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S? E. B. MURRAY & C?T ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 9, 1885. _ VOLUME XX.-NO. 39 WILHITES COLUMN AGAIN we come before yoa and solicit your trade, so liberally extended to us In the past. We are better prepared than ever to sell you, and are still HEADQUAR? TERS for Pare and Reliable Drags and Chemicals, Paints, Oils and Varnishes, Patent Mediciues. Etc., Etc., and in fact anything in our line. The most important branch pf the Drug Business is ?oneeded by all to be the PRESCRIPTION DEPART? MENT, and we desire to call the attention of the public "to the iact that we make a specialty of compounding ? Physicians' Prescriptions, and guarantee all ingredients ? used by us to be absolutely PURE and FRESH. There is probably nothing about which mankind' are so de? servedly particular as the Medicines which sickness com? pels them to take, and the great desideratum is to feel assured that the Apothecary fully understands the prep? aration of the Physician's prescription. 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The Champion Mowers, Reapers and Binders, with The latest improvements, making them The most desirable Harvesting Machines In the World. Our Sto^k of General Merchandiso is complete in all Departments, and we re? spectfully solicit a call from any desiring to buy Goods, as our facilities enable us to offer the best Goods at the most reasonable prices a ? ? v , McCULLY, CATHCART & CO. Andscion, S.C.,>?b. 12, 1885 ' HAVE YOU WAITED FOR BARGAINS! -IN BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, GAPS, DRESS GOODS and NOTIONS ? JF yea havft, here is your chance, as I will sell ray ENTIRE STOCK At and below Cost for the next Thirty days. REMEMBER, everything I have in Stock will be sold at and below Cost. I carry the best line of? Ladies' and Children's Shoes That you can find in the City. ? UKiXK - JOHN 11. McCONNELL. March 5,18?5 34 THE SO?TII'S LAST SHIFT, An Emancipation Proposition In the Army In ISG-i. Washington, March 20.?In the, Confederate Gen. Hood's book on tbe late war, called "Tbe Advance and Re* treat," occurs the following mysterious passage concerning Gen. Patrick Cle? burne one of tbe most brilliant of tbe Con? federate generals who served in tbe Southwest: He (Cleburne) possessed the boldness and the wisdom to earnestly advocate at an early period of tbe war the freedom of the negro and the enrolment of tbe young and able bodied of tbat race. Tbis source of policy and additional source of strength to our armies would, in my opinion, have given us our inde? pendence. Tbe correspondence printed below, tbe originals of which are in the archives of the war department, explains how and on what occasion Gen. Cleburne made this proposition aud how it was received. The Western Confederate army lay at Dalton, Ga., during the Winter of 1863-4, which preceded tbe Atlanta campaign. From Dalton Gen. Pattoo Anderson wrote Gen. Leonidas Polk as follows: Dalton, Ga., January 14,1864. To Lieut-Gen. L. Polk, Enterprise, Miss.?General: After you have read what I am about to disclose to you I hope you will not think I have assumed any un? warrantable intimacy in marking this communication as "confidential." My thoughts for ten days past have been so oppressed with the weight of the subject as to arouse in my mind the most pain? ful apprehensions of future results, and have caused me to cast about for a friend of clear head, ripe judgment and pure patriotism with whom to confer aud take counsel. My choice has fallen upon you, sir, and I proceed at once to lay the mat? ter before you. On January 2 I received a circular order from the headquarters of Hind man's corps informing me that tbe com? manding general of the army desired division commanders to meet him at his quarters at 7 o'clock that .evening. At tbe hour designated I was at the appointed place. I met in the room Gen. Johnston, Lieut.-Gen. Hardee, Major Gens. Walker, Stewart and Stevenson, and in a moment afterward Major Gens. Hindman and Cleburne entered, Brig. Gen. Bate coming in a few minutes later. The whole, with the general commanding, embracing all the corps and division commanders (infantry) of this army except Major-Gen. Cheatham, who was not present. In a few minutes Gen. Johnston requested Lieut. Gen. Harden to explain the object of the meeting, which be did by stating that Major Gen. Cleburne had prepared with great care a paper on an important subject addressed to the officers of this army, and he pro? posed that it now be read. Gen. Cleburne proceeded to read an elaborate article on the subject of our paU disasters, present condition1 and inevitable future ruin unless an entire change of policy might avert it. That change he boldly and proudly pioposed to effect by emancipating our slaves and putting muskets in the hands of all of them capable of bearing arms, thus securing them to us as allies and equals, and insuring a superiority of numbers over our enemies, &c. Yes, sir, this plain, but in my view monstrous, proposition was calmly sub? mitted to the generals of this army for their sanction and adoption, with the avowed purpose of carrying it to the rank and fi'e. I will not attempt to describe my feel? ings on being confronted by a project so startling in its character?may I say so revolting