Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WAR SI Wi?i General Longsti John C. Curtis, i In the winter of while Long street's troops were in winter quarters near llusselsville, Teno., I had one close call that I wish to recount to the readers of the Journal. The people of that portion of the State seemed to be considerably di vided. Some were Union, while some were truly devoted to the Confederacy. Of the former class there lived some two miles from camp Squire C, who was generally known to be much op posed to the South in her warfare against, the Union, and while he was a mau of considerable property, the foragers that would, occasionally visit the citizens to procure an extra meal would receive no encouragement from Squire C Indeed, .-o hostile was he to the soldiers in that respect that they accused him of being st.ogy. Now. Squire C had only one child, and she was a beautiful young lady of It), and he to prove to the troops that he was not guilty of the charge of be ing stingy, said when his daughter married he w?s going to give her $1,001). One day in Christmas week, myself, with, three others, decided we would try and find a Christinas dinner with some of the citizens of Tenio s. je. We had roamed around considerably until near 12 o'clock, and had been unsuccessful. About that time we happened to be near Squire C s., and fn < f the boys suggested that we go d?'*n and give him a call. I had never S<|uire C, or his daughter, cither. ;...?. nad heard the soldiers speak of him and call him "That stingy old I'nion cuss," and had also heard of bis liberal offer of ?1,UU0 to his daughter when :;hc married. So when the boys suggested to give him a call one of them, who, by the way, seemed to have been there before, said he was willing to' bet $5 that auy one of us ' might go there when they were eating dinner and he would not ask us to eat. I readily took his bet with the under standing that 1 should go alone. We staked our money and the boys re mained in sight, but I venturcu alone and either had to get my dinner or lose my $5. Sure enough, when I weut down to his house the family were at dinner. I called at the gate and he came to the door, and seeing, as he considered, a rebel soldier, he spoke rather harsh at. i asked what I wanted. I told him I knew how I could save him $100. That seemed to arouse his curiosity and he was anxious for me to tell him how right now. I told him I was very hungry and was a sorry hand to talk to in that condition, but I would go to the camp and get my dinuer, and auy time I could catch him at home when 1 was not hungry I would tell him. "Oh," said he. "we are eating now. Come in and get your dinuer, and you cau tell me while you are eating." I very readily accepted his invitation, and as wc entered the dining room ho said to his wife he believed he had found one honest rebel, and for her to give me a plate, for he was going to give me nty dinner. I sat down to his table, but put my hat at my feet, for 1 did not kuow at what moment ? would have to retreat. 1 pitched right iuto the sau sages with alacrity and delight, but the obi man would interrupt me occa sionally. "Tell me, how are you go ing to save me that hundred dollars?'* 1 evaded his question as best I could, told him I would have to eat some be fore I could talk. Eventually 1 saw the crisis would co?te, and hie daugh ter was sitting at the table. I asked him if the young lady was his daugh ter, lie said yes, but that had noth ing to do with it. "I want you to tell me, and tell me quick, if you can save me that huudred dollars. I told him our soldiers had given me a wrong idea in icferencc to him. Th*\v had accused him of being stingy, etc., but 1 had fuuud him to be very liberal lie said it was out of the question to give every soldier something to eat I told him moreover I had heard a re port iu camp that ho had said he was going to give his daughter one thou sand dollars when she married, and I would ,-':e to know if that -vas true, lie replied he had said he would and he was able to do so and would do so, "but I tell you," said he, "1 want you to tell me how you can save me a $100 dollars." I had gotten about enough of his sausage and biscuit, and felt a little more like talking than I did at ?rst, so I told him I had just stepped by to tell him I would take his daugh ter, and he need not give her but nine huudred dollars. It seemed when the old man was informed of that fact that -xe did.sot have as much faith in his bon. robel but he told me to get, and i had to get, and left his door with tb toe of his boot in the gable end of my pants. / I got my dinner and won my five dollar*, but I failed in getting the old man's gal DRIES. feet in East Tennessee. n Atlanta Journal ' HUMILIATION OF THE ISAAC SMITH. How Southerners Fought a (?unboat from the Shore. !