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Railroads entering the yards reported receipts
for the day by loads as follows: Chicago Great
Western. 7; Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul, 5;
Minneapolis & st. Louis. 9; Chicago, st. Paul,
Minneapolis & Omaha, Z; Great Northern, IL
Northern r
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CHICAGO PRODUCE, Oct 31.-Butter steady;
creamerles, 161h@MAc; diaries. 15@21c. Eggs,
steady; loss of, cases returned, zee. Cheese,
steady; twins, 1o1s Ollie; diaries, ,111ac; Young
Americas '11lh M1lNc. Iced poultry, steady;
turkeys, 9@13c; chickens, 1o@11kc.
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ST LOUIS LEAD, Oct. s1.-Lead-steady: 81.
Spelter-Firm; $500. .s.... zzE2
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PUTS AND CALLS.

Two o'clock report:
Puts-December wheat, lssc sellers
Calls-December wheat. ne bid:
Curb-December wheat, TN QIlsso DIG.
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Friday, Oct: a1.-Extra creamery butter,
FIRM packing stock, STEADY. Strictly fresh
eggs, firm. Fancy country dressed veal,
steady. Live poultry, frmer. Green fruits,
steady. New apples, steady. Potatoes,
higher. Cheese, firm.
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MILWAUKEE, GRAIN, Oct. 31.-Flour-
Steady. Wheat-steady; close, No. northern,
74hc; No. 2 northern, TN @731ac; December,
72hc: Rye-Firm: No l. $50. Barley-Firm;
No: e. e7 3 sa%~ple, 85@5Ss: Oats STEADY;
Wheat-Puts, 72%c; calls, 72Bc.
Corn-Puts, 50Ac, calls 51&c.
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TOLEDO GRAIN AND SEED, Oct. 81.-Wheat
Fairly active, lower; cash, 7ec; December,
THO; May, 77Ac. Corn-Active; December,
42he; May. 42a cats-.Dull,~ lower; Deem.
Der, 31%c; May, 32hc. Glover Seed-Fairly &C.
tive, lower; October, $6.72h.
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KANSAS CITY GRAIN, Oct. s1.-Cose:
tsss No. sn1S 7e se Sc Nj! Nay e5@ SG
October, SIC; December, 37N @37N: May, 86H
@S7c; cash, No. mixed. 47c; No 2 white, 49
@6Oc. OatH-No. white, h@33hc,
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ST. LOUIS GRAIN, Oct. a1.-Close: Wheat
Der, ee1k @69Mc: May, 72Hc; No. 2 hard, esq
Tic. Corn-Dull; No 2, cash, 45c; December.
40Hc; May, 39c. Oats-Lower; No. 2, cash, De-
cember 3Sc; May, 29hc; No. white, 32c.
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CHICAGO SEED AND COARSE GRAIN, Oct.
ern, s1.15; December, $1.1e; May, $40. Rye
December, 50hc; May, b2c. Barley-Cash, 35 "a
5sc. Timothy-October, $40; January $4.20.
Clover-$l1.15.
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CONTINUED on Page Fourteen.)
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THE REGIMENT ORGANIZED.

This sketch begins with the organiza-
ton of the First Regiment Alabama Vol
unteers at Barrancas Barracks, near
Fort Ba-rancas, Fla, February. 1861.
The companies composing the regiment
were the Eufaula Pioneers. Captain John
Clark; Eufaula Rifles, Captain Alpheus
Baker; Pcrote Guards Captain George
w Dawson; Wilcox True Blues Captain
I. G.. w. Steedman; Talladega Rifles,
Cantain l.. F. johnson: Clayton Guards,
Captain Jerry y. Williams; Guards Of
the Sunny South, Captain Conyers; Tai
lapoosa Rifles, Captain ]. D. Meadows;
Rough and Ready Pioneers, Captain A.
II. Owens; Red Eagles, Captain Ben Lane
Posey.
These companies had been previously
mustered into the service of Alabama for
twelve months. before leaving their State,
but a few weeks later were transferred
to the Confederate service, becoming the
first regiment, not only from Alabama
but from any other State of the Confcd
eracy.
