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WAR Si Greil. Mohairs 3:?sc /.'. //. Peak; in I was captuicd when General Mor gan surrendered in Ohio near thc Pennsylvania line, ?108 of us surren dering with thc general, was carried to Camp Cha'jc and conGned there four w< oks. On thc way from Camp Chase to Camp Douglas*, on thc 20ih of August, 1803, I escaped from, thc ears and walked from there to Boone County, Kct?iu?ky. I passed through Ken tucky and reached lower KUM Tennes see, where several detached guerilla hands were holding O verton and .Jack son Counties, lt was considered im possible to cross thc mountains and reach the Confederate ?ines at Dalton, tia. 1 remained willi the irrrgular soldiers until the ?Sib ol' December, when Geucral Morgun and Captain Hines arrived, these having escaped from the Ohio penitentiary. They remained there a day and night and in that tune wc gathered together men, about batt of them Morgan's men. W crossed the Cumberland range v.. mountains in two days and nights and reached tho Tennessee river twenty five miles nc'iow Kingston at a point midway betweeu two ferries, situated five miles apart, both heavily guarded by federal troops, lt was at the foot of an island (tho river being high) was nearly a mile wide. Tor ten miles be fore reaching thu river wo impressed every man we saw and also took all thc tools we found at the bouses. As soon as we reached the river we began to construct rafts. I was on the lirst raft which left the shore and aft^r floating down for half a mile, we reached the Southern bank of thc river. Other rafts followed and we soon had 2f> men across the river. Then those remaining on thc North bide of the river tried to force thc horses to swim across, only four of which came across, ono of them mine General Morgan's horse was brought over by thc side of a raft. .lust as we reached the bank we were bred on from the point of thc island and both aides of thc river. The general's horse was a powerful stallion, present ed to him by .1. B. McMillan, brother of thc present governor of Tennessee, and though be baa been in the cold water for au hour, we saddled him at once, and live of us mounted and tweuty dismounted, wc took to tho woods. After getting under cover we separated .from-thc dismounted men and made all basto to get away from river, but without knowing it wc had crossed into a horseshoe bend and af ter traveling some distance through thc woods wc came to the river again. Our little squad was composed of General Morgan, Oaptain Hines, a utan named Brady from Clarksvillc, Tenn,, and a mountaineer who lind joined us over in Overton County. After leaving thc river thc second timo wo traveled through thc woods for au hour and agnin came to thc river. Wc now turned our backs on tho river and after going half a milo wc came to a road with a cabin in sight about a hundred yards to our Ielt. General Morgan told Captain Hines to rido up to thc house and make some inquiries as to bow to get away from tho river. It had been raining all day and was then raining very bard. Before Captain Hines reached the bouse we heard cavalry coming from the other dircctiou and concealed ourselves behind some young pines growing by the roadside. Wo wero hardly coucealed before a troop of cavalry came dashing by. They overtook and captured Captain Hinca. At first they did not rccoguizc him us a rebel soldier and bc carried them half a mile down the road, telling them we had gone in that direction. That gave us time to get up to tho top of a steep hill heavily timbered and in n short time the "troop came back, dashing around thc foot of thc ridge wbero wc were concealed. Night was closing in and we remaiued thero until it was perfectly dark. Wc then caine down into thc road and the gen eral suggested that as thc federals had just passed over that road it was pos sible it might bc left uuguarded. The general and myself each had a pistol. Thc two men with us had no anns at all. I took thc lead, the general nest to me and the other two men behind. Wo traveled continuously along for nearly a mile when two pickets that we were approaching began talking. I stopped and tho general rode up by my side but wo could not understand their talk. Tho general hold my horse and told me to get down and quietly approach within hearing and try to get some points from their talk. I crawled up eo I could hoar them talking plainly, but could get no information from thom. We turned and went back about a hunttred yards, then turned at right angles into tho woods composed monly of oak saplings, growing thiok, and grapevines. It was so dark it was roRI ES. .upa From the Ohio tentiary. .1 thu-tn Journal, i very difficult for us to keep together. I After traveling this way for about an j hour the general stopped and sa,id wc might bu going wrong, and if HO, bet ? ter not be going at all. We had been i without anything to eat for two day?