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VOLUME XXXVII.
THE HKROES WHO DIED.
"God knows who was right,"
Ah, yes, it is true:
A,,d the God of the Gray
Is the God of the Nine ;
He l.ore their' proud spirits
To mansions above,
And he crowned them r.t last
With his garlands of love.
The grass grows green
On the graves where they lay,
The flowers bloom nlike
O'er the blue and the Gray ;
.And loved ones' tears
Ate mingling with dew.
While with it God blesses
The Gray and the blue.
In heaven above us
Cod opens His gate?
No strife or contention.
No divcord, no hate;
The portals are open,
And there, side by side.
Stand the heroes of battles?
The heroes who died.
God welcomes them all-;
Though in battle's array,
One bore the bright blue
And the oilier the Gray,
Though one fought for Union,
The other for State,
One angel of mercy
Guides all to God's gate.
And there, at the right hand
Of Hiin who is just.
Away from the mortal
And up from the dust?
There by God's throne.
Far away from earths' grave,
In raiment unspotted
ttin irue and the brave.
Sliall we, the frail worldlings
Who yet. live and wait?
Shall we sit in judgment,
Or cry out in linte,
While a Father above us?
A Father all-wise?
Calls back his loveJ children
From earth to the skies ?
Forgive us. forgive its.
Dear Father above 1
Bring hnck to our conscience
The heart-heat of love;
And while we nre weeping
For our loved ones to-day.
Let us tenderly cherish
The Blue and the Gray.
,iKANT'S TALK ABOUT THE
WAR.
The Story of Appomattox ao Told
by the Victor.
The Silent General'* View of Friends and
Foes?His Frankly Fiprtssed Opinions
About the Men 11 'ho Led the Annies For
and Against the Union?Interesting Chartteiorisnlivus
ami lis&tetunf? TJtr Confederate
Soldiers.
Hamburg, Germany, July G.?-I
,.?ve some memoranda of odds and ends
>f conversations in idle moments while
ivanderfnc ahout these old towns, and it
teems to me tlint 1 can do no newer
tervioe to the historian than to throw
these memoranda into route shape.
There are few men more willing to converse
on any subject which he knows
than the General, and although his fame
is that of a eilient man, those who know
him at all know that in reality wo have
Tew better talkers in America. The
;harm about the General's talk is that
it is never about anything lie does not
Icoow, and wbat be dn< s know be knows
well. lie is never vindictive and never
?ossips. and when referring to men and
things in the great events in his career-,
be is a? passionless and just ns a historian.
lie never refers to the war unless
you put the subject to him directly.
I aut afraid I have been curious on this
point, not that I ever wanted to trouble
Gen. Grant, but because the judgments
md opinions of such a man belong to
history. I hope, therefore, that what I
gather up and send >ou from various
table-talk memoranda will have u value
to the historian I do not hope to give
you the General's exact words, although
as far as uty memory serves I Jo.
THE SURRENDER OF LEE.
We were tyttversingone evening about
Lee's surrender The General told the
story of the memorable event. ''The
night before Lee surrendered." said he,
"I had a wretched headache?headaches
to which I ha\e b<en subject?nervous
prostration, intense personal puff? rin??.
But, suffer or not, I had to keep ijjov*
ing. I saw clearly, especially nf'tei
ShnrLlnn had CUf off the escape to Dun
viHe. that J>e must surrender or break
and run into rlie mountain*?br-^ok in
all directions and leave us a dozen pu>
criila bands to fipht. My campaign was
not Richmond, not the defeat of Leo it:
actual fipht, but tn remove him and hif
army out of the contest, and, if possi
ble, to have him use Ins influence it
inducing the surrender of Johnston and
the other isolated armies. Vou see th<
war was an enormous strain upon th?