to Southern sentiment, South? ern honor? And not the least painful of tbe emo? tions awakened by it was the conscious? ness which forced itself upon me tbat it met with favor from others besides the author in high station then present. Yon have a place, General, in the Southern heart perhaps not less exalted than that you occupy in her army. No one kuows better than yourself all the hidden pow? ers and secret springs which, move the great moral machinery of the South. You know whence she derived that force which three years ago impelled her to the separation and has since that time to tbis present hour enabled her to lay all she has, even the blood of her best sons, upon the altar of independence, aud do you believe that tbe South will, now listen to the voices of those who would ask her to stultify herself by en tertaiuing a proposition which heretofore our insolent foes themselves have not even dared to mako in terms so bold and uudisguised? What are we to do? If this thing is once openly proposed to the army the total disintegration of that army will follow in a forthnight, and yet to speak aud work in opposition to it is an agita? tion of the question scarcely less to be dreaded at this time and brings down the universal indignation of tbe South? ern people and the Southern soldiers upon the head of at least one of our bravest and most accomplished officers. Then, I repeat what is to be done? What relief it would afford me to talk to you about this matter, but as that may not be, do I go too far in asking you to write to me? I start in a few days to my home in Monticello, Fla., where I expect to speud twenty days with my family, and I as? sure you, General, it would add much to the enjoyment of my visit if y ?u would favor me by mail with some of tbe many thoughts which this subject will arouse in your mind. Believe me, General, very truly your friend, Patton Anderson. gen. oledurne's rebuff. Gen. Clehurne's proposition received such a rebuff that be destroyed his own copy of the paper he read in advocacy of it; and the copy to Richmond has not beeu found. The following summary of its points was preserved by Major Charles S. Hill, the accomplished statis? tician of the State department, who was Cleburne's chief of artillery at the time the memorial was prepared. The memorial was long, each point be? ing carefully elaborated. Tbe heads are given by Major Hill's memorandum, as follows: It urged on the Confederate Congress the emancipation of all slaves and their conscription into tho army. He claimed: First. Such a course would relieve the Southern people of a yearly tax, an un? productive consumption, because tho slave consumed more than his profit, thus distinguishing the profit of the ne? gro from the profit on cotton. Second. It would animate the undying gratitude of tbat race. Third. It would create in the negro a greater self-respect aud ambition. Fourth. With gratitude aud ambition the service of the soldier would be both reliable aud valuable. Fifth. That the moral effect through? out the world, but especially in Europe, would be generally strengthening and beneficial to the South. S.^th. That the result would be the signal for immediate European recogni? tion, and, indeed, action. Germany and Italy would have been disarmed of their prejudice. Napoleon would have in? stantly been encouraged to become a Lafayette, and Great Britain would not have'beeu afraid to back him in parlia ' mentary declaration, no matter how the working classes would have felt. Seventh. That it would raise the block? ade and give us provisions aud clothing. Gen. Cleburn's proposition was kept a profound secret. It seems to have alarmed and angered the Confederate aulhorities, and they appear to have ap? prehended that if it should become known among the rank and file it would make trouble. The following letters concerning it show how it was received : Confederate States America, ] War Department, \ Richmond, Va., Jan. 24,1864. J To Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, Dalton, Ga.?General": Major Gen. Walker has communicated directly to the President copies of a memorial prepared by Major Gen. Cleburne, lately the subject of con- j sultation among the generals of division in your command, as also of a letter subsequently addressed by himself to the generals present, asking the avowal of the opinions entertained by them in re? lation to such memorial, with their re? plies. I am instructed by the President to communicate with you on the subject. He is gratified to infer from your declin? ing to forward officially Gen. Walker's communication of the memorial that you neither approved tho views advoca? ted in it nor deemed it expedient that after meeting, as they happily did, the disapproval of the council, they should have further dissemination or publicity. The motives of Zealand patriotism which have prompted Gen. Walker's action are, however, fully appreciated, and that action is probably fortunate, as it affords an appropriate occasion to ex? press tbe earnest conviction of tbe Pres? ident that the dissemination or. promul? gation of such opinions under the pres? ent circumstances of the Confederacy, whether in the anny or among the peo? ple, can be productive only of discour? agement, distraction aud dissension. The agitation and controversy which must