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A YANKEE PRISONER Writes of Pleasant Memories of His Southern Captors. The following clipping from the Houston (Texas) Post, has been banded as by Coi R. M Wallace, president of the First Nation ! Bank of Sumter, to whom the paper was eent by a friend. Col Wallace corroborates the statements therein referring to himself. He says that ' be prisoner Stewart did net jump from the train, bot made his escape in Louisville jost after getting off the train Col Wallace was between ....the guard and Stewart and held his banket to shake out the dust, and thereby hid Stewart from the guard P while he got away. Stewart had a seit of citizens clothes, which aided hie escape. Wallace was in COD fed rate uniform, and he knew it was useless for him to attempt an escape. Stewart was a bright Mason and was aided by members of the fraternity to whom be made himself known : La Grange, Texas, March 23 - At tbe annual meeting of. the Colonel B. Timmons camp, No. 61, U. C V., to-day the following letter was to have been read As it will no doubt prove to be very interesting to the veterans and their friends, the Post reporter secured it for publication : Mr. Nat C. Rives of Terry Rangers, ' Company F, Eighth Texas cavalry, La Grange, Texas. New York City, 259 West 136 Street, March 10.-My Dear Sir : I thank you sincerely for your kind invitation to be present at the return ?to the flag of your regiment by the Seventeenth Indiana. I most heartily approve every act which tends to c bli. era te the harsher memories, while perpetuating the heroism, the magnanimity and the self sacrifice displayed alike by Federals and Con federates in the sad and wasting but necessary struggle of the \fWar be tween the States." My sentiments in this regard were expressed many years ago in a Mern orial day address at San Francisco, a copy of which I will try to find and send you. I have some friendships with men who were Confederate soldiers, which I value as highly as any I have known in life, and I do not think that history has on its pages any nobler names than those of Morgan of Alabama, Wheeler of the -same State, and Gordon of Georgia, whom I met on the field and loved always afterward. I knew well in California David S. Terry, who led a Texas regiment, and admired bim as among the last of a gtand type of men who were developed by frontier hfe and are unfortunately passing away, .since our civilization no longer bas frontiers on this continent Re cently in Washington 1 met and spent some pleasant hours with Augustus H. Garland, whom I had long desired to know, because of bis magnificent victory over Northern prejudice and passion in the removal cf the "Test oath" exacted from lawyers who had been Confederates -after the war was over. I know of no finer expression of the indomita ble unconquered and unconquerable spirit cf the true men of the South ^ than was manifested in that great bot peaceful struggle for right and justice, which will be remembered and honored as long as any victory of the war. General Garland would . have been my friend, but he died suddenly (while I was waiting at his hotel) in the chamber of the supreme court where he won his greatest triumph many years before After the close of the war I married a younger sister of the widow of the late Justice Lamar, and after abe died I married another lady from the State of Georgia, so you see I come natur ally by my knowledge of the good qualities of the people of the South Yes, 1 am the La Grange who was captured in a charge of the Eight and Eleventh Taxas cavalry at Varnell Station on the 9th of May. 1864. My second horse was shot under me while I was fighting with my rear guard after my line bad been broken and beaten by Wheeler's command. I took the name of my captor, J G. Haynie of La Grange, Texas, who spared my life, which I bad forfeited by firing my last shot at him and wound ing him slightly in the hand as I lay ^ fastened to the ground by my dead boree I expected, and indeed, de sired my captor or some of the men tc kill me, thinking the disgrace of being a prisoner worse than death. Bat Haynie rode clear round me with bis p stol leveled and then said : By-1 can't kill a defenseless man ; band me up the sixshooter" Wheo he bad called to some of bis conrades to lift op the dead horse and release my leg, he traded hats with me, but I threw bis on the ground, and when be learned my name he gsve mine back. I made no sign at * any time, though I was a member of the order to which you refer, and I recall but little of what occured ex cept between Haynie and myself He was too young to nave been a member of the order James C. Swan of the firm of Inman, Swan & Co. (cotton brokers. New York) was one of the men who lifted up the j dead horse and released my leg We are friends, and he calls me bis "Yan- j kee prisoner " While taking me to j "lie rear Haynie said : You have a C friend in our regiment ; do yon re member that big, black bearded fellow, Stewart, whom you captured in East Tennessee with Robert Wallace of South Carolina? You kept them with you quite awhile on parole ; well, Stewart jumped the train below Nashville when they were being taken North and got back to the regiment. He says you're a b-of a good fellow.97 I remember Stewart (his brother, who represented one of your Texas die tricts in congress came to meet me iu the room of the house committee on miiilary affairs when General Ros crans, was chairman and told rae that bis brother had died of a broken heart after the fall of the Confeder acy ) Hay nie and I had much pleas ant talk on oar way to the rear. I took his name and gave him my spurs and my pencil, and parted from him with regret He was afine type of young Confederate (not more than 18 years old) He '-could not kill a defenseless