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GENERAL JOHN H. MOR HIS PARTISAI BY COL. D. A -After his disastrous defeat of the a, first day at Shiloh, Grant bent all his 't remarkable energies to the reorgan- ei izing and strengthening his army r< during the night, and came up bold ai and game on the next morning. It was P a trait of Grant's as Vith Wellington S< and Napoleon, to never know when he C, was beaten. During the night, he ic had all steamers and boats of every S description, carrying over his wound ed and demoralized troop and bring- t. ing back fresh fighters under Lew ti Wallace and Buell, the former cross- b ing over late in the evening and ear- ei ly at night of the day of battle. It tq was the concensus or opinion of all tr the Northern newspaper correspond- o] ents, and foreigners on the ground, p, as aides or onlookers with Orant, that h< had the battle been pushed vigorously ai the latter part of the day by Beaure- sw gard, Grant's army would have been 1i utterly annihilated. But as it was, il the South lost another grand oppor- v tunity, towards ultimate success. With y( Grant's army out of the way, Gen- I erals Price and Van Dorn almost in h. striking distance, with 15,000 or 20,- di 000 fresh troops, to add to the victor- . ious columns of Beauregard ard 0. Bragg, the base of wa.r would have st receded Northward, through Tennes- cI see and Kentucky, with the Ohio river m as a line of defence. The public opin- cc ion in the northwest sVas turning even li lt that time, strongly against Lin- 9 coln's policy of subjagating the South by force of arms. Northern historians u) record the fact that Stanton, the Un- ir ion secretary of war, had at one time bi 6 in Nothern prisons, thirty thousand 0: 'citizens of Ohio, Illinois and Indiana w -on account of their sympathy for the fa South. What effect the Southern army, 0 marching victorious to the Ohio rivr 0: could have had upon these people can M well be imagined. But it seemed as t if the South had the fatality during I m the whole course of the war of doing al "the wrong thing at the right time." h Some of our generals, especially, st were cursed with this fatality. I said to . 'something in my former chapter di about "Van Dorn's coming up." Well, p: let's see. This bright young general, gt onle who had occupied the same posi- ar tion in his class as did Lee at West cc Point, and one whom the South had d] the right to expect great things, one ca of the greatest among cavalry leaders of the world, having under his stand- s 'ard at one and the same time, 25,000 ~ troopers, the greatest body of cavalry di under One commander ever known on et this continent, if not in the world',r 1dashing, brave, brilliant and hand- er Ssome, but , --. Reader did you I -ever think of the part that frail, deli- u -cate woman has played in history? H 'Some by the strength of their tower- cc ing mind, others simply by the beau ty of 'the face, or fascinating man miers. One little slant-eyed Mancha, er -governed, and wisely too, for half a pire of China. The croshrdluetashr vtg -century, the great and ancient em-! in 'pire of China. The crown of France could not rest easy upon the head of* 'her ruling family, as long as Madam 'Roland lived, and as he mounted the to steps to her place of execution, she ai 1saw for the last time the dome onb the "Column of Liberty" and called ti. out those ever memorable words, "Oh, Idi liberty, what crimes are done in thy tr name?" The conqueror of all con- m tinental Europe could not sleep sound- t ~1y as long as Madame De Stael was u1] within .his domninions. We all rememn- tb ber the story of the dark-eyed and st dark-skinnied beauty, the sorceress of fe the Nile, how she lured away from his .l army, the brilliant Mark- Antony, de- Th -moralized the Roman troop in the c~ East, and lost the scepter for herself, cc the dynasty to her peo'ple being one tb of the most powerful empires of anti- TP - quinty. Mark Antony had his Cleopa tra, and Van Dorn bad-well ti has di been a long time ago, so we drop the hi name. But the truth of history de- hi mands this: As this brilliant South- W ern soldier was leading his horsemen he through a city near the border he met ha the glances of a dark-eyed beauty, fr her drooping lashes, the enchanting lii beauty of her face, the faultlessness a of her form, clothed in respendent a robes of the times, captivatd Van he Dorn, lured him from hiis soldiers, he le forgot