country. Rich as we were, I do no1
now see ho we culd have endured i
another year, even from a financial poin
of view. So, with these views, I wroti
Lee, and opened the correspondent
with which the world is familiar. Le<
does not appear well in lliat correspond
ence?not nearly so well as he did ii
? i.:
our sub?e<juent interviews. where in
whole bearing was (hut of n pat riot i
and oallant soldier, concerned alone* f'o
the welfare of l-iK army and his State
I received word that Lee would me
uie nt u certain point within our line
near Sheridan's headquarters. I liad f
ride quite a distance through a tniidd
country. I remember now that I wa
concerned ahmt my p rsonal appeal
anee. I had on an old suit, without m
sword, and without any distinc'iishin
mark of rink except the shoiild'T-sfraj
of a lb ? u'u.t oiMM'ral o a wool''
blouse. I w ? sr>las; (I with mud I
mv lon?j ri ie i 1 .? *' <?d l.o- mi"!
think I uoant f slio . If btiidied db
courtesy by so coming, at lea>>t I lliotjel
i trj l#ul 1 had uo other clothes withi
(
reach, a? Lee's letttr found me awuy
from my base of supplies. I ke^t on
riding noli) I met Sheridan. The General,
who, was one of the hemes of the
campaign, and whose pursuit of J*ce
was perfect in its generalship and energy,
told ine %here tn 'find Lee! [ remeniber
that Sheridan was impatient
when I met-hiw an lions and suspicious
about tke whf^bjjajnpss?feared
; there might tie' A plaMgr"eVchpe; that be
i > ' t -.1
na?i j^co at ins reervau wanifumi nuu
the business by poiiW fililg fcn
absolute surrender by captjMj?v Id fact,
he had his troops ready fof^tch an.assault
when Lee's white flair came wiljhio
his lines. I went to the house whore J
Lee was waiting. I found him fn a fine,
new, splendid uniform, which only re*
called my anxiety as to my own clothes
while on my way to meet him I ex
pressed my regret that I was compelled
to meet him in so unceremonious a manner,
and he replied that the only suit
ho had available was one which bad
been sent him by some admirers in
Baltimore, and which he wore then for
the first time. We spoke of old friends
in the aiuiy. I remembered having
seen Lee in Mexico. He was so much
higher io rank than myself at the time
that I supposed he had no recollection
of me. But he said he remembered me
11 nr. ..It.J
very wen. ?? v. nikcu vi-vm ii^^aiiu .
exchanged inquiries about friends. Lee
then broached the subject of our meet*
inc. I told him my terms,' and Lee,
listcnir.c attentively, asked me to write
them down. I toc-k out my manifold
order bonk and pencil and wrote them
down. Gen. Lee put on his classes
and read thrm over. The conditions
gave the ffficere thrir aide arms, private
horses and personal baggage. I said to
Lre that I hoped and believed this
would he the close of the war,that it was
most important that the tnen should pn
home and go to work, and the povern|
mru? would not tlirow any obstacles in
I the way. Lee answered that it woul J
J have a most happy effect, and accepted
j the term?. I handed over my pencilled
! memorandum to an aide to put iu wri?
j tinp, and we resumed our conversation
about old times and friends in the ar
| mica. Various officers enuio in?Lonp|
street, Gordon and Pickett, from the
; South; Sheridan, Ord and others from
j our side. Some were old friends; Long'
street and myself, for instance, and we
! had a general talk. Lee, no doubt,
I expected me to ask for his sword, but
I did uot want his sword. It would
only." said the General smiling, "have
gone to the patent office to be wor"
| shipped by the Washington rebels."
