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WAR SI In Virginia "With "Je 18? While a soldier ia the Confederate States army the thought of being cap tured and confined in a Northern pris on was akin to horror and humiliation. I was willing to take my chances for life or death in thc midst of shot and shell among those who opposed us: but tobe confined in a prison, with cold, hunger and suffering, with thoughts continually upon home and its loved ones, was enough to make a man decide as I did, never to surren der. There might have been circum stances causing me to yield to my ; foes, but it was my good fortune to . escape thc many chances of cap- ' ture during thc three years of my aruty life. This brings to my mind a few ex citing scenes which maj* be classed as "close calls," and, therefore, may fit in thc columns of The Journal r > kindly reserved for us. The young single men of the army were more reckless and took more chances on their lives than did the married men, I whose responsibilities were greater. In 1803 I was for a few months a courier for General William C. Wickham, and while in northern Virginia, I think in Fauquirc County. Wickham's brigade was guarding the rear of Lee's army; we were watching the advance of Mime Federal cavalry when General ?Vick ham called to Richard Hill, another I courier, and ordered him to ride to the t.p.iw of the hill just in our rear in or- [ . f to ascertain whether tho Yankees : advancing. Just as we reached thu summit of thc hill, youug Hill reeled and fell from his horse, pierced j through by a minie ball. Had I been a few feet iu advance 1 might have shared his fate. He was a gallant young man of my County and a near relative of General A. P. Hill, the distinguished general who lost his life April 2, 18G5, almost at the last sun set of the Confederacy. The next "close call" occurred at Chancellors ville on May 2nd, a day or two after Hooker issued to his command a gen eral order in which he said among other things, "Our enemy must in gloriously fly or come from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him." My company was on picket duty near Ranks' ford, on the Rappahannock River, between Fred ericksburg and Hooker's army. We were on the mine road, watch ing for any flauk movement which might be attempted by Hooker's left wing. A young Mr. Wilhoit, from my County, who joined the company the same time that I did, was sent with me down the road in advance of the picket post; he took his stand on ono side of tue road in tho. timber, and I selected the opposite side. Wo were watching the movements of some Yankee artillery some distance in our front, when suddenly I heard the eraok of a carbine, and young Wilhoit fell from dis horse shot through the body. I was then ordered back, but before reaohing the post a solid shot was fired from the Yankee battery, the ball smashing in pieces tho cooking utensils on thc fire at the reserve, de stroying our supper but injuring none of the boys around the fire. I was at thc post nearly all night and listened to the fearful noise made by Hooker's asernen, building the most formidab.c breastworks, out of which they were compelled to retreat on the next day owing to that splendid flank movement by General "Stonewall" Jackson. Again, while my company was on duty in Madison County in 1864, a detail of 15 or 18 men commanded by Lieu tenant Carpenter was sent out on pioket beyond the Robinson River on the rood leading from Criglersville to Culpepper Court House, Ya. In thc afternoon ??c crossed to the north side of the river and marched a few miles beyond, where we came to a small country church located in a little pine grove at a oross roads. There we all dismounted, unsaddled our horses and .opened up the ohurch building as our quarters for the night. After placing two guards on the roads a short dis tance in our front, our little Confed erate command retired in apparent secu rity for the night. I had tied my horse to a sapling and was in the act of unsaddling when Lieut.Carpenter call ed me to one side and asked if I would accompany him to Cn^lersville and spend the night with a friend of his and enjoy the company of the young j ladies. Of course I gladly ace ep ted his invitation. The post was loft in charge of a sergeant, and we were soon enjoyir? tho hospitality of Mr. Stickler and family on tho south side of i 'ie river. We remained all night and left at the break of day for the pioket post. We had just crossed tho xiy?r when we were met by a cavalry man coming at breakneck speed, wav ing his hnnd at us to go back, that the Yankees had captured all of our com WIES. b" Stuart in the Year ?4. J maud at thc post and were now in pur ; suit of him. Lieut. Carpenter and I galloped back across the river and ' down thc turnpike in the direction of i Madison Court House, hoping to reach that place in time to inform thc citi zens of the approaching raiders. We rode at a gallop for a mile or two, lin n we slackened our gait as we as cended a long hill with fences on both sides of the road. We were laughing and talking about the boys being cap tured, when Lieutenant Carpenter asked me for a chew of tobacco. It was raining a little and I had on my V. M. I. overcoat and ho had an oil cloth over his uniform. Ile was watching for me to hand him the tobacco, and in my efforts to get at it I had lost sight of the road in my front. We were just nearing a sharp turn in the road when suddenly he turned to me and exclaimed: "Look out, we are into them!" We were within fifty steps of eight or ten Yankees. As we wheeled our horses a volley from their carbines was poured into our faces. Tho bullets whistled around our heads, but none took effect. They ran us down tho pike