spring from the presentation of such views by officers high in public con? fidence are to be deeply deprecated, and, while no doubt or mistrust is for a mo? ment entertained of the patriotic intents of the gallant author of the memorial, and such of his brother officers as may have favored his opinions, it is requested that you will communicate to them, as well as all others present on the occasion, the opinions as herein expressed of the President, and urge on them the suppres? sion not only of tbe memorial itself, but likewise of all discussion and controversy respecting or growing out of it. I would add that the measures advoca ted in tbe memorial are considered little appropriate for consideration in military circles, and, indeed, in their scope pass beyond tbe bounds of Confederate action and would, under our Constitutional custom, neither he commended by the Executive to Congress nor be entertained by that body. Such views can only jeopardize among the States and people unity and harmony, when for successful co-operation and tbe achievement of independence both are essential. With much respect, very truly yours, James A. Seddon, Sec. of War. Gen. Johnston communicated these views of President Davis to the officers present at the council in a circular letf*' ter. Gen. Johnston next wrote the Sec? retary of War as follows : Dalton, February 2, 1864. Hon. J. A. Seddon, Secretary of War ?Sir: I bad the honor to receive the .letter in which you express the views of the President in relation to the memorial of Major Gen. Cleburne on the 31st ult., and immediately transmitted your in? structions in your own language to tbe officers concerned, o None of the officers to whom the memorial was read favored the scheme, and Major Gen. Cleburne, as soon as that appeared, voluntarily aunounced that he would be governed by the opinion of those officers and put away his paper. Tbe manner of strengthening our armies by using negroes was discussed, and no other thought practicable than that which I immediately proposed to tbe President. I regarded tbe discussion as confiden? tial, and understood it to be so agreed before the party separated. This and Gen. Cleburne's voluntary promise pre? vented any apprehension in my rainu of tho agitation of the subject of the me? morial. I have had no reason since to suppose that it made any impression. Most respectfully, your obedient ser? vant, J. E. Johnston, General. Before the war closed Gen. Cleburne's plan bad gained many adherents in the Confederacy. For instance, tbe Gover? nor of Louisiana wrote: Executive Office, Shreveport, La., Sept. 26,1864. j Hon. James A. Seddon, Secretary of War, Richmond, Va.?My Dear Sir: The time has come for us to put into the army every able-bodied negro man as a soldier. This should be done immedi? ately. Congress should, at tbe coming session, take action on this most import? ant question. The negro knows that he cannot escape conscription if he goes to the enemy. He must play an important part in tho war. He caused the fight and he will have his portion of the burthen to bear. We have learned from dear-bought experience that negroes can be taught to fight, aud that all who leave us are made to fight against us. I would free all able to bear arms, and put them in the field at once. They will make much better soldiers with us than against us, and swell the now depleted rauks of our armies. I beg you to give this your earnest attention. With assurances of my friendly re? gard and very high esteem, I remain, very respectfully, your obedient servant, Hexry W. Allen. Gov, of Louisiana. Soon after the question of emancipa? tion and raising colored troops was dis? cussed in the Confederate Congress. But it was then too late. How to Fronouuee Depot. There are as mauy ways of pronounc? ing depot as there are eccentric ways of pronouncing "crematory," "finance," etc., says an exchange. As a road out of the difficulty we give the following sugges? tion : It is but a stcp-oh Down to the tlcp-ho, The way is quite stecp-ho That leads to the deep-ho, I slipped on a grape-ho In a store by the dee-pot Just by the day-poh, I bought this small tea-pot. Fcrhaps to end the agitation, We'd better henceforth call it station. ? A Texas cattleman married a refined young lady belonging to the best society of Dallas. A friend meeting him short? ly after his marriage congratulated him on his good fortune. "It's all right, but I had to make sacrifices," replied the newly-made husband, shaking his head. "What sacrifices?" "I've had to give up going to bed with my boots and spurs on when I come home tired." HOW TO SELECT CLOTHING, A Tailor'.