Thetc was another pause when ho said
that most of the animals in his cavalry
ai d artillery were owned by the privates,
and he would like to know, under the
terms, whether they would be regarded
, as private property or the property of
?? i imdnr the terms
(in#1 govrrriujiiu. i
of surrender they belonged to the gov.
jernment. Gen Lec read over the letter
1 end said that was so. I then said to the
General that I believed and hoped this
was the last battle of the war. ana I saw
the wisdom of these men getting home
and to work as soon as possible, and ihnt
T would give orders to allow any soldier
or officer claiming a horse or mule to
take it. G< n Lpe showed some emotion
at this?a feeling which I also
shared?and said it would have a most
happy effect. The interview ended, and
I pave orders for rationing his troops. |
The next day I met Lee on horseback,
and we had a long talk. In that con?
vernation I urged upon Lee the wisdom
of ending the war by the surrender of
the other armies. I asked him to use
his influence with the people of the South
?an influence that was supreme?to
bring the war to an end. G* n, Lee said
thnt his campaign in Virginia was thej
last organized resistance which the
South was capable of making?that I
m'ght have to mnrch a good deal and
, encounter isolated commnnds here and
, there, but there was no longer any army
, which eonld make a stand. I told Loc
that this fact only made his responsibilii
ty greater and any further war would be
i a crime. I asked him to go among the
South'rn people and use bis influence
, to have all men under arms surrender
, on the same terms given to the Army
, of Northern Virginia. lie replied that
he could not do 80 without consultation
i with. President Davis, f was sorry. I
1 n ? f.Jn.Bno rrnne he*
. saw that iiic uiiimm ia.j r
i yond ilu' reach of President Davis, and
, tho' there was milling that could he
j done except what Dee could do to benefit.
. the Southern people, I was anxious to
i get theni home and have our armies go
| to their homes and fields. Hot I/e
> would not move without Davis, and, as
> a matter id fact at that lime, or soon
r after, Davis was a fugitive in the
I wooJa."
' J EPPERSON DAVIS AND TDK 801TIJ.
?
? An allusion was mado to the feeling
? in the S<>uth that Davis was an injury
? to the Confederacy and did not do his
i best. ''I never thought so," said the
s General. "Davis did his best?did all
e that any man could do?to save the Conr
fe leracy. This argument is like some
i | of the arguments current in history?
t i that the war was a war against winds
j mills, and that, if one man or another
o ' had licet) in authority 'he result would
v ! have been different; that some more
?11
s J placable man than Davis couni nuvt
- j made a better fieht This is not true
y | The war was a tremendous war. ami tir
>: ' one knows better than those who wer*
?s in it. Davis di<] all he eouM und all
n any man conbl for the South. Tlx
n South was beaten from the beeinnintj
t Ther" was no victory possible for am
i- -'iiver in tit rci'inir upon the plalforu
it | nl the SoinIn ru foul'rb racy. Just a.1
u touii us the war united and aroused th<
CAMDEN, S. C., AUGUS'
youne men of the North ami called out
the National feelinp, them was no end
but the end thnf enme. Davis did all
he could do for his Aide, and how much
he did do no one knows better than
those who were in the field."
STONEWALL JACKSON*.
Your correspondent asked the General
how he rauked Jackson amoo? the
soldiers. '*1 knew Stonewall Jackson." <
said the General, "at West Point and j
in Mexico. At West Point he came 1
into the school at an older age than the |
average and began with w low grade.
Bot he had so much courage and en..
ejlty, worked so hariV and governed his
Rie by a discipline so sfern, that he
steadily worked his way along and rose
far above others who had more ad- >
vantages. Stonewall Jackson at West
Point was in a stato of constant iin- 1
provement. He was a 'religious man
then, and some of us regarded him as a
fanatic. ^Sometimes his religion took
strango' -forms?hypochondria?fnncicd .
that an evil spirit had taken possession
oHiin). BnJ he never relaxed in his
studies or- hid "Christian dntics. I-knew [
him in Mexico. He was always a brave
and trustworthy officer?nono more so
in^^lHjMiy. _ 1 never knew him or encountered
bim in the rebellion. I
AVte^ion'wfi&hej his campaigns in Vir- I,
0ola"j?ritify his reputation as a great
commander. lie was killed too soon, i ^
and before bis rank allowed him a preat i
command. It would hare been a test
of generalship if Jackson had met
Sheridan in the valley instead of some I
of the men he did meet.. From nil T 1
know of Jackson and ail T see of his '
campaigns, I have little uoubt of the re- j
suit. If Jackson had attempted on i
Sheridan the tactics ho attempted so i (
successfully upon others he would not (
only have been beaten but destroyed. (
Sudden, daring raid*, under a fine pen- !