The following officers were elected
Henry d. Clayton, Colonel; L. G. w
Steedmap. Lieutenant Colonel; Jerry n
Williams, Major.
The staff 'v,re: S. H Dent Adjutant:
Henry r. Shorter, Commis5lcy; L. i.
johnson. QuarteImos- J. d. Caldwell.
SUI gecn; Walter Curry. Assiotan: Sur
geoa,
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Copyright, 1902. by Flank G. Carpenter)
LYONS, France.
l am in the silk cent?: of the wo.id.
where for more tnan four centuries the
finest gowns of the bellies of all nations
have been turned out on common hand
looms Lyons makes about $90,00o,O 900
worth of silks and silk goods every year
Its satins and vslvets go all over the
world, and within .he past few months 1t
has been olsy making the rich red vel
vets which were worn at the coronation
of King Edward VII.
The city Is the commercial center of
Middle France, and. next to Paris. the
chief city of this republic. 1t took me
eight hours on the railroad to cover the
two hundred miles between here and
Paris. and 1 now find myself in the rich
valley of the Rhone, in one OF the most
beautifully located of cities.
Ions Is surrounded by hills. 1t lies on
the lowlands, under the mountains, at
the confluence of the Rhone and the
Saone. On the other side of the Saone
are the Heights of Fourvieres, with
great tower upon them, up which we shall
climb for the view. We walk through the
town. passing the site of Roman pal
ace In which the most cruel of the Roman
emperors, Claudius and Caligula. were
born; we go over one of the Saone bridges
and by a cable railroad are elevated to
the foot of the tower Another elevator
takes us to the top, and we are 800 feet
above the river. hanging. as 1t were. high
over the city. Behind us are the Golden
mountains of Lyons. and beyond them.
over a valley of gardens and trees. are
the mighty Alps, their snowy peaks form
ing a ragged silver mass against the
clouds. The day is clear and we can see
the snowy cap Of Mont Blanc hundred
miles away. Turn about now and look
down into the valley. There is the Rhone.
fresh from its glacier cradle In Mont st.
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The Velvet Metropolis Of Lyon.c
dno Its Four Hundred Silk Factories

ons has been gradually losing its stand
ing as the chief silk. making center Of
the world. Other countries are coming
into competition with it, and its trade -
slowly but steady falling. Germany II
making beautiful silks with the hest o.
modernm achinery at Krefeld. not TAR
from the left bank of the Rhine: the
English have long been known as makers
Of fine silks. the Russians are doing some
wonderful weaving near Moscow and the
Italians are rapidly regaining the place
they held In the middle ages as one Of the
Achief silk-manufacturing peoples OF the.
world 1t used to be that the most Of tho
raw silk brought from China came to
Marseillcs; large part of 1t now goes
to Genoa on the North German Lloyd
Asiatic lines, and the output of Italian
silk goods steadily grows.
American Silk Invasion.
The United States.s however. is injur-
ing the trade of Lyons more than any Of
the European countries. Before our Civil
War we annually contributed about 00.-,
900, 900 70 the Lyons silk weavers- Now
we make 80 per cent of the silk we COM
sumo, and. notwithstanding our enormous
increase N wealth and population. our
Lyons purchases H., not amount to more
than $4,000 100 year. The French writ
ers claim that the falling on In their
trade is due to our protective tariff. which
has built up the silk industry OF Pater-
sor and other American Cities In these
places the silk is made in large mills. and
the cost is go reduced that American COM
mercial travellers are now selling AmtrL-
can silks in Europe. We already weave
two-thirds as much silk as France and
our silk exports may yet become one OF
the features of the American commercial
invasion of Europe. am told that g
number Of the French factors have al
ready removed their plants'to the United
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States, and that others are remodeling
their mills on the American plan.
In Big Lyons Mill.
1 visited this afternoon the biggest silk
mill of this country. 1t has 400 looms ana
two or three times that many employees.
