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SOLDIERING W Reminiscences of the Cavalry TT. C. Dodson in In response to your request for some reminiscences of General Weeler, my old commander, I will say that I was captured in 1863, just preceding the battle of Chickamauga, I cannot tell you from personal knowledge anything of his campaigns after that date. As, however, I was with General "Wheeler before and after the battle of M urf ree sb oro, it has occurred to me that possibly some of his doings dur ing that memorable engagement might be of some interest to your readers. Of course the recollections of a private' must be more personal than historical, and I trust I will not be accused of egotism if I am compelled to use the pronoun "I" rather frequently. The battle of Murfreesboro has al i ways seemed to me the most deliber ately planned of any during the war and should have resulted in a greater victory than we achieved. General Bragg seemed to have selected his own ground, intrenched himself, and then sent his cavalry under General Wheel er to bring ?n the engagement. We skirmished with the Federals for sev eral days, gradually falling back and "tolling" them on to the battle-ground already selected. Toward the last the enemy "tolled" rather too freely for comfort, and on the afternoon before the battle we were glad to gallop through the infantry lines to escape a shower of bullets. The night preceding the battle we were marched a little distance from Murfreesboro and encamped. We were allowed to feed our horses, snatched a bite to eat and a little rest for ourselves, but no saddles were removed and profound silence was commanded. At about midnight we were mounted and on the march, but what our destination was we had not the slightest idea. The camp fires of the enemy were in plain view, and it seemed that we were marching directly toward them. I remember thinking that if we were to charge the enemy's line "what a mess we would make of it in the darkness, not being able to dis tinguish a yankee from a rebel. In fact it was the darkest night I remem ber before or since. We literally could scarcely see our hands before our faces. We forded Stone river and I could not see the water, but could hear it gurgling and hissing, and could feel it half way up my horse's sides. We rode on during the night, and as day began tc dawn I commenced look ing for some landmark to indicate where we were. Imagine my amaze ment when I discovered we were in the outskirts of Luvergne, which I knew to be fifteen miles in the rear of Federal army. Our regiment (John T. Morgan's) rode second in the command, and it was not long before we heard music ahead. (Any old soldier will know that by music I mean the clatter of musketry, punctured with an occasional boom of cannon). Presently a courier .came back to order up another regi ment, which was ours, and we went in with a whoop. The fighting was about over, for there was but a small force to oppose us, which we brushed away with scarcely a halt. But thc fun had just commenced. Prisoners running this way and that, hunting somebody to surrender to, army wag ons blazing, guns popping, mules braying, etc. Some of the wagons were loaded with ammunition, and some were set fire to while the teams of four io six mules were yet hitched to them, and as the fire commenced to scorch the wheelers, and the ammu nition to explode, you can imagine about as wild a stampede as you can conceive of. When I first rode into the circus I noticed a pair of mules that had broken loose from a wagon. They were skill hitched to the double tree; one had got entangled with the harness and was down, with the other dragging him. As I rode out I en countered the same pair of mutes, one having dragged the other nearly a mile. One of us dismounted and cut the hame strings, when muly jumped upas nimbly as if he had just been taking that sort of a ride for his health, and was not in the least in jured. I was riding a borrowed horse, and my first care was to provide one of my own at Uncle Sam's expense. This I did, got him safely to camp, and rode him to the end, which came for me less than a year after. Om orderly sergeant captured the finest mule I have ever seen, a magnificent iron gray, about sixteen hands high and beautifully proportioned. He was naturally very proud of his cap ture until some one yelled, "Tom, look at your mule's eyes." One glance and he dropped the halter like it was hot-the mule was as blind as a bat. Of course we were not there to stay, as our position within a few miles ol an army of probably 15,000 infantry, was not one to hold. So we collected our prisoners and rode on to safe quarters. During this battle General Wheeler's command made two complete circuits ITH