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* " ' , r , v * ' *. v . ' VOLUME XXIV. CAMDEN, S. C., FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 1U86^ ~ ' " NUMBER 44. J. T HEBSHM AN?Editor. Rates ior Advertising: jor one Square?ten lines or less?ONE DOLLAR and FIFTY CENTS for the first 'nsertion and ONE DOLLAR for each subsequent Obituary Noticvs. exceeding one square charged at advertising rates Tranasient Advertiseme?ts and 'oh Work MUST BE I'AI FOR IN ADVV *NCK. No deduction made, except to our regular advert si patrons. ?5$**-Terms of subscription for one year 'S3,00 iu advance: if not pnid within three .months from the time ol subscribing, $4,00. AX EXQUISITE BALIA3) The very beautifal verses, subjected, were -writien by Mr. Joseph Brennan, one of tlie most gifted y?ung Irishmen^ that ever plunged imto so abortive a revoln'ion as was that of 1848 ? Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel Come to me darling. I'm lonely without thee, ? ?;__ ? ?J > ?'ma T'm HnntTitr?rr oVinnf A/ivy tliUO Wiu initio uuit: x in uirminu^ thee. Night time and day time in dreams I beholdtime: Unwelcome the waking that c< ases to fold tliee: Oome to me my darl tig. my sorrows to lighten: orne in thy beauty t? bless and to lighten; Tome in thy womanhood, meekly and lowly. Cnme iu thy lovingtiess, queenly and holy. I Swallows .-dull fl t round the desolate ruin, "Telling of Spring and its joyous renewing: At.d thoughts ofthv iove and itsinanifest irtasure, Are circling my heart with the promise of pleasure; Oh ! spring of my spirit! Oh, May of my bosom, Shine out on my soul till it burgeon and blossom The waste of my life has a rare root within it, * And thy fondness alone to the sunlight can | win it. Figure which moves like a song through the even, Features lit up with a reflex ot heaven, Eyes like the skies of poor Erin, our mother. Where sunshine and shadows are chasing each oilier; Smiles coming seldom, hut childlike and simple, A nd opening their eyes from the heart of u dimple, Oli! tlianks to the Saviour that even the seenting Is leli t?> the exile to brighten his dreaming You h..\v lx-en glad when you knew I was Afhlelird? l?ear,^Re you sad to hear that I am saddened. ! Our li arts ever answer in tune and in time, "love, >.3 octave to octave, or rhyme until rhyme, love, I -cannot smile, but your cheeks will he glowing; ' You cannot weep. hu< niv tears will be flowine: ".You will not linger when I shall have died, love; And I could not live without you wy my side, love. r 'nme to tnc (hirlititr. ere I die of my sorrow, iRiso en my gloom like the son of to-morrow, Strong, swift nnd strong n? the' words which I spenk, love; With as jig at ymir lip, and a smile on your cluck, love -Como. lor niy heart in your absence is drean i Haste, for my spirit is sickened nnd wearv; Come to the arms which alone shall caress thee; Coim- to the hear which is throbbing to press thee. * An Interesting Story of the War?Facts Stranger thanJPiction. There are now living in Cincinnati a family, the history of which tonus (something so romantic as to constitute a most interesting story: In the Summer of 1859, Charles Geroux became a graduate of a college in the Southern part of this State. Ho ^ was the descendant of an aristocratic family who lived in Louisiana, and, to be brief, he was then a full embodiment of the "chivalry," just having entered his majority. While attending college, lio bod fnrmorl tliA nemmintance oi -"v ?X Clara G , who attended a college -for young ladies in this city, which acquaintance ripened into attachment and love, and, just before the breaking oul of the rebellion, they were married, and removed South. Miss G was ar ..orphan, possessed of a considerable property, which was held in trust h$ her uncle, a Southern minister who had raised her from infancy, and person-ally superintended her education. In addition to the endowments of a colle;giat& education, she was possessed of c t strong cnaracter, Doraering aunosi or the masculine, but tempered with r ; sweetness and mildness not often com.bined in the same person. She was q.t .once'handsome and womanly. Within a year after their marriag< and settlement in-the South, came th( fierce, wild blast of war from Sumter'i parapet, and there was none mor( xeady to enter the deadly fray thai Charles Geroux. His political tutor* -were practical secessionists, and he entered upon tho war wkh a fervor and zeal to command the admiration of hit Jrien(Is. and which secured him a ma jor's commission. ' His wife opposed his mad scheme with all the power of a woman's, eloquence, but to no avail. She openly espoused the cause of the Union, and steadfastly refused to cooperate with her new friends and neighbors Notwithstanding her love for the old flag, and open Unionist, her husband loved her,.and, while her husband was at home, the neighbors respected her. Geroux invested hll his ready property, which included his wife's fortune, in Confederate bonds, placed