The hands are bare-armed. bare-headed
girls, we'll dressed and in many cases
good looking. They are the daughters OF
the men who work on the house looms
and are the descendants of many genera
lions of silk weavers. The mill is some-
what like a great cotton factory. save
that more bright colors are used. In the
Keeling room the threads are Of all the
hues of the rainbow. and the thousands
of spools make a maze Of brilliant unts
and shades. The factory Is we'll lighted
and 1t is equipped with all the modern
conveniences of our factories. The wages
are very low and there Is no trouble In
getting employees.
was interested in the velvet works.
The finer of such goods are made by
house industry. although power looms
are generally used. The weavers have
found they can not make wages by using
their old hand looms and they have had
them remodeled so that they can now
earn IS cents and upwards per day. Much
of the velvet woven in Lyons is brocade,
and that in most beautiful patterns. Silk
and velvet curtains are made. some Of
which cost as much as $500 a, pair. saw
velvets today which sell for $40 a yard,
and was shown curtains which require
four months to weave. The finest OF the
velvets are made in these little rooms
The velvet is woven about wires. the
threads being cut through to the wires
with knife and the wires taken out
The velvet has to be made thread by
thread. each line being cut separately,
so that slip of the knife would ruin the
cloth.
CONTINUED on Page Fourteen.)
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Gothard. and nearer still, flowing almost
at our feet, is the Saone. winding about
through the town side by side with It's
twin sister the Rhone. Between the two
is the greater part of Lyons, and as we
look we see the silvery str cams en-
bracing the municipal maiden in her silk
en- clothes and going singing on together
to the sea.
The Second City Of France, wi
Stop a minute and think where We are.
We are In the heart OF one of the oidese
parts of Europe and on the site OF one OF
the most famous cities of France. This
Rhone valley was a trade route in the
days of Julius Caesar and great fairs
were held here in the middle ages, TO
which merchants from Amsterdam TO
Venice and from other parts of Europe
came to buy and SELL The Gauls had
a town on this site 600 years before Christ
was born and at the time Christ lived
here was a Roman city. On this very
hill one Roman emperor caused D,O0O
Christians to be massacred, and in the
DAYS of the French revolution the Tri-
bunal. finding that the guilotine wouFi
not kill the Lyons aristocrats fast enough,
tied them together with ropes, in rows
of sixty, and executed them by wholesale
with cannon loaded with grape shot.
The Lyons of today, however, devotes
itself more 10 business than to politics OF
religion. 1t is a great manufacturing cen
ter 1t contains 100000 people and with
its suburbs has about three-quarters oil
million. Standing here on t3e tower you
can see the smokestackI OF its car shops
tanneries and chemical works. and there
across the valley. on the other side is the
famous Croix Rousse (Red Cross, the hill
where the silkmakers live. where the
fashions of generations have boon woven
and where today some Of the most beau
tiful cloths of the world are produced.
The hill looks but little like a manufac-
turing center. 1t has no vast brick build
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ences. We knock at q door, pounding
loudly in order that we may overcome
the noise of the weaving. A Frenchman
in his shirt sleeves, with a cap on his
head, opens the door and asks us to
enter. He has just left his loom and at
our request he again goes to work. The
loom is old fashioned. and he works 1t
with his feet. throwing the shuttle by
hand from one side to the other through
the silk threads. He is making a pattern
of dress goods which may eventually be
worn by some of the Four Hundred, or
may shine perhaps on a Virginia belle
at a White House reception. l ask him
his wages. He replies that he ears three
francs and a half. or 70 American cents.
n day of eleven hours. He has been
working at his trade ten years, and Is one
Of the best paid men in the building.
Going on, we enter room after room.
Each has one or more looms, with bare
armed, bare-headed men and women
weaving away. All Kinds of silks are
turned out, and the wages in all cases
are low. The men earn on an average 60
cents a day and the women 4S cents. The
best workmen sometimes earn from 81
to SIS and a very few as much as $40.
or IL francs. per day.
In some buildings we find the looms
working by electricity, the lightning hav-
ing been called to make brocades and
silks for our ladies' dresses. The cleo
tricity Is furnished by a society at such
rate that a man gets electrical power
for cents a day and pays for his loom
on nstallments. With such looms the
men can make better wages. working in
the same room in which their families
lave been living and working for genera
tons.
Silk Mills.