WHEELER. Fanions Confederate Leader. Atlanta Journal. I around the rear of the Federal army, and partially a third, which was not altogether successful, as the yankees had prepared for us, and we were re pulsed. I was also with the second raid in which we lost some men but captured more prisoners than at the first. I started with the third raid but was compelled to return on account of a iame horse-the third I had rode down in that campaign, for Wheeler's "crit ter company" didn't know much about walking horses in those days, a gallop being our usual gait. On the second raid among the prisoners was a fellow we had mounted on an old gray mare, '? which had belonged to one of our com pany who had been killed in the melee. She was a very rough gaited critter, and while the other horses were in an easy lope the old mare was in a long, swinging trot, and the poor yankee with his feet out of the stirrups cling ing for dear life to the saddle and bouncing about 6 inches from his seat at every jump the old mare made was ridiculous in the extreme. I rode up by his side and remarked, "My friend, it seems that you are not accustomed to riding." Tho poor fellow replied betwen gasps: "Yes-I've rode-in a-buggy and-in a carriage-but never rode like this before." It is not safe to trust memory after all these years, but my recollection is that the results of this campaign of General Wheeler's were the destruc tion and capture of one thousand and ten wagons and contents, nearly a thousand prisoners, remounting many of his men who needed fresh horses, and the capture and destruction of a gun boat on the Cumberland river. We had the whole Federal army with out rations for nearly three days. There is a citizen of Atlanta who was a paymaster in the Federal army, and one day he remarked to me that at the battle of "Stone River" (that being 1 the name the Federals called the bat tle) he had $100,000 in his safe and couldn't buy a pone of corn bread. Of course I reminded him that I was one of the boys who had helped destroy his rations. As I said before I can tell but little about General Wheeler's subsequent campaigns, but the above is a fair sample. I should scarcely have flat tered myself that I am remembered by him, but at Nashville last summer he assured my son that he had not for gotten the Pelham boys and Dodson of the Fifty-first Alabama, and Colonel Jack Prather of the Eighth Confede rate. There was a slight disparity between the positions held by General Wheeler and myself, the one being Major General and the other a high private in the rear rank. But I never met him that he did not seem to try to show by his salutation that he re spected the private as much as the private respected the General. To me he was and is the ideal cavalry com mander, and I can not help feeling a personal pride in the fact that my old commander is one of thc first for Uncle Sam to call into service. In my youthful eyes such men as Wheel er, Stuart and Wade Hampton "seem ed giants, and manhood's more dis criminating gaze see them undimin ished." General Wheeler never asked his men to go where he would not lead, and for this we loved him, and gladly rode with him into places where we knew all could not come out alive. Why a Ship is Called She. The word ship is masculine in French, Italian, Spanish and Portu guese and possesses no sex in Teutonic and Scandinavian. Even a man-of war is she to our sailors. Perhaps it would not be an error to trace the Greeks, who called all ships by femi nine names, probably out of deference to Athene, goddess of the sea. But the sailor assigns no such reasons. The ship is to him a veritable sweet heart, and it is a common thing to hear him ascribing to it vitality and intelligence. The seip possesses a waist, collars, stays, laces, bonnets, ties, ribbons, combings, earrings, chains, watches, jewels and scarfs, and there is often considerable "bustle" about her. She is full of pins, hooks and eyes. She also possesses a forehead, nose, head, eyes, shoulders and more than one heart. The keeper of a ship in port ii familiarly called the "ship's hus band." If wc add that she looks best when fully "rigged out." we may have enough of sailor logic to account for thc feminine name.-New York Tribune. rn?-* rn? "One Minuto CouRh Cure is the best preparation I have ever sold or need, and I can't say too much in its praise. L. M. Kennon, Merchant, Odell, Ga.'" Evans Pharmacy. - Leisure hours arc the best or thc worst part ol' our lives. ? S. M. Geary, Pierson, M ?oh., writes : "DeWitfs Witch Hazel Salve is curing more piles here to day than all other remedies combined. It cures eczema and all other skin diseases. Evaus Pharmacy. DISPENSARY LAW SUSTAINED* Final Decision by the United States Supreme Court. WASHINGTON, May 9.