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but the interest is maintained at a
“white heat."
I nder the general title of “The
Leisure Hour Series, " Messrs Holt &
\\ illiams of New York, are now pub
lishing works of an entertaining,
though by no means trivial character.
The first of the “series” has already
appeared in the shape of a dainty
duodecimo, (“My Little Lady,”) said to
be the production of anew English
writer of marked talent and promise.
The tale itself is charming. With
no plot whatever, and but tew charac
ters, the author works confidently, and
successfully within the (comparatively)
naiTow bounds selected; showing
much knowledge ot human nature, a
fine discriminating judgment, and a
true poet's love and appreciation of
Nature.
The heroi e, “My Little Lady,”
Madelon, is fascinating trom the hour
of her introduction, until in orange
blossoms, and with her characteristically
beautiful smile, she disappears into the
“cloud-land” of romance. All the
surroundings ot this little maiden, her
adventures, troubles, and temporary
despairs, in fact the whole conception
of her character—prove the existence
on the Novelist’s part of a certain
originality of mind, from which we
have the right to expect true, and
great things hereafter.
Holt & Williams have now in press,
belonging to this “Leisure Hour
Series” the following works: Ivan
Turgenefs “Smoke “Herman Agha”
by William G. Palgr&ve; About’s
“Man with the Broken Ear;” and a
volume of highly divesting verses,
called “Fly Leaves,” by C. S. Calvesby,
of whom “Chamber’s Journal” says,
“He is the most amusing of rihymsters.
There is noting in the “Rejected Ad
dresses,” equal to Calyesleyjp “Wan
derers,” considered as a specimen of
pure parody. The little bonk ought
to be read trom cover to cover!”
LOsTLRS 01' RLGIMENIS, BAJI ALIONb, BATTERIES, ANI) BRIGADE AND DIVISION STAFF ORGANIZATIONS OF LONGSTREETS CORPS
BY GENERAL E. P. ALEXANDER.
The following Rosters are a part of the “Records of Longstreet’s Corps” collected by General E. P. Alexander, formerly Chief of Artillery of the Corns and soon to be ni.hliabod u •
ion. They are designed to record: Ist. The Brigades in which each Regiment served. 2d. The list of engagements in which it took part, with its strength ad cas”nlLs iifeS offiLTfi 8^
being given where they can be obtained, and approximate where they cannot. 3d. The name, rank, promotions, and wounds of all Regimental Officers above 1 t rs ! ! ’ ,T
Officers of whatever rank. The names of Lieutenants of Companies have been omitted on account if the great difficult of obtaSg them and the bulk to wh fhl? ZiTu*’ a “ d ot aU Sta ?
Having been collected in part by correspondence, they necessarily contain some errors and are by no means complete, and are published in the Rannfk ck ti-k South anu> Pi r"* recortl -
Augtu’ta, in hopes that those who may be able will take the trouble to correct and complete them before they are* published in more permanent form, in the aj.peudk of “RecoXof
Corps. All surviving officers who may see them, are earnestly requested to examine them carefully and to supply omissions or correct errors however urn a// Y J gstruet 3
body ehe, by letter directed to E. P. Alexander, Columbia, S. C. Copies of official reports of battles are also eanLtly mrt cukriy of the « ms of ? hw fr T
ba*e preserved them. Any papers lent will be copied and carefully returned. ° 4 1' 01 Ule can, l )a, g ll9 1863 and 1864, from any who may
RANK.
R A Pryor
Walter Wrenn
I) W Hinckle
Thomas C Elder
B F Hudgins
M S Thomas
Brigadier General
A A G
A Q M
A C S
A DC
Surgeon
RANK.
Colonel
Lieutenant Colonel
Major
Adjutant
A Q M
ACS
Surgeon
Assistant Surgeon.
Chaplain
Captain Company A
Captain Company B
Captain Company C
Captain Company D
Captain Company E ,
Captain Company F :
Captain Company G j
Captain Company II !
Captain Company I
Captain Company K
Captain Company L I
BAN NER OF THE SOUTH AND PLANTERS’JOURNAL.
Manufacturing in the South,
In his letter from Montgomery, the
1 traveling correspondent of the A” Y.
Journal of Commerce, thus sums up
| some of the manufacturing advantages
: possessed by the South :
| “Draw a line trom Augusta to
| Columbus, Ga., ilience to the boundary
!of Tennessee and into Alabama, to in
clude the Coosa river, and you have,
j they say, a territory possessing greater
' water power than any similar area of
! the world. The advantages of nianu-
I faeturing cotton in the South are :
“First—The raw material is brought
!to the door of the factory. The planter
! brings it as he gathers it in the seed,
j and therefore avoids the expense of
bagging and iron ties, and the factor
does not lose their weight in cotton.