- Advlco as to How to Detect Cotton Warp and Shoddy in Cloth. "The stuff in this suit of black clothes you made for me is not what I took it for," said one of an up-town tailor's customers to him the other day in a reporter's hearing. "I have just had them cleaned, and now see how they have whitened at the edges." "That's because of the cotton warp in the material, which the scouring soon makes apparent," replied the tailor, ge? nially. "But you assured me particularly that the material wasn't shoddy." "So I did, and I told you the truth. But at the same time I told you that it was cheap American goods, and that is just what it is?a well-appearing Ameri? can woollen manufacture with a large percentage of cotton warp. If you had wanted shoddy, I could have sent jou where you'd have got something still cheaper, for shoddy is a kind of goods I won't make up for love or money. But, if you will remember, I showed you much better but more expensive goods, of both foreign and American manufac? ture, which I offered to recommend heartily enough. But you were bent on having the poorer but well-appearing goods, and so consulted your own wishes instead of my advice." The customer seemed to have nothing to offer against these statements, and presently took his departure, apparently much dissatisfied with himself, if not with the tailor. "How," asked the reporter, "is an in? experienced buyer to distinguish between all-woolen goods and the material con? taining a cotton warp of which that gen? tleman was complaining?" "By merely raveling out the rough edge of the material and inspecting the threads," said the tailor. "Any one can tell a cotton thread from a woolen thread. The one will break short in two on being tested, while the other will fray and floss out, like yarn and worsted. In this way you can readily detect a mixture of cot? ton warp in a sham ali-woolleu fabric?" "How do you detect shoddy in cloth ?" "In just the same way, and even more easily. Fray out two or three threads from the rough edge, and untwist them. If they contain shoddy it will drop out of the twist, sometimes like sand, and then again in an impalpable dust, that will likely enough make you sneeze. If you'd inhale enough of the stuff it would be apt to give you both a Headache and a sore throat, for most shoddy is a rank poison. Ever in a shoddy factory ?" "No," "Well, I was, and I know something about it. Fact is, I worked in a shoddy factory j us; one week when I was a much younger and more necessitous person than I am now. Necessitous? Well, I should say so, for nothing short of starva? tion could have driven me to seek em? ployment in that poison mill. Talk about quicksilver mining and that sort of thing for turning live workers into galvanized corpses! Why, such employ? ment is positively invigorating compared with a shoddy mill? I stood it just one week, and was then laid up for six months. Lucky I switched off when I did, or I'd have been atrophied into Kingdom Come long ago. Even as it was it was a close shave." "How ia shoddy made ?" / "I can tell you how it was made twelve or fifteen years ago, when I served my week's apprenticeship at it. They may have made improvements in the milling since then, though of course the product itself is just the same mean, swindling, poisonous stuff it always was. I was placed over a sort of machine something like a patent straw cutter, only in lieu of straw you fed it with cloth scraps, rem? nants, clippings and rags. These passed through the teeth of the machine on to revolviug knives, just as in a straw cutter which minced them up pretty fine. Af? ter that they passed through another and yet another machine, getting minced finer and finer at each operation, until the stuff was reduced to a coarse powder. This powder was then bolted, and the fine powder or dust that passed through the last seive was the beautiful stuff called shoddy or flock. Then came the dying process, and the dirty job was complete. I never got any further than feeder to the primary machine. Al? though I kept a wet sponge tied constant? ly over my mouth and nostrils, the work was almost too much for me even at the end of the first day. Why, once an hour I would squeeze out that sponge muzzier and the water that came from it would be blacker than your hat, and smell worse than any rag picker's sack. At the end of the week I pocketed my $G wages as if I had stolen it, and slid for home like a rocket, where I was sick abed a long time afterward." "How did the other operatives stand it so much better than you?" "Some of them didn't while those that did had cast-iron throats and lungs like bellows, I suppose. Some men can stand anything." "How is the shoddy mixed with the cloth ?" "It is simply twisted up with the warp before the weaving. This gives fictitious weight and durability to a fabric whose native fiimsiness would otherwise betray its worthlessness. As it is, it takes a very little wear and tear to dust out the shoddy, and expose the general wretch? edness of the wool. Young man, beware of shoddy, whose presence in cloth you can always detect iu the manner I have told you." "But in ready-made clothing?" "There you have no means of detecting it, save by wearing the goods. You have to trusL to the honesty of the firm of whom you purchase. Though I don';, deal in ready-made goods myself, it is no more than just for me to say that many firms that deal in nothing else are perfectly honest and trustworthy, and whoae guaranty of what they warrant is as good as gold. Only, in addition to the precautions I have given you, be very careful, in choosing goods, whether made up or not, to know that the material has been proporly fulled. Without a perfect course of fulling, woolen cloth will always shrink upon becoming damp." "What is the exact meaning of full? ing?" "Fulling is the last, or finishing pro? cess, through which cloth passes, or should pass, before it is ready for the wearer's use. It is a process by which cloth is scoured, cleaned, and thickened. It