_ w. m # . ? - . > i ?? 1 L j .assEssesmm 111 C&SI&UB& 1MM&I. ; BY F. M. TBIMMLER Devoted to Education, Agricultural, Manufacturing and Mevltanical Arte. $2.00 IN ADVANCE. VOL XXIII. SPARTANBURG, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 18G0. NO. 4. T II K OMtwrA gmairisj IS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, A T Two Dollars (Specie) in Advance. RATES OF ADVERTISING. One Square, First Insertion, $1 ; Subsequent Insertions, 75 cents. Bill Ai'p RcturnN to the Internal City and .Meets 111* Friend llif; John. Editur Mct(erpoli(un RrJcord: I htlV IlOt Ul) to tliis time 111 *nli> i>iw ro ^ -- t ~ marks in publik about the trials an I tribu lations, the losses and crosses, the buzzards and dead bosses seen on our journey home to the eternal city. I shall not ulood to it now, only to remark that our oouiiu bark were not so hasty as our leavin. it was in the dead of winter, through snow and through sleet, over crocks without bridges and bridges without floors, through a ? nnil rarnnlo nn.l - 'J I"?' J are all gone," sed she. "It may be possibul," sed I, "that the Genrul? "And my barrel ofsoap." sed she. "It may be possibul," sed I, "that the Genrul moved oft our things to take keer of em for us. I reckon we'll git eui all back alter while." "Alter while," said Mrs. Arp like an ekko, and ever since then when I alluod _ to our Noithr'cn brethren she only replies, "utter while." Uy and by the skattcrcd wanderers bcguu to drop in under the welcutn shades of our sorrowful citty. It wcr a delightful enjoyment to greet em home, and listen to the history of their suffrings and misfortunes. Misery loves company, and utter the misery is past there's a power of comfort in tulkin it over and fixin up us big u l.l v-J- ? ? ' 1 luiu us any uouy. i wer Fianuin one day upon the banks of the injun river, a wondcrin in my mind wlio wuuhl coinc next to gladden our hearts, when 1 saw the shndder of an objek a darknin the sun lit bank. It wer not a load of hay nor an elefunt, but fhcro cnuf it wer my friend Uig John, a n.ovin slowly, but surely, to the dug out landing on the opposite side, llis big , round face nssootucd more latitood when he saw me, and without wuitin for remarks he sung out in a voice some two staves deeper than the Southern Harmony? r '"There came to the heecli a poor exile of Erin." "Make him /or'' said I, "and you'l fill the bill." Prouder to see him than a monkey 6how, I paddled the dug out over in | double quick and bid hiui welcum in the i * name of the eternal citty and its humble inhabitants. 1 soon got him ufloat in the little canoo, and before I was aware ol it ' * the water wai sloshing over the gunnels at i every wabble, "Lay down, my friend," ; aed I, arid he laid, which was all that saved us lrom a watry grave, and tho naboorin farms from inundation. When safely land ed I found him wmlced in untioht ti.?? ! ?. ' p- "" "f)'"' couldent rise, so I rolicvod him by a prize with the end of the paddle. As his foot tjnj. ; touched thosakred soil he gently separated ? ' his countenance and sung with feeling niel "Home again?home again?from a furrin JyftjjEjp . The Yanks may cum and the dcril too but I'll - not run any more." 1 Kccollektin soino skraps of blank verse myself, I said with aksent, "Tell nie thou 8\vilt of foot?thou modern Asahcl?Oh tell mc where is thy ohuriot and steer ? Where dids'fc thou go when I did see thee driving like Juhu as wo did flee for life." "Ill tell you all' sed he, "I want my fronds to know it. I'm now u man ot war, llill, and I'm glad of it. I've done the state some scrvis and she knows it. lve handled guns?yes, guns?weepins of dcth. I've slept on tuy arms si tine 1 seed you? night attor night hav 1 slept on my arms, Willi