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WAR S Gren. Grordon "Writes c [Extracts from Geo. John B. G< A cavalry charge, met by a counter charge of cavalry, is still, perhaps, the most terrible ?spectacle witnessed in war. If the reader has never seen such a charge, bc can form little con ception of its awe-inspiring fury. Imagine yourself looking dow? from Gettysburg's Heights upon thu open, widc-?preading plain l>ck".v, where five thousand horses are marshalled in battle line. Standing beside them arc five thousand riders armed, boot ed and spurred and ready to mount. The bugles souud the "Mount!" and instantly five thousand plumes riso above the horses as the riders spring into their saddles, lu front of thc respectivo squadrons the daring lead ers take their places. Tho fluttering pensants or streaming gji'.ons, ton to each regiment, mark tho left of the oompaoics. On the opposite slope of the same plain are five thousand hos tile horsemen clad in different uni forms, ready to meet theoo in counter charge. Under those ten thousand hordes are their hoofs, iron-shod and pitiless, beneath whose furious tread the plain is soon to quiver. Again on cash slope of the open field the bugles soiond. Ten thousand sabres leap from scabbards and glisten in tho sun. The trained horses chafo their re straining bits, and as the bugle notes sound thc ohargc, their nostrils dilato and their flanks swell in sympathetic im {tal se with tho dashing riders. "Funxardl" shouts the commander. 3>P'7n tho lines and through the col * lu ,i 4 in quiok succession Ting the echoing commands, "Forward, for ward!" As this order thrills through eager cars, sabres flash, and spurs aro planted in palpitating flanks. The madly flying horses thunder across the trembling field, filling tho air with ?louds of dust and whizzing pebbles. Their iron-rimmed hoofs in remorse less troad, crush tho stones to powder and crash through the flesh and bones of hapless riders who chance to fall. As front against front these furious riders plunge, their sweeping sabres slashing edge against edge, cutting a way through opposing ranks, gashing faces, breaking orme, and splitting heads, it is a scene of wildest war, a whirling tempest pf battle, short-lived hot terrible. ,l ? * * AB WC move along tho street, a lit tle girl, probably twelve years of age, ran up to my horse and handed me a large bouquet of flowers, in the centre of whioh was a note in delicate hand - writing, purporting to give the num bers and desoribe the position of the iTninn forces of Wrightuville, toward whioh I was advancing. I carefully read and reread the strang? note. It bore no signature, and oontained no assurance of sympathy for tho South ern causo, but it was so terse and ex plicit in its terms as to compel my confidence. The second day wo wore in front of Wrights ville, and from thc high ridge, un which this note suggest ed that I halt and oxamino tho posi tion of tho Union troops, I eagerly scanned the prospect with my field glasses in order to verify tho truth of the mysterious communication or de tect its misrepresentations. There, .in full view before us, was tho town, just as described, nestling oo the banks of the Susquehanna. There was the bluo lino of soldiers guarding the approach, drawn up as indicated, along an intervening ridge and across the pike. There was the long bridge spanning the Susquehanna and con necting the t'owu with Columbia on the other bank. Most important of all, there was the deep gorge or ravine running off to the right and extending . around the left flank of the Federal line and to the river below, the bridge? Not an inaoourate detail in that note could bo discovered. I did not hesi tate, therefore, to adopt its sugges tion of imping down .tho gorge .in or der to throw my command on tho flank, or possibly in the icir,-of tho Union troops and foroe them to a rapid re treat or surrender. Tho result of this movement vindicated the strategic wisdom of my unknown and-judging *\ hy the handwriting-female correD v pondent, whose note was none the less --ir. tial beoause embedded in roses, and whose .ovidont genius for war, had occasion-offered, might have made her :> cap tri equal to Catherine. ft : ft - > . ft No battle of any war more foroibly illustrates the truth that officers at a (distance from tho field cannot, with any wisdom, attempt to oontrol the movements of troops actively engag ed. Ou the first day neither General 3Urly Lor General Ewell could possibly have been, fully cognizant of she bit nation at tue time I wis order ed to halt. The whole of that portion of the Union army in my front was in inextricable confusion and in flight. They were necessarily in flight, for Say troops were upon the flank and TORIES. >f Battle of Gettysburg. Drdoo's article in Juno Scribner's.] rapidly sweeping down the lines. The firing upon my men had almost ceased. Large bodies of thc Union troops were throwing down their arms and surren dering, because in disorganized and confused masses they were wholly powerless either to check the move ment or return tho fire. As far down the lines as my eye could reach, tho Union troops were in retreat. Those at a distance were still resisting, but giving ground and it was only necessary for mo