consists of a series of pestles or stam I pers, which alternately fall into and rise j out of a trough, through which the cloth is being passed, along with fuller's earth or some other cleansing material. This J process, besides ridding the cloth of the I grease and oil used in preparing wool, ! prevents it from shrinking thereafter on j coming in contact with the wet. You often see trousers, for instance, that ? looked large enough, and even overlarge, j when first put on, but which, neveithe : less, shrink up too small or all out of shape, after encountering a single hour of wet weather. That is because the material was not thoroughly fulled. In selecting clothing material, always make sure that it has been properly fulled." "But how cau au inexperienced person tell whether it has been properly fulled or not?" "He can't. There is no way by which he can. His only safeguard in tbis respect is to take his tailor's word for it. Hence, how important it is for every man to have an honest tailor I Let me repeat my warning, young man. In selecting clothi?g material beware of shoddy, and put your faith in an honest tailor."?N. Y. Sun. Becclicr on the South, The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher deliv? ered a lecture one night last week in Atlanta, Ga., on Evolution. While he was in that city he was interviewed by a reporter for the GonstUulion, and exhaust? ed his opinion about men and things without reserve. What he said about the South and the colored people will be of general interest. "I know of no section of the Union," said Mr. Beecher, "with a grander future than tbe South. Now that disturbing political issues and tbe curse of slavery, stood as a barrier between it and the civ? ilized world, have been removed, the country will begin to grow and develop in such a way as to put in the shade tbe wonderful progress made by Western communities. But I have seen so little with my own eyes that perhaps I should leave the statement of its advantages to others." "What direction will Southern pro? gress take?"' "The building up of its manufactories first. Money always seeks profitable in? vestment. I find that many progressive men of the South, who have tbe ears of Northern capitalists, have secured a large influx of money, tbe result of which can be seen in Atlanta, Chattanooga aud Birmingham. In time this draws popu? lation. The South, though the richest portion of our national heritage, was walled in by slavery, in contact with which free labor could not come without degrading itself. The hardy peasantry of Europe who sought our shores, did so with a view of bettering their condition. Consequently they would not go near the slave line. Take Mississippi, for in? stance. There is a State blessed by na? ture, fortified by human inventive genius and made attractive by wealth, the natu? ral centre of tbe United States. Her lands, ber minerals, all were inviting. Yet the great flood of immigration rolled over it aud kept on until Kansas was reached, where labor was the freeman's heritage, and the community was not weighted down by an incubus from a barborous age. But the events of the last twenty years have changed all this, and the incoming of the present Admin? istration has set iu motion a new era in which the South will play an important part." "Four years ago," said Mr. Beecher, after a pause, "when the Garfield cam? paign was in progress, I said to my peo? ple I hoped to see the day when I might vote for a Southern man for President. What was then a wild dream has now come to be a reality. There are South eru men now before the public?Demo? crats?whom I would vote for to place iu the Presidential chair. I have no names to offer?it is too early to name men for the next race, aud many things may happen in four years to change the drift of public opinion?but if the elec? tion were to take place to day under the present influences, there are Southern men who would be well thought of iu the North for the Presidency." "What are the prospects of the Demo? cratic Administration and its continuance in power?" "Conducting the Government on the high plane which Mr. Cleveland has marked out for it, a hearty adherence to the principles of the civil service law, giving tbe country peace and prosperity, there is no reason why it should not have half a dozen terms iu the Presidency. The worst danger that could befall the Democracy now, would be the removal of Clevelaud. The accession of Hen dricks, representing tbe ultra Bourbon Democracy, disposing of tbe offices as rewards for political services, would throw the country back?recall Republi? canism into favor. Tbe conduct of tbe South during the last two weeks has been remarkably heroic. With the Presiden? cy in its possession, it has not hampered him by pleading for office, but has stood by in a dignified manner aud allowed him to shape affairs in his own way. The President's plan is to fili the respon? sible bureau chiefships with representa? tive Southern men, such men a3 have influence at home, and whose appoint? ment will have more influence than a hundred clerks. The enforcement of the civil service rules will not destroy party organization. The men who fill the offices are but barnacles who really do nothing for party success, are noisy, and have little influence at home. If some men who do not get