hundreds of deadly weepings all i around me. Ah, llill, Patriotism is a?big j thing. When you once breakc the ice, great sluices of glory as bit; as your arm l will just spring up like mushrooms in your buzzuui; and make you leel like throwing I your self clean away for your country. Let me set down and I'll tell you all I know. Dill, but as the feller said in the theater, "when you in your letters these unlucky i deeds relate, speak ol uie as I am?nothing expatiate nor set down hot in malice." "Jest so," sed i "cxaktly?cxaktly so.? Prosed, tuy hero " "Well you see the night after you parsed tnc, my steer got away, liang the desee; vm beast! 1 hunted smartly for him the | next niornin, but 1 hunted more for reds I than backwards Leavin 1113' wugin with i a widder woman, I took it afoot across the j country by a settlement road they called , the "cut oir." Devil of a cut off it was to tne. 1 broke down in site of a little log ! cabin, and never nio. e i a loot further tha. uuy. l lie oiu mail had a chunk ol a nag that worked in a slide. 1 pcrswaded him to huul mc to tho cciid ol the cut off, and I know he done it for tear I'd eat up his smoke-house. livery now and then he'd look at the old omun, and she'd look at the smoke house and then ut inc. Hut that slidin bisness were the most orfullest trtfv eilin that 1 ever hav had. livery time the pony'd look back he'd stop, nod when he'd start agin he give such a jerk that my contents were in danger. My holt broke on one okkasun, a goin down a hill iuil ot gullies. 1 rolld some twenty feet into the edge of the wood-', and eotch up agin nn old pine stump that was lull of yaller j u-k ets Three ot the dingd things stung me before I could rise, but I got through the cut oil'and fell in with some empty wagius that was stampedin my way. "(littin on to Atlanty, a fool Irishman stopd a.e right r.l the e Igo ot .he tuwu and demanded my papers. L dident hav no papers. Nobody had ever uxd me for pa i?., ?.? I I?. i - u uui iiv wuuiuriu near nil argument. As Quarlcs would say, he wouldent Jiiir isshuc, but marched me to an oflis, and l dident stay there ten minutes. 1 wersmt off to Dekatur with some lilty conskripts who were all in uiouriiiii, exsepin tln-ir ! clothes. I never sued sieli a pitiful set in my life. 1 talked with em all, and tli.tr : was nary one but what had the dyspepsy 1 or the swinny or the ruin .tics or the blind staggers or the heaves or the huiups or sumthin. Well, there want mine of us dist barged, lor there was bran new orders eallin tor everybody fo* thirty days to go to the > ditches. As 1 couldent walk that fur, I | was ordered to Andcrsonvillo to guard the ( prisoners. At Makon 1 met an old akwaintuuee, who was a powerful big officer, | and lie had me transferred to his depart ! incut and put me in charge <>1 his ordnance. ; '1 here's where I handled guns, Hi 1, and ' slop on ray urins. Whole boxes ol muskets ! whs around me, and I dident no more mind | taken a snooze on a guu box than if it had l been a couch of lethery down. Its all in ..d?.i ik t?:it -ii * - -i ?ivtni u.itu IU 11, I ?11 I III II1C USO. 'Jest so," seil I, "thats the way I see it?exuktly so, my friend. I'rosccd. "It's blaui'd lucky, Hill, that I dident go ! to Andersonville. They would have had me alongside of Wirz, either as principal 1 or witne&s or sumthin, and some lyin Yank would hav had a swear or two at me about shootin him on the dead line. Ileforc this my carkass would have been eat up by worms or cut up by Doctors, and my pi Iter spied all over a whole side of Harper's Weekly as a monster of dcth. "Well, 1 kep hundliii guns and bayonets and dangerous woepins, until one day I ?;ot a furlo logo to Rome. Sherman was play in base around about Atlanty, and bo I had to cireutnfienco around by way of Si Irna, and the very day i got there, everlastin blast ctu. the Wilson raiders g >t there too. I wasent no more lookin lor them Yankees in Sclma than I were for Bcolzcbuh, and both of cm was all the same to me. 11 la mil il they wasent shootin at me before 1 knowd tliey was in the Stato. flow in tho dickens they missed me 1 dont know, for thoir ininny bulls sung yanky doodle all around me and over mo and under mo and betwixt inc. "1 tell you, Hill, I run like a mad turkey, 1_l.!