to press forward in order to insure tho same results, which invailably follow such flank movements. lu less than one half hour my troops would have swept up and over those hills, the possession of which was of such momentous con sequence. It is not surprising, with a full realization of the cons?quences of a halt, that I should have refused at first to obey the order. Not until the third or fourth order of the most peremptory charaater reaohed me, did I obey. I think I should have risked tho consequences of disobedience even then, but f it the fact that the order to halt was accompanied'with the ex planation that General Lee, who was several miles away, did not wish to give battle at Gettysburg. It is sta ted on good authority that General Lee said, some time before his death, that if Jackson had been there, he would have won in this battle a great and possibly decisive victory. I can not vouch for the truth of this state ment as I did not hear it, but no sol dier in i' great crises ever wished moro ardently for a deliverer's hand than I wished for ono hour of Jackson, when I was ordered to halt. IN MEMORY OF WOUNDED KNEE. Sioux Indians Erect a Monument} Where Wallace Fell. Tho Sioux IndiaoL have erected a monument to their fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters killed at Wound ed Knee, South Dakota, and following tho idea adopted by the whites on the plain of the Lit'.le Big Horn where Custer and his command were wiped out, they called th:.s place the Big Foot Massaoro. Big Foot wag the chief in command at the time, ?nd about 500 of his followers were killed The monument whiob is a handsome marble shaft was dedicated during the last of May, and fully 5,000 Sioux In dians took in the ceremonies. Tho inscription on the monument is as fol lows: "This monument is erected by sur viving relatives and other Ogallala and Cheyenne river Sioux Indians in memory of the Chief Big Foev= massa cre, Deoember 29, 1890, Col. Forsythe in command of the United States troops. Big Foot was a great ohief of .tho Sioux Indians. Ho often said: (I will stand in peace till my last day comos.' He did good and brave deeds for the white man and for the red man. Many women and ohildron who knew no wrong died, here." THE STORY OF WOUNDED KNEE. ' It was the last stand of the red race against the white, tho fight of a dying race against a young and more vigor ous; c people fighting for their homes and their territory, as they supposed, this battle in which fell those braves to whom the monument was raised. Their patriotism had been roused to the highest pitch by the wily old ohief, Ta-Tan-Ka I-Yo-Ton-Ka (Sit ting Bull), who was to the northern Indians what Geronimo was to the I southwestern tribes. But Sitting Bull was moro to be feared than Gero ! nimo, beoause of his long familiarity with the white men and their ways. In addition to rousing their patriot ism, Sitting Bull had anointed oaoh "bravo" with "medicine," making them invulnerable to the bullets from' i the white man's pistol. And every Indian of that band thoroughly be lieved this. Toaooomplish this Sitting Bull orig inated the . "ghost of Messiad danoe" which soon spread through - the Sioux nation like fire over the western prai rie. This danoe was only a prelimi nary tc being anointed with the "med ioine," and was a mixture of tho war and squaw danoe, except that the dancers circled around, a tall pole on whieh was hung the skin containing the medioine. The eyes of the danc ers were continuously fixed on this spot, their eyes thrown upward. It ii said the danders, in time,. becarao aotualiy hypnotised and fell on the ground in a cataleptic fit. While in this state they had visions of what was to happen to the whtte men who opposed thc Indian when ^anointed with the "medioine." These visions were all alike. Buffalos would re turn; white mon bo all killed; the Great Spirit had informed them that the white man's bullet oould not in jure them any more and above all, that Sitting Bull must bo obeyed im plicitly. Sitting Bull's true object io work ing tba Indians up to tbis frenzy was really to force the government into in creasing the issue of rations io ino Sioux by threatening to leave the res ervation and go toward thc northwest along the Montana-Canada border, where he had gone with his people after masssoreiog Gen. Custer on the Littlo Big Horn fourteen years bet?re. Scouts who were familiar with this king pin of bad Indians dil not believe that Sitting Bull intended to fight un less absolutely forced to do KO. After the Indians had danced all during the fall of 1890, about 80 per cent, of the entire Sioux tribe became ii rm followers of Sitting Bull; had in terviewed thc Great Spirit and had been auoiutcu with "medicine" by their high priest or medicine man. When thc Indians had got into thc condition that Sitting Bull could be sure that his ever."' order and wish would be ol syed i be "ghost" dancing ceased and preparations for war be* gun. Then it was that thc command ing officer of the United States troops at Fort Yates was ordered to arrest old Sitting Bull and confine him ic prison at the aoenoy of Standing Boot for the time being. Sitting Boll was oamped forty milei away from the ageuoy, but a squad ol fifty cavalrymen started