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WAR ST Days of Terror and War's Some time ago The Sunuy ?South published a short account of my ex porionoe during the federal raid to j Statcsburg, and as several of my friends seemed to be interested, .1 will give a sketch of the days just after the war, far worse in many ways ? than the days of the war were. "When wc got home from the places of refuge we sought to get out of roach of tho raiders, wc found that a * j soldier had been killed near the cor- j ncr of tho yard and had" been buried ! by his comrades iu the edge of thc woods a few paces from where he fell. They put up a rude hoard at his head with his name and number of regi ment on it; it read: "J. A. York, j Eleventh Georgia cavalry." Since I then tho woods have been cleared up | and a house built about a huudrcd j yards from the road. So all of these j years that Georgia soldier has slept, just in front of this dwelling. A headstone with his name and regiment j on it have been put up and a fence j built around h?3 grave. Strangers passing by must think this a queer place to have a grave, hut on decora tion day thc ladies remember this gal lant Georgia soldier, who laid down his life the very last days of tho war, iu defence of what he thought was right and sleeps so far away from his Jiomc and kindred. .Ho was not thc first Georgia aol ?dir by a great many to die on South karolina soil in defence of what South f '-ulina and Georgia were together L0uiiug for, and if tho occusion ever demands it, he won't bo thc last. Several horses had also been killed in the road, one of them at thc gate, just in front of the house. For some days after thc enemy left tho neigh borhood was full of disbanded Confed erate soldiers, most of them from Georgia and Kentucky, strangers to the people, and it certainly speaks volumes for their high characters that there was not a single case of violence or insult heard of. It is hard to be lieve that there are any other soldiers in tho world, suddenly relieved of all military discipline, of which thc same can be said. Provisions of all kinds were most plentiful, and everybody was glad to lot Confederate soldiers havo whatever they wanted. As there were not rooms enough in tho house to give them beds, I havo seen the dining room floor covered with, sleeping sol diers. The country at that time was full of squirrels, and for .several days gun? were popping and bullets whist ling from the soldiers trying to kill squirrels, and it was miraculous that no one was hurt. I saw trees and tho sides of houses ?Iruok near whoro I was standing, and others had tho same experience. It was almost like hoing in a skirmish, but no one was hit, and I don't think that many squirrels were, either: but thero was ono old fellow, that had his tail shot olear oil by a soldier, that stayed in the yard for a long timo afterwards. He was so ounuing that he could not bo killed or caught. .Soon after these soldiers left those. who were natives commenced coming homo from Appomattox and elsewhere. Sonio wero missing who reached homo months afterwards from northern prisons. I never can forget the deep depression that onveloped every ono at thought of Leo's surren der and tho endingjof tho bravo strug gle that had been made for indepen dences . People didn't know what to do or to expect, but they just lived mechani cally from day to day, wondering what the next day would bring forth. But they commenced right off trying to.briog order out of ohaos, and set ?o work t? l?avo tho crops that wero just beginning to. grow plowed and hoed. Ubis was bard to do, as Goneral Pot ter-hid carried off all of tho negroes that.ac could get hold of. Ho doubt less hoped to starve tho women and childrou by carrying ..J all the labor ers and- burning .ae mills and gio housos, ' and thereby conquering the men who had fought so long and un conquerably for their rights. Plan tations of one or two hundred negroes had eight or ton left after General Potter had gone, and some of those would run away to join their families that had been carried off. It beoame quite a common thing to go out in the "/norning and find that one or more ^horses or muley had been stolen and sarried off during the night .by negroes who had run away. People had no redress for this unless they could run them down and take the animals.away before they could get to Georgetown, ?nd this oould seldom be done, as j Georgetown is not more than a hun dred milos away, and they could reach it in two nights and a day's journey ? easily. Some of the negroes borrowed ani mals and wagons from their former ORIES. Suspense Following Close. uud brought their families home. Al though propio lived for uionths with out aoy protection from even a pre tence of law it is strange to rctncinbcr how little violence of any kind there was. Wc used to hear dreadful stories of murders and robberies in other parts of the State, hut, with the exception of stealing animals to ru;i away on, there were no lawless acts around here worth mentioning. Near ly all of the negroes who were living, and able to do so, returned by the 1st of September of that year. They al ways c??ic up to the house to tell us "lluddce," and to tell the wonderful adventures and many sufferings they had experienced. One old womau who had attended to thc dairy brought the key up and ?aid: "Missis, yer de dary doh key. I kali it all tru do ahmy wid me en cbry time I look at it I think er you en de chillun, en I say I gwine kali dis key