them in her hands, gave her a kiss for n stort farewell, assuring her that the war would soon bo over, and, marching at the head of a victorious column of his country's defenders, she would be proud to welcome him. After his departure, her treatment by his relatives and neighbors became almost intolerable because of her hatred of secession. After txVo years of service in the Uonlederatc army, lie was captureu a Erisoner by the victorious Sherman in is march to Atlanta, and sent to Camp Douglas. This was good news to his wife, who could no longer endure the persecutions 6he received at the South, and she reI solved to make her way North and reI join him in his prison home, and ff she could not secure his pardon, ty at least stay near him. Her Confederate bonds were worthless, and she was penniless; she made her way to the Mississippi River, and took passage on the ill-fated steamer Sultana for the North; she sold some jewelry for money sufficient to carry her to Chicago. Arriving at Memphis, her child was taken very ill, and by the advice of the captain of the Sultana, she remained there to secure medical aid lor the cliild. Within [ twenty-four hours thereafter, the boiler | of the Sultana exploded, and 1,^00 lives J were lost. Geroux fared ill at ease in Camp Douglas, and made many strategenis to escape. lie finally sncceded in bribing a raw sentinel to let him pass; and to avoid pursuit a resort to deception became necessary. A comrade of his was on the point of death. His mess dressed the dead soldier in tho Major's uniform, and conveyed him to tile dead-house, and gave his uarnc ns "Major Charles Geroux, Third Louisiana Regiment, Confederate States Army." The next morning the body wasjtahen uway and buried, and the rank, name, regiment , and place of burial, were duly recorded in the register in Camp Douglas dead by C. II. Jordan, the undertaker ibr the Government ut Chicago*. That night Geroux escaped. His absence created no inquiry, as ho was reported dead. For the purpose of avoiding public roads and conveyances, ho took a horse from a pasture near Camp Douglas, belonging to J. L. llandcock, formerly President of the Board of Trade of Chicago, and by avoiding public roads as much as possible, roached Momence tho* next day. His actions excited susnicior^ and ho was arrested on suspicion of uottitif* ti+olrvii tlie mid -vviir lndrrftil | ) O j ill the Kankakee jail. He was taken 1 out on a writ of habeas corpus, and no proof being found to hold hira, he was discharged. | Coming thenco to this city, bo obi tained a situation in a wholesale gro! eery house. After the usual dolays in passing let: ters through the lines, he learned that. ! his two brothers were killed in the batj tie of the Wilderness, that his father's estate had been confiscated to the United States Government, and his father had voluntarily exiled himself to Mexi ico. Of his wife and child, the only information was that they had sought to get North, and took passage on the Sultana, since which they had not been heard of, and no doubt remained that they had perished. His true position had been studiously concealed, and he lavoided his former acquaintances. '' Shortly after he received this intellii gence from the South, Sherman had , started on his grand march from AtI i ?j r? j. i.:_ A lanca, u.im urraui uiuisuuizeu ins gruuu. '! anny .before Petersburg, and the Coni federate States vanished almost as a ;. vision. During the past summer, Ger' oux returned to the' ^uth, and was 1 fully confirmed in the information he L had received about his family, and that ' his real estate had also been confiscn ted. He gave his wife and child up as , lost, and returned to Cincinnati. After his wife and child had remained in Memphis, and escapad the disaster of the Sultana, she started for 1 Chicago, and reached Camp Douglas. 1 Impatient at the delay, she hastened 1 there with expectations high to meet him who was dearer to her' than life. ' | The reader can picture to himself the 41 agony of this sad wife. A stranger, destitute of money, carrying in her ^ arms a weakly child not yet recovered 5, from severe illness, and she herself worn 5 j out with fatigue and anxiety, when she ^ learned that her husband- was dead, ' I There was no doubt of his death; the |' registry kept at Camp Douglas showed it, and the grave was pointed out to * j her,which bore this- inscription on a jihio board: / "Major George Geroux, Third Louisiana Infantry* ' The same grave this day is. neatly sodded over, and at its head grows a rose-bush.' ! '? ; Broken-hearted and bowed down with grief, she wended her way on foot to the great city of Chicago?not knowing why she went. A stranger among strangers,, yith no one to aid or pity her, save the good God, who, in her utmost heart, she believed had forsaken her. She was taken in and cared for by . the Sisters of Charity until she could hear from friends in Ohio, from whom' she had recieved no intelligence for the past four veaj-s. A