Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WAR S' \. Survivor <>t tho h troll/.s C i iic] 'J'. S. 1 lardisoa in Mern Whcij in the late sixties the alarm 31* bloody, fratricidal war was heard ill over the land, and when the rc .miling officer resplendent in glitter ing uniform was appealing to thc patrt jtisui ol the'vouuii manhood of the uuulry aii'l in thu Stale <?f Missouri i young man, 17 years old. of gentle birth, fresh ii. <m school, of light hair, lecp Line eyes and ruddy complexion, listened with deep interest t" thc words of southern sympathizers. This .'articular part of Missouri had been terrorized by Kansas.lawhawkers and cut-throats fer sotno time, and the faojily of this young man, K. I'. De liar., had . uffcre? from these bush whackers. Flushed with southern Uride of family, hotblooded and ready *"or any adversity that might pass his .wa/, young Oe Hart joined the Cou rre'-rate Army. He left home to be !u?ODe for a short time, but little dream ing that before many months his Mame would strike terror to what rem nant wfts left of the murderous Jay fjawkers and the roving bands of Fed <2rals Boat into thal part of Missouri. ^Qtilong after ho joined the southern iarmy, he met Capt. William Quantrell, 'who was then recruiting a company ?of guerillas. Quantreil, who after wards became the most daring and cloted guerilla chieftain the world has '3ver known, was born in Maryland, and taught school for a time, when .he and his brother started to Cali fornia, and on the road was captured . and robbed by ho Kansas Jayhawkera. ilia brother vs . killed and he left him ?or dead; but an old Indian found him, .carried him to his "teppee" and .aureed him back to life, and his after .lifo was completely changed from a .aoft-voiccd pedagogue to the steel morved, death-defying, bloody destroy ?er, whose very name sent a chill of ?horror all over the land, and it was he, : af tor he had run down and lilied every ?man who was in the band that killed .his brother and left him for dead, that ?fought side by aide with youog De Start in tho regular army, rle saw -that DeHart waa fearless, full of fire -loved danger-and seemed to court death, so unusual was his daring and ?courage. Quantrell wanted suoh men, a hundred of them, men on whom lie could rely, who knew nothing of fear and laughed at danger, and who .was loyal to his friend and loved his ?sause. Talking one night to Dellart ho in duced him to join "Quantrell's old /guard" of 100 carefully selected men. A price had already been set upon Qu an troll 'n head, so terrible had been his revenge upon the roving bands of C?derais. Young Dellart soon fell ?a easy viotim to Quantrell's brilliant alluring Boheme, and ho was promptly appointed first lieutenant of the most ?desperate company of men that ever fought under a flag. His associates .were the James boys, the Youngers, Todd, Palmer, Hy 8 mi th, Dave Pool and others equally as famous. Jessie James was DeHart'? boon companion. TTh&y were always together. It was Jessie James and Lew Dellart who Ifirst discovered that famous cave under Mlhti Gasconade river, the Gasconade Calls, ooneeived in DeHart's brain and executed by two stonemasons, enemhera of Quantrell's oompany that made the stone sliding doors to the .cave under the falls large enough tto ?heiter 100 men and their horses wrtfe plenty provisions for months. It was Dellart and Jessie James /"rftoomaroed Frank James from a regi r -sneak of IFodoxai cavalry alone and un # ?Med, ecoapt hy a young girl named >' Kate 'Bennett, a daughter of the Fcd * ?oral commander, Col. Bennett. Frank . Jamen had rode into Boston, Mo., in ? <diguise to get certain dispatches .' knowe .to fae there, sent by courier to Grec.VRn^l. He had been recognized C'?%hire in town and was forced to kill "the man who called his name. He leaped to his horse with pistols in /nauu, <ehot four of his pursuers and /had his own horse killed and a bullet . in his arm; was oaptured, and being j . iii federal uniform, was condemned ' io die next day. Dellart, perhaps, I performed the most daring deed on record. He shot a Wisconsin officer, /who wa s riding out some distance- from nine lines, donned his uniform, went (boldly into town, cutting the sentry's ..throat to pass, and rode with all the ?sompesare and nonchalance of a vet- , ?oran federal trooper up to t. ) hotel, Stitched his horse to the raok and cralked in. (Lt was about ll o'olook, and all the ejmoera were asleep, only a few guards (posted here and there. As DeHart .entered,. Kate Bennett, daughter of tihe colonel commanding and a friend of DeHart's (they had met before ?these Btirring time?), who was np ^writing, met him. He waa now her Cather's onemy, bat not hers. They ?tared at each other for a moment. DeHart held np his finger for silence. Yimous 1 > ; i ? i ? ? <'l C^Uciiv L-illii.s Talks. phis Commercial-Appeal. ! Miss liennett allowed him to approaeli 1 her and say : "ho not betray ino I Her reply was a [Ue.