for half a mile, and two of them were gaining upon us, when suddenly we came to a pair of draw bars over which wc jumped our horses, and were again soon outof their reach. We halted a short distance from them, but fearing an ambuscade they de clined to follow us. The lieutenant took off his oil cloth and found eight or ten holes through it from the bul lets. John Rose, one among the uuuiber captured al thc post, suffered the horrors of prison life for months, aud finally thc poor follow died on his way home, after having been ex changed. Dr. Sprinkle, now of Cul pepper Courthouse, Va., was among the number who was captured. These are little personal matters, but we old soldiers love to look back over the past and bring to light again those in cidents that so interested us in our boyhood days, for as we grow old ev erything seems to us wonderfully great, even down to the ashcake our old colored mammies used to make for us. It is useless for me to recount the many hardships suffered by is while soldiers in the Confederate States army under that patriotic and pure man, Jefferson Davis, who was second to no man who graced the halls of the United States Senate at the breaking out of thecivil war. Future historians will record the heroic deeds of those who stood by each other for four long years and fought to the bit ter end. The memories of the great struggle told ' y Colonel J. J. Dickin son, of Florida, are cherished by e\ery patriotic American soldier. He says: "We cannot find in all the annals of history a grander record or prouder roll, nor more just fame for bravery, patient endurance of hardship* and sacrifices." The noble chieftain, Rob ert E. Lee, said, "Judge your enemy from his standpoint, if you would be just." Whatever may bc said of the con tention of the two great sections of tho union, whether by arbitration of council every issue might have been settled and a fratricidal war averted, there will be but one unalterable de cree of history respecting the Confed erate soldier. His deeds of heroism are wreathed around with glory, and he will be ever honored, because ho was uotonly brave and honorable, but true to his convictions. The sacrifi ces made by our loyal defenders and their glorious deeds shall not perish, but the pen of the historian shall hand them down through the ages-a proud heritage to our race and to all mankind. Now that the people who so grandly illustrated their loyalty to the Confederacy are passing away, the South claims from them a truthful, dispassionate history of the causes leading to their withdrawal from the Union and the subsequent events when the tocsin of war sounded throughout the land.-Dr. J. B. Conway, in At lanta Journal. Cures Eczema, Itching Humors, Pim ples and Carbuncles.-Costs Nothing to Try. B. B. B. (Botanio Blood Balm) is now reoognized as a certain and sure cure for eczema, itching skin, humors, scabs, soales, watery blisters, pimples, aching bones or joints, boils, carbun cles, prickling pain in the skin, old, eating sores, uloers, eto. Botanic Blood Balm taken internally, cures the worst and most deep-seated oases by enriching, purifying and vitalizing the blood, thereby giving a healthy blood supply to tho skin. Botanic Blood Balm is the only cure, to stay cured, for these awful, annoying skin troubles. Heals ovory sore and gives the rich glow of health to the skin. Builds up the broken down body and makes thc blood red and nourishing. Especially advised for ohronio, old cases that doctors, patent medicines and hot springs fail to cure. Druggists, $1. To prove B. B. B. cures, sample sent free and prepaid by writing Blood Bair Co., Atlanta, Ga. Describe I troubls and free medical advice sent in scaled letter. Sold in Auderson by Orr-Gray Drug Co., Wilhite & Wilhite, and Evans Pharmacy. ENDORSES HON. WYATT AIKEN. Ex-Soldier of thc Old First Regiment Asks | the Soldier Boys to Stick to Aiken. Editor Intelligencer-Sir: Several articles have recently appeared in the different newspapers of this the 3d Congressional District of South Caro lina, about candidates or a. ail able aspirants to the honorable position as Congressman. The District seems to be greatly blessed in good material, or rather in men who believe themselves to be of the right sort, judging, of course by the number who are in the fight for this most coveted position. But, however, that maybe, Mr. Edi tor, I will discuss that no further, but will confine this article to its original purpose, viz: that of the merits of one of the old members of Co. A, 1st Beg. S. C. V. Infantry, which was displayed in a hundred different ways aud in as many different instances while he wore the uniform of his country during its crisis of 18UC, and which subsequently has become known to such an extent to the people gen erally that they have induced him to become a candidate of thc people, and for the people, to thc national House of Representatives, believing as they do that a man of such attainments as a scholar and a birth in a lap of pa triotic influences which he has main tained throughout his life; who hav ing that profound patriotic instinct which he so richly inherited from an illustrious parent, that when thc first notes of the bugle sounded "assem bly" to the nation's citizen soldiery, he did not stop and Question the reason, Why but was one among the first to answer with the knowledge of a true born son of the South that it was his duty as *an American to Do, and if necessary, Die in defence of his country. Believing, I say, as the people evidently do; that a man who could throw down the gauntlet like Wyatt Aiken did in *i?S is worthy to represent us in the halls of our national government. And yet, Mr. Editor, that is not all, for he is worthy