_ I * ** iuvikui aueiiu 01 ino at every step to It ml an easy place to fall when I was plugged. An old woman overtook me, and I axed her to tuke my watch and my money. She took, em in a hurry and put em in her hoozutu. Woll 1 found a gully at lost, and rolld iu keaplosh, lor it was about two feet deep in mud and water. The infernal* found mo there jast nt night; and got me out at the pint of the bay net. They marched mc to i the wolf pen and there I stayd till the fuss I was over. , " Itight here, Hill, I want to make an ob- i solvation. There was a feller with mc when I was cotcli'd, and I seed him make . a sorter of a sign to the captain, and thev t turned him loose in two minutes, and lie ; ( jest went abuut anywhoro as natcral as a l * king, while L had a crosscy'd dutchman ! 1 | standin over me with a fcaynet grinnin from j i : mornin till night. There was some Free . 1 ' Masonry about that, Hill, and if another i i ; one of these fool wars comas along, I'll jine g cui, if they'll let inc. ' \ | i?ui i m at lionic ih.w 'or good, I'm 1 wine to stay hero like n ine die. I'm I ! agin all wars uiul lightiu.'. I'm Opposed 4 to all rows and ruirpnsso sou ri.>tB. I i dont kecr nigh us much about a dog fight 1 us I used to. Now, if one could always | sec the ccnd of a thing'n advance and the ' t eend was all right, 1 wouldenc mind a big y : fuss, but then you know a man's fore- c thoughts aint as good as his hind sights, f If they war, this war wouldnt hav broke j out. and I wouldnt hav lo^t my steer, nor i watch. 1 never sued that woman before f in.r since, and I wouldnt know her from 1 any other woman that walks the yearth? S blaind if I'm certain whether she were r white or black, liill, how is your offspring?" 1 "Hungry as usual. I thank you uiy friend,' aed I. I 44How's Mrs Aip?'' r "Bcbellinus, John, very j hut I think j she'l lo harmonized?attorwhile?atter- v while" J c Mr. iUilur, 1 will not relate further of c these trying adventures at this time. Big 1 John are now entirely harmonious, and I y suppose his future career will be all screen, s Yours as ftvor Iti.r \ . r. 1\ y.?Mrs. Arp wants you to pit back 1 the letters 1 writ lo r when she were sweet s sixteen, 'i beta ofiisors have pot etn and 1 suppose have laughed all the funny part away by this time They contained some fool things that hoys w 1! write when they fall in love, an 1 my wile sometimes used cm up in me as reminders of hrtkett promises. u She >ays, if thoy'l send cm, she'l try and -s foigivo otu?attcrichil . Pit trouble yourself much, Mr. Kditur, , 1 ' an I it will be all the same to uM. t ^ "* A 1 I'rotn the Richmond "inics I Ati tntcri'st inu \ll! W t M T % V I' 'frt * ?? ..... I ... I. ...1 >1 i ,l.< i\ 11/ .Mil. llll.I. Alii*. I Oil' IkI'.GINNy, Vl JfirEU Stitks^ i )' in A'mkmicy, 1so."?. j i ' Sa . T .... t > 1 j 11. l Aur cnlith gvcc big : j ' M \ 1'. ah Mn. Aiu\?Bein tuk with <, u tit of ;lio < i< /;'' rt/u's x rit?nty, an orlul ; lii'tl ii!v wh it sum times atlliks e liturs ( I an 1 o her litcrrary t'-ko-i, .nil f? elhi 1 ! ohhi'ot ! t ? say sum- thin t > s'linbod ly by ! . : w y ol lettin off stecni. I conkluded to ^ ris?