>.<;. Dunaell, in New York Times. A good many boys who lived at or about Coxsaskie, Athens, Catskill and Saugertiea in and who are living yet, knew the propeller Isaac Smith? if the writer is not mistaken they knew her as the Isaac P. Smith. As I Hudson Hiver propellers go, ?be was then new, a bright young thing as compared with t!-.e Krastus Corning, the Homer Kasdell, and some others that have lived loiurer and figured strenuously in history. At the time of the outbreak of the rebellion the Smith was jogging up the river every other night and jogging back on the alternate nights, with now and then rather too many cattle on her lower duck for the comfort of would-be sleepers in the staterooms overhead. Propellers were not at that time at all bragged about for speed, but all the boy:- wh<> knew th i Smith were aware that she could often get up to Athens by L' in the morning with a favoring tide and without tog, and that her steward provided a most tempting and satisfactory -upper for all .who had 50 cents to pay for it when the gong was sounded for the assault to begin. Tin- Smith disappeared from the river not long alter the war broke out, and after some of her boy admirers had joined the ranks of the defenders of the l'nion. Whan the boys re turned the Smith was generally for gotten. Occasional inquiries as tu her existence brought indefinite or mysterious answers. She had "gone South," and had not returned, and to the general run of wharf-end gossips this was sutheieut. The Government had acquired almost everything that r uld be moved by steam, had paid good prices for the vessels, and was entitled to keep them without being too closely qucstioued. But some of the boys wore persistent, and they found, by aud by, that something very remarkable had happened to Isaac. Soon after the Isaac P. Smith oeased to go thumping from Cocksacklc to New York and back she was added to the United States navy. The beauti ful upper deck, with its double row of state rooms reaching from bow to stern, was partly or wholly swept away, and the main deck was inclosed in a substantial timber structure, pierced for eight guns, four on star board and four on port side. These gnus were eight-inch Columbiads pretty good pieces in those days, and in the bow she carried a thirty-two Farrott, a guu capable of doing great damage when skillfully handled. Trie anxiety of Secrotary of the Navy Welle.- to establish an effective blockade of all Southern ports led him to trust the Smith at sea long enough to reach Port lloyal, and after ward St. .John's Hiver, Florida, and when, in August, 1802, .-he was scut back to New York for "repairs and improvements" by the bureau of con structiou. Flag Officer Du Pont, in command of the South Atlantic block adiug squadron, spoke highly of the vessel. Her light draught, good steaming qualities, and the success which attended her services on the St. John's Hiver had won recognition ! She was "improved" and back again at Fort Royal in the fall, and eventu ally was assigned, under command of Acting Lieut. F. S. Conover, to sta tion at Stono Inlet. This was then regarded as au important point to cover. The inlet is the way to Stono Hiver, which winds through marsh and plantation fifteen or twenty miles , south of Charleston harbor. The I Wappoo Hiver, a twisty little stream, connects Stono Hiver with Charleston harbor for vessels of light draught, small blockade runners that could escape the blockaders could easily ship their cargoes into Charleston by this convenient side door. The Smith, with the Commodore McDouough, ! which had formerly plied on a ferry, ' was expected to prevent the use of Stono Inlet, and to so patrol the river as tD prohibit, if possible, the con struction of offensive works along its banks. The Confederates, who had consid ' erablc forces at Scccssionville, on James island, and ranging bodies of I troops au John's Island, between ! which Stono Hiver twists to the sea, were annoyed by the patrol of the I river by the Smith aud the McDon- j ough. One of these vessels would steam up the Stouo nearly uvery day, coming nearly within range of tho guns of Fort Pcmberton, a work on James Island, scvon or eight miles above Stono Bar. The Confederate scouts could seethe patrols, and might have peppered them at long range, but they did uot know that one night, late in January, an ensign of the United States navy had led a boat party up the river far beyond Fort Pemborton, examined the shores for fortifications, and returned to report that the Wappoo