because of his spotless charac ter in his dealings with his fellow men, both private and public. I had the honor to be a member of thc same company during the Spanish-American war in thc 1st regiment of this State, and had therefore ample opportunity of seeing the many acts of benevo lence rendered to the enlisted men of our regiment by Mr. Aiken, which was a frequent Hight to behold in our camps at Chickamauga and down in Florida. Even while he was "only a private" he did many noble acts of kindness for several of the boys who had become sick from the unusual hardships of a soldier's camp life. But after he was promoted to tho po sition of Adjutant of a Battalion and assigned to the quarter-master's de partment he did more for us, because he had something to do with it him self, and he put new life into the de partment with which he was connec ted. We had no more boxes sent us from home with "grub" in them for "my hungry sou" io each letter from a loving mother that invariably accom panied each box. Why? Because we had a man who was attending to his duty, looking out for the enlisted men of our regiment like a real officer, that he was, instead of trying to break his back to get it straight and walking himself to ('oath up and down a com pany street in order that he may re ceive the salutes of the men. Wyatt Aiken cared for no salutes save those of absolute neoessity or for the preser vation of military oourtesy. Now, in conclusion, Mr. Editor and kind reader, I wish to say a word or so to the members of the old 1st regi ment, that it is our duty as ex-soldiers who live in this District to support Hon. Wyatt Aiken in his candidacy for Congress with a whoop that will eoho like our yells did over the bat tle field cf Chickamauga or over the sand hills of Florida, in the approach ing primary. There are good mea who oppose him in this oampaign; men whose in tegrity and fidelity to a conscientious duty is beyond question, but after taking everything into consideration, I can only offer to them a word of sympathy in the hour of their defeat whioh is inevitable to every opponent of Hon. Wyatt Aiken, who, (if his friends count for anything,) will be known the norning after the primary by the title of Congreasman^Wyatt Aiken of the 3d Congressional District of South Carolina.-F. W. G., ex musician Co. A, 1st Reg. S. C. Prison Humor. The inmates of the Connecticut State ' Prison edit a paper called the moutnly Record, a part of which is de voted to aphorisms. Here are a few specimens: "Talking too much is not ono of our faults. "Most men who follow the races never catch up with them. "lt is not always the other fellow that needs reforming. ''Don't regard our wasness; only our isness and our henooforthness. "If time is money we would like to swap our suprlus supply for cash. "About the only time some people tell the truth if when they talk in their sleep. "We have nc Spring poems in this issue. Our circulation ought to dou ble." - Youth will follow the torch in any one's hand; age wishes to carry it in its own hand. - m -m- m Whooping Cough. A woman who has had experienoe with this disease, tells how to prevent any dangerous conscqueuces from it. She says: Our three children took whooping cough last Summer, our baby boy being only three months old, and owing to our giving thom Cham berlain's Cough Remedy,they lost none of their plumpness and came out in much better health than othor ohil dred whose parents did not use this remedy. Our oldest little girl would call lustily for cough syrup between whoops.-JESSIE PINKEV HALL, Springville, Ala. This remedy is for sale by Orr-?ray L)rug Co. Tennessee Phosphates. The subject of commercial fertili zers is becoming more and more im portant to our farmers every year, and it is well ?hat they should be inform ed on the matter in ail its phases. Thc chief ingredient iu the fertilizers used by our farmers is phosphate, and fortunately the South possesses all the phosphate deposits of consequence in the world. The chief deposits are found in Florida, South Carolina and Tennessee, of whioh by far tho great- i est are in Tennessee. There is more ! or less phosphate found in several counties ia Middle Tennessee, but the principal beds are situated in thc counties of Maury, Hickman, Lewis and Perry, almost exactly in the cen tre of the State. The first discoveries were made in Hickman about 181*4 and considerable mining was done there, but this was nearly abandoned when the wonderful deposits of Mount Pleasant, in Maury County, were found a few years afterward. The industry at Mount Pleasant has grown until that station alone ships annually 400,000 tons of phosphate rook, about one-fifth of the world's supply. All the conditions for min ing are perfect at that place. The rock is of the highest grade, the quantity is most extensive, the physi cal conditions are most advantageous ? and the shipping facilities are the most favorable to be found anywhere. It is possible to put the rock on the cars at Mount Pleasant for about $1.50 a ton and it is sold at from $2.50 to $3.50 a ton to the fertilizer factories. The freights to the factories and from them to the farmers constitute the greatest source of expenso in the cost of the finished commercial product, ready for use on the fields. The rock is found in ledges, beginning a foot or two bel >w the surface of the ground and going down from four to twelve feet, one thin layer of from one to three inohes thick, placed on top of another. The ledges are not unlike a stone wall made up of fiat stones. The mining is the easiest and simplest process imaginable. The thin cover of top soil is removed and then the ledge is attacked with the pick, the fragmentary phosphate layers are pried