duty and his country, and paid, tr the penalty of his crime with his life. ti falling dead in his guilty embrace, by o the hands of an outraged husband. e Put after all he was but human, and w let us drop a tear to his memory. and fir hasten on with the thread of our story. mn Grant pushed up bravely to meet ei1 the Southern army, but he found br Beauiregard slowly retreating toward bi Corinth. The wind rows made in his iw ;smy by ths de'adly rifles of the Ial Southner:' <u thousands and thou- pI moso i oldOier~s ]ying~ ci1:1 and ri C MNAND cc Wils 4S OF THE BLUEGRASS Br Sex, *mf DICKERT. P L Jose Ivice of his generals, to stop before De ie entrenched positon sof the South- PU -n army. Both sides sat down to here )utine army life, drilling, recruiting the ad strengthening their respective Hour :sitions. Grant was soon afterwards leal ant 'to other fields, and Halleck be- leca L Dece ime commander-in-chief of the Un- fifth n army and Bragg commanded the ing :uthern. that Morgan, tired of the monotony of in tl te camp and longed for a more ac- Sout: ve life and wished to take his men dred ick into Kentucky to harrass the or le iemy around his home. He was at- J. C: .ched to Gen. Breckenridge's infan- Jno. 'y division, and did not see much tin a portunity for any display of the the : irtisan genius, of which he felt that Bro7 was endowed. While education id training kept him in his own per- purc m, within the restraints of civilized ance re, and his experience as a soldier with . the Mexican war taught him the the c flue of organization and discipline, bond ft the life of a free lance in the of th -eat army of the South appealed to pure! s adventunous instincts far more of 0 rectly than membership in a regu- part; r Cisciplined army. The guerrilla pula' -,artisan, is often put to great cent. raits, forced to take desperate gage iances, far more so than the com- or b: on soldier or subaltern officers, pers mmanded by superiors, and their ves are one continual grind, forever No. vinging in the balance. organ's escapades and daring while All p in Kentucky and Tennessee, watch- the e .g Johnston's flanks and rear, are ought him many recruits, soldiers! duly fortune, from all over the South Mess ho wished to share with him his befor .me and his fortune. It will not be it of place to mention here a few Admi the minor exploits that brought of organ and his men to the notice of i JOc1 e country, -and especially the com- - anding general. While picketing .ong Green river he, with only a Jas. &ndful of his men, crossed the adi ream at an unguarded ferry, rode of the town of Lebanon, sixty miles' ti stant, captured several hundred isoners, burned hundreds of bales of Lewi ~vernment cotton, disguised himself ne d his men with his prisoners over- E ats, then rode boldly 'through hun- F. eds of home. guards, back to his' of ~mp, without losing a man. ani While our army was retreating All uthward and he watching the ene- ILula y a few miles south of Nashville, he by ai scovered they withdrew their pick- Pleas s at night to a place a mile to the attesi ar. Leaving one half of his troop- berry s in reserve, he took the other, and the 3 aking a long detour, gained-the point credi ed by the enemy as a "night picket." their ere they lay in ambush awaiting the ings. ming of the pickets from Nashville. >n the enemy came up, 'halted, and ve orders for a reconnoiter on eith-j side of the road. Just then Mor- NOTI n gave the command to "fire.'' Ai AI lley rang out, killing the command g officer and a number of his men, Noi tting the others to rout. ular A short time before he was ordered five .i leave his picket duty and re.join the of th4 'my he determined to make a visit one Y ek to Nashville, the city at the ed ne being filled- withi Federal sol- and i ers. Taking only fifteen of his most and isted soldiers and avoiding the wor ai highways, ,he made his way will rough woods and fields, and came Chan on the pike a mile east of the city, Towi en rode unconcernedly down the the s reets. It being night and no Con- being derate expected from that quarter, polls tle notice was taken of those des- foren ~rate and dare-devil rangers. He the a' me suddenly face to face with a and. mpany of thirty or forty, making mane e guard rounds of the city. .After By tssling them he turned and rod:e Newi ietly behind them for a while, then of Se: smounting and hiding the body of s men in a thicket took six with m, leading their