eral like Jackson, miphfdo against raw
troops and inexperienced commanders, j
such as we had in the beginning of the ;
war, but not apainst drilled troops and ,
b commander like Sheridan. The tac- (
tics for which Jackson is famous, and ,
which achieved such remarkable rrsnlts.
belonped entirely to the beginning of (
the war, and to the peculiar conditions
under which (lis earlier battles were ,
fought. They would have insured de- ' ,
struction to any commander who tried i ,
them upon Sherman, Thomns. Sheri- ,
dsn, Meade, or, in fact, uny of our preat
generals. Consequently Jackson's fame |
as a peneral depends upomachievements ;
pained before his genorikhip was test- ! 1
cd?bel^p bo had a chanjo of matching
himself with a really great commander, j
No doubt so able and patient a man as
Jackson, who worked so bard at anything
he attempted, would have adapted
t in . i -!
ninisen 10 new conditionsanu risen wun
them. Hedged before his opportunity. |
I always respited Jackson personally, j
and esteemed his sincere and manly \
character. IIo impressed me always as
a man of the Cromwell stamp?a Puritan?a
much more of the New Englander
thau the Virginian. Tf any man j
believed in the rebellion, he did. ^nd i
his nature was such that whatever he !
b-lioved in became a deep, religious ;
duty?n duty lie would discharge at nnv !
cost. It is a mistake to suppose tbat 1 i
had tmy feilings for Stonewall Jackson ^
but resptct. Personally, we were always
pood friends; his character had ;
"are points of merit, and nltbough he
made the mistake of fighting apainst his
country, if ever a man did so conscientiously,
he was the man."
I.KE AS A COMMANDER.
This led to a remark as to the proat
and universal fame of Lee, especially in
Europe?u reputation which seemed to
! prow every d?y.
"I never rinked Lee nR high as pomo
others of the army," said the General,
"that is to Faj, I never had as much
anxiety when ho was in my front as
when Joe Johnston was in front. Lee
was a eood man, a fair commander, who
had everything his favor. lie was a
man who needed sunshine. He was I
supported by the unanimous voice of ]
the Houtb; be was supported by a larpe ;
party in the North; he had 'he support j
and sympathy of the outside world. All 1
j this is of an immense advantage to a
! general. Lee had this in a remarkable i
I degree. Everything he did was right.'
I He wis treated like a demi-god. Our
genera's had a hostile press, lukewarm |
friends, and a public opinion outside. !
The cry was in tlte air that the North
only won by brute I'orcc; that the gen- 1
cralship and valor were with the South,
This has pone into history, with so many
illusions that arc historical. I^e was
of a slow, conservative, cautious nature,'
without imagination or humor, always
the same, with grave dignity. I could I
never see in his achievonu-nis what justifies
his reputation. The illusion that!
nothing but heavy odds beat him will
not stand the ultimate light of history, j
I know it is not true. Hie South and
North worn more nearly matched than
yoa would suppose. The whole population
were ?n the war. The four million
of negroes were the same as soldiers,
because they did the work in the '
fields which white men would have to
i do. I believe the South had as many
men under arms as the North. What
defeated the Southern arms was North1
phi courage and skill, and this, too,
with detraction all around. You cannot
imagine how disheartening it was at
1 the time, not only to officers but men."
I ALHKHT SIDNEY JOHNSTON AND JOSEPH
, E. JOHNSTON.