-tiou of "\\ l y are you here?'' j ' Nm tu kill liiis time, but to rescue j F ran k Jami s." j ATter promising her not to kill any one she wan persuaded to lead he Hart t? thc room. A pa--i key let I him in. In a moment, with bia pistol pointed at Col. Fox's head, ho waked him up. The astonished colonel glared at the intruder and asked him who he was. His cool reply stunned thc colonel : "I am Dellart, of (?uautrcll's old guard," said he. ''<?oil, wh?U ^. ' you want?'1 said the colonel. "I," said Delia t, "just want you to speak iu a whisper aud sign this little paper, an<. if you obey without any trouble and at once you shall uot bc hurt." Dellart then wrote an order to the j guard to turn the prisoner, Frank James, over to the bearer, who was a trusted soldier, aud who would carry him to a more scoure place, as Quan troll's old guard was near. Col. Fcx reluctantly signed his name and looked up. "Now, colonel," said Dellart, "you will just suffer me to place this little gag in your mouth. Don't move, col onel. If you do, I'll kill you. It is death. Now then, as you might do some mischief before I get away, I will be forced to bind you, but you will not be inconvenienced long, as your orderly will find you in the morning." Dellart bound and gagged Col. Fox ?courely, took his order, waved a good bye to Minn Bennett, mounted his horse, flew to the guardhouse, pre sented his order, which was hesita tingly complied with only after De Hart had threatened to arrest the entire guard. Frank James was still bound with a rope when delivered to Dellart. He was ordered to march out ahoad of his new guard, who mounted his horse, but dextrcusly cut tho bonds and slipped two pistole in his hands. Thero was a detail of four men on duty at the old jail. Dellart and Frank JameB shot two eaoh. James mounted behind DeHart, and before the astonished sentries could get their sleepy senses together they were out in the forent and lost as far a. tho Federals were concerned. Jessie James met them, dressed as an old farmer, with an extra horse, and soon they were reveling among the old guard, and aooeptiog oongratulations from their old friends. Lieut. DeHart was now the owner of a very fine horse-the one that was ridden by the Wisconsin officer. De Hart just exohaoged horses with tho dead msn and loft hi? own to be taken up by his pursuers. After, upon one occasion, resting up for several days in the cave, De Hart was ordered by Qaantrell to go into the Federal lines and get all the information he oould as to their move ments. Dressing like an old wonna, ho mounted an old army mule and started for Gen. Buell's headquarters, looking, as she said, "for her boy, who had run away and jined the sol diers." For three days DeHart roam ed about at will in his feminine mas querade until he learned all he wish ed, when "with tears in her eyes, she started home without seeing her boy." DeHart wanted to sec Gen. Buell, and was so persistent that he granted an interview in whioh he promised to look out for Johnnie and write her word. As he waa just outside the lines he met a small squad of soldiers returning from a foraging raid. One of the party had a ham and two ohiok eus. A spirit of reckless humor led DeHart to stop them and "ac eua o them of stealing from her." One of the squad was a native Missourian and recognized DeHart,.and openly said so, whereupon they oonoluded to in vestigate. The old woman indignant ly denied this, but the soldiers were obdurate and they knew not what they did. "Fools rnsh in where angels dare not tread." They began to dis mount, and one of the men took hold of the mule's bridle, but at that in ?tant the old woman threw up both hands and eaoh held a heavy pistol and before they oould do anything, SD surprised were they, that all five of them lay dead before they .could draw a weapon. DeHart managed to catch one of the best hors?