River Bar had only three feet of water over it, and that there was no danger to be feared from the bringing out, by that route, of powerful war vessels supposed to have been constructed at Charleston. One Confederate officer, Lieut. Col. Joseph A. Yates, a South Carolinian, was greatly exasperated by the audaci ty of the Union gunboats and they daily mattinee performances, and the regular thumping of the Smith's en gines, as she churned her way up Stouo River, paused at the turn and then churned back, inspired in his soldier brain an ingenious and unusual revenge. He communicated it to his superior officer, and it got to Gen. R. S. Kipley and eventually to Gen. Reauregard, chief in command. Yates aaded to be assigned artillery forces sufficient to enable him to make the Isaac Smith or the McDonough ''come ashore." Kipley and Reauregard both laughed at the young man. If the men of the Smith could be enticed on shore, by any pretext, it would be worth while to try to capture them; but as long as they were afloat and kept under way neither Beauregard nor Kipley was disposed to waste en terprise in a wild scheme of capture. But Yates persisted, overcame Kip ley's opposition through Beauregard, who considered Yates a young man entitled at least to be occupied, and at last found himself intrusted to the command of a force instructed to obey his directions implicity. The shores of Stono River, which were from a quarter to half a mile apart pretty well up to Fort Pember ton, were in places wide reaches of saud, dotted here and there with abandoned huts and clumps of trees and grass. Upon these advanced saud spits the beudings of the river could be commanded for a mile each way, if guns could be placed there, and Yates was determined to place them. He had seen the Smith sail by, with her Stars and Stripes fluttering defiantly, and had been obliged to hide and do nothing. Now bo was about to pro test. On January 27 the forces de tailed moved from Secessionville and other points. There was a siege train, manned by two companies; a company of the Palmetto Battery, light artil lery; a light battery of South Carolina "regulars," aud two companies of the 20th South Carolina volunteers to act as sharpshooters. There was one thirty-two-pounder Parrott, at least two twenty four-pounder rifled guns, and many smaller effective cannon as signed to the Yates experiment. Although most of the Confederate forces were on the banks of Stono River on the morning of the 28th, they were under such strict orders as to secrecy of operations that they waited until night to drag the guns out to the positions indicated for them. Platforms were constructed under cover of ruined huts or groves of trees. All tracks were obliterated from the sand, and guards left in charge of guns lived on cold rationB and without camp fires, eo that none of the preparations should bo sus pected. The whole party was about as miserable as possible ou Wednesday aud on Thursday, on neither of which days did a gunboat appear. The fear began to work in the mind of Col. Yates that the enterprise had become known to the Federal officers. But he held on until Friday, still denying tires to his men hidden behind the guns on James and John's islands. The Isaac Smith had been occupied on Friday morning taking on board supplies at Stono Bar from the "beef boat" that was making its rounds. Under orders from Lieut. Commander Bacon, of the Commodore McDonough, she started up the river on a recon noisance. This gunboat of 453 tons usually carried a complement of 56 men. but on this occasion there were 110 officers and men ou board. She was piloted by a negro, a man well acquainted with the river. Lieut. Conover scanued the shores closely as the Smith steamed onward. They seemed as deserted aud as harmless as they were before. At about 4.30 the Smith stopped at u poiut just above the Tom Grimball place on James Is land, dropped her another, and swung to the tide. For once the Union Commander had goue too far and taken too much for granted. While the anchor of the Smith was sinking in the mud of Stono River Col. Yates' first battery, ju3t below her, and commanding the way back, was uncovered. Where there had been a row of innocent worthless negro cabins was uow a row of shotted gunt, the first of which at 1 once opened fire. Before the Smith could slip her cable and get under way the ivhole battery was banging a,t the propeller. The men of the Smith manned their, batteries promptly, but while the> >vere busy delivering theit' first responses from port another con cealed battery on John's Island open ed upon them. Lieut. Conover urged on his men, appealed to engineer aud pilot to do