Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-05-19

group, passing through the overcoat of Capt
II. G. Gibson, destroying bis sabre. 1tcrush
ed General Bayard's thighs and carried ava.
portion of his abdomen. He lived fourteen
hours after being hit, and passed the time il
quietly giving directions and in debating let
ters to his friends. In one to Col. Collum, h
said i:
"Give my love to Gen. Mcclellan and sa,
my only regret is that I did not die under hi
command" He was to have been married
on the following Wednesday. The brid
awaited her cavalier, who never came, Bay
ard, sans peur ct sans reproche. The losses
| in some of the commands were unusually
severe.
LOSSES IN HANCOCK g DIVISION.
But the most appalling loss was in tht
division of Gen. Hancock. Of the FIVE off
GERS composing his personal staff three were
wounded, and four horses were killed under
them. The General himself was struck by 6
rifle ball, but not seriously hurt. Of the
sixteen officers of the Sixty.ninth New York
every one was killed or wounded, and the
regiment lost IS per cent. of the enlisted men
left the field with its fourth commander, three
having been disabled. The Fifth New Hamp
shire lost seventeen out of twenty-three Off
GERS during the fight. The One hundred and
Sixteenth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers
had all the field and staff and many of the
line officers killed or wounded, and was taken
off the field by the fourth officer in command
during the fight The first color.sergeant Will
liam H. Tyrrell, held up the flag until hit
with FIVE rifle balls. The Eighty.6rst Penn.
sylvania lost twelve out of sixteen officers
and rs per cent. of the enlisted men. The
fourth commanding officer brought the regi.
ment off the field. The Fifty seventh New
York lost nine out of the eleven officers pres.
ent. The Sixty.sixth New York had four
commanders during the battle, the three
FIRST having been killed or wounded: Many
other regiments of the division suffered al
most as severe, yet, Notwithstanding the great
loss, on the morning of the following day,
when ordered to support the Ninth Corps,
the command fell in ready and willing, and
the contemplated assault with the Ninth Corps,
led by Gen. Burnside in person-from which
he was happily dissuaded by Gems. Sumner
and Hooker at the moment that all was ready
to make the attack-was the last attempt of
the campaign.
THE UNIVERSE.
Professor Proctor closes his lecture on
"The Star Depths" with the following quota.
tion from Jean Paul Friedrich Richter:
God called up man into the vestibule of
heaven, saying: Come thou hither and see
the glory of My house." And to the servants
that stood around His throne He said: "Take
him and undress him from the robes Of flesh,
cleanse his vision and put new breath into
his nostrils only touch not with any change
his human heart-the heart that weeps and
trembles." 1t was done, and with a mighty
angel for his guide, the man stood ready for
his infinite voyage; and from the terraces OF
heaven. without sound or farewell, at once
they wheeled into endless space. Sometimes,
with solemn flight of angel wing, they fed
through saharas of darkness, through wilder
nesses of death that divided the worlds of
life; sometimes they swept along frontiers
that were quickening under prophetic motion.
Then from distance that is counted only in
heaven, light dawned for time through a
sleepy film by uDutterable pace the light
swept to them, they, by unutterable pace, to
the light. In moment the rushing of planets
was upon them in moment the blazing OF
light was around them. Then came eternities OF
suns that twilight revealed, but were not re.
vealed On the right hand and the left to,
wered mighty consultations, that by self
repetitions and answers from afar; that by
counter positions built up triumphal gates,
whose architraves, whose chways-horizon'
tai, upright-rested rose, at altitude by spans
that seemed ghostly from in6nitude. With
out measure were the architraves, past
number were the archways, beyond memory
the gates. Within were stairs that scaled
the eternities below; above was below
below was above to the man stripped OF
gravitating body-depth was swallowed in
height unsurmountable, height was swal'
lowed up in depth unfathomable. Suddenly,
as they thus rode from infinite to infinite
suddenly, as they thus tilted over abysmal
worlds-a mighty cry arose, that systems more
mysterious, that consultations more glorious,
that worlds more bilowy, other heights and
other depths, were coming. were nearly, were
at hand
Then the man sighed and stopped, shud-
dered and wept His overburdened heart ut.
tered itself in tears, and he said: "Angel, ]
will 90 no further For the spirit of man
acheth with this infnity. Insuferable is the
glory of the universe. Let me lie down in
the grave and hide myself from the persecu.
tion of the infinite; for end there is none"
And from all the listening stars that shone
around issued choral voice: "The man
speaks truly; end there is none, that even
yet we have heard of. End there is none J.
The angel solmnly demanded: "Is there
indeed no end, and is this the sorrow that
kills you ?"' But no voice answered, that he
may answer himself. Then the angel throws
up his glorious hands toward the heaven OF
heavens saying: END there is none in the
universe of God. Lo also there was no be.
ginning"
GLASS IN EGYPT.
Egypt offers the earliest positive evidence
of glass making Sir Gardiner Wilkinson
mentions that glass bottles containing wine are
represented on monuments Of the fourth dy.
nasty, more than four thousand years ago !;
and in the tombs at Benz Hassan the process
of glass blowing is represented in an unmis:
taxable manner. The earliest specimen of
glass bearing an inscription from which its
date may bs ascertained, which has as yet
been met with, is the lions head now in the
Slade collection in the British Museum.
This was found many years ago at Thebes, by
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