off and broken up with hammers and dried either in the sun or in kilns. There is more or less phosphate on nearly every farm in Maury County, whioh has long been noted as the most fertile in the State of Tennessee. The cause of the fertility is the dis integrated phosphate in the soil. It is only when the phosphate is in ledges, as at Mount Pleasaqt, that it j is profitable at this time to mine. The field at Mount Pleasant is only about two miles wide by five miles long and the ledges do not underlie this area with entire regularity. When this supply is exhausted, however, it will be necessary to look for other fields where tho quality is not so high, the deposit not so thiok, the mining deeper and the rock moro refractory. There are hundreds of square miles of rock in Hickman and adjoining counties, whioh will then . come in for attention from the fertili zer seekers. The supply of this kind is practically inexhaustible and will muke Tennessee for centuries to come the store house of fertility for the ex hausted land of the nation* The ex haustion is going on, of course, every where all the time and the demand for phosphates, therefore, is constantly on the inorease. It seems a Providential gift of na ture at the place where it is most needed. Here are the lands of the older South exhausted by improvident cultivation and worthless, but for the rioh soil foods ready for their restora tion at the points most accessible to the greatest number of them. The ohief soil foods are phosphate, nitro gen and potash. Phosphate is the most important of the three, being generally needed in about a two-thirds proportion. These are the elements that aro supplied in the commercial fertilizers furnished to our farmers. Memphis ir. a fine plaoe for fertilizer factories and one of the largest of these institutions has recently been established hore.-Memphis News. - A statistician has been working peneil and imagination, with this re sult: If all the petroleum produced last year in the United States was put in standard barrels in a -ow tonehing each other the line would completely belt the earth. Enough coal was pro duced to give three and .no-balf tons to every one of the 76,000,000 persons in the United States and enough gold to give every ?merioan a gold dollar. D. 8. VANDIVER. J. J. M Vandiver Br< - DEAL! BUGGIES, SURRIES, : Harness, Lap Bo A f&? WE have a large and beautifi ARE RIGHT. COME TC Washington's Beginning. Efforts to provide more decent and reputable quarters for the chief execu tive and his corps recall many in teresting facts in the early history of some of the public buildings in Wash ington. It was not until 1796 that the tempest-tossed congress of the 13 colonies saw thc first evidence of the Federal city that excited the mirth of the wits, the forebodings of the timid. The circumference of the city as it now spreads out under the great dome is greatly contracted from the impos ing dimensions originally laid out by the engineer, L'Enfant. Where the superb patent office now stretches in marble majesty the poetic Frenohman, inspired by recent events in Paris, had marked the site for a national tabernacle, where national events were to be religiously commemorated, where national obsequies were to be celebrated, and the dead honored by the country were to be buried ond their monuments perpetuated-a sort of Pantheon to lae glories of the Re public. But the Frenchman's hopes and plans were early nipped, for even lin those early days "jobs" and "rings" found their account. He was beset on all sides by venal legislators and self-seeking jobbers, and practi cally coerced into throwing up his commission in disdain, leaving the city to be completed by Andrew Elli cott. In 1782, $500 in gold was offered, without restriction as to calling, to the citizen who should send in the accepted design for the president's house. Five hundred dollars and a lot in the new city, or a gold medal were offered for the best design of the Capitol. To a generation that has become familiar with the sums annu ally appropriated and voted for post office and custom houses, our fore fathers Will seem thrifty indeed, em barking upon city building with a grant of $19,200 from tho States of Virginia and Maryland. This, however, was supplemented by a national lottery, for which 60,000 tickets were sold and of which 16,730 were to draw prizes, the capital one being a hotel which was to cost $50, 000. Tho prioe of the ticket was $7, and the prizes ranged from $10 up to the hotel. Nor need the student of current morals and manners, depressed by the laxity of our times, wholly despond when he reflects that the lot tery was made use of not only in the building of our national Capitol, but churches, schools, colleges, even Har vard itself, were indebted to the wheel of money to secure their usefulness. In 1796 the president's house and the Capitol were the only evidences of a city where the traveler now sees squares and monuments, edifices and gardens and parks that eclipse Paris and Vienna in beauty and taste. When the lottery failed and the sums voted by Virginia and Maryland gave out, Washington was less of a city than Cahaha, down in Alabama, which was oooe the capital of that State and was sold for taxes. Three hundred thousand dollars were asked by the commissioners to go on with the work, and the country was distracted by such profligate outlay. The press of the time thundered against such ex travagance.-Washington Times. TM G0M Spoon. There are some men who seem to be favorites of fortune. They are indus trious, cheerful workers, j di to over flowing of the energy of splendid health, and success seems fairly to drop into their hands. 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