after the ole Indian early on December 15. Th< Indian police, commanded by "Bul Head" and "Shave Head" were with in striking distance of Sitting Bull'i camp several days before the cavalry left the fort. Sittiug Bull's cabii was almost surrounded by the fanati cal "ghost dancers," but tho Indiai police managed to reach the housoani arrest tho old fellow. Sitting Bull' young Bon slipped from the house am aroused the "ghost dace rs," wh soon swanned around the little part; of police. After the police mounted thei horses to return to tho soldiers wit! Sitting Bull, that old warrior calle upon his followers to rescue him an Strike-the-Kettlo and Catch-thc-Bea dashed up at full speed to the two pc lice who guarded the prisoner an shot them. Both guards were killoe but in falling Bull Head, a guare wheeled and. instead of shooting hi assailant, shot Sitting Bull dead. The polioe then took refuge in Sit ting Bull's cabin, which was -inim. diately surrounded by hundreds < yelling, "ramie Indians. The soldiei carno up at that moment and theghoi dancers fled to the timber, half a mi! away. An hour later an incident happonc whioh showed the sublime faith h followers had in Sitting Bull, whic had a great bearing upon the futro condnot of the Indians, and whioh le directly to tte battle fought tv weeks later by the ghost danoers i Wounded Knee-the battle which tl monument commemorates. While the troops were preparing return to the fort, carrying the dei body of Sitting Bull with them, i Indian riding at full speed emerg? from the woods into whioh they ht gone, when the soldiers appen e Straight toward the assembled so? ie rode the red man, until he halted i a small knoll about eighty yar away. Dressed (or rather undressed) in ft war paraphernalia, eagle war bonni war paint, war lanoe, etc, and w "birt whioh Sitting Bull had anointe the warrior stood like a statue on tl knoll, while every soldier and Indi polioe in the troop fired point blank him, again and again. For five mi utes he sat on his horse, immovab drawing the fire of the ninety mc most of whom were crack shots. Then the firing ceased and eve soldier \n the troop applauded t wonderful nerve of this warrior. 1 had been testing tho efficacy of I I "medicine" of Sitting Bull. App ent?y satisfied, he turned his baok the soldiers and rode again . at f speed for the timber, never onoe lo< ing baok. Two weeks later this sa Indian started the fight at Wound Knee by braining Capt. Wallace the presence of bia entire oompai If any of the many bullets fired tl day at the Indian had taken efl? Wounded Knee wonld probably i have been fought. But believ themselves to be proof against ' white men's bullets / and sure of \ tory (for had not their great lead Sitting Bull, who made the medio j whioh proteoted this Indian's 1 promised them so?) these half-era fanatios went to the conference Wounded Knee creek two "weeks ter, determined to exterminate white soldiers there, wipe out the dior a at the fort and thea sweep Western plains ano prairies free whito settlers, in order that the but might retnrn to his old haunts. And this was the frame of mini which the Indians wera on the 28tl December, 1890, when they oatt on Wounded Knee creek, waiting the conference the following < During tkat day the scouts "Li Bat" and "Lone Star" had been au the band whioh was commanded Big Foot and ascertained tho state of affaira, j Tho following morning Les? I weht to Gen. Forsytho, in.come of tho troops, and reported that the Indians would probably resist unless an overwhelming force of soldiers was brought up. Forsyths did net agree with the scout and continued to ad vance, j But Captain Wallace, who believed j the report of the soont, tog? thor with Little Bat and Lone Star, rode ahead of the troops, io order to pacify the Indian. The three men drew dose to the gronp of savages whioh had advanced to meet them, and then Lone Star re cognized the daring warrior who had tried his medicine two weeks before that day. He, together with several other Indians, left tho main body and advanced toward Capt. Wallaoc. Suddenly, from within the crowd, arose the shrill death song of the Sioux. Both tho scouts now saw the danger in which all three stood, but Capt. Wallace did not understand and before he could be warned, hold out bis hand to greet the advanoing braves. From their positions, neither of the scouts could fire and Captain Wallace walked toward his death oblivious of ?he terrible fate awaiting him. The singing Indian grasped Capt. Wallace's outstretched hand, ard sud denly drawing his other hand from beneath his blanket, struck the brave captain a terrible blow with a toma hawk, killing him instantly. But the medicine shirt failed to protect the Indian from the bullet whioh left the pistol of Lone Star a moment later, and the savage fell dead with a ballet through his heart. The two scouts backed away, firing as they went, and in turn received the fire of the entire band. Both escap ed without a scratch. Bat not so with the Indians. A number were killed by the scouts before the soldiers got into.action. .The Indians broke for cover an&bucoeeded in reaching a ravine from whence the soldiers could not drive them. Gen. Forsyths wrote an order for re-enforcements and handed it to Lone