their best, and stimulated the gunner in charge of tho big Par rott bow gun. At least there was a ! chance to run by. The Smith was scarcely more than under headway with her bow down stream when there was an explosion, a cloud of steam, a sudden leas of head way, a swerving of the vessel's bow toward shore, and the prospect of de struction, for the tire of some twenty or thirty guns was now direoted to ward the Smith, shot were ripping through her f?ail defences, her men were being picked off by sharpshoot ers, one of whe m already had killed the pilot, and with a holo in the steam chimney the vessel, could not be handled so as to make her batteries effective. There was but one thing to do. Col. Yates called out from shore, "Surrender, and send a boat ashore' with the commanding officer." The decks of the Smith were covered with wounded men, so hot had been the rifle fire in the short spurt she had made to escape. To blow up the ves sel would be to sacrifice life needless ly. To get away was impossible. The white flag was sent up. In two of her own perforated boats the first instalment of the officers and men of the Smith went ashore, as Col. Yates had predicted they would when he besought Beauregard's patronage for his enterprise. While other boat loads were being landed the MoDon ough appeared, but a long way off down the river. She fired some shot from her 100-pounder. She made efforts to destroy the Smith, when she grounded, but she was too far away, darknes- was. coming on, and there were undeveloped dangers alongshore. She went back to Stono Bar to report the disaster to Flag Officer Du Pont. Lieut. Conover and his men, who had been captured, were sent to Charleston and put in jail, aud the officers were held until exchanged. Col. Yates and his officers took dinner on board tho Smith soon after her sur render. "I never enjoyed a meal more fully than that I took in the Smith's ward room," said Col. Yates a few years ago. He is now dead. "She had good beef, which we had not had for months, fresh vegetables, some luxuries, including wine, and, luxury of luxuries, a table with a white cloth and plenty of dishes!" When it was convenient a tug was font down the Wappoo from Charleston and the Isaac Smith was towed up to the city, to be renamed Stono, and employed in the service of the Confederacy. There may be people in Charleston who cau tell what became of the Smith after the war. Her end was a remark able one for a vessel of war. It is fully recorded in history, and it is unique, for Col. Yates was the only officer of land forces who suc ceeded in ?Ke attempt to make a war vessel sullVhder to land batteries. Did Not Marry. '. A young man bashfully approached a popular official and said: "Judge, I have come to ask your advice. I am thinking of getting mar ried?" "Well, young man," interrupted the judge, "don't wait, because the girl might not be willing this time to morrow." "But you see," protested the youth, 'I'm afraid I'm not able to take care of her." Tut. tut!" deprecatingly retorted the judge. "Why, when I got mar ried I was 21 years old and $1,800 in debt'." "Is that so?" exclaimed the other happily. "And I suppose you must now be worth about"? "And now," concluded the judge, "I'm only $3,600 in debt." The young mau has not married yet._ ? m ? ?? - - ? There are times when it is better to be never than late. The instinct of modesty natural to ever>' woman is often a great hindrance to the cure of womanly diseases. Women shrink from the personal questions of the local phy sician which seem indelicate. The thought of examination is abhorrent to them, and so they endure in silence a condi tion of disease which surely progresses from bad to worse. It has been Dr. P i e r c e s privilege to cure a great many women w h o have found a refuge for mod esty in his offer of free consulta tion by letter. All correspond ence t9 held as strictly private and sacredly confidential. Address Doctor R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. Dr. Picrce's Favorite Pre scription estab lishes regularity, dries weakening drains, heals inflammation and ulc?ration, and cures female weakness. ?Ilaving uaed Dr. ? .?'rce'? Favorite Prescrip tion aud 'Golden Medical Ditcovery* daring the past year." writes Mrs. Mattie Long. o? flout* Valley. Perry Co.. Pa.."! can truthiulty recommend these medicines for all female weak nesses. 1 have used several bottle* of ' Favorite Prescription.