* I and nights and the general was sutler ?og from acute rheumatism contracted in thc Ohio penitentiary, and was al I most exhausted. We had throe ; blankets in thc crowd. 1 laid ono on ' thc ground and the general laid down o'i it and I put the other two orer him. I In a few minutes he was sound asleep, : the other two men went to sleep und 1 j watched. Ii seemed a very secluded place Cit was so dark when we stopped) but in about an hour tho rain stopped and thc stars ?hone out and I found wc had stopped in thc forks of a pub lic or wagon road and about a 15U yards from ca wa.i a Church. I wo! e up thc gcucra), but it was sonic timo before I could arouse him, ho wa? ao dead asleep. When ho got up wc wcut to and around the Church, but saw no signs of life at all? The roads that foiked ?Ti-re going South, so we mounted and took the right huud road, following it about a mile and a half, when wc again saine back to tho river. We could see lights for a long way and found that the river there was straight and wo were out of the bend. We once more turned our backs on thc river and started aoross some oid fields washed into deep gul lies. It now began lo rain heavily und we would sometimes get into the gullies where they were so deep that we would have to follow them to thc ends to get out of them. About half a mile from thc river we wcut into dense woods and after traveling about a milo in them we came tu a field with a barn just inside the fence. The general told mc to go into the barn aud soc if I could lind anything to feed our boises. I went in and found a pile of corn and we fed our horses bountiful ly. When thc horses bi gun eating thc corn a dog started to bark about a hundred yards oil". Leaving thc other two men willi the horses the general und myself went to where thc dog barked and fourni the house. After repented knacking a woman asked us who we wore. Thc general told her wo wcro soldiers. Sho asked what kiud of soldiers. The general told her uuion soldiers, of course. A man then carno to tho door inviting us in. We found he had been refugecing in Kentucky to avoid thc Confederate conscript and had just got back home. Thc general told him wc hclouged to Colonel Hurt's Kentucky regiment that had been ordered down lo take the place of the troops guarding the ferries, that ho was quartermaster of the regiment and we were making a night march to get down to Athens to stop a train of wagons going South to get sugar and coffee to distribute among the loyal citizens. Tho wo man spoke up then and said if wc woro that kind of men we must have something to cat. Tho general told her wc wcro a little hungry as we had not had anything to cat since morning. She roasted 'a sparc rib, fried some sausage, cooked us sonic cornbread and set out. a pitcher of buttermilk. Wc then and there atc the best tasting meal of our lives. What we left I car ried to the other men. The general told the man it was imperative that wo goon that night or we might miss stoppi >g that train. Ile told us we had better bc careful iu going out tho Athens road, as it was guarded by in cxpuricnccd militia and they might fire on us without halting us. Tho general told him bc would hate to bc killed by oar own nicu and a?kcd him if there was not some way to get on that road beyond these guards. Ile said there was away, but wc could not find it in tho dark. Thc general told him if ho would pilot us around those guards and put us on the road beyond them that he would give him $2 50 in gold, and when we were distributing that sugar and coffee he would givo him enough, to last him 12 months. As soon as his wife heard that she got his overcoat and fixed him up to go. Ho carried us about four or five miles through byways and put us on the road boyond the guards, lie rode on ray burse behind mc and going along I asked him if thcro was not some rebel living on that road where we could get breakfast and feed of. Ho said