An allusion was made by your corr
I respondent to Albert Sidney Johnston,
i and the lieneral said : "I knew Albert
? Sidney .JoliiiMoii In-fore the war. When
j be was bent to Utah 1 had a high opiu
r 13,1878.
ion of his talent*. When the war broke f
out he was regarded as the coming; man
out of the Oonfcderaey. I shared j
thnt opinion, because I know and es- j
feomed him. and because I felt as we all
did in the old army, where there was a
public opinion anion*; the officers as to
who would come out ahead. Tn many J
cases, our public opinion was in error. !
Bragg had n f rt at reputation in the
South. Bragg was the uiost contentious
of men, and there was a story in Mexico
that lie put. himself in arrest. Albert
Sidney Johnston might have risen
in fume, and wo all had confidence in
liij rlninn un Kllf V-.O fltpfl fnf? RilOn. HS !
Stonewall .Jackson died, to soon for us
to say what lie wonM Imve done under
the latr-r and altered conditions of the
war. TIio Southern army had many j
g"od generals. J.ee, of courso, was a
trood soldier, and so was Jjnng?trcef. hut
E do not know that there was any better
than .Toe Johnston. I have had
nearly all of the Southern Generals in
high command in front of uic, and
Johnston gave me more anxiety than
any of the others. T was never half so
anxious about Lee. By the way. I saw
iu Joe Johnston's book that, when I
was asking IVmberton to surrender!
Vicksburg, ho was on his way to raise j
the scige. I was very sorry. Tf I had j
? T~1 *? ? '? T tPAtllfl '
Known ?J miii-iinj w.m buum^, M. fvio I
have told Pembertnn to wait in Vicks- \
bur^' until T wanted him, awaited John- |
ston'g advance, and piven him battle.
He could never have beaten that Vicks*
burp army, and thus I would have de*
ntr<>y?'d two armiej, perhaps. Pember
ton's was already pone, and T was quite :
Bure of Johnston's. I was 60rry I did J
not. know Johnston s I was sorry I I
did not know Johnston was coming un- '
lil it was too late. Take it all in all,j
the South, in my opinion, had no better
soldier than Joe Johnston?none,
it least, that pave tr.c more trouble.
NO COUNCILS OK WAR.
Somp remark was trade about coun-1
;ils of war, and how far their delibcra*'
lions nffected an army's movements. "I j
never held a council of war in my life. !
f n^vcr heard of Sherman or Sheridan
dninp *o. Of course I heard all that, j
jvcry one had to say. and in headquarters
there is an interesting and constant i
stream of talk. But I always made up (
my mind to act, and the first that, ov.-n I
my staff knew of any movement was j
when I wrote it nut in rough aud gave
it to be copied off."
ORANT THINKS POORLY OK PILLOW,
FLOYD, JIG.,
People think that J).?nelson was captured
by pourinp men into it ten to one
or some such odds. The truth is our
armv?a new army?invested a fortified
place and compelled a surrender of a
r?? ".""t 1-.i-r.nr flmn OOP f)Wn. A 1
lUlfC ipwi
large number of tbo rebels escaped under
Floyd and Pillow, but as it was I
took more prisoners than I bad under
my command for the first two days of j
mj investment. After tho investnu-ut i
we were reinforced, so that at the 1
surrender there wore 2G.000 Union ;
troops, about 4.000 of which were [
sent back to guard the road to whore
the steamers lay with our supplies.
There were *22,000 effective men in
Donelson at the beginning of the
siege. Of course there was a risk in
attacking Donelson as I did, but," said
the General, smiling. "I knew some of
them in Mexico. Knowledge of that
kind goes far toward determining a
movement like this."
THE ATTACK ON FORT DO.NEI.SO.V.
' Suppose Lougstrcet or Jackson had
been in command said your correspondent.
' If Long^trect or Jackson," said the
General, "or even if Bnckncr bad been
in command, 1 would have made a different
campaign. In the beginning we
all did things more rashly than later,
just as Jackson did in his earlier campaigns.