* )'<-i yon this ere pistil like. i . , Th in ;?r let;us of \ >:jrii on the silly c w.nh'jii ut the cuntry was prime; only the spi ilin wit a lei tie had, as likewise j also the grimmer. I don't mean no offense, . Mister Arp, lor tnensliuiiiii t'e o cr little ; j ecn!y.:ritis, hut 1 a Her.- were a lectin per j tieuler about tny awthograi'y. When 1 j wcr a small shaver, no liter an a three galun jug; I i-ut Socrytecs Jones down, the '? j biggest bey in bC col, spellin " Tuky buz/.aid." Alitor cvry l o.i ly li id tnLt it, an I it dill l'ljllll to mv lime c.ut it aint about j yo spellin, Mister Arp, nor yo grauimcr i i outlier, 1 want to say a ward. 1 want to 1 ! give you uiy scntiincts or things generally I j and them nigger-rutin bobby lishuncrs in , jicrticler. In the firs plasc, Mister Arp, what's all j this dueed tork about irittin back in the 1 Yunion for? l>idn't Mr Idnktini >^!anc . that nr little matter ii secession to the ; satislaoshun ot* evcrybi.ddy, by pn vin that noboddy never was out ol the Yun- j ion, and never cudent be ? So then, Mister Arp, if wo aint never been out ol the glorious Yunion, so cald, what's them durn radicles gjt to do with adinittin our Con- j rrrivimoti Vlmvon ?!.' ? ? .,11.. ?- ? P .. . J-W* I n j t aiiuw I 111*IJ1 lO I take their sects '( I reckon they can t-tan "PAnd, agin, Mister Asp, what's theni j j blaiuo bobhylishuners kickin up sieli a v thunderashuu ot a Ins* about niggars votin 1 fur ? I>on't the (/Onstitushun, so raid, leave , that ar suhjic to the States iittirely ? They . ain't no Coustitushun, an aint got nuthin 'i to do with it. Oitent they (n be satisfied , a with what they w.is lit in tor't Ihd'nt they | say all the tiuio they was fit in tor the nig- r gor.s and the Yunion ? Well, aint they got r , the niggers ? (NYoudcr what tiioy are goin , n I to do with 'em '( h As for the Yunion, aint we all the tiuio j y ox daimin with the Sarnist. ' Bohole, what1 o a dohghtful thing it is to duvl together in b yunity," and knockin all the time at the j duro of the Yunion, and nskin 'cm to let j as in an they won't ? Don't you think j ,hcy oit to let Ole Ferjinny in, Mister ( f r\rj?, in con-iderashun of the gloriun inenerry's of the past ? Want it here whar . \Y* t !. i ttuBiiiiuun was Dorn?whar Lee lit, and , Jackson dyed? An want it here whar Mis-, cr Jeffyson writ the Dcolarashun of In-! a lepcudens, say in that cveryboddy, white, n duck and yellar, was born jis alike, an ladcnt orient to have nothin to do with y toboddy else, and went off to hissclf and ^ ived in a mountin seller? An then-, again, : vant it here whar Captain Hinith Gt for the t iume principle, and nocked l'owyton down J .villi a hiekry stick, and was goin to stouip ^ lis gizzud* out when a she injun named | I'oky Hunt us run up and squaled out 1 .htnnn pappyminanootarcn, Mister Smith' j Hiich bein interprited means, " Don't mock pa, Mr. Smith." I say, Mister Arp, don't you think they nite let us all in, in considerashun of these c glorious mciuerry's, and the wether gettin olc ? Sposc we hav had a littlo family u>s, hascnt our big sister of the North lulled our har tel we was reddy to "harnonizc ?" Harmony ar a gret thing in a amily. I ain't \n layer of no more Gun. a . ain't in favor of no nock in system. v >peshily I ain't in favor of nobody nockin t ne; cause if they do, sumboddv mout git lurt, J won't say who. s Well, Mr Arp, we are goin to h ivc a r lig spekin today in these Darts. The bu o's goiti to tork to the niggers?goin to ;plauc freiluin to 'cui, I sposc Now, , that's the u^eol'torkin about nigger fre lum? I wants to kno whar's the tredum h if the press? In the name ot Mister ' 'rankling, what printed the first newspa>or in Ameriky. I axes the solum quest y hun, "whar's the fredum ol the press?" ? ? Kclio