home, en gie it to Missis, cf I lib ter git herc; cn yer it is!" She was much distressed to hear that the dairy door had been smashed open by a yankee soldier who was too thirsty to wait for the key, and so the key that shy had carried so faithfully was useless. Whoa thc negroes came home one of them, a boy, told me that when he was going to George town with thc yankees, that he had gone, with some of-them, into a white man's house and hud taken a clock and carried it off with him, and said that he didn't know then what it was; that he heard it ticking, and as he was carrying it along ho heard ''clang, clang," under his arm, aud that he threw it as far from him as he could leaving the old clock striking away behind a log. This same boy, and mau 7 others, had joined the army while they were away, und came home in blue, with brass buttons. They no.w druw pensions for these few months in tho army after the war was over. A few months after the end of tho war a garrison of United States soldiers carno.,to Sumter and establish ed a military court, presided over by a provost . marshal, and if a white per son had any trouble ut all with a negro tho latter would be s uro to say, in a threiteuiug tone: "I'll tok you to de proRO master." I've heard tho cook threaten the children of her mistress with "de progo master" during a quar rel between her and them. Tho "progo master" in Sumter was the latc'Captnin T. B. Johnston, for many years after that known as a leading republican politician rn the State, and ? never saw him afterwards without thinking of what a threatening sort of u bugaboo he had presented to my boy ish fears. On the whole, however, the white and colored people of this community got on very peaceably to gether, and quarrels seldom wont fur ther than throats when their anger cooled. The greatest trouble we had with thom was to get them to do any work. The principal thing that free dom meant to tho great majority of thom, was ability to livo without being obliged to work. And' it wes not strange that thoy thought this, for some o? the Uuited States army o? cers held meetings which the negroes attended, and the later were told that the land of the white people would be taken away and eaoh ono of the negroes would be given forty acres and a mule. These meetings wero held in Sumter every Saturday, and no matter how pressing the work on tho farms might be, every negro in the country, .with fow exceptions-mon, women and ohildren-would go to them. They'd drivo if they could scrape up any sort of an old vehicle, with horse, ox or ass attach?e1 to it; and if thoy had no vehicle, some, would ride tho animals and the others walk; but go thoy would! And tho streets of Sumter would be jammed with these negroes from morn ing to night. This thing was kept up for years and the negroes were being moulded into the solid republican ranks that the white people afterwards found it so hard to break, j I remem ber attending one' of these meetings onoe. They were held in an open lot right in front of tho court house, where tho opera house now stands. The lot was packed with negroes and two or three United States officers in uniform occupied a stand in the baok part of it. These soldiers took turns to address the audience,' telling ?hem how the whvto peoplo had oppressed thom for yean? and how tb? republi can party had set thom freo. It seems | hard now to believe, but X distinoiiy remember hearing one of vtl.e speakers say: "Yen are now free and justas good as . .e whito peoplo. You haven't got to work for them, for the ; government is going tc confiscate their I lands and divide them among you. If they try any longer lo oppress you, you must revenge yourselves. Be* ?.-'i??' it ?*. member, matches ure ou ly JJ cent? a box!'' All through thc speech the negroes would cry out, "Dat's HO, Hurrah! So fur true, master," aud when the speaker spoke of the matches there was a general shout of approval. While the sneaking was going ou a drunken private soldier was cursing a gentleman, who looked as if he would give anything in the world to knock him down, but hesitated to ptart a general row in whioh tho odds were so against him. I don't think his patience would have lasted much loug er, when au officer ran up behind the soldier and jerked him down to the ground and choked and cuffed him and then ordered some others to carry him off. They commenced dragging him off, kicking, struggling and curs ing and pulled his shirt over his head. Of course tho boys followed to seo him put in the guard house and wc heard no more of the meeting that day. I remember how delighted I folt to sec a yankee soldier treated in that way. and I saw what looked like an old bullet wound in his back, which, I thought was the most natural place for a yankee soldier to have a wound. If the negroes had not been so used to looking upon the white people as their natural masters, with whom they had lived for so many years in love and confidence, the efforts to stir up their liassions would h.?vc been successful and bloody scenes would have been witnessed in thc South. One-fourth of tho effort made upon the negroes of the present day, with the white people piuned down with hostile bayonets as they were then, would have a different result.