The Mexican war made the
officers nf the old regular armies more
or lees acquainted, aud when wo knew
enough about hiui to make our plans
accordingly. What determined my attack
on J)on?lson," said the Gutiorn],
"was as much the knowledge I had
gained of its commanders in Mexico as
anything else. Hut as the war progressed
aud each side kept improving its army J
the-c experiments were not possible. :
Then it L' cume hard, earnest war, and I
neither side could depend upon any
chance with the other. Neither side
dared to uiakn a mi-take. It was steady
hard pounding, and the result could only
Je ruin to tlw defeated party. That
was a peculiarity in our war that we
were not fighting for a peace, but to do-}
stroy our adversary That made it so;
hard for both sides, and especially for ,
the South.?John )'oina/'* liejtorl
( i tin X' W Yo.tk llrruhl q/'various
Conversation*.
Tho Durkoy's Consolation.
Not long since a San Antonio darkey j
did some whitcwaxhing for a man living
in tho filth ward. On paying for the job ;
the employer paid off Mo^e, h?r that
wax the darkey'j minie, in Mexican
.jiiartfrs at par. It was soveral days
before Mosc found out that they were
worth only I'O cents. Mosc was very
much hurt about it. "Jess to think of
, Colonel eheatin' dis hard-working
I niggah outen JO ecnts. 1'oali ds Lord, i
I I wud ncber hab believed it on him. I
hadn't ortur Ink do job in do fust place ' I
! And then he added more cheerfully ;'
I "Hilt of I hadn't whitewashed do fence
I nebrr would have found out wliar all
dem eliickons roosted what I sold next
morning for a dollar. He bauks habn't
n.teh up wid djx niegah yet, heali!
hcah 'r?Galvatuii News.
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NUMBER 5.
Joph Billings to the Girls.
Dear giris are you in search of a husband
?
That is a bumper, nnd von arc not
requested to say "yes" out loud, but arc
expected tew throw yure eyes down
onto the earth as tho you wus lookin fnr
a pin, and reply to the interrogatory
with a kind of a draulin sigh.
Now tew press so tender a theme until
it bektime a thorn in the flesh, we 1
presutn" (yo avoid argument) that you
are on the lookout for something in the
uiul" line. Let me give you some small
chunks of advise how to spot your fu- .
furc husband : '
1. The man who is jellus ov every '
littleattenshun which you git from some '
other feller, you will find after you are (
married in him be luvs himself more '
than he does you and what }*ou mistook
for solicitude, you will discover has
changed to indifference.
2. A uiustash iz not indispensable; <
it izonly a little more hair, and izmuch >
like nms and other excressences?often ]
does best on eile that won't raise nothin' I
else. Don't forget that those things I
which you admire in a follor before marriage
you will probably condom in a hus
band after, and a must ash will git to be
a weak diet after a long time.
3. If husbands could be took on trial ,
as Irish cooks are, two thirds of them ,
would probably be returned ; but there (
don't seeui to be enny law for this. (
Therefore, crirlf, you wiil see that after |
you get a man yu have got to keep him
even if you luzc on him. Consequently
if lmrn Annt? Irnlxl 111 thp
house, try him on them one.' in a while
during coating season. and if he swallers
them well arid says hi will take sum '
more, he is a man who when blu Munday
com**, will wash well. '
4. Don't marrv a feller who is always
telliu' how h;z mother duz things. It I
iz hard to ween a young one. '
5. If a man kan beat you pluyin on a <
planner, and kanthrar a fish horn playin I
on the street without turnin a snnimer- I
set, on nccount of the musick that iz in <
him, I pay to you leave hitn ; he might i
answer to tend baby's, and cf you set '
him to ho in out in the garden, yon will <
find you have got to du it yourself. A f
man whose who'e heft lizc in musick '
(and not to heft that) ain't no better <
than a seedlitz powder ; but ef he luvs i
to listen, while you sing sum gentle bal- 1
lad, ynu will find him mellcr, and not i
soft. Hut don't marry ennybotfy for one i
virtcw cany quicker than you would
flop a man for iist one fault. .