answers, "wliar?" liut, in the * angwidgo of the immortal bard, i an r wers, ( " lotit gliinraorin thru the ilistanso j Like nn ole liar's tnle, r With f >rt . hongry dorgs behiuc t A yell in on her trnle." Mister Arp, I'm emfatically for the fre- 1 lum ol the press abov all uther free lum. >pose a man gits mad and wants to cuss, low's he g in to do it il lie cant say what , le wants to t Didn't our 4 lathers say c hat the In dtim ol the press was the be ;i?uin of liberty ? llowsumever, I spose 1 tc'vo past the boginnin, and maby got ( >retty nigh the con. Iv ry titnuour news .apcrs ?rz anny thing them radalcils don't i ike, they sets up a thunderin big howl, f in J calls us"olc sccesh," wh 'ch aint pritty. rhey aint got no manners no how. Tork ^ 0 'cm Mister Arp, tork to'era. r 1? it, Mister Arp, the questshun eums up. * \Ybar ar liberty ' And abov all, what r colored liberty ? 1 wud like to express nv opinyutis on these ere suhjies but for ? >tir unfirtunitly p:?sstn that ar begin n ill dbrescd. Mister 15rely sez 'tis niirgors j otin; hut then 1 heered Oeicr cxplainin ' hi> ere verry qucstMiun tuther day in these rewards: S./.'ee, "Hrethrcn, liberty ar [ 1 grate big hou JOIINSISO. a Mister Johnsing is lite man for U9, i Whoopco! whoopee! ^ I'on't Ite make litem radicles cuss, Whoopee! tidHedoe! s II cor ole II orris flrely rore, I Whoopee! whoopee ! '1 Rip, an snort, an snap, an snore, ! t Whoopee! fiddledcc! ^ They say he's pot the helly ake, ' J Whoopee ! whoopee ! i t lie can t digest our Jonsing enke, Whoopee! fi Idle lee! : ^ To Mister Jonsing, then, I'll sing, Whonttee 1 ulini.no.. ' An?l make the woods arouu' nic ring, 1 Whoopee ! fiddle loo ! C Corn hang them 'ur nigger-votin'bobby- ' ishuners, I spook the nox tiling they'll ' rant to stop us from singing, an make us ' Hang our 'Arp 011 a willor tree." They don't do notion bout 'arpin, 'ccpti t lis on the eternal nigger, and thou they p Hers play the lyre. t 1 hutd, sum time ngo, you was goin to a un for Conjjgris; but taint so, I don't t eckcn?wuali 'twas?want you touharrou-' iso" them radicles. Meantime, stay at a lorac with Mrs. Arp an the chilun ; tin if r on gits mad with a nigger, "blue, black f r yallcr," don't cuss, nor carry liiui to no r uro ; jis tork to 'im tel lie's ''hanuunised." a Yose, ctcctry, f Pam Tank, j From the Rtchmond Enquirer, iccne In the U. 8- House of RepreMenlatlvea Good morrow, Mr. McPhcrson.' ' Oive you good morrow, sweet Gout. Sweet msiucss have you here ?' 4 ' Wc he divers poor gentlemen from Virginia .ud wc have corae liitTier to entreat entrance ,t your chamber door.' ' On what grounds do yon seek admission ?' In verity, we be loyal men and true, ws iave ta'en one oath, and the other we will [ladly gulp.' ' Odso! Ye be iu quest of dollars, a thousand hrco times told. I ween.' ' Nily, but we will gulp the oath, and we be ired of standing in the cold without, and of tiling peanuts withal.' ' Marry, come up 1 your sorrows touch my icart. But yc are Virginiuns, and mclhinks our loyalty is somewhat doubtful.' Say uot so, fair si, for wo will gulp the atli. Nay, be entreated and let us in, for we .re a cold uud our wallets are empty.' But stay, yc claim to represent the people if Virginia ?' ' By cock nud pie, wo do.' Yc took no part in the rcbclion ?' ' Not a tittle.' I Wl.nn >?... 1 1 ' - ' " ' ?.... j vui iiiuu ?ai inTamu, wnmuia yer 4 Good aooth ! we stayed at home.' ' When your houses were burnt, your cattle nd negroes stolen, and your fields laid waste, [ hat did ye then ? 4 We tied to a safer place, and kept ou of he army." 4 When your brothers and your sons were hot down for defending a cause they deemed ighteous; what then did ye?' 