letter was received stating that immediately after the war her uncle had died, and that soon after, ? i ^ 1 . . T L _ Jus widow naci removed to xroquuis County, Illinois, to live with her married son. Mrs. Geroux was supplied with money to enable her to find her friends in Iroquois County, where she has since resided. Geroux returned to his situation at Cincinnati, and was sent by his firm to collect a debt due in Iroquois County. While there, he sought out the attorney who had him discharged on the habeas corpus to leant the whereabouts of the horse that did such good service, and to secure his assistance in collecting his debt. Ho soon made himself known, and while they were discussing about the stolen horse, a lady and child entered tho same office. Thero was a momentary pause,a and husband and wife were in each other's arms. We shall not attempt to describe the scone I which followed. The husband found a i wife and child whom he firmly believed j to bo de?d, and the wife found a I husband* over whose gravo sho had i I shed bitter tears of woe. Mrs. Geroux was visiting the same attorney to find out about her hus. band's confiscated property, and to ap- j jily to tiie Government to nuvo nxs property restored to her. Cincinnati Commercial How Joe Won the Pencil, j Juo B is unquestionably the ! handsomest married man of Cincinua- j ti. Joo sports bosidua uovoroi. | other creature comforts. "Well, lie and I wilb, Harry and George and their | I wives all boarded at the same house, j A day or two ago, while they were at J the tabic luxuriating on detached por- j tions of boiled turkey, with oysters, the J conversation' turned on Christian names j Mrs. Ilarrv contended tluit she could name more distinguished individuals j | that bore the name of Harry than any j ! gentleman could of his own name, coni eluding by offering a gold pencil as a j wager against a suitable equivalent if ; she should win. fPl... /i-nno/1 ATvc 7-Tnrinr .Lilt; U1U1 guuillicuvcu Aiue* started otf with "Harry of tlio West," adding a dozen others* George now gathered up on "Washington, Lord George of France, (So. "Now John what have you to say ?" aslced the cliurniing Mrs. Harry. "Oh, I can give yon a hundred. The , .two Adams, sLord John Russel, John) ' Tyler, John, John?bring me somo water, John!" i "Stop, stop! you can't win. Mr. Joseph, its your turn now," continued the laughing little woman. Now, if ever a bashful man lived, it is friend Joe. lie .dare not look up. He had been racking his brain for an answer, but to no purpose?and in des-' pair he inade one grand effort, and raising his head, replied: "My dear madam, I havo lost. I cannot think of any very distinguished | man who bore the name of Joseph, except the gentleman that we read about in the saered Sripture ?he who was such a favorite of Mrs. Potiphar?but I I will not offer him, for I think that he was one of the biggest fools that I ever ' did hear of. ' "Here's the pencil," said Sirs. Harry tossing it over to himt as she and the : other ladies scudded out of the door. Masonry. It numbers to-day within its secret pale more adult males than all the re ligious organizations on the face of the earth. It is as wide-spread as humanity, as universal as human language. The Jew, before the alter, on the sacred mount?the Perse, in his adoration of j the sun?the Musselmau bowing to the ' east in prayer?the Greek, before the 6hrineof his divinity?the Christian, in devout faith at the foot of the cross, all alike know anil understand its mystic language. Kings, princes and po- [ tentates of the earth havo beheld with awe its hieroglyphic light, and have been proud to wear its mystic emblems. It is more powerful than kingdoms, principalities and powers, and in ages to come will be a blessing to unnumbered millions. Young ladies should never object to being kissed by an editor; they should make every allowance for the freedom 1 of the press. Prentice on Brownlow. i Brownlow, the enfant terrible of Tennessee politics; the "bad old man" who deals in diabolical expletives and consigns his opponents to a place not particularly cool: the modern Draco who writes his laws in the ,))lood of hunted down, persecuted 'rebels;' the archetype of a Southern "Union man," and the most notable defender of the "flag we love" south of the line; the iconoclast who spurns the idols lie whilom worshipped, and who takes Cuflee under his wing with a parental devotion in his new condition of freedom?Brownlow, Rumpty, Roaring, Ruthless, Rash, Ridiculous Brownlow, has met his match at last. In the course of his varied and chequered career the redoubtable defender of the faith iisTennesscc has had ithe misfortune to run afoul of the Editor of the Louisville Journal. We avow a profound ignorance as to the cause that led the Tennessee p.Trson to pit his powers against the' Kentucky writer. It is enough to know that the direful conjunction has occurred and, as a consequence, the former has come out of the confli</t shorn of every