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VLIL WfIBGROI S. C.,TUROA' fPtMJR1886. 9, TUB TRI4811LIMAWS PUBrASHED XEMT tUMDAi, TRUWS DAV AND SATURDAT, - Gaiad, De portN* & 0l. Winnsboro,' S. 0., at $6.00 per an+ num, in advance. THI MAM'FIELD ERALD, 1PU)SUSHAD EVERY W19DNJMDAY MOR INGi AT $9.00 rAR ANNUM. LOVE 'IT GO, willlove thee ; God my Father I My Redeemer and my King . will love Thee, for withovt Thee Life is but a fleeting thing. will love Thee ; if not nourished By thy love, 1iY soul -must die I will love Thee ; gas UpQn me Always guide me by thine eye. will love Thee ; may thy gloryJ Dazzle my rejoicing qyes, *il love Thee ; may thy goodness Guard from Heaven all I prize. I willflove Thee-Thee, myp6fuge. Shall be in my days of youth, I adore Thee, to Thee, I pray, Thod exhaustless source ofthath, Thee I worship-I have vowed it; On thy love My heart is set : 'While I love Thee, I will never My Redeemer's blood forget. Livua. The Burning of Coln mbla-Lelter frem lon. Alfred Rger. CIARLStON S. 0., AqUgt 22. To the Editor qf the World: S R: I most unwilling lea ve ,the retirement and obscurity which old age and circumstances have provided; but. remark in your paper bf the 18th seem. to demand. it. A writer signed "S. replying to an article in Harper's Maa. aine for A i'troduoem my name in these word8: "They must refer t*Al. fre4'luger, for niony years postmaster at Charleston, &o., &c.; I turn to the Magazine, and la.my, 4upr*~A.~ Ih~~*hvarptpqe in4 *i4ii*1ii is not my tisinss to den making capital out of so barren a au lect 04y self. Beginning with tie yurng. of Columbia," and. the obu , of eneral mptou hie says: -'Among others to whoM I wSe Aelt to give assistance was Mr. Huger, a well-known citizen of South Uarolina," and then recounts an elaborate conversation about a band of thieves, calling- themselves Wheeler'a cAvalry, &o.; and in another part othis narritave writes: "When the citizens of Columbia begin their. investigation: of the bnrning of that city, and the pil laging of houses and robbing of citizens, let them not forget to take the evidence of Mr. Huger I' I am thus put on the stand without being consultd and shall commence by saying that if this ibdivid. ual or any other was ever . sent to my "gassistance,' the ,ssion 'has be strangelys1isregarde I never saw such a~ person as he claims to be, 'though was an eye-witness to the burningof CQ lumbia. I never had any sucht intera course-with any human being in -8her. man's army, or out of it! gnd if' inveat' gations are made and the evidence, of Mr. Huger ie alled for,' I. hall, with i deep consouousness of what. -is' due- to truth, say that, .before. Almigbty God, all that I saw, all that I heard, all thatI suffered, alls that I belie,p,jis in direct. opposition to what is aBrig by the writer for Harpat's Magasine,. and for which he quotes Mr. Hugersaaportior. ot his authority; and I ask leave t add, after maturely reflecti.ng upop the event. of that fearful night, w hen every feel' img of hnmanity seepned to beobhiterated i my "welf-beinog" here ard hereafter depended on it. o Memfor oftamf state. ment, I would say thet t)i# precision, order, methd Jind diediplinerwhIoh pib vaillesl from'th~ etrance of'she Federal army to its dq teud1 only- ens u:ate from. nuhrity; Uiew conld I com q other conclusion, withithe fao :,re rd. as indisputable thiat'the city,*us nmed before it was taken ? #nd thair as the trajegy prq= greed, everybody saw Ihe pogrmnime carried dut, as they previously empeoted or how am I to beliere my own. ens when In individual, pretending tobe. officer, talks.of~ burning the city pillai ging houses, robb iig uir,l~Q,. j "thes." were unfo etd abarges? Why, sir, I never a p~b4 Mau d with mnore har dly ten Is~ os~ ;hthe "plundet Mr. Huger, who is .9 4neOwh was sent to . no e clam "that he was mercilessly iobbed; that his person was ruthlessly violated; that food was taken away fros bib or. phan children,- ind that his family were brutally insulted by well-mounted inA well-armed men in the, uniforn of the United States I" For aught I know, it may be usual or. evn necessary to grant this license. while the denial is equally absurd and wicked,.and the attempt to implicate other people is the consuma. tion of bothl But thic is the end t4et such thingi come to, and 'the natural consequence of oallin .