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WAR i 1~.I_0\\' -L ?V.IlG\\ J- IlCiC ,/oKfjth Ii, Ctiunniiiy, August* In April, 1 Kl;r>j I was on tho staff of tho coin tu auder in chief, Gen. .Joseph ll. Johnston, of the Anny of Tennes see. In thc reorganization of that army, then taking place, I had just been appointed to the command of one of tiic regiments of thc new organiza tion, but was still on duty at tl ?ti. Johnston's headquarters. 1 was one of thc three assistant adjutant ^encr ais, and while my duties in the field were tho same as any other staff offi cer, my oflico business was, in part, to revise iii?; records ol'thc courts martial held in the anny, and to furnish a re port on every ease tu the commanding general. Tho army at this time was in and about Smithfield, N. U. In thc inarch through South Carolina there had been numerous d?sertions from thc ranks among thc South Carolina troops, who naturally'". lt that a fm th or struggle was hopeless, and saw rio reason for leaving their homes li. hind them. This evil in all part- nf the anny was so great th itt (?en. Johnston, always a very strict disciplinarian, was determined lo ?leal with it with great severity. Among the eases tried by ono of the military courts while the army was in and about Sm i th field was that of a youth whose name 1 do not recall, who had deserted under ihesc circumstances from a South Carolina regiment, but had been captured, re turned to his regiment, tried, con victed, and sentenced to bo shot. I had revised thc record' and found it technically aorrcct, which was my sole duty in reference to it, had made my report to Gen. Johnson and received his order, directing thc execution, thc uext day, of this young ?oldier. I immediately prepared thc order ac cordingly, and sent it down to thc command to which he belonged. lu a little while a delegation of officers of the regiment came to Gen. Johnston's headquarters with a petition for thc commutation or suspension i "thc sen tence. At that timo most of thc army was in motion on the march toward Raleigh. Gen. Johnston had not ac tually left his headquarters, but his and his staff's horses were all saddled, ready to move. This was about tho 10th or 11th of April. Already there were vague rumors throughout tho army of the disaster that had over taken Lee's army, though Gen. John ston's movement was ?hen for tho pur pose of effecting a J.nnotion with Gen. Leo. The General sat on thc piazza of a little house, which was his head quarters, evidently in deep, anxious thought. Ho had a way when thus preoccupied of jerking his head slow ly from side to side as if he had a very mild case of the palsy. We of his staff all kucw that it was not well to interrupt him at such times, but thc occasion was such that 1 feb ?hat I must approoch him, though I did so with much trepidation and many mis givings as to my reception. I said to him, in effect, that a soldier of thc regiment, which I designated, had been sentenced to bc shot thc uext morning for desertion; that I had iu my hand tho application of officers of his regiment for commutation or sus pension of the sentence; that several officers of thc regiment had brought it up and wore in attendance to re?oive his answer to that petition. At the samo time I tendered thc petition to him. He declined to take il, but ask ed me if I had not reviewed it o rec?rd. When I answered in tho affirmative, his qext question was: "Is not tho record correct?" To this I also an swered that in my opinion it was. Ho then asked: "Has anything new oc curred since?" I told him: "Not to my knowledge." "Have I not, then, ordered thc sentence to bo carried out?" I told him he har'. At that he became silent, and evi dently resumed the train of thought which was occup; ing him whea I hud interrupted bim. I stood for somo time in his immediate presence, hop ing that he would say something. As he did not, I spoke to him about as follows: "General, I beg pardon for interrupting you, but this is a matter of life and death. I have not had your anster to this petition, and I ought not to assume the responsibility of giving an answer to the officers who brought it, and I beg that you will tell me definitely wkat I shall say to them." He replied with some impatience : "Tell them the sentence must bc car ried out." I returned the petition to thc offi cers with that statement. Johnston aad his staff followed on af ter tue troops. We bivouacked somo little time after dark, the General es tablishing himself under a tent fly, and tho members of >Sus stuff, order lies, couriers, etc., scat to ri nc about in different places of the immediate rORY. .,uo *v m y y Wir* s * > ?"/#f . /"? ( '.?II ii ?li .'ll' \ th,HU. neighborhood. Col. Archer Ander* son, his chief of stall, myself, arid two or three others took shelter in a little house in the neighborhood. 1 lay down on thc Uoor and fell asleep. I was very weary, though later in the night and several times during the night, when the hardness of the floor induced mc to change my position and I awoke for a few moments, I noticed that Col. Anderson, scated at a table with a dim light, was hard at work over a paper. 