-W. A. Rees, in the Sunny South. Gen. (Jordon Was Honored With $2,000 Horse. To the Editor of The Joui nal: I seo that a fcaturo of tho reunion at New Orlcaus will be tho presentation of a horse to Gen. John B. Gordon. This recalls to mind that this is not the first time that this grand old hero has thus beeu honored by his old oonir&des and followers. * I have in my possession a letter written by my brother, Capt. John Y. BedingBeld, who was in Gordon's brigade. The lotter is dated "Camp 60th Ga. Itegimont, Virginia, Febru ary 29th, 18?4," just thirty-nine years ago, and says: "Geueral Gordon went homo on a sick furlough about two mouths ago. During his absonce the brigade made up money enough to buy him a hoxBO. A committee was appointed to make the purohase. They paid $2,000 for a very fine horse. Tho general ro turned yesterday evening, and the presentation, has just taken plooe. Tho entire brigade was drawn up in a compact column, ono .of tho commit teemen in a few romarks presented the horso, and the general responded in a beautiful speech. He is a fine looking man and an olegant speaker." Perhaps there arc a number of Gen. Gordon's old comrades who remember the inoident. C. P. Bedingfield. Atlanta, May 1. . Forbids Cooking c! Onions. Indianapolis, April 30.-The Ap pellate Court of Iudiana has deoided that cooking onions is bad for the neighborhood, thus affirming a decis ion by tho lower Court. The family of James Shroyor, of Now Castle, lives over the store of Campbell Brothers^ who do a general dry goods business and carry with it the millinery business also. The Shroyer family is fond, of cooked onions, and tho odor pervaded the store below and proved very offensive to tho merchants and their customers. Campboll Brothers brought suit for an injunction, and an order was issued by the Circuit Court forbidding the cooking of tho onions, and from this Shroyor appealed. The quostion was then oarried to the Appellate Court. -Chicago Herald. Cures Eczema, Itching Humors, Pimr'.s, Carbuncles-Costs Nothing, to Try. B. B. B. 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Bold in Anderson by Grr-Gray Drug Co., Wil hite & Wilhite and Evans Pharmacy. 4r Water freezes o ver y night of the year at Alto Cruoero, in Bolivia, while at noonday tho sun is hob enough to blister tho flesh. - A smile and a frown' come at the jame price, but tho former pays happy interest on tho investment. Need of Tinco Men to au Engine Tho agitation for "three men to an engine," revived and strengthened by thc disaster near Westfield on the Central railroad of New Jersey tracks, find indorsement among railroad em ployes. They cannot be outspoken publicly on a question which, though it affects them dircotly, is considered by general managers and division superintendents to be none of their business, but among themselves they point out that almost every disastrous collision in recent years in all human probability would have been averted had thc engineer had an assistant lookout. Enginemen, brakemen, and conduc tors, homeward bound after their runs, tell tales in the smoker of inci dents of railroading that, had they been witnessed by passengers, would have induced nervous prostration. That familiarity with ever-present peril which breeds contempt in the most cautious of engineers is instanc ed by these mon BB the chief argument in favor of the plan of having an as sistant engineer, though the danger of the man in oontrol of thc rushing ma chino falling dead or going insane is given duo weight. These latter con tingencies, they say, are exceptional -the carelessness resulting from long association with danger is ever pres ent. A story illustrative of another source of peril, fortunately rare, was told thc day after tho reoent wreck. It dealt with one of tho most popular en gineers on a road leading from New York. He was to take out ? special on which wero several members of tho board of directors. The man was ob viously "under the weather," and fell as he descended from his cab to make a last inspection of tho slides and rods. For an instant he lay as if para lyzed, with his legs between the driv ers, but only for an instant. The fireman, who had been peering appre hensively up at him from the after deck, was at his sido with a single bound, and struck him a violent blow aoress the faoe with his greasy cap "Make out we're skylarking," he said, "or our folks' ll notice you and y i'll lose your job." Quickly he raised his mate to his feet. Then he boosted him, laughing and striking baok, up to the footboard. Then he jammed him on his seat at the lever, struck him one final blow, and agile as a cat olimbed back to his own piace with a broad grin on his faoe. None of the witnesses who un der stood the inoident interfered, and two minutes later, when tho air whis tle sounded, the, special rolled away on her course to the ' mountains and the forests as though controlled by the clearest brain and steadiest hand on the whole long lino. Tho engineer is dead. ' He did not die that day, nor did any of those who rode behind or before him suffer as a result of bis condition. But it was a long chance. They told ono story on one train of an engineer on another line who was running at a 50-sesond clip through a 10 mile stretch of forest with more than a dozen crowded cars when his pipe went out. His racing locomo tive, so tho tale ran, was ono of the newest type, built to meet the re quirements of modern traffic Her firebox was the fall width of the widest sleeping oar, so that the great est volume and pressure of steam could be developed. This left no room for the orew to stand beside it. So the driver stands all alone in his oab just baok of the roaring stack, where his view of thc.track is cf tho best, and his