into office are disap? pointed thereat, and threaten to kick out of party traces, those who keep in office will become Democrats, and thus time will make all this even. Besides, what are office holders, when set up against sixty million people 7 If Cleveland ad? heres to civil service, he will be re elected to the Presidency?he does not want it; but, like many other men, he is willing to servo his country." Referring to the negro problem, Mr. Beecher regarded it as settled. The war went through the South like a plough throgh a prairie field, turning over tbe turf of society with the whites under and blacks on top. It was a terrible state of affairs, which the Southern people en? dured with heroism unequalled iu histo? ry. That they deported themselves so well then proves that they are equal to tho problems of the future. The future of the races will be controlled by educa? tion. The Penalty of Scepticism. "Come mighty nigh killin' a fine buck dis raawnin'," said an old negro. "Comin' long through the woods an* er old buck he jump up an' bookerty, bookerty he run off a few yards an' stop still. Come in one er shootin' bim, Bah." "Why didn't you shoot?" "Didn't hab my gun wid me, sah." "Then how did you come in one of shooting him ?" "Case, sah, I come in one o' taking my gun wid me." "Why didn't you take your gun?" "Did'nt hab none, sab." "You are an old fool." "Look heah, doan' buse er man dat way when yer ain't got no cause. I aint got no gun, for a feller dat I wuz erbout to buy one frum, axed me jes' one dollar mo'n I could pay. So I come in one o' gittin' do gun. If I'd ergot it I would er tuk it 'long wid me, an' ef I'd er had it I could er shot de buck easy, sab. So doan come 'roun' 'busic er mau when de facts is all' ergin yer. I hab knowed folks to fetch trouble on dar 'selves dat way. Er pusson otigbter be keerful in dis hear worl' o1 science an' speckerla tion. Good mawning, sah. Since yer's acted dis way, I wouldenter gin yer none o' de meat ef I had er killed it. Fore yer talked dat way I woulder made yer present o' some o' de buck. See whut yer got by it, sah." ? Birds that never fly?Weathercocks. A WIFE'S DEVOTION. A TRUE STORY. Correspondence Atlanta Constitution. Several years ago when Judge S., theo of the Superior Court, was holding his Court at Forsythe, Monroe County, Ga., two brothers, resident of Gwinnett Coun? ty, were brought beforehira charged with horse stealing. The case against the two men was plain indeed. The old man from whom the horse was stolen with his wife and daugh? ter were introduced and each in their turn on the stand swore strong and strik? ingly alike as to the theft, the identity of the horse and of both men. Absolutely nothing iu rebuttal could be produced by the counsel for the de? fense, except the testimony of a woman, the young wife of one of the prisoners, and the daughter of the old man from whom the horse was stolen. Her story, as told to her attorney, was so strange and unreasonable that he begged she would not go to the stand with it, fearing its effect upon both judge and jury. To the pleading of the lawyer she turned a deaf ear, and rising, without being bid, said aloud, "My innocent husband's lib? erty is at stake, I must, I will speak for bim." Judge S., who, up to this time, had not noticed the woman, now, owing to her manner of speech and seemingly intense sympathy and love for her bus band, called her to the stand, ruling "she could testify in behalf of her husband's brother and make a statement" for the husband. The Bible was handed her, and she kissed with a smack that might have been heard a blcck away. Then tremblingly removing from her head its old shaker covering, and very carefully unwinding a much worn and tattered Gwinnett red shawl which she held in her arms, she exposed to the view of a greatly surprised audience a two months old baby boy who was hid away some? where in the folds of that huge shawl. The unwinding process completed, she hurriedly deposited both baby and cover? ing iu a heap on the table iu front of her, and with a degree of determination in her face, expressed only iu the lines of Shakspeare: "I shall remember when Coasar says do this, it is performed," she fronted the jury. Said sho: "I have sworn to tell the truth. I understand fully the enormity and meanness of a lie. I am a God-fearing woman, and I believe every word in that good book there on the table, and if what I tell you now about this case be not true, may Sod in His wrath this moment strike me dumb ere I utter another word, and make me suffer the most violent death that could befall a human. May I turn from this 'stand' when I have finished and look upon that baby?mine?my only one, whom I love, next to my husband, better than my life, and find it cola in death. "Two years ago my father, who sits over there, and now accuses my husband of stealing his horse, sent to Gwinnett County for me, insisting that I should come and nurse him through au attack of rheumatism. He and my mother had always been very hard with Tom (my husband) and I, but Tom now persuaded me to go, saying it was my father who was sick and it was my duty to go to him. I went, and remained two months or more until he recovered. While at my father's the 'glanders' got among the stock in the neighborhood, and after awhile a. colt belonging to my