*itnesses to prove what the witnesses themselves know to be false. I saw thoW who were appar ently plying their vocation deliberately L Hre to houses, carrying with them oombustiblq prepartaions. for doing. sot Of the effort niad to . prevent them I say nothing,because I. saw nothlm. - It gratifies me, however, to relate-this in, stance of Ikinduess. My own house wai about to be destroyed by thi firing of an adjoining building. Thee were two Western men looking oA-eoldiers in 'the tme sense of the word. I .aked one of them (their namet were -Elliott and Goodman, o4e from Indians ,the othet from Iowa). "Have yolia fAimily at home?" He nswered " " I swd to him,"My family are ill i that robm; have you ho thought of your- 'own ?" The man showed that he had a heart, and p thd incendiary mQved off to oth er 94I ts, he did assist m4e, without be ing "sept," and with, iuy servants,* and the only child big enough to hand a a budket we saved the house, with its helpless uinakt6 thanks to this good My conviction is that Columbia was cruelly and uselessly sacked and bur4ed wIthn qstsw.aiteieg- em pIss ~ositrof Geu 'Shdrn's Arzn bui wh gave the order to apply ' e torch, is not for the,.victims eithe. -to know o to care. Hindreds-of helpless women and children were turned -out Wo their fate' It Is the historivn's'ieiness to And evidence to meet the case,. not mine, and my vgice would never have bet n heard had I Pot been onjustly drafgged.before the pablic.- The"truth and the whole truth," will probablynev. er appear I but it is "recorded in the High Cbancery of Heaven," where no human-power can make the erasure. Mr. Paitor-I crave your patience a little longer, and beg your attention to the first sentence in the orticteof which I -.9tplain. It reads thus s "If Mr. Wqde Hampton is anxious to add a doper shame to a dishonored name, he has at. taitied %hot end by his renewed attepipts to hold General Sherman responsible for the burning of O9lumbia and its terrible consequence," &c. -Now, sir, I speak for evety honest man between the Imoun tains and the sesoet, and betWeen the Savannah Rivet and, the Peedee, when I my,"If this o'pinion and this . het are not equally revolting and insuitfog, then the oMmon sensibilities of nature rre made, xdno by the suferings we ha'eandorej? If HRatapton iw "dis hoiot,eA name," thore i1 nono-withilk the limita6f this doirt-trooien and persecu. ted State that'can be considbred as un. sawea asto in South pard"na; ad throughout the-South, ff human b4. ig feels that whdre the' uamwof Hmp. Aon i-beost kwisit is thi moIt ered, and he who hears'lt is. thi!nost eloved. Before the pfe4snt incumbent saw the th ght n6me ws kleiRed with h agbvrnd irableand - srous.W'at a noble sirw(who 4 pJjt callv and habittalAfdki-1the honor of hus' native -state) baa left impreed upon the heart. of his enunatrymen as a Iexacy to his children, this slandered Mfs 'Wade Hampton. late Idetenah.-Gene. ral of the OoamIerate .army, wlU trans mitto another gepzeration, bright aml~ 'more-ocherished than ~the rest, it, is he upos wh#m thigmnuades asisault is so brutally ad yet.ieely shade. 4.nd df o-dag.or toimorrowv a canvass should be' opened for our 'r.prsentative man" 'gh* the oflce'kn ,the- gift of broenbut #rseful peole, haa (:au14 fb Ubn&.