maD," who had forfeited his life by wounding him, as I did. In 1866, while at the law school at Albany, N Y.,! wrote to Hannie at La Grange, Texas, and received a reply from his father saying that his son had lost his life in swimming the Salada river in Carolina io one of the engage ments between Y\ heeler's and Kirk patrick's cavairy I had hoped in some way to show appreciation of the young hero's magnanimity. After the close of the war, on a rail road train between Augusta and Atlanta I heard one Confederate say to another io the seat behind him : "I have lost my transportation papers to Galveston and I would rather die than go back ever the track of Sherman's army." When we reached Atlanta I said to the young mao : "I know thc acting quartermaster here I have overheard your conversation; perhaps I can help you." We went together to the quartermaster (my cid Captain Seaton), who cut red tape and gave them transportation to Galveston. When, the young mao said to me : "Is yeer name La Grange?*' and when I answered "Yes," he said: "I knew it, no other man in your army would have done what yon have done for mo." i replied : "Any one would who had the opportunity." "Well," said he, "you can never do me another favor. I may never do one for you, so for my own satisfaction I want to ask, did you get some Confederate money which Stewart of our regiment, who- had been your prisoner, raised among our boys and sect you by a parson when you were a prisoner at Dalton V 1 said "No," and smiled, I fear incredulously, took the yoang man's name in a memorandum book, which I have lost, and WP parted in the darkness. O a my way North I stop ped at Dalton,rode 3 mites into the coun try, found the parson and took a $20 Confederate bill from the roll the Texans had sent me and keep it yet as a reminder of their generosity. I believe Mr. Swan remembers the cir cam8tauce, as Stewart raised the mosey among his comrades and sent ic after me I wish I had kept the name of the young man who told me about it. This letter has reached an unconscionable length, but your writing of J. G. Haycie (tc whom I owe my life) oalled op a flood of recollections, which I found it hard to stay, but have written briefly omitting muon of interest. Robert Wallace, whom I captured with Stewart ic East Tennessee, was too iii to escape by jumping from the train with Stewart, and was kept a prisoner tiii the close of the war. He told his farther, Hon. A. S. Wallace (of the Columbia District in congress in 1870-1), that our talk io my camp in the mouotains of Tennessee reconciled him to the inevitable result of the war. President Grant appointed him Uni ted States marshal for South Carolina, and I believe he held the office until removed by President Cleveiand. I regret that I shall not be able to attend the meeting for the return of the flag. The occasion would doubtless call up many pleasant, half forgotten memories. I am, sir, with sincere respect, O. H. La Grange. Late Colonel First Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry. May There be Rest for the Weary. The State expaiains that the Garris who got the Beckrege truck from the dispensary is the railroad commissioner and the son of the penitentiary direct or Garris who got the pigs and brick bats. The family motto, the State adds, is "Any old thing " We learn with alarm that there are two Garrises, We rise with anxiety to enquire if there are any more of them. The State can cot afford to have a Urge family with the acquisitive and adhesive instinots that mark those two. The Gary connection is enough to take charge pf. If there is a large accu mulation or collection of Garrises any where we eb al i advise tax payers to despair immediately and break for tall timber.-Greenville News. . BUCKLER'S ARNICA SALT*. The beat Salve ia tho world for Octa Braifoe, Boret, Ulcer?, Salt Rh eua, Fever, Sors Tetter, Chapped Hau de, Chilblains, Conic and all Skia Srapt oct and por'.lively care* Piles or BO pay required. It is guaranteed to gire perfeot aatlsfaotioa, or aeney rei anded price 26 cents per box* Tot salo bj Dr. J. 1 W. D. Lome. ?- ii ? - Sapphira was the original author of serial fiction. Ananias told a story, and she continued it Paper novels, 00 new tit!??, reany of them never before issued ia cheap form. H. G usteeo & Co The happiest ladies are those using tbe Wbiesewtog machine. J IGENERAL BROOKE S DISGUSTED. He May Send the $3,000,000 Back to tbe United States. Havsna, March 30-Gov. Gen. Brooke has almost made up his mind tosend the $3,000,000 back to the United States if the Ceban military assembly does not give up the army rolls '.You may as well ^lo so and not trifle much longer," said Secretary Alger, when discussing the matter two days ago in conference with Gen Brooke and Gen. Gomez The latter said that such a course would serve the assembly right Anyway the impression is spreading that the governor general may return the money to Washington, and it is stir ring np fresh feeling against the assembly. Gen Ernst called upon the Cuban Gen. Rafael Portuendo, chairman of the executive committee of tbe assembly, three days ago and asked for the rolls "Do you come from Gen. Brooke?" asked Portuendo. "Yes," replied Gen. Ernst. "Officially or unofficially V9 "I come unofficially/5 answered the American officer. 