1 have talked with many of the silk
men of Lyons. both factors and laborers.
l find a general belief that the. days Of
such house industry are numbered. "
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ings, walled with windows, such as you
see in the factory towns of our country:
1t has no smokestacks pouring volumes OF
black into the clouds and 1t looks more
like a residence section than an industrial
one. Still Lyons has hundreds OF SILK
factories and the most Of them are stu
ated upon that hill.
On the Croix Rouse.
Suppose we visit 1t. We descend to the
Saone. cross the bridge and take the troll
ley car through the city to the cable sta
ton at the foot of Croix Rouse. We go
into the car dropping sou, or cent.
at the turnstile, for that Is what Is
charged for the ride. We enter box
car where score of silk workers are
standing, and in a moment find ourselves
riding to the top of the hill. A few steps
from the station above takes you into the
heart of the silk industry of Lyons. We
can tell it by the click! click! click. which
is heard on every street and In every
hallway. The houses are lean five-story
structures, built along alley-like streets,
with narrow entrance doors They look
like tenement buildings and they are in
deed little more than tenements, great
bee hives filled with laborers. every cell
of which is a little factory. Most of the
work in the great silk department Of the
Rhone is done on hand looms, and there
are 100000 men thus employed in this de-
partment. Even where power looms are
used the work Is largely that Of house
industry, several weavers having. in a
single room, looms worked by electricity
paying therefor a few cents per day per
loom. o..
Among the Silk Workers.
We enter one of the buildings and walk
up the narrow stone stairs. We hear the
clicking going on as we mount from story
to story. The building IL rudely con-
structed and without modern convent
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REMARKS BY THE AUTHOR.

1t is we'll known that for twenty years
] have resisted urgent appeals OF sur
viving comrades TO writs a liseory OF TIC
First Alabama r Regiment. Even now
have gotten my consent to undertake
short sketch only after fully realizing
that unless I write 1t the regiment Will
be left without any record. and that 1t
will be better for the regiment to have
a poorly written record than none what
ever. am aware of my incompetence
to do the subject justice-a subject; quite
large enough for Homeric or VirgiEan
Epic. The insistance also Of Colonel l.
G, w. Steedman, the distinguished com
mander of the regiment during the war,
and Of Thomas NJ. Owen, an able and ac-
tive Director of the Department OF
Archives and History, are to large de-
gree responsible for the appearance OF
this effort.
The writer was an original member of
the Perote Guards, organized at Perote.
Bullock Qhen Pike County, in 1853, and
composed mostly of students of the Perote
Institute; left Perote with the company
Feb. IL, 1851, and the next day was mus
tered into. the service of Alabama at
Girard by a Captain Thorn; was organ
lied with the company into the First Reg
iment Alabama Volunteers at BarancRs,
Fla, about a month later, which fegi-
ment, by consent of men and ofhcers,
was transferred to the Confederate Ser
vice about April 1, 1861: remained with
the regiment until Its surrender with the
Army of Tennessee April q. 1860, at
Greensboro, N. c.; participated in every
battle and campaign of the regiment ex-
cept the march from Lovejoy Station,
Ga, to Tuscunbia, Ala, in the Fan Vi
1864, and shared the fate of the regiment
in military prison in 1852 at Camp But
Ter. near Springfield, Ill.
With the poet he can justly say:
"Quaeque ipse miserrma vidi
Eft quorum pars magma fue."
My apology for above personal allu-
sions is to crafty the natural desire of
the reader to know what opportunities
the writer has had by experience and OBJ
servatlon for ascertaining the events he
records.
The principal data of this sketch: 1.
Accounts of battles and campaigns pub
lished during and since the war by the
writer in the Southern Advertiser (Troy.
Ala.,) Union Springs (Ala.) Herald and
Times, Greenville (Ala) Advocate; 2.
Historical notes by the writer. but not
published; 8. Confederate Military His
tory; Southern Hi orical Society papers.
authentic Confederate maps, plans of bat
ties, etc; 4. Clippings from current news
papers and magazines; 5. And in the few
references to Company X, the we'll writ
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(Ala) Rifles. Company d. Lieutenant D.
2. Geodlet S. r. Wheeler; Tallapoosa
Rifles Company A, Lieutenants John H.