stokers-for there often must be moro than one-protected by a massive steel wind shield, leap from tender to iirnaoe on ?. narrow firing deck set low down at the roar of the whole machine. This engineer struck several match cs, but he couldn't hold the fire. Then, so the story went, he climbed out of his oab, baok along the narrow running board, through the wind shield to the firing dook, lit his pipe, spoke to his subordinate, and then slorvly winded his way back to where he belonged. A casual observer with frightened faoe glued to the pane of the forward car, did not compute the time all th "a took, for he was glad to know that he was alive. This story created not even surprise in the little group that heard ii... "Well, he couldn't have stopped if he'd had to on that grade,' ' was ono comment. "He'd a been killed quick er than anybody else," remarked a 8 ec on d listener.* Another story dealing with an inoi dent fraught with even greater possi bilities of a dark and dangerous stretch of rails cloie to a great termi nus. It was guarded by every me ohanioal safeguard v, that ingenuity could devise, for its evident perils have had costly demonstration. En gineers, there, it was whispered, through long immunity come to re gard this as about the safost part of the whole long lino booauso of the ap pliance, and ac times, when they havo a dinner engagement or other personal reason for hurrying away ? from their labor, they havo boen known to loavo the train in charge of their fireman and wash up at the tender tank. They had a bad wreck there c-nco and St cost much money and many human lives. A grizzled engineer who has spent tho greater part of bis life at the lever put the proposition this way : "By law it ia required that every, ferryboat shall oarry two men in her pilothouse. Tho law is obeyed,* too, except in emergencies. Uiver pilots come cheaper than locomotive engi neers, but is it not strange that the great transportation companies do not find it to their interests, in the light of 60 much past experience to urge the passage of a measure provided that on all fast passenger trains there ?hall bo a pilot engineer? What com puiison eau be drawn between the horrible possibilities of a wild steam boat and a runaway engine? The pi lot engineer would have nothing to do with thc operation of tho locomotive's mechanism. His function would be to watch the other engineer." A Pork Campaign. The large sales of western hogs in South Carolina last winter have had the effect of stirring up the people of that Sfcato to a sense of their duty and self-interest in providing their own supplies. It has boen demonstrated abundant ly that hogs can be raised nt a deoided profit in most parts of tho South and that the policy of keeping his smoker house in the west, whioh has cost the southern farmer so dearly, may be easily abandoned for tho wiser and moro profitable policy of producing his own work. Some communities of South Caro lina uro making notablo progress on this lino with, prospects of fino results in tho early future. Such is Union county, in whieh the importance of raising hogs and the possible profits of doing so are attract ing much attention. The Union cor respondent of the Charleston News and Courier reports that Mr. S. M. Gilmore, a prosperous farmer of that county, drove to town last Saturday a wagon thatlheld thirteen fine pork ers whioh he readily sold at 8 cents a pound. Mr. Gilmore said that it was the eusiess thing in tho world to raise hogs and that any industrious, sensi ble farmer can make money at the business if ho will pay proper atten tion to it. He did a little interesting figuring on his wagon load of young hogs which attracted so much notice io Union. Tho thirteen averaged 70 pounds each and brought 8 cents a pound thus paying the thrifty farmer $72.80 in cash. Allowing $10 as the profit on a bale'of S cent cotton, it appaars that thirteen young hogs such as Mr. Gilmore took into Union are about equal in profitableness to seven bales of cotton. About fourteen acres, again, are usually required to raise seven bales of cotton. So that it ap? pears from Mr. Gilmore's experience that one pig pays as well as one acre of S cent cotton*, and tho pig is raised "without a bit of trouble," whilo cot ton is different. Georgia, as'a Stale, is much better adapted to hog raising than South Carolina and the people ?f this State are moving nearer and noarer toward independence in this respect. The number of Georgia farmers who raise thoir own meat is far larger than it wae even five years ago, while the number of those who have meat to sell every year is steadily increasing. Our people are marching along the path that leads to independence and wealth.-Atlanta Journal. - A mother always says that her prettiest children "look like my folks." von Of the periodic pain which many women experience with every month it makes the gentleness and kindness always as sociated with womanhood seem to be almost a miracle. While in general no woman rebels o gainst what alie regards aa a natural necessity there ls no woman who would not gladly be free from thia recurring period of pain. . > Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription makes weak women strong and sick women well, and gives them freedom from disease. It establishes regularity, dries weakening drams, heals inflamma tion and ulceration and eurea female weakness. Sick women are invited to consult Di. Pierce by letter, Jtra. 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