^taounfaw it left his ma?e and rode for lifo, as he was followed by a company of armed men seeking his life, - bufc;be was too near the oave f or oapturq.t Be hastily '-old tho old gua.*d about;the company after him and within four hours not a mau in the pura- lng parry was left to tell the tale. Quantrcll and his old guard had them surrounded, and the .-iiiry of tl.e '..*?>. vntuore massacre' ; will liv? io bloody 'Jim moro page i guerilla warfare. 'Juautrcll beni a d? . tuite?] uecouut < f thia aliair to Ceti j Buoll After tli?: close the war not ?nor than of ti.'1 old guard auswere?] t : roll call. They bad been outlawe and a price sci upon tb'-ir heads aft? thc great Lawrence massacre, but i seemed this little Land bore ?-'liarme live**. Now for mutual protectio they must separate, each //oin;: hi own way. <j real treasure taken froi everywhere was partly divided, iii r?.-t hidden in the cave. Bcliurt an Jessie James were detailed to eloi thc ?.'ave and throw away the kc, which was done, Bellart locking tl great stone doors, while Jessie Jam stood guard. Just below the fall- ai several swirling pools deep and dar I 11 ar t numbering ??ll a certain nui her, threw the key ?if this wundi i f cavern into it, when: it -auk, and was nun nally agreed that when all tho little band had outlived the blooi chapter in their lives and were pc milted t?i live a* honest citizens, th would, return in :>. body and recov the . treasure. IS ut the great key still at the bottom of thc Gascona river and thc treasure still heaped i in glittering piles, for noue save U Hart knows its hiding place. Near all the rest aro dead, and only four five arc living now. Dellart was pi mitted years azo to live among I people for whom he did so much, a so with Allen Balmer, who lives DI in Witohita, Tex. H. G. Hysmi lives in Jackson County, Mo., Fra James and Cole Younger are in t show business. Nearly all the r< are dead, their wearing apparel servi as their winding sheets. Lieut. DeHart is an honored a much respected citizen of Arkans Ile is now on the lecture platform a is doing well in his old age. It said that tho "old guard" of 100 ni has slain more than 75 men each, eluding the Kansas Jayhawkers, w were completely annihilated by Qu troll's men. Now they aro nearly gone. DeHart was nearly killed jumping out of a burning build about four years ago, but he still liv a veritable book of information, 1 so modest that he seldom calls his c name when talking of war times, is as straight as an Indian, and h seldom still. His olear, deep, b eyes are restless, always looking, i ears keen, ever listening. It is sed nature, learned under the strenu rules of a monaroh of the blaok f They did not ask quarter of the enei nor did they extend it. Revenge, venge was the battle cry of their le er, who gloated in blood and cami but to-day this grizzled old guei warrior is SB gentle as a well-trai child. His days are numbered I he knows it, but it does not frigl him. He is ready to welcome it ; ' as willingly as he ever pulled tri? in battle. May he depart in peaoe. HAD VIRGINIA NOT SECED Vastly Different Conditions That W Hare Followed, bot no Virginia! Regrets. .? Whenever a publio speaker rei the fact that Virginia was reino to withdraw from the Union ia 1 we fall into a meditative state of n and try to imagine what would 1 been the effect if Virginia had seoeded, if she had turned her away from the South and joioed h with the Northern States in ma war upon the Southern Confedei What a vast difference it would 1 made to the fortunes of the Cot eraoy, if it had boom deprived ol moral and aotive support of Virgi if in the armies of the Oonfedei there hat! hesn no Virginia troops Lee, no Jackson, nona otberi Virginia's military leaders? Wh vast diffcrov.ee it would have ma these Virginia troops and their mandera had given their guns their swords to the North inatea to the South 1 Without meaning unduly to git the Vkftaians, and in no spiri brag, it may be sud at the start, in auch an event, the duration ol war would have been much she It would have been an enormou vantage to the North to or-upy ginia as friendly territory in struggle. The armies of the ? could easily have been moved ti southern borders of Virginia, North Carolina would, perhaps, been the battle ground. That \ have preoluded anything like a N ern campaign on the part of the a ern foroes and there had been ni tie of Gettysburg, no battle any \ within sight of Washington, no