1 thought at the time it was a lung cipher dispatch that he was deciphering, and. in tiwi state of ex pectation that 1 shared with all at that lime, I j UBI ped lo the conclusion that ii conveyed confirmation f thc rumor thal wo had been hearing dur ing the uay, thai Leo had surrender ed. About daylight the next morning I was called hy an orderly with a mes sage from 'Jen. Johnston to como at once lo his tent. I got up immediate ly; completed my toilet, which con sisted in drawing un my bonis, putting on my hat, and buckling oumy sword, and reported to Gen. Johnston. He was walking up and dowu in trout of iiis tent alone. Heal once accosted me, and asked me lo whose command tin; young man that I had spoken to him ubout thc day before belonged. 1 told him iii Stewart's Corps, such and such a brigade and regiment. Ile said: "Write an order at once to Gen. Stewart to suspend the execution un til further orders." I always carried with me a little tin cylinder in which I had writing materials. I at oucc sat down and wrote thc note to Gen. Stewart. In thc meanwhile (Jen. Johnston had summoned a courier, who was right there in thc saddle by thc time I finished my short note. Thc General himself gave him sharp aud earnest orders to ride with speed to Gen. Stewart's headquarters and deliver thc note. Then I knew, was positively certain, that tho war was over. I knew that Gen. Johnston, on thc one hand, would uot relent so long as there was a ne cessity for preserving discipline, aud that, on the other hand, ho would cot sacrifice a lifo unnecessarily. 1 was confident at thc moment that he had heard of Leo's surrender, that there would bo no prolongation of the strug gle, and that to excouto this young man was something which tho situa tion no longer required. It waB characteristic of that great man's mind and good heart that the fall of an empiro could not se occupy them as to exclude from them thc re latively small matter of thc lifo of one poor private soldier. Tho order reached the oom maud in time to save tho life of this youth, who may yet bo living and possibly may read this sim nie narrative. - mm m mm Cures Blood and Skin Troubles. TniAi. TREATMENT FREE.-Is your blood poor? Is it thin? Nose bleed ing nnd headache? Pricking pains in tho skin? Ski;: pile? bkin fool hot and swollen? All run down? Is your blood bad? Have you Pimples? Eruption? 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Ou i of thc appalling thoughts that oeest tonally cross thc lay mind is thc fear that thc worlu may grow so good there will bc no need of reformers, and that they will become extinct. No ! other class iu thc community euuld be j so ill spared. Little as they suspect it, their real mission in thc world is to reform the dullness of life, and to lose them would be like turning oil the flow of humor at thc faucet. The last of these unconscious con tributors to the gaycty of nations i* thc National Sabbath Alliance, whe boldly grappled last week with two ol the crying evils of thc day, whicli j they declare to be the jtcrnicious cus tom of having ice cream for Sunday dinner and 'Mtying v::;:t:: on thc Sab bath. Hot li of these practices wer( condemned in thc most unsparing lan guage, and members were urged t< unite in a crusade against the wicket ice cream freezer, and for the sunprcs sion of the Sunday night beau. Now. whether eating icc cream 01 Sunday is a sin or not depends alto gethcr on the iee cream itself. Thor is no doubt that blue, skimmed milk boarding house icc cream, that look like poor paste and tastes like luke warm glue, is a sacreligious imitalio of a ii ?od thing, ami deserves to b suppressed. It is, however, dcspei ately deceitful and provocative c pains and profan Tty, and collins bav been filled and souls los) thereby. On lin' other hand, iee cream that i the result of a happy blending of ic and rich cream and sugar, and del cite essences, induces a feeling ( peace ami contentment and brother! love to the world to spread itself ovi the partaker, ami is an humble instn incut for righteousness working in oi midst. Before thc cohorts of the Sabbat Alliance attack thc ice cream freez they should read tho fact that nobot ever arose from a proper dinner, th begun with consomme and ended wii an ice, and went forth to do hurt their fellow creatures. It is the bu gry who are Anarchists, not the wi fpd. When it comes to crime, the i cream freczr can always provean alii .The matter of cutting ice cream i the Sunday menu, however, is coi paratively unimportant. We can ? ways have Ncssclrode pudding instes Tt is tho project for suppressing t Sunday beau that calls for protc Even reformers may go too far, a this is the solar plexus blow at mat mony that is not tobe tolerated. From timo immemorial Sunday nip has been snored to the courting beat the man who meant business, and v genuinely in love for keeps. Yr'v lous and flirtatious young men drop on all nights of the week, and their tentions are taken for what they worth-a mere pleasant passing of i time-but just as soon as a man velops a steady Sunday night t dency, a* girl begins to try to dec in her own mind whether she \ have a church wedding or be marr at home in the back parlor undc floral horseshoe. 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