-The Supreme Court to-day handed down its decision in the case of Vance, Bahr et al., against the W. A. Vandercock Com pany, appealed from the Circuit Court of South Carolina, and the effect of that decision is that the validity of the dispenoary law in its vital parts is sustained. The decision places the South Carolina law clearly within the police powers of the State. The right of the State to forbid the sale of li quors in the original packages the Court holds to be clear, and it regards the dispensary law as merely voicing that right. The opinion of the Court was delivered by Justice White. It affirms part of the decision of the Court below and reverses part. Chief Justice Fuller and Justices Shiras and McKenna dissented as to the por tion of the opinion reversing any part of the opinion of the Court below, but the other members of the Court agreed with Justice White. In his opinion Justice White re views at some length thc decision of the Court in the cases of Scott against Donald, and explains that in neither case was the question raised whether the State could, without violating the Constitution, confer upon certain offi cers and agents the sole power to buy all liquors which were to be sold in the State, and allowing no other liquor to be sold. He explained that the present law, while similar in general scope to that passed upon in the for mer decisions, was different in many particulars, the clauses which had been found under those former decis ions to operate as discriminating against citizens of other States having been eliminated. Justice White set out the three grounds upon which the constitutionality of the law is denied by the decision of Judge Simonton, and pointed out that two of these go to the very root of the law itself, while the third is narrower iu its pur port, only assailing as unconstitution al the particular restrictions which the State puts upon the rights of per sons of another State to ship to South Carolina, and of residents of that State to receive liquor for their own use. Upon this latter feature of the case Judge Simonton is upheld. The Court is unanimous in affirming his decision. But on the other two points, which go at the very root of the law, Judge Simonton is reversed and the law is upheld. The language of Jus tice White in summing up the Court's decision is this : "It follows from the foregoing that the decree below rendered was well founded in so far as it restrained the defendants from seizing the property shipped into the State of South Caro lina from the State of California by the complainant for the residents of the State of South Carolina on the orders of such residents for their own use, because said shipments had not been made in compliance with the reg ulations of the law of South Caro lina. But it further follows that the decree below was wrong in so far as it restrained the State officers from le vying upon the property of the com plainant for the purpose of being stored therein in original packages, and from interfering with such sales. These conclusions require that thc judgment below be affirmed in part and reversed in part. This renders it necessary to remand the case to the Court bekuv with instructions to enter a decree setting aside the injunction and dismissing the bill to the extent above indicated, and perpetuating the injunction only in so far as it is above pointed out. the whole in accordance with the views hereinabove expressed, and it is so ordered," Thc effect of this decision is that the inspection provision of the law is tantamount to a denial of the right of Inter-Skate commerce, and therefore antagonistic to the Constitution of the United States, while in all other es sential respects the law is held to bc valid. Thc decision of the Court was widely discussed among South Caro lina people here. Senator Tillman, in discussing it, said : "It seems to nie the dispensary law is decidedly on top. With this decis ion the mere question of suppressing blind tigers will not be very difficult. The only modification made necessary by this decision is as to the require ment for the analysis and inspection of liquor imported for private use, and it will not be very difficult to meet this. I believe this decision of the Court mcaus that the question is set tled for all time, so far as thc United States is concerned, and thc dispensa ry system will be left alone to work out its own destiny. All that Gov. Ellerbe will have to do is to reorgan ize the constabulary, and, if necessa ry, use the metropolitan police and enforce the law ; in other words, sup press thc illicit sales. 