father caught the disease. A consultation of the family was held, and it was finally decided to kill the colt, hoping thereby to prevent the remainder of the horses on the farm from catching it. "I plead for the colt's life and told my father to put it to itself away from the other horses and I would feed and try to cure it. He did as I asked and I nursed the colt back to health. When I was leaving home, going back to my husband, my father told me in presence of both my mother and sister, as I had saved the colt's life he would give it to me and would keep it for me, as he had good pasturage, until it grew large enough to work. Here the matter rested, and I thought no more of it until two weeks ago, when I received a letter from my father, stating that the colt was ready for work, but my mother and sister were un: willing for me to have it. He said, he thought it best for me to send my hus? band and his brother after the colt, tell? ing them to take it from the pasture and not to let my mother and sister know about it. "Owing to our extreme poverty and need of a horse, Tom decided to do as my father bid, and last Thursday night, a week ago, he and his brother reached our home iu Gwinnett with the colt, now grown to be a horse. The same that I nursed through the 'glanders' at my father's two years ago. The same that my father then gave me in presence of my mother and sister, now there by his side, and the same, Judge, that my father now says my husband stole from him. This is all there is of it," she said, and dropping her head which, through the recital of her story, had been as erect as the "prondest steed of the prairie," she slowly left the "stand." "The letter," of course, was asked for, but could not be produced. The womau said she had lost it. The jury were "out" only a few mo? ments, returning a verdict of guilty, and the men were sentenced to ten years iu the penitentiary. As the last words of the sentence were uttered by the Judge, the wife sprung to her feet and facing her father and mother and young sister, from her lips such a curse fell as filled with horror all who heard it. Turning next to her husband, she gave him a long, last embrace, and held up the baby for him to kiss. Then to the Judge she said, "I will find the letter, sir, and bring it to you," and with a heart-broken look, but firm step, she passed through the crowd to the street. The prisoners were sent off next day to begin their life of servitude. And soon, the scene in the court room, the sad face of the wife, the baby, red shawl and all were forgotten. I Several weeks later a woman entered the Judge's office in Forsytb, her face flushed with excitement and beaming j with joy. It was the wife of the man convicted of horse stealing. She had found "the letter," and had walked with her baby iu her arms all the long way from Gwinnett to Monroe, to bring it to I the Judge. Judge S-, after closely I examining the document, was satisfied it was genuine, and took immediate stops to secure more evidence in the matter. This was easily accomplished, and the lather of the woman, on being confront? ed with the evidence procured by the Judge, finally admitted that he had writteu the letter. The next train to Atlauta brought Judge S- with it, and no time was lost in submitting the matter to the Governor, who instantly issued a pardon for ihe two men. Only a few short years have passed since this occurrence, but time enough has intervened for the wife's prayers to be answered ; time enough for the parties who swore away her husband's good name and liberty to have reaped an over? whelming cup of misery, degradation and shame. The father and mother died in the poor house in the County where once they lived in plenty. The sister to day is leading a life of shame in a miserable brothel in a Georgia city. The good old Judge still lives in the enjoyment of excellent health. The brave and devoted wife and her wronged husband live now in Gwinnett, and rank among her happiest and most prosperous citizens. The letter alluded to in this narative is on file with other papers be? longing to the case in the executive office of the State. My information was re? ceived from Colonel C-, of Augusta, who was an "eye witness" to the trial. ARP'S TRAVELS. Tue Manners and Customs of Texas. Dallas, Tex., March 25.?Where do all the people come from and what are they after. The cars are full of them and tbe hotels are crowded wherever I go. They come and they go. They seem as restless as tbe troubled sea. The crowd that was here yesterday is not here to-day, but their places are filled aud I see new faces all the time. The hotel register here at Dallas shows arri? vals from seventeen States in tbe last three days, and most all of them mean business. As I sit among them in this great large lounging room I caunot help wondering what is their business ana what they are thinking about, and how many are happy and how many have some secret sorrow, aud I wish I was a mind reader and could follow them in their thoughts of home and family? wife, children or mother away off some? where. How much we are all alike if we only knew it. Sometimes I venture a remark to a stranger who aits near me by the stove, and I am glad to say I have always found them courteous and willing \ to talk to me. When I draw them out on home and distant