vestige of the bravery with which he went into it, and so pitiable, melancholy and wretched an object of commiseralion that the laugh upon the hps of the looker-on is changed into a. ghastly stare of horror at what nAi^Airtci fhit* liArtAof man AUJ1UU1JO, VI L11XO iivuv/oi JiicxAi. Did we not have the evidences before us we could scarcely conccivcratTills late day, llrnTTth'is stalwart and blatant-champion of negro cinancipation should ever have threatened to "extinguish the last abolition foothold (meaning jNew England) on the continent of America." And were ve not fortified by the same testimony to the fact he would scout %/ with derision the assertion that lie ever announced to the pious workers in the vineyard of freedom that thev were "infamous ' . > i ** 11 i villains, arm "Willi uiu vcn^eaucu | of an infuriated foe we will be upon you in the North, at the hour of midnight, and as long as a lucifer match can be found we will burn up your substance." J Thus Brownlow, in a letter, mitten in Mav. 1S60. and ad. %/ * : dressed to the Rev. Mr. Pryne,? j r, letter which the Editor of the Louisville Journal has resurrected in a most, untoward moment for the faithful, aud wherewith, in ther controversy, he deals the / 7 vriter a destructive and disheartening blow. We submit that the resuscitation of language like the following, penned by Brownlow only six years ago, is most calamitous at this time when all good men of his and Mr. B. F. Butler's class are so diligently seekiug to atone for their errors : "Face to face, knife to knife, steel to steel, and pike to pike, ve would meet you, and as we ivould cause you to bleed at every pore, we would make you regret in the bitter agonies of death, that you had ever felt any concern for the African race. "Sir, if the fanatical, wicked, and infernal course pursued by you and your unprincipled associates is continued, the result will be as I Tiave said, and you or your children will live to see it. Pale-faced poverty and dismay are staring' some of your manufacturers and operatives in the face. We are sending our orders to England and France for goods, and driving your hell-deserving freedom shriekers into the holding of Union meetings, and making these against their wills curse all agitators of the slavery question, and resolve i 'that John Brown and his murder-, ous" associates got only justice' when hung at Charlestown!? CaiTy oh your war if you choose death rather than life, and we will stain every swamp in the South with yours and our own blood, and with the vengeance of an infuriated foe we will be upon you in the North, at the hour of midnight, and as long as a lucifer match can be found we will burn up your substance." , Having thus, by the introduction of this damnable evidence, prepared the victim for the sacric - - xi.. t?j:x xl. ? T *,,.7 lice, me JLUiiur ui me uuurmw proceeds to offer him up. published," says the Louisville Editor, "the infernal language that we have cited, when, perhaps, no other man in the world would have defiled his mouth or paper with it to save his neck from the hangman's halter. He showed himself a walking volcano, with snow upon his peak and all hell in his bosom." The Editor then proceeds, truly, to say, that it is "most cxtrar ordinary and disgraceful" that the people of Tennessee, knowing this man as they did, should have elected him Governor.? Waxing warm with the sacrifice, taking a merciless delight-in the contortions of the unfortunate victim, and becoming savage with the smell of the writhing wretch's blood, the Journal thus finishes the miserable man: "Xo other State was ever afflicted and disgraced and cursed with such an unmitigated and immitigable, stich an unredeem"ed and irredeemable blackguard as her Chief Magistrate. He as a narodv. a caricature, a broad \ 1 * . burlesque ou all possible governors. They say there is tire in him, but it is hell fire, every particle of it.. Though he is but a single swine, there are as many devils in him as there were in the whole herd that "ran violently down a steep place into the sea.'* His heart is nothing but a hissing knot of vipers, rattlesnakes, cobra and cotton mouths. He never argued a question in his life, approaching no subject but with fierce, bitter, coarse, low and vulgar objurgations. His tongue should be bored through and through with his own steel I pen, heated red hot. * "This man, as we have said, calls himself a clergyman. He holds forth in pulpits. He preaches,.