1 think the Governor could well afford to declare an amnesty and facilitate the exporta tion of all liquors now held by the original package people, with the un derstanding that after a certain day the law will bc enforced with all vigor. In other words, now that the law is declared constitutional it might be wcli to take a new start with those who have gone into the illicit sale with the idea that thc law was uncon stitutional.'' Commenting upon the political ef fect cf the decision, Senator Tillman said he believed the decisioa would strengthen the Governor as well as the Reform Movement very much. Senator McLaurin said : "This de cision takes the matter out of the Courts and leaves its settlement to the people. It means that the dispensary law is a fixture, and will never be changed unless there is a change in sentiment of the people, and that is reflected through State legislation. The decision puts the vital features of the dispensary law necessary to its en forcement within the police powers of the State. It is a very important de cision, and doubtless will lead to ex periments of the same nature as the South Carolina dispensary in other States. I think," he added,' "that the decision will have a very marked effect on the campaign in South Caro lina. I regard it as favorable to the re-election of our present Governor." I asked him about the bill now pend ing before the House. He said : "No further legislation by Congress on the subject is necessary. The de cision of the Supreme Court complete ly eliminates every question of doubt as to the validity of the law. As a judicial interpretation of the effect of the Wilson Act-it is of very great im portance in a commercial way, as af fecting the trade between the States and defining exactly what the police powers of the States are."-Special to Nines and Courier. - Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from your self 10 years ago. Mr. John Peterson, of Patoutville, La., was very agreeably surprised not long ago. For eighteen months he had been troubled with dysentery and had tried three of the best doctors in New Orleans, besides half a dozen or more patent medicines, but received very little relief. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy having been recommended to him he gave it a trial, and to his great surprise three doses of that remedy effected a per manent cure. Mr. Wm. Mcnamara, a well known merchant of the same place, is well acquainted with Mr. Pe terson, and attests to the truth of this statement. This remedy is'for sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. - A confederation of Porto Rico, j San Domingo and independent Cuba ? s now said to be the cry of insurgent i caders. This information was receiv ed in St. Louis by Luperico Mar tinez, a Cuban, who has two brothers ighting in .the insurgent ranks, and who arc very close to thc leaders in the fight for Cuban independence, and published in Saturday's Republic. When the Cubans have thrown off the yoke which binds them to Spain, and independence is firmly establish ed and the Government duly recog nized, a federation between the Repub lic of San Domingo, Spain's colony of Porto Rico and Cuba will probably be effected. In support of the state ment it is cited that Maximo Gomez is a native of Porto Rico, and it is his wish to see his native country free and independent. His wife is a na tive of Cuba, and his love for those two countries is about equally divid ed. -A clergyman who was very partic ular about his personal appearance went to preach io a country parish in Connecticut. Finding there was no glass in the vestry, and fearing his hair might not be quite as smooth as it should be. he asked the clerk if he could get him a glass. The man was gone some minutes, but at length re turned aud produced a parcel very mysteriously from under his arm. To the astonishment of the clergyman, he found when it was opened that it con tained a bottle of whiskey, with water and a tumbler. "You musn't let on about it, mister," said the clerk, "for I got it as a great favor, an11 shouldn't ha' got it at all, bein'church hours, if I hadn't 'a' said it was for you." -One of the stories that the late James Payn liked most to tell was about what he called an American duel, wherein two duellists, with one second, ?net within doors and drew lots to decide which should shoot himself. A was the unlucky man, and without a word he retired into the next apart ment to carry out the purpose of self destruction. B and the second, both very much moved by the tragedy of the situation, remained in listening attitudes. At last the pistol was heard; they shuddered with emotion and remorse, when suddenly in rushed the supposed dead man, triumphantly exclaiming, "Missed, by heaven!" "I would not be without Chamber lain's Cough Remedy for its weight in gold,' writes D,. J. Jones, of Holland, Va. "My wife was troubled with