'Zounds! we stood by with folded arms.' Whon your mothers were insulted, your rives and daughters scoffed at, and your sisers imprisoned, felt ye no sympathy for them?* 'Not one particle. Nay, start not back in' lonror, for we arc willing to swear it on the Ioly Evangelist.' 4 Aye ! for the sake of three thousand ducats IOP annum oA?n? ??? ?:n a-* ...... oouio uivu mil uitc siiy oath. 'irginians, 1 trow, arc not so base. But when ,11 arms-bearing men were couscripled, with rlint magic and by what aria withal did ye scope conscription V 'Oadzooks! we had amassed great Btore of Confederate scrip, and deftly did we use it. doreorer, many of us held numerous African ncn in bondage, and thereby gained cxemp> ion.' ' Cerltf, 'twas a cunning dodge. So then, ye oTcd the Union ?' ' lhat we did, good sir,' Ye fought for the Union !' Not overmuch, save in our devout prayers, vhich daily and nightly ascended unto God, mr Father, for the success of the Union arms.' So, so. Being pi >us m?n, and ever ready o go to your last account, yet, nevertheless, ye vere not willing to peril life for the blessed Jmoii ?' 'Nay, be not wroth with us, Mr. McPherion, but he entreated, and let us in, for we will fttlp the oath.' 'Verily, if yc did not fight for the Union, re shurelv wrote for it?' ' Noble Master McPherson, we did not write, leither did wc speak for the Union, for we rore afeard.' ' Afeard of what V ' We pray you question not so closely.' I deaiandan answer. Say, of what yc were ifeard V 'Softly, softly, gracious, generous sir. An it lease you, wo were at'eard of our property. tut we will gulp the oath?oh, how glibly!' It appears by your own showing, that ye >erilled neither life, limb nor property for the ebell on. Vet ye come hither to represent lie rebels. Also, it appears that yo perilled (either life, limb nor property for the Union. 'ct yc claim to lovo the Union. Faugh! Get ro gone, sirrahs ! Avuunt !' 'Nay, precious Master McPherson; but we rill gulp the ' And the door was shut. Ta* on Soutticrn Mauuftirturcs. The following circular, issued by the J ;ecretary of the Treasury .n Monday, is tighly important to Southern Manufactuers and all thoso holding articles manu aeturad iu the South : <4TItE AS UIt Y I)EPAUTMENT, February 2 18GG., "On September 14, 1SG5, an order was ssucd by this Department, under the pewit conferred by section 4G of Internal Revnue Act of June 30, 1SG4, directing that irticlcs manufactured in the States lately n insurrection, prior to the establishment, ?i collection districts therein, but retained n possession of the manufacturer until after uch establishment, and thus made liablo o the current rates of taxation, should bo lohl free from present assessment until ransportcd beyond the limits of the abovo . Mentioned States, and should then be subcctod only to the tax duo at tho time of heir manufacture. "The reasons for their exemption were tutcd briefly at the time of its allowance, t was induced by the fact that nianufacurcrs had, in ignorance of tho law, rctainargc quantities of their products in their >wn hands, and by the supposed additional act that much of the property so retained .? i i_ J-? iuu groauj ucicrioratoa in value. "Abundant opportunity having now iccn given lor the disposal of these manuact urea, there is no good reason for eoninuing n privilege inconsistent with the general provisions of the law, adverso to he interests of Northern manufacturers, ml susceptible, as experience has shown, o vory great abase. "It is therefore, hereby ordered, that on ml after March 1, 1>G5, all Southern nanufaetures in possession of tho uoanuaeturcr shall be held subject to the present atos of duty?no exception being iuad? in ny ease on account of tho date of wanuiicturc. U. McCULLOCU, Secretary of the Treasury.''