'Thed I cannot give them np," retorted Portuendo "I can only do -so on official recognition 99 A file of the United St3tes troops would probably be sent to take the rolls if the military administration knew exactly where they were, but there is a feeling that a mistake might be made, and the administra tion placed in the light of over anx iety and possibly be laughed at. In the course of a coversation with an old friend from San Domingo to day Gen Gomez said : "I am ready to go home I am tired of this jangle with the assembly. I have learned something about this people which I did not know before They are an ungrateful people They do not appreciate what the United States government ie doing for them -a service in which I am assist ing." millions Given Away. It is certainly gratifying to he public to know of one concern in the land who are not afraid to be generous to the needy and suffer ing. The proprietors of Dr King's New Dis covery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, have given away over ten million trisl bottles o this great medicine ; and have the satiafao faction of knowing it has absolutely cured thousands of hopeless cases. Asthma, Bron chitis, Hoarseness and all diseases of the Throat, Chest and lungs are surely cured by it, Call on J. F. W. DeLorme, Druggist, and get a trial bottle free* Regular size 50c and $1. Every bottle guaranteed, or price refum'ed. 3 It is now a race between the vol unteers io Cuba and the yellow jack as to which shall get into the United States before the door is shut. The Congressional Library at Wash iogton bas a set ol Tbe London Times from 1796 lt 9 not strange that a file of this newppaper is now of great value, fer io 1800 only 1.000 copies were printed The set in the Boston Public Library dates from 1808 and consists of 232 bound volumes. A pneumatic horse collar finds favor with many horsemen, anet the animals themselves seem to appre ciate it, as it adjusts itself to every motion of the neck. The frightful epidemic of typhoid fever in Philadelphia is caused by impure water The reservoirs are in filthy condition almost beyond beli f T-ie bottoms of ihe basins are covered with a slimy ooze filled with noxious organisms, a conglomerated mixture of tadpoles, angleworms, human bones and dead fish. The reservoirs have not been cleaned for years and the water is nearly as black as tar. Southern Railways Plana. Washington, March 28 -President Spencer, of the Southern Railway, said to day that bis company had under consideration for some time the desirability of reaching Savannah by its own Hees, and that this seemed to be an opportnone time to do so. He said: 'Orders bave been given therefore for surveying both from Columbia, S C , and Augusta, Ga , io order to determine upon the more advantageous route. There is no intention at present to go beyond Savannah." The Negro Soldier Again. Birmingham, Ala., March 28.-The trouble at Doiimite, in which negroes resisted arrest of one of their number night before ia?t, and, besides shooting one of their number because he declin ed to resist arrest, was resumed carly to-day. Mack Chambers and another white mao were shot at long range ar.d wounded Sheriff O'Brin has made 35 arrests i The ringleaders are discharged mem bers of ibo Third Alabama oolored egiment, who have advised thc negro miners cot to fubroit to arrest. Work as been resumed at the mines with strong fcroe of deputies on guard. Murderers and Thieves. A Remarkable Gang of Out laws Unearthed in Kansas. Kansas City, Mo.. March 28-The Star prints a three coiucna t cry regarding the arre.-t o a remarkable gau of Kansas criminals who haye for ye.a:z lived Dy mean* of robbery and marder. Oae of the gang is believed I to be lbs murderer of Joseph New, j who was kiiled ia Greenwood County, j Kansas, two years ago, for which New's wife and George H Dobbs are now serving life sentences. So rmiy does Warden Landis, of the Kansas penitentiary, believe in the ionoceooe of Mrs. New and Dobbs that he will immediately cree Governor Stanley to pardoo them Frank Altgood, alleged to be the real murderer, is in jail at Iola,|Kao., nuder a charge of forgery Alvin Ballard, serving an eight year sentence in the Kansas penitentiary fur horso sreaiiog, has oonfessed that he, Aitaood and "Bill" Turner were ihe murderers of New a d that Mrs Nsw and Dobbs are absolutely innocent. Turner has not been found. It seems that the very men who murdered New and robbed his dead body conspired afterward to convict the widow and Dobbs The supposed murderer. Altgood, according :o Ballard, even went so far as to try to get on the jury which convicted mem. Ballard goes on to say that he, Alfgood and Turner were members cf an organized gang of thieves and murderers that operated io Southeastern Kansas. As a result of bis confession eighteen stolen horses, a bag of counterfeit silver dollar aod a counterfeiting outfit have been recover ed. Beside Altgood, B L Mathes, Mary Mathes acd Herbert Simpson are under arrest Fifty other horses, stolen by the gang, hsve been located. The officers are on the trail of other members of the gaog. Ballard also alleges that Altgood murdered William Coulter, near Eureka, in 1889. Officers who have been working on the oass ba?e corroborated many of Ballard's statement. Newport News, Va., March 28. The cruiser Cnicago, which left Hamp ton Roads March 13, under ordess to overtake the American liper Paris and tnnsfer from that ship ex Secretary of State John Sherman, who had been taken seriously til, arrived at Old Point shortly after the noon hour to-day with the distinguished invalid on board. 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City and County Depository Transacts a general Banking bu3ines?, \so has A Savings Bank Department, Deposits of $1 and upwards received. In terest allowed at the ra;e of 4 per cent, per HUGUCD. Payable quarterly, on first days o January, April, July and October. W. F. B. HAYNS WORTH, W. F. RHAME, Cashier. President. Jan 13. (richman mw .Southron SUMTES WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850. 'Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's.' THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jnoe, JSftS Consolidated Aug. % ISSI. SUMTER S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 17.1899. New Series-ToL XTIII. No. 42