G.Tf is one ov the most tuffest things
for a f'email to be an ole maid succeisccssfully
A grate menuy has tried it
and made a had job ov it, and had a bad
time. Everyboddy seems to look upon
ole maids jist as they do upon dried
herbs in the garret?handy forsickticss :
--.1 if oin'f nn mis
'IUU UiUIClUI V, ^uto, iv KIM v MV .....
fake, an J you should bo willing to swop
lives oph with sum tru harted foller, for
n husband. The swop is a good one ;
but dont swop for enny one who is respectable
jist because his farther iz.
Yn had better ho an ole maid 4.000
years, and thcujinc the Shakers than
tew buy repentance at this price. No
wumtnun ever made this trade who
didn't git either a phool, a meau- cuss
or a clown for a husband.
The Massacre of Cawnpore.
Cawnpore is a town and military station,
with upwards of a hundred thousand
inhabitants, and accommodation
for seven thousand troops. It stands
on the right hank of the Ganges, about
50 miles W. S. W. from Lucknow,
with the road to which it is connected
by a brtdge of boats. About
ten miles higher up the river is Bithoor,
then the residence of a miscreant named
Nana Sahib. The claims of this man
as the adopted son of Peishwa of the
Mahratta8, Bajcc Ilao, had not bccD
recognized by the British government,
against whom he had consequently conceived
an intense hatred, which, however.
lie looked up in his own breast
until the time came to show it On the
5th of June, 1S57. the mutiny broke
out. and the Europeans, including many
women and children, sought refuge in a
weak entrenchment. There they defended
themselves till the 20th of the
month, when Sir Hugh Wheeler, in making
a sally with his troops, was mortally
wounded, so that he died next
day. The small garrison held out for
another week, till thny found themselves
without water as well as food, and then
they entered into a treaty with Nana
Sahib, who pretended to pity their condition.
and undertook to supply them
with boats to take them down the river
to Allahabad. About forty boats were
provided, and on the 27th of June they
all embarked. Hut they had scarcely
reached the middle of the river when
runs were unmasked, and they were
firod upon with grape-shot, and nearly
all were slain or made prisoners. One
boat escaped, and got about ten miles
down the river; but it was overtaken,
and all within it were cither killed or
made prisoners, except four men, who
made their escape by swimming, and
got clear off. The whole of the males
were murdered, but a number of the
women and children were reserved.
only to he huteheted afierwards with
unexampled crucdfy. .Nana had by this
time openly put himself at the head of
the rebels, and lie was the chief instigator
and director of the horrors that
followed. On the Kith of July the enraged
Nana caused all the European women
and children who remained in his
custody to he murdered, and their mangled
bodies to he flung into a wide and
deep well near the scene of the slaugh|
ter.
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An Incident.
Yesterday morning a Confederate battle
flap was found floating from the top
of the large derrick at the monument
>Souie one had climbed up the ropes in
the darkness of the night and fixed
it nt its perilous height, and there,
flashing in the morning sun, was the
starry cross that fifteen years ago was
the emblem of a nation's hopes. Many
a heart leaped at the sight, and many
an eye grew dim as memory rushed
back through the intervening years to
the comrades whose ringing laugh and
joyous shout had brightened the camp,
and whose forms were foremost in the
field, who now sleep beneath the shadjws
of the pines from the Potomac to
the Rio Grande, from the mountains to
the spa.
' For the living arc brave and noble,
The dead were bravest of all."
It had nothing of political 6ignifii?
3anco, it was rather as though one had
mddenlv come fucc to face with the
portrait of a long dead and dearly beloved
friend, and the yearning of tho
leart was?