# o must got ividenac as to the buming of Colombi, and e-w- 4find'itJ the fool. ish attelpt to hold .ampton r"Pofsi bl N befdd'ther tkther of his lasI Ca. lamniator, -and is Ki*dly of s serious re. futatiob. Thes.fd questions, when they are asked, will: he found diffcult tb answer. . Where wO, Hamapton when the conflagration begn to take its regu. lar course at eight ,o'clock at night? Did the detton whWsh.was barning at tbdat end of Main-treet travel against a gale of *ind to the -extreme West, more than a thile offf' Was it not there and then that we "tie -called on to per. oeive tbat our door* was sealed? Why t6lk of putting out he fire ina church yard when it is7notdlous that the sacra. meit silver belod 8n " to the altar - was stolen, and I thif. labsequently given up? Did Hamptoiirutin the country seats surroanding 'Columba, leaving his kith and kindied iMout a shelter? Did he'burn every farr4touse on the way sdi? every grist.miR and flour milr? Did he burn-adde4* and Winnsboro, and Ohebaw? Was the quantity of silver-platet&keh ftim she citizens of Columbia sold fbr; On's benefit in Ney York and el"hs ere? Is it the necessary prvineWwar to. obliterate all moory and'ala . ? But enongh.; when the 8ercher'he Hearts ooiUme: Ces Hisa"inesigatidhs," Hampt6n wl;W be found entrenched"y truth-surround ed by that stregIbbwhich "prosperrit'y and victory cannbf Ifte. and which ad versity and mahgnity'' canuot take away.- .. .m. Vditbr: Vq** btg our best with Haven's 'hol .have a country once1adIre. . 4#1. uth 'East and *a el work, and a Chief Magistrate, distin. gulshed for hiA bigh "sense of duty," and ibrhis infexble' urage" iid its perfor IMnce, isely tells us, "if we catinot forget the 'past' we- can never have 'a 'future;', and standing au I ao, allost in lgiht 6f the grave, among ti oldist mtn in the State that gave me birth, I will say Amen to their sentiment. Let the pist be torgotten, if such is- Posible ; at any rate, let it not be refeied to if the :object is "peace, and the ho?e is in, the futuro. I am, very respectfully, yohr obedient servant, LIE HU l. - . ALFREIO HUER. - ztiafor Ma. Dive.-.+More than half-a-dozen times, in . onepaper and another, and another, *oee the four words put together as in out cap. tion. We tremulously draw it, Up to the-esding distance, dud -blai.-it turnsotto be thitt Mr. Somebod, the elIable orresp6zden$ of och a papet, says that he heard -agtain A. 4ell Colonel B. that he (Captain 4.) heard that -President Johson told 'Senator O., who told Gen. D., that.he (President Joho ) intended to -es leave Mra Davis. Hew sleken%og t 6 to thsheat.of ose '-wh fiels a he should ftr the prfUoaor, to rea*4 tloe oruelly lying wotds,.that "M . Datf Is 'bu tobei rel6ased when da fob lows day, and week follows Week, and the tntlising falsehood is repeated Ig@iMsnd",a%in,A4 itwith ghottlis sekeryi An d , after a, . be thas1Mr4kD,vis.Is-soont lO Tel"& elensed, by Kha,who laMksuM Ifarethearlietto iles, .hsass vants *ro wi6ked."' Preaklent Johnsen-has lreSdyoo lonk suffered -Mr. DAis, tolbgev ii that ndisomne dungeoi.' Eo Iig as. doned men a thousand, times w es. inuivery respects If a.ht.d~b doen Is not opened-idde 4Dtneed gerbelopened,- so h fa" fabi fa po the frsild is bred frour ponst beliet4 ts* '' dbwn trodden 5o I,tus gori sYin. at Philadelphia,.' smokd wit1 then tlie ealametef peace, oke tever forgei er' forgive -lhim, ho*4vew muob hea may,trym- Greus (G u.HerM he ehelst, ,L..p . Geni kafti Ithei ,Smith. We announced but a btef wilv ago, fayS the Atlantic Z 'ipmer,$he sudden death Id Rome a., ot1 abov :distinguished gOntleinan. '. We well roimber to have often looked I& alleft admiratidn, upon the soldier-like form of deneral 8d4th during that fearful campaign begiubing at the "Wilderness" and ending at Appomattox Court House. Espeoilly duAidg the'bloody struggle at Spottsyltania Court House, did his watehful 'ye scan that, hastily thrown up like of Intrguohments, against which the euidily, like the gi at billoi'of tho ocean, surged in vain. Calmly, s lently, he was set riding to and fro atidet the shower of shot and shell, as if in adairation of the heroio manner in whioh Lee's gallant vete ran we defending the lines hin mathe matical eye had drawn for them. Since thatday other forms than his have