t whatever against the national ca The mighty armies of the ? strengthened by the splendid so of Virginia could have horne with . im pelling and irresistible npon the armlet? of the loafed and the odds would baye be ? overwhelmingly ia favor of tho tba?, tho straggle matt hate shortlived. ' If Virginia had pursued that o it would haye made a vast dill ia her material fortunes. Her tory would not haye been pa and divided, her soil would not bec ti the l>at rle .: >uud. no armies of (J'.'Sti'iicttou would li;i\t: in arched and counter-marched th rx? ugh her domain, her vitis had not been bombarded .nid burned, no Sheridan would have raided and d?vast?t' d her fertile val leys, no raiders would have laid waste her field.*, her buildings and her cr?p? and her railroads had laen preserved, and it is lair to presume that thc gov ernment would have made compen sation for her emancipated slaves. Indeed, it is possible that there would have benn no emancipation proela matiou at ail, for that wasa war meas ; ure, made, according to Mr. Lincoln, to preserve the I'nijn u-id not, pri marily, to liberate thc slaves. After thc war Virginia would have enjoyed prosperity such as her peo ple had never dreamed of. There had been no reconstruction era. I'rom thc ! cb?se of the war there would have come an industrial aud commercial boom in Virginia, such as would have made her rioh beyond computation. . As a purely businet-s affair, there could have been from the start no j sort of question as to what Virginia's . course should be. as to which side she ! should take. j But we reverently and devoutly thank Almighty God that in this crisis Virginia was not mo; d by tho influence of any material consideration, r We reverently and devoutly thank Al - mighty God that in Virginia there was 3 and is something esteemed more high 1 ly than riches and material prosperity. f We reverently and devoutly thank A? * mighty God that Virginians had the t grace and the courage and the right 9 couaress to be governed by prinoiple 1 rather than by greed, and that al 5 though tho State was reluctant to se cede, when the issue was forced upon I her, when she was compelled to de * cide whether she would join hands I with her sister States of the South, i in resisting invasion, or join hands 1 with the States of the North in mak * ing invasion, she hesitated not, but > ohose the alternative of duty and sac * rifioe. It was suoh a saorifioe as no 1 State in the Union had ever been call 7 ed upon to make. It was a saorifioe I not merely of things material; it was J a saorifioe of her best and noblest * mon, aye and of women. 1 But in spite of these sacrifices, 5 there is no Virginian, worthy of name 1 who would have had Virginia aot > otherwise. We, as a people, are 1 prouder of our sacrifices, prouder of I the heroes of the war, prouder of the 1 noble example which they set, than ? we would be of all the riches of Croe i sus, obtained at the cost of cowardice, ! ' dishonesty and disloyalty. We are ' prouder of our Confederate monu i ment pointing as the finger of man's > devotion to heaven than we would be 1 of all the high towers of ill gotten 1 gain. We reverently and devoutly 1 thank Almighty God that in spite of i the temptation of peaoeful fatness, in spite of the terrors of war, in spite of the knowledge that in going up to the Jerusale of tho Southern Confederacy bonds and afflictions awaited her, Vir ginia had the Godly courage to say, I "None of these things move me," and in so saying and in so doing to prever? untainted her oharaoter and her honorable reputation as the Moth ! er of States and of Statesmen, whoso ohasity was inviolable and who piety was equal to every saorifioe.-Rieh 1 mond Times-Dispatoh. - A woman his an idea that hea ven is something like where the men don't come to breakfast cross. Enough Said. An eminent lawyer received a se vere reprimand from a witness whom he was trying to browbeat. It was an important issue, and in order to save his eause from defeat it was necessary that tho lawyer should impeach tho witness. He endeavored to do it on thc ground of age in the following manner : "How old are you?" asked the law yer. "Seventy-two years," replied the witness. "Your memory, of course, is not brilliant and vivid as it was tweo* ty years ago, is it?" asked the law yer. "I do not know but what it is," an swered the witness. "State some circumstances which occurred, say 12 years