the case may be. But a smattering of phonoga phy is as useless as a smattering of music. If you learn to play on the j piano or violin, you must play well. I If you aie plonographer, you must follow the fastest speaker, or the 1 most involved conversation, take absolutely all of it, and write it out in a good, plain hand. I can assure the future of any young man or woman able to do this and wiping to work. “Half I 1 Ij . - 1 liinwi b* 1 u BEST TONIC. ? 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