The factor then gins and makes yarn
I and cloth, and sends the goods to mar
ket. The cotton, therefore, saves the
expense of packing and packing mate
rials, and of selling commission, of
freight and insurance to New York, of
profit to the New York speculator, of
freight to and from the Northern mill,
the difference in cost of labor, (for fac
tory labor is cheaper and very abundant
here); it also saves the expense ot the
capital loaned to the factor, and the
large commissions, freights and losses
paid in frequent handlings, and trans
| portation back to the South.
“Second—Abundant water power,
under easy control and unobstructed
by ice. The value of water power
depends upon its volume, duration, un
obstruction by ice, accessibility and fa
cility of control. The rivers through
the uplands of South Carolina, and all
through Georgia and Alabama, are al
ways free from ice, which is the most
fatal objection to water powers in our
Northern climate. The rivers where
the best water exists in the South are
amply supplied with water even in the
very dry seasons. Obstruction by ice
is unknown to them. They are all ac
cessible, some navigable to the very
jioint where mills are or could be loca
ted, and the ease with which many of
these gifts of nature are controlled are
remarkable. Where a river bottom is
/sandy, and the banks are of the same
duits are unreliable, because a heavy
storm might wash away the banks, or
I the rush of water from the conduits
Roster of Field and Staff Pryor’s Brigade, June, 1862
NAME.
.. ril jf r 3J “l 1 ! 1141,1 Alabama, and a Lousiana Battalion, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Coppens, were also in Pryor's Brigade~at this
1 ,1, J l C o°"lJ| e e Rosters of he 3d \ lrginia and 14th Alabama are given elsewhere. Coppens’ Battalion was broken up in the Summer ot 1862
and the Bth Florida was attached to the Brigade during the Maryland Campaign. After this Campaign General Pryor resigned, and Pn oris Br ide
was broken up; the 3d Virginia going to Kemper's Brigade; the 14tli Alabama to Wilcox; the 14th Louisiana to Nicholls’ Brigade in Jaclsofffold
Division, while the 2d, sth and Bth h onda Regiments were formed into a Brigade for Colonel Perry, who was promoted ° ° ld
The casualties m this Brigade at Richmond, June 27th and 30th, 1862, were 169 killed, 680 wounded, and 11 missing out of 1 400 nresent- at
2d Manassas la killed, iG wounded; and at Sharpsburg, 4 missing; and at Roonesboro and Sharksburg, 48 killed, 285 wounded, and 49 missing ’
Roster of Regiments, Pryor’s Brigade, June, 1862.
FOURTEENTH LOUISIANA. | SECOND FLORIDA.
NAMES.
W R Jones
Z York
D Fable
W P Clark
S D Oliver
J II White
B C Harrison
|T Shieran
P King.
: W II Zimmerman
jJ W T Leach
|R Bradley
;B Cooley
W H Toler
W W Scott
II Gillum
3)1 M Montgomery
W H Verlander
might undermine the mill. This fact j
is well understood here, and the water
powers selected run over rocky founda
tions, which give an additional import- j
ant advantage of furnishing stone on
the spot for building purposes, for con
structing dams and aqueducts.
“Third—Such is the mildness of the j
climate that factories require uo artifi
cial heat to produce a temperature
suitable for spinning yarn smoothly and
evenly, and consequently for the manu
i facture of evenly-woven cloth. This is
i a very great consideration. The hu
midity of the climate is also another
valuable condition.
“Fourth—Operatives enjoy much bet- :
ter health here than in any Northern
State. Scientific and medical authori
ties urge, a.s a reason for this, that while
at Lowell, at least seven months in the
year they require artificial heat conveyed
through the entire mill in order to pro
duce a given temperature, nature sup
| plies that tempera turn here. In Lowell
they do not only have the doom and
windows closed to exclude the air,
but put listing in the interstices as a
further exclusion. The result is that
operatives inhale an impure atmos
phere. Here, the greatest enemy to
the health is the midday sun. The
operatives live around the factory, and
are protected from the snn while at
work. During ten months of the year
the factory windows and doors are all
thrown wide open, and the operatives
have a comparatively cool place to work
in. In the North, factory operatives, a.s
| a class, are pale, attenuated people,
i Here they are healthier than any other
[class of laborers. An operative here
! can buy a house and lot for a compara
j lively trifling sum, and they, the work
| ers, manage to do it, or they rent houses
l for a mere song, witli an acre or half an
acre of ground, and raise vegetables for
home use with less than half the atten
tion necessary in the North. *
“Fifth—The best proof of these
things is furnished in the fact that the
Augusta or Columbus manufactories can
ship their products to Lowell and un
i dersell tbe Lowell people, and while
| doing that they will make and the
Lowell people will lose money. If en
terprising Yankee cotton manufacturers
iff-OUhLiimpe here and examine into the
: operation, they would, itliink, he cou
: vinced that there is money in it, and no
| trifling sum either. It would be much
NAMES.