ago," said tho lawyer, "and wc shall be able to sec how well you can remember." "I appeal lo your honor,'' said the witness, "if I am to be interrogated in this manner; it is insolent!" "You had better answer-the ques tion," replied the judge. "Yes, sir; state it!" said the law yer. "Well, sir, if you compel me to do it, I will. About 12 years ago you r.tudied in Judge-'s office, did you not?" "Yes," answered the lawyer. "Well, sir, I remember your father ooming into my office and saying to me, 'Mr. D-, my son is to be ex amined to-morrow, and I wish you would lend mo ?15 to buy him a suit of clothes.' I remember also, sir, that from that day to this he has never paid me that sum. That, sir, I re member as though it were yesterday." -Philadelphia Public Ledger. In Trade. Eobert A. VanWyok, the former mayor of New York, made $1,000,000 last year, and in consequence has now retired from business. "I don't believe in meanness," Mr. VanWyok ?aid recently in a talk about ouoceoo. 'Meanness is a positive drawback to financial progress. "The other day I took a Turkish J bath. The place is not getting on well, and I was not surprised when a rubber told me a story of the mean ness of the proprietor. "The proprietor, seeing the man one day at the butoher shop, where he then worked, and taking note of his huge muscles, told him to resign and take a rubber's position with him. 'TH give you more than you are getting now," he said. "So the young butoher, resigning in good faith, turned up the next morn ing at the bath-houBe. 11 'Well, said the proprietor to him, 'I'll put yon on at onoe. What did you get at the butcher's ?' " 'Six dollars and my week's meat,' roturnod tho youngman. "What did the meat amount to ?' " 'About $3.' " 'Let's see,' said the proprietor. 'I offered you more to come here, didn't I? Well, I'll give yon $6 and $4 worth of baths weekly. That ia a dollar more thao you got at your old : Si .'v' - The State Board of Control has several thousand daiitre worth of "unsalable gooda" on hand. These will be marked down and thrown on the market-something after the stile of "bargains." MOTTS pCMUYRnYftl PII IS ?SSffi *? tittle iE, Iii* I flU I fita r ILLU omissions,lncrcase vip; v. Bk -. i i i .a or and banish ''pains flil L9 of menstruation.w They are "LIFE SAVERS?? to girls at .AjjgfalJMW womanhood, aiding development of organs nnd body. No known remedy for women equals them. 'Cannot clo harm-life becomes a pleasure. ?l.GO PER BOX BY M Alli. Sold by druggists. DB. MOTT'S CHEMICAL CO., Cleveland, Ohio. FOB SALE BT EV AMS PHABM&dYo D. S. VANDIVER. E. P. 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All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good *' are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health off Infants and Children-Experience against Experiment* What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant, lb contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic? substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys "Worms and allays Feverishness. It eures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Tcetbing Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep* The Children's Panacea-Tho Mother's Friend* GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of The Kind You toe Always Bought In Use Foi* Over SO Years. THE OnmUH eOBMNf, Vt MURKAY BT RS ?T. fl KW YORK OITY. LETTER TO EVANS PHARMACY I wish to say that your LIVER AND KIDNEY PILLS are better than anything of the kind I have ever used. They do all that a remedy of this nature could do. I I have been u?ing EVANS' LIVER AND KIDNEY PILLS for seven or eight years. S. L. RUSSELL. Anderson, S. C., Feb. 24, 1904. ONE CAR OF HOG FEED. Have just received one Car Load of HOG FEED (Shorts) at very close prices. Come before they are all gone. Now is the time for throwing LIME Around your premises to prevent a case of fever or some other disease, that will cost you very much more than the price of a barrel of Lime ($1.00.) We have a fresh shipment ia stock, and will be glad to send you some. If you contemplate building a barn or any other building, see us before buying your CEMENT and MME, As we sell the very best qualities orly. O. O. ANDERSON, Turnip Seed ! Come to us for your Seed. Freak shipment just in-all varieties. Also, eome to us for anything in the ORR, GRAY & GO., Prescription ?ruggi*|f* AVC. STRICKLAND. 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