we would get to Bogins' cross roads by about breakfast tinto and Major Bogins wa? thc leading rebel of that whole country* After J.'aviug him we traveled hard and at daylight we arrived at Begins' crossroads. I went into Major Robins' house and woke up tho ladies. Thoy told us thcio was no ono there and Major Bo gins had gone with tho army whon it retreated frum tho country. I told them wo had to have a guido. Thoy Said the oountry was full of Federal soldiers and about 50 would be there for breakfast, und ihn only chunco for u guide was au old negri) who belonged to Major lioghis, and who was perfect ly reliable. They sent for the old ne gro, told bim who we were and he told u.s for Hod's sake conic with him to thc thicket and then talk to him. lie said the only animal on thc place was a yearling mule. He said if he could get tbat out to thc woods he would go with us. And about 8 o'clock bc came to us riding a mule not as big as be was. Ile carried us through woods with out ever seeing a road for fifteen miles, and left us in woods while he went to a farmer's bouse and brought him out to us. He brought us something to eat and went with us ten miles to bis brother's, who lived on a ridge be tween thc valleys of Mouse Creek and Sweetwater. From his house wc could ?no ton or tl;rec miles along thc Sweetwater Talley. The railroad and wagon road ran through thc valley. The gentleman pointed out to us three troops of federal cavalry, two going in u i ff crest directions and passing out of sitfht at each end of the valley. The third one almost in front of ns and less than a half mile distant. Thc man was so frightened he refused to go with us as a pilot. When the last soldiers disappeared we forced him to go with u* across the valley. After crossing the valley he carried us to a Mr. Donehu's.house and declared he knew the country no farther. Mr. Douchu sent a boy with us to pilot us to 'Squire Jamison's. It was after dark when wo reached Jamison's house, and found Jamison had ?ono to the Confederate army some weeks before, and there was not a mau ou the place, and four Federal camps within a radius of two miles. It was utterly impossible to travel without a guide, so wc staid at Jami son's until daylight. Mrs. Jamison directed us to a neighbor of hers, whose name I have forgotten. Ou ar riving at bis house and telling him we were Confederate soldiers, ho ca-ned us into the middle of a plum thicket before he would hear anything further. Ile showed us the smoke of three Federal camps in front of us in the direction wc wanted to gs. Wc told him wc had to have a guide, and he must furnish it. Ile told us that thc week before General Joe Wheeler had made a raid through there and had a fight at the little town of Philadelphia, a few miles from where we were, and that one of his men had his horse killed aud was cut off from his com mand, and was then hiding in tin neighborhood and very anxious to gel out; that this young man knew thc country well and would make usar efficient guide, and if he could linc him he would bring him to us. Aboul 10 o'clock he got back with tho youui mau, mounted on a very poor mule His name was Denton, and he said ht was perfectly willing to go with us but thought wc would be sure tobt captured. In front of us was a lov range of mountains with three Federa camps on our sido of tho mountain Beyond these mountains was a valle: with a chain of pickets tho whob length of the valley, whieh was tin outpost of thc Federal army. Deotoi showed us tho cutline of a gap in tn rango of tho mountains between twi of tho Federal camps. Wc made i dash for that gap, keeping in th woods as much as possible, and reach cd tho gap without interruption There was no road through this gap and we rode around edges of cliffs ao< over boulders where tho horse ha< never trod before, and most likely no .since. On reaching tho South side o thc mountain wc had a fiue view o tho valley and could see the chain o pickets a hundred yards apart as fa as wo oould sec up and down tho val loy. Wo kept under cover of th woods until wc got as near thc lino a paisible at a narrow peint in thu valle) and when wc could no longer keep ut der cover wo rode leisurely along t pass between two of tho picket: When near their lino they both ordei cd us to halt, but wo quickened ot gait, both men firing at us, and in few minutes we reaobed the woodi Dcutou and thc mule bringing up tit rear in great