kindred it seems a ! welcome subject, aud as we get more familiar, they warm up, and will venture to tell me of their business. Strangers in a strange land are very quick to ap? preciate civility. A man may be offish and uucommunicative when at home, but when he gets away off he looks longingly around for a friend?somebody that knows. At times I have felt awfully louesome in my wanderings over here, and I would have rejoiced with unfeigned gladness to have seen my little dog Fido. 1 could have almost cried over the affec? tionate wag of his little tale. This ever constant mingling of the people from all the States is obliged to do good. We are all assimilating; we are rubbing against each other more and more every day, aud we understand each other aud find tbat we are all just human aud are sailing in the same big boat upon the sea of life. The North and the South, the East and the West are being fast drawn together, and not even tbe politicians can much longer keep us apart. Wheth? er we arc independent States are a nation makes no difference now. We are all Americans and are proud of our county. Dallas is a beautiful city of about forty thousand inhabitants. Dallas is rich. Her banks have two millions of paid up capital. Her merchants do a large wholesale trade with tbe smaller towns in 'a large circuit of country?a farming country that is rich aud fertile aud in a higher state of improvement than any that I have yet seen. Dallas is speckled with bid Georgians and their descendants, and I have had a continuous love feast with them. The old gray-haired men talk to me with glistening eyes aud ask a thousand questions about our Georgia dead and their living children. What reverence and affection they have for Howell Cobb aud Stephens, and Toombs and Colquit and Judge Underwood aud Major Cooper. An old gentleman called on me this morning and said his name was Lyon, and tbat he had been living in Texas forty-nine years. He is a brother-in-law to Dr. Powell and Colonel Stevenson, the diamond man of Gaines? ville. He asked affectionately about Judge Underwood, and said, "Oh, how I used to love his wife when she was a school girl, but she didn't love mo, aud ao I joined a company to avenge the death of Fannie aud Bowie and Crockett aud that settled me iu Texas." I lectured here last night to a large audience that did me more honor than I deserved, and by way of reminiscence I paid a tribute to the grand old whig party of the South, tbe party tbat repre? sented the wealth and culture and aris? tocracy of Georgia, and after the lecture many of the old time whigs in tbe audi? ence gathered around me aud thanked me. What a bond there was among tbe members of that party. How they did lore and honor and idolize their leaders. They swore by Henry Clay and Fillmore and Stephens and Toombs aud John Bell and?the code of houor?and those who are alive swear by them yet. I dined yesterday with General Cabell, a noble Virginian, the mayor of Dallas, aud who was the Quartermaster General of the army of the Potomac. Of course we indulged in memories of the war, and it was delightful to hear him talk of those Bad and glorius days. "How is my old frieDd Major Ayer," said be; the gallant hero of the great battle of Drainsville; the man who took 600 wagons over into the valley to capturo and carry away all the hay, and when the yankees got after him he turned his 6-horse teams iu narrow cuts that were only ten feet wide, and fled with alacrity back to Centerville, and the roaring of his wagons over the pike for twelve miles was like the sound of many waters. We saw the clouds of dust that foil wed their track and it was like the simoon of the desert. Old Joe Johnston had the long roll beat, and the universal cry was, to arms, to arms, ye brave; but before the boys got fairly started, here come the wagons driving like Jehu and the fat major was doing his best to keep up, and as he dismounted he was covered all over with dust aud perspiration, and, saluting the general with a solemn manner, exclaimed: Geueral, I have brought your wagons back but I left the hay and Tom Taylor behind. How is Major Ayer? He was a splendid officer and could mount and ride a horse with more ease and grace than any fat man 1 ever saw." I shall dine to day with a nest of Georgians?for Georgians are clannish still aud so are the people from any other State. They love to get together and talk of their old homes and the scenes of their youth?aud this is natural and it is right. State pride and "State rights" crop out everywhere. Theso Texans arc not at all pleased with tho appointmeut of Henry R. Jackson to the Mexican miss? ion. They say that Texas was certainly entitled to that appointment for Mexico is her neighbor aud the Texans know her language and her people better than anybody. "Who is Jackson" said a man to me. "Is he a Spaniard or a traveler or what is he? What is his peculiar fitness for that office that made Mr. Cleveland ignore Texas? He has not yet given Texas a durned thing, and yet Dick Hubbard stumped all over Indiana for him and helped elect him." Well, the trouble seems to be that there are not enough offices for us all, and I reckon we had belter create somo more. Brr.l Art. ? Mr. Cleveland has consented to accompany some veterans to the battle? field of Gettysburg on May 4th and 5th.