* which I consider a great blessing to weak, women. I was so nervous and dis couraged that I hardly knew what to do. Your kind advice for home treatment helped me won derfully. Tbauks to Dr. Pierce." Biliousness is cured bjv'he use of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. A Something Out of Nothing. So miraculous have become our bread-making methods that we now convert a barrel of flour, weighing 190 pounds, ioto 388 loaves of bread weighing one pound each. That is better than making two blades of grass grow where one grew before. You are sceptical? Go to the fsotory in this city and see it dop??196 pounds of flour converted into 388 pounds of bread, nearly two to one. The in creased weight is water. After seeing the process you will ejaculate, "How simple! Wonder I did not think of that before!" Here is something else abont bread that may surprise you: Loaves are now baked without crusts, to be used in the manufacture of sandwiches. This is accomplished by a steaming process, the cooking requiring ooe hour. The bread is very light and crisp and remains so for days, even when exposed to ocean breezes. A recent test established this fact. One thousand sandwiches were made for an excursion party to Chicago, aud such as were not eaten were returned to New York on the fourth day, when they were found to be quite as fresh as when sent out of the hotel prepar ing them. The machines for making this orustless bread will be eo!d only to the National Government and to Cicemosynary institutions. Private enterprises, firms or corporations can purchase only the right to manufac ture. Even a Raines law sandwich assumes au attractive guise now. ? Some women are so queer about their modesty that they pull down the window blinds after the lights are SAD DIGESTION Imperfect digestion Is more serious and far-reaching in. its effect than Is generally understood. This state of health is like an open gate way to disease because germs that may be in the air we breathe at once seUe such an opportunity to attack the vital organs. They slowly undermine the strength and energy, and a. collapse comes?usually at a time when a strong healthy body is most needed. PRICKLY ASH BITTERS Is a fine regulating tonic which filters through the body, casting out injurious matter, stimulating the digestion and nourishing and strengthening every weakened part. It also puri fies the blood, sharpens the appetite and creates energy. _ In this way it restores the system to perfect order. Vor irregular bo?-el mow rnents.clHonle, contMpation, ' flatulence, belching, foul breath, and other troubles duc to indigestion or ob struction In the bowels, rrlcltly Ath Bitter? If n pceJy eure. SOLD AT DRUGGISTS. $i.oo Per Bottle. Evans Pharmacy, Special Agents. WALDEMS ANDERSON. S C. Opens Monday, June 16,1902. IT ? flriS th- best business training that money mn huy i>. ?he shortest time p% ssihlr, and at :l?e 'em-t ex pense Businc-s Eduratiou h** ?avlcd rail* lions-1" r?*e K -'ill aid you if you will give it a trial. 836.00 pays for full Business or Shorthnud couise, including statione ry. Our Common Sense English course, with stationery, 818. $75 pays for Business or Shorthand course, in? eluding board, tuition and stationery, 14 weeks. It will pay young men and women and parents to call on us at Hotel Ghiquola. Collage opens Monday. June 16th, 9 a. m. ana 7.30 p. m. in Armory Hall, over Hall Bros. WALDEN BUSINESS COLLEGE, ANDERSON, M. C. ?Vetfelahte Pre para?onfof As siinllatlng ?AcFoodandBe?uIa ting lite Stomachs aMBovrelsof IMW 1 S .' ( HUDKI.N "? Promotes DigestionJCheerfur nessandHpstContains neither Opium.Morpliiiie nor Mineral. NotHarcotic. J?tapccfOUIkSMWELPim P. Mx.Smwt% * I ??xiuUaia?l HtrtpSetd. 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Well Furr. i ed Home Is not nccessD. y an exjttustvel) 'urnished erne, ar. i TOLLY'S band some, even sump- ous, FURNITURE is procurable vr ?iout great outlty not that we dev l knocked-together, made-to-sell ?oi ' ut because we are content with a easonable profit oi really grcr ? ties of Furniere Oar hey. wu.?. is the . Goods them - Urs truly ,X f. acLr-> & son, The Old Reliable Fuinkure Dealers, Dapot 8t., Anderson? B.C. A C. STBIOKLAND, DENTIST. OFFICE?Front Rooms over Fara ~ era and Merchants Bank. The opposite out illustrates Ooo tiououB Qnm Teeth. The Ideal Plato?more cleanly than the natu ral teetb. No bad taste or treats from PJof^sot this kind* A LONG LOOK AHEAP A man thinks it is when the matter of life insurance suggests itself?bnt cir?umalan? ces of late have shown how-life hangs by a thread when war, flood, hurricane and fire suddenly overtakes you, and the only waf to be sure that your family is protected sp case of calamity overtaking you is to h> sura in a solid Company like? TEe Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Go. Drop in and see us about It. f. STATE AGENT, Pooplos? Bank Building, ANDERSON fc>. 0.