pasd to the great beyond. General Smith has gone to join his comraded. An. exchange thus speaks of of him: Ip he old army of the 'oiomao a allent looking gentleman, but ou whose restles eye s6emed to n6tice every shrub rnd bush, Vearing the sWoif a gesheral, accompanied by a full staff, could b# seen riding along the lines. His presence seemed to oreatelan awe as he rode along aild the most noisy. eved hjushed6 Also the staff that rode bo hIn4.hlIm were perfectly quiet. They In dulgd, in no conversation, and, no smile wreathed their lips. Like shadows they rode after a spectre. The soldiers Would say, "Who is that ?" '"Why, that's General Smith." "Who's General Smith?" would be the next inquiry. "I don't kuow." We haverepeatedly heard these remarks, as. thiogreat sclentifio man passed the' lines, and never without the thought of #What is fame V" General Martin Luther Staith was a graduate of West Point, and served thtough the Mexican war with diqtination. . He had the reputation of being one.of the best o& oersin his line in the servioe. noe entered the onfederate,sirvice, and from that time until the olose of the war, labhed industri iZely In his dutis, ". e1eal : oij efof qgleers. - wiale wb aeleo :tb. itea re defeses rown up fhon thl'Wilder nss to Petersburi; it was he wh* selected the line for our heroes to dres ubon, and night and day,. With, iadustrf, genius and persveroe, this great man labored under his distinguIshed bheftafa, Iobt. E. Lee,. for the oause he loved so well. He died in Rome', Ga., only a few days ag o, and he goes to the grave almost un o ronoled.. .usbody was carried to A thens, Ga., for interment. At the time of his death he was chief engineer of that system of railroads which is to connect Belma, Ala., and Dalton, Ga., of which Ge. Johnston Is president, and- which Is now in process of oonstrotliod. War EAzLT DIDn'T T"zs WAsUINOvoN 01rM-8he 'o 4fSiing the city Ia due alone to and a barrel of whiskey. aulI was the property of Mr. George .W. Riqgd, the bapker, and was much Le. teemed for his many excellent qualities and intrinso usefulness. The whiskey was a barrel of choice old Debon, found in Mr. 31ontgomery Blair' wine-oellar. When Jubal Barly and his rebel host reached the deenobe of Wahi6stth6yWere'both hub add-thbbty, id' went to seardbing the hoim of the .asighborbood fot whatever .was go The bull was disoovered and slaughtered, and th febel dhneras and Iheir stilrbanqie''O him. And there was greati rejotoing wr* th barnel of whiskey was o ,pred.d b*oughl fbrth. Wheuthee rebel gaten had filed their ,tomashu on the fleis of the bull, they hod such a fondness fft th whiskey that they allo*ed it to steaa Wy their brains. In 4eed, they gave thlopuIves up to' feaskp$ ,and drinkinV, and quite forgot that they hA' 6ee sent to aureWashibWo, which ey might esily ave dose, for itotas at that time In a defeeless' condition., The dely causee by this riotouVoonduct onthe part of Early aid his subbrdlnate Geiiild gave the ol sixth orpS time to come up, when they som I-baek rsrbu the Poto. ma., and the ige it raised.-:Ns*on' The: Richzi6ad Bsinw says: "Pasengers fions. Hampton report that'General Arvmtrong has-r.oentily made' i:sipeeoh..to the freedmen at Ha7on, informlitg theby~ that on the ltJanuary~ 'thy must. leave the landmihey noW oocon r and emigrate to FIledda. - Sme -ot fimies we hear,, have ent'olled thernames.- This is the ony atade by which thoy can esatafering from Want dair ing* * #inter." A daring attemijt to rob thewail coach wa. *tade'. .etween fJdeilere let T. athk 'eb h dn~ed the d.ritfrowk his W$ asaid zab -him of $ *w~hb~6 ~ o~Ih and raft u"~iA ADVRTISING RATES. Ordinmry' iertinhik oompyin more than tek liuss, (dii6 b1lare,) will b inserted i TEt NEW9- i1 $1.00 for the Art insertion knd 75 6euk kdk each sub; sequent inasertioi. Larger adveitisemehts, whea no oontraci Is Inadof *111 W charged in exact propor tiod. Fe nnodolig a bandidate tW any offici of prdti hohor of trust, $10.00. Mar*imge, bbitwkry Notices, &o., ill1b6 charged the sami as advertisements, when over t4h lines, antd must be paid for when handed in, or they 'ill uit appear. A LoNGo Lod AuaAJD.