shapo. Thc Federal ca' airy gathered at tho point where v orossed tho lino and started in pursui Wo found a road running up a ravit and made pretty good timo for half mile. The pursuit ended at tho ravin they followed us no further. M were now on neutral grouud, betwet thc lines of thc two armies. "M headed in tho diroction of thc Lilt Tcnnesseo river. Wo traveled on at passed Ball Play, an old Indian pl ground, and at 8 o'clock that nig wc reached tho house of Mrs. Wai Morgan, whose husband was killi thc year before at Lexington, K Wc staid with her until morn in When leaving there Andy Rodgers, brother-in-law of Wash Morgan, pile cd us across thc Little Tennoss river, and about 10 o'clock that di wo struck tho Confederate piokel and dirty and ragged Confederate si diers never looked so well to us they did at that time, and wo fou: ourselves at homo again in Dixie. After tho oapturo of Capta Mines I am tho only one of this pai that survived tho war, snd am t only person who known what traosp cd from Captain Hines' oapturo un wo rcaohed tho Confederate lines. Orlando, Fia. Edison's Latest. Thomas A. Edison, the Hage of Metilo I 'ai k, will in a few days au nounce his plans for competiug with the greatest and most powerful of all Amcricau trusts, the United Stales ?;>eel Company -the creation of tho Morgan syndicate-and Mr. Edison believes he will be able to successfully compete with that giant corporation through tho achievements of his own inventive brain, aided, of coarse, by thc capital of his friends. Mr. Edison has no hope of enlisting the support of billions, but believes that through economies which he effected in the work of turning iron ore into steel billets at short notice he will be able to manufacture steel at less than 50 per cent, of thc cost of its manufac ture by thc gigantic Morgan trust. mr. Edison has perfected in his Jersey laboratory a method of treat ing ore absolutely unknown to the outside world. These methods will revolutionize thc business of steel production and will compel thc Steel Tr??il io come to terms with him or to wage war with him at a frightful dis advantage. For the past 10 years Edison had been experimenting with the treatment of ore from the moun tains of New Jersey. Ile has permit ted no one a peep into his observa tory. It was learned to-night by tho American correspondent that Mr. Edison is in a position to make an an nouncement that will surprise the industrial world. He will soon de clare that by recent investigations ho is able to bid defiance to the billion dollar steel trust, and to put steel upon thc market at figures that will astonish tho world and thc United States Company. 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C., Amir, 12, 1!K)0. Mn J T. HARRIS-Ilear Slr : I traly Teni BO grateful for tho benefits donvtf from Harr!? T.'U.hta W?ter tha% wors I ab??, ? would like to ereot a monument? commemorate it* virtues and ouratlve powers. For over thirty yearn I have been a fearful sufferer from what is known ?J stitts or Catarrh of the bladder and O"largoment of the prostrate gland, oausod fro? exposure ?ml hard horseback riding durl^-r fV> -v>- \ since, too. My bladdorwtf constantly in a dreadful Btato of Irrit?t i . .:?*?. <U?u ?> -istant desire to urinate, p?r tlontarly during the night. My urlr.o > - . i ? \^rv Utitk color, and fnlok with mo ons and deposit*:; sometimes ns dark r. . .al y ?trooglyaor black ooppsr and of a ver; disagreeable odor. I consulted my phv*leUas., B >ir?e of them, the most praailn** ii. tho Son tli, and. I believe they did a! 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Yon are, gentlemen, at liberty to refer to mo as to the great healing propenwn of your Harris Lit hi? Water. I have known of ? n??!?be? ?? c?h*- psr?ies rh? * *^ h.v? f?uu? great relier from thia Water. Your* very truly, . S. S. KIRKLAND We guarantee that one glass of Harris Lithia Carbonated Water *? J relieve any caso of indigestion in one minute's time or money refunded, or -j taken after each meal will euro the most stubborn caw of indigestion. \Vnj| will you suffer when you havo this guarantee ? The Harris Li tb ia's Ginger Ale is superior to any othtr Ale on thc TR? kef, because it is made from the famous Harris Lithia", and you receive benefits of tho Venter besides getting the beat Ale. . ' EVANS PHARMACY can fpply you with the Water in ary quantttj HARRIS LITHIA WATEB COfc Harria Spring, ft C