"Oh ! for the touch of a vanished hand.
And Ibe sound of a voice that is still!"
About ten o'clock this morning some
if our citizens thought that the act of
in individual might be tortured into
in act of political import, and it was
decided that it should be removed, and
me of the workmen climbed up and
brought it down.?Auguata Evening
Xeics of J nig 5 l/t.
An Incident of the Late War.
The death in Texas of Albert Mellen
Is announced. In the summer of 1864
Mr. Mellen, then a young man oftwenv-four,
was a prisoner at Vicksburg.
rhc Federal military authorities, then in
possession of that city, ordered him out
for street or fortification work unoct a
colored guard, lie elaimed his exttuplion
as'a prisoner, and peremptorily reused
to obey the order. A squad of
sjlored soldiers, under command of a
-L- T :? . 1,:_ ?,
nmue j jii-uiimihiii, itiii !, ? inui iu biempt
coercion at the point of the baymet.
In tlic presence of the flashing
steel he stood unawed, and, a moment
later, seeing that the squad was bent upin
coercion, and that he must go or be
impaled, he suddenly seized a hatchet
lhat happened to be in reach, and throwing
himself upon his kneer, quickly extended
his left arm along the floor, and
with two bold strokes of the hatchet
completely severed the band1* from the
arm. Then risitfg to bis fectj ho held
the bleeding. mangled stump close to
the face of the Lieutenant, and said :
"Now, sir, will you make mo work for
your rotten government under a negro
euard He conquered them, and never
afterwards regretted the act.?X. 0.
Picayune.
A New Motor.
Keely's motor has a rival in New
York, where Francis Winters, Jr.. lias
invented a machine with two chcrabers,
a few pumps and valves, into one cylinder
of which water is poured and appears
in another cylinder as a gas in
whose ordcrlcs8 flume the hand can be
held without burning it, which neither
explodes nor generates triction, neat or
moisture, and while costing only half as
much as steam, it is claimed will do
everything that steam can accomplish.
I ts inventor has organized a company with
a capital of $10,000,000, onc-cighth of
which is already subscribed, to manu<?
facture the motor in New York, and it
is proposed to store it in huge central
reservoirs and conduct it in pipes wherever
it is wanted. If it accomplishes
half that is claimed for it, it will be as
much an improvement on steam as that
on horse and water power, hut the pub*
lie will he iucrcdulous till it sees tho
proof.
A Pine Pish Story.
Mr J. A. NVatkins, of Quitman, Ga.,
tells it, and the Fret Press asserts that
there is certainly no doubt of its truth,
lie says: While fishing with set lines
for catfish in the Coosa River n small
three-pound cat was caught. This cat
was put on one of the lines whole for
bait. Visiting the hooks the next day
it was discovered that something tremendous
had been caught. It proved
to be a cat which weighed forty-thrco
pound". I'pon examination it was
found that the fish of three po?nds had
hoen swallowed by an elevcu pound eat
< ' . ,u.
nnu nan oecn caiium, auu in ium iuc
two had been swallowed by tbo fortypouDiler.
The three weighed fifty-six
pounds.
Th?* Famine in China,
In the earliest period of distress tbo
living fed upon the bodies of the dead;
next tbo strong devoured the weak, and
now the general destitution has arrived
at such a climax that men devour those
of their owa flesh and blood. History
contains no record of so terrible and
distressing a state of things, and if
prompt measures of relief be not instituted,
the whole region must become
depopulated. Local sources of supply
are entirely exhausted; the granaries
are empty, and the treasury drained
dry, while the few wealthy people have
helped with contributions and loans till
they themselves are impoverished.?
l'ckin Gazette.
"When does a man most feel the
value of a wife ?" a?ks a writer. That
depends upon what the writer means by
"value." If be means estimated value,
we should say just after be gets her; if
intrinsic value, when he pays the first
bill for lite Christmas presents abc made
him.