-A cotempo rary, turning his visage to. the future and the misty distance of two hundied * 7ears, sees and describes the follow teno-41ouse of a citizen, in Now Ydrk; Time-A; D. 2065. A tole.; graphic nissage has been sent to a servantj who presents himself at the wn.dow lit a belloon. Matdi--John, go td South Ameri ca, and tl Mr. Johnsn that I shall be happy to have hiih Ap with md this evening. Never mind your coat go right away.: In five minutes John returns. - John-Mr. Johnson sa'ys he will ooiie'; he is obliged Co go to the North' Pole for a nioniont, and will call here as he comes back. Master-zVery well Jqhn ; now you may wind up the machine for setting the tablei and telegrph to my wife that Mr. Johnson will be here present ly. After that, John, you 'may dust out the balloon-I have an appoint- - ment in London at ten o'clock.. John disappears to eiecute these orders, while his master steps down to the West Indies to get a fresh orange. SUICIDE iN NAiUVILL.-A man named Euborn comtnitted suicide un der romai,io ciroutnstances, by leap ing from 8uapensiop Bridge. Domes tio difficulties at , Memphii werd the cause. He went to St. Louis'to get the oholera and die' there, then re turned to Nashville for some purpose. He left the following -letter. to his wifN : DAit- LIZzIE--Before these lines r.each you the Ouviberland will be my gra~. Voii~ aikfoi a, deliveran21e. You have it, though by a different way from that you expe'ied. Kiss my poor dhildret, as a last tokdn of their .Ufortuiate father. As for my self, I will abide by-the .judgment. of the merciful Creator in another woild. Parewell I Your loving husband, - - HENRY EUORNi. Rica HARvZ$T.-We received a few days ago from Weehaw plantationt the property of Mr. H. A. Middleton, a half dozen heads of rice, which re mind us that the harvest is about to commence, the speeimds received be ing ready for the hook ore this. We understand that there is a prospqct of a very fair crop on Weebaw, and we thke great pleasure in chronicling the fast, as it is but seldom we' ord ible to gko ene6uWg1vg viewfof tfi'oropA ou our plantations. We' unddr tand that. tie hwrfet has commended oA1 96me of the plantations.---eorgetotn .im6s. The Florehee Gazette tells of a rob bery hti that place 'by a fr'eedmian, who entered the sto're' of Jerome P.- Chase & Co.,1)ook the' money drawoz, a:id 'appropriated its' contents. --He was. detected by nioains *of money being identified,- and .was arrested by a Northern man planting in that vioinis. ty, taken into custody by q nylnabor of' respectable freedmen, who adkiinistei ed twenty-five l hos and banished him fronm the towS. Tue OAlUr. Gavrtk~o WEAn -London dates of Apgust, 17th Bay that no~ neys had been re*s)ved fironi Amerloa' per. Atlantleo. cable fov"two dafO. A kimilar ahosnee meat wab saade' AugdWt (0th. Yet. wetand bat, ,ondon'dispthes, dated Auue 8thf and 9th nd 10tE e'd Augdert 15th a4 l'6tt sad'175&, Weipreived in this o6bts~. would stata that she'e),ectrieai oufti-et wer' strongeVffronyr Ifietad to AmerIok thaafroar Aueii4h to JreiU&a The cap,abfy todeliv or meEhaes in tie diret snaeenifto' be poig Weaker day b~sy' and the indlist4ions are t,bat,it will ao aialtogath. et.---WahMgonesi. Oair. Braue Issuas AN Ouna.--Mej.' Gen. Siokles,'oommnading the Department. qf th4 South. has issued an .*dar sprohibt Ing the de ansatieb of whIteorcolored peru - soss havitf arms, or intended.to be armned, ntbelo ~Ig Lthe 'tailitary or aral, foroes of ti teatee. This ,order. will not lbe odnetrued to' prohibit, the lawful enrollmenit of the mhuitia;, . 14 prohibits the formation of aesoations' beasdof per soeks who served in the doo teerate army,. Ihivings f6r their object this perpetuation elf, .any mility or civil* h I a. egedin the war d (oa et 1th 6fst