a cough for nearly two years. I tried various patent remedies, besides nu merous prescriptions from physicians, all of which did no good. I was at last persuaded to try a bottle of Cham berlain's Cough Remedy, which promptly relieved the cough. The second bottle effected a complete cure." Thc 25 and 50 cent bottles are for sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. HOES, HARROWS, CULTIVATORS. THE TERRELL, ROMAN, and EUREKA HARROWS. Take your choice. These are the leading grass-killers. Prices reduced. oes. Absolutely perfect in shape of blade and handle. All superior steel. Bought in car lots. Our customers shall have the benefit. We have the Hoes and the prices. COTTON IS CHEAP AND SO ABE LIVE AND LET LIVE IS OUR MOTTO ! WE have a choice and select Stock of i'AMILT and FANCY GROCERIES, Consisting of almost everything you may need to eat. Our Goods are fresh, were bought for cash, and will be sold as low as the lowest. Please give me a call before purchasing your Groceries. Thanking all for past favors and soliciting a continuance of the same- ! We are yours to please, GK F. BIGBY. DUBING THE SPRING MONTHS While business is supposed to be dull, we have decided to oiler GREAT IN DUCEMENTS in our large and well selected Stoct of DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, HATS and SHOES. We have several thousand dollars worth of the9e Goods that we are poinjr to sell for less than same Goods can be bought for elsewhere. No wind-work alxuit this. Come see for yourself. We carry a Splendid Stock of Heavy Groceries, And make Specialties of Fine Flour, Molasses, Cortee, Tobacco and Sugar. If you will honor us with a visit when you want to buy your next bill, we will appreciate it and make it mighty interesting for you. J Come see for yourself. Yours for Trailic, BROWNLEE & VANDIV?RS. rrr?Trrr?7T??lHil-*i:ii?rif*lll|IIIIIItllIII?**ltlfIIII?llJ!'IIIIJIi?IIHli?l?-'?it-i .?VegetablePreparationfor As similating theToodandReguta ting thfi Stomachs andJBowels of INTAMS /CHIliDKKN Promotes'Digeslion.Chceiful ?iess and?test-Conta?as neither Opium,Moi^hine nor puerai. NOT NAHCOTIC. ?Zape tf?ldlb-SAMUHJHTmEa. Pumpkin Sa?~ Alx.Saina * l?o?ulh Sails Anise Sec J * ftppermint - Bi Carbonate Soda * f ibm Seed - flarif?d Sitiar . W?i&y/w? flcrer. I Aperfect Remedy f or Constipa tion, Sour Stomach.Diarrhoea, Worms .Convulsions /feverish ness and LOSS OF SLEEP* Tac Simile Signatur* of NEW VOHK. Atb months old JjDpSFS-jjClMS EXACT COPY" OF WEAEFEB. For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Always Bough THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YOHK CITY. RAGS,. BAGS, RAGS ! I am again buying Rags-Save them up and bring them and your Hides ! If you. need a. gyoocl STEEL BANGE OR STOVE AT bottom price?, either for Cash or on time for a good Note don't, fail to see my line. I will swap you H New Stove for your old'one or for Cattle, and give you the market price for your Cattle. Now is the time to get you a good ?tove before cotton-planting time Tinware, Crockery, Glass, Lamp Goods, &e,9 A. SPECIALTY. Thanking you ail lor past favors, and soliciting a continuance of same Respectfully, _ -iOHN T. BURRfSx CRESCENT BICYCLES MORE of them sold than any other There must be good reasons far this, when the same condition prevails every year. They must have merit Why You Should Ride a Crescent ! The price as well as the quality is guaranteed. If you buy a CRES CENT you will never be annoyed hy having a duplicate of youTvWbeel adve? tised at Department Store prices. CRESCENTS are sold through Bicycle Dealers, who protect and stand by their customers. We sell the CRESCENTS as cheap as they can be bought anywhere in the wide world. Buy where you are assured fair treatment. 83,000 Crescents sold in one year. Best liked where best known. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. W. W. SULLIVAN, Manager Bicycle Department. THE OLD, RELIABLE 9 j 1 OF - Still in the Lead ! They have the Largest Stock, Best duality, and Certainly the Lowest. Prices ? OTHERS try to get there, hut they miss it every time. New, beautiful and select Stock of Furniture, <fec, arriving every Hay, and at PRICES NEVER HEARD OF BEFORE. Here you have the Largest Stock ; therefore, you can get Hist what you want. Here you have the Best Grade of Furniture ; therefore, you can get Goods that will last. Here you have the very LOWEST PRICES ; therefore, you save good biff money. ti?* Come along, and we will do you as we have been doing for the las? forty years-sell you the very best Furniture ibr the very lowest prices. fi?k, The largest Stock in South Carolina and the Lowest Price in the Southern States. New Lot Baby Carriages Just Keceived. C. F. 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