Star, who rode the fourteen miles to the agency in thirty-five min utes. In one hour and twenty-eight minutes the re-ecforoements dashed up, the soldiers having left too hur riedly tq place saddles on their horses. But they brought the gatling guns with them. They were new to the In dians, who .did not understand the rapid fire. Three of these guns were placed in position to rake tho ravine, and the slaughter begun. The savages could not escape and later in the day the ravine was found to be actually choked with dead Indians, more than 200 lying withing a spaoe of a few hundred feet.. (The Indians still call this "Bloody Gulch."; The soldiers that day lost Captain Wallace and twenty-four men killed and thirty-four wounded. But under the spot on whioh the Indian monument rests are the bones ?of more than 250 Indians who were killed that day, and for many months it was nothing uncommon to discover the bleached skeleton of an Indian ly ing in the grass anywhere in the neighborhood of the battle field. The exaot number of killed was never known. It was tbe last stand of the red race. Sitting Bull's "medicine" was not good. The Wa-Gi-Wona-gi (ghost dance) had failed in its mission, but the Indians still remember their brothers who died at Wounded Knee, and to their memory reared the monu ment. _;_' _ Vision Applied to Smoking-, One particular trait of persons who' are blind is there are scarcely any smokers among them. Soldiers and sailors who lose their sight while in action sometimos continuo to smoke for a short time after that great calam ity overtakes them, but as a rule they j soon give up the habit altogether. They say that it gives them no pleas ure when they oannqt see the smoke, and some have even gone so far as to declare that smoke cannot bo tasted unless the vision beholds it. . This odd theory has been demon strated time and again by blindfolding a niau and leading him into a room fall of tobacco smoke and then put ting a lighted and on unlighted cigar in his mouth by turns. , No one in a thousand eau distinguish'between the "dead" cigar and tho one that ls in fall blast.-Exchange. - It is almoat as difficult for some women to get their hats on in the evening as it is for some. inen to -get theirs on the nex*> morning. As to Boral Delivery. Some time since it. was announced in a dispaioh from Washington that it was the intention of the postoffieA department? to diseontinue a great many rnral routes, because they did not pay, but" were euiabiirhod at the instance of Congressmen who were looking after their political fortunes. It was farther said that South Carp lina would be among the States which would suffer more than the rest, the imputation being that Congressmen from this State have been very ac tively working in their owa interests. All rural routes in this State are moro or less under the control of the Columbia postmaster, ho receiving all the fonds direct for them, and ho Hay ; that be has received no in structions to discontinue any routes in this State, and he does not know that any of them will be discontinued. These routes are especially numerous in tho Piedmont seotion, and their patrons have been much concerned over their contemplated discontinu ance, and many inquiries bavo besn received about them. The best that Postmaster Ensor can say now is that he officially knows nothing about any contemplated discontinuance. - Co lumbia Correspondence of News and Courier. rn? ? ni Uncanny Mexican Plant - The Instituto Medico, of Mexico City, says the Mexican Herald, i will send to the World's Fair an exhibit of about fifty medicinal plants of the country and the producto derived therefrom. Accompanying the ex hibit will be a complete explanation aa to thc place where the plants are found, the procedure for converting them \ulo medical products and the ailments - Iii o h they are destined to cure. Included in the exhibit will be a plant of marvelous qualities. It grows wild and abundantly in the state bf Miohoaoan. The Indians olaim that whenever they enter a wood or place where this plant grows, its aroma makes them lose their way and they are unable to return to tho*' : homes or to reach their destination until they cease to smell the plant. The statement is said to have been fully confirmed a number of times by learned people. The Instituto is going to make a soientifio study of itu physiological e? feoM and an analysis of its properties. A <? ?legato has been sent to Miohoa oan to obtain a specimen of thu plant. It bas boen further added that a per son wearing a branch of this plant in his buttonhole, will often be lost in his native city, but the latter state ment has not been confirmed. Thia plant will bc an interesting -exhibit at the fair if it is sent in large quantities and keeps its qualities in a foreign and distan* land, the police of St. Louis will have many visitors to guide during.the exposition. - It would be real interesting if the young women who go bareheaded in summer would start-the fashion of go ing barefooted. disease. One false step, one, mistake, and the attack comes swift and sodden? The mistake which commonly opens the way for on attack by disease is neglect of the symptoms, ot stomach trouble. 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