^prays and exhorts, draws down his face, drops the corners of his mouth, and undertakes to look sanctimonious. And yet he seems always trying in his pulpit discourses to see under how thin a disguise he can venture to curse and swear, and blaspheme. He can't offer up a prayer in the house of God without telling the Lord what an infernal scoundrel, damned tlfcef, or cursed vagabond, this, that or the o'ther neighbor is. From his youth up to his old age he has had no personal controversies without attacking the wives, fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, brothers, sisters, children, uncles, onn + o ond nonlinnrc r\P liio nnnn CiUlil/Q ft KJ VI Jiio vwyynents". For an outsider, as we confess ourself to be, to attempt to add to the rigor of the above," would be useless and futile. This dissection, by. a master hand, of Brownlow's many infirmities wilt stand a Sphinx of literature, unparalleled and not to be paralleled. The only doubt that will be left in the mind of the reader of the foregoing extracts will be as to which of the two deserves the palm for a peculiar use of the English language. That doubt, it is true, might be solved by a 1 perusal of Brownlow's rejoinder : i to what we have given; but so far the Journal has doubled hjm * * up and has left him gasping, telcss and in thejpangs of threatdissolutioi). If Brownlow should, ever recover himself, however, wc pity the editor of the Journal?-Ny Y. News. The^Sea Island Negroes. Tho negro colonies founded by Gen. Sherman on the Sea islands of South Carolina are thus1 describedjby a correspondent of thepsew York I Evening Pout: The appeals that have been made through out the [ country and * in^Con* gress, th at the negroes should not be ousted from the lands which they occupy by virtue of General Sherman's or* $ der, they have either been made in ignorance or are disingenuous. That order, which was a military measure, providing for the temporary disposition ' of the throng of negroesfwho had joined liis column during the "marclfto.the sea," lias been taken advantage of to seouro possession to the occupants of the abandoned lunds upon the Port ,/ . Royal Islands? all of whom are not black, and who had taken possession while Sherman was fighting the Confederates years ago upon the fcanks of the Mississij>pi. I have taken some trouble to get at the facts of this matter, > and I find that there are but few nec groes occupying lands south of the Savannah River. Many of them former- v ly belonged on the places. In the rear of the city of Sevannah there are several localities where these people have herded together. They live on fish, oysters ana rice, and their clothing is the remnant of what hung to them before the war. Many of their villages are not within- the influence of the agents of the Bureau; and the 1 1? u J primitive style in wmcn iney live w ouiu arouse tlio sympathies, if jit did not shock tho sensibilities, of thojihilanthropic South and North, f "You have a'ijpard job of it," I said to.a party of three negroes atjwork "upon a patch of grouAd on one of the sen island plantations. The surface of the earth where they were digging was filled and tangled with grass and weeds," which in the four years of 'quiet had obtained possession of the soil. A short distance from the spot several very good cabins had been built, vrhilo near the road a number of men were engaged in repairing a gate?work that two men could have accomplished better than six. One of them to whom I addressed the above quesiion ' paused from bis work, leaning upon his big twelve-inch hoc, while ho wiped tho nersniration from liis forehead with his clirty sleeve. "Ah. massa, dat am a solemn fact; dat ar groun' am tougher nor a pine knot." "Why don't you use a plow ? You would accomplish much more." "Der ain't such a ting on de islan', nor a mule, nor nothin but those' hands." , ' "Well if you ijork hard with them you may be ablo to buy a mule and plow by and by. How many colored people are there on this plantation ?" "Nigh goin' on ffer sixty, sah." "How many acres of cotton have you put in here ?" "Forty or a hundred, sail." "There is some difference between forty and one hundred. But you aro mistaken; in this field there oan't be more than five acres, at the outsido." "Yes, sah!" was the answer. 1 In the doorway of one of the cabins a stout negro, surrounded by several half naked childred, was "mashing," as he termed it, some corn in a wooden mortar. i "Where /lid you get that com ?" I asked. ' "In Sabannah, sail. Toted it all the irnvrlnwn Vim-O mirrK+v K+tTa aaivn " " * UlUO Willy 6ah, for tho fisli' and 'isters wc toto dar." "I should think so. What do you have to cat besides the l3sh and oysters and tho corn?" "Nothing, sah; all! sometimes mighty little o? dat." The above Icon versaliou will give you an idea of the condition and prospects of a settlement oi* these freed people, who are an example of those who are best situated for raising a crop and taking euro of themselves. Applicatious are now ponding for tlis pardon of 86 ox-membors of tho Southern Congress, 132 graduates of West Point who served in the Southern army, 127 Southern Generals, including Bragg, Longstreot, Beauregard, and several flf tho Lees. Also, 32 prominent Southern Officials, and 116 cxTJnited States Senators who held positions in the Southern service. > -O ? Why are young ladies at the ^breaking up of a party like arrows ? Because they can't go off without a beau, and ?? * i?l a paver till thev get one.