horses, made his By ti ay towards the heart o-f the city. Had J. or either of his men been caught re no power could have saved them om being hung as spies before day-NO ~ht. On nearing the river he noticed Noi government steamer anchored out 1make little distance in the stream. This court wished to capture, set on fire, and Iday, t it drift down and among the many of th ansports, loaded with soldiers. In mino: is way he hoped to burn 'the entire ply t tfit of steamers, transports and riv- missc boats. Morgan made the capture' ithout a hitch, set the steamer on Octot 'e, but failed to loose it from its 10-28 oorings, the boat being achore d at' ther end with steel cables. They CO ought the captain and crew ashore, Nol t in going back to the burningj books reck, their boat became unmanag- C., w >l, so they had to~ set free their of Oc 'isoners, cast 'themse:ves into the her, Ver an~d swim for their lives.~ The.v of '10 FE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, DUNTY OF NEWBERRY. 'URT OF COMMON PLEAS. on C. Brown and Sims Edward own, in their own right and as acutors of 'the last will and testa nt of Lavinia E. Brown, deceased, intiffs, Against yh McClintock Brown and others, fendants. rsuant to an order of the Court .n, I will sell at public outcry to Lighest bidder, before the Court e of Newberry, S. C., within the I hours of sale, on salesday in mber, 1910, (the same being the day of said month), the follow lescribed tracts of land, viz: All tract or plantation of land situate te County of Newberry, State of a Carolina, containing four hun and forty-three (443) acres, more ss, and bounded by lands of Silas -omer, Wm. H. Wendt, estate of W. Wilson, deceased, F. N. Mar nd Brown Brothers, being part of land of which Mrs. Lavinia E. m died, seized and possessed. rms of Sale: One-third of the iase money in cash, and the bal on a credit of one and two years, interest from the day of sale, redit portion to be secured by the of the purchaser and a mortgage e premises sold, with leave to the ,asar to anticipate the payment .e credit portion in whole 'or in said mortgage to contain a sti ion for the payment of 10 per attorney's fees in case the mort debt is collected by an attorney r suit. Purchaser to pay for pa and recording same. H. H. Rikard, 14, 1910. Master. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. persons holding claims against state of Lula B. Epting, deceased, iereby notified to present same attested to me or my attorneys, rs. Hunt, Hunt & 14unter, on or e the 25th day of November, 1910. James F. Epting, nistrator of the Personal Estate Lula B. Epting, deceased. :ober 24, 1910. 10-25-ft-ltaw. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. F. Epting, Sr., individually and as ninistrator of the personal estate Lula B. Epting, deceased, Plain a L. Lane, Williamn L. Lane, Ver -Lane, Drayton L. Lane, Jas. F. ing, Jr., Harry D. Epting andl W. Scnumpert, as public guardian Guy H. Boddie, a minor, defend persons holding claims against B. Epting, deceased, are required i order of the Court of Common herein to present the same duly ed, to me, at my office at New Court House, S. C., on or before 5th day of December, 1910, and ors are enjoined from presenting demands in any other proceed H. H. Rikard, Master. CE OF ELECTION FOR MAYOR D ALDERMEN OF THE TOWN OF NEWBERRY. ;ice is hereby given that the reg annual election for a Mayor and ldermen, one Alderman for each five wards, to serve for a term of ear, and one trustee for the grad .ools each from Wards one, two, hree for the term of 'two years, one commissioner of public 3 for the term -'of six years, be held at the Council her, in the Opera House, in the of Newberry, South Carolina, on acond Tuesday in December, 1910, the 13th day of said month, the to be opened at S o'clock in the oon, and to close at 6 o'clock in ~ternoon. D. F. Pifer, A. C. Welch Alex. Singleton are appointed gers of the said election. order of the Town Council of erry, S. C., on this the 22nd day ptember, 1910. COLE. L. BLEASE, Mayor. ie Mayor: R. Scurry, C. &. T. T. C. N., S. C. 'ICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. .ice is hereby given that I will final settlement in the probate for Newberry county on Tues Noember 29, 1910, as guardian estate of Lee P. Hendrix, a , and immediately thereafter ap the said court for letters dis ry as such guardian. J. W. Hendrix, er 26, 1910. Guardian. [LECTION OF TOWN TAXES. ice is hereby given that the tax for the Town of Newberry, S. ill be opened from the 15th day tober to the 30th day off Novem 1910. both inclusive. A penalty TERRBLE We are going out of the Fancy C sacrifice to do so. We offer our tr ported China at a great reduction. and Christmas presents cheap. We The person purchasing China or GI titled to a chance on an $8.00 Chocol The person purchasing China or G titled to a chance on a Salad set valu4 The person purchasing China or GI titled to a chance on a set of cups an With every purchase of China and give a souvenir plate. With every purchase of China and give a jardinier valued at 75c. With every purchase of China and we will give a jardinier valued at $1. With every purchase of China and give a jardinier valued at $2.50 to $4 These bffers hold god from today o'clock With every purchase of Chii et with the amount of purchase there our office not later than 3:30 o'clock place as soon thereafter as possible, Come in and see our prizes. Ask stand about the offer. .Come in now See Our Handsom L PARR, Pres. WV. C. Houseal, Vice-Pres. M. ] NEWBERRY, S. C. CAPITAL $50,000.4 Sttement of Condition Condensed Septem ans and discousts $241,874.53 Capital Stock (erdrafts 944.08 Surplus (Earne rniture and Fixtures 3,800.04 Dividends unpa: sh on hand in Banks 14,669.82 Bills Payable Cashier's Check Individual depo $261,288.43. - We invite you to make this Bank your] ll appreciate your business. as WE EXAMINI before allowing .. 4- yards. For wh< NM class lumber we piece must be - We don't mix g -you buy you gel make culls look culls to help o1i1 better grades, NEWBERRY a AND HIDES IGHEST MAARKET PR'CE PAID FOR RAW FURS AND HIDES Woo on Commission. Write for price I strmentioni: this ai SLAUGHTER [N hina business and are making a big emendous line of strictly high grade im Now is the time to get your wedding make the following inducemebts: assware to the amount of $30.00 is en ate set. [assware to the amount of $25.00 is en ,d at $5.00. assware to the amount of $20.00 is en I saucers valued at $3.00. Glassware amounting to $1.00 we will Glassware amounting to $3.50 we will Glassware amounting to $5.00 to $8.00 15. Glassware amounting to $10.00 we will .00. uAtil Christmas eve afternoon at three ia and Glassware you wil receive a tick on. These tickets must be presented at . The drawing and awards will take is to explain anything you don't under and get your Christmas present. ine of Cut Glass. ~. SPEARMAN, Cashier -NOTIE Of Registration For Municipal Elec. B tion For the Town of Newberry. Notice is hereby given that the books of Newberry, South Carolina, will be opeed t te ofic ofthe Chief of Po lice, in the opera house, from the first day of October until the 30th day of 30November, 1910, both days Inclusive, Sundays excepted, between the hours of 9 o'clock in the forenoon and 5 ber 22nd, 1910- o'clock in the afternoon. F. M. Lind say has been appointed supervisor of [$50,000.00 registration. Only such persons as i) 12,599.66 register as herein provided for shall be allowed to vote at the regular town d 40.00 election to be held on the 13th day of 55,000-0o December, 1910, and at special elec s 527.15 tions held in the Town of Newberry sits 143,121.62 during the next 12 months. The production of a certificate of $261,288-43 registration from the Board: of Regis tration of Newberry county entitling depository; ~we the applicant to vote in a polling pre cinct within the Incorporated limits of the Town of Newberry, proof of his residenice within the limits of. the municipality for four months preced ing the annual election for the year 1910, and the payment of all taxea t EVEEY assessed against him due and collecti 3T OF LUMBER ble for the previous fiscal year, are -it to leave our necessary to entitle the applicant to ~n we sell you first register. mean that every By order of the Town Council of the of that character. Town of Newberry, S. C., on the 22nd rades here. What day of September, 1910. with no baite to COL. L. BLEASE, first class and no Mayor. the profit on the By the Mayor: J. R. Scurry, LUMBER CO, C. &T. T. C. N.. S. C. ____________Worse Than Bullets. Bullets have often caused less suf fering to soldiers than the eczema L. W. Harriman, Burlington, Me., got in / -~ Ithe army, and suffered with, forty years. "But Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured mec when all else failed," he r_ I es. Greatest heal.?r for Sores, ham'.s. ~' ('.