E A Perry,
Lewis G Piles.
W B Butler.
E M L Engle.
G Harris.
T M Palmer.
J W L Engle.
W D Ballantine.
|L Williams.
W R Moore.
J M C Musgvove.
jW E McCaslin.
ill Tillinghast.
T M Brown.
A Mosely.
M L Duncan.
J B O’Neal.
W II H Rogers.
better for the whole country if some
Northern capitalists would develop this
industry here, because, while it would
be aunatter of profit to them, it would
benefit tbe whole people, and soon do
away with any pretence of a necessity
for a protective tariff on manufacturers
of cotton. No cotton factory that I
have yet seen in the South makes a
profit of less than twenty per cent, per
annum on the capital invested in build
ings and stock. Every yard of goods
or pound of yarn they produce finds
ready sale, and the makers themselves |
are the men of ail others who are most i
anxious for Northern capitalists to [
come among them and build factories
and mills right alongside of theii-s.
True, there may be a little selfishness
even in that, because every new mill |
lessens the individual expense of con |
trolling the water power; but the dis-1
position proves that t hero is abundant
room, raw material, work and labor for
all the capital and energy our million
aires may see tit to invest here, and
profitable demand for all tbe cotton and
woolen goods they may manufacture.”
The Boi.i. Worm.—Many of our
exchanges are now giving place to the
following: •
“The Aberdeen (Miss.) Examiner
says: Mr. James D. Tatum, of Aber
deen, one of our oldest citizens, has
discovered an effectual bar to the
depredation of the boll worm. Last
year he put up nine martin boxes,
which were immediately taken posses
sion of by hundreds of martins, who
entered upon duty as destroyers of the
millers who deposited the eggs that
produce the destructive boll worms.
He informs us that he did not find a
single boll worm in his hundred acres
of cotton. Putting up martin boxes
at convenient positions throughout their
plantations, they will bejable to wage
a war of exterminat ion against the most
dreaded enemy ot the South. It costs
little or nothing to try the experiment,
and. there is no good reason to sup
i pose that the martin will not be as
| destructive to the enemies that threaten
the field as the English sparrow, while
lit is much more harmless.”
This would all look well enough but
fin- one little trouble in the way: the
11' lfier oFTfac
the night, while martins fly only in the
day time. The miller of the boll worm
is the most shy of all moths, and there
fore conceals itself with such care that
one seldom comes upon it during the
day.— Mobile Register.
Tim Cotton Tax Cases.— The exact
status of the bill to refund the internal
revenue tax ou cotton is the subject of
general inquiry from parties interested in
its passage. The bill is still pending
action before the Ways and Means Com
mittee of the House, will be reported by
them early in the December session. The
defeat of tlie Mon-ill amendment to the
defficiency bill was the first indication of
the feeling in favor of the proposition to
refund. The great bulk of the cases
brought before the Court of Claims,
are cotton claims, and the fight
ngainst the amendment was made
directly in the interest of the cot
ton producing class. The next or sec
ond and most conclusive evidence of the
feeling in the matter is to be found in
the fact that Ithe amendment to the om
nibus bill, prohibiting the Secretary of
the Treasury from collecting the two
cents per. pound tax ou cotton judg
ments obtained before the Court of
Claims, was passed by the almost .maui
mous vote of both Houses.
Tim Government And Southern
Claimants.— Dissatisfaction is expressed
by the fortunate Southern claimants be
cause the Third Auditor must first audit
their claims before the Secretary of tho
Treasury is willing to pay the amount
appropriated. The reason alleged for
this course by the Treasury Department
's that the Government must protect it
self against the presentation of the same
claim hereafter, and must hold the
papers as vouchers, otherwise there will
be no security in the future against tho
presentation of the same claim.
DeatU of a Lady who Claimed to be
the DAlMtaMiiF General "W. Tecum
seu Mrs. Cox, who several
weeks tliis from Macon,
died on at a boarding house on
West <-t, at the head of South
Broad was bur.ed as a pauper
The deceased claimell to "beau own'
daughter of General W. T. Sherman.—
Savannah Advertiser.
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