Sanford, o. W. Lockett, Sergeant James
II. Lowry; Rough and Ready Pioneers.
Company E. Lieutenant F. P. Bledsoe;
John Gill Shorter Guards. Company X;
History Company X, by Dan P. Smith
Within the limits of this sketch midi
vidual records nor company history can
have any place except in so far as either
may form an essential part of reglmental
history.
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NOTE BY COLONEL srEEDMAN.

l have carefully reviewed the manu-
script of this historical sketch of the
First Regiment Alabama Volunteers. c.
S. A., as written by Professor Z. Y.
McMorries of Plantersville. Ala. The
history of the campaigns in which ] was
personally engaged Is correct in the gen
eral facts as well as In details Our
survivors and friends owe a debt of graf
itude and thanks to Professor Memories
for thus recording the history Of our
regiment. nearly forty years after the
actual occurrences The Illustrations. ex-
cept the photographs, accompanying the
text are printed from original drawings
in my possession These drawings were
made upon the spot by actual partic!-
pants. They are not artistic and fin
ished. but are valuable additions to the
history of the heroic Fist Alabama
/. G. w. STEEDAIAN
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ten history of Company X by Lieutenant
Dan p. Smith.
Over all memory unfortunate in never
forgetting has exercised a rigid but con-
servative censorship.
After a strenuous effort for several
months 1t has been possible to secure
ruster-rolls of only four of the thirteen
companies of the regiment. besides that
preserved IN Smiths History of Company
X. These rolls have peen flied with Hon
Thomas NJ. owen, Montgomery, Ala.
The following are the companies whose
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Confederate Military History, maps plans
of battle etc; for furnishing at his
own expense all illustration cuts which
constitute nearly all cash expenditures for
the deep anud unremitting interest ne
has taken in the sketch; and for his ir-
valuable criti ,isms of the manuscript.
f. Y. MMORRIES,
Company G, Perote Guards.
Regimental Historian
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The writer is under lasting obligations
to Hon. Thomas M. owen for his hearty
cooperation in the work. to Colonel l.
@. w. Steedman of st. Louis, Mo, for
numerous letters of sympathy and en-
couragement, for loan of several volumes
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muster-rolls have recently QsOO been
smade out, and the names of survivors
performing this all-important work: Pc
rote Guards, Company G, Private D. s.
Bethune. Sergeants Hestor Mclean, Dan
Mclean, Thomas B. Miles,. Talladega
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Historical Sketch Of First Regiment
Alabama Volunteers, 6. S. A., I86I-65


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NEWS OF THE es1 N @ R- ' Fl F ]
PRESCOTT

Prescott. Ariz.. June 23.-fSpecial correspondence Of The Rcpublican.)- The funeral services of the late Father Edmund ClaSseen, who died in Pres cott last week were elaborate and in teresting. Solemn requiem high mass was sung. 1t IS seldom that this mass is celebrated by r1a Catholics Of Ari- zona. The ceIebrant CT the high priest was Father N0vatus of Phoenix; the deacon was Father Fabre Of Flagstaff:
 the Sub-deacOn vas Father PietH e. Prescott, and the master Of ceremonies was Father Connolly. parish priest Of Winslow. Father Connolly in his ser mon made one of the most sy:npa- thetic and eloquent addresses the audi ence ever heard. lie vas . personal and intimate friend Of the deceased and knew his friends inmost desires and his life hopes. The audience vas moved to tears; the speakers voice be- came CholSed and his eyes filled with tears. He gave vant to his feelings. which compelled him to stop speaking.
 Schrnidt's requiem high mass was sung by the Prescott Catholic choir. musical organiza tion of which Mrs. Robert E. Morrison is SO prano. Miss Agnes C0nlan. also. and Hon. Robert '. Morrison tenor 4lr. Allen Hill was o:ganist. At the offer tory Thomas Ryan ef Tucson sang Wiegand's c Salutar:us. Just before the concluding sermon Mrs. R. F. Nor rison sang Flee as Bird. The church was most handsomely drapad in black ana white. the drapery hang ing in long folding sweeps from col unln to column. T!!e high altar was